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- Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:48 am
- Forum: NPC
- Topic: Hey all you fuzzy topped free traders!
- Replies: 79
- Views: 57766
My friends, I believe Master Aurrin has hit the right of it. We must first learn to trust others before we can truely interact with the world on a common ground. However, as others have said, we cannot lead people who are not yet trustworthy into the mist wall, or let our presence be known. Nor, can...
- Sun Dec 24, 2006 10:12 am
- Forum: NPC
- Topic: Hey all you fuzzy topped free traders!
- Replies: 79
- Views: 57766
Master Mazanec, I would have never thought you a coward, yet out of fear you would have us become that which we have always despised and fled! You talk of conquest and force, of forcibly displacing any in the way of our needs. Is this what isolation has done to us? Has it turned us into that which w...
- Sat Dec 23, 2006 8:23 pm
- Forum: NPC
- Topic: Hey all you fuzzy topped free traders!
- Replies: 79
- Views: 57766
As interesting as this point of academia may be, let me remind my esteemed colleagues that we are all talking out of our collective pointy hats. Neither Master Mazanec, nor Master Junior, nor myself for that matter can speak with authority on matters of fact. We can conjecture and argue points of hi...
- Sat Dec 23, 2006 10:40 am
- Forum: NPC
- Topic: Hey all you fuzzy topped free traders!
- Replies: 79
- Views: 57766
Stands and clears throat I thank my esteemed colleague for his impassioned history lesson. However, I would be remiss if I did not point out several, rather important facts that seem to have slipped his mind. First, let me remind this august body of the years of successful trade we have had with ou...
- Wed Dec 13, 2006 4:00 pm
- Forum: NPC
- Topic: Persecution (Dec 2)
- Replies: 219
- Views: 32471
While FTL is great and wonderful and I'm certainly all for it no matter what flavor it comes in, what we need is an inexpensive way to lift items out of the gravity well we live in. Suffering correction for exactness, it currently costs NASA something on the order of $2,000-$5,000 per pound to boost...
- Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:05 am
- Forum: NPC
- Topic: The Duke of Dumb
- Replies: 87
- Views: 20362
That's communism. Your one braincell is making a herculean effort there, kudos to the little guy, but you need to look at more then the ism on the end. Socialism does not involve top-down control of the economy. My, you rather spectaularly misunderstood what I was saying, and based on your previous...
- Mon Nov 27, 2006 5:50 pm
- Forum: NPC
- Topic: The Duke of Dumb
- Replies: 87
- Views: 20362
Actually, no, it's not a matter of scale. (And name calling doesn't help you make your point.) Any engineer will tell you the bigger a system gets, the more complicated it gets. Complication indexes failure, especially when a system gets to the point where no one person can understand the complete s...
- Mon Nov 27, 2006 5:19 pm
- Forum: NPC
- Topic: Help stop the invasion
- Replies: 73
- Views: 14537
If the other identity holder provides only positive information to my records (ie, I'm already at the top bracket for taxes, my credit score is raised) I think you'd have a difficult time suing (there's a need to show harm there) and civil rules are generally looser than criminal when it comes to f...
- Tue Nov 07, 2006 3:28 pm
- Forum: NPC
- Topic: For those who've come in late... (Question RH?)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1809
For those who've come in late... (Question RH?)
While I've greatly enjoyed all your work, now that I've found it, I'm interested in buying just about all that I can. I see you've got the books out and the past UberCDs. Which leads me to some questions: Are the old Uber CDs still availible for purchase? Have you thought of some kind of a package d...
- Thu Nov 02, 2006 4:37 pm
- Forum: NPC
- Topic: How much is money worth?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1638
Well, having been very bored at work, I discovered the following: In the strip at the begining of the Redcaps and royals story arc, Quintyn sends a telegram home, the clerk tells him it's "1 silver bead for 40 characters." Quin's message, counting spaces and addess line is 133 characters and our bel...
- Sun Oct 08, 2006 10:05 am
- Forum: NPC
- Topic: Working around the Limitations of Luxcraft
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2260
Well, we do know from various strips that even a black bander Like Quintin can use some fairly advanced Telekenetic effects. As muscles are a physical object with a limited range of motion, you could use TK to produce a mind-control like effect. If you have the power to work all the muscle groups of...
- Wed Oct 04, 2006 8:14 am
- Forum: NPC
- Topic: Hartz toys
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3201
J. Jonah Jamison Wrote: "I resent that! Slander is spoken, in print it's libel!" While I'm not a lawyer (I was found in the cabbage patch, not under a rock 8-) ) as I understand it, for anyone to have an actionible case for Libel they must prove: 1) Grevious loss of financial income or reptuation s...
- Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:04 am
- Forum: NPC
- Topic: What sort of hero would YOU classify Quentyn?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3103
Having read through the options I didn't really see anything that truely fit our beloved Questor. And there's a reason for that. Quentyn isn't a sterotype. He's the anthema of sterotyped Hollywood. He trains studiously in his profession, but he's not anything close to the polished, 'Super Theif-uber...
- Fri Sep 15, 2006 8:22 am
- Forum: NPC
- Topic: Let's shake on it (Sep 8)
- Replies: 92
- Views: 10425
*clears throat* Brannick! let me be the first to welcome you to the forums. a few basic ground rules don't feed Solidus *Scribbles rules frantically into Palm Pilot* Don't...feed...Solidus... Got it. :D Thanks for the warm welcome, Shal, and sorry I waited so long to get a bit more active. I do hav...
- Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:50 am
- Forum: NPC
- Topic: Let's shake on it (Sep 8)
- Replies: 92
- Views: 10425
I would like to see the day where our most powerfull weapon is simply having a shield that our enemies haven't a clue as to how to penetrate it. and us still being able to shoot them from behind it :twisted: The most fleeting of all secrets are military secrets. For example, the British, the US's a...