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Wrong idea. It's basically opening up the industry to them all. Any other company that's got a mind to can basically use the open source patents as a baseline for ideas. As opposed to just using the patents. Whether any of them will be smart enough to...that's another question. It would be nice if ...

Addendum: Also, the numbers I quoted were the most recent ones from the coalition agreement of the SPD and the CDU. They are currently in the process of reforming the legislation on renewable energy, and the new law will very likely include those goals. (Only found it in german, unfortunately, the n...

Clean power advocates focus on opposing nuclear (which is the cleanest of all conventional power sources) and in many countries they have achieved significant milestones in preventing nuclear power from becoming as widespread in at least electricity generation, as it is in France. In some nations t...

How do you define "larger countries", and what timeframe are you looking at? The German goals are 40-45% in 2025, 55-60% in 2035 and 80% in 2050. Are those goals realistic or just some talk from politicians? Unless there are some real advances in storage systems it is just not possible to...

Clean power advocates focus on opposing nuclear (which is the cleanest of all conventional power sources) and in many countries they have achieved significant milestones in preventing nuclear power from becoming as widespread in at least electricity generation, as it is in France. In some nations t...

I'm actually going to be most interested in Belkar's on going interaction with Durkon. He seemed to accept Dark!V pretty easily but i'm thinking with character development and his reaction to the way Durkon went out, it'd be interesting if he's the party member with the biggest issues to it. While ...

I understand where you are coming from, and this is indeed the usual concept in science fiction. I just don't get why you think the model I propose makes no sense, could you go into a bit more detail? It seems logical to me.

@TheHammer Time Travel within a singe timeline could look like this (from an article on causal universes by Yudkowsky), using the Potterverse time travel s an example: If a time machine does allow for changing history, it's easy to imagine how to compute it; you could easily write a computer progra...

@TheHammer Time Travel within a singe timeline could look like this (from an article on causal universes by Yudkowsky), using the Potterverse time travel s an example: If a time machine does allow for changing history, it's easy to imagine how to compute it; you could easily write a computer program...

No, but he will do Game of Thrones soon, which is pretty current.

I don't think so. At the current rate, its time for a reboot will come soon

I really like the theory by Eliezer Yudkowsky (Chuck cites him on AI): MORPHEUS: For the longest time, I wouldn't believe it. But then I saw the fields with my own eyes, watched them liquefy the dead so they could be fed intravenously to the living - NEO (politely): Excuse me, please. MORPHEUS: Yes,...

@Stas
Thanks, that makes sense.

Hi Stas! I admit that I haven't read a lot about philosophy - I've delved a bit into Karl Poppers work on critical rationalism, but mostly by reading summaries. I'm not remembering having read anything on moral etc. If I understand the materialist position as briefly outlined in this thread correctl...

@Blayne
Sure, why not. What ground rules do you propose?

@Solauren
=> Referee
I'm fine with that.
=> Your version of Borys
As an alternative to my proposition, I would also be fine with your minimum configuration.

Don't have either, will DL them during the next week. What time zone are you in? I'm German, can we find a common time?

Ah, a misunderstanding. Shouldn't have interpreted your post to much, the internet doesn't convey tone well. I'll subscribe to the topic so I notice when you have the timeto post again.

I'm curious what you'll bring to the table

Yet, you do have the time to discuss Best/Worst military forces in Science fiction, peak iron and the chinese astronauts? I would appreciate if you instead just outright admit that you lost interest for whatever reason. If my impression is wrong and this isn't the case, please name a date when we ca...

Hey Blayne, are you still interested in this? I'm a bit miffed that you complain about me trying to frame rules for this thing and then not delivering yourself.

I propose a build that's still partly customisable: Human Wizard 1 Precocious Apprentice , Scribe Scroll (or ACF or variant class), your choice Psion 1 Psion 2 Harden Energy (or another Psi-Spell Feat of your choice found on this list) Psion 3 Cerebremancer 1 Cerebremancer 2 Concussive Blast (or ano...

@Sources
Assumed you had access to them. Which books do you have?

@Discussion
Alright, you propose some ground rules, then.

No I don't care what WoTC says, I have never seen a DM allow anything from 3.0e into a 3.5e game unless there is a 3.5e version of the spell and such has been updated via errata. Allowing blanket amnesty to a whole field of 3.0e spells and abilities breaks 3.5e beyond recognition. Thanks for playin...

@Rope trick Extradimensional space=demiplane, read up on demiplanes in the Manual of the Planes. @rays whatever, it doesn't make any difference. @initiative Elmi has access to the same, at best it's a toin coss. @Crafting Crafting custom items isn't usually done in this kind of match. Otherwise, why...

@Blayne Duration of Precognition=> Extend Teleporting in => Sleeping in Rope Trick. Inaccessible by teleport. Dimensional Lock => Contingency (Celerity) "Somebody casts Dimensional Lock within x feet of me" Cheese => You need lots and lots of cheese to win against a generic 20th level cast...

Mr. Bean: @chinese quality Despite the potential draconian measures, there have been scandals, like the 2008 milk scandal and the 2009 lead poisoning scandal. Obviously. the people in power still cut costs/safety sometimes if they think nobody will find out. mr friendly guy: I'm no expert, admittedl...