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Let me get a link to the decision... back when gay marriage was being discussed in Lawschool, I was always the one screaming that we needed to be pushing up the Loving line of cases... and thats a large part of Judge Piazza's decision. Link to the text of the decision... http://lawprofessors.typepad...

I do wonder if some of the strength of the reaction is not based on certain types of pornography highlighting to the staunchly conservative viewer their own reaction to violence. Given some of the current mainstream movies, which present violence against women (and men) in such disturbingly loving a...

It might also be useful to look at in-game rules structures, vis-a-vis Cainite Resilience. By my best recollection, the damage dice pool of a modern MBT is 20 dice. We will assume a reasonably accurate, well-placed, undoged shot... call it 5 successes to-hit, for a roll over of 4 damage. 24 damage d...

1.) Im terribly well aware that it isnt real latin, being in my usage something of a verbal shorthand. 2.) Ahh, I suppose my mental grouping of production fighters into 'expensive and limited numerically' and 'less expensive, greater numerically', as represented by the USAF F-15/F-16, had blead over...

I was lucky enough to study Psychology and Theatre at a small, southern Liberal Arts college that has pretty much rejected the whole warm-fuzzy post modernism influences in education. My Philosophy prof flunked people without remorse for poorly supported arguements (disagreeing with her was fine, ag...

I just wanted to throw this out there for commentary from those who know more than I do.. Modern Combat Aircraft- Who has the best what, and why? Some simple categories.. Interceptor- I ~assume~ that an ASRAAM-equipped F-22 takes the cake, but ive been wrong before. How capable are the last-generati...

In part, the current mockery of the masculine gender is because, at the end of the day, we do still hold a greater share of the power pie. There are inequities and overreactions that have swung the pendulum beyond neutral into the favour of the female, but for the moment they are isolated. Another p...

Thats it, Weemando... you have to write an extended version, with the Webberites, Culture Vultures, and other associated wierdness...

but in and of itself, its too, too beautiful.

The trouble with a Static Society (beyond the Entropy, Stasis=Death issue) is what happens when Static cultures run into Dynamic cultures.

So due to KJA, the Matres are running from a machine civilization? What, the bloody fucking Borg? As for growing more obscure as time went on... I could see how they would be less accessible on a first reading, certainly. Id say Dune is still by far the best of the series... but I enjoyed all of the...

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Im more than a little dissapointed in the re-writing... the first book was (isnt it always) by far and away the best of the series. It was simple, elegant, poetic in its way. But yes, I never thought this series would be finished. Even if its drawn out to a whimpering, overly-long, overly-minutaed c...

See, and I find that interesting. Whilst I never made a study of 'Proofs of God' I rember following the basically excellent Cogito right up to the last... where he basically abandons his earlier methods and 'proves' God with a fairly nice little tautology. No doubt Descartes was simply trying to sur...

Ohh, goodie, the fundamentalists came back and saved us from a nasty internal fight between the 'Mechanics-R-Good' and 'Oooh, Philisophical Shiney' subsets of SD.net.

V'Ger never demonstrates anything like the level of firepower that the DS does.

Im with Ossus on this... the at least theoretical purpose is to arrive at good conclusions through constructive debate, with the chance to mine for evidence in ones favorite science fiction and fantasy genres... a charming excuse for an enjoyable passtime. If ones truest purpose is not to discover t...

Tzeentch, with a nod to Slannesh.

You know, these people make me want to go out and make a movie.

Anti... when in doubt, let dead threads lie...

I know I left my Q-38 Space Modulator around her somewhere... pesky planet, obscuring my view of Mercury...

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((In short, lets pick ONE Jedi, from Cannon, and ONE Cainite from Cannon, and let them have a fight. Both should be serious but not unique examples of the breed))

One thing that doesnt get as much discussion as it could... the German Economy was NEVER fully militarized, not to the degree of most of the other participants. This lack of full-conversion gave them much of the slack that allowed them to continue to increase their military output such that more tan...

I cant see the Duniverse winning this, at any level. Nonetheless, some useful quotes and ideas- "The million worlds.. an interesting phrase. No doubt more than that, but it said something about how they viewed it" -Mother Superior Darwi Odrade, Chapterhouse Dune. This is in reference to th...

While biblically appropois, Skelron, im not sure that the 'Mark of Caine' is enforced in WW, and thus may not translate to this debate. Its always been tacitly assumed within the WW system that (assuming Caine exists) hes so many orders of magnitude beyond the player characters that no meaningful co...

Hmm... my last heavy play of Mage was first ed. Its my understanding that by third ed theyve been reduced to slightly-more-impressive Hedge Mages. But then again, Stuart Weick was brilliant... the current hack... ~sigh~ We may never agree on WW vs SW HTH... but I think we can agree that both have go...