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Maybe its time Non Grata rattles some sabers. Maybe we can be on the same side in bringing some chaos or rebalalance the world. Due to inactivity levels of others, if I make more than 1 thread every 2 months; I'm accused of making to many threads. So many alliances we're at war with haven't been announced as being at war with us.
However I still have months left of fighting in me, lets make this world active again if its to inactive through war.
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What kind of prize are you thinking of for the contest? I think something unique like the winner getting to create a forum pip for their own use or a custom gov type in-game would be better than in-game stats; even if the gov type just replaces a current one for the user & has the same bonuses.
As for the negative/positive rating of posts, I think a lot of people would rate posts down based on who's posting & rate down political opponents regardless of the quality of the post. Adding a feature to click like for a post could maybe be interesting, but I don't see a big need for it.
What I would like is when blocking a user, having an extra option so you don't even see "This post is hidden because you have chosen to ignore posts by "Blocked User". View it anyway?" would be nice. So when you read a thread you can't see they've even posted in the thread unless someone quotes them; completely filtering them out except if their post is the OP for an announcement. Then if you do decide you want to see what they've said, you can adjust your options. -
The new one looks good.
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If you want to blame an alliance for their rise back to power, that would be Umbrella's doing when they allied them putting them back on the side of the current hegemony.
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Meth, take your trophy, namely that Brown Senate seat, accept defeat in the war, and move on. If you are trying to get revenge on Kashmir for making you look a bit silly and somewhat incompetent, it's not going to happen during this war.
My nation exists to help others & improve the state of the world. Opportunists who want to bandwaggon in late expecting a surrender will get what's coming to them.
I've always been willing to sacrifice everything in the pursuit of what is right & my nation will survive as long as there are still those who want to see justice. When there is no one left who cares about justice & what is right; then maybe my nation will cease to exist. However I don't see that happening anytime soon.
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o/ Zombinator
o/ Roochi
2 great members of the community gone, because Kashmir would rather use the mods as weapons than actually fight.
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Sometimes it can be possible to keep fighting even when broke. I've fought GOONS and various alliances for months just running off war loot.
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lol, brilliant move. Rey will be ZI soon, which is the agreed upon end for the war with LPH. If the Alternian Empire wants to know what war feels like as we ZI Rey, so be it. That 2,000 infra you bought after declaring on me was very intimidating and all, but I'm going to enjoy hitting you guys around a bit. If I'm your first war, you have much to learn.
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The only people who seemingly don't have freedom are those who have convinced themselves they don't have any, but even they are free to change their path at will. There is always a choice. Without freedom there would be no good or bad choices, but only people acting out predetermined paths.
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Your within the leadership of a major alliance, start a major war. Complaining there are no quality threads isn't making things any better. If you think things are boring, its up to you to make it fun.
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This game is to long term to always be playing to win. Eventually if you 'win' in whatever manner you're going for, the game continues. There is no game over and more competitive goals must be found to continue always winning, until people lose focus.
There have been times I've played to win, when I wanted Q & OV to be destroyed & defeated by the coalition I was part of when playing to win. Others times I just play as a continued existence, for fun, testing the extremes of the game, etc.
People can get back on focus and try winning again if they want to change the world or political landscape. Although I doubt anyone has the willpower to always be playing to win using their full abilities.
A lot of old players leaving might not be as bad as some think. As long as new nations keep joining, old players leaving could open up opportunities for newer nations to take on some of those roles older players might still have, but don't do anything with their power.
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I don't know you well enough to dislike you, but as long as you know to avoid repeating your mistakes and have learned to try being a better person than you were when you messed up; you're on the right track. Karma will come back and bite you if you mistreat others, but it can reward you when you treat others with the respect and decency you would like people to show towards you. Everything you do has consequences as a result, whether good or bad, small or big. You can either build up bad consequences or good consequences overtime, until the consequences add up to be big enough you feel the effects in a significant way.
Start by building up good Karma in all your interactions and avoid actions which can cause bad Karma, then your circumstances and reputation will improve as the consequences of your actions build up favorably. If you were proud of that bad history, then there would be reason to dislike you. However seeing as you know where you went wrong and are committed to not repeating the mistakes of old, I'll let your future actions determine my opinion of you.Good luck with your mission.
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I read the manga, so I could never really get into the anime. Although it was good for me to read the manga rather than wait for the anime to come out. I also ended up picking up a book called Death Note: Another Note and read through it; and I don't read many books when I don't need to. It was about L taking on another criminal before the events in Death Note.
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I finally got SDC this month, which was the last of the permanent wonders I didn't have before these got implemented. The only reason I built my infrastructure all the way up to 14,000 was to meet the requirements for building it, so its good to see admin added another high infrastructure wonder to make it worthwhile for people to build their infrastructure up those levels.
I doubt I'll ever be able to get the 20k infra one, but I had my doubts I would ever get SDC at some point. So who knows, but I definitely plan to get the others.
I'll probably get SLS first due to the low cost, then either the Federal Reserve or IMS depending on if I have enough tech at that point to get it; then whichever I don't have of the 3 which dont' require 20k infra 3rd.
SLS will be really useful due to the increase in ground battle odds, plus maintenance cost reduction makes having some navy during peace times and war more manageable.
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NPO made a dumb move last war, I don't think there is any denying that. Although to use that as reason to align with those we were fighting and thought NPO let off too easy with peace terms is ridiculous. Which seems to be what many former EQ alliances are doing.
The new NPO overly lenient towards defeated opponents? Better align with all those alliances we were just fighting to help them teach NPO a lesson on why being lenient with the losers is bad.
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I don't think much would be lost in terms of value to the langage and whether it looks stupid to some would just be a matter of them not being used to it at first. Even if I don't see much use for those letters since we could easily do without as you pointed out, I'm still not sure less letters would really be an improvement. "Ch" can make an "sh"-like sound like when you say "Chase", but can also make a "K" sound when you say "Christ", so I can see how it might improve some things by making it easier for people to learn the language by simplifying it some if it was getting rid of some of those situations where letters can make different sounds in different situations. Although in your language alteration we would still have "Ch", so the possibility of it meaning several things wouldn't even be fixed. Instead your example mostly just seems to do so we have less ways of making certain sounds, so I don't think it would really improve anything. If there are no possible examples of sounds we could no longer make with the changes you propose it wouldn't really be a downgrade though. Although in a word like sequel, sekueuel just isn't the same, so if that's how your rules would make it look I don't think that would be good.
For words like sequel, you could maybe replace "q" with a "k" making it sekuel. Also if you had "s" replace "c" for things like "chase", then had "k" replace "ch" for things like "christ", I would see a point to the changes. Instead of having words like Christ and Chase, we have Krist and Shase, then I could see it as a possible improvement in we're getting rid of cases where letters make different sounds suddenly.
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The TOP + IRON treaty survived them being on opposing sides in the Karma War, even if some of TOP's treaties cause them to end up on different sides in yet another war I wouldn't be surprised if the treaty doesn't get cancelled regardless.
IRON though clearly didn't sign the treaty between TOP and Umbrella, so that treaty could force TOP to choose whether they want to side with Umbrella's side in a war or IRON's side if they are on opposing sides. Even if they are on opposing sides it wouldn't surprise if the one on the winning side tries using diplomacy to get the other a better peace agreement and helps them rebuild after, but I would think they are both aware that choosing to honor some treaties in some situations will cause them to be unable to both fight on the same side.
Centarius saying IRON signed off on it in his mind likely just meant they notified IRON and IRON didn't tell them not to do it, or at least didn't oppose it to the extent the treaty between them was at risk.
If Sparta wants to consider every ally of an ally their friend, then you're likely to consider a lot of alliances allies who don't see you guys the same way. So either you cancel your treaties with anyone who signs with alliances who aren't someone you guys want to ally (or who don't want to ally you back) or you have a highly inflated sense of who you think are your allies by thinking most of the treaty web are your allies if you have a few allies connected well into the treaty web. I think the war where Umbrella dropped you guys showed where relying on allies of allies to be your allies can get you, since if they don't see you the same way and that ally considers themselves closer to their other allies you could end up in a bad situation.
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That's assuming #1 is right, and your explanation is assuming they even dream anyway. I'll have to air on the side of no for now. Although I'll have to say I'm biased against such things, but would change my mind with a strong enough argument. Do you believe AI's can achieve consciousness? If so how do you answer arguments like the Chinese room and Godel's Theorems? I believe ultimately there is no way for us at the present time to reproduce consciousness on purpose. You can simulate it, but still the machine will not be conscious and therefore not truly self aware.
Dreams are sort of a reorganization of past memories and thoughts, so if an AI were advanced enough they could probably reorganize their data more efficiently in a sleep mode state much like when you defragment your desktop computer. When in sleep mode and not focused on the reality around you, your mind is free to wander into creating whatever reality it forms without additional input from new experiences from the outside world.I'm also not even sure if an AI could "dream". Since the leading idea concerning dreams is that they help us commit things to memory would an AI need to dream? If not then why would it dream? If the other common viewpoint about dreams is true (that they evolved to help inform us of our own unconscious fears and desires) would an AI even have an unconscious? I guess it'd need an actual consciousness first before we could even ask if an AI unconsciousness was even a real thing. Another dream theory I've heard bounced around out there is that they were simulated threats. So that when faced with a threat you'd already know the feeling and immediately know who to react. What "threats" would an AI face? Would AI's start dreaming about Humans switching them off? That's a pretty scary scenario. Then of course you have the mystical interpretation of dreams as connection with the divine.The Chinese room arguments just show that the turing test can't accurately predict, so I don't think it really needs an answer if I don't think consciousness is required to beat it. Whether AI can achieve consciousness depends on what we consider it to mean, is it possible for humans to create artificial humans, machines capable of make their own decisions, as well as a combination of both organic and artificial intelligence? Then as long as technology keeps moving forward it is only a matter of time for technology to reach that point.
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Boredom is a survival mechanism we evolved to avoid pursuing unworthwhile avenues of activity, as an animal if something is not fulfilling some sort of need or desire we shouldn't be doing it, because that means less time devoted to mating, getting food, defending territory etc. If we were incapable of being bored we would get too busy throwing rocks at trees and forget to go get food.Many human emotions are actually beneficial for our survival especially in animals:Anger (defense of territory)Fear (protection of self)Greed (acquisition of resources)Lust (reproduction of population)Boredom (prioritization of activity)An artificial intelligence has no need to reproduce as it is functionally immortal. They do not need to eat, can do many things at once, and need no resources. They are essentially indestructible (if a networked AI) and has no threats to its survival. It does not age, it does not tire, and it does not hunger.An AI actually cannot evolve in a vacuum because there are literally no pressures on it, other than just at random due to programming, but that isn't evolution that is just random mutation.
Being useful for humans could be a pressure for robots which want to continue to exist and be created, which could be preprogrammed as survival instinct and motivation behind a lot of the actions of an AI. Other preprogrammed instincts which might motivate and contribute to the survival of AIs is the ability control populations and killing capabilities in the case of some of military AIs. Also artificial intelligence could reproduce if they know how they were created and are able to replicate the procedure, if the AI determines they are at risk of deletion at some point in the future this could evolve as a survival instinct if it wants to guarantee its continued existence in some form.
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I'm also not even sure if an AI could "dream". Since the leading idea concerning dreams is that they help us commit things to memory would an AI need to dream? If not then why would it dream? If the other common viewpoint about dreams is true (that they evolved to help inform us of our own unconscious fears and desires) would an AI even have an unconscious? I guess it'd need an actual consciousness first before we could even ask if an AI unconsciousness was even a real thing. Another dream theory I've heard bounced around out there is that they were simulated threats. So that when faced with a threat you'd already know the feeling and immediately know who to react. What "threats" would an AI face? Would AI's start dreaming about Humans switching them off? That's a pretty scary scenario. Then of course you have the mystical interpretation of dreams as connection with the divine.
Dreams are sort of a reorganization of past memories and thoughts, so if an AI were advanced enough they could probably reorganize their data more efficiently in a sleep mode state much like when you defragment your desktop computer. When in sleep mode and not focused on the reality around you, your mind is free to wander into creating whatever reality it forms without additional input from new experiences from the outside world.
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There's nothing wrong with drinking alone.
While there isn't really anything wrong with drinking alone, the booze taste much better when drinking with good friends. Also drink to much by yourself and you might find a bottle of alcohol to be your best friend, which isn't something you want to have happen.
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"C. arabica contains less caffeine than any other commercially cultivated species of coffee." - Wikipedia
So another coffee might be better if you're not just drinking it for taste, but want a stronger boost from it.
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Your hatred is misdirected and megaupload had a lot more content than just porn like you suggest. Good on anonymous for standing up against it when the government decides to censor the internet, no matter what site it is.
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Trying to set rules or guidelines for people to follow will only ensure people break each of them to spite you.
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