Udelar Johnson

Put another way: With the forces arrayed against us, there is really no excuse for why your side is not forcing me to fight defensive wars. I've fought exactly 1 defensive war since the start of this conflict.

[quote name='mhawk' timestamp='1299260581' post='2652552'] You guys seem to be getting a billion or so every 10 days. I'd say it would take a damn near perfect hit to keep you guys at around ZI considering CnG is also hitting us from the side. [/quote] You seem to have figured out that you can't keep us down with whatever strategy you're using. Good job!

[quote name='memoryproblems' timestamp='1299211005' post='2651898'] I don't understand what your getting at. What I'm getting at is this, MK/Umbrella says that TPF attacked them by extension when they hit GOONS (something along the lines of hit one member of doom house, hit them all), if that is true, then you must have also hit TPF first when you hit their MADP ally. I'm simply trying to ascertain which of these beliefs you (and the rest of Doom House as well) are trying to push. I don't have a problem saying that TPF hit you, but MK/Umbrella shouldn't be trying to push that line of BS that TPF (and others) hit them when they hit GOONS. [/quote] I'm going to explain this, again. MK and GOONS have a treaty. The ONLY people that get to decide for MK and GOONS whether WE call it an offensive or a defensive war are MK and GOONS, as, guess what? It's our treaty. You are welcome to !@#$%* and moan about our interpretation of our treaties. You are welcome to sway others to viewing it your way, and call whatever war you want offensive, defensive, or whatever. You are welcome to activate whatever treaties you and your allies feel are appropriate. If you feel we attacked TPF, so be it. Convince others of this. Activate treaties. Whatever you want to do. Call it offensive, call it defensive, we don't care. You and your allies interpret your treaties. You shouldn't care what we think. Well, except for one thing. We're going to win this war. And when the dust settles, we're going to take a long, hard look at everyone who participated in the most ineffectual attempted dogpile in CN history. And we're going to ask ourselves, "Did these guys HAVE to join in, or were they just looking to get in a quick jab against GOONS?" Some of you didn't need to be here. Some of you gravely miscalculated our resolve to see this conflict through. We know who you are and you will pay accordingly. As for what we believe, yes, you attacked Doomhouse when you attacked GOONS. We attacked as one so we will defend as one. No, you didn't attack allies of allies of ours when you attacked us. For instance, you didn't attack ODN when you attacked us. We don't have a treaty with ODN, so it would be rather silly to say that you attacked them when you attacked Doomhouse. You also didn't attack =LOST= when you attacked Doomhouse, because =LOST= isn't part of Doomhouse. You can tell this because their name isn't on the treaty, and they didn't roll in with us. Their MDP was activated through traditional means. If you disagree, you are welcome to attempt to force us to take a different view of our own treaties. I doubt you will be successful with this.

Clearly, a master secret agent at work

[quote name='Kyaris' timestamp='1298997319' post='2648208'] MK has barely lost more NS throughout the entire war than GOONS, and our lower ranks are doing fine. GOONS and MK *combined* NS losses are still less than NPO's losses alone. I don't get this post at all. MK is supporting both their own and ours easily, whereas NPO is not supporting theirs at all. There's no question at all that the peace mode strategy is losing this war for the Hopeless Coalition. [/quote] Shh! The longer they believe they're winning, the longer this war goes on. I, for one, hope we're still at this point NEXT February.

I'd just like to happily state that like the earlier "bible-based" views on so-called miscegenation, this viewpoint is slowly dying out as people come into contact with gay people and find out that really, they're just like us.

http://img809.imageshack.us/i/surrender1.png/ I am posting this surrender message on behalf of longcutroll, who asked me to post it as per the message above. longcutroll has surrendered to Doomhouse.

Wow. I'm completely speechless, and I can't stop laughing for some reason.

Schattenmann: when you call out individual alliances or blocs and in general make obviously false statements about them in your argument, it doesn't make sense to later claim, "That wasn't the point!" when someone reminds you that you were lying. If you want people to stay focused on the point of your argument, you should try maybe telling the truth through the whole thing.

Burn, Legion.

[quote name='zzzptm' timestamp='1296425441' post='2611570'] No, it still has big words in it. Blue text won't help you. And you prove all that I said. Thank you. [/quote] How will my NS ever recover from this scathing insult on my reading comprehension? That's gotta be like, what, 20 days of anarchy right there.

I had something typed here but I think I'll just say what instead. what

[quote name='zzzptm' timestamp='1296364464' post='2610481'] CoJ continues its run of victories. In the war of words, they just got several dozen anarchies and defeat alerts on their targets. Words are SO much more powerful than nukes, but GOONS will learn that the hard way. This will be a long war of attrition, and each CoJ word brings them that much closer to their ultimate goal. Nobody will fear that end result now because they are unable to see it, like a man with a tapeworm or burrowing parasite. In enough time, the influence will be insidious and decisive. Princes are stronger than stonecutters, Emperors stronger than princes, Storms stronger than emperors, Mountains stronger than storms... But the destruction of the mountain comes from the slow, steady efforts of a lone stonecutter, chipping away at its base. [/quote] I'm sorry, I can't read this without the blue text.

Look, Methrage! Another windmill!

Uh oh, they don't like our CB, we'd better peace out quick!

All of my stockiles of weapons are gone. My stockpiles, though, will remain.

So does that make them co-coordinators?

Um... that'll sure show them, I guess?

Surely you see that we are merely liberating your tech for the common people, comrade. Our need for your tech is clearly much greater than your ability to defend it.

Sup artemis, good to see you here.

[quote name='Methrage' timestamp='1289292197' post='2507775'] I considered his attack justified because you allow your members to do the same to other alliance around our size, you guys should treat others how you expect to be treated and there is a reason a lot of people dislike you guys but don't care about other alliances which allow tech raiding. The main one is you guys raiding micro alliances and making it part of policy. [/quote] Your dislike of us is noted. Now keep paying your tech like a good boy.

I have no reason to remain "loyal" to someone who is devaluing my greatest investment, nor is this person a friend or peer of mine. My friends and peers are the ones working their butts off together and separately to learn the material required to pass the test. We're the ones working through the homework and asking each other questions about difficult problems. The cheater is a parasite who is taking credit for work that was never done.

Sorry, the mathematician in me won't let me let this go. It's -ln(2), not ln(-2). Logarithms of negative numbers are complex.

It's not my business if someone out there is taking actions that directly affect the value of the degree I expect to hold? I strongly disagree. We've all had times when we didn't study as much as we wanted. I took the grade I deserved and moved on. Finally, the idea that getting a degree is only about learning things in your major has 2500 years of precedent against it, and I don't know of any reputable school that subscribes to such a nearsighted view of education.

Yes, and you'll get a worthless degree if you go to a non-accredited school (unless it's a degree in religion), same as the "degrees" you can order based on your "life experiences" online. As for me, I expect my doctors to have passed their MCAT and my lawyers to have passed the state bar exam, and I wouldn't consider cheating on these exams to be in any way "just as valuable" as learning the skills their certifying organizations expect them to have.