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  1. Malik Shabazz

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    You can be the most competent leader in the world and your alliance will still fail. Why? Because you give your followers nothing to believe in, nothing to hope or fight for. They simply just exist. If you ask me, giving your followers something to believe in is a part of being a competent leader. The sad part is there are a lot of alliances that have not realized this and as such they have succumbed to inactivity.

    1. People are far more likely to be involved in something and believe in something if the rest of the alliance is working properly. People don't give a 2nd thought to philosophy if their tech trades are messing up, if trade circles don't happen, if newbies are not being trained or the military co-ordination doesn't exist. In IRON we are far more active because all that stuff is so efficiently running along in the background that we do not even have to remotely consider it, giving time to consider CN.
  8. Malik Shabazz

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    Still salty that I made you look like an idiot on the OWF I see.

    I never said they were... I'm saying that all micros should unite and fight against the oppression by the upper-crust.

    Total NS in the world is 319 million NS

    The sanctioned alliances alone make up 100 million of that.

    You only need the top 26 alliances to hit 160 million NS-more than half the games strength.

    So who is going to bring down these elite?

  12. jerdge

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    Alliances can always sign nonchaining clauses, or actually be creative and write in safeguards, or simply declare a special treaty doctrine. Nobody forces alliances to sign carbon copy "domino" treaties.

    Alliances can sign non-chaining treaties. However the moment you actually use a non-chaining clause, no matter how much you warn people for months you will use that clause, you apparently are not a good alliance.

    People are desperate to have the domino effect because it reduced the political work needed to form a coalition.

  14. Schattenmann

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    Also...there is no legal content on his website. If I were an unemeployed Lawyer (who are we kidding, I am one) and had spent months trying to redeem myself I would at least have made sure that I was showing I had at least some legal skill with a website that demonstrated even the basics of legal knowledge about the relevant area (in fact I could right now run out a rough version of it for my jurisdiction-speaks volumes about his legal ability).

  16. Malik Shabazz

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    Even after all the Civil Rights Movements and what-have-you there is still inequality, racism, and racial tension so nothing really changed afterwards. I hope I one day find a cause that I can truly say that I'd fight and even die for, because as of right now it's all meaningless BS. The only people I can truly say I care about are my family members.

    Regarding the gap year thing, I've thought about doing that before transferring to a four-year school. I'm burned out from being in school for three years, and just want to take a break and experience the world.

    It is only 56 years since Black High School students in the US needed armed escorts to attend de-segregated High Schools.

    It is only 10 years since the US Supreme Court ruled in Lawrence v Texas declaring Mr Lawrences conviction for homsexual activity in is own home unconstitutional.

    The world moves on. Things improve. Not everything is fixed yet but that doesn't mean things will never be fixed. But remember, Humans have been around for 10s of thousands of years, and it is only in the last 250 years that things such as pain killers, anti-biotics and vaccination have been discovered.

  17. Malik Shabazz

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    What do you want? People to come and tell you the world is all perfect and lovely? Not going to happen. People to tell you that you should work hard and you are guaranteed a perfect job? Not going to happen.

    But what is true is that everybody has a place in their world and everybody can make it better. Humanity is the sum of all its parts and every part can make it a better place or make it a worse place. Those that move the world can only do so because behind them there are a lot of other people pushing as well.

    Life is not going to be easy. The economy sucks, people are mean and the world is not the happy fun land that you were promised when you were growing up. I know this. I am a Law graduate with a good grade from a good university, I nailed three months of work at a good firm before being told "sorry...works run out...hope you find somewhere else soon...at least our name on your CV should help." Today I got my first job after that....Christmas work sorting mail. Yeah it sucks but it is work.

    And with all that being said, I can assure you life will not be fun and easy. But one thing that is absolutely true is that life will be a hell of a lot worse if you let it win. If you do well at college it will be hard to find a good job because we are in a !@#$%* economy. If you sit on your arse you will hate yourself and you will find it impossible to get a good job.

    I'm guessing you are relatively academically gifted given your attitude to your previous grades. So I am guessing this is the first time you have had the reality shock of life isn't easy as previously all targets (get good grade here, get into that school, get into that university) have been clearly obtainable. Now the task is get a good job and prove yourself to the world and it seems somewhat harder. And if you convince yourself that it is better to not try as in that case you can at least pretend that you could have made it but it didn't seem worth the effort. Whereas if you try you might fail and then you think you have no excuse. I know that feeling. I got it today when I almost withdrew a job application after getting an interview because I was scared I would bomb the interview.

    But the key is to remember that whilst progressing through college the targets are large, they are few. Once you get out of that the targets are smaller but there are a hell of a lot more of them. The available careers paths are far far wider than the available education paths. Finding what you want and going for it is harder, but you can find what fits you like a glove, rather than education which just needs you to find something you vaguely fit into (ok bad metaphor...shut up).

  19. Malik Shabazz

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    Not what I said at all. I meant to say within 6-8 years, because of college and everything after that. While a big lack of motivation on my part is a part of my problem, I also do not have the resources to live by myself; which is why I still live with my parents for now.

    Why that long? Most degrees are 3-4 years. A few are 5 years. None of that explains why it would take you so long to leave home. If you are lacking motivation then go and find it. One thing I have found is that everyone finds a niche in life.

    Here is a little lesson that I learned a very hard way. There is no such thing as adulthood. I have an adult job, I pay taxes, I pay bills, I go to adult conventions and deal with adult things. And I feel no different to when I was ten. There was no great flash of adulthood thrust upon me. And I wasted a long time before I realised that.

    I realised this in a very brutal way. I was in the passenger seat of a car. I had borrowed my parents car and it was parked about two miles away and we were driving to get it. It was a foul night, the road was soaking wet. The car skidded on a corner and ran head on at 40mph into another car. I was the only person in that collision able to make it out of the car. I didn't have a clue what to do. I had even forgotten the number to call if you wanted an ambulance (999). It was the middle of the countryside in the middle of the night. Fortunately someone arrived in less than a minute who took control of the situation and started shouting at me to do things. And I was terrified, numb, unable to think...but I had no choice because those things needed doing.

    And thats basically adulthood. You aren't going to get a flash of inspiration. There will be no magic transformation. You are just going to have to do things, and the difference between adulthood and childhood is you stop having a choice.

    You say you don't have the resources to leave home? I get that. Nothing wrong with that. Getting through college with low debt is a smart option. But don't say that is not exactly that...an option. You are in college which means you are smart enough to get a job. You may not want to as it would detract time from your studies, and that may be the correct choice, but it is still there for you if you want to leave home.

    Now at this point I bet at least someone reading this is thinking I am talking out my arse and jobs are hard to get etc etc. Well I don't know where you live but in my age in my place 20% are unemployed. Flipside is 80% employment. And I can tell you the difference between the 20% and the 80%. The 80% know what I have written above. They know you have no choice but to do things now. Those I know without jobs are not necessarily stupid (although some are) but they are those that either think they can't do things, or are the ones still waiting for mummy to come and put things right for them because they simply are not doing things for themselves.

    You're an adult now. Do things. There is nothing else to it.

  20. Malik Shabazz

    Posted

    I was making an approximation, I'm in college and I live with my parents still.

    So you estimate living at home until you are 27? That's probably part of the problem. You are not seizing the opportunity to get your independence but are old enough that you have full expectations and responsibility of an adult.

    As for the difficulty of adult with children vs a teenager and the amount of worries, I have far more worry than when I was 16. I am however far happier than I was when I was 16.

  22. Malik Shabazz

    Posted

    Being an adult is awesome. You just happened to have reached the sucky crossroads between adult and childhood, which really sucks. It will get better.

    Being a young adult is awesome because whilst yes you have to work and pay bills, that is you, doing it on your own, in your own way. Yes it is scary. Yes there are fears of unemployment, debt, death by giant squirrel. But at the end of the day, you can do what you like, when you like, and how you like. You get to decide what happens to you. Especially when your first paycheck and are independent of your parents.

  23. Bowwow

    Posted

    Bieber actually improved with age...despite the paparazzi troubles. This girl is going to be far worse. Encouragement on a smaller scale is fine, but if you tell her how great these are she won't ever need to improve. Happened to Lil Wayne. Will happen to a small privileged white girl.

    Bieber is getting worse-his hours late entry to shows, his stupid crap about being a beleiber at the Anne Frank House.

    Anyway, skilled children performing is not the same as celebrity. There have been many extremely skilled child performers in the past and if we say they should not perform then that is going to be a bad thing. The issue with celebrity culture is not to do with picking up children and letting them perform, it is to do with people being nosy gits and desiring to know the personal lives of actors/models/singers rather than just their musical talent. Provided these children are just listened to for musical talent and we don't see a massive following of their lives then it is fine. And that depends on the parents.

    As for the child herself, Miss Grace is seriously clever. Seriously. An 8 year old that can hold a conversation like that...its not a case of cute = awesome but the fact she is actually a good performer and way way more mature than the average 8 year old.

  24. Bowwow

    Posted

    It doesn't.

    Actually, I change my mind-that is impressive. She is 8. And she can remember the lyrics and perform the songs to a live audience with a strong degree of confidence. Seriously. I remember performing in a large school band at a few years older than that in front of a live audience and finding it terrifying, and performing to a much lower standard than that.

    Yes she is not that good compared to an adult, but rather than taking the attitude of "omg she is awful we shouldn't let kids do this" how about going "wow...she is really talented for a person her age."

    Society seems to have got warped by the beiber experience where his teen fame turned him into an arrogant !@#$%*. Have some faith

  25. Bowwow

    Posted

    Shrug.

    Maybe I've been ruined by Rebacca Black but it didn't seem that bad. She is probably 10 btw rather than 6.

    I'm not sure there is such a problem-her parent's are clearly rich and spoiling her but the cost is probably not that much more than a few luxury holidays. At age 10 I was performing in public as part of my school band, and I am really not sure how much different this is.

    Provided they teach her to work hard and make sure she knows that she is fortunate to have what she has, a treat like this is not automatically bad.

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