by The divided » Wed Dec 09, 2009 10:12 pm
by Roten » Wed Dec 09, 2009 11:56 pm
by Ardchoille » Thu Dec 10, 2009 12:07 am
by The divided » Thu Dec 10, 2009 12:18 am
by Ardchoille » Thu Dec 10, 2009 12:50 am
by Nordicus » Mon Dec 14, 2009 10:41 pm
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII wrote:Engineers hate biology, because it has very few right angles. Everything is all curves and bumps and the only penis-shaped items are actual penises.
Dregruk wrote:Kma2 wrote:How else could it be that they are so uneducated regarding what is going on in America.
Same as anyone else; I slaughter gibbons and frolic in their blood. Or just, y'know, disagree with you.
Tsaraine wrote:Somewhere in Philadelphia, one school administrator has just smacked another school administrator upside the head. "Damnit, Jenkins! I told you we should just have gone with chastity belts!"
by Glen-Rhodes » Tue Dec 15, 2009 4:36 pm
by The WA Lemming Effect » Tue Dec 15, 2009 6:48 pm
Glen-Rhodes wrote:P.S. I'm still waiting for my phrase -- "As goes Alsted, so goes the World Assembly" -- to come into popular usage......
by Unibotian WASC Mission » Tue Dec 15, 2009 8:05 pm
by Unibot » Tue Dec 15, 2009 8:25 pm
Vocenae wrote:Unibot, you have won NS.
by Kandarin » Tue Dec 15, 2009 9:21 pm
I wish I remember who wrote:Games like Nationstates are like a big cardboard box, and there are two kinds of people in the world. The kind who look at the empty void inside the box and ask "Where the hell is it?" and the kind who jump into the box with their friends and make it into a fort, or a spaceship.
by Alsted » Tue Dec 15, 2009 10:56 pm
by A mean old man » Tue Dec 15, 2009 11:48 pm
by Mad Sheep Railgun » Wed Dec 16, 2009 12:00 am
Alsted wrote:(For instance, I'd be happy to vote for one if a drafter would have enough good sense to include training provisions for workers with outdated skills to move from an old economy to a new economy. Pardon me if these types of provisions have been included in the past and I've missed them. I'm sorry if I have, though I don't think I've made that mistake.)
8. REQUIRES member governments to establish programs to alleviate the possible impact of this resolution on workers and their families. Examples of the services provided by such programs are job retraining, help with relocation of displaced workers and training or assistance in small business start-ups.
by Fit battion » Wed Dec 16, 2009 10:24 am
by The divided » Wed Dec 16, 2009 12:54 pm
Fit battion wrote:I am in support of hiding the totals, all of the reasons for my support have been mentioned earlier.
I'd quite like to see a poll added to this thread just to see what people who haven't posted think. I can see this as a quite down the middle thing and I'd like to be proven wrong.
by A mean old man » Wed Dec 16, 2009 2:00 pm
by Glen-Rhodes » Wed Dec 16, 2009 2:01 pm
Alsted wrote:*I was raised in a middle-class, decaying steel town. Over the course of my upbringing, I saw many cross-border, multinational "free trade" agreements only pummel my hometown and its employment base. As such, I have a natural bias against such agreements, though I'm not against them out of hand. (For instance, I'd be happy to vote for one if a drafter would have enough good sense to include training provisions for workers with outdated skills to move from an old economy to a new economy. Pardon me if these types of provisions have been included in the past and I've missed them. I'm sorry if I have, though I don't think I've made that mistake.)
by Unibotian WASC Mission » Wed Dec 16, 2009 5:30 pm
Alsted wrote: (Of course, the most applicable exception can be found here: viewtopic.php?p=685783#p685783.)
by Omigodtheykilledkenny » Wed Dec 16, 2009 5:58 pm
by Omigodtheykilledkenny » Thu Dec 17, 2009 10:55 am
by Naivetry » Thu Dec 17, 2009 5:43 pm
Omigodtheykilledkenny wrote:Yeah, well, has anyone considered that hiding the vote totals might actually depress voter turnout rather than increase it? Many voters are compelled to vote because of the vote totals, either to "lemming" or to try to reverse the current voting trend. Take away the vote totals, remove the "drama" that often goes on during close votes or volatile ones, and some people might not bother voting anymore.
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