from what I can gather 'liberal' in the US tends to mean "the left" or words to that effect, this is incorrect. Contrast with Australia, where the Liberal party is a conservative right wing party, this is also incorrect. Or UK where liberal means... something I'm not quite sure of, but it's probably incorrect.

There are people trained to fix the economy and keep it working. Do you really think you know more than these people how to fix the current crisis?

Quite often, yes.

Liberalism represents another direction, supporting freedom, regulated business, and isolationism on the global scale.

I'm pretty sure there must be a global law somewhere forbidding correct use of the term "liberal". Because every country on the planet seems to have an equally incorrect yet completely different common usage for it.

Speaking of nursing homes, the indiegamer forums have a "more mature" crowd.

@deadeye: That's gotta suck. I live in Australia so im lucky that the government pays a large portion of my University fees. Also, life-time interest free loan on the stuff I do have to pay. Not a bad deal.

Calling HECS (or HELP as it's now called since the marketting police got at it) an "interest-free loan" is a bit of a misnomer/out-right lie.

a) HECS/HELP is indexed to CPI, so it will increase over time. Last year I had 'indexation' of 2.8% applied to my HECS debt.

b) The Interest is built into the loan. There are massive discounts for paying the debt off early.

*edit c) Not to forget that the payments are compulsorily extracted from your salary

I myself experienced something that I cannot attribute to anything but one of two things: top secret government aircraft or extra-terrestrial craft. On a clear winter night me and two of my friends were just reaching the top of a hill when one of my friends asked if we saw what he was seeing. We proceeded to look up and there was a small, white object falling like a leaf against the night sky. We stood there and watched it for about 30 seconds or so when two other white objects flew into view. These objects positioned themselves on either side of the falling object and seemed to be helping it back up. The objects gradually flew upwards and into and out of the atmosphere. Needless to say the event was quite profound. It was obvious to me that the objects were like nothing I had ever witnessed and were not conventional aircraft due to their ability to fly so high in the atmosphere. To this day I am convinced that what I saw was government or extra-terrestrial in nature.

Far away car headlights vs Mirage

I knew a girl named $girlname once

Well I've been playing it pretty obsessively today after purchasing it last night. It is much improved over the beta engine and even last weeks pre-release demo, though whether it will live up to NSS3 is another matter.

The main difference is that NSS4 now has a crazy amount of detail in it, comparable to Football manager games. You even have to select which nations to fully simulate (up to 12), just like in FM. These are the only leagues you can play in, which is a bit of a shame, because I had great fun in NSS3 rising from Pakistan National League to Faroe Islands division 2 and so on.

Sadly my game has fallen victim to a bug. I moved from "Moami FC" in the "USL Forst Division" to "Berrow" in "Cunference National" on August 9th 2008. The game is now stuck eternally waiting to play Berrow's next fixture on August 8th 2008

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They've wisely sent in the editors/spin doctors to replace references to mandatory service and add mention of $4000. Still no less diabolical.

Games don't affect relationships, you affect relationships.

Theres all that communication and personal interaction stuff in a relationship, not just a big checklist of do's and don'ts.

barely 1 day since the election and already conscription returns. The ability of Americans to get things done in a short period of time is amazing.

There are many benefits to c++ over c# & vice versa. You will never make use of any of them.

Ooh, now that's a rather controversial claim, sir!

If nothing else, C# is garbage collected, which make a HUGE difference to novice and expert alike for any program more complex than "Hello, World".

And as for C++, the main motivation is portability. This might seem like something a novice would never use, but as soon as you decide to buy a Mac as your next machine, you'll suddenly care a lot.

These are all true. But I was talking mostly about performance issues, rather than portability, etc.

Most indie games aren't going to require the space conserving wonders of 64k demos or the performance of the latest 3D engines. They are more towards the "draw picture on screen, play sound, rinse, repeat" level of performance, for which just about any old language will do fine.

With this in mind he should pick C# as it is simpler. If you're looking for portability and relative simplicity, go for Java.

* post assumes you are new to coding

You'll need to learn good programming practice rather than a specific language. To learn good programming practice you'll want something simple. In this case C#. Once you have learnt good programming practice you will find it easy to switch to other languages if the need arrives.

There are many benefits to c++ over c# & vice versa. You will never make use of any of them. 90% of indie game makers will never make use of any of them. So go with whatever you find easiest to work with.

better dead than red.

I didn't say voluntary trading didn't mean unfair advantages or wouldn't be one-sided. And yes, there's no reason to think it wouldn't keep happening. I just don't think fairness is a justification for force, or another way to put it is that both are problems, but the use of force is more horrible than being unfair. I'd prefer a totally unfair world free of force than a fair world forced onto people.

But I don't think it is. Force presents no choice. Unfairness appears to present a choice, but where the non-preferential options are so laughably bad that no one could ever take them.

If you move in on the only gig in town, telling someone, "Work for me or starve or relocate your family" is just force disguised as a choice. No one is fooled to think there is a qualitative difference between that and "Work for me or go to prison." Real freedom means autonomy, which means being able to make independent, meaningful and balanced decisions about your life, not this 'positive vs. negative freedom' crap where subjective violence is frowned upon but objective, institutionalized violence is perfectly acceptable.

I mean, I get what you're saying: no one likes to be pushed around, but the fact is that if you live in circumstances which restrict your choice, even if there's no one putting a gun to your head, you have only the illusion of freedom.

Stupid family living where theres no work or food gets upset when a business moves in that will pay them cash dollars for work? Sounds like a feasible situation.

So I'm guessing no one cares that Obama shows all the same "duplicitous populist cunt" signs as Tony Blair did in England or Kevin Rudd here in Australia (not that anyone knows who that is of course). But hey, those guys turned out fine right?

Then again, it's easy to see the appeal when he's succeeding a power-hungry lunatic and running against a senile old man/idiot woman.

Personally, I'd put the blame not on 'fake money' but rather the fact that certain businesses'/individuals' own money wasn't at risk.

No sane human would run up these sorts of debts at the risk of losing all their money if something went wrong... Unless of course, there was some sort of implied promise that THE MAN would come along and bail them out if/when things went pear-shaped.

Turns out the implicit promise was actually an explicit guarantee of trillions of US dollars. How wacky.

Would deflation be that bad? There isn't more gold or silver created whenever a person is born.

Deflation is fucking terrible. People will not spend money because they know that if they save their money it will be worth more with time. If no one is buying anything then businesses cannot function without lowering prices, which means they have less to spend at other businesses and so on until everything grinds to a halt.

Theres also the fact no-one will borrow because any debt will only increase in value over time as the currency deflates and no-one will lend because they'd have to charge negative interest to make it worthwhile to the borrower.

Some economist can probably correct any mistakes I've made

Actually there is: gold and silver are continuously mined out of the ground, and more is added to the total each year. Whereas that doesn't happen with dollars.

The problem with the MMORPG you describe with a set amount of money is that as more people play it, there would be deflation, since money would be worth more and more as it became more and more scarce.

Gold is mined constantly, but there is still finite gold. Add to that the fact that existing gold can still be used to impose currency hilarity on anywhere with a gold-standard. Silver is much the same, (in fact I've read that it's fairly standard for traders to fuck around with the silver price 'for the lulz' as the youth would put it.) Because of this, gold or silver are hardly a panacea for currency woes. Also, a lot of serious proponents of a "gold standard" tend to prefer a basket of commodities or something similar.

I wonder how indie film festivals deal with this? (I will try and find out)

terribly.

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So is anyone else eagerly awaiting Today's (October 31) supposed release of New Star Soccer 4?

NSS3 was one of my favourite games for ages. I had great fun raising my player from a lonely bench player in the pakistan 2nd division with an alcohol problem to starring in the UEFA champions league, scoring 9 goals in a game for Australia against Fiji, dating a woman with a love for 'homely things' and having multi-million dollar endorsement deals. Also I got to choose the colour of my boots.

Additionally few games manage the poetic elegance of dialogue like "You have not been selected for Today's game. Manager relationship low, visibly drunk."

The NSS4 match engine prototype released a while ago seemed a bit clumsy, however the recent trailer left me with new hope and NSS3 improved dramatically over several versions anyway. I only hope NSS4 will let me recreate Adelaide United's Asian Champions League/Club World Cup run.