MisterGumby

Genius! As soon as you can find the land and the multiple quadrillions of dollars needed to give everyone farming robots, it would be a utopian world! I'll use that as my one point among the hundreds of others that could by themselves defeat your plan, the rest could fill a book. [insert grammar nazi] "Serfs." They're farmers, not waves.

Granted. No poison, but the cashier at KFC sneaks a razorblade into your roll (as he normally does) I wish someone would deny my wish.

Whoops. Double post.

1. What is defined as "too much power?" 2. Name one corporation not-government-assisted that exhibits "too much power." Read my signature.

....until the next crisis starts when the market rebounds, banks start to lend, and all that multiple TRILLIONS of dollars funneled into the banks finally comes into use, causing hyper inflation. You can't double the monetary supply in a year without expect appropriate inflation. Expect to see your purchasing power cut in half and your newfound consumer confidence destroyed. And yes, Russia is ex-communist. EX. Peasants don't starve there anymore and Stalin can't send you to the gulag.

Anyone catch the economic news today? The European debt structure is collapsing! You heard it here folks, I said it was coming in a matter of hours. Let's now cross mixed-economy socialism off our list as a viable political/economic state.

That's very true.

Just finished "The Virtue of Selfishness" by Ayn Rand. Mister Gumby = hooked on Objectivism.

First, take a bunch of flowers... If you got the reference, I love you. I'm Mister Gumby, and I play Oblivion. I enjoy intellectual discussion as well, as some of you may have seen in the debate forums, and if you have questions on philosophical/political issues and the like, I'll fight you to the death!

Accepting your equation that S(sensabilities)=k/P (k being the constant of proportionality, P being progress)... The caveman who beat a man whose wife he desired to death, then proceeded to seize the wife as his own property has more sensibilities than the modern producer, the man of intellect (as rare as those are, modern society by and large is wrought with collectivized idiocy and irrationality*) The Puritan who burned innocent old women as witches on the fraudulent twitches of his daughter has more sensibility than the scientist. The despotic feudal lord/pharaoh/emperor/king who murdered his political rivals has more respect for others than the captain of industry who gives jobs and material products to those who make transactions with him. This idea that progress lessens sensibilities is built on this vague concept of "sensibility," which seems to allude that our ancestors, who substituted a more communal lifestyle for a lack of technology, possessed greater virtue than those who have been "tainted" by technology. Rather, technology has step-by-step liberated us from the squalor of the past, and has allowed us to independently achieve such greater enjoyments of life (i.e. playing oblivion, fallout, etc.) Eventually our technological innovation will not only provide for the optimal achievement of our values, but it will also reach a point where it becomes completely nature-friendly at modest cost. Those who would advocate a return to the "old way of life" technologically speaking would seek a society ultimately dominated by despair and death. * - I do not believe that the present state of modern society with regards to human behavior is superior to behavior of past decades. It is true that people of prior generations had better work ethic, but it is not technology that contributes to societal degradation. Rather, it is caused by a myriad of factors, most of which involve intellectual abandonment of reason and guiding philosophy.

The concept of "few own all" relies on the premise that wealth is stagnant or constant. Wealth is never a constant, it is an ever-growing medium of exchange that occurs as a logical outgrowth of fair trade of goods and services. Anarchy may be an "idealism" to some, but what it really is is a vague abstraction void of practicality or feesability. It is in short an abdication or a refusal to think with regards to political philosophy. Anarchists plainly acknowledge that their system is not at all possible (idealism) and so they retreat into their shell of "ideals," shunning reason or evolutionary discussion about REAL political philosophy. Everyone - including the anarchists - knows that anarchy would simply pave a gold-encrusted road for any talentless thug who wants to control the general public. After all, how would you enforce peace in anarchy? Enforced anarchy essentially begets communism. Anarchism is a failed system before its onset, and represents merely a shying-away from true intellectual debate. It is the realm of the non-thinkers.

Your words = win. On a related note, is anyone reminded of the events of Atlas Shrugged when they see modern society?

As Winston Churchill said of democracy: "Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others." And thank you Maxwell, I do try my bestest when I rites good. And as to the current state of European welfare states... I think I can start counting the time until the European debt structure collapses using the big hand on my pocket watch. Say hello to continent-wide Greece! Or, if that's not alarmist enough for you, the Weimar Republic!

Capitalism is the only political-economic system that is true to proper human nature, that being an exchange of ideas and abilities on an open forum free of compulsion, restriction, or obligation unless by volitional contract. The only proper role for the government under capitalism has been clearly defined in the U.S. Constitution. Any other form of economics or government role is a form of collectivization, and is one in a long line of steps toward tyranny and death. All collective societies end ultimately in death, despair, and economic failure. The most obvious of these include the Soviet Union, the Third Reich, People's Republic of China (love the ironic names that come with communism; it's built on lies) and the dozens of two-bit dictatorships in South/Central America and Africa that are the primary reasons for those areas' poverty. Many proponents of socialism cite countries like those in Europe that have "successful" welfare states. Yes, these welfare states are successful, in that they swallow millions onto their doles, driving up tax burdens, crippling industry and drawing waves of immigrants that have triggered a nativist backlash in the home countries (sound familiar?) Europe's economic influence has been in steady decline since about the same time its welfare states sprung up, and it now exists a shadow of its former self, teetering on the edge of financial ruin (Greece.) Proponents of socialism like to cite the supposed evils of capitalism. These confabulations include monopolies, imperialism and orchestrated periods of economic uncertainty. Yet these exist in rarity, and when they do, they are ALWAYS promoted/controlled by the government in a spectacular show of quasi-socialist state economic planning. All monopolies in this country's history that have had total control over a given industry were government-sponsored (such as AT&T.) Imperialism is another magnificent example of the kind of collusion that goes on in socialism, as companies and governments work in total harmony to achieve control in various regions. Capitalism does NOT promote imperialism, a powerful government does. Lastly, the economic cycle of booms and busts, inflation and deflation is a normal process. This is about the time where socialists and other statists jump into the argument, saying that the government is perfectly capable of preventing bad economic situations. Yet history has shown that the government plays an integral role in lengthening and worsening normal economic recessions. Both our current state and the Great Depression can be attributed (obviously not completely) to improper credit manipulation by the Federal Reserve. These are just a few examples of the fruits of socialism. Yay!

Thanks. I'll get the word out.

I am summoning anyone who is interested in constructing an innovative player home mod, perhaps one of the most inspiring mods ever made. I was inspired to suggest this mod by seeing some of the landscapes in the UL mods around Chorrol and the IC. What I am trying to do is construct an Oblivion version of the Fallingwater house, a home in Pennsylvania designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1937. The house is widely known around the world, and I personally feel that it is among the top 3 homes ever constructed in human history. Architecturally, functionally, and artistically, it is nothing short of magnificent. I would love to see an Oblivion version of this house as a functioning player home somewhere in a forest space somewhere, (Great Forest? Nibenay? Panther River?) eventually with a functioning interior. I will admit that this will be an ambitious and arduous task, as it requires numerous new architecture meshes, but I feel that this could be one of the best (if not the best) player home mods in Oblivion. I have no experience modding or with the modding process, and am merely suggesting an idea to a more intrepid modder than myself, but if you'd like to be a part of this idea, say something here? Also, if you're a fuddy-duddy, and don't think this would ever be possible, tell me why. I'll only cry a bit... (Googlesearch "fallingwater" for more images, it only lets me put one)

Having recently downloaded some mods, (and not able to determine which has done this), I have noticed that all items stored in storage places in my vanilla city houses have been deleted. Furthermore, there are various NPC characters, enemies and allies alike, placed in those storage places. They are stored as items with weapon/armor health, and when dropped release the NPC. Is this common, and if so, what can be done?

I'm having difficulty downloading a majority of these 7z files, and I was hoping someone could answer a few questions. 1. Which program do I use to open 7z files? 2. How do I know if they're opened properly, as when I have used Winzip to open 7z files, I get a massive list of files which it will not allow me to move to my Data folder? 3. Is there any difference in the extracting process between 7z and normal zip files?