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The peace vs freedom conundrum. I can't answer that, because the choice of what one will accept in the name of security is a personal one. So any answer is fraught with the arguments one normally hears about where freedom ends and security begins.

I am going to toss out all the hyperbole and propaganda about "the media" and "that other side of the aisle". Both sides will mangle the truth to make their points, and both sides are completely missing the point. I see only one argument, the same one nobody wants to talk about. The truth of the Second Amendment. Americans slap their chest and brag about being the freest nation on the planet (a claim some Canadians would contest). These Americans claim their Second Amendment is there to protect their freedom. Bull stuff. From my reading of the writings of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Payne, Benjamin Franklin, and others, the Second Amendment was written to protect Militias like the American Minutemen. The Second Amendment was supposed to protect the ability of citizen soldiers to assemble quickly and defend the borders of a fledgling nation from retaliation from England and France. The Second Amendment was supposed to preserve what later became Americas National Guard, citizen soldiers who were subject to governmental oversight, just as the Revolutionary War's Minutemen were. Let me repeat the salient part, "citizen soldiers who were subject to governmental oversight". And that is the truth NOBODY wants to talk about, the phrase "A well regulated militia" actually means "governmental oversight". The true intent of the Second Amendment has been perverted to allow anyone to own a gun.

With well over 50 million vaccinations administered in Europe (https://www.politico.eu/article/coronavirus-vaccination-europe-by-the-numbers/), these numbers are statistically insignificant. Further, this number of deaths and medical events are within the statistical norm for any period. So although these conditions exist, there is no causal link between the vaccine and these deaths and medical events. Hysteria and misleading propaganda doesn't help.

Personally, I think it's your last explanation. :smile: Taken individually, we have some truly bright people here in the US. Taken collectively though? We got nothin' on a box of rocks. :D Touche.

This is your response to me in another thread: So whinging about 'personal insults and deliberately degrading commentary' when you engage in the exact same thing, and in the absence of any provocation, makes you look like a colossal hypocrite. What's even more hypocritical though is expecting others to respect your mod permissions while simultaneously acting in a way which clearly breaches the terms and conditions of the website you're posting on, and you agreed to when you signed up. But to return to the rest of your response and your assertion that I took your comments out of context. You're confusing the concept of the 'cost of labor' with the value of a human life, the latter of which is to do with calculating the marginal cost of death prevention - in the context you framed. You are making elementary mistakes of terminology and definitions in a domain about which you think you know a lot, but clearly you don't, given how easily you've mixed concepts up. I've got some spare crayons and butcher paper if you need me to draw a picture for you in case you fail to grasp those concepts.... The only implication of my comment is that you were deliberately and willfully ignoring truths and facts and were unwilling to learn anything. Furthermore, you have deliberately sought out a second opportunity to continue a discussion which needs not be continued here, as it is horribly off topic and completely unrelated to the discussion at hand. Now, read my signature, and realize why i am now blocking you and reporting you for harassment.

"Conspiracy Theory" is just a lazy way to define oppositional views, as the Galileo example amply demonstrates. The problem with today's "conspiracy theories" is that their very existence, growth and ongoing support are dependent on folks who "don't like" something and are willing to believe anything which supports their beliefs. By way of an example, if one doesn't like American Democrats, a theory which states that American Democrats are "a huge cabal of lizard people which eat babies so they can stay youthful" is perfectly reasonable, rational and sane. And therein is the real issue. Belief vs Fact. When a culture cannot even agree on the facts, in spite of any and all evidence, they will accept as true anything which supports their beliefs. Is climate change real, or is the science inconclusive? Did astronauts actually land on the moon, or was it faked by Steven Speilberg? Are there actually Little Green Men in America's Area 51, or is it a hoax? Is the earth flat? If your beliefs hold that any of these are true, than any evidence to the contrary is dismissed as "biased media" or "fake news" or "junk science" or simply as a lie. And the root cause is the lack of "Critical Thinking"? How does one think critically without an adequate foundation? What about "anti-intellectualism"? How about "social promotion" in school? Does dropping standards for graduation from secondary school have a role? Is declining literacy rates to blame? How does teaching children religious dogma instead of science play into the discussion? Or, is it some combination of these and other factors which allow people to believe the most irrational, unreasonable, insane, nonsensical and outlandish things about each other and our world? Or are people just (expletive deleted) stupid? Lizard people, indeed.

No it can't. This is utter BS. So the value of a human life changes based on the fluctuations of population levels....? This is one of the most asinine and abhorrent things I've read on this forum. Your entire post reads like an adolescent trying to explain Macroeconomics after skim-reading a text book. Glossing over the personal insults and deliberately degrading commentary and the fact that you took my comments out of context and used them as a cudgel, I will address your basic misunderstanding. The value of an employee raises as the number of potential employees drops. The laws of supply and demand apply to pretty every element in the business process model, including labor. And given the declining population in some nations, the value of an individual human being increases as the quantity drops. Thus, in a discussion of the cost of industrialization and the scarcity of the components necessary for manufacturing and the conduct of business, the value of an individual human life is an elementary component of the equation. Which is one reason why manufacturing processes are moving to nations with growing populations. In such countries, the number of people necessary to operate the machines of industry are abundant, and the scarcity of opportunity for work in these locales drives people to work for less and less reward. And should an employee depart a company for any reason, they are easily replaced from a growing pool of people who are viewed as interchangeable cogs. Further, in nations with growing populations, the value of individuals decline. Yes, friends and family will miss a departed loved one, but the overall population doesn't even care. It's one less mouth to feed. So yes, there is a direct correlation between the cost of labor, and the cost of a human life.

As I mentioned before, some mods support more than one language. The language tags aren't mutually exclusive. For example, SkyUI is tagged with English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, and Turkish. If you block /any/ of those language tags, you're blocking SkyUI, and that's just one example of many. And, no, approaching it from the other end - only listing mods that are tagged with English - won't work either, because a lot of English-only mods don't even bother tagging themselves with English. So you're still blocking a lot of mods you didn't intend. Tag filtering isn't flexible enough for this task. It gets worse. Some authors don't even bother to tag their mods at all. So you can wind up with a page full of translations simply because there is no tag there to include/exclude. Tags are useless for anything unless they are standardized and enforced.

Let's say I wanted to block a user from my mods. How would I do that?

I highly doubt that is true. Finance Services is a highly regulated industry and there are stringent requirements around customer data including passwords. However if it is true then I'd move to a bank that treats your data with respect and secures it. I think you'd be surprised how many banking sites only let you use up to 8 chars in the password. Without even the possibility of using a longer one. It's kind of hard to find a workable banking option that also has proper levels of security, so very often we just take what we can get. Eight character passwords are a holdover from legacy systems, like IBM mainframes. IBM mainframe had a MAX limit of eight character passwords for decades, and in as much as many banking systems are backed on IBM Mainframes, they use the IBM Mainframe password processors. Quite a few IBM mainframe customers have not converted to the PassPhrase technology which supports passwords/phrases up to 100 characters. This is incorrect. When you logon to your bank, you are not logging on to a mainframe. Go and read up on the latest (i.e. in the last decade at least) security requirements for mainframe systems. You're trying to conflate something from 20-odd years ago into the current day and age for some reason and it's embarassing to read, to be honest. Read more carefully, I did not say anyone was logging onto a mainframe. I said that some banks used the security processors on the mainframe, " ... they use the IBM Mainframe password processors". From IBM Security Server RACF Security Administrator's Guide When a user logs on to a z/OS® system, the user must supply an authentication factor to identify the user. In RACF®, that authenticator can be either a password or a password phrase. A password is a traditional one to eight character alphanumeric value. A password phrase is a character string that consists of mixed-case letters, numbers, and special characters including blanks. Password phrases have security advantages over passwords as they are long enough to withstand most hacking attempts and are unlikely to be written down because they are easy to remember. I hope this helps clear up your misunderstanding. I have no misunderstanding. z/OS is fully compliant with two phase connect and pass phrases and has been for years. RACF is one security product, Top Secret is another ACF2 is a third. There are other solutions from other vendors that can enhance the system in a myriad of wonderful ways. Then there's the integrated hardware encryption facility which is at least 20 years old ...and the latest hardware encyption of datasets and files i could go on.... when you logon to your internet banking you're not logging on to a mainframe at all in fact you're probably about 5 levels away from the back end protected by all kinds of firewalls and messaging protocols and the fact that some service requires an 8 character password is nothing - absolutely nothing to do with the z/os server providing the data. First, using IBM password services is not the same as logging onto the mainframe. This is the second time I have had to reiterate this distinction. Until you comprehend that distinction, you will continue to lack understanding. Second, compliant is not the same as implemented. The implementation of passphrase is a choice, and not dictated, regardless of security product. Many sites have elected to not implement Passphrase because of the impact the longer passphrase has on things like TSO, CICS and third party product logon screens and automated processes dependent on the RACF password services.

I highly doubt that is true. Finance Services is a highly regulated industry and there are stringent requirements around customer data including passwords. However if it is true then I'd move to a bank that treats your data with respect and secures it. I think you'd be surprised how many banking sites only let you use up to 8 chars in the password. Without even the possibility of using a longer one. It's kind of hard to find a workable banking option that also has proper levels of security, so very often we just take what we can get. Eight character passwords are a holdover from legacy systems, like IBM mainframes. IBM mainframe had a MAX limit of eight character passwords for decades, and in as much as many banking systems are backed on IBM Mainframes, they use the IBM Mainframe password processors. Quite a few IBM mainframe customers have not converted to the PassPhrase technology which supports passwords/phrases up to 100 characters. This is incorrect. When you logon to your bank, you are not logging on to a mainframe. Go and read up on the latest (i.e. in the last decade at least) security requirements for mainframe systems. You're trying to conflate something from 20-odd years ago into the current day and age for some reason and it's embarassing to read, to be honest. Read more carefully, I did not say anyone was logging onto a mainframe. I said that some banks used the security processors on the mainframe, " ... they use the IBM Mainframe password processors". From IBM Security Server RACF Security Administrator's Guide When a user logs on to a z/OS® system, the user must supply an authentication factor to identify the user. In RACF®, that authenticator can be either a password or a password phrase. A password is a traditional one to eight character alphanumeric value. A password phrase is a character string that consists of mixed-case letters, numbers, and special characters including blanks. Password phrases have security advantages over passwords as they are long enough to withstand most hacking attempts and are unlikely to be written down because they are easy to remember. I hope this helps clear up your misunderstanding.

I highly doubt that is true. Finance Services is a highly regulated industry and there are stringent requirements around customer data including passwords. However if it is true then I'd move to a bank that treats your data with respect and secures it. I think you'd be surprised how many banking sites only let you use up to 8 chars in the password. Without even the possibility of using a longer one. It's kind of hard to find a workable banking option that also has proper levels of security, so very often we just take what we can get. Eight character passwords are a holdover from legacy systems, like IBM mainframes. IBM mainframe had a MAX limit of eight character passwords for decades, and in as much as many banking systems are backed on IBM Mainframes, they use the IBM Mainframe password processors. Quite a few IBM mainframe customers have not converted to the PassPhrase technology which supports passwords/phrases up to 100 characters. ... uphill, both ways, in the snow.

Gravity gets everything in the end.

Masturbation is not a intellectual pursuit.

Ignorance is curable, stupidity is fatal. Sure the game's rigged, play on. Responding "I don't know" is acceptable.

Most things we "know" are false. Wisdom requires thinking, knowledge requires scholarship.

What is true isn't necessarily credible. What is credible isn't necessarily true. Good sense isn't all that common. Common sense isn't all that good. Life is unpredictable, eat dessert first. Chaos is the price of freedom. Servitude is the price of peace. Making a baby is such fun. Seize the day, it's gone tomorrow. When you're bored, read a book. Platitudes are a waste of time.

One could consider using the WIKI page facility under Support ... https://wiki.nexusmods.com/index.php/Category:Tutorials. A tutorial could be added there and it would be available within existing facilities and services.

Apologies, but I do not understand your answer. Are you trying to gently tell me that it is not possible to add this capability to SSE? If so, please don't. I am old enough that a simple "No" is appreciated, as it saves the time and miscommunication when trying to intuit an answer.

When uploading or managing a MOD for Fallout 4, on the Permission page, one can identify the Bethnet Mod ID for Xbox and PS. This capability does not exist for Skyrim SE mods. Is it possible to add this capability to Skyrim SE? Thanks in advance for your consideration.

Happy Gregorian New Year. I just published a mod which extends the Sniper Perk in Fallout 4. I wanted to tag the mod with tags which indicated that the mod affected the leveling system and added a perk. Unfortunately, no amount of effort on my part found a way to accomplish this. There are currently no tags for Fallout 4; which I can find, which identify either leveling or perks. If possible, could someone please expand the Attributes and/or the Components sections to include Leveling and Perk respectively. Thank you in advance for your consideration. PS. TAG! You're it. runs away giggling like a school boy

If you are really open to feedback, here is my tuppence. Nexus really needs a better search. A search which understands boolean logic operators like and/or and not logic modifiers. A search which recognizes and respects a "must contain" argument. Boolean operators would necessitate a search that treats arguments as individuals instead of treating multiple arguments as a continuous string, and a search should recognize that material enclosed in quotes is to be treated as a continuous string. A search should also understand that weapon includes the plural. weapons, and derivative words like weaponized. A search should recognize that punctuation marks like commas are there for readability and are not part of the search argument unless enclosed in quotes. And a search needs to be recursive, such that one can search within the results of the previous search instead of starting a new search in the effort to narrow results. Nexus really needs to do something about tags on mods. Either make them mandatory, or get rid of them. Without some meaningful criteria and requirements, tags are useless; they look nice while contributing nothing, like utters on a bull. Barring a meaningful fix for tags, give users the option to block mods without tags from search results.

I have a long range rifle which I really like, except for one annoying characteristic. One would expect that the longer the shot, the more one had to "aim high" to compensate for gravity and drop the round into the target. But alas, this weapon is exactly the opposite. I have to "aim low" so that the bullet will rise into the target. I have looked at the Weapon, Ammo and Projectile forms and have tried several combinations of different settings to no avail. Anyone know how to fix this?

You can take your holier than thou attitude, and stick it where the sun don't shine. YOU are the one making this a moral issue, when in reality, morals have nothing to do with it, as politicians, as a rule, DON'T HAVE ANY. If you read some of my earlier posts, you will see the issues I have with the dems platform. I have listed them more than once, just in this thread. At this point, The republicans could be running Atilla the hun, Saddam Hussien, or even good ol' uncle Adolf himself, and I STILL would NOT vote democrat. This is why intelligent discourse is impossible.