5th August 2005, 4:16 PM
Ugh, I remember hearing about that domain ruling... it's stupid... That ruling was for PUBLIC WORKS, such as building a dam, roads, a public library, a military base, or anything along those lines that is owned by the government. By allowing them to say "we can also do this for the sake of improving the economy by placing economy stimulating businesses in already owned land" you intoduce a HUGE problem. At least with roads and government owned buildings, you know that they aren't in it for the money. At the most, they will be doing it for political gain. But, now they can look at a small business and say "you know, it would help the economy more if they put a Walmart in there" and DO it. It's just a bad law.
Among other bad laws involving property... I have issues with the endangered species act as well. That law has nothing to do with actually protecting endangered species and everything to do with land control. They can say "hey, this animal is plentiful over here, but not over here, you can't build until the population rebuilds over here". The problem there is, um, you can't build where the animals obviously DON'T like to live but suddenly you CAN build where they DO? Protecting animals is all well and good, but that law should be canned, because it is just the sort of power that will always be getting used for all the wrong reasons. There are better laws that actually show some promise, like an act labelling many miles of unclaimed land as a wildlife reserve. Nothing wrong with that.
And Darunia, you fool, you seem pretty selective in your skepticism. Oh sure, you can't believe in the goddesses, but something equally outlandish like another world with an item that grants infinite wishes so long as you hold it? Oh sure, put your entire force taking up the vast space one might find under a shoe to that task. Besides that, I channeled the Fire of Din just this morn, so don't tell me they don't exist. That certainly wasn't my mitochondria flarin' up! But that's all irrelevent. That pretty much proves you ain't the real thing. The actual Darunia goes on and on in speeches about the goddesses and the ruby they have being the key to their great gift to Hyrule.
To whoever keeps doing this: And from now on UPLOAD smilies to the FTP site and THEN add them to the smily list! They show up as dead images if you link directly to an image attachment in some post!
Among other bad laws involving property... I have issues with the endangered species act as well. That law has nothing to do with actually protecting endangered species and everything to do with land control. They can say "hey, this animal is plentiful over here, but not over here, you can't build until the population rebuilds over here". The problem there is, um, you can't build where the animals obviously DON'T like to live but suddenly you CAN build where they DO? Protecting animals is all well and good, but that law should be canned, because it is just the sort of power that will always be getting used for all the wrong reasons. There are better laws that actually show some promise, like an act labelling many miles of unclaimed land as a wildlife reserve. Nothing wrong with that.
And Darunia, you fool, you seem pretty selective in your skepticism. Oh sure, you can't believe in the goddesses, but something equally outlandish like another world with an item that grants infinite wishes so long as you hold it? Oh sure, put your entire force taking up the vast space one might find under a shoe to that task. Besides that, I channeled the Fire of Din just this morn, so don't tell me they don't exist. That certainly wasn't my mitochondria flarin' up! But that's all irrelevent. That pretty much proves you ain't the real thing. The actual Darunia goes on and on in speeches about the goddesses and the ruby they have being the key to their great gift to Hyrule.
To whoever keeps doing this: And from now on UPLOAD smilies to the FTP site and THEN add them to the smily list! They show up as dead images if you link directly to an image attachment in some post!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)