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No, biodiesel profitability was too low due to transportation costs. Has it really been that long since I've been around here?

Life updates:
Quit job in asset finance industry
Started job in healthcare industry
Still coding
Will quit to make indie games at some point
Dated a couple of crazy cat ladies--got out alive
Still quite nostalgic of the old EverQuest days

They're good for funding your blacksmithing so that you can make and wear banded like a real man.

You can get your bags back from a guy in PoK, do a find and look for the Parcels guy.

I seem to have a subscription active at the moment, but never set it up. Maybe they're giving people coming back some time to get into it before making them pay to unlock their character or whatever.

Maybe. I'm not sure what they did with Trolls. I figured they just threw them in Oggok or something. Guess not?

Starting city defaults to Crescent Reach for all races now, I think. You have to select Qeynos or whatever at the beginning. Then you can also unselect the option to enter the tutorial.

Make a barbarian. Kill some polar bear cubs while hearing the wind. Run away from the Vengeful Lyricist. Tailor ...

just play p99. real eq is retarded now. mercenaries? "hey guys let's make our mmo a single player game basically". everybody just boxes. the game is a wash now

No intention of getting into all that. Just want some lowbie fun. Play it like its all classic. Hit up Crushbone or Blackburrow, maybe ...

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Less that, more EQ. Anyone?

Free to play EQ this weekend? The classic experience! Let's make human and barbarians, tailor some patchwork, and do Blackburrow. Screw that starter zone.

Keep in mind you can only do warrior, cleric, wizard, or rogue if you're on a free account and don't purchase additional classes.

You really think government standards are necessary to ensure products work properly? lol

You think I'm against taxes for roads? lol

You really think the civil rights act is some necessary measure preventing mass racism in today's age? lol

You're mistaken about the Great Depression as well. FDR ...

What makes you think I am greedy and selfish? Break it down for me.

I want to keep what I earn. Is that selfish? If so, are you so willing to sacrifice a portion of your earnings ON YOUR OWN, not via support of higher taxation on everyone and not with incentives like tax deductions?

I want ...

So why not change the constitution rather than ignore it and allow the government to get away with anything?

Spazz, there have been amendments to the constitution that have addressed those flaws. It is not a perfect document by any means, but that doesn't mean that we should ignore it. Many things ...

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow Money on the credit of the ...

I honestly don't know how to debate someone who doesn't think that a business owner has the right to the profits his business earns.

Why would anyone start a business if they had to split any earnings with their employees? Why would anyone hire additional employees if everyone has to give them a ...

All legit businesses exist because they improve society as a whole. Consumers do not purchase a business's products or services unless they value them at or higher than their cost, therefore they believe they are benefiting from the transaction.

Yes, people do deserve to compete on level ground ...

Our very government is lowering the minimum wage every damn day they inflate the money supply. Why aren't you raging against that? Inflation hurts the poor and middle class more than anything else. I am assuming you understand the concept of earning the same amount of money, but that same amount of ...

Spazz, getting rid of the minimum wage would create tons of new jobs. Yes, they would be low paying shit jobs, but it would be a place for people to get started, and are you going to tell me that isn't preferable to having them sit on their asses collecting unemployment or welfare for years? That ...

Okay then...

My name is Charlie. I'm 26 years old. My only close family is my Mother. I live in a Minneapolis suburb. I majored in Computer Science and am a very active investor--that is all I will say about the nature of my work.

I grew up thinking I was a Democrat. All of my cousins and their ...

Our government's role is to not feed starving children. That is a role that should be left up to us as individuals acting compassionately and charitably by our own desire to do so. Will some people who have plenty to give refuse to help? Sure. Does that justify reaching into their wallets and ...

Greed is not necessarily a bad thing.

You know what is really greedy, though? Wanting to take more of people's money through higher taxes in order to pay for social programs you like. That one I'd agree with you on, not good at all. We should stop that.

Very cool.

Greed isn't necessarily a bad thing. Profit is not a dirty word.

You have every right to be greedy and act accordingly. So does a business.

You do not have a right to use force, through government or otherwise, to achieve your own ends.

Explain to me how we would be slaves without regulation ...

Big business in bed with big government is far from capitalism. It is corporatism. If only we actually had capitalism.

I assume you'd agree with me that corporations should not be able to influence policy/regulatory decisions? If you blame capitalism for that, you're hopeless. The problem is too ...

What if the reason why you can't afford to do business in the US is because of regulations that were lobbied for by the large businesses that dominate your industry for the purpose of making it too expensive/risky for new businesses to enter the market and begin chopping away at their customer base ...

Tax rates have a direct impact on the measures you take to minimize your expenses (often laying people off) and what you must charge for your products and services to remain profitable, and when you're competing globally, countries with lower tax rates will be able to provide consumers with a better ...