Use it and convince Desticles it's Recon v2.

However, I'd advise the rule maker to be more lenient on these kinds of threads, but still have an iron grip if things are pushed outside of the line.

So now we're all of a sudden talking about leniency when it comes to applying the rules and a certain "line" that can't be crossed.

Your good and objective rule is now no longer flawless and relies on the ultimately subjective interpretation of whichever member of the staff dealing with it.

Moderation on a forum is not that different from a real life state, you know. Only here, there's no real separation of powers. You have the admin coming up with the rules in agreement with his staff (I firmly believe this process should include the entire community and not just a select few, but that's beside the question) as the legislative branch would, and then these rules are applied by moderators who take on the role of judges. They interpret the law and apply it to concrete situations. If you're not happy with a decision, you can appeal in public and with Cheat.

It's not a bad system. It just needs to be more transparent and more of a two-way street.

It's been sunny for most of the week. Which is surprising since we're in autumn which would put slap damn in the middle of rain season v2.

Where exactly do you live? I could go check the thread, but fuck that.

I foresaw your answer, and thus I wrote "and how?", but you ignored it.

I don't really see how this could affect the third world countries worse than it already is. I can only see improvement. We're already fracking shit up, but if we frack it up enough, we can frack up Earth as a whole together as humans.

The way this could mess up third world countries is that genetically modified organisms can potentially be registered as intellectual property, which is another challenge that needs to be tackled. If this modified produce isn't available to all, it's far from unthinkable that Western and developed countries would become sufficiently self-reliant that there would be no more need to rely on the produce of third world countries, effectively shutting them down. You can read all about this and many other objections against GMO's right here.

And I don't know "how" some of that would be researched. I have a decent understanding of how we'd go about regulating the legal side of it all, but I'm no biologist or economist.

We do this once. We do this twice. We do this three times. We do this four times, or we alternatively, set down solid rules. The whole process would be unfair, as Cheat might be subjective as well, and thus rules that are good, and objective, would be much more efficient.

On the off-chance that you aren't just trolling, why don't you tell me what you think proper objective and good rules would look like?

It's still my favorite Halo, along with the endless Halo 2 split-screen customs I had with friends.

Research how? What is it that they're supposed to research, and how are they supposed to research it?

If you're researching the average temperature of fire, then it'd be wise to measure the temperature of many fires, of various sizes, but what you shouldn't just say that they need to research it.

Mainly risk assessment (health risks and consequences for non-modified foods) and research on what the introduction of GMO's would mean for the global market and development of third world countries.

As long as they're applied fairly and actual transparency is promoted, I don't have a problem with these rules.

This should probably be in Serious.

I personally have no issues with using genetically modified foods, but there needs to be more research done and a strong legal basis has to be created so that it doesn't end up pushing third world countries into more poverty.

Quote from: Flee on October 10, 2014, 06:00:15 AM

Rarely ever. Took me forever before I first talked to even friends in party chat.

I remember. I was the first person to receive a voice message from you.

Indeed you were. Those were the days, lol.

I'm kidding. I actually like you.

Thanks, I quite like you too.

Now try doing it for my karma.

Belgium.

Quote from: Flee on October 11, 2014, 05:00:27 PM

Quote from: Meta Cognition on October 11, 2014, 04:56:37 PM

Quote from: Naja on October 11, 2014, 04:55:31 PM

I guess you've never studied Islam, or for that matter Christianity.

Please tell me it's Dustin.

Cheat's the only one who can view IP's after certain recent events of moderator abuse.

As far as I'm aware the 3 Master Ninjas can view IP's. Not that it would matter, if it was an alt it would have been perma banned right away.

Last I heard, Cheat literally said he was the only one who could view IP's after what you did in Anarchy. He even made it so that they're not constantly visible but instead require him to go out of his way to find out what IP belongs to what user. Unless he recently changed that policy, of course.

Besides, aren't you just a normal mod anymore?

Quote from: Flee on October 11, 2014, 03:03:05 PM

Quote from: Xboxdotcom on October 11, 2014, 03:01:22 PM

*returns to bungie.net* I have to tell the flood

There's no Flood left on Bnet anymore. And Camnator is also posting there, albeit under a different name.

the floods alive

I still check on Bungie every so often. Off-topic still seems in the same awful state it was when I left.