Bahahaha! Win.

Your children are precious and if unable or unwilling to achieve things for themselves we must institute a quota system in order that they can bring their unique life perspective to various public and private roles.

Yes, because men need a pair of tits flashed in their faces before they'll do anything interesting.

Actually the imperial concerns really only took off in the 1850s, before that it was just a squabbling collection of coastal holdings and primitive demesnes. With the invention of the gatling gun and the field howitzer, not to mention the advent of the likes of dreadnoughts, the British empire did in fact conquer large areas of musket defended territory. That lasted for just south of a century, or about long enough for the conquered territories to equip themselves with modern weapons.

That would be pretty straightforward to organise - add up the $20 a month from all subscribers, then divide it based on clicks.

So let's say there's a userbase of a million people, that's $20 million per month. In total they click on websites a billion times during that month. The value per click is therefore 2 cents. So just distribute the funds to those websites which have signed up to be ad free to those subscribers, with say a minimum $10 payment (it would roll over month by month). A website that gets a million clicks through that ISP would then be paid $20,000 each month, on top of non advert related revenue.

ISPs are in a uniquely good position to track authentic clicks as well, so the potential for fraud would be minimal.

This is all purely academic as long as adblocking software exists in any case. If I don't want to see ads, I don't see ads, and I don't have to pay a cent for it.

Like him or hate him the man assisted in creating one of the most powerful commercial entities in history, one that negotiated not just with whole countries but with entire continents. I'd personally pay good money to get a peek behind the curtains, that's the kind of experience you don't usually get in academia, or anywhere.

It doesn't look quite like paper yet. A little more contrast perhaps and zero reflectivity, and no that doesn't mean embedded LEDs. What I find is that ebooks make a poorly written work a lot less appealing, while I have no difficulty reading, enjoying and retaining the masterpieces in that format.

You are aware that people can literally look directly above your post to see what was actually said as opposed to your laughable "interpretation" of it. They can even click on the links if they like! I could just copy and paste it again in response to this parade of strawmen.

The old critical theory doesn't fare too well in this format.

You said: "every woman on Twitter who says anything remotely prominent stops getting hundreds of rape threats in response". This is ludicrous hyperbole, an attempt to foster moral panic.

You've twice used the term "uppity women" to suppress dissent through framing the conversation in an adversarial fashion - men keeping women down, using language most often associated with the actual real oppression endured by black people in the south of the US, for which hijacking I'm sure they'd be appropriately irritated. This is equally ludicrous, certainly in modern developed countries.

Everything since then has been you trying to avoid being called out on your bullshit. So, er, good luck with that.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess they're mostly feminists, right? Believe it or not almost nobody wants to rape anyone else, men don't go around raping at random, and rape culture is the most stone cold idiotic attempt to induce a moral panic I've ever heard of. That's not to say some social maladjusts don't send rape threats of course, but the internet is littered with all sorts of mental wreckage without indicating widespread mis-whatevery.

There really isn't anything to misrepresent. She put it up on her twitter feed as a holiday snap. She's a well known feminist figure and like most feminists, she's widely despised. That photo illustrates why. Why is it okay one way but not the other when male suicides are 4 or 5 times female suicides? Not very funny now is it? Or envision if you will the response if a man were photographed wearing a t-shirt that says "I bathe in female tears", the social justice brigade would have a seizure.

Valenti's made a career out of demonising half the population, so she's not representative of "most women" and their experiences. That you made a mental leap from there to insinuating that she deserved however it says a lot more about you than me.

You've access to her personal email accounts and so on, I suppose? I checked it out though, and I can only find one publicised instance of her receiving rape threats - when she criticised a particularly thin skinned rapper. Again this isn't representative of the experiences of most women, for reasons which should be obvious.

I'm not sure how convoluted deflections can actually get, but this is probaby in the top tenth percentile if anyone's keeping track.

Levels and classes are fine, where they fall apart is when they're hooked up to hit points.

I would probably target any market but the existing RPG players market if you do go for it, at least online. Maybe aim at the boardgames market. Online RPG communities are a haunted wasteland/minefield of verboten topics and personal grudges, edition wars, design wars, method wars, and above all else social justice warriors shrieking about rape culture. These aren't generally people you want to engage with - while there are plenty of nice individuals, the nuts rule the roost.

Flaws can be good as long as they're personality flaws with no mechanical influence, just suggestions on how to play your character. I've yet to see a system which included mechanically relevant flaws that didn't end up with everyone being ugly squinting one eyed outlaws from a bad family who owe favours to someone three countries over.

You're talking about that idiot Valenti? Here's a little holiday snap that might explain why she's catching heat: http://returnofqueens.com/wp-c...

I've no doubt that the people who've lost a father, a son, a brother, an uncle, a husband or a lover to suicide (which disproportionately affects men) wouldn't mind a long soothing bath in Jessica's warm salty tears. You can't do things like that then act the innocent when there's a backlash.

Meanwhile other prominent women post controversial things on twitter all the time with nary a rape threat in sight.

Why do you think that might be?

The next time you lean in, we'll be here.

Leaning OUT.

Feminist halfhead,

That was happening many years before the beta thing, champ. Someone actually did an analysis of UIDs and the frequency with which they post over time, quite interesting if it can be dug up again.