I'd rather cast a Lead the Stampede than Green Sun's Zenith in my Elf deck mainly cause you get more creatures out of it and for a cheap mana cost to boot. With the Zenith you only get 1 creature until you draw into the Zenith again and it's even worse being at Sorcery speed so it's no Chord of Calling.
I don't mind MaRo having his heyday, it's just that Infect is one of the most fun but yet annoying game mechanics to go up against. I guess you know what they say, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!"
But you still haven't answered my question as to why MaRo doesn't want Poison removal in the Scars of Mirrodin block. Is he just saying that to be a douschebag which is the kind of thing EDH is against?
I figured with Infect decks causing problems in Standard and other formats we need new cards that can get rid of Poison counters, Leeches from Homelands seems to remedy the problem that the Infect mechanic is causing.
Their excuse to kill it off? Because America's biggest economic growth was mostly online sales. It's bad enough that my internet access is limited from my ISP being Comcast as I keep getting kicked off and on frequently.
As far as I recall the next chapter of One Piece is getting delayed til January 19th. Don't know about the next chapters for Bleach and Naruto. So no they're not banned, Japan isn't THAT stupid.
I'm not trying to be rude with this I'm just wondering why our society has adjusted to this. To me it leaves a bad impression on our children and they can be easily influenced into saying such things that they shouldn't be saying.
Say you have Galepowder Mage already on the battlefield with no summoning sickness, you cast Realm Razer to exile all lands from the battlefield, swing with Galepowder Mage and use his ability to exile Realm Razer until it re-enters the battlefield at the end of the turn from the Mage's ability.
When Realm Razer gets exiled from Galepowder Mage's ability would the lands from Realm Razer's second ability enter the battlefield tapped under their owner's control and when Realm Razer comes back to the battlefield at the end of the turn from Galepowder Mage's ability would all lands get exiled again?
Is this an infinite loop?
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It hasn't even been passed into law and the Senate hasn't approved of it either. Unless I'm wrong it still also has to go through the House of Representatives as well too, this bill is about as vague as the new Health Care Law which is currently under the process of getting repealed by the GOP and Tea Party Activists.
It's bad enough that we have fascist dictators from countries around the world like Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, and dare I say it Russia that are out to undermine peace and freedom. Bad enough for the U.S. to become just as bad which I hope is not the case at all. Of course Tokyo Bill 156 proved how corrupt the Japanese Government can be.
Stopping Pirating on the Internet would only lead to the death of the Anime/Manga Industry in America cause where would people get their fix on One Piece which is severely underrated in the U.S. and instead Naruto is still popular in the U.S. when it shouldn't be. The Narutards have no idea how their series has declined in popularity in Japan in 3 years time.
Due to what Cartoon Network's Adult Swim and Toonami hasn't learned, Anime/Manga doesn't range from just the Action Genre, there's other Genre's as well which shows in Anime/Manga's decline on Television when there's more and more people viewing their show's online when they can't even get it on TV. Oblivious to Dubbing Companies especially 4Kids sometimes when they dub an Anime franchise they sometimes don't get the age demographic right for example One Piece.
For a Music Industry standpoint I sort of see where they are coming from, music artists are less motivated to release good music cause they're not getting paid for it and it's like we'll why should we care If nobody's going to buy our albums and singles? This is sort of why we have horrible music from artists like Lady Gaga, Justin Beiber, the Jonas Bros., among other crud.
As for the COICA Bill you really have to wonder what kind of impact it would have on social networking sites like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Skype, Justin.TV, Yahoo!, eBay, Google, among other forms of social media. It would kill those websites in an instant thus hurting the economies based on those sites, CEOs and people who own websites such as those make money too.
Online Businesses and College's are also under the gun due to this as well too.
I was listening to a Conference on C-SPAN, "Americans Against Hate" regarding Fatah as a Terrorist Organization and it appears that due to a loophole in a Reagan Administration Bill to put Fatah under control it appears as though the US Government is funding for Fatah and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is to blame for it.
On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved a bill that would give the Attorney General the right to shut down websites with a court order if copyright infringement is deemed “central to the activity” of the site — regardless if the website has actually committed a crime. The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) is among the most draconian laws ever considered to combat digital piracy, and contains what some have called the “nuclear option,” which would essentially allow the Attorney General to turn suspected websites “off.”
COICA is the latest effort by Hollywood, the recording industry and the big media companies to stem the tidal wave of internet file sharing that has upended those industries and, they claim, cost them tens of billions of dollars over the last decade.
The content companies have tried suing college students. They’ve tried suing internet startups. Now they want the federal government to act as their private security agents, policing the internet for suspected pirates before making them walk the digital plank.
Many people opposed to the bill agree in principle with its aims: Illegal music piracy is, well, illegal, and should be stopped. Musicians, artists and content creators should be compensated for their work. But the law’s critics do not believe that giving the federal government the right to shut down websites at will based upon a vague and arbitrary standard of evidence, even if no law-breaking has been proved, is a particularly good idea. COICA must still be approved by the full House and Senate before becoming law. A vote is unlikely before the new year.
Among the sites that could go dark if the law passes: Dropbox, RapidShare, SoundCloud, Hype Machine and any other site for which the Attorney General deems copyright infringement to be “central to the activity” of the site, according to Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group that opposes the bill. There need not even be illegal content on a site — links alone will qualify a site for digital death. Websites at risk could also theoretically include p2pnet and pirate-party.us or any other website that advocates for peer-to-peer file sharing or rejects copyright law, according to the group.
In short, COICA would allow the federal government to censor the internet without due process.
The mechanism by which the government would do this, according to the bill, is the internet’s Domain Name System (DNS), which translates web addresses into IP addresses. The bill would give the Attorney General the power to simply obtain a court order requiring internet service providers to pull the plug on suspected websites.
Scholars, lawyers, technologists, human rights groups and public interest groups have denounced the bill. Forty-nine prominent law professors called it “dangerous.” (pdf.) The American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch warned the bill could have “grave repercussions for global human rights.” (pdf.) Several dozen of the most prominent internet engineers in the country — many of whom were instrumental in the creation of the internet — said the bill will “create an environment of tremendous fear and uncertainty for technological innovation.” (pdf.) Several prominent conservative bloggers, including representatives from RedState.com, HotAir.com, The Next Right and Publius Forum, issued a call to help stop this “serious threat to the Internet.”
And Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the world wide web, said, “Neither governments nor corporations should be allowed to use disconnection from the internet as a way of arbitrarily furthering their own aims.” He added: “In the spirit going back to Magna Carta, we require a principle that no person or organization shall be deprived of their ability to connect to others at will without due process of law, with the presumption of innocence until found guilty.”
Critics of the bill object to it on a number of grounds, starting with this one: “The Act is an unconstitutional abridgment of the freedom of speech protected by the First Amendment,” the 49 law professors wrote. “The Act permits the issuance of speech suppressing injunctions without any meaningful opportunity for any party to contest the Attorney General’s allegations of unlawful content.” (original emphasis.)
Because it is so ill-conceived and poorly written, the law professors wrote, “the Act, if enacted into law, will not survive judicial scrutiny, and will, therefore, never be used to address the problem (online copyright and trademark infringement) that it is designed to address. Its significance, therefore, is entirely symbolic — and the symbolism it presents is ugly and insidious. For the first time, the United States would be requiring Internet Service Providers to block speech because of its content.”
The law professors noted that the bill would actually undermine United States policy, enunciated forcefully by Secretary of State Clinton, which calls for global internet freedom and opposes web censorship. “Censorship should not be in any way accepted by any company anywhere,” Clinton said in her landmark speech on global internet freedom earlier this year. She was referring to China. Apparently some of Mrs. Clinton’s former colleagues in the U.S. Senate approve of internet censorship in the United States.
To be fair, COICA does have some supporters in addition to sponsor Sen. Pat Leahy (D-Vermont) and his 17 co-sponsors including Schumer, Specter, Grassley, Gillibrand, Hatch, Klobuchar, Coburn, Durbin, Feinstein, Menendez and Whitehouse. Mark Corallo, who served as chief spokesperson for former Attorney General John Ashcroft and as spokesman for Karl Rove during the Valerie Plame affair, wrote Thursday on The Daily Caller: “The Internet is not at risk of being censored. But without robust protections that match technological advances making online theft easy, the creators of American products will continue to suffer.”
“Counterfeiting and online theft of intellectual property is having devastating effects on industries where millions of Americans make a living,” wrote Corallo, who now runs a Virginia-based public relations firm and freely admits that he has “represented copyright and patent-based businesses for years.” “Their futures are at risk due to Internet-based theft.”
The Recording Industry Association of America, which represents the major record labels, praised Leahy for his work, “to insure [sic] that the Internet is a civilized medium instead of a lawless one where foreign sites that put Americans at risk are allowed to flourish.”
The only thing I don't like about Glissa the Traitor is that she's a Mythic Rare which is due to EDH/Commander reasons. She should've been a Regular Rare like Fauna Shaman in M11 but I degress. Oh well, at least Ezuri, Renegade Leader wasn't a Mythic, why does Glissa have to be?
I already thought up of a funny spot removal combo for Glissa the Traitor as well. Cast Flight Spellbomb then sack it to give any one of your Opponent's creature's Flying, Plummet the Flyer, then use Glissa's ability to get Flight Spellbomb back from your Graveyard to do the combo over again assuming you draw into another Plummet.
Don't you just love how a plan comes together?
Thopter Assembly seems solid, but I'm even more curious about Hero of Bladehold.
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-house-republicans-get-to-work-on-killing-off-net-neutrality/
Their excuse to kill it off? Because America's biggest economic growth was mostly online sales. It's bad enough that my internet access is limited from my ISP being Comcast as I keep getting kicked off and on frequently.
At least Shonen Jump isn't.
At least we got the new 112 Congress that have enough common sense to put this bill down. This bill is unconstitutional to the highest extent.
Say you have Galepowder Mage already on the battlefield with no summoning sickness, you cast Realm Razer to exile all lands from the battlefield, swing with Galepowder Mage and use his ability to exile Realm Razer until it re-enters the battlefield at the end of the turn from the Mage's ability.
When Realm Razer gets exiled from Galepowder Mage's ability would the lands from Realm Razer's second ability enter the battlefield tapped under their owner's control and when Realm Razer comes back to the battlefield at the end of the turn from Galepowder Mage's ability would all lands get exiled again?
Is this an infinite loop?
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It's bad enough that we have fascist dictators from countries around the world like Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, and dare I say it Russia that are out to undermine peace and freedom. Bad enough for the U.S. to become just as bad which I hope is not the case at all. Of course Tokyo Bill 156 proved how corrupt the Japanese Government can be.
Stopping Pirating on the Internet would only lead to the death of the Anime/Manga Industry in America cause where would people get their fix on One Piece which is severely underrated in the U.S. and instead Naruto is still popular in the U.S. when it shouldn't be. The Narutards have no idea how their series has declined in popularity in Japan in 3 years time.
Due to what Cartoon Network's Adult Swim and Toonami hasn't learned, Anime/Manga doesn't range from just the Action Genre, there's other Genre's as well which shows in Anime/Manga's decline on Television when there's more and more people viewing their show's online when they can't even get it on TV. Oblivious to Dubbing Companies especially 4Kids sometimes when they dub an Anime franchise they sometimes don't get the age demographic right for example One Piece.
For a Music Industry standpoint I sort of see where they are coming from, music artists are less motivated to release good music cause they're not getting paid for it and it's like we'll why should we care If nobody's going to buy our albums and singles? This is sort of why we have horrible music from artists like Lady Gaga, Justin Beiber, the Jonas Bros., among other crud.
As for the COICA Bill you really have to wonder what kind of impact it would have on social networking sites like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Skype, Justin.TV, Yahoo!, eBay, Google, among other forms of social media. It would kill those websites in an instant thus hurting the economies based on those sites, CEOs and people who own websites such as those make money too.
Online Businesses and College's are also under the gun due to this as well too.
Source:
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/11/coica-web-censorship-bill/
I already thought up of a funny spot removal combo for Glissa the Traitor as well. Cast Flight Spellbomb then sack it to give any one of your Opponent's creature's Flying, Plummet the Flyer, then use Glissa's ability to get Flight Spellbomb back from your Graveyard to do the combo over again assuming you draw into another Plummet.
Don't you just love how a plan comes together?
Thopter Assembly seems solid, but I'm even more curious about Hero of Bladehold.
Okay now you're confusing me, Net Neutrality is what we've had or will have up till now. Net Neutrality = Internet Freedom.
Here's how it got resolved by the FCC recently:
http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/fcc-internet-rules-net-neutrality/19772380/
To be honest I don't know why the Republicans are against Net Neutrality, sounds to me like they obviously haven't done their homework on this issue.