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Eve Online - Faction Warfare Missioning

Basics: Gain ISK and LP by completing and turning in missions. Missions are against npc's (non-player "rats"). They generally involve destroying an object (like a reactor), or a head honcho rat (like a Sector Commander). With ISK you can purchase whatever you need off the Eve markets. LP you use to purchase items in your corporations Loyalty Points Store (LP = Loyalty Points). How lucrative is mission running? It depends on the tier the faction is at in the warzone. If you complete 20 missions, you should on average at Tier 3 get a payout of about 40 million ISK and 450K-550K LP. At about 700 ISK/LP that translates to about 350 mil. ISK. At Tier 4, those same missions completed should pay out 650k-850k LP. This would translate to about 550 mil. ISK. What do I use to run missions? Current doctrine suggests that if you're Amarr fighting against Minmatar, the best ship to use on Level 3 and 4 missions is a Stealth Bomber called the Hound . You can stay at range...

Drones for the Newbro

Drones can be a valuable tool for the Newbro. If he'd rather fight from a distance he can either orbit from a distance and make sure he's trained up on the skills that make that a viable option. Another way is to train drones and have them do the shooting for you. This sounds simple enough, but there's aspects of this that make it a more lengthy route to go. However, if you're set on it, there's important things to know: If you have an interest in drones, there's 3 four main factors to consider: 1. Factions have their own drones (for example: Hobgobblins are Gallente light drones). 2. Faction ship classes give drone bonuses, For example, the Tristan gives a 10% bonus to Drone hitpoints per level. This means that if you train 'Gallente Frigate' to V you can provide a 50% boost in your drones hitpoints. 3. There's three sizes of drones (Light, Medium, & Heavy), and 3. Specializations take a long time to complete. With these things in mind,...

Draining the Swamp or Refilling It?

These are the current Trump Cabinet positions. Justice - Jeff Sessions Treasury - Steve Mnuchin Education - Betsy DeVos Transportation - Elaine Chao Health and Human Services - Tom Price Commerce - Wilbur Ross Housing and Urban Development - Ben Carson Defense - Gen. James Mattis I'm going to go through and describe both the good and bad of each choice. Foremost in mind will be the stated aim of Trump to 'Drain the Swamp'. Jeff Sessi ons  - Senator (Alabama):  C areer  in politics started in 1975 (Asst. US Attorney, Alabama). Reagan nominated him US Attorney for Alabama. Confirmed and held position for 12 years. Several allegations of racism dogged him over the years, highlighted by him calling the NAACP "un-American" and claiming civil rights did more harm than good " by trying to force civil rights "down the throats of people ". He has been Senator since 1996. He has the experience and expertise to head Justice, but his history in r...

The Pre-Pauline Creed

There are few Apologetics that have any meat on them. Most can be easily dismissed. One I rarely hear about is the Pre-Pauline Creed. The purpose seems to be to validate belief in an earthly Jesus and the Resurrection as an historical event by establishing that a creed was referred to by Paul going back to shortly after the Resurrection. I'm going to look at it and see for myself whether or not the Pre-Pauline Creed is a strong argument, or not. For me, it doesn't ultimately matter whether or not there was an early creed because all it could show is an early belief in the Resurrection, and not testify as to the truth behind those beliefs. However, I am curious as to what validity the creed has as part of an argument. The Background It is acknowledged that Paul wrote I Corinthians, which includes chapter 15, from which a Pre-Pauline Creed is extracted. I have only recently heard about this and while it has the feel of falseness like Isaiah 7:14, it's been around awhile. ...

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Religion - Anthropology    - Fossils    - DNA    - Dating techniques - Geology    - The Geologic Column    - The Cambrian Explosion - Archaeology    - Epigraphic Database    - Finkelstein    - Mesopotamia (religion, history, etc.) - Neurology    - Unreliability of witnesses (memory)    - Ease of tricking the mind (incl. NLP)    - Neurological disorders    - Physical damage and personality changes    - NDE's    - Free Will vs Determinism - Biology (Evolution)    - Atavisms    - Biogeography    - The Philogentic Tree (Cladistics)    - Transitional Forms    - DNA (endogenous retroviruses, redundant pseuodogenes)    - Convergence - History    - Wrong history (OT & NT)       - Exodus       - The "Slaughter of the Innoc...

Doing It!

When we as adults engage in sexual activity with children around, we have to be careful when and where we do it, and we have to be relatively quiet about it. We tend to do it when the kids are nowhere around or are sound asleep. Even then, we tend to be quiet for fear they may hear us. The results is that many (most, perhaps), adults engage in sexual activity far less than they'd like and when they do it's less satisfying because they have to restrain themselves from vocalizing their euphoria. Thinking outside the box, this is silly! More, it's no wonder we tend to be sexually frustrated. How the heck did the children get here if not for it? It's sillier still when you realize that this whole thing is a more recent phenomena. For the last ten thousand years (excluding the last few hundred), sex was always done in front of children because a household slept in a single room. Excluding the wealthy, we were all still doing it until the Industrial Revolution created a middl...

Evolution

If you are willing to accept that there are generally two branches of complex organisms (vertebrates and invertebrates), further accept that there are three primary forms of rock (igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary), and that all scientific proof backs up the supposition that rock takes a long time to form, then evolution is a theory only in name. No human bones have ever been found any deeper than the most superficial of layers of rock. The deeper you go into rock, the more you find a pattern emerge: vertebrates exist only in the most recently formed rock, whereas invertebrates can be found much, much deeper and further back in time. In itself, this is proof of evolution; that creatures around today evolved from a different form more distantly in the past. Having a sample of your DNA will quickly go so far as to prove where you evolved from even more recently. But let's delve a little more into the more immediately observable. There are sightless spiders in deep, dark caves...