RIA,

It has come to my attention that several of my friends announced their resignation in the same thread as me. A few minutes ago, so did Fortress. Please allow me to explain this, as it will undoubtedly attract the ire of RIA if you believe that I told my friends to follow me to NPO. Fortress and I are roommates, good friends, and we play Cybernations together. I followed him to RIA in the first place. Last week, we decided together that we would both leave RIA, and of course, we told our CN-playing real life friends (Phoenixrisers, Darth Magus, Vilheim88, and Arcsoria). As you have most likely noticed, Fortress and I are the only two of this group that follow CN politics or post on the forums. We initially asked our friends to join RIA so that we could be in the same alliance. Naturally, when we decided to leave, our other friends wanted to follow, because again, they wanted to be in the same alliance as us. We didn't actively bring them to NPO; they are following us on their own free will. I won't pretend that I didn't expect this to happen, but there was nothing I or Fortress could do to leave without them burritos too. After all, wouldn't you want to be in the same alliance as your real life friends?

I apologize for any hard feelings this has caused, but rest assured that these are all real-life friends of ours, and that we are not attempting to rob the RIA of members.

Thanks for understanding this,

mattmag
Sovereign of the Kingdom of Schneereich

PS. I would have replied in my resignation thread, but I am rightly demasked and cannot. I'm not trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill, but I see no better way to respond to the posts in my resignation thread.

I need up to 3 people to send $3 million each. Middlemen will be paid 10 days after the completion of the deal.

I'm doing a $12m donation deal tomorrow. You'll get paid whatever the going rate is ($200k - $500k) in 10 days.

i went to subway for lunch, and overheard a man and a woman talking at the next table:

man: does god REALLY want us to explore other planets? what if it's in his plan to have us all die when the sun becomes a red giant?
woman: the sun will never become a red giant. you've fallen into an evolutionist perspective.
man: *gasp* it's not evolution! it's just the science of stars. in about two billion years, the sun will become a red giant.
woman: two billion years? how can we know that? the universe is only 6000 years old! that kind of time scale isn't possible!
man: well, i can't argue with that. but does god really want us to explore other planets?
woman:  well, the stars will continue to shine after armageddon. it's in genesis!
man: so does that mean we should go to those stars?
woman: no, that's why god put them so far away.

 these people make me sad. 500 years ago, they're the type of people who would be adamantly opposed to sending exploration ships into the ocean. i can just imagine their 16th century equivalents saying "god doesn't want us to explore the new world. that's why it's so far away!"

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/10/robot-cannon-ki.html

a sign of the apocalypse?

EDIT: I have the seller. this can be deleted, or just ignored.

1 million for the tech, 100k for the middleman. i can have the money after update tonight.

ok, so if you know about it already, good for you. but fortress and i didn't, so i'm bringing it to everyone's attention in case anyone else didnt know.
http://www.cybernations.net/search_advanced_trades.asp
or click on world statistics on the side of your cn page, then advanced trade finder.

wooo.....

if it hasn't worked in the last 45 years, why do they think it'll work now? can't they learn from china and vietnam? we opened up trading with them, and now they're not (really) communist anymore.

bah.

I like my women like I like my wine: 14 years old and kept in a cellar.

I like my women like I like my cup holders: they vanish from sight until you want to stick something in them.

And the one that inspired me: I like my men like I like my toothpaste: you think they're empty, then you squeeze them and a bit more comes out.

Your turn!