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this is a quote war so I'm gonna throw down mr franklin: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

It's called the Libertarian Party (like me ) You're not alone. IN fact it's the 3rd biggest party

I'll probably vote for Ron Paul, Gary Johnson or whoever runs with the Green Party, if you must know though. First I need to register because I didn't turn 18 until between the last one and now so I haven't done that yet Does anyone know about the time limits there? I should probably get on that...

Unfortunately you are entirely incorrect Quag... the parties aren't drifting away from center, they're drifting toward center. Everyone thinks they know the difference between Democrats and Republicans but it has become so convoluted that I challenge you to go to their websites, look at their platforms (in detail, not their broad statements), then the legalese, and try to tell me how different they really are. If you constrict your mind to one of the two main parties, you really are choosing between the lesser of two evils. Though they are both quite evil so it's hard to say what's lesser Agreed. 3rd party is the way to go. yep those are pretty much the options haha. Sure one is not as bad as the other perhaps but they're both using force to dominate a less powerful. Argue the semantics all you want but the end result is the same, and that's control. I agree with both of the above. I do not support the government either. Let's face it, the government sucks. They've all but drowned themselves in their own red tape. The counterargument to that is "you can't do better, try running a country!" but that's a bunch of bullsh*t. Sure there's going to be red tape, there's going to be corruption, there will be problems. Money, taxes, are always problematic because people like money. But despite all that, I guaran-f*cking-tee you I can run a country better than what's going on right now Any of us here could. Working together is where it gets hard of course, but if we tore it all down and started again it would be so much better, you can't deny that. But I digress. As Charles Beard said, ""It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence." That's the whole point. By not voting you are making a statement. A statement more powerful than you could make by voting, perhaps. But I don't really believe in nonvoting either. I plan on voting for a third party because that's even more impact... aka, your vote is tallied, but in defiance of the dems/reps, and in favor of something you actually support. When anyone says they've voted for a Democrat or Republican I immediately lose respect for them (political respect at least), though when people say they don't vote I lose a lot of respect there too because I chalk it up to apathy. But when they don't vote as a legitimate statement, I can accept and respect that at least. Of course it doesn't make sense but it's the unfortunate reality. Money talks and despite the rampant liberalism we still live in a capitalist society, so of course money has found its way into free speech. Whoever has more money, does indeed have more ability to reach more people with their message. That's so distant. Congressmen hardly do what you want them to, and a lot of times they don't even vote. It may be the best way but it still sucks.But the majority of the organized world we have to put up with is terrible in one way or another so what can you do

First of all I don't believe in the IQ tests. If you already got a 144 you already know you're quite smart, why does the IQ even matter? Someone else made it up and we still can't figure out what intelligence really is or what it means, so don't stress too hard about it. There are also different types of intelligence. But you might want to look into doing mental math and "chain memory" exercises, as well as (as others have mentioned) logic problems on this site if you're really serious there are drugs called nootropics which supposedly improve memory but i don't know how valid or safe they are and I've never personally tried one. Ones that are more common and probably safe are the B vitamins. Ones that are more experimental but possibly valid are the -racetams, for example, piracetam. But don't take my word on it and it's probably bad in the long run. Then there's amphetamines which are DEFINITELY bad in the long run.

look up oxytocin also,

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Looks good to me too (not that I really play rollo anymore lol, its momentum kind of drives itself now). But I do like the variation in letter length since I feel like most interesting 5-letter words will probably start getting recycled fairly soon.

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JIBES

DINES: if 3 then last letter is S; (this is what I'm expecting) if 1 then last letter is R.

nice - it's likely we got the majority of our dictionary source from the same place since the fivelet.txt also has about ~8640 words. I'm checking out the xls right now though, nice nice Is this the system you use practically?

The 5-letter-word dictionary I uploaded isn't as hefty as it probably could be though... if anyone has a better one, the format is for the file to just have all the words together, separated by spaces (it doesn't matter whether the words are lower or upper case) and nothing else. If your format is significantly different, let me know and I can easily extend the code to read in different types of formats. (I.e. if your dictionary has commas or newlines between every word that's an easy fix -- either a mass Find+Replace on your end or a code adjustment on mine). And actually if the words in your dictionary are separated by newlines, tabs, spaces, or any other arbitrary series of combinations of whitespace, it will already work with my code

Anyone without computational aid in this game and feeling left in the dust? No longer

I was going to upload the file but the board won't let me here (same with the actual executable), so I'll post the code in here. I did however upload fivelet.txt which is a pretty decently sized dictionary file for 5 letter words in the desired format my program wants. fivelet.txt (You're going to want to put that in the same directory as rollo_champ.cpp). Here's the code: I've been working at it to make sure it's entirely people-friendly. There's only so many things I could've anticipated though, so if you download it help me out and try to break it with faulty inputs I know something like this has the potential to take the fun out of ROLLO but I thought it was interesting to make anyway so why not share it I guess. Basically you just give it the dictionary file and then enter the guesses and their scores as given by the host (you can edit & remove guesses too, and continually update it, etc) to narrow down the dictionary. Maybe the tool could be helpful in other games or situations, idk. (at the least it's portable to rollo games played with not 5 letters). Anyway enjoy

What about octal? It's more that much more divisible than base 10 (10 divides 1,2,5,10 ... 8 divides 1,2,4,8) but as a power of 2 it has certain advantages to use as a base system. The reason I say that instead of a more factorable system like duodecimal (12 divides 1,2,3,4,6,12) or sexagesimal like the Babylonians used (60 divides 1,2,3,4,5,6,10,12,15,20,30,60) is because the octal system would be easy to learn for kids. If you just stick your hands out in front of you and tuck your thumbs under your palms, there ya go, you have digits 0-7. But it's not that worth it since octal doesn't really provide that many more advantages over decimal (it's actually less efficient in terms of how many digits, requiring something like log(10)/log(8) times as many digits), other than breeding a future generation of good programmers because of how easy it'd be to convert to binary or hexadecimal I'm a fan of going back to sexagesimal if everyone can remember a bunch of symbols. I think binary is the most 'pure' but sexagesimal is on the opposite end of the spectrum. Think about doing fractions in sexagesimal, it'd be very easy, much easier than base 10. "one third" in decimal = 0.3333333333333333333333333333333...etc "one third" in sexagesimal = 0.[20] where [20] is a single digit representing our decimal "20" lots of other fractions could be expressed conveniently without so many repeating digits: fraction :: sexagesimal version 1/2 :: 0.[30] 1/3 :: 0.[20] 1/4 :: 0.[15] 1/5 :: 0.[12] 1/6 :: 0.[10] 1/7 :: 0.[8][34][17]...(repeats those 3 digits forever) ... this one is gonna be messy no matter what base system is used pretty much 1/8 :: 0.[7][30] (think [7.5] being half of [15] which is 1/4) 1/9 :: 0.[6][40] (think [6 + 2/3] being a third of [20] which is 1/3) 1/10 :: 0.[6] etc. I'd rather teach a kid sexagesimal fractions than decimal versions. Then again the major drawback is having so many symbols. So I'm gonna have to go with binary... its purity is appealing, despite being the most inefficient (digits per number) of the systems

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