Of course he has the right to do it. Your joining our 'merry band' has no relevance as to whether or not we're allowed to bump whom we please.

And besides, can you really deny that mining, as a profession, is the first step on the road to becoming a bot? Even if you interact with the game while mining, you're certainly not interacting with your 'roid once you've targeted it and started your lasers.
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Kids, just say no to AFK mining. It leads to harder things. Like bot mining. And it can you get you in trouble with the law... er, the bumpgeoisie.

You're exactly right! Although your use of juvenile portmantitles did kind of diminish that effect.

You might also want to consider that removing the 'AFK' would make it mean more. I mean, AFK Mining is like Ecstasy while bot mining is crack *******, but the true gateway drug (cannabis) would be mining in any form.

If it goes that way, I have a fair idea of who is going to come out on the worse side. The miners have a greater tendency to all be in the same corporation, so one wardec = more targets. The PvP players and mercs are, in general, morally on the side of James 315. The miner bumpers are far more likely to have the tools for ganking than the miners are. And finally, any list of miners is bound to have a greater audience, due to the fact that www.MinerBumping.com is much better known than the Proveldtariat blog.

Hey hey hey, they have disproven the gateway drug theory about pot.

At least make sure your crackpot theories are current, sheesh.

:tinfoil:

The word is portmanteau, it's the use of two words to make a new one. Spork is a good example, it's the combination of spoon and fork in both language and physical form.

That post was just a 'juvenile portmantitle', whatever that is. Didn't you guys notice a slightly trollish stink on that post?

Another example is 'chortle' which is a combination of 'snort' and 'chuckle' (it was coined by Lewis Carroll in his poem The Jabberwock).

In future, I don't recommend using a word to describe something and then following it with 'whatever that is'. It significantly increases your chances of making no sense at all.

As Jonah said, the correct word would be 'portmanteau', and my word (portmantitle) was a portmanteau of 'portmanteau' and 'title', because of your use of 'bumpgeoisie', which is a portmanteau of 'bumper' and 'bourgeoisie'.

I hope that clears that up.

Thank you sir, I know what a portmanteau is. And now, I suggest that you and your portmantitle stop suggesting things.

It's actually not a fan fic at all. Check his twitter. The guy goes swimming in freezing temperatures in a near frozen lake. Gotta have respect for that

Nice edit. I preferred the first iteration though.

It's actually not a fan fic at all. Check his twitter. The guy goes swimming in freezing temperatures in a near frozen lake. Gotta have respect for that

Not once the clothes are off.

So will this involve quotas?
Or shall all be free to mine as they please with those in abundance giving to those less so?

In one case your interacting with PEOPLE

and taking actions to will help the economy of the game by removing materials/ships (either yours or the ship of the person your FC called primary)), in the other, you ain't (your just adding yet more material into an over-stuffed game market).

I'm sorry if I don't quite understand...are you asking how miners function during this?

If that's the case, they can do whatever they want. All they have to do is resist the bumpers. They don't have to give anything or pay for protection or whatever. That defeats the purpose. If miners choose to help other miners in different way, that's great! It show's a unified front against these extortionists.

Basically, he's making a communism joke out of the fact that you chose Marxist terms as the basis of your blog.

The term 'proletariat', while being Latin in origin, has come to be associated with ideas like communism and socialism - partly because of the term 'proles' being used in George Orwell's 1984, and partly because Marx himself used it extensively (along with bourgeoisie, and yes, 'bumpgeois' should have an 'ie' on the end).

Basically, he's making a communism joke out of the fact that you chose Marxist terms as the basis of your blog.

Bravo.

Posting in a thread that isn't a whine thread.

Perhaps, after Retribution, you could turn this into a charity. Rich sadistic bastards could put bounties on people using active characters for bumping. Mercs could use the page to know which corps to wardec to get the bounties. Marvellous.

Thank you sir, I know what a portmanteau is. And now, I suggest that you and your portmantitle stop suggesting things.

It is good to see the New Order finally having an effect on these miners ! they're actually talking about resistance! this is what the New order tries to encourage these miners to do ! Leave your Bot aspiring ways and FIGHT!
Im sure James will love to hear that his plan is begining to bear fruit.


Hail THE NEW ORDER and long live James 315!!

I was for this when it was against bots but when it turned into extortion it was just another annoying thing that eve does. sadly this won't effect bots bottom line so will not have any impact on ore prices or the amount of bots you see in the betls. the miners it does effect is minimal, just the ones who have no idea how to handle bumping.

I find it strange that null/low sec is so boring that highsec gets so much attention. If this is the best player driven content that eve can muster then we truly are on our last legs.

I'll care about this when you start killing bumpers.

Its easy. do what the gankers do. fit a ship. have yer buddies lock target. fire. kill them. get concordukkened.

Its not hurting your bottom line, it's sending a message.

Past that? Wardecs.

Good hunting

I was for this when it was against bots but when it turned into extortion it was just another annoying thing that eve does. sadly this won't effect bots bottom line so will not have any impact on ore prices or the amount of bots you see in the betls. the miners it does effect is minimal, just the ones who have no idea how to handle bumping.

I find it strange that null/low sec is so boring that highsec gets so much attention. If this is the best player driven content that eve can muster then we truly are on our last legs.

I was for this when it was against bots but when it turned into extortion it was just another annoying thing that eve does. sadly this won't effect bots bottom line so will not have any impact on ore prices or the amount of bots you see in the betls. the miners it does effect is minimal, just the ones who have no idea how to handle bumping.

I find it strange that null/low sec is so boring that highsec gets so much attention. If this is the best player driven content that eve can muster then we truly are on our last legs.

The proveldtariat, as the conscious exponent of the mining-class movement, aims at the complete liberation of the toiling miners from every form of oppression and exploitation. The achievement of this objectiveGÇöthe abolition of bumping in the belts and the creation of an undisturbed mining societyGÇöcalls for a very high development of the productive forces of all miners and a high degree of organization of the mining class. Therefore, one of the tasks of the proveldtariat is to prod the miners on, to raise before the whole people slogans calling for a complete revolution, to start working boldly and independently for the realization of these slogansGÇöin a word, to be the vanguard, to take the lead in the struggle for the liberty of the whole of minerdom.

To this end, I will pledge a contribution of 100mil ISK to the furtherance of the struggle against the oppressive Bumpist and Gankist systems. Patriots of the proveldtariot, who will match my pledge? You? How about you over there?