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CobaltKobold

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Locke's Second Treatise on Government reminded me of DF
« on: September 09, 2010, 07:24:11 pm »

Specifically, chapter 5 (On Property)
Quote from: Sec. 43, in part
It would be a strange catalogue of things, that industry provided and made use of, about every loaf of bread, before it came to our use, if we could trace them; iron, wood, leather, bark, timber, stone, bricks, coals, lime, cloth, dying drugs, pitch, tar, masts, ropes, and all the materials made use of in the ship, that brought any of the commodities made use of by any of the workmen, to any part of the work; all which it would be almost impossible, at least too long, to reckon up.
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It sounds like the DIY embark profiles, after another few dozen versions.
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Re: Locke's Second Treatise on Government reminded me of DF
« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2010, 08:08:59 pm »

I don't think you can take masts on embark.

Unfortunately.
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Re: Locke's Second Treatise on Government reminded me of DF
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2010, 05:00:11 am »

Specifically, chapter 5 (On Property)
Quote from: Sec. 43, in part
It would be a strange catalogue of things, that industry provided and made use of, about every loaf of bread, before it came to our use, if we could trace them; iron, wood, leather, bark, timber, stone, bricks, coals, lime, cloth, dying drugs, pitch, tar, masts, ropes, and all the materials made use of in the ship, that brought any of the commodities made use of by any of the workmen, to any part of the work; all which it would be almost impossible, at least too long, to reckon up.
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It sounds like the DIY embark profiles, after another few dozen versions.

And yet our legendary bookkeepers do exactly that for a living.
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Re: Locke's Second Treatise on Government reminded me of DF
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2010, 10:25:48 am »

No wonder he slows many a computer down as he does it.
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