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The Sylvari are not born and seem to just wake up next to the Pale Tree, i.e. they are plants that grow? So why exactly do the female Sylvari have breasts? Given it appears they have no need to rear young.
The Sylvari are not born and seem to just wake up next to the Pale Tree, i.e. they are plants that grow? So why exactly do the female Sylvari have breasts? Given it appears they have no need to rear young.
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Maybe, but even the Sylvari have something called, lust and passion ^^. Well mine does
Why Humans then? why not any of the other races? Is a specific reason stated within the lore?
A human planted the Pale Tree. Due to this the Pale Tree likely models the sylvari after humanity.
Edit: Note, the sylvari as far as I understand have fairly comparable physiology to humans, even when comparing sexual features. However, sylvari cannot give birth to other sylvari, they are only born from the Pale Tree.
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The pale tree gathers information in its life and is passed on to her children (of course not everything is passed on). The pale tree sprouted 250 years ago and didn't give birth till 225 years into its life.
Most likely it gathered the most information on humans, the current dominate race at the time and their characteristics gathered into the pale trees children. I'm sure other characteristics of other races are in the mix too however humans were more dominate producing more human like results.
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Because everyone likes boobs.
Even plants.
Actual answer: If you're asking from a design perspective then it's probably so there's an obvious visual difference between male and female models.
If you're asking from a lore perspective I have no idea.
Since when are boobs needed to give birth?Given it appears they have no need to rear young.
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They specifically said they did not want an elf race and if you actually make one, you can tell its nothing elf like besides pointy wood ears which they don't have to be pointy.They needed an elf race in GW2.
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Ha this thread is fantastic.
Why would you even question the tree people having a pair of babs?
It's thoroughly explained in the lore.
The pale tree must have infused Ronin's memories too though........him not having breasts n all
It's all got fine continuity and believability in the gw2 lore, yh.
I'm going to cry like a little baby when Logan and Rytlock reconcile and have a glorious man-hug
Ok I see, so I'm assuming they also hold human characteristics such as emotions. Can they experience love? hate? remorse? happiness? etc.?
My personal opinion on it (Since everyone before me said some legitimate reasons) is that it's an allure factor of a female. Of course people would still play the race if it wasn't male / female and just in-between or unidentifiable, but than it's a lot harder to relate towards. Guessing from a more artistic Point of View, they made the race become more approachable so that you understood what gender the race was (Even though I think they have no actual gender, just an appearance). Also, people like breasts on a female figure, so that might be the most common factor...
They can experience emotion, but it's all very new to them, with no one there to hold their hand and tell them it'll be okay (or guide them along). They embrace it, or they shove it aside.
They can love, they can hate, they get caught up in all the messy bits that intertwine the both very very easily (Caithe/Faolain). They can be happy, they can be Vulcan. And they can definitely hold grudges too.
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Luke 20:21 So they put a question to Him. "Rabbi," they said, "we know that you say and teach what is right and that you make no distinctions between one man and another, but teach God's way truly. (WEY)
Acts 10:34 Then Peter began to speak. "I clearly see," he said, "that God makes no distinctions between one man and another; (WEY)
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Romans 2:18 and dost know the will, and dost approve the distinctions, being instructed out of the law, (YLT)
1 Corinthians 12:4 But there are distinctions of gifts, but the same Spirit; (DBY)
1 Corinthians 12:5 and there are distinctions of services, and the same Lord; (DBY)
1 Corinthians 12:6 and there are distinctions of operations, but the same God who operates all things in all. (DBY)
Galatians 2:6 From those leaders I gained nothing new. Whether they were men of importance or not, matters nothing to me--God recognizes no external distinctions. To me, at any rate, the leaders imparted nothing new. (WEY)
Galatians 3:28 In Him the distinctions between Jew and Gentile, slave and free man, male and female, disappear; you are all one in Christ Jesus. (WEY)
Ephesians 6:9 And you masters, act towards your slaves on the same principles, and refrain from threats. For you know that in Heaven there is One who is your Master as well as theirs, and that merely earthly distinctions there are none with Him. (WEY)
Colossians 3:25 The man who perpetrates a wrong will find the wrong repaid to him; and with God there are no merely earthly distinctions. (WEY)
James 2:1 My brethren, you must not make distinctions between one man and another while you are striving to maintain faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is our glory. (WEY)
James 2:4 Do ye not make distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts? (ASV NAS RSV)
James 2:9 But if you are making distinctions between one man and another, you are guilty of sin, and are convicted by the Law as offenders. (WEY)


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The scandal of the US internment camp at Guantánamo Bay continues to be a subject for film-makers. Alex Gibney's Oscar-winning documentary Taxi to the Dark Side, out this week, suggests that the place is not merely home to a new generation of torturers, but that the whole place is a giant theatre of cruelty with no intelligence value, a PR spectacle set up to persuade the public that something is being done about the "war on terror".
For a while, we have been wondering what would be the first straight fiction feature solely about Guantánamo - and now we know. That honour goes to the stoner comedy Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay. The two dopehead idiots, played by John Cho and Kal Penn - already known to their fans for an epic journey to the nearest White Castle burger joint, after a spliff-induced attack of the munchies - find themselves mistaken for terrorists and imprisoned in Guantánamo. From here they make a sensational escape and embark on a terrifying cross-country journey across the US to Texas, where they hope to use an acquaintance's contacts with the Bush White House to secure a pardon.
There was no press screening for this film for critics, and it appears mysteriously to have vanished from the complete list of movie releases issued to the media by the Film Distributors Association. Perhaps the distributors were nervous that it would provoke unhelpful press complaint.
It is certainly crass and gross and adolescent and fantastically, unremittingly, confrontationally offensive. There is hardly anyone, from left or right, man or woman, religious or non-religious, who could not find themselves offended, although the movie shrinks from mentioning the word "Islam".
It is also often hilarious and brilliant. And it might even prove to be more important in cultural history than any of the impeccably serious documentaries. It marks the moment at which Hollywood could laugh at the "war on terror". Is this a healthy new development, or an insidious way of making a joke of the whole thing? I'm not sure. Is this a movie to be compared with Jerry Lewis's suppressed second world war comedy The Day the Clown Cried? Or is it the bastard great-grandson of Ernest Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be in which Jack Benny laughs, "We do the concentrating and the Poles do the camping"? Again, I'm not sure. But for liberals and non-liberals, Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay is the most pleasurable guilty pleasure of the year.
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The World Trade Organization made news last month because of the record number of candidates seeking to be its new director-general. Alas, they're probably in it more for the salary and prestige than for any résumé-building accomplishments. After all, the WTO has done little to open global markets since the Doha round of trade talks began in 2001. The reason is simple: Its members are doing free trade all wrong.
That's too bad, because basic economics teaches that two people who trade with each other always end up better off. Why else would they trade in the first place? Putting aside issues of coercion and uncertainty, the idea is that there are gains from trade to both sides whenever a transaction occurs. Realizing those gains by buying and selling goods, services, assets, and labor is one of the keys to economic growth.
The same is true for countries, but there's a wrinkle: Though two countries that trade with each other will also achieve gains from trade, their people won't necessarily share those gains equally. Indeed, both countries will be better off overall, but inside each country there will be winners and losers. This is why people ranging from Korean farmers to American autoworkers turn out in numbers to protest free trade agreements.
But free trade needn't be such a divisive issue. At the national level, the benefits from free trade always outweigh the losses; this has to be true, since each new transaction creates its own gains from trade. Put another way, a country that opens its markets is always richer as whole. And so here's the genius part: It should be possible for the winners to compensate the losers so that everyone is better off, or at least no worse off than they were before.
This redistribution of the gains from trade is not an afterthought. It is an essential part of the process of opening markets. Done right, it practically guarantees that everyone in a country can and will support free trade. Yet no one in the world does it well, or even tries to.
Sure, there are programs such as Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) in the United States and the Globalization Adjustment Fund in the European Union. But they're tiny and relatively ineffective. TAA for workers amounts to about $1 billion a year -- about 0.007 percent of U.S. GDP -- and the program's record of helping workers to find jobs that fit their skills is middling at best. The EU's fund granted only 128 million euros in 2011, the last year for which complete figures are available, helping just 0.009 percent of the union's roughly 240 million workers. More recent payments have been tied up in ongoing budget talks, and several countries have called for the fund to be abolished altogether. Clearly, there is little political appetite in the world's two biggest economies for a more serious attempt at redistributing the gains from trade.
Not that it's easy. To start, you have to know how much is gained and lost by whom. Consider the big winners from trade. They include shareholders and employees of export companies that find new customers abroad, importers that can offer new products at home, and other businesses that can get cheaper inputs. Then there are all the consumers who can buy new or cheaper goods and services. What is the value of trade to these people? Next, consider the big losers: workers whose jobs disappear and shareholders whose companies fold because of foreign competition. How much economic damage has been done to them?
Economists can -- and routinely do -- answer these questions with statistical estimates. The tougher question is how to accomplish the redistribution. You can't tax new imports to skim off some of the benefits to consumers, since the whole point of a free trade agreement is to render imports tariff-free. You could, however, make people pay for the agreement itself.
But how? One idea would be to identify the prospective winners of a new trade agreement and ask them to contribute lump sums to a fund that would compensate the losers. The trade agreement would go forward much as buyouts do in the stock market; if enough of the winners signed up and contributed, the rest of them would be compelled to pay, perhaps on their annual tax bills. Then the fund -- likely to hold a lot more than $1 billion for any major agreement -- would be divvied up between the losers.
In addition to solving the redistribution problem, the fund would help everyone, winners and losers alike, to understand how trade affected their economic futures. Moreover, it would allow the losers to spend their compensation however they saw fit; some might choose to retrain for a higher-skill job, while others might prefer to take a lower-skill job and buy a new car. Of course, some people might try to weasel out of the winners' category and paint themselves as losers. But the government already does a reasonable job of figuring out who should receive various payments and benefits, from emergency relief to unemployment insurance. Fraud in this case would be even harder -- how do you fake a decades-long career in manufacturing?
No, the biggest obstacle for the new mechanism might be getting politicians and the public to trust economists, their statistical models, and a dose of new thinking. Until that happens, the WTO will continue to twiddle its thumbs, and gains from trade will still be left on the table.
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Originally published on Wed October 10, 2012 3:16 pm
The Romney campaign is putting more meat on the bones of its defense policy, and the result is a muscular, almost hawkish posture.
Dov Zakheim, Mitt Romney's special adviser for foreign policy and national security, went toe-to-toe with Richard Verma, who plays a similar role for the Obama campaign, at a forum Wednesday.
The two tussled for over an hour in a foreign policy debate of sorts at a Washington, D.C., hotel.
Zakheim scoffed at the administration's plans for a "pivot to Asia," a rebalancing of defense forces toward the Pacific, saying President Obama could not cut the size of the military and expand its responsibilities at the same time.
And he accused the White House of "sitting on its hands" while the fighting in Syria evolves into a civil war.
Zakheim echoed Ronald Reagan's call for "peace through strength," and called for boosting defense spending, including a big uptick in shipbuilding: Romney wants to build 15 ships a year, more than the current pace of nine per year.
Verma called Romney's defense plans "hard to follow." And he argued that Republicans were just as responsible for current cuts in defense spending, mandated by last year's Budget Control Act, which the GOP congressional leadership supported as a way out of the debt-ceiling crisis.
Verma said Romney's plans, which call for adding 100,000 ground troops, would cost an additional $2 trillion over the next decade. He said it's ridiculous to say, as Romney has, that the Navy is the smallest it's been since World War I. Verma said the 287 ships in the current fleet are vastly more powerful than craft from a century ago, and are more than enough to defend U.S. interests.
Defense spending got little more than a mention in the first presidential debate. It will be interesting to see whether the upcoming forums — beginning with Thursday's vice presidential debate between incumbent Joe Biden and Republican challenger Paul Ryan — will get into the weeds of defense policy the way these surrogate debates are.
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