In all seriousness, though... One of those in the tongue of the right girl... wow....
On that note... anyone else doing anything with their girlfriend for Christmas? My better half and I are having our own private Christmas dinner, which I'm cooking for her. She's excited... as am I. I love stuffing. Now if you'll excuse me, it's time to go shove seasoned bread up a bird's arse...
Hate to burst your bubble Jordan, but that's still the practice by which your rates will be set. You might get lucky and the numbers in the hat will be slightly lower than they were before, though...
Here's another parallel; both of them have manipulated hundreds of thousands, if not millions, into believing their BS justified by twisted ideals. The Nazi party, before Hitler, was not a fear-mongering entity (maybe slightly elitist, but not fear-mongering) as far as I know. Not to mention the swastika was not an 'evil' sign before Hitler, either. Kind of in the same way that Islam is not a hate-fueled religion and Jihads are not about justifying aggression and killing of "non-believers." Don't make the mistake of thinking that these parties/religions are bad or evil because of what some people have done with them, because what has been done in their name had nothing really to do what with they were about at their core.
I think auto-downloaded skins would be fine left as-is (single pre-defined reflectivity) and those of use wishing to play with reflectivity can distribute our skins as dds files on the forums. People who want to view the skins with their intended alpha channels would probably opt to download the skins in their full high-resolution glory anyways, which isn't offered by LFSW (I'm talking 2048+) so I don't think anything needs to change on LFSW, just the coding within the game to read the DDS' alpha channel differently.
I'd like to see a change in the usage of the alpha channel in dds skins. It would be nice to be able to use it to adjust the reflectivity of the skin instead of the transparency. Online skins would simply be as they are now; jpgs, but those who choose to make use of the alpha channel can simply upload the .dds version somewhere to share manually.
I'd really like to be able to play with a matte scheme properly
Like most Americans, you don't seem to know what a Jihad actually is, you just listen to your moving picture shows.
All that being said, fighting extremists is a very difficult thing to do. They will never change their mindset, and killing them just creates another martyr.
[EDIT] Mildly on topic. This is, more or less, how the current accepted meaning of "Jihad" came to be, along with all religious doctrine twisted into something ugly and hate-filled:
No it doesn't. Jihad means "struggle," and is most often used in the context of personal struggles of faith. In extreme cases in the scriptures, it references wars in defense of the religion, to protect it from persecution and extinction. In its original message/meaning, it has nothing to do with crusading or offensive action, and certainly does not mandate the killing of those of other faiths.
Not that what he did is admirable by any means, but I bet this is another case of blown out of proportion, to some extent. What exactly were his previous crimes? By not mentioning the specific previous offences (probably because they aren't significant enough to warrant a mention), my guess is that he got a traffic citation a couple years back.
While I agree with you on the point that Religion is one of the worst things to be invented by humans of all time, this point is not exactly fair; as I understand it, Jihads (in this particular context) are not actually part of the Islamic religion. It's just some whacko zealous nutjobs that shoe-horned it into their brainwashing on some twisted religious doctrine that has been so mangled by their hate-filled minds.
I honestly don't think Islam is any worse than any other major religion; they're all bollocks, equally.