SteveThaiBinh

As I recall, there are two popular counters to the Davis-Fraser opening. The Holloway Road defense certainly led to a dramatic game at the 2001 UK semi-finals (with St. John's Wood following Perivale, as unlikely as that sounds), but it's a bit risky for my blood. I'll go with Fraser's own suggestion (which leaves the game more open). My move is Fulham Broadway.

The thought of launching Britney Spears and Donald Rumsfeld into space is attractive, certainly. :D I'm sure the aliens would be grateful eventually.

Do nothing. My life is complicated enough without suddenly developing magic powers. I don't think the world is ready for a squadron of Force Users either, so definitely no teaching. Magic, like technology and Live8, is just a distraction from the kind of action that's really needed to solve the world's problems.

The Gabriel Knight series features a 'will-they-won't-they' relationship between Gabriel and Grace. In GK3, Grace walks by the hotel dining room and overhear's Gabriel say something along the lines of Well, Grace and I were stunned. For shocking moments in games, this is my favourite.

Three people died in that 'slap'. :angry:

I hear the people who made DosBox are working on a new project called nVidiaBox, which allows people with ATI graphics cards to run their games in an nVidia emulator.

Have you switched the shortcut to point to game.exe, not launcher?

There's a moment in the first Monkey Island game where you fall off a high rock and 'die', and a Sierra-style Restart/Restore/Quit box appears, only to disappear as you bounce back up to the top and survive. I thought it was the funniest thing in the game, and that's saying something. Possibly the box even had Roberta Williams' face in it, although that might be my memory editing that in.

The banter between female Revan and Carth in Kotor 1 was great because it wasn't just a one-off thing - you could see something of a relationship developing between them. I didn't think Carth was whiny at all, and was rather surprised to find so many on the internet who thought so. I've met worse. I've lived with worse. :ph34r: If I'm honest, I've probably been worse.

It's amazing how the US military is able to keep all this stuff secret, and yet news about Abu Graib and various other human rights abuses in Iraq got out. Or perhaps the US military released the info on purpose... :ph34r: The Moon landings theory that was doing the rounds last year was the flag, which appeared in the photograph to be blowing in the wind, even though this wouldn't occur on the moon. I think NASA explained it as a flaw in the flag's material so it got snagged on itself. A likely story. There's always the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia. Anyone believe that was an accident?

It is indeed a pretty word in no fewer than two colours.

Our morality is shaped by our history, our own day-to-day experiences, and our thought. Those who share a common history are more likely to have similar views of morality, as are those who have similar lives now. There are many points in common, but as was said above, there's room for difference on the fine detail. Relativism is democratic - it is of us, shaped by us and for us. Sadly, it is more often defined by its critics than its adherents.

Recently, some of the new Kotor 3 threads in the Obsidian General forum haven't been closed; they've been deleted outright. :ph34r: So it would be better to post the information in the main thread, if you want others to read it.

Have you found all four components you need?

For me it's 800x600. I don't hold with these higher resolutions - there's something unnatural about that much detail.

Did he actually click on 'delete saved game'? Or did he lose his saved games by starting to create a new character? If it's the second, then the saved games are not really lost - you can access them by clicking on 'switch character' on the load screen. I know it's a longshot, but a lot of people have made that mistake, including me.

Aah, it's a humorous non-native speaker accent joke. I understand. Yes, very good joke. I may laugh any day now. :D Woof.

Always welcome. Seriously, what on earth is INEWIDDABOO?

>Bing!< And so I do! <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

The technique described in the article freezes the body so that it is preserved intact - so in theory, I guess the information stored within the brain is preserved, too. So it will probably become possible to revive that body in the near future. What will happen is that the clinical definition of death will be revised to take this into account, and slowly all our perceptions of what death means will catch up. Transfering the consciousness from one body to another is a little while in the future yet. I'll worry about it a bit nearer the time.

Certain countries are engaging in policies which increase rather than decrease the number of terrorist recruits - we could refrain, if we chose. There will always be arguments and disputes, but these can be solved by diplomacy, not by war. Gingerbread is not a durable construction material, and fares poorly in wet weather. Lollipop Lane is a perfectly good name - there may even be one somewhere. While chocolate and mud are superficially similar, a simple taste test should be enough to tell the difference (this does not include Cadbury's).

Then have you considered the possibility of clones? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Clones are people, so they don't have the advantages of robot soldiers, which are that no-one cares when they get 'killed' and they are cheap to produce. Or probably will be, by the US at least (economies of scale and so on). I doubt an EMP-proof robot is far away - legions of Pentagon scientists are probably wasting your tax dollars on it at this very moment. The soul is a tricky issue for religions as science pushes the limits of life and death ever further. Will there come a time when the existence of the soul is disproved? That would probably involve duplicating a consciousness, something that smacks of mass production of human beings. Pretty horrifying.

The dogs in the experiment had no apparent brain damage, but that doesn't necessarily mean it would turn out OK with humans. If the 'revived' people turned out to be brain damaged, then the procedure would stop being used fairly quickly. The unlucky experiments would be cared for as everyone with brain damage is cared for, but I can't imagine a reason for continuing the experiments. There will be robot soldiers soon enough.

Pneumonia + heart surgery. It was a surprise, though - apparently he appeared to be recovering well. Was a pre-recorded Countdown broadcast today? (I don't have a TV)