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I'd be interested in hearing them 1. Swans

You think if we sent him a vuvuzela in the embassy he could maybe finally kick the staff across the line where they hoy him into the street?

Killing scorpions - or indeed any venomous deviant - is surely just common sense.

Actually, Ros spends 90% of his time being chased by rabid baboons. It's just that he never sends pictures of that because the images would make me wet myself.

Apologies. As you may have already realised, this was me being drunk and a ****. Chagrin.

Bradley Manning is an individual who _while in uniform_ endangered ongoing operations. So far as I can tell just for reasons of a personal dissatisfaction. I can't begin to express my contempt and loathing for him. Your man who has whistle blown is bound to have broken some legal constraints, but I can't dislike him so much. His move of going to Hong Kong as a 'bastion of freedom' is pure genius. The Chinese are effectively independent of the US, Hong Kong's very fast and loose within China. Both governments will want to show off how 'free' they are, and embarass Uncle Sam. Plus, as I say, I don't see this as directly endangering anyone. The intelligence picture is already stronger than our means of doing anything about it. Either increase our judicial or military arsenal, or stop wasting effort.

1 lb of (surprisingly good) boerewors, a 2008 grenache, and a sunny day.

Just watched ' Scanner Darkly' Loved it. Bit slow midway, but some real Fear and Loathing mentalness throughout.

Huge failure or triumph of big business over what people want? I have to say, as a non-console gamer, I'm watching this with keen interest. So far as I've been able to tell, the ONLY thing going for X-Box One is next gen graphics and processors. In all other respects - echoing our WoT debates - it's intrusivce, restrictive, and exploitative. My interest is essentially whether one of the world's top companies can force feed the market this thing it doesn't want using advertising and peer pressure, or whether the console Too Big to Fail will in fact fail. Anyone else grabbing the popcorn?

Ooh. Check you out. Edgy. I'd rather be a hypocrite than feel nothing at all.

Keyrock, you make a familiar point. The best cure for that 'reality is only an abstract' nonsense is to face losing it. I don't want you to die, old boy. But _nearly_ dying is a tremendous experience. Seriously, don't die.

Raithe isn't giving the appeal enough credit. I just checked Rotten Tomatoes. One of the comments was that Dredds's impassive and inflexible response to things makes him actualy funny. And it's true. Your problem, my humourless chum, is that discipline and rigidity is part of your nature. But to you it's just boring. to a chestertonian it's more riotous than the flowers in spring.

The simple fact is that modern warfare is as far beyond musket armed conscripts as those conscripts were beyond spear armed hunters. Conscription has value, but for warfighting? Forget about it.

You're a real ray of sunshine. What do you do if someone stubs their toe? Tell them about the charge of the light brigade?

Please, Bruce. Fusion has never occurred? I've talked to some nutsos online and offline in my time. Family. Friends. Homeless dudes. Drug addicts. Criminals. But there's a rhythm and a flavour to it. Always. I don't believe it can be faked. Because a real loony tune is sad. They know they don't fit. Someone dressing up as crazy always loves it. They go over the line to prove how exciting and different they are. The irony is that the only way I can believe anyone would have the inhuman impulse to mock the truly insane this way is if they themselves were insane. ~~ On a more positive note, if you don't get it, that probably says what a decent fellah you are. It's a rare gift, old boy.

Perfectly. Fusion has been blowing things up since 1950s.You can disbelieve it all you want but it won't make hydrogen bombs any less deadly. Ever heard of JET?Most popular fusion reactor of our day. I don't know Felithvian but it sounds like pmp10 knows what he is talking about, its probably a good time to admit you are wrong? I think it's a better time to admit this entire thing has been a faintly sordid attempt to get attention. Somewhere there's a mummy and daddy with a lot to answer for.

Is that Philosophy or just good old weed talk? I for one am in favor of a stoned thread.

Point to raise about Obsidian: every single female in the Fallout New Vegas arc is a completely identical C-cup. It's a little immersion breaking. But it's about as close to asexual as you could get without having to explain yourself in the world building.

I should clarify that I feel very old fashioned and do not care to have my every move pawed over. But if as I say, if it wasn't a government agency it would be some smug autistic **** poking through my comms for the lulz.

"More than 8,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in Germany's eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt after a dam on the Elbe river broke June 8, officials said June 9, AP reported. State officials are investigating a letter sent to multiple media outlets that threatened to blow up dams on the river." I feel that we haven't really been very sympathetic about this. Quite a few forumites are probably effected, at least second hand. What's it like out there? How're you coping?

I'm just guessing, Bruce. But I'd put a tenner on the questions that Insidious just put being well known in philosophy circles. Which is why I won't talk to philosophers unless I'm drunk.

I'm not particularly bothered by the privacy aspect of it. If something's genuinely private I meet that person face to face. Email just is not secure. If it isn't the NSA it'll be Facebook, or it'll be those t***s at Anonymous. What I do object to is the ludicrous mismatch of the intelligence to what we do about it. Any time there's an incident these days it seems the people were firmly on the radar. But we're over-stretched in terms of incarceration and rehabilitation. The answer isn't to generate more intelligence. For the record I am now firmly of the opinion that the only way to win the war on terror (as much as it can be won) is to commercialise lower tiers of drugs, and treat higher tiers as an illness requiring treatment. It is only be freeing justice assets from that wasted effort that we will generate the mass to put extremist terror onto the back foot.

Well, my point is that gaming, or a variety of reasons, is an activity enjoyed by young males. They are, by definition, immature. Their reaction to any female is going to be sleazy. Believe me. I come from before the internet. Yes, designers play up to the sleazy instincts of their market. As others have said here. But they don't MAKE the market sleazy. Obviously, obyknven wants some kind of big government daddy figure to step in and tell us all what breasticles to like. My rejoinder is actually what mkreku said earlier: You want it, you make it.

The Sun doesn't have hydrogen gas or liquid in it, the Sun doesn't fuse atoms to create energy either, its God's light. In ipso vita erat, et vita erat lux hominum: et lux in tenebris lucet, et tenebræ eam non comprehenderunt. (vel) ἐν αὐτῷ ζωὴ ἦν, καὶ ἡ ζωὴ ἦν τὸ φῶς τῶν ἀνθρώπων. καὶ τὸ φῶς ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ φαίνει, καὶ ἡ σκοτία αὐτὸ οὐ κατέλαβεν. (Jn 1:4-5)

Query Lady Evenstar makes a point about context. Is some of the negative perception arising from the gamers not the games? You could attend the most sophisticated and breathtakingly female centric Spanish film ever made about sexuality, but if you attended it in a room full of 16 year old boys it's going to seem sleazy.