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Today I discovered that the man I consider to be the 'perfect' conductor - Herbert von Karajan - joined the Nazi party in 1933. Appropriately enough I was listening to Mozart's 'Lacrimosa' when I found this out. EDIT: I just accidentally inserted a into my written work. LOL. Serious documents should totally have shifty eyes in them.

Very interesting stuff. Keep those updates coming.

The who what now? I'm just working my way through that hospital with the gunship in it. What have I almost certainly forgotten?

Too true to be funny.

If you want to have laser eye surgery these days, it will cost you about 500 bucks per eyeIf you wanted to have laser eye surgery 15 years ago, it would have cost you about 20.000 bucks. But the only reason the cost went down is because we invested in it. if you're anti idiot, then you should be anti-short term thinking, which is what you're doing by dismissing these technologies. Of course it will be expensive at first. Prototyping costs money. then you're understanding is flawed, we got the means to address the issue now. THAT's the tragedy. The problem with most green power 'solutions' is not that they need prototyping. They are very mature technology. Windmills and water giving energy are hundreds of years old. That's the problem. Your only leverage is subcomponents and control systems. Subcomponent design of things like axles is already getting as much as it can because it's a contributor to so much. The only other leverage is the context you put them in, but everyone already knows we could have more effective solar from space or up mountains. The trouble is getting the energy back to civilisation. My considered assessment is that squeezing existing technology has as much hope of delivering the energy we need as a prop driven aircraft has of breaking the sound barrier. _If I am correct_ then spending money and effort on existing technology like wind and wave is squandering both economic and political capital. I would also point out that this discussion is in my top ten sane discussions on the subject, and that alone makes me give up on any prospect of a rational effort addressing the problem.

I'm going to expose my nerdy interior and confess that I use Critical Path Method - minus all the maths - to plan some of my arcs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_path_method

BTW, anyone willing to stand up and say that they wanted the Iraqi rebels to try exactly this? Working out rather well, isn't it?

You... you... lucky bastard.

Everyone's experience is different, but to me a fast descent beats extended pain and fear. Hope she didn't suffer, and will be remembered.

How do they put it in Mad Men? "Derivative with a twist"

I was wondering how I'd start my ideal corporate training exercise, and came up with the line "You know how individually none of you are arseholes ... but collectively you behave like arseholes? I'm here to help you understand why, and maybe fix it."

I simply shout foul mouthed abuse at Dr Who these days. I'm listening to the BBC's radio version of The Jungle Book, and it's hard to conceive a greater contrast in 'childrens' stories. rantrantrant.

Yes. Sorry to hear that. Tried to think of something comforting to say and all I got was "badgers". Which is silly, not comforting. But hopefully it will make you laugh.

I got taught to fish and was nearly drowned by a riptide. Nevertheless you are correct that I feel I ought to be able to do this myself. Your kind offer is gratefully declined. I don't fancy using Adobe. Adobe are always occasion to use that marvellous word 'execrable'. Viz that business with them prosecuting some fellow who had tried to make their reader more secure. I'll let you all know how it goes tomorrow.

Sorry. I didn't check the video. I have some direct experience of de-desertification programs and biotech startups. No-one's interested any more. Not even the bloody UAE, and they've got money to burn AND a desperate need for land. *two paragraph investment capital rant snipped* I'm not against research into cheap, robust, reliable alt power. I don't begrudge a penny of my taxes which goes towards cold fusion. High risk, high reward. But I begrudge every broken button which goes towards technologies which are not economical and are unsustainable. The numbers have to add up. And they currently don't. I'm not anti-green. I'm anti-idiot. I'm anti solutions which window dress, like the buiofuels you yourself mention. I'm anti solutions which only apply to the 10% of the World that can afford to indulge its conscience. I'm anti solutions which defy mathematical logic. But most of all I'm anti solutions which take longer to deliver than the problem they are meant to solve. And my understanding at present is that warmists are telling me I need to make a three second jump using a twenty second parachute.

I'm trying to do a groovy cover for some work I'm on. I want to do a merge of three images, one a flag .PNG, and the other two some photos of relevant scenes. I'm currently using the free package Paint.NET after a recommendation from these forums. thanks again, BTW. I'm fairly sure that Paint.NET should do the job, I just don't know if it can. If it can then I'm willing to learn by trial and error, I just don't want to go insane trying if it won't.

I was reading this post by Nordicus and it got me thinking: Rather than have a static cap for players using a free trial, wouldn't it make more sense to have the trial level cap linked to what you'd been doing? I don't have any idea of what would be in your game or what the technology would be, but from the player perspective the aim is to have them actually doing stuff, and stuff which makes life more interesting and fun for paying players. If you tweak it right then you will have the free players both improving the in-game experience for the paying punters, and building their commitment bias so they will eventually convert to paid people, taking their lovely good attitudes in with them. Super good or super evil people might even attract mod attention and get given free access.

Not tl;dr. Although you could have made such a large bit of text a bit easier to read with some headings. Maybe a picture of a girl in a bikini. I accept your point about European cars being more fuel efficient, but as you say the US isn't built around fuel efficiency at any level: not even 'local' stores are always walkable. If you raise taxes on fuel you're going to get 3-6 years (guess) of hurt to the peopel and the conomy before you see infrastructure catch up, and people concentrate slightly. That's a longer period than the election cycle so I wouldn't expect any sane significant number of politicians to put it forward. I'm more convinced by your point about leveraging nice things like sex-ed and women's rights to boost a slow down in population growth. But those things historically accompany economic growth. Which in the developing world is fuelled by cheap power, and wobbly democracies. Green power isn't cheap power. Wobbly democracies don't add to their worries by doing things their citizens aren't asking for. They have a hard enough time doing the things their people DO want. This brings me to my main point which is that alt power just doesn't cut the mustard across the lifespan of the system. It's expensive, space hungry, it's vulnerable to environmental damage, and it doesn't match demand easily. None of these things are what you want your economy to rely upon. Your only 'world' solution offerred is 'investment'. But this can't possibly occur in the next ten years given we're recovering from a serious economic blow out. Governments aren't going to have the money full stop, and business won't invest heavily in something which relies currently on government protection and subsidy. Your point about personal engagement is - forgive my being blunt - utterly ridiculous. Macro level changes have to have more to go on than a small percentage of individuals with a personal commitment.

Go for a walk, old boy. Fresh air. No one ever got better lying in bed. Feel free to ignore.

Hot damn!

It's a good point to clarify. I didn't say AI was easy. But we're a couple of baby steps away if we put the industry onto it full on. EDIT: Actually, that gives me an idea...

1. NEVER worry about retconning stuff or being consistent. Just use the inspiration you mentioned. 2. Just use the inspiration you mentioned. 3. Just use the inspiration you mentioned. 4a. Youtube has many cthulhu audiobooks read by fans. Some are veen audible. Just use these. 4b. The great difficulty with mystery and horror is pacing. The players won't move throguh the mystery at a consistent pace, so they won't experience horrific things at a consistent or predictable pace. This means you need to plan multiple 'arcs' in your story. I learned everything I know about arcs from watching Hill Street Blues.

My right eyebrow went so high up my forehead that I may need to pull it back down with a block and tackle. What the _****_ have I just seen? Why would you want to watch that show? Throne of Terra! Why do I never have a targeting link to a gothic class battleship when I need one?

JFSOCC, you seem pretty genuine so this is a genuine question: In what way _could_ such measures as I describe put into action? What's the roadmap you see in your head when you say it's possible?

We get Warthog in South Africa, its similar to Boar but not as aggressive or big. What specific animals are you allowed to hunt in the state that you live? Welshmen.