Walsingham

Note that he tactfully neglects to mention how many ugly ones...

Donizetti, L'Elisir D'Amore I'm going through a phase of really enjoying Italian opera. More so than usual even. I listened to La Traviata this morning.

OK, so, leaving aside the debate of whether anthro-warming is happening or not... Does any member believe we are going to see effective (as defined by warmists) action taken in the necessary timeframe? EDIT: To explain: Assume significant action equates to a moratorium on new coal fired energy generation, and the future requirement generated by wind. Does any member believe such action will be taken or could be taken at a global level?

I haven't tried it since college either. Not everyone gets along with it, but I enjoyed it, then very deliberately left it the hell alone. I get my altered consciousnesses through ethanol, exercise, disease, and meditation; in that order. Your wife could try it in food - when it becomes legal. I remember thinking it tasted like a nuttier oregano. I wonder what it would taste like sauteed in butter and black pepper, then served over fresh asparagus? LOL. I've probably entirely mis-remembered after all this time, anyway. Probably tastes like old socks.

Roast in the oven, singing a few old classics, and waiting for the beer to cool, sipping hot green tea. I can't concentrate for ****, but luckily I plan ahead for this sort of thing and have a list of tasks to be done when incompetent.

Only evil and/or not-human characters are allowed to be topless, y'know. And tribal women in National Geographic. If I may say so you're taking a rather 19th century view of female sexuality. . Only evil women can go topless? Didn't NYC approve topless women roaming around just this week? In Southern Africa maidens quite unselfconsciously go about topless. With spears. Indeed for men also in hot climates, wearing armour is either inappropriate for fatigue or is considered weakness. A shield suffices. Maybe a lack of armour could be compensated for by perks?

You just reminded me that I was wondering if a fire suppressant system (CO2 based) could be used to deny bits of your house very effectively. Not to mention being pretty sly at putting out house fires. You'd need oxygen masks, but again these would double up for fire safety. Any break in, just start shouting 'fire' and set the bastard off.

Wals, your on the internet. People will be hostile over children's cartoon shows. Yeah, so YOU say, buddy! Ai!

Weather's too nice here to have an ignore the world day. I am, however, debating making excuses not to attend a Eurovision 'party', and just doing some more work. I have roasting lamb on standby in the fridge, and a stupendous array of bottled beer on hand. Plus a stack of books two feet high. Pretty unequal decision.

Playing at boarding school. Dwarven Trollslayer. You can't beat a trollslayer. They're the roleplaying equivalent of smores. See bad guy, run at bad guy with axe. See no bad guys, get drunk and sulk.

Frying pan. *spang* Man I need to sleep.

Couldn't sleep, up betimes and working. Ran errands. Now plan a short gaming session then back to work. Feels good to be busy but obviously not up to speed yet.

The point isn't quantum theory or the Big Bang Theory as instances. The point is as Alanschu says: our best scientific theories are Disprovable Yet Not Yet Disproven (I'm coining this as DYNYD). It's the heart of scientific progress. I really don't know why you're so hostile about it.

I'm with GD. I think I might use it maybe once a year in a summer salad dressing. I'm really really tired because I didn't sleep last night. But I feel as if we fundamentally have to accept that certain tides in our cultures and economies are beyond our control. I wrote six different third paragraphs and have given up. I don't know if I'm becoming wiser, more lazy, or more cowardly.

I did enjoy playing it. But I'd have enjoyed a graphic/UI rehash of XCOM apocalypse more. I just keep getting the feeling in game after game afte game that what we've gained graphically has been scoured out cognitively. By which I mean we have multi-layered shaders but single layered problems. I don't know why the arse the industry isn't interested in improving. I'd cheerfully buy an AI processor to sit alongside my GPU.

I just can't shake the irrational fear that if I start watching anime I will inevitably wind up on 4chan.

Hold on there fellah. If the state legalised marijuana they might actually have the policing resources to chase down gun owners. Not really what GD is after. I'm in favour of legalising it, before anyone jumps on me.

So, wait, are you allowed to shoot them and turn them into bacon? Wild boar sausages are some of my favourite things ever.

Aieee!

I liked the Dragon Age concept, although the helmet designs were so awful I refused to use them. Effectiveness be damned!

I won't have time in the next two weeks, but I've got a bunch of material kicking around on the science of influence, if anyone would be interested in me bashing together a short summary 'paper'.

Some very good comments already. But i just thought I'd ask: How many people remember that craptacular quest in Morrowind where the guy wanted first some sort of wedding gown from a bajilion miles away. ...and when you got back to him he demanded shoes from the same place... I believe I murdered him.

I haven't much to add over gumbercules. My view is that if the natural flow of the story takes you into bigotry then so be it. But don't go around looking for ways to throw it in. It's too serious and too complex a subject to go at half arsed. I like my racism fully arsed.

They've recently joined the Euro, so the obvious answer is bankrupt or part of Germany. Realistically though, in the absence of responses from actual Estonians you'll get limited usefulness from this thread if you're seriously considering moving there as everyone's experiences with it (including mine; backpacked through about a decade ago, nice country to visit but I cannot entirely disagree with oby's description either) are more tourist orientated. It'd be like getting views from tourists to New Zealand, they can only really say that the dollar is high and Queenstown is nice, they probably won't know important residential things like that housing is massively overpriced (cheers, overseas speculators/ supine government papering over cracks) and economically everything except things that go moo is a bit dodgy. You could also check expat forums, to see what experiences have been like for foreigners who have moved there. Something like http://www.expat-blog.com/forum/viewforum.php?id=280 I obviously watch too many horror films, because that sounds like a great way to wind up locked in some crazy old dude's basement, waiting for his fictional daughter to show up. Thoughtful advice though. Thanks.