Walsingham

I'm sure you did the best you could, Cant, old son. But not even you can make me change my opinion on this.

As I get older I become more and more incredulous of two business departments: customer services, and human resources. All big businesses I deal with seeem to treat the first as an embarassing bodily malformation like a third nipple. They get hidden away, and under-supported. The latter is bafflingly well supported and seems solely oriented on preventing the hiring of good people or the firing of bad ones.

What a narrow minded chap you are!

1) As we've seen with Wikileaks "airing" is exactly what these leak sites amount to - hot air. Malfeasance in government has to be known about to be fixed, but merely being known is insufficient. There have to be robust accountable bodies in place to tackle the corruption. 2) Most free states have parliamentary committees of elected persons, appointed legally to deal with leaks. 3) The public press handle leaked material all the time, and generally pursue the story, not just air it. What if 2 and 3 fail? Then you're ****ed sideways anyway. At that point the engine of government is so badly twisted that leaking material won't help.

You, sir, might leave my mother out of this.

Or the campest not pain ever run?

You know, I must read about three articles on this every day, and Enoch's the only bastard I can actually understand.

Impromptu session with an old friend last night. Over-tense so we started on iced vodka. Then moved onto beer. Ate roast chicken with knives, watched Inglorious Basterds and moved onto Sicilian red wine. I am now hungover and thanks to sleeping at a weird angle my back hurts. Great night though.

Surely that was always his agenda. It wasn't to encourage good governance, but to embarass governments. I could expand this point, but I'd only be repeating earlier statements. I doubt this will be the last we see of him, or his adoring fans.

You think you've got problems. I keep about half of all my stuff in a public waste bin near the gunrunners.

On balance I like the GRA. The challenges are certainly cool.

Just to give you a heads up I may not be able to try them out until Thursday.

Feel free to use my bees comment on your CV.

That is truly fantastic.

PDF as a concept is quite good I like PDF. At least I do now I use Foxit. PDFs load with a click of the fingers, I can copy text etc. etc. Opening one in Adobe takes ten and a half years and I am not allowed to do anything. Oh yes, Foxit is free. So naturally Adobe is the the one all government and big industry people use. I should have guns. Many guns. Floating around me. Controlled by murderthoughts.

This has to be the longest running NOT campaign ever.

Downloading both. Looking forward to it. Don't let me down, man!

Having huge cascading problems with the latest Java update. **** Adobe. **** them right in the ****ing ear.

The thought of a computerised antagonist who is not merely operationally opposed to the player, but a dark shadow cast by the player's expressed personality... that's some platinum grade awesomeness waiting to happen.

Beaten to it. I was just about to post a thread. Congrats, chaps.

I like th elimited edition Nuka Cola Groningen bottles.

Orogun, if you've got time I'd like to hear you develop all those points a bit further. I'm not entirely sure if I'm talking about ebing in the villain's shadow, although that makes a lot of sense. I'm thinking Holmes Vs. Moriarty. Maybe kick off independently, come to blows, be in his shadow at first, and then depending on how smart you are, fight your way out of his shadow and put him on the run.

Just underlining my argument, but not contradicting GD about a commodity not reaching zero: 1) Australia is a major copper exporter, and has benefited from high copper prices 2) Much copper is being used by China 3) In fact a lot of copper is being used in China to circumvent lending controls, driving a totally non-practical price escalation. This is falling apart like wet cake. Apparently. 4) So you can lose a lot of a mineral's price if its is too far inflated, and get very badly stung 5) You can also lose a lot if a mineral becomes technologically obsolete. For example if someone creates alternatives to germanium in electronic circuits 6) You can also lose badly if a material is recognised as unsafe, such as asbetos. Fantastically useful. Utterly illegal in many countries.

I categorically refute this. _I_ have the ugliest toenails in the world. Several fell off after marching and one got completely mangled playing football and never grows back properly.