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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.

Again, not very funny 'Ha ha', I absolutely love this story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-15400417 What I particularly love is that the media are treating this as a simple lost and found when it is a textbook money laundering device. The poor simp who was carrying the bag may well even believe he was genuinely just buying a house for relatives. Spare a thought for him and pray he's found alive.

OK, you caught me out flat there. Forgot about Tunisia.

Tell me, do you actually possess physical pompoms, or am I just imagining them?

I think this desperately needs a filibustering minigame.

Surely that's the gaming equivalent of finding a bunch of olives and a slice of salami at the bottom of the deli bag?

Then surely that was one of the things which made Planescape surprising and fresh, Gorth? I agree with Cant. Competition, heresy, is a feature of all major religions. If drunk (I'm not yet) I might go further and suggest that all systems, whether physical or metaphysical must have boundaries. There must be a point where they are, and where they are not. Alternative religions that are despised are a function of being a religion at all. I am totally guessing here, but surely the reason most games have a religion is to provide a MacGuffin for lazy lazy writers. "You're on a mission from God."

This may be as much a disagreemebnt over semantics. You cannot simply brush aside the pejorative 'expert system'. Because there is a world, WORLDS, of difference. An expert system is a dedicated procedure oriented on a task given it by a human. All you've described to me so far are complex expert systems. Conversely, what you are evangelising - and I can't really imagine why - is true AI. But as I've already asked, what is the point of true AI? What is the point of a genius if it's efforts are oriented on possibly alien lines? Frittered away on staring at dancing bees? And don't simply assume we are techno-savages because you read New Scientist. The problem is that you are entranced by the infinite possiblities of computer science, without recognising that any real world advances will cost lives and treasure. None of it, however possible in the abstract, will happen just because you think it's awesome.

How do you mean? Surely Libya is the only one which got a new government?