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I do not understand your problem... I mean why fit FO3 into an old engine. What does that let people do that's so good?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/...by-exposed.html Although I'd be astonished if we haven't killed any civilians in the raids, and that's genuinely sad, these show managed affairs are rather fun.

Mind you I thin an equal if not greater damage is done by all this premature testing done on kids. Sends powerful ****ed up messages that you are only what can go into a multiple choice answer sheet. I say ban both. And bring back proper curly wurlys.

Ah, but they have a new version in the pipeworks. With hm, Karl Urban as Dredd if I recall my movie news correctly. Edit: Yes, indeed a late winter 2011 release. And I find it doubly amusing that Karl Urban is the actor who loathes wearing helmets. Ever since his Rider of Rohan days he continually tries to get any potential helmet off his head in movies.. Badly engineered helmet, if you ask me. You've got all sorts of space in Dredd's uniform. You could have liquid bloody cooling, and a teleprompter in Dredd's crust-protector.

Monte might sound all angry and cynical, but I should point out that I heard an almost identical argument from one of the original founders of Oxfam a few years ago. To my mind, the simplest analogy is antibiotics. A short course will save your life, a long course will endanger it in all sorts of interesting new ways.

Possibly as an aside, but do you deny also that there was a systematic effort to commit genoicde by the Serb 'war' appartus, or are you just arguing the toss on Srebrenica?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13545621 Mind blowing. Can't get my head around turning on your own like this.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/8559534/...omplaining.html Thought LoF might enjoy this, given his recent thread about too much sex in video games. Basically, complaints about overtly sexual images being used all over the place. I suppose it also ties into the other thread about child development and identity. Sexuality is obviously fundamental to an adult's identity, but prematurely inserting that metric into a young child's view of themselves? Ick.

What annoys me is that on the one hand you have flying World Wrestling Federation, which manages to get good films (or at least passable films), and Judge Dredd, the finest and most adaptable comic book universe I've read left with one utterly crap film.

To be judicious, I have to say that as much as I disliked Honest Hearts, I can appreciate that some people would like it. Plenty to biff, new area, new kit. Surely a checklist for some goons? I'm going to leave it another month then roll me up a new character and go from scratch, low charisma, high self-sustained constructy.

Played through Op Flashpoint, Dragon Rising. I know it's less than full price, but it's absolutely tiny. Love the gameplay, mostly. Should I buy the other one, anyone?

Al Kaida was made by the US+UK+Saudis to combat Soviets in Afghanistan and has since been used as a vanguard/support in the destabilization of countries opposed to US, even post 9/11. cites many major news publications and even a video of a major Al Kaida commander present at dinner in Pentagon with top US brass several months after 9-11 accuses US of sliding into totalitarism If you really are a student of politics then I suggest you switch on and try harder. Or I guarantee you will waste your entire academic career believing in a fantasy. And that would be a damn waste.

I'm not watching the damn video! Summarise.

I don't what it is, but crack me up.

I deserve to be punched for even asking this, but isn't a machine defined by having moving parts? Otherwise it's just an object?

I should have thought my opinion of Al Kaida <sic?> was more than abundantly expressed all over this forum. Since I haven't watched the video I can only assume that being a NWO nut the chap in question belives that AlQ don't exist and it's all a massive lie. Which is a view so contemptible that I would urinate on it, were the technology available.

Because of course they couldn't possibly do that for themselves. It makes me sad people like you exist. I'm confused. You're sad that it would be easier and better for the local people to use the same money to do the work they need? Why? Surely that's noble AND efficient.

So what you're saying is that my opinion isn't worth any effort from you? Cheers. I'm bound to pay attention now...

I mean the opposite of offence when I say that I am certain you can come up with a better way of making the same point than having some hand waving nutter do it for you.

But your rage is making you powerful... Seriously, mate. Stick to your guns.

If you want me to take the point seriously, find me someone making the point seriously. Before I make you watch a show about Clauswitz done with muppets.

Interesting point, Nep. And I think there's a lot of frustration with that on the street. People feel that government isn't acting for them. And it's coming from all sides. However, in fairness to the powers that be, I do wonder if it's precisely because our environment is so complex. We've had some interesting discussions about criminal justice here recently, and while we disagree we recognise that the impact of say, a sentencing tariff, is not obvious. Harsher sentence may sound like tough on crime, but it might not actually reduce crime. And if so, is that really protecting anyone? (I deliberately choose this example because I happen to think that it ought to work, and I'm trying to make a wider point about complexity). To underscore the significance of this to this topic, again I'm thinking in terms of complexity. Should Germany want to switch off its nuke power, can it do so, and would the same effort be better used in other areas?

"...New World Order" *click*

No. That was't what I was saying, although I don't really disagree with you about rigidity. That ties into what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that this is about the predictability of outcomes, and the sense in pursuing a given course in light of the eventual outcome. I'm saying that right wingers and left wingers both underestimate the complexity of our environment. But that right wingers underestimate it in a way which almost anyone can see. Whereas left wingers underestimate it just as catastrophically, but less obviously. I actually should say that talking through these areas in with you chaps in recent months has shifted my views a little towards lighter government. I just don't see that a democratic decision making body can possibly appreciate and deliver coherent policy on complex topics. If intervention is going to be misguided or weak, then don't intervene. With various exceptions etc etc.