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Sure, but I kind of doubt that's the spin they are putting on it on Fox. Anyone who watches Fox news can feth off into a hate sandwich.

Because it had a side-effect of transporting true proletarians in its flightpath to delightful villas in the heart of the sun, where they would improve their minds and eat sturgeon.

This. And I don't even smoke up under normal circumstances. This would be a special occasion.

There is no way for one person to determine whether his own self-awareness is true or false. So there is no other choice but to accept your self-awareness as true. How does this change for the delusional? How are we to distinguish? Naming no names *cough cough*

What makes you assume that?

But if that self-awareness is false, am I actually self-aware? Or am I simply acting within physical constraints of processing power imposed by the universe?

Be fair, Cal. I can't see this having happened without invading Afghan, and displacing Bin Laden. You also have to give the Bush administration credit for whacking (see above) a large number of other senior jihadists. Anyone who's been reading me for a while will know I'm not pro-Bush. I think they arsed up a lot of stuff that will be difficult to un-arse. But false credit serves no-one.

What the **** is this? You sound like some kind of deranged door to door weapons salesman. I don't know what kind of Stalinist super-skunk you're smoking. But I'd quite like to try some.

Yeah, sure thing. Voting wil be ony by those who are competent... as expressed by their faith in Marxist-Leninist ideology, since only a fool wouldn't agree. The Party is all. The Party is the state. Without any alternative power structures such as personal wealth or church the Party dominates all. All rights and freedoms are accorded by the State-Party, rather than having any inalienable basis. Disagreement is ruthlessly suppressed both to maintain ideological progress and to preserve the purity of the revolutionary society. The consequence is total abject slavery to the State-Party, and the elite social class of Marxist-Leninist apparatchiks. Mankind becomes a dumb beast of burden.

1. I think it's awesome that this has provoked such a response, and it's not pure snobbery. 2. There are multiple subclauses to the debate, but if I may focus in on the one no-one's grappled with much: The whole thrust of Buddhist thinking is that one's reaction to reality can be distinct from what reality 'wants' your reaction to be. At least I think it is. Krez, back me up here. The reason for this, I would argue, is that as humans our drives only impinge on a tiny subset of reality. Therefore to actuate our drives we might benefit from only dealing with a fractional subset of reality. Being incomplete this could be described as an illusion, but a useful one. Although I don't think that's what the monk was getting at.

I'm sure Dark Alliance will be very... moving. Please do continue.

I think I read about this one already someplace else. I suggest it;s just very effective use of soft furnishings to bring out the airiness of the space.

You've never played Fallout New Vegas? bwaHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Your reasoning might be sound if Drizzt were not an arrogant wanker, and my PC a helpful and incredibly charming bastard. Not to mention being a paladin, rather than some sort of glorified tour guide.

I think that's a wee bit unfair. Hurlshot. Moderates stand up to AlQ et al. all the time. They are then murdered.

According to a Tibetan monk I was talking to, "Time and space are real, but must be looked on as illusions" Discuss.

ROFL. Made people turn to look outside.

I would field a counter-analysis, but the Frunze academy themselves disagree on your first point. Look up combat leadership in Afghanistan. Or in fact anything at all from The Great Patriotic War. Not so sure about your unkillable murder tanks in point 4. Sounds terrifying.

I'm intrigued, Pid. Who said that the Brits were indecisive about control in Northern Ireland? To my understanding police have always had primary power, and it's been a civil controlled process. The Army have only applied investigative and defensive use of force. Plus observation, patrolling etc. I'm not suggesting there hasn't been the odd wobble, but a decade prolongation is a pretty serious allegation. Interestingly, but perhaps for another topic, 'dissident Republicans' have been conducting attacks on the police and army more and more recently. No doubt having realised that if they don't pick up the temppo then people may well realise that they are and have always been a bunch of megalomaniacal psychopaths and gangsters, and not freedom fighters.

I know a good one, but I'll have to look it up. My father read the original version - fart jokes and adultery and all - when I was a kid. It's great stuff.

I agree that it sucks to have a democratic body usurped. And there is no reason I can think of to let the administrators corruptly feth deals. HOWEVER, as Enoch says, a huge amount of govt. waste occurs. And I'd go further and suggest that if people knew that they might have democracy sezied by the repo men then they might pay a little morre ****ing attention.

I'd love to live in a world where scanning a baby really was unnecessary.

Today I have been mostly trying to understand the nature of casuality and the stock markets. the latter is a lot harder than I thought it would be. I assumed it was like going to the newsagents to buy a newspaper, but a lot more shouty.

What the **** is Oblivion doing in that list? It's got a story straight out of every Buffy season ending. Dying order, hell is coming, you are the only one who can get all the maguffins and stop disaster. At least I assume that was the story. With such weak characterisation and no dialogue worthy of the name I had trouble staying awake through the whole thing.

I don't see why. At the start of Watcher's Keep you are told emphatically that the wardstone you are given is the ONLY way to get in or out. And it's designed to hold something which terrifies even the gods. So you take your archmage (whatever the hell they think they are) and cram him into a crevice on your body so seldom seen that even the denizens of the nine hells wouldn't go near it with a nine foot rusted halberd. ~~ Gorgon, I don't care if all I took was the Drow's favourite teddy bear. I trophied it. And having his Dad turn up to get it back with super-powered nerf-me-ups is even more weaksauce than losing in the first place.