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Hey now, dont look at us. This is France and the UK jumping up and down for war. Funny, when the US is jumping up and down for war everybody else is expected to ask Uncle Sam nicely "how high?" Situation reverses.... In fairness, US involvement would only weaken the strategic situation. And since a military analysis puts the rebels hope of success at nil, what would be the point of weakening the strategic situation?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news...t-wiretaps.html 1. I think this story deserves to run. **** BT. I'm switching as soon as I have time to organise the move next week. Tell your friends, fellow Britons. 2. Thought this was nicely illustrative of a point I've made before that big corporations can violate your rights and freedoms just as much as governments. In fact, more so, it would seem, since they aren't being held accountable due to the fact that the CPS don't think they can beat BTs lawyers.

LOL. Probably not funny to anyone but me, but it just occurred to me that modern claymores must have a freaking flowchart printed on them, with pages from international law, so that you can work out who the enemy is before pointing it at him.

Um... you either have some seriously marketable skills, or you're being an eedjit. It's neither wise nor kind to be an asshat.

I love how the leitmotif for all political historical whatever thinking for the last ten years has been replaced with the word 'oil' with the word double underlined. And often misspelled. I'm just glad I didn't go for that PhD in history. What a a waste of time THAT would have been.

Notice him? I AM him!

In principle I'm not against spiders that big. Any excuse for setting up an old bofors gun in the lounge.

Very helpful. If i may say so in turn, I fear your enthusiasm may be blinding you to the dangers of introducing a novel voting system when you already accept that political culture can have profound embuggering influences on the product of any system.

I still think preferential voting just encourages muddled thinking, and a muddled offerring. Politicians are bad enough as it is, without offerring them the delightful possibility that they will pick up second place votes just because people don't know enough about them to dislike them.

I ate a very hot stir fry late last night and consequently (I hope) had the most vivid post-zombie-apocalypse dream of my life. I had to go back to sleep when I woke up just to get some rest. All the same, it was pretty cool. Being chased down a graveyard slope through mist and watching zombies get tripped up and break their snappy bits was probably the highlight. That and the air vents section. Air vents full of sodding gaming fanboy zombies.

I did say that might be the case. It's far too easy to look everything up and give a spurious gloss of knowledgeability. Better if for the purposes of the discussion I expose my ignorance early on, I reckon. So thanks for setting me straight. So why is it that Britain virtually never has coalition governments? Voter behaviour?

It's true though. The US Prison and Jail population totals 2,284,913 (US DOJ), while internal Soviet documents show that there were only 1-2M people inside the GULAG at any given time (see here). It would probably help if you responded to 'her' posts using 'her' account. Little tip on the old disguise business there.

The SA80-A2, surely? Who said anything about the boring old A2?

It's pinging a big fat 'meh' off me. I'm afraid. Global warming? Seriously?

I think I know the one you mean. I accidentally swung my baseball bat at precisely the second when a charger fell off a roof in front of me. Bloke got really huffy about it, and accused me of cheating.

I have to agree with LoF. And I really mean HAVE to. Gut wounds being the incredibly painful slow death that they are, you just don't get armour which leaves you exposing your nice bare pregnantable midriff. If anyone knows of any armour from ANY period or culture which does leave the stomach exposed, and protects your shoulders, do let me know. Bare midriff armour is solely for the purposes of horning up male gamers. Of course I'm hoping this is intended to nurture some counter-cultural movement to enhance positive and realistic women in games. By which I mean women who actually look as if they could pick up a rifle - Starbuck style. Rather than an excuse to found a government bureau which will try to stop unreasonable female sexiness by shooting devs in the face.

Wasn't poor inventory the main criticism from pre-patched Witcher 1? Stands to reason that they'd want it as slick as possible.

I can follow your reasoning, but surely you'd admit that the alternative is to treat the progress of one's avatar like a stroll down a foreign tourist beach. A little bit boring, pleasant for that reason, and occasionally interrupted by an old man trying to sell you a carpet. I mean a besuited monster punching your bits off. I'm going to argue that dramatic tension and release is only delivered if it occurs within a relatively compact time. Having endless bad guys and a toxic cloud keeps up the pressure to move and progress, to explore the narrative, not just amble about.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/07/actuv_command_game/ Why NOT have the same people who play Minecraft designing the operational algorithms of our future defenders?

Has there been anything more on that fellah who just had stems injected into his weak heart and they just incorprated and regrew it?

I got to try the HK416 the other day. I still prefer the SA80.

Obyknevn is not Lord of Flies. Oh no.

Numbers, the KGB didn't pack up its bags as soon as Uncle Joe turned up his toes. You know that. I'm confused by your insistence that violence wasn't meted out to the 'unbelievers' in communism. If Soviet Russia doesn't float your boat, how about violence to Vietnamese christians by their communist party, or across the border you have the fabulous bone-flecked expanse of Cambodia. If this is all too communist centric for you how about the mfekanein Southern Africa, where the Zulus biffed just about everyone pretty much solely because Shaka had a small undercarriage.

Britain's Deputy Prime Minister sometimes just puts on music and cries. This puts me in mind of the rather cruel observation that Americans only voted for a President who was dumber than they were. But it now seems that Clegg is gambling on Britons voting for a Prime Minister who is wussier than they are.

Scientists grow retina from stem cells. I have to say that ever since I understood what stem cell research was I have loved it more than cricket on the radio. And that's saying something.