Everything posted by Walsingham
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The funny things thread Part 2
NSFW, btw.
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Crime and punishment
Personally I think that the same should be extended to the saner elements of the gang, those that are salvageable human beings. Maybe I'm wrong in thinking that economy factors into this behavior but; are most of these gangs from low income environments? If so there should be outreach programs targeting those areas. Anyone who think criminal gangs only come from disadvantaged backgrounds has never been to public school.
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Catching a killer
My friends and I have been having a go at this today. We think it's a form of shorthand, with semi-random noise in it. Repeated phrases such as 'sprse' are sometimes broken, and we wonder if the interval is the significant portion. Once you get used to looking for them, the broken chunks stand out, rather like brackets in a piece of html. I can't see someone who was a school dropout, or anyone who wrote so quickly, using a letter substitution or one time pad per se.
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Libya
On the contrary. Because Russia is an oil and gas exporter it has gained from the instability through getting more money from those exports, AND it still has the tanks which it can sell to some other dingbat regime. Win! ~~ Enough with the France bashing. Neither Russia or America felt the war with Nazi Germany was worth fighting at the time Britain and France got kicked to pieces. The French are OUR cousins and family is supposed to take the p***; but from you chaps it just sounds stupid. Back me up here, Monte. God, I hope Monte hasn't run away.
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Catching a killer
Nonsense. I've had you on that list for ages.
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Libya
Of course you realise that at the precise time the French were surrendering, the Russians were allied to the Nazis? Very heroic. Courageous stand there. Clap clap.
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Possibly a very stupid idea
There's obviously money in, and a market for, expansions of very new games. But with all this talk about turn based games a thought occurs to me: Would it be possible to make money by developing and releasing an 'expansion' for a very old game, like Baldur's Gate?
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The Witcher 2
Then what the hell are they going to use for the fried chicken?
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Libya
Considering how many Russians surrendered in the early part of the war I would recommend you shut the hell up about France.
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Catching a killer
Help the FBI with their cryptanalysis. http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/march...analysis_032911 I figured you goons might have some left field ideas. EDIT: It's just occurred to me that a more useful thing to do if you cracked the code would be to keep it to yourself to encode things you didn't want the FBI to know about!
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Music
My hillstomping anthem has become Peaches - F*** the pain away.
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Crime and punishment
Agree with you 100% about the gang influence. I think more needs to be done to isolate and neutralise (not that kind of neutralise) gang leaders. Because one character can drag a whole mob of simple halfwits into crime.
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Movies you've seen recently
I haven't seen it, but the trailer makes it look just as bad as Independence Day Dicovererd that the pilot episode DVD of Caprica that I bought had a second disc in there with the pilot episode of something called 'Warehouse 13'. Never heard of it before, but looked kind of interesting in a twilight zone and x-files bastard child of way. Independence day is Shakespeare compared to Battle: Los Angeles You mean based on the premise that people can't tell if a person is actually a woman just because she puts on trousers?
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What you did today
Have you tried claiming you are saving up so you can have them all at once?
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Crime and punishment
Interesting case in point. Youths removed from area of event, with trip to seaside, to avoid them joining trouble = cunning = me happy. Youths going on to commit violence anyway = my point.
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Libya
That sounds ridiculously simplistic, mate. People in power are also people. Or they can be. You don't get shoved in a dishumanising machine when you arrive. Yes, it has weird effects on people, but to assume all power is innately evil robs the good and powerful of support, and excuses the truly evil. So you'll forgive me for not agreeing with you.
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Libya
Protesters as foreign stooges, eh LoF? You're in good company.
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Yahtzee reviews
Ah but it's a pun, you see? YOU SEE? DO YOU SEE?
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Libya
So you don't deny that it makes no sense. yOu merely have some comments from Ghaddafi which suggest he supported the idea? I suppose you're still ignoring your earlier post which analysed the statements by Ghaddafi as a cynical bargaining ploy? Do i really have to look them up or do you have an answer for that too?
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What you did today
Stop posting on the internet and shine my damn shoes.
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Libya
- Dark Ages in modern London
I find it somewhat ironic that - however cynically - the original 'aim of a certain system was very different cultures living side by side without the one diminishing the other. The word for that system was apartheid. And then what is the alternative? To reduce us all to a uniform grey paste of commercial behaviour and trivial cosmetic pursuits? The lowest common denominators of humanity?- What you did today
That reminds me. I had a dream two nights ago that Kelly Brooke was so obsessed with me that she had me sent to jail for a crime I didn't commit. But I escaped through my telepathic control of gigantic metal subterranean spider-squids. Seriously. My dreams are better than your dreams.- Dark Ages in modern London
Mind you, I also think we need to do a lot more to help certain people born in the UK adjust to our lifestyle and values. It seems hypocritical to view it as only an issue for newcomers. What we need is some sort of unifying philosophy, and an organisation to enforce it. I'm thinking perhaps wearing distinctive clothing as a visible sign of commitment to those ideals. It would need to be something visual, but not intrusive A shirt, maybe. In brown.- Crime and punishment
The kids my friend works with are onliged to attend because they are convicted offenders. He does help people who do change, but he equally laments having to spend vast amounts of time one-on-one with individuals who are completely lost causes when we all know that kids in normal education have to put up with huge class sizes. His assessment was that you could have ten vulnerable but not yet broken kids receiving regular pastoral care for the same price of one kid who's completely mental already. Assuming that metric is true, and even if you allow for the notion that the mentalist can be made better, the numbers just don't add up. - Dark Ages in modern London