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I think you're waaaay overstepping the mark, Gromnir. I'd want to sit down and work out the variation in shot before I accused anyone who was clearly top of their game - let alone a professional sniper - of being nothing more than a jammy sod. Have a little fething respect.

Exactly. Let them run with it. If it's balls then they'll be famous for being wrong.

Not really, Krez. Completely perfect safety is only going to be a feature of a zero energy system. Any other system might release it's stored or expressed energy.

I suppose it depends what those seven pounds consisted of. Have you coughed up any enormous hairballs?

Don't get me wrong. I accept the name is important. Names are important. Try telling a handful of randomly selected people who come from Belfast that they live in Ulster and you'll see what I mean. But what I'm also saying is that the name is obviously bloody important to THEM. And that given that you are hardly short of a cultural heritage point or two let them bloody have it.

I'm a diss yo cake! I'm a dissing yo cake wif two pounds of sausages!

My bad. Howeverwhile I accept that 'luck' comes in (variances in wind, and bullet manufacture etc) those same variances affect every shooter, so in terms of skill in being able to limit enough to get a bullet anywhere close must surely be worthwhile.

I'd like to object to the half orc cleric. You people seem to forget that gnomes are automatically at bum height to an orc. So unless you are willing to go veggie you better be willing to carry me most of the time after lunch. Althugh now I think about it i could go for the whole Sword Coast Siesta thing. EDIT: I don't suppose that when you level up you get a 'fart freshener' blessing from your god?

IMO we simply have to accept that high energy systems go bang when they derail. If we want a high energy society then we are going to live amongst high energy systems.

I forgot about her. Hubba hubba.

so? HA! Good Fun! So I thought you said chance had to come in. if 80% of these targets were at say 300 yards, a good sniper is not going to need luck to hit them.

If they banned nazi rallies how long do you think your communist rallies would last? Or is that the point? To provoke a reaction you can turn into a victimisation complex?

I don't know anything about the geography, but clearly you have the logical option of letting them have the sodding name. So yes, it is always both party's fault that a compromise can't be reached.

Hang on. These kill tallies don't seem to say anywhere all the shots were at monster distances.

I should have added: I don't believe that a) I don't believe being nice - on its own - will reform prisoners b) Some crimes have an element of planned choice rather than dysfunction. Fraud, and drug dealing spring to mind. i don't see how it can be logical to expect criminals in these areas to be reformed in this way. c) the above planned criminals require deterrents to tackle. This prison would be a very weak deterrent.

My main interest in prison is protection for society. If being nice prevents a return to crime then I'm 100% for it. With a few exceptions for crimes where the effects on the victim are irreversible: murder, torture, rape etc.

I respectfully suggest you spend slightly less time flinging weights about the gym, and go get dancing lessons.

Did you know Bruges possesses the only sculpture made by Michelangelo that left Italy in his lifetime? Also, nowadays the only Michelangelo sculptures outside Italy are in the Louvre & NY... and in a small provincial Belgian town. It is quite perplexing... until one realizes Bruges was the centre of the world until 1500 or so. Heck, Bruges even has its own Holy Grail. He says they've already got one!

What the hell? You sound like a 40 year old woman, man! Chocolate? Since when did chocolate stop a broken heart? I mean, except literally.

I apologise for not reading the wiki link sooner. 1. The link talks about an exploratory platform. _Presumably_ this would involve lower volumes of material, and at lower pressure. 2. Even if the leaks were identical, it would be possible for the required assets to be differently dispersed. They might also be differently organised. By which I mean differently owned, but also differently regulated under law, requiring (probably) more detailed negotiation of use wrt indemnity.

I went to my local, and drank beer. I identified a key theoretical unknown underpinning one of the systems we use for work, and subsequently got chatting to some ladies, who were most friendly. I returned home to discover I've solved a business logistics issue. I am now eating crunchy nut cornflakes. WIN!

It really doesn't sound that promising. Sounds like I am Legend. Read the original book.

As you know, my traditional and established cure for love-sick blues is to eat a pound of sausages at a single sitting. I must report that eating LESS than this appears to have the effect of making the subject furious and needing to go out and smash things. This may or may not be appropriate. You have been warned.

Ah yes, .

His FATHER was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Brussels. His mother was from Paris.