Walsingham

It's no use if all crates contain only smaller versions of themselves. No motivation to open them, see? One crate in the world should contain a unique item vital to the protagonist's quest. This forces him to open every crate he encounters, potentially consuming weeks of his and the reader's/gamer's lives. You mean like in Neverwinter Nights 1 OC?

Surprised to hear you say that. Cops should be treated as humans. it makes them easier to get along with, and that includes occasionally taking the p***. I do worry that cops in the States are trained to behave like urban commandos, not public defenders.

Great video.

I think al crates and barrels should contain a slightly smaller crate or barrel. Ad infinitum.

Actually I should like to retract my anger a little. your determination is presumably indicative of a desire to right a wrong, and to stand against tyranny. I can respect that desire. However I suggest that my annoyance can only be exacerbated, since to my mind you are wasting your energy on a non-existent fight. There are a great many wrongs and injustices that deserve righting. Small domestic ones can be no less important than big international ones. Get out there and do something useful. The wood is full of wolves, and you are at home, kicking the cat.

I'm not a police investigator, but I do know enough science and engineers to a) expect unusual and unexpected behaviour in a very high energy system (i.e. unique scale building collapse) b) not hunt for superfluous explanations when I already have a very simple one You raise the question of why bone fragments should turn up in odd places and in a state of pulverisation. The simple answer is **** happens. Anyone who has even the most remote acquaintance with high energy events, like explosives or crashes will tell you some weird stuff happens. I've seen real footage of a suicide bomber's face, torn off and on the ground while the rest of their body was vapourised. Strange, and interesting, but not evidence of a conspiracy of face-removing counter-terrorists. My own uncle was shot in the face at point blank range, and the bullet went beneath the skin and came out the back of his head, leaving him with little worse than mild concussion. You yourself admit that there would be no point in duplicating damage that would be expected in any case. Do you go around looking for conspiracuies when you put bread in the toaster and it comes out toasted? Look, conspiracy theories are interesting. I'm also a big fan of the truth, and am inveterately nosey. But let it go. Get another hobby than 9/11.

I don't know how to get through to you Wals. First of all, the American Society of Sivil Engineers, FEMA, the Silverstein/Weidlinger group and NIST spent 8 years and close to $30M twisting their brains trying to figure out how in the nine hells it all happened, and you refer to it as simple engineering. I don't know what college you graduated from, but if I was your student-counselor I'd be worried. J. If I run you over in a car then I can take days to do an autopsy to find out precisely how you died. But the what killed you is fairly clear. Look, if you're really this bothered then learn engineering.

Have you seen the series it is a continuation of, Firefly? If not I highly recommend you do so. It only lasted one season before being cancelled and the movie ties up most of the loose ends. I wish more cancelled shows got movies to tie up sudden cancellations. Sarah Connor Chronicles is left dangling in the wind after an awesome season finale. You can catch most, if not all of the episodes of Firefly on Hulu.com. ....Or you could support a great series by buying it on DVD. Seriously, you think I want to hear someone saying pirate one of my favourite shows ever?

i disagree. It's like all this garbage about terrorists being soldiers. No. No they aren't. Or a cat is a dog because it's furry and has four legs, and is kept as a pet.

Utter genius, now there's only the tiny technical issue of actually making it work. We could backtrack the users then have teams of men from defunct industries hunt them down.

I ****ing hate illithids.

What if they made every user smell of haddock?

There is a distinction, recognised in law, between a cult and a religion. The best dividing line I know of from that distinction, is that the sacred texts of a religion should be open to all. A cult conceals its sacred texts, usually on a heirarchical basis. Brainwashing is not a general air of propagating information, it's a deliberate process that is now very well laid out. like baking a cake. No church I know does it, although I have met 'christian' student organisations that try to do it. Smearing mainstream religion as a cult is rude, and dangerous. It's plainly rude. The danger comes from fostering intolerance to the lifestyles of billions of human beings. But it also comes because it diminshes the appparent threat from secretive, power-seeking, manipulative cults, of which scientology is only one.

Serenity. Pure liquid win, action, comedy, some obscure language and an actual plot with themes. And hot chicks. See it. See it now. See it again.

I wonder if piercings would be against regs?

Re-watched Serenity genuinely sad now, as I think about how hard it is for anything quality to survive and prosper in big business or anywhere else. It'ss oemthing I strive for, and it seems anyone I know who does likewise gets conspired against and done to death by vapid 20% effort funtwits.

If I were to believe bad sci fi was real I'd choose WH40k. I could be a gretchin. And eat bum fungi.

Let's see, you accuse me of being a conspiracy theorist b/c I listen to cookie professors from Berkely and architecs with 6-figure salaries, but you refer to your own credentials as a naval salvage engineer in order to silence my arguments. Lovely. Ok mr. engineer, here's a little clip from the official NIST report; Other than initiating the fires in WTC 7, the damage from the debris from WTC 1 had little effect on initiating the collapse of WTC 7. The building withstood debris impact damage that resulted in seven exterior columns being severed and subsequently withstood fires involving typical office combustibles on several floors for almost seven hours. (p. 39) They blame the collapse on fire later on. In modern history, no steel building has ever collapsed at near free fall speed into its own footprint b/c of fire, actually, no steel building has ever collapsed from office fire temperatures at all. Please take a look at the professional investigation of the A&Es for 9/11 Truth that I gave you a link to before. You won't be disappointed. J. Like I said, I know ship salvage. Anyone who tries to tell me that steel beams don't catastrophically fail is going to get shown the floor, the ceiling, and finally the door before being firmly ejected into the street. As to why did it go straight down... **** happens. Leaving aside the perfectly simple engineering for a moment, why in the name of God do YOU suggest anyone would bother exploding a building they plan to crash an exploding airplane into? I mean your own personal conviction.

Numbers (iirc) is a moral relativist. Which is why I've stolen his car.

I think it should mean darkness, as in literally getting dark. That would be freaking hilarious in large gatherings such as formal dinners.

"They came for the cicadas and I said nothing because I wasn't a cicada..." Went to the pub, listened to a cover band, learned to play whist. Got drunk. Realised that the nature of man is to pursue consistency but embody contradiction. It is as natural as breathing.

I'm not boycotting **** on behalf of 4chan. Bunch of wankers pretending that posting underage anime girls makes you a post 9/11 intellectual.

Outlaw, Danny Dyer, Sean Bean. A surprisingly good film. A bit like fight club, combined with a revenge thriller. Set in the UK. Rather interesting.

Of the ones I know, it seems very bluesy. I guess it is. I'm really not sure what it means though. They just seemed to be the songs that spoke to me at the time.

Seems pretty crazy, doesn't it? However, when the main buildings collapsed you had massive shockwaves sent out, combined with enormous quantities of debris. Why did it collapse suddenly? Because that's how large structures fail. I'm self-taught naval salvaage engineering, and that's how it works. Steel is lovely stuff, but it has a real temper (no pun intended). If you REALLY want to judge for yourself I guess you could train to be an engineer. I mean, at least at the end of it you'd be an engineer.