Walsingham

Tell me, have you played Fahrenheit?

I didn't settle into my career until quite late in life either. Apart from listening to Enoch, which is always wise, I suggest you do it from first principles. 1. What kind of day is your perfect day? 2. What kind of person has that sort of day 3. Become that person 4. Don't hanker after alternatives once you make your plan, and let nothing stand in your way

Depends what you mean by expensive. It's cheaper than holding acres of redundant stock. So retailers should like it. Mind you, who buys in hardcopy any more?

See, now that just sounds terrifying. I did something similar. Woke the next day witha big cut down my face. I told the kids I was teaching I got it knife fighting. Krez: No gay sex? I ain't turning up. Among gentlemen it should always be at least an option.

I seem to dimly recall Grenada being a blow against the marines. Weren't their deliberate reforms after Grenada? I'm sure something went wrong, I jus can't remember WHAT. BTW, I apologise for assuming you were a jackass, lordo. If it makes you feel any better I now feel like one. You make an interesting point I have to agree with. You get natural fluctuations in any complex system. I hope for your sake you are correct, but am deeply concerned that he appears so strangely paranoid. Also, he is a paratrooper, and all paras are nutters.

I love the way people who accuse the USA of being fascists haven't the first experience of fascism or totalitarianism. I've lived in a military dictatorship, and under apartheid, and I hate to break up your party, but the USA isn't even close. Having made that clear I am certainly concerned about the political trend in the US towards polarisation and abrogation of democratic controls. But the difference is the same as saying I am worried about my flu-like symptoms, and screaming "ebola!"

you're always chasing the dragon, never catching it eh? I think you'll find that's the safest way to chase a dragon.

I too was affected, even though some big green lizard told me everything was fine and I was hallucinating again.

They cancelled My Name is Earl when it had good ratings. They are the spawn of the devil, and must be beheaded.

More postal workers? You cam manufacture CDs of the music in small quantities in shops. The equipment is only slightly larger than a standard desktop PC.

Dying isn't likely to be helpful. My advice: 1. Get plenty of rest before the test. And physical exercise. 2. Learn a centring techique to keep calm and focussed just before and during the test. 3. Read some basic pschology on psychometric testing. It may help you feel more in control. Because psychometric testing is inherently pfoo.

What if everyone gets more corrupt over time. Its just that without power you don't notice it?

That actually is awesome. Escape the manufacturing cartels. Woo!

That's my point...either tax food or don't. I don't think it should be beyond the law's ability to draw distinctions. If you think about it, that's its whole purpose. If it can't tell teh difference between a potato snack and a peanut snack or whatever then it's got no hope of judging guilt in a murder trial.

I'd accept shooting them when they're young and then keeping them in prison, by way of compromise.

What is an FO DLC? I totally know what you mean. I know I was drinking on Friday, but last night was one friend come round and we drink ale while playing Red Orchestra as a team on one keyboard. I was taking calls on the headset as his 'secretary' and doing things like steering while he drank. Our aim definitely improved as time went by. As did our slanging of griefers. Then we'd swap trying to hit a given target. However, while fun, honesty forbids me to describe the event as anything other than lame. On teh other hand honesty also forbids me from saying that I think a girlfriend would improve matters. I'd only end up doing something equally lame, but far less nerdy fun. Well, for most of the evening, anyway.

I think it's trying to say how scary it is that America is faling in droves for ecstatic religious dogma, and that this essentially paves the way for a dictatorship that will eat my face. I mean your face. I mean our face. But in a way that won't upset this vast mass of cretins. Because they clearly don't understand syymbolism. If they did then they'd understand that a book which tells you to stone people of others faiths with the same enthusiasm you use in spurning people who eat shrimp must be taken with a pinch of salt.

I thought most of Scandinavia had socialist governments. I'm not a socialist, but I do agree with the logical foundations of socialism. That our problems are best faced together as one than separately. That the randomness of bad fortune should not be accepted meekly by humans, but smoothed with compassion. I simply disagree with the operational mechanisms Socialism usually puts in place. BUt I would generally ascribe that primarily as the failure of revolutionary government of any kind. Macchiavelli said that any new prince should change as little as possible because any who gains by the change will be a lukewarm friend and anyone hurt by it will be your enemy forever. But revolutions are about change. So they inevitably make a lot of enemies, and their popular mandate evaporates. Having no popular mandate any revolutionary government must resort to force. It's about as remarkable as water leaving the seas and falling as rain.

But what is junk food, really? To a secretary it's junk food. In a ration pack it's essential heavy duty energy.

My ribs have come apart AGAIN! *anger and frustration*

I meant to bring this up last week, and I think I mentioned it in WoT. I'm new to playing online. I've only really played Company of heroes and Red Orchestra. CoH is pretty free of a-holes. But Red Orchestra surprised my n00b ass off. People keep spawning in, shooting up their own side and buggering off. Or one guy logged in, and left his voice mike transmitting commercial radio making the whole game lag. This was suprising enough. But it turns out it happens ALL THE TIME. I mean, who are these people? How many are there? Where do they live? Can we kill them? I suppose the neo-nazis were inevitable in a game based on WW2, but it really freaked me out. I don't want to to congratulate a nazi on any level. Fools.

I want to tackle food shortages, democracy, and US military aid in that order. EDIT: *sigh* about the video link. Heard it all before. Still not convinced.

Incidentally, I'm really looking forward to the film District 9, that I think will cover a lot of this.

I don't think it would be fair of me personally to criticise him for believing there were WMD in Iraq. I know I thought that. Inspectors: "What happened to the hundreds of tonnes of nerve gas we saw at the end of the war but can't find now." Iraq: "Oh, we destroyed it." Inspectors: "Without calling us to witness it as normal?" Iraq: "No, well it was a very hot day, you know? And we felt you needed a break so we just, like poured behind a sand dune." Inspectors: "Hundreds of tonnes of nerve gas?" Iraq: "Oh yes." Inspectors: "No proof, though?" Iraq: "None whatsoever. But you can believe us." Inspectors: "Oh, well, that's OK."

I don't understand what you're trying to say. What does the death being either right or wrong mean? Probably a fair question. But i don't understand it. Can you rephrase?