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No offence Rostere, but you may have a rather limited social circle. To misquote the late great Bill Hicks, what does it matter why someon has a gun if they don't hurt anyone with it? Hunter S Thompson had all kinds of crazy guns. I know I'm shifting stance here, but seriously. Finland has tonnes of guns, but apparently only 14% of homicides involve a firearm. Suggests to me that there may be some other factors at work as well as firearms.

Absolutely, ears eaten like tacos.

Several packets of small damage may be better than one big bash. I know I'd rather have twenty ten volt shocks than one two hundred volt shock. Ditto my business might survive a 5% drop in takings, but a 50% drop is very very bad. I don't know why the US bailout didn't go through. Was it dogma? Was it some a-hole putting impossible riders on it?

...dead.

My estemeed colleague, sitting on my right has just told me that Spore was cracked within 14 hours. And he also tells me he could beat an adult male chimp in a fist fight.

I use my face, generally. Yes. 'Beer bottles'.

Erm, a gun is also a tool. For example, how else is one to remove the tops of beer bottles?

I just find it bizarre and unnerving that I am so far removed from some portions of humanity. Those portions that find it desirable to hear a man telling them to **** off every time their phone rings.

O RLY?

I don't think so. I like this one: http://xkcd.com/479/

I just liked the picture. "Raaaargh! Crush your childish democracy I will!"

DRM is a feature of the games. If you had to wear a large stupid metal hat whenever you wanted to play, that's a legitimate fething negative feature.

I think on balance I'd buy a Obs game even with DRM. But I'd make a really annoying noisewhile doing so. A lot. And there would be no more dancing when I saw an Obs developer online.

...And we can tell lieutenant Kaposki he can keep his stinking badge.

Yeah, but the Muslim one is stupider by far. I mean, wtf? I can see how you MIGHT think banking was always evil, and somehow have failed to notice how mobile capital investment underpins both innovation and growth. But how could anyone seriously think that being Muslim made you wake up in the morning and - I don't know - get this glazed look in your eye: "Must destroy infidels" and go lurching off in search of explosives. Not to mentin the idea that killing one fifth of the world's population is a good idea. The smell alone would be appalling.

Gauntlet! Wow, that takes me back...

I think either way, we're looking at Palin running for President in 2012. Handmaid's Tale anyone?

OK, I'll bite. What's first? Dumbest statement ever: "All Muslims are terrorists, and should be wiped out." I mean, where do you start? A third of the freaking world is Muslim. Are they, like, really really lazy terrorists?

Had bizarre convesrsation with ex telling me about her recent one night stands. I had forgotten how jealous I can get.

You also run the risk of catching a piece of buckle or button or bone in the teth, which makes them kick all over the place. You have to plan for both kinds of zombies, to an extent. Although clearly the latter are far more dangerous. I'm only hypothesising, but I would guess that the more intact, and fresh the corpse, the faster it moves.

Credit is a difficult thing. I once worked as a loans granting/refusing monkey for one of Britain's big banks. People would go nuts if you didn't lend them money if they couldn't realistically pay it back, then go nuts if you DID lend it to them, and they eventually got threatening letters. My favourite comment ever, which I saw from the BBC public write in was "Banking has never worked and never will". Which actually takes 2nd place in my big list of dumb comments.

*Eyes go very round, and jaw drops open*

Whaaat? How do you propose that? A government sponsored buddy program? The world will always have square pegs trying to fit into round holes, humans are just too diverse. I dont think it would be possible to mandate friendship. Most importantly, who gets to be friends with Onur the Courageous?

Worked from 0730 to 1930 yesterday. Got absolutely masses done. Feelingmuch more bullish since we had good results from my mothers last cancer screen. No new cancer in the last two months. She also beat back one or two tumors. Awesome. For my next trick I intend to make Sand Czar of all the Russias.

That's the easy answer, but I would suggest it's overly simple. Africans are people, and in my experience are not much more 'savage' than you'll find in any country. That is, most 'savage' behaviour is carried out by a group or class of twits. The difference is only that unlike in Britain they aren't dressed in Burberry and aren't marginalised. They run the show because the non-twits are so badly organised. They are savages because they still believe in witchcraft and other similar pre-christian practices. We in the west have moved on and are more refined. We have nukes, systematic torture with the best equipments, we commit genocide in the name of ideologies that have been sprung by the brightest minds that the universities have offered. We have impaled 20000-40000 turks just to prove that they aren't welcomed in walachia, and had wars that lasted 100 years in the name of who has the right to sit in a special chair in a special place. They are simple and barbaric, since they are stuck in such ways that were abandoned thousands of years ago in the rest of the world. Get with the times. Wait, does that mean we're engaged?