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I'm sure what you enlightened chaps mean is you object to any faith which engages in deliberate acts of coercion, but respect the right of an oh who am I kidding?

EDeathz?

The Last King of Scotland Forrester Whittaker earned his oscar, although I found it hard to empathise with his weaselly doctor. But a superb film for any young man to see before setting forth in life. The central lesson is worth knowing.

Oh my living Christ. I used to do voluntary work helping care for cerebral palsy kids, and that's an appalling story. CP often leaves a lot of awareness, but cuts your controls. Imagine being landed in an FPS or flight sim where the controls keep changing, and the mouse keeps inverting at random. For your whole life. ****ing hell. taks, I see your point. Logically there are going to be instances where people flip out with no prior warning. But in the last year or so it seems every high profile case where stuff goes down, it's some nutloop who has been on the radar for years, and getting progressively worse. EDIT: something you have to get about CP kids is that there's this embattled honesty about them. Usually they're incredibly sweet, but my favourite was this one little bugger who kept trying to smash things. The regular teachers told me to keep stuff away from him, but after a moment's reflection I thought "Hell, I'd want to smash things in his position" and I used to make things for him to smash. It became our game for me to race him, building elaborate towers and shapes, which he would struggle to swing at and break quicker than I could build. That kid enjoyed it so much that in spite of being incapable of movement he dragged himself across a whole classroom with his arms, lungs filling with fluid, to give me a hug (I'd been detailed to do some washing up). The thought of a kid like that being abused this way, and no-one protecting them. Makes your blood boil.

Oh come on, guys. This is rubbish!

Cougars, on the other hand, are really good at ambushing. They buy you a drink, make you feel all young and strong, then... Or did you mean the wild cat? Uhhh... yeah, me too... Rowwwrrr.

It was in the travel brochure?

No, I mean the corpses will contribute fuurther to contamination of groundwater, not to mention the flies and vermin that will spring up.

I'm not being funny, taks. But I think that's a given. I suppose this links to other discussion swe've had. Stopping him murdering one guy is a question of care for psychotics. The fact that he didn't muredr five or six people is down to gun control. Of course, I'm sure if he'd tried he could have killed at least three or four with his knife.

Fantastic track.

Clarity and brevity are always to be applauded. 1. It was the tone of appeasement which caused Iraq to invade Kuwait in the first place. I would also draw your attention to China. Far from seeing reform in th e wake of teh Olympics grant, they've been cracking down more than ever. 2. If you think Iraq is a 100 year quagmire then you're not paying any damned attention to the news. Violence is way down. However, this still supports the idea, since the violence is down after the people of Iraq got sick of jifascist foreigners pushing them around and slaughtering anyone who looked at them funny. Currrent score: a fledgling democracy.

I just finished the thriller 'Archangel' by Robert Harris. Much better than Fatherland. Packed with great scenes and characters. Thrilling plot. Couldn't recommend it higher for what it does.

Or you can reverse mortage and live your life like a king in your end years. Just hope you die before your equity runs out. Surey that's just a question of knowing the right strippers?

Indeed. It's useful to know how to deconstruct art. But not useful knowing how to make a career of it.

Thanks, Kor. Fixed. A full investigation would serve to establish. 1. Who was guilty 2. Restore faith in the system 3. Not all the offenders may have been adults at the time. It strikes me that judging by accounts, many older children participated. However, a friend of mine pointed out last night that Jersey is a different country from the UK. They have tehir own laws, and would have to ask for assistance from Scotland Yard.

I'm confused. I think you guys have some pretty strange notions about gay men ambushing people. I mean sure, if you canoe up to them wearing a rubber waistcoat Then there could be a misunderstanding. But gay men don't simply drop on people like cougars.

I suppose I could try better hotels. I'd never thunked of it before. Owning a house does indeed suck in many ways. But .. um... alright it just sucks. Particularly if - due to stupidity - I am likely to die in the next ten years.

Heh. You're returning the serve on my argument used elsewhere that sometimes pragmatism must out. It's agoo dpoint, but this isn't a common crime. Nor is it impossible that a case could be constructed. just not by a tinpot force like Jersey's.

kudos for detailing a solution. However, as Col. Sawyer says, calculations like that can be baffling (to us humans) -ly complex and intensive to run.

Samm's right. This is about DRM. My perception is: 1. DRM doesn't work. 2. DRM forces me to jump through hoops. 3. DRM interferes with other processes on my machine. Given point one, _WTF_ is it doing on my games?

Is it just me, or am I paranoid? How come you're asking?

Interesting, and morale raising!

Right, I've read the backstory... We can debate the commercial sense of shifting from a core strength to a another average as much as we like. Personally I think it makes as much sense as Ben and Jerry's quitting ice-cream for soup-making. However, the really important thing is: what exactly would you class as the features of a good MMO? It's my contention that you're going to want an immersive environment, and interesting stuff to do. But tied to my contention I'd say neither are possible in a commercial MMO. An immersive environment requires the collaboration of the players and most people simply don't have what it takes to create an immersive environment. They can't act and they don't want to. Interesting stuff in my opinion needs a human being to imagine it and articulate it. To be truly interesting it also has to delivr changes to the global environment. There have to be consequences. Which from what I hear is frakking impossible in an MMO.

You mean like re-imagine it? Katee Sackhoff for team Rocket!