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Overslept, so back an absolute mess. Only cleared up about an hour ago. And now I'm off to bed! Very quiet day, really.

I'm not sure it's a strawman. As I see it, Rosti is making the implicit statement that scientific hypotheses with more complex systems are based on those of less complex sub-systems. One of these subsystems is neutrino activity. If neutrino activity cannot be accurately known then we cannot know the higher order hypotheses as being certain.

Have you not found This Machine in Fallout New Vegas?

If I were you I'd be more worried about the rifle having knocked your nipple off. Better get back to the range and find it before it gets swept up with the old casings.

If they mess with Preacher, so help me I will destroy them all.

Just watched Iron Man 2. Could have had more shots of Ms Johansson walking away.

Who is this poetic impostor and what have you done with Hurlshot? At an educated guess I'd say he's garlanded him with flowers.

Whoah, hold up there, buddy. First principle, and get this straight, how a man chooses to meet his end is his business alone. Yes we do need to all get along. But the way to do that is loose fitting parts that accept a bit of friction. Like an AK. Please tell me I didn't just say that the perfect world is a world built by kalashnikov.

Once again, I'd ask how many of our members have ever stood up and been counted at the cost of being beaten senseless? If these chaps do it regularly wearing a dress then I'd rate that about par with the Scots Guards. They also make a bloody big deal out of it.

Yeah. On the plus side, off the back of this thread I've now watched two seasons of Archer.

That reminds me: you posted a few Tiger Lillies videos a while back. You obviously don't know much about them if you hate gays.

Having a hard time overcoming influences and your nature is not the same as it being impossible.

Did the crazy stuff happen in meetings? Was there a horse and a bald eagle?

I was with you right up to taxing bloaters.

Hectic couple of days tidying up loose ends on my current work before starting the new one. I now feel really sleepy and peaceful .

I think it would be a bit ivory tower not to recognise that US politics really does tend towards two party rule. And that the system of candidate selection is borked. But ultimately the electorate is still capable of voting in whoever they want. At least at Congressional level. What you DON'T get in the US is systematic persecution, imprisonment and murder of journalists and activists _in a way that has been officially noted by bodies like Human Rights Watch_.

OK, so, update. After the 27th Feb I should be able to predict my new times of availability. I'm likely to be using a Nexus 7 android doohicky. Will that work for you guys? Did we decide for certain what tools we'll be employing?

I agree with nik. A good group that you'd want to learn from will also want to have you around. What areas do you think you'll struggle with? As a starter, jus tto get the ball rolling I'd say that a good GM has to be able to 1. Empathise, and sympathise. That's with the players and the fictional characters in their world 2. Plan. By which I mean both plotting story arcs, and understanding how key locations or institutions will work and react to what the players do. 3. Know what kind of world they want. Is it going to be deadly, funny, surprising, alien, power oriented, or all of the above? 4. Attract good players I mainly get by on 2 and 4.

I have to agree with Zor. I've not seen any convincing evidence the delay was deliberate.

I would like to point out that glorious and scrupulous adherence to uncertainty sucks worse.

The chinese desperately needs to have an honor-system in their culture. Selling fakes? Family honor has been revoked, the only way to restore it is to commit seppuku. I give it a generation or two and things will improve immensly. Also, Aston Martin will be ceasing use of Chinese firms after counterfeit materials were used. http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/02/05/uk-autos-astonmartin-recall-idUKBREA141T420140205 IMO this is exactly why you need rigorous enforcement of both contractual and legal standards at a national level. Or ordinary people suffer as investment and trade suffers. Not going to happen in China, though.

WHAT. DID. I TELL. YOU. ABOUT. LINKING. THE. DAILY MAIL????

So you accept that oby's a he, when he used to claim to be a she. But you think the posts are pure truth? FFS, man. Also, hi milczyciel. From my small exposure I'd say that only a nation as awesome as Poland could have survived Communism with so much energy still in reserve.

It's also pretty typical for them to put resources into cases with a high media profile. From what I understand of dealers who peddle to reliable high earners, they don't usually hand over bad drugs. So for that reason I'd suspect it's not for that reason. But I also think it's a bit naive to think the cops will ever NOT put extra resources into a case in the spotlight. I can't think of any institution that wouldn't.

Right. The implicit basis for your reasoning is that whatever fatal malady cancer is substituted with down the road, has an equivalent or greater cost, so decreasing cancer risk means no overall savings. But cancer is a chronic disease that is particularly expensive to treat, unlike other old age-related acute afflictions. In addition, this logic can be used to justify opposing any public health-related reforms aimed at reducing the impact of lifestyle or occupational diseases. Fair point. I am making the assumption that the cancer fail case will just get substituted for something else. But I grant that for younger cancer sufferers this won't be true. However, at the risk of pre-empting the results of discussion I am trying to make the overall point that paternalist government should have a ne plus ultra. Unless and until we, as democratically empowered citizens/subjects, make it clear what the ne plus ultra is ...people held accountable for our health will continuously push for more power.