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Am I in favour of people who are guilty of raping minors being executed? Absolutely. Am I in favour of executing people convicted of raping minors? Less clear. Rape, particularly that of a minor, tends to depend on witness testimony. Often that of the child. This may sound fine, but children make appallingly unreliable witnesses. They are extremely vulnerable to suggestion, and hazy in their recollections. Frankly, I'd support such a punishment where the evidence was absolutely unequivocal. But juries simply can't be trusted to deliver guilty verdicts ONLY where that was the case. As an aside I think it would be more helpful if persons guilty of such an offence were subjected to mandatory psychological research so we can spot potential offenders/potentially abusive relationships better. However, that would be completely unconstitutional since it would be 'unusual'.

The Star Forge was just retarded. The Empire has a proven emphasis on making pwoerful bits of kit require a lot of crew. The logic is simple, if never explained. One man can turn traior, a thousand can start a rebellion, but no beatnik rebellion is going to be able to field enough crew to take over a Death Star. The Starforge on the other hand had a crew of about four. That's just asking for trouble.

Well, I guess some people might not like that - but I think you are right not to care. Thanks, man. I thought it was particularly interesting to compare her conversation with that of the various movers and shakers persent, who were running about like five year old with balloons.

NOthing to do with being completely random?

Hah! I know what you mean.

I don't think it IS a good excuse. It's a lame excuse. I mean, look at Liberia. It was set up to be great, but it got ruined by carpet-baggers.

Nothing wrong with that, I know several women who pole-dance as a hobby - the fact that you do it does not make you a stripper or anything like that. *warm smile* Actually, she has been a stripper and lap dancer. Frankly, it turns out I don;t care. She's very funny, attractive, and she can hold her own intellectually. Really, what's not to like? Me objecting to what she does is not more sensible than her objecting to the fact that I am training to kill people. It's not like I'm going to be doing that with her.

Never mind. Ultimately we all get old and wind up dying with a mouth full of soup or what have you. Main thing is we have a crack at it.

But as an Obsidian/Black Isle player we know that tombs and graves are full of zombies and stuff. For which you need a mace or something.

Isn't theslug doing accounting? You guys should spot test each other.

I just realised you said 'individual influences', not differences. I still don't see what's so weird about the idea, though.

I generally prefer brunettes. I've only dated a couple of blondes. Probably a genetic imperative to diversify the genes. Nothing better than curly haired brunettes.

Differences evident in the individual, you nutcase.

As Krez says, if it were Europe or the Commonwealth I'd shrug it off. BUt thanks to teh fact that non-nutcases don't seem to vote in the US ...you're b****ered. Enjoy!

I know what you mean, Archie. I can hardly believe it myself. But it makes sense for two reasons: 1. I have been stepping up slowly but by inexorable degrees. 2. I made an initial mistake in measuring the distance and was trying to run 3.2 km in 10:30. The benefits of being a moron!

Using Firefox. And thanks for the offer, but I'm going to go with still images. No video is better than the usual setup where the presentation becomes a farce because the video doesn't work properly.

I agree it would be adness to deny that Imperialism didn't have a crucial role in African history. However, far too many African leaders use it as an excuse for their ruthless greed.

I do hope you're not one of these people, like Miriam Makeba, who maintain Africa was pure goodness and love until the White Devils came.

Did I forget to mention I'm an idiot? Sorry. Thought it was obvious.

No. You've hit the crux of the matter. I only want a quick five seconds. It's the short bit where Capt. Blackadder tries to explain to Baldrick why the war started. Actually, forget the rush. I've timed the clip and it's too long. I'd have to do clever editing to make it zip properly at the speed for the presentation. I'm going to use a still photo. But I'd still like to know how to do this for future reference.

It may be a bit much to credit Ol' Bob with corrupting African politics. It'sa complex issue with many arguments but I subscribe to the rather simplistic view that most African nations could use one more revolution to clean off the leeches!

Oh, purely for the sake of showing off, I forgot to mention that I ran it in 9 minutes, rested for two, then ran it again in 9:30! Of course, some would say this just proves I should have been trying harder the first time!

No. You've hit the crux of the matter. I only want a quick five seconds. It's the short bit where Capt. Blackadder tries to explain to Baldrick why the war started.

I agree. Those were the days. It even used to apply to space sims. Space sims, tank sims, sub sims, destroyer sims. Them was the days. Now the only sims we get are those silly sim sims. Who they hell would rather place house then hunt a U boat in the North Atlantic. Domestic weirdos, that's who. DOuble boo. Very good point. "I know. Instead of doing my taxes and ironing, I'll create a simulated avatar and then do them in the virtual world. Thus the boring toil becomes equally pointless!" Give me strafing the wrong tanks because all the graphics look identical! Give me a cardboard and string biplane with two weedy maxim guns. Give me four simulated weeks of randomly wandering theAtlantic before I accidentally run out of fuel and drift into an Allied convoy which promptly sinks me!