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Huh? SG-1 is NOT better than Angel, Navy Boy. I've watched a lot of SG-1 but it's completely retarded in many plot aspects. I am far from the most skeptical of people about the US govt, but come on. They were presented with many occasions where a shady alliances or two would have netted war winning technology. Frankly, letting Maj Jack O'Dogood stay in charge was as likely as Congress cutting all nuclear funding to relocate wetland animals. Raaagh!

The problem with being 13 is (if memory serves) that you're personality is developing so quickly. You're learning, hormones have just entered the equation, and a lot of responsibility is entering your life. It's hard to have confidence in who and what you are because in many ways there's no such thing. In this instance this poor girl thought she was having probably her first romance, and as such probably invested a lot of emotional capital in it. When that investment went sour she was left very weakened. I don't think she was weak to have taken a hit from this. And speulating on what other factors conspired to amke her take her own life would be an exercise in fiction.

Depends on where you place worth. Some people say life is precious thing, but how precious something is determined by its rarity and with 6 billion people and more joining each and every day that rarity is not readily seen so human life is loses its glitter, but if you take the scope of the universe we may be just one tiny spec of a world in an otherwise dead reality thusly in truth life is really rare. Okay, I am rambling nonsense. BLAH! I side with your latter point, up to a point. However, the truly extraordinary thing about life is its potential. Even if some of the guys who get killed were as thuggish and inane as the shooters claim they might still have changed over time. Unfortunately we'll never know now. I'd like to expand on my previous point. Steve said earlier that government violence legitimised incidents like this. I think that a general post-sixties solipsism and new capitalism. The basic principle is that the customer/individual is usually right, and the collective is wrong. We're encouraged in every single walk of life to behave as we choose, with little regard for others. This has had its positiv side in incraesed poltical activism, but it's also had its negative side. I think this sort of behaviour is one aspect of it. Or I could be getting all pop psych.

Oy vey! No one expects the hereticus inquisition!

I'm not going to presume to say that the money isn't welcome, but a true heartfelt apology may be equally important. Surely the RCC should - of all people - understand the importancee of confession?

It is indeed interesting. It's more like terrorism, in my opinion, than organised warfare.

I am waiting on my birthday delivery of the full Angel boxed set. It is an extravangant present bought for myself by way of an apology for my genius plan of joining the Army.

I could be wrong, but the failure to send an apology could be legal. Isn't it the case in US law that an apology is an admission of guilt? Thereby slaying good manners at one fell swoop.

I don't know if you have to hate the world. Isn't thinking everything worthless even worse than hate?

Or maybe it just thinks I am diseased?

I would suggest tentatively that you are partly responsible, but not culpable, and that's my point in this case.

Clinical depression isn't just feeling poo. The emotional component reciprocates with perception (like most emotions) and colours your worldview. "I see a red door and I want it painted black." The worldview of someone who thinks so little of everyone and everything that they are willing to destroy irreplaceable bits of it would be consistent with that.

Anyone who believes in ID should be forced to stare at me naked for one hour. That'd cure 'em.

I'm actually going to be more interested to see what the German judiciary rule on the legality of detaining the boys. If they get a halfway decent lawyer he will scream 'no proof'. It's extremely hard to prove conspiracy to commit on most issues.

Well, I'm still intending to check the rules on what the House of Commons will allow.

I still say that the best thing for English football would be if we had a really REALLY bad couple of years.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7101689.stm German authorities y'know, stop a school shooting.

More like Chaotic lawful if you ask me. *Nerd Zing*

Whuh? Going around? Preying? Kick? You sure you don't want to change your moniker to Judge Dredd?

That's just the language you made up when you were working your way around Europe.

I was looking for MST3k videos, and got offered this tailored ad for... http://qbcdiagnostics.com/site/index.php?m...=page&id=16 a malarial diagnostic machine. WHO IMPULSE BUYS MALARIAL DIAGNOSTIC MACHINES ONLINE?

Having 'effectors' [iain M Banks] which altered physical characteristics would permit real showing off with a physics engine.

It's only the second time I've played it. The only reason I can see for doing it more often is to get a gun that is better than a brown bess musket.

Or they could use some roleplaying to come up with new ways to approach the problem. Do they REALLY have to kill the guuy? If they do, can't they poison him? Or dig a heffalump trap? Or play really bad music outside his castle until he goes crazy and surrenders?

There's a whole galaxy full of boobs and I wasn't invited?! ...I am worse off, I had been invited but then they threw me out! Anyway, glad I raised this. I see what you mean about style being important, rather than just function. Little pecadillos in style make all the differencee. In the same way that trousers have been trousers for the last 100 years, but a-line flared trousers with pockets in the knees are a novelty. My point about there being, say kinetic melee weapons is true, but tonking something with a sledgehammer is tactically basically the same as a sword, but still somehow more entertaining. The D-gun point also made me think that you're talking about a whole class of 'weapons' that work by altering the characteristics of a thing, to make it heavier, or lighter (how hilarious would that be? Zapping some cyborg and see it bob off into the air like a balloon at the State fair?). You could strengthen molecular bonds to make things tougher, but less animate, or weaken the same bonds to release their energy and make them explode!