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Actually that's kind of a relief. Good job.

The weather today dropped drastically I've been used to having my windows wide open, enjoying the fresh air, but my toes got distinctly frosty so I had to shut the windows and even turn on the heating.

And how!

Surely inaction can be as bad as action?

Acceptable, if you wear an apron.

Just because you don't plan to doesn't mean anything. If you are lazy you wouldn't bother planning.

Bah. People are no better scaremongering about tyranny. It's a balancing act. Anyway, saying it was 100% oil is to ignore the complexities of Blairism, and New Conservatism. Not to mention the change in US Security policy post 9/11. Incidentally, did anyone else notice France ahs suddenly weighed in to the Iranian problem? Looks like Sarkozy is the first gallic politician in 100 years to realise annoying America isn't always a good thing.

Would you chaps settle down. Or become a crime fighting duo? That would be awesome with you two bickering all the time like a married couple.

You mean it's the revenge of the Gods for us klling that cow which had tuberculosis last month?

I dunno, tho. She's pretty mental. Maybe she'll wind up dating him. In fact if I were her agent I'd at least arrange a date. Surefire media coverage.

Now that's a different thing entirely. You don't actually see in full colour until you've seen Africa. The people are tremendously vibrant, and the food and fruit (bushmeat notwithstanding) are bursting with flavour. It's a true adventure. You should consider yourself unfortunate if you DON'T go. Interesting... Anywhere in particular that you recommend? All this stuff about Ebola, Marburg and Elephantitis is really scary though. Well a lot depends on the local conditions. Right now I'd recommend South Africa, leaving out Johannesburg and Durban due to rampant crime. Mozambique is a bit of an undiscovered gem, although landmines can be an issue. Botswana is amazing, but a bit boring unless you can see the beauty in the desert. In general stay clear of North Africa, West Africa, and erm, East Africa.

I don't really know either guy, but I ceased to have any respect for gangsta around 1999. As Ms Dynamite says, they're just killers killing their own; and that's when they're not wankstas.

I think the question should be would you believe him if he said it WASN'T about oil? I suspect the answer to that is that no-one would change their minds. Hence it's not that interesting.

I must not attend class. Classes are the mind killer.

Personally I think it would be a lot more interesting to view the doomsday scenario as not a nuclear bomb per se, but Mao Tse-tung. Imagine the havoc he could cause in your average knights and eleves setting. Politics, not bombs, although obviously he would encourage the development of guns as a means for making illiterate yokels a match for knights and the bourgeouise (if that's how you spell it) magic guilds. Throw in him making pacts with demons against the gods (who I'm sure would like his revolutionary ideals) and bingo!

Or in Vampire: C'est magnifique, mais c'est ne pas la garou.

I don't get it. I like it but I don't get it.

'Friends' - The Doug Anthony All Stars

It's funny, but I was about to say the same thing. I stopped because I still reckon you'd have some crotchety old buffer strolling through the quarantine zone to exercise his jack russel.

Hey! Why are you poking me?

Jet Set Willy. Gawd, that takes me back.

I agree that warfare is now the best I've ever seen anywhere (in games terms, obviously not in realistic terms). I'm in a game at present whith two large continents. Needless to say I have been slowly nibbling my way along my continent, but on the other one jstinian has been building himself a huge and technologically superior one. Given he possessed riflemen and airships while I was still getting my spurs untangled I had been about to give up on it as a bad job. It was then that I started looking at him from a non-attritional perspective and fell in love with this game. He was reliant for all his oil on a small island (heavily fortified), and ddi not appear to have got refining yet. I therefore threw EVERYTHING into refining and managed to get there first. My superior navy then isolated the island, and slughtered the waves of galleons, caravels, and frigates while I used massive numbers of cannons and ballistas to pummel his machineguns and modern riflemen down to a level my grenadiers could storm. It was extremely bloody, but eventually worked. As an adjunct I dispatched a second operational group to raze some of his vassal's cities, splitting him away from them, and bringing them into my own camp. This in itslef would just transfer more worries about my didgy allies, but I used the liberate function to turn over cities captured from him and them, thus sweetening them up, alongside massive gifts of every kind of resource. In addition I shipped them quantities of cavalry and riflemen. It's working so far. He's pretty pissed off though. The point is really that in this game you can take a system view of an enemy and go for the stiletto to the heart rather than pummeling him in the field.

There certainly is. Be sure to add in a pipe.

Really pushing the running. No-one more startled than me to discover I am actually getting faster. Although it's only at the expense of looking like a Killer Tomato.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6996073.stm Some of you may remember the fouth and mouth disease outbreak a couple of years ago. It caused damage to the UK economy in the region of billions of pounds, and threatened the entire UK farming community with Armageddon. There was another recent outbreak of the disease near some testing labs. It seems that members of the Great British Public in their infinite wisdom have been ignoring the exclusion zone warnings to go rambling across the land. I found this absolutely staggering. There really isn't any way the authorities could have made it more clear that this was a serious incident, or that the public should be responsible. But Mr and Mrs Jones feel their god-given right to do whatever they like, and rather than walk around, they walk across anyway. For me this absolutely typical of the average member of the British public who will not budge an iota or give the slightest consideration to others in their driving, personal behaviour, even - in this case - where their selfishness could endanger the livelihoods of millions of people.