Walsingham

The FBI have asked for anyone having information on these men get in touch. They are concerned about possible attacks on ferries in the Seattle area. I expect the feds want to give them a mug of cocoa and a fatherly chat.

Okay, couple of points: 1) I love the 'strider tank'. Never in the field of human conflict have so many guns existed in so strange profusion in so little space. Unless those are exhaust tubes. Or spaghetti funnels. EDIT: Is that the turret of a Ram tank? EDIT EDIT: I win the ww2 geek prize! 2) The thin yellow font on black background is painful. 3) In firefox the pictures are floating over the text. 4) "allowing battles to take on the fast past exciting flow as bright and vivid as an Anime" It could just be me, but I find anime synonymous with poorly characterised and overpowered. I would suggest you may turn people off by referencing to a niche market up front, however passionate your convictions.

That looks kinda interesting. BUt we're not really gaming at present since we've a lot of weddings being planned. Thanks for linking it though.

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Sand would demand miscreants choke themselves. It is immoral that felons should use state resources in punishment.

I wonder if you could ddo a fantasy Army draft, picking by battalions due in service in Iraq and Afghanistan? Or is that terrible taste?

11 guests. We ate dressed as vikings (a slight anachronism with some of the spices but you will notice no tomatoes or potatos). I still can't get over how much effort went into the frumenty only to have it taste completely boring! Kirottu, I'll marry you if you are secretly Natalie Portman. Oh yes, and I forgot to mention it was all served onto bread trenchers rather than plates.

Hmmm... This could explain why I want to chase you in an AT-ST, firing laser bolts at you.

*Walsingham, despite his best efforts, can't held edging closer to Rosbjerg* I got Count Dooku! Rawk!

On Saturday I served a four course banquet (cooked on Friday) consisting of: 1. Frumenty (a fabulously expensive dish containing saffron and bulgur wheat that tastes eventually exactly like instant couscous) 2. stewed cabbage with vinegar 3. gammon boiled in fruit 4. carrot and parsnip soup 5. mushroom onion and ginger soup 6. baked onions stuffed with sausage meat and dried fruit 7. baked aubergines stufed with onion and mushroom 8. lamb's hearts rubbed with pepper and stuffed with mince 9. vegetables roasted and glazed with butter and honey 10. lamb's leg roasted with garlic and rosemary 11. a large marrow carved to appear like a pig, and stuffed with cheddar cheese, grated carrot, onion, and mushroom. 12. Sweet spinach and cream pie. 13. Apples baked with wensleydale and lancashire cheese 14. Cherry pottage served with cream. It took 20 hours to cook.

It's a fair point you make. The criminal gangs aren't going to go away on their own. What I'm talking about is giving the people locally an investment in progress so that they feel personally inclined to shoot up the bandits. Something they are perfectly capable of doing with the right motivation. The other aspect of investment is to make the village headman (often called a 'malik') gain status from government projects rather than hoofing up and undermining him by doing stuff without consultation. This is a problem with big organisations airdopping stuff onto places. People don't value handouts. You don't have to make them pay in cash, but you have to make them feel they earned it.

Is it just me or are we experiencing some sort of Dickensian revival? First Sand now you.

Irrespective of teh industry, they need two fundamentals what they have not got at present: 1) Arteries of information. 2) Veins of transportation. This means in my opinion radios with market prices and weather reports, and roads. Roads roads roads. Roads are good for the people and good for us. Big solid slab concrete roads would be best because they're hard to mine.

There has ben a trend in this last year of kids throwing food. I wouldn't mind if I was oficially permitted to retaliate in kind. I'm very good at finding people, and I know how to build a potato cannon.

Sand for President!

Swearing in linked images is totally unacceptable. Topic closed.

You've not broken ANY laws you've not been caught and punished for? What a terribly dull life you must have led! In fact I refuse to believe you. No-one hasn't broken any laws.

I still say that they should be encouraged to grow hemp. But I may have had my fragile mind warped by Cypress Hill. It's so hard to tell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiFKwEb_g2A...ted&search= Quite literally the funniest thing I've ever seen on Youtube. Death Star orientation day.

Baley, you are most bizarre.

You know that tablelamp on your left? That's me.

*Lifts eyepatch* I'm a freelance systems scientist. What you're talking about is the distincion between life and entropy. For life to exist it must counter-entropy. Since doing so is unnatural it requires control, and hence order at anything above the level of the virus. Chaos is allied to entropy in that it accelerates entropy and expoits the energy released by the breakdown of ordered systems. However this is not the whole story in my opinion. Systems that are too tightly controlled have a tendency to resist the influx of energy, since energy also accelerates entropy. Hence they stagnate and solidify. A good book that looks into this is Skyttner, L. (2001)

I will assume that's a joke. Because you should know that knowledge of a felony which you do not report to the cops may well be an offence in the USA now. I know it is where it may affect national security.

The BBc's adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. They're in the Mines of Moria.