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If the loot is barf burgers then nuts to alla youse guys, I'm outta here.

I wasn't to mention this, but it keeps happening now. I have a problem that periodically, usually mid-game my computer goes blackscreen and then reboots. I'm guessing, given the timing that my graphics card is either over-heating or drawing too much power. Thoughts?

I'm currently struggling to pay for the electricity for my current machines.

I tried to find the fight sequence from American Cyborg; Steel Warrior (aka American Steel; Cyborg Warrior) but to no avail.

Gotcha. Well I for one agree with you.

IN fairness to Sand, he's (in my opinion) quite right to suggest that laws that need to be broken shouldn't be on the books. Except I had a friend just point out that there are innumerable occasions on which it is vital to have the law, but not always vital to implement it. A fact I have recognised many times. *sigh*

Certainly. The mechanic of the story, up to the nearly the end is a great Edwardian adventure/detective story. Idon't want to give away any of the many plot twists, but as well as violence and derring do (including as I say, car chases) the hero delves deep into a murky non-euclidean world of anrachist bomb-makers and revolutionaries. People who do not believe they are in the wrong, but who believe wrongness itself should be destroyed. There's quite a bit of philosophical discussion along teh way, but given the recent discussions we've been having I thought it remarkably apposite.

!!!!! The stg44 would certainly have been worth many thousands. Possibly more with the inevitable cachet attached to a weapon that had undoubtedly seen action. I knew .223 was 5.56. I just thought that the use of shorthand .223 implied different characteristics to the military calibre.

You mean clarify the law?

IN case anyone is confused, Gorth's extract isn't from it.

Listen to The Man Who Was Thursday

Hello, Dave.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/thursday/rams/1830.ram Many of you will already be familiar with The Man Who Was Thursday from the game Deus Ex, which exploits quotes from it. Many others will know the author G.K. Chesterton. However, it really has to be heard in toto before it can be truly understood. A huge rolling expanse of genius, with bomb-throwing, terrorism, and fat men dashing about amongst policemen and steam trains. The above link is only going to work until next Thursday, so get cracking!

.223 ...With that automatic extractor action revolvers are famous for. And why would .223 rounds be bumping around Iraq?

Owie! You're right!

Wait. by 'track' do you mean as in the kill chain? Aaaagh! the USAF want to kill Santa!

I think Trueneutral's got a point up to a point. Your fans are going to pick up on maybe some key features, but surely the whole point about YOU being the creative geniuses is that you are more imaginative and perceptive than they are. You'll be aware or at least compelled by subtexts they will miss completely because they are gameplaying apes. An example of this from another genre is films. Specifically the Matrix. They made the sequels from a fanboy distilled essence of the original that was to the first film what bovril is to steak.

This is driving me nuts now. Can someone tell me what calibre those bullets are?

The US is not a literal Democracy. It is a Representative Democracy and a Constitutional Republic. You can argue that this is still "as closely as possible" but I will argue that it is far from being reasonably referred to as a consensus. I accept this and counter with a "yeah, but we're talking about practical policy" for +2 dmg.

I too was baffled by white supremacists use of the terms 'aryan' and 'caucasian' ...until I thought "Hey, these are white supremacists! Why am I expecting them to make sense?"

I believe anew!

Tale, I am not objecting to your definition, merely challenging it... The point of democracy is to permit the law to represent as closely as possible the consensus of morality. Therefore and I think I am paraphrasing Ben Franklin here, to break the laws of a dictatorship is of no consequence to the individual besides the threat of punishment, whereas participation in a democracy makes you bound by its laws by morality also. Of course that in turn raises the question of where our immigrants stand. I would suggest that since they are breaking the laws of the country they are attempting to live in, and that country is a democracy, then they are committing a moral offence. However, my objection is to Sando's absolutist nonsense that this puts them on a moral par with gibbon-botherers and mountebanks. This in turn influences the position I believe the state should adhere to, which is adherence to the law - mediated by a humane temperance in judgement and sentencing.

OK, now you're sounding like an 18th century British magistrate. ...In a Mel Gibson movie. Remember I'm not saying society has to accept laws being broken. I am saying, however, that what a man does to feed himself and his family is rarely evil.

I think Pop got it right. I'm not saying PETA should be muzzled <sic>, just that they should be ruthlessly ignored. Although I am slightly impressed on reflection that for once they're harassing a major terrorist organisation rather than rich old ladies. I'd like to see them fling paint at their leaders in Paris! Obviously gradualism is worthwhile in even the most extreme situations. I often recall the example of a soldier who handed out lipstick to the survivors of Bergen-Belsen. When I first hieard this I thought it was grotesque. But it turns out that this simple luxury and emasure of control made a massive difference psychologically. However, PETA act as if they are the most crucial campaign on the planet, and I'm utterly tired of people who empathise more with animals than their fellow human beings.

Great (and old) spoof on how the media reacts to war. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvyX-CwHpAQ