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Er.. you're assuming every blast is ISIS. They clearly aren't.

Because high energy states threaten ordered purposive systems stability. Equally high energy states are impressive and order exciting. Hence fun.

Well, I guess it's the other way to approach it. Give the alienware specs, then see how much it would cost to put the same kit into another manufacturer's case.

Beef and celeriac soup with leek and parmesan. Sweat all ingredients in chilli oil, add water, add pepper. Come down with cold. Intended simple broth. As usual, got carried away.

Well, if you factor that in, then it would depend a very great deal on where you got shot in the head.

Well, I guess you could answer this knowing two things: 1) The speed of the bullet effects vs the processing speed of your nervous system 2) That the brain itself has no pain receptors

You are Vladimir the Putin. And I claim my five pounds.

Soft and surprising. I'd never heard of this girl before.

If butter melts in a pan, does this mean the butter is in love with the pan?

Well, thanks for a polite question and reaction.

I think I speak for many of us when I say that you could inform us BF4 players were being fed live to crocodiles and I wouldn't give a ****. EDIT: I mean, I'd look for a youtube video. But you know...

You're quite right. i shouldn't have said direct effect.

Yeah I saw that. Hard to understand a regime so utterly devoid of human feeling that it would plow its own war dead into unmarked graves. But then this is the same glorious 'future humanity' that treated returned prisoners of war as political criminals. So while I ca understand burying a man in the flag he fought under, burying these men in a communist style ceremony might offend a great many of them.

I don't see a problem with companies subsidising access to their own material. With the 'natural' user-driven dominance of services like Facebook, Youtube and Wikipedia the net hasn't been a level playing field for at least ten years.

...Anyway...

Interesting, very similar to Biltong How long is the shelf life after you take it out the dryer? Do you ever get any mold on the Jerky, I have noticed that after 2-3 days I get a faint white powder on my meat and I'm not sure if this is normal I don't think you're supposed to get any bloom. But you're probably better off asking a proper old Boer.

I find it extraordinary that so many science fundamentalists are against state of mind having direct physical effects, yet one of the first things you learn in any life science is the importance of controlling for ...the effects of the subject's state of mind via placebo effects. But then, I guess it would upset the essential feeling of safety and certainty which is the reason they are fundamentalists in the first place.

There is a butt-load of this going around the UK. Several colleagues have had cold symptoms for a YEAR (or best part of). My uneducated theory is that it's a pandemic which fortunately many are resistant to.

Pfft. That's also true of toasters.

On balance if I needed to get guns into play the smartest solution I can think of would be a trip to visit Guard Dog, and a budget for steaks and ale.

Of course back in my day we called it Victory Cabbage. That was in Ought Fifteen, would have been the year after the cuckoo-clock riots. They weren't actually about cuckoo clocks, but Helene Dutrieu hadn't won any races by then on account of her being suspected Irish...

Hang on. I accept that in general bulky armour is bad for action speed. But many cultures over history have created 'heavy' armour that allows free movement for specific actions. Archer armour, longsword armour, bomb disposal armour etc. By this logic, suppose the moves for a fireball are the Kansas city shuffle; well then you make heavy armour which lets you make those moves easier.

Any chance you could, you know, give us the titles and authors?

Sweet jebus! That sounds pretty awful. Why your ear canals, of all places? Hope it's not too serious. While you're there ask your doc if using weak hydrogen peroxide solution regularly would shift the normal dead cells, and - I'm winging it here - maybe moisturise afterwards so they feel less itchy.

I find it interesting that this is a Russia thread, and we're talking about the SS. ...When the current Russian President was a lieutenant colonel in the KGB. If we're going to discuss good and bad organisations surely it should be the KGB?