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Is just part of the ongoing Ahmedinejad theme of keeping the moderates in check.

I believe this would make a better, or at least more coherent, policy for the UN security council to follow.

I've met psychotherapists who could win a Nobel prize in Snake Oil and Copper Cancer Therapy. They're either too stand offish ("What do YOU think? No, no, I'm just asking how YOU feel"), or they're too involved ("I think you should kill your parents, because that's what I did"). Psychology is IMO a damn fine discipline, if the correct lessons are learned regarding scientific enquyiry and clinical practice. The question of pay is as usul utterly dependent on what PROCEDURAL skills you learn. What things you learn that other people can't do. Hence if you learn how to do stats and set up a valid null hypothesis then you'll rarely be short of a job. If all you learn is that babies are weird then you'll have a harder time.

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You da man.

I have volunteered.

Then I'll have crushed walnut everywhere.

Very good. I don't suppose deposing an executive board need be so very different to deposing a coorrupt banana republic government. How many mercs do you think we'll need? Note to self: This time be sure to mine and monowire the airvents.

I think you may be doing the great many educated Iranians a disservice. The most large scale violent reactions seem to be coming from Pakistan.

Dammit! I want to fix it, not embrace it. You people are like L33t Vader.

I have discovered that - probably thanks to autocorrect - I now type the word 'the' as 'teh' more often than not. I've turned off autocorrect on everything, but that hasn't fixed it. I was wondering if there is already in existence, or could be made, a program that emits a piercing shriek every time I do this, to condition me not to.

I'm not sure your dominatrix fantasies should extend to starting wars with other countries. Unless they're Switzerland, because they're far too smug.

I've been thinking again about my earlier comment about the pride issue, and the comments about thick skin. I've been thinking, based on my own direct experience of rural tribal-style cultures, with their typical emphasis on manliness and self-reliance, and pride. Pride in oneself, and pride in one's ideology is not an optional extra. It sustains you when times are hard and bread and water are scarce. In fact I've seen similar phenomena in poorer folks all over, from miners to farmers to cops and soldiers. If I may say so we're all intellectuals who have a pretty soft time of it. It's easy for us to talk about being more cerebral and not taking offence. But the people we are talking about here are relying on that prickly ironclad attitude to get them through the day. Indeed, to go further, in cultures where justice has to be DIY at best, you need to react violently to any slight to survive. Rather the same way it is in prison. My conclusion, therefore, is that we should neither retract the knighthood, nor dismiss the reaction. We should state, as we are now doing, that the knighthood was to reward bravery in the face of death threats, not about insulting Islam. This would be an intelligible response on their own terms.

Indeed, it does have to be pointed out that Steve is living in a region where such annoyance could be lethally conveyed.

Now this is science, just not rocket science. If moderate educated Americans don't vote, then this leaves the choice of presidents to irrational uneducated fools. Being surprised that the result is an irrational uneducated fool is the only thing more stupid.

Feels better, doesn't it?

I may be going mad, but I really like Oerwinde's plan.

Er... yes... *coughs nervously*

I think bands have, big bands, have smaller more professional groups of roadies these days. Rather than the medieavel (I can never spell that word) seige trains of yore. There are still several jobs out there that involve loud, heavy music for guys like him. It may be difficult, but not impossible The guy sounds like a bit of a whiner, though.

A group of player characters who don't try and set fire to everything.

It pains me to say it, but my esteemed colleague may be right. Where DOES one draw the line between gratuitous moronicry, and clinical moronicry?

Oerwinde, se that's the kind of nonsense I was talking about. It's like somebody taking over the Star Wars franchise and ...oh wait...