Walsingham

You are not allowed to buy NVGs. You have quite enough toys for the time being.

I'm not saying you're daft. I'm saying that you're advocating the biggest most disruptive approach. We need a more slow 'elbow grease' approach. Education, culture change etc.

I went into a 'Game' store here in the Uk a few years ago, and picked up one of those dubious looking five pound specials. I forget the name of the game but it was supposed to be about taking countries as they were in 1999 and running into the future. It said the stats were collected from reality. This sounded like a concept that if nothing else would leave me better informed about regional economies and geography, so I bought it. However, it was so unbelievably buggy, and disconnected from the real world I gave up after a few attempts. In fact it was so bad that I trekked back to the store. "I know I can't get a refund just because I don't like something but for the love of humanity please don't sell this game to anyone else." The manager was so pleased to be given some useful feedback he let me have a full refund, without presenting the disc, and an apology.

Moved to less daft forum.

I'm just flaky and dry.

Millar has written for the Authority, and they're about as Neocon as you can get, or Neolib or something. Basically they say "We're superheroes. why are we busting muggers when genocide is going down?" So it would make sense for him to be at least in favour of some Bush tactics.

I think it's a great idea. And distance learning notes are not the same as regular notes.

Hey hey hey! I never said there weren't chicks in the car with me.

Azarkon, I think the field borne peasant was correct to think about changing the system, but now the system has changed it us the people who need to improve. How can we even talk about improving the system when only half of us bother to use the system?

man's got a point. Long periods in office almost always come with corruption and indifference.

You say that after you've careened down that section near Mort Homme wood in a testarossa, flinging champagne bottles at pickelhaube wearing types. What are you? A latent telepath?! That is my exact fantasy. It's no biggie. Surely that's every boy's fantasy?

Interesting question, but I believe you answered it yourself. Your concept of merit is based on success in meeting operational level goals. WHY you're doing the operations in the first place, that's national/strategic level leadership, and it's often pretty arbitrary. Are we trying to get rich, or have a good time, or be very quiet and pious? Do any of these things in teh wrong context and you are going to get a swift kick. Optimise them in the right context and you will get praise.

*toothy grin* We'll see those lilly livers try and get PC with the Holy Inquisition!

Elves, orcs, and dragons are elements of medieval fantasy. Fantasy, in using this style of definition, is swords and sorcery. Now you're just splitting hairs. Actually, I think Tale is some kind of rabbit.

The formatting can be an issue. BUt then equally, you are encouraged not to go crazy with formatting. Keep it simple. The bottom line is it works fine. You can make stuff word microsofties can read, and read what they send you. And it's effectively free. I use it all the time.

A British military comms project that doesn't work? ...Inconceivable!

I liked Jenny Sparks of the Authority, but she died with the twentieth century, of course.

Has anyone got a smily showing a necromancer raising a dead horse, THEN beating it?

Can I fling a champagne bottle at him? If so, count me in.

Yes, and the US was putting forth that "all men are created equal" while they still had slaves. Generally, when people talk about doing things for freedom, they mean "my freedom." The Spartans did fight for Freedom, not in general, just from Persia. If your word was not enough I have also been advised by my stepfather who is a classicist, that the Spartans really did go on about freedom. Freaky.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/08/is...ini_terminator/

Incidentally I assume everyone here has seen It's All Gone Pete Tong? Great film about a DJ who goes deaf and associated comedy.

"For freedom"? What is this, Braveheart 3? The Spartans were notorious for not only keeping slaves, but keeping them in horrendous conditions. Young male Spartans would go out into the countryside and hunt slaves for sport. Indeed, so bad were the conditions that the countryside was almost always wracked with slave revolts. I am certainly getting sick, as others are, or this pre-chewed nitwit fodder.

I guess I'd like to die honest. EDIT: make that honourable.

Just when you need him most.