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At least I now know why you don't like Krakow.

I am sure the Buddhists have a special hell to which one is sent for being a spamster. If you successfully leave the hell you must spend 100 incarnations AS a spambot.

Ooh ooh! You just reminded me When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger. Twould be awesome. Plenty of drugs, great food, sunshine, and mind altering cyber implants.

All their faces and heads are covered - by hair and hats or garments. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> And bees.

It was lunchtime. I like to get my priorities in order by time.

I just finished Jasper Fforde's book 'Lost in a Good Book'. In it the protagonist jumps into books. Inside them, the characters have to act their parts, but supposing it is written in the third person retain their indepndence of thought. Moreover, when not actually needed they can gad about as they choose in their environment. I don't want to give any more spoilers, but it got me thinking. If YOU had to hide in a book for about a year which would it be? I was thinking I'd probably choose Raymond Chandler's 'The Little Sister', although I'd be worried that Chandler's quirky descriptions might make the experience uncomfortably patchy.

As i was recently obliged to explain, 'camp' means something else in the USA. hence their inability to laugh at Camp Commandants in ww2.

Am I allowed to suggest that they devote all their time to space exploration, and perfect the gaussian meatball sandwich?

My mum does, as do two of my friends. And I still say you gotta die of something. But then it doesn't detract from the fact that it always sucks to die.

I really don't see why homosexuality is an issue, whether it is biological, a choice, or comes in cereal packets. Homosexuality is about having erotic feelings about your own gender. It doesn't automatically mean you like kids of any gender. Anyway, just to remind everyone how we got onto this, I seem to recall we branched out on the suggestion that the Boy Scouts should act as hitlerjugend in the coming reich. Report on copyright abusers, homosexuals, gypsies and so on. You know, unlike their more traditional role as a harmless almost whimsical structured after school activity.

Fingerprints are not so reliable as palmprints. I think fujitsu have a palmprint demonstrator.

I didn't mind the ads in Syndicate Wars, mainly because I already liked the companies they were advertising, but also because it fit in with the theme. But I won't stand for bloody live monitoring via spyware. Wow, yet another company loses my dollar by behaving like bastards. I was intending to buy 2142, and now I won't.

I played something like that in Covent Garden. The tracking of my view was off, and I got seasick. Ick.

Riiiight.... Go go female emancipation! Actually I got set straight by an American officer on this point who'd been serving in the Gulf. For some, the veil is seen as a defence against letcherous behaviour. Although frankly I'd say the men need a swift kick in the balls as a better cure. But that's me talking as someone who's dated female speedway racers and bodyguards. :">

Amen, Brother! I'm with you. Let's pack the beers!

I agree with Meta, although there might be a gentler way of putting it. Yes, you are correct to wonder about a gay man teaching your son. Just like you should be alert about a hetero male teaching your daughter. No more, no less. Gay people have enough damn problems without drawing fire for things they don't do!

Gnerally noncomittal. But i had them pegged as a good bet, if you know what I mean. Pricey, but a cut above the average. Shove stuff down my throat and all that evaporated like morning dew.

Meta I know I have an option. And I exercise it! That's my point. Why foist these things on everyone. I've no objection to being offerred a big buton that says 'Go back to sleep, we will control your PC'. I just want the option to not push it. My main point is that by their simple action they have destroyed years of carefully crafted advertising and goodwill.

Great Googlie Jebus, ladies and gentlemen. Could you put any more spoilers in one place? Please use spoiler tags if you intend to give away bits of story, even if you think they aren't important.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6069784.stm It seems Sony have released a new advert. It looks really cool. I like the premise. I think to myself 'Hmmm. Sony seem to be a hip company with fresh ideas. I might buy their stuff.' Then I think 'Actually no I won't' The reason in my case is that my mother recently bought a Sony Vaio laptop. I had an immensely frustrating time flailing at the damn thing to get all the 'helpful' bits and bobs disconnected. I despise companies like Microsoft that treat me like I've come off a production line with no ideas of my own, and to find Sony doing it totally turned me 'off'. I suddenly perceived Sony as this aspiring megalith (which it probably was already but I never saw it that way), and resolved to patronise other companies. Has anyone else had this allergic reaction to being patronised, and if so, why do the stupid fethwits keep doing it?

I'm not fixed to this idea, but you mentioned cooperating with other regional powers. Might this not deepen divides if we invite other players into the 'game'? Or are they already there? What I find frustrating is that (IMO) we could prevent many of these attacks if we, as the Western public made it clear we were not going to back out in the face of violence. The raison d'etre of those attacks would be removed. Or am I over-simplifying?

I think we're agreed that we need to expose kids to a bit of rough and tumble and pay the price of the odd kid getting laldied. True?

Weeeell... I'd prefer we didn't but strictly speaking I could see the point if a bomb is launched at a US base and misses or something. But why should Coalition forces take the blame is they blow up a civilian water treatment facility, or mortar a Shiite pilgrimage? Thing is that I accept that a lot of these tensions would not be expressed if we hadn't gone in. But they would still be there. The transition to democracy at least holds out the hope of a peaceful solution, rather than the universal terror under Saddam.

I think he should post in the style of a Romany Grandmother from here on in. To even out some of our demographics.

I think the fact that so many killing are sectarian should put the lie to that. Isn't that kind of like saying that the Rwandans perpetrated genocide because of UNAMIR?