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Applied for school out in Iowa, SHOULD get in if what the councilors said was true (and these were the guys telling me how to play the system for residency). Also it looks like I get every piece of financial aid under the rocks for this endeavor.

I think the companies forgot that people like you (and me for my 360) exist in that we're not hooked to the web for DLC.

And yet we'll still play it for laughs if it's a guy being raped.

I don't know if it's true or not (I'd guess it partially is) but basically it comes from the fact that Japanese train cars are so packed that if you were to start groping somebody, they couldn't really do much about it because they're stuck in place by the mass of people.

You should take a drive down to Ames and go shopping for Slurpees and Big Gulps. You never know who you might meet! Actually that'd be "up" as Ames is north of DesMoines. Also, I did end up in ames looking at Iowa state, and if I can sell my dad on the idea I might be going there for a degree in Physics (Minor Astronomy).

*returns from Iowa* Uh, just gonna point out that the CNN report went under the title "gamers rewarded for rape" when the only two real outcomes in RapeLay IIRC are either being thrown under an oncoming train by a girl you've pushed to far (or something) or being killed by a butcher knife to the jugular when you're not looking.

No... no it's not... saying "A wizard did it!" has about as much veracity as saying "god did it". Science is based around observing the current world and figuring out what makes everything tick. God and their like are by definition unknowable and thus you can't apply the scientific method to its existence and thus cannot be considered a part of science. ID is a theory that doesn't fly (and has been proven not to in court at the dover trial), at least in terms of science, because at it's basis it's saying "science is because of a designer (re:god)" and doesn't actually demonstrate any science. Irreducible Complexity was handled at dover too in that the best representation was proven to be false. Ultimately the biggest "proof" put foreward for ID was that "this world is so perfectly tuned to human life that there HAS to be a designer for life! the odds are to stacked the that it's impossible!" And for the most part this isn't correct. As if variables were changed human life would shift in a different evolutionary tract. And even with we go with the odds, think about it like a deck of cards, Pull out the first you have a 1/52 chance of getting that card, pull out the second, the chance of those two cards is (1/52)(1/51). By the time you put out the entire deck of cards its 1/ (52*51*50*... 2*1) which means that the chance of getting that particular set of cards is impossibly high, and by the proponents reckoning an act of a deity or outside force. But the fact is you just got it, and obviously possible.

Uprecedented? They've been doing it since FDR. Almost the entire Federal government is unconstitutional by now. And yet if we ran strictly by the constitution, we'd fall apart, go figure, we need to change things and expand things simply to exist as a single entity/nation.

Actually I teach religion in Social Science (which is a fancy term for History.) If you don't mind my asking Hurl, how closely do you have to teach to your text?

on a whim I re-installed M:TW2. Picked the french and have been having odd troubles with the Spaniards to the point where I'm having to put forts in the passes to stop them from moving into my territory. They keep building small armies, walking into my territory, then cutting the group off (turning them into rebels) when they're in my territory. I ended up posting one fort (working towards another when I have the free troops) in the middle of the pass between spain and france (in the middle), meanwhile I didn't move fast enough on the free territory to the nw of my current territory so Portugal (of all people) ran in and took it.

freaking out because I'm gonna be in desmoines day after tommarrow.

It'd probably help if the protesters weren't hand fed their opinions by the Conservative news networks, who tell them that this is the start of socializm and that Obama will turn into a black Vladimir Lenin within 2 years and we'll soon all be working in state run factories or living in gulags while our economy crumbles under the weight of socialism. Or basically being told that this is the future of their society. (well, that was the 2004 version anyway).

Huh? You mean you are actually learning stuff? I thought people went to college to experience the decadent American college life, centered around scatterbrained hotties, frat house partying and illegal substance (ab)use. You have failed me for the last time. To quote south park "There's a time and a place for everything, it's called College!". That said wb pixies The more things change the more they stay the same.

The reason creationism isn't taught in science is because it's religious and doesn't have any real scientific backing to it (How can you scientifically prove that there is a diety that creates the universe, but by definition you can't detect it?). As to the Textbook issue, Hurl, as much as I wanna say you're right, I'm guessing that if a teacher deviates to much from the text they get yelled at by the district. Personally if I ever taught school (and I might being a physics major) I'd probably end up not really using the text that much, at least in classes that weren't really mathmatics. Also, as much as there are good teachers that don't really follow the book, there's probably a dozen who use the text because they're out of their league (I've had several, including one who was boggled when students started yelling about the fact that their project was worth more than anything else in the gradebook when they had been told it was only 15% of their grade because she weighted the grades but didn't put in a representation of the weight).

I'm guessing there'll be a bit of a backlash against this. And if Californias textbook policy ends up near the other end of the spectrum (which it might given that this state seems to enact stuff simply out of spite) then it'd allow for the more "liberal" books to be published. Also some parents might end up pulling a Dover and suing the school district for this sort of thing (by not consulting experts etc). Also adds to my list of "Get out of the US" reasons.

Similar thing happened last year with Relic. They were seeded as 8th (I think) and ended up making it to the final four where things tied three times before the guys who made D&D online finally won. They officially didn't make it, even so they would probably have been thwarted because their next opponent was Bethesda, and as Obsidian hasn't had much in the way of games out recently, I'd guess bethsoft would win. Although it's gonna be clash of the titans as Bunjie takes on Blizzard.

If we do end up in a civil break, I'd put the blame mostly on Rupert Murdoch and his spin machine of warmongers.

MAAAAAYYYYBBEEEEE?

http://kotaku.com/5501655/what-does-kingdo...rts-3-depend-on *Makes a noise that only dogs can hear*

Got a bit surly this morning after thinking about... well technically he's my brother but I don't consider him such. Mainly because he's the type that'll ask something and never reciprocate and he shows no respect to those who he considers beneath him. He's yelled at me about being to loud when he's trying to sleep, and ordered me to turn the volume down, then never done anything similar when I mention it. And now he seems pissed that I've "grown a spine" and decided that if he doesn't want to show respect I won't either.

"The death of one is a tragedy, the death of a million is a statistic" -Josef Stalin "Nobody can map the imagination" -Pratchett "Your Job is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his" -Patton

I think it was more that they were reviving what was generally considered a dead genre.

Well, looks like the FEAR wagon is truckin along again with a third game. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/rea...mo-Art-Revealed Huh F3AR, go figure.

http://kotaku.com/5500059/from-productive-...rand-theft-auto You know, This story sounds almost to sensational to be true. A guy is turned from a productive person into a coke addict with a gaming habit by ONE set of games? *Shrugs*

Did som L4D2 Vs with Der and a few of my friends. Fairly balanced teams to the point where the lead was AT MOST 300 points.