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No, it is maintaining the status quo through fear and domination as well as give an illusion of power to those who seek to perpetuate the status quo.

You can't take a step outside without offending someone. That is just how lame everything has become. I wasn't particularly impressed by the commercial either. Now if it had been two stereotypical tough guy Italian mafia buggers with Dean Martin singing in the background, thusly doing the whole Disney rip off of Lady and the Tramp then it might have been funny. I just don't see anything offensive about two guys accidently kissing then because of some neurotic and immature need to show their manliness they bare their chest and tear out hair.

Nice story Guardster, very humorous.

I had this idea of a charged needler system. It shoots a weighted needle that gives a electrical discharge on impact. What causes the weight is the independent rechargable battery within it. When it strikes a target it inject the full power of the battery into the target, stunning him. The practical application of designing such a weapon eludes me since I am not a weapon designer. However the gun itself could carry four such needles in a clip and may have a range of 15 to 20 feet.

Cancer is caused by abnormal mitosis. Viruses use the cell's structure to replicate it, damaging RNA and DNA of the cell structure. Stresses of this nature may cause the abonrmal cell growth that leads to cancer. If we can nip the virus in the bud before it infects the host cell then by all means we should do it.

Oh, sorry. Its a good idea if it could work. Maybe we should use tazers instead.

Well, a sound of a bullet will, for most people, give the initial fight or flight response. The problem is that you would need a individually chambered revolver in order to properly mix bullets and blanks. I don't think a single clip can hold both and it would take too long to change clips if the bugger was going to fight instead of run. I could be mistaken on this. I never dealt with blanks during my military service.

One of my players in my gaming group will go spastic on that. It makes him go "Weeeeee!" Literally.

You can come up with a better conspiracy theory than that! Probably, but I don't want to go all spastic over someone who has recently died. Its kind of disrespectful.

Yeah, then Home is the way to go then, Mothman. Pro and Media has some nice features, but as you said, you got the Mac OS to handle that and probably way more stable. You could get Home XP OEM for about $90 at Newegg, but Surrie does make a good point about the OEM and Vista limitations. Retail Home XP costs about $190.

More pics of my lovely paladin. I have tried playing evil in NWN2 but it just seems more satasfying killing evil with a shiny knight of do-gooderness. :confused: I still need to try out Jagged Alliance at some point.

Come on now folks, its not nice to speak ill of the dead. :confused:

Warning shots are a waste of time and there is too much of a chance of an innocent getting hurt. If you are going to shoot a gun, make sure your intended target is struck and only your intended target is struck.

I apologize. If I was going to get XP I would get the Media Edition or XP Pro. They are just as stable as XP Home and added versitility. Then again if you are just getting something basic then XP Home is the route to go. Newegg has them all pretty cheap on the OEM front. Retail is still up there however. This is the one I suggest: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16832116171 You even get a coupon in case you do want to upgrade to Vista later on.

Or it could have been foul play to get rid of her claim off her former husband's billions! CONSPIRACY! Still, a bit of a shock.

You get to go through all sorts of different combat types except the use of ground base units? Wow.

Might makes right, but what makes a left?

OH NOES! They are trully evil!

Professional torturers? Do they wear latex? :confused:

Neither do I, so in the case that you represent, since they were outside your home and not in, I would probably react the same way and not shoot. Now if they were already in the house, that would be a slightly different story.

If you were responsible in putting me in that position to shoot a civilian and I did, would that make that civilian's death your fault as well as mine since it was you who placed me in that position in the first place?

I still don't see why would any parent not want to have their children vaccinated against diseases or cancers. Sounds very much like poor parenting to put your child at risk like that, even if that risk is 10 to 20 years down the road.

Can we get a duh check? The real question did he plan his own defeat at the end of Episode 6 as a means to to further cripple the galaxy against the Youzhon Vong invasion (msp).

Why would he be cleaning the gutters inside your house? :confused: Why would he be cleaning your gutters in the first place?!?!? :confused: I would only shoot to kill if the person is inside the house. If he or she was outside then I would do what Plano suggested.

So it is okay to be placed in a situation in where you will more than likely do an illegal act but not the illegal act itself?