Wrath of Dagon

An American's guide to the British election: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-sto...e-british-vote/

You're confusing me with someone else. I never said that. Probably me. Time to take this game seriously I guess.

The best you can do are the blow out preventers, which cut and crimp the pipe in case of over-pressure. Unfortunately in this case there was a drill string inside the pipe, which prevented the pipe from being crimped completely. I'm not sure if anything could've been done differently to deal with this situation, but suspect it would've been required if it was possible.

Oh, the irony. So is communism, you should be illegal as well.

You'll never get to 100% accident free, but my point is you have to be prepared for everything to go wrong when the stakes are this high. It doesn't appear to me the government was adequately prepared or even had a real plan of action.

You can kind of see the overlap in these maps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Macedoni...mbiguation).png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_Pelo...r_431_BC-fr.svg

Alexander was Macedonian, not Greek. I don't think Greeks as the time considered Macedonians Greek, more something akin to barbarians.

A plan to clean up, but what's the use of that until you shut off the source? Plus it's been done once according to the wiki link, why isn't it possible to do that again?

Until the well is shut off, the problem is only going to get worse and worse. The point is a method and equipment should've been developed ahead of time since this wasn't an unexpected possibility. Edit: I guess it's possible to cap the well, I don't know why it hasn't been done yet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixtoc_I

I'm actually not talking about BP, as that kind of contingency is too much to handle for any one company. I'm thinking the goverment should've had a plan on what to do in case of such a rig accident, possibly getting funding for it by a fee from every rig operating. But then again, this just shows how truly useless the Department of Energy is.

Isn't all that true of the US also?

Metro 2033, quite an interesting variety of situations they put you in.

In the future, robots will fight for us anyway.

I find it surprising that no contingency plan appears to have been developed for such an accident ahead of time.

A lot of people in Eastern Europe have had a rough transition from socialism to whatever embryonic form of capitalism they now have. That has nothing to do with the normally developed capitalism of the West.

That chart is actually much more knowledgeable about Europe than an average American.

Taken from the article you says didn't say that, try again. This was mentioned in two places in the article, in different contexts. No, sentencing someone for life of hard labor is not working someone to death, that refers to overworking someone so much they drop dead. Yes, because it's totally humane to force somebody into "Painful multi-decade banishment" for committing a crime, and leaving them there to be abused ( you don't think they'd be abused? look at the stanford prison experiment) for the rest of their lives. At least the current system acts like they're human, they may be "evil" humans but human nonetheless Why wouldn't they be abused in the current system? Do you have something against life sentences or hard labor? Edit: And how's working 8 hour days working someone to death? That's less than most game developers work.

Your Wikipedia link said it was because of the Boy Scouts. Yes, he used that word, but then he describes what he meant, and it's not working people to death. At worst he probably doesn't know much about Soviet GULAGs. Anyway, anyone against the death penalty is a pinko leftist, not far right. The point is he didn't say what you claimed he said. Read the entire section on the Iraq war in the wiki article, I think it makes it quite clear that my interpretation of what he said is correct.

He called ACLU fascist in the context of them constantly going after the Boy Scouts. He doesn't advocate Soviet style Gulags but prison camps as an alternative to the death penalty, there's no quote of him in the Wiki article saying evolution is imaginary. You have to read that in context, he's saying we should never again invade a Muslim country, and instead if attacked we should retaliate by bombing those who attacked us. He's not saying we should bomb all Muslims indiscriminately. And if you're going to try to debate, you should provide quotes backing up your views, instead of me trying to guess what you consider far right, especially as some statements are subject to interpretation. You also conveniently ignore statements like this from the Wiki article " O'Reilly generally leans to the right on most issues, most notably the Bush administration's War on Terror, but breaks from conservative and Republican Party orthodoxy on such issues as the global warming controversy, the death penalty, and civil unions for same sex couples." Edit: He also says things like that: "Liberal thought, however, can be a good thing. Progressive programs to help the poor, fight injustice and give working people a fair shake are all positive. But libertine actions damage a just society because actions have consequences. Kids who drink and take drugs are likely to hurt themselves and others. But obviously, the SPs do not make judgments like that."[16]

It's not but it is. The daily show is probably one of the best sources for discussions on bias reporting. Fox news is their favorite but they've gone after MSNBC, CNN and CNBC. also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_O%27Reil...political_views that too I said he's not far right, I didn't claim Fox wasn't biased. Where in the video does he say something far right? I don't feel like watching the whole thing. Also with the wiki article, why don't you quote the relevant parts instead of just linking it?

Some girl from Russia.

Yah, OK, that has nothing to do with being far right though. Also I'd suggest to you the Daily show is not the most objective source of information.

I think it's mostly that they didn't want to release it at that time, kind of like AP.

Shocking news, Aliens RPG almost finished before cancelled: http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/28/obsidian...-finished-game/

Not to rub salt into the wound, but here's an interesting article: http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm...rope-in-crisis/