Sarjahurmaaja.

^ Ok. Any empire that's reading this right now: Plz go kill yourself. kthxbye --- Ok, guess you have a point there. I'd like for them to drop dead.

Nur Ab Sal, Fanatic: do you not notice that this is very much tongue-in-cheek, and a jab at the whole "see BloodRayne nekkid!11one" thing than an attempt at serious discussion (or are you perhaps just taking the joke to the next level, mm-hmm?)?

Probably, but I don't think he is old enough to say what he did either, so there's already a precedent for these kinds of things here.

Well, you can also buy one copy of the Red Hat install disc and install it on a gazillion PCs. For Windows, it's one license for every PC it's installed on, though I bet they have licenses for companies that offer a bit more freedom on that

No, you cannot. You can charge for install packets etc. on CDs, but you'll have to make a free version of it available for public, IIRC. Lindows, by the way, isn't, AFAIK, a derivative of Linux but a Windows emulator Linux. edit: Huh? I'm sure there was some silly nonsense about Lindows being a Linux derivative below this post.

Eh, what do you mean? How would they make it a viable alternative, or how would it become another MS? You can't charge for Linux.

What do you use for making, emulating and managing images? I used to use CloneCD for creating them and DaemonTools for emulation, but I switched to Alcohol 120% some time ago. Seems to be better at it, and has some nifty features to boot.

"Finally, and this opinion is pretty much mine, as most of my family doesn't get this deep into politics, the concept of an American empire doesn't bother me." It bothers me. I'm Finnish and I like our system better than yours. You guys seem pretty closeminded on some issues (I mean, how the hell can stuff like gay marriage and abortion be major issues in a western country?). I don't like our social system, but I sure as hell don't like yours better. Your government sounds awfully cumbersome (though, EU seems to be quite bureucratic, but it got some good things in it that I like) and corrupt in comparison to ours (then again, last I heard, we've got the lowest corruption %) and so on and so forth. While as you say, they'd leave most of it alone, they're going to mess with some of it. Of course, if you're talking about just expanding to cover some African and Middle Eastern countries, and not a global empire, I wouldn't mind so much. Of course, I wouldn't like it, since I believe in our times we have better ways to achieve those things you mentioned. Empires cause too many bad things and I'd like for them to stay dead. "I've only lived on this earth for 28 years, and I've seen both the best and worst from people [...]" While this is just my 17th year here, I'd say it's too early to tell until you're knee deep in the grave.

What, you jealous or something?

No, it's just there to convey how seriously I take you. Now, adios, it's 0:20 and I'm going to bed.

Sure thing, lil' girl.

Isn't it funny how internet is full of these super strong, adrenaline driven sociopaths who want to kill, kill and kill, and just barely can prevent that from happening, but are incapable of preventing the frequent street fights, barbrawls, etc, where they generally just kick ass - and you never, ever meet these guys in real life? "That's not to say violent people make bad soldiers [...]" They do.

I don't think the the 'blade' is weightless. It's just a commonly thought to be.

"There is a flaw with that most people over 21 one make the same bad choice, or are you under the impresion only 18-20 year olds get DUIs and in accidents? So maturaty does not come into it." Ah, well, that's the problem with the age being so high there as it is. If they got to the drinking business a bit earlier, they'd have time to accumulate enough bad experiences to realize a few important things. Then they're probably mature enough for the stronger stuff. It's kinda hard to talk about this, too, because the system there seems to be quite a bit different (and more f*cked up, too ) there than here.

xG, what you missed with the example of katanaguy vs. chinaman is the 'weightless blade'. Slashing techniques really suffer from that. Thrusting ones, not so much. I don't think the lightsaber 'blade' is weightless, btw.

Um, no, that doesn't make sense.

The way I see it is that they're adult enough to know murder is wrong (duh) but not mature enough to realize that they really are impaired and mortal.

"Shouldn't as in refuse or shoudn't as don't have the cognitive ability to reason that taking someones life is trafficing a controled substance or drinking to much and driving is wrong?" No, "shouldn't" as in "should". "This is what truely boggles my mind as it has been shown you can be just as impared from beer as wisky." Yeah, but you might just not realize when drinking how much stronger the strong stuff really is.

"You don't see how that doesn't make sense?" No, I don't. I can very well see the fact that you pretty damn well should see the difference between right and wrong by the time you're 18 (btw, in Finland, if you're over 15, courts will handle you as an adult - 18 is the legal drinking age, but strongest stuff is not allowed. You're an adult then, and can get a driver's license. For strong stuff, you gotta be 21) but might not realize you've drank too much.

Soldiers don't get to choose who they're gunning at. That's part of the deal. edit: Though, if you've served in the war, I'd say you're mature enough to vote.

"That is a clear double standard and is unfair." No it isn't. It's just sensible.

I love spoilers. I can't help it.

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"The game isn't out yet.........were you dreaming of it?" I suggest googling out some of the things I said.

I just realized something: I'm going to see the thread titles in 'Today's Active Topics', even if I don't hang around KotOR forum. Crap.