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A lot of people do eat irradiated food, as irradiation is a fairly frequently used and very reliable preservation process. Albeit they don't do it by sticking it next to a compromised nuclear reactor...

That should be the pre rendered cutscenes being nasty I presume, as all the levels/ locations were pre rendered too.

AT LEAST WE'RE BETTER THAN IRAN!!! CELEBRATE OUR ENLIGHTENMENT!!! THEN AGAIN, IRAN IS OK TOO BECAUSE VLACH VLAD TEPES WAS WORSE!!! OH NO BUT GENGHIZ KHAN WAS WORSE THAN VLACH VLAD SO HE'S ACTUALLY OK TOO!!! Good lord above the "at least we're better than" argument is a load of horse excrement. Yeah, I'm a greater humanitarian than Adolf Hitler/ Stalin/ Pol Pot/ Caligula/ Torquemada/ Timur. Wow, such an achievement. I'll just add that to my CV so next time I apply for a job there won't be any dispute about my personal qualities. :1440x900 rolleyes:

Japan has/ had banned milk and farm produce from around the area. I'm not sure if it is still in effect now. But a 'simple' meltdown isn't in quite the same league as what happened at Chernobyl in terms of radiation release. IIRC there was a meltdown at 3 mile island too and they only discovered it when they got around to dismantling the reactor years after the accident as it had very little actual effect beyond melting the fuel.

Science isn't faith based. It doesn't matter if you don't believe in gravity, because gravity believes in you. On the other hand, there's this thing floating around in space, you can notice its effects but you cannot observe it directly. Two groups of people believe in its existence.

There is plenty of stuff in the Koran that can be used to justify violence- it's a product of its time and Muhammad was a miltary as well as spiritual leader. Then again, plenty of people use the Bible as justification for violence and that's (NT at least) about a guy with mottos like "turn the other cheek" "love thy neighbour" and "render unto Caesar". Basically people like to dress up their power fantasies in some sort of 'legitimacy', be it religious, nationalist or a UNSC and will do so irrespective of the actual intention by seizing on the bits that support what they want supported.

The Pakistanis can just blame it all on Musharraf who is already loathed by much of Pakistan. I don't think there's much goodwill amongst Pakistanis in general towards either the US or their own government to be lost in any case.

Yeah, it's there for both, I forgot that you had to select a sound card first. Selected sb16 and its irqs/dmas etc and the option for a Roland came up. I can't guarantee that the option will actually work in practice though as I've only ever used the default dosbox set up. But the manual install files do all seem to be there and working.

The install files are there- I can screenshot what you get if it would be helpful. Note though, when I ran setup.exe the Roland was NOT listed as a sound card option. Not tested on the steam version but as Nightshape said, all the re-release xcom versions available are identical. That's also why them not being on GoG is so weird.

Not Sandy Bridge, it's out already. I think it's the next iteration (Ivy Bridge) that is using the smaller size, at least according to wiki. Not 100% sure but I think ARM may already have a 22nm chip released, as they're big on the energy saving side.

The dog story was on here, and was sourced from a main US TV network news- ABC, I think. Might have been slightly different from ~Di's one though as it had the dog and handler parachuting rather than rapelling from a chopper.

I think your Walsingham alt may be getting a bit tired Monte, time to retire him.

Yeah, early c2ds are easy to overclock. My e6400 is slower at stock than an e6600 and I've run it at 3GHz. Didn't make much practical difference, then again at the time I had a very weak graphics card I was trying to compensate for which was probably the main bottleneck.

I always thought the mage Triss was talking to in the mirror in the chapter 2->3 transition in TW1 was Eilhart, but she was blonde. They might have been using a generic high class hooker model rather than a unique one perhaps.

I was answering what the ultimate practical result of antimatter research would be- why it could have as much use in future as a mile highway, if you like. I agree that there's little realistic chance of anyone driving antimatter powered cars anytime soon but if you don't have a particular (hoho) interest in the subject there isn't really any great reason to care other than the potential to get an excellent energy source further down the road. Personally, I think (as with most knowledge) it's interesting for its own sake and because it has the potential to explain interesting theoretical questions, but I'd have difficulty going beyond that in explaining why anyone else should really be concerned about it.

Any advance on "it's OK when we do it because we're the good guys" No? Didn't think so. Wasn't expecting anything else, haven't been disappointed.

Theoretically and in brief? Matter and antimatter annihilate each other releasing a lot of energy- far more than fission/ fusion do- and it would be an excellent energy source. There's also a bunch of theoretical stuff around exactly why matter exists but antimatter (largely) doesn't.

It is technically illegal to either order a physical copy or buy a refused classification game from overseas; or anything else requiring classification that has been refused for that matter. Until the Great Firewall of Australia comes online just isn't a way to enforce it. But that is why some DD outlets (Steam) will autoconvert uncensored games to censored based on IP, and irrespective of which version was actually purchased.

Doesn't answer the question, unless you're saying that while the Fallujani were (all) jihadists* (and thus Got Wot They Deserved) the Chechens weren't and didn't. Strip out the rather obvious hyperbole and the question comes down to: Why is the US use of MLRS/ Shake 'n' Bake/ Bombing etc in Fallujah OK, yet the Russkies doing the same in Grozny is not? I ain't really expecting an answer anyway, I'm just amused by the double standards from the Moral Clarity brigade. *they weren't, Fallujah was such a hot spot because the US killed a bunch of people there under very dubious circumstances about as soon as they arrived, and it all went downhill from there.

That the wife was used as a human shield has been debunked, some time ago and by none less than the White House itself.

Well, since you brought up Chechnya elsewhere a nice explanation of why Chechnya/ Grozny = horrible crime against humanity by bestial russian savages while Iraq/ Fallujah = wonderful restrained terrorism fighting by apple pie eating blue eyed liberators which doesn't rely on some sort of "it's OK that we did it, we're the good guys" as a justification might be in order.

Do we really need another discussion on the difference between shipped (sold in) figures and sold through figures? No Ryu, you don't owe your friend a copy of ME3 as for all anyone knows up to a million out of those 2 million DA2s are sitting in inventory or on store shelves gathering dust and haven't actually sold.

Monte hammering a "libtards and hippies KEEP OUT" sign on the treehouse is hardly the most conducive thing for rational reactions either. I do agree with numbersman on most 'targeted killings' as they are often based on flimsy intelligence and have the worst sort of hypocricy in saying that foreign civilians are simply the currency for keeping US civilians safe. ObL though was pretty conclusively self confessed.

I can't really see any disputation over legality and such- ObL certainly considered himself to be at war with the US. Everything we know of him suggests that this is, somewhat ironically, just about exactly how he would have wanted to go out and that the very concept of being captured would have been anathema to him. The real question is whether people would apply the same principle in reverse. So long as the people celebrating would not get upset about the horrendous terroristic illegality of it all if Obama or Cameron or Petraeus got whacked there really ain't any inconsistency.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with sending a kill team after ObL and anyone who says there is... hopelessly unrealistic. He knew what he was getting into and he knew what would happen if he ever got caught I seriously doubt that. What law would we be breaking? The newspapers have obviously been publishing Wikileaks materials for some time now. It's if you're a federal employee (or expect to need a security clearance) and not really applicable for general citizens- they are still considered as classified documents by the US government.