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By advocating a UHC, thats exactly what youre saying. No. That's not elementary at all. Americans pay more in taxes on healthcare AND pay more for their private health insurance than the vast majority of Western countries with universal healthcare. The only viable argument for you to run with to claim universal healthcare is more expensive is a short-term, high start-up cost argument, since a UHC is cheaper from a long-term perspective. In fact, that appears to be the main barrier in the House and Senate at the moment, and it has some validity since America is a massive conglomerate of disparate states, all with their own quirky healthcare regulations (not to mention the odd mashup of non-universal Federal healthcare safety nets).

Thank god.

****ing Aliens... god damn, now I remembered why I hate SEGA.

Totally! This is like Duke Nukem Forever 2, amirite?

Absolutely ridiculous! To think a game company would delay the release date of a game. This has never happened before, and I won't stand for it!

Aw man, I'm struggling to enjoy this game now I'm doing missions. It's all exploration/shooting and no plot. Edit: and the exploration is boring. I mean the game's certainly better than Oblivion, but it's quickly lost its charm I think. I'll push on.

Agreed, except for the shoes. I mean the guy saying "You lie!" seemed like a rude jerk, but I was very surprised by how blown up the issue was. He didn't even call Obama a wanker or anything.

I dunno. That's a pretty ****ing specific scam. Putting up an obscure Magic box set and hoping some poor lad who badly wants it stumbles across your ad. I can think of easier ways to scam money. Especially since it;s a measly 50 quid. I'm pretty sure it wasn't a scam, just a lazy seller. Couldn't you do that escrow thing?

This wasn't in Parliament. It was the PM laying into the sense of entitlement of members of his own party. Australian Parliament is (a bit) more civilised. It's an amusing thought experiment to wonder how people from other countries would react were it their own leader, which is one reason I posted it here. I think to most Australians, getting the job done is the main priority, rather than an MP's respect or honour.

But I did skim it and it looks interesting enough to read properly later when my migraine goes.

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Every now and then our Prime Minister gets in trouble for making flight attendants cry or telling politicians they are ****ers and to get out. It's amusing. http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-natio...90920-fwe3.html

I dunno if vitamin D is the cause, but yeah, seasonal variation does show some correlation with mental stability (aka mood, I guess). Interesting stuff. To be honest, it's not the laws. It's the people. We really need to deal with this cultural self-loathing bull**** that's so trendy nowadays in the West. When even the French are measured in their chauvinism, you know there's definitely something wrong. Yes. Everyone equates tolerance with shoveling sh!t on ones own head these days. Political correctness is a sort of censorship that outdoes the Nazis at their best. So irritating. Maybe you should've been there when the Nazis were exterminating and justifying the extermination of people they thought were impure - so that you could understand the naive stupidity of your statement. The stupidity of your argument is the failure to realise that the topic is censorship, not concentration camps. Since the Croatian nazis killed almost a million of my people, and set up a novelty even by German standards - concentration camps exclusively for children, here's the wiki for those with the stomach for it > ( Stara gradiska) I could hardy justify them. Switch your brain on before writing ignorant posts. You're saying that political correctness and the damage it causes is worse than Nazi propaganda and the damage it caused. Jesus ****ing Christ listen to yourself before posting.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to the Moscow missions the most. I've always had a thing for Russia. Pity they're now a capitalist dictatorship, but I guess that gives Obsidian plenty of material to work with.

A game set in Australia would be better, what with the huge urban sprawl, super rainforests and cave systems, and deadly animals. But like Canada, America, and Britain, it's probably too familiar to Western audiences who want something exotic. Also, Americans are absolutely terrible at doing Australian accents, so they'd have to hire a lot of Aussie voice actors which could be budget-intensive. I guess Canada is a better choice because you guys sound American anyway. And for something exotic you could visit Montreal. Oh my word.

You know very good i was talking about computer/console games... and they are definately not older than human species doesn't matter what you were talking 'bout. games has been 'round probable back before cro magnon, and games ain't gotten the benefit of doubt as an art form in all that time. makes harder for computer/console games to somehow change. HA! Good Fun! You're simply playing semantics, Gromnir. Games these days bear little resemblances to primitive childhood games like hide and go seek other than that they share a mechanic of entertainment. To pretend that today's computer games are no different to the childhood games of cro magnons because we call them both 'games' is disingenuous. Certainly, computer games these days often involve elements of abstraction and storytelling - classic traits of art. I'd be hard-pressed to define hide and go seek as art. Now, don't get me wrong, some computer games are barely worthy of the title 'art', like cheap $1 comics written by somebody studying ESL are themselves stretching the definition of art.

It would eliminate the stupid disparity with regard to people considering some creative mediums art, but not another, very similar one which merges two existing ones (literature and film). That's good enough for me. I don't like disparities.

So I got the stupid shotguns achievement and can now use shotguns on a Sentinel. With that, I created one this afternoon and am having fun casting Barrier and then running into combat blasting away. I find that the shotgun is pretty accurate even at medium range, as long as you zoom. Certainly, I'm losing less health than I did playing with a pistol. I am locking forward to gaining the rocket launcher ability for my shotgun as, aside from the large AOE damage, it's long-range and perfectly accurate so I can use it for sniping. Pity the cool down is so damn long. I tried throw on a Geth Shock Trooper and to my surprise it killed him in one hit as he was next to a wall. Cool.

People pre-ordering games that don't even have a firm release date yet has always confused me. When I heard that Duke Nukem Forever had been cancelled, I thought about the people who pre-ordered and smiled.

Yes. In fact, it's so accurate, Obsidian doesn't even know about it.

That'd unquestionably be the Shock Trooper, since they can have their shields up permanently during a fight. All a Nemesis offers is a bigger lift AoE. Shock Trooper gets: 28 second Barrier at 1250 HP. When it runs out, cast, Adrenaline Rush, then cast Barrier. When Adrenaline rush runs out, wait 12 seconds and cast Barrier again. Repeat the cycle as long as needed, although this gives you over a minute of shields and I doubt the fight lasts that long. Along with that shield boost, they still have their Lift ability, which is as strong as ever, and their Adrenaline Rush can be used to refresh it. In terms of straight shield strength, Sentinel turned Bastion is strongest, since they get the shield boost from both improved Barrier and their tech talent (Electricity?). And the sentinel really does get a permanently on Barrier. Sentinel is also powerful beside that, because they get super Stasis and Lift. I doubt you'd notice the lack of weapon training since you get a pistol bonus and the pistol is inherently accurate anyway. As for weapons: they all do comparable damage. But in terms of straight DPS, yeah it's the pistol. WILL has a good point about the shotgun, though. Right, I'm off to restart since doing the Liara mission first thing off the citadel and being unable to defeat the final encounter of that mission (Krogan + Geth) I've discovered just how powerful biotics are (if I could lift, singularity, or stasis it'd be a piece of cake). Time to decide between building a Sentinel, a Vanguard, or an Adept. Leaning Sentinel for the tankiness and pure spammability of abilities. A maybe I should go kill a bunch of things with a shotgun so I can take a Sentinel with shotguns. Good combo with his tankiness and all. Yeah, I'll do that. Liara can whip up singularities while run in and blast away blindly.

Only if that was a typo and you meant sultana.

Exactly. This is a discussion forum for the game, no? There are a lot of people anticipating this game who are starting to have questions arise due to the silence and no word on a hard date a suppposed month away from when it is 'supposed' to release. If you want to ignore all that and pretend like they have been upfront with us, then that is your right. However, please don't tell those of us who simply want to know what the deal is to "shut up" in a forum where we are supposed to be discussing the game. Maybe you should write long rants on an internet message board about how a game you haven't yet paid for is not yet released and how that's intolerable because you think the employees of a privately traded company 'owe' you something. I mean, it'll get you somewhere, right?

I put on my robe and wizard's hat.

A good definition for art would be anything which requires creative endeavour.