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I think there should be a secret level called the crate warehouse. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to rescue... something. Anyway, that's not important. It should involve a shoot out and you should be able to duck behind, jump over, and break through the crates around you. There should be equal distribution of narrow winding corridors and open rooms chock full of crates stacked to varying heights and in varying sizes. And if you fall on a crate from a certain height, depending on its size, IT SHATTERS. And sometimes when you walk past a crate it just SHATTERS anyway because there is actually a secret spy inside just WAITING to burst out and snap your neck. And there should be TNT crates that you can pick up and drop off buildings in Hong Kong that land on the robots below and blow up and the flying chunks of metal hit the MJ12 soldiers in the FACE.

This thread warms my heart. <3 crates

I tend to agree with you guys. I think that the test has a left-leaning bias due to the questions. They often frame the right-wing response as either illogical or heartless. I think in general I am between centre right and centre left on political issues, but the political compass test claims I am far left. The Australian political test I linked to seems far more accurate.

Is that "Hug me!" on the shirt? Haha, I love it.

This game is ace!

Before BIS made the switch to 3e they polled the general forum populous for a final confirmation. The vast majority was in support of it. Except maybe WinterWolf9090. In general, I still support the decision. It gave a fresh breath of life to the final days of the IE engine.

"Too hard to define"? But seriously, everybody feels a bias towards SOMETHING... even if it is the centre.

That's not really true. They were thought extinct for many years, but they've recently been spotted in the wild from time to time. They've been made famous by a few cases of foreign hikers in the bush being found with their skulls mauled; typical signs of a drop bear attack. Anybody with half a brain knows to be wary of them, though. Silly tourists think they're cuddly koalas.

Monty Python and Family Guy/American Dad are funny once or twice, then they get old fast. I'm a fan of Futurama, Daria, Clone High, Friends, How I Met Your Mother, and Seinfeld, though.

An accurate Australian political test. Seems pretty country-independent, though (imagine the questions are about your own country). Give it a go. It will give you a political score, but also what Australian political parties correlate with your score, giving you an idea of what Australian parties do what. None of the parties work for me according to the test (true), though the closest seems to be Greens, Democrats and One Nation. Far-left, centre-left, and far-right respectively. Hahaha. Greens 53.6% (Voted for these guys in the 2007 election as a balancing move, only because I knew they wouldn't get any real power. I agree with them on a basic level, but consider them too far left for my liking.) Australian Democrats 56.3% (You know, I actually identify with these guys. It's a shame they're failing so badly; bleeding voters to Labour and Greens) Labor Party 50.7% (Current government... we'll see how it goes. I'm about as fond of them as I am of the liberals, but at least they actually care about the environment) Family First 34.7% (A disgusting bunch of religious zealots) Liberal Party 38.9% (John Howard's party - the government in power for 10 years. Did pretty well.) National Party 37.9% (A coalition with the Liberal Party) One Nation 68.6% (Considered right-wing, but sort of politically independent... has been accused in the past of xenophobia but it is more about control of illegal immigration - nobody really votes for them) LOL. Love how it slowly decreases as we go down from left to right, until it hits One Nation and sky-rockets. It's not exactly a strong correlation to One Nation, though. Political outlook Your broad political orientation score is -1.7%, which equates to a

Haha fair enough. It was more a silly jab at you than anything meaningful. Kind of like how I tell the American exchange students that smearing Vegemite behind their ears will protect them from the drop bears. (Hint: it won't.) On topic: I support home-schooling in various situations. Most notably Gifted and Talented education. Lots of effort and care needs to be taken to ensure proper social interaction and such, though. Not sure how I'll raise my own kids, but I'd lean towards schools, as dysfunctional and inadequate as they are.

I actually cheered when I read that! The guy repairing the air conditioner got a bit of a shock, but I don't care. That's the best news I've had this week, and that's the truth. :) Damn straight, mate. I may have only been introduced to DLM this year, but I was very sad to only have 2 seasons.

Hey Steve, you heard they're making a Dead Like Me movie, then another series, right? EDIT: Would highly recommend Stargate. Watch the Stargate movie first, then try seasons 1 to 3 of SG1. If you like them, continue on. If you still want more, pick up Atlantis.

Man, you've got a real inferiority complex about being Asian.

The home-schooled kids I've met on the net are from the USA and do it because their parents want to teach from the bible. The other less common reason is for Gifted education. Funny the two reasons are polar opposites.

<3 Red Dwarf, Faulty Towers, Black Books, Absolutely Fabulous, Dad's Army, Father Ted, My Hero, Yes Minister

Ah? Not a subscriber? Bit of a Earth is 6000 years old fan?

Twin pairs in America had a genetic link for positive humour, but negative humour had to be learned. Twin pairs in the UK indicated a genetic link for both positive and negative humour, with negative humour having a 50% genetic component. Don't ask about the methodology; I haven't seen it, nor is the study public.

I think you'll find ratings indicate cliff-hangers are a very successful strategy.

Haha. http://physorg.com/news124444599.html I always suspected Americans and Europeans had some sort of humour deficit. I guess I was correct.

Azarkon: Threads aren't personal interchanges between only two people, sorry. Cantousant: You're right; my response to Azarkon was fairly pointless. Just as pointless as Azarkon's reference to animal rights militants in response to Gromnir. Why bring up militant groups in a topic that's got nothing to do with them? Azarkon would liken those pro animal rights to militant zealots, but that carries as much truth as stereotyping pro-lifers as abortion clinic bombers. The link is tenuous. Can you understand that now? It's got nothing to do with chimps... I would think that's self-evident considering neither I nor he mentioned chimps in regard to that specific issue. Why? You've certainly made your stance on the issue clear. But you haven't given any justification besides "because they aren't us". I'm only advocating the right to survival, so don't get your knickers in a knot thinking it means a chimp's going to take your job. But hey, you get all fired up and angry if you want. I'm sure it helps somehow?

So how do animal rights militants play into all this? You know, the guys who put bombs under people's cars in order to get them to stop the "inhumane" treatment of animals? Probably the same place as pro-life militants that put bombs in abortion clinics? Use a brain.

Well, considering that 'humans' interbred with chimpanzees for about 5 million years before it became genetically impossible (at about 4 million years ago), our genetic material is almost identical except for mostly junk DNA and environmental changes, and that chimps have all the basic mental assets of humans (arithmetic, tool use, language, culture, altruism, laughter, jealousy, learning, self-awareness, etc), I think there's a stronger case for giving them rights (in the human rights sense) than any other animal. Fact of the matter is, many of them have levels of personality and intelligence exceeding certain groups of society (e.g. the mentally retarded). But it'll never happen because people don't like to think we're related to apes, especially religious fanats. Plus, it'd make the pharmaceutical companies that use them as lab rats look bad. Even though chimpanzees are an endangered species. Hell, on the evolution note: chimp chromosomes are near identical to human ones. The 2 chromosome has fused in humans from two chimpanzee 2 chromosomes - there's actually proof this happened because there are telomeres in the middle of the human 2 chromosome... telomeres only occur on the end of chromosomes to prevent damage to the end of the chromosome during replication. Genetically, we may only have 98.5% of our DNA in common with chimps, but the interesting thing is that the 1.5% difference is mostly junk DNA (as well as viral immunity, gene duplication, things like that based which are species neutral). The important small number of differences, things like cranial capacity, hair loss, etc, are mostly controlled by a only one or two genes. In fact, hair loss is thought to have occurred only 240,000 years ago due to only copy of a gene being deleted (even though we have 9 more). Much of chimpanzee intelligence, personality and culture is as environment dependent as in humans. Humans only developed language at 70,000 years ago, probably due to the innovation of one or two individuals. It might have spurred human progress since, but it's not the selective force behind human intelligence. I wonder how "smart" you'd be if you were raised from birth without in a society without human tools, including language and fire? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_ape_lan...f_sign_language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanzi#Example...zi.27s_behavior On a complete tangent, the average female chimpanzee weighs about 40kg, is 3ft tall, and is about 5 times stronger than the average adult male. If you ever get in a fight with a chimp, run away and live to tell the tale.

Why don't we have a look at the hundreds of young "men" who were executed for shell shock? Many of them kids around the age of 15 and 16. Those who experienced shell shock were considered weak, cowardly and to have no moral character. If they weren't executed they were sent back to the front lines within 48 hours. It's not called shellshock anymore, though. Now it is post-traumatic stress syndrome. It didn't stop at WW1, either.

Well, 420 was weird. I was so hoping they'd show what happened to the humans of the future, or something of the sort, but no. Lame. Not even any Red Dwarf jokes besides the reference to holograms. Not a bad ep, though.