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No idea. Although the average banana (especially skin) is like 11% ethanol.

Once, my friend and I was in some random persons house for a party. We were completely smashed, and out of booze. Suddenly, my friend started opening up cupboards left right and centre looking for the alcohol hoard. I believe I was leaning on the kicthen table yelling "YOU CAN'T STEAL THEIR SECRET ALCOHOL". A few seconds, minutes or hours later, she finds their stash. Among it is something called 'Banana Liqueur'. Thinking this a nice sounding drink, she opens it up and sculls a bit then tells me to find a mixer. I presumably could only find coke, because I end up making her a ****tail of: Half Banana Liqueur Half Coca Cola Surprisingly, it tasted absolutely delicious. And we then finished the bottle and went to bed on the floor somewhere. More surprisingly, I have since recreated this drink whilst sober, and found it to be an excellent ****tail, appreciated even by those who dislike banana or coke. Further, it does not burn on the way down, and the alcohol can't be tasted. Probably because it's only 20%. Still, the biggest problem is that it costs $20 AUD, and is used up very rapidly (being half the ****tail and all, and the bottle is only 500 ml).

That's QA not programming.

How much do you know about programming? I didn't like ToEE, but I couldn't see anything wrong with the programming.

I never used eBay, but it sounds like a stupid idea.

Hulegu Khan. Either Buddhist himself or very favorable and sympathetic towards Buddhism and following many of its teachings. Killed a lot of folks. 1) That was in 1200 AD. 2) He didn't kill in the name of Buddhism, so you're making an extremely tenuous link there 3) He was actually a lax Christian. He only started to change over to Buddhism near his death. Honestly, you're digging up some strange things to try and paint Buddhism in the same dark light as other religions. Does time really have anything to do with it? Anyway, the example of the Monks is there if you think recency is more relevant. What monks? I tried to find some information on this, but your reference was too vague. I still fail to comprehend how one being Buddhist and having power means that if one abuses said power, he does so in the name of Buddhism. This seems to be what you're implying with the grandson of Genghis Khan. Fair enough. I'm just not about to pigeon hole Buddhism with other religions unless I have evidence that it makes sense to do so; which I don't. And yes, time matters to some degree. Mainly because this thread is about the here and now; stuff that's happened in recent history - last 50 to 100 years. And yes time matters because, for example, Christianity that was practised 1500 years ago is not the same Christianity practised today, no? The names may not differ, but many other things do. Would you blame Mormons for the crusades?

Yet as I pointed out, it was a political dispute in one country of many which practice Buddhism; one even where nobody was murdered or tortured. I'm finding it very hard to reconcile that with "Buddhist extremists".

Hulegu Khan. Either Buddhist himself or very favorable and sympathetic towards Buddhism and following many of its teachings. Killed a lot of folks. 1) That was in 1200 AD. 2) He didn't kill in the name of Buddhism, so you're making an extremely tenuous link there 3) He was actually a lax Christian. He only started to change over to Buddhism near his death. Honestly, you're digging up some strange things to try and paint Buddhism in the same dark light as other religions. Sorry, I was way too vaige. 1960s-70s onwards saw the oppression of cirtain sects of buddhism within Tibet, notably of the Santi Asoke movement which was, frankly, persecuted for its anti-establishment mentality. From what I read, the 80 or so arrests were a product of Thailand's politics rather than religion. And happily I see no reference to murder or torture.

Tibet mid-last century was under Chinese oppression. Care to back up your claims?

Never mind Mad Max, have you seen Sydney? 1/4 of Australia lives there buddy. Just don't try riding a bike there.

All papers are accounted for - including errors. So yeah you'd have to find a way to get past that check. I also imagine that the number of people who vote must add up to the number of votes cast.

I have yet to see Mad Max.

Nah. I'd be impressed.

Vampire: Bloodlines was (one of) God's gift(s) to RPGs. If Tim Cain had anything to do with its brilliance, then I am interested in this new studio.

I don't fully know how they work, but I imagine being one of the sorters would give you some access points to rig stuff.

Captain Planet! He's our hero! Gonna take pollution down to zero...

Arkan: We = America? I know Australia has reserves of super-clean, (low sulphur and other pollutants) high-yield coal to last a couple of hundred years even at the current rate of exportation of 75% of production. You find it funny, do you? You think China doesn't deserve the 'flak' it is getting? Poor old China with its unsustainable population and economy. - Maybe we should cut it some slack because it didn't mean to kill those 300 university students who were protesting for democracy. - Maybe it doesn't mean to lock up and torture/kill anybody who suggests a better life is possible. - Maybe it doesn't mean to rape the people of Tibet because religion, culture and tradition threaten the rule of the dictatorship. - Maybe it didn't mean to invade Tibet in the first place. - Maybe it doesn't mean to keep Taiwan from moving for independence by threatening with war every few months. - Maybe it doesn't mean to rewrite its history books to hide human rights abuses; maybe it doesn't mean to censor religion, freedom, rights, culture, etc from the internet and other media - and maybe it doesn't mean to arrest people who bypass the censor. - Maybe it doesn't mean to try and exterminate Falun Gong simply because it practices spirituality and individual freedom. - And hell... maybe it doesn't mean to use political prisoners as involuntary internal organ donors?

Come now, HKD, it's not really dumbing down. Just think of it as 'newspeak'.

Good luck with that. =/ I got 7 vials of blood taken out yesterday. Damn nurse was standing there for 2 full minutes with a needle in my vein filling up each vial.

2.5 tonnes of cocaine? Holy mother of god.

1) I've never heard of that happening in Australia. I don't think it applies in the first world, yeah. And I don't know about America, but Australia is pretty tight right now - that is we are very well off economically, we're politically very stable, physically isolated, have immense oil/gas/coal reserves and are fairly self-sufficient food-wise... we're good to go for a long time, barring a world war or something. 2) Harder than faking an electronic ballet, no?

Sick ****ers. I wonder how long it'll take to see an end to things like this? Will I see it before I turn 70? That'd be 2060. Who knows I guess... so many things will have run out before then - coal, oil, gas, zinc, etc. And so many other things will have changed. Perhaps China will even give it's citizens human rights one day?

That's actually very true.

Serious response welcome.