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****, Mao was one of the vilest individuals to walk this earth.

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2005/09/68788 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/01/23/213...of-Wikileaksorg http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/03/06/182...yptomes-Account http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/08/19/20...ommunity-Unrest http://www.paypalsucks.com/ http://www.paypalwarning.com/

I agree with the sentiment. Paypal is shocking.

Upon reflection, and in view of all the facts about Uniloc, I will tentatively scrounge up the money to buy AP (and if I'm going to buy the game after all I might as well support Obsidian as much as possible and pre-order). Edit: I should clarify that I find this DRM scheme acceptable only due to the promise of a patch to remove it. That said, if this DRM were any more restrictive I would simply wait for the patch to buy it.

Good. What about Mendalson? Because collectively they had less of a poor showing than the third significant party, hence represent more of (and indeed the majority, possibly with one or two small parties) of voters. Could you explain to me how it could make any kind of sense for the third significant party to form government instead without the support of anyone else? It wouldn't. I'd prefer a LibDem-Conservative coalition for at least one term (depending on how the Conservatives perform) too, but not to the extent that I'd start blaming democracy if it didn't happen.

You seriously didn't see that coming?

All seats now declared. (The election in one constituency was postponed until the end of this month) Conservative 306 Labour 258 Liberal Democrat 57 Democratic Unionist Party 8 Scottish National Party 6 Sinn Fein 5 Plaid Cymru 3 Social Democratic & Labour Party 3 Green 1 Alliance Party 1

Curiously enough that could be one the reasons why neanderthals lost to sapiens. It was really painful and potentially lethal for neanderthal women to give birth. You'd have to think that'd be a pretty simple selective pressure toward smaller heads, though, so I dunno about that... I mean Neanderthals existed for hundreds of thousands of years. Way more than enough time to adapt to something like that.

It's worth noting that Neanderthals had larger brains than us.

Considering Neanderthals are named after Neandertal where they were first discovered, yeah, what's up with those crazies?! http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/spelling.html

Obama will veto it if it passes, based on his past stances and what I've been reading.

It blurs the species line a bit, too.

Chimpanzees seem to get sad and mourn their dead the same way humans do according to two seperate studies published recently: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/04...h-reaction.html Study 1: the death of an elderly female Study 2: mothers responding to the deaths of their babies It's sad.

Two fascinate studies on chimps. The first one shows how chimps have culture, or social knowledge, and it's different between groups. It's interesting because all the other variables are controlled (e.g. genetic difference): http://www.physorg.com/news175435694.html The other one is a study which demonstrates that chimps shown a video of another chimp making a tool to solve a problem they were previously unable to go on to construct the tool themselves to solve the problem: http://www.physorg.com/news165682373.html And the third demonstrates some intelligent chimps refining and making better tools for harvesting termites to eat (delicious!) - using a brush rather than a basic straw (both constructed from plants): http://www.physorg.com/news155372626.html Bloody fascinating.

The interesting thing is that this basically means Greece will go into depression if you think about it. Ouch.

Scientists have basically finished mapping the Neanderthal genome, and comparative analysis with human and chimpanzee DNA shows that those who left Africa interbred with the Neanderthals - so the ancestors of Europeans, Asians, and Islanders. There's not much difference apparently. Our DNA DNA didn't change much from Africans because of it - and this sentence is meant in both the functional sense and the quantitative sense. http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id...ing_with_humans http://www.physorg.com/news192374283.html Such interbreeding is not surprising considering that the ancestors of humans kept breeding with the ancestors of chimps for roughly a million years after diverging, while Neanderthals only diverged from humans 200 to 400 or so hundred thousand years ago. Worth the full read.

Yes it will. There's only about 1,000 votes margin. I hate to be a downer, but the only way your vote really makes a difference is if the final margin is either 0 or 1. I vote regularly, but it's really more about ceremonial civic participation than it is about the ridiculously small odds (even in close races) that my vote wil determine the winner. Suppose everybody thought this way and did not vote?

Yes, because obviously you all can understand finnish perfectly? Oh snap. But then again... In Google Translate we trust.

The scribbley childs drawing of a tree is for the conservatives. The red rose is labour. What kind of moron thought up those symbols? Ha, I thought it was the reverse!

How is debt an essential part of that setup? Surely the expensive delays could be prevented by purchasing the spare tanks with funds provided from current revenues, no? It's a weird example because NASA is itself a government entity. But suppose you've got a private space organisation whose budget is fully tied up with day-to-day expense. How do they then account for these spare tanks without taking out a loan? Sure you could argue that they should budget better, but that ignores the reality that it often IS a good idea to borrow for growth, and works quite successfully for organisations.

I guess the overarching question in this thread for Obsidian is: why on earth did you or your publisher elect to use Uniloc on Steam rather than Steamworks?

That's hilarious, but it would be more hilarious if I knew what some of the party symbols represented which party.

Not that I think it'll change your mind but I've to point out that no, if you format or replace hardware you're not screwed, since you can de-activate an installation from Uniloc's website. They also promised to patch the DRM out, so assuming they keep their promise, the only advice I can give you is buying it after they do. Sucks, I know, but the DRM scheme has been already decided, the only thing I can see them doing is patching it sooner if they see it is affecting sales. Well, this is the most uplifting post in this thread by far. I'll consider it. Hopefully in the not too distant future I can buy the game without any form of DRM. God knows I'm a huge GOG fan and always check if a game is on there before I buy it on Steam. Who told you "they promised to patch the DRM out" BTW?

****ing insightful post. Interesting example, too. Cheers.