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Gorgon

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  1. were they pro or against gangster party. wasn't immediately clear.
  2. Well, yes. http://www.europarl....=GB&webTermId=7 In UK voting booths, typically bundled into municipal elections, that's how we do it here.The comission is hand picked by individual governments, that would be the international body part of the equation. I don't see how governments could hope to agree on ,say, debt relief to Greece in the EU parliament.
  3. It's an internatioal body, but it elects its own Parliament. For what it is its extremely democratic.
  4. Looks like it's designed to look good on a smart phone, and like a 13 year olds girl's myspace page if you are on a big screen.
  5. new skin is fugly. Goin' to bed now.
  6. What you call dangerous we would easily label a typical conservative candidate. There is the plan to extend health coverage, but it's still an essentially private market, some talk about the environment and green tek, but that has taken off in a big way in the last decade, it's a long time since that was just a money drain supported by various green parties. On security virtually indistinguishable from any given Republican. I mean the plan was always to leave Irak and Afghanistan when we were done. No change in the Guantanamo bay issue of questionable regality regarding prisoners of war deemed terrorist suspects. Status Quo in the Israel - Palestine question. Not that there have been much in the way of lemons with which to make lemonade. Israel is a strategic ally, no leverage is brought to bear to influence them toward a final settlement with Palestine, the margins of success are too low, so why bother trying.
  7. I'm surprised the whole wife debacle seems to have turned in his favor. It's positive on one hand that those kinds of attacks seem to have lost their bite, and on the other hand remember all that 'moral majority' crap. It seems to me there ought to be a price to pay when a family values holier than thou candidate doesn't live up to his name.
  8. So is the notion that one can simply do away with monetary policy and all will be well. Mostly I suppose Republicans aren't receptive to the idea that spending so much money on wars constitutes the same kind of breach of liberty as universal healthcare.
  9. I have no idea, it depends on how effective they are when they reach office. I really look at what I think is the main problem in our country and try to decide who will be best at fixing it. For example, it was bad to have GW Bush as president when we really needed a strong foreign policy leader. We were in two wars and the global economy was starting to meltdown. Then Obama started his term needing strong economic policies to fix a sinking ship, and he was not able to handle it. As a counterpoint, Reagan came into office with perfect timing. He fixed a badly damaged image of the President and rebuilt American confidence. Clinton was also well-timed, he was very good at foreign policy when our economy was flourishing, leading to global implications. Both of those presidents were also capable of working with the other party. I see that as our number one problem today, the two parties spend so much time and energy fighting each other that we aren't getting anything done. I think Gingrich may be the best candidate to restore that working relationship. But yeah, I'm not sure he can avoid getting roasted by the media, and he lacks in the charm department. I don't know where all this Reagan worship comes from. Maybe it's like the wave of 80s retro nostalgia. Well, as someone who actually lived the 80s would tell you, the music and the clothes mostly sucked. It's the reimagining of a golden era that never existed, like Romanticism.
  10. I like Ron Paul, there seems to be not quite so much hypocrisy emmanating from him. Amazing really that you can still cultivate a reputation for consistency in the American political system. Don't agree with his outmoded minimal state Capitalism ideas, but I can respect it.
  11. Services like that are really starting to catch on. The lack of an offline mode is offset by a huge database at your disposal at a realatively cheap price. People won't bother scouring the web for a torrent when it's already there.
  12. Go back to 8 track
  13. Isn't that an anarchist's view of all law, though? It's theoretically possible to achieve almost complete compliance on the web with surveilance and enforcement, much more so than in the physical world owing to the relative efficiency of a completely digital system. That would be a first in human history, I'm not sure it's at all desireable. I guess I'm worried about momentum even though the problem has barely manifested itself as of yet.
  14. I like it quite a lot, but not because Nameless has amnesia. Mainly the NPCs I think.
  15. Problem is the amnesia is well used both as a plot and a role-play in PS:T's case and more than justifies the element. And you can't really make a "Nostalgia" and "This has been done to death" argument at the same time. Kinda contrary. Even assuming that time is a linear, they have been writing stories for a couple of thousand years already and soaps populated with people with amnesia since the 60s.
  16. The protagonist has amnesia. Kinda been done to death hasn't it. Nostalgia makes everything look better. Still, it's probably my favorite EI game.
  17. Ahh, thanks. Found it.
  18. Ok so I fell into the Logitech trap again because they were at the store and the old one died. It's a cordless g700. I presume I need some kind of wireless port on the computer to get it to work without the cord. There was no USB dongle thing in the package. What PCI card do I get ?
  19. Policing the web is a logical conclusion to how much of our interactions have gravitated there. I sure don't hope the intellectual propery rights lobby manage to completely tame the west though. The net could evolve into a rather terrifying method of control. I mean you already have to watch what you put out there. Companies have guidelines about what employees are allowed to say on social networks about their workplace which extend far past privileged information. The same goes for marketability in a job seeking situation, You can't afford to offend anybody.
  20. They tried that in the 60s, didn't take on a large scale.
  21. I think it's fine that they want personality to come to the forground at the expense of biology and historical norms. It's not going to work though, just IMHO.
  22. Kindof a useless job as well. If I were deaf and wanted to know what was goin on I'd want subtitiles.
  23. Love her, that's brilliant.
  24. Watching Star Trek TNG in a bout of nostalgia. You really can't do everything with rubber facemolds. Well you can, but it's not exactly easy on the eyes. That's from Voyager, I know. God I hate Neelix.
  25. Watching Star Trek TNG in a bout of nostalgia. You really can't do everything with rubber facemolds. Well you can, but it gets really fugly on the eyes.

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