Gorgon

It's all about resources right from the beginning, a stable home environment with prepare you, and the lack of one hamstring you. This conservative cannon nonsense about everyone deserving their place, I can't believe anyone buys into that.

Force everyone through an education, whether vocational or otherwize, by cutting them off welfare if they don't.

This is about giving everyone the same opportunity to shine, not about lowering standards, in theory at least that should create more success stories out of the whole than if only the privelidged have access to higher education. This long term investment is absolutely necessary in a modern information society, unless you want to start competing for manual labour jobs with the Chinese.

Well, we can decide to fight against determinism for idealistic reasons, in fact in many areas we do, and if we didn't we would lose out on a whole lot of talent.

If there was a 'fairness in education' law, I'm sure that's what they would have been using, the wording in human rights statutes is neccessarily pretty open and vauge by comparison since it needs to incompass any number of imaginable abuses.

We don't have a law for every crime or injustice, you take what's available in ye olde book of laws and make your way from there.

I don't see any real relevance in what statute they are trying to make their case under. Did they somehow soil efforts towards advancing human rights.... No.

No, and indeed children of well educated well off people generally turn out that way themselves, the opposite for the poor. One might well argue that education should be on the merits, and not be decide on whether daddy is able to pay the tuition for the university with a name that guarantees a higher level of access. If your parents are poor and uneducated you are already up against it, not having well functioning support network. I generally support the notion of trying to level the field as much as possible. The actual problem here is that England is broke, not that you want to discriminate more than you already do, but the effect is much the same.

I suspect the effect will be to reduce gibs, like that rental service did with their own cut of Saving Private Ryan. I wonder why the people behind this push are not worried that cleaning up the aesthetics of the violence will make it more easy for people to become desensitized, not less.

Is this in response to the myth about video game violence witch is nevertheless also a really good vote magnet.

Great.... I ****ing love games that are thinly disguised giant shopping malls.

If there is no prompt to change your password when you log in normally then I'd say it sounds suspect. Bioware stores credit card information for its monopoly money system, so being extra careful is in order.

There are a few options for softwareing your way there, but those cripple speed, other than that a UK proxy, which costs money.

Most BBC web programming is only available for UK IP ranges, this is no exception.

There is no valid point to chaos, that's kinda the definition.

I think it's kind of cool, I mean as long as there is no profit involved and sort of an activist agenda going on. Hopless romantic when it comes to antiestablishmentarianism, what can I say. You need a little chaos in the system, not because it's good in and of itself, but because you would definately miss it if it wasn't there.

Ohh good, I thought we were going to have undead Carl Drogo as a major character with even less room for acting finesse.

This is no laughing matter

I would rather have them be killable in hard mode.

So it really wouldn't bother you if people started lining up coke on the counter ?

So Dungeon Siege is out. Looks Diablo/Torchlightish http://store.steampowered.com/app/901638/

Just sucking at the internet.

Hopefully the poll works this time.

Coke used to be the definition of hip. It took a drug war and the elevation of prudishness to virtue combined with the fear of violent crime during the Reagan years to change it. An actual drug war fought among other places in Miami as popularized by Miami Vice, not just a silly label.