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Well they cleared the riot zone, which may actually have been a boon to the red shirts as they were succeeding in nothing but turning people against them.

Does Assassins Creed 2 need 'always on line' on console ?.

I hope those things have zippers.

What's your take on it. I mean the fellow who the army says was corrupt was also the democratically elected president. Now it seems he is bankrolling the rebellion to some extent from exile. Doesn't seem like anything is going to come of it as the 'red shirts' have maneuvered themselves into a corner with their over the top activism, and yet they still have major support in the provinces.

I'm with Darque, if he managed to fly safely for 13 years he more pilot than fraud.

Lol, yes it's nice to have pictures with one's stories.

Yes, the book is ,among other things, a hardcore drug user's confession. I liked the 'animated' film version, but it would have been just as good without all the filters.

It entirely depends on how fast you lose water. No strenuous activity and cold temperatures would be a whole other story than hiking in the Sahara. The rule of thumb that I heard is a week or less for water, and a much as several months for food.

It looks like some random render. 50s, Vegas, Nuclear holocaust.. This whas the best they could do ?

The whole point of a 'who done it' or a grand plot is that there is an answer, an explanation that accounts for all the clues. Of course if you just chose not to worry about it you can string people along all the way to the last episode, which is where the big letdown inevitably happens. That all sounds pretty BSG to me, I have to admit.

Why is a landslide victory an advantage ?. A clear majority is an advantage, without it government will have a hard time acting decisively. You don't need one to have the other. There are advantages to learning to compromise with your rivals, especially when faced with tough questions about the immediate economic future. Britain should feel fortunate that the stalemate has finally been broken and that there is now more than two viable parties.

But the Tories are insane. There is good reason why they have been left out of government for so long.

Nahh, someone just came up with a special term for something that happens all over.

I wonder if that's their new tactic. Hit and run.

Ohh so it wasn't early onset Alzheimer's

Apostate, Heretic !.

Boring backstory. Too banal in it's duality theme.

Sure, but how do you feel about your mother?

Isn't that a rather picture perfect view of an MPs connection to his constituency. People tend to vote for whoever has made the most of profiling himself with issues that the voter can connect to. It's mostly a national popularity contest. What does it matter where the candidate lives. I'll admit I have never voted for city council, I just could not muster the interest. Maybe it's a vibrant centre of local democracy, who knows.

You pointed out the inherent corruption on your own. An MP in the proportional system isn't really accountable because he owes his position to the party that put him on the list, not to the voters. The average voter is not likely to know anyone beyond the top 10-20 names in the list, with everyone else on it being party fodder. So, the voters who supposedly picked him/her likely have no idea who they actually picked. On the other hand he/she has no idea who his voters are, since everything about his political career developed through internal party politics - which is how he got on the list in the first place. @Walsingham: I dunno, Earthworm Jim says all lawers go to hell. And, unlike a FPTP system his or her mandate from the people is guaranteed to tangibly exist. I also don't see how FPTP is free from the same problem. Brown anyone ?. Would he have gone on to be PM without favouritism and party politics. Isn't that the whole reason he got where he is. Promises that he was 'next in line'. A federation type electoral organisation is less democratic because it is entirely possible for major sections of the electorate to be over, under, or un-represented. Maybe you need that in countries that are so big that local identity rivals national identity (the US for instance). Is that the case with the UK. I don't think so.

I can cope with using steam, which is really like turning a big leaf for me. I will never buy anything that requires active internet to play. Also what's a 'casual gamer'. I don't know how do do anything at less than 100% capacity, if I can't muster that I don't do it at all - which is usually what happens.

Stealing all the seats because you got 51 % of the votes is surely worse. You can scarcely even call it democratic. Proportional representation doesn't sever the link between voter and vote, it makes each vote count the same. I see no connection with corruption whatsoever. Corruption happens to officials who aren't accountable. Favouritism, nepotism. etc. creates a culture which perpetuates itself.

It will be grand, and Denmark won't go through the opening rounds.

Isn't that rather a universal law of politics. One gets fed up with the old and stupidly thinks that the new is going to be better. I don't know why Labour decided to name him crown prince to begin with, he obviously has no knack for the popularity game, and by all accounts he was doing a good job as chancellor of... something or other - finance minister.

So it's sortof like an English proficiency test. What do you need that for ?.