Gorgon

They have been talking forever about a common EU foreign policy and an 'EU army'. A foreign policy representing 27 countries, that would be about as useful for getting things done as the United Nations. It's never going to happen. The EU is about trade, although the political dimension also means giving up a sizable chunk of independence.

I wonder what it is though, this movement to reintroduce the confederate flag. This is not the first stunt of this kind. Several hundred years ago the south fought on the wrong side in the defining war of the country. That's not something to be ashamed of on it's own, but slavery is, and to most people the confederate flag says 'racism' much in the same instant recognition fashion that the Jolly Roger says 'pirates'.

They are private citizens right, they can do whatever they like. The NAACP can hang a giant stars and stripes next to it.

I'd say my favorite mech design is a shadowcat or a vulture, just purely from a perspective of aesthetics.

Well, better spiders than flies.

As opposed to what. The employer paying more value in money than the work is worth. I like it!. Do you have a word for that too, and where can I find these employers ?

How about 5 years in the slammer for suggesting the pope would get boinked up the arse by 'very active homosexual devils' once he died. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/f...icle4732048.ece This was in response to the popes position on contraception which is hurting AIDS campaigns in developing nations, and various other reactionary backwardsness after Ratzinger took office, or was appointed by god or whatever they call it.

Hakka nakka leinigen

Karl Marx mostly makes sense in a situation where a majority of the population slave away in factories and have to band together to do more than barely survive. It's not terribly relevant in the information age. History tells us that Capitalists systems are neither inherently unstable or headed towards implosion and revolution. Capitalism is merely the default organisation, a force of nature more than a system of government or ideology. Everything looked a lot different in the aftermath of the industrial revolution though.

Hmm. And who belongs to this "capitalist class", exactly? Scrooge Mcduck

It's a bit strange to me that it wasn't 'off with the head' for the emperor. When the king plays along with the wrong regime it has had that effect time and again. Fortunately the Japanese have taken to the post war constitution, and are the least worry in that region.

I think we, whoever that is in this instance, may be arrogant in only thinking that Ze Germans and the Japs could be so servile and unquestioning as to allow a ruthless fascist dictatorship to literally ruin the country with war. It could happen anywhere, and the lesson is to be on guard for it, always.

An update. Deciding to give the inside of the box a good cleaning I discovered that the filter on the big case fan situated next to the GFX slot was more a solid mass of accumulated dust than a filter. I took it out, and now the machine runs with quite tolerable noise levels. The R4850 has an only just capable cooler and doesn't respond well at all to bad airflow.

Nothing gets my blood boiling like people who profess to tell you what worlds you can and can't use. Language bullying is about a million times more annoying than swearing, which is merely childish except for those rare occasions where it seems to fit the occasion. By all means swear all you like, just don't expect that to do anything for the game on its own.

I think most of 'em look like guys in mech suits, which is also my least favorite mech design. Can't they just can those mechs and move on.

I heard someone mention bloodlines. Well, in that game you needed 4 or more points in guns for it not to be completely useless. The same is true of many builds that only come together at level x, regardless of the system used. The worst example I can think of off the top of my head is the witcher where the combat moves unlocked slowly and painfully, or not at all because there was no reason to advance both steel and silver styles. When I'm fiending for XP anywhere I can find them, it's usually because I'm trying to get to where my build starts to get fun.

What, it's free ? Is it mechwarrior 4 or 5. This is confusing. Also the Atlas looks stupid, they always have. As long as I can have my Madcats, Ravens, Vultures, Cougars and Daishis.

There is a notable difference between shooting down an airliner through incompetence or neglect, and a deliberate terrorist action. Did the pilot responsible for the mistake get a medal ?, if not, what does it matter what other medals were given out at the time.

Was he ever popular or was he just the crown prince being groomed for party leadership. That's what he have now too by the way, our PM would be quite unlikely to win anything by himself, without the backing and resources of his office and the party. It's not often a PM is so unpopular he actually has to go out and defend his decision not to resign.

Yeah ok, I'll put the homeworld games up there too.

You don't get off after killing a plane full of people, I mean what kind of message does that send. However... Does the director of the FBI usually involve himself in political debate, make statements to the press about what he thinks about this and that and justice in general. You would think as a federal employee he would be forbidden to say anything even remotely likely to influence foreign relations.

Who cares what those untermensch think.

Whatever, I piss upon the console controller used in FPS games from a great height.

It's pretty obvious : in order to get the greatest challenge and pleasure out of an FPS you need the better input device. If you are just a casual gamer and don't care about the competitive (I hesitate to use the term) 'sports' element, then obviously it doesn't matter, but if you have had the experience of playing FPS on LAN or tournaments the controller seems like a pathetic thing indeed, there is no denying it.