Gorgon

I'm drawing a blank, but then I'm a boring person.

Thats why he has a cover version for practically every song he ever wrote. The songs are great, but his individual skill isn't that fantastic. If you can get used to the folksy nasal droning he comes off really well in good company.

You should be forced to listen to Blond on Blond. Dylan is a superb songwriter, also the only case I can think of where you can actually listen and think about the words the first time you hear it.

You can never have too many apostrophes and consonant clusters.

Children should not be forcibly removed unless there is evidence of abuse or neglect, mostly because the alternatives are so poor. I have some first hand experience here. A member of my extended family was some decades ago an alcoholic and was at that time unquestionably an unstable influence in bringing up two children, long story short social services got involved and decided that the children should be removed. The following months the children lived underground on the run with their parents until a deal could be struck where the rest of our clan promised to take on responsibility for their well being. This is not even the first time I've heard of it, it seems to happen on a regular basis. Children placed in foster homes run away all the time as well.

The Black Power movement has blacksploitation and James Brown so it wins hands down though.

Black pride is an obvious counter movement, that said, had the dice fallen another way and Africa developed faster there is no indication that the plantations would not have been manned by white slaves. Bigotry is not limited to the majority.

I'm afraid the much quoted idea that 'free speech is not a license to slander', is not terribly accurate. In a sense it is, everyone from the crackpots to the neo Nazis are allowed to spread their gospel and no 'holy cow' is exempt from being attacked. All as long as it is part of a public debate or some manner of generalized expression of ideas and beliefs. If it's not free, then it isn't. There are no two ways about it, you must allow the good with the bad.

Peni

Many things go bump in the night, Minsc and Boo bump back.

If you ever have to buy laptops en masse it might be worth considering going very low tech. No cutting edge graphics means less load on the battery, swap the vista installation for Linux for a litte extra performance if you are comfortable juggling between OSes. What is the Plural of OS anyway.

This is why I don't even want a laptop. Friend o mine has a 3000 quid mac laptop with a battery life of just 4 hours. Bloody useless.

Ohh bugger off and quit misrepresenting me. He was there, he refused to leave, these facts are not in doubt, I am correct in assuming this am I not. The rest is on all of you. I was just commenting on how bloody odd it is for an American to be a prisoner of conscience in Vietnam.

Finals are usually boring.

You are insane. Are you seriously going to take the word of a communist regime over dozens of young men who were POW's? He went in with dark hair and came out with white hair, for goodness sake, I don't think he was staying in Hanoi for the great room service. He wanted the POW's that were there before him released as well, that's why he "refused" to leave. Look, I'm not even really a big fan of his politics, and I don't plan on voting for the guy, but I have a hard time listening to criticism over his war record. The guy made huge sacrifices for his country and his fellow soldiers. Why so emotional, and why am I 'taking the position of a Communist regime'. You aren't making any sense.

He was there for 5 bleeding years because he refused to leave.

He could like, get captured and then refuse to leave, eating up all your supplies.

Waht does it do, shoot fire ?

The British could never have afforded to field a long term occupation army once it became clear that the colonies would be perpetually contested.

Are any of these new NWN2 adons due anythime soon ?

Mozart composed his first symphony when he was 6.

Actually it occurs to me that us pinko commie euros might be to blame, we constantly poke our fingers in their faces pointing out their shortcommings and they respond by being opposite. You think the yanks don't care ? - just look at the whole debacle with France.

I dunno, if you mean people who are overly emotional about the cult of the constitution and their guns, you need not look far. The US has a gun death rate of a third world nation, but they want to have them, just like by and large they want the death penalty. Their funeral I guess. It would be undemocratic to go against a majority of the electorate, even if a majority of the electorate are some simple backwards Neanderthals. Just like segregation you would need a watershed moment in history for this to change. It's nowhere on the horizon.

Firearms should be legal widespread for self-defense until there are few of those who own them illegally. (Until violent crime is lowered significantly.) So one happens as a consequence of the other ?

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