Gorgon

Well most experts agree that pedophiles have an extremely high rate of re-offending. I think any consideration of release has to take this into account. In most cases such an individual would pose a continual threat. I'm not sure if life without parole is always the right sentence, we could be on the edge of the age of consent, there could be special considerations. etc.

Mmm this is familiar, shove an image of some bastard who everyone can agree deserves everything he gets in our faces, and then turn it into a discussion of the death penalty. I don't think the death penalty is necessary. There are certain things we just should not do, not because there aren't people who deserve to die, but because these things demean society and lessen the value of human life.

And thus from your subjectivity god does not exist, only a hypothetical allowance for the fact that you might be wrong in that assumption. Which brings me back to my original statement that atheism is absolutist, well, maybe it isn't. You win.

No, no, no. An atheist is a person who does not believe in a god or gods, not one who says there is no god or gods. You are asking me to refute a stawman. It's a zero sum game isn't it. If an atheist doesn't believe in god then from his perspective god doesn't exist. God only exists for those who believe.

**** no - completely different. Explain. Ostensibly if there is no God then God doesn't exist, if you can do it without being snooty - if you can't then don't bother.

A good excuse is still just an excuse, not an explanation.

I though an agnostic was someone who admitted he couldn't figure it out, given that there is no real basis for proof for either contention.

Atheism does not say that "'god does not exist" - it is the belief that there is no god or gods Thats the same thing surely, forgetting for a moment that I forgot to put god in plural.

Atheism and religious belief are both absolutist ideologies. The statement that 'god does not exists' is just as uncompromising as 'god exists'. Education shouldn't waste time on either, and least of all the US right wing Christians who seem to constantly crave attention.

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It would be even nicer if Lucas let go of the reigns and let someone more talented have a go at it.

Thats because it's a good excuse, and imperialism isn't entirely dead yet either, although it's present incarnation can better be described as the negative effects of globalization and its transnational conglomerates exploiting local resources. Thats not at all unlike merchant companies operating under charter during the worst of imperialism, although they are no longer encouraged by nation states, but operate on their own, without the extremes of slavery and with the added element of caring about their own image.

I don't know about that, but you don't have to listen long to Mugabe to realize that he is himself a rather sad ironic victim of imperialism, making the experience of imperialism into a sort of theory of everything when talking about Africa. Theories that try to encompass too much are always wrong, it reminds me of fundamentalist readings of Marx, just like the means of production are not the tealeaves in which you can find an explanation for any eventuality, neither is imperialism, but it is a defining feature of modern African history.

That continent got the worst imperialism has to offer, and hasn't recovered. There is progress measured over centuries, but its slow going.

I assume he wants to integrate the clip with whatever software he's using to make the presentation, that probably means converting to some common format that the codec dependent players can understand.

Haven't read this, but it seems like a logical place to start. There is also an adon which allows saving of streamed content for firefox, I can't remember what it's called. http://www.pallab.net/2007/06/05/comprehen...treaming-video/

whats the format, dvd ?

The forum doesn't allow remote hotlinking, something to do with how the images are hosted, if you provide a direct link it works though. The various image hosting sites should explain what url to use if you want the image to be viewable in a phb forum.

It's not because the game designers design for consoles, it's because people don't read print media anymore. Newspapers are going the same route statistically, that is online or bust.

Ohh come on, the 'stock' Dwarf was done a gazillion times better in the Baldurs Gate series. Kargain WTF

I would argue that writers, the ones that are any good that is, are people who notice and comment on what influences society over time for a living, as much as any academic does.

I don't think you need to be a social studies or psychology PHD to comment on media saturation and violence in computer games. It's so much part of our daily existence after all.

I saw a discovery program on this, it's an error in cell division, as such it is a mutation, but not one that is going to create a race of two headed or four armed superhumans.

Could be a hardware switch kicking in because your CPU fan isn't spinning fast enough, or the monitoring software doesn't think it does, I had that once and it would beep once and power down, ostensibly to save the CPU from meltdown, although the temp was just fine, the monitoring software didn't believe my fan was capable of keeping it cool at low RPMs.

Trying to protect your children from mass media is doomed to failure, the desperation inherent in such an attempt is exactly what politicians tap into when they get involved and comment on the subversive influence of computer games. It's just desperation enough to move people off their couches and down to the voting booths.