Gorgon

Well global warming has always been contested, only over the past decades the evidence of ozone depletion and water levels rising has been steadily acumulating. It's pretty obvious whats going on, as evidenced by a now very strong consensus among the scientific comunity that the phenomenon is real.

I think the idea is there will be more storms and more floods. Crops should improve rather than decline though.

Waiters have always been supposed to declare their tips for taxation, administrating and investigating breaches is simply not feasible from an administrative viewpoint, same deal for the regular joes with their MMOG munchkin gear and 'realestate'. Taxation is more geared towards the MMOG milionares and gold buying services.

Gold Farmer sweatshops are pretty close, to be honest. If you live in Shrilanka it's a dream job.

That does not compute, unless 'strength and value' does not equate with a rubel for rubel comparison.

These MMOG economies always detract from the gaming experience, unless you made a game about online economies, that would be kinda like fantasy mimicing reality and biting it's own tail.

It has always been easier to unite against a common percieved enemy than getting along with oneanother.

Why would you have a conference on the historical validity of the holocaust, unless you're retarded that is.

I believe the definition of terrorist is someone who kills random civilians specifically for effect, a tactic that has yet to prove a winner in any example I can think of. Not that I think the Iranian infiltrators burdened by moral consideratins.

I would like to add that although questioning sources is always prudent, you can get bogged down to the point that the discussion becomes about something else entirely.Threads become about how BBC and CNN are left wing and Fox rigth wing. It's a distraction. You have to at least consider the validity of anything reported by a global news source or else be prepared to disprove it.

The withdrawal of Israli forces from Lebanon caused a massacre by local christian militia, this is estanblished fact, the actions of Israli forces within palestinean refugee camps however don't have any reliable second sources, they have unquestionably been heavy handed, but massacres of so and so many thousands of people has just not been reported by sources with some minimum of journalistic integrity.

This would be so easy if there was an actual democratic tradition in the palestinean governance. We would have sanctions against Israel and international condemnation, unfortunately there is so much sectarianism and support of suicide bombings that we are pretty ****ing far from Ghandi territory here. There is no viable partner for Israel to negotiate with, maybe that was the plan all along in isolating and cutting them off from trade and any sense of progress for so long, who knows. No real sense that things are going to get better any time soon, just more of the same.

Still, it's interesting that there would be a jewish minority who perfer to live in Iran over Israel. Maybe the day to day goings on in Iran haven't got as much to do with politics or prejudice as we think. I guess it's like living in China, as long as you don't voice any strong opinions the government will leave you alone.

Incidentially, there was some point where you could get rid of party members you didn't like right. I made my way to neverwinter, how long untill i can ditch the party ?

The hotfix worked, thanks Sand. It's not a bad game i'm enjoying myself, except the camera is so awful I have had to start over with a mage, one that can stand in one place during a whole battle. They did try to improve it with the adon though, so now you have 4 different options for cameras, everything except one that works well. If you zoom way out it's not so noticable, but in close you wind up staring at shoes and elbows that take up the whole screen pretty often, and the avatars don't exactly turn on a dime either, if you ever need to run in away in a hurry, it's like paralel parking a trailer home.

Don't push John Rambo, he'll push back.

By the way is JE done with his module, or is that a long term backburner kinda deal ?

Sounds likely, i'll try that.

Not only does it say have the latest version, I also have mask of the betrayer installed, I don't see how I can possibly be running an unpatched game. I didn't notice you could talk to the npc, the fact that I can't get rid of him makes me dislike him intensely. I play as a thief and if Bernie comes along he gets killed by the lizards, then I have to clean up the whole place because apparently I can't leave when he's 'dead'. This makes me turn off AI and place him in the corner, out of the way, next best thing to gone. The bug comes when I talk to the elf back in town and he doesen't register that I have the item.

Ok so I picked up the game from the bargain bin, and after much struggle managed to get the camera view somewhat workable, only to find out that I can't progress past the beginner area because the game doesen't register that i picked up the plot item, the shard thingamagingie. This is a common bug right ?. I already have the latest patch installed, and I stared anew in case the old saves would be useless. It's still broken. Jeez, one thing is shipping a game with a fatal bug, the other is still seeing it after the expansion and several patches. PS. I can't post on the nw boards without first signing up with email confirmation and then typing in my cd key to activate it. That just seems like entirely too much work, so I guess i'm hoping to catch a few replies before mom and dad close up the thread.

But, it's possible to track individual batches of plutonium by their composition so it should theoretically be possible to determine where any given detonated bomb comes from. Of course if no one knows where Iran gets their plutonium from to begin with it doesen't matter, but, neuclear bombs aren't usually anonimous. Iran has been actively pursuing their interests by sponsoring and infiltrating Hezbolah and Hamas, but to actually give those groups something as potent as an A bomb is probably detrimental to their own interests. I believe they only want one finger on the button, their own.

Iran is getting nukes, and there ain't a thing to be done about it. There simply isen't support for an invasion to stop it, and there won't be after the election either. That being said I think we can be quite confident that the Iranian military aren't going to hand any of them over to al kaida (Will I ever learn to spell that). Nukes are the best bargaining chip in the world for 'rogue' states, unless they actually start using them.

Let me be the first to admit that this is out of my league as far as knowledge of special relativity and quantum physics.

It's all academic anyway, we can't intervene because of China, and all the rest who would rather make a buck than see democracy return.

I suppose that depends on whether you are the patient or not.