Gorgon

Does this board have a storage function ?. Wondering why ppl are using attached files instead of direct links to images.

Thats apples and oranges. Illustrator is for vector graphics and those can be very useful indeed, master the vector tools and you will be able to make geometry fast and effectively, photoshop is more pixel based, not really designed to be a painting tool as much as an editing tool, but it can be used for it well nevertheless. The painter series was designed from the ground up to be a painting tool and it has some strengths, but is also unfortunately rather klunky and counter intuitive menu and featurewize. When I get home ill post some photoshop stuff i've done.

I used to have seizues in my sleep and would wake up in the middle of the night paralysed feeling like someone stuck a live wire in my ear frying my brain. Let me tell you, it ain't pleasant. Every time it happenes you wonder if this is the one that kills you. Fortunately I would not trigger them while awake, and even more fortunate that it passed in my early 20s. Things like stress and lack of sleep would set it off. I haven't had one in over a decade now. That thing with biting the tounge only happens extremely rarely. The medical advice now is just to make the person comfortable and watch over him/her untill it passes. Definately don't try to pry something into the mouth like you see in the movies.

It's not that they don't derserve death, they certainly do, it's that society should be better than the criminals it punishes. Personally I think mine clearing duty with a stick in Bosnia might be too kind, but, everytime we find one of these extreme cases and use it as an argument for the death penalty it's misleading, only the smallest part of the people executed around the world are mindless sadists.

Whats so positive about a glass that is half full.

Isen't it more or less custom that presidents pardon their shady buddies when they are runninh out of time in the whitehouse ?

I'm not sure I'd like to drive a car that went from 0-60 in 4 days. If you run an engine designed for bio fuel it's every bit as fast as gasoline. If you run bio on an existing diesel it has slightly worse milage but the same performance as diesel. The only reason we are still using gas is that it's cheaper, and engines designed for bio don't sell very well.

Clintons lie about sexual relations was of no consequence whatsoever. Maybe it doesen't matter to the law what you lie about, but it does to most people when they think rationally about it.

They found a few duds on a site that had already been visited by the inspectors. If you want to elevate that to a find of WMD you are really pushing the boundaries of interpretation. I don't think most people's ideas of gas grenades are that they are weapons of mass destruction, they are area denial weapons, albeit prohibited by international treaties.

Plausible deniability.

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Infidels aren't people.

That only happened for me when I used the cosnole on an unpatched version. Wird game this, very good in certain parts, others look unfinised, and it actually shipped with a fatal bug.

They didn't even have the stones to blow themseles up in the process.

Thank god these guys appear to be such utter amateurs. Is this second fid connected to the investigation of the first one, or did the police just get lucky again ?

I especially like that he is thinking on the run and relying on his own initiative rather than silly gadgets and dry martinis. Although the basic premise of being a secret agent on the run is going to get old eventually. If there is no resolution it's going to be like one of those TV series where nothing ever really changes.

The progressive area lost wind in the US, mores the pity, whereas in Europe the experience of hardship during the great depression and later WW2 would lead to the fornation of the modern wellfare state. With the war experience came a sense of unity and people were used to an extreme level of government control, so the thinking was, if we can make an effort to win and overcome a world war why not spend some if that level of effort in improving society. In the US that sense of lifting the burden in unity vanished with the post war boom. Whats amazing is that it became a broad political consensus for decades on that society should change fundamentally and provide a wide range of services for everyone. Now, despite the problems of coupling a high level of redistribution with globalisation, most of us remain fiercely proud of the European model compared to the rest of the world.

Arent you already in the camp of "we can stop it so might as well legalize it"? There is another boat ?

Cant they make it into painkillers or something. Seems like a waste to throw away all that blow.

Yes, but I can get away with that since I complimented you in the same sentence.

Self suficiency is so deeply ingrained in the American way of thinking that it will never happen. It's both their greatest strength and the reason why they will never evolve to solve the glaring problems with health care.

Federal and local doesen't mean very much over here. I guess the Germans with their lander have some inking but for the rest of us government is government is government.

I'm a Christian and to that I'd say "I'll voluntarily help pay someone's medical bill from my own pocket. Not demand the Federal Government take money away from someone else to pay MY medical bill." But that is just me. I guess what us europeans can't get our heads around is that you don't consider medical treatmeant a basic function of society, like schools, a police force and a fire department.

Beckham is on the case, she'll be safe now !

What does that matter, if they get some chronic ailment they start costing more money than they put into the system. Hence, the incentive to limit the people who generate losses.