Gorgon

It must have been made to suit the needs of the liberal mafia, of course.

Only in the most forgiving sense of the word, which is exactly why you need to measure and monitor things like freedom of the press, participation, openess of government, corruption, accessibility etc. If all you need is voting, China and Cuba are democracies as well. You just disproved your own point, congratulations.

*Waits for the usual knee jerk reaction of americans with no real condeption of European political systems.*

That would be sweden.

How many ministers resigned for corruption and mismanagement after the first week of the new administration again, huh

They did a trial in Holland, of course, and the experience was that all the hard core users who partook reported improvements in their everyday lives, many were able to have jobs for the first time in decades.

yup

"Yeah because illegal narcotics totally aren't potentially fatal when abused." There is hardly anything that isen't dangerous when abused, eat enough carrots and you could die of vitamin E poisoning. The comparison with alchoholsim is hardly valid across the range of leisure drugs, legal or otherwise.

" You are so f***ing wrong I don't even know where to begin. Sure, you can hold down a job, for awhile at least. You home life's gonna go to pieces, and sooner or later your addictions gonna catch up with you, but yeah,you can hold it together for awhile, especially if you're clever and above all a good liar. My old man managed to keep it together for 20 years before his alcoholism caught up with him." Alchohol isen't illegal. They tried that, didn't work out so well. In the case of alchoholism you have a condition that is potentially fatal, and certainly ruins lives, that however does not mean that the majority cannot use alchohol and suffer no ill effects. So, what would be wrong with increased prevention and treatment for alchoholism ? :S Shot and miss, I should think.

Grants, loans and scholarships are a bandaid, not a viable alternative to gaining access through wealth, statistically and demographically speaking. I favor egalitarianism when it comes to education.

"And that helps addicts out how? Or are you looking at this from a strictly financial point of view?" You can actually live a quite productive life and hold down a job while being a user, what destroys people are the things they have to do to get the drug, and the impure and imminently more dangerous versions of the drug available at your local pusher. The greater part of the vast ammounts saved by just giving pure medical variants could be chanelled into early prevention and treatment, and you would still save money while avoiding the criminilisation and suffering of the current state of affairs. It would be important here to differentiate the really dangerous drugs, crack, meth, etc - those that cause permantent brain and nervous system damage - from those whose criminalisation is more a cultural phenomenon than a health risk.

I suppose you are more likely to chose from a practical standpoint and apply yourself more if your parents had to put down 500.000 Se to pay for a top notch education. It's an elitist system that makes sure the children of the wealty remain in privelege, but it is effective.

I believe that the rule is that all the officer has to do is say 'do such and such, or i'm going to taze you' - three times, and if there is no compliance they can zap away. Of course this presumes that the officer is making himself clearly understood and that the victim understands the whole three times deal. 'getoutofthecarorimgoingtotazeyougetoutofthecarorimgoingtotazeyougetoutofthec rorimgoingtotazeyou" *ZAP* is getting increasingly common.

If you have the virus identified use symantec's virus library, there you will likely find that it needs several steps to be successfully removed, safe mode, reg editing, etc. Many anti virus programs only give you one go and do not suppply these in depth removal instructions, but even without owning a symantec program you can write down the steps needed to manually remove the virus. Go to viruses in the drop down menu and paste the virus name (the name needs to be an exact match.) http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/securit...rer/threats.jsp

Full format seems a little drastic to me, but you do need to identify the virus, and you can't really do without a virus scanner. The web based ones are a fast way to solving the problem, but get a free/trial scanner as well. Some people chose to do a full reinstall and format every few months as a kind of software spring cleaning, it does help, but it seems like a lot of work to me considering things like service packs and programs you use a lot.

I'm in there, how about that. This thread is like a highschool reunion.

Keynes > Friedman

Whats the point ? Usually all you get for your trouble is spam and access to an FAQ database.

I have dedided not to get neverwinter nights 2. My reasons after fidling around with it a bit on a friend's computer : 1. Plot revolving NPCs forced on you, this rubs me the wrong way. 2. No permadeath, this breeds indifference. 4. Bad selection and camera controls, the awkwardness never wore off. 3. Disapointing graphics. I need to be able to have my main character 'just so', 50 different choices of ugly isen't doing it for me.

"And?" Nothing, I was just interested in non-potatoehead comics in the same style. I find most manga to look too, whats the word, overdone, for my taste. " Most people probably aren't responding to your hijack attempt, but to the topic itself. So don't be disappointed if none of the replies are according to your request." Calm down sport.

"Everything Studio Ghibli has ever made." But thats like traditional animation, not potatoehead manga.

I would be interested in non-potatoehead manga, or do they call that comic books ?, to improve my japanese. Something simple would be preferable.

Whats a double lifetime warrenty. If you die and is reanimated by a Thahitian voodo priest and then your card fails they refund your money twice ?

Nerds

"They're almost universally poorly written, fumbling attempts at expressing intimacy from shallow characters in awkward and inappropriate situations to a character that attracts the NPC because GENDER=MALE" It would seem to me that it falls on people like you to make sure the characters aren't shallow and the situations not inappropriate. How about making one that turns from heated romance, to cheating and bitter jealousy, and then divorce and custody battle.