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There is quite a bit of recourse in the US you can go through if the government siezes your land. It still isn't pretty, but you are not completely at their mercy.

So is there a scenario here where the government will look at your grocery bill, and then offer health care based on your diet? Awesome!

So that sounds wonderful, the CDC can work with grocery chains to help limit the damage a bad batch of food can do. How is that intrusive?

Those are fairly gigantic things. Roads alone require a huge amount of work and maintenance.

While I'm not going to hold my breath, the fact that this new developer got full IP rights is hopefully a good sign, as that means Strategy First should have little opportunity to screw the pooch. Definitely worth watching. Although I am a bit concerned that it will end up being a German release only, given the trouble finding NA publishers for turn-based games. JA2 was released in Germany for quite a while before it finally got NA distribution. Still, if they can just get the translations done, they can probably work out a deal with Steam or another digital distributor. edit: Apparently bitcomposer published the recent STALKER game, and I've seen that everywhere, so hopefully that bids well too. I'm still not sure about the development team though.

The Show is the only reason I want a PS3 Do you use/like the similar mode they have for NHL? The Show kind of puts the NHL player mode to shame. I played the NHL one first and loved it, but after playing The Show and going back to the NHL be a pro, I didn't enjoy it as much. So now I'm just playing franchise mode with the NHL games, which is still great. The Show just has a ton of personality, you really feel like you are slowly blossoming as an MLB prospect. The minor league system and spring training all have a lot of polish.

I'm starting to see the ball better in MLB 10 the show. I am batting about .350 in AA ball. I even hit my first homer, an exciting game winner in the bottom of the 13th.

We also could end up with a society where very few corporations run everything if we didn't have certain controls in place. Small businesses already face enough obstacles, without legal recourse they are pretty much sitting ducks. Take a look at Tivo and its dealing with Dish and DirectTV.

You don't actually have to watch Avatar in 3D. It is still a very impressive movie in 2D.

MLB 10 The Show - I'm trying to work my way into the AA team as an every day player. So far it's been pretty tough to pinch hit well enough.

Sand that was not an option. Assume the two are mutually exclusive (as in you cannot have a balance, you can have one or the other). But they are not mutually exclusive, and it feels more like a trap question than a philosophical one.

I think Killian is blossoming as a comedic talent.

Well, hockey is one of the few sports that has a ton of amateur adult leagues to play in. When you start missing the sport, I hope you'll look into joining a beer league. There are also a lot of tourneys out there for amateurs. You can basically play hockey up until the day you die, if you want to, and that is one of the reasons I love it. I actually look forward to joining the over-35 league in a few years, and we even have an active over-50 league at our rink. So I get not wanting to have it take over your life in college, but I hope you haven't lost all your passion for it. I took a few breaks from hockey when I was in college myself, it's an expensive hobby. Usually I'd get about 6 months in and then I'd be dying to get back on the ice. edit: Today I was grading card game projects for my students, and while they played the game, I looked up the websites they created for the games on my Droid phone. That way I was able to grade both the physical game and the web pages at the same time without lugging my laptop around. It was awesome.

You are dead to me Krookie. Just don't give up on the NHL thread college boy.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100306/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran So apparently the President of Iran is calling 9/11 a big lie. Now you have video of the event and you have a group claiming credit for the event. I can understand him going after the War on Terror and all that, as it hasn't been all that effective at wiping out Al Queda, but this is fairly delusional stuff, up there with his Holocaust stance. The really disturbing part is you have a highly placed politician feeding bold faced lies to his entire country. The US has a lot of misinformation floating around, but if a president was this delusional he'd be impeached in a day.

It is really buggy though, I've had it lock up a few times when my connection was on the fritz.

Mao is responsible for the emancipation of the Chinese people from Japanese imperialism and Nationalist military dictatorship. Stalin is responsible for mass industrialization and victory in the Second World War. Their successes outweigh their "crimes." Even if you were to subscribe to a Machiavellian philosophy, that doesn't make much sense. If the deaths are what led to Chinese emancipation or Russian Industrialization, then you might have an argument for the means justifying the end. As it stands, both Mao and Stalin did a tremendous amount of damage to their countries at the end of their lives with no clear justification.

I hope so. It would be a shame if anyone was able to pirate it.

I bought the Orange Box and I don't remember having to patch it to get it to work. That being said, I'd probably avoid using Steam if I was on dialup.

I'm not sure where LoF gets the idea everyone hates socialism here. Even the US, which is more resistant to socialist ideals than Europe, still has programs like welfare. Now when you jump on the communist train and start choo chooing, that's usually when you get the collective raised eyebrows.

Without cake it is Portal in name only! It's probably going to just be Half-Life with Cake.

Yeah, I have a decent MacBook, but the graphics card is pretty weak. Still, it will be nice to play some of the older games from Steam on it if they manage to make them OSX possible.

Don't beat yourself up about it. I'll be honest, when you first announced your engagement I was like awesome! But then I heard about the four kids and I was like baggage! And now with the breakup I'm like bullet dodged! Seriously, you were taking on a lot to get into a relationship with a girl with multiple kids, and if she isn't going to completely adore you for being willing to do that, then she isn't worth your time.

Zaeed is just a bonus character. As a DLC, he can't have any real importance to the main campaign because he is completely optional. So yeah, after his mission, he is just a filler guy.

I didn't really even get what Kiro meant by the comment. Maybe it was just a bad joke or something. We are here for you Kor, whether you need to vent or just talk about other stuff.