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Bad stuff teaches us lessons. I bored with vomiting in flower beds and I haven't even reached middle age (quite in the back), let alone eternity.

Leaving aside your atrocious grammar which impedes any cogent analysis of your writing, I will point out that this is absolute horsefeathers. They are still looking for the mass graves in Iraq. Be against the war if you want; be anti-Bush, if you like; blame Bush for taking the Coalition into Iraq on false pretenses, even; but DON'T pretend that Saddam Hussein was a "normal" leader. The death and destruction is incalculable. And that's not counting the men, women and children who have suffered without normal food and living conditions (Iraq was a reasonably affluent country when Saddam took control).

How about we allow Iraqi troops to come to USA and patrol our streets so we would know how it's like to be occupied and get our doors kicked in every now and then, since we got American citizens taking arms via the God-given right of the 2nd Amendment to defend our country, having the santity of our private homes taken away. Since USA got tons of WMD's piled up in bases all over the country, isn't USA guilty in that sense that is the reason Iraq was invaded? Or overthrowing and hanging a dictator (Bush) and get one hundred thousand American citizens killed, as Iraq suffered with their own people? Our water sources, agriculture, military and industries destroyed, our own country being pushed back years. And have 180,000 Muslims patrol our streets (plus 30,000) more to come. With those 30,000 troops coming, we sure won't fight back as insurgents. Kinda how they would feel, no? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> See, EdD'Oh, this is where that apophthegm "It is better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you are stupid, then to open it and confirm beyond all doubt that you are." All three of them? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> For a start, yes. There are a lot more that want membership, they just have to jump through all the hoops that "Old Europe" insist on, so that the newer members don't screw the Union up (before they do). And ALL of them (barring that one with the dictator who just died, but not before he named the days of the week after himself and his mother) are in better condition than under the soviet system.

Actually, that's all I'd want: near-perfect retention would make life so easy. (The brain doesn't need more oxygen.) Enhanced senses would be nice but not essential. Eternal life is a curse. Long life would be okay. PS Is this actually a decent topic from EdD'Oh? )

More US troops in Iraq = more people to piss off Iraqis and make them into insurgents? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ... Because that is the one-to-one ratio and simple equation of the process.

And blow smoke in their faces, too?

The biggest hurdle would be the connector ... after all, the motherboard is finely balanced to allow the various component timings to match.

This is even worse than your global foreign policy pronouncements (if that is even possible). I surprised you aren't advocating selling arms to both sides, and charging tickets for spectators.

That's crazy talk. Even ignoring the safety of the citizens of the USA from global thermonuclear strike, look at all the former-USSR countries (a lot of which have now joined or are about to join the EU) for one example; I would say their populations are pretty pleased with the outcome. Having two immense alliances of countries facing each other down is not a safe state, even if it is (temporarily) stable.

Maybe you need to brag a bit about how easy you're finding the game, so that they rise to the bait and play you ... though that might backfire (they might gang-up on you to cheat).

*has urge to play Fallout* Good work; I especially like the cross-platform compatibility.

And I never said otherwise. If you question that it's not a good thing, then that means there is some of you that feels that it was a bad thing. Because there's right and wrong. Right? <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

It's the least I can do, considering how many times you email the Unix User Manual to those people who need a reminder of reality, chapter and verse. That's a metaphor, based on a location joke, meaning bring all the facts to an argument.

It's amazing you are actually able to type such drivel, considering you are living in a country whose safety was guaranteed by the US Cold War victory.

Xmas issue of PC format (the "January" issue).

They're all too busy congratulating themselves on their own similarities (i.e. the heads are firmly up their own behinds) to argue responsibly. I think you showed excellent restraint to try to win-over a PBEM game; I think the only chance you've got, though, is if you piss someone off enough that they want to beat you. "

Exactly, you are displaying board-game bigotry by not appreciating good cheating techniques that existed way before the computer was a games machine!

You have asked a question well above my pay grade.

Could you swallow the Marlin .22 ?

I wonder what you define as "long-wind

It matters on the individuals definition of a just war. A "preemptive strike" sounds more like a nazi Germany tactic to me. Where as JFK only pushed the cold war as far as it had to go thus keeping it cold. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I wish I could remember the name of that law that says controversial discussion, given enough time, will eventually involve a comparison in some way to Nazi Germany. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies.

Looks like the kind of fun thing to play with whilst in a casino ... the sort of thing that really annoys the other players. :D

IBM have a docking station for the Thinkpad that can take a couple PCI cards, including a video card, so it's not that novel.

Well, he's not playing Half-Life 2, he's using one JUST for online poker (albeit five hands at once), and then has a game (typically the copy of NwN2 I bought him for his birthday) running in a window that takes up the other screen ... but they are both running at native resolution (2500 x 1600 or whatever it is). I don't know what he's doing to play the game, but I can only conclude he's not got all the juice on.

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