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There is no intent, there can be no offence without intent. The child was probably just wiping his nose. Incidentally, as the child is a minor, shouldn't the parent or guardian be charged? "

Well the bad guys in the movie are Persian. " <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Actually, a better parallel is to equate the modern hyper-power of the USA with the equivalent Empire if the Ancient world: Persia. Other comparisons could be made, between the tiny force of arms that dared to defy them, in some backwater of the world (Greece and, say, al-Qā`ida) ...

Male charac-... oh, yeah, the policeman!

Really? I was just tossing up some Firefly or Two Towers (because I watched Fellowship of the Rings a week or so ago) ... hmmm ...

I believe he put the THX remastered ones on DVD. The ones he released on VHS in the 90s. And thats all he did. Directly from VHS to DVD with no cleanup or anything. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> This was in the early eighties: about '83 at the latest.

Answer: No, you cannot. You need a PC.

I'm not only negative, I am bitter too! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ... And twisted?

This discussion has a purpose? You are ignoring the very real possibility that a situation might occur where the interests of the individual may involve helping the society in such a way that hurts the individual. Altruism. Two examples: A soldier paying the ultimate sacrifice for King and Country isn't serving his (or her) best interests, unless they have family and friends who will benefit from their (and others') sacrifice. Similarly, the busines persons who go bankrupt will not do themselves any direct favours, except that they are participating in the economic system, playing a part so that the whole system can function. Perhaps indirect benefit from benefits might ensue. In both instances the personal interests of the individual are contrary to what is best for the society. BUT, this will make the society a better one for the kith and friends of the individual. This is self-contradictory. Do the individual's best interests lie with lawlessness or not?

It's pretty hard to argue with that statement. That's like saying "We have found that some people like Jazz music."

Hopefully everyone will be aware of the recent work by a Wired reporter, on Oct, 16, Kevin Poulsen, in New York, published his article detailing when he witnessed the d

The Unearthed Arcana had negative Charisma, and some of the more fiersome Gods (in the Deities and Demigods expansion book) had Charisma scores of -25. This negative score had a similar effect to normal charisma, except that the base motivator was terror, rather than adoration. Ugly characters would seem less of a threat.

Go back to where you got it from

It's pretty normal to have fans blowing out and sucking in air for the case. Not sure about creating a vacuum; all you would achieve (with all the fans blowing out) is a low pressure in the case, which would actually be counter-productive for another, unrelated reason: it would suck dust into the case. Normally it is best to have a high pressure inside the case, to do the opposite.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! ~Di, I specifically avoided the stupendous amount of verbiage in those posts, because I don't want to have to read through it all to address each fallacy in turn! If you don't address them then I'll feel compelled to ... :ph34r: Talk about argumentum verbosium! )

You need to balance the convection so that cooler air is drawn across every heated part. "Dirty" air, or rather hotter air, such as that from over the heatpipes, should be vented and not drawn across another part. Spot fans might be needed for parts that get hot and don't have their own cooling, like the RAM on the GPU and the mobo.

Sounds like a driver that Vista will need to supply, to kid the game into thinking it's running on XP. Although I've heard the backward-compatibility of Vista is pretty high, I haven't heard of any way to rectify it should it fail. (Not that I've looked.) You could always dual-boot with XP, and run it from that partition.

My experience of Multi-nationals in London is that the corporate culture is pretty homogeneous across whatever countries (typically more than 100) their markets take them: their requirements are profit, so they'll use whatever works.

I remember a D&D system that utilized Comeliness as well as Charisma. It must be twenty years ago: AD&D? In the Unearthed Arcana, I believe.

If you look up other words, you may descry descrive in the roots.

Yeah, I'm probably a decade behind, as I haven't touched MM since my thesis in '94, though I have done some Six Sigma during my work experience. Just thought it might qualify as "foreign custom" adopted into US.

More than likely. It wasn't until the twentieth anniversary that Lucas digitized them.

Kaizen was originally a Japanese discipline, but it has been adopted by manufacturing management all over the world. "Continual Improvement", it refers to improving the production process, rather than the product (as in the US). To illustrate: the US car manufacturers made larger and larger fins on their 1950s cars (improving the product: linked to the current market trend, etc), whereas the Japanese car manufacturers improved the factories, so that it was easier to make the cars in the factories: so their cars started to have round edges (which were obviously more conducive to the manufacture process).

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No. What you are proposing (supporting? deriding? I can't tell anymore) is replacing the society of the USA with something like that of modern Russia. Without a civic duty: without citizens contributing to the upkeep of the society, the society will die. All relationships require an investment, lest they die. You are advocating, with your denial of civic duty, a dictatorship of some description. Because without a strong, robust and fair society to protect the little guy, you will let the biggest gorilla make the rules. Without the US liberal (small "L") government, the break-up of the Standard Oil monopoly, for only one example, would never have occurred. Look at Putin and GasProm. Anarchy would only work if there was a lot of equipotent groups, like the city states of Ancient Greece, for example. As soon as one gained a hegemony, like Athens did with her navy in this illustration, then they had supremacy.