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Does that make you a rentboy?

That should have been the first line. :D

I can't believe you wrote all that without any punctuation.

Well, kirro descrived it, eventually, too.

... And descrive it.

It's all moot.

You're just jealous.

I played the demo and thought it was promising, though the available secret base equipment wasn't enough to overcome my ennui brought on by the repetitive gameplay: I felt like I was trying to empty a leaky boat with a sieve.

Oh, yeah: they're toast. :D

Did I mention that, if you can't be bothered to build that PC yourself, Vadim will build it for you, for

A verbal contract is still a contract, too. It's just harder to prove in court, as some people are prone to tell fibs about what they said previously, and recall can sometimes be a little sketchy. But, it is still a contract. The only way a contract can be voided, outside the parties agreeing so, is if it breaches common law.

Think outside the box. Or, rather ...

Calax, are you posting under the influence again? What does this mean? ;huh: Why should the government of 400 million people listen to one person? If you have something that relevant, you can organise a political rally and lobby your local member: then he can use that groundswell to lobby on your behalf (otherwise the member will be shouted down by the majority of other members). Part of Big Business's political clout is based in their employing (read: paying) a large amount of the constituency.

Let's hope these new arrivals are treated with more respect than the recent ones ...

And thus we conclude that Dragon Age may or may not be promising based on the available information.

I think that was the top-of-the-line mobo before the Asus took the crown (in Custom PC's view); certainly not a bad mobo at all. I think the better availabilty of PCI-e slots was a big factor, as well as the fact that the Asus P5B Deluxe WiFi-AP allowed Core 2 Duo E6700 from 266MHz to 360MHz (the highest the magazine team had seen).

You're just disappointed that it isn't Prog Rock. The setting is more resonant for a US audience: the "Wild West" or Frontier environment allows for a lot of familiar archetypes (quickgun, prodigal preacher, etc etc).

Just a note to remind everyone to post WITHOUT spamming. Next time I'll disable the ability to post to the topic, leaving just the poll.

The ATi X1950 Pro is the best budget card (

The most important problem with this point of view (and there are several) is what you are tacitly creating: a private "organisation" ABOVE the law of the land. Terms: organisation = one or more persons acting in concert for a private agenda law of the land = the only reliable existing form of legal control of members of societies, i.e. national laws (as international law is hardly robust and certainly not reliable, as it depends on pre-arranged treaties between nations). You have just given Rupert Murdoch carte blanche to create his own self-serving global organisation and behave in any way he wants, including breaking any regional "backward" laws that stand in his nation-spanning organisation's way. So, paradoxically, your treatise to the individual over the state just creates a law of the jungle where economic might makes right. And thereby results bribery, extortion and even pork-barrelling like that of the Hezbollah in Lebanon, where the extremists are BUYING political power with cold cash. See, duty to a state works both ways: the state can protect the individual when the individuals protect the state.

I see he has redfined some existing axioms:

I believe it falls under contract law; if they offered him a rate in writing then they have to honour it.

Maybe Greedo would have destroyed the universe by some action if saintly Han hadn't made a pre-emptive strike! It's like the neo-cons and Iraq!

Okay, time to calm down.