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Total Recall: VerHoeven AND Arnie, together! I've been looking for this film for ages; finally got a chance to raid the London HMV.

Sure, hence the success of the zero-tolerance approach in NYC, for example. I was interested in the hard data (haven't seen a lot of it before for recidivism).

Lovely idea, let's put it in the Star Wars forum.

So are bonobos.

Is it stored as a global variable? Maybe it is a hang-over from the Aurora engine? Good information, thanks.

Hey, don't forget that it wasn't until Queen Anne's reign (1707ish) that England finally out-muscled the French and left the Dutch in their dust when it came to trade (both of which goals were begun back at least as far as QE1's reign, when she inherited a bankrupt country with no military power and a non-existent grasp of the trade routes and far-off partners.

It wasn't really Bush Sr's fault: he was just following the conditions set out by the UN and "The Coalition of the Willing" (and in direct contrast to Stormin' Norman's unequivocal advice).

(Dad was born in 1920, so he had a good innings, and he was in a fair bit of pain just before he went, so it was a small mercy. I saw him the day before he died.) Yeah, I think it will involve some ultra-Zionists.

Yes, it is completely inappropriate.

I'd like to ask dear old Dad, but I'll need some sort of super-technology, as he died six years ago (in twelve days' time). I hear what you're saying though; someone follows the Holy Bloodline, though ... is it the Rosicrucians?

There's a new 18.5MB patch out now, above the first 1.03 one.

No, and it sucks. Grrrr... :angry: <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Am I the only one that has no problems ignoring them? I rarely turn them off because I don't really read them anyways. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You can skip dialogue (mouse button? can't remember off-hand because it has quickly become a learned reflex) after the initial and before the last screen, as well as pause it. And I read it faster than they speak, so I always skip at least some of it.

Yeah, it sounds like a problem with the drive (either driver or hardware).

They haven't settled after the new CPU tech, yet. They are just a bit messy, and there is only one that has three usable PCI-e slots, for example (and the DirectX10 cards, for example, may be much better use for PhysX calculations, as it allows the calculations that are output by the GPU to be used as input). The mobos at the moment are just too "patched" ... even the Intel-compatible ones haven't all standardized on the new standards (details escape me at the moment, the 975X chipset thinggie (Northbridge interface?): some mobos use the 965X, and are faster).

A Mason. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> :D He's blowing smoke up your ass! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Maybe, I didn't get to read his Bible (I was not that interested at the time), but I have read the Holy Blood, Holy Grail series (including the third book of the series all about the Masons), and my father was one.

You're telling me.

That's a standard error message from Windows. It could be caused by ANYTHING, most likely you hadn't shut-down recently, or else your Anti-Virus software is over-active. You need to post: your computer specifications, the Operating System (Windows XP Home / Pro, etc) and what you had open at the time. You have not posted nearly enough information to allow anyone to help you.

It's a digital rights thing; Realplayer allows the Beeb to use a standard lookup-table for their programming, so that the client (on one's PC) just looks at the address of the broadcast. This means if you store a recording and the programme changes (as in seven days pass), it will point to whatever was on the at that time THIS week. And it sucks.

England and France has a century of Entente Cordiale. They are officially very fond of each other.

I'm teh kewlest ... watch this!

Isn't that precisely the problem? The US (and to a lesser extent, Europe) attempts to justify its position and actions in the world on the basis of morality (spreading democracy, civilization, etc.), its opponents disagree and labels the US (and Europe) as imperialist beneficiaries, thereby creating a moral conundrum in which both sides believe themselves to be righteous, wherein might is the only answer. Morality is thus cast as realpolitik's magic trick. Of course, that's just another way of saying that historically, no people ever believed themselves to be immoral - but then what's the point of discussing morality with regards to foreign policy? Maybe I'm misunderstanding you here. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well, it depends on the system that is implemented. If one can get a "moral government" (of the world, presumably), then that is not a subjectively moral government, but an objectively moral one. Just projecting the given government onto another peoples would be just playing lip-service, without actually being a moral government. Bear in mind that there needs to be voluntary adoption of the government policies; Liberia, for example, has an identical constitution to the USA and it is a markedly less fair society (warlords with Oxbridge / Ivy League PH.Ds leading armies of children in run-and-gun battles to control the countries rich resources, whilst the civilian populations are raped and tortured and driven from one refuge to the next).

Yes, and then they will be convicted of real crimes, and serve time for them. There is an interesting observation here in Britain at the moment about the recidivism of serious offenders (rapists, murderers) on parole, because: recidivistic rates have more than doubled (rapes by paroled convicts in 2003: 26; and in 2005-6 over 100); and because of the overcrowding in jails (more people being convicted of crimes and more severe sentences) it is much more common to convert custodial sentences to parole, earlier. What it doesn't consider is that, as well as insufficient monitoring by the government (that's a given), these recivistic trends were not even recorded beforehand (the convicts just served out there terms and were released, no further records kept). Point is: the vast majority of crime is committed by the same people. Commence Root-Cause Analysis as to why, now ...

Are you hinting at some dark, personal sexual politics ..?

No need to apologise for Azarkon, everyone is entitled to their beliefs, however skewed they are. "

There there, I thought you were making an ironic statement. Chin up, Astr0! Happy anniversary of your birth.