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Yes. Though my research is far from extensive.

No, the majority would gain more power. The minority would lose more power. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> given how much powert the minority has, would this be a bad thing? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No, because then you end up with a tyrannical society. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> is tyrrany of the majority or of the minority worse? Cause it feels like the public is at the mercy of the minority. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> In what way do you feel oppressed?

If you are a foreigner studying in the UK, it is about three times more expensive than for locals. From my (admitedly limited) research into university study in the USA, it is markedly cheaper ...

No, the majority would gain more power. The minority would lose more power. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> given how much powert the minority has, would this be a bad thing? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No, because then you end up with a tyrannical society.

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If I'm understanding the above quote correctly, then I agree with it. Adult human beings have an inalienable right, in my opinion, to make decisions about themselves, their lives and their bodies whether others agree with those decisions or not... and yes, even if those who love them are emotionally distraught by those decisions. If one chooses to become an addict (and yes, allowing addiction to grasp one's body is definitely a choice, unless someone holds us down, forcibly and repeatedly injecting us with an addictive substance against our will), it may be a stupid choice in the eyes of most of us, but it is nonetheless that person's choice to make for themselves, and they will suffer all the stuff that goes with that choice. It's not the government's job to babysit adults and legislate what they may and may not do to their own bodies. They have the right to legislate what we may and may not do to others while under the influence of our addiction.... drive, commit crimes, harass or harm others... but they have no right to control behaviors that affect only ourselves. The same goes for laws against suicide. How dare someone who has never met me write a law that prevents me from making a decision to end my own life? This is, in my opinion, simply a form of arrogance and control, a king-complex if you will, that forces one's belief system upon everyone else through abuse of power. That's one reason I'm against creating laws against drug use, etc. The other reason is that such laws create crime. Create major crime, and major crime syndicates, crime which affects people without their permission and taints society as a whole. This is documented and indisputable. Yet government, in its ultimate drive for power to enforce its will upon others, continues to create crime by pretending to fight it. That's what I think. Those who disagree are wrong, of course! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ~Di, you are 100.01% correct ... assuming you are allowing for diminished responsibility for those that are deemed unable to make "adult" decisions: minors and mentally incapacitated by illness, accident or birth.

I am keen to try a Gooducken.

~Di, just curious how you know this is a fact. Last time I checked, the democratically-electeed government of Iraq was able to ask/tell the coalition of forces to leave whenever they wanted, and they haven't as yet.

That will save me from injesting more of the several microns of enamel that have been a byproduct of interaction with the merchants. I found another nit to pick: using a magic bag, if you drop an item of which there exists a stack of similar items in it, then the later item doesn't stack. In fact, it doesn't stack in the main inventory, either, after extracting the two (stacked group and individual). It is left to manually placing one on the other, to combine them.

Internals = pixel bump-mapping Scenery = vertex shading, so you need more vertex pipes! It's a pity that we can't download an 8800 as part of the patch ... "

Kobold warlock, I would have thought ... "

Actually, all things considered Sweden is a whole lot better place to live than US of A. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah, a whole country full of Swedish women! :D

Godlike characters don't add inches to your pee-pee.

Your thanks are all that we crave. :D

Wow, were you trying to make the MOST TROLLISH post seen on the forum since ... well, you last posted? ^_^

It's okay, there's a new DX10 card out very soon ..!

Sneaky trojans add autostart instructions in your Registry, so after your AV programme deletes the one in memory, upon rebooting it is loaded again (from somewhere not cleaned). Run the AV again, in Safe Mode, after removing it the first time. (If you have a persistent offender.) The big names usually know how to deal with such a technique.

I have a P4 1.8... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The Pentium M is quite competitive with the AMD chips, and definitely much better than the burst architecture of the pre-Core 2 Duo Intel CPUs.

I don't see why the decisions of political leaders need to affect your respect of the people who are tasked with carrying them out. I respect the workmanship of a rifle seperately to the horror and disdain I feel for some deranged killer who uses it to murder a school bus full of children, for example. In point of fact, the US armed forces (for that is what I am sure you are talking about here) advised AGAINST military action in Iraq (as they generally do): people who have experience with conflict are usually (barring psychological impairment) the last ones to advocate it as a solution, and always as the last option. What would you have the soldiers do, I wonder? Mass insubordination? Perhaps raise a motion to reverse the military decisions? Overthow a decision of the democratically elected leaders of their country, perhaps? A military coup?

I spent nearly three decades there, that's enough.

Groucho wins. What were the terms, again?

Hee hee, the British police have just announced that they are (electronically) fingerprinting motorists who are caught speeding (to aid identification, naturally), and my barber was raided a few weeks ago by a half-dozen police who tore his shop up and searched his garden looking for drugs, then (upon not finding any, naturally) they left without an apology. (Apparently he was telling me that if someone is caught on the premises with some contraband, the owner of the property is liable.) No country has more CCTV cameras. And no-one seems to mind. I fear for the society.