Everything posted by metadigital
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Movies You Have Seen Lately
Main criticism about FF is that it infantilizes: it's not particularly enjoyable for anyone who likes some depth in their entertainment.
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Boy Scouts Introduce Merit Badge For Not Pirating
No, it's flat out bigotry against gay people. Seriously, homosexuality is not synonymous with pederasty, and it is pure demonizing to make that claim. In fact, it would be more logically sound to claim that most of the marketing industry is over-sexualizing young girls in their products. Some extremists might even debate whether this is a cause or an effect in higher rates of p
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Monty Python star Jones has cancer
Without wishing to involve your family and personal affairs any more in this discussion, I would just like to point out that Terry Jones has contributed a lot more than "just" the Monty Python movies.
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Global warming: Will the Sun come to our rescue?
That's your opinion as a non-scientist. Fact is you're wrong: Taks is oh so Wrong <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
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Religion in the Workplace.
I am glad the precedent was set against the political agitator. The veil is not meant to be abused in this way. The judge could have given her another option: her husband (or significant male family member, like eldest brother or father) could have represented her in court ...
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Captured, the sweet scent of happiness
The chemicals are the same, and they promotes the same change in the brain as a drug, such as Lady Crimson said about antidepressants. If there is a smell that promotes universal happiness, the pessimist in me says it would be used for global domination. If not then I think it would numb people to reality. Speaking from the point of view of someone who thinks misery is needed to balance happiness. I think life would be a bit unbearable if everyone was walking around with grins <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That's an additional supposition, though: no-one was implying a "universal mood enhancer" would be added to the water supply, just targeted to those who wanted it. I don't know too many people who suffer from depression (and about 15% of the entire population does) that would willingly choose to keep suffering from it. Me too! A joyful, righteous indignation! :D
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Boy Scouts Introduce Merit Badge For Not Pirating
Using that logic they should prevent evil using the demonstrably overwelmingly predictive trait of all hardenened criminals (i.e. above 98%): masculinity. Just throw every man in jail: no more serious crime.
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For those of you that tried VR in the 80s...
Hee hee, I remember playing this at the local arcade when I was in secondary school (about 17). :D
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Monty Python star Jones has cancer
I'd take any of their careers!
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The Music Thread - Currently Listening To
Excellent.
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Building a new PC one piece at a time
Does a HDTV card need a PCI-e slot?
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Monty Python star Jones has cancer
Firsly, comparisons are odious: that was my point. Secondly, you are completely ignoring his writing credits, e.g. just look at the stuff from the sixties: If you haven't heard / seen any of that, it's (probably) too late. But it was brilliant satirical, incisive humour, and I'd be prepared to argue that it had some impact on politics then AND now. So yeah, it's had a bigger impact than individual medicines, because we're all living in a political world. So yeah, it's more important than medicine, because not everyone needs a cancer drug, but everyone lives in the country when they take conscripts to war.
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Now that NWN2 is finished...
Some. :D Actually, that is a good point. I still want them to do it, though. There are many different ways a post-apoc world can look; plenty more ideas out there.
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Boy Scouts Introduce Merit Badge For Not Pirating
I didn't say it was officially endorsed.
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Boy Scouts Introduce Merit Badge For Not Pirating
... Unless you're a Scoutmaster. <_<
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Deus Ex
Don't know that I have done that ... yet. Didn't notice the discrepancy, either.
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Boy Scouts Introduce Merit Badge For Not Pirating
That's absurd.
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Deus Ex
There? Instead of ? If you wait , then you get to .
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Get the NWN2 manual here
Think yourself blessed: Europe have to wait an extra week.
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The Battlestar Galactica Thread
In Season One, Adama tells Baltar that he can use the last nuke (for his Cylon detector research).
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Monty Python star Jones has cancer
Terry Jones so far ... Cue discussion on relative worth of the arts versus science / whatever.
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Boy Scouts Introduce Merit Badge For Not Pirating
Does that mean slightly absurd comments are slightly false?
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Eloi and Morlocks - for real?
lol Camus :D
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Deus Ex
Yeah, they take up a lot of space, though ... not enough room to have them as well as the flame-thrower ...
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Now that NWN2 is finished...
... Or someone could mod a hakpak (for the science instead of magic) and create their own mod ...