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The vast majority of murders are by people known to the victim (and usually family).

Well, it wasn't just "don't be thin", it was check your BMI ratio ... there is a happy medium.

Oh ... you're serious ...

I wanna play as the Huguenots.

I don't know of any problems with under-clocking (you'll need to mess with the BIOS on the mobo, of coures, just like over-clocking, and probably lower the voltage across the RAM, too) ... though I'm not an expert. You definitely will be paying a premium for faster DDR2 RAM, though.

I didn't say it had speakers ...

You're right! It's like you're not even trying anymore!

The Green parties are where the communists all fled to after their bottoms were shaved and they were all frog-mached backwards around red Square. Remember, not voting is a vote for the incumbent. :D Go right. No party should be in power for a long time: they get lazy, greedy and corrupt. The whole point of a democracy is voting out the people you don't like.

I have changed my advice. You should form your own political party.

Apparently it has a volume control that turns up to eleven, too.

Emigrating. Finland is nice. :D

Might just draw a discreet line under this ...

And they last longer than video cards!

I don't think the pain fades; I think we get better at managing it. Just like bravery is not the absence of fear, just the determination to do the right thing in the presence of it.

Well, if the theocrats are completely outnumbered, then they can't physically keep the people down. (Riot Act celebrates the pregnant possibilities. :D )

momenti mori

Yes: Last Active 7th September 2006 - 09:42 PM.

There is no way China can realistically control the access to information for EVERYONE. Kaftan, most of the population of Iran is under 25 and quite moderate.

When I was in Indonesia, and the local currency (Rupiah) is about 1000:$1, yet after a few days I was just as insistent in haggling over taxi fares ... which equated to fractions of a cent ... just to not being ripped off! :D

Yeah, it got me thinking about ways to send targeted electric current without invasive wiring. It would mean sending flesh-friendly energy to a specific, targeted point, and then causing this energy to become electrical and disperse into the area (at 4 volts). But miniturization is ongoing. This is just a proof of concept. Nanotech could easily create a structure in the brain with minimum invasion.

I met an ex-pat Genoan, and when I chatted about the Venetians he was most indignant that his precious city and her fine history was ignobly dismissed by history, in favour of her neighbour ... "we lost one little war!" he lamented. :D

canon

I don't think it's that stark, between dialogue options and the wheel. Also, I do think that (faults and all) the Oblivion conversation wheel was a brilliant meta-game innovation (despite whether it was actually fun or not). :D That, I believe, is the strength of writing as a medium for conveying ideas. I frequently notice that there are layers of subtexts that are quite beyond the conscious awareness of the author. After all, life is rarely black-and-white, and ideas are as complex as the environment they are reviewed in.