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A sufficiently obscure character to the general public to prevent hordes of game public from thinking it is a technical service for the latest Obsidian game release. You might try reverse alphabetical order ...

Polar Bears have black skin and hollow hair.

Did the mountee try to stop the mounter?

So you would not save the busload of children if you had to choose whether to save them or a busload of senior citizens?

Spelmar is particularly cross with your lack of vocabulary, Calax:

Not really. There are many medical conditions that are caused by an inactive gene becoming active for some reason, for example. And some of those conditions are much more lethal than homosexuality (harlequin ichtyosis comes to mind). Also, and given the biochemical mechanism by which the parents' DNA is combined (the same mechanism by which brothers aren't identical), it could be some kind of error during the first stages of DNA replication. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Furthermore, my understanding of the latest research (although I haven't checked it since we last had this topic, about six months ago ) is that there is MORE THAN one gene involved. In other words, (let's say) there are six genes, and they all confer some sort of benefit, though if they are all turned on (which happens in approximately ten percent of the population) then the person is prone to homosexuality. This doesn't preclude environmental factors (though they are irrelevant for this point). I don't think strict homosexuality exists in nature (besides human beings, that is). There's plenty of sexual interaction between animals of the same sex, of course, but never exclusively. All animals are bound to get some heterosexual lovin' now and then. I could be wrong, though. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You are. There are many documented instances of homosexuality in nature, from chimpanzees and dogs to whales.

Just watched A Scanner Darkly. Very pedestrian; Keanu did his best (threw his whole toolbox at the part, including "Whoa.", "No way." and a few tetragrammatical invectives), though Downey and Harrelson helped even the score. One point it did underscore was that you don't need photo-realistic graphics to tell a story: the entire film stock was overlaid with graphic-novel-like drawn effects. I think it was mainly meant for people under the influence of something, because the various deep insights and plot twists, etc, were all very obvious. I expect this is because it was based on a short story (although I'm not sure about that, but Dιck wrote a plethora of short stories as well as novels: perhaps someone else can confirm? *casts summon Baley*).

That is why you fail.

++ is an operator in C/C++, and it means to increment the variable. The caret ^ means "referring to the above", so I was indicating my agreement with what you said.

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I think we have exhausted all useful discussion here: baiting, trolling and spam are approaching toxic levels ...

Project New Jersey is not in jeopardy, the forum was removed until there is a more formal announcement. PNJ is for the latest generation consoles. No mystery.

Rombraider: Legend and Fahrenheit just arrived, but I'll probably not install them for a while, until I play a good game of HoI2:DD and finish the Fallouts ... though I am getting the urge to re-install Space Rangers 2 ... :D

I think you're all dancing around the definition of FUN. If there were a way to define it in a couple of sentences, then the publishers would have bottled it and sold it en masse by now.

Nope, no Shock2 or DeusEx stat sheet anymore... It's all about altering your DNA via Adam now, baby! While that can improve both your attributes and your weapons as well, it now has the drawback that you could turn out as a monster yourself if you're not careful enough. Clearly an improvement. Character improvement now has consequences. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That's what the small-minded ones called it: monstrous ... but I'll show them!

My experience with Dell laptops (and this seems to chime with many other people's) is that their battery technology is very poor. My battery lasted twelve months and one day, then I couldn't get more than five minutes out of it. (That's why I bought an IBM Thinkpad, ext: they have the best laptop batteries: still going after three years, and I haven't even used the "deep discharge" function on it once, yet.) The Dell XPS is their premium brand, however, and may be put together with more care. But Dells are very plasticky, I find. The Shuttle PC you quote has good recent reviews: Having said that, I'd recommend the Core 2 Duo, too. It is streets ahead of the AMD (unfortunately), though you will pick up an AMD bargain if you look hard enough. Also, there is a quad-core Core 2 Duo out in 15 weeks (November), which will blow away the current tech, too: not really something you would necessarily wan to buy, but it should bring the price down of the X6700 and X6800. CPUs need good mobos, too. There are a couple of mobos out at the moment that suit the new Core 2 Duo ... e.g. the P965-based Asus P5B Deluxe (nb not the latest release P975X-based Asus P5W DH Deluxe, which sadly uses the obsolete ICH7R Southbridge, as well as adding CrossFire support). It's faster than its younger stablemate, because it uses the new ICH8R Southbridge chip, but, it has no crossfire support. (The new Abit Fatal1ty AN932X mobo has the new nForce 590 SLI chipset: worth considering if you want to team an AMD Athlon 64, -FX, or AM2 socket with an SLi GPU setting, say two EVGA GeForce 7900GTs, which will take advantage of the extra bandwidth acceleration implemented by the nForce590.) The Seagate harddisk looks pretty good; check out Custom PC's recommendation, too. The ATi X1900XTX is the fastest GPU on the market, currently. (There will be another DX9 GPU release before Vista and DX10, though, and that is imminent.)

... ditto for IBM Thinkpads (might be a defacto standard ... though those pesky Apples are probably on their own standard ...)

What's funny is the citizens of the USA are defending an aberration: US English is already different enough from UK English to create not-inconsiderable consternation and confusion amongst speakers trying to communicate. )

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Give it up. You are just digging a deeper hole ...

AWSOMENESS++

I like the idea of NOT having "tech" in the title. Also computers are junk.

I agree. I think I'll change my religion to Spartacan. :D

Wasn't the war more between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, with allies chiming into the mix? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell, it depends on whether you are considering immediate causes (like Archduke assassinations) or medium-to-longer term causes, like the empire-building of Brtain, France and the late-comers Germany, who just used the contemporary political situation as a convenient launchpad for their own colonial desires. So you could conceivably blame the British for their Empire-building, or even the French for their (not-so-successful) Empire-building and all of them for their constant one-up-manship warring, or even the Romans for not colonizing the Teutons when they had the chance ...

Spartacus: the Remastered original with Kirk and entr'acte!