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But, Over 40% of the predicted human proteins share similarity with fruit-fly or worm proteins, so insects are people too!

I would echo the above concerns about PSU. Over half of the PSUs tested recently by Custom PC, Blew Up! Best of the bunch was Seasonic.

'West Indians' or 'India Indians'? The 'India Indian' language is Urdu. Also, AU would be awful, it'd be confused with Australia, then again, maybe we can just annex them, New Zealand, Malaysia, and a few other Pacific Islands too! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Kiwis mightn't like that, and the US is terra non grata in Australia at the moment, but I still think they'd cede, eventually ...

Zuul ("The Gatekeeper") and Vinz Clortho ("The Keymaster") would have something to say about that ... on behalf of Gozer the Gozerian ...

... and deserves to be replaced by something less flakey.

i think you are all forgetting that maintaining an armed force is expensive; at least in an actual conflict all the old munitions can be rotated out for use ... "

Put yourself in their situation, how many times do you think they hear people trying to explain their way out of a ticket? I think a policeman would have done exactly the same. In your case it was just one of those incidents where it appears the story was actually true, so yeah that did suck. And I don't know what "deck" means, but if it implies anything like verbal aggression and/or violence, then I'm pleased you didn't do it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> "Deck", as in "make him hit", with a large quantity of momentum. As it happened I suppose I could have written to the local authority with the surgeon's explicit affidavit, but at the time it was the least of our concerns, by a long margin.

All this stuff proves the Stargate hypothesis. "

Interestingly enough, a "pervert" was originally someone who converted back from Protestant to Catholic in Britain ...

I've heard the "advanced civilization that pre-dates the Egyptians" theory, and the evidence of pyramid-like structures in all the continents (e.g. Ziggurats) ... specifically the Sphinx was changed by the Egyptians, from being a large life-like lion, to a lion with the head of a pharoah (which is out of proportion to the body of the Sphinx).

Hee hee: that made me giggle. Perfect SF plot fodder! That's what swung the balance for me: Unobtainium! Perfect: they can make this into an RPG! How can you NOT like a film with a geek hero?! But, Dr Arrogant explained in the film that the core was thinner there! I giggled at that, too. The super-scientists just forgot to explain that bit of technology; I'll bet it's in the Special Edition ... Rolling on the floor at this point ... I was just watching Ms Swank at this point ... You're right, though, given a different day, I might very well have panned this for the awful science. But any film that is based on a "ship" that goes to the core of the Earth is not going to be hard science, so I was expecting something fit for Science Theatre 3000.

Canada does a wonderful job of buffering the US, whilst being beyond the balance sheet of Congress. By "annex" you seem to be suggesting using force. In short, it is the dumbest idea I've read this year.

Was I in hibernation? What year is it? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Released: 28 September 2007

And it never gets any better, even though you will be able to solve those issues you just mentioned ...

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A policeman might have been a little more receptive to my explanation.

Yes, I was in a great mood when I got to the car after the sub-two minute expiry, after having just driven at super-speed from the Home Counties to make the emergeny run to the hospital, I can tell you. I didn't deck the guy.

What is your evidence?

The Core. Pretty decent SF film. Hillary Swank plays gorgeous well.

My recall might be a bit rusty; I haven't played HotU and the vault for over a year (heck, I haven't played the original for about three years). (I was actually trying to recall the details from this mod.) Can't remember if it was my Guardian or Sentinel, but the PC had way more than 1000 vitality (and, consequently, so did Darth Traya).

NwN = finish with PC level 10-12 SoU = finish with PC level 19-22 HotU = finish with PC level 26-28 I tend to agree with Eldar. Epic level characters tend to bend the rules to breaking point; I just don't think d20 gives enough granuality / resolution for higher level PCs, and NPCs seem to act outside the boundaries of the rulesets (the demon in HotU, for example, before the PC is sent to the frozen hell). The main constraint is the level must be commensurate with the story; I can't tell for certain, but I'd bet London Bridge to a brick that the KotOR:TSL XP reward was increased (I'd say doubled), and I'd put double-or-nothing that it was to ensure that players could have PCs break the magic level 20 barrier that was so much bemoaned by the players of the forst KotOR. The fact that one of my PCs had something in the order of 1500 hit points (or vitality, or whatever they were called) and some similar amount of magic ("Force" points) was patently silly. Just giving enemies more hitpoints doesn't make for a better fight: they need more battle skills, strategy and tactics, etc. I think the level mechanism is far too clumsy to be used as the only means for escalating tension through the narrative.

I wish you were more in touch with his feminine side ...

I got that beat. I got TWO parking tickets on the same day OUTSIDE the hospital whilst attending an emergency. Way to go Westminster Borough Council and their