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^ Method RP Gamer.

Cool, thanks.

*prays for Skaro and real Daleks to exteminate P.H.*

*meta casts re-animate, level 7*

I found it a good primer for the classics: Latin and Aramaic.

Bah, even 5

Peter Venkman responding to Audrey, upon her asking for some time off, Ghostbusters. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Good catch, but I though it was Ann Potts <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Annie Potts's was the actress who played Janine Melnitz to Bill Murray's Peter Venkman.

The practical reality is that NO country can exist WITHOUT trading with China. No matter what happens, China's economy will SURPASS the US economy in the next three decades or so. You can't argue with bald facts. If the US did not grant China most favoured trading status, it would be to the US's detriment, not China's. Sidebar: The Chinese are an interesting society: no "invading culture" has ever dominated them: they adopt, integrate and assimilate all influences to make them "Chinese". Let's call it sinocizing. Even now, when patents are copyright are only just becoming legally enforceable, the Chinese have their own parallel technology for just about everything; from mobile telephony to Digital Versative Disc encoding standards. What's more, they have a policy of built-in sinocizing all foreign influences: when a company seeks permission to set up in China, half of the management staff must be Chinese and there must be a process to create a "Chinese version" of the company, so that most (all) the IP is transferred, and that China will never be forced to compete with the other undeveloped nations of the world in commodities markets, alone (coffee, sugar, raw materials, etc). -+-+- China isn't going to attack the US. It's not in her interests, nor in character. She wins by byzantine infiltration and subversion: the Chinese Emperor was the most powerful man in the world a thousand years ago, and their political system has been subject to sino-kaizen for five thousand years. Now if China decided to invade Australia, for example, then there is precious little anyone else could or would do ... We live in interesting times.

Janine Melnitz Was commenting form memory, I didn't even check the spelling of Venkman (although I got it right). Audrey is the girlfriend in Little Shop of Horrors (one degree of seperation with Rick Moranis). Plus, she talks like an Audrey.

Um, no, India is the biggest democracy in the world. China is ... something else.

The artwork is superb.

Yes, that is probably the biggest hurdle to a successful game: EIDOS trying to milk the IP for everything and ramming Lara *the superstar* down gamers' throats. Still, if the gameplay is good AND there are tombs to raid, then I'm keen to buy it.

Zing!

Yeah, it being artificial makes a lot of the problems go away (because it presumes that the artificer(s) planned for all the eventualities that might be problematic): even if they are set out in the introduction / prolegomenon, that can actually be part of the exploration of the characters in the game. Also, there is no strict maximum size for the depth of the Dyson Sphere: it could quite easily be a mile or ten miles thick (with sedementary, igneous and transitional rock types, and a fully working rock cycle. In fact, it's madatory. Where there is weather, there must be weathering. The deepest mine on the planet is a gold mine in South Africa, and it is no more than 4km down. The temperature is so warm, though, that there is a 24hr air conditioning unit running (I think it is mid-30

At worst it will be a failed audition ... and it will still add to the topic in a positive way. Please go ahead.

When you say "democrats", are you referring to the the democratic revolutionaries inside China, or the "free world" democracies of the developed countries?

Plus death waits around ever corner there Spiders, snakes, crocs, sharks,........... mel gipson <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 1. He was talking about the US govt. 2. Mel Gibson is a Yankee ... ask him. (And a mad Catholic, too.) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Now, now don't disown your fellow countrymen, he's an Aussie. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I don't disown him, I think he's done some pretty good films and decent acting, actually. He doesn't like to be called an Aussie: he only migrated to Australia in his teens and stayed long enough to graduation from NIDA (the Australian version of RIDA), show his talent with Kennedy-Miller, and then become Hollywood-guaranteed. He doesn't live in Australia, it was more like a pitstop in his res gest

Cinema is a cool place to work at your age: free films, lots of peers and girls and films, and you have to ability to hand out free passes to prospective girls, AND you have somewhere to take them on a date (AND even get paid). Sorry to hear the tribulations of the workplace, but it is a fact of life: not every situation is salvageable, and Kenny Rogers was right. Peter Venkman responding to Audrey, upon her asking for some time off, Ghostbusters.

There were scores of people logged in when you appeared and disappeared, maybe related to bandwidth ..?

So ...? Is it any good?

Plus death waits around ever corner there Spiders, snakes, crocs, sharks,........... mel gipson <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 1. He was talking about the US govt. 2. Mel Gibson is a Yankee ... ask him. (And a mad Catholic, too.)

ORLY?!!? but is that how it is generally handled in practice (well, pre you having an itchy trigger finger)? Nope. Because we have literally had threads on chimps taking over the world, which we're ok, but to say that one goofy topic changing into another goofy topic makes a thread lockable is kinda silly. It's bureaucracy for the sake of bureaucracy. The point of the topic was for laughs. As far as serious topics, and the frapper, I get keeping it on point. But isn't that what pruning and warnings are for? Locking a serious topic seems self defeating. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> YA RLY Yeahkindasortaoughta, but this is a high-profile topic. Megalomaniacal chimps are fine in their own thread.

I would tend to say that (most) personality is innate, and is merely shaped by the environment (whether supportive or abusive). Also, don't kid yourself: most people think they are "new, improved" versions of their parents, yet grow up to be almost identical (not immediately: but remember that your parents are a few decades older than you are). <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Innate? Apriori? Canyou explain your case, because I can't see it being innate, i personally believe that people aren't born with knowledge like morals ect... My defense is if you look around there seems to be contradiction everywhere with morality. IE is lieing really bad, is killing really wrong, equality is fair. I believe in analytical knowledge but this wouldn't really count would it? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Um, no a posteriori! (empirical observation rather than theoretical deduction) Babies have personalities. Cats have personalities. Spiders have personalities (Sir David Attenborough was reciting an experience when a film crew were trying to capture a couple of arachnids on celuloid, and one was shy, one was light-sensitive and one was happy to perform)! Morals come from empathy. Empathy is a conseqence of self-awareness, which infants do not have (they do not distinguish between "self" and "the world"). Morals ≠ personality Although different personalities would not necessarily have the same ethical values, that is more to do with Moral absolutism than personality.

But the discussion was about the capabilities of the NwN Aurora engine.