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What's the game?

I never did get coffee. i'll drink the odd latte but like one a month (if that). <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Caffeine is actually a very effective and useful psychoactive substance (second only to nicotine for concentration and reactions), and near to amphetemines for enhanced aptitude. It definitely improves the body's clock-dependent alerting, and I have noticed that it allws me to reduce my daily minimum sleep quota. Also, it doesn't have a long half-life (between three and seven hours, depending on age, activity and individual's liver enzyme chemistry), so that after the the caffeine begins the have an effect

You do realise that there are, at any particular moment, about two dozen wars simultaneously occurring, don't you? I read a book, written at the turn of the twentieth century (i.e. before The Great War), and covered the ten most important battles in history. Most of them were before some guy allegedly got strung up on a couple of bits of trees for saying that the Golden Rule was a pretty decent idea.

Just keep the dosage up, too.

The parent who decided to sue (whether at the lead of an ambulance-chaser, or not) demonstrates the truth beneath the thin veneer of pretense: greed. Just like the bottom-dwellers that thought to make a score off Michael Jackson, "parents" like these think nothing of using "their" children to further their own gains, irrespective of the jeopardy in which the innocents may find themselves.

Hopefully the toolset will be released on time ...

Fixed!

POST HOC, ERGO PROPTER HOC I really get annoyed by sloppy, sensationalistic science. What a crock. Eldar, I agree with your reasoned rebuttal, but I don't agree it is apt to this sham that "Doctor" Sonya Brady has conducted. Scientific method? Sample space size? Double blind? Variance for the love of whomever you find holy! What is up with this garbage that is foisted on an increasingly innumerate populace as "science"? Psychology has a hard time as it is trying not to look like a soft science, without gibberish like this being published, unsupported. I'd like to do unspeakably violent things to all the stupid people involved.

I am not sure if that will stop Hades from exercising his protest vote, after all Ubisoft use it on Chaos Theory ... "

I don't think ~Di is against guest workers, I think she is for enforcing fair laws, so that the immigrants (illegal or otherwise) are not exploited. (But don't let me talk for you ~Di ...)

I find this freudian psychological slip very interesting.

So, ~Di, would you implement some sort of punitary mechanism against the employers (who take advantage of illegal immigrants)?

Your wish has been completed, thanks to the Green Machine.

S'funny, I had to run through Madonna's latest music video at the gym today (Confessions from a Dance Floor) and it struck me that she ought to watch Sunset Boulevard ...

1. Always have an archive of anything you don't want to lose. 2. In case of catastrophe, see rule one. Seriously, keep copies of your inportant stuff everywhere. CDs (most PCs don't have floppy drives anymore ... and floppies aren't floppy anymore, but that's another story) DVDs or, as Mr Creep correctly suggested, the Flashdrive is your best bet. Flashdrives come in all sizes, from (4MB?) up to 4GB, and prices range as well. Get a good one, they are a brilliant piece of kit because you can use it to transfer contents form drive to drive anywhere that has a USB reader.

Yes, but Hades is performing a boycott.

In France, for example, it is traditional for children to have a glass of wine with dinner, some as young as pre-teen (though more like half-a-glass, in those cases). The alcohol problem that the "developed" world has is more due to binge drinking, which arguably can be tempered by a more realistic attitude. (Might have something to do with the Calvanistic wish for prohibition trying to wrestle with repressed desires for losing sharp focus of the responsiblities of the world. That, and / or the wage-slavery of most people, and what that causes some people to do to others, which drives them to drink to excess to drown out their reality.) If your example was with a packet of cigarettes, then I would concur with your implication that such parenting is not good.

I may even pre-order ... :D

No, it's the StarForce copy-protection they employ, I thought.

That just means it is not only permissable for you, as a neophyte independent developer, to do the same but that if you actually make your own character models it will be heralded as "brilliant" and "above the curve". Who is the more ostentatious, the one who brandishes the kitch phrase that conspicuously begs the question, or the one who answers it?

You mean it's NOT!!!1

Calax FTW! I am desperately trying to decipher your point ... and failing.

Maybe Eldar is right ... some people are unable to lose themselves in art and must place their own context-perceptual bias on the images based on the verbal disclosures. So in order to facilitate their proper artistic enjoyment, placing the image before the description might prove useful.

Me too. I spend a lot of time skimming and perusing the books before making a valued purchase: I like to keep the books, too, as I feel they say a bit about me. I can look back in times far future and know how I was feeling or what I was thinking about.

It's mildly amusing but hardly credible. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I dunno, I think David Wong has a fair bit of credibility when it comes to Nintendo.