metadigital

At the beginning of the twentieth century, radiation was regarded as a super-good thing. In fact, low level exposure has been seen to improve the heath of people (numerous radioactive caves and pools are used for medicinal purposes), e.g. modern day Iran has the highest background radiation, and the people are unusually resistant to cancers. It is hypothesised that the radiation triggers cells in the body/blood that actively seek out dangerous stuff, like pre-cancerous cells. Large doses of radiation just destroy the cells, though.

You should see someone about that, could be a tumor. You've been watching Kindergarten Cop, again, haven't you.

Bond films did not invent the action film. I never said it would be trashed. I said it would disappear up its own arse, which I clarified later in my response to the analogy of a fetish. I.e., the franchise would continue to appeal to its loyal but ever-reducing fanatical fan-base, until there was so few left of them that the films didn't make enough return to warrant making another. OR the producers could adapt and change the franchise. If you are suggesting that Moonraker was a good film (in ANY sense of the word) then you have no credibility. Laser guns? Moore's tenure as Bond is only barely acceptable: the audience must first accept the implied parody, of the earlier films, that the Moore films had become. Fleming's material reflects the English post-war society, i.e. miserable (food rationing, begun in 1940, didn't end in Britain until 1954); his escapist writing is overburdened with references to food of all sorts, as well as rare wines, not to mention large stacks of cash. Don't forget Fleming also came up with the silly names for all the women, too. It is not hard to draw a conclusion about what Fleming was fixated on. As for "going back to using Fleming", I think if YOU do some homework you will see that the best Bond films were the one's that used as little as possible of Fleming's original text (this happened more and more towards his death, after which it was a lot easier). The Bond franchise "lasted for 40 years up to that point" because it started with a fantastic actor (Sean Connery, STILL voted in the top couple of "World's Sexiest Men", it's no exaggeration to say that women want him and men (who watch Bond films) want to be him), followed by years of no competition. Yeah, A View to a Kill and Octopussy are definitely showing how the Bond franchise is soooooooooooo much better than the Bourne franchise. Do you know anything about film at all, or just what you read on the Bond fansite?

Dang, do we have to do the RIGHT thing, AGAIN?

Dang, I was hoping to get Marble Arch. Wimbledon.

From wikipedia: Catfish belong to a superorder called the Ostariophysi, which also includes the Cypriniformes, Characiformes, Gonorynchiformes and Gymnotiformes, a superorder characterized by the Weberian apparatus. ... Yes, I know it's not really a catfish. Tiger shark?

The point is that the purpose of an emoticon (see, the clue is in the name) was originally just to add some context, like "this is me joking, so don't take it seriously," which is needed in a sterile communications medium like monochromatically monospaced text. The latest incarnations are more "here's a funky thought to punctuate my proportionately less-than-funky text".

Or, more correctly, cruel and far too usual.

I suppose, if you take a detour on the Metropolitan Line, I can take a penalty over the Circle, via Liverpool Street. that way Steve would by stuck at Baron's Court for the duration.

Yes, but the process of transcribing the vortex of imagery that I like to consider as my (chain of) thoughts belies any attempt to consider it as mere "copying".

Well, they are compared to strong nuclear interactions (up above mass-energies of 1TeV, and below mass-energies of 10^15GeV, where strong and electroweak are Grandly Unified).

How would "it all ... be over" if Palpatine didn't have Anakin?

... And made watching them worthwhile.

They do mods...i read up to "no mods for xbox" and i stopped If you have modded your Xbox it is possible to load mods for games.

Bah, I have to keep knocking down all the statues that mobs of adoring fans keep erecting for me.

That's it! The number three is a bad omen!

And Walsh is trying to coerce me into a trip down the District Line (don't deny it!), which of course would leave the game open for you, Steve, to win.

Priests are arguably the most powerful class in the game. I'd never play one, as I have ethical issues with them.

There was a lot of anger in the Security industry when Microsoft kept their Vista kernel design so tightly under wraps from them; I think this may have been adjusted now, though, and it is likely that Microsoft was just trying to get to market before the competition. If a company has a Vista product, then it will have been re-engineered for Vista (unless it's a dodgy company).

Leprechaun? (I never said I was the fairy, I said let's let the fairy clean up. )

Was the animation up to the textual description? Cheers, Bok. But what framerate do you get? (And how does that compare to Legend?)

For the Hog, the Alabaman, Role-Player or Walsh?