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Winter has come and gone in 1906, the darling buds of May are ready to pounce on unsuspecting young sheep, to eviscerate them and dine on fine lamb chops.

Just one comment as I have other things to do. The sad fact is you don't even comprehend WHY I won't be conveniced by you and why you won't be convinced by me. I base my critcisms on logic, experience and faith. You have mad a decision OF FAITH, based on limited experience and understanding (how many religions have you STUDIED, before settling for the ONE TRUE FAITH? Excactly.) That's fine and dandy. Perhaps one day you might even decide to investigate this faith that you have put so much store into; then you will discover that the historical figure known as Jesus Christ and the fairy tale portrayed in the New Testament are well understood and accepted by senior clergy: those that have completed advanced degrees in theology. (They have come to terms with the human and supernatural lives of their christ. But yet they don't trust this information with the laity. Why is that?) Do you know why you don't? Let me save you some soul searching and tell you: you're scared. Scared of what you will find out. So I dare you: a challenge (that you will thank me for later): do some study in your religion: take a degree in divine studies, learn about it. You WILL be surprised at what you find, I cna tell you, from what you write right now. Good luck.

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It's the same thing the car industry did a few years back. The average age of the common car was measured in decades: in order to stimulate the market, the big guns dropped the price of all their new vehicles. Then, in order to recoup their sunk costs, they shortened the effective meantime between failure for all the parts and inflated the cost of spares and replacements, such that to build a car from said spares would cost anywhere from three to five-fold the cost of the new car. Great if you always trade your new car in every three years (like business lease programmes do) and never have an accident. Even Mercedes has taken a credibility hit in the last decade (although they are trying to rectify this now): their car reliablity used to be legendarily stratospheric (many instances of diesel taxis from the fifties that have clocked their odometers multiple times and still work with minimum servicing): now they are struggling to make their cars exit the bottom ten in surveys. So, back to Xbox: the net cost of the technology is clawed back in licence revenue from the developers (no pay, no licence to develop for the platform) and customers (exorbitant retail prices). PCs don't look so expensive anymore ...

No, but I'll bet you didn't see her in it: too much airbrushing in the way.

I know what I would spend $500 on, and it ain't a mincing costume ...

At least they do it in the privacy of the Oxford main street. Ms Hilton has to inflict her stupidity on the world through the megaphone of tabloid totem-builders, gnashing their teeth for the next expendable scapegoat ...

But enough of your sexual practices, what about your moderator goals? Ba-dum-tish!

Silly Kaftan. All those PC games just have to write Pentium-readable code that interacts with (M$) DirectX drivers. M$ have to pay for all the developers' (who pay a licence fee to develop games for the platform, dontchaknow?) games to be dumbed down enough to use the limited specs of the console.

Science = SF. Romantic (i.e. "swashbuckling") with space ships = Space Opera. Basically when the universe is more similar than the fiction is more SF: the more fantasy elements, the less like our universe the fiction is. So if the author introduces one new concept, like AI, and then uses this to explore how the world interacts with it, then I would score that higher on SF. That's how I see it, anyhow, but I don't think it's going to be a question on University Challenge anytime soon, so feel free to adopt your own view. It's healthy! SW certainly got the Trek movies the green light. ST:TOS predates 2001 and SW by a couple of years and a decade, respectively. Trek was the first show EVER to hit (without consciously aiming for "), and demonstrate the value of knowing, a specific demographic. With this in mind, it was not long before the cogs of the various Hollywood producers started to crank and grind, leading (in part, anyways) to the "vapid sequels" mentality we have now. There were lots of other SF serials, though. Quatermass and even Doctor Who blazed a trail beforehand. Trek was just the US catching up with the avante-guard. :D

Or even a giant boulder or a 500kilotonne weight dropped on them from a cliff by a coyote trying to squash a roadrunner.

I want to cutomise my PC with augmentations.

Boring. 1. The bible is a fairy tale. Get over it. Just because you believe it is true, doesn't magically make it so. 2. Really punching above your mental weight now, aren't you? Okay, I'll make this simple for you: I wasn't implying that you had a special unique "Mothman" religion [sic passim], I was pointing out just how hypocritical you are, preaching christian values with one face and making non-christian comments with the other. Understand now, Janus? Hypocrisy like this is the basis for religious conflict: the gap between your religion and your shortcomings is directly causing THIS CONFLICT, like so many before. 3. (Who knows why you are using this obscure numbering system that bears no resemblance to the points I made, but as I have already soundly answered all the previous posts I shall continue to demolish these three.) I was merely giving the fundamentalist what s/he asked for: metaphors that they might contemplate to re-consider their literal interpretation. Insulting? Perhaps; not as insulting as fundamentalist comments are to someone who sees the evil of the seditious co-opting of scientific method by those too ignorant or insipid to understand what is fact and what is belief, and the gap twixt. And evangelising, like the fundamentalist was doing, is very insulting to the other billions of people on this planet: most of whom are very sure that their religion is THE TRUTH and do not appreciate another passively-aggressively trying to bully them into another faith. Got it? Baha'i is an example of a non-threatening religion. Check out what the "neutral" dictionary.com says about this religion here. Do these comments seem harsh? Or are you proposing a double standard because it's YOUR religion I'm trying to debunk? You bet I'll take issue with anyone who purports to have the meaning of life "because God told me so": I see this as a direct enemy of the progress of science. That is an anathema to all thinking beings, and I will oppose it whilst I can breathe. 4. Who the hell said I was an athiest? One day you may travel outside the insular little landscape you have infested, like a goldfish in a ten litre glass bowl, and ONLY then will your opinion start to have a scintilla of credibility. Until then you are just another bawling little baby who wants to be right all the time, regardless of the real world outside.

Is mod entropy increasing? Dum dum dum daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Tune in next week: same bat time, same bat channel ...

Because she ought to know and behave better. Think of what she might be doing with her power, position and pecuniary pile, rather than enacting her psychological treatments in the public media. I hate yobs. I hate rich yobs more, because they have no reason to be yobs.

Star Gate is definitely StarTrek-lite.

Payment where it's due, Volo.

That's what Paris Hilton is ... revolting!

I'm not sure why YOU are moaning at me, I was not taking a swipe at Christianity in general (though your reading comprehension has never been at an intimidating level) I was pointing out to the fundamentalist that there are literal inconsistencies in the Bible as represented in the English lagnuage she/he was using to convey it's/God's message. See the difference? So there. (linky) It's not YOUR belief, it is the common belief of a few billion people (more or less: more or less common, that is: some major points are argued in the various schisms). Don't be so boastful, arrogant and proud, Mr Christian. Actually I do not say others are wrong for believing whatever fairy tale they want to: I object to people telling me what to believe OR trying to adulterate scientific method to accommodate concepts that are strictly (in the logical postivism sense) unscientific. Perhaps if you actually had something to say, rather than just wanting to take a shot at me for not believing what you believe, we might actually have a conversation. KTHNXBYE

Having a short back and sides and wearing a suit = hottie now, does it? Oh! I get it. Sarcasm. Heh. Irony. Yah. I wanna know what Ms Hilton is rioting about now? Isn't there enough bubbles of air in her aero bar/bath water/brain case or something?

peers? we got peers? as for the rest of you... we would have laughed this thread away as typical of the kinda recent stoopidity that has become commonplace 'round here if not for the following: http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?showtopic=37703 ... honestly, we were more than a little disappointed in some of you folks, and when one considers our general low opinion of you peoples to begin with, that is saying something. some of you clowns gots it backwards. treat n00bs like crap simply 'cause they is n00bs? bah. n00bs should be treated better and not worse. if you has been 'round for a while then you got no excuse for making fools of yourselves. n00bs got an excuse that the regular posters do not: they is new. n00bs is the only folks that get Gromnir patience and they always get at least one free shot at us w/o reprisals. we got more concern for n00bs, not less, 'cause the quickest and bestest way for these boards to improve is for them to be getting new ideas and perspectives, and the best way for that to happen is for new people to wanna stick 'round and contribute. if it were up to Gromnir, there would be no visible post counts, but unfortunately, that would not stop some o' you peoples from treating new folks poorly. shame. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You shame those amoungst us who, in their exuberance to prove themselves in verbal combat with each other, have slaughtered an innocent. I take your point about peers; let's just say it was meant in the broadest possible definition ...

Don't try and ingratiate yourself now, after abandoning us all for your "worthy work"! Just because there are people less well off than us doesn't mean they deserve your company more than we do. Now, gimme 100 press-ups and I'll think about letting you off with a warning.

I see four things of ends.

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And then what? I think the mask looks like a droid's faceplate. You don't say, KotORFanatic ...