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I liked that last vignette of the Twilight Zone film, too. Rod Serling was a dude. I remember designing an adventure game, based around the Twilight Zone, for the 6502 ...

Actually the signal sent by the Emperor to indicate his desire that the gladiator should be shown mercy was to hold the hand out with the thumb pointing horizontally, inward; his displeasure and the ultimate death of the gladiator was indicated by the hand in the same position giving the same gesture, except that the thumb was held between the fingers.

Heavy sedation.

[i suspect that ] You[']r[e] older th[a]n me [, then]. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That explains your grasp of grammar, then. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Actually, wouldn't his post indicate a poor grasp of spelling? In fact, your version of the sentence changed kyle's post from a statement of fact to a suspicion by adding in an extra clause, namely, "I suspect that". Indeed, by editing the grammar of the sentence and apparently seeming to correct it while instead changing the meaning of the sentence, would that not suggest a poor grasp of grammar on your own part? " In proper English, kotorkyle's statement would simply be "You are older than me", not "I suspect that you're older than me, then." EDIT: Oh, and you kept "you're" capitalised, puting a capital letter in the middle of a sentence for something other than a proper noun. Tut tut. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> grammar is [t]he study of how words and their component parts combine to form sentences ... (etcetra), so No; kotorkyle implicitly posits the hypothesis that Gabrielle is more senior, but does not directly affirm this to be a fact, either known to, or confirmed by, him (her); my exterpolation of the original statement may be regarded as editing (for sure), but it was done within the spirit of clarification and not for any malevolent purposes, so it is at worst artistic licence and in no way poor grammar; I admit that leaving the capitalised Y was a more idiosyncratic grammatical interpretation; however I would justify my indulgence by citing the obvious benefit of presenting the original phrase in its entirety, as well as my additional predicate (quoth you, above) to indicate:my interpretation the fact that it was my interpretation the range and limits of my editing Of course replacing the Y with [y] would have been technically more in keeping with accepted grammatical idiom, it would have lost the above nuances.

Okay, but post the link now.

[i suspect that ] You[']r[e] older th[a]n me [, then]. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That explains your grasp of grammar, then. "PC" stands for Personal Computer, which does not exclude any computer format, despite the current ubiquity of the IBM PC (which were originally "MS DOS compatible"), so you can have your cake and eat it too. "PC" is just as much about Amigas as it is the Apple //e and the Commodore 64 ().

Everyone that link is a trick! Some of you should know this! don't believe the person who posted it. The people who are smart willl know its there too fool you. ... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Zing, Mr Surreptishus. You have been zinged.

So ... ATi cards are okay?

No, that was my excited anticipation emoticon as I downloaded the demo ...

Actually, I believe the neo-cons are not gunning for a hardline neo-christian fascist for the Supreme Court (well, that's not their primary goal, anyway); more that they are aghast at the completely un-Republican behaviour of their President. To wit, I read an accountant's audit of the cost of Dubya's spending so far, not including the Hurricane clean-ups, and (in adjusted dollars) he was already deeper in red ink than JBJ and his now infamous guns AND butter opening gambit. So, Here we have a Republican that has blown the surplus (that was ironically earned by the Democrats) AND burnt a hole in the federal treasury larger than any in history in an attempt to bring in socialist reforms that a democrat would blanch at, whilst fighting a elective war that now has no clear evidential support ... And meanwhile Tony Blair is doing a better Margaret Thatcher impersonation than anyone in the Conservative Party could even dream of ... Have to agree with that as well, after all, who was it that said: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. "? ^_^

Hmmm. I must be tired ...

I hope it fares as well or better than the Diplomacy games ...

Actually, I believe the neo-cons are not gunning for a hardline neo-christian fascist for the Supreme Court (well, that's not their primary goal, anyway); more that they are aghast at the completely un-Republican behaviour of their President. To wit, I read an accountant's audit of the cost of Dubya's spending so far, not including the Hurricane clean-ups, and (in adjusted dollars) he was already deeper in red ink than JBJ and his now infamous guns AND butter opening gambit. So, Here we have a Republican that has blown the surplus (that was ironically earned by the Democrats) AND burnt a hole in the federal treasury larger than any in history in an attempt to bring in socialist reforms that a democrat would blanch at, whilst fighting a elective war that now has no clear evidential support ... And meanwhile Tony Blair is doing a better Margaret Thatcher impersonation than anyone in the Conservative Party could even dream of ...

It is either egregious arrogance or ignorance to have someone who has never demonstrated any inclination, aptitude or ingenuity wrt the US constitution to suddenly be given a 15% vote on interpreting it for common law.

hehe.. yeah I remember our discussion! you really gave me a run for my money with your endless questions!! ^_^ <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Reminds me of a person on another board, who had quoted Bizzaro Socrates: The unlived life is not worth examining.

He's under continued investigation for the next six months. More importantly, Fitzgerald, his existence and success so far, are the best reason to hold democracy in general and the US in particular up as role models for the way different parts of the society can check and balance each other.

Well, it was more difficult to understand where Simon was coming from in the movie; it comes across as a bit arrogant to try to dictate the terms of a 'free ride' that saved his (and his sister's) skin. I didn't care awfully much for him in the series, but I understood him. If I had started by just watching the movie, I'd have wondered why he hadn't been thrown off the ship long ago. I'm sure the added toughness was a device to get backstory out in a hurry, and I think it was a commendable effort; it's never easy. But Simon came out a not-so-likable character, who I wouldn't have minded seeing killed off in the end. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I thought Simon was a great character; he was truly a lawful man and he held filial piety above all else (so refreshing to see, even if it is only fiction). I didn't think he was that arrogant, I felt he was more assertive: River was only a young adult, remember, and had had a sheltered (if not completely warped) upbringing. After all, Simon didn't try to impose on the other crew, and he did his chores (medical aid), he was just trying to ensure that River wasn't put in a dangerous situation. He did offer to leave when the captain and his differences crystalised.

Kinda gives a whole new meaning to the term "pole-dancing", though ... "

Results of 1906 Spring have been posted for your delectation ...

Nice site: thanks Baley.

I was actually building up to that topic with all my posting previous to it. (It is good netiquette to post helpful answers to questions before asking your own questions, after all.) And I think it is a reasonable mutation of this now-nearly-spent topic to discuss first topics. " And I really liked that topic. And maybe Rosbjerg will post more now that it has been mentioned again.

Not so surprising. After the low box office take, and the reason for the movie in the first place was DVD sales, they figured getting the DVD out by christmas would be the best way to get some money out of it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The Star Trek films settled on about a $50M gross; the total take only has a bearing if it is a loss on the total film production costs, otherwise it will simply set the budget for the next film in the series. After all, they made a (very, very bad) sequel to Starship Troopers.