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Anywayz0rz, bring on the Strogg!

Quake IV due for PC release in two weeks in the UK. :cool:

That's pretty good, Steve. I'd add to it a little more explanation for those outside the UK to make more from it, though: "hardworking families" is the ideal that all members of society compare themselves to; in the past, political parties and governements have used "working class" and "honest, decent", "man in the street", etc. Think workers controlling the means of production, realised. (Of course big business runs most of society collectively, only when one corporate sticks its head up out of the pack does the government get a clear shot at it to bring it down to size.) "new" is trying to re-define the political landscape, rather than tired old "left" and "right" nomenclature (which is taken from the original French revolutionary National Assembly: left and right), i.e. a "new" third or "middle" way. "Terr0rzr1stz" are the enemy of the "free people", which (co-incidentally) is what the state is representing and protecting. Therefore enemies of the state are enemies of the people, or so the logic goes. I think the term "Terrorist" is being slowly changed from its original literal meaning of "someone who uses fear to leverage extortion", into "enemy of the state". Pity. But it is equally assinine to argue that a "freedom fighter" is fighting for their own freedom, at the expense of the society in which they live. That isn't a freedom fighter, it's a selfish anarchist.

I still don't undersand the point of the neutical.

I'll be seeing it again this weekend most likely. Gotta drag my other roommate who cancelled at the last minute on friday because he got some vacuum tubes in the mail. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Cool! Vacuum tubes are t3H sh1zn1tz! That's the latest media advertising meta-technology, that is. Even includes the "viral" payload (first nine minutes of the film): i.e. as in "viral advertising" which is where people on the internets forward stuff they like to their friends (hence the metaphor) ... siz degrees of separation plus reference from a trusted source equals better bang-for-buck than squandering millions on ill-targeted advertising to people who wouldn't go and see the film anyway (like my mother).

Sounds like a bad case of Joss Whedon Envy, to me ... did your (obviously ex-) girlfriend compare you in -ahem- awkward ways to the Whedon?

posted by Zonk on Friday October 07, @19:58 (It's funny. Laugh.) karvind writes "This week Nobel prizes in Chemistry, Physics and Medicine were announced. Keeping up with the tradition, the 15th Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony was held at Sander's Theater at Harvard University. Winners include: Will Humans Swim Faster or Slower in Syrup? (Chemistry), Electrically monitoring the activity of a brain cell in a locust while that locust was watching selected highlights from the movie "Star Wars" (Peace), The Significance of Mr. Richard Buckley's Exploding Trousers (Agricultural History) and many more. Interestingly Roy Glauber, who for ten years has humbly swept paper airplanes on the stage at the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics. Archived video of the live webcast is also available for those who couldn't attend the ceremony." :cool:

Prions.

Why Microsoft Hates Blu-ray from the daggers-drawn dept. posted by Zonk on Friday October 07, @18:40 (Movies) An anonymous reader writes "The private feud just became public. Apparently, Gates yelled at Sony's CEO because the new copy protection Blu-ray has adopted would prevent players from streaming content to the Xbox 360. Since the PS3 will have Blu-ray support but the Xbox 360 only has a plain DVD drive, this means PS3 will be the only console that can play HD movies. Also, Paramount just announced support for Blu-ray and Warner Brothers may also jump ship. Will VHS vs. Betamax turn out differently this time?" Slashdot Stories for 2005-10-08

Cool.

Well, they don't eat you ALIVE, they wait for you to die first. (Not sure about the rulings of ritual homocide, though ...)

Cormack released the Quake III: Arena on GNU public licence. Use that.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by bluffing the other person, but though I'll see everyone's orders, since all orders including my own have to go through Kaftan, I won't see anyone's orders until it's too late to change my own, exactly as if I was a regular player. ... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I mean it is no longer possible to write this sort of order: A Tun - ION (sic) to the GM because you will know that it was a deliberate misrepresentation, not an accidental mistake.

What a smart man that Einstein was, using relativity to invent time travel and then proving it by travelling into the future to help observe our game of Diplomacy! By the way, everyone get your builds in, please.

What game? "

What temperature is the incendiary process? If it's several tens of thousands of degrees (like the core of the Sun), then immolation would be instantaneous, and a big saltwater crocodile would grab your body part and perform a death roll until you drowned (or got very dizzy), only to stow your remains until their larder had dwindled in a few weeks. I used to think I'd prefer jumping off a tall precipice to die, until I completed a few Bungee jumps; then I realised the headlong trajectory is not particularly pleasant. I would much prefer to go out after a good freefall (without a parachute). I don't see how anyone can give a reliable account of drowning, either. As Spock said in Star Trek 3 about needing a common frame of reference, to which McCoy responded: "You mean I would have to die, frist, in order to talk to you about death?" Back to the vote: either way you aren't going to suffer for long (unless the death is not by fire / eating, but complications thereof), so it doesn't matter. I wouldn't give a toss, really. Humans have disposed of their dead with fire (Jewish), burials at sea (You Only Live Twice) and recycling the bodies back to nature (Zoroastrians

... Because you don't want to spend the last seconds of your life insane AND lunch.

Is that how you chose your identity, lawnman? :D

Picking on a poor little Archduke? Or do you mean someone else, like the Pizzarianteur ...

Shame on you! Being a bully doesn't make you tough, it makes you a coward. Pick on someone your own size, like Turkey.

I would rate it "above average" to play, but it was certainly not good enough to entice me to replay it with a different choice of NPC. Also, I applaud using innovative NPC races, but I think the gimped tiger-thing (can't remember the race: some D&D geek please jump in ) was perhaps going too far. And I've seen enough were-rats for a while. And I didn't like the whole delivery mechanism: sure, check my original licence when I install the mod: but EVERY time I restore a saved game? Nuts. This and the Witch one (Witch Queen? Witch's Wake?, whatever it is) are not up to the standard of some of the community mods.

Baley, are you channelling Hades_One? Don't worry, SW will be this generation's Schmoo.

Better, have the environment actually directly effect the characters. If it's raining cats and dogs, then fighting should be more difficult, for example, and anyone found outside on a clement day will be huddling under cover. And anyone using any sort of electrical power in a rainstorm, well, that's gotta be dangerous ...

I still think Austria will win. :ph34r: