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Kaftan: Terrorism is the strategem whereby one (disenfranchised) group tries to use terror as a means to extort their goals (power, money, whatever). It is "the end justifies the means", writ large. The Romans are past masters at it; they would literally kill every man, woman, child and beast in a revolting township in an occupied land, until the population saw sense. Same with Carthage: they flattened the entire city and concreted over it after they won the last Punic war. Terrorism? Yes. Effective? Yes. It wouldn't be extortion if it wasn't "an offer they couldn't refuse". The problem is that extortion works: hello MAD. A little rambling perambulation For example, it is true that you might call the fledgling US soldiers fighting for their independence from Britain revolutionaries. Anyone who committed atrocities to scare the opposition down is guilty of terrorism, whether it be scalping (which was a method of proving how many indigenous Americans an early European invader had killed, initially, and only subsequently adopted by the victims in retaliation) or bombing civilians in Nagasake with a Hydrogen atomic bomb (although you may argue forever about the details: vertainly I wouldn't be here today if the US hadn't dropped the atomic bombs, my father would have perished in the war). This doesn't help with your definition, though. I would recommend a bit of our old friend Niccolo Machiavelli. He didn't make the rules, he just wrote it like he saw it. Society has to grapple with the good of the many balanced against the good of the few; it always gets sticky when the few in charge start making special provisions for themselves (e.g. special pension arrangements) and when the average citizen is placed in more discomfort than they would endure in a revolution, then the revolution happens. Of course, in war, there are no rules. Much as humans have tried to frame warfare in fairness, this comes unstuck when fighting someone who has a different ultimatum to cross. (The Germans didn't invent win-at-all-costs, they were just better at it.) PS Happy to help check grammar and such.

Not sure if there is any good advice, except do the ergonomically responsible thing and turn off the game after a few hours, don't keep playing. The memory management seems to leave a lot to be desired, so all sorts of weird stuff can happen if you play continuously for hours and hours (which is all restored once you reboot and clear memory).

To whomever was responsible for the HD patches, thank you. The resolution of the movies as shipped was the Xbox resolution (which is only television 500-odd rows), so the resolution has indeed been improved, though not to 1600 x 1200. So it wasn't a cow point (you're not Joey, are you?). Or even a moot point, though I'm not quite sure what you're saying. Didn't you get fired for chasing this up? Even a broken clock is correct twice a day.

Be careful what you wish for, youngling, because you may get it!

Of course if one of the players is the GM, then it is impossible to bluff that player, as they will see all the orders (and you can't ask the GM to proof your orders beforehand, either ...) And I've sent my build order to the Last Bar of Kaftan, too.

Check your post, or the first post of this thread for the updated status. GAME ON!

I want to build a fleet in Moscow Naples. Edit: I changed that in case one of you clowns decided that wsa actually my build instruction. Assuming that I have no unit in Naples, that is. :cool: Where's the map?

No.

Okay, I'll try and update tonight (my router-firewall-wi-fi-access-point-DNS-server has been shipped, YAH!) ... Next turn due next Wednesday, noon.

It's the latest trend: the boob phone!

that's a hell of an idea. have one of the main characters lose a limb so they have to get an artificial one. that would be really cool. very clone wars/empire strikes back-ish. I didn't say revenge of the sith-ish because, well, that would be a little too extreme, but I suppose thety could have something like that in the game, towards the end. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's 4000 years before the awkward prequel trilogy prosthetics, so it would be bronze-age stuff: great big steampunk claws for arms and beetle-like legs ... PS the idea did surface at the beginning of this thread ... or the previous one ...

Unless that bad guy has something akin to the density of concrete for bone mass, then he wouldn't be able to support all that weight without shearing his limbs with the sheer moments of force ... "

Tere was a boss-fight in the demo? Apparently the demo was a poor demonstration of the actual game, but (like you) I was sufficiently put off to avoid the game completely ...

I am not going to date you, no matter how much you grow up.

When I first read that, I thought Lara Croft had taken up hairdressing. " <{POST_SNAPBACK}> A feline coiffeuse, perchance?

I don't want to be Gabe's chair ...

But ...? This makes NO SENSE! What is happening?

When is it due out? Xmas? Or is it Xmas 2006? PS, Jags, is your avatar using her cleavage to stow her mobile 'phone (that's a cell to you 'Merkins)? Edit: What happened to manga boob phone?

Ooo! Do that ag'in!

Linux to T3h RESCUE !

biowareenie tricksies ...

No, it's a far, far darker, black isle. So dark, in fact, that it is almost obsidian ...

We're over here! 459108[/snapback] I feel like a mannequin past my leave return date ...

...and not by Bioware's homepage. :D 459104[/snapback] No, in a Trusted Source, like my newly subscribed PC format.

PS Where the hell are we?