metadigital

Well, I think it is very important to have a strong and independent judiciary, if ONLY to keep the political system in line (y'know, someone checking the ludicrous knee-jerk legislation with sagacious interpretation according to human rights, for example). Societies without all three parts working together and equi-powerful tend to be in a bit of a mess. Liberia, for example, HAS THE US CONSITUTION, word for word. There is no way to enforce the rule of law, with Harvard/Yale and Oxbridge-educated warlords holding the poor and disenfranchised to ransom. That would only work if you had some hefty insta-vote technology to make the members vote totally according to the dictates of the electorate, I'd say. Then someone might suggest that there is no need for a member to make all the decisions; just put each one to a popular vote. This does tend to reduce democratic decision-making to a sound-bite farce, though. Everyone will be subject to spin doctors of un-policed third-party "grey political affiliations". Better to have it out in the open, where it can be observed and countered, than hidden away making uncalculated impacts on the "informed decision making process". Additionally, it is a lot harder to police individual bias than it is for members of a party to police themselves. Also, we need to get a system where a politician can be trusted to make decisions on behalf of their electorate, without making the backward-self-justifying nonsensical statements so familiar in British politics today.

I think that all factors could have a correlation. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Does that mean I can count you in as a participant Mr. Metadigital? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Do you need a baseline score?

I thought this was going to be a thread about Morris Minor and the Majors.

Are you seeing a pattern with what happened to Troika and what might happen with OE ...

Atris thinks that her learnings from the Sith holocrons, amongst other sources, makes her the only *real* Jedi. She is, of course (as Calax says), full of herself.

Thank you for stating the pointlessly obvious. In future, however, you may wish to restrict your observations to the blindingly obvious, to save effort.

It's normally associated with those fanatical trainspotters who spend their lives waiting for the 5:36 from Hove to arrive at Victoria, wearing an all-weather, soiled anorak (hence the name). That was a particularly blunt (but honest) appraisal of the character profile. Brevity and limitations of the medium restrict normal levels of contextual cues; suffice to say that one may freely substitute "anorak tendencies" for "anorak", without losing too much in the translation.

Yeah, what about Cricket! (And the America's Cup!)

I think that all factors could have a correlation.

Considering their published opinions and their whole-hearted welcoming of the mod into the fold, I think that is a given. As to whether there is an Opposing Force 2, I would bet a London Bridge to a brick: Yes, if I were a gambler. After all, Valve has specifically said they want to demonstrate the creativity built into the engine; translation: they want to milk this cash cow for a while and then come out with their next major project.

Yes. Vampires listen in on IM conversations.

1. The judiciary is very important, as the third pillar of the trinity, with Executive and Legislative pillars. It interprets the laws, so it needs to have both erudition and rectitude. 2. I'm not sure I follow the intricacies of your upper house: it sounds like it might not be prgamatic (how many members, for a start: you do realise how difficult it would be to find people who are at once able to deal with the public service, the "apparatchiks", and yet this "career politician" will need to be unallied with any political party: sounds good in theory, but I wouldn't think it would float IRL). Also, the party allegiance system is, among other things, just a clumsy way to prevent personal bias entering the political arena (too strongly).

Yeah, stop overlooking Mets!

Just watching your back.

I would dye that back to whatever colour you fancy (difficult with black, I warrant you, but at least you can never look as silly as a blonde trying to be black! ) You certainly shouldn't have any lack of males to volunteer around here. Does the socio-economic skew factor have to be balanced in the data sample (obviously the people who have a computer and participate on an RPG forum are not going to be your average bears in the woods). What sort of psychometric testing ... (Funny, the resident psychologist for Big Brother said that they were unable to what the tv show was doing for entertainment in the name of academic research ... ")

SpellMar says that all generalisations are wrong.

So you are advocating the Fallout scenario ...

The best way to play Morrowind. PS You will need the divX codec to see the movie.

Um ... okay, as it's you Mus? :D

I agree that we already have an indie aesthetic (if possibly immature). I think it is entirely possible that some publishers will go out on a limb and spend some VC on weird and wonderful "different" games, after all they have little to lose (if they limit the budget and therefore the inherent risk; after all they are terminating games after going gold on development, now) and everything to gain: IP ownership, !A NEW FRANCHISE!, !A NEW GENRE!, and a captive revenue stream. What would you suggest as a solution?

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I thought he filled up every females inbox with clumsy, lewd invitations to coupling opportunities ... (not that I'm trying to belittle any of the females with this observation, just poking fun at the Ghostie and his uncontrollable libido ...) "

What the Australian Federal system does is gives all states two senators (in the Upper House, which passes parliamentary legislation into law), and has a proportional representation for the Lower House (which is where legislation is created and debated). I think that is a fair compromise. Then again, Australia was the first place to give women the vote (not the first country: NZ beat them at the federal level, but South Australia was the first electorate in the world to give women the vote).

(17+) years of using it, as well as a few years talking execs down from jumping out of windows because of their pc troubles can do that for you. If you need any more help, just ask (PM or whatever).

Funnily enough, when I read that, I found I associate chocolate orange with Legends of Zelda, too. The bizzare bit is, I don't remember ever playing Zelda on the N64 (but I could very well have on a friends). Jungian synchronicity, perhaps? Doo-do do-do doo-do do-do waaaa-wa! wa-wa! *bongo solo*