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^^ But then you miss out on your friendly Yeti ...

Last I checked capital punishment is given to people who MURDER other people. I guess it's easy to forget the person who was killed should be avenged. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ah, but should revenge be a motivation for the state? Law and Order is one principle, Justice is important, but vengence is not a moral imperative. After all, Christianity, for one, teaches the power of forgiveness. When the forgiveness process is undertaken by willing participants, and is conducted honestly, it grants the victims freedom from hate and the perpetrators clemency and a stake in the society, which ultimately will motivate most people to good citizenship. (There are those beyond redemption, obviously; I wouldn't like to see any psychopaths, nor most murderers out on the street.) I saw a doco on tv recently, where the parents of a young man forgave the other young man who killed their son. Obviously not an easy thing to do, and it is prone to many potential issues that esily might derail it, but when it works it is truly miraculous. In this particular case, the jailed man was reclaimed from a wasted life in jail (after serving the rest of his sentence) and the parents were freed from the slavish hatred of another

I remember there were two other (less bloody) Yeti and penguin games (obviously by the same guy, considering the verisimilitude of the graphics). My favourite is penguin tossing. :cool: Go here (you'll have to register, but it is trivial).

I thought the four presidents carved into South Dakota were meant to be the duck's nuts? ... George Washington represents the struggle for independence, Thomas Jefferson the idea of government by the people. Abraham Lincoln for his ideas on equality and the permanent union of the states, and Theodore Roosevelt for the 20th century role of the United States in world affairs. ...

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What's the cleric caste, from the Torah / OT ? Can't think of their name off hand, and I don't have a Bible handy ... it's all in the Pentateuch, Leviticus or Exodus from memory ...

Firstly, reading taks's analysis of the charges, it does seem pretty jumped up. It's nothing like the Micro$oft extortion against Apple to squeeze Netscape off the Mac desktop, as demonstrated in the Bill Gates' emails subpoenaed for the last anti-trust investigation by the DoJ. Secondly, I would also like to state that a duopoly doesn't automatically grant the consumers more value or even choice. Even if AMD get a significant market share, there is no guarantee that consumers will benefit in any specific way. Thirdly, there is still a residual stigma associated with the other processor manufacturer; always the guarded threat that software might not run 100% on your different hardware. Insidiously invidious marketing. let the buyer beware. we have a heck of a tool in the internet. if a company is abusing whatever power it may have (only granted via government intervention, btw) then people will find out and stop buying. when given a free reign in an unobstructed market, coporations have zero power. they simply operate in a manner in which they can make the most profit. if they screw up, people stop buying their products, end of story. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I don't agree; it is a natural goal for any capitalist corporation to rule its market in a monopolistic fashion. That is the best way to provide the most return to their shareholders for the least expenditure. That's why Bell became the behemoth it did. It was just carrying its business plan to the ultimate phase of implementation. Are you suggesting that the US shouldn't have broken up Standard Oil? Or was that a legitimate enterprise illadvisedly interfered with by the government? This seems a little self-contradictory, or at least semantically challenging. Can you clarify what the restrictions a government ought to provide, as opposed to those it shouldn't? I think the government's role in a capitalist system is to monitor and prevent abuses of the system by large corporations.

I'm waiting for a geek to make a Kobayashi Maru joke ...

If you lie down with [lousy] dogs [meaning the less-than righteous sections of the cummunity whose support was garnered by the Kennedy family], you get up with fleas. Still, my point was that Kennedy is almost universally lauded as an exemplary leader. It is ironic that he had to cheat to get in. I wonder if we can draw any conclusions from that ... "

he did on the second one but against al gore he only got 49% but he achieved the electoral # required. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You must hate the last president to cheat the system too ... let's see, the 35th President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who obtained office via his father's bribery-led vote-rigging in Massachusetts, Illinois and Texas. "... Serious allegations that vote fraud in Texas and Illinois had cost Nixon the presidency[4]. Especially troubling were the unusually huge margins in Richard Daley's Chicago

GOLD Unfortunately, it does indeed sound like it's Morrowind with Jedi. Space Combat sounds good though. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You might want to edit the

It's all down to balance. There are very enjoyable aspects associated with low-level character interactions, just as there are with epic levels, and every level in between as long as the interactions are balanced. Some people may not find a game dynamic interesting if it means working with a PC that is not very powerful (and we needn't go into the reasons

Now you're talking. Don't forget Pong. I can still play that. Seriously. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Absolutely. And Tetris. And what was that Galaga-type-game where you went right around the screen? Y'know, the one with the warping through the solar system? Two Warps to Neptune ... Three Warps to Uranus (Boom! Boom!) ... Three Warps to Saturn ... Three Warps to Jupiter ... Three Warps to Mars ... Three Warps to Earth (that's when it got silly, with the enemy ships ludicrously fast) ... then back to Three Warps to Neptune ... ~35? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ... and counting ...

Stop psycho-analyzing him! There is a (made for tv?) film about that: two salesmen go to an out-of-town office, and the one manipulates the other into falling for a co-worker in that office (by talking her up to him, and giving his encouragement), whilst dating the woman, with the conclusion of the film being he was simply manipulating the guy so that he could out-perform him at work! The fact that he left the other guy crestfallen with unrequited love for the co-worker (which raises interesting tangential isues about the meaning of "love", how easy it is to "fall in love", and how it may differ between individuals, but let's not cover that here and now), the co-worker totally jaded with both of them, in addition to his primary goal of a totally superior sales performance, only served to put icing on the cake. I can't remember the name of the film, but it was within the last ten years, IIRC ... (I will give a cookie to anyone that can name it.)

No, I am not forgetting. I liked the fact that you could "be the rocket", like some sort of cyborg buddhist ... :cool:

Yup. I think they tried to make IW's story as grand as the original, but what they accomplised was in fact, to bastardize Deus Ex's story. I mean, at the end I was expecting to hear something like "We are the Borg, you will be assimilated". Yeah. Why the hell do they have to explode on death? That was not only lame, but it effectively forced you to use ranged weapons, rendering close combat useless. And hey, thank God the . Since when did they become the freaking MJ12? Ah, yeah. I was expecting for it to be revealed as an instrument of either the . But in the end, nothing. Damn shame. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I would like to register my agreement with the above. I think NG was meant to tie in with one of the factions, and so too the other factions were meant to be stronger (in literature terms), but it seems those "I"s were not dotted. I did like the guided rocket launcher missile, though, that at least made ranged attacks on the paladins fun ... PS Fishboot, what did you do to the spoiler tags, they're pre-revealed?!

"It's highly likely that it's caused by an eruption of an underwater volcano," coast guard spokesman Shigeyuki Sato said, adding it [could also be Godzilla trumping;] it had happened before.

Oh, that was a Richard & Judy Book Club item, wasn't it? Reviewed by that fop from Have I Got News For You, whatzisname, *qucikly does a google, well whatdya know, it's in the wiki!* Ian Hislop. I might pick that up as soon as I attack and devour a significant part of my reading stack ...

Actually, it's worse than that. Hans Blix is on record (I've seen the interview, nice that these Germans speak English so well ) confirming that he and his team were using the coalition intelligence to look for the WMD, too. So you can understand why the US administration was getting antsy when he wasn't finding anything ...

The problem is the "peculiar" method of determining whom is to be the beneficiaries of this US munificence. What about North Korea, Zimbabwe, most of Africa, bits of Asia, some former USSR countries that have also fallen to dictatorship, etc. Of course, Rome wasn't built in a day. The gung-ho charge by Bush Jr into the second Gulf War makes the proferred rationale seem purely expedient, and not indicative of a meaningful methodology for helping the peoples of the world to betterment, through empowerment. Especially after the Administration's initial attempts to link al-Qa'ida with Saddam Hussein. That, and the fact that the US has a reputation (deserved or not) of always taking the shortest route to an objective, even if that route is the most costly (in terms of lives or whatever). It's a shame, really, because the US is really every thinking person's great hope. I will leave you with one thought, however, Liberia has the US constituion, and it hasn't done that country any good, so far.

Really? Yes, I know that. And I know plenty about the French Revolution, thank you very much. Thank you, France. Oh, and the last time I checked, the American Revolution ended way before the French Revolution. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It was only about a three months, technically (July versus April, 1789). But let's talk about the spirit of your point, not the letter, shall we? It would more accurate to say that England begat modern democracy. (Leaving aside the Icelandic Go

1. Happy birthday USA. 2. Slavery is actually an ancient mechanism; read The Richest Man in Babylon (a good book for helping those who find saving pass

Okay, that is cute. :cool: This one isn't a pet, more a visitor: The Literary Toad. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That looks like a cane toad! (And, yes, Stubby is cute. You don't see many grrrllz wot like lizards ...)

You should get a big game cat. That'll learn 'em.

Yeah, there really wasn't a way forward from the third "Tracer Tong" option in the original ... not much left of JC that couldn't be scooped up with an eyedropper ...