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I saw what I thought to be a ghost. But I can't give you a positive confirmation. And for a while my Mom was with one of those bible groups, and they basically had to go to the houses of people who encountered paranormal activity. When they were there they saw some poltergeist type stuff. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> what did it look like and did it say anything?i'm fricken interested! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Alright, here is the story. One morning I was brushing my teeth, and I was the only one upstairs. I looked up into the mirror and I saw this person walk past the doorway. The wierd thing was that it was completely opaque. Like a silhouette. And as it walked by I got shivers down my spine. I don't know what it was. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> creeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepppppppppppyyyyyyyyyyyyy,did you ever see it again? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No, I haven't seen it since thankfully. That had to be one of the freakiest moments of my life. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> On the plus side, they say ghosts only appear to people of good / friendly disposition. My step-daughter saw one, in boarding school, when she was under ten years old. She woke up and there was a little girl sitting on the end of her bed. ...

I was under the impression that the New World Order only seeked sought to crush democracy and to control every human being on the planet. I also read that they plan on killing off 5.5 billion people in an effort to downsize the population. But hey, that sounds like a better place for sure! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's fine as long as you're one of the 0.5 billion that is left after the downsizing ... still the figures don't sound right; there will always be a need for an underclass: automation costs far more than working class people to maintain and run ...

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Yeah, they could improve the game by allowing betting on each card, or using a doubling die, as in backgammon ...

Don't worry about me, I'm not going to bother to respond to the childish

game balance That's what it's all about; KotOR:TSL appeared to my amateur eye to have had the XP rewards doubled ex post facto. Also, the biggest problem with K2 was not the levelling, per se, but the ludicrously skewed bonuses ascribed to level which totally overshadowed the bonuses due to attribute, item and feat. I have no problem with low level characters, that is a perfect opportunity for more friendly NPCs, for example, and more diplomatic solutions instead of military ones. High (epic) level characters provide a means to see complex feat chains in their glory

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I never read that many children's books in my youth; I must have been too precocious ... I was too busy reading Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island

Listen, the new world order will make the globe a better place. Trust me.

Interestingly, I was passionately addicted to coffee flavoured milk and icecream and chocolate during my formative school years, well before I ever drank coffee. I didn't drink coffee for many, many years after starting university. In my mandatory all-nighters the night before an exam, I would decant a mixture of sugar and instant coffee in a ratio of two to one, until I made a drink that was too sweet to drink, and too bitter to drink, simultaneously. Much, much later I started drinking coffee again when I encountered the first of the boutique coffee houses. It must rate as one of the most civilized drugs; certainly very useful (concetration, attention, well being), right up there with chocolate and nicotene (all they need to do is remove the smoking part, nicotene is a very powerful stimulant, taken orally via patches is a much safer, if slower, mechanism). *goes off to make a cup of tea*

Sorry, I must have missed something ... prepare for what, exactly?

The Big Rip Black Holes can't escape the phantom menace Did the Big Bang really happen? End of the beginning Is it time to admit that the idea of a big bang just doesn't stack up? Marcus Chown meets the doubters thinking the unthinkable Last week a small band of researchers met at the first ever Crisis in Cosmology conference, in Mon

You better be careful, Commissar, people who start rumours about the Knights Templar, Freemasons, Hospitaliers and Rosicrucians end up having accidents ...

DO Not read much of his other stuff unless you are seriously mormon. Orson Scott-Card is a fanatical mormon and he show it in much of his philosophy, especally in Folk of the Fringe, where everybody's favorite nightmare happens, MAD. While everything else looses technology. Utah becasue it's the "holy place" and because the mormons are a bunch of nutjobs, Still is a fairly capable civilization. with computer's crops and cars. The one thing i don't understand is how they can grow crops, the entirety of Utah is either desert or a Salt plain and they don't have any fresh water... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Obviously they grow fields of salt, and graze majestic herds of saltibeeste. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> One of the oldest surviving revenue streams is the salt-mining of the Sahara, where the blocks of salt are sold in Mali markets on the River Niger.

What if they all dig a hole under themselves whilst they are mid-jump?

So are you serious about all this? Because I'm finding this sort of interesting even if it is all made up. :D <{POST_SNAPBACK}> My emphasis.

Hooah, you're just interested in volunteering for more military LSD experiments ...

I drank about a litre of milk a day, until I reached my mid-twenties, then I couldn't really drink it at all, unless it was in a beverage. I just didn't like it anymore. (I do like cream, though: cream on coco pops is something I treat myself to ocassionally, and cream on fresh fruit ... cream doesn't have the lactose of milk). Coffee is just like any (psycho-active) drug, there are deminishing returns to its effects. This leads me to have days without it, gradually tapering off and on. Normally I synchronise the upswing in consumption with some particular deadline, so that I am focused at the right time (e.g. Monday and the end of the week), so I normally ease off on Wednesdays ...

I would recommend you read the original work. Really. It won't take long (even if you have to have your dictionary by your side whilst reading it; don't be embarassed, I find that the best way to read, so that if and when you encounter a word whose meaning is not entirely clear, even from its context); and I don't want to spoil it for you. (It is available for free online). But the themes of the book dealt with a lot of the emergent philosophy and science of the late nineteenth century, what with the Martians portraying the Darwinistic superior to humans, etc.

I would say that we are trapped in a Philip K D

Carl Sagan's novel Contact, perhaps?

Short answer: No.

Eddo, haven't you seen Doctor Who? A single Dalek, using a force field, completely circumvented all chemically detonated metallic projectile munitions shot at it by a squad of such machine rifles ... I'm sure a Jedi could do the same (or just use a force field).

I would say it is very satisfying to build something good, regardless of genre or target audience or even product; I would find certain happiness in being an excellent craftsman, even if I were a cobbler.

Isn't there a unified driver for older nVidia cards?