metadigital

I haven't got around to updating the wiki (yet ), as I just wrote all that summary out for the first time.

Did he wave his wooden leg?

Maybe you should ask him for tips?

Appeal.

I think the fact that there wasn't a universal "state" religion, and people had to choose what to believe (the Hellenes had just thrown off their primitive matrilineal society of Moon-goddess worship, superceding it with patrilineal Zeus-worship), coupled with a curious aristocratic branch of society (all of the Greek philosophers were idle rich, otherwise they would be mending shoes, rather than talking about the cobblers' place in society ), led to people investigating more and coming up with some basic philosophical methods ... after all, theology and natural history (life sciences) and philosophy were all one and the same, and closely linked to astrology (which the Greeks borrowed directly from the Babylonians), which eventually led to astronomy. It wouldn't be centuries until the Mohammadans (the Eastern inheritors of the Greek sciences) turned their efforts to alchemy, leading to chemistry. The Greek city-states were finished, replaced by larger civilizations like the Macedonians. Certainly existing religio-political conditions affected (and continue to effect) philosophical (and all) thought. Mr Russell sums up the state of investigations by reminding readers that although it may have kick-started the thirst for understanding:

I remember playing them ... ... with them ..! Boy, that was ... 1985 ..!

Epictetus, yes. To be fair, the Greeks just had a fantastic "brainstorm", wherein they produced almost every idea conceivable, so it's only to be expected that some of them were correct and have been borne out with investigation. I mean, either the universe is a void, or its not. Either it cycles through existence and destruction (by fire, or otherwise), or not, etcetra. I think the fact that democracy actually took off back in 500BC is a singly amazing concept, though. And the fact that the nascent democracy had to fend off the first superpower (the Persians) in the Battle of Marathon (which the Spartans were conveniently a day late for ... ).

Unreal ... dwarves ...

It was also the common belief of the allied militaries in 1914 ... and 1915, 1916, and 1917 ...

It was certainly a very astute artistic decision to have the Spartan soldiers appear without a cuirass ...

Couldn't you at least get Thai encephalitis?

If you take a holiday in a warm climate you can counteract that cold-bloodedness AND you'll feel less like eating hyper-caloric foods.

A flying nun?

Appeals to the umpire for an appalling strawman-before-wicket.

Just finished History of Western Philosophy, and Meditations. Bertrand's work is worth reading, especially to help put the Roman Catholic political institution into historical context. Marcus Aurelius' notes "for himself" (the original title) were interesting as a time capsule on the life of a Roman Emperor in the second century, and a subscriber to the Stoic philosophy, but it became a little tedious (repetitive) towards the end.

lol but some Beth mod deleted the original votes for Bioware and Obsidian here: http://www.bethsoft.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=681655 see? Originally Obsidian was first ,Bio second, and way behind was Beth after the extinct Troika I did a screenshot. Any more cheating and I'll report it to the admins. ... Because they'll care.

Just print your own, personal shiny hardcopy of the PDF.

The whole reason DirectX10 needs Vista is because the entire video OS layer has been redesigned from scratch. It is perfectly possible, however improbable, to create a Vista-type emulation layer and run it in XP. It would run a lot slower, though, as it would need to be interpreted by the old video OS system in XP. The drivers are getting better all the time; there aren't even any DirectX10 games out yet ... (silly early-adopter ..!)

That looks great!

Finally got nearly all the soot out of my nose after using London's Victorian underground. I have no idea how authentically Italian the recipe is, but in America, when you order chicken parmesan, you get breaded boneless chicken breasts (either roasted or pan-fried), which are then simmered in tomato sauce with cheese on top (usually mozzerella and/or parmigiana). I usually include the parmigiana in the breading, and use a tomato sauce with lots of basil. Um, yeah, it's meant to be a slice of Parmesan on the dish ...

Are you calling everyone, who doesn't subscribe to Christianity, crass?

As a socialist I think he would respond well to a communist-trap, so some fairy-tale like a stocking for Santa Claus to fill.

And vampires can kill other vampires in a cannibalistic cull.

I am very skeptical of any article that doesn't cite sources. Especially one that claims categorical results from a study of 400 people, and especially considering it was possible to check one of the (unsupported) hypotheses against 750k people. Even the study of 25k suicides doesn't give enough information to make an informed judgement on their data ... it wouldn't be difficult to give the basic statistics (standard deviation, alpha value, statistical significance ... ), we don't even know what the hypothesis WAS, and whether the testers failed to disprove it. What happened to quoting sources? Sample sizes? Confidence levels?

Did Yeltsin just break wind?