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I see you have no familiarity, or at least a strong contempt for, regression bugs.

but most 20yr olds would have a pretty firm idea though. I'll probably end up (just from the skills I'm learning) doing low-level software like Mobile phones, TV's, DVD Recorders, etc. . <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I was twenty in the eighties.

But the underworld was kewl!

But how would you know? If you go back in time and kill your father then you would never be born. Then you wouldn't be able to kill your father. Maybe this just repeat itself over and over until you decide let the old man live. Then you only remember that route in time travel. But how about buying stock so when your return your rich? I can still do that right. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You are not considering the multiverse. It is quite feasible that any past a time traveller visits will be another timestream, identical to our past, except that the traveller has visited. Think of the Terminator. At some point, Kyle Reece was sent back by John Connor to 1984. Before he was first sent back, who knows what 1984 looked like? Now, our universe has a time traveller from the future arriving and copulating with Sarah Conner in 1984, to give birth to John Conner, the general and saviour of mankind in the war against Skynet. Our universe is different to the original. Another example. If Archmonarch goes back in time to meet an ancestor, the timestream is not in our universe -- because our universe has had no such event. Ergo, ipso facto, it must be a different (parallel) universe, and Archmonarch is free to kill / copulate with any ancestor with impugnity. See? No possible paradox.

Jawol, mein Fuhr -- President! "

Site Name Date Rating Ratio GameSpot 4/16/1997

According to Philip K. Diсk the German's in Man in the High Castle, after they won WW2, damned the pillars of Hercules, drained the Mediterranean and turned it into agricultural land.

Puppies are cute and deadly! :cool:

I was appropriating and approximating Paul Hogan's "That's not a knife ... That's a knife!" comment in Crocodile Dundee. Mr Jags waved his >ahem< magic wand did the rest ...

Excellent point. Who said that the ideas were stolen? Maybe some truths are just so universal and eternal in nature that they WILL BE DISCOVERED by man. ... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That ties into the Jungian concept of Objective Psyche: ...The objective psyche may be considered objective for two reasons: it is common to everyone; and it has a better sense of the self ideal than the ego or conscious self does, and thus directs the self, via archetypes, dreams, intuition, and making mistakes on purpose, to self-actualization.

No! The Mayans and the Egyptians both built pyramids because aliens told them to! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I have heard a very convincing explanation of the origin of civilzation. Wanna hear it? Okay, all the continents had ancient civilzations that built some sort of pyramidal structures; from the Aztecs' Ziggarats and Babylonian Hanging Gardens to the Egyptian and Sudanese Pyramids. Greek mythology talks about Atlantis, an advanced civilization that was swallowed by the ocean. Numerous attempts have been made to locate the exact geographic spot of the fabled Atlantis, but using Socarates (I think) it would appear that around the last ice age the continents had a dramatically different alignment. Specifically, the Antartic continent was much closer to the equator; a sudden speeding up of the Earth's rotation caused by a reversal in the geopolar alignment caused the continent to move at an accelerated pace to the south pole of the Earth (where it helped stabilize the rotation back to normal). Once there, the antartic ocean currents circumnavigated the sold polar land mass, and the lack of convection caused an accelerated freeze which resulted in the Antartic ice sheet and the last ice age. Of course this took a few centuries to happen, and the ancestors of the ancient civilizations travelled to all other the continents and became the local wise people, capable of passing on some of the knowledge from this first civilzation, now buried under the antartic tundra. There was quite a bit of supporting evidence for the most radical part of this explanation, namely the sudden shift of the antartic continent in centuries rather than millions of years. One of the neat bits of supporting evidence involved the Sphinx. You see it's dimensions don't add up. When you look at the Sphinx from the end elevation, the pharoah's head is tiny in comparison to the body of the lion. What is puported to have happened is that the Sphinx was in fact an anotomically-correct lion, that was doctored later by a pharoah (can't remember his name off-hand, some dude who was trying to re-inforce the divine link with him as pharoah, by chiselling his very popular father's mug on the Sphinx). Sorry I can't remember where I saw this, but I thought it was interesting enough to share. (Of course I have glossed over some of the bits that are a bit hazy now, like the destruction of Atlantis: I can't remember if it was a sea volcano or an earthquake or what.)

The writer of the last Cybermen novel took all the references to emotionlessness out of the descriptions of the Cybermen; he believed that they were in fact very emotional beings ... despite this being the exact opposite of all the previous notions of the inhabitants of the Tenth Planet and Telos ...

But that's not icky! It's the best skin moisturizer ever discovered!

I had to work on their council IT security ... they were puzzled at first when NONE of the email was parsed, until someone checked the addresses ...

Even Mace is illegal in the UK. It is legal to have a laser designed to blind the intruder (I think the Chinese armed forces have these things) -- even permanently.

That's not heat!

Don't be so sure

Back to my previous question: is a vigilante like Dirty Harry chaotic good, or Lawful Evil ?

Grab your lightsaber, young Jedi, and get ready for Star Wars adventuring in Yoda Stories. Assume the role of Luke Skywalker as he trains with Yoda to become a Jedi Knight. Not afraid are you? You will be. Use the Force of the Game Boy Color and this spectacular game to collect devices, weapons and battle enemies while Yoda guides you through the many puzzle-based missions fighting the Galactic Empire. May the Force be with you!

... Or even Maoist. ... The only good commie is a dead commie!

Is that a novel, a game or a nightmare?

I want a recount. And this time I wanna win! - ex Mayor Miller of Old Detroit, Robocop.

Priceless. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Fixed. Sounds ghastly.

We may yet meet on the field of battle. We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France. We shall fight on the seas and oceans. We shall fight with growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields and in the streets. We shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender. - Winston Churchill I do not fear an army of lions, if they are led by a lamb. "I do fear an army of sheep, if they are led by a lion. - Alexander the Great Armed Forces quotables

I'm not sure about the Hollywood studios positions, but I know that most of the technological hardware companies have backed Blu-Ray, so there is one market sewn up ...