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My version is 1.2 (I bought it the day it was released, and there doesn't seem to be an online upgrade) -- don't know about texture packs!? Where dyagetit? :cool:

That puts us at the same age, then. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes it does. 1977 (Summer release). I saw it in Sydney early in the year, just before we took off for our around-the-world trip. I remember that Tom Baker's Dr Who was trying to find a way to beat the The Power of Kroll, which was the Doctor's biggest enemy ever. I left grade four and six months later started third form in the UK. By 1980 I was schooling in Florida (grade six -- seven for English, Maths, Reading), and that's where I saw The Empire Strikes Back. It took me years to cath up on those lost Dr Who episodes. (Fortunately I had all the novelisations, which I continued to read and re-read until I matriculated from secondary school. you've got to have a hobby.) WOW you're 18 now..acording to your profile (w00t) Happy Birthday <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hey, thanks a bunch, even as it's belated! 21 is not out of Baley's age league. -one who had a crush on 26er <{POST_SNAPBACK}> My partner is older than I am -- although she looks ten years younger.

I tried this with disasterous consequences back when I was working as a croupier. (I guess the disasterous consequences may have been affected by the extraordinary amount of drinking I was doing with all my spare time that I used to spend sleeping. ) Certainly I have gone several days at a time with no sleep whilst partying. True: this is similar to me at the moment; I am also sleeping roughly 5-6 hours early morning and then an additional 1-3 late-afternoon early evening.

Happy birthday Dave!

Funny, I know a lot of people that had chronic insomnia in their late teens. Dr Dement's research (and it is ongoing) indicates that duing the teenager years we need to get up later in the morning ... some schools in Britain have implemented a later beginning for secondary schools with a large effect on the pupils alertness (and consequential memory retention) during the day. Certainly this agrees with my experience. Good for him. Apparently Margaret Thatcher (ex-Prime Minister of UK) used to survive on about four hours a night, too. I hate and love sleeping. I hate that it takes up so much of my time and I love doing it. Does your father take naps during the day? (This is how sleep patterns change as we age, btw -- Dr Dement, again). My father used to sleep in his recliner most of the day whilst watching every news programme all day. All indications are this is good. Do you go flying? (I bet you do -- that's what everyone does!) It took me an inordinate amount of time to teach myself to "throw myself at the floor and miss", but now I have a ball whenever I lucid dream! Feel free to read his book -- as I said, it's cheap -- he doesn't say you can live on fresh air or eat only green things on Tuesday, or anything remotely silly. It is (nearly) all just common sense ... I bet you'll be going "Oh -- so that's why!" all through the book. It is scientific research, not holy scripture: you are quite free to disprove it. As I said, his findings seem to explain sleep in my life quite adequately. I don't remember where I read this (might have been his book) but there was a 'Round-the-World yatchman who started in New Zealand and his autopilot broke the first night. He decided to carry on. (I think it takes about a week to sail across the Tasman Sea.) By the last day he was hallucinating badly; he knew he was in trouble when he saw the crew come running up out of the cabin and throw the lifeboat overboard and jump in -- he was on a solo mission! Yep, I had a similar experience when I was early twenties: I offered to drive a friend home, which was about 100km. The drive up was unremarkable, and I felt so normal when I got their I declined he offer for a beverage stimulant. On the trip back I started nodding off -- at one point I "saw" a toddler hit the front of my car and explode! Did that wake me up? You bet. The subconscious succeeded in raising my heart-rate and jump starting my attention. (I have no idea why I became so tired so quickly.) You're a programmer, aren't you? That's the circadien cycle; you will end up sleeping later and later without consciously getting up and reseting the 25hr timer by exposing your eyes to bright multi-spectrum light (e.g. sunlight).

Nope. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Apologies: I wrote this late and realised afterwards that I had only put obscure character references in, which is not in keeping with the standard of netiquette I like to maintain! The Film "Total Recall" is based on a short story called "We can remember it for you wholesale" by Phillip K. D1ck (who is a very important Sci-Fi writer, up there with all the best like Asimov and Clarke). Made into a film starring Arnold "Governator" Schwartzenegger (and there was a novelisation written by Piers Anthony, I think.) Read the short story if you don't want to watch an action film with Arnie in it. (But I did like the film, and my comment was addressed to it.) PKD, as he was known, wrote a lot about what is the meaning of self, and lots of his stories (he wrote "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", which you may have seen the film, starring Harrison Ford as Decker, "Bladerunner" -- do see the "Director's Cut", without the corny voice-over as this one doesn't dumb-down the ending; another short story "Minority Report" -- also a film starring Tom Cruise.)

Again, do you really think this is possible? Honestly. What would contain her? A force shield? 100 meters of concrete walls? No, there is not one single thing they could have done to contain her. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> If it is not possible, see my previous post about insufficient control of the situation, above (). Lack of options = blunt action. Again, what does this have to do with anything? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> We are discussing the moral choices/implications of the Jedi Council's willful actions on REvan, aren't we? So if they didn't actually do anything, then the discussion is moot. (A very long digression over three posts to make an aside, but I think I've made myself clear now.)

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To me a trekker is someone who is dumb enough to walk out into the wilderness with too little food and a cold tent, then comes back after a week, bragging about all the dangers and starvation he's been through. Geez, why would I be impressed by someone who is stupid enough to put himself in danger?! STUPID TREKKERS. Erm. Right. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sure, but without lunatics like polar explorers (of which Trekkers are a lesser cousin) the boundaries of human knowledge and existence would be the poorer, so I can't be too hard on them. If they go beyond their limits that's fine, Darwin says they'll not be around long enough to polute the gene pool. Without hijacking the forum, Star Trek (the original series in the sixties) was the first science fiction series on television and it brought with it many things, including far-reaching cultural phenomena: - the "demographic" model of market research - the first inter-racial kiss on US broadcast media (Kirk and Uhura) - a medium for discussing politics in an oblique way (using Klingons to represent Russians, for example). -- service resumes -- Now that I scan the list again the D&D fundamentalists (y'know, the ones in the corner of the University guild hall who never seem to wear clothes that have been washed and they are a little hydrophobic, too ) are quite a scary bunch.

I believe it is equally likely that you have a physical psychosomatic manifestation of in internal (mind) anomaly. (Who knows the untapped power of the mind?) But most likely is you have not attended to your physical upkeep and dental hygiene. If I was in the Spanish Inquisition, I don't know if I wouldn't say it was a punishment from God to the unbeliever, though... "

Trekker is more apt than Trekkie. (Trekkies is the pejorative term used on the losers who "live" Star Trek -- learning Klingon as a foreign language, getting married in a Romulan service (WTF!), etc.) Trekker refers to those of us who have an appreciation for ST without becoming obsessed. Yes I've seen all the movies (but I didn't see the last three at the cinema) and a lot of the series (I hated the first two seasoons of Voyager and Next Generation, and all of Deep Space Nine). There is a difference, though I expect this not to matter as the flame wars begin ...

Garbage. One MAJOR difference between Revan and the common criminal. The common criminal isn't the most powerful being in the known galaxy. "The will of a sith lord is not so easily manipulated." If they restored her original identity, she would, with ease, escape and continue her conquest of the galaxy, as if nothing had happened. In this case, there are no non-lethal control methods, besides somehow convincing her to stop what she is doing. And if you think "talking her out of it" would work... well, it wont. Again, "the will of a sith lord is not so easily manipulated." <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No. I also doubt whether you could talk Revan out of evil, but -- for example -- Charles Manson is not easily dissuaded from his psychopathic urges, either. You just have to contain Revan in isolation to prevent harm to others and self. What does this have to do with anything? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Merely stating it to point out that if this is true the Jedi Council didn't "choose" to wipe Revan's mind, it was due to circumstances beyond their control.

Yes. *Contemplative thoughts* Deep dive into Meta-ethics! I like the sound of Moral Universalism, but, truthfully I hadn't thought about this aspect before. I guess I would subscribe generally to moral anti-realism, and specifically I am a Moral Skeptic. This means that I think there are absolute moral essential values, just we don't know what they are and can't determine them. For example, I would hold that Killing a person is wrong, but not absolutely in all cases. If a person was about to kill a busload of children and the only way to stop him (and the statistics tell us it would be a him) is to shoot him just beforehand, then I have no ethical qualms with that. Methinks a deontological moral absolutist definitely would, but I would argue we wouldn't know the true Moral Universalist position because of my Moral Skepticism. Does that help?

I have to tip my tam-o-shanter to that Jung-Freud tete-a-tete, as well.

I have to admit that is just awesome How much does it take to paint one? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Baley, I like your current Avatar (occluded Kenny) better than your last (creepy blue vampire) one.

Yeah, Arthur C. Clarke wrote a novel that contained some "future sex" in it with more than one partner. One of his most recent novels, but about ten years ago, I think. (Was it one of the "Rama" or "Odyssey" sequels? Can't recall ...)

This is called the "Golden Rule" in philosophy. Confucius said "Don't do anything to others that you don't want them to do to you" 150 years before Christ is attributed with saying "Do unto others what you wish done unto you." Is it a universal moral law? I don't think you will ever answer that -- otherwise we wouldn't have philosophers subscribing to "cultural relativity / moral relativism" and the polemical "moral universalism".

Yeah, I used to work swingshift at a casino as a croupier. A typical day went something like this: Wake up about midday. Go to the gym, do 2.5 hours weights. Eat a BBQ chicken from the store across the road from the gym. Go home, Shower, eat lunch. kick around for a couple of hours (depending on whether I had a 7-10pm start), during which time I would eat dinner. (Fast metabolism: I would eat constantly. This helps stay awake, by the way.) Finish anywhere from 2am-4am (unless it was peak season, then I worked about 100 hours each week). Go out drinking. Repeat. I have found that my experience agrees with the accumulated sleep debt model propounded by Dr Dement; I can avoid making 8 hours sleep a night for, say the weekdays, but I have to catch up on the week-ends.

No offence meant or taken ( ), this is a meritocracy of information. I still say your information is flawed. Here's why: Doesn't matter who is wrong, it is still wrong. I have tried numerous sleep experiments. But don't take my word for it, go and try it yourself. (I warn you now, though, despite your assertions below, don't try to have a life whilst sleep deprived, it will severely impact on it.) Perhaps your recollection is impaired by the lack of sleep you have taken -- there is a correlation between REM sleep and acuity of memory, too. Dr Dement experimented on army personnel in bunkers below the Earth's surface to limit the external stimuli. This is how, for example, the circadien cycle was found to be slightly longer than the 24 hour sidereal period of the Earth. As I said earlier, there is precious little research. You may be right, but I haven't seen any evidence of it in my research. (Remember, my partner was suffering from a sleep disorder, so I have a motivation to research this.) There are different types of hallucinations. The hallucinations brought on by sleep deprivation are dream-like mental episodes. I have no idea if they actually accomplish anything, if they are different from other types of hallucinations, per se. This is experimental data -- feel free to conduct your own independant tests to corroborate or disprove it. There are very, very few people who can survive on small amounts of sleep. Most, like Edison, for example, used to claim they only needed 4 hours sleep a night but made up for it in short "catnaps" throughout the day. The total was within normal deviation of the average (8.5 hours). No need to take a swipe at me. I wasn't patronisng you, I was trying to correct what I see as a potentially dangerous viewpoint. According to your logic there is no need to pull over when you are driving for hours / days, so long as there is enough traffic to provide sufficient visual stimilation! I am quite adult and capable of admiting when I am wrong. There is no shame in seeking the truth, and I have no fear of mistakes: they are merely stepping stones to higher understanding. I don't believe I am wrong, however. I am not sure where you are quoting from, I would be interested to read your sources. I am interested in all knowledge. I have given you the best quoted source I have found, but -- to be sure -- there are lots more out there. Information wants to be free.

I could be badly mistaken but they both have Upper Class accents -- and England is such a classist society. Didn't know the House thing, that would tip things in his favour, though Mr Fry has done his share of films, too; and he is a successful writer. It is? *looks at date* Hey, it is! (why did I know this?) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Mother's Day, May 11, 1920 was my father and his twin sister's birthday. Happy birthday Dad and Auntie Joy.

Yes, you get lightssaber parts as rewards where you usually would get a lightsaber. I did Korriban as my first planet and than Dxun. I got I finished my first lightsaber on Dxun. The most powerful item ... well, I did not open many crates and didn't really get any good items. Obviously the Ossus robe... I was very lucky though to get at an early stage a zabrak vibrosword giving melee-finess as a bonus feat. Very helpfull for my high DEX bulid. And of course, the stealth enhancing belts and headgears were most welcome. To all who say there is no point in rushing through the game: I played the game twice "normally". And then quite frankly it starts getting boring. Some people will want to try everything out and see whether they can unlock additional cutscene and dialogues. Others will try to rush through the game. This is about finding a way to get some mileage out of the game. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I concur with thos sentiments wholeheartedly. You can also use the level-jump of light-/dark-side mastery to the Prestige class, if you can get to it. Might affect the strategy?

No, option 2 is what a group of Paladins would do. Right or wrong, Revan is Revan and, unless Revan wants to change, they have no business forcing Revan to do so -- or killing Revan, either. Killing your opposition comes about because the killer is not able to excert sufficient control on a given situation to prevent the evil-doer from harming others and themself. It is the least-worst option. Theoretically there should be non-lethal control methods, otherwise you would have police shooting burglars because they are about to escape ... But you are forgetting that all they were able to do was keep Revan alive after the damage caused by Malak. (Unless Bastila was lying.)

Do you happen to know the etymology behind their name, Metadictionary? In English it looks like someone left out the last "e", but its the same phonically in Russian ("нарвал"), which is curious...maybe an inuit or Lapp word? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Norwegian, or Danish narhval from Old Norse nhvalr : nr, corpse (from its whitish color) + hvalr, whale. Question to you FarimirK: do you not follow my links that I spend extra time and effort researching for such useful background information?

There was, it was dubbed and AFAIK unremarkable. (But without playing the film again I ain't going to be able confirm that -- I know I couldn't recongnise/remember any of it last time I watched it and I was trying ... the only reason we remember that snippet is in cse we are ever stuck on a dying planet and need to pretent to be a Klingon to get off ... )