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Adding to the 'strange european things' : here in Italy we actually use the comma to separate the decimal points from the rest of the number. Some variation, but the official way of writing "1,500.25" would be 1 500,25 around here - at least according to the style manual of the Helsinki Court of Appeal, which I happen to have. Yes, I believe the official congress(?) of weights and measures determined that either 1 500,25 or 1 500.25 was the appropriate way to write. So 1,235,567.89 would be 1 235 567,89 or 1 235 567.89 and so on...

IIRC: When we moved to Arabic numbers from roman numerals, a bar over the decimals was common usage; later Arabic Mathematicians standardized an "ink stroke" to seperate decimals "ˌ" which when typeset was translated as either a "." or a "," There were issues with using a . with typeset using

I don't think we need all the i's dotted and all the t's crossed, so I don't mind. They said before the season started they would only answer the questions important to the characters - who at this point has a burning desire left to find out who did that?

I always talk to all of them. I'm weird that way.

That said, a dress code in and of itself is not against the law either. And certainly if there were a legitimate reason to ban colors on clothing that included the colors of the American flag, it would probably be upheld. There's no law that says a citizen of the US is entitled to wear the flag (there is a flag code that says its not really "proper display" to have the flag on clothing though). Who is bashing "Amerikans wearing an Amerikan flag in Amerika"? All I've seen is people saying that context is important and that better judgement could have been exercised on the behalf of all parties involved.

Apparently there was an ROTC student who got suspended for removing a Mexican flag which was flying above the American flag, which is a violation of protocol. I heard that on the radio but couldn't find the story to link to. Why'd the kid remove it instead of put them in their proper order? There is no proper order. You cannot fly one national flag above the other, it's an insult. You either have to have 2 flagpoles, or 1 flag. D'oh! Had a bit of a brain fart and was thinking the US Flag was on the wrong side on different polls. Dunno why, you clearly say above not beside.

If I understand the statistics I've seen, registered Hispanic voters make up about 20% of the total voting population (despite having less than half the eligible voters being registered to vote) in Texas.

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Perhaps its just me being blindly optimistic, but I assumed "Mr. House" was a pseudonym as opposed to a real name. Like Mr. Big in those 70s urban crime flicks; dude wasn't actually named Eugene Robert Big or something.

Apparently there was an ROTC student who got suspended for removing a Mexican flag which was flying above the American flag, which is a violation of protocol. I heard that on the radio but couldn't find the story to link to. Why'd the kid remove it instead of put them in their proper order?

That's my way of thinking. Yeah this only effects sports games and online content now, but if successful its going to expand to all games and all content. As someone who routinely buys used games and sales used games to buy new games (and who above that still buys new games straight out if it something I'm particularly interested in) this worries me that its going to ultimately kill the used game market. If people aren't buying used games because of a ridiculous activation fee to access all the game content then why would used game dealers keep accepting them? It also makes me worried that game makers are a step closer to instituting monthly fees for all their games.

EA tries to find a way to profit from used console game sales by limiting the ability to access online content for used game purchasers unless they purchase online access.

I dunno, I never had it be a problem. In fact the only animal encounters that annoyed me was when the friggin' bloatflies could nail me when I couldn't even see where they were firing from (because a shrub was between us - I couldn't target it but it could target me?) Radaway is a rare item? Egads, not the last time I played it where I was carrying enough radaway and rad-x to be the main supply of a small army. My favorite accidental encounter first time playing was a random fight where I was walking along the wasteland in the middle of the night and found robots fighting mutants (at least until they spotted me and they all started firing on me - I was lazered and rocket launched into oblivion (not the game)). Good times.

I'd leave mine with Katamari Damacy. Fun plus I'd at least know where all my stuff was (even if I had to go through 3.2 meter of other stuff to get to it).

Never found the raiders or enclave fast to respawn. With Yao-Gui and radscorpions yeah, but outdoors it makes sense that animals might roam into an area you've cleared out so intellectually that's never been a problem. Except the Fallout universe has a magical pill that removes all radiation from a person. So any argument about what should happen with radiation is kinda moot. And everytime people come out of a vault into the wasteland they're bringing science, math, reading and writing with them. I wondered about little lamplights population. Its curious.

I've never encountered instantly respawning enemies before. If I kill a Talon company group, enter the sewer and leave they're still dead. Even in the metro area, there's a group of respawning super-mutants near the area where the Jefferson Memoria/Rivet City road meets and they never respawn instantly. I agree this was an oddity; most places look like people just moved in. And yet, for example, the musuem where the ghouls live has been occupied since right after the bombs fell. Mind you, there's also the problem of dead bodies laying around for ages outdoors...surely something would scavange them pretty quickly (either people for whatever equipment you didn't pick up or animals for the food). Why wouldn't they be able to read? The Little Lamplighters, for example, seem to teach other to read before sending the old-ones out into the wasteland. There are still pre-war books around in other places. I'd think the level of knowledge and the friendliness would change from locale to locale though.

I think the list just throws out everything that's been tagged as having a sci-fi element (which SF:tLoCL does) without regard to whether its really a "sci fi" story (or in fact any good). That said if you like bad movies, "The Legend of Chun-Li" is fun to watch. Chris Klien in particular is amazing to behold. Nash out!

I don't think anyone is claiming that Mexicans can't be rasist or its okay for them to loathe the US. In fact several people have made the opposite point. I know I've made great pains to point out that I think its silly for anyone to be offended by the flag or for the administration to not find alternate solutions to a dicey situation.

They don't know what caused the infertility, but to me the science fiction aspect is taking a possible scientific thing (biological infertility; there has been some press about modern males having less "capable" sperm and this is pretty much an extrapolation of those studies) and suppose what that does to society. In that sense its very much science fiction to my eyes.

Why wouldn't Children of Men be sci-fi? Also along the lines of City of Lost Children mentioned above I'll throw out Delicatessen as another gem from the decade.

Did you take the Grey Poupon from the French when you defended us?

I'd be worried if it didn't outsell FO3 what it'd mean for Obsidian given the high expectations.

But really, what would the moment have learned from the administrator's teaching? Ba-dum-tish

I didn't like The Matrix - or I should say I thought it was okay and entertaining but frustrating watching at the same time.

I have no love for anything with the title "Ghost in the Shell". That said the original film was in 1995, so outside of the decade in question in the original post.