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Already mentioned but Kreia had a big impact on me for a videogame character.

Read this today, had some questions. It's an 11 page document so won't won't it here, but it reminded me of something broomstick said to me earlier on a similar topic. they're charging more than the actual cost just to break even. Yes, I will explain. Insurance companies contract with hospitals and...

Sephirius wrote:Is it still considered monstrously un-PC to want Rhodesia back?

Don't be stupid.

No. There are worse things than death.

She died because her driver was drunk and speeding actually, and she was too irresponsible to use a seatbelt. No other vehicle caused the crash. She died just as much because she was being chased. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/apr/07/diana.monarchy And people have been seriously injured; like t...

Yes you can. Easily. Have you not been following the Leveson Inquiry? Yeah actually I have, apparently vastly better then you since nothing in that inquiry involves journalists killing people through negligence or in any other manner. There's more to danger than killing people, not to mention that ...

Actually yes, it does. Lots and lots of things cannot be done without the signature of an accredited engineer at least in the US, and I am sure in the UK too. If I want to publish a newspaper and call it one I should not need government approval the way I would to design and build my own house or d...

Really disappointed. Not surprised, but still, I was hoping for better.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/magazine/a-message-from-beyond.html?_r=0 My wife is having an affair with a government executive. His role is to manage a project whose progress is seen worldwide as a demonstration of American leadership. (This might seem hyperbolic, but it is not an exaggeration....

Well, whom does it work for? As others have said, the same technology being applicable for teenagers leave alone adults could have massive effects on how education works in any society that has it considerably different from the effects it would have if it were only applicable to the very young. Ba...

From a rightwing person:

I don't usually argue or even discuss religion or politics but you are so off base it's sad. At least Romney is not wishy-washy. He sticks to his guns.

Just watched the debate. Does anyone else get the feeling that Barack Obama really doesn't want to be president anymore?

Forced sterilisation is both completely evil and unnecessary. Genetic screening is much better, coupled with easier artificial insemination.

@ Thanas because I can't be arsed to click the quote button:

Shogun 2 was pretty sick. And I for one liked Empire, buggy as it was.

True that it's not real gameplay but this is pretty much on my auto buyin list.

Roma delenda est.

Jaepheth wrote:I find it a bit difficult to believe that one of the great holy grails sought by modern science is as simple as "aqueous graphite".

I'd lol if it was.

what the fuck? People vote for judges in America?

Flagg wrote:I read it. It's pretty much bitching about the term misogynist being used. The fact that it's written by a black person doesn't matter considering the content is "waaa, poor men!"

Also, LOL at the idea of "misogynist" being used at the same level as nigger.

Genuinely have no idea what this is. Although, I'm pretty drunk atm.

Him: The more people that have guns the less crime there is remember that. Me: You're wrong. Countries with firearm restrictions have fewer murders overall, both per capita and as a relative percentage; not just fewer gun homicides. Him: This is not true at all I started my investigation by looking...

What about Deus Ex?

Romney's idea can be boiled down to this: Private enterprise improves lives. Government interferes with private enterprise and when it does so it makes people's lives worse. Therefore, the government must reduce the amount that it interferes in peoples private lives to the bare minimum necessary. Fr...

The gun thing bothered me. 15 years on and they decided to go with muskets, but bad guy's desert eagle is still polished chrome and has reloads? A beat to hell glock or revolver would have been more realistic. When we get to guy's camp his guards outside his tent have battery operated sights on the...

Plus characters do deliberately use the grandfather paradox. By this do you mean they follow "Kill Hitler to avoid World War Two" logic, or that the actual timey-wimey paradox plays into their reasoning? If someone exists in the future who they don't want to exist, they kill them. They us...

How much of the show is wasted worrying about paradoxes? Is there a lot of hand-wringing about not corrupting the timeline, or do people do the rational thing and try to achieve their goals in the best manner available to them? I wouldn't say a lot of hand wringing but it does come up. At one point...