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Sorry for the triple-post but here is good news, I think: Regards

z91M8qGUnko "Once you fly to Chicago - in Chicago you will die When that institute in Chicago has recorded you and I" Regards

Yeah, it's just beyond the pale. I would disagree with Alyxx - these grunts sounded not like b-movie, rather like a kitsch parody (or even porn kitsch parody). I think they got carried away, trying to show how their acting talent is worthy of the Royal Shakespeare Company but, really, it is not - it is just embarrassing Regards

Pirate it!? But it's going to be free! Actually, people "pirating" it are going to make BMS team a favour by reducing the bandwidth demand on Black Mesa's own servers... Regards

I guess the job will be to kill all the soldiers before they can have a chance to say anything and so ruin the game... Also, to me, the music is really awful... tatata tstststs tatatata tstststs (repeat endlessly) - the whole internets is full of it in one flavour or another. Whoever "composed" it must be tried in the Hague for crimes against humanity. Regards

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8VisxHApl8Y Lead vocals by Chris Thompson, who sang as the Voice of Humanity on The War of the Worlds (and the War of the Servers)... Regards

Well, the War of the Servers was done with it, also PixelEyes used it for Shell Life, and Xanatos. Not saying that it's better for filmmaking at all, but to give GMod justice, it was used not only for crap ragdolls posing clips (although some of them were pretty hilarious) Regards

The spelling is Thorium. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium_fuel_cycle Regards

I was always interested in this. Do you wrestle them with your bear hands? /sorry, I'll take me coat... Regards

Well, in tablets - maybe. But overall? Apple has still a long way to go (they appear to be moving there but I personally do not believe that tablets will take over PCs. I think it's a temporary fad and they will settle down to be a niche product for home internet browsing and traveling salesmen): http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2012/08/01/wintel_canalys/ "Figures from industry box-counter Canalys show 73 per cent of the 108.7 million PCs - desktops, notebooks, netbooks and pads - sold worldwide in Q2 were running on Microsoft's OS and had Intel inside." News? Gates left executive position in MSFT back in the year 2000 Here is Stev-i-e! Mind you, he will eventually run the company into the ground, Apple or no Apple... Regards

Not at all wanting to be charitable to Gates but in this case, to be fair to him, it should rather be GOD DAMMIT BALLMER! I think... Regards

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I think so too, with few qualifications: - children and teenagers must at some stage go through some physical confrontations with peers to see how it feels (both on the giving and receiving end) and to understand themselves and others better, understand when and how a dispute can switch into a violent clash, otherwise their life experience will be skewed and inadequate. - if there is war, there is war. Regards

OK let's assume that it is "sexist". But is it ethical, moral or good thing to do? Non-discrimination reduced to absurdity can be just as evil as discrimination. Regards

But we cannot ignore our instincts either (unless we all move to City 17) and they, in turn, influence and shape our social structures. All we can do is acknowledge traits which appear to be negative and try to suppress/balance them while at the same time taking advantage of the positive traits. Regards

But, surely, our emotions are determined by our nature? Well, the original question was "man v woman", so I only argue from the same point and use the main statistically significant category, which is an "average heterosexual man" v an "average heterosexual woman". Regards

No, it won't be OK. Men's aggressiveness towards each other is part of a biological imperative to compete for females. It is somewhat counterbalanced by many other higher-level considerations arising from the social structure of human society, but it is there. Towards women, men's biological imperative is to be nice and protective. And so we should be, within reason. Regards

So have I, but I'd say it is still the exception rather than the rule... Regards

A nice pair O8ajBowIuqg FCMHmDnfD6I Interestingly, the Rick Wakeman's piece is from one of the rarest albums in the world. It was deleted from A&M LP catalog and only ever released on CD in Japan (which you can find now at extortionate prices). How does that benefit the artist and is it still piracy if you find a download someone's LP or CD rip of that album, I wonder? Regards

It looks like there is a real civil war in Syria. Usually, any foreign intervention in any civil war leads to prolongation of agony and longer term problems. Spain, Afghanistan, Cuba, Iran, Libya - so many examples... Being a Russian by origin I think I know better what it feels when foreign powers try to intervene in your country's internal affairs. Following the Russian October revolution the Allies tried to support the White Russian forces (they were really crossed, justifiably so, with Bolshevik's making separate peace with Germany), which greatly increased the distrust and paranoia of the revolutionaries towards the West, allowed the more extremist forces to take power (Stalin), ultimately, I believe, encouraged Hitler to start WWII and then helped bring about the Cold War afterwards. All of it might have happened without the Allied interventions, for sure, but maybe not to the same extent - if Russians were not antagonised so much by the Allies in the first place. So, to intervene or not to intervene? I would say, if anyone were to be prepared to go in with overwhelming force, decapitate and disable both the "rebels" and the "regime", declare the country a colony under emergency rule and be prepared to stay there for 50 years, spending g'zillions in investment and disregard casualties that will result... well, then go for it. But if people just want to send a few advisors, sell a lot of obsolete weapons (to clear up their own stocks to make space from new things) to one side and then step back and watch what happens... well, we have seen all this not so long ago and the results were less than impressive before, why would they be any different in this case? Regards

Hmmm, maybe I'm coming in late on this debate but nevertheless... Unless it is a combat situation, the woman is armed and/or acts as a part of a crowd or a gang, for a man to hit her is a disgrace. A man who would hit a woman in an argument, domestic or otherwise, is not fit for a relationship. If your GF hits you - you shouldn't hit her back either. Let's face it - either you deserved it, in which case, hitting back is unjustified anyway, or not, in which case hitting back will just undermine your own moral stance. Restrain her, reason with her when she calms down or break up with her. Also most men are physically stronger than women and that makes it doubly repulsive if they resort to physical force for want of a convincing argument. It is worth remembering also that women have lots of delicate baby-making and feeding plumbing inside which can be easily damaged. A kick in the gonads will case a man 20 minutes of hell, a kick in the stomach may leave a woman unable to ever carry a child. Regards

Sovereign debt is a complicated thing. The US is particularly difficult to understand - I stopped trying. But some things are relatively straightforward. When one country (USA) imports stuff from another and it pays with it's own currency (USD), the exporter get's a lot of dollars, which have to be kept somewhere. What it does is it puts the dollars on deposit with the US Government (because it's the lowest risk creditor for Dollars) and receives T-Bills or other notes for that. When it is time for the US Government to repay those notes they can do that by issuing new notes (new debt) and use the cash to redeem the old ones. The only way to "foreclose" a country is to stop buying its new debt or demand unsustainable interest rate on it. That is more or less the issue with Greece, Spain etc. But that is a double edged sword. If you stop buying new debt, the country may "default", which will sharply devalue its currency, where it can promptly print more money and pay back the old debt. On paper, it has repaid, but in reality you get a few cents on the original value of every dollar which you lent to the government before. So, by not supporting the country's debt program, you will shoot yourself in the foot. The "defaulting" country will be in trouble for a while, especially, if it relies on import of anything, which will suddenly become hugely expensive, which will in turn cause high inflation etc. But, usually, it lasts only a few years, after which it digs itself out of the hole. Those few years may result in the deaths of hundreds or thousands, though, through poverty, civil strife, political repressions etc. To add more confusion, those EU countries I mentioned cannot even do that - print more money - because they don't have any. Their currency belongs to the EU and they have no power to issue it nationally. So, they are really screwed. QED. Regards

Well, they can. At least they can "strongly influence". That's what all countries do to their neighbours, when they have any leverage. That is what Finland is also trying to do by the threat of them joining NATO. BTW, Finland's used to be a part of Russia (when it wasn't a part of Sweden, that is) Alliance against whom? You take two countries, each with ambitions to be seen as the top dog in the world and try to make them friends - it just not going to work. The moment you turn away they will try to cheat and gouge one another and it will all end up... just like it has to date. Regards

Yes, that would be nice, I agree. But I guess that the likes of us are few and far between and the idea of 3D is not really filling the masses with cheerful enthusiasm Oh, well... Regards