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James Lovelock, whose book was my own bible when i was younger, has said that the climate threat is so severe, that it may be necessary to suspend democracy to deal with it. Here is the article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/mar/29/james-lovelock And here is a discussion of it on bbc radio: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sfwtc The host Justin Rowlatt has done lots of programmes on his own journey to try and cut his carbon footprint that are really quite good and quite amusing as well. So the question in my mind is, is anything worth suspending democracy for, and if it is, how do you get it back after you've achieved your goal?

looks good!

how hard is it to recompile programs for different computers, meaning, why are there not more games out for mac and linux! the demo is a 275mb download...i'm expecting great things...! Oh well it depends on glibc-2.11, which is not available in pre-2010 versions of ubuntu, the game'll have to wait until i'm bored/stupid/drunk enough to upgrade my system.

Yes, but you can join taygen do his alchemist quests then kill him, and taygen won't notice.

Um. don't go in to the secret lab too soon. Um. try and be both rebel and shaper at the same time. Um. plan your game ahead, until it becomes more a chore than an adventure. In order for taygen to accept you, you'd have to be so shaper that the rebels wouldn't like you. So it's pretty hard without really following the walkthrough to not unwittingly annoy someone sometime.

was the eschalon 1 game any good? I only played the demo, and got a bit frustrated at how slow it was.

As far as I know you can only make the weak ornks. They are only useful if you really need some bacon.

Every game has a secret Ornk canister. If you say which game i'm sure someone will help you find it.

Originally Posted By: The Ratt Honestly I think this isn't the greatest poll; I noticed several questions that were loaded one way or another, but for being free I'm not going to complain. I've been through it question for question with a couple of people, and found that on several of the questions their understanding of the meaning of the question was completely different to mine. So different, that it was as if they were answering a completely different question. Maybe that is intentional.

Looks like you might be suffering from an acute case of JDS there mate.

Your political compass Economic Left/Right: 0.00 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.25

Sure. A PM would have been fine.

And then one final link http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/14/AR2010051404279.html which talks about the european project, and why although some of us love individual nations, do not love the EU. I will stop now, as the roar of tumbleweed is deafening

Have you tried this: http://www.politicalcompass.org/ It takes between 10 minutes and half an hour depending on how indecisive you are, I was fairly impressed with the results, and wished i'd done it a few years ago, so I could see how my viewpoints have changed. I came out as pretty much dead centre on the y-axis, and a bit up of the x-axis.

Originally Posted By: Lilith honestly by the time muslims become a major demographic group in any western country, the driving force behind any kind of radicalisation in that country will mostly have died off consumer capitalism makes hypocrites of everyone in the end, once they have the resources to participate in it I agree with you up to a point, as if that were to happen they would become the dominant culture through sheer force of numbers. I know quite a lot of British people who have converted to Islam, and then lots of Muslims who want to be more mainstream British. From what I've heard, the niqab was very rarely seen in 1950s Egypt, but is hard to miss these days, which suggests there may also be some other factors at play.

Originally Posted By: waterplant those who resist evolution end up looking like monkeys. I will tell that to the Swiss the next time I see them. One of the things with change is that it is a good idea to make sure that it is positive, both short term, and long term. Evolution is desirable, devolution is not. I drink too much Coke, it has a bad effect on my teeth, should I welcome the change, or be a monkey and start drinking water? The current influx is bigger, of course in numbers, but surprisingly also in percentage terms, than any other influx in to the British Isles. A bit like eating. Eating is good and necessary, but if you eat too fast, you can end up with indigestion. Indigestion in a person is uncomfortable, and necessitates a good lie down, on a national scale, it has the potential to create all kinds of local, personal tragedies. Quote: I wonder what indigenous people around the world would think about the Brits being upset about their country being taken over by a foreign culture We are not an Imperial nation anymore, although we still try our best to help America be one, for some reason I don't quite understand. About the Global Warming stuff. We would have achieved more, much much more, on carbon capture, if we had enacted legislation protecting our peat bogs, and built a couple of coal fired power stations, than we did, by selling the contents of the peat bogs at garden centres up and down the land, and building incredibly expensive windfarms that only really make money when the weather is right. I don't think anyone denies environmental degradation, but there is growing evidence that the link between CO2 concentrations and global warming could be rather tenuous. It seems to be that SO2 is much more of a problem than CO2

Oh dear. Really not as nutty as you might think you know. I will say no more, except that I am interested to see how this Con-Dem coalition pans out. It would be unfortunate if, come next election, both parties found they had bitten off more than they could chew.

Charlie Brown??? Is he still alive?? Golly he must be getting on a bit! Are you sure this Pumpkin is still ripe?

Originally Posted By: Dantius Originally Posted By: boggle what is this Great Pumpkin of which you speak? PHILISTINE! Is this a Pumpkin Soup recipe that I am not aware of? ....Philistine.... That we are only allowed to drink on Palm Sunday...?

what is this Great Pumpkin of which you speak?

grudge/suspicion... I suppose the outcome is the same if politics between our two nations has really diverged. If this were Geneforge 5, I think I'd be that rebel sympathizing Shaper woman.

Quote: She still hasn't been forgiven. My statement was a comment on this, nothing original.

Scots hold a grudge for 20 years... But surely that should be negated by the Heath effect? Oh well, I suppose it is rather hard to reason with people who are still angry about a tax that was last in force when Freddie Mercury was still alive.

About England and Scotland: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/election2010/results/ You can click on the various regions here to see the outcomes in each country. What is interesting is how each country voted in completely different ways. England voted Conservative, Scotland voted Labour, NI voted for NI, and Wales had an identity crisis. And every yellow speck on the map is a university town! The UK has a notorious benefits system, the ease of getting these benefits is largely responsible for the massive inflow of various peoples in the last 10 years. There are currently 8 million people of voting age dependent on benefits. At elections everyone gets one vote to choose how to divide the tax pie. The people who pay the taxes have exactly the same amount of say as those who receive them. This is inherently unfair. The Conservatives want to destroy benefits culture, which is why all of the poor wards in cities voted labour. It seems that the Scots see the Tories as being intrinsically English, so refuse to vote for them whatever. If that is true, and what I hear is that lots of Scots really hate the English, then they have kept the most incompetent, most reviled government in history in power, and with a large number of seats, through pure spite. There are of course other reasons, Scots can now vote on English issues, but the English cannot vote on Scottish issues. This results in the Scots voting for English money for themselves and then voting for tax rises in England to fund it. Scotland is determined to leave the UK, to get their independence, then so be it. Scotland seems to be eager to become a province of the EU, whilst England is desperate for more independence. We are holding each other back.

<i>It happens quite often on this side of the pond. Easiest way for the side in control of the polling system to keep the other side from getting votes. Certain areas are given fewer ballots so there will be a limit on the number of opposition votes and they can always blame logistics later for the shortage</i> It was things like this that used to let us feel that our elections were fairer, and we were just generally better people than the Americans. No more. A: Right we've got 60,000 voters in this constituency B: Ok, so how many ballot papers do we need? A: No idea, hang on, I'll give Jeb Bush a call....wait...... A: Jeb said we need 10. One for each member of our immediate families. B: Jolly good!