Cairo Jim

H yes, like way back in the glory days of Misc when a lot of us were awkward teens.

I'm pretty sure it was E1, then not long later found E2, both on MacFormats back in the day.

Imperialism was a decent one, although recent attempts at playing it were a tad difficult as the versions of it I found were rather Buggy. Deadlock was another good one. There's probably heaps of others, I could flip through a couple abandonware places for quite a while.

If I remember right, the Exile games should work perfectly fine while using SheepShaver

This would be...interesting to see if anything actually comes of it.

That's rather interesting. I'd probably be one of very few (if not only or extremly very few who answered) asexual, but answered no none the less to identifying with the LGBT community. (There's a bit of a split there with some people)

Congrats. Speaking of which, I just marked my third anniversary on another forum (thanks to here actually.)

Much cake, rum and celebrations!

I'm not sure a spartan room in a fort is quite the same as a house or mansion. But yeah, you can keep loot there. In A3:RW I imagine you'll be able to leave it anywhere though.

We had both our own bedroom plus that other room we got some gear from near the barracks, which was pretty nice actually. I thought so, anyway.

There's only two movies that I'm aware of that got released last year, (I don't watch TV or movies often), one being Star Wars, which I enjoyed, and Ip Man 3, which I'm still yet to see.

I think they look pretty cool. Very cool

Cause bugger it, why not.

Artweaver. It does the same sort of basic stuff as paint, with a few nice extra toys to play with.

How in the world is plumbing any more directly related to our survival than the internet is?.

...plumbing is essential for urban living without disease, to water availability, et cetera;

 

On a micro scale (individual loss only), it's true that even people who use the internet for their livelihood could adapt to an internetless world if they had to. But on a micro scale, it's also true that any one individual without plumbing could live their life with relatively few adjustments: they would be inconvenienced and would pay more for quotidian needs, just like someone without internet.

 

I was trying to bring across something along these lines, but struggled to word it.

Well, sure. It was a fairly easy call, although I was over generalising a bit, but comparing the internet to other things that have been brought up made the call easier. Something like plumbing, like Thuryl mentioned, although we survived without it for so long, is related to our survival, and our rights. Having fresh water available and having sewerage disposed of? I'd call that important. Take that away, and a lot of large towns and cities will be rather messy. On the other hand, the internet being temporarily inactive will be more like a toddler losing a toy for most of those people. They won't be happy about it, they'll be inconvenienced. The most physical harm that will come to them is inconvenience.

EDIT: Also, is it just me, or does the internet question seem rather frivolous mixed in with questions about euthanasia, torture, the death penalty and so forth?

That merely states it's common use amongst (mostly western) civilisation. While it has it's uses, it isn't life critical. It can be quite easily ditched and most peoples lives won't be for the worse.

The internet is a luxury, a nice thing to have. While it may make some things easier, it by no means is necessary for day to day living. Civilisation survived for a very long time without it. Food, water and shelter are absolute necessites, and then you have basic personal rights like culture, faith, orientation etc. While the internet may or may not make these things easier in some fashion, it is not needed.

Healthcare, Yes

Education, yes.

Internet, No. It's just a toy that isn't necessary for anything.

Reproduction, yes.

Torture, prohibited, it's not honorable

Euthanasia. Only in certain situations, like terminal illness or a similar condition

Death penalty, Yes, but for murder, rape, child molestation etc.

Abortion, Under extreme cases, where the birth was forced upon, or it will harm the mother. Apart from that, it is a person thats growing in there.

Rights , I chose from conception. Whether or not the child is in or out of it's mother is no difference.

Nukes. Noooo. To many negative consequences for little to no gain.

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A touchpad is awkward and annoying at the best of times. A mouse it is.

Kel posting quotes quoting himself seems to be the "it" thing.

Finding a female equivalent maybe on the hard side. Having a hero or a mentor is much easier to make as a muscular figure bathed in suave masculinity than it is to write for a female character. On top of that, a female character would be more complex as a personality, a male figure can just point a gun and blow things up.

I've never got into the Vampire genre other than the Blade Trilogy. Is it really worth it? Does anyone know of something decent?

Edit: If you do suggest something. please don't let it be Twilight.

Well, not necessarily a vampire, exactly. This isn’t really about sucking blood at all, nor is it specifically about Twilight. But if you have enough of the following qualities, then you might be a fictional character like Edward from Twilight: an over-the-top all-round awesome secondary protagonist who initiates the ordinary young main protagonist into an extraordinary world. Score one point for each trait that you have, plus extra bonus points as described.

 

You shouldn't have to worry about that guy. Why? This guy is more than likely to come after him.

Economic Left/Right: -5.12

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.51

That's quite a difference to the last time I took the test. Most of the time, my results get me close to Stalin's

 

personally i think that there's enough randomness and entropy in things that it makes things, uh, random, which kind of throws a spanner in the cog of things. i mean if you want to track atoms and photons and all that other stuff making "pseudo-random" things that supposedly we could track and tell the future with (or whatever)

Does it matter how it is done, as long as it is done? The ends justify the means, right?

I've noticesd that older laptops tend to get better, stronger, sturdier signals than newer laptops, regards of OS. The only thing I can think of is that WLAN cards are getting worse.