Bulldrek v3.0

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In my opinion, it would depend on the degree of difference between the personalities. If the personalities had vastly different personas, skills, and abilities - say, educated intellectuals vs ignorant savges; magic-users vs the mundane - then the auras would look significantly different. Otherwise,...

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Quick, get a neck-to-ankles cowprint tattoo.

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Yeah. Mine's not higher because I'm a non-participatory variety of geek, and a lot of the questions were about which geeky clubs and teams you've been in.

That, and Australian high schools don't even /have/ shit like "A/V club" or whatever...

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52.66%. That's embarrassing.

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Which is just silly in this day and age, since a) there's no guarantee that children will eventuate from the marriage, and if they don't, it hardly matters what genes you have in common b) there's no way of preventing genetically-unsuitable consanguineous parenthoods /outside/ of wedlock. "I wa...

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http://www.happyhunter.com is a good price crawler, for those looking to buy. Gives you prices for regions 1 to 4.

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Yes, New Zealand had their premiere a week or so ago. But not Aus.

(Yeah, Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revs both started here /before/ they started in the US.)

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It doesn't start here in Aus until Boxing Day. Grrrr. Every other blockbuster we get at the same time as the US (or, occasionally, a few days /before/ it). God knows why they're waiting it out for the LotR movies. (Though Boxing Day is traditionally a Big Movie Day in Aus.) So, spoilers clearly mark...

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http://www.farscapeworld.com http://www.farscapefantasy.com The future has looked good for Farscape ever since Brian Henson and [his sister?] bought the Henson company back off the media conglomerate that owned it. They've always been keen to go ahead with more Farscape. Looks like they've got all t...

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Yup; the rumours have been flying for some time, and now there's confirmation. SaveFarscape has more info.

w00t.

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Oh, god. I'll have to have a hunt around and see if I can find them.

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Gee, that's helpful. Moo: suprnova is always having issues, but it has a bunch of useful mirrors. http://www.fatiggi.com/suprnova/list_news.html seems okay for the moment. http://www.btsites.tk lists lots of BT sites; most aren't that great, but it does list ten different mirrors for suprnova. Sadly...

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Anguirel wrote:Oligarchy is rule by the rich, I believe. You'd want a meritarchy or... uh.. Intelligentarchy?

No; an oligarchy is any government ruled by a small group of people. Their wealth is irrelevant. (Source: all three definitions from dictionary.com.)

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In many states of Australia, there are specified maximums that you can claim as "pain and suffering" for certain types of injury. For example, my case: after being hit by the car, I am now technically disabled. I'm counted as being 15% impaired in the lower body. If I ever have children, I...

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Already you have companies that demand their workers not smoke - not just not smoke there, but not smoke, period! :wideeyes You're fucking kidding me. Jesus. Where are we going and why are we in this handbasket? people who use drugs are more prone to violence What's the ratio of violence caused by ...

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If drugs are legalized, I suspect we'll see an more aggressive drug-testing policy for key job positions, if only to avoid lawsuits from injuries inflicted by people on the now-legal drugs. Why? If the drugs are legal, it shouldn't matter provided you don't do them at work. I mean, do you get drug-...

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yet you KNOW the guy is guilty

Until you've got the evidence, you can't KNOW, you can only have a best guess. Or a hunch. Or the balance of probabilities. Or whatever, but it's still not the same as proof.

Innocent until proven guilty, remember?

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That's typical of, say, Shadowrun; the White Wolf stuff I've done is notably different. "Hi, want to work on X supplement for us?" "Sure." "Great. You'll be writing Chapter 7, about X/Y/Z. Here's the outline." (The outline varies /greatly/ in the amount of detail, depen...

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"Your right to swing your fist ends where my face begins." To wit, your right to self-determination ends where you begin infringing on someone else's rights. So, yes, Mister Murderer did not have a right to inflict himself on Dru Sjodin, and he should be punished for that. But for the stat...

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3278 wrote:But I would rather have 100 criminals to find prosecutorial evidence on than put one innocent man in jail in the interests of the "public good."

This here is a nice summary of my opinion on the Exclusionary Rule. <aol>Me too!</aol>

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Thanks, Trav. :) I also wrote a chapter of Demon: The Earthbound, the "Relics and Rituals" chapter, but due to an admin screwup I got left off the credits. Should be fixed in the next reprint. As for Shadowrun, I've written parts of: Corporate Download (Shiawase), Man and Machine (nanotech...

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potential victims of the criminal That's where the problem is. There comes a point where you are abridging the former criminal's rights (and yeah, if he's served his punishment for the crime, that's supposed to wipe the slate clean, so by that point he's a _former_ criminal) to protect "potent...

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The problem is that spoilers don't work quite the same here as they do on Dumpshock. On Dumpshock, the spoiler issue is: do I want to know about the contents of an upcoming Shadowrun book before I've read it? Yes|no? Sure, your answer /might/ be different from one book to the next, but probably not ...

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I'm with Mooky. I have had /so/ much Paris spam lately it's not funny. Yawn.

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Hippo birdy two ewes!

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I gave up on Clancy while I was in hospital. My then-boyfriend's brother lent me three Clancy novels from completely different series. I read two, and then abandoned the third - and Clancy forever - when I found I could predict every event in the book based on reading the other two. I've never read ...

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Oh, wash your mouth out. I've got 240 GB of HDD space across two machines, and I've used about 160 to 180 GB of that. And I don't do any of the things you listed - sure, I have a pretty prodigious MP3 collection, and I download tv episodes from the net, but I'm nowhere near the ranks of the hardcore...

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Agreed on the HP issue. Dad bought a HP laptop and has had no end of trouble with it; I've had a succession of HP printers that have broken before the first ink change. Steer clear.

Why pay that much for a non-functional computer when you can get a non-functional one for much cheaper?

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Good call, Lin. Whenever I give to charity, it's to the charities that help the "average joe". It's not so much that I'm promulgating the "charity begins at home" principle, it's just that... well, lots of charities are trendy. There are plenty of celebs urging you to donate for ...

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but if you're going to involve another person, then at a /minimum/ there should be a process for consent that involves at least a couple witnesses and probably a more involved process than that. I'm saying the possibility for error and abuse in assisted suicide is SO great that it would warrant ext...

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Dude, what kind of students did you hang out with?

My entire time at University was an alcohol-soaked haze.

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I asked, "are you saying you support a right to die for all adults without any sort of medical or official involvement?" Jestyr said she was. I countered that if she got what she wanted, then here's a couple of horrible consequences of such a thing. Well, "right to die" doesn't ...

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I'd pay for broadband internet connections - and a computer at least minimally capable of using it - for as many households in Australia as I could. See, a fast, always-on Internet connection is one of those things that most [non-geek] people think they won't need, or won't use. And then they get it...

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Gunny wrote:Whoopie doo. So that's two cultures out of how many?

If it's numerical weight required to add validity to the argument, I should add that many Australian aboriginal populations are seeking similar - although usually less direct - reparations.

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Bethyaga wrote:So Eclipse, are you saying you support a right to die for all adults without any sort of medical or official involvement?

I dunno if he is, but I am.

I'm curious to know why there's suspicions of impairment, /apart/ from the fact that they carried out the act itself.

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What amuses me is that everyone who's replied to this thread - the audience that AH wants here on Bulldrek - has a LiveJournal . So what's so bad about LiveJournal, if all of your intended audience are there anyway? If you don't have respect for LiveJournal users, why are you talking to them on anot...

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Sure you can argue street cops have a good idea that he was on something, and maybe from previous experience maybe even a guess as to what, but I guarentee you that you will never ever find something in policy that makes this hunch of theirs a qualified medical opinion. And, to continue the point -...

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All I ask is: if you're going to kill stripped, please give us an option to *not* see any graphics at all.

Frex, right now Brisbane has vile internet connectivity; the central ADSL router has somet like 56% packet loss. If I couldn't use stripped, I couldn't browse Bulldrek, simple as that.

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Welcome back, dude. Here's to better days ahead.

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Wonder if there's a lawsuit in the offing?

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Oh, true, but then it's the sacrifice that's a bad thing, not the simplification itself. The two may or may not be tied, but they're not the same thing.

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And if he is, so what? I'm sorry, but that attitude really annoys me - "let's make this unnecessarily difficult so only the most obsessive learners can remember it, so that we've got a de facto IQ test as a badge of membership!" Bollocks to that. Making something deliberately obstructive a...

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Moshpits in general can be surprisingly polite, though. I used to be a regular moshpit habitue (pre-accident, of course), and I was surprised at some of the behaviour I saw there. The nicest moshpit I was ever in would have to have been at a Slayer/Biohazard concert. I think the other concert-goers ...

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I think you will find that those people who consider looking at porn cheating are those people that consider it a violation of intimacy that they consider only reserved for them; the most important person in your life. So it's all a difference of definition. You might argue that you're not cheating...

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Lady Jestyr, I belive I've heard this complaint from you before, about other cyberpunk books as well. Is there a point at which you believe the book begins to go downhill, so I can try and see it from your perspective? Actually, I /think/ it's only this book that I complain of -- at least, if you s...

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It's impossible to buy beef there? Why's that?

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Holidays don't suck for me, because all my family is thousands of kilometres away, apart from my parents - in fact, with the exception of my mother's brother and his family, all the rest of my relatives are in England. This means that holiday gatherings are just me and my parents, which means none o...

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I just looked at our cinema's "coming soon" pages, and there's not a single thing there that presses my buttons. Welcome to the Jungle (which has already had a US run as The Rundown) looks fun, but other than that, it looks like a giant yawnfest until about February next year. Bummer.

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I can't think of a single "holiday pick", myself. I'm in conflict over RotK, though. I /know/ I'm going to come out bitching, but I can't seem to lower my expectations enough before the event. But other than that, about the only big holiday movie they've been advertising so far is The Last...

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I, likewise, need to re-read it, particularly in light of my growing interest in data modelling and communication - the idea of memes is really very interesting. From a reader's point of view, though, the book's horribly flawed. It feels like Stephenson got /bored/ right around the half-way mark and...

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