Quote from Klutch :

lol

Quote from Fastwalker :

i strap one on my feet, and the other one i hold above my head
so if i ever tumble, i can go on on while i do a handstand

Cool idea. See if you can get them curved so you can just roll down the hill.

Or stick to the roads and just drive maybe?

Quote from Mustangman759 :

oh I agree, but the town is also run by people who potentially lost a family member. I know someone who's mother taught a bunch of those kids in the summer. In times of despair people do weird things and try to place the blame on anything they can.

So I guess the preposterous ****ed-up 2nd amendment argument goes that you're OK with firearms so long as you're not exposed to any media that might give you the idea of firing them at people.

Good luck with that frankly ludicrous solution.

Quote from Fastwalker :

Rossi S3

Cute skinny little snowboards! Who's the other one for?

Those lenses are a cool idea. Might have to get some myself.

Quote from Rappa Z :

Kev, where in NJ did you live?

Mostly Ocean and Monmouth counties. My girlfriend who grew up in Brick told me there was no 911 service there.

Quote from flymike91 :

Unfortunately, there is no data showing how many crimes were deterred by the would-be victim being armed because crimes that don't happen are usually not reported. This lack of useful information is harmful for the rights of hundreds of millions of Americans, but is purposefully ignored by the media and politicians.

I suppose in lieu of any evidence you could just look at violent crime numbers and see if there's a significant fall in states where concealed carry permits were introduced. If there isn't then those nice wild west people probably aren't helping, they're just getting their guns stolen and used to commit crimes (something the statistics do show).

I suppose there are a lot of factors but it's difficult to blame violent computer games when the rest of the world is playing the same ones.

I think the argument that the USA has a culture of killing is a pretty good one. It's still a very young country, it's not so long since you were out killing the natives and then protecting your own property due to the lack of law and order. I remember living in a fairly densely-populated area (certainly not a rural area) in New Jersey in the '90s that had no 911 service. Maybe it still doesn't I don't know.

So I can sort-of understand the paranoid middle classes wanting their guns and being over-keen to use them against their neighbours. The people I can't understand are the people who want to keep that situation as it is.

Quote from The Moose :

Dear god no. Keep that lunatic sideshow as far away from Liverpool as possible thanks

Oh come on you signed Carroll, he's a bigger hooligan than Balotelli.

And I'd rather have Balotelli than Sturridge any day of the week, even if he spent half the season in the stands for biting linesmen and mascots.

From the reports nobody is saying that anybody got punched.

I hope if City decide to sell him he stays in the premier league, I would miss him if he went away. Liverpool could do with a Balotelli so he could take some of Suarez's yellow cards for him.

I got this for a friend at christmas and we watched it last night with a bottle of Dalwhinnie. Great film to get drunk to.

Quote from th84 :

I second Mr. Ants request for reinstatement.

I agree with this because I agree with everything th84 ever says, because it avoids me having to think about anything and I'm usually intoxicated enough that I don't care how retarded he is.

AtomAnt I think it's fair to say your posts were getting increasingly incoherent when I last saw you. I don't really mind about that - so long as you're not being offensive then you are welcome to ride a crispy bike all over any forum that I read. I don't know if you posted something offensive but I doubt it - you mostly just post nonsensical garbage and I support your entitlement to do that.

Hang on though. Wasn't Lerts banned in the end? Maybe riding crispy bikes is explicitly against the rules?

Looks a lot like Natural Selection, which I never really got into.

Quote from Taylor Finger :

I used to have a 1962 122S (the station wagon), pretty much the same car. It used to get some funny looks with my pet pig's snout sticking out of the passenger window.

Quote from Boris Lozac :

Btw, I really do not get the hate, i follow him on Twitter and he's brilliant, quality sarcasm, and his interviews are great, always interesting quests with not-your-ordinary questions beeing asked.. And he's totally right about guns now.

Look up his record when he worked in Fleet Street. I disagree that his TV stuff is worthy, and all I've seen from his Twitter activity is lots of people asking him to be banned from supporting Arsenal.

You can have him.

Having seen the story about 30,000 Americans signing a petition to deport Piers Morgan, I am desperately trying to raise enough signatures to get his British citizenship revoked - we really don't want that **** back, you can keep him.

Quote from flymike91 :

And besides your argument is that because we don't have everything we should have nothing. It may be a regional difference of course, the best weapons available to citizens in the UK couldn't defend against one man mugging you in an ally.

Fortunately an 'ally' is someone who's on your side, so it would be two against one.

My point - apparently valid - is that if your argument is that automatic weapons are needed to give you power over your own government, they don't give you anywhere near enough power and you might as well not have them at all. Look how well the Taliban have been doing against the US military - you would have considerably less success because you don't have RPGs.

Quote from flymike91 :

as I said before assault weapons are the only type of weapons that can be used effectively against armored soldiers.

And the government let you have those so you can be an effective militia and overthrow tyrannical rulers.

So I guess you're allowed to have jet fighters and tanks and stuff too? Or can they be defeated somehow by a bunch of fat dudes with goatees and assault rifles?

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

There is near constant coverage of Israel and Palestine, though of course it's not as hyperbolic as the coverage of shootings like this. The conflict over there has been going on for more than 50 years. How are you surprised that a fresh new tragedy gets more coverage than a half-century-old undeclared war?

Actually the story that has been mooted for comparison in the UK press is the policy of drone strikes against civilians in Pakistan. Apparently 168 children dead so far. People who arrive at the scene of a drone strike to provide emergency assistance are also targeted. Funerals for the victims of drone strikes are also targeted.

There's not so much coverage of that in the western media. That's a lot more dead children, murdered by the US government.

I'm sure you can invert the colours if you want, that's pretty basic editor functionality.

I have to use Vi on a lot of the boxen my work ends up residing on. Never liked it.

Turns out the guy at the desk next to me is using it!

That does look interesting. I'm using TextMangler on Mac at the moment and TextPad on Windows, I really love TextMangler and TextPad is pretty similar but it would be nice to have the same editor on both platforms, plus I'm seriously considering moving to Linux for work next year rather than buying another Mac.

Thanks for sharing.

Yeah I remember Dragon's Lair, it was the biggest rip-off in arcade history, and looked so pretty that everybody still pumped money into it, hoping that it would somehow become a game if they stood in front of it for long enough. But it never did.

Quote from Boris Lozac :

Will i like this if i got bored at the middle of Far Cry 1?

I think everybody who played Far Cry was confused about why they ruined it half-way through. I think they ran out of money so they let the work experience kids design the rest of the game.