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Accept and except are almost never used correctly. I don't know how many times I've read statements like "We had a great time [U]accept[/U] for the motorcycle gang beating people up." Then there are people who also spell it wrong as in "[U]acept[/U]". In my head I always pronounce it [I]asept[/I], which is annoying. Another problem is people saying "I would [U]of[/U] gone but it was raining." Try using the word "have" in that situation instead of "of". Also, "of" and "off" are

[quote]At the moment it's Haruki Murakami...[/quote] I wasn't that crazy about him as an author but I like saying his name. It's like Oda Nobunaga another satisfying to pronounce Japanese name.

I'm starting to get "Cannot open the internet site" errors when trying to read this forum and the joe user forums. It's accompanied by the very, loud and annoying "DUNG!!!" sound effect. I had wanted to reply to one of the Bush topics that have been locked. I'm not trying to be a wise guy. Went to Joe User, but I can't find it there. I did waste about an hour looking for it what with all the errors and backing up and searching for this and that and also trying to login, but

I'm from the USA and I watched all five segments. I'd heard that stuff about South America before, but I must confess I don't know that much about it. Non-Americans tend to be much more critical of the USA, especially if their country has been ravaged by American forces at some time as the Germans were. I thought Pispers brought up some good points in his criticism of the US. He brought up nothing positive which just seems wrong. Carlin was never that political. I don't remember him sa

Space wars would be like "Battlezone", the game that came out around 1998, but there would be more planets and solar systems. You'd be able to control some kind of fighting craft on each planet and command a fleet of similar at the same time. Each planet would have different gravity and atmosphere. There would be missions where you went out with a small band, mostly to explore and figure out what the resources are, check out the plant and animal life. Then there would be a campaign involving col

FAIL! How embarassing. Here's a youtube so it hasn't been a total waste of time. http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=avNIo9ojg8o&eurl=http://www.whattheasian.com/category/videos/page/8/

College professors in those fields are good sources, but I do not rely on them entirely as they often have their own prejudices and are quite capable of being wrong too. Sometimes an entire school can be of a conservative or liberal bent. I prefer to have numerous sources. I must confess that it's easy to want to listen to only the things you want to hear. This must be guarded against. The web provides many sources. I haven't looked extensively but from what I've seen, most sites and experts on

OMG AWESOME GAME! https://www.crazygames.com/game/you-have-to-burn-the-rope

I give my sources. What are your sources? Yea. I lived well within the thirty mile range of yankee power nuclear plant for thirty years and I didn't worry about it. Nice, clean energy. I visited the plant and wrote an extra credit report I was so enraptured with the power source. Many years later I also happened to work for a customer who lived directly across from Three Mile Island. He was unconcerned and said that during the tense time he didn't move and was very confident in his safe

If you don't know the source of your knowledge, just say so. Wikipedia can be changed by anyone. It also uses teams of people, who are themselves monitored, to check on changes in content. Are you assuming that these people that allow the information to stay up are all corrupt or misinformed and that only you few guys know the real truth about how safe nuclear plants are? Also, all those people protesting plants - they're all hysterical nuts? The Boeing 747 is loaded with redun

Geothermal Q&A What risks do geothermal plants pose? None Is there enough geothermal power to power the USA in the USA? There's enough to power 30,000 USA in the USA (something like that) Is there any sexy technology involved? No Complicated? Not very. Danger to birds? Nope It would be expensive to drill deep holes into the ground. - Oil rigs have already drilled the holes and are bringing up lots of hot water with the oil. We pay to clean th

This is a response to Carbon 16 and his last post What are your sources? I'm no expert on nuclear power, but here's what it says at wikipedia "The Chernobyl disaster in 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (now Ukraine) was the worst nuclear accident in history and is the only event to receive an INES score of 7. The power excursion and resulting steam explosion and fire spread radioactive contamination across large portions o

Why can't nuclear waste be loaded onto cheap, disposable freighter rockets that are fired at the sun? The sun is already nuclear and the tiny amounts we'd be sending up there would make no difference. It'd be gone forever. Nobody has the technology to shoot it down. It doesn't matter if it takes years to get there and as for the fuel that's needed, the rockets only have to break earth's gravity field. There's no friction or gravity in space so they'd head for their target at 17,000 mph or whatev

[quote]Everyone is entitled to their opinion but there is one thing in the above post that I really must disagree with:"People were dumb back then compared to now." "dumb" is subjective.*snip*[/quote] I think I balanced out my "dumb" statement when I originally posted it. I don't know why you'd take offense to it. Are you from 1900? Do I have to worry about offending old timey mountain men and trappers? Read the whole paragraph and put it in context instead of just looking for phrases l

I'm tempted to argue that we are morally superior to our predecessors. I'll limit myself to talking about the USA for this. We no longer have routine lynchings. Blacks can vote and get elected to office, hold any job, etc. Is this not a moral advancement? In the twenties they were still getting lynched for looking at white girls. Women have also seen great improvement in their station. We no longer openly call our enemies Japs or The Hun. Slurs are not allowed in civil society. All this was ramp

You mean like the Spartans who lived mostly separate from their women and used little boys for sexual pleasure and companionship? They went a long time that way and I guess it was an accepted part of their morality. Also, I hear their food was awful.

We may be in store for some serious calamities. If we suddenly run out of fuel, we might have trouble getting food, staying warm and transporting the many supplies that keep our society running smoothly. Electric motors have been improved greatly in recent years. They no longer need full power to operate. Batteries are improving rapidly and batteries are the biggest problem in electric cars. Up til Katrina there wasn't any need to replace gasoline, but as gas prices go up, electricity

Mount and Blade is a good game. I love riding around on a horse shooting arrows and hacking people down. I must have played through it three times. Seven Kingdoms and Seven Kingdoms 2 are very good games. I put up a post in pc games about it. Seven Kingdoms Conquest is a disaster though from what I hear.

We may not as a species survive long enough to colonize other planets on any kind of permanent, significant scale. There are 11 stars less than ten light years away. http://cass.ucsd.edu/public/nearest.html We can't go light speed now and its not certain we ever will approach light speed and survive it, but even if we do, it'll be long trip to get to these stars, assuming they even have planets orbiting them. They might not have any planets worth colonizing because of extreme condi

Yea. There was a lot of whining that it wasn't turned based and that it required too much pause and think to be real time strategy, but then real kingdoms aren't real time either. I'm sure real world leaders spend a lot of time thinking and scheming. 7K is in sort of a category of it's own. One of those unusual games that takes risks and tries to change genres and introduce more gameplay. I'm guessing they were working with a smaller budget than AOE since AOE has always been a huge sell

I was playing Mount and Blade (very fun game). You talk to other lords. They give you a dialogue option like the following, "I would like to make peace with the Rhodocks." When I saw that I got excited. I thought M and B had diplomacy like 7K, but every time the dialogue answer is the same, "Go and break your leg. Then we'll all have peace." What a let down. Why do they even put stupid dialogue choices like that in games? The thing I like about 7K is that nothing is there just to add atmosphere.

Yea. I'm not talking about that game which is called 7K Conquest. I'm talking about The 7K2/The Fryhtan Wars. The reviews said it was one of the best strategy games of all time.

Seven Kingdoms 2 - The Fryhtan Wars, often less than ten dollars. Try amazon. Came out in 1999 and it's still great fun to play. Works on XP. Don't know about the newer operating system. Its like Age of Empires with lots of added depth. It's a bit like Age of Empires. You have the Romans, Persians, Greeks, Chinese and