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National advertising? !@#$%^&*uming you're in the US that would run into hundreds of thousands of $$. It'd probably take all our servers down because we couldn't handle the load and more people would try hacking us. Good plan. How about You pay for the servers and let other people play for free and then You pay to crash it yourself? Now get back on topic!

LOL Nice grammar Dr. Brain How about you Don't cast the first stone. Can someone ban MM for excessive stupidity?

Jin please do your homework. Nuclear plants are probably NOT what they're going to build because of the public misconceptions about their risks. Almost all construction has been halted for the past few decades in the west. In the long run they provide lots of energy so we need less powerplants. The waste they produce can be measured in tonnes not thousands of tonnes like conventional power and biofuel plants. Putting them underground under mountains prevents the radiation from damaging anything because the amount of radiation that reaches the surface is barely enough to be registered on a giger counter. If you knew your science then you'd realise that normal granite on the surface would produce several times more radiation than nuclear waste would if its buried underground. This is NOT dangerous. Whats more should the waste start to leak you can collapse a mountain on it putting several thousand feet of rock between even burrowing animals and the radiation. Powerplants do not blow up as you imagine they do in your hollywood movies in an "atomic bomb" fashion. They Could leak if several things went wrong (the design has since been improved so that this is even more unlikely) at the same time which is why a large concrete dome is constructed over the reactor so that in the event of an emergency none of the material escapes. Akai claims that this dome could withstand a direct hit from an aircraft (although he doesn't factor in that it might be packed with explosives). If you wanted to Really be safe you'd put the nuclear powerplant under a mountain too so if things went wrong you could bury it or you can create several barriers as fail safes, much like the idea of "double hulling" in oil tankers. So what do you think is more of an ecological disaster? Chernobyl or all the oil spilages we've had or the impact of m!@#$%^&* coal burning? I'm not sure but it'd have to be between the last two.

Wow another terrible anology Don't use them to "prove" your point No-one "benifits" from the Kyoto agreement. We're already up the creek without a paddle. The terms would simply buy us time, perhaps a few decades if we're lucky, to prepare for some serious climate changes and try and increase the survival chances of other species. CO2 = Greenhouse gas. That is not a good thing. The more CO2, the faster the climate change. If the global temperature raises by 2 degrees then there will be immeasurable damage. England would freeze over and there'd be flooding further down south. We're not talking a few extra storms every year, we talking of losing some major cities, changes in monsoon patterns and hurricanes, ocean currents etc. Trees POTENTIALLY could remove CO2 but you'd have to cut them down when they are mature and store them somewhere so the carbon won't get released back into the atmosphere i.e. can't burn them. You'd need a ridiculous amount of trees to remove the amount of CO2 powerplants currently create. Look at it this way. Coal is extremely high in carbon with a few impurities like sulphur etc. Probably 95% carbon (conservative guesstimate). Trees/wood are less than 25% carbon. That means you'll need to have 4 times the volume of coal you use in trees (!@#$%^&*uming its completely dried) in order to keep the plants carbon neutral. Trees need time to grow. That means although potentially a single tree can remove several tonnes of carbon, you'd need to plant a dozen in order to keep up with the amount of coal you're burning while waiting for it to grow. Now work out how many power plants you have. how much CO2 each one produces and you can APPROXIMATELY work out how many trees you'd need. I'm guessing a number big enough to cover the US and then some. Planting a few trees in the car park isn't going to cut it, sorry.

No you won't, they're all too busy shagging ricebowl's money.

Bad analogy and just plain wrong. The US is responsible for a lot of pollution and most of the worlds consumption of fossil fuels. This has an impact on other countries because pollution doesn't stop at the borders hence the Scandanavians are having so much trouble with acid rain even though they have a very "green" outlook (using geothermal, proper insulation, recycling etc). Its kinda like a picnic where one guy decides to hog all the food he can lay his hands on and then leaves the mess for everyone else to clear. Kyoto was fairly meaningless as the targets are unlikely to be met and the convention even failed its own target of being carbon neutral but at least there was an agreement and a token show of interest. When the most important country in terms of pollution decides not to make a token gesture, its not just America thats going to suffer for it. Slowing down the decline of the world ecology isn't easy and it will be impossible unless the US does it's part and its something that requires a long term contribution. What is the point in "looking" for alternative fuels if your short term strategy is to increase the problems we already have? Sure you Might avoid future environmental problems and foresee every last eventuality but you'd have to live with today's problems for the considerable future.

No its definately because they're padding it out. They throw in random instrumental jam sessions and songs that don't make the charts at all because they just weren't good enough.

Nurples, bot is chronically lagging out/not responding. Requires fixing (even after you reset it). Host lag?

My arse he is. You just kami'd all the time. GiantJohnson was best long bomber, o2thx was up there at the top although he played mainly for rec so he went for max damage over teamplay and powerball, I was by far the best weasel indoors (I LOVE taking advantage of close/wallbombing) and expee was pretty good at the art of warping and aggravating at mid-distance. You just played all the time and shouted random crap Doesn't make you a bad player but you're far from "the best".

You've been added to my ICQ. Talk ASAP.

Its called an international summit for a reason. Its not MEANT to be good for the USA. Its meant to slow down the decline of our ecological systems. He didn't even send someone to attend!

Helpful as always I see. Now get back to work on that map editor!

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Duels pf.

Contortionists can lick all sorts of places...

Akia eh?

I was talking to Julius.

Not a problem! Helium is extremely useful and believe it or not we're running out of it very soon (its mined from select sources of natural gases). It is needed in modern lighter than air transport, as a coolant (cooler than liquid nitrogen). in superconductors (used in CAT scans, maglevs etc.), for its inert properties (you could use it in MIG welding, in environments where you don't want fires or oxidation etc.) The Tokamaks are experimental fusion reactors that try to contain the plasma of the fusion reaction using magnetism. It has successfully done it for several seconds and they've been undergoing continual development these last 40 odd years. A workable reactor is predicted for 2015 which is a long time off... Sadly its much simpler to create fusion bombs (h-bombs) than fusion reactors because you need to keep the process under strict control (and you also get a standard fission bomb as a power source which you obviously can't use in a reactor). Fusion reactors mainly run off deutrium and other "heavy water" isotopes and supplies from the ocean are predicted to last for several thousand years. Concerning Bush and his oil connections, remember how much texas depends on its oil fields (and helium supply) for income. If Bush seriously funded fuel-cell development he'd screw Texas over and he'd lose lots of support. Bush also has shown very little interest in environmental issues and reducing fuel consumption .

Much like eBooks which are also being distributed by P2P (and IRC). They Could have had it synced up with an audio book. They could have included animations and illustrations but most of them are just text with a !@#$%^&*le image, locked up in some horrible proprietry format with all the so called copy protection features turned on. So people scanned everything straight out the books (copy protect that!) or saved the talking books as MP3s.

Cheer up, whats the worse that could happen? Its not like Davis will be re-elected

ALL OF US NEED glassES!

And then he'll use a proxy. Fun.

Manufacturers can do PC's to order for an extra £5. You let them risk screwing up the computer and taking the responsibility for example if you damage the CPU while installing a heatsink. A warranty for parts is only good for as long as the company hasn't gone bust (a common thing for budge components). Doing it through a manufacturer usually gets you a better deal warranty and insurance-wise and they'd get you equivilent replacement parts if the previous component manufacturer went bust. The reward you get from building your own PC isn't in the savings or the belief that you've learned something in the process. All you want is the -*BAD WORD*- thing to work after you've done all the screws. Getting it from a manufacturer means they're legally obliged to ensure that this is what you get and within a decent timeframe too.

Manufacturers currently have a profit margin of approximately £10 per machine. You want to deprive them of that money and have no warranty on your machine and call us cheap gits?

Ok first of all get it right, it's feces. Second, you need to shutup the only view of callifornia you have is from the inside and you don't know how little we care about your healthcare systems, roads, trasnit systems, even DRINKING WATER problems or how Davis handled it. No this election is not the biggest -*BAD WORD*-ing joke in US history, thats why only people who live in california still hear about it. Don't sit there and talk about californian's like we care about them. Its really a post about who likes Schwarzenegger