All their games that they were selling were tweaked to work on modern OS. I bought some and they worked flawlessly on Vista 64.

Mod this guy UP...too bad I don't have anymore point today :(

Well, if the study described in that link is true and valid, your point is not true anymore and we could then have that strong argument as you said. http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge318.html

You are making a big assumption here. You are assuming that there is such a thing as a "soul" and you are assuming that science can't comprehend it. So far, even if there are still a lot of things to learn about the brain, science got a pretty good grasp on the electro-chemical processes happening in our brain and many other animals' brain too.

Because it make us all fuzzy inside? :) More seriously, probably because it's a mental perception of a proper social order. Probably something that we acquired through evolution so that we can develop and live properly through a group, large or small.

He's not talking about the well pressure but simply the water pressure at that depth. That's not going to be removed

I think that you are oversimplifying the issue and the way that the DRM is communicating with Ubi's validation systems. It's probably going to be an encrypted key exchange or something like that, not a simple ping.

I read that one with a smile because where I live it would have read as follow: ...they might even have a guy in their class whose parents go to church or something like that. They learn that not everyone thinks like their parents do, there are alternatives Of course the point is moot as where I live there is no homeschooling...

Of course they will but at least the kids are not going to be isolated and will have a chance to benefit from some external influence at school.

Not sure about that. I'm pretty sure that Nasa issue the specs, requirements and the scope of work but the engineering is done by those companies not by the Nasa.

You first said:

(Lesson kids: never *ever* burn bridges unless you have no choice. Swallowing some pride now can save your bacon big time later)

Then you go with:

and I offered to provide contract assistance at a nearly extortionist rate (easily 3x what they were paying me). It was pointed out to me that I was unlikely to get hired if asking that much money, to which I replied "who said I wanted to be hired?"

Me think that you still not have learned your lesson on burning bridges...

Wasn't it the case with the canadian Candu reactor? I was under the impression that they were fairly standard, especially in Ontario. (I'm sure that the main objective was to save on the posters :) )

And you are expecting to see the high caliber bullet coming?

Because the bounty system won't works. It will simply be abused. The bank put a bounty on the frauder head, the frauder get one of his friends to kill him or even use an alt to do it, and simply share the bounty money with him. The bounty system is more a bragging system. The more on your head, the more you are supposed to be "hot". Most people with a large bounty on their head try to not get kill because they are proud to have that bounty on them, it's not really because they car about dying and loosing that ship they are in at the moment. So, in that context, putting a bounty on a frauder, will not do have any impact or do any good.

It's a Stirling Engine....not Sterling.