It might be possible to create a sheath around the arm (after all, there are no sharp or otherwise dangerous parts sticking out of it) that would give it some pressure. That way, it could work in space.

Personally, I don't even think I'd have to pause to think about it. Range checking becomes as natural to a programmer eventually as basic grammar becomes to most human beings.

So it's a race then, between the USA and the extremist muslims: who can destroy themselves faster?

I think that's the point: they're going through their resources (and morals) so quickly out of fear of those scary muslims that they'll eventually destroy themselves in non-military ways. Rather than being conquered, they'll be rendered irrelevant by their own actions.

Personally, I'd say "like" buttons in various shapes and sizes come standard in the human body package. I'd dare bet that you've played with one of yours in the past week. Perhaps even the last 24 hours.

As a dutchman, I'm telling you that plenty of us would be happy to kick Wilders out of the country-... or better yet, launch him on a one-way trip to space if we can. But we can't seem to get him out of our politics democratically because a lot of christians vote for him out of fear of muslims.

Apparently, for some of us any muslim is worth losing all common sense over. I guess.. that's some bonus points to them muslim-folks?
Seriously though, this deserves a huge facepalm.

So, this article led me on something almost resembling a wiki-walk. While I was reading about the IP implications of all this, I remembered the commercials-... you wouldn't steal a car, so why would you steal music? Well... we're already copying music (which does not take away the original) and I'm sure plenty of us would LOVE to copy a car. Or hell, design their own.

The coming century is likely to become a golden age for consumer industry if we have our way, or a dark age of gradually-reinforcing IP laws if the big companies have their way. Hence, it's extra important that we fight back against things like SOPA/ACTA/PIPA and the like.

That said-.. I'm going to play "don't copy that floppy". Just for the hell of it.

Perhaps he's insinuating that, if there's manpower to spare on either of those things, it should go to the more serious crimes. And the punishment should also fit the crime, and not be blown out of proportion.

Even if he's not insinuating that, perhaps I should do so.

Perhaps, but it seems like the whole game revolves around this assassin. To have him still be connected to the whole end-of-the-earth thing, wouldn't he need to have the same precursor/forefather/whatever genes that Ezio and Altair shared? To have the eagle vision and those semi-psychic abilities?

Another thing to note: how would he have been a great-great-great-etc. grandson to the Italian Ezio Auditore and the Syrian Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, if he were fully native? He's pretty much got to have some European/Asian genes in him. So consider this to be me backing up both you and BinarySolo a few posts down.