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Here there is a book like that called Schott's Miscellany, and Xylot sounds a bit similar. I'd stick with that. It'll probably make darn squiddly difference to traffic volumes whatever you choose.

Perhaps the goverment should sterlize anyone who lives in or near Wales?

But if a baby is born before the legal abortion date (24 weeks gestation in the UK) then doctors are not allowed to help it.

By the way, SSH, do you have a cite on this?  This is the first time I've heard of this...I believe I've heard of a DNR policy being followed for premature babies born beetween 21-23 weeks because the survival rates are so low, but that's all I've heard.  I'd be interested to see if the situation is as you describe it - that no doctor assistance is given to babies born before 24 weeks.

I was looking for it earlier on the BBC News Have Your Say but couldn't locate it. I hope I didn't imagine it! Or rather, I hope I did. The mother in question IIRC said that she had a baby at 23 weeks and it survived 2 hours after birth but no assistance was given during those 2 hours, apparently for the reasons mentioned.

What's the difference between that and "Do Not Resuscitate" policies?

Nacho, yes, I think you understood me correctly.

Many girls in the UK would prefer to have a baby and loose the rest of life due to commitments and continue to feed the single mother plague. And then go on benfits for the rest of their life.

But abortion is there to allow these people a choice. Too bad most of them are too f***ing stupid to make the right choice.

Its sad that anyone sees having a baby as losing their life. Personally speaking, its been one of the best things to ever happen to me.

Nice also to see that you blame single mother "plague" on women. Not on the men who don't take responsibility for their part in the whole thing.

And I know two mothers who live only on benefits (and on people's kindness). One is with the father of her children, one is not. And they are both wonderful people who love their kids, give them a great life and education and certainly not chav-producers. My advice, layabout, it to stop reading the Daily Mail.

I am shocked to realise this. But if a baby is born before the legal abortion date (24 weeks gestation in the UK) then doctors are not allowed to help it. The reasoning goes that  it would be unfair to treat a child or otherwise based on whether the parent wants it. Therefore since it is legal to let aborted babies die at this age, it would be unfair to try and save a wanted premature baby at the same age.

THAT IS NUTS. But it happens.

Seems like this point completely skipped the UK House of Commons yesterday when they decided not to lower the date to 20 or 22 weeks. Its a moot point in other countries in Europe where the limit is 12 weeks and therefore any baby born at that age is unviable.

I still think that abortion completely walks over the right to life of the unborn child and so viability is irrelevant, but pragmatically speaking backstreet abortions (or simply going to another country) are worse for everyone, so banning it isn't a good idea, either.

Not sure why adding "if game is paused return" code to the front of rep_ex requires a lot of copy/pasting...

Diagnostics

Cheaper phones still tend to only be dual-band. E.g. Nokia 1200, Verizon Wireless CDM 8905. NB, AGA, I work for a company that sells mobile network monitoring systems, so don't argue!

...whoever will be in Paris on the 14th we should arrange something.

Assuming North American cell phones work in Europe, you can get ahold of Disco and me that way to arrange a meet-up on the fly.

You need a tri-band phone, as US/Canada GSM operates at 850 and 1900 Mhz and most of the rest of the world at 900/1800 Mhz. So you'll have to find out your phone specs, but google should help there.

I only saw one comment, Alarconte, so don't worry.

I'm getting fed up with the captchas, too, so I've disabled it for now. If I get a flurry of spam, I'll re-enable it.

I'd back-up your game, try importing it into AGS 3.01 and see if the problem still occurs there.

I vote for:

#2 Child finds the monster. Nice instruments and great atmosphere.

#5 Under the bed. Even better atmosphere but instruments are a bit naff.


#6 was also good but didn't really have the "under the bed"-ness to me. #4 sounded like the intro to a Meatloaf song (not bad, but not in theme) and #1 messed with my brain on headphones, all that panning. I got a headache

You're all obviously very perceptive and clever people.

You all know how much I hate to promote my blog but I thought people would appreciate to know that the first reviews of some AGS games, done by super-walthrough-maker Leon are now heading up on the AGS blog. Head over and check out his opinion.

The ability to alpha blend (i can imagine this would be a pain to code, but then my knowledge of C or C++ is infinitecimal so who knows) this would be great for ghosts etc obviously

It can do this already.

Move to the UK where 16 isn't underage.

By the way, googlepages.com gives you 100M and are unlikely to disappear in the near to mid term...

Looks like subspark converted it for AGS 2.8 (which became 3.0 later):

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=31258.msg401198;topicseen#msg401198

Just to let you know: I bought a USB-to-IDE adapter cable from ebay for £2 (that's about $200 ) to connect my old laptop's hard drive up to be able to recover files, so consider that cheaper-than-enclosure option.

It's not that women on the internet are all robots in disguise, its women in general....

There are many copies, but only 12 models