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Are we also talking about extra fields for the games DB? Here's what I'd like to see:

External reviews section
Links to hints/tips and CGA threads
List of AGS Award nominations as well as wins

Also, is there any possibility of on game upload that AGS actually stores a single low-quality low-res copy of the screenshot as a backup (one that onyl takes a few K) just since there are so many broken screenshots...

You have a virus called "Windows". Remove it and install Ubuntu.

So, as grammar follows usage, in a few years the comma will be replaced by the words "innit" or "y'know"

I hear you, and you don't even need to focus on the bible. Just take a Christian, a Hindu and a Muslim. Their beliefs will differ so much it's obvious none of them are even close to the truth. I understood that when I was around ten years old and it's sad so many grown ups don't.

By that token, if I disagree with you that automatically invalidates both YOURS and MY beliefs...

Vince, are you saying kids should study evolution with a closed mind, carelessly and uncritically?

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Another thing I've noticed lately is the use of "try and do something". I've seen this even in professional writing. Surely it must be incorrect to use anything but the infinitive marker "try to do something". It seems like something that began in spoken English and then made its way into even more formal texts.

I think you're right. I guess its a bit like those who say "It must of been him..." when they mean "It must have been him..."

Hmmm, time to give you your own medicine Nacho, i.e. take a tiny part of what you said and twist it to make an entirely different point...

the words in the bible were inspired by God

Glad you think so

What matters what "Jesus" said? St. Paul rewrote it all to make it more suitable for greco-roman cultures...

Well, once again Nacho misses the point (or consturcts a Strawman, but lets be charitable). Khrismuc (how do you pronounce that, anyway: it always sounds insulting if I say it out loud?!)  said Jesus's biography says that your neighbour is only people of a certain tribe, by which I assume he means the gospels in the Bible. However, the parable of the good samaritan in those books (no matter who wrote them or changed them) implies that everyone is your neighbour, so I was pointing out his error.

Of course, Occam's Razor menas that the simplest answer is usually the right one. Many people might think that an all powerful being making everything is somewhat simpler in concept than extrapolating back billions of years through time and trying to understand quarks, leptons, hadrons,  superstrings and dark matter.

Maybe I don't like Jesus because there are certain passages in his biography suggesting that by neighbors, he was only referring to fellow tribesmen.

Err, that's the exact opposite of what it says...

SSH: Put "bath tube" in google, and go to "images". Number of entries=Aprox. a million.

And then note what  it says "Did you mean: bathtub"

Tub: container
Tube: hollow cylinder

What a difference a letter makes!

As for you trying to corrupt the "Golden Rule" which nearly every ethical code adheres to, I think you're just being facetious.

And as for the flight manual, I'd trust the manual, not the people who claim to have read it. Funnily enough part of my full-time job is making sure that our manuals are correct and unambiguous. And I can tell you one thing for sure: our manuals may have things that are confusing or out-of-date but I can assure you you wouldn't be able to install our software without one.

Who claimed that, exactly? Have you a quote? It's certainly not something I've ever claimed. Christians are not better behaved or more honest although they should strive to be. They are not cleverer. They are not superior. They are just saved.

And a human being of infinite goodness who was born in the middle of the Amazon and had no chance to know "God" not?

I don't beleive that there are any people of perfect goodness. So we might as well consider the hypotheitical scenario that all the "dark matter" turned out to be blancmange... would that undermine your faith in the Big Bang?

You haven't still answered to my question... If your kids are not what you expected to be... would you kill them drowning in the bath tube? As I guess your answer is no... How can you follow a being who did it?

Errr. First of all, I didn't realise that you'd asked ME that. Second, I'm not sure what a bath tube is. And last, are you saying that God tried to drown Jesus in the bath?

Mr. Andrew... Are you aware that if you were born 1,000 years ago you would probably deffending things like "earth was created around 10,000 years ago in 6 days", with the same conviction and devotion that the one you use now to deffend the "we are saved" message? How can you be so convinced about one specific part of the message in particular when some other things (things which convinced people as much as you are now) have prooven to be incorrect?

I'm not sure that the "young earth" has been proven to be incorrect: an all-powerful God would be capable of making the universe in any state he likes, including the exact state of the universe yersterday or 10000 years ago or 10 billion years ago. I'm not advocating any of those possibilities necessarily, but lets illustrate the point:

I see a car travelling at 120kph along the AP-7 towards Benidorm. If I extrapolate back from its current motion, I conclude that the car came from Barcelona. However, the car may have started in
Valencia or Castellón. You keep coming back to saying science has proved things but then you refuse to argue about these statements that underpin your arguments.

Also, I'm not sure which branch of theology Jim follows, etc. but all this "sins of the fathers" and "paying for the sins in the last moments" is not what I believe.

Consider car insurance, for example. If I've been a crap driver and crashed my car once a week, no insurance company is going to offer me cover and I'll have to stop driving. Fine, that's the way the market works.

Actually, the way it works is that lots of people drive uninsured and sucks to have an accident with them. Some suggest that 3rd-party insurance should be compulsorarily included with gasoline to avoid this problem. Not sure how that fits in with the healthcare analogy.

* what's the verb of relieving a running nose? Is there a better word than "running nose", describing it as condition? It's quite strange word with adjective. In other languages, it's usually only one word.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runny_nose

Rhinorrhea, apparently

So, you finally admitt that being a believer is undistinguishable from a non believer? Thanks. That's what I wanted to hear from the beginning. (Anyway my belief doesn't need to trust that the couples of all the animals fit in a boat... Only that big masses create singularities)

Since you clearly don't understand the physics, how can you judge the relatrive liklihood of these two things?

So, basically we've seen that being a believer doesn't make you superior, smarter or better than a non believer, something they have claimed for centuries.

Who claimed that, exactly? Have you a quote? It's certainly not something I've ever claimed. Christians are not better behaved or more honest although they should strive to be. They are not cleverer. They are not superior. They are just saved.

So Nacho seems to be freely admitting he's not intelligent enough to debate the big bang and yet he believes it anyway because some special people wearing white lab coats tell him its true.

Substitute "Big bang" for "God" and "white lab coats" for "preist's robes" and its hard to spot the difference...

All evasives. Okay, gotcha, when a "believer" is asked about their beliefs, they evade the debate.

Says the guy who when I pointed out problems with Big Bang and showed that it wasn't proof said nothing more than "I believe in Big Bang". Who's the one with blind faith now, eh?

One problem with free-at-the point-of-use systems like the NHS is that it encourages Munchausens and lonely people can use doctors and nurses as a social crutch. It also means that people tend to exercise less common sense and call out doctors for colds, etc. which can also lead to overuse of antibiotics, etc. Of course, people wanting their money's worth if they have to pay to see a doctor also leads to over-use of antibiotics, too.

But it has prooved that the Big Bang created everything.

Then why do some scientists not beilive in the Big Bang? There are many other theories, even if you exclude those involving supernatural beings.

The whole big bang theory is based on extrapolating backwards from the current observed state of the universe by relativistic physics. There are some pretty big assumptions in this:

1) The rules of physics have been constant forever
2) Our current knowledge of the rules is complete enough to make such an enourmous extrapolation

It may be that these assumptions are valid, but if they are not, we may be trying to extrapolate the starting position of one of those magent/ball "perpetual motion" office toys from its current state through billions of years of chaotic interactions. The slightest miscalculation would lead to a totally invalid answer.

I invented them in the same way that Al Gore invented the internet

The Equalizer
Protagonist (Edward Woodward) absolutely rocks, with using gun when needed, getting hit by bullets and being really clever overall.

Edward Woodward also has the disctinction of being in two of my favourite jokes ever...