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Of course, such clauses may be void under unfair contract legislation. However, you can't resell UK train tickets on ebay, as I found out when GNER emailled me and pointed out the National Conditions of Carriage...  It's a shame as I now have no good way of advertising an Edinburgh London return train ticket for next Thursday/ following Wednesday. 

And yet, you do go to some wrong extremes. Wasn't my "own little skrimish" started when Arabs refused to accept the UN's diplomatic solution of the conflict back in 1947?

No

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/politicspast/story/0,9061,961081,00.html

1) But the main item of the fight was a pasive subject, Mandela, in a prison. Anyway, when the claims are so obvious, terrorism can sometimes not be an obstacle, but it never helps.

I'm sorry, but the truth is that terror can work. Nelson Mandela says in his book that it was a necessary part of the struggle in South Africa. How did the state of Israel come to be founded? MI5 papers have been released showing that there were plots to assasinate British ministers in the 40s.

I wish it wasn't true, but it is.

3) The invasion of Poland was not spontaneous, but it can never be an answer to a opression to the polish to the germans.  If we talk about german opressed we should ask the French and the British. In any case, my example was more related of what an evil state can archieve whereas the civilizate part lose times in useless peace conversations.

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4) People is allways free to choose... If a person choose to hot three planes against civilians because he thinks that a country is provocating him, I think he is evil. I think that the behave of the Central Government in Spain has been quite provocative against Valencia, Catalunya, Pays Basque... But it haven't passed thru my mind to put a bomb in Vallecas... not for any sensible mind. Bin Laden is not fighting against the US for their behaviour in Middle East, that probably gives a fuck to him. He is earnign money by Saudi Arabia for it, and it helps it business of weapon and drug dealing. Don't trust the Arab propaganda.quote]
4) People is allways free to choose... If a person choose to hot three planes against civilians because he thinks that a country is provocating him, I think he is evil. I think that the behave of the Central Government in Spain has been quite provocative against Valencia, Catalunya, Pays Basque... But it haven't passed thru my mind to put a bomb in Vallecas... not for any sensible mind. Bin Laden is not fighting against the US for their behaviour in Middle East, that probably gives a fuck to him. He is earnign money by Saudi Arabia for it, and it helps it business of weapon and drug dealing. Don't trust the Arab propaganda.
The Northern Ireland situation is much better than it has been in the 70s and 80s and that is thanks to peace dialogs. South Africa did eventually come round, mainly peacefully. Independence in South America and Africa have cases of both mainly peaceful and mainly bloody change.

4) People is allways free to choose... If a person choose to hot three planes against civilians because he thinks that a country is provocating him, I think he is evil. I think that the behave of the Central Government in Spain has been quite provocative against Valencia, Catalunya, Pays Basque... But it haven't passed thru my mind to put a bomb in Vallecas... not for any sensible mind. Bin Laden is not fighting against the US for their behaviour in Middle East, that probably gives a fuck to him. He is earnign money by Saudi Arabia for it, and it helps it business of weapon and drug dealing. Don't trust the Arab propaganda.

But many of his fighters beleive that he is, and that is in some ways more important than his real motives

5) Who gives you the divine inspiration too say that the peacifist option is more mature than the belicist? Do you have a magic cristal ball or something?

Did I say that? Who's making up things now? I said maturity was doing as much as possible to avoid violence. Hitler abused the trust of Chamberlain but then the Cuban missile crisis ultimately went the other way.

By the way, the word is "belligerent", not "belicist" 

I have expressed three examples of what a neutral attitude against the "aggressives" does. Put here an example of a a big conflict with terrorist who has happily ended with conversations and we will discuss on it. I've enjoyed this thread because both sides have expressed their opinions and how they would sollute the problem. Now all finishes with a "You're an inmature group of childish guys who just do not think of the future consequences!"? You are so much better than that, Andrew. 

I was calling the terrorists childish, not anyone posting here.  Anyway, the solution, I think, is to offer genuine hope to those who believe they are being oppressed. Would it be wrong to show the children of palestine hope that they wont be forced out of their homes by an Isreali army of soldiers and wall-builders and hope that they won't be killed in retribution for the action of a desperate man who happened to have the same ethnic background as them. Would it be wrong for the people of Chechnya to have a hope that one day they can rule themselves and not have politicians forced on them by Russia, even though some of the people who say they want that disgustingly killed a bunch of innocent children.

And as for terrosit leaders benefitting from terrorism, I think it is arms manufacturers who benefit most from all this.

Umm, I think you'll find that there was plenty of terrorism going on as part of the South African struggle for freedom. Nelson Mandela says so himself in "Long Walk to Freedom".

Also, to suggest that there are no childish adults in the world is ridiculous. Look at Road Rage, divorce rates, abuse statistics...

Also, to suggest that Hitler's invasion of Poland was spontaneous is a gross over-simplification. There are so many more factors to it, not least the resentment created by the Versailles treaty... whihc was a childish act of punishement by the Allies that never achived any monetary benefit for themsleves and increased hatred in the Germans.

And Bin Laden didn't come out of a vacuum. CAn you deny that unquestioning American support of the state of Isreal, and the US attempts to prop-up and overthrow various middle-east rulers was not at all provocatory?

The difference between a chldish and a mature attitude is that the childish always lashes out in response to a percieved hurt and will do everything to get retribution. The mature considers all the consequences and will do everything to avoid escalation.

FOr example, the movie "The Sum of all fears" has its faults, but the point is that mutual destruction can only be avoided by one person NOT retaliating.


Also, has anyone spotted the irony of the Isrealies building a wall around their own ghetto of palestinians?

I think there were also TV episodes called the Four Doctors and the Five Doctors.

Nice sprites, but Peter Davidson had shorter hair and Tom Baker's was darker...

Will K-9 feature? ANd the sonic screwdriver?

* SSH  laughs at all the sad guys offended because dart didn't draw them

I've just finished reading Mila 18 by Leon Uris. There, despite the worse oppression imaginable in the Warsaw ghetto, the Jews did not fight until the very last moment. Even then, they only attacked the forces sent into the ghetto, they didn't go looking for a fight. That is true courage.

Violence leads to violence and it is the stronger and better person who is the first one to lay down arms.

In some ways, terrorists are like childish. They believe that the world revolves around them and their concerns and they will hit anyone who gets in their way if they want something, and if they can't achieve that they can get very frustrated, upset and self-destructive. Obviously if a child is doing something seriously destructive, you have to stop the immediate threat, but being cruel to them as a punishemnt only leads to them learning that cruelty is the way to deal with things that you don't like.

*cough*
http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?topic=9942.0
*cough*

Pierce's Bond films have always been going downhill, but all of the first three were good.

James Cameron gave the Bond franchise a kick up the bottom when he came up with True Lies. Goldeneye was a great movie as it had to compete with that. But when was the last non-Bond decent spy action movie? XXX maybe... Bourne? These movies still lose out to a TV series in terms of excitement and I think its "24" that the Bond producers should be taking notes on.

And who should be the next bond? Bloom, Gruyffd and Farrell are too skinny, Bale and Owen are too bulky,  Jackman and Dougray Scott both look awkward in posh suits, Eric Bana possibly, but I think Ewan McGregor has the suaveness required better than any of the others. I actually think that Robbie Williams could do a good job, too.

Dalton (OHMSS was awesome!)

OHMSS was Lazenby

Dalton did Living Daylights and Licence to Kill

The real question is, which was the best bond song?

IMHO:

1. Goldeneye (duh-du-du-du na-naaah)
2. We have all the time in the world (OHMSS)
3. Goldfinger
4. Live and let die
5. Tomorrow never dies
6. The Man with the Golden Gun
7. The World is Not Enough

* SSH  wants to play the game "Price of Persia" mentioned in the non-linearity article

sounds like a game which exposes an American plot to invade Iran...

I was walking through the Edinburgh Botanic gardens with my daughter while they were filimg this there and saw various actors in costume, but dunno if any of them were stars as I was running after the wee girl at the time.

Also, when I was 10, I was on TV (Grampain's North Tonight news) showing a trick to Paul Daniels for about 3 seconds. I was also interviewed on Radio Aberdeen at the time.

Oh, and in 30 years time, my daughter will be elected president of the known universe.

Please invite andrew.maccormack93@telco4u.net, someone, anyone?

First person to invite me to gmail recieves a free line of AGS script !!!11! 

Maybe the RON forum would be the place to ask?

As long as you move in a straight line, my sscript (that strazer already rerferenced)  in http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=14871 shoudl do the trick for you. This has been used successfulyl in the FoY demo.

Wasn't there some suggestion of having a wiki for the dictionary. That would probably work well for any kind of history, too. In fact, why not have it all as one glorious whole...?

* SSH  changes DGMacphee's entry to "Daniel sucks, LOL!!1! pwned!!!one!"

Well, anything that makes icon-based dialogs easier is fine with me

You don't get much more propogandist than this:

No, but what you suggested could be implemented with what I said. I just generalised and abstracted...