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Then I guess it's OK for offshore businesses  and multinationals with *complicated* ownership and offices abroad and Cayman banks accounts and all that staff my accountants and lawyers have tried to explain to me.

[CP shuffles calendar to find a suitable date for an important donation in cash for the kingdom]

[CP is buying land now that the inflation is still low and quickly builds numerous luxurious but environment friendly villas and museums since she lost the big contracts for ministries, ports, bridges and highways...]

//If you think about search engines and their policies (the more you pay the higher you are placed), about inaccessibility of certain sites in certain countries etc, the end of neutrality has begun.

Yes, I use the internet for my daily intake of information, I use it to communicate although it seems I'm monitored, I use it as a pastime, an education tool and as an ironing and washing up avoiding strategy. If things go bad I'll lose my feeling (or illusion?)of independence but I won't get depressed about it.

Authorities may buy one tool of communication, but another one takes its place. When they denied access to handwritten scrolls, printed books were invented that made information widely available. When the authorities intercepted "propagandistic" printed material, the radio was invented, the telephone, the television, the internet etc etc...

People always find a way.//

Ah atlast Ive just signed of the building plans and exclusive contract with our humble king. And now I will build and overcharge everybody for there cabanas on the island and then buy my own secret little island...

I believe in healthy financial concurrence and I will not go to my friends in the press to denounce the contract our mighty King signed with you as a result of his date with Ms Hayek, although I was the one he had promised to give the constructions rights.
So, I will mind my business, invest in important researchÃ,  and build modern, efficient, environment friendly buildings for the rich and famous so I will make friends among them . Just in case, you know.

If, I said "if", your buildings are found to be of low standards because of bad quality materials and negligent work, if your workers are on strikes all the time and your company gets involved in corruption scandals, your company shares go downhill and your family makes the front pages for DUI - news I will have the sad duty to set up tell some journalists and let the public know- then the mighty King might reconsider and giveÃ,  the damn contracts to me.

CP
Constructions Company CEO

But you can't getÃ,  the buildings diagram because it is heavily guarded by me!( and some clones (not female, but male clones made by me for the army of WWCR (btw WWCR stands for We Will Crush Rebellion))).

*cough* *cough*
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CP
Constructions Company CEO

I don't need to "get" the diagram, you know...Ã, 

PS. If you want to crash rebellion you should pay more attention to political/financial networks...Just a reminder....Ã, 

they are now safe in one of the secret WWCR military base

[hmmm, if I sell the buildings diagram to the rebels and then invite some government people to a philanthropical gala and sell them the information that the rebels "may" want to get in the base and tehn lock my moneyt at some Cayman bank and wait until we have some battles and demolishing of buildings and then sign contracts to build new buildings...      ]

CP
Constructions Company CEO

Not even I that disagree so much with Ã, this particular american governor can believe human beings can keep their mouth shut for something so "exciting" and that professionals and analysts that are so well trained would miss something so big, especially when their primary job is to keep an eye on those groups exactly. Don't forget the journalists. Or even people that wouldn't miss the godsent chance to train their financial/political opponent in the mud for lesser mistakes.

Maybe, maybe, some people in agencies, the government or the pentagon had heard about it and profited from it, but I can't believe it was coordinated. Politics is a lonely game. There are allies, not collegues; allies tend to change sides according to the wind's direction. You never trust your allies with secrets that serious.

I think it was a hit and a very well "exploited" one.

PS. About the missiles, the detonations etc. Could it be about defense? I mean, what were the army and other security corps doing during the hit? Drinking their cafe latte? I don't think so. Ã, I think the pentagon's mayhem and similar situatiyons were indications of defense.

Of course, this all ideas must go into a constitution, which will have to be voted, and all that stuff...

We'd need to buy some major newspapers and channels first, to show the way to voters. 

And where is my swiming pool mansion, cp? Your building subcontractors are lazy and shiftless.

I said something about favourable laws, remember?

(Until then, we'll have strikes and the like, so no other company can take my place...)

Let's see...
So far we've got a bunch of ministries, houses for ministers, blocks of flats for the working people...pubs, clubs, stadiums, public services, schools, hospitals, museums, docks, shops, malls...

and I have signed exclusive contacts to build all of them...

I don't want a position in the government, but I'll sponsor it.

Not that I'm buying you or something, but in return you might like to pass some laws favouring my constructions company while I'm looking for contracts...

CP
Constructions company CEO

Erm.. what IS it? I'm not clicking on a link that says "computer error haiku"!

Was supposed to be a joke thing, some haiku about computer errors I found online...

this topic is quite bad
You do not say what you think
you just blindly post

When I face an error
I react less elegantly
I was left speechless   

Computer error haiku

Nice site! The GUI/global navigation is a nice touch.

The site easy to navigate and I liked the GUI, ermm,  the menu buttons. 

Still waiting for the game...

Minesweeper is a boredom killer, MahJong is a boredom killer, TV series are boredom killers...

AGS is a full time job.

The reason you are scared is because the media is scared

I'm not scared of the bird flu as it is now, but of what it may be if some local authority decides to keep possible mutations secret until it gets out of proportion so they blame someone else and they don't lose votes.
I'm scared of the farmers and villagers that have no access (or the habit to go) to hospitals, so the virus can work unnoticed.

But I'm not freaked out yet.

As for the media, they seem to have forgotten about it and be less vigilant now that the virus has travelled far enough to cause worries.

Although chocolate eggs are in fashion these years, here we' re having real ones, hardboiled and painted red (preferably), but...

it's next week.


(I don't want to think about bird flu right now)

KristjanMan: Yes, I have the rest of the main storyline planned out.
Hammerite: The picture of Smailholm was just an in-joke.Ã,  But you are right about the BJ games being serious with humor.Ã,  My intent wasn't to make comedy adventures with these, but also not to have a super serious melodramatic story either, I try to balance the dark with humor.
nihilyst: You're on the right track about the question.Ã,  It could have been asked from Case 1, really.Ã,  And you're also on the right track thinking there's something up with Percy.
If you sit down and think about things that seem a little "odd" in this game (like the police letting Ben in so easily) as well as stuff in other games, you might get the impression that it's not all coincidence...

Dear AGSers

Grundislav will not be able to give you hints and answer your questions for a while, he's under lock and key in his room (without lock suckers but with a new computer and stacks of dry food and water), working overtime on cases 6-10 of 10.

I apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Thank you for your patience.

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3. It's hard to believe that the japanese police let a young "paranormal investigator" mess with their investigation. It's just a game, ok, but we could be given a rational explanation.

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Spoiler

They didn't exactly "let" him do so...Ã, 

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