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I'm pretty sure he was speaking figuratively. Relax.

Hey, I hadn't noticed that all the signs were written in the same hand. Just goes to show that those signs, although terrible, are clearly the work of a tiny extremist minority. Well spotted and a good point Domo Kun.

Yeah, i saw the IT crowd. I really enjoyed it. Needs a bit of tweaking, but it's a pretty damn good start for a new series. Where have I seen that guy that plays their shouty boss before?

Whoa, chill dude. I know what I said might have been pretty obvious, but sometimes It's worth saying it anyway just so we don't forget, you know? I never even thought you suggested otherwise, I just posted that as sort of a general reminder, and as my own general opinion.

Don't worry. Half the time players just use the voice chat menu (press X, C, and V,) just to add to the effect, with "Move up!" being popular simply because it's a good all purpose thing to shout mid battle. DoD is tough, but you'll soon get used to the in and outs of it. Dying a lot is all part of the game anyway. Dods main difference from CS is the fact half the time you'll get shot, blown up, and cut down by friendly fire all the time, but it is all part of the fun. I recommend you stick the OC clan server in your favourites. It's a nice, friendly, UK based server,. Don't expect me on for at least 6 months though - my college connection suxers. (They also have CS and Goldeneye: Source servers - maybe see you there sometime!)

I think they're just angry, and unfortunetly people say and do stupid things when they are angry. We all do it from time to time, have either done or said something to someone which we regret later. These people are angry, prehaps justly so, so some of them end up doing or saying something stupid, like torching embassys or wishing for more terrorist attacks. It's the fragility of the human condition (at the risk of being overly sentimental.) Still, it's worth keeping in mind that these people are only a tiny minority among the entire, mostly rational non-embassy torching Islamic population, and are not representative of the Islamic faith. To say they are would be like saying George Bush represents all Christians.

One anime that really surprised me was Patlabor. I bought Patlabor 1 & 2 on the basis that I was gettingsome nice stompy-robot action. What I wasn't expecting was the fantastic techno political thriller that the stompy robot action was just a small part of. Patlabor 2 especially is a particulary gripping and philsophical film about the morality of war set amongst a major crisis in Japanese politics as the country slowly spirals towards civil war. Excellent stuff.

I'm not sure, but i think it will probably take at least a couple of hours on 512kb. You can always just pause the update and continue later if need be.

I heard these should be up within a couple of weeks. As for the whole accidental T-killing thing, I kind of like that whole thing of having to double check your targets before opening fire. It makes it sort of more realistic in a way. Although it is annoying accidentally shooting a team mate in the face after meeting him around a shadowy corner.

Ninty have got lots of confrences lined up for the near future, so hopefull they will give us something then.

Hey has anyone seen the new SAS and Leet krew models. I must say I'm reasonably impressed. The Leet model rather nicely dapper - like some kind of evil James Bond. The SAS model just looks damn cool. I'm a big Hunk fan (from Resi) and it's like my wildest fantasy came true.

Wowsers, that's a pretty violent reaction to a pretty stupid point of view (assuming he's not joking). I think my faith in humanity just jumped 20 points.

Let's not pay too much attention to this guy - he is the enemy after all. All the companies will be fuming toxic PR clouds like a volcanic range (with Reggie actually spitting fire), so I think we can all look forward to this kind of cheap, baseless fanboy esque bitch slapping for many months yet.

I just don't understand what your argument is. When you kept pointing the gunmen out I simply, through some crazy cognitation process, assumed you were trying to make some kind of point.

Shamelessly tagging on the back of Wesley the Sausagelover's latest best seller: Greenock - Why You Should Run Like The Plague by Mr X (so they don't find me).

Why do keep insinuating that Muslims are involved in violent protest then? It's like your standing next too a huge crowd of peacful protestors, but keep using the one pistol-whipping idiot at the back as evidence of extreme violence in the protest.

Gimmie the name of one person who got shot. Go on. One. Jack is right, just because a couple of nutters wave a couple of AKs for the camera doesn't make the thousands of protesting muslims across Europe, the Middle east and the rest of the world, violent, dangerous or over reacting. I'm beginning to feel that this whole incident has been quite badly reported. Everyone seems to be going around with images of burning Danish flags and AK47s being waggled in front of EU missionary buildings in their heads. Where are the pictures of the protestors in London, Paris or Berlin? Furthermore, if Muslims want go out and protest aginst something they find offensive, they can. They do have freedom of speech as well, regardless of whether or not you think they may be over reacting.

Greenock, Scotland, although I am English. Wasn't there a blog-map or something around here about this?

The problem with that argument is, simply because you are an atheist, you seem to assume you are right and I am wrong.

What sodding machine gun? The worst that's happend so far is when a large group of Muslim men stormed the Danish embassy in Indonesia, threw some eggs and tore down the flag in the lobby. They left when the embassador came down, talked with them, and apologised for the cartoons. It's hardly an orgy of mega-violence.

Whoa, hold on there. At what point have they started attacking embassys? There have been a number of demonstrations outside European embassys acroos the world, but so far everyone seems to have resisted the temptation to start smuggling grenades into the ammbasadors fabulous cocktail party disguised as large Ferre Roche. So far all of them have been fairly peaceful, democratic, civilised protests. Additionally I have just heard a description of the cartoon, depicting Mohammad with his turban shaped like a bomb, and since it's fundemental Islamic belief that absolutely no one should make pictures of Mohammad anyway (even in places of worship) you would have to be a total idiot not to expect such a reaction. It is insensitive, it is inflamatory, and it is an abuse of freedom of speech. I hope the British newspapers see sense and decide not to follow their European counterparts in printing it.

From what I hear, the cartoons were pretty crass, portraying Mohammad as a suicide bomber. Lets not forget that the vast majority of Muslims aren't actually insidious underground members for an evil and misleading terroist group. I personally hate the constant accusation that religion is the single greatest cause of people to kill, argue and be intolerant ot each other. Religion is something which helps bring structure and society into peoples lives. I'm willing to bet good hard cash that if there was no such thing as religion, we'd all quite easily find a different excuse for being bitchy to each other.

Will anyone be getting Howls Moving Castle? I loved it. When it was in the cinema I went to see it twice. What I love is that you can watch it on two different levels. You can really think about the themes and characterisation, or you can simply sit back and enjoy the spectacle. I saw the English version, and it was another excellent dubbing job from Disney studios. Billy Crystal was surprisingly good as Calcifer. I bought another one of Dianne Wynne Jones novels after seeing it, but haven't got round to reading it yet. Must do that soon...

This sort of thing has been used in various PC applications, but voice recognition technology en masse still seems to struggle with such vagaries as non-American accents. Who knows, maybe they've cracked it. Maybe I'll finally soon be able to buy a Merc with a voice command system that will switch on Radio 2 and show me the way to Ipswich when I tell it, and not serve me firery gin & tomato pancakes before demanding I make a left turn onto a space shuttle landing strip instead.

WWE? Damn, haven't seen that in a while. I used to enjoy it when it was on Channal 4 - nice, shallow, brainless entertainment to chill with for a rainy Sunday afternoon. Lacking Sky though I haven't seen it in years. Damn you Rupert Murdoch!