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Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? I'll be Over You - Toto

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Black Moon - Emerson Lake and Palmer

Re: Answers & Questions Q: From Highlights of the Advertising Executive Dictatorship: A: We're hiring network executives, not humans!

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Dirty Deeds (Done Dirt Cheap) - AC/DC

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Why are shaking your videophone? A: ShadowFAX - when you only want your evil thoughts going to the right nocturnal avenger!

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Can't Take it With You - The Alan Parsons Project

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Describe the ideal punishment for disobedient sixth graders. A: Masked wrestlers from the particle physics department!

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? What Goes Up - The Alan Parsons Project

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Why do you want me to stop punning? It's the best aspect of my sense of humour! A: A JDAM made out of bottle caps.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? The Sandman - America

Re: Answers & Questions Q: But Vista is the wave of the future! A: Because I like my machines to actually work.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: How do you make Moses REALLY mad? A: World of Boarcraft.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Everything You Want - Vertical Horizon

Re: Answers & Questions Q: You've joined a chat club? A: The fusion powered jock strap!

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What was the name of that de-constructionist sex comedy based on the Clinton presidency? A: 1870's Humour.

Re: Clever Future Weapons Robots, at this time, cannot be expected to recognize friendly troops from enemies, let alone noncombatants. Reasonably, current models would not be robots, but drones, under the control of a behind-the-lines operators. Hackers would be a danger, but modern encryption is pretty damn good. As for unscrupulous regimes, how would it be any different from what China did in Tiananmen Square? You don't need high-tech to make an atrocity.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: So, you're saying I shouldn't feed her in preference to my turnip flambe? A: But this expansion renders all previous expansions obsolete!

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Prove to me that you can spell. A: Efficiency, thy name is not here.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? The end music to Mass Effect.

Re: Where to send the scientific expedition Why not aim close, Alpha Centauri? You'd get some interesting information about the dynamics of both close binarys (Alpha A and Alpha and distant binarys (Proxima), and it would grant some interesting insights into solar system formation (Alpha A is a twin to Sol - they have the same spectral signature - so differences between the Solar System and the Alpha Centauri A System could tell us a lot. Of course, which differences are from being a binary and which were 'natural' variations might take a lot of work).

Re: Clever Future Weapons Someone's been reading the Strontium Dog strip from 2000AD, I suspect! Another one, from the Rogue Trooper strip - Bio-Wire. Living barbed wire that attacks and consumes anyone who tries to cross it, and regrows damaged portions in minutes - useful for area denial.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: No, I said it was a low grade pass. Pass. A: Vapourisers to "Humiliate".

Re: Answers & Questions Q: How do you describe a dogfight where both participants use laughing gas? A: No, that was not a win.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Just finished Season Two of Deadwood. Next week Season 3.