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Posted in: Some ideas for jk4?
  toms
07-02-2006, 12:43 PM
#37
Well, as this is all hypothetical i'll throw my thoughts into the ring. Story wise, Kyle and the Jk universe is pretty much played out. You could keep on adding stuff to the end, but it gets silly as the remnant has been crushed so many times, the...  [Read More]
Posted in: Boycott the World Cup Prostitution
  toms
07-06-2006, 10:46 AM
#22
Indeed. I'd think that having legal brothels would severley drive down the price that any illegal, forced prostitutes could demand... meaning it wouldn't be as profitable for the men who would be transportng them and forcing them to work....  [Read More]
Posted in: Boycott the World Cup Prostitution
  toms
06-29-2006, 10:21 AM
#19
I don't think the world cup sponsors or organisers can be blamed for criminal gangs increasing their activity because they have more potential customers. The governments and police probably need to do more to crack down on this kind of thing, but i...  [Read More]
Posted in: Texas Taliban?
  toms
06-12-2006, 3:05 PM
#10
It means maybe god has abandoned the US and is giving your lands to the mexican "aliens". If you read the bible he was quite partial to wiping out whole civilisations that offended him or lapsed in their devotion.. and surplanting them with...  [Read More]
Posted in: Texas Taliban?
  toms
06-12-2006, 11:04 AM
#7
Insurrection. Besides myself, does anyone else know what this means? Star trek film? "Lord, your words tell us there's a sign that this nation is under a curse, when the alien who lives among us grows higher and higher and we grow lower and l...  [Read More]
Posted in: Texas Taliban?
  toms
06-07-2006, 7:15 AM
#4
As i've said on numerous threads before, and won't go into detail about here as the first post pretty much demonstates it, its always amazed me that the people who most vehmently attack religious governments in the middle east seem to be the people w...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Da Vinci Code
  toms
06-08-2006, 8:31 AM
#37
When i talked about the controversial parts of the novel i wasn't talking about the prioryof scion or the bloodline or any of that hokum. I was tlakingabout the fact i have numerous well respected history professors (as far as i can tell) write artic...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Da Vinci Code
  toms
06-07-2006, 7:32 AM
#33
You are posting from a library? Thats not fair!! I haven't even been in one for years.. I'd just like to point out that dan brown's book has had no effect whatsoever on my beliefs* about mary magdalene, jesus, the "truth" of the bible or t...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Da Vinci Code
  toms
06-06-2006, 10:44 AM
#27
I noted that in the movie they inserted a line about how the Priory of Sion had been discredited as a hoax, and then added a "well, thats what they would want you to think". It was a nice way to get around the fact that one of the central e...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Da Vinci Code
  toms
06-05-2006, 9:14 AM
#21
I don't see how anyone can believe some of the things that Brown writes about. Especially on the topics of The Council of Nycea (spelling?), Opus Dei, The Priory of Sion, The Knight Templar's, etc.... He has practically no factual base for any of hi...  [Read More]
Posted in: DHS Gives Finger to NYC & D.C.
  toms
06-05-2006, 7:36 AM
#18
Is there a story here? sounds like a lot of politicians trying to appeal to their local electorate by complaining about a non issue to me. The department of Homeland Security is a sick joke... but saying that it has "declared war on New York&q...  [Read More]
Posted in: [RANT] Galloway: Blair's death would be justified
  toms
06-02-2006, 7:19 AM
#23
Untill the report comes out I'm not going to condemn them, you are innocent untill proven guilty in this country. Though I know they probebly did do it it I'm not going to start putting noose's around their necks just yet. Innocent until proven guil...  [Read More]
Posted in: [RANT] Galloway: Blair's death would be justified
  toms
06-01-2006, 7:27 AM
#20
Are leaders morally acountable for actions carrie dout in their name, or resulting from their decisions - even if they didn't personally authorise, or even want them? Like those US soldiers who masacred 26 odd Iraqi civilians including grandparents...  [Read More]
Posted in: [RANT] Galloway: Blair's death would be justified
  toms
05-31-2006, 9:09 AM
#17
Darn those democratic elections that keep producing results we don't like.... ;) I thought we got past calling people "leftist commie whackos" back in the early nineties.. [/timewarp] Galloway is a bit of an egomaniac idiot sometimes.. bu...  [Read More]
Posted in: "...To create a database of every call ever made..."
  toms
06-29-2006, 10:40 AM
#5
Newbie guide to see if AT&T is tracking your internet usage and sending the data to the NSA: http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/#1510938 ;)...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Road to Guantanamo
  toms
05-23-2006, 10:08 AM
#91
People wonder why conservatives in this country often tell some liberals to move to Canada.....I know Toms is in the UK but there are alot of people that share similar feelings here. I'm not at all surprised that your response to people who question...  [Read More]
Posted in: Judge Alito
  toms
06-01-2006, 1:38 PM
#41
The Supreme Court scaled back protections for government workers who blow the whistle on official misconduct Tuesday, a 5-4 decision in which new Justice Samuel Alito cast the deciding vote [...] The ruling was perhaps the clearest sign yet of the Su...  [Read More]
Posted in: Evolution - and how we know it's right
  toms
07-01-2006, 9:33 PM
#133
http://www.framestore-cfc.com/commercials/guinness_noitulove/amv_gune339_050_qt.mov seems to explain it quite well. ;) But you might have to play it backwards....  [Read More]
Posted in: Evolution - and how we know it's right
  toms
06-15-2006, 11:17 AM
#124
Another discovery showing the way eveolution works in greater detail. These seem to be coming pretty fast right now, with lots of major breakthroughs in filling in the blanks about how evolution works. Butterfly effect: New species hatches in lab...  [Read More]
Posted in: New Jedi Knight Game Rumors
  toms
07-07-2006, 1:16 PM
#189
Nah.. i wasn't saying they should make JK like Ep3... more that they should farm off the full on saber battle game into EP3 style games... then make the JK games less flippy and slightly slower paced. (i heard it was quite good... like a poor man's n...  [Read More]
Posted in: New Jedi Knight Game Rumors
  toms
07-06-2006, 10:18 AM
#187
I kind of feel that there is a space for both types of game. 3rd party saber games are probably better accomodated with games like Episode III... full on action games with loads of moves and combos. Then a mode varied, in depth experience could be...  [Read More]
Posted in: New Jedi Knight Game Rumors
  toms
07-04-2006, 3:11 PM
#184
I don't want to cross-post, but i made a more detailed post in the "ideas for JK4" about what i'd want from a new game. To sum up it would be a new character, in the tween-trilogy timeline and basically be JK meets Deus-Ex with better gra...  [Read More]
Posted in: New Jedi Knight Game Rumors
  toms
07-01-2006, 9:46 PM
#181
DarkStarMojo, I agree with you 90%. The remaining 10%% is the fact that I liked the challenging puzzles, because they didn't feel like puzzles to me that were deliberately placed, they seemed... well... a bit more natural. Remember Level 10 with tha...  [Read More]
Posted in: Very good things! *keep it clean* (big images)
  toms
05-25-2006, 9:08 AM
#908
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000A8NZ0O.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Pretty good film, with some nice scares. I went caving as a kid and hated it... and after this I remembered why i never want to do it again.......  [Read More]
Posted in: Very good things! *keep it clean* (big images)
  toms
05-24-2006, 1:28 PM
#904
Man this game is everything I hoped it would be. ... t's easy to pick up and play, probably even more so if you have played Advance Wars before. So basically its a total copy of advance wars but without the charm? Yay innovation! ;) I still have 2 m...  [Read More]
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