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Posted in: Human rights climate 'worst in 50 years'
  toms
05-27-2004, 7:37 AM
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Amnesty International today claimed that governments and armed groups such as al-Qaida were putting human rights and international humanitarian law under the greatest pressure for more than 50 years. From long-running conflicts in countries such as...  [Read More]
Posted in: Occupation has boosted al-Qaida, says thinktank
  toms
05-27-2004, 7:34 AM
#1
The occupation of Iraq has provided a "potent global recruitment pretext" for al-Qaida and probably increased worldwide terrorism, a leading thinktank said yesterday. Despite some losses, al-Qaida has more than 18,000 potential terrorists...  [Read More]
Posted in: Iran tricked the US into war in iraq?
  toms
05-27-2004, 7:26 AM
#1
The guardian in the UK is reporting that there is an internal investigation in the US into whether the iranian government fed the hawks in washington false information about Iraq's weapons programme in order to get a dangerous neighbour removed. Ful...  [Read More]
Posted in: The UK opens first embryotic stem cell bank
  toms
05-22-2004, 8:06 AM
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this is ours (yay!). well, a bit of it anyway.... Could (hopefully) sort out a lot of currently uncurable diseases. I'm hoping they sort out a lot of the ones to do with ageing (parkinsons, etc...) in the next 30 years. Should be obvious why....:D...  [Read More]
Posted in: x-wing trench run?
  toms
05-18-2004, 8:46 AM
#1
this may not be the best place to ask, but has anyone got any tips on beating the death star trench run in x-wing? I rarely even manage to get as far as the trench.... :(...  [Read More]
Posted in: ROTK DVD 3 months early
  toms
03-16-2004, 2:01 PM
#28
Looks ok, but i much prefer the look of the extended editions (green, brown and ?red? weathered leather books). I'd rather have te three of those side by side on my shelf than that box set. I'm drawing the line at buying the extended ones though. I'...  [Read More]
Posted in: ROTK DVD 3 months early
  toms
03-10-2004, 11:42 AM
#13
its still in the cinema. heck, it might still be there in may. Why rent? just watch it once a month until august and then buy the extended. I'm still hoping the will do a run of all the extended ones in the theatres. They did a few FOTR, TT extende...  [Read More]
Posted in: ROTK DVD 3 months early
  toms
03-09-2004, 11:31 AM
#4
damn... i had heard they were both 3 months early (theatrical in may, extended in august). THe theatrical release date doesn't really matter much as by now everyone knows it is worth just hanging on for the better version....  [Read More]
Posted in: Sam and Max 2 Petition
  toms
03-12-2004, 3:10 PM
#25
tell you what, lucasarts really should remake all the classic scumm games for handheld systems, i've been trying them on my new GP32 and they work pretty well. :D I'm not sure if the GBA would have the processing power to do them, but the new DX mig...  [Read More]
Posted in: Sam and Max 2 Petition
  toms
03-11-2004, 2:25 PM
#20
do they mean the current games market for adventure games that is exactly the same as when they commisioned Sam and Max 2 in the first place??? did my sig work? Have I now joined the ranks of people with huge sigs bigger than their posts? :D...  [Read More]
Posted in: Sam and Max 2 Petition
  toms
03-10-2004, 11:40 AM
#9
I'm not surprised that the guys at the forums are upset... but i've been surprised there hasn't been more mention in the gaming media. It was on a number of mags "most wanted lists" after all. Maybe they are right about there not being mu...  [Read More]
Posted in: Sam and Max 2 Petition
  toms
03-09-2004, 11:29 AM
#3
its not going to happen unfortunately, never does. Someone should just start a general petition asking Lucasarts to start making interesting games again and stop being so timid. THe only time i can ever think of something like this working was gett...  [Read More]
Posted in: Sam and Max 2 is Axed(hey, that rhymes)
  toms
03-04-2004, 11:04 AM
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"After careful evaluation of current market place realities and underlying economic considerations, we've decided that this was not the appropriate time to launch a graphic adventure on the PC" This seems a strange reason. Graphic Adventu...  [Read More]
Posted in: Do you use Usenet?
  toms
03-03-2004, 10:26 AM
#5
it used to be the only thing worth using back in uni days, but i haven't really used it in years. I'm surprised that there still seem to be a lot of people using it though....  [Read More]
Posted in: Star Wars DVD Covers
  toms
03-03-2004, 10:34 AM
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Originally posted by DarkLord60 I wanted them to look like the other DVD episodes. Lets just say I like things to match. me too. keeps annoying me when they change the bond covers for new films so the spines don't fit into the set. :mad: But i t...  [Read More]
Posted in: LOTR Academy Award-Fest
  toms
03-04-2004, 11:17 AM
#36
bought them on dvd as they weren't shown over here. I've watched Dune... it was good, but a bit stagey and hampered by the obvious lack of budget. Haven't got around to watching Children of Dune yet. But even they are perfect examples of the same...  [Read More]
Posted in: LOTR Academy Award-Fest
  toms
03-03-2004, 10:30 AM
#32
Originally posted by txa1265 After what David Lynch did to it - and the production company hacked out of it ... I dunno if we'll see that. Mike I know. But that came from attempting to sqeeze it into ONE movie. Lynch ended up with a 6hr film that...  [Read More]
Posted in: LOTR Academy Award-Fest
  toms
03-02-2004, 10:15 AM
#28
I wouldn't say ROTK was the best film i have ever seen.... but the trilogy as a whole was a magnificent accomplishment (captured the essence of the books without dumbing them down, but converted them to filmable) and has to be the best, most consiste...  [Read More]
Posted in: Favorite Movie Songs.
  toms
03-02-2004, 10:20 AM
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Jackie Chan - Ash - Rumble in the bronx.... Seems weird that everyone loves Wake Up... that was always considered one of the least interesting songs on the album (definately not as good as Bombtrack, Killing in the name, Bullet in the head, Know yo...  [Read More]
Posted in: 0_0 Goldeneye II!!! 0_0
  toms
03-02-2004, 10:07 AM
#29
Originally posted by the_raven_03 All this is gibbergabber. EoN was a terrible game and I agree with ET about what fun is there not having to aim your gun. Mmmmmmmmm? There is no fun when you press a button and you are automatically aimed at the en...  [Read More]
Posted in: 0_0 Goldeneye II!!! 0_0
  toms
03-01-2004, 10:33 AM
#22
come on guys, give them a break... after a lot of attempts they have finally got the hang of making bond games. Everythign or Nothing is the first bond game that is as good as, if not better than goldeneye... and it is pretty damn good. Multiplayer...  [Read More]
Posted in: Woman dies in viewing of "The Passion of the Christ"
  toms
03-01-2004, 10:53 AM
#60
i'm pretty keen to see this. Whether it is good or not, it should definately be interesting. I've never got the whole anti-semetic arguement at all, that is like saying that allt he films with Nazis as bad guys are going to cause violence against ger...  [Read More]
Posted in: So what *do* you want in the new DVD Trilogy
  toms
03-04-2004, 11:27 AM
#24
Looking back at that post, it is only really ROTJ that i want any changes to, but then i always did think it was the weakest of the three (in certain places). I saw an issue of that official starwars mag a few months back that listed deleted/rumour...  [Read More]
Posted in: So what *do* you want in the new DVD Trilogy
  toms
03-03-2004, 10:52 AM
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Originally posted by ExcelsioN They should make Yoda using computer graphics...scrap the old puppet Yoda. They should do the same to all the animals/creatures, especially Jabba's monkey-thing. They all look really dated now. If they do that then...  [Read More]
Posted in: What film can you watch over and over again?
  toms
03-01-2004, 10:37 AM
#50
erm... lots. Terminator Aliens Spinal Tap Withnail & I Star Wars (original trilogy, not the new ones that get worse with every watch) Total Recall Monty Python & the Holy Grail Bill & Ted Wayne's World Hardboiled Enter the Dragon Police...  [Read More]
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