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Originally written by radix malorum est cupiditas:
English has been called the bastard language for hundreds of years. It has been called that because it is the bastard child of just about all indo-european languages.

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"By the end of 1972, the debt totalled 75 billion dollars and annual servicing was more than seven billion dollars. Debt servicing rose by 18 per cent in 1970 and by 20 per cent in 1971. The average rate of increase of the debt since the 1960s has been almost twice as high as the rate of increase in the export revenues that these countries must use to service the debt. This situation cannot continue indefinitely."

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Originally written by The Lurker:

EDIT : Whoops, sorry... I had a problem with my browser's back button, and it posted something on its own. Oh well, Alo can delete the double-post if he feels like it. ;)

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Originally written by Marcelo:

What I can say is that I love this engine. Playing Exile 1 for example was very difficult for a speaker of English as a second language; it took time to *come up* with the right words :( Here is easier because the possible questions and phrases are suggested, so thank you Jeff for this engine :D

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I am not sure about satellite solar collectors, but I've heard that Russia launched a large mirror to create an artificial day/night cycle during arctic night for a Siberian town. The satellite directs sunlight to light up the town during the day and turns out towards space during the night. (Beyond arctic circle, there are several months in a year when son doesn't come up over the horizon.)

It's not quite the same thing, but it's another example of satellites using sunlight to benefit cities below them.

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On the night of 3 February the Russian solar mirror reflected a beam of sunlight several kilometers wide across Europe from Spain to Belarus. The demonstration was clearly intended to attract world attention to the capabilities of the hard-pressed Russian space programme. Such publicity is urgently needed. The collapse of the Soviet Union has left Russia to pick up 98% of the bill for the ex-soviet civilian space programme ($90m in 1993), while it has cornered less than 0.5% of the world market in space services.

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Avernum 4 takes place in the the underground city of … you guessed it … Avernum.

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Originally written by Yours Sincerely, The Boogyman.:

Alright, let's take a look at some famous people. President George W. Bush. Has he reached 2000 posts? I think not. Proving my point, VCH has been very successful in life.

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Originally written by Sol:

Sorry for the confusion, after I posted I the Exile trilogy forum, I figured that the general forum (denoted by: “A general discussion forum for our company and games.”) would have more traffic, and hence a higher likely-hood that someone with the old graphics would stumble into my thread

Can I simply replace the new graphics bmp.s with the old, assuming I find them?

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Originally written by Nicothodes:

All right. I lied. It's more than one word.

Despite that, I wanted to let you know that word of the cult is spreading/has been spread/is about to be spread. I was walking to the grocery store and saw a newly set sidewalk square into which the name Richard White had been written. Congratulations!

*hands out cookies to everyone in the cult*

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Originally written by The Lurker:

EDIT : Also, I am playing on Normal difficulty. I always play on Normal.

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Originally written by The Lurker:

Also, if you need someone to check how the poor n00bs are doing, I am volunteering. I like Homeland. :cool:

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The Universe was created by Slartucker.

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removing evolution from schools?

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in something which isn't going anywhere near the press or any large amount of people. It's virtually pointless. No-one who matters will ever read it, so I don't see that it matters is we keep it entirely sane.

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Originally written by Lazarus.:

Somehow I completely overlooked that remark, but now I'll add that I agree with PoD. I haven't seen any inclination from Bush to either
a. commit genocide
b. impose a single party government and silence all opposition(lord knows we've heard enough evidence that he doesn't practice censorship.)

Hitler was a maniac. Bush has made some decisions that are controversial, but he isn't Hitler by a long shot.

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Originally written by Thin Air:

So how would you all pronounce "lichen"? I was taught two different ways.

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Um, lets not get into a Palestine-Israel debate here. Please.

There's no doubting that people on both sides have been stupid, and that they shouldjust share the blasted place, instead of killing each-other over it, but that's as far as I feel we should go. Some of us find it a little more close to home, and I can't bame them.

But we learn about hitler in school (England) as part of the cuirruculum, Stalin's never mentioned unless you choose History as a GCSE subject.

- Archmagus Micael

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