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Not a fan of Oasis apart from the first album, but I really hope Andy Bell finds a decent gig. The man's a great guitarist - some of the early Ride stuff that he wrote are still some of my favourite tunes.

Pouring it into the oil tank?

I'm playing Dwarf Fortress at the moment

Yeah! Let's do what we can to stop it - we don't want the police going round being "successful" now, do we?

If it was a "needed" piece of kit, Toyota would have put them on as standard.

Well the predominant example used is in the reproductive adaptation of the human immunodeficiency virus (as it tends to produce the fastest results). Many other viruses work the same way. I believe some insect breeding programs also produced results demonstrating evolution - lacewings have been used more than once IIRC. BTW - personally, I don't trust anything Dawkins writes anyway - he's just trying to hawk his own theory of evolution, which is even less provable than Darwin's was! A number of popes have actually discussed the subject, I believe, and yes typically also explaining how evolution and God would work together (and, in fact, a "Superbeing-controlled evolution mechanism" could be a valid alternative theory of explaining evolution), and also re-iterating that the level to which the debate has risen is totally unnecessary - arguments for arguments sake! ie. he agrees with you, Chief : stop arguing about evolutionary theories and focus on the important stuff! Bedtime for me for now - have a goodnight, all!

Do you really think that's true, mate? Whilst, yes, most education establishments (incorrectly) teach Darwinian theory as fact, in the course of my lifetime, I've been preached at hundreds of times by creationists of various religions, but tend not to get pounced on by Darwinians in the high street!

Evolution has been witnessed and reproduced in laboratory conditions. Evolution itself is a fact. Even the pope admits that evolution occurs! It's only the hardcore wackos that continue to deny it these days. Darwin's theory, on the other hand, IS sketchy - the concept of evolution through beneficial random mutation can be virtually disproven statistically. Whilst experiments seem to indicate that mutation is a factor in evolution, it is pretty much evident that it cannot be the ONLY factor. It's a shame that many people can seem to distinguish the two. Just because we don't know how evolution works, doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. We don't really know how gravity or even light works either, so following the same reasoning, you'd have to disbelieve them too! Edit: I also don't see why creationism and evolution should be considered mutually exclusive - they clearly don't have to be. It smacks of people just wanting to have an argument about religion where one doesn't really exist.

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Nice idea. Took me 28 deaths and 9m17s to finish, apparently.

Wouldn't bother with a laser detector. I don't think there's much point - by the time it detects, alerts you and you react and try and slow down, it's too late already - the latest speed guns can take a firm reading in less than a second.

Crikey! That's some spider - I'd be more careful - he didn't spare the penguin!

Re: Barry Boys I think the term "Barry" and, unfortunately, the whole BarryBoys site for a long time now has just been descended upon by anyone who doesn't like the look of someone else's modifications. The original guys over at Barry Boys actually seemed like a decent bunch of car enthusiasts, and there targets were only those modifications which had been done badly, or which actually made the car objectively worse. I don't think the original concept of "Barry" would apply to your paint job, or even to chrome wheels - especially as the mods (again, not to my personal taste, here) have been done well. The only thing you might have gotten grief from those guys for was if the wheels adversely impacted the handling, and that's probably pretty marginal. Since BarryBoys got so popular a few years back, a whole bunch of new people started using the site and the term "barry" just to target cars and mods that THEY didn't like, not things that were objectively bad, like the original Barrys. I wouldn't listen to anyone who bandies around the terms "chav" and "barry" these days. They are usually just talking about their subjective viewpoints. Especially on pistonheads!

Wow. That is good, Gaz. Nice one. As long as you know how much uptake of Mastercard there is in Malta - the ATM charge makes it very expensive to use to draw cash. Also - you want to be spending all of it - the cost of coverting it back is quite high by the looks of it.

http://www.no1currency.com looks good at the moment: 1.128

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So many different opinions. Hang on. Maybe this is a purely subjective decision?

I'd have said "No" up until last week. House prices have stabilised a bit, but were still in the position where they could go either way - the recession could get much, much worse yet. Therefore I suspected that, at best, house prices would probably stay about level for the next 5-10 years at least (therefore probably bad investment). The lettings market is also pretty saturated right now - lots of property around. And with mortgages being quite cheap, rental prices have come down too. HOWEVER, now I'm not so sure. The Bank of England has announced it will print (sorry, "quantatively ease") another £50bn into the economy, which could actually benefit house prices in the mid-term. The money will take a few years to actually get into proper circulation (ie. get to homebuyers), but after that, there'll be plenty more money out there, pushing house prices back up. Coupled with that, the extra money in the economy will drive inflation quite quickly, so you're actually best to have as much debt as possible if and when that happens. Of course, it will all go totally pear-shaped not long after that (5yrs or so) - the extra money is going to send inflation up massively and the GBP is probably set to crash on the international market. In my opinion.

I'd name it after whoever wanted to sponsor me the most money.

Agreed! What I love about Belgo is that the food menu might as well be a laminated sheet of paper, where the beer menu is like a big, multi-page, leatherbound affair! Not really a fan of the shared tables in the cafeteria area tho.

Have to concur with other parents here. Don't blame baby practicalities - costs maybe! - but not space. We coped for the first 12 months with the Supra as the only car, and only then got rid because we had the opportunity to upgrade to an Aristo.

Same here. I watched the first episode of this new series, got halfway through before I accepted that it was all the same tosh and haven't watched again since.

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