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The number one thing that i want is to have some more variation on the roads. Right now they look so... uniform (even with seats/bins/trees placed randomly). Perhaps some random placement of patches of roads that have been repaired or something would help?

As much as i don't have a fear of planes or anything like that, i can certainly see how prior notification is defiantly a must for such a sensitive region.

as someone else on another forum said "Fail. They still think they need to prove that they aren't breeding a new generation of Nazis."

Just pretend the new mini's never existed and i could agree...

Has anyone considered the fact that if he was let in, he'd need some kind of protection from any attacks on himself, due to his views, and the UK doesn't want to foot the bill for that? To be frank, he's had his chance. If he's going to make inflamintory remarks, then i honestly belive he doesn't have a right to say them at all.

Originally posted by: Merlin of Flyote Originally posted by: fukuda Yet again this is a case of a communist inspired dictatorship acting against the best interests of the people that it cares nothing about.quote> Ever been in a real dictatorship?quote> We live in one at the moment. That is to say that the people have not had the democratic choice of an election to chose the person to lead parliment. quote> Don't you have a parliment that you need to, you know, pass all legislation through to get it made into law? Hardly call it a dictatorship if that's the case.

Originally posted by: Motina A ban would drop the price. quote> No, no it wouldn't. The price would either stay as it is or go up. There's a certain cost, that's set in stone and can't be taken away. If demand goes down, production will go down, not price.

Originally posted by: toxicpiano Originally posted by: Jezus53 I'm tired of high prices for EVERYTHING.quote> why don't you grow and hunt your own food?quote> Because we're an advanced society where many people specalise in their particular profession so that they can perform it with much better effeciency than the average person, and collectivly get more done.

Spent 5 times more on the war than on reconstruction. I think they could have done better in that regard. That's easier said than done, however, and everything else was pretty good.

Originally posted by: elemented9 Even though it may be bring the chills to some people, what do you think would happen if the Swine Flu became extremely serious as in, world epidemic?quote> It'd be a lot like 1918-1919. Lots of undiscriminate death.

Originally posted by: Barbarossa Some people just have too much free time. Barbarossaquote> She did make 70000USD.... I'd say it was more enjoyable work than spare time.

A local from here was on that cruise ship, according to what she said, one of the passengers was throwing plastic tables off the side at the pirates, and another throwing chairs. That must be why they ran away!

I really don't get what this has to do with WoW at all, or the insurance company refusing to cover the (real) gold bars on the basis that they were bought with illegally made money?

81 or whatever it is now deaths in a few days, compared to 500000 in a year. For simplicity's sake, lets just say that its 80 in a week. Now, 500000 in a year is a lot. its about 10000 a week, however, that's world wide. Mexico has about 1&2/3% of the worlds population, and if they got an equal amout of flu's as other places, it boils down to about 160 flu deaths a week in mexico as per usual. Not so much of a difference now is there?

Originally posted by: ilikehotdogsalot Wow, it reached Australia? Even Brazil? This is pretty serious. Do you only get this from contact with pigs, or can you get it from eating pig products (you know, hotdogs?)quote> No, not australia, that was just me being sarcastic.

Originally posted by: ShortStraw Once again, Duke nails it. The Texans were offended that Nye publicly disputed the bible, an impolite if not offensive act in my American Bible Belt. I don't think anyone in the article stated that the moon emits light. The press saw a chance to pit science and religion against one another with some convenient stereotypes already represented and ran with it. quote> Then they really need to chill the heck out.

OHMIGOD! Flu, in Australia! it could be a deadly outbreak! Or more likely its just a regular old flu. sheesh. Seriously though, is there at least some kind of evidence to suggest that it might have spread that far. holiday makers, what?

Factor in the saving of not having to own and pay for the maintenance of car full stop as well.

And yet none of the situations have been about cargo whatsoever. It doesn't matter if its aid or oil, the ransom of the ship and crew is much more valuable. (and easier to obtain. Its hard to unload 100's of crates or millions of liters of oil without a crane or a pump)

Originally posted by: StephenPullen it would be good if the cars were form different corners of the world, like say if you were building a city in America, they would be amercian!quote> That would be nice, perhaps MC can tie the cars generated to the type of buildings present.

Originally posted by: Breeze1965 I am not clear on the Gems piece as this does sound very nice but how big is this game going to be 10 DVD's? I mean if each Gem is in fact another game and we do not need to be online to use it that means to me that we should be getting one hell of a game with about 5 - 10 Gems that Are considered to be a full game in a game? The concept seems utterly awesome to me especially if they do transport gems I mean all of them in one package or individual they could all be great however I don't think airlines would be that great unless it was online. A Bus and Rail gem could be used from the begining of any city. Anyways if there is anyone that can clarify these better I would be appreciative of it. Because it just doesnt seem possible to me to have a Game (Single Palyer) with all of these gems as part of it.quote> Think of it as extra games that use the same game engine as Cities XL, therefore making the downloads/installation/whatever requirements much much smaller than a full new game, while adding in a lot of new functionality, because they reuse a lot of the same content.

Last time i checked the majority of people downloading stuff 'illegally' weren't doing it just because they'd already bought a copy of it. I mean, seriously. 40 years ago you spent some of your hard earned money to go watch a movie or play in an arcade. If you didn't have the money, you just made your own fun. These days you just download it. There's a risk that people are becoming used to getting free stuff, and honestly, it can't go on like that forever.

Originally posted by: Voar Tok The problem with HSR is that it's a wonderful idea that is completely impractical. It's jobs - yeah. Not all of the unemployed in the US are construction workers. On top of that, if you're going to spend that much money to invigorate the economy, why not just give all the unemployed people $50K with orders to spend it all in a year. You'll be spending less money and it'll be directly infused into the economy.quote> Because at the end of if you have nothing, whereas if you build HSR, or something, you'd at least have something for all the money spent

Originally posted by: fukuda Distances in your country (which is btw the same as mine) are way shorter than in the US, imagine the cost of such an engineering project if done that way quote> But if it isn't done that way it can never really be true high speed rail. If you want to go fast, and i mean really TVG style fast, you need grade seperated tracks with specially banked bends etc. It just won't work otherwise (enough trucks manage to crash into trains doing 100km/h as it is) As for constructing it, well, yes, you only need 8 guys to do the track laying. But first you need to survey the area, then design the track, then clear the area, then make the foundations, then build the bridges, and the drains, then make all the track, then get it all there. Then the 8 guys lay it....

Originally posted by: Duke87 And even with legal downloads, and even once you remove the DRM... it's certainly a huge step in the right direction, but there are still a lot of people who remain unsatisfied, because buying music from there still means giving money to huge corporations which do things they don't approve of. quote> Maybe they should, just, you know, not buy the music then? Seriously, the sort of "self entilement" that people have these days with regards to digital media is disgusting. "ohh i don't like that corporation, i'll just download it" is an absolute load of crap. People need to get unused to not paying for anything, its not how the real world works.