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Ultimately the problem stems from Brexit being based on falsehoods. Nothing will satisfy the Leave camp because there's nothing to satisfy. As a modern post-industrial nation, if Great Britain wishes to have a standard of living comparable to what it has now, there's no choice but to engage with th...

All lost in the mists of time for me. I've a fairly poor memory for times and chronology anyway. Star Wars was ever-present when I was a child but I don't remember reading any Star Wars books.

Should some of the effort I expend ultimately help people not in a position to help themselves? Yes. Should some of it go to people who are happy to not bother because other people will do the hard work for them? No chance. If you're not prepared to be responsible for yourself don't expect anyone el...

What happened in both DA:I and Witcher 3 was all connected to the player. DA:I puts the player in quite a position of authority so their ability to influence things at a large scale isn't unreasonable. Any not entirely pre-scripted event is going to be ultimately derived by player actions (or random...

I do remember this being a major problem for this episode. The heroes aren't conservationists by any measure. Even on a ship that, by all means, should have major resource shortages, they aren't concerned about waste or recycling. They use replicator rations for all manner of trivialities, such as ...

Well, if the Force is a collective energy, created by living beings, all forms of life, then it has no guide or direction. This, however, is contradicted by Lucas himself. It wasn't until the prequels that it was specifically stated the Force had a will. It wants things to happen. I'd honestly have...

In the UK there are listed buildings. These can be bought and sold and rented like any others but you're restricted by what you can do and / or how you do it, e.g. what materials can be used if repairs are needed (different levels of restrictions depending upon the level of listing). Not all of them...

Yeah, that kinda bugs me, too. While a program might make a computer sentient, the actual thing that's become sentient is not the software, but the hardware. And if the seemingly sentient program is just one of many programs being run on the same computer, it doesn't necessarily represent the compu...

In the Oculus VR beta you can also import a desktop window into your view while you play, so you can Netflix while you space truck. Didn't know that, will have to give it a try, thanks. Would be even greater if there was a monitor on the ship you could put the window in to :) There used to be one o...

I thought his complaint with the painless pregnancy was more that, if it's so completely easy for her, than spending so much time on it is just boring . Not that that would be an invalid opinion IMO, but Kira is basically human-shaped, it's very implausible that it would naturally be that easy. Ign...