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Tickets sorted for this. God knows what sort of shambles we'll be, but it should be good fun.

Inclined to agree with you on this. The mistaken identity thing defies belief.

I think if they don't make the kickstarter target, it never happens. However, once they've got that dosh; it is supposed to happen. Not sure what happens if Braben gets the 1.25M an decides to run off to somewhere exciting with all the pledged cash, like Great Yarmouth.

Have to say, haven't pledged anything to this Kickstarter yet, and it'd be my first ever pledge if I did, but yep - superb games. Getting the Milky Way onto a floppy disk (along with planets you can land on) remains a stunning technical achievement.

Just finished watching the House of Cards trilogy. Never caught it first time around for whatever reason, but very glad to have caught it now. I have never read the books, but the TV show is excellent, once you're over the initial hump of Francis Urquhart talking to the camera. Well worth your time if you're into politics and haven't seen it yet.

Don't think so. Lots of humans still about in the World War Z universe ( at least in books ). That"s who has the war with the zombies

Sorry mate, I'm only accepting ripostes via the medium of multi-app widget responses. Maybe you can string a few icons together!

Cut and shut article. Two halfs of different articles welded together in the middle.

Meh. Running zombies. Rewrites. Family in peril trope. http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/61431/new-world-war-z-still-more-films-running-zombies-and-possible-trilogy This may be alright, but I'm not optimistic. The audiobook version is excellent, has a great cast and I suspect will be with you a lot longer than what I suspect will be Yet Another Effects Film. Max Brooks as Max Brooks Alan Alda as Arthur Sinclair Carl Reiner as Jurgen Warbrunn Jürgen Prochnow as Philip Adler Waleed Zuiater as Saladin Kader Dean Edwards as Joe Muhammad Michelle Kholos as Jesika Hendricks Maz Jobrani as Ahmed Farahnakian Mark Hamill as Todd Wainio Henry Rollins as T. Sean Collins Eamonn Walker as David Allen Forbes and Paul Redeker / Xolelwa Azania Ajay Naidu as Ajay Shah John Turturro as Serosha Garcia Alvarez Rob Reiner as "The Whacko" Jay O. Sanders as Bob Archer Dennis Boutsikaris as General Travis D'Ambrosia Becky Ann Baker as Christina Eliopolis Steve Park as Kwang Jingshu Frank Kamai as Nury Televadi and Tomonaga Jiro John McElroy as Ernesto Olguin

Question based on hypothetical situation:- A senior male member of the establishment is accused of a crime with a big social stigma and is actually guilty. What are his options if he wants to avoid public ire and jail?

I'm guessing that there are a fair few people on this forum with fond memories of the Elite games. David Braben, co-creator of the original and sole author of Frontier, its expansive sequel, wants to make another one using modern tech and adding a multiplayer element. The catch? He wants £1.25 million before he starts it. Kickstarter page here, with a pitch video. Few shots of how Elite: Dangerous might look too.

Conspiracy hat on. Pay-off?

Lurkers. Lurkers, I say! Watching us while we're at it. The filthy b@stards.

You should watch Commando, Chapel End Charlie. You'd have a field day if goofs are your thing. Besides, that sticker could be a legitimate means for the fine people of Yorkshire to stop crimes in Surrey

I feel this multiple music player widget screenshot is an adequate defence of the product against the Macsturbator horde. Check out those song titles!

Crime might pay but ASBOs don't (unless you know different).

I dunno about this Krew business, Turks. Does it mean you have to spell everything with a K, like in Mortal Kombat (klever, eh?). Apart from that, it sounds like a good plan. The tea shops and hair colourists won't know what's hit them.

Ah, yes. We're getting quite an ensemble. Do you think that the kids' inner-city sensibilities will easily make them the hardest on the estate? Should I look at starting a Sopranos-eqsue crime family, a protection racket in which my girls are "enforcers"?

This is top stuff, sir. I'd like to riff on your Ford Mondeo idea. That sort of number always look worse when the car has no engine, and demonstrably going nowhere, ever. Driver side window permanently half open, etc.

I have read the review - plus several others. They're wrong. The best iPad does not have the screen resolution of a PC from 1999. I appreciate that people have said that the form factor is more suitable for certain tasks, but that's hardly a revelation. Perhaps, when it has a retina screen, it'll be the best iPad, and I may well give it a go. I am sure the muggles will love it.

It's because they're not selling along "what it costs to make". They're marketing along the lines of "what it means to you". An extra one-off payment of a couple of hundred quid for four times more storage than the base model seems like a good deal psychologically. Nothing new in that.

EastleighSoulBoy Jonnyboy Julian H. Cope mmolly Saint Mikey SaintPaddy Sergei Gotsmanov Smirking_Saint Stevie B Under Weststand Three are sat outside my house, watching me come and go.

Went to look at a house today. It's really nice; right next to the kids' school. Well within budget as I spend a load of time and money on transporting ms Pap et al up there. With the money we're currently spending on travel, bus passes, shopping trips, ra ra ra - I think we'd end up paying £125 more a month than we are right now; and the house is twice the size. So here's the problem. Bit of a scumbag at heart. I don't know anything about living in middle class areas. I grew up on the Flower Estates and although my current gaff is in a nice enough street, we've all got blue collar sensibilities. Or 'cos I'm in Liverpool, and the estate looks like a bit like an upmarket Brookside Close, should I just watch old episodes and style myself as a long-haired Max Farnham? Some do's or don'ts would be appreciated.

Lord D, I think you should watch the first episode of this year's Harry & Paul. It has a Question Time spoof which I suspect most people would find desperately unfunny, but I believe would hit quite a few of your notes. Very brave comedy, going on about the Question Time crowd - there's only so many people that'll get it. That said, when minimum wage doesn't meet living costs; whaddya do?

Blimey, Alps; you've certainly changed your tune. I seem to remember getting several "Austrian grills" over being an anti-American. I'm really not; I work with loads of Americans - I love how passionate and optimistic they can be about things; they deal with both concepts in a way that we Brits cannot. I get emotion-lag every time I get back to the UK; getting used to the misery of being European again. That said, for all the hype about being the greatest democracy in the world, real power in the US resides in corporate entities and landed wealth, two areas that often intersect and often take priority over all else. The Iraq War served corporate interests as well as strategic ones. No-bid contracts being handed to Cheney's former company Halliburton, the rise of the private military and of course, the oil. The special relationship is a euphemistic band-aid to help us Europeans get over the fact that we've been greased so many times. America's place as a world super-power rests not in its vast resources, its cultural output or its military force. It rests on sitting back during WW2; staying neutral, selling people a sh!tload of arms, then entering on their own terms. I know people will throw Pearl Harbor out there; the Japanese might have thought they'd achieved complete surprise. I'm not so sure. Roosevelt had wanted into the war for a long time; knew what he wanted out of it and though he never lived to see it, got his wish in the end. Empires dismantled. America and the Soviet Union emerge as twin superpowers. My Republican mate is one of these people who truly believes that the rest of the world owes the US something for saving Europe from the Nazis / Cold War / etc. There's no denying that, but it irks me when its suggested that the motives were entirely altruistic. Both the US and USSR derived massive benefits from their respective spheres of influence. The US especially benefited from the Western European powers losing their empires. I'm not much of an imperialist, but there's no denying that if the likes of Britain and France had somehow managed to revive the fortunes of their neglected Empires, the balance of power would be very different to what it is today.