Sheaf Saint

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130801142420.htm

>>>>>>SPOILER ALERT!!! >Indeed. Walt told Hank in the final scene that he was back in chemo as his cancer had returned, and he wouldn't live 6 months. But in the intro scene you mentioned he had a full head of hair, which suggests he is no longer in chemo when we get to that point in the story. This would mean that either he ends up beating the cancer, or he was lying to Hank.

Wow! Without giving too much away, I have been anticipating that scene since the very first episode, and it was every bit as good as I expected it to be.

Is it available on Netflix now?

Also.... Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works vol. 1 Eat Static - Abduction (All their albums were good but this is my favourite) And you can't have a thread like this without honourable mentions to Leftfield's seminal Leftism album, and any choice of a number of Chemical Brothers albums (Surrender is probably my favourite, but the most recent one, Further, is also excellent).

Kelpe - ex-Aquarium. Came across this a few years ago and it's wonderful. Quite down-tempo with an amazing warmth in his synth sounds, and his drum-sequencing is just exquisite. Booka Shade - Movements. More dancey than above with a very minimal feel, but again with a beautiful warmth about it. Highly recommended if you haven't heard it. For me though, the winner of 'most incredible piece of electronica ever' award goes to Orbital's In-Sides. I was quite disappointed with it when I first heard it, because I was expecting more of their trademark out-and-out dance-floor stuff. One reviewer called it 'techno for grown-ups'. It's a beautifully intricate album that works on so many levels.

Building factory complexes was tricky in X3, as it was difficult to pinpoint the exact location you wanted the ST carrier to drop the new station in relation to the existing one, and sometimes it would 'unpack' in contact with the existing one and they would end up destroying each other! But it was well worthwhile, especially if you had the Yacht of Pontifex Maximus add-on mission which enabled you to establish your own HQ where you could build your own ships based on blueprints from captured ships. With a factory complex attached you could manufacture all your own shields and weapons to equip your ships with, so it didn't matter if you were on friendly terms with the races that sold these items or not. Yes, as you may have guessed.. I dedicated a lot of hours to playing this game (I was single at the time so it didn't matter!)

Yeah very similar, but on a much bigger scale. Instead of just owning one ship you can own huge factory complexes and entire fleets of ships.

http://www.deepsilver.com/news/newsdetails/article/release-date-for-x-rebirth/ It's been in development for 7 years after they went back to the drawing board and started from scratch for this one (as opposed to just updating the same old game engine as they did for for X2 and X3). I loved all the previous versions and I have to say the trailer looks amazing. Given what little information Egosoft have released about the size and scope of this new one, then I should apologise to my mrs in advance cos she isn't going to be seeing much of me come November when this gets released.

Wow! I would also like a million pounds please (or have I already used up all my luck for one day???)

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/breaking-bad-why-life-wont-be-the-same-without-this-radical-american-television-drama-8750844.html The second half of Breaking Bad season 4 is available on Netflix from this sunday!!!!!!

Barnsley away please. They got humiliated at home in their opening game last week and it's only a short trip for me to get to.

As per my post #372, how about 0.17%?

He does kind of have a point, it pains me to say. The fact that our government is sending vast sums of money to countries that either don't need it or are wilfully spending it on anything other than human aid and development is an insult to the millions of people in the UK affected by the austerity policy. However, for a MEP to show such an astonishing lack of judgement in his choice of words is utterly cringey, and highlights just what UKIP really think of them bloody foreigners.

... Dammit! This bloody forum keeps duplicating all of my posts!

Actually it's not. The opening credits claim it is, but the Coens only included that as a red herring.

One of the biggest problems facing mankind in the coming decades is the need for ever-more agricultural land to provide food for a growing population. As Sussex Saint has already commented, the production of meat (particularly beef) is an incredibly inefficient process, and the amount of land given over to grazing and growing soya for cattle feed could provide ten times as much food energy if we cut out the middleman/cow and just eat the vegetables directly. So in that respect, I think this latest development is very significant. Personally, I have no problem eating food grown in a lab - I'm used to already due to my girlfriend being veggie and cooking a lot with quorn. However, pap raises an important point: that this could potentially lead to too much power over our food chain being given to giant bio-tech corporations like monstrous-Monsanto (the company that is so greedy and power-mad that it wants to get an EU patent on broccoli, meaning that all farmers everywhere would need to pay them a licence-fee for the right to grow it.) The answer to this lies in the hands of the consumer. People need to be educated as to where there food comes from and what impact it has, so that the average Joe can make choices about what food products we buy. I appreciate this is far easier said than done, because the single most important thing that people care about when food-shopping is price; asking people to pay more than they need to in order to take power away from giant food producers is like asking a dog not to bark. As the global population grows (projected to reach 9 billion before 2050), agricultural land becomes more scarce and valuable, and the extreme weather effects of climate change affect crops, food prices are going to rocket and many people will be thrust into real poverty - the kind that we simply are not used to in the western world. If we want to avoid the worst consequences of this then we all need to make some big changes to our dietary habits. Everybody will have to drastically reduce their levels of meat consumption so that the world's farmers can give more land over to growing fruit and vegetables for direct consumption by humans instead of for animal feed. People need to start buying locally-grown produce instead of going to the supermarket to buy goods that have been shipped half-way around the world before arriving on the shelf. Whether or not you are in favour of lab-grown meat now, in 20 years time we might all be incredibly grateful for it.

I don't watch a lot of TV drama because, with the odd exception every now an then, it's generally rubbish. But this is something I will definitely look forward to... http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/aug/05/coen-brothers-fargo-fx-television-channel

Ooops. Wrong thread.

Unprecedented in the available data. Average temperatures can be determined to a good degree of accuracy using ice core samples. A study of these dating back over half a million years showed that the current rate of increase of global temperatures - 1.0 degrees per century and rising - did not occur at any point during that time period where the average rate of increase was just 0.1 degrees per year. Not even during the thawing from the last ice age did that rate of increase get anywhere near to the current figure.

So you're saying there is evidence to suggest that a rise in global temperatures could be the cause of increased CO2 levels, rather than the result of it? Fascinating. I would be interested to read this research, if you could tell me who carried out the study and where their findings were published that would be great. I agree with your second point. Scientific opinion is not something that can be put to a vote. No matter how bulletproof the evidence for a theory might be, it is still only a theory after all and can never be called 100% proof of anything. But then, by that token, gravity is only a theory isn't it; and you don't see many people jumping off bridges to try and disprove it.

There are other explanations for the huge increase in CO2 levels and a ten-fold rise in the rate of increase of the global mean surface temperature that, by pure coincidence, happen to have both occurred following the industrialisation of human society? Go on then, please share them with us. Please point us in the direction of a credible scientific study that can explain such unprecedented changes to the Earth's atmosphere without taking into account human activity.

They will walk this league

I really, really hope it's Malcolm Tucker. Can you imagine... "You Daleks had better f**k off back where you came from, or I'll shove this f**king sonic screwdriver straight down your f**king eyesocket!"