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[personal profile] supergee 2011-10-29 11:47 am (UTC)(link)
If I drew like that, I'd be depressed too.

[identity profile] bart-calendar.livejournal.com 2011-10-29 11:25 am (UTC)(link)
What's interesting in the new succession rules is that princes are now allowed to marry Catholics, however if their son or daughter is raised Catholic by their spouse then that son or daughter is immediately taken out of the line of succession.
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[personal profile] andrewducker 2011-10-29 11:32 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh - I haven't seen the rules themselves. Got a link?

[identity profile] bart-calendar.livejournal.com 2011-10-29 11:35 am (UTC)(link)
It's here. The reason that you get knocked out of line if you are raised Catholic is that if you become King or Queen you are automatically the head of the Church of England.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/28/world/europe/royal-succession-qa/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
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[personal profile] andrewducker 2011-10-29 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
Interesting, thanks!

[identity profile] octopoid-horror.livejournal.com 2011-10-29 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
In 'The English' by Jeremy Paxman, a CofE chap is thoughtful about whether you have to believe in god to be CofE, so I guess being Catholic wouldn't be too bad :-D
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[personal profile] fearmeforiampink 2011-11-01 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
What happens if they change their mind later on?

[identity profile] del-c.livejournal.com 2011-11-03 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Last time it happened, the king escaped the country with his life and his daughter was invited to replace him as monarch.

[identity profile] dalglir.livejournal.com 2011-10-29 11:37 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks for the heads up on Borderlands :)

[identity profile] drdoug.livejournal.com 2011-10-29 12:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Without the time to look properly, that oxygen catalyst might be helpful but isn't going to be transformative of the energetics, and hence the economics. Catalysts lower the activation energy of a reaction, but not the energy difference between the starting and end products. So the best catalyst possible isn't going to make the water-splitting reaction anything but hard work in energy terms.

I had this argument with a physics student once back when I was a chemist. He thought if he could only fInd a way of splitting water easily, he'd have a great free source of energy, because you get a helluva a lot out when you burn hydrogen in oxygen. Not sure if I ever convinced him that splitting them apart again must take exactly te same amount of energy, at the absolute theoretical minimum if you had no inefficiency whatsoever.

Damn!

[identity profile] lsanderson.livejournal.com 2011-10-29 12:24 pm (UTC)(link)
You mean my perpetual motion machine ain't gonna work?
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[personal profile] andrewducker 2011-10-29 12:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I know that this is never going to be an energy production method - but one of the things we desperately lack is efficient large-scale energy storage. If wind turbines could store their energy locally with good efficiency and release it when necessary then they become much more effective and we need less base load generation.

[identity profile] danieldwilliam.livejournal.com 2011-10-31 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Hear hear.

[identity profile] bracknellexile.livejournal.com 2011-10-29 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)
The Steam sale also has Amnesia for £2.60 - highly recommended :)

[identity profile] octopoid-horror.livejournal.com 2011-10-29 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Amnesia was TOO CREEPY for me, and the teeth grinding noise really, if you'll pardon the expression, set my teeth on edge. I guess being too creepy is a reccomendation?

[identity profile] nancylebov.livejournal.com 2011-10-29 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks for the pilot in the thunderstorm link. For no obvious reason, it made my morning.

I'm almost surprised that modern people aren't doing this for fun in specialized gear.
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[personal profile] andrewducker 2011-10-29 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
That's a damn good question. You'd think _someone_ would have done it.

[identity profile] octopoid-horror.livejournal.com 2011-10-29 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
And for anyone tempted, the GOTY edition is definitely worth getting. The DLC gives something to do after the endgame/before a second playthrough and some of it is really good.
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[personal profile] fearmeforiampink 2011-11-01 01:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Problem I had with the DLC was it was very all-over-the-place in terms of level scaling to your character.

Still fun, but some of it ended up being far too easy, because I'd taken my time on another bit of the game and ended up higher level than it was expecting.

[identity profile] major-clanger.livejournal.com 2011-10-29 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Years ago - it was before Phantom Menace but I was with [livejournal.com profile] bugshaw so I'd guess 1997 or so - we went to see Phil Jupitus do a show on Star Wars, in which Wookie Tourette's Syndrome was one of the explanations he put forward as to why Chewbacca never had his lines translated. The others included that he was flamboyantly gay and making continuous suggestive remarks, or that he was a chain-smoker permanently moaning about how it was time for a cigarette (as Jupitus pointed out, Chewbacca's bandolier does appear to be made of alternating Silk Cut packets and lighters.)

[identity profile] octopoid-horror.livejournal.com 2011-10-29 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
The mobile phone industry says caps are impractical because of the complexity of their billing systems.

This couldn't be more obviously bollocks, given that they specifically offer plans that include a certain amount of texts/calls per month, so they obviously are able to monitor that.
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