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Whipping the last 20 shields of a granary is quite often a viable strategy. If you have a city with +4 food, +2 with a granary and a specialist is still break-even on growth rate vs. no granary. If you have one early luxury the whip anger is survivable even up to emperor level.

Against an AI that primarily builds slow-moving units, fast attackers are sure as hell worth it. Their ability to retreat instead of dying is HUGE. Attacking spearmen I'd much rather have an army of horsemen than an army of swordsmen. I am sure not everyone agrees. There are certainly different...

I voted for A. I seem to be in quite a small minority for this. I do not share the faith of many of you that the "first world way of life" is the best one that I'd want to inflict it on everyone. I, personally, would have been much happier living in the US of 1900 than the US of today. Yes...

Welllll, no, not really: the detective comes up with a list of possible explanations for what he sees, and then collects further evidence to narrow it down. He will generally aim those investigations first at the avenues most likely to yield results, i.e., consider the simple alternatives and...

Hate to burst your bubble, but I plotted at (-5.6,-0.7) on the long quiz, and just about the same place -- straight to the left -- on the short quiz. In my case, anyway, it's that I have ideas about *what* aspects of life the government ought to be involved in (for instance, don't privatize...

Why I don't know.... but the original version ALWAYS ran slower without music than with. Never made sense to me either.

I'd have some sympathy for this idea if solving crimes was ALL it was going to be used for. The problem is that banks, and airlines, and employers, and various other people might start going around demanding samples of my DNA the way they used to demand my signature and nowadays demand to see...

@col: yes, bridge is a great card game, well worth spending a lifetime of effort on. I have. (Well, such part of my life as has gone by so far.) But it's not the only game I enjoy (other favorites are cribbage, spades, and, straying away from cards, backgammon), and despite not being an...

It has very little to do with how many people are involved in the process, and very much to do with how voter registration is done. In my parents' day, and even when I was a child, you were automatically removed from the voter rolls if you failed to vote in a certain number of consecutive...

Some of us still do grow beards... *emits a wolfish growl in stratego's general direction* :D

That part of your argument I don't think I agree with. There are any number of times in history when a dictatorship has been toppled, and out of the rubble arises.... another dictatorship not so very different than the one that came before it.

I've had to play it, beginning to end, a few times with my local symphony. There are a whole bunch of individual numbers in it I like. And I wouldn't mind listening to the complete thing on rare occasion. But... really... it IS horrendously overlong. Much longer than any other symphony concert...

I am going to say, no, this isn't a good idea. But not for the same reason most the other posters have used. It imposes a great deal of extra paperwork, on both the taxpayer and the tax collector. With the end result of chaging ---- virtually nothing. A few popular underfunded programs might...

"Invisible" is not the same as "transparent." You are worried about invisible retinas - might as well worry about invisible blood and invisible teeth and all that too, while you are at it. Would it not be easier to have his entire skin absorbing all the light that strikes it and emitting light...

Lived in 2 states, been to 35. Several of those briefly. The ones I am missing: the northeast corner (beyond NY), the southeast corner (south of TN and NC), Oklahoma, and Hawaii.

The part that bothered me most about the article was the opening line: "Quietly but with malice." Why do we jump to the conclusion it is malicious for another country to change its investment policy? Even if they ARE doing this because of the war on terror -- well, gee, they are sovereign...

MS, Statistics BS, Geology, Mathematics

In order to see, he has to absorb light and convert it to information. In order to not be seen, the absence of that light must not be noticed. That means a rather complicated system of producing and radiating additional light, in such a direction that it looks like it passed through...

Wellll. It's a non-question, to me, really. An "excellent educational system" is impossible if no-one is allowed to express dissenting opinions. Scientific progress, similarly impossible. (Remember Galileo under house arrest for daring to say the earth wasn't the center of the universe?)...

My other half bought it for me -- so I'd spend my time on the computer on games instead of chasing girls in chatrooms --- hhehehe!