Recent content by Manfred Belheim

I'm going to go out on a crazy limb and suggest that maybe that one isn't a genuine album cover.

I believe your starting assumption is incorrect. It doesn't appear that the law (or other similar laws in other states) have been definitively ruled unconstitutional. Presumably if it/they had then your point would have more strength, but at the moment I think it's moot.

Well I can't comment on that. As far I'm aware there isn't one specific place where they are hosted so what checks you have to pass will probably vary. I'm pretty sure they're still copyrighted by someone though. Possibly Cloanto.

Well as far as I'm aware the emulator doesn't come with the ROMs.

Well there's obviously no requirement to mint additional new money. The old coins aren't going to be invalidated any time soon.

I recently agreed to go to war with a distant civ to keep a nearer friendly civ happy, assuming I wouldn't actually have to get into any combat, but then noticed there was some random warrior unit that had been wandering around for 4000 years on the opposite side of my territory. After losing an...

I have a similar problem when a leader pops up at the beginning of a turn and demands I cancel my deals with another civ... but I have no option to review what those deals actually are.

Cancer's probably a good thing overall. Keeps people in work researching it, and keeps our numbers down at least somewhat :)

Well I'm absolutely responding to your question. I'm doing my best to answer it, but I think it's unlikely I'll be able to answer it to your satisfaction because I don't think we share the same base assumptions. I'll have another go though. To the first case, I would assume we can agree that...

Not really related, but just a tangent because of the discussion of eyes. It seems to me that the sense of vision (possibly coupled with the sense of sound) might be strongly linked to the sense of where "I" am. Despite my entire body conveying a sense of touch, temperature, pain etc, I...

Surely this reasoning depends on the assumption that consciousness is some distinct property divorced from brain complexity. Given that there still doesn't seem to be any generally agreed upon definition of consciousness this doesn't seem sound. And indeed if it is just some emergent property of...

I use the WinUAE emulator for playing Amiga games on the PC. It is, I believe, free BUT it does require the Amiga kickstart ROMs which are not freely available. You can buy Amiga Forever which includes the emulator AND ROMs, but I don't know how much that costs these days (Edit: $19.95...

Please explain where the malicious comments are in that quote.

Okay so the doctor who runs the only clinic in the country that provides (or provided I suppose) puberty blockers to transitioning children, and who may well have been instrumental in the process to decide to allow that treatment in the first place, is still not sufficiently qualified to talk...

Well the quote in the article is "There was a lot of pressure coming from certain group to introduce it". I don't know if that is supposed to mean "certain groups" or "a certain group". I would imagine if she just meant parents she'd have said parents. In any case it was pressure from outside...