It's not like that at all. Learn2lawyer, bro.

It's all about oversight and recruitment strategy. In my experience, Blackwater and some of the other US outfits were keen on recruiting really solid US operators with advanced training — which tends to promote folks with extraordinary abilities and a "certain moral flexibility" necessary to be "special."

I'm at pains to know how to comment. I spent several years there doing aid work, and had blackwater operatives provide security for my team on dozens of occasions. While they were definitely more "aggressive" than a number of other security outfits I've worked with, for the most part they were quite professional.

I'm not sure how to respond. For one thing, I really do consider the TV-focused side show to be just that — a distracting, marginalized side show. It's a complete distraction from — for example — the many intelligent and progressive Catholics that I know.

Aww — I still love you, PT.

What you're describing would be better characterized as an effort to come to consensus or to make a decision. It's not really a negotiation.

Actually, canon lawyers and scholars within Catholicism and the disparate protestant faiths have qualified the boundaries of Christianity pretty well — probably much more-so than you're aware. Declaring yourself to be Christian doesn't make it so. There are areas of disagreement, but they're all pretty minor at this…

I live in Australia at the moment. Outside of America, Christians are regarded rather worse than in the states.

No, it's not. If you need the four Gospels — or hell, make a day of it and read the whole new testament — it's really not all that complex. It's ethically coherent.

You're absolutely right.

It's not all Christians that are like that. I'm Christian, and I and a lot of other folks "get it." It's just that it's hard to show acceptance and love in a way that makes people like you*** see it and remember it.

I disagree. Sure, people will complain — but this level of backlash is pretty unprecedented. Just look at their own forums. Not doing anything in the face of concerted disgust from your best customers just doesn't fly anymore. Not at $60 to $80 per transaction.

Clearly you just have no idea how component pricing works or any of a dozen basic microeconomics concepts figure in in practice.

If a woman wins one of the feeder tournaments, she's on her way to the masters. It almost happened a few years back.

Same reason why you don't have to marry a man (or a woman) and my Church doesn't have women clergy and why there are all-girl private schools. Private clubs can do things the way that they want.

Who are "most people." I read BioWare's own forums for about 20 hours when I finished the game — and the hatred there is just absurd and universal.

Most of us were willing to pay for what had originally been scripted. I don't want free garbage — I want $10 to $20 of quality entertainment to undo this travesty, and I'm willing to pay for it.

Arrival was more important for the taunting from Harbinger than for any "no-win" situation. It HAD to be be very linear because it's playable at any stage in Mass Effect 2.

The Green ending is EXACTLY like a JRPG, only without the high production value art. It's Japanese-inspired because it MAKES NO SENSE and totally abandons all reason and sense.

I like where you're going with this — but you lost me at the end where you dismiss the goofy Space Magic element of the Green ending. It's so, so, so out of place.