Not really - *why* she was part of the rebellion makes no difference to the story. Consider two sides - she joined because she loved freedom. OK now 'she joined because her best friend was killed in an imperial attack' - what difference to the *PLOT* does it make.

Leia was picked because she was a member of the imperial senate and an ambassador - and so had (or did have) diplomatic immunity - diplomats are used all the time in real world espionage due to the fact that the car/place they stay/etc are all considered foriegn soil and so not searchable.

So essentially a punish the woman clause. Nice.

The state is in trouble because of two reasons - 1) they didn't fund pensions correctly - 2) Sarb-Ox (the law that went into effect because of what Enron did) changed the rules so you have to fund pensions correctly. This hurt most states. It's fixable provided you have someone that wants to fix it. California had…

This is exactly what I mean - Chicago and *the rest of the state* have roughly equal populations. Even if you count the # of unemployed as higher in Chicago the median salary is larger there - meaning that *one small area* is 1/2 the states income.

The same thing is said in Illinois where everyone not in Chicago wants to split the state to avoid having Chicago (with so many people) dictate much of the policy. What no one seems to realize is that would just make two states - one very wealthy can likely to be able to afford huge tax breaks (Chicago) and one that…

1. Maximized profit, 2. Agreements with the retailers to not undercut them, 3. Overall goal of not lowering the perceived value of the goods being bought.

I'm about 1/2 way through chapter 5 and I don't think it's bad at all - that is if you enjoy the story and like subtle changes that have deep meanings. I don't know how 6-7-8 will feel but at least 5 doesn't seem near as bad as they say. My worst experience in the game so far was the 'mansion' with a particular…

Newer (within the last 5 years or so) boards don't need this as much but you still find quite a few people who will recommend it anyway. - That is depending on where you source your parts cards and memory that attach to the system using a slot design (fingers along the bottom of the board) can get buildup which causes…

You'd have a point if the artwork in question wasn't a stylistic choice - all of the characters have (for lack of a better term) 'chibi' avatars in the game - but that includes the old guy with mostly bald hair and grey beard.

The artwork looks 18 - it could border on 16 that is very mature and you hate yourself when you find out I suppose - it's not like you see more than we were forced to watch (through copious amount of tabloid photos) of Courtney Stodgen?(sp?)

I got a receiver from newegg - actually the wrong one was sent - although it was similar - I wanted to send it back but shipping (due to weight) for this one item would have been over 50 bucks. Free returns means they send you a ups label via email and you just send it back - depending on how much stuff you pick up…

This was a vid I took with full ultra running on the PC

Well of course they are already optimized for this generation - they are essentially PC's - and the PC version of these game engines have been in development for *years* if not *decades*. People who think that the devs need to 'learn' the new systems - well there is a small bit of that - but not as much as you'd…

Most ISP's are already set that way - with bandwidth caps and options to pay more if you go over that cap.

So you are saying disagreement is pretty much a ticket to being ostracized and made fun of by the scientific community? Science - were possibly being wrong is 1000x worse than following the crowd?

Yeah it should be more like 7-8 mil at this point really - but they apparently had a fantastic holiday season - honestly they *needed* a system with a mario game included to get sales going (and it seems to have worked).

5 mill worldwide - your numbers are off

Someone is horribly wasting their talent here :(

Oh yeah - there is an entire lifehacker post on the subject here: