That's only granting EA rights to unlimited usage.  Part 2 sort of seems a little 'anti-booty' if you ask me.

bizarre.  It could be a subtle attempt at trying to say that coconut's evidence has been fabricated in someway.  The whole Selected Pixel Loss Are Magical thing is just plain out there though.  That woman must have been a brain donor for someone, because I think hers has been removed.

At school for me there was never as much as a focus on nouns and pronouns, just correct spelling, punctuation and basic grammar.  When I did my VCE each subject I did was assessed by a series of Common Assessment Tasks or CATs.  Some where known as Extended CATs, which were basically assignments.  In order to pass you have to sufficiently fulfill a set of criteria, ie show an understanding of specific topics, correct and sufficient referencing etc.  Test CATs were exams, or the like.  For Italian for example I had to pass an oral examination which consisted of a conversation in Italian with two assessors, as well as a presentation.  For English, there was a series of oral presentations, a written test and a writing portfolio. The workload could get extreme and I've got memories of some of the others in my year crying their heart out in the locker room because the pressure was just too much for them. 

I had a subject at my first year of university whose entire goal was to encourage thought and independant learning.  (BTW in Australia we have kindergarten, followed by primary school (grades 1-6 in Victoria.)  Followed by secondary school or High School (7 - 12.  Year 11 and 12 are the HSC years.  Called VCE in Victoria, SACE in South Australia.  Don't know about the other states).  You can then go on to tertiary education which is either TAFE college or University.  Any subjects higher than a degree must be studied at University, however.  TAFE from what I've noticed, does not encourage much in the way of independant thought.  You learn the subject matter, and how to answer the questions, and that is all there is to it.  It is believed that that way you are best prepared for the work place.

You could argue that we are all in a more elaborate form of a second Middle Ages.  A few intelligent members of society at the top, ruling the roost as it were, controlling  the rest of the population via entertainment and other such media.    Keep the rest  of the populus dumb, bereft of thought, only letting them think that the situation was otherwise.  After all, not everyone can be a member of the wealthy elite now can they.  *dons tin foil hat*

*sighs* another quality masterpeice from TSR.

I know their is in more recent times a style of belly dance known as Raqs Gothique.  Some seriously wicked costumes, too.

Had a Goth in one of my classes at Uni when I was doing Professional Writing.  (Will never forget the story she wrote that culminated in a rather graphic description of severing a penis with a blunt plastic knife.  I don't think there was a single person in class who didn't go shades of grey and white reading that.  The guys actually had tears in their eyes.)  She was very into the scene and knew a lot of goths as well.  She said there were the standard black goths who wore dark cloths, dark make up but made sure their skin was as pale as possible, then there were vampire goths, ghost goths who wore only white and very pale colours, colour goths who would wear any colour but black (colour goths she said were the least common).  From what I know there are also cyber goths these days too.  I've never been into Goth btw, just knew a few (was also friends with the closest thing Mildura had to a goth.)

Emma applauded Darqstar.  Pescado reacted with deathwishes.  It seems to me that the Fishmeister does not approve of you being applauded, Darqstar.  I find it funny.  Therefore, I fangirl for moar Pescado torment  

And your comic book style storytelling cracks me up.  And inspires me.

Since you say that Pescado . . . . *fangirls Darqstar gratuitously*  (BTW, would've fangirled Darqstar anyway, but Pes's response was further incentive to do so)

M m m m wow.  Crapulicious.  *vomits uncontrollably in revulsion*

Nah, it means you had to be high in order to be stupid enough to pay for it 

Grew up with over a dozen chooks (chickens).  For a while there it included a couple of roosters as well (and can tell some seriously funny stories about that).  Best eggs you would ever taste.  Chooks would be let out of their cage daily to run amok around the back yard.  Even raised a few chickies (very cute.  Hot tip, if your hen has hatched a batch of chickens run in with a leaf of silverbeet in your hand for the little guys.  They'll swarm  over it, protecting you from their mum who would otherwise attack ))

My parents dog had to have a vegetarian diet after he had liver problems and could no longer digest meat .Dogs are in fact omnivorous, which means they need some vegies too for them to have a balanced diet.  Most animals have a secondary family of food that they need.  Take birds.  Budgerigars are essentially granivores - that is they eat grains.  But they also need green leafy vegetables and fruit.  Wattle Birds are nectavores, meaning they are honeyeaters. But they also eat fruit, insects and small lizards  In al cases one is the primary diet, meaning the thing they have to eat a lot of to survive, and the other secondary to ensure that they are healthy and free of any conditions.

I'm all for animal rights myself.  The way I see it we're animals too, albeit more intelligent than the vast majority, not to mention being the dominant species.  But still anatomically, we have all the same things as them, and while we are superior intellectually many animals are superior to us in other ways (better senses etc).  They think and feel, just cannot communicate with us the way we can one another.  But the level of cruelty we subject our fellow creatures to can be incomprehensible considering nine times out of ten we don't do it for the sake of survival like they would. merely for our own comfit and sometimes pleasure.

I don't have a problem with eating meat.  When we kill an animal, the creature is often killed a lot quicker than what many other carnivores kill.  The fact remains is that we like dogs, are omnivorous and as such our dietary requirements need us to eat meat as well as vegetables.  Nor do I have a problem with eating animal products like milk and eggs.  I only eat free range eggs and chickens however, as it is cruel to keep a creature cooped up inside a tiny cage with no room to move and scratch about.  The quality of food is also of a much higher standard when they are free range.

Animal hide.  I do wear leather and suede, but will only wear faux fur.  I cannot justify the use of animals purely for the sake of fashion.  There  are many other ways that humans are capable of keeping warm, we don't need to .

I cannot justify using animals for cosmetic experimentation, as results are inconclusive and the methods by which they come by such results are sickening at best.  There are many high quality products on the market that have not needed to be tested on any animal to ensure it is safe for us.  We don't need to hurt animals to look beautiful.  Fortunately most countries are in agreement with this and such practices are outlawed in most countries now.

Some people seem to regard animals as a thing to be used like a chair or a computer like the one you are staring at.  Any sound or reaction it makes is purely mechanical, right.  No pain or anything like that.  I've even had one lady say its okay to not care about animals as they don't have a soul.  Heh, the ancient greeks said that about women and children, too.  It was their justification for not worrying about rights, not listening to them or regarding them as being part of the community.  They had the same rights as a horse or a dog.  But that has changed, because we know better now. 

He'd probably do a Blue Soup burnination and throw Calalilly's on the fire for good measure