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Woo.  Now that's a plan.  Like the best of advice it seems obvious in hindsight.

I'm very much with the 'ref call' program.  But I appreciate that players should have a rough idea of availability (and legality).  Rather than being anal enough to rate every single bit of equipment, why not just make a few general bands populated a with couple of examples based on the existing guns availability stuff?

Whoops.  Good point.  But I plan to live on at least the 1st floor if possible, 2nd or above for preference.

The new Fortress of Bachelortude has no openings for black ops teams currently.

Downside is the rent is looking a bit pricey, even for a 1 bedroom flat.

Why avoid living by the river, out of interest?

I've seen a few variations.  I saw a quality rastafarian fixer that traded mostly in favours, rather than merchandise.  Characters that live "in the world" (i.e. SINed or whatever) usually got funds transfered to an account.

In my experience, CP2020 black ops groups usually get paid however the contractor wish to be paid, providing it leaves no trails leading back to the employer.

VftE's levels sarcasm and general wit recently dipped slightly for about a week since I've been leaping through hoops (metaphorically you damned pedants) for an employment agency with various interviews.

I have been offered and accepted a permanent software engineer position with an expanding pharmacutical company up in York.  At last - an end to contracting!

GOAL!

No.  But then I am a web developer.

I watched a few people flunk out at uni blaming the Internet (and in one particularly frightning instance: because they used the university's unofficial BBS too much) and wondered what it would be like to possess a complete lack of self control.

On the other hand one of them picked up work at SuSe as a developer/admin straight away, so I guess it's not just a dropout option.

I don't believe the Internet leads to problems, it's how it gets used.  Just like recreational drugs, sex, rpg, drinking, porn, general slacking and most of the other good sh!t.

One of the chaps showed me this about 2 years ago.  Quality stuff.  Your brother?  Nice one.

"Hey Hamburgler!  Want some delicious McSmack?"

"Shootle shootle!"

I have linux on my secondary PC, and used it as a gateway until I got a router a month or two back.  It's the bomb as a server, but not quite ready for mainstream desktop use.

For one thing one has to be more careful about buying hardware, ensuring whatever you buy actually has linux drivers for it.  In my experience I have sometimes had to rely on sourceforge written drivers, rather than manufacturer's own.  Whilst it is hardly the fault of Linux distributors that manfuacters are lazy, it is an issue that must be addressed.

I disagree with some ofyour conclusions.  You seem to embrace a number of stereotypes based on your own observations.  You also use the worrying term 'genetic superiority'.  I do not consider the jock stereotype (athletic but as thick as two bricks) to be 'genetically superior'.

Secondly - you make the mistake of defining humanity by sexuality.  Whilst removing the hormonal component of humanity might be a mistake, so is reducing ambition, hope and other aspirations to mere genetic directives.

Revelling in one's own stench, metaphorically speaking, is not embracing the sum of what it means to be human.  There is intellect, conscience, self awareness, alturism and more.

Humans are not merely biological engines.

You mean cyberpunks don't ride around the city in something that looks like the neon pink (!) and chrome lovechild of a tank and a pickup truck with enough armament to pacify, let's say, a middle eastern country ran by a despotic dictator?

How rare!

Unless you have enough, aha,  'switches' in a digital system to portray an analogue system accurately enough so as to be effectively indistiguishable from a true analogue system.

rofl

Spanner.

No kids for me, but I don't mind looking after other people's for a bit.  The beauty of that situation is that normally you get all the benefits ("Aww, so cute!  Time for me to read a STORY.") without any of the downsides ("STFU!").

Could result in alot of suicides.  Bad call.

My vote is still for National Blowjob Day.

Add another test?  Another dice roll?

I've found in the past that halving the armour value of any piece of protective clothing makes players more thoughtful.  Squealing gun weasels tend to disagree on this point though.

Power lies in passion, but mastery lies in control.

Blimey.  There are a lot of people in this thread that do not understand irony.  What's up?

BZZT!  DOES NOT COMPUTE!

I'll hand out some spare humour chips if you want.

I don't think I have had anything tragically ironic happen recently, unfortunately.  I did spend 7 hours on a train for a 15 minute interview the other day, but that hardly qualifies.

Hrmm?

I've scored my first interview since my last contract, next Tuesday.  Sweet.

Ah, it's not a good day unless it starts with a babyish emote.

Crash, if you're into computer RPGs it may interest you to know that there was an Amiga game based on Neuromancer made for the Amgia released in 1989.  Click here for BHend.com's entry.

"Fetchez le Big Mac!"

Heh.  Invading France would be funny.

I like the novel use of the word "robust".  Kudos.

Eve Online is something I fancy trying out at some point, when I am not poor again.  Sort of looks/sounds like Elite meets MMORPG.

Invading Iraq is not interventionist?