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Yeah, that happens.

There's a trick, used famously in Lord of the Rings for instance, called Forced Perspective. http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/bearhunt.asp

Agreed. More people have complained about empty FedEx packages than stolen royal mail ones. However, at this time of year, Royal Mail does take on lots of seasonal workers and they do tend to be light-fingered. http://search.bbc.co.uk/search?q=royal%20m...s&scope=all For instance, 60 people in Northern Ireland were sacked for theft over the last few years, and more than a third of them were prosecuted. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7682004.stm

The Storm was rushed to market in the hope of taking sales from the iPhone. It was a failure at that. I was hoping the Storm would be better and Apple would have to up their game, but unfortunately, we're down to hoping the Aussie Android will be good enough.

To combat the Storm?

You do realise that there is already zero capital gains tax on selling your primary property, right?

I find that expensive DLs work, but cost more than twice the price of decent SLs, so for archiving I gave up trying. Standard cheap SLs proved reliable enough and cheap enough when bought by the 100s that I've not yet needed to investigate further.

They did?

This week's Morse: "TOO MANY GEARS" and "I LIKE MR SULU"

Yes. However, as with all online sales, you can never tell that the pictures are of the actual watch you'd receive. It's a minefield.

I'm in Scotland as well and get my reps from around the world, but when I want them from the UK, I go to Precious Time or Narikaa, depending on the watch I want.

Best lock it up, Ken. A discussion about religious terrorism will include religion. We're not going to be able to avoid the subject for ever, but I appreciate you're telling us it's best done elsewhere.

The Press? Under Orders? Unfortunately, you're under some paranoid conspiracy influence there. Much like you said the press doesn't report what's really happening in Islam, I think you're passing into the realms of fiction as opposed to fact. I find it hard enough to discuss religion (as it is in my view a form of fiction people choose to believe) with you as it is, but if you're going to call on vast worldwide press-control conspiracies, I'm going to have to bow out of this one as you're off into tin-foil hat territory with that one. Anyway, to get back on topic, it's a travesty that people kill each other and it's cowardice that makes them hide behind religion.

One wonders how, with this power at their fingertips, they can stand by and do nothing. In that respect, Religion is culpable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman Bzzzt. You fail. http://www.islamicperspectives.com/Quran-4-34.htm If even suspension of sexual relations fails to work, then it is suggested that men use dharb. This word has almost universally been translated here as "beating". Such a translation is supported by some passages in the Qur'an where the word does mean smiting or striking (2:60, 61, 73, 8:12, 50, 7:160 etc). Yeah, not at all ambiguous. Hmm. You can't argue interpretable passages as rock-solid dogma. Even your finest scholars mumble over some passages and hope no-one notices. In Christianity, it's the bits where Lot's daughters get him drunk and seduce him; in Islam it's ... well, I'll let you find the bits you read quieter than others. Anyway, I digress. Islam has a PR disaster with terrorism and appears to be doing nothing about it. That's where I feel the real debate lies.

This is one of the key reasons Islam is referred to as a primitive religion. Some of the rules can be considered out of date, but if you wish to follow islam, you are trapped in a 7th century ruleset which can be demonstrated as being incompatible with a 21st century world. Many Islamist countries (like Iran and Nigeria) seem to be trying to revert civilisation to a pre-enlightened state. The way Islam treats its women is positively barbaric[1], for instance. This still doesn't cover the point about religious leaders I made earlier. Why does a religion (be it the leaders or the members, be it christianity or islam) not condemn these acts of terrorism? What do they fear? [1] As a reader of the Qur'an, you may be in an informed position to tell us what the rules about wife-beating are. Edit: Just before anyone decides to turn this into an anti-Islam rant using my posts as a launch platform, TJ is right on the peace aspect of Islam, whereby they want to be a religion of peace. However, Islam has a PR issue and it's not helped by Islamic terrorists. Islam needs to disown them and it needs to do so loudly and it needs to do so fast. Unfortunately, Islamic leaders and members have not universally shunned or disowned terrorists before and show no willingness to do so in the future, much like Christian leaders didn't tell the Irish to stop killing each other. As long as terrorists can use the names of religions unchecked, we will continue seeing terrorists as emissaries of their religions. If you're doing it in His name, and no-one on your side is disagreeing, we'll judge your religion, and rightly so.

That sounds plausible. And yes, I'd pay 700 Chilean Pesos or even 700 Hungarian Fornits. If it is, as you seem to be refusing to acknowledge, 700 US Dollars, walk away. Grey market watches don't hold their resale value.

It's a fine line we're treading. Nice to know the mods are keeping it civil. I'm not sure what the Indian government can do about this. There's no sovereign state they can avenge themselves upon, much like there was no country[1] behind the Al Quaeda attacks. Precedent shows the country of origin of the terrorists isn't held accountable. [1] I didn't hear of tanks rolling into Saudi Arabia, and that's where all the AQ guys came from.

Because it's the engraving that makes the gen look different.

Now you don't really believe that, do you? I'm not an expert on the Qur'an[1], but I can assure you that the bible has undergone a vast amount of edits and changes, mostly of a political nature. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Sinaiticus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_apocrypha That's just scratching the surface. [1] As far as I know, the Qur'an is mostly unchanged since the 7th century, yet scholars still find swathes of text to disagree about.

No. I don't think it possible.

The problem with religion is that it leaves itself (by design) open to interpretation. What you really need, and what you'll never get, is for the leaders of religions to stand up and say this is against their religion. Until the heads of religions actually say this, and loudly, the killings will continue. And yes, there's no way around it. This is about religion.

Please, stop assuming the world is (I presume) American. What currency are you on about? Dollars?