And it's a racing driver named Ben Collins. Apparently, he wanted to publish an autobiography that would (by necessity) reveal himself as the Stig and BBC tried to use legal action to stop him. The court ruled in favor of HarperCollins (the publisher) and now the cat's out of the bag. More info here.

After what happened to Black!Stig, I imagine they'll find some suitably impressive way to off him in the show next season.

Drift Away by Uncle Kracker.

Day after day I'm more confused

But I look for the light through the pourin' rain

You know, that's a game, that I hate to loose

I'm feelin' the strain, ain't it a shame --

[CHORUS:] Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul;

I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away.

Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul;

I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away.

Won't you take me away... .

Beginnin' to think, that I'm wastin' time,

And I don't understand the things I do;

The world outside looks so unkind.

I'm countin' on you, you can carry me through --

CHORUS

And when my mind is free,

You know your melody can move me;

And when I'm feelin' blue,

The guitars come through to soothe me.

Thanks for the joy you've given me.
I want you to know I believe in your song,

And rhythm, and rhyme, and harmony;

You helped me along, you're makin' me strong --

CHORUS (Twice)

If there's ever a time that healing just isn't a viable option; a person has to die, and Doug wants him/her to "go gentle into that good night," this song is for that time.  It produces, effectively, astral projection, but the soul never returns to the body, it just drifts off pleasantly.
Naturally, this is a song he's unlikely ever to be willing to use, as he'd far prefer healing anyone that he doesn't hate.  Also, he must use I'll Play for You first, or Doug will be gently discarnated.
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.

Could someone with more experience working with Mozilla Thunderbird give me a hand?  I can't send messages out through my Gmail account using Thunderbird.  Stuff gets downloaded into my inbox just fine, but when I try to send something I get this error message:

Quote:Send Message Error

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Sending of message failed.
An Error occured sending mail: Unable to connect to SMTP server smtp.gmail.com via STARTTLS since it doesn't offer STARTTLS in EHLO response. Please verify that your Mail/News account settings are correct and try again.

Necratoid Wrote:Okay...
I'm going to try to respond to that without starting a flame war with a
heavy post blindness sauce that spirals off into gibbering infinity. 
First I can't believe you invoked it takes a village.  That is
equivalent of invoking the Godwin's law of Parenting... you
automatically lose the debate the second it's invoked as a positive.  I
told you not to do that for a reason. Seriously, you invoked it takes a village.
First,
I counter your personal anecdotes with one dead four year old cousin of
mine.  Which is the direct result of the only actually communal
breeding harem (CBH) I've had personal experience with.  So call me
jaded.  The other kid got most of his parenting from doing what most
kids I've seen do when that ugly bit of their parents getting divorced
do... seek it else where.   In otherwords your invoking a 'He said, She
said' style arguement.  No one's mind really changes from those.
Second,
I'm swapping out your Glooblflargs namely, 'good parenting' and 'bad
parenting' as it would take far, far to long to flesh those out.to
meaningful terms and replacing it with just 'parenting'.  To expand, a
Gloobleflarg is a key, central point in a debate, arguement, or politcal
campaign that no one ever actually got around to defining.  Its an
empty term that the listener or debater is left to secretly define
themselves.  Basically, it can be replaced by a random sound effect,
thus being honest about being more Madlib then meaningful speech.
Third,
you do realize your arguement boils down to basically: As the number of
participants in the CBH approaches infinity then percent chance of one
of them having time to do parenting approach 100%.  To which I''d
counter with: The percent chance of any offspring being unparented by
the CBH at any given time interval approachs 100% as the number of
offspring approaches infinity.  Baiscally, the 'infinite number of
monkies' arguement... on a less cosmic scale.  Which means the most
important word in your arguement goes to someone.  Which is
more likely to be a non participant in the CBH than a participant, if we
go by numbers... unless the entire community is involved and then your
in a hippy commune and you can off replace parented by some one at
random with given LSD by someone at random.
Which is the largest
part of why, to me at least, your arguemnt utterly fails to counter what
you were responding to.  It basically turns parenting into a games of
statistics.  As statistics are crazy easy to make say what you want them
to say.  Its the literal truth that papers coming to completely
opposite conclusions use the exact same statistics to prove their
points.  Again I'm not trying to pick a fight and it would take far, far
to much effort and research into your personal life to pick your
personal anicedotes appart... possiblely a 20 year or so megastudy.
So
instead I'll explain why you lost via the parenting equivalent of
invoking Godwin's law.  The 2 men and 2 women (minimum) formatt is only
possible in two formatts.  Foursome or wifeswap.  For wifeswap Your
looking for Marmalade Girl fanfiction or something.  For Foursome of the
described type (rather than a loose association) it takes a village makes a rather a lot of sense and works with my point rather well.
The reason why it takes a village
to explain parenting practices that are a good idea fails, is where
that saying comes from.  Seriously.  That phrase is straight from
Africa.  Specifically villages of Kleenex people.  As in those who are
disposable, interchangable, and expected to die randomly like minorities
in a slasher film with an insanely racist director.  Once husband/wife
is as good as any other huband/wife as life is short and pointless and
someone has to take out the trash/cook.  Where dating is composed of the
men (as a group) going to another village (thus limiting inbreeding
chances) and prettiing themselves up... then the available women wander
out in a herd and pick a mate entirely by how pretty he looks.  Its from
those sections of Africa were you are forbidden to name and infant
until two years of age... because its so likely to die that your not
allow to get attacted until that point as its probably going to live
long enough to get to puberty at that point.  If you name the infant its
a lot harder to forget about it.  It takes a village because the parents are often not going to live long enough to raise the kid.
In
a non third world context, it means your free to ignore the kids as
eventually someone will get around to doing it for you.  Quick use the
Ultimate Babysitter! (a.k.a. a TV set, or LSD in Hippy communes)  Buy
them a toy line so they have stuff to amuse themselves with while we
ignore them.  This is why they have friends and grandparents!  These are
hallmarks of negligent parents.  Which has is not restricted to CBH at
all.  These are signs of failing at parenting.  As I aid the equivalent
of Godwin's law being invoked.
Now to take a foursome into being
you find another trait of these societies comes into play.  Segregation
of children by sex, during which time your homosexual by law.  Then when
you come of age your now straight by law and go to the men market. 
Yes, by law.  All it would take is a female couple by chance picking a
male couple and a little bit of ignoring said law.

>:{
Hong Kong Phooey -- previously suggested as an Empowerment song spec-ed towards Martial Arts.  Received a Rasp-berry I believe.
Suggestion: 
the Song is actually a Depowerment (?!)  stripping powers, bonuses, and physical stats to baseline human, leaving targeted character with Delusions of Martial Competence.

An "open alternative" to Facebook, called http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11108891]Diaspora, is about two weeks away from launch.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Not for the Faint of Heart...
Shall we see what we get...?

Quote:She appears to be a normal marine biologist except she dresses like a
punk rock commando soldier, her eyes reflects your soul when you look
into them and her hair is bright orange and she wears it just like
sailor moon, but secretly she is actually a half-ghost.
She is a
misunderstood genius megalomaniac and she will fight her enemies with
the power to re-animate the dead as her slaves or to take the shape of
anyone she eats.
Her friends and enemies call her Soulcaller Unicornriver!
Her constant companion is a sparkling murderous xenomorph who is also her bondage slave.
Her favored weapon is a magical poisoned staff which can be made invisible at her will.

Quote:She appears to be a normal model except she dresses like a bloody nurse
gestapo officer, her eyes can see the goodness in any creature's heart
and her hair is crimson red and can extend and retract at her will, but
secretly she is actually a half-dwarf.
She is the living key to open
up hell cursed by God and she will fight her enemies with the power to
corrupt mortals or to rip up trees and hit people with them.
Her friends and enemies call her Awesomegirl Skywing!
Her constant companion is a mysterious befriended fox who is also her lover.
Her favored weapon is a silver shining rapier which can be transformed into a motorcycle.

Quote:She appears to be a normal raver except she dresses like a mad
scientist catgirl, her eyes glows with arcane power and her hair is
jade green and flows like silk but is stronger then diamond, but
secretly she is actually a half-angel.
She is the daughter of the
president born from a scientific experiment gone wrong and she will
fight her enemies with the power to extend her tongue and use it as a
razor-sharp whip or to punch her opponent into another dimension.
Her friends and enemies call her Cancerclaw Souldancer!
Her constant companion is a friendly special needs dragon who is also her personal trainer.
Her favored weapon is a dragonbone huge knuckle dusters which shines bright like the sun.

...http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2 ... ttack.html]be like this guy and have it beside a CPR recertification course.

(I wonder whether this counts as an automatic pass of the course?)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

And it's not Atlas Park during a Costume contest!
Pics from the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth Hero Half Marathon! (YouTube link)
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

RIP: Charles Roberts, founder of Avalon Hill Games, publishers of all kinds of really neat boardgames.
This man's company was what got me into gaming. When I was all of ten years old. I owe some of the most fun parts of my life to them.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obitua ... full.story
(ETA: Fixed link.)
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.