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Hanging is so 1800's. The preferred method of execution in North Korea is live mortar shell these days:

http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/index.php/sid/210323137/scat/b8de8e630faf3631/ht/North-Korean-minister-killed-by-mortar-shell-for-drinking-in-mourning-period

No, it's because the local Arabs have spent all their money on buying weapons.
Then starved themselves out Or they've dug up their sewage pipes to make rockets. "Oh no, blame the Israelis for the raw sewage everywhere. If they'd just stand still and let the rockets hit them we could stop ripping up our pipes to make more!"
Maybe they should spend some time on useful R&D like real people.

You seriously lack perspective. Look again...with an open mind...

In response to items like:

"10/15/2008 Afghanistan Lashkar Gah 6 0 Six local police are taken out in a brutal Taliban ambush on their checkpoint."

I suggest:

US strike kills 9 al Qaeda and Taliban in North Wazirstan
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/10/us_strike_kills_9_al.php

US kills 6 in strike in Baitullah Mehsud's territory
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/10/us_kills_6_in_strike.php

US Kills al Qaeda in Iraq's deputy commander
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/10/us_kills_6_in_strike.php

When we do it, its framed as a 'strike against $evil_people' not as an invasion force killing people in their homes, like when they fight back.

In response to something like:

"10/14/2008 Afghanistan Uruzgan 9 6 Two children are among nine civilians murdered when Taliban bombers target a minibus."

how about:

Unmanned US drone kills school children...
http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/index.php?sid=403793

What do you think would be written if it had been their unmanned drone and our children?

And as for this:

"10/13/2008 Pakistan Murid Wal 1 0 A young man is forced by honor to kill his mother when she refuses to break off an 'illicit' relationship."

Gee that sounds awful.. but doesn't REALLY sound much different than this:

"An 18 year old boy, Sean Powell, was shot to death in his car outside the home of the married teacher he had been having an affair with. Local police have arrested the woman's husband, Eric Mclean, in the shooting."

Same motivation, Same result, same difference. Oh wait... you mean to say it was a state sanctioned murder? gotcha...luckily we have those too...

"Kevin Watts, 27, was pronounced dead on Thursday at 6:17 pm Texas time (2317 GMT), spokeswoman Michelle Lyons told AFP.

It was Texas' tenth execution since the start of the year, and the second execution to take place this week. Ten more inmates are scheduled to be killed in Texas by the end of November."

Granted we don't do it for adultry... but on the other hand, we don't exactly have the best track record for even properly ensuring our victims are guilty...

http://www.abanet.org/irr/hr/fall97/deathpen.html

Here's a video interview with him on CNET: http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/redir.php?jid=2185 46b58b244f4f&cat=52079c37c3706e15

Basically, his rationale is that because companies don't permit engineers to check patent portfolios and many companies don't actively check patents against their own products a lot of companies are in trouble.

Personally, though I'm not quite convinced. I believe it is a way to squeeze out the small players in the market. There's something about this guy that after seeing the video demonstrates one thing: not trustworthy. His body language and voice show through right away.

I wonder how much it costs to join the "club" and I wonder what kind of contract you have to sign to get in.

It is not really that much of a risk that Sony is taking, as Microsoft is taking nearly the same risk. It is reported that the XB360 will be selling for $299, which still means a ~$75 loss per system for Microsoft.

I cannot say I agree with you, however just an fyi; Sony's new CEO Howard Stringer is saying that Sony is going to cut back on other research and development in order to finance more R&D into the two parts of PS3 which is supposed to seperate it from the competition (XB360). No surprise, these two things are: the Cell processor, which will be used not only to power the PlayStation 3 but also many of Sony's electronics, and the much ballyhooed Blu-ray disc, which will be the standard hi-def format for the PS3 and the format that Sony hopes eventually replaces DVD in the marketplace.

Also see this article: World trembles as Bush shapes up for four more years.

Here is a quote: One can only imagine what the reaction of the American public would be if the government was to employ at home the same tactics it uses in other countries.

Another quote: The Osama bin Laden tapes, the one aired this weekend and those before, demonstrate in the clearest possible fashion that these people the target of the War on Terror are incensed by the U.S. relationship with Israel where there are no boundaries to U.S. support. Israel ironically harbors weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical, and biological, and accounts to no-one. Israel has not complied with scores of UN resolutions, has invaded several countries (carried out bombings and assassinations), and has illegally occupied the West Bank since 1967.

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