Fair enough. That said, I didn't mean a spell-check tool. I don't use those either. I meant a re-read of the contents before posting. In this case, that wouldn't have helped either as the article has gotten the name wrong too.
I take your point about other countries using chemical weapons. But:
1 - I meant that the US of A was the only nation to use both nuclear and chemical weapons
2 - Agent Orange wasn't just a defoliant. This quote is from the Agent Orange wikipedia article: "Vietnam estimates 400,000 people were killed or maimed, and 500,000 children born with birth defects as a result of its use"
Not that I completely disagree with the sentiment expressed in the article but all the wide-eyed outrage coming from the government of the US of A is a tad laughable seeing how it's the only country in the history of humankind that's pounded other countries with both nuclear (see Hiroshima, Nagasaki) and chemical (see Agent Orange, Vietnam) weapons.
Flashblock (extension for Firefox and possibly other browsers) is particularly convenient to stop auto-play and start when necessary. Any decent script blocker will take care of this as others have pointed out.
The difference between 'expected' and actual revenue is what... 1.2 billion pounds?
Politicians in other countries and their industry cronies are probably having a good laugh about now. Have a look at this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2G_spectrum_scam
"Londo and G'Kar stood out the most, performance-wise."
"And so much of the series was like that, where we only got one side of the story and it was very black-and-white as to who was good and who was evil."
"There was a startling lack of characterization"
You are contradicting yourself to death by mentioning Londo and G'Kar, black-and-white characters/situations, and lack of characterization in the same breath.
And forced religious conversions wouldn't have anything to do with the persecution these poor Christians are seeing, right?
Excerpt from Wikipedia article if you are too lazy to follow the link:
"The Baptist Church of Tripura is alleged to have supplied the NLFT with arms and financial support and to have encouraged the murder of Hindus, particularly infants, as a means to depopulate the region of all Hindus.[39] In Assam, members of the primarily Christian Hmar ethnic group have placed bloodstained crosses in temples and forced Hindus to convert at gunpoint"
Just in case you didn't know, Roland Emmerich is all set to direct the Foundation Trilogy. Yes that's the same guy who shot Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow and other such masterpieces.
I'd love to see the Foundation Trilogy on screen but surely, surely not at the hands of a butcher like Emmerich.
Not to mention Knights of the Old Republic (2003), Mass Effect (2007) and Mass Effect (2009), both excellent RPGs or hybrid RPGs in their own rights.
Bioware continues to release really solid games.
I think Jade Empire did pretty well, but no word on a sequel from the company that gave us Neverwinter Nights 2, KOTOR 2, and is giving us Mass Effect 2.
NWN 2 (don't get me started on that steaming pile of so and so) and KotOR 2 (can you say... incomplete?) were both developed by Obsidian, not by Bioware. Terrible follow-ups both. You would do well to pray that Obsidian isn't contracted to develop a sequel to Jade Empire.
"European customers will pay up to twice as much for Windows 7 compared with US users, even though the new operating system will ship without a browser in Europe.
Well duh, only twice the money... but... but... they are rid of IE for good! So stop whinging you people. Them Europeans are getting a sweet deal me thinks!
How about this? Start with Foundation and Empire, which is very much a novel (and not a bunch of short stories), move to Second Foundation (2 parts I guess) and then wrap up with Foundation. By the time they get to Foundation, they should have enough people lining up to lap it up inspite of its fragmented nature.
Afterall, Hollywood *has* to make 3 or 5 part movies these days right?
"People seem to forget that polls showed that US citizens, as well as many of the world supported going into Iraq immediately after 9/11 on a false premise that Saddam had ties to 9/11."
Whoa whoa. Maybe US citizens did want to go to war. But I distinctly remember *world* citizens - even the ones from countries that did send troops - being overwhelmingly against the war.
Mod the parent up someone. I'd like to add the 'tangible' benefits (as in moolah) are being seen already and that the publicity, derided as it in some quarters, will only add to more 'customers' and more 'business'.
It isn't countries per se that are involved in importing used electronics and taking them apart in an unsafe manner. Rather, it is a bunch of brokers and recyclers.
From the report:
State-of-the-art facilities that can safely dismantle CRTs and other electronic gadgets:
1 Umicore (Belgium)
2 Samsung Corning (Malaysia)
Unsafe dismantling/recycling goes on largely in South-east Asia and parts of West Africa. The following countries are mentioned:
- Cambodia
- China
- India
- Indonesia
- Nigeria
- Senegal
Dr. Itzhak Fried, the senior researcher involved in the project complained to the gathered reporters about getting frantic calls in the middle of the night.
The caller, who'd only identify himself as Alberto or as G, wanted Dr Fried to tell him how he could turn the little blasted cells off, the ones that did the "recalling" anyway.
And the Chinese are going to carry a pile of slave corpses on-board that's going to drive the new train?
Who the hell modded this load of trash "Insightful"?
Let me be pedantic for a minute and state that the Kuiper Belt != the Oort cloud.
The Kuiper Belt and the scattered disc have been studied/observed quite a bit. The Oort cloud, on the other hand, is hypothetical (which certainly does not mean that it doesnt exist). The "boundaries" of the inner Oort cloud are thought to begin well beyond the scattered disk, which in turn extends beyond the Kuiper belt (although the two may well overlap).
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Fair enough. That said, I didn't mean a spell-check tool. I don't use those either. I meant a re-read of the contents before posting. In this case, that wouldn't have helped either as the article has gotten the name wrong too.
Archaeocetes = ancient whales. Achaeocetes = typo. Is a basic spell check too much to ask?
I take your point about other countries using chemical weapons. But: 1 - I meant that the US of A was the only nation to use both nuclear and chemical weapons 2 - Agent Orange wasn't just a defoliant. This quote is from the Agent Orange wikipedia article: "Vietnam estimates 400,000 people were killed or maimed, and 500,000 children born with birth defects as a result of its use"
Not that I completely disagree with the sentiment expressed in the article but all the wide-eyed outrage coming from the government of the US of A is a tad laughable seeing how it's the only country in the history of humankind that's pounded other countries with both nuclear (see Hiroshima, Nagasaki) and chemical (see Agent Orange, Vietnam) weapons.
Flashblock (extension for Firefox and possibly other browsers) is particularly convenient to stop auto-play and start when necessary. Any decent script blocker will take care of this as others have pointed out.
The difference between 'expected' and actual revenue is what ... 1.2 billion pounds?
Politicians in other countries and their industry cronies are probably having a good laugh about now. Have a look at this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2G_spectrum_scam
"Londo and G'Kar stood out the most, performance-wise."
"And so much of the series was like that, where we only got one side of the story and it was very black-and-white as to who was good and who was evil."
"There was a startling lack of characterization"
You are contradicting yourself to death by mentioning Londo and G'Kar, black-and-white characters/situations, and lack of characterization in the same breath.
And forced religious conversions wouldn't have anything to do with the persecution these poor Christians are seeing, right?
Excerpt from Wikipedia article if you are too lazy to follow the link:
"The Baptist Church of Tripura is alleged to have supplied the NLFT with arms and financial support and to have encouraged the murder of Hindus, particularly infants, as a means to depopulate the region of all Hindus.[39] In Assam, members of the primarily Christian Hmar ethnic group have placed bloodstained crosses in temples and forced Hindus to convert at gunpoint"
Just in case you didn't know, Roland Emmerich is all set to direct the Foundation Trilogy. Yes that's the same guy who shot Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow and other such masterpieces.
I'd love to see the Foundation Trilogy on screen but surely, surely not at the hands of a butcher like Emmerich.
They forgot to mention that they also got the pigeon to stop and poop all over the Telkom bosses enroute.
Not to mention Knights of the Old Republic (2003), Mass Effect (2007) and Mass Effect (2009), both excellent RPGs or hybrid RPGs in their own rights.
Bioware continues to release really solid games.
I think Jade Empire did pretty well, but no word on a sequel from the company that gave us Neverwinter Nights 2, KOTOR 2, and is giving us Mass Effect 2.
NWN 2 (don't get me started on that steaming pile of so and so) and KotOR 2 (can you say ... incomplete?) were both developed by Obsidian, not by Bioware. Terrible follow-ups both. You would do well to pray that Obsidian isn't contracted to develop a sequel to Jade Empire.
I'm not disputing your basic point though.
"European customers will pay up to twice as much for Windows 7 compared with US users, even though the new operating system will ship without a browser in Europe. ... but ... but ... they are rid of IE for good! So stop whinging you people. Them Europeans are getting a sweet deal me thinks!
Well duh, only twice the money
That load of tripe is 'Insightful'? Looks like the 'usual' fools are out in force today.
Yeah but "these people" are ... well ... umm ... "Americans", ya know?
How about this? Start with Foundation and Empire, which is very much a novel (and not a bunch of short stories), move to Second Foundation (2 parts I guess) and then wrap up with Foundation. By the time they get to Foundation, they should have enough people lining up to lap it up inspite of its fragmented nature.
Afterall, Hollywood *has* to make 3 or 5 part movies these days right?
"People seem to forget that polls showed that US citizens, as well as many of the world supported going into Iraq immediately after 9/11 on a false premise that Saddam had ties to 9/11."
Whoa whoa. Maybe US citizens did want to go to war. But I distinctly remember *world* citizens - even the ones from countries that did send troops - being overwhelmingly against the war.
Here's what Europeans thought for example:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2747175.stm
Where's your proof? And you accuse someone else of being an ignorant troll and fo spreading FUD.
Mod the parent up someone.
I'd like to add the 'tangible' benefits (as in moolah) are being seen already and that the publicity, derided as it in some quarters, will only add to more 'customers' and more 'business'.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7199736.stm
It isn't countries per se that are involved in importing used electronics and taking them apart in an unsafe manner. Rather, it is a bunch of brokers and recyclers.
From the report:
State-of-the-art facilities that can safely dismantle CRTs and other electronic gadgets:
1 Umicore (Belgium)
2 Samsung Corning (Malaysia)
Unsafe dismantling/recycling goes on largely in South-east Asia and parts of West Africa. The following countries are mentioned:
- Cambodia
- China
- India
- Indonesia
- Nigeria
- Senegal
Here's a brilliantly written piece (IMHO) by DFW on Roger Federer. I'd never heard of the man till I came across this article a couple of years ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20federer.html
Dr. Itzhak Fried, the senior researcher involved in the project complained to the gathered reporters about getting frantic calls in the middle of the night.
The caller, who'd only identify himself as Alberto or as G, wanted Dr Fried to tell him how he could turn the little blasted cells off, the ones that did the "recalling" anyway.
And the Chinese are going to carry a pile of slave corpses on-board that's going to drive the new train?
Who the hell modded this load of trash "Insightful"?
Yeah disgrace is just about right http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:njDps1hktigJ:www.statewatch.org/news/2003/jul/analy18.pdf+US+extradition+treaty&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=uk&client=firefox-a
If it makes you feel any better, you aren't alone. There are more losers out there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_extradition_treaties
Some of use nerds have "wives"
He lies!
What's that you say? He isn't lying? You sure mate? He even mentioned *sex*!
*walks away shaking his head sadly*
Interesting thought that.
Let me be pedantic for a minute and state that the Kuiper Belt != the Oort cloud.
The Kuiper Belt and the scattered disc have been studied/observed quite a bit. The Oort cloud, on the other hand, is hypothetical (which certainly does not mean that it doesnt exist). The "boundaries" of the inner Oort cloud are thought to begin well beyond the scattered disk, which in turn extends beyond the Kuiper belt (although the two may well overlap).