"Since the government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea made public a statement on the country's withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Korean workers have stepped up production and construction, determined to win the final victory in confrontation with the U.S. imperialists. The miners of the Komdok Mine are countering the enemies' reckless economic blockade with increased production of non-ferrous metallic minerals."
Or
"The secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland Monday issued information bulletin no. 835 denouncing the "declaration on the situation" released by pro-U.S. traitor Kim Yong Sam and other motley crew in South Korea on Jan. 17. The bulletin said."
Or
"The Pyongyang Textile Mill, the Sinuiju Basic Foodstuff Factory and other light industry factories have fullfilled their daily quotas at 120 percent by putting the production processes on a modern basis and keeping equipment in full-capacity operation."
Hugh Grant isn't the nightmare Sturm. Fatty Baldwin...hell any Baldwin as Sturm is the nightmare Sturm, you can't have a nightmare cast without a Baldwin.
Julia Ormond as Kitaria, because every character she played breaks up a friendship and leads to betrayal. And she can't act her way into an express lane.
"Before the election of 2000, the US was on its way to becoming a cooperative international power. We were involved in negotiations on the Kyoto treaty, we weren't developing "Star Wars" ABM weapons, and we were even showing signs of getting with the program on such no-brainers as land mines."
In the spirit of the holidays I say...horseshit.
The Senate voted 97-0 against Kyoto, not voting on the Treaty, but voting to show Clinton they were not interested in the least in the form Kyoto was taking.
The US started devloping ABM systems in the 1950s, so did the Soviets, and while the names and forms changes the ABM systems were always being developed. In 1972 the ABM tready banned them for all but 1 location in a respective country, in the USSR that was Moscow, in the US it was Grand Forks ND. Then the US decommed the Sprint site in 1974 and we didn't have anything. In the 1980s they revived work on an ASAT system and a combination of energy and explosive and nuclear ABM systems under the catch-all "Star Wars". The ASAT missile worked, but was decommed, everything else trickled down through the late 80s and 90s, eventually ending up in today's ABM system of Patriots, Standards, phased-array radars and the new Interceptors atop old Minuteman missiles.
Don't for a second think that the current systems in testing were pulled out of George W. Bush's ass or something, all that was being worked on during the Clinton administration too.
As for the ban on land-mines, that wasn't ever going to happen as long as the Anti-Mine folks wouldn't give the US the exclusion for the Korean DMZ. The US has about 2.5-3 million mines there, all nicely mapped and organized and wanted either an extension to move them or an exclusion for them, nope ain't going to happen.
From 1998 "The Clinton administration is asking Congress for relief from a moratorium on using anti-personnel land mines, saying the halt would needlessly endanger U.S. service members.
The only alternative to land mines now is to use greater force. "If we were to do that in Korea, we would have to deploy 17,000 additional troops, 350 additional tanks, 410 additional Bradley fighting vehicles, 24additional helicopters and 144 other aircraft," Bacon said. "So it would mean a very substantial increase in our forces in a very short period of time, because we assume that in Korea our warning would be very, very short."
See, fellas don't talk in the bathroom. Unless it's to talk about sports in grunts, or "what movie are you in? It good?" types of coverstations.
On the otherhand, women talk about everything under the sun in there, the public bathroom for men, at least in my experiance is a temple of silence, albeit silence punctuated with "Dude! I'm hammered!" or long deep farts echoing on tile.
That said, I may not be honoring diversity because I've not used the john with some some sex-gender continuum benders. Perhaps Gender-Bender can shed some light on it, I'll look to my DVDs.
"With a price tag of $88 million, Nozomi, or "Hope", has been just that. Japanese scientists are hoping the craft can get to Mars and provide useful data."
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technolo gy/rover_update_021009.html "The MER program is an $800 million effort. It's what NASA calls the "soup to nuts" or beginning-to-end costs. This total life cycle expense includes launch and operating the rovers on Mars."
That was so funny, especially since Eugene has a huge hobo population during the summer.
Read a piece about it about 15 years ago in the Register Guard (Eugene's paper) seems that hobos regularly rain to Arizona and Florida for the winter, then come back up north for the summers. Eugene has a large rail capacity and thus it's Grand Central Station for the Western Crested Hobo.
"...setting is in a fictional American town, although in Family Guy, we at least know the state (Rhode Island)"
The Simpsons are set in Oregon, more here... http://www.portlandtribune.com/archview.c gi?id=123 92 http://www.portlandtribune.com/archview.cgi?id =126 27 http://www.portlandtribune.com/archview.cgi?id =126 25
There used to be a map on the Portland Tribune site about it.
Matt is from Portland although I argue that the Springfield vs. Shelbyville rivalry comes from Eugene and Springfield, but it might come from Portland and Vancouver Wa or Eastside vs Westside.
In 12 hours: 83F, Granville, N.D., Feb. 21, 1918, from -33F to 50F from early morning to late afternoon. In 15 minutes: 42F, Fort Assiniboine, Mont., Jan. 19, 1892, from -5F to 37F. In seven minutes: 34F, Kipp, Mont., Dec. 1, 1896. The observer also reported that a total rise of 80F occurred in a few hours and that 30 in. of snow disappeared in half a day. In two minutes: 49F, Spearfish, S.D., Jan. 22, 1943, from -4F at 7:30 A.M. to 45F at 7:32 A.M.
Some Outstanding Temperature Falls
In 24 hours: 100F, Browing, Mont., Jan. 23-24, 1916, from 44F to -56F. In 12 hours: 84F, Fairfield, Mont., Dec. 24, 1924, from 63F at noon to -21F at midnight. In 2 hours: 62F, Rapid City, S.D., Jan. 12, 1911, from 49F at 6:00 A.M. to -13F at 8:00 A.M. In 27 minutes: 58F, Spearfish, S.D., Jan. 22, 1943, from 54F at 9:00 A.M. to -4F at 9:27 A.M. In 15 minutes: 47F, Rapid City, S.D., Jan. 10, 1911, from 55F at 7:00 A.M. to 8F at 7:15 A.M.
"You could tour the internals of the US..the great places like the dakotas or Montana..."
Speaking as someone from the Dakotas who has driven Montana alot, it's not much of a tour and for an airship the winds change rapidly and get violent fast.
Remeber that Spearfish South Dakota has one of the fastest weather changes ever recorded and it can go from hot to cold, windy to calm, cold to warm really fast back there.
Oni was delayed, Bungie went to MS, Oni was spun off and shipped by someone else other than Bungie, as was Myth III.
I bought Halo for the PC, and wow I was underwhelmed by the game. The single player game pretty much sucked including terrible levels like all the crap in the Library.
Apple makes a 15" LCD iMac and a 17" LCD iMac...damn them for giving people choices!
Boeing Makes two models of widebody jets and two models of narrow body jets and two models of multi-role strike fighters...damn them for giving people choices.
I mean the F-15E was out then they came out with the F-18A/B then the -18C/D and now the extra big -18E/F...damn them!
Apple sells a 10 user licence of X Server and an unlimited user licence...why? Are they trying to make money or something!?
Is it rude for Nissan to offer 3 versions of the Z-350? Or is it extra rude for Cadillac to come out with a V-6 version of the CTS and then release a more expensive V-8 CTS. Or horrors GM comes out with a 70K Corvette called the XLR then later comes out with the real Corvetter for 55K.
"Its a sick way to make $$ and a slap in the face to the fans."
It's not like anyone is forcing anyone to go buy both versions of TTT or FoTR.
The first version is for your casual consumer. The second has extra stuff for your serious fanboy.
Sorry if someone actually coming out with different versions of a DVD for different tastes bothers you to your core.
Hell, back in my day we had to lug our Commodore 64s to the Middle School computer lab on snowy November Saturdays with our big-old disk drives and that brick of a power adapter and a clutch of 5.25" floppies.
If it can accept a TV signal and it's bigger than 13 inch, it gets a V-chip
"Require, in the case of an apparatus designed to receive television signals that are shipped in interstate commerce or manufactured in the United States and that have a picture screen 13 inches or greater in size (measured diagonally), that such apparatus be equipped with a feature designed to enable viewers to block display of all programs with a common rating, except as otherwise permitted by regulations pursuant to section 330(c)(4)."
When I posted the comment up there, I was meaning that an infrastructure for a vehicular system fills up.
I didn't mean that SUVs were good, or bad or whatever, but that's what the thread turned into.
I don't have an SUV, but I have a Chevy C/K-1500 4x4 with a 5.7 liter engine and a big Holly carb.
I have a brush guard on it because one afternoon I was in Rapid City South Dakota and watched an economy sedan run a light and hit a truck with a brush guard and saw how much a brush guard can do to stop vehicular damage when a Saturn runs a red light and hits your front corner.
I've owned the truck since 1991, I've not gone off-road in a few years, I've not hauled anything since the mid-90s in it, but I used to. I had a job cleaning rocks from fields, 3,500- 4000 pounds of rocks a trip for weeks on end each and every day.
I've had it up to the windows in snow, up to the fenders in water and South Dakota gumbo.
So I've both used it above and beyond the call of duty, and just drove it around, even though a Saturn might be better now for my uses, it's my truck, and I'll not get rid of it.
"Most of the lives that have been devastated by drug use that you point to were devastated not because of the drug use per se, but because of our policy towards same."
So the crack house down the street, with the mothers having babies addicted to crack, or the methalabs poisoning the neighborhood...the problems associated with those and the FAS babies and the like...those aren't from the abuse of chemicals, but the drug policies from the government.
As for the right to do with ones body as they choose, there is no such right.
In a society there are rules established for the betterment of the entire society. Say Billy likes little boys and Tina doesn't care what happens to her son, just because Billy and Tina enter into a social contract to do what they want to with thier bodies or a child of thiers, even if the child signs on, doesn't mean society should allow that.
You want to do smack or deep-throat a crack pipe thats fine, the police shouldn't bang on your door about it. But I don't want to see it, I don't have to support it when you go to rehab or need children's services taking away your kids.
"Your job is not to die for your country; it is to make the poor bastard die for his."
Thats what the Bronze and Silver stars with the V device for valor are for, the making the poor bastards die for his country.
Where more and more the Medal of Honor is given to those who save other soldiers lives or take part in something that buys time or give thier lives to save other people's lives.
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Things like this
"Since the government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea made public a statement on the country's withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Korean workers have stepped up production and construction, determined to win the final victory in confrontation with the U.S. imperialists. The miners of the Komdok Mine are countering the enemies' reckless economic blockade with increased production of non-ferrous metallic minerals."
Or
"The secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland Monday issued information bulletin no. 835 denouncing the "declaration on the situation" released by pro-U.S. traitor Kim Yong Sam and other motley crew in South Korea on Jan. 17. The bulletin said."
Or
"The Pyongyang Textile Mill, the Sinuiju Basic Foodstuff Factory and other light industry factories have fullfilled their daily quotas at 120 percent by putting the production processes on a modern basis and keeping equipment in full-capacity operation."
Hugh Grant isn't the nightmare Sturm. Fatty Baldwin...hell any Baldwin as Sturm is the nightmare Sturm, you can't have a nightmare cast without a Baldwin.
Julia Ormond as Kitaria, because every character she played breaks up a friendship and leads to betrayal. And she can't act her way into an express lane.
"Before the election of 2000, the US was on its way to becoming a cooperative international power. We were involved in negotiations on the Kyoto treaty, we weren't developing "Star Wars" ABM weapons, and we were even showing signs of getting with the program on such no-brainers as land mines."
In the spirit of the holidays I say...horseshit.
The Senate voted 97-0 against Kyoto, not voting on the Treaty, but voting to show Clinton they were not interested in the least in the form Kyoto was taking.
The US started devloping ABM systems in the 1950s, so did the Soviets, and while the names and forms changes the ABM systems were always being developed. In 1972 the ABM tready banned them for all but 1 location in a respective country, in the USSR that was Moscow, in the US it was Grand Forks ND. Then the US decommed the Sprint site in 1974 and we didn't have anything. In the 1980s they revived work on an ASAT system and a combination of energy and explosive and nuclear ABM systems under the catch-all "Star Wars". The ASAT missile worked, but was decommed, everything else trickled down through the late 80s and 90s, eventually ending up in today's ABM system of Patriots, Standards, phased-array radars and the new Interceptors atop old Minuteman missiles.
Don't for a second think that the current systems in testing were pulled out of George W. Bush's ass or something, all that was being worked on during the Clinton administration too.
As for the ban on land-mines, that wasn't ever going to happen as long as the Anti-Mine folks wouldn't give the US the exclusion for the Korean DMZ. The US has about 2.5-3 million mines there, all nicely mapped and organized and wanted either an extension to move them or an exclusion for them, nope ain't going to happen.
From 1998
"The Clinton administration is asking Congress for
relief from a moratorium on using anti-personnel land mines, saying the halt would needlessly endanger U.S. service members.
The only alternative to land mines now is to use greater force. "If we were to do that in Korea, we would have to deploy 17,000 additional troops, 350 additional tanks, 410 additional Bradley fighting vehicles, 24additional helicopters and 144 other aircraft," Bacon said. "So it would mean a very substantial increase in our forces in a very short period of time, because we assume that in Korea our warning would be very, very short."
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May1998 n05111998_9805119.html
Pauly Shore as Raistlin...
Billy Bob Thornton as Flint...
Tom Cruise as Riverwind...
It won't work.
See, fellas don't talk in the bathroom. Unless it's to talk about sports in grunts, or "what movie are you in? It good?" types of coverstations.
On the otherhand, women talk about everything under the sun in there, the public bathroom for men, at least in my experiance is a temple of silence, albeit silence punctuated with "Dude! I'm hammered!" or long deep farts echoing on tile.
That said, I may not be honoring diversity because I've not used the john with some some sex-gender continuum benders. Perhaps Gender-Bender can shed some light on it, I'll look to my DVDs.
Gregor Mendel (1822-1884)
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http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/BC/Gregor_Me
http://www.mendel-museum.org/
I've already had one of those.
Sparky the half Manx/Siamese. He weighed 18 pounds and had 0% body fat.
Cross-eyed as you can get and his fangs were so long the tops and bottoms clicked togeather when he yawned and closed his mouth.
Sweetest damned cat you could image for a killing machine.
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/nozomi_fears_ 030703.html
o gy /rover_update_021009.html
"With a price tag of $88 million, Nozomi, or "Hope", has been just that. Japanese scientists are hoping the craft can get to Mars and provide useful data."
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technol
"The MER program is an $800 million effort. It's what NASA calls the "soup to nuts" or beginning-to-end costs. This total life cycle expense includes launch and operating the rovers on Mars."
That was so funny, especially since Eugene has a huge hobo population during the summer.
Read a piece about it about 15 years ago in the Register Guard (Eugene's paper) seems that hobos regularly rain to Arizona and Florida for the winter, then come back up north for the summers. Eugene has a large rail capacity and thus it's Grand Central Station for the Western Crested Hobo.
"...setting is in a fictional American town, although in Family Guy, we at least know the state (Rhode Island)"
c gi?id=123 92d =126 27d =126 25
The Simpsons are set in Oregon, more here...
http://www.portlandtribune.com/archview.
http://www.portlandtribune.com/archview.cgi?i
http://www.portlandtribune.com/archview.cgi?i
There used to be a map on the Portland Tribune site about it.
Matt is from Portland although I argue that the Springfield vs. Shelbyville rivalry comes from Eugene and Springfield, but it might come from Portland and Vancouver Wa or Eastside vs Westside.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005317.html
Some Outstanding Temperature Rises
In 12 hours: 83F, Granville, N.D., Feb. 21, 1918, from -33F to 50F from early morning to late afternoon.
In 15 minutes: 42F, Fort Assiniboine, Mont., Jan. 19, 1892, from -5F to 37F.
In seven minutes: 34F, Kipp, Mont., Dec. 1, 1896. The observer also reported that a total rise of 80F occurred in a few hours and that 30 in. of snow disappeared in half a day.
In two minutes: 49F, Spearfish, S.D., Jan. 22, 1943, from -4F at 7:30 A.M. to 45F at 7:32 A.M.
Some Outstanding Temperature Falls
In 24 hours: 100F, Browing, Mont., Jan. 23-24, 1916, from 44F to -56F.
In 12 hours: 84F, Fairfield, Mont., Dec. 24, 1924, from 63F at noon to -21F at midnight.
In 2 hours: 62F, Rapid City, S.D., Jan. 12, 1911, from 49F at 6:00 A.M. to -13F at 8:00 A.M.
In 27 minutes: 58F, Spearfish, S.D., Jan. 22, 1943, from 54F at 9:00 A.M. to -4F at 9:27 A.M.
In 15 minutes: 47F, Rapid City, S.D., Jan. 10, 1911, from 55F at 7:00 A.M. to 8F at 7:15 A.M.
"You could tour the internals of the US..the great places like the dakotas or Montana..."
Speaking as someone from the Dakotas who has driven Montana alot, it's not much of a tour and for an airship the winds change rapidly and get violent fast.
Remeber that Spearfish South Dakota has one of the fastest weather changes ever recorded and it can go from hot to cold, windy to calm, cold to warm really fast back there.
Actually, no.
Oni was delayed, Bungie went to MS, Oni was spun off and shipped by someone else other than Bungie, as was Myth III.
I bought Halo for the PC, and wow I was underwhelmed by the game. The single player game pretty much sucked including terrible levels like all the crap in the Library.
The PS2 online for games like SOCOM and SOCOM 2 are not open to modem users.
I was on a car kick this morning, sue me.
Want more?
Apple makes a 15" LCD iMac and a 17" LCD iMac...damn them for giving people choices!
Boeing Makes two models of widebody jets and two models of narrow body jets and two models of multi-role strike fighters...damn them for giving people choices.
I mean the F-15E was out then they came out with the F-18A/B then the -18C/D and now the extra big -18E/F...damn them!
Apple sells a 10 user licence of X Server and an unlimited user licence...why? Are they trying to make money or something!?
How is it rude?
Is it rude for Nissan to offer 3 versions of the Z-350? Or is it extra rude for Cadillac to come out with a V-6 version of the CTS and then release a more expensive V-8 CTS. Or horrors GM comes out with a 70K Corvette called the XLR then later comes out with the real Corvetter for 55K.
"Its a sick way to make $$ and a slap in the face to the fans."
It's not like anyone is forcing anyone to go buy both versions of TTT or FoTR.
The first version is for your casual consumer. The second has extra stuff for your serious fanboy.
Sorry if someone actually coming out with different versions of a DVD for different tastes bothers you to your core.
For me, there is nothing worse than a pundit writing about a pundant or a columnist bitching about a writer.
Right-Left-Center - it's all boring. About as much fun as watching butter go rancid.
Hell, back in my day we had to lug our Commodore 64s to the Middle School computer lab on snowy November Saturdays with our big-old disk drives and that brick of a power adapter and a clutch of 5.25" floppies.
If it can accept a TV signal and it's bigger than 13 inch, it gets a V-chip
"Require, in the case of an apparatus designed to receive television signals that are shipped in interstate commerce or manufactured in the United States and that have a picture screen 13 inches or greater in size (measured diagonally), that such apparatus be equipped with a feature designed to enable viewers to block display of all programs with a common rating, except as otherwise permitted by regulations pursuant to section 330(c)(4)."
http://www.fcc.gov/vchip/legislation.html
When I posted the comment up there, I was meaning that an infrastructure for a vehicular system fills up.
I didn't mean that SUVs were good, or bad or whatever, but that's what the thread turned into.
I don't have an SUV, but I have a Chevy C/K-1500 4x4 with a 5.7 liter engine and a big Holly carb.
I have a brush guard on it because one afternoon I was in Rapid City South Dakota and watched an economy sedan run a light and hit a truck with a brush guard and saw how much a brush guard can do to stop vehicular damage when a Saturn runs a red light and hits your front corner.
I've owned the truck since 1991, I've not gone off-road in a few years, I've not hauled anything since the mid-90s in it, but I used to. I had a job cleaning rocks from fields, 3,500- 4000 pounds of rocks a trip for weeks on end each and every day.
I've had it up to the windows in snow, up to the fenders in water and South Dakota gumbo.
So I've both used it above and beyond the call of duty, and just drove it around, even though a Saturn might be better now for my uses, it's my truck, and I'll not get rid of it.
Built in tuner helps for PIP.
V-chips are mandated by law in the US.
The rest of it I agree with.
"If more people would get off their asses and onto a bicycle or even walk we would have far fewer traffic problems."
If next week 50% of the people driving started to bike, then there would be a bike jam on the roads and bikeways.
Likewise if more people started using the bus all of a sudden, there'd be problems there.
An alternative being used tomarrow doesn't mean the problems we have today will go away.
"Most of the lives that have been devastated by drug use that you point to were devastated not because of the drug use per se, but because of our policy towards same."
So the crack house down the street, with the mothers having babies addicted to crack, or the methalabs poisoning the neighborhood...the problems associated with those and the FAS babies and the like...those aren't from the abuse of chemicals, but the drug policies from the government.
As for the right to do with ones body as they choose, there is no such right.
In a society there are rules established for the betterment of the entire society. Say Billy likes little boys and Tina doesn't care what happens to her son, just because Billy and Tina enter into a social contract to do what they want to with thier bodies or a child of thiers, even if the child signs on, doesn't mean society should allow that.
You want to do smack or deep-throat a crack pipe thats fine, the police shouldn't bang on your door about it. But I don't want to see it, I don't have to support it when you go to rehab or need children's services taking away your kids.
Actually there has been large scale smuggling in the US since before the Mob when it comes to avoiding taxes.
It was just popularized in the 1930s.
"Your job is not to die for your country; it is to make the poor bastard die for his."
Thats what the Bronze and Silver stars with the V device for valor are for, the making the poor bastards die for his country.
Where more and more the Medal of Honor is given to those who save other soldiers lives or take part in something that buys time or give thier lives to save other people's lives.