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  1. Re:Scrabble on Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language · · Score: 1

    I got zebu last night for 72. 66 for Qi is pretty amazing.

  2. Re:CLOUD COMPUTING!!! on The Pirate Bay Plans Servers In the Sky · · Score: 1

    It's apparently a literal approach to cloud computing

    Herp a derp. You am SO FUNNY! HUR HUR HUR man where do you come up with such insightful, yet hilarious prose? Have you thought about joining a writer's guild? Seriously!!!

    He would, but his stuff would just get pirated on the Pirate Bay, so he doesn't figure it's worth it.... :)

    You're only being so snarky because this sort of stuff goes right over your head.

  3. Re:GPS? on Mammoth "Metal Moles" Tunnel Deep Beneath London · · Score: 1

    Don't you guys have to sacrifice a young virgin for every hole you dig? I read it on the net.

  4. Re:Beats real war any day on Iran Blamed For Major Cyberattack On BBC · · Score: 1

    Do you use a straw when you drink the Kool-Aid?

  5. Re:...and even Furthermore... on Iran Blamed For Major Cyberattack On BBC · · Score: 1

    Mr. Hopkins's past as a professional fund-raiser and welfare-worker seems to show in the donation of $88,701,103, over four years, for "relief or charity"; those who have visited Soviet Russia may try to imagine this money being doled out by the Commissars to the poor! This was not the end of cash-giving under "Lend-Lease". In 1944 Mr. Henry Morgenthau junior, Mr. Roosevelt's Secretary of the Treasury, and his Assistant Secretary, Mr. Harry Dexter White (later shown to have been a Soviet agent) ordered the shipment to the Soviet Government of duplicates of the United States Treasury plates to be used for printing money for the use of the forces occupying Germany after the war. This meant that the money printed by the Soviet Government for the use of its troops was redeemable by the American Government as there was no distinction whatever between the paper printed. By the end of 1946, when public protests caused the American Government to stop paying its own troops with these notes, [366] so that the Soviet Government could make no further use of them, the United States Military Government in Germany found that it had redeemed about $250,000,000 in excess of the total of notes issued by its own Finance Office. (The Soviet Government ignored a request to pay the modest sum of some $18,000 for the plates and materials delivered to it, which had enabled it to draw $250,000,000 straight from the United States Treasury).

    Thus for four or five years there was an unlimited transfer of the wherewithal of war, of supplies for post-war industrial use, and of wealth in manifold forms to the revolutionary state, and "re-discussion" of this policy lay under ban at the highest level. Moreover, "preference" and "priority" for this policy, in relation to American needs or those of other allies, was explicitly ordered at that level.

    There were two other ways in which the revolutionary state could be "supported" and helped to "extend": (1) the conduct of military operations; (2) the direction of State policy at high-level conferences issuing from these military operations. As the policy of delivering arms and wealth was so firmly, even fanatically pursued in favour of the revolutionary state, it was logical to expect that the same policy would be pursued through military operations and the conferences resulting from them. In fact, this happened, as good observers foresaw at the time and as the receding picture of the war now plainly shows. It also was the inevitable result of the capture of a great measure of power behind the scenes, in the American Republic, by means of the invasion described in the last chapter.

    The effort to turn all military operations to the advantage of the revolutionary state, which in complicity with Hitler had started the war by the joint attack on Poland, began soon after Pearl Harbour. It failed then but was entirely successful in the last stages of the war, as the outcome showed. The leading part in this process was taken by the most enigmatic figure of the Second War, General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the United States Army. To him Senator Joseph McCarthy, in his oration before the Senate on June 14, 1951 (a carefully-documented indictment which is a major reference-source in this matter) attributed "the planned steady retreat from victory which commenced long before World War II ended" and the fact that America, having power to tip the balance, operated between the policies advocated by Mr.Churchill and the Soviet dictator Stalin "almost invariably in support of the Russian line".

    In view of the vast consequences which General Marshall's interventions produced the circumstances of his original elevation are of interest. President Roosevelt appointed him Chief of Staff in 1939 over the heads of twenty major generals and fourteen senior brigadiers (six years earlier his nomination to general, being adversely reported on by the Inspector General, had been barred by the then Chief of Staff, General Douglas MacArthur). One of General Marshall's earliest acts was, in

  6. Re:Beats real war any day on Iran Blamed For Major Cyberattack On BBC · · Score: 1

    There are now 12,000 US troops in Libya.

  7. Re:...and even Furthermore... on Iran Blamed For Major Cyberattack On BBC · · Score: 1

    In 1944 Major Jordan, more worried than ever, attempted to see the Lend-Lease liaison officer at the State Department but was intercepted by a junior official who told him "Officers who are too officious are likely to find themselves on an island somewhere in the South Seas". Not long after he was removed from White Falls. His book contains the complete list of Lend-Lease shipments which, as liaison officer, he was able to see and copy. This shows all the chemicals, metals and minerals suitable for use in an atomic pile which were transferred, and some of them may also be suitable for use in the hydrogen bomb; they include beryllium, cadmium, cobalt ore and concentrate (33,600 lbs), cobalt metal and cobalt-bearing scrap (806,941 lbs), uranium metal (2.2 lbs), aluminium tubes
    [365] (12,766,472 lbs), graphite (7,384,482 lbs), thorium, uranium nitrate, oxide and urano-uranic oxide, aluminium and alloys (366,738,204 lbs), aluminium rods (13,744,709 lbs), aluminium plates (124,052,618 lbs), brass and bronze ingots and bars (76,545,000 lbs), brass or bronze wire (16,139,702 lbs), brass and bronze plates (536,632,390 lbs), insulated copper wire (399,556,720 lbs), and so on.

    These lists also include the "purely postwar Russian supplies" (General Groves), such as an oil-refinery plant, forging machinery and parts ($53,856,071), lathes, precision boring-machines, canning machinery, commercial dairy equipment, sawmill machinery, textile machinery, power machines ($60,313,833), foundry equipment, electric station equipment, telephone instruments and equipment ($32,000,000), generators ($222,020,760), motion picture equipment, radio sets and equipment ($52,072,805), 9,594 railway freight cars, 1,168 steam locomotives ($101,075,116), merchant vessels ($123,803,879), motor trucks ($508,367,622), and endlessly on.

    Among the major donations obviously intended to strengthen the Soviet Union industrially after the war, Major Jordan's records include one repair plant for precision instruments ($550,000), two factories for food products ($6,924,000), three gas generating units ($21,390,000), one petroleum refinery with machinery and equipment ($29,050,000), 17 stationary steam and three hydro-electric plants ($273,289,000). The Soviet lists reproduced by Major Jordan suggest that a spirit approaching hysteria in giving moved Mr. Hopkins and his associates, for they include items for which no rational explanation can be found, for instance: eyeglasses ($169,806), teeth ($956), 9,126 watches with jewels ($143,922), 6,222 lbs of toilet soap $400 worth of lipsticks, 373 gallons of liquor, $57,444 worth of fishing tackle, $161,046 worth of magic lanterns, $4,352 worth of "fun fair" devices, 13,256 lbs of carbon paper, two "new pianos", $60,000 worth of musical instruments and (an item which conjures up visions of the "Beloved Leader", Mr. Roosevelt's and Mr. Churchill's "Uncle Joe"), "one pipe", valued at ten dollars!

    Posted for its entertainment value

  8. Re:Beats real war any day on Iran Blamed For Major Cyberattack On BBC · · Score: 1

    16 trips to the region huh?

  9. Re:Ok, how many more are there? on Possible New Human Species Discovered In China · · Score: 1

    Explain my mother in law then

  10. Re:Ok, how many more are there? on Possible New Human Species Discovered In China · · Score: 1

    and even with that example alcohol is still legal

  11. Re:Fascinating! on Possible New Human Species Discovered In China · · Score: 1

    Just how far is Fukuishima from Los Angeles anyway?

  12. Re:Fascinating! on Possible New Human Species Discovered In China · · Score: 1

    Hvae you been reading any of the stuff coming out of the minds of the latest crop of bioethicists lately?

  13. Re:Fascinating! on Possible New Human Species Discovered In China · · Score: 1

    It also assumes that you believe in directions

  14. Re:Fascinating! on Possible New Human Species Discovered In China · · Score: 1

    Isn't there some sort of rule about that? If it exists someone has put their penis in it.

  15. Re:Fascinating! on Possible New Human Species Discovered In China · · Score: 1

    Jesus loves you too

  16. Re:Fascinating! on Possible New Human Species Discovered In China · · Score: 1

    Can we not just poke our tongues out and throw faeces at each other?

  17. Re:Fascinating! on Possible New Human Species Discovered In China · · Score: 1

    That comment was so stupid I think you gave me cancer.

  18. Re:Depressing on Looking For iPad, Police Find 750 Pounds of Meth · · Score: 1

    I was reading a report a while ago in my native city (I couldn't find an online citation so I am probably not going to be believed - i found it hard to believe when I first saw it) that said that 1 in 280 people in Adelaide was an injecting Heroin user.

  19. Re:$35 Million Dollars on Looking For iPad, Police Find 750 Pounds of Meth · · Score: 1

    The person who is responsible for the iPad being on the premises is quite possibly already in a ditch

  20. Re:Crime solved when Police do their job, News at on Looking For iPad, Police Find 750 Pounds of Meth · · Score: 1

    People with that quantity of meth do not deal with street level ipad thieves looking for a hit

  21. Re:hardware limits on The Consoles Are Dying, Says Developer · · Score: 1

    I have an e8400(dual core) CPU and it was dragging its feet a bit. Thankfully it overclocks brilliantly and now I am happy again.

  22. Re:iPad is flat. Too flat. on The Consoles Are Dying, Says Developer · · Score: 1

    I almost considered buying an iPad just for Jubeat

    fscking racists

  23. Re:hardware limits on The Consoles Are Dying, Says Developer · · Score: 1

    Your question is 'retarded as fuck'

  24. Re:hardware limits on The Consoles Are Dying, Says Developer · · Score: 1

    Yet, long term? colossal failure.

    Not a clossal failure to the guys who set the business up. They most likely know it will fail in the end leaving employees and creditors in the shit but until then they will make out like bandits and use the same technique over and over amassing more money on the broken dreams of those they have screwed over.

  25. Re:HTPCs don exits on The Consoles Are Dying, Says Developer · · Score: 1

    "The consoles [...] may simply become computers with nice graphics cards that you attach to your TV".

    OMG I am a trendsetter.