While I don't know if the duping is true or not, I have experienced this bouncing back from being able to enter an instance. The first time I tried to enter the Wailing Caverns instance dungeon, it hung for maybe a minute or two on the loading screen, and then put me back outside the instance with a message "Instance not found". This was a little before midnight on a Saturday night, though I don't remmeber if there was a crash or not before this. So, though there may or may not be a time period where this can happen predictably, there are times when the instances bounce you back.
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While I don't know if the duping is true or not, I have experienced this bouncing back from being able to enter an instance. The first time I tried to enter the Wailing Caverns instance dungeon, it hung for maybe a minute or two on the loading screen, and then put me back outside the instance with a message "Instance not found". This was a little before midnight on a Saturday night, though I don't remmeber if there was a crash or not before this. So, though there may or may not be a time period where this can happen predictably, there are times when the instances bounce you back.
Maybe, but the point is moot since they are financing this with bonds, not taxes.
Afghanistan may not have oil in the country itself, but it is the site for the oil pipeline from the Caspian Sea, which it borders. Running the pipeline through Iran or Russia didn't seem feasable. In 1998 Centgas advised Congress that it could not get oil out from the Caspian until Afghanistan had a regime change. http://thedebate.org/thedebate/afghanistan.asp http://www.keweenawnow.com/news/afghanistan_02_03/ afghanistan_02_03_p_1.htm
http://www.newhumanist.com/oil.html