Hildegard

Oh here come the insults because someone " apperantly can't keep this rather civil and goes calling people names and saying what they should do, good going Lucius, you know what they say: Qualis vir, talis oratio.

What did you expect that after the US and the NATO come in that suddenly all will change and everybody will live happily ever after..... Afghanistan is a fu*king sh*t hole that nothing and nobody can't fix, it's been for the last 3000 years or so, now why would that suddenly change. The primary western interests in Afghanistan are those regarding globalsecurity and war on terror, not reconstruction or playing police and catching local thugs.

Personally I would rather nuke this entire planet and annihilate all human kind then let it be ruled by those primitives.

And I hadn't meant they didn't have the final decision.

Without the enormous financial support of the American Jews, the founding of Israel would not have been so quickly realized. Many American Jews had been able to save significant sums of money during the economic boom of the Second World War, which they now wanted to make available to the young state. The United Jewish Appeal started a donation drive in 1948 that remained without parallel: In all, 205 million dollars were collected that had been donated by Jews throughout the country. This sum was four times as great as the donations that the entire population of North America gave to the Red Cross that same year. The American Jews had entered into a symbiosis with Israel in which the superpower United States and tiny Israel entered into a mutual dependence that assured Israel its survival and provided the United States with an important strategic partner in the Middle East. This close cooperation was both initiated and advanced by the American Jews. As a consequence of this close alliance, the United States found itself as important negotiator in Israel's peace talks with its neighbors, aswell as a target of Islamic fundamentalists

Yes of course we musn't forget the American 51st state in the middle east. "

* ACHTUNG ACHTUNG * - DERAILMENT ALERT !!!

Carl Orff: Carmina Burana

Size of my feet are: UK - 14, US - 15, European - 49.5 Considering my size of feet I can't really be picky when it comes to shoes

Quake sounds reveal Earth 'ripping apart' Scientists may get clues for tsunami warning systems (CNN) -- Scientists are gaining insight about December's devastating earthquake and tsunami from the actual sounds of the magnitude 9.3 quake in the Indian Ocean. "It's really quite an eerie sound to hear the Earth ripping apart like that. We hear it on smaller earthquakes quite frequently but something of this scale that goes on for eight minutes is very much unprecedented," said Maya Tolstoy, a marine geophysicist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. "It really gave me the chills when I first heard it," she said. The dramatic soundtrack of the rupture of the Sumatra-Andaman Fault comes from a little known, and sometimes hard- to- access resource. The microphones that captured the sound are part of a global network of instruments that monitor compliance with the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. The microphones that picked up this earthquake were located in Diego Garcia, an island more than 1,700 miles from the epicenter of the quake. The sounds suggest two distinct stages of the underwater temblor. "What we are able to see is very clearly two phases in the speed of the rupture," said Tolstoy. "The first third is much faster, the second two thirds slower," she said. The length of the rupture was about 750 miles. "I look at it mathematically and I study the change in direction of the earthquake," she said. "We are able to tell how long it ruptured, how fast it went, and those are important things to know for disaster mitigation," she said. Tolstoy and other scientists have had some access to data from the monitoring group, The Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO). In the past researchers have obtained the sounds of other earthquakes, and even the noises made when icebergs cracked. But a spokeswoman for CTBTO, headquartered in Vienna, Austria, says the group does not have the capability to act as a disaster alert system. "Our mandate is watching for nuclear weapons testing," said Daniela Rozgonova. "We don't share data directly with scientists. Our data is collected and analyzed, and goes to member states. They decide what to do with it," she said. A total of 121 countries have ratified the nuclear test ban treaty, agreeing "not to carry out any nuclear weapon test explosion or any other nuclear explosion, and to prohibit and prevent any such nuclear explosion at any place under its jurisdiction or control." But because of the deaths and destruction of last year's Asian tsunami, Rozgonova did say the organization would now share seismic observation data with UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. That group is working with many countries that are trying to improve early warning systems for tsunamis. But she stressed there is no way the information could be relayed "real time." "It's a very sensitive issue obviously because you are monitoring the globe and you can hear relatively small sounds, and so countries are very sensitive about having that information openly released," said Tolstoy. Tolstoy's research based on the earthquake sounds is published in the July/August issue of Seismological Research Letters. She said she and other scientists, like many people around the world, felt a real helplessness in watching the effects of the tsunami. "We obviously can't prevent earthquakes but we'd like to be able to help prevent as much of the damage as possible from a tsunami by providing warning where it's possible. So in the long term we want to better understand how these events happen so we can better mitigate against them," she said. "Normally, a small earthquake might last less than a second; a moderate sized earthquake might last a few seconds. This earthquake lasted between 500 and 600 seconds," said Charles Ammon, associate professor of geosciences at Penn State University. The quake released an amount of energy equal to a 100 gigaton bomb, according to Roger Bilham, professor of geological sciences at the University of Colorado. "Normally, a small earthquake might last less than a second; a moderate sized earthquake might last a few seconds. This earthquake lasted between 500 and 600 seconds," said Charles Ammon, associate professor of geosciences at Penn State University. To remind you these recordings were taken at the bottom of the sea in the Indian ocean: (!) The soundtrack of the earthquake(!) :ph34r: If you want to learn more about this and see the video of the recording and the interview here's a link

- classic P.S. I hope so aswell.

Maybe I won't lose the ability to be rational 'next time' but I really hope I won't get a chance to prove that. Police had every right to shot in that situation whoever that man was, I know I would without hesitation.....but then again you can always ban muslims and asians from wearing backpacks and 'strange' coats "

Don't know the origin of that helmet, probably from some eastern European country, but my favourite would have to be the Wehrmacht helmet: :cool: And no....that is not my face "

Wright your offers and K3 goes to the highest bidder Yeah alanschu he played the stone-cold arms dealer very good

Can I just remind you boys and girls that if the men in blue with the guns shout 'stop', it's not some wonderful light-hearted game, and you probably ought to do what they say? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> If you had such a real-life experience, you would know it's not that easy and obvious for an individual to know what to do in such a situation when you're scared, your body and mind go in 'survival' mode, your adrenalin is pumping so much that it represses your ability to think and act rationally. When the men in blue were shouting 'stop' at me, I know I didn't listened to them and I'm damn glad I didn't, maybe I was foolish, maybe just lucky unlike the man in London today, but I know the only thing that saved me were my feet and speed. But then again Walsingham you're right, you boys and girls listen to the men in blue

I miss my favourite series :cool:

BLACK & RED

Excatly, you have to be 'lucky' all the time, they have to be 'lucky' just once.

Regarding obsessions with KOTOR series I must say, considering this forum and the amount of fan-fiction works on the web, it's clear that : 'Carthoholics' and.... 'Attonholics' are all over the place, you can't read one thread without Carth that, Atton this ...... (especially because of those 'crazy' fangirls " , oh man gotta hide before DL and Silver get me :ph34r: )

Tube cleared after minor blasts Minor explosions using detonators only have sparked the evacuation of three Tube stations and the closure of three lines, a BBC correspondent has said. Police cordoned off large areas around Warren Street, Oval and one of the Shepherd's Bush Tube stations. A route 26 bus in Hackney Road in Bethnal Green had its windows blown out by a blast. There were no injuries. Police in London say they are not treating the situation as "a major incident yet". One person was injured at Warren Street. There were reports the injured person may have been holding a rucksack containing the detonator. Police said armed officers had been deployed to University College Hospital after an incident. The whole of the Northern Line has been suspended, along with the Victoria Line and the Hammersmith and City line. A number of other stations were closed including Westminster tube station, Waterloo station and King's Cross Thameslink. There were also reports that St Paul's tube and Oxford Circus tube station were closed. Tony Blair cancelled events in the afternoon and will be attending a meeting of the Cobra committee along with Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. The BBC's Andrew Winstanley said devices had been found but appeared to have been dummies, containing no explosives. London Underground went to an amber alert with trains taken to the next station and evacuated. An eyewitness at Oval station said there had been a small bang, and a man had then run off when the Tube reached the station. Police have set up cordons round the stations A spokesman for Stagecoach said the driver of the number 26 bus travelling through Shoreditch had heard a bang on upper deck, gone upstairs and seen the windows were blown out. The bus driver was very shaken but said to be fine. At Shepherd's Bush Hammersmith and City line station, police told reporters that a man had threatened to blow himself up and then ran off. Sosiane Mohellavi, 35, was travelling from Oxford Circus to Walthamstow when she was evacuated from a train at Warren Street. "I was in the carriage and we smelt smoke - it was like something was burning. "Everyone was panicked and people were screaming. We had to pull the alarm. I am still shaking." The BBC's Rory Barnett said there had been no smoke on the platform at Warren St. Liz Edwards, who works near Warren Street Underground station, said the area was full of activity. "There are police, fire engines and ambulances all around there. A guy from our office had just come back from the station and said the police were aggressively keeping people away from the station and that you could not get anywhere near it."

Maybe it's just a cultural thing to say in default of anything else. Like S Africans say 'Shame', Irishmen say 'Jaysus' and Englishmen say 'Sorry'. Or it could be the arabic equivalent of 'a Keanu style 'Whoah'. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Or it is maybe because they're just a bunch of religious fanatics/extremists

As always you're welcome.

What is it that you said DL, you last word, didn't catch it?

Hey Silver gotta ask you: "

Requietat In Pace.