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Volourn you can't take into consideration just the similar numbers and then make the comparison that the outcome in NK in case of a war would be the same like in Iraq. During the First Gulf War Saddam made a mistake of thinking he could wage war against the US and its allies in the open and flat terrain of southern Iraq and Kuwait, his ego got in a way of facts and he lost. The Iraqi military never got over that defeat and in 2003 the main reason of a swift American capture of Bagdad and the rest of Iraq wasn't in the might of the US Airforce or the Army. It was due to the the low morale of the Iraqi soldiers, no political backbone or support for the regime at the time except in some Sunni areas which in fact showed most resistance, and no or little support from the population to stand up to the invaders. In NK things are much more different then people tend to believe. US and SK aren't taking assumptions like most people here saying 9 out of 10 of their rifles are wooden and things like that. Most people here and in public draw their information more from their wishful thinking and media that support their way of thinking rather then facts. And the truth is it's hard to get real and correct intelligence on detailed facts about the condition and the capabilities of the NK military. The official position of the US military is that they know all of NK's secrets but in reality it's evident this isn't the case. Sure the US uses U-2, RC-135 and other spy planes from the Ohsan airbase in SK and in addition has dozens of spy satellites hovering over NK. But in spite of that I remember that a former US ambassador said, who is also a 30 year CIA veteran named Donald Gregg said, and I qoute: the US intelligence on North Korea has been the longest lasting story of failure in the annals of US intelligence. Donald Rumsfeld said also that NK is using underground fibers for communication and that is almost impossible to get actual agents in NK. So the NK military is somewhat shielded to US spy efforts, but you can get some general perspective on NK's military. Before that one must try to understand their society. They are totally isolated for more then 50 years, their population can hardly know what is beyond their borders, they are bombarded by their regime on almost every subject from the day they are born, most of the people there do not have the same perception on what is right and wrong opposite to those like let's say people in the west have. To them the US is the enemy, not only in the regime but amongst the people themselves, and when you look NK and their society which is like no other in the world, it comes as no surprise. To those who think NK's military is in total disarray and absolutely no match for the US forces just like Saddam in 2003 let's just look at common logic. The country is poor, population doesn't even have enough food as they should, why? Where are all the resources going? They aren't going to the ice-cream production. They are going to the military, which is the center of NK state/society. Because of NK's isolation and long term sanctions NK developed their own military production for a very long time now and many of their weapons and equipment does come from their domestic production, also a number of those weapons are in fact copies of Chinese and Russian weapons which they use as a platform. Domestic weapons production is the main reason why NK manages to maintain such a large military while their budget is very much limited compared to other countries. But you can't compare those 'dollar' numbers as a criteria for measuring their military power because it's not the same economic or any other structure for comparison. NK military industry is consisted in three groups: weapon production, production of military supplies, and military-civilian dual-use product manufacturing. NK has: 17 plants for guns/artillery, 35 plants for ammunition, 5 plants for tanks and APC, 8 plants for airplanes, 5 plants for warships, 3 plants for missiles, 5 plants for communication equipment and 8 plants for biochemical weapons (as they have the third largest stockpile of the same). To all of that, many of the plants that make consumer production are designed so they can be easily modified for weapons production. Most of these plants are built underground in the rugged mountainous region of the Jagang-do province and several hydro-power plants exist there as well so it would be a challenging task to cut off power to those facilities. Also you should consider the fact that although SK considers NK their main enemy, it's not the other way around. NK doesn't see SK as its main enemy but as a host to the US, they're main enemy. And NK war plan isn't one for invading SK but destroying all the US presence around Korea and that part of Asia. Many people here laugh at NK's military, sure they aren't a high-tech military, but they're no joke at all. They are organized into several independent, totally integrated and self-sufficient fighting units and I believe NK soldiers are motivated and loyal to their leadership and any war scenario will be interpreted as a US invasion on them. When people speak about low morale of their soldiers why did then, in September 1996 when a North Korean submarine got stranded at in SK and its crew abandoned the ship and got on land, eleven of the crew committed suicide and the rest fought to the last man except one who was captured. Two men among them fought off an army of South Korean troops and remained at large for 50 days, during which they killed 11 of the pursuers. In June 1998, another submarine got caught in fishing nets in SK waters and its crew killed themselves. Why didn't they just go to the McDonalds instead? When it comes to numbers NK's military is divided into regular army which is for offensive actions and its militias which are used for homeland defense. NKs regular army consists of 4 corps in the front area, 8 corps in the rear area, one tank corps, 5 armored corps, 2 artillery corps, and 1 corps for the defense of Pyongyang, for an example SK has 19 infantry divisions whereas North Korea has 80 divisions and brigades. NK's militias consist of 1.6 million self-defense units, 100,000 people's guards, 3.9 million workers militia, 900,000 youth guard units. and those militias are fully armed and undergo military trainings regularly. They aren't something you would usually imagine when militias are in question, like most things about NK. Also it's a known fact that NK began to build fortifications in the 1960s. All of their key military facilities are built underground to withstand US bunker-buster bombs like the GBU 28 and the BKU-113. NK has 8,236 underground facilities that are linked by 547 km of tunnels. Beneath Pyongyang are a huge underground stadium and other facilities. The figures are that about 1.2 million tons of food, 1.46 million tons of fuel, and 1.67 million tons of ammunition are stored in underground storage areas for wartime use. Most of the underground facilities are drilled into granite rocks and the entrances face north in order to avoid direct hits by American bombs and missiles. What I'm trying to picture here is that NK since the 1953 to this very day has mounted most of their energy and resources preparing for war like it's going to be tomorrow. Not the mention the DMZ, the most mined place in the world and probably the most defended one on each side and it would be a bitch to cross it with a major force for NK or SK. No can do. NK has some 18 000 heavy guns, I believe 2000 or something are artillery pieces, the 170mm Goksan gun and 240mm multiple-tube rocket launcher. These guns have a range as far south as Suwon which is miles beyond Seoul and most of them are hidden in caves. Many of them are mounted on rails and can fire in all directions. They have the capability to rain 500 000 shells per hour on US troops near the DMZ, not just Seoul. The US army bases at Yijong-bu, Paju, Yon-chun, Munsan, Ding-gu-chun, and Pochun could be obliterated in a matter of hours. Their numbers and position make it virtually impossible to mount such a large scale air offensive to wipe them all out. Not a chance. Even Gen. Thomas A Schwartz, a former US army commander in Korea, stated and I quote: the US army in Korea would be destroyed in less than three hours. I'm not implying here that the US has no chance against an eventual NK attack nor do I think otherwise that the US could handle NK like they did Saddam two times. What I'm trying to say that an all out war with NK would be something US hadn't experienced in a long long time. You won't be waging war against somebody in a open flat terrain with clear and undisputed air superiority, you won't be waging war against an army with low morale and ill equipped, you'll be waging war against fanatics who have been preparing for war with you for the last 57 years. I personally hope there won't be a war, because it would mean large scale civilian casualties, likely use of WMD, not to mention a possible scenario of this war going out of proportion and spreading to other countries. This war would bring only misery and death, and no good to anyone.

Stopped watching after that illogical scene with the tank. Most people think that was a M1 Abrams, wrong. I mean how stupid is it that the American Civil guard has a British Chieftain tank (in like 2000 and something), and in fact a late model that was an equilent to the American M60 Patton. Onwards the scene in the interior was made in the M109 howitzer which you can clearly see from the turret drive ring in the inside. And on top of that, how can some random Asian guy with a CB radio jump onto a military frequency? What a pile of horse crap I know I'm maybe a bit eccentric, but it's these 'little' things that really turn me off.

The Classless - 32% Strength, 28% Bloodlust, 28% Intelligence, 36% Spirit, 28% Vitality and 20% Agility! As I imagined it, I'm everything and nothing.

Just finished watching Skyline. What a pile of crap In short, Protos come with giant vacuum cleaners and kill everybody.That's it, now you don't have to watch the movie at all.

I hope that a big cat will come along one day and drop the lady in question in the dumpster without being seen by CCTV.

The Dark Knight - Soundtrack

It is a good and promising industry, but I don't see myself working there a full time job, just until I finish college. I haven't bought any of the LOTR soundtracks either, but it's on my wish list for sure. @Kid Cudi vs. Crookers - Day 'n' Night

I've been here, was rather good:

I remember him posting under a lot of different nicknames, but Hades was his most familiar one for me. I remember how he argued a lot of times with a number of different people here, made me laugh not just once.....but even if you argued with him over something, myself included, somehow you just couldn't stay angry with him over something because in essence he was a good soul despite being dark sometimes in his writing, that's the way I perceived him. May you rest in peace Michael

Sweet Jebus. Good to see you, but where the hell have you been? Hey Walsh, nice to see you too I've taken a bit time off when it comes to PC games and internet in my free time, fell in love, have one more semester to finish MBA in Business Economics - IT management, got a part time job with a company involved with live betting and in my free time I've been wasting my time in the gym, playing soccer, poker, reading books, watching movies/series, having endless drinks with my pals and so forth...that sums it up in general! @On topic:

*SPOILERS AHEAD* I kind of agree with this explanation, it's long but worth while reading if you liked the movie: Every single moment of Inception is a dream. I think that in a couple of years this will become the accepted reading of the film, and differing interpretations will have to be skillfully argued to be even remotely considered. The film makes this clear, and it never holds back the truth from audiences. Some find this idea to be narratively repugnant, since they think that a movie where everything is a dream is a movie without stakes, a movie where the audience is wasting their time. Except that this is exactly what Nolan is arguing against. The film is a metaphor for the way that Nolan as a director works, and what he's ultimately saying is that the catharsis found in a dream is as real as the catharsis found in a movie is as real as the catharsis found in life. Inception is about making movies, and cinema is the shared dream that truly interests the director. I believe that Inception is a dream to the point where even the dream-sharing stuff is a dream. Dom Cobb isn't an extractor. He can't go into other people's dreams. He isn't on the run from the Cobol Corporation. At one point he tells himself this, through the voice of Mal, who is a projection of his own subconscious. She asks him how real he thinks his world is, where he's being chased across the globe by faceless corporate goons. She asks him that in a scene that we all know is a dream, but Inception lets us in on this elsewhere. Michael Caine's character implores Cobb to return to reality, to wake up. During the chase in Mombasa, Cobb tries to escape down an alleyway, and the two buildings between which he's running begin closing in on him - a classic anxiety dream moment. When he finally pulls himself free he finds Ken Watanabe's character waiting for him, against all logic. Except dream logic. Much is made in the film about totems, items unique to dreamers that can be used to tell when someone is actually awake or asleep. Cobb's totem is a top, which spins endlessly when he's asleep, and the fact that the top stops spinning at many points in the film is claimed by some to be evidence that Cobb is awake during those scenes. The problem here is that the top wasn't always Cobb's totem - he got it from his wife, who killed herself because she believed that they were still living in a dream. There's more than a slim chance that she's right - note that when Cobb remembers her suicide she is, bizarrely, sitting on a ledge opposite the room they rented. You could do the logical gymnastics required to claim that Mal simply rented another room across the alleyway, but the more realistic notion here is that it's a dream, with the gap between the two lovers being a metaphorical one made literal. When Mal jumps she leaves behind the top, and if she was right about the world being a dream, the fact that it spins or doesn't spin is meaningless. It's a dream construct anyway. There's no way to use the top as a proof of reality. Watching the film with this eye you can see the dream logic unfolding. As is said in the movie, dreams seem real in the moment and it's only when you've woken up that things seem strange. The film's 'reality' sequences are filled with moments that, on retrospect, seem strange or unlikely or unexplained. Even the basics of the dream sharing technology is unbelievably vague, and I don't think that's just because Nolan wants to keep things streamlined. It's because Cobb's unconscious mind is filling it in as he goes along. There's more, but I would have to watch the film again with a notebook to get all the evidence (all of it in plain sight). The end seems without a doubt to be a dream - from the dreamy way the film is shot and edited once Cobb wakes up on the plane all the way through to him coming home to find his two kids in the exact position and in the exact same clothes that he kept remembering them, it doesn't matter if the top falls, Cobb is dreaming. That Cobb is dreaming and still finds his catharsis (that he can now look at the face of his kids) is the point. It's important to realize that Inception is a not very thinly-veiled autobiographical look at how Nolan works. In a recent red carpet interview, Leonardo DiCaprio - who was important in helping Nolan get the script to the final stages - compares the movie not to The Matrix or some other mind f*ck movie but Fellini's 8 1/2. This is probably the second most telling thing DiCaprio said during the publicity tour for the film, with the first being that he based Cobb on Nolan. 8 1/2 is totally autobiographical for Fellini, and it's all about an Italian director trying to overcome his block and make a movie (a science fiction movie, even). It's a film about filmmaking, and so is Inception. The heist team quite neatly maps to major players in a film production. Cobb is the director while Arthur, the guy who does the research and who sets up the places to sleep, is the producer. Ariadne, the dream architect, is the screenwriter - she creates the world that will be entered. Eames is the actor (this is so obvious that the character sits at an old fashioned mirrored vanity, the type which stage actors would use). Yusuf is the technical guy; remember, the Oscar come from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and it requires a good number of technically minded people to get a movie off the ground. Nolan himself more or less explains this in the latest issue of Film Comment, saying 'There are a lot of striking similarities [between what the team does and the putting on of a major Hollywood movie]. When for instance the team is out on the street they've created, surveying it, that's really identical with what we do on tech scouts before we shoot.' That leaves two key figures. Saito is the money guy, the big corporate suit who fancies himself a part of the game. And Fischer, the mark, is the audience. Cobb, as a director, takes Fischer through an engaging, stimulating and exciting journey, one that leads him to an understanding about himself. Cobb is the big time movie director (or rather the best version of that - certainly not a Michael Bay) who brings the action, who brings the spectacle, but who also brings the meaning and the humanity and the emotion. The movies-as-dreams aspect is part of why Inception keeps the dreams so grounded. In the film it's explained that playing with the dream too much alerts the dreamer to the falseness around him; this is just another version of the suspension of disbelief upon which all films hinge. As soon as the audience is pulled out of the movie by some element - an implausible scene, a ludicrous line, a poor performance - it's possible that the cinematic dream spell is broken completely, and they're lost. As a great director, Cobb is also a great artist, which means that even when he's creating a dream about snowmobile chases, he's bringing something of himself into it. That's Mal. It's the auterist impulse, the need to bring your own interests, obsessions and issues into a movie. It's what the best directors do. It's very telling that Nolan sees this as kind of a problem; I suspect another filmmaker might have cast Mal as the special element that makes Cobb so successful. Inception is such a big deal because it's what great movies strive to do. You walk out of a great film changed, with new ideas planted in your head, with your neural networks subtly rewired by what you've just seen. On a meta level Inception itself does this, with audiences leaving the theater buzzing about the way it made them feel and perceive. New ideas, new thoughts, new points of view are more lasting a souvenir of a great movie than a ticket stub. It's possible to view Fischer, the mark, as not the audience but just as the character that is being put through the movie that is the dream. To be honest, I haven't quite solidified my thought on Fischer's place in the allegorical web, but what's important is that the breakthrough that Fischer has in the ski fortress is real. Despite the fact that his father is not there, despite the fact that the pinwheel was never by his father's bedside, the emotions that Fischer experiences are 100 percent genuine. It doesn't matter that the movie you're watching isn't a real story, that it's just highly paid people putting on a show - when a movie moves you, it truly moves you. The tears you cry during Up are totally real, even if absolutely nothing that you see on screen has ever existed in the physical world. For Cobb there's a deeper meaning to it all. While Cobb doesn't have daddy issues (that we know of), he, like Fischer, is dealing with a loss. He's trying to come to grips with the death of his wife*; Fischer's journey reflects Cobb's while not being a complete point for point reflection. That's important for Nolan, who is making films that have personal components - that talk about things that obviously interest or concern him - but that aren't actually about him. Other filmmakers (Fellini) may make movies that are thinly veiled autobiography, but that's not what Nolan or Cobb are doing. The movies (or dreams) they're putting together reflect what they're going through but aren't easily mapped on to them. Talking to Film Comment, Nolan says he has never been to psychoanalysis. 'I think I use filmmaking for that purpose. I have a passionate relationship to what I do.' In a lot of ways Inception is a bookend to last summer's Inglorious Basterds. In that film Quentin Tarantino celebrated the ways that cinema could change the world, while in Inception Nolan is examining the ways that cinema, the ultimate shared dream, can change an individual. The entire film is a dream, within the confines of the movie itself, but in a more meta sense it's Nolan's dream. He's dreaming Cobb, and finding his own moments of revelation and resolution, just as Cobb is dreaming Fischer and finding his own catharsis and change. The whole film being a dream isn't a cop out or a waste of time, but an ultimate expression of the film's themes and meaning. It's all fake. But it's all very, very real. And that's something every single movie lover understands implicitly and completely. * it's really worth noting that if you accept that the whole movie is a dream that Mal may not be dead. She could have just left Cobb. The mourning that he is experiencing deep inside his mind is no less real if she's alive or dead - he has still lost her.

I fail to realize all the fuss about this? Intelligence services use the method of torture in order to extract information when they see it necessary and? This issue is actual only when that torture is exposed in public. Then they form inquires on who's to blame and that inquiry is downright hypocrisy, nothing else. Sometimes there's a scapegoat who takes the fall, sometimes there's not. All in all torture as a method of achieving certain goals remains, and like in this case - this isn't the first time MI5 use torture and it isn't the last time.

Have you recently been the victim of blunt force trauma or undergone electroshock therapy? Or perhaps your taste in music always been this horrible? He took me seriously...

Nothing special, just another summer day, went swimming, to a drink with my friends on the beach, watched a movie this evening, that pretty much sums it up...

Tropa de Elite One of the best movies I've seen in recent time, a Brazilian movie, a real refreshment from Hollywood bull...

This is my favorite when I go to my aerobics class

I picked: No...it's going to be Something I posted a long long time ago on this forum....Former NASA scientist, James M. McCanney, on the subject of Planet X (The 10th Planet): I had never heard of him, but in reading I learned that he was a real scientist with real credentials saying that Planet X was real and that NASA has been aware of this for 30 years. However, the goal of his teaching is not to prove scientifically that Planet X is real, but only to explain why NASA and others would expect to warn you about it are not doing so, and what evidence we do have for its existence from NASA and other sources. In fact, if you take the time to look there is a lot of evidence available, James M. McCanney wants to address the main objections for believing in a Planet X threat and then move on to the important things that Scripture says for dealing with that threat which are not covered in other books. Why is NASA Silent On PX? PX - Planet 10 NASA seems to be silent about Planet X. They certainly are not warning anyone to prepare for its passage. If you did not know any better you would conclude from this alone that Planet X is a hoax. However, the fact is that NASA was the first to announce the discovery of Planet X, back in 1980s as reported in the June 19, 1982 edition of the New York Times: "Something out there beyond the furthest reaches of the known solar system is tugging at Uranus and Neptune. A gravitational force keeps perturbing the two giant planets, causing irregularities in their orbits. The force suggests a presence far away and unseen, a large object, the long-sought Planet X. Astronomers are so certain of this planet's existence that they have already named it "Planet X - the 10th Planet." Apparently the announcement of the discovery was a slip because within a week they retracted it and have been publicly silent ever since. Yet, there is sufficient evidence that they have had an internal project tracking PX as this NASA internal document records: NASA ADS Astronomy Abstract Service -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Find Similar Abstracts (with default settings below)

Just finished watching the Handball World Cup final and I just have to say to the referees: You Danish cheating lowlife scum, I piss on the bones of your dead ancestors you worthless amateur piece of ****, go **** yourself and go back to that flatland where you came from, I hope you die on your way home or your home burns down and kills you...jebi mater majmune glupi ti tko te učio kako se sudi rukomet govno jedno Dansko

The man who did that should undergo a live organ extraction without anesthesia, you can keep him alive like that for 20 hours if you have the necessary skills, and after that eventually he'll drop dead.

All weapons are horrible, WP is used mostly for lighting and smoke screens. Burns on civilians during the fight in Falluja shows the effect it has on a human body. That weapon is even banned using it on so called legal enemy soldiers by the Geneva Convention. But nowdays everybody declares their opponent a terrorist so it's weapon hot on almost everything in your arsenal in any way given.

StarCraft 2 Mafia 2 Operation Flashpoint 2 That's all for now

If Israel starts a wide ground incursion into Gaza...will Hamas have the balls to use Fajr-3 to hit Dimona? Hmmm I really hope they don't because that would mean 4000 new movies and series out of Hollywood how poor and innocent Jews are suffering...

:lol: :lol: What a joke, thanks Taks for this one, I just needed a good laugh...