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Actually, the dog's a malinois. Supposedly a very particular one called Cairo. Proof that the NSA provoked the Arab Spring!

NYT article on the impact to Ecuador if they try to face down the US. A very interesting piece on economic power in a crisis. After reading the article I think it would be disproportionate to damage the thousands of livelihoods at stake by removing favoured trading status. After all, what _operational_ damage has been caused by the leak? I'm not saying I approve of the leak. But proportionality is an equally important part of good statesmanship. In the circumstances NOT imposing effective sanctions might send just the right signals that the US isn't an ogre.

My point above was that we use the like button to communicate a relationship to the poster, not an emotion.

LOL. Actually I was more leading into the fact that I've started fancying some very peculiar chicks recently. I'm hoping its a symptom of being creakingly single for two years. I think the obvious warning indicator was when I realised I quite liked the thought of a bit of Josie Long.

Hopefully this Steam link will work. I'm hugely amused. EDIT: No it won't. I'm in Fallout New Vegas, with a character called Veronica, who is voice by Felicia Day, in a town called Bonnie Springs. It's like some great Vaginal Fantasy!

Thinking about it in light of this discussion it amuses me a little that people would know very reliably WHAT their orientation is.

Heteroflexibility is a new one on me. Is that when you're one or the other but never both at once? I may have mentioned this before, but the sexual orientation which still annoys me is bisexuality. They always act all superior to both straight and gay. "Oooh look at me, I'm twice as sexy as you losers." What makes it worse is that I think they might be right. Actually, while we're on the subject I saw an LGBT poster yesterday for (among other things) "gays" and "queers". It's all sounding a bit People's Front of Judea to me.

You should be so lucky. I predict ME cracking your skull with a toffee hammer, and sprinkling plastic goblins all over your hippocampus like pistachios on icecream. And now I want icecream.

Same for me when I was still at boarding school. I nearly turned inside out when I went East of Suez and men were holding hands everywhere. Of course now dozens of chaps I knew have come out of the closet. It's a lot more relaxed these days, and I say more power to them. It's very sad that they missed out on what I regard as the only up side to being a teenager - falling in love and making mit der roses and der knackwurst. *blinks* Well, that was unexpectedly Freudian.

It's all in the mind.

Sent another reminder.

Legex sounds like an ointment. And not one you'd want the people at the chemists to hear you buying.

My colleague is of course referring to models of orcs, in lead. He doesn't know they never eat. Those too. But seriously, law school? Dozens of models. It was the "popular thing" at the time. Totally going in my Dr Who revamp.

Well, it isn't a certainty, but equally it isn't false. Maybe it could have been handled through 'proper' channels, but I really doubt it. All the elected officials are running around defending everything as being perfectly legal and having impeccable legal oversight and all sorts of stuff like that, not lining up to get upset at how the NSA has run roughshod over rights and limitations; and giving the moral equivalent of the "we had to destroy our freedoms to save our freedoms!" speech. On the other hand seeing John Kerry squirm when he said that only terrorists were monitored then the interviewer asking whether all the researchers in China targeted were therefore terrorists was outright hilarious. We're fencing a little here, but I could counter by suggesting that if he hadn't raised the point illegally then it would have been a hell of a lot easier for Congress men to run with the ball.

Er... life in the oceans accounts for more than 95% of the biosphere. So if you're asking if I think that a tiny proportion of a tiny proportion (humans in land life) is going to affect climate ...I think your prima facie case is weak.

As your doctor I have to advise you that your symptoms are consistent with being eaten by a giant crab. I suggest you check in a mirror. EDIT: If we are agreed the term is good, maybe we could just shorten it to 'legacy'?

Met up with a significant ex of mine yesterday. Have coined (in my head) the term 'legacy ex' to describe an ex whose qualities and features you still look for in others. She had grey in her jet black hair. I felt like a mournful old codger, just for fancying her.

Late arrival. I refuse to get married because I'm an idiot and could not possibly sustain a marriage for longer than a week.

My colleague is of course referring to models of orcs, in lead. He doesn't know they never eat.

Hang on, so we're saying we use them to indicate: - enjoyment (laughs) - gratitude (points well made) - allegiance (devs)

LOL. So much for Oby's principled stance on female clothing.

I was about to reference a book written in 1992, and then realised it's completely out of date.

Apologies for bullet points, but it's early. - Giving it to WL is not the same as Congress. Congress is an elected body. - WL in particular has a well established anti-US agenda. There are alternatives out there with the same utilities. - Zor's point about Congressmen is interesting, but false. > I say again, if they were on-side with the NSA why mislead them in the first place? > I currently think he's a ****er, but if he'd come to me (as a Congressman) I'd have been supportive. There is a right way and a wrong way to do things. You can't just act willy nilly. It's like running around whipping people's diseased organs out without formal consent.

I haven't been able to find any pics of an Ecuadorian bikini. I am most upset. Looking was fun though.