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I think that's pretty well established, isn't it?

I could point out that Putin isn't averse to a little headstomping or intimidating poltical opponents. But it's redundant on account of oby not being Russian. Just a rather embarassingly transparent troll. ~~ On topic, I feel bad for the people who have died. It did occur to me that a police over-reaction could be a calculated move to provoke outright dissent by the people and chuck out a party that has been eroding Turkey's secularist identity. But of course those elements were supposed to have been purged last year. Erdogan appears to have swan'd off on some foreign tour, which sems a calculated gamble. Assume that the protesters will run out of steam, and that the police are professional enough to handle the protests without any key incidents like a shooting or what have you. Then he'll look calm and magisterial. Indeed, he can even use the 'heavy handedness' of the police to justify purging their ranks further. Well played, angry young men. Well played. EDIT: Spoke too soon. Looks like a protester was killed by person or persons unknown in a Southern district.

Nearly set fire to the kitchen with an oil pan fire. Carried the pan outside on fire, burned my arm and (strangely) my right buttock. Not too badly. Just singed, mostly. I feel like a hero retard. Like superman. EDIT: I can only assume that I was moving at such speed that the flames must have enveloped my right side. ****ing good thing I hadn't changed into anything polyester. Could have been damned inconvenient.

Well, I guess. But what would the story be?

More troll fail. Which is it you are these days 'oby'? Communist or New Putin?

I hope I'm not sounding too harsh if I say that for terrorists it certainly helps if they know that no-one in a given crowd is armed. If there's even a small possibility it complicates their job hugely. However, in the case of the London attack I'm not sure these two brain trusts would have thought it through that far. Nor do I feel that Lee Rigby would have been wandering around near his barracks armed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U-NHTW2-Ps

For 'hot bath' read "sun-rotted carcass of a pig"

Is there any way we can MAKE a symbol racist and then sort of wean racists off flags? I vote Justin Bieber.

For someone who posts pictures of Russian hardware the way mkreku posts pictures of random girls' butts this seems an odd perspective.

When was that?

Yeah that's what I was thinking. My current campaign looks like the incopmetent buffoons may have to run for their lives, and you can't much further away than Kislev!

Complete fail on their part. Not including the damn thing in the first place is just poor requirements capture (see my sig). But refusing to back down tells me that the senior strategic leadership at Microsoft just can't admit mistakes. And that's a massive ****ing warning indicator. If I were an investor I'd be seriously rattled. A business that is lead by people who won't admit mistakes is one that is _inevitably_ bound to fail.

Gods. Not the dolphin rape again.

Sometimes it is. Sometimes it's just a kind of motherly concern.

We hear men speaking for us of new laws strong and sweet,Yet is there no man speaketh as we speak in the street.It may be we shall rise the last as Frenchmen rose the first,Our wrath come after Russia's wrath and our wrath be the worst.It may be we are meant to mark with our riot and our restGod's scorn for all men governing. It may be beer is best.But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet.Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.

Not to mention being sexier than FHM's top 100 sexiest women, bathed in a cream, brandy and monkey gland sauce.

I agree with Monte. We need to GM some giant bugs, pronto. Or failing that cram Volourn into a giant crab suit. ~~ I wasn't conscripted, being in England, but my boarding school had compulsory cadets. It was appalling. Nearly put me off the Army for life. I think that far from improving the connection with the Armed Forces conscription hugely undermines it by filling the ranks with people who don't want to be there and who drag down those who do. Having said that I _DO_ think conscription into some sort of bloody awful service like nursing homes would be improving. Nothing builds character like getting sprayed with p***. But basically I'd just find it funny to mither people younger, healthier, and better looking than myself.

http://www.xenophon-mil.org/rushistory/battles/ivanbook.htm Fascinating and extensive resource on medieval Russian armies, including enough background social whatnot to make running a campaign in the era quite plausible.

Madder than a coconut dusted monkey.

Aw. No one got my Gettysburg reference.

According to Stratfor.com the move is essetially placing a Russian 'counter' on the mediterranean board, where it currently has none. "Russia has a strategic interest in maintaining a naval presence in the Mediterranean at Syria's Tartus port. Even as Syria fragments along ethnic and sectarian lines, Tartus would still likely remain under Alawite control, making it imperative for Russia to maintain close ties with the ethnic minority when Moscow is already a clear adversary of the Sunni rebels. Moscow is one of the few countries that can hold a conversation with the United States, still has influence in the al Assad regime and has strong intelligence capabilities on the ground in Syria that could prove critical to Western attempts to seize and secure chemical weapons stockpiles. Russia may cooperate sporadically to entice the West, by restricting fuel shipments or certain weapons transfers, but as long as the United States acts disinterested, much less confrontational, with Russia, Moscow has little incentive to sacrifice its existing influence in Syria. Currently, Russia is reinforcing its supply lines to Syria. It is deploying five to six warships with support ships from its Pacific fleet to establish a permanent presence in the Mediterranean Sea for the first time since the fall of the Soviet Union. A permanent command structure in the Mediterranean would oversee a constant presence of these ships that would be rotated in from different fleets. Critically, Russia's reinforced naval presence in the Mediterranean would not only entrench Russian interests in the region but could also provide a secure line of supply for the Alawites in Syria unless foreign groups want to risk a military conflict on the Mediterranean by trying to blockade these shipments." Pretty much what Agiel said, above.

oby finally unmasked. I believe masks are more traditionally worn on the other end.

I think you said that few people had applied when you did. This is Big HR at work, surely? They need a certain number of applications or they can't tick a number of *antiHR rant preemptively snipped*

Stratfor.com make the point that the protests are so far only involving the 'usual suspects'. Until they spread to areas dominated by traditional ruling party supporters then it won't constitute a genuine threat. Because the ruling party really do have a lot of support country-wide. I think it's interesting to see how the reporting works on this issue. Clearly the Beeb and others want another 'Arab' <sic> spring. But for the reason above I don't think they're going to get it. If anything the protests will merely cement support for the ruling party among their core voters. It may even swing support across from moderates. My prediction is that we're going to see a few more days of violence, but without something game changing it will die down.