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1) In fact, intervention went lightning fast - less than one month after Q had started bombing towns; things were rushed when it looked like he would indeed succeed in using his airforce and armor to crush the rebels in Benghazi. I wouldn't exactly call depleting the ordnance stocks of some coalition members "understrength bombing", either.2) We both know that allied special forces are operating on Libyan soil... the question is only the depth of their involvement. 3) Sure... decapitation of his forces and insta-airstrikes on anything heavier than a technical. The difference in the amount of heavy weapons controlled by each side was one of the biggest problems in the early days of the war, remember? That has somehow ceased to be a problem... So how about we all stop with the bollocks, old boy? Gently, yet forcefully put! 1) Your point does not contradict mine. Perhaps I should have been more clear. I was observing that a month's delay is inconsistent with something we are supposed to have started. And if we had planned it, precipitately mothballing our only carrier just beforehand would strain even the Ministry of Defence's legendary stupidity. 2) I don't see what special needs would be up to, besides training and observing. Reconnaissance? And tell who? You can't inform a command structure which doesn't know what it's own troops are doing. Spearheading attacks? Hardly what they're for, and it would have generated a lot of casualties. 3) Removing Gaddafi's heavier weapons has been important. But if he'd had the preponderance in ordinary troops a popular mandate would have implied, then he'd not be sulking under whatever the gaudy flapping mentalist has for a reichschancellery. ~~ Drowsy: 1. I despise the EU's increasing muscle flexing as dictatorship by stealth. But utilising means other than talking endlessly is only common sense. We've said just about everything nasty you can to Syria, and it's achieved precisely **** all. 2. The US need not have worried, since the EU atomised as Germany and Italy scuttled in diametrically opposed directions to Britain and France. 3. I don't know anything about Sarozy's domestic position 4. You call it 'leaders who defy Western control'. I call it removing leaders who sponsored attacks on Britain for as long as I've been alive. I call it NOT playing along with Gaddafi so we can just pay for the oil on the cheap. Which you would no doubt condemn us for doing just as much. 5. Oil matters. Energy security matters. Not just to industry, but to farms and ultimately stops us starving. It is the lifeblood of our world. A state, any state, cannot surrender its energy or its surrenders entire.

Drowsy, with proverbial respect, that's complete arse. 1) NATO intervention happened late, and hasn't constituted more than some understrength bombing runs. 2) Fighting on the ground has been by locals 3) Success - and I have to eat some humble pie for predicting this would never happen - has come about through decapitation of Gaddafi's forces in targeted strikes. And for the love of all that is good and holy can we PLEASE stop this sophomoronic "it's the oil, stupid" one dimensional bull****? Of course oil is involved, but it's facile and childish to say 'oil' and say that explains each and every dynamic. Put some effort in, FFS.

I want some of what you're smoking. It sounds awesome.

I finally had an email from BT 'apologising' for my poor service and decision to leave them. They asked if we could discuss my remaining a customer ...then told me that if I left I would be charged ?24 for leaving my contract early.

I recognize the sentiment. Its echoed in Mein Kampf. Oh good grief.

Very interesting piece, digging through the court data, and actually making some sober 'academic' points. LINK. Example:

I was thinking about our recent discussion on the subject of being enuthusiastic about being a developer and something occurred to me as an outsider: You chaps make it sound as if it's rather like declaring yourself a fan of Texmex cooking by becoming a flank steak.

Agree with all Enoch says .But stress the above. Sensible at all times, and for all people.

May I helpfully suggest that you solve the above problem by filling the rear of your car with floozies?

Fascinating. Do you remember your first time fondly?

Multiple systems? Different architectures? Take your point though. But I still think the cost and effectiveness improvements are the bottom line in an era of mach4 SAMs etc.

Surely you have time to work out a BIT? twenty minute brisk stroll with a notepad?

Dammit, now I want Reeses... We used to take a massive jar of peanut butter and huge slabs of chocolate on camping trips. Energy breaks from God.

I am now officially filingall notions of poolitical affiliation and philosophy under 'pointles'. Libertarian? Right wing? Left wing? None of it makes any sense any more. I'm in favour of beer and pies. Who's with me?

I really don't see any alternative to using unmanned vehicles in air warfare. Cheaper, faster, less politically sensitive, no s&r... the list goes on. I guess the only small problem is that it becomes very hard to explain culpability when that missile hits the orphanage.

Flat full fat coke. Drink a tonne of it. Only problem in serious cases is it makes it harder to tell when your guts start bleeding. Commiserations, anyway.

Oooooh. I get it.

I prescribe a pint of gin.

They should have a particularly spindly aircraft known as a catfighter.

It's this sort thing that makes me wary of any cooking by an anglophone. Have you ever TRIED eton mess? Simple dishes, cooked with the highest quality ingredients. It's what you cook when your economy works. Hence our national dish now being curry. I cooked a curry the other night. It was so hot that when I was washing up the next day, my hands started to throb.

I'd go for something more like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, with the FEV virus.

That might work, if the pizza base was thin enough. Maybe a thin layer of meringue, and plenty of sharp fruit and thick cream or mascarpone. EDIT: oh! Break up the meringue into chunks and cook it over on the pizza. Use very thin strands of mozzarella to hold it in place, then douse in double cream. Be like an Eton mess pizza.

I remember encountering this problem years and years ago. THQ customer support annoyed the **** off me by being increbily superior about my 'mistake'. So, commiserations. Practically speaking, however, you're ****ed. You need a dedicated graphics card.

How about deep frying a . I was almost with her until she added the powdered sugar. That's not a recipe. That's what would happen if the brazzers network made food. EDIT: linked on same page -