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It's just mad. When Floyd got into their crazy jam phase in those days they were absolutely unbeatable in that front

Greatest **** I've read in a while

Yeah, it is novella, not novel And I have nothing to nitpick on your post SirPetrakus at the same time in more happier and more dreadier fashion Now the implications of this are The movie on the other hand I personally prefer Movie ending

meh, boring

What is this herecy?

David Gilmour - No Way

save your money instead for Xbox 360 is my advice *shrug*

You weren't the only one. BF1942 is my best blind buy ever, what a fantastic games it was and Vietnam too BF2 was just... MEH Largerly that was due to ridiculously bad hitboxes which made combat clunky and "feel" of guns pitiful. And maps were simply weaker edit: to elaborate just watch video

Wait, when did BF2 go Xbox? :ermmm: Anyway, BF2 has worst hit boxes ever. EVER

yeah, **** you Russia!

Besides, Georgia even isn't part of NATO yet As for Finland, we're safe. We have very good relationships with russkies and we're valuable trade partner (even when keeping in mind our size) and - due to our experience - we also often act as bridge in communication between Russians and EU. And Norway has no problem whatsoever. Swedes...well, you know, like always, we get the beating while they sip their coffees in safe if there is military conflict Baltic however...

David Gilmour - Coming Back to Life (Acoustic Live) I swear, how the hell did he get such distortion on ACOUSTIC GUITAR?

GODDAMNIT I ALWAYS FORGET SOMETHING Of course Mafia belongs in my Top Ten - and damn high at that I should add

Syd Barrett - Gigolo Aunt Grooving around in a trench coat With the saturn on trail Seems to be all around in tin and lead pail, we pale Jiving on down to the beach To see the blue and the grey Seems to be all and its rosy-its a beautiful day! Will you please keep on the track cause I almost want you back cause I know what you are You are a giglo aunt, you're a gigolo aunt! Yes I know what you are You are a gigolo aunt, you're a gigolo aunt! Awesome

Isn't this the "nanananaaanaanaanaaa" (I suck at writing "correct" vocal lines/melodies) song? Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke

I'd say BG2's soundtrack isn't all that enjoyable alone - common "problem" of soundtracks. And that LotR example is just rather typical (and somewhat cheap) example of how music is used in film to crudely manipulate our feelings, rather than it has narrative importance and seamless place in context of scene structure.* In fact only WRPG soundtrack that really stands alone is that of Planescape Torment for me. I listened the tracks a lot before even getting the game. And while I agree on NWN2 I disagree on MotB; that soundtrack did exactly same thing BG2's did while being more original and "out there". *this is not to say music isn't powerful and large part of emotional impact of the scene. What I'm saying is that it isn't case of using music in really meaningful way which is still rather rare

Just to emphatise Gazprom's importance: Suffice to say Gazprom is single greatest ace in Russian sleeve. It is way more formidable weapon than the rather sad state of their army (which as been changing too in late years however...) It is also worth mentioning that only superpower in the world that likes to make fiery speeches and remindings about their nuclear weapons is Russia. America, China and others don't make noise. This is because nuclear weapons are still seen (and to some extent are) in Russia as evidence for their importance. Plus it is always good when "boohohoo, fear us" is considered

Ahh, were you live? Here in Nordic Europe Russia does that quite often, especially when it comes to Estonia and other baltic countries. Not to mention the uses of energy weapon against whoever they want, the return to patrolling the Nordic Seas, bickering and threatening their former USSR "vassals"... Here in Finland in last years there happens about 3 times a year air border trespassings by Russian war planes by "accident". It's not like they're anything terribly alarming, but this is one of the many ways russkies has been telling us in late years that they're coming back hard as formidable world might

It is case of superpower's honor and China's own nationalistic needs. China will not allow ANYTHING to tamper with these Olympics. That's why they're in such heavy wrought "nazi policy" mode now. They don't take any risks, no matter how small they are

There's one great book I'd recommend to you, but unfortunately it is not avalaible in english as far as I know It was eye opener for me

No declaration of war has happened, but practically place is already war zone And I believe this thing gets diplomatic ending BUT it is still war going on, no matter how small. This has been first time since Afghanistan since our eastern neighbours have switched on offensive using military edit: in fact it is not small at all. It is first non-civil war in area of Europe since Second World War

Not so, if reports of 80,000+ protests lodged and wide-spread corruption are to be believed. The CCP is a huge organization - most people don't understand how huge. It's got some 70+ million members. There are bound to be internal conflicts, cliques, and the like. The Hu/Wen team is also not going to be in control forever. He is expected to retire around 2012, if I'm not mistaken. Protesters and such in China are mere drop in the ocean when it comes to numbers. The defining years and power struggles happened back in 90's, especially in year 1997, that was truly defining year. The old conservative guard lost (and as it seems, once and for all when it comes to Big Matters) and reformists have ran country ever since. Only real big source of failure so far has been enviromental issues and STILL China has done A LOT work for it and their goverment is definetly not shutting their eyes for the problem. In other matters progress has been steady and promising. Nothing happens fast in China. There are hard trials, such as the problem with countryside-city unbalance but you know what, that has been pretty much number one on their issue lists and already they've done a lot to fix the problem. It is long road, but plans are sound and about as good as they can get when governing as big country as that with multitude of nationalities. and ever since 90's attacks on corruption, "dear brother" systems and questionable bank and law matters have been vast. The "large corruption" in CCP is nothing but myth in western media. And believe it or not human rights are in today's China BETTER than ever in history

I was about to make thread about this I am absolutely stunned and under mixed feelings of confusion, disbelief and worry. I never could've seen THIS happening. Sure, Russian bear likes to rattle its weapons and arms as that (esp. NUKLIAR WEAPONZ) is their greatest single remaining thing from their superpower days, but I couldn't imagine they'd go beyond that stage (and using energy weapon aka Gazpro) to actual war Very worrysome Good luck Georgia! You need it

If country survives Culture Revolution it survives everything I wouldn't worry about China too much. Especially around the change of millenium western world was chockful of books by economical experts with "deep knowledge about China" who predicted the downfall of China. In fact it is still cycle that repeats once in few years or so. lol Not surprisingly these economists were uniformly americans and brittons, working from antiqued and off the wall simplified understanding of China. Really, amount of poor information and black and whiteness even in such magazines as The Times when it comes to China is really quite horrible. Among those who have worked for years in China tend to be really ashamed about their homeland media and their understanding of that vast country. Which is nigh-uniformly very lacking and very biased What might be even more funny are these famed experts giving suggestions to China how they should proceed. Too bad Chinese goverment has always incorporated the very same things said in their plans about year or so earlier on average, based on reports of their own, highly capable, group of experts I really like the part about "Too much rests on the internal conflicts within the CCP" because as we all know China's goverment barely does anything more than fights for power and position. Really, that has no basis. Hu Jintao has the country firmly in his grasp as it is. edit: What I'm saying is: There is no doom scenario in horizon that stops China's eventual rise to biggest powerplayer of the world

We could as well name these games as "Start Of Chinese Century" , because historians in future are going to try to pin point some event anyway.