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Huge PR disaster for the Serbs though. Pictures of mortar shelling hitting civilians did not look good on TV. I didn't mean to suggest the city was destroyed. Maybe a bit of hyperboly on my part.

Funny thing, When I was just a kid my family went to Dubrownik before it got flattened. My dad found a drinking buddy in the owner of one of the tourist trap resturants we went to who told him that it wasn't going to be long before the whole of Jugoslavia would be at war with itself.

It was high altitude and targeted against infrastructure, certainly part of the plan was to damage the economy, to bomb military assets effectively you need spotters on the ground. Every effort to avoid civilian casualties was taken, which is why it was so ineffective. In the end though, it was part of the leverage used to make Milosovic buckle. The west had just had enough. Ethnic cleansing and civil war dragging on and on just a short boatride from the Italian coast. It wasn't going to fly anymore.

Learned a new word today https://www.google.dk/search?q=glasshole&rlz=2C1AFAB_enDK0537DK0538&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=vN1nU6TmFIHRrQePpYDYDQ&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=923

Sometimes I wonder about you guys. If you met in a bar, how long before you would be throwing punches at eachother.

Skyrim only really comes alive once you start modding it. There are tons of quality material available, tons of crap too but that's to be expected. No one would be mentioning it anymore if not for the mod comunity.

Tutorials are best when they can be turned off or circumvented. In RPGs I usually suffer from compulsive restarting as I try and figure out what class and build I like.

Just hypothetically, do you think the country would be disintegrating without Russian support. Things were already bad the way Maidan ended.

Don't post imbedded vids of burning bodies or whatever. If you have to, post a link to a news site and give a warning. I haven't got time to watch all that **** just to check.

I tried to find some numbers for GNP of the EU vs Russia, only got part of the way. Anyway the Russian economy is tiny compared and too dependent on natural resources. http://www.imf.org/external/index.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_European_Union http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Russia

Just sayin', If I had to chose between aligning myself to a 4 billion economy obsessed with a long gone past or a 20 billion economy I know what I would chose.

I like the way the correspondent presents an opinion that EU emembership would have been detrimental to Ukraine as fact. They aren't trying very hard to sound impartial anymore. I honestly think I can see a change from just a year ago.

Has that setting ever worked in any game during Steam's over 10 years of existence? Ridiculous really. There is a file you can edit that hides a game from the update function, or rather, the game can't 'phone home' anymore to make checks. I never tried it myself. I have noticed that STEAM will arbitrarily destroy game installations and any attempt to start the game will run the installer instead and you will have to download all the game files again even though they are already in their folder.. I don't know if this is related to DRM or updates, but I've had it happen with havily modded Skyrim and Xcom.

Spoiler much? new bsg were 2004. you figure on waiting another decade before watching? rosebud were brand name of Kane's sled. apollo creed beats rocky at the end of the movie. jr weren't actually shot-- it were all a dream sequence. the chick who kinda looked like a guy in the crying game were actually a guy. we would spoil christmas/easter/tooth-fairy for you, but sometimes you give impression of being 'round 8 years old, so we will forebear and lets you continue to enjoy your childlike ignorance. HA! Good Fun! It was actually a really cool series ruined by plot curveballs that made no sense at all. BSG that is.

Maybe it's a parade, you know, get everyone's patriotic juices flowing.

umm.. Anyway, my predictions about watchdogs stand.

It's not the map, it's the encounters, the gameplay, everything not connected to the main storyline. Assassins Creed = Farcry 2 = Ever other EA open world game, right down to the icons.

I dunno, I smell EA design on that. It will seem awesome for the first hour untill you realise that everything is cut and paste.

Opinions om Wolfenstein : The New Order (PC version) pls. I want it do be good but my mind is nowhere near made up on getting it or not.

So ?, he wasn't afriad for his life once he found out that the beat him being careful not to leave any marks, because they weren't stupid, they knew that was going to come back on them. Does that make it all right ? You are deflecting with insinuations about Abu Ghraib. It's got nothing to do with this. It's certainly not relevant to the question of attempting to control the media output by intimidation.

Is someone missing the fact that this is a story about a guy who got shoved in the back of a van, well the boot of a car, by balaclava clad gunmen and was taken to the police station or whatever and beaten up for being a reporter. How do you not see the connection. I mean .... The nice lady at the press conference isn't going to be the one kidnapping you, that happens later. Unless you file 'the truth' of course. No one bothers reporters with Russian press passes, they know the deal, everyone else better learn fast or get out.

The context is pretty clear. Write 'our truth' or get showed in the back of a van by balaklava clad gunmen.

That's really telling. Especially about the way western media, and anone not towing the line, is viewed. I wonder if all press conferences start with poorly vailed threats like that.

I think you might be overthinking this. 'Western media' has been made the bogeyman in Russia for so long that our fellow board members aren't being objective about it anymore. There are lots of things wrong with 'western media', don't get me wrong, but the assumption is that there is something better out there, which is not really supported by the facts.

We were talking about the decisionmaking leading up to the invasian. He had a muke programme, which had been canned, and a chemical programme which was largely dismantled by the inspectors. If you know something else, by all means. Would be interesting to hear after all these years.