Gorgon

Activism is part and parcel of democracy. It's something you are just going to have to put up with. If however a concerted pro GLT (did I get all the correct letters ?) campaign is seen to originate overseas I predict it will fail. People don't like being told what to think by knowitalls from another country.

Master and Commander. I must have watched it 5 times. Wooden warships are awesome. Why aren't there more movies with wooden warships.

I realise that transgender people have the same rights as anyone else. Personally though I think surgery is an extreme step. If I were 'trapped' in this body or the other it seems far more doable to simply adjust to living as a man or a woman whatever the case may be than to undergo surgery and hormone treatments which is still dangerous and may wind up quite a bit off the mark one was aiming for. It seems to me that they are not only people who feel trapped in the wrong gender, but also people who place an extreme emphasis on identification with a particular gender. The grass is always greener on the other side, that kind of thing. This is something that we can adress as a society, making sure that people can live comfortably in their own skin without having to deal with a lot of gender based bias.

Isn't A levels what you need to apply to university. Not everyone does that right off school you know. Life gets in the way and such.

I think that horse is gay. I mean look at it.

Google's first hit.

Got flashed by a truckload about two months ago. I was so startled I couldn't think of a comeback, and then they had driven off honking the horn screaming like lunatics. Like any good Danish tradition it involves large quantities of alchohol and lots of pent up stress. Goes on for weeks while they hold parties at each classmate's house.

North Koreans show up in menacing looking trucks and take over the White House in 9 minuites. After that the only hope for the country is John Mcclaine and his 8 year old daugher Lucy. It does not compare well with the earlier movies and suffers from a severe lack of Alan Rickman or a Jeremy Irons with a german accent.

RIP. I'm no good at finding the right thing to write at these moments.

I wached a documentary recently about Indian independence and I never knew that the lack of local forces and the knowledge among the local hamlets that the border with Pakistan was in the process of being decided actually incited a series of bloody pogroms. The lack of centralized power is a very dangerous thing, even for a short time.

If we are going to go digging for blame put it on bad Brittish administration prior to independence and Zionism. Maybe it could have been possible to create a Jewish state without automatically antagonizing all of its neighbours, but not with such a massive influx of immigrants over so short a time.

As already pointed out, the status quo favors Israel. With the current leadership they are going to concede exactly nothing. We don't have a strong Palestinean moderate on the other side of the equation either. Yep, entirely hopleless. They may agree on principle and set deadlines for further talks, like they have done for decades before with nothing materializing on the other end.

I don't think honey goes sour.

Only one in ten people who mention Citizen Kane have actually seen it or can remember anything about it. The rest just name drop. I saw it in school ages ago I think. Fell asleep.

I find the premise of these CEO hero/biographical movies kinda repugnant. Old socialist itch I guess.

The Olympics can only rejcet countries based on current practices during the selection phase. If they reject countries after they have already been chosen to host an event it looks like they are chosing sides politically, which they can't do given that they have to build bridges between different government types and peoples.

Brand Russell Bertrand Russell

I had just googled up some male nazi strippers for Oby, alas they were NSFW

The story was amusingly anime. Mostly a special effects movie though. The whole thing was somewhat ruined by the theater turning up the volume so much that the speakers crackled during the loudest bits and deaf as I was I still worried what it would do to my ears. Only thing missing was the segment at the Jaeger academy - insert random anime teenage tribulations.

Highbrow movie critics hate it. Regular mortal movie goers like it. I'm going to see it sunday.

I really want someone to tell me that Pacific Rim is good despite the reviewers hating it.

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/MAXIMUS_VI_HERO/#specifications OK so I'm looking at the specifications on the ram. Are the numbers FSB speeds ?. How do I make sure the ram I chose are compatible when the designations on the kits I see mention PC 17000, latency timings, and not much other than that. Will they run with a small overclock and is that even relevant anymore. Will anything called DDR 3 do ?. So yes, I kinda decided to spend what I need to and stretch the budget to fit. I want a large bundle of ram that isn't too slow.

It seems to me that one can have a professional online presence with the simple adherence to a few ground rules. Do not take youtube comments to heart for instance. As a public persona trying to get something out of that presence in the form of word of mouth, promotion etc. you are also going to take abuse. That's just the nature of the beast. It's all a show though. They aren't your friends and the persona you share isn't the real you. It's potentially dangerous to become addicted to the buzz around your persona, and if you start confusing that buzz with real sentiment you could get hurt. So, maybe stepping back from the whole thing for a while is a good idea. So, basically Boo Hoo cry me a river.

I don't know how it's going to work technically, but without banning the use of proxies as well I don't see how it would be practical. Also, I'm pretty sure you are not allowed to post links to TPB here, and since I'm now a mod I suppose I will have to ask you to edit them out.

So much for the internet without rules. I guess it was only a matter of time before well meaning bureaucrats ruined it for everyone else. This thing about child offenders is beside the point isn't it. Those kinds of pedo networks never stay in the same place for very long. When they do, they get caught. So a blocklist would help very little, not that anyone would mind such a blocklist except for the stuff the government would inevitably sneak in the back door.