Gorgon

There is a long history of rolling back individual rights in response to percieved threats. The problem of course is when or how it ever gets decided that the threat is over.

My theory is that the narative drive of big blockbusters is getting increasingly frantic, they are simply afraid to slow down because they are afraid people will lose interest. They are also written by comittee, making sweeping changes to the final cut following test screenings. The end result usually hinges on those very expensive actors because the story is a mess by then.

Knowing is better than not. Other than that I don't imagine it will change much. It's a relief really, that secret societies of the size and scope of the NSA can't count on the loyalty of everyone they employ. I have noticed this predispotition to focus on wikileaks or the leaker rather than the material before. I don't really understand why leaking is something that fills you with ire. It has been going on for as long as politics, it's very much part of the game.

lol

You poor thing. I'm sure your shapely gay attracting booty must be a real cross to bear.

They'll catch up to you in Blessed Europe soon enough. Actually I was thinking more like Thailand. With all the ladyboys they have become a testing ground for acceptance of sexuality and gender in society as a whole and they appear to have taken the lead in some areas despite having a very conservative establishment. Adoptions for gay couples is still a recurring debate here.

Baby steps, but you guys still lag behind badly

Now this is my kind of nationalism.

It doesn't matter if each of those claims are well documented or not. It is how the article was written and presented. You can just as easily with clever writing make it look like Reagan single-handedly, and without any aid ended the cold war. Or Gorbachev for that matter. So we are going to forego arguments that don't suit our predisposition. Interestingly enough our predisposition is what it was all about in case you missed it.

By the way can anyone tell me why STEAM wants to re install every game on my E: disk about once every week. It downloads nothing but spends 10mins of furious HDD activity 'installing'. It never happens on my C: drive.

i forget what he was supposed to habe done

It's all very well documented and you are exaggerating the claims of the article. It goes to the nature of the discourse on Russia and China through half a century. I don't see you discounting the WMD fiasco as a tin foil hat conspitacy. Is that because you are willing to concede that goverments will make you believe whatever suits their strategic interests the best, including democracies who champion freedom of the press.

I thought I would post this here. A piece making the point that misinformation is much more dangerous than intelligence gathering. It's really scary how many deliberate lies eventually come to be the accepted version of events. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/06/20/commentary/cyber-snooping-only-one-side-of-the-information-war/#.UcMgUqDPxUM

I think the term Means too old to be married off, for better or worse. Like an old spinster. Made sense when people only lived to be 40 I guess.

Why would anyone do that to a child. Except for grandparents wishing to instill fear and obedience.

It sounds good now, but then you remember how every session ended in a huge argument about a particular outcome or ruling. Also, I don't know if I would be up for that again without the services of my mom for refreshments and cleanup duty.

It's not bad. I kinda wish they had done a movie length special or two like BSG.

There's always the Jazz festival. I looked through the program and I didn't recognise a single name. Not that I know a lot about contemporary jazz. Every event is like 50-150 DKK, I think they get a huge subsidy from the city so everyone can know that Copenhagen is the hippest happenigest jazz spot for 2013.

I'm of the opinion that the Rolls Royce of sock technology does not differ radically from the budget version. It's a sock.

Somehow I always had Mkreku pegged as one of those expensive socks douchebags. I mean, they're socks. Who in the hell cares. That said, white tennis socks are probably the worst way you could go. They look horrible and as an added bonus they make you sweat more.

A two edged weapon of war. They make the enemy run away and everyone else deaf.

They repost stuff from facebook and twitter and look handsome if they want their own show. Investigative reporting is dead. It's from an era dominated by newspapers.

I've been waiting eagerly since the announcement. Looks good. There is already a lot of bleedin obvious Appartheid going on, they didn't need to call the badguy Kruger too. lols.

I'm pretty sure I saw that girl on the train yesterday. With a small cadre of equally hot and exotic africans.

What's missing is some reason to have wide expanses. If tracking were well done for instance. If an enounter spanned several different regions, chasing or being chased by the same enemies. I don't think anyone has ever attempted that.