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  1. The moral of the story : don't use Outlook express. How many years ago since people started to notice that it would open emails without you asking it to.
  2. I raise you freaky Ukranians with surgical addiction. Apparently it's not a hoax, which was my first instinct. http://starcasm.net/archives/181906
  3. lol back to rabbit jumping and sneaking everywhere.
  4. They remember being close to breaking point in WW2. Stalin ordered deserters be shot on sight and no further retreats. Unlike Hitler's similar orders, It worked. In Russia much can be forgiven by showing strenght. In this he was not much different from the Tsars.
  5. Yes. I believe their main interest is in writing these reports and being factual about it. Everything is connected to everything else. You aren't going to find any one body that is truly impartial. Of course it could well be argued that they shoud'nt have any employees at all, just volounteers.
  6. I take Amnesty international to be a credible source, especially because the US have tried to discredit them in the past. I haven't heard of these other suspected CIA outfits. Copy pasting their entire payroll is not really an argument. Sheer volume of text is not one in itself either.
  7. You should really try Day Z. It's a miliray shooter, but it's also an ironman MMO, and it doesn't have the stupid pretext of a story. There is no shoehorning. Your game is over when you have 40 hrs on the same char, got all the cool gear you wanted and you are still alive. One mistake though and it's over. That's pretty far from the samey boredom of 99% of all games right now.
  8. I'm kinda curious what you think of Syria's human rights record. Or does that simply not register through your centimeter thick Russia goggles.
  9. The main concern for me is what will be the end result. Will the Syrian people have self determination (Libyia) or will Al Qaeda or the Muslim Brotherhood wind up holding all the cards. They are just as interested in regime change as a way of shifting the geopolitical situation as is the West. There is a potentially huge gain with very little direct risk to backing the right group in Syria, but it's a gamble. Also I wonder if Russian media have not been alterning its reporting to suit the convenience of continued arms sales to Syria and resisting regime change efforts as a matter of course, no matter if they are justified or not. It's kinda hard to know what motivates news organisations in a country where criticising the president can land you in jail.
  10. We are told that, here in Denmark and northern Europe - but if you talk to people not of European descent out in the world, most can't drink more than a glass of milk without getting stomach ache, but of couse some can like Labadal. My last girlfriend was of Jewish ancestry and she couldn't digest milk.. I think most of us in the west are simply lactose tolerant and the rest aren't to the same degree. Just go to France, the don't drink nearly the same amount of milk we do in England or the Nordic countries. And when I lived in Paris people would often remark that they had stomach cramps if they drank as much as I did, which was about a pint a day. Found some soruces on it.. These are people who can't digest milk.. "The frequency of decreased lactase activity ranges from 5% in northern Europe through 71% for Sicily to more than 90% in some African and Asian countries" Link That's most likely the cause then.. Which is why, if you work out, you should often measure your fat percentage and/or your waist/arm/leg circumference and not just relay on the weight. That way you see the actual results and don't get discouraged when you aren't losing weight. That's interesting. Going by the number of empty cartons I have lying around I probably drink more than two liters of milk every day. I never drink sodas or energy drinks though.
  11. I tend to agree that the paranoia and entitlement of the few are keeping any real solutions off the table. A lot of people screaming 'gun control doesn't work' like a mantra. Like saying it loud enough enough times would make it true. Gun control will work if the government does what they are all afraid of; if it takes away everyone's guns.
  12. Then shouldn't it be 'Grammar Nazi'? As that's a compound noun, it being prefaced by the indefinite article 'a'. 'Grammar Nazi' is a noun phrase in post Chomsky terminology. It consists of a classifying modifier 'grammar' and the head noun 'Nazi'. Usually only the head noun would be capitalised, but it varies.
  13. For people who haven't been drinking milk growing up it has a really repugnant odor that the rest of us can't detect. Kinda like coffe breath which only affects tea drinkers, in the sense that only non coffe drinkers can smell it. Biologically we are omnivorous, we can all digest cows milk except for those who are lactose intolerant.
  14. Lol, lightweight. 35% and 25% VAT for everyone.
  15. Mandated insurance for everyone. That's gotta be a huge boost to the sector. Or, yall could learn from ze Germans. Turns out a well managed universal healthcare system is cheaper and more effective. The doctors hate the idea because it will mean they will make less money, ditto the carriers and HMOs. It's only really good for one group : the end users. Also, this is an opinion piece, don't let the fancy titles fool you Sally C. Pipes is President, CEO, and Taube Fellow in Health Care Studies at the Pacific Research Institute. Her latest book is The Pipes Plan: The Top Ten Ways to Dismantle and Replace Obamacare (Regnery 2012). Bought and payed for. They have a world for when journalists get up to this kind of malarkey. Good thinh she's not a journalist then, having to be objective and everything, but an 'academic'.
  16. Well there is the siren sniper build; That skill that adds more damage to enemies with more health + crit bonuses and an amp shield. It does more damage in one shot than anything else because the base that is modified with the crit is so much bigger. Like 2,5 times greater than an assassin sniper shot, but only when the amp shield is up.
  17. Should i get sleeping dogs for 17 E
  18. What would you consider to be fairly short? Provided you can get a legendary class mod and a good cooldown relic you can get it down to around 26 seconds, but that does require you to beat Terramorphous. With just the 20% cooler skill you get down to 42 seconds. I prefer playing as sniper because it's more about fancy shooting and traditional FPS skills. Also his aim bonus means he can use more guns which I would usually throw away. It's harder because there is very little in the way of healing, but that's fine too.
  19. I heard lots of complaints about it when it first came out. Maybe people were just annoyed that it wasn't STALKER 2.
  20. There is a bug that gives you unlimited gold keys. Or rather it doesn't count down when you use your keys. You need two active profiles though. One to work the bug and one to open the chests. Easier to do that than swap equipment between chars.
  21. It's a well known recipe. There must be hundreds of dramas with the same theme. They have had a lot of practice though, so it's pretty well refined. Circumstances beyond their control seperate the young lovers, years pass by and they meet again. Throw in a mortal disease or over controlling parents for variation.
  22. You get the option 'playthrough mode' after beating the game. Adds new enemies and substitutes various baddies with beefier ones. Also randomly spawns enemies that are a few levels higher than you which is great equipment wise, your guns are no longer constantly decaying in relative level. You would really be better off starting your game from lv 35 or so with someone elses save/profile. Various builds are possible and the combat is actually challenging. All that time you spend being low level is a huge waste since both quests and gear will become obsolete very quickly and you don't get to use your skills, or at least not the ones you wanted.
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