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It was terrible. Anyway just ignore the movies, some of the games are really good.

From Walter Sharpe, the US commander in S. Korea, can't find the link now. Anyway there are bound to other sources, just do a search.

I'm sorry, but it looked like crap then and it looks like crap now.

A comparable military response would end in war and the North holds the population of Seoul hostage. The North boasts an estimated 13000 artillery pieces, the largest concentration anywhere in the world, already dug in and pointing at the South's cities. There is no effective counter against such a threat against the civilian population. The South would win with their American allies but the cost would be incalculable. This is where the North's supreme confidence comes from. They know that starting a war is unthinkable for the South since its leaders are obliged to actually care what happens to its citizens.

Czechoslovakia yes, but Afghanistan is a whole different story. So, satellite wars are not imperialism. Well that should get the US off the hook for a whole lot.

Actually you can do everything in one installation with the Ubuntu boot disk. I did, didn't cause any problems. Although I did feel rather nervous while the partitioning was taking place during install. If it locks up then well then you lost everything on the disk. There is an option to boot off the install disk without making any permanent changes though.

The last time I had repeated lockups my PS did die not long after. If you are feeling adventurous you could install ubuntu and see if it happens there too. could confirm a harware error.

It couldn't hurt to experiment with other drivers, do a reinstall to make sure something else is not missing. If the computer locked and you yanked the power Data corruption is a possibility.

I'm curious, what do Russians call Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan if not imperialism ?.

Now there's a real test of manhood and daring for you.

I'm watching the Russian based RT on a stream, and its coverage of Georgia today is pretty telling, it's miles away from how its being reported in the rest of the world. They ask the question 'is Georgia getting ready for military expansion ?'. Do you people actually buy this stuff ?. What is Georgia going to invade...

The commonwealth is systemically completely irrelevant. An old list of British ex conquests. What do they have in common any more ?

You know that for a fact? Full-scale UN sanctions (the works - complete trade halt like South Korea has recently done) would be pretty potent. Not even Iran has this. All you really need is China and South Korea to sanction NK. That's enough to make what little is left of NK's economy collapse completely. I'm not sure how the NK government would get by then. As it is the impact of SK's unilateral sanctions will be interesting. Another crop failure and the system hoards the food for itself, blaming the mass fatalities on the sanctions. We have been there already. It would appear that outside pressure is not sufficient to bring about radical change.

Well, that just proves he is within normal range. I saw this thing on discovery about two kids who were shipwrecked for 6 days without water, and lived, although barely. So I take it my earlier assertion was the correct one. Lock him in a room for 14 days though, and he's coming out dead.

Well good on you.

The people might well decide that democracy is all well and good, but that they don't want to die for it. If all you have experienced is a procession of 'strong men' you would likely to be right in observing that that would be the outcome. Instead of changing the world you get on with your own life. It's not a mentality that is difficult to grasp I think.

Score !

There is nothing that can be done. UN resolutions, sanctions, for reasons already stated they won't work.

I'm kinda used to skills not making a lot of sense in Fallout so I don't mind so much. As a matter of fact changes would be harder for someone with knowledge of all the FO games to deal with. Just be sure it's all there in the descriptions when you level up. From a design perspective though I much prefer clarity. There are too many RPG games (I'm looking at you Dragon Age) where you only know the system and what tree to advance on your second or third game.

Well, at least were done with it. I too get the impression that the show 'cheated'. They created way too much baggage along the way to ever address properly.

I hope there is at least one armour set that isn't ugly. Most of what I have seen is, it was pretty dire in FO as well. Bethesda's fault really, their art assets. Maybe I'm too picky I dunno, but I was trekking around in raider badlands gear towards the end of the game because almost everything else was aesthetically unpleasant. Take the trench coats for instance, if you can't make one that flaps around the legs because the engine can't to it don't bother at all. They look like they were carved out of wood.

The little green arrows point the wrong way in the DC metro, you can't just pick a direction either because of the garbage piles fencing you in. That just leaves wandering about aimlessly hoping to stumble on the mission. Me not like.

Ohh and teaching kids critical tools rather than teaching them to regurgitate from a textbook for the purpose of an exam goes without saying.

That's not really disputed, at least not by me. The Soviets trained and funded hundreds if not thousands of promising young revolutionaries in infiltration and political agitation. They had some major successes too, notably China. The question is what to do in the face of this of agitation which depends on a helping hand from the established order in the form of draconian counter insurgency measures. In nine times out of ten the answer is simply to do nothing. By the way all of the Comintern documents were released to the public followinhg te collapse of Communism, although I haven't read them (they are in Russian) they are frequently referred to as showing indirectly the massive Soviet disappointment in the American Communist movement. In Japan several prominent Communists even did an about face and converted to the hyper nationalism of the time. Effectively killing Communism in Japan until it was resurrected by MacArthur.

From your edit : 'in the opinion of some'. That's rather flimsy isn't it. In the opinion of some we have been secretly invaded by martians.