Gorgon

the British , promised both them and jews this place in return for aiding them in ww1 (without the sides knowing about the other). for 20 years since then, the arabs killed jewish civilians to scare them. after ww2 (in which the world was ashamed of ignoring the jewish holocaust) the jewish settlements demanded the british departure from israel (which the u.n granted them 3 years later) There seems to be missing some rather poignant details from your history lesson, namely that the British left after only after Zionist terrorists assassinated the person charged with handling the transition, groups who were also responsible for numerous attacks on Palestinians. So, you see, it's not exactly like Arafat invented terrorism in the middle east, although he did employ it to great political effect. Without it the eyes of the world would simply have passed over the Palestinian problem, and therein lies the problem : contrary to what common sense should tell us, the middle eastern experience is that terrorism works.

None of the sides have a position worth taking, which isn't going to change until people on both sides get fed up with the stalemate.

Ideally someone steps in and solves the problem for them since they can't seem to manage for themselves. Probably wouldn't end well though.

I might get Batman, although I'm on a shared con, I can't exactly dk 6-8 gigs whenever I want without lagging everyone else to death. I'd rater have a disk for re installation.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/t...1023esuice.html The trend is well documented, now I can't be arsed arguing about it, just saying, it's not really contested.

Point of order. I seem to detect that some people believe global warming isn't happening, it most certainly is. The polar ice caps are melting, you don't need to be an insider in the climate cadre to establish that. If this turns out to be a case of duking the stats for political motivations that would seriously undermine their credibility, but you are taking the conclusion too far here.

Do you really see those factors as capable of overturning industrial civilization itself. Honestly they are nothing compared to the tests of modernity, Dickensian squalor, Marxists revolutions and war attrition it has already absorbed. Besides, we don't know any other way to be.

I find it a bit strange that we have a minister for the climate. What does she do all day, fly around to various conventions where people decide they either aren't doing anything, or promise to do too little to have any impact. It seems to me that we have to invest heavily in new energy sources, solar panels aren't going to do it, in the best case scenario they only account for single digits of the whole usage. So, for now, nuclear it is. It's always a chance, but I think we have to take it.

In a perfect world nuclear is preferable, but the problem there is proliferation. If we start depending wholesale on nuclear power the security implications would be enormous. Nuclear power has a bad rep because when things go wrong it really is one of the most scary things you can imagine, and because the industry has a history of being untrustworthy, but honestly if it can bring me cheap power I say build one here, yesterday. I won't be waving any protest flags.

If it's a scam, who's getting paid. No one doubts that climate change is happening, not many people disagree that greenhouse gasses are a contributor, but how much of a contributor that's the question, Further, can we do anything that would make a difference. Half measures really are pointless and that's all anyone can ever seem to agree on. I say spend the money on reducing poverty instead at least that way you know you are getting something back on the investment.

'Fallen' infers a state change. Logically if it is the act itself and not an ideal it doesn't matter if his motivation for going to war was to rape cows and machine-gun orphans. If he saves his fellow war criminals at great personal risk, he is a hero.

Heroism is tactical... So, wiping out a village of partisans, raping the cows and killing the women, is heroic, as long as they put up a good fight and your side looks out for one another, sacrificing personal safety in order to prevail against the odds. What if our hero knew beforehand that he was going to machine-gun ever orphan he could get his hands on.

I don't think there is much in the way of respectability to serving your country in war time if you are part of the problem. However, many of them may not have been fully aware of what Hitler was all about before it was too late, and it's not like you can just leave the army.

This could be quite a show if they cut down on the Keno confessions and the earth dialing stones.

I don't know if Rommel was a hero, I mean he was on the wrong side, more like 'not completely evil'. Even his enemies spoke for his treatment of prisoners of war and the professionalism of all the men under his command in the Africa campaign.

I think it was this fellow, or it was a Wehrmacht officer, anyway the story seems to be prevalent. Made into a movie which I cant remember the name of, the Jews stuck his name on a memorial. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Plagge

Three again, I gave up.

If I remember from the news it's porn targeting teenage girls.

What about whatshisface the death camp commandant who saved as many Jews as he could for as long as he was able.

At least they grasped the basic concept of ducking.

Whats really strange is that they still fought in formations at a time where firepower and accuracy ought to have rendered them obsolete.

Would capturing the capitol have had a difference, of would Lincoln have gotten on a stagecoach and proceeded to surround the invaders, who necessarily had long lines of supply. Symbolism is important, but it's not all important. Capturing Stalingrad would have done little for the Germans as it was by that time a pile of rubble. In order to be sure of victory The South would have to disrupt the North's manufacturing base, which was always vastly superior to their own.

Isn't the main reason why an old windows installation runs like crap that there are too many processes being loaded into memory at start up, and you can't configure them all to go away

They like to talk about it because it's about them. Go figure. In other news Icelandic history appears to be gaining popularity in Iceland.

You and me both. Due monday, 15 pages with notes. done about four. I'm counting on the appearance of a miracle of inspiration some time soon.