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I don't particularly care about any of the characters, the main guy in particular seems to sport a perpetually wounded look that just pisses me off, I feel like smacking him in the face to shake him out of it. yeah so he used to be a drunk, buu-huu.

In the 60 and 70 it was something you smoked, now it's more sort of an all purpose noun.

You lot just catch more **** because of your superpower status, which by the way would have been the case regardless of who had that position. That should read "You lot just catch more **** because of your superpower status, which by the way would have been the case for whoever happens to have that position."

You lot just catch more **** because of your superpower status, which by the way would have been the case regardless of who had that position.

The report is based on a questionnaire sent to partner organizations of Reporters Without Borders (14 freedom of expression groups in five continents) and its 130 correspondents around the world, as well as to journalists, researchers, jurists and human rights activists. Just to be clear they are professionals with an interest in freedom of speech, not some random group of people with an axe to grind. I imagine the main problems in the US have to do with national security issues, I recall several high profile cases where journalists were forced to reveal sources, and a general fear of lawsuits among the big publishing houses, although this is hardly unique to the US. Controversial investigative journalism has had a hard time this last decade as news outlets are pretty much only about making money and not so much any more about fulfilling their part in the system of checks and balances.

I like how everyone blacking out for 2 minutes somehow equates with fires, explosions and fallen power lines everywhere. Sure, everyone who happened to be driving would be in trouble, but it would hardly be the vision of the apocalypse the show proposed. Passenger planes already in their flight lanes would be on auto pilot.

It's going to sail into those contested Taliban areas in Afghanistan.

In the food industry they just work their magic and turn it into sausages or animal feed.

Too bad you can't build ships out of cement, imagine an aircraft carrier made out of bits of the Berlin wall.

Wow ! This was on the same page as your link. I dunno, shrubberies are overrated. We have learned to live with pigeons and ducks and such, why not rabbits. A steady supply would do wonders for the fox population. Nature is not just that stuff out there in the wild, there is no wild anymore.

Beware Islamic imperialism.

perhaps even a year Bwhahhhahahhahahha doing aid work I misread that as 'doing acid'. Either is an eye opener I guess.

Don't you see, I have proven, by LotF's own logic, that invading Iraq was justified.

I know I'm going to regret this because engaging you in any serious discussion is the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience, but I betting you would be one of the ones to argue that the attack on Pearl Harbor was justified. I'm curious, do you think Nixon would have been justified in attacking OPEC nations in 1973? Or would Carter have been justified for attacking Iran in 1979? ... or Bush for attacking Iraq in 2003. *Ba-dum Tish*

But the consequence of use is always there in the back of the decision makers' minds, that's the whole idea behind calling it the ultimate deterrent. It's why everyone wants them. I don't think Johnson or Nixon would have be as meticulous in their political signaling, or been as reluctant to engage the north without it.

Those tanks weren't that great to begin with, they just built more of them than anyone had ever done before.

But the Japanese regime did want war. They invaded to Korea and Manchuria to 'protect' them from colonial powers, well knowing that that was exactly what they were themselves. Unless you buy into their propaganda, but I don't think any reasonably intelligent person ever has. The envisioned greater Japanese empire certainly wasn't going to come without one. They thought they could force a peace after a quick campaign in the pacific, but that's how wars go, easy to start, not so easy to end.

I think MAD was the only thing keeping things from escalating into another world war, at least two or three times, notably Vietnam and Korea, although MacArthur wanted to use the bomb himself. Thank god he never got to be president. And on the other hand in the Cuban missile crisis the weapons themselves were the catalyst for the near war.

I'm thinking chocolate risen, or is it past perfect of 'rise'.

It would kill the only source of objective opinion about games we have : other gamers. Since everyone would constantly be trying to talk up their stocks.

There was a blackout a week ago and I momentarily wondered if I had gone blind, or if this was the afterlife. Stubbed my toe the same place two times looking for some source of light. Decided to go out to see what there was to see and discovered that the cafes were all candlelit, and that people had all come out en mass, cut off from ze internets and their TV sets. It was a little bizarre, but in a good way.

Personally I thought she was a bit old to play a clueless teenager. Also I don't think Ballard makes sense, as in why he would work for the dollhouse. If he's trying to go undercover it's a mite obvious, and why would they trust him. If he just wanted another job because he got fired from the FBI then sold out his ideals completely, but he's as sanctimonious and goodie two- shoes as ever.

Nah he plays both sides of the fence.

The question is if the prize should attempt to further peace or just reward those efforts after the fact. If you decide to try and be creative and proactive you could easily wind up honoring the wrong people. It's a tightrope act, and they have failed quite a number of times. Philosophically though, I agree with the stance.