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  1. There must have been Hamas hiding in it, and that makes everything alright.
  2. 140 sounds a little chewy. Anyway humans are sentimental like that. There is a difference between eating a 200 year old turtle and a, what, 6 month old chicken. For some reason it is also worse to eat a dog or whale than a pig. It the only conclusion is that it's racism, or in this case ageism.
  3. To be fair it's easy to be distracted by buxom chicks in Khakis.
  4. Don't you think that if you have more money than anyone could spend in a lifetime you have a responsibility to do something worthwhile with it rather than have your parasitic children grow weak and lose their ambition with the prospect of gaining it.
  5. No, they usually make onboard sound chips.
  6. There will always be a couple of trolls who think it easier to ridicule than to be constructive. Maybe they lack imagination themselves? Can you really start a sentence with "But..." in English? Yes. People who think differently are usually advocates of dogmatic linguistic prescription and no one ever got anywhere by listening to those people. Well, if you don't realise what effect it has and use it because you can't figure out where to stick the dependent clause it just looks silly. But... (hahaha) theres no final verdict on style.
  7. I don't get it, I mean being physically strong is an advantage I suppose, if everyone happens to run out of bullets at the same time, other than that it comes down to marksmanship, training, endurance. Soldiers are usually required to haul around a ludicrous amount of gear.
  8. There is a common sense of the country, Israel, always being a hair's breath away from destruction, no doubt as a result of the 6 day war. I am always weary of patriotism, it rarely brings out the best in people. I mean, it can sure, but most times it makes you blind to your own failings.
  9. I heard about a archeologist finding a possible evolutionary link about the first peoples in north america, he excavated it and tried to study it to figure it out, but was blocked when the Indian tribe that used to dwell in the spot where the skeleton was found, filed a lawsuit claiming that the guy was part of their tribe and thus they were going to rebury him in a traditional manner. Yes, there was some suggestion of an explanation of the American Indian heritage as regards the evolution of the human species. On the other hand I can appreciate that the Indians think the bones of their forefathers belong in the ground. Maybe I'm just sentimental. In any case the researchers got a good chunk of the data they were looking for before they had to return the bones.
  10. 'Wounded and hunted down' suggests past perfect, How can he do anything if he has already been hunted down. 'hunted' is better. Also starting a clause with a capitalized 'But'. How is this. Officer Brian Reaper faces his darkest night, wounded and hunted, but as the heart of the evil looms closer, nothing is as it seems.
  11. Where are you getting this, is this a new development,and who is reporting it. There aren't any journalist inside Gaza except Hamas media and a smattering of 'independents'. Mostly people with video cameras looking to make a buck.
  12. What about shooting knowing without a shadow of a doubt that you will kill both the guy you are aiming at, and the guy standing next to him. Collateral damage. You can't escape the need to judge each situation responsibly by using a silly label like 'collateral damage'. At what point does a military engagement become a war crime. 2 civilians to 1 militant killed, 10 to 1, 1000 to 1.
  13. so why are they firing from schools to begin with? The UN officials who were there say they were certain there were no Hamas firing from the position. What likely happened is that the IDF forces took mortar fire, and guesstimated a direction. The spokesperson back in Israel then says that Hamas were firing from there, which is predictable bull****, a lot of that going on from both sides. Like Hamas media making the most of the wounded and dead children that their actions helped bring about indirectly.
  14. I really hate the autoplay and auto indexing features, It slows your computer to a crawl whenever there is a disk in the drive and you enter windows explorer by spinning up the drive all the time. On top of the slowdowns it's noisy and uses power for no reason at all. If there is a way to get rid of it I would like to know.
  15. What about shooting knowing without a shadow of a doubt that you will kill both the guy you are aiming at, and the guy standing next to him.
  16. Yes, it's true about the talks Clinton moderated between Barak and Arafat, I forgot about that.
  17. And again, it doesn't matter who's fault it is to the civilians trapped there. Hamas is not a likely partner for peace, but peace means negotiating with your enemy, not your friends. Hamas' stated goal of the destruction of the state of Israel does not make talking pointless, Hamas hardly believes it can achieve that anyway. Israel has shown very little will to change anything when they had Abbas, or even Arafat, to negotiate with. What is needed is a victory for Palestinian moderates, not to make another generation of suicide bombers out of the civilians on the receiving end of Israel's retaliation.
  18. My last Radeon card had a GPU recover function that kept driver conflicts from forcing a boot via power off button, which is what can destroy the HDD, doesn't happen that often, but often enough that you don't want to power off that way. My new box is less haphazardly put together and the soft reset button actually works, regardless of the reason for the computer locking up. Had a couple of 'red screens of death' when I ran wxp 64 bit.
  19. They started negotiating with Shin Fein, that turned out pretty well. Yes, you do negotiate with organizations that have a terrorist militant wing, with the carrot and the stick.
  20. Are squirrels that bad. I mean it's not like they eat the house from the inside out like mice or termites.
  21. The list goes on, I think only countries with specific constitutions or policies like Germany and Sweden etc, have not contributed to UNFOR in Afghanistan, it's a very wide range.
  22. 9 times. Were you going for a record... Yes an organization that sponsors suicide bombings is first and foremost a terrorist organization, and it's important to insist on that label, but obviously it's a lot more as well. They may be the ones Israel will have to negotiate with in future. I'm not so sure anyone believes it's possible to eradicate the state of Israel, Hamas included.
  23. It might not be a software error, the powerloss could have damaged sectors or files on your HDD
  24. you're right, his voice was waaaay over-acted. drove me nuts. did they really kill that guy, or is there an expectation for that character to appear in the future? i'm not up on current comic trivia so i don't know how it all plays out. personally, i hated the way they ended it, at least, the "twist" that could have easily been explained in a thousand other, much more obvious, ways than it was. of course, comics are about on the same level as soap operas in terms of the intelligence that goes into their stories (you really have to try hard to suspend your disbelief) so i can't complain. i enjoyed the movie, however. we rented it last night, btw. i won't be getting it on blu-ray. saving to get the matrix trilogy, hehe (well, it's only $64 through amazon). taks I just watched Batman begins, and you can tell he is really trying hard and failing to adopt a sufficiently coarse and cool voice, it just sounds silly. It sortof makes sense that Batman would use a voice modulator, in any case it's bad, but an improvement none the less.
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