Gorgon

Japan is undergoing a serious recession as well, its banks particularly have been hit hard by the credit crisis, and because the banking sector is so huge they have felt it before most countries. Interesting to see we aren't on the list at all, were in the black. (Denmark that is)

They slashed my hours by half, going to have to look elsewhere now. The next couple of years are going to suck for a lot of people.

Dumping kills local producers thus eliminating competition, it makes perfect business sense if you have our level of capacity,but it's not a very friendly kind of globalism. We found out that wheat actually burns pretty well, and you can use butter for other things than eating. We can't just give it away, that would destabilize prices too much. To a certain extent however, this is a discussion from the last decades. Farm subsidies are no longer as prevalent, and we aren't hoarding mountains of produce to dominate prices like, say the diamond industry.

Anything mammal can get cancer, but most mammals don't live long enough for it to be an issue. The wolf population around Chernobyl has thrived because they don't live long enough for the toxins in the environment to kill them, and they have a pretty much undisturbed habitat all to themselves.

Nobody can stand around brooding like Kianu.

The EU is a rich kid's club mainly concerned with mutual economic benefit, it doesn't have any kind of 'national' cohesion. Every time they try to establish a joint foreign policy it fails. The EU Parliament has gone from strength to strength at the expense of the chairman, which is comforting if you care about democracy, but it also means the EU will be about as likely to take a firm stance on anything as the UN. Turkey won't get in, why, because if it did they would dominate the Parliament through proportional representation and we don't trust them. The talks are designed to stall Turkey until they are ready to accept something less than a full membership.

I really hope they don't spend too much time plugging old holes in the plot. We don't care anymore.

Meet Peter Lundin, he killed a bunch of people in the US, then we lobbied to get him back in a Danish prison only to have him do it all over again. .

Nuking Iran because it is on the verge of developing its own bomb is complete lunacy. If anything does happen it will be diplomatic engagement, at worst an invasion. Most analysts realize there is nothing that can be done to prevent countries who have the will to do it from developing their own nuclear capacity eventually. That doesn't mean you start hurling missiles at them, even if they happen to be Muslim.

Yes, I do. Intentionally targeting civilians is considered an act of terror even in a state of war. Neither Hiroshima nor Nagasaki were military targets. They were cities full of women, children and men. Hospitals, schools, everything was incinerated without discrimination. If you think that's right, then you have no right thinking 9/11 was wrong. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0911010/ And what else could Truman have said other than that it was a tough decision to take? That it was a piece of cake and it didn't bother him in the slightest..? Do you ever think for yourself or do you always let politicians think for you? Every side in ww2 is guilty of war crimes. The Americans tend to want to wash away their sins by regarding Hiroshima and Nagasaki as part of an equation where millions of lives where saved because an invasion of Japan was averted. It is of course a half truth, but one it is the most convenient to remember. The documentary you linked to doesn't dwell on it at all, it merely explores the human aspect of the bombings through the survivors.

Hunter S Thomson went so overboard with the drugs the brain damage he received meant he could no longer concentrate long enough to write. That's just sad, not particularly awesome.

Hell yeah. Stinkin' fascist phony. Now this is a real western hero.

Ohh it's already been posted. Anyway, what a great mug.

I disagree.

The loss of the expeditionary force would not have affected British naval superiority.

How do you know exactly what the bias of any given media has. I think it's prudent to sample a little bit of everything. Also there are still newspapers out there that people buy because they still retain an editorial standard that is higher than TV or radio.

Brutal social realism bores the crap out of me. Always has, probably because for the longest time those were the only kinds of movies we knew how to make in Denmark.

The question gets around empirical standards of evidence by virtue of not being part of the physical world, but rather an unprovable and unimpeachable hypothesis.

Well it's like Curly says, you gotta find that one thing... Even if faith is self hypnosis, if it makes you happier and more able to deal with life's challenges, who are you to say it's worthless.

Lucas and Spielberg are busy trying to piss all over the decent movies they made in the past. Dunno why, boredom, can't be that they need the money.

Africa is a strange place. Magic, both the good and the bad kind are still alive there. I mean there are people who think raping a virgin will cure them of AIDS. I wonder if the LRA still remembers what it was they were supposed to be fighting for.

Terrentino is a more than decent director and a really horrible actor, I think he knows and doesn't care, he's in it for the experience. Takeshi Mike directed this, he's usually a lot better at 'weird'.

Ugh I lost almost all interest when I saw Terrintino in it. God awful blowhard sob. I'll probably still watch it though. Watching the Japanese actors butcher the English language is funny, but the movie is just weird, and the wrong kind of weird, weirdness for it's own sake without any kind of edge. Just pointless posing, bad acting and unlikely slapstick stunts.

I like the 'so far' part of that. Wouldn't that be nice, irrefutable evidence about the existence of god.