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I guess even a Gurkhas need a tea break... Seriously, they have an impressive track record.

Looks like a drop of water, the moment it hits the surface.

OH WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT NO, WE AIN'T GONNA TAKE IT OH WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE WE'VE GOT THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE AND THERE AIN'T NO WAY WE'LL LOSE IT THIS IS OUR LIFE, THIS IS OUR SONG WE'LL FIGHT THE POWERS THAT BE JUST DON'T PICK OUR DESTINY 'CAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW US, YOU DON'T BELONG

The history of the Germanic tribes is a long and convoluted one. The French, whether they like it or not are just as German as the "Germans". So is just about everyone living north of Rome in Italy, being descendants of Germanic tribes. So, which of the German peoples is the most German one? Nation states didn't really appear as a concept until the middle of the seventeenth century, so before that time there's little point in thinking of countries as something like we know them today. Loyalties (both secular and spiritual) of people were to rulers, leaders, lords, lieges etc. "Country" was an alien concept. Rulers fought over provinces and resources, not over "nationalist" objectives. If you look at a map of Europe from 1000ad (i.e. about a thousand years back), the Holy Roman Empire is not a country. It's a loose union of 30+ independent realms, including several from northern Italy, eastern France, Holland etc.

I still think it's my duty as a loyal Republic citizen to replace that %§!&%$§ Twilek that calls herself Supreme Chancellor with a proper, responsible administration. Sadly, the the game never allowed for such an option

This is the exact anti-German sentiment that worries me...its not based on fact or an objective analysis of the reality of the current role and motives of Germany Besides, a thousand years may be a bit exaggerated, as there wasn't *a* Germany before 1814. The story is similar to Italy's which also traces its modern version roots back to the end of the Napoleonic wars and the congress of Vienna

In between all the misery and suffering of refugees from Syria, it's nice seeing some of those rare, heartwarming moments. No, they didn't solve the world situation, most likely they're probably still looking for a new place to call home, but dang, the little girls joy at a simple game of "guess the hand" with the police in the middle of the closed highway is infectious... More pictures and background story here

Not my work, no idea who originally came up with this... -- The European Commission has announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU, rather than German, which was the other contender. Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had room for improvement and has therefore accepted a five-year phasing in of "Euro-English". In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make sivil servants jump for joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k", Which should klear up some konfusion and allow one key less on keyboards. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f", making words like "fotograf" 20% shorter. In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e" is disgrasful. By the fourth yer, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and everivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. ZE DREM VIL FINALI COM TRU! Herr Schmidt

Yeah. Where was the option of staging a coup and introduce a new military caretaker government??

Wait... you work for the government now??? --- *mumbles something about if you can't beat them...*

I need one of those!

Not really a fan of Putin's, but I fail to see trying to stabilize at least parts of Syria could make matters worse?

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You are obviously not a frequent flyer

http://youtu.be/VMnjF1O4eH0

The Commodore Amiga was the superior computer, better hardware, better games and an operating system that was light years ahead of anything Microsoft had (took them 15 years to catch up to that level of sophistication, only NeXTSTEP was comparable). Yet sadly, they also had the worst imaginable management in the parent company, which is why the world is stuck with Windows SE (Spyware Edition) today.

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Heh, thanks. I really do like it. Slightly off-topic, I tried looking it up on the store page, but it's no longer available for sale. Just a blurb that it's no longer for sale and to try the suggested alternatives. All if which has half the oomph of this one (half the memory etc.). Did they stop making high end laptops now that it has become more Dell than Alienware???

It runs nicely on my Alienware 17" laptop. I7 and 32Gb ram (and an Nvidia card with its own 8gb DDR5 memory). Even when running on max settings, it's running smoothly, so that is usually not a concern

*taking notes* Thanks guys. I'll google fraps and shadowplay (since I have nvidia hardware).

Hmm, never really done much with recording games on video or screen grabbing other than the built function (which doesn't work with cutscenes). Any particular useful tools around that doesn't cost a fortune and doesn't install a gigabyte of backdoor/trojan software (yes, looking at you Raidcall and the adware it took forever to remove)?

Ah you know, what does that matter anyway. Real men go for Revanchist anyway. I've done the two ops plenty of times, but never in HM. The disadvantage of playing from the other side of the world is, besides timezones, the latency of 300-500ms lag. Good enough for story mode operations and HM flashpoints, but i wouldn't want to start any serious progression raiding. Maybe some day on Red Eclipse

/facepalm It's really been a long time since i did the Revan solo fight. It's not the droid that joins you but that who's who list of swtor celebs The droid is only in the 4 original prelude flashpoints plus the two added with Rishi and Yavin.

Anecdote time... I've hated those flashpoints ever since they were relased. When I heard that they didn't make any new HM flashpoints, but just recycled the 4 "tactical" flashpoints, I died a little inside (very melodramatic!). Just wait until you try the Revan fight in solo mode on Yavin 4... bring plenty of coffee, as you will be spending 75% of the time lying on your back on the ground, stunned, admiring the sky above you, while the GSI'sus Bot does the fighting for you Did more relocation of characters. Did a test on Shadowlands and Jedi Covenant (creating a gazillion level 1 toons on each, testing name availability). Turned out, if moving the toons I wanted to use to JC, I would only need to rename 2 instead of 5. With transfers being dirt cheap, I moved the remaining ones to JC as well as re-relocated those I had sent to Shadowlands so I can have most of my old team together, sans those sent to Harbinger. A few of those that didn't fit ended up on the Ebon Hawk. I think I'm going to pose a challenge to myself... create at least 1 male cathar and 1 male togruta. Got 1 of each girly version, but for some reason, most of my males tend to be human (or very human looking cyborgs). Only notable exceptions are my big burly male Twilek guardian tank (now on JC) which I'm quite fond of and a male chiss sniper.

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