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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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This. Hence the "puberty" remark, for all the power they wield through their sheer size (as a market and as an economy), they are inexperienced to the point of naivety. It's like a child with a gun, a disaster waiting to happen if not offered guidance in a way that make them listen rather than being offended (I imagine it being like dealing with teenagers throwing temper tantrums). The Trojans may have a few things to say about trusting the ancient Greeks too

Looks like the Chinese economy has entered puberty (on the long road to maturity). Some hard and volatile years ahead. It's going to be interesting to see how the old guard is going to deal with the need for change. Edit: At least judging be the almost free fall the stock market seems have entered at the time of writing.

My monitor doesn't go any higher than 2560 * 1440 It's like quite a few of the special visual effects doesn't get captured by the built in screenshot functionality. Maybe I should try some day with an actual screen grabbing application.

How many miles was it the Chryslus Corvega would drive on one of those?

Honestly? Not 100% sure what you are trying to say with this post (I *think* I get it) Information is valuable, don't inflate it, nor waste it on those on whom it's wasted? (I often get accused of being a lousy communicator in real life, putting too much effort into "the point" and too little on "the packaging")

Moose is delicious http://youtu.be/CRIwuxqKyyk