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What did you mean by that word ?.....just curious..... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Doesn't it mean "good" (or "well", as in "How are you today?": "Dobro"). Apologies for the total lack of awareness of Croatian spelling (I didn't even try to write the "How are you" part, because I know I'd offend people). :"> hilda?! .....this is even worst then I thought.....now people are going to picture me as a big fat swedish blondy with that funny hair-do and with plenty of those linked sausages in my hand (or are those germans?), never mind....... ......I'm just going to cry it out of myself :'( :'( :'( :ph34r: <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You mean the Valkeries in Wagner's Ring Cycle?

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St George (who was born in Algeria, I think) went to attack the infidels in the Holy Land. That was the first use of the English flag. (The British flag is the Union Jack, made up of the Sottish, English and Irish St Patrick's cross.)

Blue and green should never be seen \ excepting with something in-between. Dual-wielding was more potent that any other form. I would like to have seen more bonus for single lightsaber form (and much less due to the level of the PC). PS this is at least the second one of these threads on "lightsaber colour" in the last month. Use the Search, Luke.

Ok look, Revan WAS evil during the Jedi Civil War, but when the jedi captured him/her, they wiped Revan's identity,then at the end, Revan leaves the Republic to fight the true Sith Empire in the Unkown Regions <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No, Revan chose to disobey the Jedi Council, but that doesn't make Revan evil: just Chaotic. It is quite probable that Revan was implementing a complex battle strategem, that required immediate, purposeful action of the sort taken, at the exact time taken, to set up a high-probablilty for success against the REAL THREAT, the "True Sith". Very Sun-Tzu. Very Revan. Not necessarily evil. After all, we have no idea what Revan was planning after the point that K1 started ... Malak, on the other hand, was definitely evil. No question there.

Does it answer back? "

Yep, another one-trick pony Force Power, like the Force Breathing thing. C-R-A-P. That is not a SW failing, it is an English failing. How do you think us left-handed people feel, with Sinister being the adjective that it is? David Bowie (real name, David Jones, but he changed it so he wouldn't be confused with the David Jones in the Monkeys :D ) made an album called "Black Tie, White Noise" which I interpretted as his way of finding a use of the word "Black" that wasn't perjorative and "White" that was.

Yeah, I was trying to recall the exact communal term for all of the countries up there -- not "Lapland"!, something like "Scandinavia" but different. Dang, I need a good cup of tea. (Brownian motivator) You certainly like flags with crosses, I'll give you that.

You sound far too understanding for your own good. This isn't a bad thing, but it means you are so good at seeing a situation from your opponent's pov that you are more likely as not to help them above your own interests. It is easy to rationalise after an event. To take an extreme example, Hitler never expected the UK to oppose Germany in WW2 (the Royal Family's real surname is Saxe-Coburg, but Windsor was adopted by George V, July 1917) and hoped to have a quick military engagement to change the political landscape in continental Europe (much the way the British and French carried on up to the twentieth century); he was quite happy to deport the Jewish people from Germany (but the countries of the rest of the world were strangely reticent to have the immigrants <_< ) so the great genocide might never have happened. See, even the hated figure of Hitler can be given a positive sheen, if you try hard enough. I can be a little too empathic at times, too. Others can and will take advantage of this -- the rationale being that it is not good for one to be so pliable to another's wishes -- sort of "teaching the person a lesson" in the kindest way possible, as they let them. Make no mistake there are evil people in the world. I think it is a failing of liberal education to think that "turning the other cheek" and giving people "one more chance" will always work. I certainly wouldn't advocate letting Charles Manson out of jail, because he would kill again. Is he mad? Well, he is of sound mind enough to debate us that his world-view is not faulty. What about Hannibal, from the novels and films? He's actually quite a likable character, aside from the fact that he eats people he doesn't like. But he only eats the rude, so I'd be okay. :D

... all four years, five months and thirty days of it.

Paxman is a legend in his own time; he brooks no fillibustering form politicians who are schooled in the art of answering the question you wanted the interviewer to ask, rather than the one they asked (a political philosophy that surfaced in the 80s). <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You mean that pre-1980s, politicians gave straight answers? I don't believe it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I wouldn't say that. Just that in the Eighties, the "marketing types" seemed to overtake the political classes -- in every country. So instead of blundering through denials and other relatively ineffective tactics, the new tactic of just answering what you want to say, rather than what the audience wants to hear, was implemented. The artform started off by answering something very, very similar, including elements of the question (like Howard valiantly tries to do in the above Paxman interview), to the "New Labour" Tony "Trust Me" Blair tactics of just re-iterating the party line in response to all questions. Remember the Labour billboard launches in the last election? Journalists were kept back from asking questions of the PM et al by a swarm of "rent-a-crowd" labour party supporters! No, they didn't give straight answers, but it was a lot clearer to us and them that they were avoiding the issue.

It was a joke about all you Scandinavian countries all being alike, and Finland being the sexiest of them all. :D

Here, here! There was absolutely no "terrorist" reason to invade Iraq; in fact, more terrorists are from Saudi Arabia than anywhere else, and I don't see Bush charging into Mecca. It is ludicrous is to exclaim that Iraq was just a terrorist / WMD factory that had links to Al-Qieda. There is no shame in admiting the real reason for the war; Bush, as a duly elected leader of a powerful state, is fully entitled to pursue such international policies that would maintain or even increase his country's prosperity. That's common sense. Also, if the US becomes so strong that it prevents the competition (an integral part of the capitalist system) from thriving, then the US will become the dominant global political ethos, as well. I say again, it is perfectly reasonable for the US to secure supplies for its commerce machine -- including oil and gas energy supplies -- and I would be very concerned about the rest of "The West" and their concomitant standard of living, should the US not have sufficient energy. It is not legal, however, nor is it fair. But since when has life been fair? The biggest problems are: - moral: an unfair system is fair from moral - monkey see, monkey do: the rules of engagement are being set by the US, and they will be followed by the other participants, such as India and China. China is now financing the US foreign debt; if they decided to play "hard-ball" with the US, they could easily stop buying USD and shift their surplus into Swiss Francs, for example, and the USD value would plummet. That would really set the cat amongst the pigeons: Germany forced the US into WW1 by attacking their merchant navy, how long would the US stand for Chinese capitalist aggression on that scale? - practical, by continuing and increasing a reliance on a deminishing resource, to the cost of not developing alternative and renewable sources is self-defeating -- moreso as time continues.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/news...t25/4182569.stm Absolute classic! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Gold.

What a lovely civilized place Finland must be. " Just for the record, Paxman is not rude for effect, he will be completely respectful of people. You are missing twenty years of history -- especially Galloway, who changed to the most marginal electorate, with the highest Islamic population he could find; attacked the sitting Labour councilor (who was actually doing a wonderful job, he even says so in his victory speech, before going on to abuse the Returning Officer for incompetence, negligence, corruption and worse) and used such phrases as "people blacker than you" (she is mixed ethnicity). Galloway is bottom-feeding self-serving thing that is not a man.

Did you threaten to overrule him? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> If you can find that link, I'll give you a cookie!

" Why did you buy yourself a ring?

Well I didn't know that....thanks for the tip My God.......some people are going to think that I am a transvestite now <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Or a transgender. What about the man called "Sue"? Dobro!

Talk about Smurfette! Do little Transformers apear throughout the series? What does RC transform into?

Paxman is a legend in his own time; he brooks no fillibustering form politicians who are schooled in the art of answering the question you wanted the interviewer to ask, rather than the one they asked (a political philosophy that surfaced in the 80s). He will flat-out ask the same simple question repeatedly, to make it quite clear that the politician is deliberately avoiding the question "I'll ask again ...", "I'll ask one more time ...". Necessarily his attitude to those elected representatives has more often than not turned into a sneer, as he regards them with the same contempt that they have for democracy and the principle of holding politicians to account.

Actually I think that's very interesting. You should hear my thesis (which you can always get from my university library): all about the practical application of a Just-in-Time (JiT) Manufacturing Methodology for a factory using MRP-II. I also did a minor dissertation on the roles of women as portrayed in fiction of the last three hundred years (back to the first novel, Henry Fielding's "Tom Jones"), which I thought was much more interesting because I got to read lots of good fiction. Toim Jones is regarded as having the best plot of any novel (and has been used countless times since).

Urban legend. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Have you seen this disproved, or are you just asserting such? (If you have a link, post it!) Anyway, the mass of energy is not going to be measurable; scientists have measured the weight of a smell, however. This means that odour sinks (as well as stinks), so a posie of flowers place high up will disseminate the floral payload downwind as well as downwards. :cool:

Not if you're cremated.

What are you going to do your dissetation on?

That was probably because you were posting in all the fora at once, Mr Baley; even a spamming machine, like yourself, can't be expected to be error-free with a duty cycle like that.