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Comment on Orange Tank (2009-02-06 08:10:46)
Camouflage. You're doing it wrong.
Comment on Don't Wait! Incinerate! (2009-02-06 07:58:11)
Come on Take2... Hook me up with Bioshock 2 already. I'm still coming down off ADAM from the original.
Comment on Futurama Sign (2009-01-11 16:19:26)
If your creative input is truly recognised, then all is well regardless of remuneration. If creative input falls on deaf ears then it's a different matter altogether. Ultimately, robots will be doing menial tasks. Hell, they're already answering the phone when you ring a call centre....
Comment on Uboat courierpost (2009-01-11 16:05:37)
Above link appears to have failed. http://www.u-434.de/
Comment on Uboat courierpost (2009-01-11 16:04:15)
I didn't know quite how close the Nazi U-Boat fleet was to the United States during WWII. It's quite remarkable how well the axis powers utilised the technology available to them. On a side note, I was lucky enough to have a look around U-434, a diesel-powered Soviet spy sub, while I was in Hamburg, Germany last August. Apologies for the less than ideal link, but it's worth a look. This submarine was in service until the year 2000 if I remember correctly. Inside it looks like something from Bioshock. I can't believe good patriotic men were sent to sea in something so outdated and decrepit.
Comment on Judaism vs Zionism (2009-01-09 19:43:15)
Guise, we really need to stop arguing over this. If you have family affected by this, my only advice is to get them somewhere where their life isn't threatened. This doesn't constitute surrender or anything like that. If they have the money to leave, GTFO immediately and start over. It's not a sign of weakness, it's a sign of intellect. Why live in a war zone when no-one's forcing you to?
Comment on Judaism vs Zionism (2009-01-09 19:34:52)
The people of Palestine would be far better off if they accepted the offer of becoming Israeli citizens. However, how would you (as an American citizen) react if 6 million Russians/Africans/Arabs arrived overnight and set up camp somewhere between New York and Los Angeles? My guess is you wouldn't be too happy. Israelis have a valid claim to (some of) the land, as do the Palestinians. However, the Palestinians have been chillin' on the [Gaza] Strip for a long, long time and are understandably loathe to relinquish land they have lived on for millennia. WWII was horrific, and the stomach-turning atrocities committed by the Nazis swayed global opinion in favour of the Jewish population that hadn't fallen victim to the brutality of Hitler's regime. And rightly so. The problem as I see it is that Israel was established on land not unfamiliar with geopolitical conflict and given backing from many sources around the world. The combination of "stealing" land from Palestine, and doing so on the strength of a powerful international resolution could only serve to anger the people of Palestine. "Why us?" they must have asked. Using America once more as a hypothetical example; if a hundred million Native Americans, or "Red Indians" appeared out of the ether, with UN backing, and said "Guys, we're gonna need some land," how would you react? Your father's father's have been on that continent for a long long time... Although I try to stay neutral as I don't know nearly enough about the history of the West Bank, the key point that turns me against Israel's approach to this Never Ending Story, is their overwhelming clear advantage. Maybe it's a British thing to root for the underdog, but Israel's advantage over Palestine is unreal. Palestine don't even have an army FFS whereas Israel has some high-tech shit and a very well trained defense force. Israel's justification for the recent offensive is that Palestinian rockets have been whipping in to civilian areas of Israel. This is entirely true, but responding in kind, with more powerful weapons just stinks something rotten. I'm not about to say "why can't you all just get along," because that would be naive. The Irish were fighting against us [England] throughout my childhood and I couldn't for the life of me understand why we should be so interested in ruling a nation that is so clearly averse to British rule. We had soldiers on their streets and they had their rebels on those same streets hurling Molotovs at us because we were on land they regarded as their own. We [Ireland and England] have all seen sense and come to a [fragile] agreement since then, but our conflict doesn't go nearly as far back as all the troubles in the Middle East do. Going back to my opening paragraph, the people of Palestine would be far better off if they accepted the offer of becoming Israeli citizens. But why shouldn't the people of Israel become Palestine citizens? It's a matter of pride and religion, fought over a disputed land for thousands of years. Much like Ireland. The Jews deserve a home, and the Palestinians deserve to keep the land they have called their own for so long. I have no answers, just a funny picture of an anti-semite. Peace to one and all.
Comment on That's a lot of fiber (2009-01-08 09:46:36)
Maybe it's the punctuation that was off: "In Russia, you drop. You are car under my muffin."
Comment on Satanice Family Karate (2009-01-08 09:45:07)
Only when Hell freezes over.... geddit? Satan. Ice. Satanice. LOL? :(
Comment on Rescued cat (2009-01-06 07:22:34)
This has got retarded all up in here.
Comment on Tina Fey - Purple Top (2008-12-23 07:33:44)
Yes. I. Would.
Comment on Fast breeder reactor (2008-12-18 19:11:42)
Breeding fuel terrifies the tits [read 'man boobs'] off me. Maybe I don't [read 'I sure as shit don't'] fully understand the process, but it sounds like purposefully creating a chain reaction to me. I know this is going to be controversial, but my understanding of nuclear power is that it is very safe and very clean when done well. We all hear about the terrible consequences of things going pear-shaped when there's a meltdown or a spillage, but we seldom hear about the gigawatts of clean, cheap energy produced round the clock by well managed and well funded nuclear power plants. Sure, the bi-product is possibly the most lethal substance on god's green earth, but when compared to the tonnes of CO2 emitted by power stations burning fossil fuels the tiny quantities of nuclear waste produced by nuclear plants appears very manageable. Burning fossil fuels now has an immediate and wide-reaching effect on the planet that has become accepted after centuries of burning coal. Nuclear power is still a dark art where the consequences of making a single error are immediately and painfully obvious. Now for the controversial bit. France has been generating nuclear energy for decades with an incredibly good safety record. By the late eighties France was producing around a third of it's electricity using nuclear power and is now producing considerably more than that. It's annual output is second only to the USA, however, with a population one-fifth that of America's, it's output per capita is significantly higher than any other country on Earth. Because of this it finds itself in a position where it can export electricity in bulk. Not only does France export electricity to it's geographical neighbours, it supplies unique projects such as CERN (and all m[c]s junkies have seen how much power that bad boy sups). Clearly in today's energy-dependent world, an abundance of electricity is no bad thing. We are all justifiably nervous of another Chernobyl, but ask yourself; would your country let that happen? The Chernobyl Disaster was over twenty years ago and was truly a terrible thing. But honestly, do you think the USSR had the capabilities to build or operate nuclear power stations in the first place? And as an aside, did you know that the other reactors at Chernobyl remained operational until late 2000? To wrap this whole ugly tangential rant up as neatly as can be done after a half crate of Corona, I guess my point is that there are two opposing opinions of nuclear power. One is that it offers big rewards, but with risks. The other is that the risks are too high to contemplate. My belief is that the risks are indeed big, yet they are also manageable if the funding and governance are in place.
Comment on Great White Shark (2008-12-18 05:43:31)
"We're gonna need a bigger boat."
Comment on Serf stens (2008-12-18 05:27:36)
"Naturally, the common people don't want war, but after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country." Hermann Goering
Comment on Ninjas VS Tiki God (2008-12-15 17:25:34)
Ahh... the Gaelic spelling of you're. Niche. Back to the lab for more posting practice for you!