2011-09-20, 12:06 | Link #16661 |
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Al-Shabab radio gives weapons prize to Somali children
A radio station run by Somalia's al-Shabab Islamist group has awarded weapons to children who won a Koran-reciting and general knowledge contest. Okay that's just an insult and mockery of Koran-reciting contests. In Malaysia and Brunei, the Koran-reciting contests prizes are money, food or gifts. If those countries heard this story, they will not like it.
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there was an armistice line drawn by troop positions on the ground. Quote:
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thats just what people SAY about us. also, that territory was held by Jordan, so the people we'd be kicking out would be Jordanian citizens. Quote:
which is bad P.R (and also evil, but mostly its the P.R)
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2011-09-20, 12:59 | Link #16663 | |
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As for "ethic cleasnsing", usually what is desired here is called "we won, we want this land now, please leave, or else we shoot you". It isn't ethic cleansing unless you just want them all dead, as oppose to just wanting to move them to someplace else. It isn't much better mind you, but it is a single step up. I recall the Jews have been "cast out" several times that didn't involve whole scale slaughter or genocide. The other times have been ethnc cleansing of one form or another (force conversion seems worse than forced relocation, and I'm fairly certain death is much worst than both).
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2011-09-20, 13:04 | Link #16664 | |
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it doesn't require (though it often involves) killing them all. oh, and liquid evil is colored Indigo. which is why its the one color of the rainbow that only few people remember. nobody wants to think of rainbows as evil.
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2011-09-20, 13:19 | Link #16665 |
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Sony Forces Gamers to Promise They Won’t Sue En-Masse for Hacks
"After being spectacularly hacked multiple times earlier this year, Sony has
decided it’s tired of being sued for its security failures and other issues and is requiring gamers on its Play Station Network to sign an agreement saying they won’t join class-action lawsuits to take the tech giant to court in the future." See: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/201...-service-hack/ |
2011-09-20, 13:25 | Link #16666 | |
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but now i can safely say that Sony can go F#@K itself.
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2011-09-20, 18:38 | Link #16667 |
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@Israel: I think it's wrong to consider this a religious conflict. Religion comes into it, sure, but it's primarily a nationalist conflict. It's a lot like what went on in the balkans, with the difference that the Jews weren't even there 100 years ago.
It's still the same idea though, 2 nationalist ideologies claiming a particular piece of land must be theirs, almost by divine right. The divine is brought up, but only to justify the nationalist assertions. |
2011-09-20, 20:20 | Link #16668 | ||
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2011-09-20, 20:29 | Link #16669 |
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http://www.usatoday.com/weather/stor...pan/50482066/1
Man, this has not been a good year for Japan. I certainly hope this storm at least stays below the big right angle in the coast near Tokyo and doesn't go towards Fukushima. (Do Japanese typhoons usually just hug the southward-facing coastlines?) |
2011-09-20, 21:00 | Link #16670 | |
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But munition for the AK should be easier to get than another roquette so it should be more usefull
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2011-09-21, 00:18 | Link #16671 |
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China takes first step towards space station
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c863c828-e...#axzz1YYrCmin7
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2011-09-21, 00:43 | Link #16673 | |
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That's odd, it redirects to the main page instead of the actual URL of the article.
Here's the complete URL: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/c863c...#axzz1YYrCmin7 And I'll cut and paste the text here as well: Quote:
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2011-09-21, 00:59 | Link #16674 |
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So bascally they are playing fast catchup. They are in their 1970s period of manned space flight (even though they don't have many flights under their belt yet). They've skipped the moon landing for later and followed the Soviet path instead. The advantage they have (aside from advances in technology, which they may or may not have in their spacecraft) is that everything they are doing has been done before. They don't have to go through the massive amounts of trial and error, not multiple proofs of concept in space as the Soviets and Americans did that in the 1960s and 1970s. The Chinese already know it works, they just need proof that they got it right, thus single attempts to be sure they got it correct followed by the next things in the technology progression. No need for three or four missions to test things out....they just need one mission, then next phase. Unless something goes wrong, then they are forced to slow down to find their errors.
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2011-09-21, 01:17 | Link #16675 | |
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Heh, that reminds me of this quote from Jurrassic Park.
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2011-09-21, 02:23 | Link #16676 |
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http://news.sina.com.cn/c/p/2011-09-...23189018.shtml
A Chinese article, but it has a few nice pictures of the rocket. Finger crossed. |
2011-09-21, 08:06 | Link #16677 |
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Greece to outline more austerity to secure loan
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...7KJ1NN20110921
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2011-09-21, 08:52 | Link #16678 | ||
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The prize should be that at least part of the prize money will be given in the name of the winner to the Red Crescent or something to do more humanitarian work, I remember the kids' version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" in Singapore had half of the prize money donated to charity in the name of the winner. Quote:
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2011-09-21, 09:05 | Link #16679 |
Gamilas Falls
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It is basically a version of Skylab or Salyut. Mostly Salyut....likely starting around the concept of Salyut 4, though an article mentions that the Tiangong design might be modified as a cargo ship for a future Chinese space station (a large Progress for their version of Mir or the ISS)
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2011-09-21, 09:43 | Link #16680 | |
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That clause is a lame duck.
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