I'm a dragunov

[der bastler 0]

Well, well, funny results...

Top 5 Nations:

1.) Scandinavian

2.) American (yes, I like watching "Friends"!)

3.) English

4.) German (4th )

5.) Japanese

Top 5 Jobs:

1.) Artist ( )

2.) Astronaut ( )

3.) Author

4.) Chemist

20.) Engineer (only 20th )

[Tamme 0]

1. Jewish

2. German

3. Japanese

4. American

5. English

6. French

7. Scandinavian

8. Polish

9. Italian

10.Irish

This test knows nothing! I'm a Fanatic Finn!! And the test tells me that I'm jewish? I'ts too hot in Israel.. -20C... ahhhhh...heaven...

[Shashman 0]

Political Party    :

1Constitution Party (What the hell's the "Constitution Party" when it's at home?? )

2 Natural Law Party (I ain't no tree hugger,foo! )

3 Democrat (    )

4 Libertarian party (and what the hell's that?    )

5 Republican (Meh spose so    )

6 Green Party (I SAID "I ain't no tree hugger,foo! "    )

[Waterman 0]

Where is Scotland in the Nation Test?!!!!

I bet it was some english geezer that made it, and left us out deliberatly...

[theavonlady 2]

And the test tells me that I'm jewish? I'ts too hot in Israel.. -20C... ahhhhh...heaven...

It didn't say you were Israeli. (How did religion get in this test?)

Anyway, gorgeous sunny weather here in Jerusalem with a slightly cool summer breeze.

[Tamme 0]

Military Job Selector (I tried an other one first, but this seemed to be more serious)

1.Astronaut

2.Chemist (that could be interesting)

3.Politician (that's actually one of the jobs in my real list)

4.FBI Agent

5.Inventor

6.Mathemetician

7.Professional sports player

8.Reporter

9.Artist

10.Author

11.Computer game programmer (this one is in my real list too)

...

18. Police officer (also on my real list)

Political Ideology selector:

1.Socialist

2.Leninist      

3.Progressive (ok)

4.Marxist      

5.US Liberal

6.Anarchist      

7.US Libertarian

8.US Conservative

This test says that I'm a friggin' communist!!!! I did an anti-communist talk in school last spring! Anarchists are an other group I hate, but the test suggests that I am one! At least it dindn't say I'm a nazi.................................................ok I'm calm now.... let me just hang myself..

[Dauragon 0]

FRENCH!? WTF!? I am in NO way like Ran! :P

you are , admit it , your mum was a frenchdog

-edit- :

1# Irish (and strangely , i'm not a redhead )

2# American (huh ?)

3# Italian (Ma , mia mamma e italiana .... )

4# Polish (ok ...)

5# German (hmm , i don't like sauerkraut and i'm not too tidy)

6# Scandinavian (i'm not a viking , i don't go in town on reindeers)

7# French (YAY)

8# English (heh , still after the french one )

9# Japanese (i like rice , but i don't like sushis and i don't feel like watching Anime or Monster movies all day long while disguising into Anime heroes)

10# Jewish (yeah , why not , eating Kosheer food wouldn't kill me)

rice is chinese.

[Tamme 0]

FRENCH!? WTF!? I am in NO way like Ran! :P

you are , admit it , your mum was a frenchdog

-edit- :

1# Irish (and strangely , i'm not a redhead )

2# American (huh ?)

3# Italian (Ma , mia mamma e italiana .... )

4# Polish (ok ...)

5# German (hmm , i don't like sauerkraut and i'm not too tidy)

6# Scandinavian (i'm not a viking , i don't go in town on reindeers)

7# French (YAY)

8# English (heh , still after the french one )

9# Japanese (i like rice , but i don't like sushis and i don't feel like watching Anime or Monster movies all day long while disguising into Anime heroes)

10# Jewish (yeah , why not , eating Kosheer food wouldn't kill me)

rice is chinese.

It's very popular in Japan too. They eat it all the time.

[JAP 2]

Job

1: Astronaut ( i m sure me selecting officejob over traveling job did the trick )

2: Doctor

3: Engineer

Country

1: USA wtf !! ( in the pre-bush era i wouldn t have minded )

2: Fiji :o

3: France ( well, i live next to france so, ... )

......

6: Iraq :o :o

Tanks

1: Challenger ( i could do worse )

2: T72 ( blew up too many of them in OFP )

3: Leclerc ( whatever that is )

Luxury cars

1: Audi TT ( i really really dont like that car ! )

2: BMW 740i ( that s more like it )

3: Lotus Turbo Esprit

Aircraft ( yeah yeah, i like 2 engine planes ... )

1: B-757

2: B-767

3: B-777

WWII planes ( right on the spot )

1: P-47 Thunderbolt

2: A6M2 - Zero

3: P-38 Lightning

What kinda driver are you ..

1: Your run of the Mill jerk ( dont understand, sounds not too good )

2: Why did they ever give you a license

3: The Mild mannered middle age man ( true )

4: The perfect driver

Which musscle car do you prefer ...

1: Buick Skylark ( i even dunno that one )

2: Chevy Camaro

3: Chevy Chevelle

4: Chevy Nova

...........

15: Dodge Charger .... impossible, shoulda been 1 !

I m gonna stop now

Cheers

[ran 0]

FRENCH!? WTF!? I am in NO way like Ran! :P

you are , admit it , your mum was a frenchdog

-edit- :

1# Irish (and strangely , i'm not a redhead )

2# American (huh ?)

3# Italian (Ma , mia mamma e italiana .... )

4# Polish (ok ...)

5# German (hmm , i don't like sauerkraut and i'm not too tidy)

6# Scandinavian (i'm not a viking , i don't go in town on reindeers)

7# French (YAY)

8# English (heh , still after the french one )

9# Japanese (i like rice , but i don't like sushis and i don't feel like watching Anime or Monster movies all day long while disguising into Anime heroes)

10# Jewish (yeah , why not , eating Kosheer food wouldn't kill me)

rice is chinese.

rice plants are very common all around Asia , at least in the parts which are well irrigated and reached by the monsoon

[ran 0]

3: Leclerc ( whatever that is )

French latest MBT

[Tamme 0]

3: Leclerc ( whatever that is )

French latest MBT

In the tank selector i said yes to "please not leclerc" I had no idea what Leclerc was, but it sounded like a crappy WWI Renault tank or something.

[ran 0]

3: Leclerc ( whatever that is )

French latest MBT

In the tank selector i said yes to "please not leclerc" I had no idea what Leclerc was, but it sounded like a crappy WWI Renault tank or something.

replaces that :

[Dauragon 0]

FRENCH!? WTF!? I am in NO way like Ran! :P

you are , admit it , your mum was a frenchdog

-edit- :

1# Irish (and strangely , i'm not a redhead )

2# American (huh ?)

3# Italian (Ma , mia mamma e italiana .... )

4# Polish (ok ...)

5# German (hmm , i don't like sauerkraut and i'm not too tidy)

6# Scandinavian (i'm not a viking , i don't go in town on reindeers)

7# French (YAY)

8# English (heh , still after the french one )

9# Japanese (i like rice , but i don't like sushis and i don't feel like watching Anime or Monster movies all day long while disguising into Anime heroes)

10# Jewish (yeah , why not , eating Kosheer food wouldn't kill me)

rice is chinese.

rice plants are very common all around Asia , at least in the parts which are well irrigated and reached by the monsoon

The origins of rice have been debated for some time, but the plant is of such antiquity that the precise time and place of its first development will perhaps never be known. It is certain, however, that the domestication of rice ranks as one of the most important developments in history, for this grain has fed more people over a longer period of time than has any other crop.

The earliest settlements of those persons responsible for domestication undoubtedly were in areas offering a wide range of plant and animal associations within a limited geographical area. Such sites offered a variety of food sources over a span of seasons to societies dependent on hunting and gathering for their food supply. These earliest settlements might well have been near the edge of the uplands, but on gently rolling topography and close to small rivers that provided a reliable water supply. For centuries, humans maintained themselves by fishing in the rivers, hunting in the forests, and gathering edible plant products. The earliest agriculture, a simple form of swidden, may have developed by accident when women of the settlement recognized that the mix of plant life growing around the midden was especially rich in edible forms. The earliest agriculture was probably focused on plants that reproduced vegetatively, but the seeds of easily shattering varieties of wild rice such as Oryza fatua may have found their way to the gardens at an early date.

If these assumptions are correct, then domestication most likely took place in the area of the Korat or in some sheltered basin area of northern Thailand, in one of the longitudinal valleys of Myanmar's Shan Upland, in southwestern China, or in Assam.

Cultivated rices belong to two species, O. sativa and O. glaberrima. Of the two, O. sativa is by far the more widely utilized. O. sativa is a complex group composed of two forms endemic to Africa but not cultivated, and a third from, O. rufipogon, having distinctive partitions into South Asian, Chinese, New Guinean, Australian, and American forms. The subdivision of O. sativa into these seven forms began long ago and came about largely as a result of major tectonic events and worldwide climatic changes.

It is postulated, based on measurements by electrophoresis, that the Australian form of O. sativa began to diverge from the main forms about 15 million years ago. At that time, during the Miocene, the Asian portion of Gondwanaland collided with the Australia/New Guinea portion, creating a land bridge across which O. sativa migrated. Once the blocks separated, the Australian form was free to follow an evolutionary path somewhat different from that followed by the O. sativa on the mainland.

Divergence between the South Asian and Chinese forms, the ancestors of what are commonly referred to today as indica and japonica (or sinica) types, is believed to have commenced 2-3 million years ago. At that time, migration of fauna across the proto-Himalaya was still possible, and with the animals went wild rice. The climate was suitable for rice even in what today is Central Asia, and north China had almost ideal conditions.

Botanical evidence concerning the distribution of cultivated species is based chiefly on the range and habitat of wild species that are believed to have contributed to the cultivated forms. The greatest variety of such rices is found in the zone of monsoonal rainfall extending from eastern India through Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, northern Vietnam, and into southern China. This diversity of species, including those considered by many to have been involved in the original domestication process, lends support to the argument for mainland Southeast Asia as the heartland of rice cultivation.

Linguistic evidence also points to the early origin of cultivated rice in this same Asian arc. In several regional languages the general terms for rice and food, or for rice and agriculture, are synonymous. Such is not the case in any other part of the world. Religious writings and practices are also seen as evidence of the longevity of rice as a staple item of the diet. Both Hindu and Budhist scriptures make frequent reference to rice, and in both religions the grain is used as a major offering to the gods. In contrast, there is no correspondingly early reference to rice in Jewish scriptures of the Old Testament, and no references exist in early Egyptian records. Archeologists have found evidence that rice was an important food in Mohenjo-Daro as early as 2500 B.C. and in the Yangtze Basin in the late Neolithic period (Chang 1967a).

The earliest and most convincing archeological evidence for domestication of rice in Southeast Asia was discovered by Wilhelm G. Solheim II in 1966. Pottery shards bearing the imprint of both grains and husks of O. sativa were discovered at Non Nok Tha in the Korat area of Thailand. These remains have been confirmed by 14C and thermoluminescence testing as dating from at least 4000 B.C. This evidence not only pushed back the documented origin of cultivated rice but, when viewed in conjunction with plant remains from 10,000 B.C. discovered in Spirit Cave on the Thailand-Myanmar border, suggests that agriculture itself may be older than was previously thought. No parallel evidence has been uncovered in Egyptian tombs or from Chaldean excavations.

[Tamme 0]

Ran don't show me pictures of cool tanks like that! I can't stop drooling

[Shashman 0]

The origins of rice have been debated for some time, but the plant is of such antiquity that the precise time and place of its first development will perhaps never be known. It is certain, however, that the domestication of rice ranks as one of the most important developments in history, for this grain has fed more people over a longer period of time than has any other crop.

The earliest settlements of those persons responsible for domestication undoubtedly were in areas offering a wide range of plant and animal associations within a limited geographical area. Such sites offered a variety of food sources over a span of seasons to societies dependent on hunting and gathering for their food supply. These earliest settlements might well have been near the edge of the uplands, but on gently rolling topography and close to small rivers that provided a reliable water supply. For centuries, humans maintained themselves by fishing in the rivers, hunting in the forests, and gathering edible plant products. The earliest agriculture, a simple form of swidden, may have developed by accident when women of the settlement recognized that the mix of plant life growing around the midden was especially rich in edible forms. The earliest agriculture was probably focused on plants that reproduced vegetatively, but the seeds of easily shattering varieties of wild rice such as Oryza fatua may have found their way to the gardens at an early date.

If these assumptions are correct, then domestication most likely took place in the area of the Korat or in some sheltered basin area of northern Thailand, in one of the longitudinal valleys of Myanmar's Shan Upland, in southwestern China, or in Assam.

Cultivated rices belong to two species, O. sativa and O. glaberrima. Of the two, O. sativa is by far the more widely utilized. O. sativa is a complex group composed of two forms endemic to Africa but not cultivated, and a third from, O. rufipogon, having distinctive partitions into South Asian, Chinese, New Guinean, Australian, and American forms. The subdivision of O. sativa into these seven forms began long ago and came about largely as a result of major tectonic events and worldwide climatic changes.

It is postulated, based on measurements by electrophoresis, that the Australian form of O. sativa began to diverge from the main forms about 15 million years ago. At that time, during the Miocene, the Asian portion of Gondwanaland collided with the Australia/New Guinea portion, creating a land bridge across which O. sativa migrated. Once the blocks separated, the Australian form was free to follow an evolutionary path somewhat different from that followed by the O. sativa on the mainland.

Divergence between the South Asian and Chinese forms, the ancestors of what are commonly referred to today as indica and japonica (or sinica) types, is believed to have commenced 2-3 million years ago. At that time, migration of fauna across the proto-Himalaya was still possible, and with the animals went wild rice. The climate was suitable for rice even in what today is Central Asia, and north China had almost ideal conditions.

Botanical evidence concerning the distribution of cultivated species is based chiefly on the range and habitat of wild species that are believed to have contributed to the cultivated forms. The greatest variety of such rices is found in the zone of monsoonal rainfall extending from eastern India through Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, northern Vietnam, and into southern China. This diversity of species, including those considered by many to have been involved in the original domestication process, lends support to the argument for mainland Southeast Asia as the heartland of rice cultivation.

Linguistic evidence also points to the early origin of cultivated rice in this same Asian arc. In several regional languages the general terms for rice and food, or for rice and agriculture, are synonymous. Such is not the case in any other part of the world. Religious writings and practices are also seen as evidence of the longevity of rice as a staple item of the diet. Both Hindu and Budhist scriptures make frequent reference to rice, and in both religions the grain is used as a major offering to the gods. In contrast, there is no correspondingly early reference to rice in Jewish scriptures of the Old Testament, and no references exist in early Egyptian records. Archeologists have found evidence that rice was an important food in Mohenjo-Daro as early as 2500 B.C. and in the Yangtze Basin in the late Neolithic period (Chang 1967a).

The earliest and most convincing archeological evidence for domestication of rice in Southeast Asia was discovered by Wilhelm G. Solheim II in 1966. Pottery shards bearing the imprint of both grains and husks of O. sativa were discovered at Non Nok Tha in the Korat area of Thailand. These remains have been confirmed by 14C and thermoluminescence testing as dating from at least 4000 B.C. This evidence not only pushed back the documented origin of cultivated rice but, when viewed in conjunction with plant remains from 10,000 B.C. discovered in Spirit Cave on the Thailand-Myanmar border, suggests that agriculture itself may be older than was previously thought. No parallel evidence has been uncovered in Egyptian tombs or from Chaldean excavations.

"And the prize for Most Boring and Offtopic Post Ever, goes to....DAURAGON!!!

Congratulations!!"

 

[JAP 2]

Thx for the info Ran !

One thing i cant understand is the attitude against french ppl and france ....

Some ppl act like it s  

I like france alot, i come there every year a few times and i love it.

Actually i ll be driving straight through france in 3 weeks on my way to Spain

One thing i definately HATE about france ..... the section Dyon - Lyon ....... aaaaaaaaargh, it takes ages.

That Leclerc tank looks nice.

How many Abrams does it destroy before it has a scratch ?

Cheers

[Dauragon 0]

The origins of rice have been debated for some time, but the plant is of such antiquity that the precise time and place of its first development will perhaps never be known. It is certain, however, that the domestication of rice ranks as one of the most important developments in history, for this grain has fed more people over a longer period of time than has any other crop.

The earliest settlements of those persons responsible for domestication undoubtedly were in areas offering a wide range of plant and animal associations within a limited geographical area. Such sites offered a variety of food sources over a span of seasons to societies dependent on hunting and gathering for their food supply. These earliest settlements might well have been near the edge of the uplands, but on gently rolling topography and close to small rivers that provided a reliable water supply. For centuries, humans maintained themselves by fishing in the rivers, hunting in the forests, and gathering edible plant products. The earliest agriculture, a simple form of swidden, may have developed by accident when women of the settlement recognized that the mix of plant life growing around the midden was especially rich in edible forms. The earliest agriculture was probably focused on plants that reproduced vegetatively, but the seeds of easily shattering varieties of wild rice such as Oryza fatua may have found their way to the gardens at an early date.

If these assumptions are correct, then domestication most likely took place in the area of the Korat or in some sheltered basin area of northern Thailand, in one of the longitudinal valleys of Myanmar's Shan Upland, in southwestern China, or in Assam.

Cultivated rices belong to two species, O. sativa and O. glaberrima. Of the two, O. sativa is by far the more widely utilized. O. sativa is a complex group composed of two forms endemic to Africa but not cultivated, and a third from, O. rufipogon, having distinctive partitions into South Asian, Chinese, New Guinean, Australian, and American forms. The subdivision of O. sativa into these seven forms began long ago and came about largely as a result of major tectonic events and worldwide climatic changes.

It is postulated, based on measurements by electrophoresis, that the Australian form of O. sativa began to diverge from the main forms about 15 million years ago. At that time, during the Miocene, the Asian portion of Gondwanaland collided with the Australia/New Guinea portion, creating a land bridge across which O. sativa migrated. Once the blocks separated, the Australian form was free to follow an evolutionary path somewhat different from that followed by the O. sativa on the mainland.

Divergence between the South Asian and Chinese forms, the ancestors of what are commonly referred to today as indica and japonica (or sinica) types, is believed to have commenced 2-3 million years ago. At that time, migration of fauna across the proto-Himalaya was still possible, and with the animals went wild rice. The climate was suitable for rice even in what today is Central Asia, and north China had almost ideal conditions.

Botanical evidence concerning the distribution of cultivated species is based chiefly on the range and habitat of wild species that are believed to have contributed to the cultivated forms. The greatest variety of such rices is found in the zone of monsoonal rainfall extending from eastern India through Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, northern Vietnam, and into southern China. This diversity of species, including those considered by many to have been involved in the original domestication process, lends support to the argument for mainland Southeast Asia as the heartland of rice cultivation.

Linguistic evidence also points to the early origin of cultivated rice in this same Asian arc. In several regional languages the general terms for rice and food, or for rice and agriculture, are synonymous. Such is not the case in any other part of the world. Religious writings and practices are also seen as evidence of the longevity of rice as a staple item of the diet. Both Hindu and Budhist scriptures make frequent reference to rice, and in both religions the grain is used as a major offering to the gods. In contrast, there is no correspondingly early reference to rice in Jewish scriptures of the Old Testament, and no references exist in early Egyptian records. Archeologists have found evidence that rice was an important food in Mohenjo-Daro as early as 2500 B.C. and in the Yangtze Basin in the late Neolithic period (Chang 1967a).

The earliest and most convincing archeological evidence for domestication of rice in Southeast Asia was discovered by Wilhelm G. Solheim II in 1966. Pottery shards bearing the imprint of both grains and husks of O. sativa were discovered at Non Nok Tha in the Korat area of Thailand. These remains have been confirmed by 14C and thermoluminescence testing as dating from at least 4000 B.C. This evidence not only pushed back the documented origin of cultivated rice but, when viewed in conjunction with plant remains from 10,000 B.C. discovered in Spirit Cave on the Thailand-Myanmar border, suggests that agriculture itself may be older than was previously thought. No parallel evidence has been uncovered in Egyptian tombs or from Chaldean excavations.

"And the prize for Most Boring and Offtopic Post Ever, goes to....DAURAGON!!!

Congratulations!!"

 

Don't call info on rice BORING ! i must kill you for that!

rice is possibly the best food around, healthy, (better then these burger king, mcdonald crap whatever) and has the best taste of food.

Asian food is simply the best food in this world.

[Albert Schweitzer 10]

Well I wouldnt have posted the pictures of the Leclerc cause the name still sounds better than actually seeing those tins. I have to agree, in terms of design the french go their own way...but what do they intent by making things look "weird"?    

Maybe that is a reason why you have problems exporting your cars. We gladly teach you a few lessons!

[ran 0]

Well I wouldnt have posted the pictures of the Leclerc cause the name still sounds better than actually seeing those tins. I have to agree, in terms of design the french go their own way...but what do they intent by making things look "weird"?    

je rigole!

i have to agree , the latest french car designs suck for most of them

but here's the type of car i have

[JAP 2]

A few more ...

What firearm are you ( that was topic subject )

1: FN P90

2: MP-5

3: OICW

Future Job

1: Vet

2: Teacher

3: Prostitute ( now here s where the money's at ! )

Which Dictator are you

1: Papa Doc

2: George W Bush nooooooooooooo

3:Benito Mussolini

[theavonlady 2]

I have to agree, in terms of design the french go their own way...but what do they intent by making things look "weird"?    

Admittedly, they've improved but when I was a child, I thought Citroens looked like cockroaches.

[ran 0]

I have to agree, in terms of design the french go their own way...but what do they intent by making things look "weird"?    

Admittedly, they've improved but when I was a child, I thought Citroens looked like cockroaches.

huh ? cockroaches ?

[bn880 5]

But Citroens always had some of the most innovative designs put into production. And I loved the Peugeot we had back in Europe, that is until a bimbo in a dealership Audi locked em up and plowed straight in instead of turning the wheel a tiny bit to go around (without even slowing down).

EDIT: Actually she had ABS, but kind of forgot that the wheel is for turning.

[Tovarish 0]

I think I see what Avon means

Oh my bad..."when I was a child"...must mean this model.

*ducks for cover*