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I want more cops and less cameras. The last thing I want then I'm getting the shit kicked out of me is a camera filming the whole thing to be shown on TV the next day. How embarrassing. And here, maybe 7 years ago, in the subway system, they added like 400 new cameras all over the place, and reduced the number of patrolling transit cops, a study 2 years latter, showed that the number of crimes (muggings, fights, spray painting/vandalism) went up 40%. And the number of arrests for these crimes went down too. Cameras don't arrest criminals, transit cops do, so we had fewer transit cops looking for more and more criminals, didn’t work out very well. For example, if I spray paint a large FUCK COUNTER STRIKE OFP RULEZ!!!!1 on the subway platform, in full view of the cameras, the very next day, they'll put a cop in front of my tag. I might be able to walk by the cop, maybe ask him what "counter strike" is, and he may or may not know that I'm the one who tagged the wall, since he may or may not have viewed the video of me doing the deed. The cop stands there for a day, and the day after he's gone. So I spray FUCK BF1942 OFP RULEZ!!!!1 and the next day, 2 cops are standing on the subway platform. Now they're looking for someone who matches my description. So I'll just tag somewhere they're not standing at. And now, with all these nice documented crimes being videotaped, the cops are more and more profiling (even racial profiling) certain youths, as a way of deterring crimes, since they got the video evidence that most crimes are done by black youths in baggy pants and baseball caps, and not white prep boys in lavender shirts. So cops are treating all minorities as potential criminals, even though only a small portion of them are. So yes, cameras can catch the criminals in the act, but you still need the foot soldiers out there beating them down, I mean, arresting them -=Die Alive=-

Bastards are shooting at our transport planes Don't they know that Canada can't afford any new ones, they should take more shots at the french than the Canadians. -=Die Alive=-

The fish they are drying is for making Nuoc Mam, a fermented fish suace commonly used in Vietnamese cooking. Â It smells something awful, but if you've ever tried Vietnamese cuisine, tastes quite good. Â Try eating Vietnamese dishes once, the smell may no longer seem as obnoxious to you. Â I'd suggest either spring rolls, or Pho (pronounced as "fuh") which is a wonderful soup made with beef tenderloin or chicken and punched up with all kinds of exotic spices and flavors. I did go to a Vietnamese restaurant a few times, (it had food from all over south east asia, Thai, Cambodian, Laos, Vietnam...) and the food was good. But since I'm not a huge fan of fish i sticked with other meats, so I'm not too sure if I had any Vietnamese dishes. And the place didn't smell bad either, not like my backyard. Now I only use my backyard to BBQ up some Bourbon marinated pork ribs. -=Die Alive=-

Food: Cunno, Raashin Car: Baabuur yar, Fatuurad Donkey: Dameer LoL, "Qofka yar oo iska farzaanka ah qalbi furan" is GAY in Somali. English, 3 letters; Somali, a freaken paragraph. -=Dhimo Nolol=- -=Die Alive=-

I'm going to make a 12.8 km x 12.8 km parking lot. It'll hold like 100000 cars. Â My idea is to simulate the fun of driving around for hours trying to find a parking spot in a busy shopping center. Release date will be sometime early Q2 2004. PS: Thank you BIS!! -=Die Alive=-

I'm going to make a 12.8 km x 12.8 km parking lot. It'll hold like 100000 cars. Â My idea is to simulate the fun of driving around for hours trying to find a parking spot in a busy shopping center. Release date will be sometime early Q2 2004. PS: Thank you BIS!! -=Die Alive=-

I think we were talking about SoF 2... but also in GTA3 there ia a chopper in the last mission... -=Die Alive=-

Funny enough you are right! But the last battle against  a superpower chopper is slightly silly >  How could it be a superchopper. It took like forever to kill it, hit it with rpgs, 1000s of MG rounds, the thing keeps flying and shooting. Very poor final "boss" imo. -=Die Alive=-

What's the name of that fish head sauce they make, nom nock or some thing like that...  My next door neighbors are Vietnamese, don't speak a word or English, and they're really really pissing me off.  So this fish sauce, they make that shit often, and the whole damn neighborhood reeks of that stuff. And another thing they do that pisses me off, they hang raw fish on their clothesline to dry.  Whole fish, not sure what kind it is, they're maybe 6 inches in length, they hang out 40 of them at a time in the mid-day summer sun to dry, using clothes pins to pin the fish tail's to the line.  And these flying rats with wings come from all over, shit all over the place, and make tempting targets for my airsoft gun ( ) So these guys are "numba 10" neighbors, I wish it was  a crack house or something.  Move to the city they said, meet & learn about new cultures ... well this wasn't in the fucking brochure. -=Die Alive=-

And mule's don't care if you sleep with their sisters. Too bad we I can't show you the squiggly line font, or I'd answer them in Urdu and Arabic. -=Die Alive=-

..............Hardcore L337____L337 Light Food    |[ 0 0 |)           F 0 0 D CAR     ( @ |)\            C @ R Donkey   |) 0 |\| |< 3 V      D 0 N K 3 Y                   | -=Die Alive=-

Ya been at a 3 hour long Ozzy concert Saturday night. And here's that other topic that's very close to this one. -=Die Alive=-

Wasn't there a topic like this once before? -=Die Alive=-

I would think that a prestigious place such as Baghdad international airport would have an Arby's before any other fast food restaurant. Â I'm so hungy, i can eat at Arby's! Ewwwwww!!!! -=Die Alive=-

And where were you Mr. FSPilot on the night of May 25th? -=Die Alive=-

Maybe it was this guy who planejacked that Boeing 727 Thompson, who attends Babson College in Wellesley, offered fares as low as $89 one way between Los Angeles and Honolulu, Reilly said. Flights were to begin July 3, but Mainline had neither planes, crews nor the required permits and approvals as recently as a few weeks ago. -=Die Alive=-

<span style='font-size:11pt;line-height:100%'>EU Says Congo Force Cannot Intervene Beyond Bunia </span> Fri June 13, 2003 07:25 AM ET BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The French commander of a European Union peacekeeping operation in Congo conceded on Friday that the force would not be able to stop ethnic bloodshed if it happened outside its limited area of operation. Responding to an appeal from the United Nations, the EU will deploy a force of around 1,400 to the eastern town of Bunia -- where hundreds of people have been massacred in tribal clashes -- in what will be its first military operation outside Europe. Analysts say that one of the main risks is that ethnic violence may simply shift to other areas, leaving the EU peacekeeping operation looking irrelevant. When asked if the EU force would be able to intervene and stop massacres happening outside Bunia, French General Bruno Neveux, the operation commander of the force, said action outside the town was not part of the EU's mission. "At this point in time, that is not within our mandate, the mission which has been set for us. (The mission)...is clearly confined to Bunia city and airport and the two refugee camps near the airport," he told reporters. <span style='font-size:11pt;line-height:100%'>Begging for Evacuation</span> Sudarsan Raghayan Knight Ridder Newspapers BUNIA, Congo - For six days, two terrified United Nations military observers phoned their superiors - as many as four times a day - begging to be evacuated from their remote outpost in northeastern Congo. They were receiving death threats, they said. They were alone and unarmed in Mongbwalu, a former gold-mining town ruled by the cannibalistic Lendu tribal militias. A U.N. helicopter from the town of Bunia could have retrieved them in 35 minutes. But the United Nations, handcuffed by its own rules and bureaucracy, never sent a chopper. On May 18, 10 days after the two peacekeepers made their first distress call, the United Nations finally flew some armed peacekeepers to Mongbwalu. They found the mutilated bodies of Maj. Safwat al Oran, 37, of Jordan, and Capt. Siddon Davis Banda, 29, of Malawi. Their decomposed corpses had been tossed into a canal and covered with dirt, according to those who saw the bodies. They were shot in the eyes. Their stomachs were split open and their hearts and livers were missing. One man's brain was gone. The murders laid bare the challenge of bringing peace to one of the world's complex and resilient wars and exposed the limits of the United Nation's efforts to do so. The U.N. mission in Congo (MONUC) has been criticized by many, including some in its own rank-and-file, for being disorganized and naive. Now, its critics charge, it's also partly responsible for the deaths of the two observers. "Why didn't they rescue them? They had armed troops here, who could have saved them," said one U.N. observer in Bunia, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "They killed them." Col. Daniel Vollot, the MONUC sector commander in Bunia, said all U.N. employees here work in dangerous, unpredictable conditions and that MONUC isn't responsible for the deaths of Banda and Oran. "We can't feel guilty," said Vollot. "Certainly, if we had arrived two or three days before, they would be alive. It's difficult, but I don't feel guilty about that." The murders were a serious setback to U.N. operations in Congo's Ituri province, where some 50,000 people have died in fighting between Hema and Lendu tribal armies since 1999. After the killings, the United Nations pulled out all its military observers and sent them to Bunia, Ituri's largest town. Now little is known about what happens even a few miles outside Bunia. Aid workers and human rights observers fear that vast human rights abuses are taking place across Ituri province. MONUC is "a long, bad story," said Francois Grignon, the Central Africa director for the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based research agency. Details of the killings in Mongbwalu - one of the most horrific acts of violence against U.N. employees in the international body's 58-year history - are still emerging. The U.N. is investigating what happened. But in separate interviews with Knight Ridder, five U.N. military observers with knowledge of what happened to Oran and Banda said their murders could have been avoided. In fact, they said, only luck prevented tribal fighters from butchering more helpless military observers trapped in other remote areas. All five spoke on condition of anonymity because they worried about the repercussions they could face from the United Nations and their own countries. Vollot acknowledged that Oran and Banda for several days had asked U.N. officials in Kisangani to be pulled out of Mongbwalu. When asked why U.N. troops weren't sent to pick up the two observers, Vollot said his command's Russian-made Mi-26 helicopters were piloted by civilians. The Russian and Ukrainian pilots were afraid to fly there, and the United Nations didn't want to put their lives at risk, Vollot said. And under U.N. rules, the ruling Lendu militia had to give permission to land a helicopter in Mongbwalu. It also was unclear which Lendu militia was in charge of the town, he said. So his soldiers had to wait for clearance from the Lendu chief, and only MONUC headquarters in Kinshasa, the capital, could authorize a rescue operation. "These are the rules of the United Nations," said Vollot. The question in many minds is this: Why were the observers sent in the first place? For years, Mongbwalu was a volatile, violent place in the most volatile, violent province of Congo. Six Red Cross workers were brutally murdered in Ituri in 2001. Neither Oran nor Banda spoke French, Swahili or any local language. There were no armed U.N. peacekeepers in the area, and the observers were sent with no weapons. It was Oran's first mission. He had little experience in Africa, let alone in a complex conflict such as Congo where military allegiances often switch day to day, said those who knew him. "They were so at risk. It was not prudent for two milobs (military observers) to be sent with no force protection to a place which was known to be violent for years," said Nigel Pearson, the medical coordinator in Bunia for Medair, a relief agency. "It was naive of MONUC. They weren't fully aware of the complexities of the situation." The U.N. military observers agree. Several were sent in teams of four to other remote parts of Ituri at the same time as Oran and Banda in April. They were urged to go quickly with little preparation, they said. And after they arrived they received little attention from MONUC officials, they said. "After we got there, they forgot us. Nobody told us what we had to do there," said another U.N. military observer. "I didn't even know which group was Hema and which was Lendu." At the time, MONUC needed to have a strong presence in Ituri, said the observers. The Ugandan army, which occupied the province, was leaving in accordance with a multinational peace pact. MONUC was expected to fill the security vacuum. "The U.N. was very pressured to find a solution to the Congo war," said a third U.N. military observer. "They sent observers too soon to a situation where we can't do our work." On May 8, that became clear. With the Ugandans gone, clashes between Hema and Lendu militias had broken out all over the province. Oran and Banda called MONUC's offices in Kisangani asking to be evacuated, said a fourth U.N. military observer. But it was unclear who was responsible for the observers. For the next four days, phone calls were exchanged among Kisangani, Bunia and Kinshasa about getting clearance to evacuate Oran and Banda. "There was a lot of confusion," said the U.N. military observer. Meanwhile, other U.N. military observers in other parts of Ituri also wanted to be evacuated. Many had to wait several days, too. Some ended up escaping on their own across the Ugandan border. Lendu militias intimidated other observers for days and accused them of spying for the Hemas. In one instance, an observer had a gun pointed at his head. Armed fighters surrounded other observers, threatening to kill them. "What happened to the two observers could have happened to me," said one observer, shaking his head. The last telephone call from Oran and Banda was on May 13. That was the day the United Nations believes they were killed. "Everyone is to blame, starting from the guy who planned the operation," said the fourth U.N. military observer. On Wednesday, MONUC held a memorial service for Oran and Banda in Kinshasa. Senior representatives of all 15 members of the U.N. Security Council, who are here on a fact-finding mission, attended the ceremony. [edit]Posted full article now[/edit] -=Die Alive=-

Quick, everyone move into their underground bunkers. -=Die Alive=-

Why doesn't the EU just download power off the internet, and for those that don't have internet connection, we can send then CDs full of 700mb of power. BASTARDS! Hands off my power! -=Die Alive=-

Our public education system has enough problems without having to deal with two-headed kids lol. Oh, has anyone seen that old Troma movie, Atomic High? lol Class of Nukem High. -=Die Alive=-

What's a half life on those things? -=Die ALive=-

Yes, China has the right idea. Build huge dams, get rid of it's dirty coal plants. Happy I'm not one of the 1.3 million people that has to move. -=Die Alive=-

Crime: Â Being the small child of a Hamas official. Punishment: Â Death by burning. Maybe today is "Bring Your Kids to Work" day. That makes me wonder, do the people in Hamas and other terror groups have day jobs? Â Or do they just drive around with their wife and kids. -=Die Alive=-

One idea for a slick pilot mission would be you're the pilot of a chase ship, following the insertion of a LRRP squad, when the insertion ship gets shot down on final to the LZ, you got to put your balls on the line and get in and rescue the crew and LRRP team on the LZ. Or an extraction mission, in the late evening during the rainy season of a LRRP team from a hill top LZ, with very low visibility and heavy ground fire. -=Die Alive=-

I don't think it was very good for his buisiness. think about it. 60% of the tourists visiting the island where this guy had his restaurant were Germans. how much money did he loose ferforming his "political statement"? Ya, he should of taken their money and spit on their pizzas Or just not wash his hands after going to the bathroom. (lol, just watched the Seinfeld episode that had Poppy making the pie after leaving the bathroom without washing his hands, lol classic) -=Die Alive=-