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Travel to somalia/iraq and get one for 50 bucks.

How would they know who killed how? Examining the gunshot wound and round left inside the body? I think it does not take much of a sherlock to figure out who is responsible when houses get demolished in airstrikes or shot to hell by tanks/heavy artillery.

Since you mentioned Do androids dream of electric sheep I should mention that one other book of the same author (Philip K. Dick) is being made into a movie, this time its scanner darkly.

Not exactly military but I just noticed one thing in windows timezone map..

One must wonder though, why average consumers would be willing to replace some of their AV equipment again? DVD offered clear benefits compared to VHS tapes; no rewinding, better navigation, less deterioration, extra content, smaller size and hell lot better image and audio quality. The only thing that blu-ray/HD-DVD can offer compared to DVD is only better image and audio quality and that requires at least a expensive HD-TV set. Or am I just missing something here as usual?

Less than 4000 NG people were deployed in the vietnam (AFAIK) war and desert storm didn't last very long. The occupation of Iraq has been on for over 2 years now and no end in sight.

So how this holding the jumper's legs corresponds with the real world? Are you saying that you fucked up because europe would not go along? Maybe the jumper should have decided not to jump when the cushion people did not show up? Oh, guess he was "determined" and "on course." I thought it was you who was preaching about pussying out and not being brave enough?

If I was a Pole I'd fucking hate America because of that catch phrase. They help us and the American people look down their noses and spit on them. To the average American pig twenty Poles aren't worth one Frenchman. While the Polish fight along side us as friends and allies they are lambasted and shit on by all the late night comedians and their flock of disciples. Actually, most of the polish people oppose the war but their goverment insisted on licking the boots of TBA. But don't worry, they plan pulling out some time this year if I recall correctly. EDIT: Ach, denoir posted his reply while I was typing mine.

yup. that's why Sony is really pushing every possible angle to make this go there way. They own several entertainment companies and the more titles they have more likely to get more market shares, to influence the sales of the technology. True, Sony learned quite a lesson when their betamax failed. The best format does not necessarily win.

And what about the military, producing the "Only one weekend a month" commercials? You don't think they have some obligations to the soldiers? I recall reading that they stopped showing those ads shortly after they started calling up national guardsmen, how peculiar. Didn't Nixon or LBJ make clear during Vietnam war that National guard would not be deployed abroad under any circumstances?

Think this has been posted somewhere here but what the hell:

Thought he had returned already?

Well, apple is bringing a <500USD monitorless computer package to the market soon.. The rumours seem to be true... more or less: http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/01/06/0657245.shtml <500 dollars!?!?! Thats like 12 euro's and 50 cents in like 5 months! Somehow I think apple is not going to be very fair when converting prices..

So, how long till somebody starts calculating Gamer development index based on ofp fans per capita?

The only thing people seem to wait for more than few days at most is surgery, those are getting unfortunately crowded due to budget cuts in the early 90s.

Problems with looting?

Well, apple is bringing a <500USD monitorless computer package to the market soon..

It's not free NOTHING IS FREE IN LIFE SOME ONE ELSE IS PAYING FOR YOUR HEALTH CARE THROUGH HIGHER TAXES!. I can't stand it, every time I hear some one say "free health care" I lose it. Yeah maybe free to you buddy. It is free for since I could not otherwise afford it. At least they are paying much less for it than you.

Africa, asia and south america are still looking awfully empty..

Intel itanium came out in 2001. Anyways, I recall Windows XP 64bit edition coming out during the first half of this year. There is also a testing version available for those feeling adventurous. Not that I would care that much being stuck with a brand new 2GHz duron.

Hooray for PR department.

There are no bugs, only features. But seriously, I was surprised how well the first version of DXDLL worked considering the less than orthodox method of implementing it.

........and Inspector Closeau/Peter Sellers chasing the bad guys at the cotes d'azur in a yellow one I love the 2CV and many other french cars for that matter. The only car you can break into with a box cutter.. We actually had one of those when I was a kid, damn they were COLD in finnish -15C winter.

The cheapest 6xxx-series card is over 250e, you must be quite more richer than me.

There is quite a difference between Geforce FX 5200 128MB and Geforce 6800 128MB you know..