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In the latest news I did read, russia declared there were no weapons on this plane but parts for radar stations. Well at the end Turkey has the air supremacy like every other country but in general the Turkey shouldnt be that hotheaded if they really dont want to widen the conflict. News reported that turkish jets did flank syrian fighters at the boarder in the last hours.It is clear that Turkey backs the syrian rebels and this is actually not really new. Furthermore, what about the investigations when it comes to several mortar hits inside Turkey...

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But, on what is this based to capture such a plane ? Syria planes arent the only ones who deliver military equipment with planes.

There is probably a difference in politics about the definition and opinions, especially in comparison to germany, which plays still a special role anyway, when it comes to left-wing or right-wing. The pure capitalism and the nation educating about it reflects a different view about european welfare states and their own social market system.

Q: I wonder a bit about this incident, on what is this based that they can capture a civil plane ?

This was a wrong statement from Besir Atalay, turkish minister. "Syria accepts that it did it and apologizes. They said nothing like this will happen again. That's good. The UN mediated and spoke to Syria in the evening," Atalay said. Actually, Syria gave condolences but did not apologize and denied responsibility according to a UN statement and the posted video. They are still inevestigate the incident and the situation is unclear. @added press release from one of the turkish main media: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/syria-has-not-apologized-to-turkey-report.aspx?PageID=238&NID=31736&NewsCatID=352 I wonder why this is not reported by other main media sources.

Actually the term "Western Europe" is outdated, since its origin is from the cold war the political divide into capitalistic or communistic regimes. Neverless the term is often still used in common linguistic usage and has gegraphical a different meaning. geographical map (West/Middle/Southeast/East/North/South in colors) http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Grossgliederung_Europas.png&filetimestamp=20080401090648

I bet this guy or the whole squad didnt see the gunman and he fired just into the direction and they dont use tracer ammunition trying to be hidden for longer, am I wrong ?

There are more countries in middle east or far east who filter/block the Internet or ban games: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Arab_Spring http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_video_games

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This is quiete expensive for Poland, if you think that the average gross income is around 4000 ZL ~ 965€ a month. And of course there are people who earn less than this. Some months ago I did talk to University students who will start their career as a teacher on schools, their income will be a lot less. But overall the average living costs are high if you compare the prices with the income.

Japan was prepared to negotiate already before the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the US wanted unconditional surrender which didnt fit in japanese culture, to loose the face of their emperor with a displacement on him. On the same day of the proclamation of the unconditional surrender and after preceded negotiations, 14th/15th august, one of the largest bomber groups in ww2 with around 1000 planes did bomb Japan. There were conventional mass bombings before the nuclear attack among others with much higher numbers of direct victims in a night, how can the nuclear attacks count as an response to Nanking ?

@Vilas Here you find papers from the ISPI about "Security Analysis in Libya", released in July 2012. (Italian institute specialised in international affairs under supervision of the Foreign Ministry). http://www.ispionline.it/it/documents/Commentary_Pusztai_10.07.2012.pdf By the way the petrol price is almost free...~0,08 € per liter

In the meanwhile I find these gen manipulated seeds a disgusting business concept, years before my opinion about it was devided. But the reason is not just the question if these product can harm human health, it is a business concept which displaces our natural and original plants & seeds and with a high danger to contaminate exsisting none gen manipulated fields aswell seed supply. I saw reports/documentaries on TV where former manager from Pioneer (another big corporation who deals with gen manipulated seeds) did explain that the quality and here especially the flavour of gen manipulated food is lower than from original plants. He did warn that children from the next generation may not know how an apple tastes if gen manipulated plants production advance. Here in Europe we have more restrictions yet, but for example the country Romania has a large gen manipulated cultivation. They use huge fields which reminds on former collective farms. I didnt read all answers here and repeat probably some points, but this kind of business concept is actually a great and subtle concept when it comes to profit. It is one of those where you make masses dependant on your product i.e. one of the first one big in business was Standard Oil with its Oil lamps and only their special Standard Oil for it or nowadays the coffee capsules, Steam for games and so on... The business with gen manipulated seeds is quite ruthless, Farmers are depandant on the seeds and need to buy them each year from the company. Because the fruits dont deliver any seeds anymore which can be used for cultivation. In addition to that, there are gen manipulated plants which are resistant against certain bugs or deseases which works in combination with special chemicals, you need to buy them from these corporates. Just imagine that corporates tried to get patent for animals so everyone has to pay fees for each birth....this is insane. Questionable is aswell the business with our basic rights i.e. privatisizing of water, you will find issues around the world already. Iam all for market economy but sometimes it should have it limits like our freedom has its limits aswell, some business concepts should be restricted by government laws, a wild west type of economical where only profit counts without looking on the consequences is just questionable and not a model. Here is one really interesting documentary called "We feed the World" (with english subs), really worth to watch. They report about gen manipulated cultivation in Romania/Europe, starts at 39:14 min. The infos given to the journalists is from a former top manger of Pioneer itself who was in charge in Romania, he got fired after these interviews. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daxZBAOviCg

Anti-American fury over film hits Australia. http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/15/world/meast/embassy-attacks-main/?hpt=hp_t2 http://rt.com/news/police-australia-protesters-sydney-187/ Actually, I doubt these protests in general have solely to do with the movie. This rather seems planned since it did hit exactly the 911 date.

Actually I stopped playing Arma 2 altogether in the last weeks, way too many Hacker even on regular maps.....game needs a better anti cheat protection like in other games available.

What did you use to create the green colored "smoke" ? Doesnt look like water captured with an ND.

* the movie "Innocence of Muslims" was released on 1st July 2012 already but the protests did start months later, actually on the day 11 years after 911. Something is fishy here....and this so called "arab spring" destabilizes currently more and seeds a wildfire.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9544253/Film-maker-behind-anti-Muslim-video-could-be-sent-back-to-jail.html http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57513264-38/white-house-pressures-google-over-anti-islam-video/

google earth map shows the numbers of protest and the locations: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=201645180959880549419.0004c9a894dfb66defab9&msa=0&ie=UTF8&t=m&source=embed&ll=32.10119,42.1875&spn=57.886601,105.46875&z=3

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Interesting article about international economics (esp. China/Russia) and the US Dollar: http://peakoil.com/publicpolicy/china-and-russia-are-ruthlessly-cutting-the-legs-out-from-under-the-u-s-dollar/

The best headphones are in Stereo and the best Headset (probably the MMX300 from beyerdynamic) on the market is in Stereo. I have the same opinion like Tonci87 and you will find many sound freaks in Hi-Fi forums who will suggest you to get good Stereo headphones but not advice to buy any headset due to worse sound quality for the buck. An additional good clip microphone isnt that expensive and you get von Zalman already one for around 10 bucks. At the end you pay a lot more for Headsets and get less quality when it comes to to the headphones. Just one quote from another forum: One of the best Headsets is probably the MMX300 from beyerdynamic, which is around 300€ (around 400 $ US) but competes with 150€ HiFi Stereo Headphones when it comes to sound quality. But the microphone alone on this MMX300 is over 100€, which isnt worth it since good quality micros from Zalman are around 10 bucks. The MMX300 is actually a modified dt770 (150€) so far I did read. Some Stereo Headphone I would look for, of course there are more around with different prices. Just look around in one of these HiFi forums get some informations, some have more bass some less: Ultrasone HFI 580 - Shure SRH840 Creative Aurvana Life Beyerdynamic DT770 Beyerdinamics DT990 pro Superlux HD-681B or HD-668B or without B Shure 440 AKG K530 (if you still can find some) Our ears only hear in STEREO and thats why it is not suprising that the High End Headphones are all in Stereo and not in 5.1/7.1, even High End Headsets i.e. MMX 300 is in stereo. Virtual surround is currently better than true surround headphones. Just compare good Stereo Headphones with the 7.1 Razer Tiamat a true surround Headset: The Razer headset needs 8 speakers for around 200€, wheras a Stereo Headphone has only two of it. No wonder the sound quality is different if you compare it since true surround headphones need so many speakers but cant offer the same quality. Here is a sound video with binaural recording, listen to it with a Stereo Headphone and be surprised to hear in surround: Virtual Haircut

After I did read some comments somewhere about the choice for presidental election between Mr. Puppet and Mr. Robot, I had to giggle. By the way, last year I did read an article about big corporates like google, who operate their international business from Irland which offers currently a low tax rate at around 12.5% for business companies. But that is not enough, they use a tax dodge trick, called "Double Irish" for their whole international business and pay only 3% tax rate more or less. Around 600 US companies have branches on Irland which bypass the US and EU tax.

It was impossible to defuse the 550lb so they had to detonate it. Impressive footage. http://vimeo.com/48399328