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Hey we heard from ol Colonel "Mad" Gadaffi today! It was a nice long speech too, 1/2 hour of ramblings. If anyone could be bothered to listen to all that nonsense and secondly if you could find any sense in it please post it here. :D If this is what they did to their own personal staff, just imagine what we will find out later about the suffering of ordinary people. GADDAFI NANNY: I WAS TORTURED: Muammar Gaddafi often insisted that he lived a modest lifestyle during his 42-year rule, but the Gaddafi family seaside compound in Tripoli reveals a hedonistic and sometimes brutal lifestyle. CNN visited the homes Sunday alongside rebel troops and entered large, sleek, modernly furnished rooms littered with evidence of hedonism. CNN’s Dan Rivers also discovered the nanny of Hannibal Gaddafi, one of the leader’s sons, who was horribly scarred and said she had been brutally tied up and scalded with boiling water by Hannibal’s wife, Aline, after refusing to beat their crying toddler. Another staff member also confessed to being regularly beaten by the Gaddafi family. Love this one too: Which one is daffy lol? Hint: both have duck lips, one was born with them, the other had really bad collagen injections:

I know all about Dinorwig and have been there several times. My original statement was: "In the UK there is no capacity to store excess energy on the scale required." Your own quoted Wiki article states: "Once running, the station can provide power for up to 6 hours before running out of water." I was surprised it was so little myself! (Not sure that is correct as it pumps it back to the top during the process?) We would need 1000 Dinorwigs to store enough energy should a long term static high pressure occur. Carry on dreaming Walker lol.

It's a very nice dream Walker but I do understand the mechanics of electricity supply - I used to work for the National Grid in the UK. I have visited nearly every powerstation and major substation in England and I know intimately how electricity gets from generator to consumer. In the UK there is no capacity to store excess energy on the scale required. If the wind turbines stopped turning the lights would go out. Now if you had the hydrogen fueled powerstations you talk of, fine. In reality, it's likely that everyone is going to need a few nuclear powerstations to pick up the slack. Some like Germany will talk green and buy nuclear from their neighbours. Your ideas are fine in principle but it's a very complex and costly system to fund and setup. The other problem is strategic defence. If you have all your power coming from some platform floating somewhere in the world how do you defend it? 1 submarine attack and it's game over. So you would still need some sort of land based generation scheme that is easier to defend. For the foreseeable future I see a mix of green, nuclear and fossil. Not ideal but we live in a complex world.

Japan and the UK are fortunate to have large coastal areas to put these things. What do land locked countries and places like Germany, with a relatively small coastal area do? I think the idea of going totally green is admirable but I bet they end up buying in nuclear power from the French to back it all up lol. We in the UK do that already - there are cables from France bringing in power from nuclear sources. I would love to see how going totally green would work from just a practical sense. All these thousands of square miles of turbines, wave power doo-dads, and solar panels will cost a fortune to build and maintain and no one wants any of it near their homes. If the government offerred to replace my roof with solar panels and add a small wind turbine free of charge I would love it. If they were to do that to every house there would not be a need for wind farms etc and we could all use and share the energy back into the national grid. I think the power companies would oppose it though lol. They need a way to keep us paying.

Looks good but what happens when the wind doesn't blow for a week? There are wind turbines where I live and they sometimes don't move for days on end. If we end up with a large static high pressure covering the entire country, as has happened several times in recent years, whats the backup?

Well he lives in the US, so if he ever fires live mortar rounds at a small town we will soon get to know about it :D

Any Russians here that can offer him Russian accent lessons? lol My fav FPS russia vid is this one: The 82mm mortar fail lol.

A top class soldier and a great British hero, it's sad he passed so soon. It's a double tragedy for the family as his son was killed in action a few years ago.

There are some pictures here: http://www.worldaffairsboard.com/military-aviation/61074-rusisia-opens-maks-2011-air-show.html

When the Tsunami in Indonesia occurred I immediately called family who were on holiday in Kenya and told them to get off the beach. I had read reports of tsunamis crossing oceans (Chile to New Zealand) but at that time it was not common knowledge. They warned friends and they were laughed at and told it wasn't possible. 6 hours later people were killed in Somalia to the north and Kenya suffered a large surge and swell along the coast that luckily didn't do any damage and no lives were lost. It's amazing how small this planet can become!

I judge a man by the company he keeps, Chavez loves Gaddafi, Mugabe, Ahmedinejad, Castro and practically any other asshole going. He also changed the constitution to keep himself in power longer. No one should do things like that. It's unethical, undemocratic and reeks of corruption. The current South African government seem to like the above dictators too and do everything they can to support them. Strange behaviour for people that struggled for many years for freedom to deny it to others simply because they have historical ties with dictators. I don't know how they explain it to themselves.

Really? You really are a 'white British person'? Obviously you think claiming such a thing would add weight to your ravings, I'm not fooled. :D Any thoughts on the torture victims who were found executed near Gaddafi's compound today? (Yes there were witnesses, it's being investigated officially as a war crime) I hope the Syrian people rise up next. Hopefully the days of the greedy dictator and his cronies are over. You have no idea what it's like to live under scum like Gaddafi, Assad and Mugabe and others.

Check your controller customisation? It was doing that to me and I reduced the sensitivity and dead zones - it's ok now with the settings shown in my above post. EDIT: I have reduced my dead zones even further to just a few mm and it is even more stable. Larger dead zones seem to cause some sort of feedback and the aircraft seems to have a mind of it's own lol.

Not sure what the problem is as helicopters in Operation Arrowhead slide when you land too fast. This one digs in and noses over as the others report? Still a problem on 83836.

Build 83836: All working OK for me. I like the new HUD and GPS. The user preference for the HUD layout is excellent! My gripes are: #1 the complexity of setting up the controller - hope you are working on a thorough explanation of all that lol. #2 autorotations, it's still digging in and nosing over when you land hard. It should slide forward on the skids. Here are my settings for the Microsoft Sidewinder Precision 2 The full sensitivity for the pedals is essential - it's weak for some reason on this stick. Uploaded with ImageShack.us Microsoft Stick Btn. #1: Use selected Action Microsoft Stick Btn. #2: Manual trim set Microsoft Stick Btn. #3: Starter #1 hold/release Microsoft Stick Btn. #4: Auto-hover on Microsoft Stick Btn. #5: Throttle #1 decrease (for practicing autorotations - hit x2 for throttle closed) Microsoft Stick Btn. #6: Next Microsoft Stick Btn. #7: Previous Microsoft Stick Btn. #8: Manaul trim release The 4 buttons infront of the throttle are in a quadrilateral like this, odd so you have to remap them for each game??!: 7 6 8 5

Thousands of investors lost their money when Iceland simply shut down their banks and refused to refund anyone. If you take money from somebody and then lose it and refuse to pay them back - that is effectively stealing. Of course they are doing ok - they just shut everything down, wrote off all their debts and opened up again as normal. Problem is who will trust them again?

Just been watching it unfold on the news: The ICC have confirmed that Saif Gaddafi was arrested. There are reports of an aircraft flying to Malta. BBC don't have much at the moment, their reporter in the main hotel has bottled it and refused to leave his room live on air. The Sky reporter travelled in to Tripoli with the rebels and is now partying and filming live in Green Square. I hope no more people get killed over a clown like Gaddafi. Got to say the Libyan people seem very decent and disciplined and I hope things don't go wrong over the next few critical weeks and months.

The UK forces realised they needed Multicam when this started happening lol: Going into combat with the wrong camo and having to dye it green - just embarrassing. I saw it on the news and wondered what was going on. No explanation was given about the Tie-dye camo. It's said that people at the MOD didn't realise that Afghanistan wasn't all desert.

De Beers are interested in pretty natural diamonds for jewellery and bling. Single crystal diamond sheets for industrial applications and man made gemstones grown in the process you describe are a different market. I don't know if De Beers are interested in that or not but the markets for natural and industrial diamonds are discrete entities. They actually have laser spectroscopy to tell them apart as industrial stones fetch a far lower price than natural stones. The opportunity for fraud is obvious as there is an endless supply of rich shallow people lol. I'm all in favour of starting this up in Iceland - when they make some cash they can pay Europe back all the money they effectively stole. I did not realise there was a socialist mantra on rocks? You ok Walker? You seem to be getting a bit fanatical. ;)

Yes I know - can't understand why it doesn't work lol

You only get very tiny crystals of diamond dust which is useful in some industrial applications but if you are thinking of getting rich quick don't bother. Go buy a diamond cutting disk and pick the diamond dust out of it lol. To grow a large diamond you need more sophisticated methods' date=' but it is possible: [url']http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_diamond#Chemical_vapor_deposition[/url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_diamond#Chemical_vapor_deposition This is a good method for the home though and the advantage is they are made ready cut :rolleyes: Diamonds from the Microwave.

I think it would be a good Mod but not sure it would be a success as a new game or an addon? I just don't think there would be the interest from the gaming mainstream. If you want to make a mod of this type it should be fairly easy as there are many African islands and mods already. you could learn from them and design your own.

Czech Tactical Mentality Simulator Great video! Anyone who has had anything to do with the 'light engineering fraternity' will get that video. Their heads are as hard as that tractor's cylinder block. lol

Can you ask him to take a look at this thread when he is finished? :D

The media worship them and excuse their behaviour every day - that's the problem. They now feel they are above the law and able to do anything. It's only funny if you don't live near them!