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You know, I've had enough of your strawman exaggerations, asshole. I never said it was impossible to catch rapists through any other means, and you know it. I only showed how excessive assholery such as yours can directly cause problems, with no obvious benefits to counteract them other than the ma...

This reminds me of a thread I posted a while ago where the police solved a horrific child kidnapping/rape/murder case by going around the entire neighbourhood where she lived and asking for DNA samples from every single adult male. The "give me liberty or give me death" idiots would have ...

Can someone point me to a source that has solid numbers on how much oil is actually in ANWAR? Because that would make the difference as to whether it's a legitimate source for relieving energy dependence on foreign oil or another bone thrown to the oil companies, like that recent holocaust of an en...

This is one of my concerns about the file-sharing generation, their concept that it's not what's legal that matters, but what you can get away with . Yeah, they should be more like the yuppie generation, which popularized turnkey divorce and the frivolous lawsuit. Fair enough, plenty of these kids ...

Israel isn't going to attack Iran in a first strike anyways. What could be gained from going to war, not only against Iran, but every country they have to fly over to get to Iran. Answer: to keep Iran from being able to launch a nuclear strike against Israel. NK is not going to be attacked, not bec...

Working where I work? Somebody would help me hack the shit out of it ... med-techs that scanned me would be surprised at how tall Bill Gates has gotten ...

So, what's the conclusion of this Mithra religion as related to early christianity? Is this a proven fact, that if its age predating christianity? From the snippet that Chmee placed in his reply, it seems to mirror, with no way of coincidents, that of what one sees in the NT. :? Mithras, and the wo...

Fifteen-year-old John Shrawder, one of the Kutztown 13, complained that the charges don't fit the offense. He fears a felony conviction could hurt his college and job prospects. "There are a lot of adults who go 10 miles over the speed limit or don't come to a complete stop at a stop sign. The...

INTERNET SPACE Japan Plans Giant Broadband Satellite Tokyo (UPI) Aug 08, 2005 Japanese government officials say they will develop a new communications satellite to provide broadband services that are as fast as fiber optic cable. Japan's Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry said the new sat...

israel and iran need to tlak things out diplomaticlaly. also with the usa. military action will only bring disaster for all parties. The EU (who have far better relations with Iran than either the US or Israel) has been trying to negotiote with Iran for months concerning their nuke program, but tha...

You just gotta love dry British humor: Google has decided that search engines should not be used to collate data. We wish to say sorry for believing otherwise As you may have read elsewhere, News.com — our sister publication in the US — recently published a story concerning Google and online persona...

Joe wrote:Save the mosquitoes!

Jesus, Alaska mosquitoes belong in that Monty Python skit where the Aussies hunt mosquitoes with Cobra gunships .....

WASHINGTON — Two dozen House Republicans, including freshman Washington state Rep. Dave Reichert and three committee chairmen, have asked Speaker Dennis Hastert not to use a budget procedure to clear the way for oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The letter to Hastert, R-Ill....

Shinova wrote:Yeeesh, and I thought house prices here in California were bad.


1 mil for an apartment? Hideous.

West coast terminology difference -- apartments you rent, condos you buy ....

What's a 1500 s.f. condo in downtown San Fran or near Malibu going for right now?

02:00 AM Aug. 11, 2005 PT An FCC ruling that internet telephony services must provide the same built-in wiretapping capabilities as conventional phone companies has civil libertarians feeling burned. "I think a legal challenge is highly likely at this point," said John Morris, an attorney...

Hawkwings wrote:so what fighters that actually have guns are left after the F-15s leave? What if you have to shoot down another suicide plane headed for downtown Seattle?

Maybe they're depending on Paul Allen to defend us from Arlington ...

Those F-15's were also Washington's closest air cover, so now the air support for the west coast Trident base and 2 carrier battle groups is 1,000 miles south Uh, what's the range on modern jet fighters, anyway? Not much of an issue with in-flight refueling over friendly airspace ... but there's no...

I never thought Dubya's ceaseless pandering to El Presidente Vicente was a coincidence ...

Offence is a wee-bit easier than defence. All Iran needs is 2-3 to get through and Israel is fucked. It just cannot absorb damage that well (due to its small size and high population density). Of course, there's also the factor that Iran has to pay for all the missiles and warheads it buys, meanwhi...

Pakistan tests its first cruise missile By Robert Birsel Reuters Thursday, August 11, 2005; 9:59 AM ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan tested its first nuclear-capable, ground-launched cruise missile on Thursday without informing rival India in advance, a Pakistani military spokesman said. The indigeno...

In Oregon, the plan calls for stripping the 142nd Fighter Wing of its 19 F-15 fighters and sending them to bases in New Jersey and Louisiana. Two jets from an as yet undetermined base would be sent to Portland to be on alert status. Otherwise, the nearest fighter base would be in Fresno, Calif., 75...

Oh you mean Central Park where people get murdered :P and um the kids would still have to cross busy streets to get to the park silly :P :lol: That's Manhattan, nobody has a yard ... you don't build yards in cities with insanely expensive real estate. You build parks, and NYC has some beautiful one...

Wouldn't be at the top of my real estate shopping list, but a 7-story private residence on 5th near the museum? Nice place to crash while you're in NYC, I just wouldn't want to live there year-round.

I liked the Inhibitor weapon from Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds: It pokes a hole in the local star, right through to the core, and causes it to emit a huge quantity of heat, light, radiation and core material out to several AU. Turns the star into a gigantic flaethrower. Just finished Absol...

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2005-08/18890182.jpg Servants -- and Weapons -- of War U.S. forces rely on dogs to detect bombs in Iraq. Insurgents rig them with explosives. By Borzou Daragahi Times Staff Writer August 10, 2005 BAGHDAD — These are the dogs of war. At a checkpoint leading to the ...