Jahled

No worries M! This is quite frankly Jules Vernestuff, I mean millions of years! What on earth is underneath all that ice? Fascinating stuff.

I had time to scan the full article this afternoon, and it's already on it's way to you matey. If anyone else want's to read all of it, drop me an email at the address in my profile.

http://www.renderocity.com isn't bad for poser 3d images of Star Wars stuff if you search hard enough, I stumbled on a cache of Twi'lek's. The last one I found on gifdump, which is simply a huge collection of .gifs you can download and play around with in photoshop/image ready. Best of all though is http://www.gifflix.com, which has a huge movie section of gifs to play with. Eagle: ALL HAIL EMPEROR PAUL! What's the source for that btw, Eagle?

I just thought of one: R2D2 being able to fly all of a sudden in AotC. Didn't do much flying in the original trilogy did he? Did he not bleep and tweet when Luke levitated him to impress the Carebears, I mean Ewoks, in RotJ, as if he was a little freaked out? But ah, you reply, perhaps he had his boosters removed over the course of the years that transpired... Well he must of, given he fell off Jabba's sail barge. It just seemed like a pointless sudden revelation about one of the main characters that went against the entire point of having a prequel.

Playhutt.. http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/9805/1186350380/Playhutt01.jpg Tis mine, just signed it off in Dark Katarn font for reasons unknown.. IT'S A... http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/9805/1186178560/itsafwap.gif Randy git!

Doh! I already read the full article from a hard copy, and didn't check whether it had non-subscriber access. I'll check it out next week and scan it if it remains interesting..

Oops! I thought I did a little typing underneath it saying I didn't! Dang! I can't draw, period!

Thanks all! Just had a knackering day at work, just two out of four of us in our department, with my other college in a meeting for all afternoon! And it's been like this for two weeks! Yay for tired eyes in the morning! On the plus side, it's August, which is always quieter. Good observation, I was quite freaked out when I saw the above posts!

3AM.. http://www.b3tards.com/u/56cd392636bbdac250ce/3ampisspt2.gif

I was just thinking something along these lines. They seem to have been quite fashionable back in the nineties, but I haven't been given shopping of any sort in a bio-degradable plastic bag for what seems like years. Not cost effective to buy for retailers perhaps? I genuinely don't know.

At the moment no one is allowed to exploit any resources in Antarctica, because it will undoubtedly harm the fragile and unique wildlife there. When I say unique, remember most of it remains as yet undiscovered given how inhospitable the place is. New Scientist magazine has a couple of interesting links, reporting on the scientists who are working there. Check out their website and read more, but here's a hint: Seen from the outside, Antarctica is a desert, frozen and all but lifeless. Dig below the surface, however, and you will find deep secrets. Thousands of metres beneath Antarctica's forbidding facade, at the place where ice meets rock, lies a land that is exotic, dynamic and above all, wet. Water courses around Antarctica's soft underside; it collects in deep, dark lakes, spills out into streams and rivers, and forms wetlands and marshes that have not seen the sun for millions of years. Be a shame to harm or destroy this before it's even been explored and researched, because quite frankly what on earth is down there, cut off from the rest of the world's evolution?

Not familiar with either Bill or MSNBC, and my fingers are too tired to to a quick google.. But given how much power over our lives he now has, I suspect he's being shown the final stage of his master plan for global supremacy, an orbital News Corporation Death Star. It will be for better TV reception he will say.. I wonder if Murdoch has a fluffy kitten? Eagle: Nice

http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/9805/1186008657/murdochempire.jpg

http://www.globalhumbug.com/hosted/politicaldisaster_02.jpg Not mine, but had me laughing aloud in the office..

In fact when I´d watched his movie I always thought: "Hey, tell me something new. We already do this." It´s just sad that´s just us who are such a kind of recycle-fanatics. There are even people here who say what´s it all worth if it´s just us who do that while others don´t. According to my observations of the US, I feel compelled to make remarks like this, because of their needles current political polarization on subjects like concern for our environment; either left or right, when a mild mannered duck on a pond couldn't really care less..

*blows dust* *coughs* US 'aims to help' Mid-East allies Apparently 50% of the insurgents in Iraq are from Saudi Arabia, according to an intelligence report. I also found this in my quest to find some citation besides what I just watched on the UK's independent Channel Four News. It being a religious web-site leaves me with doubts about it's accuracy, but even if it has fumbled it's numbers for arguments sake, the irony in all this is there. The chief country on this planet funding and sponsoring this extremist fundamentalist filth just happens to be the largest exporter of Islamic murderers; and curiously has the largest oil reserves in the world, and now billions of dollars of military aid! Emm..

You don't even have to wear an Al-Gore tee-shirt or pin to see this can only be a positive thing. Practical modern society with some concern of the environment we are simply passengers of, until the end of our own rides through this wonder.

Which is a screaming example of why perhaps it might be a good idea! Can you recycle plastic bags? I'm not an environmental radical btw; I do appreciate the need for bin-liners and other domestic plastic products for us to dispose of our household waste that isn't practical or hygienic to recycle, and prevent vermin from causing a nuisance in our neighbourhoods. I must confess to this not really being an issue I would march on parliament about, but it does piss me off when I see stuff like discarded plastic bags stuck in branches up trees or floating in canals (I walk down one every day to get my lunch). But as Tex points out, people who recklessly dispose of their waste are thoughtless

This is something I hadn't thought about, especially reading some of the other replies to the thread. Also, your use of the term 'Paper sack.' Nether less, I feel cheated and lied to by four decades of television! The thrust of the argument over here is that plastic bags are a needless hazard to the environment, given they take so long to degrade. Please don't label me as a hippy on this issue, but if it were more practical, a paper alternative would be more friendly to our environment, given even as litter it begins to break down quickly. The current emphasis on recycling virtually everything in one's household (except for plastics!) would I assume balance the production of paper sacks in proportion to the felling of timber, given paper is something we are asked to leave in our recycling boxes (a week's worth of junk mail, magazines, newspapers, and cereal packets).

Over here in blighty there has been some talk of a tax or charge on the use of plastic shopping bags, given the throw-away plastic shopping bags take decades to rot as rubbish, and are a pain in the arse in things like canals and rivers to wildlife. I had this sudden thought though; on TV and in the movies, North Americans are always shown as taking home their groceries in paper bags.. Is this a true and typical reflection of US packaging? If so, why is it prevalent your side of the pond, whilst plastic bags are over here in mine? And finally, regardless of being obviously much more friendly to the environment, is it as practical in getting your groceries home? I'm genuinely curious!

Funerals are always hard to attend, but there's nothing quite more uplifting at one than to see more people than you ever expected to show up. My best wishes go out to her daughter, with my fervent hope that she can make a full recovery. Bad luck Eagle. As Tofu says, funerals are always emotional occasions to attend. Chin up fella! What Tofu said in reply to you did remind me of a funeral I went to which ended rather oddly. My mother was very good friends with a Buddhist monk, in robes, living in a Tibetan-style monastery over here, who died a couple of years ago. Frank was very well respected and loved and died as a result of a brain condition. The turn out at his service was huge, and the service very moving. Afterwards we all paid our respects in the memorial garden with a Scottish piper playing the bag pipes (Frank was Scottish) when completely out of the blue (literally, it was a clear day), there was a roll of thunder, and a sudden hail storm!! I have never experienced anything like it. Buddhist tradition is full of miraculous events like this happening at the passing of revered sages and monks, but to behold something like it myself was mind numbing. I turned to my mum who for the first time that day had a smile on her face, who told me it was simply Frank having one last laugh.

No. The creation of a thread for the sake of spamming on purpose isn't something the moderators can allow. I'm with SOCL on this, posting for the sake of posting simply generates gibberish, that is confusing and pointless to follow, and goes against the spirit of the ranking system, as with quality in the forums. It's also rather boring to log on to.

Bear in mind that the military presence of the United States, United Kingdom, and a post-war France have safe-guarded your civil liberties since the end of the Second World War, M-fella! The communists rolled into Eastern Europe and failed to roll back at the end of hostilities, and imposed their dictatorships, under which entire populations were bullied for forty years. The rest of Europe owes it's freedom to our powerful navies, as does the world today. It was our military and economic strength that finally broke the Soviet system, given it couldn't compete with us economically, and wouldn't be able to defeat us given the existence of our fleets. Given the current state of the world I for one welcome my own country having a powerful navy for our defense. We are a maritime nation remember. There is a difference in the democratic west having the right to a powerful military force as a deterrent, and tyrant' such as the communists feeling they had to. Remember, before Hitler invaded the USSR, Stalin and his communists had already made themselves busy murdering millions of people and invading other countries such as Poland, Finland, Latvia, Estonia, etc, and imposing their filth. Following Pearl Harbour, a Democratic United States had every right to deside that the unprovoked attack on it's soil should never happen again, and build the fleet it has today. One thing I find fascinating reading about Second World War combat ships is how they evolved during the course of the Second World War, mainly due to the new reality and effect of aircraft. Off the top of my head one of the Japanese Battleships began the war with eighteen or so anti-aircraft guns, and at the time of it's demise had about a hundred. By 1945, the purpose of the Battleship was all but obsolete, given their newly acquired vulnerability to aircraft. Aircraft Carriers, and their payload of planes, were the new core of fleets. As Aircraft evolved and had increasingly longer ranges and more destructive ammunition, they replaced the purpose of the Battleship. Modern armies on the ground need air-support. Given we and the United States are taking the lead in action against radical regimes such as the Taliban, and in the recent past a bunch of African muppets in Sierra Leone, that air cover needs to be able to travel with the army. HMS Ocean went to Africa, and with the marines restored democracy, order, and peace to that small nation. It was one of the few places Tony Blair could go in his final days of power to a guaranteed scene of cheering, grateful crowds (after the fiasco of Iraq.) Same goes for Bosnia. Look at the reaction George Bush got when he visited a Muslim Albania (who have felt very threatened by Serbian nationalism before we exerted our military might) given his present poll-ratings. Cheering crowds or what. They even pinched his watch! Hence I welcome two new 65,000 ton aircraft carriers, a new class of nuclear submarine that is so advanced it generates it's own air and on paper could circle the planet a couple of times without ever surfacing, and a new class of Destroyer that in all probability will be the most advanced and combat effective ship of it's class in the world. I feel safer.

A nice post Evaders, that certainly woke me up to a few things I should pay attention to. In all honesty, I simply don't trust the Internet as a whole to feel comfortable enough to use my credit card these days online. Once in a blue moon if it's a product to tricky for a cheque in the post to a business, but that is fairly much hardly ever. The explanation to where one screwed up was helpful. I think i'll hide my credit card where my monitor can't see it.

Hahahaha love the last one E! A remash, for the thread: http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e253/Jahled/motivator2193983.jpg