Jahled

..emm...I just dived in there and did some editing given the dreadful news that's reaching Europe regarding the disaster in New York. If you read my post before i've just posted this, realize I wasn't aware of the terrible events unfolding in NY. I won't be alone in expressing my sympathies to all those effected by the horrific events in NY, and a few days ago in Chicago. You guys in the States have taken more than your fair share.

No. Though I wish you could have the option to turn them off.

I very much doubt it.

Can't speak for Skeletor, but i've just found out what Yoda gets up to in his spare time: http://howstrange.com/gallery/yoda_swamp_small.gif ..oh...and my cat Zoot: http://www.fnord.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/BouncyVampMouseCatAnim640.gif

...drool...gibber...shake uncontrollably... ..err..how? You wouldn't care to give some instructins to a hapless fool in London on exactly how you accomplished this feat of brilliance...also, i've posting for months now on how to change the star field in the tactical game with a starfield I also found on NASA's spaceflight.com website, people have helped...but i'm so dim when it comes to computers, I can't figure out their advise. Heck, I sometimes shock myself by managing to turn a computer on...

Whilst i've sort of got to agree with the objective of what you've saying, dude, i've got to disagree with you on the point the the Iraqi opposition being opposed to a US led assault! I watched Channel Four news tonight where there was a quite frankly, brilliant interview with the former head of Saudi intelligence, followed by yet another Iraqi in exile stating his supporting for Blair's stance on Iraq. Sorry dude, but I can't agree with you that the Iraqi opposition are opposed to military intervention. They, for one, are simply to fragmented to come up with such a clear and convicted statement of policy! They know that the war will be over in moments, despite what dudes like Tony Ben threatened in 1991 and about Afganistan; they were essentially wrong! No long war. We can't ignore the fact. It will be same this around. Under whatever guise, the US led assualt will succeed in liberating Iraq. It's so called elite republican-guard will either melt before the onslaught of the US/British forces or be squarely destroyed by superior weaponry and more importantly training, as the regular army will simply loose the will to fight, like they did las time around. The former head of Saudi Intelligence said as much on Channel Four news, it's reasonably obvious the reality will happen. The Iraqi opposition know that Iraq is going to crumble under a US/British assault. Given the French have skillfully manuevered one of their aircraft-carriers into the gulf, it can be reasonably obvious where the great 'peace-makers' of the moment have sited their back up plan. And to think, the French have more Nuclear warheads than the Chinese... Yet again, I utter the mantra, it's all bullshit.

That's it! Yo, wild one Gank! I'm a Guardian reader, I wondered why it rung a bell! Cool one!

I just found this from B3ta, it made me cackle, though it might only be funny for some of us older nerds... Stars of the eighties..where are they now: http://www.freshlegs.co.uk/images/b3ta/shower.gif

Were'nt those guys 'playing as Iraq' brushed down for being to good, or was that some other exercise?

Help! I don't understand 'internet chat language!' Please use English!

Just found this on the internet; it made me laugh lots. Terry Jones (from Monty Python) writes to The Observer: Sunday January 26, 2003 The Observer I'm really excited by George Bush's latest reason for bombing Iraq: he's running out of patience. And so am I! For some time now I've been really pissed off with Mr Johnson, who lives a couple of doors down the street. Well, him and Mr Patel, who runs the health food shop. They both give me queer looks, and I'm sure Mr Johnson is planning something nasty for me, but so far I haven't been able to discover what. I've been round to his place a few times to see what he's up to, but he's got everything well hidden. That's how devious he is. As for Mr Patel, don't ask me how I know, I just know - from very good sources - that he is, in reality, a Mass Murderer. I have leafleted the street telling them that if we don't act first, he'll pick us off one by one.. Some of my neighbours say, if I've got proof, why don't I go to the police? But that's simply ridiculous. The police will say that they need evidence of a crime with which to charge my neighbours. They'll come up with endless red tape and quibbling about the rights and wrongs of a pre-emptive strike and all the while Mr Johnson will be finalising his plans to do terrible things to me, while Mr Patel will be secretly murdering people. Since I'm the only one in the street with a decent range of automatic firearms, I reckon it's up to me to keep the peace. But until recently that's been a little difficult. Now, however, George W. Bush has made it clear that all I need to do is run out of patience, and then I can wade in and do whatever I want! And let's face it, Mr Bush's carefully thought-out policy towards Iraq is the only way to bring about international peace and security. The one certain way to stop Muslim fundamentalist suicide bombers targeting the US or the UK is to bomb a few Muslim countries that have never threatened us. That's why I want to blow up Mr Johnson's garage and kill his wife and children. Strike first! That'll teach him a lesson. Then he'll leave us in peace and stop peering at me in that totally unacceptable way. Mr Bush makes it clear that all he needs to know before bombing Iraq is that Saddam is a really nasty man and that he has weapons of mass destruction - even if no one can find them. I'm certain I've just as much justification for killing Mr Johnson's wife and children as Mr Bush has for bombing Iraq. Mr Bush's long-term aim is to make the world a safer place by eliminating 'rogue states' and 'terrorism'. It's such a clever long-term aim because how can you ever know when you've achieved it? How will Mr Bush know when he's wiped out all terrorists? When every single terrorist is dead? But then a terrorist is only a terrorist once he's committed an act of terror. What about would-be terrorists? These are the ones you really want to eliminate, since most of the known terrorists, being suicide bombers, have already eliminated themselves. Perhaps Mr Bush needs to wipe out everyone who could possibly be a future terrorist? Maybe he can't be sure he's achieved his objective until every Muslim fundamentalist is dead? But then some moderate Muslims might convert to fundamentalism. Maybe the only really safe thing to do would be for Mr Bush to eliminate all Muslims? It's the same in my street. Mr Johnson and Mr Patel are just the tip of the iceberg. There are dozens of other people in the street who I don't like and who - quite frankly - look at me in odd ways. No one will be really safe until I've wiped them all out. My wife says I might be going too far but I tell her I'm simply using the same logic as the President of the United States. That shuts her up. Like Mr Bush, I've run out of patience, and if that's a good enough reason for the President, it's good enough for me. I'm going to give the whole street two weeks - no, 10 days - to come out in the open and hand over all aliens and interplanetary hijackers, galactic outlaws and interstellar terrorist masterminds, and if they don't hand them over nicely and say 'Thank you', I'm going to bomb the entire street to kingdom come. It's just as sane as what George W. Bush is proposing - and, in contrast to what he's intending, my policy will destroy only one street. Terry Jones [/url]

As far as i'm aware dude, you don't! The capitol ships equiped with tractor beams just sort of use them automatically in the tactical game-to hold target ships in place whilst they obliterate them with their banks of turbolasers...drool...drool...grin.... I would have thought, and with some experiance of seeing what happens when you seriously up the value of tractor beams on Star Destroyers with RebEd, rebel...gob... ships sort of stop when you target one of them with the Star Destroyer. Curious point here for any of you who think the Carrak-cruiser is a load of crap with its forward turbolaser rating of 5 or however low it is, it's treactor beam is 6! Thats more than a Star Destroyer! I definatly would not like to confront the player who has sussed how effective a swarm of Carraks holding rebel ships in place is with the back up of ISDs to pound those rebel ships going nowhere is...

..emm...interesting post...you would think that the SAS/SBS could secure one of the ships with ease, thus securing the 'eveidance' Bush & Blair badly need in their quest to invade Iraq. If evidance is indeed found that suggests Iraq has tried to hide the WMD the UN has said it must declare to the inspectors it would be a damning indictment on the political wheeling and maneuvering amongst no less than fellow NATO members. You assume western intelligence agencies are co-ordinating and sharing their leads and information to fight the threat of Islamic terrorism. This is to say the French wouldn't have been in the dark about these three floating dreadnaughts. Hans Blix's team don't have a mandate to float the world's oceans looking for drums of anthrax on cargo ships. I don't understand. Most confussed. I think this is about the west's need to be in control of oil. I sincerely hope i'm proved otherwise. I'm looking forward to the invasion of China to liberate Tibet and the Chinese people from their fascist socialist scum of leaders. But that's just not going to happen is it. [/i]

..Jahled screeched to a hault...some drunken fool was lying in the gutter...Jahled smiled; 'Oh i'll get him home to his wife and baby daughter!' http://www.koit.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ped18.gif

...and it wasn't even my bike! Everyone got their cigarettes though...

Kermit the Frog. It makes no difference. Whoever replaces Saddam is going to be a puppet of American/British/French/German/Russian business interests. And our glorious leaders are slaves to those business interests! Meanwhile, young men have their guts shot out on behalf of fools in Bagdad, London, Paris and Washington. The hypocracy is sickening. Carnage sucks.

Elvis! This is an international-world forum! No one outside of Haxby has heard of Haxby! Stop speaking gibberish. I briefly lived in a ditch once. A prime advertisment not to try and ride a 750CC motorbike through narrow country lanes when you're pissed out of your mind. Obviously, I don't remember much but I was found 'in a ditch.' I'm ok. I think.

A sad but fair point. I assumed you were German, I know not why. It doesn't matter. You might as well be Mongolian like me, and we can crack open some lagers together on the steppe and sit back, watch a the sunset unfold, and chuckle together about how it all might have been...before gold out-valued bread in ancient times. Vanity..I believe is Satan's most favored sin....

...try as he could Mask just couldn't concentrate on the exam paper infront of him... http://members.rogers.com/pixelmasher/graphics/starhoppers/padmebounce64nd.gif

I did that for you! Don't cuss my cat!

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...oh! And good luck with all that learning lark, Mask; I guess from every one here who owes you one for being the helpful, resourceful cool dude that you are! But remember...bounce you must!..in the middle of your next exam.

Good post Elvis, Dale Brown's comments make some interesting reading and I recomend everybody interested in this subject giving themselves ten or so minutes to visit his site, via Elvis's link. Gank: Sorry if I came across strong, it was partly in irritation to the language and tone you've been communicating with our American brethren here and in the other topic on this subject. Sure, you're entitled to your opinion, but try and moderate your language otherwise the forums quickly degenerate (like some other Star Wars sites!), and people's posts become a sprawl of crap as opposed to the surprisingly high-level of wit we enjoy here! (ok..I admit to not being entirely guiltless here-but heck it's ok to remind oneself from time to time!) Anyway, as you may have figured by my post, i'm in serious pains on this issue. I see hypocracy and self-interest from every possible stance, and what I was trying to put across is that the Franco-German axis is not concerned about the sanctity of human life any more than the US-British axis; or the Russians, or the Muslims countries in the Middle-East. Everybody is looking out for themselves. The looser is the burnt-out corpse slowly being eaten by the desert; whether some hapless Iraqi conscript, an American marine, or a civilian. Humanity's farce at civilization is as pathetic as it is etched in sorrow and pain, as are the ugly lies and hidden-agendas of those 'statesmen' gathered around their debating-tables. In this context it's clearly about business contracts. Foreign-office diplomats spend more time these days promoting their country's business' than much else. When Iraq is swiftly defeated and the spoils are carved up and distributed to those unseen-leaders of the world these days; international-corporations, that's when the real victors of the slaughter will become apparent. Not that most of us will know by that stage, our attention will have been diverted elsewhere, or more likely the public are generally not educated enough to see how these corporation conduct their affairs and who exactly owns this or owns that. The whole exercise will go down under the rouse of restoring 'democracy and freedom' to the Iraqi people, and sure they'll probably get off on their new-found freedom to exert their fundermental human right of free-speech. They'll be surrounded by a multitude of tyrants and dictators, but that doesn't bother the west because the countries are just about stable enough for western business to invest it's money. It is human-civilization primordial. The scenario has been the same for five thousand years. We're just better at doing it these days! I doubt we'll be seeing five US aircraft-carriers floating off the coast of North-Korea. I doubt we'll be seeing allied-armadas off the coast of China, Cuba, Pakistan, Burma, or any other countries seriously lacking in human rights and the absense of democracy. In this context, the shuffeling of the statesmen from France, Germany, the US, Russia, the UK etc break down into meaninglessness, debating to promote themselves. Only politics can create a more base and ruthlessly-blunt tapestry of human-stupidity. And the threat of terrorist attacks? Yes, it's a very real concern only a fool would shy from. I suspect i'm not alone in taking the threat from lunitics bred in dictatorships like Saudi Arabia or Kuwait more of a concern than the tossers lining their own pockets in the administration of Iraq, who have everything to loose when the West removes them from power. Personally, i'm concerned about what all this oil-consumption is doing to our beautiful little planet. This is not a dig at the US, but it's the only statistic I know off the top of my head! 20,000,000 barrels of oil a day is required to be imported by the US a day. That's a monstrous figure! Expand that to include the rest of the world and the figure becomes mind-boggling! The world is clearly suffering and subsequently changing due to how we're ultimately, living our lives. The real terrorist threat is ourselves.

Agreed. No offence intended. I'm not entirely sure whether i'm sure what I said. Such is the mysterious ways of Jahled; dark-lord of gibberish.

..emmm..that's what I mean...all of that flew right past me onto the wall above my wardrobe...it's currently oozing like slime down the wall and landing in globs on various bits of paper...I think it's evolving into some form of life form Gosh, hang on in there dude! Wait! Eh, some kind of tenticle? What the F... gurgle....gulp....aghaaa...splutter...cough....gurgle...