Jahled

That was excellent dude!

BY THE POWER OF GREYSKULL!! Yes, all that transports me a decade or two back.. A machine that turns itself off..

No, me apologize. I hadn't read E's post above yours and put your post into Pope context..

You wouldn't consider what's going on in Iraq rather contrary to this statement would you dude? The vast majority of the daily violence is one ethnic fraction against another; remember those Shiite Mosques being attacked and pilgrims slaughtered? So not much unity on that front.

Click to feel really insignificant.. I just found this one, though there's another that's slightly more mind blowing. *scurries off*

I do, and not necessarily as the type of 'liberal,' as your language might be suggesting to define or categorize. As a society we have a moral and legal responsibility to protect our fellow citizens, from criminals in our midst, and miscarriages of justice as well. Convictions for a crimes someone is not guilty of are surprisingly frequent in the democratic western world, and their later exposure by the legal process is something we can term the essence of being 'civilized' and 'democratic,' and having the 'civilized' and enlightened opportunity to do so. In most of the world, the legal process is observed with all the attention and detail of a schoolchild's rant in the playground, applied to law, and subsequently applied with the state's force. In China, it's got to the extent where execution has virtually become an industry; the 'people's state,' selling off the organs and body parts of the executed to western wallets as exposed by that renowned 'bleeding-heart liberal' organ the BBC last week. Whilst I at times wish the furnace on the scum of society when they are caught, it is some aspect of our status as being truly civilized as a society that allows a convicted citizen perhaps time to prove they were never guilty of the crime they were guilty of, without being a coffin in the ground.

A very, very good post GAT. Thanks for that.

The US might not ever use them, and it's been stated that they would never(?) be used as a "first strike" weapon. But, it is the policy of the US, should it be attacked by weapons of mass destruction by another nation, the US would respond in kind. Since most 3rd world despots can't afford nuclear weapons, their usual choice of weapons of mass destruction is biological or chemical. Those with the $ (Iranian oil $) can afford to try and develop nuclear weapons. Libya tried to develop nuclear weapons for years, but with sanctions from most of the world, their economy tanked and they could no longer afford it. They eventually agreed to give it up for the lifting of sanctions (and they gave up some of those pesky terrorists they've been hiding). Since the US is destroying its stockpile of biological and chemical weapons (developed for the Cold War), the only thing left is nuclear. If another country "gasses", bombs or starts a biological epidemic in the US, then the US will vaporize them. The Iranians have mentioned they will destroy Israel. They are known supporters of terrorist organizations throughout the Mid-East. Should they develop nuclear weapons, what's to prevent them from ... accidentally making an extra bomb, or losing one, that conveniently lands in the hands of terrorists? The terrorists would have no qualms of using the device to further their ideals (especially since the majority of us are called "infidels" and deserve to die anyway). They can deny they supplied any such nuclear device. Basically Iran can NOT be trusted. As for nuclear power, they can say all they want, but they can't prove to the world (because of past statements, and current gov't/religious views) they won't do it. All it takes is for them to enrich the uranium (that's used for the nuclear power) to get weapons grade material. Sure they can say they won't enrich it, but what about the fact they already have the necessary equipment to enrich it? If you're not going to enrich, then why do you have the equipment to do so? It's simple, they're going to develop nuclear weapons and deny it for the rest of their lives. And one last thing, nuclear weapons are the great "equalizer". If you were standing on the ... let's say South Korean DMZ, and over 1 million enemy soldiers come barrelling across the border at the same time, how are you going to stop them in time from completely overrunning the country. The US only has ~37,000 troops to help South Korea. Unless each US soldier can take out ~30 enemy soldiers before getting killed, they don't stand a chance. But one nuke at the right place, at the right time can make thousands of enemy soldiers disappear in a flash ( ^this

Very nice Krytos sir!

It's not nuclear power we're concerned about, it's the process of enrichment, where by the Iranians would have a source of weapon's grade plutonium. That in the hands of a president who has repeatedly denied the holocaust happened, and expressed his desire to 'wipe out Israel,' and is, quite frankly, a religious extremist, supporting the concept of 'martyrdom,' is not acceptable to the civilized community, including not least it's democratic neighbours in places like Turkey and India. I wasn't having a dig Turtle mate! I work in a scientific library and get lots of time to read Science, New scientist, etc, where current news is investigated a little bit deeper than in the comics sold at our news stands, despite half the articles flying over my head..

I subject that has always troubled me. I don't much like the idea of murderers not paying the ultimate price for their crimes if I listen to my gut instincts, but if you execute someone you can't very well later find them innocent in the same manor you can find someone innocent you've given a prison sentence to, can you? And no legal system is 100% accurate is it?

I've had it running in a seperate window most of the morning on account of that delightful lounge music! The world's worst hacker.. This can't be real!

Gallery music with Roger Moore's incredible eyebrows..

Is your life dominated by the latest headlines, or subsequent absence of such where you live, or what mate! Iran is still steadfastly quite obviously trying to build Nuclear weapons, governed by a religious spastic who has openly declared his desire to 'wipe off the face of the earth Israel,' in a society which is bullied by religious thugs, not least in election campaigns. North-Korea? We still have a major Stalinist, brain-washed, starving, and rather desperate problem, only armed with nukes with a ludicrously large army. The fact their desperation is aggressively launching missile tests towards Japan, hoping in return for impossible internal economic development is all the more to wave good-bye to one more evil idiology. Stalin: you were a twat pal

This left me speechless..

This made me laugh: Clicky for sound!

An astonishing 249.15 kB!!! Apparently he's started on the Terminator..

http://www.sayagain.co.uk/b3tapix/images/FoldsFiveEpisodeIVSpecialEd.gif That clever bloke has just done Episode IV the special edition!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc2gqPzVjbM Released just after Ep.1 apparently; I missed it.. but didn't have a PC at the time..

Cool , but I did, do, and will, if legal copies aren't commercially available. I accumulated about nine pirate copies of the original trilogy before George Lucas checked his bank balance and/or bowed to public demand for official and perfectly legal DVD's, thanks to a mate who lives in Beijing, and some google result I found. In every instance the overall quality was dodgy, the menus virtually unusable, and the packaging a source of genuine mirth. But did I give I toss? Absolutly not. There was no alternative. George Lucas was sitting on the biggest, and obviously most wanted, DVD franchise in the history of cinema, and denied the world the opportunity to purchase it legally for years, muttering bull about the films being a 'cinema experience', or whatever, despite releasing it on VHS and laser disk... err... And when he finally released the DVDs, guess what, I went out and bought them.

Well, thanks for the forewarning! I guess if you ever owned unofficial pre-DVD Star Wars DVD's from the far east, which were taken from the laserdiscs, this then is what you all ready own in terms of quality. Having just said that, i'll still probably purchase the new original DVD's just to complete the collection in terms of packaging.

I can edit my post if you like. I was not trying to embarrass anyone, it was more a props to you *the Internet fame* I reckon leave it for the time being. I don't think it's particularly over the edge in terms of acceptability, and you obviously didn't find it offensive as a gal. It still makes me giggle like a loon when I look at it. I guess if a mod thinks otherwise, then so be it!

That clown was a clever fiend. Good film as well.

Well I changed the source url on my web space so am stumped how it's re-activated all by itself given DC hasn't edited her post, and am not deleating it from own webspace again given it will effect stuff posts on other websites I mutter and mumble on i've since had to edit. Ultimately, given DC linked it here, perhaps it is but harmless fun and I was being over cautious, perhaps not, i'll let others deside.

EDIT: This is a picture of a fluffy rabbit. Clicking on it reveals an image that might unnerve you. This bit from the Exorcist is memorable, not that it's an icon or anything, but just because it's in the film for less than a second, and completely throws you. I guess what Tex is on about is more or less right right in my mind how I rate horror, not on Freddies etc, but the quality of the horror. Having said that, I still sometimes watch the Exorcist if I can't sleep..