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Very kind of you, but hey, no prize along with it? At the risk of sounding churlish, surely you could all chip in for something. A climate change themed dreamcatcher made of lithium borohydride, the complete works of Calvin printed on organic Alaskan salmon skin, a Spengler worm-head dreidel with fl...

. Hitler, best Persia, Jews, false war satraps. Only a cylinder away from a full house ! . Sparky, I reported your "Ad hominem" attack Your intelligent comment to my above post would be appreciated, otherwise, Pls, keep your silly comments for yourself. Who is worst in your distinguished ...

Hitler, best Persia, Jews, false war satraps. Only a cylinder away from a full house!

Not to be even more tiresome, and without entering into the fray to establish a moral ascendancy to decide what people mean when they use the term, it sort of is a word now, isn't it? A bit like Islamist, etc. A bit more use, the passage of time and presto - coming soon to a dictionary near you.

It is! I'm evaluating it for a project at work - a unified logging framework to allow my employer to collect data from the wacky races suite of applications that forms their product (written in C, C++, VB (ffs), VB.net, C#, Python and Java) into some sort of coherent central database. It's ideally s...

Has there been much progress with improving software lockout mitigation in recent years? (Edit: Perhaps this? ) That would seem to be a major issue with increasing performance by adding more CPU cores. You're dead right. There are some new tools out there to help, however, such as this : Multithrea...

Mr. Perfect wrote:

anderson wrote: Yeah, huddling in caves in the mountains of the NWFP or the Yemen, waiting for the drones to get you while your buddies get turned to hamburger day by day, week by week, month by month.

Livin' large, yo...

Living Bin Laden style.

Upside, inside out he's livin la bid'ah loca...

If Mitt Romney were doing the exact same things Obama is doing, Mr. Perfect would be lauding it as brilliant. Mr. Perfect isn't against Obama's policies, he's against Obama. Since so many of Obama's policies came from the right, I can only think that there is one reason and one reason alone for the...

Hans Bulvai wrote:

Sparky wrote:Some even equate a cartoon with a pension.

Most don't have the luxury of a pension.

In Europe?

Some even equate a cartoon with a pension.

I see Two Account Timmy's Best Persian nonsense tumour has metastasised. How utterly unforeseeable.

Surely the 60s was the classic era of Seoul ?

In which the local Talmudban make lousy wine in their bunkers perched atop bleak hills overlooking various dusty goat-holes.

noddy wrote:i wonder if the shooting the scruffy dude in the head while he waddles out of the toilet in his underpants with a porno in one hand and a smoke in the other is the climatic boss fight that good action movie needs.

Well it worked in the Sopranos.

In August, about 200 Orthodox rabbis issued a decree accusing the department of spreading “lies and misinformation.” “We are decreeing that according to our opinion, it is forbidden according to the Torah to participate in the evil plans of the NYC Health Dept. in any form,” their statement said, a...

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Aside from forced conversion being logically impossible, it is specifically prohibited in Islam.
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I'm not sure logical impossibility is any sort of impediment to a zealous religious fundamentalist.

Oh, you are under the assumption that Islamic fundamentalism emerged from the Arab spring fully formed, like Athena from Zeus' head. Sorry, I did not realize you were laboring under that assumption. What's an Arab Spring? Hans would tell you it's the source of the Zamzam well. Others might say it's...

Oh, you are under the assumption that Islamic fundamentalism emerged from the Arab spring fully formed, like Athena from Zeus' head. Sorry, I did not realize you were laboring under that assumption. What's an Arab Spring? Hans would tell you it's the source of the Zamzam well. Others might say it's...

Honestly sparky you may need to restrain yourself a little here, this is blowback for your recent little neocon adventure so you're really not in a position to be pointing fingers. Yes - fair point. I mean, at least during the noble reign of the good Colonel*, not one single act of terrorism was co...

Honestly sparky you may need to restrain yourself a little here, this is blowback for your recent little neocon adventure so you're really not in a position to be pointing fingers. Yes - fair point. I mean, at least during the noble reign of the good Colonel*, not one single act of terrorism was co...

Got to agree, ALI, and if such comes to pass it will mean the reformation of Islam. Go, Ahmadinejad, go . . Since your Christian one climaxed in the 30 Year War, I'm not so sure I'd wish a reformation on anyone. I don't wish any such thing on anyone, Sparky, I'm simply saying that the reformation o...

Marcus wrote: Got to agree, ALI, and if such comes to pass it will mean the reformation of Islam.

Go, Ahmadinejad, go . .

Since your Christian one climaxed in the 30 Year War, I'm not so sure I'd wish a reformation on anyone.

He will be a man with a large head, a pockmarked face, and white spots in his eyes.

Beware his mashinations...

"You are doing a procedure on someone who cannot make a decision for himself - it's a difficult choice for both parents and physicians," says Dr Marvin Wang, co-director of the Newborn Nurseries at Massachusetts General Hospital, who has conducted hundreds of circumcisions. http://www.bbc...

Parodite wrote:So basically doing politics means gossip and farting in public places.

Oh no, it's about the issues, probity and doing the right thing.