What the fuck?!

[Nargrakhan]

The infamous girl squeal/screech:

http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m287 … CT4033.flv

My ears are still broken.

[lux_ex_tenebris]

Is football (or soccer as it’s called in the United States) the only sport that has ever caused a war to erupt between two countries? I’m kind of curious to know if there’s any other instances of other sports causing something similar to occur.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_War

[SidVanHalen]

There is also a case of armies stopping war to see Pele play.

[Kabraxal]

If it can pull me from a good book or an immersive game, then it must be something special. I guess we all must realise the truth and submit ourselves to such a grande reality.

Football is all powerful. Kneel before its godly might!

[Nargrakhan]

Mario. With a shotgun.

http://j-game.net/amazinggolfpro.html

Mindless fun for about a minute or two.

[Nargrakhan]

This is one of many reasons, why the US military is losing a war…

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/12/17/drone. … index.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126102247889095011.html

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091217/wl … fghanistan

Seriously. They knew there was a flaw in 1990? Lowest bidder indeed…

[Nandemonai]

Ars Technica’s take on it was the best, I thought. They pointed out that DVDs and television sets have more security. Than Predator drones.

[Billybob]

Hey now, as a former member of the US Military I’ll have you know we’re not losing a war! …we’re just fighting a war we can’t win. It’s really not the average soldiers fault, most of this should be blamed on crusty old white men who think anything that costs billions must be worth it.

[Kabraxal]

Not just old white men, but white women, black women, black men, young idiots… it’s a non-descriminatory failure.

There really is little hope for the human race… it isn’t like the anarchists are going to rise en masse and insitute a better gov’t.

[lux_ex_tenebris]

@Billybob

Hey now, as a former member of the US Military I’ll have you know we’re not losing a war! …we’re just fighting a war we can’t win. It’s really not the average soldiers fault, most of this should be blamed on crusty old white men who think anything that costs billions must be worth it.

“The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.” - Henry Kissinger

[Nargrakhan]

@Nandemonai

Ars Technica’s take on it was the best, I thought. They pointed out that DVDs and television sets have more security. Than Predator drones.

It appears the government is learning. About damn time.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/21/cybe … pstoryview

@lux ex tenebris

@Billybob

Hey now, as a former member of the US Military I’ll have you know we’re not losing a war! …we’re just fighting a war we can’t win. It’s really not the average soldiers fault, most of this should be blamed on crusty old white men who think anything that costs billions must be worth it.

“The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.” - Henry Kissinger

I don’t think there’s any question that the US military could attack any but maybe half-a-dozen nations on Earth, and take them over within a week. It’s one of the most powerful armies/navies known to human history. But the US military is purely an assult and destroy force. Unless the US military is going to obliterate Iraq and/or Afgan into uninhabited wastelands, it never had a chance to win.

There’s a difference between invading, repelling, occupying, and defending. I thought we learned these lessons in Vietnam…

[olf_le_fol]

http://www.andrewmcdonald.net.au/a-pict … mera-loss/

[Kabraxal]

… I’m scarred for life.

[Nargrakhan]

@Kabraxal

… I’m scarred for life.

That which has been seen, can not be unseen.

[Nargrakhan]

HP computers are racist:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4DT3tQqgRM

It’s too much blackness for one machine to handle:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/22/hp.w … index.html

EDIT

Terrorists make video games too.

http://trueslant.com/nealungerleider/20 … -industry/

[Nargrakhan]

Original Source: http://www.gamepolitics.com/2009/12/09/ … y-revealed

America’s Army, the free-to-play PC game called an extremely effective recruiting tool, has cost taxpayers $32.8 million to-date.

GameSpot filed a Freedom of Information Act request to find out the game’s budget, and was rewarded with a year-by-year breakdown of costs. The game was initially planned as a five-year long project with a total operating budget of $7.0 million.

Costs for America’s Army over the years:

* 2000 - $3,500,000
* 2001 - $5,600,000
* 2002 - $1,862,985
* 2003 - $2,600,000
* 2004 - $3,866,482
* 2005 - $1,288,552
* 2006 - $4,050,748
* 2007 - $2,788,137
* 2008 - $3,887,450
* 2009 - $3,395,702

Additional, unspecified information (perhaps on future plans for the series or hard numbers on actual recruitment increasing/decreasing as a result of the game) requested by GameSpot was denied, with the Army writing [color=red]“disclosure of this information is likely to cause substantial harm to the Department of the Army’s competitive position in the gaming industry.”[/color]

The game was launched on July 4, 2002.

If the US Army fears EA so much, why don’t they just do a “regime change” on them. :lol: :roll:

[Kabraxal]

And people think that the gov’t can handle money… oi.

[Nargrakhan]

Internetz.

http://www.steadyhealth.com/what_happen … 36444.html

I think the serious people, didn’t catch on that some unserious people are fucking with them.

[Kimuzukashii_MEIJI]

Came across an interesting article today on the Time website from a few months ago about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that was… interesting. Nothing about creating black holes like some have feared, but an idea even more bizarre. Here is a paragraph that will give you a taste:

While most scientists would write off the event as a freak accident, two esteemed physicists have formulated a theory that suggests an alternative explanation: perhaps a time-traveling bird was sent from the future to sabotage the experiment. Bech Nielsen of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen and Masao Ninomiya of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto, Japan, have published several papers over the past year arguing that the CERN experiment may be the latest in a series of physics research projects whose purposes are so unacceptable to the universe that they are doomed to fail, subverted by the future.

You can read the full article in my link above.

[Nargrakhan]

People will kill themselves for Avatar:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/ … index.html