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We are. Aliens, Borderlands, Hell's Highway. What happened to Heat?

Lurker, because I lurk.

This is exactly what I'm doing for school, getting it tomorrow. Buying 2GB of RAM and hooking up an external 320GB HD for home-use. Should be awesome, can't wait. You'll want more than 512MB to run many programs on OSX.

Did you know, there was a shocking increase of 33% in the last year of flag burning incidents in the United States? They're up from 3 to 4! In a time when the United States is facing many problems like the War in Iraq and immigration, Congress is focusing on election year pandering like gay marriage and flag burning. Shows you why this is called the "Do Nothing Congress".

And Italy dives their way into the group of 8. I can't believe the ref called that penalty... figures he was French.

It was an airstrike, but Zarqawi lived until 52 minutes after the strike. Iraqi police were the first on the scene, followed by the American soldiers. There are rumours that he was tortured/beaten. Not necessarily. It doesn't matter if the person is an angel or the devil. If you have a charter stating you will not assassinate or torture, you don't. If you do, your word is worth nothing. I'm not complaining in this case necessarily, his death did everyone a lot of good, but the United States has a history of stepping outside of its bounds. US-backed coups. US-backed assassinations. US-backed renditions. US-run sercret illegal prisons. The list goes on and on. It's a culture of hypocrisy. If you're not going to play by the rules, don't say you will. Don't sign an international agreement saying you will. The United States government would do well to remember that you get what you give in. If you don't fight by the rules, don't expect your enemies too.

Al-Zarqawi had a history of doing things against Islamic tradition. In his youth he drank excessively and got tattoos. This was before he went to Afghanistan to fight in the Mujahideen. That doesn't really matter. As far as the Iraqi insurgency, Al-Zarqawi's activities were anything but A-list. His group makes up what is a small percentage of the insurgency, and in my opinion his importance is grossly over-inflated. That being said, his death is obviously welcome news and hopefully the reaction from Iraq is equally as over-inflated, in the "good" direction.

I work in game retail, and the same thing happens with the PSP. If a customer comes in and asks me if they should get their son or daughter a DS or PSP, I almost always tell them to go with the cheaper DS, unless they're looking for an entertainment handheld system. Same thing will likely happen with the PS3 -- games are alongside the entertainment portions of it, and unless they're looking for the complete/whole/expensive package, I'll probably have to tell them to go with the Xbox360. The real winner in this is Microsoft, seeing as how Nintendo is not in direct competetion with them like Sony has aligned themselves. To me, the PS3 screams over-ambition and excess.

Even taking your games over to a friend's house wouldn't work... either way, I won't be getting a PS3, but it seems like Sony is constantly making bad decisions.

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Enjoy even more. First high res screenshot released.

University of British Columbia's business program. Not too sure whether or not I'll go, but it's a great place and a good school.

Beautiful, you'll love it there. I'm thinking about going to school there next year, actually.

why? What's free and democratic about executing a man who changed his religion? In a truly free nation, this would have absolutely nothing to do with the State, and would be kept within the religious organizations that were affected. Western nations in Afghanistan (Canada, US, etc.) are there spreading the right to live as democratic and free people to the country, and presented with this opportunity they turn the other way. Yeah, but why do they turn the other way? Because they don't understand the concept of a free society where people can practice what they want. We still struggle with it, too (read: gay rights). So I mean, the fault lies with no one. It's human nature to want to run things your way, and sometimes forget what is best for the collective. I think Fletch has a great point: it's like night and day for them. The concepts of freedom and democracy are easy for us to understand because we've already experienced, and still are, the growing pains that come along with it.