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AFAIK only preplanned bombing missions are the only solution.

Have you assigned preplanned bombardment ?

I think (one of) the answer in the ex-Soviet equipment. They placed/sold it across the globe and they installed fail safes to prevent "friendly" fire against Red Army/Russian aircraft. The thing is the electronics are been upgraded so the fail safes are not there anymore. IIRC there was a bit of news in the Finnish media about the recently purchased SAM's and how they found some "extra" features when the electronics were being serviced or upgraded.

Some selected stats: - after you quit smoking your chance to get lung cancer drops down after two years and even after that you are not out of the woods the same way non-smokers are - your calculated life expectancy after retiring is two years, that is why they are pushing the retirement age further and further when the overall life expectancy increases across the board In essense: if you drop every bad habit at once you still carry the baggage for a long time.

By Patrocles Not yet. In fact, (in Finland) if/when you are diagnosed you get state healthcare benefits which occur in the form of various degrees of reduction (up to 100%) in medication prices as well as (relatively) cheap costs if hospitalized. On the downside we have high tax rates.

I can see it now: with auto-guessing words on (as seen in phones) typing will be fun. At the receiving end anyway... And when the wheel goes wonky you pay topdollar and meanwhile your computer is useless unless you happen to have an USB keybord on you.

Since they are talking about body armour I'm not sure how many small arms HEAT rounds there are. At the moment. With this cat out of the bag we will soon get exploding small arms rounds back into service. With modern technology I would imagine there are ways to circumvent the pesky pertaining articles of laws of war. I wonder how they are going to deflect projectiles away from vital organs.

Single sign-on sucks. The hubby was careless to keep the email files on the phone and not on the server. If it is not possible (or the connection is automated and the pwd sign on is automated) then there would be a security issue with the software.

Penguines do it too, you know. And when you think about it logically: sex is a basic need and to relieve tension creatures resort to all kinds of methods. In animals alpha males hog all the action with the females ad unless the beta males figure out a way to get a piece of the action there is not much they can do but to enjoy themselves among themselves.

True. But that means that your genes have been passed on and the task is done.

OK, OK. I thought the "preservation" was a dual reference primal instinct self preservation part but apparently was not obviously excluding deliberately suicidal and/or Darwin Award materiel. I was not thinking about religion induced (artificial) denial of the sex drive and the need to pass on your genes since that is not irreversible (or even absolute within the service). And lets not forget that dropping out of the nun/monk order is not unheard of.

By dieseltaylor Have you thought why the catholics have been so vehemently anti-contraception ? Becoming a nun or a monk means you devote your life to the service. That means having a family and offspring is detrimental to the service as it diverts attention (and resources) from the service to the family. Giving up the possibility of having a family is a prerequisite for joining. And lets not forget the catholic church monks and nuns were not always THAT chaste and abstinent as they would have us believe. And all told they add up to what, 1% of the entire human population ?

Very true. For each sentence there is an infinite number of subcontexts. No man can follow a womans train of thought. And that is the beauty of it. Misunderstanding what a woman says is a craft of its own to be used selectively and with care.

None of us can escape the biological facts pertaining the preservation and continuation of our respective DNA strings.

Sounds more like your biological clock is ticking LOUD.

The movie Idiolution is quite perceptive.

Followed by "Off with their heads" party ?

Charity starts at home. Hence I am busy keeping my own litter fed and generally trying to keep them out of the more negative statistics. The devastation here is too real to worry about places like Darfur.

Lets see; one child named Adolf Hitler vs millions below minimum sustinance level. One is a tragedy, one in a million blib in the statistics.

Well......... give the facts pertaining Henry Fords preferences it is surprising (or not) that of the big American car manufacturers only Ford is floating with its nose above the surface.

Some people name their kids after famous or infamous people (including religiously motivated names). Or fictional characters from various sources. Some people name their kids after their own parents. Some people name their kids after the towns they had sex in at the time the child was conceived. Some people give ridiculous names. So what ? Don't you people think this piece of news has been inflated way out of proportion (among other such pieces of news) so you would not notice the things which are truly wrong and significant in the respective societies you live in ?

What was that 485k house worth, say, 5 years ago ? Over here a house bought 13 years ago for ~330k is now worth up to and over 2 million (depending on location and condition of course).

By Lars Funny you should say that. I vaguely remember reading something about some Founding Fathers who started their bid to form a government of their own with the words "We, the people". Or something to that effect. That brings me to another point: isn't it a drag when real live people screw up perfectly sound and working economic and governing systems. Only if you are below a certain income level it seems. It seems to be perfectly OK to thousands of lower income people to fall destitude during a depression but when that same fate hits the "upper echelons" of society immediate actions needs to be taken to correct and/or alleviate the situation. Who are these "we" and are they really in favour of the free market being so free to the point of driving the economy down to keep the profit margins up ? I at least think his piece about a 50k yearly income couple not being fit to live in a 400k house was way out of line. His whole response is befitting a rich mans views on harsh times creeping up on his mansions gates.

By Stalin's Organist Waddayamean ? They HAVE been allowed to organise their resources and look what they have done with them - they zapped their customer base buying power by moving jobs to areas not considered to be heir prime market area.

By SSgt Viljuri How long does a company "live" ? The thing is the prevalent fiscal-quartal-management does not benefit the company in the long run. The only thing it does any good is the managements 12-month bonuses. True up to a point. What is more important is the buying power of the market. When that falls the entire equation becomes impossible to manage. When the subcontracting is bought from the lowest bidder (China) then the customer base is emasculated. When you become too cost-effective you bleed yourself dry. Lets not forget the oil industry from this equation.