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Forget North Koreans sinking South Koreans, forget babies almost getting hit by busses, forget Bangkok burning... The REAL news happened overnight! Ninjas rescue student from muggers!

lol, dude... You'd be much closer to the mark if by administration, you meant Apple and Chairman Jobbs ...and they were looking for their 4th Gen iPhone that you may or may not have in your home. Remember, they've already used the cops to kick down the doors of a few people they've 'suspected' of having their new iToy.

There won't be any fighting, at least, the ROK leadership won't do more than the equivalent of sending a strongly worded letter to the PRK or the UN. The Korean people are massively pissed, but there won't be many options for the South Korean government. I'm really interested to see what China will do though. There are quite a few commentators including the South Korean government themselves saying that China can no longer sit on the fence when it comes to NK. Especially not after an event such as this. I can think of 146 reasons why.

...and this too!

Was just reminded about this on NPR... Scary to think how it escalated so far.

South Koreans are saying it was the North now with an explosive charge of at least 200kgs. There's still speculation of the delivery method.

...or was it the US and she spoke Pom...? Can't rememeber. 10 years is a long time.

This accent thing is a real conditon, I've only heard of a few instances in the past 15 years, but it has the very technical name: "Foreign Accents Syndrome". It usually involves someone having some kind of injury or mishap with their brain. I remember a woman in the UK (yep, the UK again) having a mild heart attack in her sleep and waking up sleeping in an Afrikaner accent...

As far as I know, your best bet would be to lower your object detail settings in-game. The other options you mentioned would require too much of a rebuild, particularly the polycount/model issue.

Haha! Awesome!

I'm down. I'll PM you my Steam details if you're up for a game sometime.

What a crock of sh*t! What next? Weapons of mass destruction weren't found in Iraq because certain ethnic groups in the military are lazy? Women shouldn't serve on ships because the men won't be able to control themselves?? I'm thinking this guy's in the same league as the douche who would hire pedos and murderers over former soldiers... Srebrenica fall linked to gay soldiers

I dunno, I can see where he's coming from, although he did go about it in a pretty ham-fisted, generalised kinda way. I see some older diggers at the RSL from time to time who went through some crazy sh*t in their fights, but still act as though the peoples of Vietnam or Japan, etc, now are the exact same people they fought against 40/60 years ago and that certainly ain't the case. Note I do not say all diggers, but some. By and large, they're a pretty awesome bunch!

Yeah, half the stuff is restricted to US and Canada only. I got that problem with NBC a lot too. There's always EZTV, but...

Can you believe this guy? He's got balls, but I'd beck checking under my car before I go to work from now on... Boss Karl Winn would rather hire paedophiles than former soldiers

Damn... Silverbolt beat me to it!

The J-10 will be able to mix it up and then some! It'll totally outclass the Ching Kuo.

If you ask Lindr very, very nicely...

Ooh... dual dumps and burn. The Yobbos are gonna love that, and we'll be out 26 more strike platforms! lol

Apparently there is a bit of a grudge match taking place between the government and the RAAF, nay, the ADF in general right now. The ADF future planners want the latest and best US equipment, regardless of cost (case in point, The F-35 and post-Collins subs) and the Government, irrespective of which party has been in power over the past 25 years, has been trying to get them to compromise between capability and cost but has been shooting itself in the foot by getting into bed with contractors and lobbyists, when it hasn't been cutting it's budget for short term gains. But what really surprised me was the availability of the Hornets and F-111s. For years, especially during the previous conservative government, there was this absolute fear amongst the government that there would be a major F-111 accident and they moved heaven and earth to retire them as soon as possibly, despite their being one of the most capable strike platforms in the region and apparently increasingly expensive to maintain, despite the US offering to sell spares and engines at cost or otherwise greatly reduced rates. Consequently, our Hornets have had to pick up the slack as, unofficially at least, the F-111s would never be deployed overseas again and would have to fill operational requirements in theaters such as Iraq and now it's coming back to bite us in the arse with low availability rates, although the numbers I heard thrown around from RAAF/Industry buddies here being 27. It just seems bizarrely interesting to me to keep a platform in service that is never to be used, outside of being a loud, pyrotechnic display for yobbos at Grand Prixs and Supercar series meets. I'm wondering if our new SuperBugs are going to be modded with a fuel dump between the engine nacelles...

I thought the C-17s were proving themselves to be less rugged than they were advertised and as a result, their maintenance costs soaring...?

Read this article in the Oz (The Australian) a few weeks ago. It's interesting reading considering considering.... Source:

India's also about to sign (or has signed) a deal to purchase something like 20ish C-17s as well... Edit: Oops, that was actually a request for the C-17. I think they made the right choice on the 29K, it's so far removed from the early models of the 29 that comparing the two would be a perilous and unwise decision for any military planner.

You guys see that his wife and daughter got severely effed up in a car wreck in the last 24 hours or so?? Found that out when I was finding out who he was...