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I was just talking about the time since the cold war began to thaw. Since the late 80s I dunno about that. Where I work, EU policy has made my job a hell of a lot easier. When we have to send international students from our university on exchange to EU nations, current EU policy (which requires each European University to use the same credit transfer scheme: ECTS) cuts out about 75% of my wasted time in waiting for individual unis to send me their equivelent criteria, assess our students, assign them a credit rating for transfer, blah blah blah, it's boring stuff. Suffice to say, what used to take close to a week, takes only a few hours now. That said, the bureaucracy that was once there has probably only just shifted elsewhere. Like Agriculture or some kind of naming comittee empowered to restructure the selection process for inter-organisational meeting groups who discuss the re-evaluation of documents to be issued after the latest round of talks encompassing the EADS's chair comittee's inability to find a suitable naming convention to use in the next round of press releases outlining future strategies and sustainable practises that's being co-ordinatd with the aforementioned inter-organisational meeting groups on what prime factors will accounted for in the latest press release on why the A-400M is taking so-goddamned-long to enter service...

Adaware used to be good, but I've heard stories of people in my neck of the woods having trouble with freezing during updating and scans, and in my experience, the current version is pretty crappy. I'm with Jules, go with Spybot S&D. AVG Shield also has an ad scanner integrated into AVG 8 now too.

Only MacGuyver can make a guided bomb from your mum's pantyhose, a half eaten Marsbarm, a steering column and a kid's shoe. And he helped pioneer the 'Aviators'... ...but then again, Jack bauer was once a vampire... Nope, Macguyer, hands down!

Are the French invited this year?? Just being a bastard. Happy Birfday from a younger, smaller sibling one tenth your size!!

How's about some manners instead of demands, please? If it's an account error, we'll have the appropriate staffer look into it and have it rectified asap for you. In future, send a PM to one of us mods, with a brief description of what the problem is and we'll get it sorted. A 'please' wouldn't go astray either...

AFAIK = As Far As I Know. The full trees are a terrain mod, aren't they?

Hang on a minute! I thought you could only earn points in official servers anyways??

What are the odds Bad Company is just BF2 but with different guns and destructible environments??

There's three: I'll take the ugly one...

The CROC HUNTA!!

Heh, I dunno about Kangaroo... name just doesn't sound right. It's been proven to be quite a dopey animal. I mean, it's big, dopey, eats a lot... doesn't seem a fitting name for a fighter. Like calling a fighter "The Sloth". Plus, it doesn't hold a candle to mustang!

I dunno... I reckon I'd use a name like cupcake as a name in something like CoD. I mean, I've used worse.

I still find it freakin' dificult to take on a B-35/49 in a knife fight! Even a flying tank like an Il-2 or an A-10 looks like a crumpet in the end...

Nah, it was based on the Wirraway trainer, itself, a development of the NA-16 trainer used in the US at the time. It was only considered a stopgap until some P-51s or Spitfires could be acquired. This one though was designed during the war to be an advanced type ready for service in the event P-51s/Spitfires were unavailable for Intercept/Escort duties. When Lawrence Whackett, head of CAC at the time, suggested license building Mustangs instead of bearing the costs associated with developing a new fighter, it was put on the back burner. Initially when it flew in 46, it was superior to all other single engine props in service as well as most early jet figthers, but it was figured that the development of superior jet aircraft would eclipse prop driven aircraft in only a few years, so it was decided to go with the trend of acquiring jets instead. It's a bit of a shame as it would have been slightly inferior in performance to something like the Skyraider. I think it's fastest recorded speed was roughly 800kph at East Sale(?) AFB. Also, it was one of the last military aircraft developed in Oz. I think most everything else has been built under license. Although the CA.27 Sabre was close, it was still mostly a US aircraft.

Aussie $ is roughly around 93-95c US. So yeah, it's a bit of a rip off. 62 degree ice... is that fahrenheit. Wait, no... because 35*C is about 100*fahrenheit. I'm all confused...

I'd have to second that a bit. When I used to work in Libraries, lots of parents would use us as a makeshift childcare centre. One mother in particular dropped her kids off to go shopping one night and didn't pick them up until almost 10. (we closed at 7!) And Ironroad, I'm gen Y and I'm not a complete douche... It's your fault! :tounge: jk I personally love the response from 9:38am today: "I totally agree with the Cops. I was at a club and these 2 italian plumbers started jumping on peoples heads."

Now that I've got your attention with that title... Here's an interesting article about a Choice review of the fairness in software pricing in the Australian market comparing the differences in costs between buying software from stores and downloading them from the developer's sites. Check it out Note how EA charges up to 5 times more (in some instances) for the same crap games that you could buy on the cheap in the US...

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23933866-38198,00.html They're just a bunch of brats that are in need a good pistol whipping, IMHO. Can't discern between fiction and reality my azz!

Saw the other day, got a bit of a kick out of it, particularly his glow stick dance at 2:19 Does anyone know when this was held exactly?

Hey Eraser, are those from Despair Inc.? My personal faves were: and But that Kirk one is gold!

Heh, That'd be a blast. But only if the criminals spout cool one-liners like "Sub Zero is now PLAIN Zero."

Crap. That might pose a problem then... When I'm back up and running, I'll give your ASATs a look in FC. The reason or all the questions was that I've been playing with door gunners on my helos and I though that maybe, just maybe, I could introduce some small, possibly invisible aerial targets the gunners could shoot at to give the cheaty impression that they were firing at targets on the ground. I was on my way to testing this when my video card blew... even then, I had a few issues with the airborne targets and though balloons might be the way to go.

Cheers Spec. So they are definitely airborne and definitely stationary... Good. And they're classified as an aircraft, not a Ground object? I know it sounds like a silly question...

I don't own FE, not really a fan of WWI sims anymore and I really can't get into them. But what I'm curious about is how the ballons are set up in FE. Are these stationary airborne targets or do they move at a VERY slow pace? I'm guessing they have no stall speed and so on. I'm looking to try something in WOI when I get my puter fixed and am curious to see if their flight characteristics can be duplicated in game or if it's engine specific.

Again, I mean no disrespect, but I have to disagree with a couple of points, Col5 and FC, specifically the taking into account of pregnancies resulting from rape, health adverse and problematic pregnancies, etc, but I won't bring that up here considering the chasm of difference between how that topic is handled in your county and how it's handled in mine. ...And, you know, I don't want to offened either of you because I have a wonderful ability of putting my foot in my mouth. And you're very right about taking responsibility FC, we've got a case taking place here in my state right now where a little responsibility could have gone a long way. (here That's exactly the problem we (in Aust.) had with our last man executed in 1967. The ball was dropped by many people in the state government and the legal system and Ronald Ryan just happened to be the guy who had to wear it. (although his escape didn't help his cause.)