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Reply #105 - Mar 30th, 2006 at 11:01pm
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/03/30/abuse.payoff.ap/index.html


This article got me going on a rant this afternoon. Hush money and then letting that creep continue on hurting your child?! These are the kind of people that bring down the human race as a whole.


Save the taxpayers some money and give the mother and the neighbor what they deserve: one bullet each, straight to the cranium.  They deserve no less.

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Reply #106 - Apr 13th, 2006 at 3:37pm
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http://www.defense-update.com/products/t/trophy.htm

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The Trophy active protection system creates something equivalent to a hemispheric "force field" around the protected vehicle. It has three elements providing – Threat Detection and Tracking, Launching and Intercept functions. The Threat Detection and Warning subsystem consists of several sensors, including flat-panel radars, placed at strategic locations around the protected vehicle, to provide full hemispherical coverage. Once an incoming threat is detected identified and verified, the Countermeasure Assembly is opened, the countermeasure device is positioned in the direction where it can effectively intercept the threat. Then, it is launched automatically into a ballistic trajectory to intercept the incoming threat at a relatively long distance.


Its not a forcefield, but it intercepts rockets and rpg's incoming to the tank.



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Specific details about the composition and mechanism of this explosive interceptor device are vague. From the briefing provided by US sources, Defense Update understands that Trophy is design to form a "beam" of fragments, which will intercept any incoming HEAT threat, including RPG rockets at a range of 10 – 30 meters from the protected platform.


Pretty cool.
  

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Reply #107 - Apr 13th, 2006 at 4:01pm
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here's my newsflash of the day:


I hate college.
  

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Reply #108 - Apr 14th, 2006 at 11:27am
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Bahaha, they hit Kennedy!

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Rep. Kennedy gets stitches after hit by hammer head in business meeting
PAWTUCKET, R.I. - Rhode Island U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy took six stitches in his bottom lip after being hit with a hammer during a business meeting.

Kennedy — son of Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy — met Wednesday with Wisconsin entrepreneur Matt Kriesel, who is interested in relocating to Rhode Island. Kriesel runs a company that manufactures a shock-absorbing gel used in sports-shoe inserts, tennis rackets and horse saddles.

Kriesel was hitting the gel with a hammer to demonstrate how it reduces vibration when the hammer's head flew off and hit Kennedy in the mouth.
The accident caused Kennedy to cancel several public appearances Thursday.


Couldn't have happened to a better target!

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Reply #109 - May 3rd, 2006 at 1:58pm
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By fall 2007, researchers, academics, and even K-12 users of the ultra high-speed Internet2 network will have the ability to conduct even more eye-popping applications for education and research, thanks to an upgrade in the works that reportedly could boost capacity of the network by as much as 80 times its current bandwidth.
April 28, 2006—By sending data using different colors of light, operators of the ultra high-speed Internet2 network are hoping to boost the research and education network's capacity by as much as 80-fold--better enabling researchers and academics to connect telescopes around the world and perform other bandwidth-intensive tasks.

The new network should be in place by fall 2007, said Douglas Van Houweling, Internet2's chief executive.

He announced the plans this week as researchers set a new networking speed record--8.8 gigabits per second (Gbps), nearing the Internet2's current theoretical limit of 10 Gbps, which is thousands of times faster than standard home broadband connections.
  

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Reply #110 - May 3rd, 2006 at 2:08pm
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Imagine how much pr0n you could download at that speed...

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Reply #111 - May 3rd, 2006 at 3:10pm
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Probably all of it in like 2 or 3 days....
  
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Reply #112 - May 3rd, 2006 at 3:22pm
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"You've reached the end of the Internet.  Turn back now."

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Reply #113 - May 3rd, 2006 at 10:30pm
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Random.  And Why are we spending money on this?
  

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Reply #114 - May 4th, 2006 at 11:03am
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20060504/en_usatoday/starwarsgoesbacktobasics

Okay folks I have some good new and bad news.

Good news - STAR WARS IS BEING RELEASED ON DVD ON SEPT. 12 IN ORIGINAL!!!

Bad news - I'm going to have to spend $70 bucks to get it...again!  And it's going to be sold out by Dec. 31!

Ok people!  I want comments on this post!  NOW!

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Reply #115 - May 4th, 2006 at 11:10am
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By "original," you mean, original-original?  I thought Lucas promised to never release them again after the last VHS set, of which I'm a proud owner?

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Reply #116 - May 4th, 2006 at 11:34am
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I mean the most original original.  However it will be upgraded to DVD quality but all the mistakes will be in there...no Jaba in ep 4, Han shoots first, etc.
  

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Reply #117 - May 4th, 2006 at 12:20pm
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I should've known better than to trust that guy...

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Reply #118 - May 4th, 2006 at 1:24pm
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Korea, China and Japan have agreed to start joint research at government level on introducing an Asian single currency comparable to the euro. Finance Minister Han Duck-soo made the agreement with his Chinese counterpart Jin Renqing and Japan’s Sadakazu Tanigaki on the sidelines of the 39th annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank in India.


Lol one world currency!!
  

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Reply #119 - May 4th, 2006 at 2:19pm
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Japan and China using the same currency?  They can hardly even tolerate living in the same hemisphere, let alone agree to use the same kizzash.

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