Falklands In Light Of Crimea Rhetoric

[pauper]

Pauper, those reconstructions are priceless :lol:

One of our web savvy young whippersnappers posted that here a few weeks ago, it just came to mind with the allusion to Morgan Freeman.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

I didn't know who he was either, though I had a rough idea given the context of the conversation. So you know what I did? I put the name in a search engine and found out. I'm sure there were other people who didn't know who he was but only you had to make a big song and dance about it in order to push your usual snooty little agenda.

And I found out I don't care who you are either.

 

[Redpossum]

Well,



J. J. Abrams confirms Half-Life and Portal movie projects


Until then we will just have to be content with this.

Oh, Christ, no. JJ Abrams? I think I'm going to puke. That man should be hung by his toenails and pummeled into unconsciousness with organic produce for what he did to Star Trek. The idea of that no-talent hack being unleashed to abuse Half-Life is just horrible

Yes, I'm being negative.

And the big question is, who will play Alyx? How could any mortal woman possibly live up to the fantasies of millions of lonely little otaku? I think the only answer would be to go with some total unknown.

 

[Rich One]

He was awesome in Driving Miss Daisy.

Maybe Morgan Freeman

Gordon Freeman

 

[ajoknoblauch]

Free the Shetlands and Orkneys! http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/shetland-orkney-and-the-outer-hebrides-demand-independence-referendums-of-their-own-if-scotland-votes-yes-9217514.html

 

[Gringoboy]

Denise Milani as Alyx Vance wouldn't be disagreeable.

 

[Caliexpat]

Out of the frying pan and into the fire:

Ukraine to hike domestic gas prices by 50 percent to meet IMF demands
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/26/us-ukraine-crisis-gas-idUSBREA2P1EY20140326

"Ukraine's new leaders, in a step the ousted government had balked at, said on Wednesday it would raise the price of gas for domestic consumers by more than 50 per cent from May 1 and would raise prices further under a fixed timetable to 2018."

 

[ajoknoblauch]

Out of the frying pan and into the fire:

Ukraine to hike domestic gas prices by 50 percent to meet IMF demands
http://www.reuters.c...EA2P1EY20140326

"Ukraine's new leaders, in a step the ousted government had balked at, said on Wednesday it would raise the price of gas for domestic consumers by more than 50 per cent from May 1 and would raise prices further under a fixed timetable to 2018."

Actually, that should reduce the fire (and conserve energy).

 

[Napoleon]

Out of the frying pan and into the fire:

Ukraine to hike domestic gas prices by 50 percent to meet IMF demands
http://www.reuters.c...EA2P1EY20140326

"Ukraine's new leaders, in a step the ousted government had balked at, said on Wednesday it would raise the price of gas for domestic consumers by more than 50 per cent from May 1 and would raise prices further under a fixed timetable to 2018."

Actually, that should reduce the fire (and conserve energy).

It would behoove the current administration of Argentina to follow suit.

If you don't subsidize utilities, people will stop using them like they grow on trees and more like they are a semi-precious resource.

 

[Redpossum]

It would behoove the current administration of Argentina to follow suit.

If you don't subsidize utilities, people will stop using them like they grow on trees and more like they are a semi-precious resource.

That's a brutally callous attitude, and malicious as well. You are assuming that people waste energy, while providing no evidence. And you ignore the poor, who won't be able to afford electricity and water at all. Yet you blithely endorse depriving them of the basic necessities of life.

No doubt Ayn Rand would be very proud of you.