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Gunships can't capture cities in Civ IV

The Onion article was parodying what the US media was doing back then, and what the US media doing now. Here the context:

http://www.salon.com/2012/02/14/us_media_takes_the_lead_on_iran/singleton/?miaou

Info on ACTA What is ACTA and Why is it a Problem Rather long blog post but the tldr version: It's a treaty/executive agreement (depends on whether you are in the USA or out of it) that was negotiated with an insane amount of secrecy, with goals of exporting the bad copyright laws of the US to...

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/205491-consumer-group-accuses-hollywood-of-threatening-politicians The MPAA is just way to blatant. They make caricatures look tame.

The things you spoke of are all physical products: They will still be salable even without copyright. Even if you can reverse-engineer the product(which is legal) it doesn't matter if you don't have the infrastructure to produce them or if your product doesn't have the millions of dollars of...

From reddit: Link to the text itself: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3261:

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011/03/taking_stock_3.php Of course, now that the reactors are largely under control, Mass Media now turns to Libya with is MISSLES, AIR STRIKES, and EXPLOSIONS and only giving the thousands afflicted by the Tsunami in Japan a passing notice...

The thing is, the more time passes, the less likely a meltdown will occur. Each passing second means more the of rod's energy is dissipated, more of Japan's infrastructure is put back online, and more information is provided to the people on the field. If a meltdown was gonna happened, it was...

People, there is absolutely zero chance for this to be as bad as Chernobyl. It's a completely different reactor design in a country with a completely different political landscape with a completely different cause.

A quick perspective on the damage already done Japanese Earthquake Update (17 March 01:15 UTC)

BTW 2ch is pretty much the grandfather of four chan and ever other *chan is the world. Note that the source for the second story is EXTREMELY NSFW but has some pretty pictures of the relief operations. Here Some one drew a nice picture for "Operation Tomodachi(Friend)"

More third party reassurance

Link to Dutch article Not anywhere near Chernobyl

source I don't care what he did, but at the very least he deserves a trial. If the US is willing to give suspected terrorists a trial, then why shouldn't one of its soldiers get one.