Recent content by bobalot

I have always thought these types of systems encourage teachers to teach students to simply score well on particular tests (The standardised tests which teacher's "performance" is based on).

Ah, the Laughter..err...I meant Laffer Curve. A theoretical curve that has not one shred of empirical real world evidence for it.

The defense shield has never been proven to actually work. It's a waste of time and money. Especially at a time that the American state is debt trillions of dollars.

You are talking out of your arse. Provide sources.

It's hard to feel sorry for the cronies who looted the Russian State of billions of dollars during the corrupt privatizations of the early 90's, while ordinary Russians became destitute. Putin should have nationalized all their companies and thrown them in jail for fraud.

Billions? Total BS. They lost expensive military equipment and airbases. Relatively little civilian infrastructure was damaged, hardly on comparison to the massive destruction of Lebanese public infrastructure. How does it compare to 1000 Lebanese dead? 500,000 refugees? 350,000 unexploded...

Western hypocrisy has no bounds. Hezbollah and Israel has been pissing around the disputed border (Around the Sheba farms) for years. In response to soldier being captured. Israeli bombed much of the civilian infrastructure of Lebanon, causing billions of dollars worth of damage. Killed 1000...

Proof? I thought so absolutely none. I also notice, you completely ignore the point I made that hundreds of civilians have died since the Georgians launched a massive artillery barrage against the breakaway capital (Obviously the mark of a freedom loving democratic government). Perhaps, they are...

You are not responding to the argument. There is no denying Russia was an expansionist empire in the past. Many countries were, the point is irrelevant. It is a an appeal to emotion. The point is now, Russia is intervening in crisis in a region that is it is intimately involved in. The...

sgrig, it is deliberate manipulation, it can be no other reason. The editor would have to be a complete moron to accidentally phrase the situation in this manner and not understand the meaning that it alludes to. Any reader casually glancing through the headlines would assume the Russians are...

Wow, that's a great argument. Except that it is idiotic. Even independent opinion polls have confirmed the popularity of Putin and his party. Which cannot be said of Zimbabwe or Saddam Hussiens Iraq. There is simply no denying it. It takes a special type of arrogance to simply assume that the...

To the twit who compared Russia to a dictatorship. Russia, in fact, has had elections. Just in case you missed the last decade. There were claims of bias and irregularities, but even most russophobes had to admit, Putin and his party are overwhelmingly popular. The parties that are darlings...

Let me get this straight. The darling of the West and the Russophobes here, Georgia, tries to impose its rule by force on one of two republics that clearly does not want to be incorporated into Georgia. These republics have been defacto independent for a decade and a half. The South...

Don't get Civ IV if its more than $20. I have installed it for the third time and started playing it. I have rediscovered what I realized the first 2 times. It sucks. It's features blown out of all proportion with hype. If there had never been a Civ franchise and nobody knew Sid Meir, the...

I just tried playing Civ IV again for the third time (installing it, seriously trying to play it etc), I found I didn't like it. So I went looking for some guides and I came across this. It's a bit late, but I think i get the message. You don't like Civ 4....THEN you must playing it like it...