[QUOTE=booster;44665584]Why do they do this? I've always wondered.[/QUOTE]
Kuwait's oil devalued the price of oil as a whole which cost Iraq money so they invaded with the intention or taking the oil fields for themselves. When the Americans came along they torched it and knocked out Kuwait's oil producing ability for 12 months.
Apparently that gif is from Werner Herzogs [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lessons_of_Darkness"]Lessons of Darkness[/URL] which I for one am going to watch now.
[QUOTE=CMB Unit 01;44667126][video=youtube;_fNp37zFn9Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fNp37zFn9Q[/video][/QUOTE]
This video kept lagging throughout for me :(
[QUOTE=Hellsten;44666034]Apparently that gif is from Werner Herzogs [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lessons_of_Darkness"]Lessons of Darkness[/URL] which I for one am going to watch now.[/QUOTE]
I thought it was from [URL="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104275/"]Fires of Kuwait (1992)[/URL]
[QUOTE=CMB Unit 01;44667126][video=youtube;_fNp37zFn9Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fNp37zFn9Q[/video][/QUOTE]
But lag is necessarily a matter of bandwidth :(
currywurst
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thuringer
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Genius german fast food.
i need a currywurst
there is a severe lack of content
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our ancestors would never believe shit like that /\ would be ever built by us.
[QUOTE=MenteR;44671847]our ancestors would never believe shit like that /\ would be ever built by us.[/QUOTE]
Especially not the Mayans! :smile:
[QUOTE=StickyWicket;44672416]Especially not the Mayans! :smile:[/QUOTE]
you completely missed my point? they could build their shit sure and that's very impressive for the technology they had at the time but my point is that structures like this:
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just blow my mind. it looks so sci-fi & alien. and i'm pretty sure if a mayan saw that he'd shit his pants in awe.
[QUOTE=Hellsten;44666034]Apparently that gif is from Werner Herzogs [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lessons_of_Darkness"]Lessons of Darkness[/URL] which I for one am going to watch now.[/QUOTE]
I found this:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t72P9kZrT_c[/media]
[quote]Boots & Coots is one of the world's premier well control companies. It was founded in 1978 Asger "Boots" Hansen and Ed "Coots" Matthews,[1] veterans of Red Adair Service and Marine Company. The two companies put out about one third of the more than 700 oil well fires set in Kuwait by retreating Iraqi soldiers in the Gulf War.[2][3] This work was featured in the 1992 film Lessons of Darkness.[/quote]
[QUOTE=Pilotguy97;44623939]I've said it before, but if things like galaxies and nebulae make you feel small, then try not to have an existential crisis reading about either the [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloan_Great_Wall]Sloan Great Wall[/URL] or the [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMB_cold_spot]CMB Cold Spot/Eridanus Supervoid.[/URL]
To paraphrase myself on that last one, you could travel at twice the speed of light from one side of the void to the other and in that time, you would not only see every possible generation of human die, you would see all life on board die off, then reform itself in a chance reaction and evolve back to sentience. And then you'd pass an atom outside and realise that you're finally about 5/6ths of your way through the supervoid.[/QUOTE]
[video=youtube;I483tB12SyE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I483tB12SyE[/video]
I was listening to this while reading and it almost made my heart break.
Ever wonder why you don't see too many Luftwaffe aircraft museums?
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It's because the Russians and Americans broke them down and turned them into mobile homes and fences.
A lot of time people seem to destroy stuff without even thinking about the historical value it might/will have later on.
[QUOTE=scratch (nl);44674262]A lot of time people seem to destroy stuff without even thinking about the historical value it might/will have later on.[/QUOTE]
I guess the world hated anything which was even remotely related to the Germans shortly after the war and were happy to destroy especially war machinery.
[QUOTE=scratch (nl);44674262]A lot of time people seem to destroy stuff without even thinking about the historical value it might/will have later on.[/QUOTE]
At the time, it wasn't historical. It was brand new killing machines that had caused the death of friends and family.
[QUOTE=scratch (nl);44674262]A lot of time people seem to destroy stuff without even thinking about the historical value it might/will have later on.[/QUOTE]
It pains me when I read about how ocean liners, which in their day were the most grand and beautiful forms of transportation and still have a majesty to them, were scrapped en masse when they started getting unprofitable.
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The Olympic and Mauretania were magnificent examples of engineering but both are lined up there to be scrapped. It's really sad.
[QUOTE=The Combine;44674941]I guess the world hated anything which was even remotely related to the Germans shortly after the war and were happy to destroy especially war machinery.[/QUOTE]
It's not as simple as that; the world had used a fuck load of it's resources during WWII. Easiest way to get them back was by simply taking them from the Germans who weren't in a position to complain about stolen property. Melting down Panzers and Messerschmidts were an easy way to get back a lot of materials that were lost. They also made for good weapons testing.
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Yea, debt is a justifiable reason to turn to soviet style prison and punishment styles.[/QUOTE]
The government sure as hell doesn't need an excuse to kill people. So then dressing it up under the guise of a 'humane' execution makes you feel better about it? Because nobody has the stones to just shoot or behead them somehow makes executing people more noble?
[QUOTE=archangel125;44679277]The government sure as hell doesn't need an excuse to kill people. So then dressing it up under the guise of a 'humane' execution makes you feel better about it? Because nobody has the stones to just shoot or behead them somehow makes executing people more noble?[/QUOTE]
Nobody has the "stones" to just shoot prisoners in the back of the head or hack their head off with a machete because thats not how modern society works bud. You gonna try and tell me that a lethal injection is just as inhumane as a bullet to the back of the head? Hell no.
I'm not for execution, I'm against it and I wish the US would do away with it. But with that said, if I had to chose for either a Rwandan-Genocide style execution system or the one we have now, I'd take the one we have now.
Experienced my first tornado today here in North Carolina.
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tornadoes are cool
From what I've heard, something such as helium gas or an altitude chamber in which the user goes unconscious from a lack of oxygen getting to the brain (hypoxia) is the least painful way to execute. There have been plenty of cases in which the same chemicals used to put someone under in lethal injection were used on medical patients, and the chemicals thus having severe and painful side effects, even having the patient perceive everything going on to their body without being able to move or communicate. But, the main point really is that the methods are a totally different issue than the morality of if or not a government should actually be able to kill or execute people. Though, I think that in order to make itself seem justified and humane, a government might try and find the most humane way to kill someone, it doesn't fix the problem of the fact that they are still killing someone who's a prisoner.
A really morbid and interesting documentary below, I'd recommend you give it a watch.
[video=youtube;vbAmu3DXk5c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbAmu3DXk5c[/video]
I would disagree that the nature of an execution (IE, the government ordering its subordinate to execute the order of death to someone) is at all humane. I would say that the fact that it is forced and not an act of self-defence (there being totally reasonable alternatives to death, such as life sentences) to be the main reason that I detest it. Not only that, even if your morales prevent you from supporting death in anyway, your tax dollars still go to institutions that sort of thing every day. The same could arguably be said about wars, police, even medicare if you're that paranoid.
[QUOTE=Xieneus;44681025]tornadoes are cool[/QUOTE]
I'd almost agree, but then I spent the last two days cleaning after...well...
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[QUOTE=StickyWicket;44681490]From what I've heard, something such as helium gas or an altitude chamber in which the user goes unconscious from a lack of oxygen getting to the brain (hypoxia) is the least painful way to execute. There have been plenty of cases in which the same chemicals used to put someone under in lethal injection were used on medical patients, and the chemicals thus having severe and painful side effects, even having the patient perceive everything going on to their body without being able to move or communicate. But, the main point really is that the methods are a totally different issue than the morality of if or not a government should actually be able to kill or execute people. Though, I think that in order to make itself seem justified and humane, a government might try and find the most humane way to kill someone, it doesn't fix the problem of the fact that they are still killing someone who's a prisoner.
A really morbid and interesting documentary below, I'd recommend you give it a watch.
[video=youtube;vbAmu3DXk5c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbAmu3DXk5c[/video]
I would disagree that the nature of an execution (IE, the government ordering its subordinate to execute the order of death to someone) is at all humane. I would say that the fact that it is forced and not an act of self-defence (there being totally reasonable alternatives to death, such as life sentences) to be the main reason that I detest it. Not only that, even if your morales prevent you from supporting death in anyway, your tax dollars still go to institutions that sort of thing every day. The same could arguably be said about wars, police, even medicare if you're that paranoid.[/QUOTE]
I just want to see live death row death match, every saturday at 10.
There, i defused the ensuing argument. your welcome.
[QUOTE=capgun;44681818]I'd almost agree, but then I spent the last two days cleaning after...well...
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That just means that it is something to take seriously and respect.
I think sharks are cool, doesn't make them any less dangerous and the same applies to tornadoes and tomatoes.
simpler times
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[QUOTE=StickyWicket;44681490]From what I've heard, something such as helium gas or an altitude chamber in which the user goes unconscious from a lack of oxygen getting to the brain (hypoxia) is the least painful way to execute. There have been plenty of cases in which the same chemicals used to put someone under in lethal injection were used on medical patients, and the chemicals thus having severe and painful side effects, even having the patient perceive everything going on to their body without being able to move or communicate. But, the main point really is that the methods are a totally different issue than the morality of if or not a government should actually be able to kill or execute people. Though, I think that in order to make itself seem justified and humane, a government might try and find the most humane way to kill someone, it doesn't fix the problem of the fact that they are still killing someone who's a prisoner.
A really morbid and interesting documentary below, I'd recommend you give it a watch.
[video=youtube;vbAmu3DXk5c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbAmu3DXk5c[/video]
I would disagree that the nature of an execution (IE, the government ordering its subordinate to execute the order of death to someone) is at all humane. I would say that the fact that it is forced and not an act of self-defence (there being totally reasonable alternatives to death, such as life sentences) to be the main reason that I detest it. Not only that, even if your morales prevent you from supporting death in anyway, your tax dollars still go to institutions that sort of thing every day. The same could arguably be said about wars, police, even medicare if you're that paranoid.[/QUOTE]
That was a good watch. it did seem to profile Americans a little bit, but I can tell they weren't really trying to do that. That bunny dying was sad :(
[editline]29th April 2014[/editline]
also chuckling that the guy went through so much suffering and shit only to find out the answer was Nitrogen Gas which was so simple.
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