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Congratulations on the new Galaxy! Couldn't happen to a nicer person.

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LOL! I was going to say the exact same thing!! You one-upped me with the pic though...

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>> ^gorillaman:

...fascist...


You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

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Yes, excellent stuff.

Robert T Frederick, the first CO of the Devil's Brigade, is my personal hero. Winston Churchill called him "the greatest fighting general of all time" and said "if we had had a dozen more like him we would have smashed Hitler in 1942". His biography, The Last Fighting General is definitely worth a read.

Also quite coincidentally, I found out New Year's Eve that the father of a family friend was in the Devil's Brigade. He hadn't told anyone until shortly before he died... They truly were amazing men.

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Complete coincidence, but I just watched "The Devil's Brigade" 3 nights ago. Really great vintage WWII movie, realistic or not.

If you haven't seen it yet I recommend checking it out at your local Bittorrent multiplex.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062886/

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Interesting discussion from someone who knows what he's talking about.

I once got to hold one of the V-42 Fighting Knives issued to the 1st Special Service Force. Amazing being able to hold that kind of historical artifact.

Interestingly, some of the soldiers in the 1st SSF ground down the tips so they didn't get stuck in the ribs when they stabbed someone - the needle tip was making it difficult to kill someone and even more difficult to withdraw the knife.

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haha. Yeah it's best not too say dag's name, he searches through everyones comments and will eventually find out our plan to overthrow videosift with a new regime ... oh no.. what have I done ... burn the battle plans quickly!

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That's 10,000 decimal places. Thought about adding another zero but not sure Dag would think it's as funny as you or I would.

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Bravo blankman, bravo. *tips cap* lol

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Because of the many vast improvements over my old phone, I'm still quite thrilled with it, but my problems are a bother. Connectivity is definitely spotty. Most times I have no 4G and when I do, most times a speed test will result in surprisingly low transfer rates (5-9mbps down), but occasionally I'll get 20mbps/19mbps (down/up).

Also for whatever reason, during some phone calls it's been giving me high-pitched electronic squealing/squeaking/cracking that's like needles in the ear drums. Problem is I have time to exchange it, but since they are so scarce, I probably won't be able to.

Awesome that you got ICS on your phone. Are you enjoying it? Is it pretty snappy? I'm more than happy with how incredible the OS is versus the old Androids. Since they say it's purely a software improvement, does ICS provide zero-delay photos for you now?

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Sorry to hear about your troubles with the Galaxy Nexus. Has it got any better? Are you having the signal problems that others are reporting?

I'm still happy with the ICS update. My only mild disappointment is that Face Unlock isn't part of the package with my Nexus S, maybe later on they'll add it or maybe it's only for the Galaxy... who knows.

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*promote the shame.
>> ^Skeeve:

Yeah, people are making a really big deal of dropping out of it, and I understand wanting to participate in something that will help stop climate change, but if the targets are completely impossible to meet, then there is no point in participating.
There is an article here that says that meeting the requirements could cost $3500 per Canadian, or $30 billion, as a nation, to purchase emission credits.
The only industrial nations to come close to their targets have done it through changing their power generation to cleaner methods, but 70% of Canada's power generation is already "low-emission" and changing the others is almost out of the question at this time.
We should be making an effort to reduce emissions and help the environment, but sticking with an insane plan isn't going to help us get there.>> ^Sagemind:
I've heard all about this as a decision but have heard nothing about the reasoning behind it.
I did read one article that said the targets were so unreachable, we'd have to remove every moving vehicle from the road and go back to horse travel within one year to meet the standards or the penalties would be 14 billion dollars per year. But that's mostly hearsay - I haven't seen anything official.
A little bit here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol#Withdrawal_of_Canada
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