World protests at Gaza conflict:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7809676.stm

"Rallies are being held in London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Athens and several Asian cities, following similar events in parts of the Muslim world on Friday.

Earlier, tens of thousands of Israeli Arabs called for an end to the bombing campaign at a rally in northern Israel.

US President George W Bush meanwhile blamed the violence firmly on Hamas.

He said Hamas was a terrorist organisation, backed by Iran and Syria, and dedicated to the destruction of Israel"

Riot cat is going crazy in Athens. Good stuff, schmawy

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ok on the dubious methods.
basically as they say in the video he was tagging which is allowed.. is where one guy hits as many mobs (bad guys for those that have lives ) as he can and then a group of players working with the main player but not actually grouped with them in game kill the mobs after they have been hit. The kill is credited to the player that first hit the mob and they get full experience.
the twist with this is that they did it in an instanced dungeon. all dungeons require you to be in a group. if you leave the group then the dungeon will kick you out. Except there is a 60 second window if you leave the group befor you are ported out. So what athene was doing was tagging the mobs in the instance letting his friends kill them and as long as he rejoins the group within 60 seconds to reset clock he was getting credit for effectively clearing the whole instance solo. If he had of just been tagging out in the regular gameworld then blizzard wouldnt have cared

Lol

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Ok, here is the Bio of the shirtless man:
FURIOUS

Usually not wearing a shirt, Furious stays true to his roots; the ghetto's of Harlem. Being the only black man in the show he is prone to be subject of racism, which leaves him little choice but to carry a piece.

Other than packing a .45 he is a peace-loving man who makes an honest living by selling ponies and standing up for his people. Despite this fact of life he has been falsely accused several times of slander, fraud, thefth, battery, carjacking, homejacking, illegal possession of firearms, pimping, assault, manslaughter, bribery, obstruction, perjury, burglary, provocation, arson and robbery.

The latest accusations also involve unfair competition in games such as Call of Duty 4 and CS:S, where he allegedly owned other players to the point of virtual rape and humiliation.

>> ^chilaxe:
So what were his dubious methods?


More than likely he is botting. Blizzard frowns heavily on botting and will ban any account caught doing so with no questions asked.

"You win my award for the best response to this of the bunch. Instead of ridiculing her, we need to figure out why people get this way, and do our best to prevent this kind of hardheaded ignorance."

We know why people get that way: because thinking is hard and believing is easy.

Because if you pander to their bigotry they'll justify your avarice.

There is no fixing it. Every time you try to expand their minds, they'll accuse you of being in league with the devil.

They will win, and we liberals will lose, the same way that Sparta beat Athens.

"The word 'democracy' does not appear once in the constitution." - The US Constitution and Fascinating Facts About It.

Republic appears a lot though...

They don't pay attention to popular opinion? Maybe they should? Because the popular opinion means that the populous had numbers above those who wont listen.

A republic is a state or country that is not led by a hereditary monarch,[1][2] but in which the people (or at least a part of its people)[3] have impact on its government.[4][5] The word originates from the Latin term res publica, which literally translates as "public thing" or "public matter".

Democracy is a form of government in which the supreme power is held completely by the people under a free electoral system. It is derived from the Greek δημοκρατία ([dimokratia] (help·info)), "popular government"[1] which was coined from δήμος (dēmos), "people" and κράτος (kratos), "rule, strength" in the middle of the 5th-4th century BC to denote the political systems then existing in some Greek city-states, notably Athens following a popular uprising in 508 BC.[2] In this form, there were no defined human rights or legal restraints upon the actions of assembly, making it the first instance of "illiberal democracy."[3]

So what are the differences between Republic and Democracy? Minute at best, in a republic a minority of people can have power or all people can have power. In a True Democracy the majority has power.

However we do not have a True democracy because we have the electoral college, which means that the popular vote means a lot and means nothing in terms of the actual winner of the presidential race.

We have a bullshit system called a Democratic Republic, these too words live to destroy each other. There can be only one if use of the definitions apply.

Either the people have supreme power or they do not. The people of the united states clearly do not have supreme power, just look at the passed 8 years.

Thank you very much!
I'm not sure what I intend to use to render my eventual sculpture here. I've been used to using my old copy of max and milkshape exclusively, and haven't really needed to go into the whole setting up a render dealie, since most of everything would eventually be ported into a game renderer.

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Blender Textures http://tellim.com/texture_cd/
Indigo Renderer http://www.indigorenderer.com/joomla/
NK Materials for Indigo http://deeppixel.uw.hu/projects/NK_materials.html

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Indigo Renderer http://www.indigorenderer.com/joomla/
Blendigo (Indigo exporter plugin for Blender3D) http://www2.indigorenderer.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_openwiki&Itemid=69&id=blendigo
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Hey Legacy, don't forget these!

http://www.videosift.com/video/Moscow-Riots-1993
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-LA-Riot-Spectacular-Mr-Kims-Liquor
http://www.videosift.com/video/Remembering-the-1921-Tulsa-Race-Riots
http://www.videosift.com/video/Riots-in-Athens-Feb-2008
http://www.videosift.com/video/Kaiser-Chiefs-I-Predict-a-Riot
http://www.videosift.com/video/Civil-War-Draft-Riots-of-New-York-1863
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Battle-of-Seattle-1999
http://www.videosift.com/video/12th-Street-Riot-Detroit-1967
http://www.videosift.com/video/Singing-Protesters-Gassed-in-Tacoma

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_tar_incident

From Wikipedia:

"In Major League Baseball lore, the Pine Tar Incident (also known as the Pine Tar Game) refers to a controversial incident that took place in an American League game played between the Kansas City Royals and New York Yankees on July 24, 1983.

Playing at New York's Yankee Stadium, the Royals were trailing 4-3 with two outs in the top of the ninth and U. L. Washington on first base. In the on deck circle, George Brett was heard remarking to a teammate, "Watch this baby fly" as he shook his bat. He then came to the plate and connected off Yankee reliever Rich "Goose" Gossage for a two-run home run and a 5-4 lead.

As Brett crossed the plate, New York manager Billy Martin approached home plate umpire Tim McClelland and requested that Brett's bat be examined. Earlier in the season, Martin and other members of the Yankees (most notably, third baseman Graig Nettles who, as a member of the Minnesota Twins, recalled a similar incident involving Thurman Munson) had noticed the amount of pine tar used by Brett, but Martin had chosen not to say anything until the home run. According to Nettles' autobiography, "Balls," Nettles claims that he actually informed Martin of the pine tar rule, as Nettles had previously undergone the same scrutiny with his own bat while with the Minnesota Twins.

With Brett watching from the dugout, McClelland and the rest of the umpiring crew inspected the bat. Measuring the bat against the width of home plate (which is 17 inches), they determined that the amount of pine tar on the bat's handle exceeded that allowed by Rule 1.10(b) of the Major League Baseball rule book, which read that 'a bat may not be covered by such a substance more than 18 inches from the tip of the handle.'

McClelland signaled that Brett's home run was nullified and the game over. An enraged Brett stormed out of the dugout to confront McClelland, and had to be physically restrained by Kansas City manager Dick Howser and his teammates. (As one commentator stated, 'Brett has become the first player in history to hit a game-losing home run.') Despite the furious protests of Brett and Howser, McClelland's ruling stood. The Royals protested the game ('TAR WARS!' blared a New York Post headline), and their protest was upheld by American League president Lee MacPhail. MacPhail (who coincidentally had once been the Yankees' chief executive) ruled that while the bat was illegal, it didn't violate the 'spirit of the rules.' He added that the bat was not 'altered to improve the distance factor,' and that the rules only provided for removal of the bat from the game, not calling the batter out. Baseball writer Bill James concurred, saying that, unlike other sports, 'in baseball, when you hit a double, that's a double.'

MacPhail ordered the game resumed with two out in the top of the ninth inning with the Royals up 5-4. He also ruled that Brett was to be ejected for his outburst.

On August 18 (a scheduled off day for both teams), the game was resumed from the point of Brett's home run, with about 1,200 fans in attendance. Martin symbolically protested the continuation of the game by putting pitcher Ron Guidry in center field and first baseman Don Mattingly at second base. Mattingly, a lefty, became the majors' first southpaw second baseman since Oakland's Gonzalo Marques [1] a decade earlier; there has been one only lefty middle infielder in a big-league game since (Thad Bosley, in 1987).[2]

Before the first pitch to Hal McRae (who followed Brett in the lineup), Martin challenged Brett's home run on the grounds that Brett had not touched all the bases, and maintained that there was no way for the umpires (a different crew than the one who worked July 24) to dispute this. But umpire Davey Phillips was ready for Martin, producing an affidavit signed by the July 24 umpires stating that Brett had indeed touched all the bases. An irate Martin continued to argue with the umpires and was ejected from the game. Yankees reliever George Frazier struck McRae out to finally end the top of the ninth, twenty-five days after it had begun. Dan Quisenberry then got New York out 1-2-3 in the bottom of the ninth to preserve the Royals' 5-4 win.

The bat is currently on display in the Baseball Hall of Fame, where it has been since 1987. During a broadcast of Mike & Mike in the Morning, ESPN analyst Tim Kurkjian stated that Brett used the bat for a few games after the incident until being cautioned that the bat would be useless if broken. Brett sold the bat to a collector for $25,000, had second thoughts, repurchased the bat for the exact same amount from the collector and then donated the bat to the Hall of Fame.


The winning pitcher for the Royals was reliever Mike Armstrong, who went 10-7 that year in 58 appearances, notching career highs in wins and games. In a 2006 interview, Armstrong said a angry Yankees fan threw a brick from an overpass at Kansas City's bus cracking the windshield as the Royals were leaving for the airport after the make up game. 'It was wild to go back to New York and play these four outs in a totally empty stadium' Armstrong said. 'I'm dressed in the uniform, and nobody's there'. Mike was still pitching baseball as recently as 2006 at age 52 in the Athens Area Men's Baseball league in Athens Ga, where he still has a fastball in the mid 80's."

Basically, this was a totally unprecedented event, in that (a) a super-old, completely outdated rule was dug up by an opposing manager, (b) it was upheld by the umpire, (c) the ruling was overturned and the game was resumed later on in the year. This has become the most famous event in George Brett's career, something he doesn't mind at all, considering that before this, he was most famous for suffering with hemorrhoids during the playoffs.

Explaining my downvote: Athene is a cockpossum, this is shit and the hosts of this show are so fake I can hear ctrl+c calling copy on them.

I play World of Warcraft, so it's natural for me to rather trepanate myself than watch Athene, but here I will refrain from auto-downvoting, because they make a good point here.

Below are some links with more info about the !Kung San and other Kalahari peoples. These are a fascinating group of people in many ways.

http://www.kalaharipeoples.org/ <---Donate to an NGO here.
http://www.africaserver.nl/kuru/english/index2.html <---Small collection of San indigenous art.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7997/mission.html <---Hear the !Kung click language translation of the book of genesis (Yeah, yeah...but that's how it's happened for centuries)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4285920.stm <---San people fighting in court to be allowed back onto the now protected lands they were forced off.