Thought this might interest you. Its a documentary about an Antarctic glacier outpost/station with quite A Wes Anderson feel. I've just watched 15 min so far, but very unique in how its put together. Anyway thought maybe you might want to take a peak.
http://vimeo.com/107231188

Lots of stupid cunts posting in here. Maybe it's time I weighed in.

Looks like even the White house is starting to feel the pressure, and they do react to it when it get's too heavy. So they've announced a ceasefire and they've moved to try and get ahead of the criticism. They're probably sick of it anyways, we've got our own problems and if an outpost of our military is going to be such a pain in the ass we don't need them anymore.

The overwhelming point is that the White house could tomorrow tell Israel to stop this and leave the Palestinians alone, and we'd have a two state solution. That isn't a joke, this only occurs with our consent and that's the consent of our government and us by default. We get mad enough and you see they do whatever they can to ease up on things before it gets too embarrassing for them.

This is the main point from out of all of this. You are responsible for the predictable results of your own actions. It's a basic moral truism. You want to stop terrorism in the world, you have to STOP Using Terrorism to rule it. The Largest Terror operations in the world are run right out of Washington. Stop Terrorism being committed in your name. Stand Up.

OT but because he mentioned it...man, I miss Miller's Outpost. And Licorice Pizza. Shakey's is still around, but not near me.

At least Doritos grew a brain and started making the original Taco Flavor again. Now...if only I could find some Ecto Cooler and Carnation Instant Breakfast Bars.

Gymkhana Five sounds and is spelled like a Federation outpost planet.

@shinyblurry

i totally get the point.
your comment was a passive aggressive jab at hpqp.

@hpqp has a valid point in regards to taking advantage of a persons weakened emotional and mental state to spread the word.
using this video we are shown an almost glee from the hand-full of evangelicals represented here in exploiting these weakened (and therefore malleable) and i find it disgusting,reprehensible and yes..outrageous.
the glee is something that has me particularly enraged.how DARE they pervert the word in order to promote their own twisted understanding.
they should feel shame,not glee.

now the second part of your comment directed towards me actually has a different tone and one i am not against,and i would assume most are not either.when we consider the unjust wars being fought and the number of innocents being slaughtered,are we really surprised at the rising suicide count in the military?
well..we shouldnt be.
warriors sent to war but stripped of honor can only lead to an ocean of guilt,shame and regret.
so i would agree with you that finding solace in christ in the form of forgiveness and absolution can be a great healing process.

but that is not what this video is about.
this video is about exploiting youth,extremely stressed to the point of breaking at boot camp.not some war ravaged outpost where the men are clinging to sanity.this is exploitation.

maybe you could have focused your comment content on those points on the latter part of your comment towards me.they were valid if not totally relevant to the video.there was no reason to take a swipe at hpqp.

hpqp is an atheist.
he/she makes no bones about that.
just like you are an evangelical and also make no bones.
this is not a bad but rather a very good thing for you both know where you stand.
and just because these military chaplains are evangelical does not mean they represent all evangelicals.
what they are doing in the name of christ is wrong and just because hpqp is an atheist does not mean he/she does not have the right to call them on their bullshit.
and you should not be defending them but rather siding with hpqp.

Can't see anything after a quick google but I know my old firewall software, Outpost, did this.

>> ^quantumushroom:

Tyres? TYRES?
It's TIRES.
Speak English!
>> ^spoco2:
AND the dumbass cameraman walked in FRONT of a car doing that... yeah, that'd go well if it suddenly launched.
Absolute wastes of space these people. Anyone who thinks that destroying their $600 tyres after 8000 miles is a sane thing to do is an a-grade retard.
If you're looking for the type of people who contribute the most to our world's resources being destroyed, allow me to present exhibit A.
Hope that utterly destroyed your car dick.



Actually, I am speaking English. I understand, it's hard for you provincial outposts of the empire to correctly spell everything

Hmm, quantum entanglement. Perhaps not that useful for moving living things around, if only for the philosophical debates and imminent smear campaign that would be undertaken by FedEx and the airlines.

Nevertheless, quantum entangling could be applied to data in a way that allows limitless network connectivity over any distance. Would be great for instant communication with our deep-space outposts (and might be ready to solve that problem at about the same time in the future.)

THOSE SNEAKY JAP BASTARDS TAKING OUR PACIFIC OUTPOSTS! THEY WOULDN'T PULL THIS SHIT WITH THE ACCENT-UNAFFECTED AMERICANS!

From: http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/ricetalk.htm

Transcript:

President Pitzer, Mr. Vice President, Governor, Congressman Thomas, Senator Wiley, and Congressman Miller, Mr. Webb, Mr. Bell, scientists, distinguished guests, and ladies and gentlemen:

I appreciate your president having made me an honorary visiting professor, and I will assure you that my first lecture will be very brief.

I am delighted to be here, and I'm particularly delighted to be here on this occasion.

We meet at a college noted for knowledge, in a city noted for progress, in a State noted for strength, and we stand in need of all three, for we meet in an hour of change and challenge, in a decade of hope and fear, in an age of both knowledge and ignorance. The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Despite the striking fact that most of the scientists that the world has ever known are alive and working today, despite the fact that this Nation¹s own scientific manpower is doubling every 12 years in a rate of growth more than three times that of our population as a whole, despite that, the vast stretches of the unknown and the unanswered and the unfinished still far outstrip our collective comprehension.

No man can fully grasp how far and how fast we have come, but condense, if you will, the 50,000 years of man¹s recorded history in a time span of but a half-century. Stated in these terms, we know very little about the first 40 years, except at the end of them advanced man had learned to use the skins of animals to cover them. Then about 10 years ago, under this standard, man emerged from his caves to construct other kinds of shelter. Only five years ago man learned to write and use a cart with wheels. Christianity began less than two years ago. The printing press came this year, and then less than two months ago, during this whole 50-year span of human history, the steam engine provided a new source of power.

Newton explored the meaning of gravity. Last month electric lights and telephones and automobiles and airplanes became available. Only last week did we develop penicillin and television and nuclear power, and now if America's new spacecraft succeeds in reaching Venus, we will have literally reached the stars before midnight tonight.

This is a breathtaking pace, and such a pace cannot help but create new ills as it dispels old, new ignorance, new problems, new dangers. Surely the opening vistas of space promise high costs and hardships, as well as high reward.

So it is not surprising that some would have us stay where we are a little longer to rest, to wait. But this city of Houston, this State of Texas, this country of the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward--and so will space.

William Bradford, speaking in 1630 of the founding of the Plymouth Bay Colony, said that all great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.

If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred. The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in the race for space.

Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolutions, the first waves of modern invention, and the first wave of nuclear power, and this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be a part of it--we mean to lead it. For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace. We have vowed that we shall not see space filled with weapons of mass destruction, but with instruments of knowledge and understanding.

Yet the vows of this Nation can only be fulfilled if we in this Nation are first, and, therefore, we intend to be first. In short, our leadership in science and in industry, our hopes for peace and security, our obligations to ourselves as well as others, all require us to make this effort, to solve these mysteries, to solve them for the good of all men, and to become the world's leading space-faring nation.

We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and all technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of pre-eminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war. I do not say the we should or will go unprotected against the hostile misuse of space any more than we go unprotected against the hostile use of land or sea, but I do say that space can be explored and mastered without feeding the fires of war, without repeating the mistakes that man has made in extending his writ around this globe of ours.

There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

It is for these reasons that I regard the decision last year to shift our efforts in space from low to high gear as among the most important decisions that will be made during my incumbency in the office of the Presidency.

In the last 24 hours we have seen facilities now being created for the greatest and most complex exploration in man's history. We have felt the ground shake and the air shattered by the testing of a Saturn C-1 booster rocket, many times as powerful as the Atlas which launched John Glenn, generating power equivalent to 10,000 automobiles with their accelerators on the floor. We have seen the site where the F-1 rocket engines, each one as powerful as all eight engines of the Saturn combined, will be clustered together to make the advanced Saturn missile, assembled in a new building to be built at Cape Canaveral as tall as a 48 story structure, as wide as a city block, and as long as two lengths of this field.

Within these last 19 months at least 45 satellites have circled the earth. Some 40 of them were "made in the United States of America" and they were far more sophisticated and supplied far more knowledge to the people of the world than those of the Soviet Union.

The Mariner spacecraft now on its way to Venus is the most intricate instrument in the history of space science. The accuracy of that shot is comparable to firing a missile from Cape Canaveral and dropping it in this stadium between the the 40-yard lines.

Transit satellites are helping our ships at sea to steer a safer course. Tiros satellites have given us unprecedented warnings of hurricanes and storms, and will do the same for forest fires and icebergs.

We have had our failures, but so have others, even if they do not admit them. And they may be less public.

To be sure, we are behind, and will be behind for some time in manned flight. But we do not intend to stay behind, and in this decade, we shall make up and move ahead.

The growth of our science and education will be enriched by new knowledge of our universe and environment, by new techniques of learning and mapping and observation, by new tools and computers for industry, medicine, the home as well as the school. Technical institutions, such as Rice, will reap the harvest of these gains.

And finally, the space effort itself, while still in its infancy, has already created a great number of new companies, and tens of thousands of new jobs. Space and related industries are generating new demands in investment and skilled personnel, and this city and this State, and this region, will share greatly in this growth. What was once the furthest outpost on the old frontier of the West will be the furthest outpost on the new frontier of science and space. Houston, your City of Houston, with its Manned Spacecraft Center, will become the heart of a large scientific and engineering community. During the next 5 years the National Aeronautics and Space Administration expects to double the number of scientists and engineers in this area, to increase its outlays for salaries and expenses to $60 million a year; to invest some $200 million in plant and laboratory facilities; and to direct or contract for new space efforts over $1 billion from this Center in this City.

To be sure, all this costs us all a good deal of money. This year¹s space budget is three times what it was in January 1961, and it is greater than the space budget of the previous eight years combined. That budget now stands at $5,400 million a year--a staggering sum, though somewhat less than we pay for cigarettes and cigars every year. Space expenditures will soon rise some more, from 40 cents per person per week to more than 50 cents a week for every man, woman and child in the United Stated, for we have given this program a high national priority--even though I realize that this is in some measure an act of faith and vision, for we do not now know what benefits await us.

But if I were to say, my fellow citizens, that we shall send to the moon, 240,000 miles away from the control station in Houston, a giant rocket more than 300 feet tall, the length of this football field, made of new metal alloys, some of which have not yet been invented, capable of standing heat and stresses several times more than have ever been experienced, fitted together with a precision better than the finest watch, carrying all the equipment needed for propulsion, guidance, control, communications, food and survival, on an untried mission, to an unknown celestial body, and then return it safely to earth, re-entering the atmosphere at speeds of over 25,000 miles per hour, causing heat about half that of the temperature of the sun--almost as hot as it is here today--and do all this, and do it right, and do it first before this decade is out--then we must be bold.

I'm the one who is doing all the work, so we just want you to stay cool for a minute. [laughter]

However, I think we're going to do it, and I think that we must pay what needs to be paid. I don't think we ought to waste any money, but I think we ought to do the job. And this will be done in the decade of the sixties. It may be done while some of you are still here at school at this college and university. It will be done during the term of office of some of the people who sit here on this platform. But it will be done. And it will be done before the end of this decade.

I am delighted that this university is playing a part in putting a man on the moon as part of a great national effort of the United States of America.

Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said, "Because it is there."

Well, space is there, and we're going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And, therefore, as we set sail we ask God's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked.

Thank you.

Abu Rahma (the camera man, Ed.) stated in his affidavit:
I can assert that shooting at the child Muhammad and his father Jamal came from the above-mentioned Israeli military outpost, as it was the only place from which shooting at the child and his father was possible. So, by logic and nature, my long experience in covering hot incidents and violent clashes, and my ability to distinguish sounds of shooting, I can confirm that the child was intentionally and in cold blood shot dead and his father injured by the Israeli army.

Also notice that the reason they could not run away was because the kid was already shot in the knee.

And yes, the Israli state do take pride in their biblical scale repercussions, as BillPayer stated.

Ah well, that kid should still be alive no matter who or what. Illegal occupation of other peoples land does not help the Israeli cause one bit.

To think that America went to Iraq, or stays in Iraq, for the benefit of the Kurds is truly naive, I'm very sorry to say.

To say that the USA invaded Iraq for oil is like saying the US Civil War was fought over slavery: true to a point, but it's much more complicated than that.

The Kurds will, in all liklihood, get screwed again. Once America bankrupts itself and can no longer afford to support its Iraqi outposts, Turkey will swoop down and the Shiites will swoop up and the Kurds will be right back where they were before, a people without a country.

Clear Sky is good (i have both S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games), but pretty flawed, too. my litany of complaints:

-AI grenade accuracy is sick. Quick save often, because if the enemy has grenades, you are going to die a lot.

-No clipping on NPCs, and they love to block doorways. Why can't you nudge them? They sure as shit nudge you. This is most problematic when you are fighting alongside NPCs that PUSH YOU OUT INTO THE OPEN.

-Enemies can you see you at night, even if your flashlight is off. Using the cover of darkness to sneak up on the military outpost would be awesome, but they see you creeping in from 100 yards.

-The stamina system. You run out of energy too quickly for the amount of ground you must cover. You can pay to be escorted (i.e. teleported) but it can be very expensive and money is tight in this game.

-One of the major components to this game is the faction warfare. In some areas, you aid one faction in ridding the map of another faction, and your results are measurable. I.e., you don't see as many red dots on the map anymore. What I don't get is that you can't ever completely eradicate them. In some areas, you can destroy a little encampment over and over, but they always return. Maybe the game wouldn't be as fun with no enemy factions, but it could have been thought through more.

What I like about Clear Sky:
-the weapon upgrade system--gives you a huge range of weapon combos.
-the faction wars--working with the NPCs to push through enemy outposts is still great fun, even though you can't completely eradicate them in some areas.
-the slow pace--in the beginning of the game, you don't see much in the way of mutants. as the game goes on, you start to see them more and more, and it freaks you out more.
-the new anomaly system--makes anomaly hunting more fun, and more rewarding imo

Maybe it´s a Pentagon outpost?

More details about the story:

http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2008/01/31/israeli-soldiers-mooning-palestinian-shepherds/

"Friday, January 12 2008, soldiers from the Israeli Army displayed their buttocks in an exhibition known colloquially as “mooning” to a Palestinian shepherd and two international volunteers from Christian Peacemaker Teams. The incident was insult to injury as it occurred immediately after settlers from the illegal Israeli settlement outpost of Havat Ma’on, accompanied by Israeli soldiers, pushed the shepherd and his flock off the land."