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    The Korean Pennisula

    No they had no choice but to leave instead of fighting.
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    The Korean Pennisula

    Will rolling into NK really be that easy, by SK+US? We don't really know how fanatical loyal their army grunts are, but they certainly received the highest level of brainwashing. Each point the invading army have to take can be another Okinawa. While the invading army will have a strong...
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    The Korean Pennisula

    Why do you think NK rulers go through so much trouble to make nuke? They know China will not save their ass. They saw all the commie governments in Europe get overthrown and Russian couldn't do anything, then they saw how Iraq with better weapon than their own get smashed with ease in Desert...
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    Suspicious Simpsons DVDs

    Region free == bootleg.
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    The $99 gaming PC: the OnLive microconsole in pictures

    Yeah, but I doubt it has much more ram and flash space than a regular router so it's usefulness will be limited. The service itself may be useful for checking out game demos, but I already have a hard time with latency when I just VNC into work to type code so I don't think any serous game play...
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    Am I crazy for thinking you should be able to sell a kidney?

    Well I would argue that it is still kind of part of you for another 18 years.
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    Am I crazy for thinking you should be able to sell a kidney?

    Selling egg is different since they replenish, so it is more like selling hair which is quite common for making wig. Problem one I have with selling organ with permanent effect is where do you draw the line? Can you sell one eye or one lung to the highest bidder? My family need big $, can I...
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    Starcraft II - (Various Links in the OP)

    Warpgate is faster and let you warp in anywhere with power field, but regular gate let you enqueue units and set rally point so you can keep building units via hot key without leaving your current view.
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    Can all wingnuts be required to subscribe to Snopes?

    CNN.com had this on front page top for at least half a day. http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/11/05/ ... index.html But it will never end, cause the wingnuts don't care.
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    Global Financial Crisis: Mortgage Armageddon Unfolding

    People are already saying it can become G19 v.s. US. See what the Germany Finance Minister have said: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/ ... 4728.shtml
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    Free Tibet! Ok, but what happens next?

    Where do your fake number came from?
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    IT Help Desk Stories

    Speaking of DSL modem, I have to power cycle mine twice a year when there is major temperature/season change.
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    WikiLeaks defectors working on alternative whistleblower site

    http://meincmagazine.com/tech-policy/news ... ources.ars
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    Help formating a 2TB drive

    I wouldn't worry about the number on their site - it is totally random on various drives, 250G drive say 500G capacity etc. You may want to first describe which tool you used to partition and format the drives.
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    Starcraft II - (Various Links in the OP)

    Have you guys ever got a out-of-memory crash? I just got one in a 1v1 I was just about to win, and I wonder if I was actually hacked by other side. I have played a few 4v4 without any memory issue and WinXP see 3.6G RAM.
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    New A-10C flight sim by DCS

    LOL @ 3:55 A-10 blowing up UN forces.
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    Starcraft II - (Various Links in the OP)

    If you guys don't mind seeing a noob level replay here a somewhat interesting game I played: My partner got picked off by a 6-pool, left me facing T+Z alone. Could I win?
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    The best reason AQ may fail.

    Can't you also argue that "keep health care expensive so those terrorist organization can't afford it" ?
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    Free Tibet! Ok, but what happens next?

    And before that there was a rebellion lead by a "Little brother of Jesus." And the CCP knows their early days were not much different than a religious movement, with Mao treated as a deity by the followers.
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    Well of remaining IPv4 address blocks a step closer to running dry

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_as ... ess_blocks Can some of those old school big companies sell or rent out some address from their giant /8 blocks? Nortel is almost dead anyway they can use some cash.