> "when civilizations are close enough together in time and space, they can come into contact and when this happens the cross-fertilization of ideas and cultures allows them both to flourish in a way that increases their combined lifespan."

This is a positive stand which is unproved by history.

During centuries human societies have eradicated other societies they felt inferiors.
Even during this "enlightment century" we have been witnessed of slaughters. Darfour is just a close example.

I strongly oppose statement that human car fertilize any idea with aliens. It is a carebear dream.

Hope aliens will never encounter Human race.

Did they use an iPhone 4 to host WikiLeaks ?
Someone must have pressed it too tight. Now antena is not working anymore and Wikileaks is disconnected.

is CowboyNeal a truthful answer ?

"might shatner boldly lead canada ?"

I thought Picard was bold, not Kirk.

Hail to Lord Steve who did remarquable Jobs :

"One Apple to rule them all, One Apple to find them,
One Apple to bring them all and in the darkness bind (blind ?) them."

Or as Hamlett might have said, something is rotten in the board of Apple.

what next ?

"Welcome in democracy 2.0
You will be allowed to buy food only after you accept the new state constitution.
Where we declare you now leave in a liberalist dictature."

?

I wonder if it is possible to sue that pakistani lawyer for calling to murder and if he can be extraded for that ?

and Neptune has more water than Great Lakes.

we have 11K computers

only XP SP3 computers were impacted
whether running Virus Scan 8.7 or 8.5

but in fact less than 100 computers were impacted,
1% compared to our total

one thing that helped
was employees had started to leave after work when update propagated
and they shutdown computer when they leave

it could have been a nightmare
we were very lucky

next time I cheat my girlfriend
I would pay a professional lady with hard currency
so that when I face my girlfriend
I will be relieved from emotional pain

• My answer is true
• My answer is a mix of some true and some false data
• My answer is pure fabrications
• All data is true... but not mine
• Sites I trust get real data, others get fake data and I do not trust /.
• I AM CowboyNeal !

"so perhaps the USA will launch an invasion to free the poor downtrodden Kiwis from their own evil government?"

That is probably true.
Since there is rumor CNN might have proof that Bin Laden has been seen there for vacation.

People also say he is accompagnied by Sadam Hussein and Joseph Stalin.
Who are said to have found some oil offshore.

Wasn't Skynet used for translation
before it decided for a better future for humanity ?

Well that is a fact
against music majors stupidity
who wants people to buy
disks and games and DVD...

Unfortunately,
unless my boss gives me more money
I cannot spend money on MMO plus other media.

AFAIK Luke, Han and friends did not collide with some giant Hydrogen ollider.
They just nearly collide with a giant artificial moon.