We still don't know how abiogenesis works and our current environment could perfectly be such a "harsher environment".

Ah, OK, this explains a lot!
Now I finally know what all these Chinese are doing in Amsterdam!

Or, the most common approach used by document writeres: One monitor in landscape and a second monitor in portrait, with the desktop in the landscape one and the document being displayed in the protrait monitor. Works very nicely for me.
Nowadays most desktop environments use dual screens anyway.

Nice and interesting info about why monitors are landscape. I was jsut asking myself the same ;)

Mine was kind enough to accept my fist in his belly... well, there was a second one who got a boot in his balls. Lession learned: Never try to bully a guy you don't know in the middle of the winter when everybody wears boots.

Message for wanabee bullys: When a new guy comes to school, first ensure he is bully-able and at least half your size XD

Just gimme a cattle prod and an opportunity to shock the fuck out of people without legal consequences!

You are wrong.

it does not cost "more" as there is no alternative private initiative that could take over this task except if they were subcontractors of hte government... as it actually is the case.

I assume that you are familiar with the Netherlands. I will thus ask you to recall why our whole elderly care (1) is a mess because of the attempt of privatizing a sector where there is no profit to be made and that is therefore not attracting any private companies and create competition (well, that and the budget abuses and bonus scandals among the higher management). And of course the obsession of our dear government to resolve any problem cutting on the budget.

I love how neo-libs and "Libertarians" are always lecturing the rest of the world about the market forces and the law of offer and demand while they happily ignore it themselves. But of course, they are supersmart because they can spell "entrepreneurs"...

(1) sorry, ik heb geen betere vertaling voor ouderenzorg kunnen vinden.

The wooly mammoths could take over the world!! don't you understand?
We were able to stop them the first time during the Paleolithic, maybe we won't be so lucky this time!

Hey mate, good news! IN Europe we have a thing called Trains, they ride in thing that looks like a huge ladder lying on the ground but made of steel. And these marvellous trains can get a large number of people across many kilometres for working. But that's not all, we also have a thing called busses, it's like a huge hummer but instead of an asoclal redneck teabagger or an also asocial gangstah what it has inside is a lot of people who use them to go to work. Amazing isn't it?

BUT if your roads break you will probably be end up paying more for them either because your vehicles will need more maintenance, because they will privatize highway and you will have to pay toll on them or tax you in any other way.
I know you USians are alergic to taxes for religious reasons, that's why here in Europe we don't make such a big deal as we are majorly agnostic we can just pull out the good old calculator and compare what would cost us stuff it it weren't for taxes... Like for instance dams and dykes in my country... if it weren't for our taxes we would have to spend quite a lot of cash in submarines and scuba suites waiting for the private enterprise to come to raise polders out of the sea floor.

Very handy for the sex workers! And hygienic too!
They could call it "PAYF" (Pay-as-you-fuck)

I see a great future to this invention

Mates... can somebody please explain this to me: The article is about bitcoins, chips and hands... how in hell's name did it end up in a discussion about manly bodily fluids and ways of producing them ?

This world is a sick place, mates, sick as fuck.

They made a video a few months ago saying that they shot with the cannons not with a missile.
they even went to such lengths as to have a couple of fighters shoot at targets on the ground to make a documentary of sorts.

The aims are double: First and most important is rallying the Russians under Putin's flag and show them that it's all the fault of the Evil NATO. And the second is to try to create an atmosphere of doubt around the investigations giving their loving audience something in the West to delight themselves.

The reason for the first thing is that the whole MH17 issue was seen as a mayor fuck up of Putin's regime, no matter if it were the Russian separatists or the Russian Army themselves who fired the missile: It was an act of utter idiocy and this is something that Putin cannot tolerate. If you start looking like an idiot in front of your own people you may end up in the exile somewhere in the Barbados.

And regarding the second point: Mr Putin has a very eager fan base in the USA and here in Europe. In the USA it's all the teabaggers and conspiracy theorists who will believe anything as long as it makes Obama look bad, no matter what. Most of them believe in the literal intepretation of the Bible anyway.
Here in Europe the fan base is composed of all these "Eurosceptics" parties like UKIP or our dear and beloved Geert Wilders who always has had a warm heart for Mr Putin with his PVV who are making all sort of freakish questions to our Parliament such as a motion to protect peanut butter (Not a fucking joke!). Very interesting that such an incident who would make any nationalistic populist wet his undies hasn't even made Mr Wilders raise a single brow. He has just not even given a signal that the noticed anything... while here in my hometown, Hilversum, it was just last Monday that the examination of the bodies finished and a long funeral caravan went in direction to the towns of the victims. Four of them will remain here.

Sorry mate, but last time I checked we didn't have an European Government.
And ESA is a joint venture of a good bunch of private AND public companies.

ROFLMAO... I was reading e-chocolate X-D and I thought they figured out how to make you cum chocolate
Fuck! Now it will take me hours to stop laughing... fuckssake mates, use hypens XD

Chill down. We can settle in Football Fields. FIFA standards for international games.