General News/Current Affairs Thread
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Animefreak17
Godhand
i dont even look up or watch the news, its too depressing.
ayase
State Alchemist
ilmaestro said:
Rivaan said:
Last time I looked, "Off Topic >> Random Chit-Chat" meant what it said on the tin. I still don't know why people feel the need to post in threads they have no interest in making use of just to rubbish the idea of the thread. That noble pass-time known as "trolling" aside, of course.animefreak17 said:
RIP Uncle Monty. To hear that news while I'm staying in a virtual ruin miles from civilization...
A few questions. What makes you think I don't make use of this thread? Also, how was my post 'trolling', or "rubbish[ing] the idea of" this thread? You're making quite a few assumptions here, aren't you?
I was simply stating where I got my news from, like a fair amount of other posters were, in this thread. I just remembered, though, that I should add forums to the list of my news sources, since I've found out about some prominent world events through some of the forums I visit (this one included). Offline, I don't read newspapers, probably because I'm hardly offline!
In other news, to try to keep my post on topic, most news outlets were drumming up this whole Spamhaus DDoS incident, but it appears that hardly anyone complained of, or even noticed, any more slowdown than usual with their internet services. Indeed, there are no complaints on my end, or from any of my friends/classmates/colleagues. http://gizmodo.com/5992652/that-interne ... e-is-a-lie
I was simply stating where I got my news from, like a fair amount of other posters were, in this thread. I just remembered, though, that I should add forums to the list of my news sources, since I've found out about some prominent world events through some of the forums I visit (this one included). Offline, I don't read newspapers, probably because I'm hardly offline!
In other news, to try to keep my post on topic, most news outlets were drumming up this whole Spamhaus DDoS incident, but it appears that hardly anyone complained of, or even noticed, any more slowdown than usual with their internet services. Indeed, there are no complaints on my end, or from any of my friends/classmates/colleagues. http://gizmodo.com/5992652/that-interne ... e-is-a-lie
st_owly (witch)
Time-Traveller
I've read the i a couple of times. It's not bad at all, especially for the price.
MaxonTreik
Chuunibyou
I'm sorry. We'll go back to the deep discussions of the comments sections on the BBC and Yahoo.ilmaestro said:
Too long, but I reckon we can help in the "flatten Kim Wrong Un's houses and Pyongyang" phase of the conflict. If the Americans can fly B-2s in from Missouri to do a dummy bombing run near South Korea then I reckon we can do similar.
The stories that'll come out when the regime falls don't bear thinking about.
The stories that'll come out when the regime falls don't bear thinking about.
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/29/world ... ?hpt=hp_t1
Kim's clearly got his wires crossed about this war business. What'll actually happen is he'll try to dissolve mainland America, Hawaii and Guam, and the US military in South Korea, but all his missiles will be shot down, break apart or fail to get off the launch pad. At which point America will proceed to flatten Pyongyang, the DMZ turns into a giant meat grinder while South Korea starts trying to work out how much it's going to cost to take care of wounded and maimed conscripts, and China starts plotting how to deal with the refugees inevitably coming their way.
Animefreak17
Godhand
wheres hetalia when you need it
ilmaestro
State Alchemist
You weren't even involved in the conversation I was commenting on, bro. :-/ayase said:
I thought it would be easy for people to take my point that if a limited number of news services take their offerings behind a paywall other people will step into their place, but I guess not. I was perhaps overly light in my tone, I'll give you, but it was vaguely meant as a contribution to the thread, not "get this thread out of my animes".