Topic: General News Talk

[Frugal]

Well super golly gosh. North Korea just made held a nuclear test earlier today.

Ain't that a historical stinker, that, depending on North Korea's actions, will change the course of the East Asian world and possibly emphisize the call for nuclear disarmiment among the current nuclear powers.

[kerchief]

its not like nukes are difficult... do you know whether that was an A bomb or an H bomb?  I could build an A bomb for a could thousand bucks its the H bomb that you can't make for under a million.

[Frugal]

Eh. Nuclear is the best I've got. And it is hard because the specific techology to build one is kept very secret, even between the nations currently weilding the weapons.

If North Korea was giving information to Pakistan on nuclear weaponry, that would be the first known case of the sharing of nuclear weapon technology.

Now North Korea's goal is to develop a long range missle that can carry the bomb. On July 4th they had a missle test, it failed on em'.

[kerchief]

you are sooo wrong, its a very simple process to build an A-bomb, hardest part is getting the uranium without attracting too much attention, but there is a black market for anything.  I learned how to build an A-bomb way back in 7th grade.

[Trlgg]

they got nukes but no food.  Brilliant money managment

[kerchief]

thats the way the USSR did it....

[Draconiko]

Blizzard has announced today that their MMORPG, World of Warcraft, has exceeded 8 million subscribers worldwide.

IRVINE, Calif. ? January 11, 2007 ?  Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. announced today that World of Warcraft?, its subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), is now played by more than 8 million gamers around the world. World of Warcraft has also achieved new regional subscriber milestones, with more than 2 million players in North America, more than 1.5 million players in Europe, and more than 3.5 million players in China.

[DeadGoat]

Thats a lot of chinese kids....

[Harry Lee Smith]

Everybody getting ready for the State Of The Union Address???

[mephisto_kur]

Yup.  Just trying to figure out what game I am going to play.

[kerchief]

err.. ready as I'll ever be.  Btw, what state is the union speech happening in?   

[DeadGoat]

If the confederates had won, would it be called the "state of the confederacy address"?

[kerchief]

nope, confederates didn't want to conquer the union so there would be two different countries.  One of them might have had a state of the confederacy address though...

[Pirate]

nope, confederates didn't want to conquer the union so there would be two different countries.  One of them might have had a state of the confederacy address though...

Just a little tidbit on Confederates, in a place called Desoto County, it's in Mississippi, well... On Martin Luther King day, they close the courthouses, but without acknowledging Dr. King at all; The sign on the courthouse says "Closed Monday for Robert E. Lee's birthday."   It's pathetic how they don't even acknowledge him... 

[kerchief]

Robert E. Lee was a great man, and a leader of men.  He may be as worthy of honor as Martin Luther King Jr.  I like a certain Christian saying:  Judge not lest ye be judged.  (or Kerchief's version:  Judge only in the certainty that you and your judgment shall be judged.)