Recent content by ShinGouki

1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing. Variety of tasks has to last me a while. Gaming - I like most game genres that don't have MMO in them. Though predominantly. RTS + FPS e.g. CoD 4, DoWII, Company of heroes blah blah. Photoshop for...

Makes you wonder what other information Universities are passing onto god knows who... sigh my government have really lost the plot, what with university's spying on our own students and our local government using anti terrorism laws as an excuse to use surveillance on it's own workers to...

"Proactively seek the dismantling of their empires? That is putting a huge revisionist spin to it. After WW2 many of the European powers re-asserted control over their colonies and actively fought against independence. What do you call the Algerian War, First Indochina War, etc. " I'm not...

@CanOWorms : Considering the US's intervention in WWII paved the way for them to proactively seek the dismantling of all the former European empires I would have thought you of all people would at least see some benefit from the sacrifices made by those many brave men that fought and died in...

"So you think British colonialism was something your God approved of?" Why stop there, not heard of the Crusades? :). EDIT -- Do the Romans count as "The West" could go even further....

"We got the Soviets out of Afghanistan. Well, we gave them weapons to fight off the soviets. " I think Afghanistan is considered to be more within Central Asia rather than the Middle East, though it does border it and could be seen as part of the greater Middle East in some definitions. Would...

Thanks for the info at least a name helps point me in the right direction :).

I'm moving to Taipei in August + will need to find a decent supplier of hardware. Not being able to read Chinese I'm finding it pretty hard to find much information about where to get the various components at a reasonable price. In the US there are places like Newegg, the UK has aria +...

Ok the article is more than a little misleading, especially the link to the *leading Muslim lawyer in the UK*. For starters it's not a BBC article, it's fox linking to an article in The Sun of all things... i.e. Rupert Murdochs main tabloid paper in the UK so lets get that out of the way...

Yup I've noticed recently the BBC use the term *Chinese Taipei* more often. Considering the pervasiveness of that broadcaster I think it shows what a heavy shift there has been in terms of how we perceive Taiwan.

Did this really require an whole thread?

Anywhere I can watch it online? *I'm In the UK*.

"You don't hear about someone going on a sword spree here" Quick search on google, articles from first page :). http://www.moderateindependent.com/v1i6wmdwatch.htm http://www.local6.com/news/4778339/detail.html http://www.courttv.com/trials/...06_background_ctv.html But yeah don't...

Um just so you know Tony Blair didn't leave because of the Iraq war, he was only ever really meant to stand for two terms then hand over to Gordon Brown. He actually stayed longer than was expected. Despite unpopularity over the war he still could have quite easily won another election...

Um... wow.. where did you get this idea? 1) yeah except that he's been dead for 2 years... how are those book sales gonna help him exactly? 2) Robin Cook was Blairs own Foreign Secretary from 1997. And resigned from the Labour party because of the Iraq war... *The one high profile guy that...