Realistic expectations are a plus with movies, especially with movies adapted from video games.

I happened to like the resident evil movies. They were very good for a horror type of flick. I also was reasonably OK with the doom movie although it started getting progressively more boring until they switched to the typical doom camera angle. I loathe the first alien vs predators movie because it literally gave me a gargantuan headache. It was even worse than that "the fog" remake and that "the cave" abomination. Thankfully I'm not a total idiot so I passed on the second avp movie, although I have little doubt I will watch like 15min of it in due time though

yeah I think a thank you to the overall community is appropriate here

I'm not referencing this: "Handing out money is going on now, to inject liquidity."
but this: "Handing out money earlier ??"

You're disputing the fact that there hasn't been "money handed out" earlier, yes or no?

in saudi arabia that would get them a flogging

if they were seen talking to you they're probably going to get a flogging too

you should feel ashamed for making these girls get flogged

Only an englishman could have the arrogance to think his language was hard to learn; of the languages I know english has got to be the easiest one by far (including my native language), it's ridiculous how easy it is. sure you'll make a few spelling mistakes and quirky sentences but that's even normal for native speakers in any language

german is exponentially harder than english to get a decent handle on

PS ever consider that study shows british children have bad education?

the only reason why there should be agricultural subsidies is to maintain a strategic production and supply of basic foodstuffs; the problem with biofuels is that there with present technologies there isn't that much more sustainable increase in corn production possible without cannibalising other foodstuffs; if you need more corn price will go up and the people growing say brocoli as mentionned here will switch to corn

"and view (mainly) nature"

nice way of saying you're going to check out american titty bars for two weeks

bottled water tastes a lot better than the crap(py tasting) water that comes out of most taps; but you have these special pitchers that purify tap water to a point that it tastes just like bottled water so I agree that bottled water is a wastefull luxury we should get rid of on the dinner table, and use it only when you're actually outdoors where you don't have access to tap water or whatever

hmmm...

well the silliest thing I can think off is to have to make a rope bridge to cross a river at a horrible location... namely in a very nasty place of the river while 200 meters ahead there is a solid stone bridge you can cross

the people (in two's) sent to cross the river with the rope got swept away about halfway due to a nasty undercurrent in the river, needless to say they sent the geeks first so the tougher guys were like "*roll eyes* let me do it" and after two (at this point a Dutch tourist walked up to us and said "ummmm guys you do know there is a solid stone bridge 200 meters from here right?!" and there had been a couple of kids trying to steal our rope), three more runs of two and one guy twisting his ankle after stumbling on an underwater stone it was pretty evident to me that it wasn't going to happen. For some reason I never comprehended it's easy to forget reality when you're in charge so finally there are two guys who make it to the other bank of the river by letting themselves go with the flow a while until it softens up. They then walk back to the place across from us and tie the rope on a tree.

At this point everyone is like yay we made it and the uberprimo decides to be magnanimous by testing the rope out first. A couple of meters along the rope it turns out it has become so wet it is completely unusable for people with any sort of weight to get across without slipping (as shown by uberprimo slipping and falling - much to my rejoicement), let alone people with a rucksack on their backs.

Needless to say we ended the exercise by crossing that solid stone bridge 200 meters from our position.

Morale of the story: if you ever want unmotivated people who hate you and are untrained for the job at hand to cross a rope bridge you don't just pick a random spot just because it looks challenging.

if you look at the past years it's hard not to notice the lowering threshold for using force in/on states who fail to prevent violence by non-state actors (Russia in Pankisi gorge, US in Afghanistan, Turkey in Kurdistan, Ethiopia in Somalia, US on Sudan and Afghanistan (under Bill clinton), US on Libya (Reagan))

but you are correct in that I'm a bit jumping the gun on it - but then again international law is an anarchic bunch of customs revolving around very few written rules

Intrinsically it's efficient to punishing communitarian communities with communal punishments, since they do think alike and the idea of punishments limited to individual members of those communities is laughable to them

but it will escalate and I'm not sure if any civilised nation has the stomach to step up the escalation further and further