Guess not... where's Jeodan, I know he's not in the fleet but I'm a little confused as to where he is.

Hello? Purgatory is kind of boring, the Greeks keep wanting to discuss big words and the buddists keep telling me I'm an Elephant.
I don't like it.
And Jesus won't give me my ball back (I swear, another eon of practice and I'll do that shot every time).
Come to the gate and say something

Never heard of him untill today, but I see that this memorial is proceeding better than that "other" memorial that people decided to rant all over.

He's dead, do you honestly think that slating a dead man all over his own memorials will change his life, or his death? I think I can quite honestly say, hand on heart, God save the Queen, that such terrible occurrences would never happen in the UK...
I think 75% of the population would decimate you on general principle regardless of wether they liked his politics or not. Perhaps some American political thinkers could spread our remarkably Conservative philosophy, maybe give it a "If it's good enough for the limeys" spin?

I remember the change from Readiness to Morale.... when I was a lad... the fields were green... sky was blue...

I'm hoping that the situation is limited to just this Lecturer, and that the rest are in their jobs because they are qualified and have a good student feedback and not because some incompetent gonk can't be arsed to do his job properly.
I'm expecting reality to be to the contrary.

> CanadianTire wrote:

> So Fokker, you are in favour of CCTV them? Even though several stories over the years have hit our media outlets about police using them to see a watch on spouses they think are cheating, or blackmailing people who regularly commit crimes (selling drugs notably).<

To a point, I am in favour of CCTV, for example one can never have enough cameras in a city centre, or in most public places even, but aimed directly at my home? No.

Regarding police misusing the CCTV systems for their own personal agendas, I think they should be fired permanently; If they can not be trusted with something as simple as keeping a camera pointed at the car park, how can they be trusted at all?

As for using the system to blackmail drug-dealers, let me ask you this: Which is more dangerous, the dealer, or the bent cop? Who are we supposed to trust? Can we EVER trust a policeman who chooses profit over punishment? And where does it stop?...

..."Hello little girl; mummy and daddy told me that your new boyfriend is a pimp and that you've been seen on the streets, working to earn that smack of his. Now I know you love your boyfriend and you dont want him to get into trouble, so I'll keep my mouth shut and tell mummy and daddy that I can't find you if you suck me off three times a week."

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The fires had grown small but the embers were still bright, those who were not sleeping peacefully were lying still in the hope that if they pretended hard enough they would be asleep, and not dying from that damned foreign booze.

The night was dark, the shadows were long, dancing, causing the world to be uncertain of its shape and form, and from this uncertain world they watched the "Spatan", looking at sheilds and swords, clothes and boots. Even the soles of their boots told them something.
A Spatan moves inside the cloak wrapped about him and their eyes, narrow and piercing, go to him. The cloak falls way from his leg and they are gone, consumed by the dancing shadows.
Unknown to the shadows, unseen by their piercing dark eyes, Leonidas struggles upright, "Mmphf... piss..."

The bridge of the Crbrs was silent, all attention focussed on the screen. Behind the bulkhead door at the back of  the bridge the crew were at a standstill. It was someone in engineering who finally spoke, a pale Wardancer wearing welding goggles who was supposed to be fixing one of the transverse ribs protecting the core, "Grk!" The chief engineer nodded, his bulbous skull looking as though it were tottering back and forth like a spinning top ready to fall, "Yeah." It was some more time before anyone spoke again.

The world beneath them was dead, blasted, annihlated even. Some of the clouds were still in loose circular formations, yawning open after the fusion roar that created them, letting bright, cheery sunshine down onto the ruined cities beneath a bright midday sky. At the heart was a crater... no, it was as though some great smooth thing measuring miles accross had carved a perfect ball out of the universe, taking with it a piece of the world so large the remaining space was now slowly filling with lava. Beyond there was more that mere fire, there were no flames here, no smoke, no charcoal or ash, this was pure heat so intense even the concrete seemed to melt. Then came the fire, skyscrapers large enough to touch orbit twisted and sagged as flames consumed them untill they collapsed. The rest was a warzone, scorching from energy weapons and blasting from mass weapons.

"It would seem our Federation friends are not so soft." Krg finally said as he sat, forced to finally turn away from the shattered rock by his complaining feet. I must have spent too much time on low gravity worlds lately.
"Maybe we should try harder to be friends?" Erf suggested. Krg shook his head, "No point, you know that. Soon they will either be doing that to each other-"
"Or doing it to us when we unveil our surprise-"
"Assuming the Cy'Tan don't plan on stomping on us as soon as we plug that thing in to their power source-"
"Which we need to get before the people we're looking for stop fighting the good fight and start arguing."
"Is that everything?"
"Do we even know this Cy'Tan is here?"
"There are lots of Cy'Tan here, there is a good chance."
"Lots? Is now a bad time to ask if their government officially likes us yet?"
"I heard they're still arguing about it, and by arguing I mean beating each other stupid. Cy'Tan politic are weird."
"So half of them want to flatten us and the other half don't?"
"And the other half don't see the point in flattening us." Krg corrected.
"But isn't our...?"
"A very good reason."
"So how many ships came to our rescue two and a half years ago?"
"Enough to start an invasion but not stop one."
"They expected us to be dead already, they expeced a Kallum colony?"
"Makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside doesn't it?" Krg grinned, "Helm, take us to the fleet, comms ask them if this Jeodan Death.... um.... Aw hell".

> ~Pw32~  Random Hero wrote:

> what is wrong with this guy ...
"you can ask any good white christian soldier"
that line disturbed me deeply ... and this is my 1st post in this tread ...
~ Cloud <

Unfortunately, wether you like it or not (I know I don't), he speaks the truth: A lot of American soldiers (at least the ones whos' stories make it to the news) seem to be of the zealous ilk... It may not be fair, but stereotypes are like lies: they always come from a grain of truth.
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At least your boys get attention, our boys are all but ignored.

Would now be a bad time to point out that the real EU's interest in "space" is strictly limited to providing an affordable satellite launch system for those that cannot afford NASA's $14bn charges, or Russia's $13.9bn charges?

The real EU (I.e not those inferiority-complex-riddled French) has no plans, at least in the near future, for manned missions to anywhere; there's no point.