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Topic Started: Jun 18 2008, 07:31 PM (10,063 Views)
nathanielandbartimaeus Mar 17 2010, 05:28 PM Post #901
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India is often regarded as one of Afghanistan's most influential allies.[121] India is the largest regional donor to Afghanistan and has extensively participated in several Afghan reconstruction efforts, including power, agricultural and educational projects.[122][123] Since 2002, India has extended more than US$1.2 billion in aid to Afghanistan.[124] Strong military ties also exist – Afghan security forces regularly get counter-insurgency training in India[125] and India is also considering the deployment of troops in Afghanistan


The last line (not about the training-I know that. The India deploying troops part) surprises me. I have never heard anything of that sort. I hope India doesn't do it. It will complicate everything a lot more. And India has got some concerns about fighting the war on terror under the American banner ('cause, like you told me before, the UN doesn't support the invasion. So it can't fight it under the UN banner). Plus, I don't think India is willing to pay for its troops out there. It would be very costly. They might do it of America extends monetary support or something. Also, Sent and Gladstone once told me that the NATO can flood Afghanistan with its troops, if it wants. That it is an ideological battle and that numbers don't matter much. So I don't think there is any necessity for India to join in. Personally, I think it would be a disaster.

I think one of the reasons why Afghans like India is because it is taking part in no military operation out there. Only construction, opening welfare centres, training, and strengthening democracy and stuff like that. Also, I suppose the fact that India is not a western country helps.
Edited by nathanielandbartimaeus, Mar 17 2010, 05:31 PM.
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Nero Mar 19 2010, 05:22 PM Post #902
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 I'm not sure if this is appropriate
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nathanielandbartimaeus Mar 19 2010, 05:24 PM Post #903
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 Oh oh. I am so glad I was not that officer. Or even worse, that man.
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1. Queezle - Her name doesn't come from anywhere, I don't think. I just made it up! It was kind of meant to make her sound nice. I feel a bit sorry that I killed her off so fast; she is an interesting character.


Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do — but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.
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Sentynel Mar 19 2010, 07:10 PM Post #904
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 "The accused got to his feet and was standing over the police officer exposing his penis and thrusting it in her face, forcing her to take evasive action to avoid getting struck."

This is the funniest line ever to appear in a serious news report (it was in the BBC one too).
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footnoodles Mar 19 2010, 08:59 PM Post #905
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 And the moral of the story is: Don't get caught drunk in your underwear.
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nathanielandbartimaeus Mar 20 2010, 01:19 PM Post #906
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 Or a better moral would be, don't ever get so drunk that you don't know what you are doing. And the person who needs to hear this, is currently out of station.

http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/gary-duschls-chewing-gum-wrapper-chain-stretches-12-miles/19407420
http://www.gumwrapper.com/
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1. Queezle - Her name doesn't come from anywhere, I don't think. I just made it up! It was kind of meant to make her sound nice. I feel a bit sorry that I killed her off so fast; she is an interesting character.


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Nero Mar 20 2010, 04:21 PM Post #907
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Mar 19 2010, 07:10 PM
"The accused got to his feet and was standing over the police officer exposing his penis and thrusting it in her face, forcing her to take evasive action to avoid getting struck."
Yeah that's a classic. I think I'll sig it. =p
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footnoodles Mar 21 2010, 09:18 PM Post #908
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 That, is a lot of gumwrappers.
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Nero Mar 22 2010, 12:51 AM Post #909
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 http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Kangaroo_knocks_jogger_unconscious_in_Canberra,_Australia?dpl_id=165221

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nathanielandbartimaeus Mar 22 2010, 02:09 PM Post #910
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He was a former Australian rules footballer, and says he had never been in a fight, until being hit by the kangaroo. He had seen kangaroos box each other before but didn't know they would box people. He said he would not have thrown a punch back if he had the chance because of their status as a national symbol, and he has no hard feelings against kangaroos
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I laughed a lot at that.

Just trying out a few emoticons, I have never tried before: :alien: :boybrr: :cthulhu: :Ha:

And was this hammer one :hammer: put up because of Post?
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1. Queezle - Her name doesn't come from anywhere, I don't think. I just made it up! It was kind of meant to make her sound nice. I feel a bit sorry that I killed her off so fast; she is an interesting character.


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FuzzyLobster Mar 25 2010, 01:10 PM Post #911
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 Not exactly Weird News, but pretty interesting:

Possible Discovery of a New Species of Ancient Human.

From just a fingerbone. It's pretty amazing that they can do that now.
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nathanielandbartimaeus Mar 25 2010, 03:42 PM Post #912
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 That is interesting. I wonder how humans would be like in a million years from now. For e.g. let's take technology. I think in 500 years, every human being on Earth would have a computer. And then, many things would be computerized too. And all computers could have touch-screen features (or better). So would our fingers evolve in a different way? We wouldn't write much so....?

Okay, that was stupid reasoning. Seeing that for centuries humans have never written. But new species evolved because they were separated from their main kind mainly because of formation of geographical boundaries. And there was no inter-mingling at all. So, suppose there is a human tribe which, currently, is separated from the rest of us humans. And shall be so for the next millennium or so. They would evolve into something very different.
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1. Queezle - Her name doesn't come from anywhere, I don't think. I just made it up! It was kind of meant to make her sound nice. I feel a bit sorry that I killed her off so fast; she is an interesting character.


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Dansariki Mar 27 2010, 07:07 AM Post #913
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 I figure finger coordination becomes less important, if only in average. It'll still be incredibly important for any instrument or fine work, but the general populace will probably see a reduction.

Our attention span has been steadily getting worse, a trend I see continuing for about fifty years until it flatlines.
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FuzzyLobster Mar 27 2010, 03:52 PM Post #914
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 Look who's higher spirit now. ;)

It'd only be altered if it became a problem. We still have appendixes; evolution doesn't remove unnecessary abilites unless they get in the way.

This is only from a 12th Grade Biology perspective; I'm sure it's a lot more complicated.
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nathanielandbartimaeus Mar 29 2010, 03:32 PM Post #915
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 Appendices will go away in the future, I think. But I read that some researches have shown that appendixes actually guard us from the loss of symbiotic bacteria that help in digestion. And it doesn't necessarily disappear if it is a problem. Lack of use and change in conditions matter. And a few things which we consider of no use, could actually have some function. I wrote about appendix, but that has not really been proved. But junk DNA is. It was named so because they thought it had no utility, but now it has been proven to have a function.
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1. Queezle - Her name doesn't come from anywhere, I don't think. I just made it up! It was kind of meant to make her sound nice. I feel a bit sorry that I killed her off so fast; she is an interesting character.


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