Thunderstorms and Wizardry!

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How to summon Thunderstorms.: In order to summon a proper Thunderstorm, you need the following items: Two tears of a mandarin duck, three if male. Four hairs from a goat’s beard, seven if female, eight if pregnant. Seven tails of a virgin horse’s hair, nineteen if on fire. Toenail clippings from a cat, captured in a ...

Anti-Piracy failure in Denmark.

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Apparently, the Danish Anti-Piracy Group has officially given up, on attempting to sue private persons for file-sharing, presumably they'll instead concentrate on the websites who provide the services. I quote the translated article on dr.dk. Anti-Piracy Group drops attempts to punish pirates 7. November 2009 09.08 There is now a free rein to private pirates who ...

Afghanistan: A Continued Overview of a Giant Mess.

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Amanullah Khan, the first chap to assume the title "King of Afghanistan" and the founder of the modern state of Afghanistan. He fought a war against the British, and kinda won. He actually started this one, and was then thrown the fuck out of the British Raj, thanks to the British military's superior technology and air ...

Afghanistan: An Overview of a Giant Mess.

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Or: How I learned to love Afghanistan and hate Ahmad Shah Durrani ,Padshah of the Durrani Empire. Afghanistan, originating in the old Durrani Empire founded by the person just mentioned in 1747, in comparison, the United States went independent in 1776. So Afghanistan is actually older, as a nation, then the United States of America, even ...

This isn't how Economy works is it?

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So yeah. Apparently George W. Bush, hasn't got a clue how economy works, slash taxes, and you have to slash expenses, actively. It's totally impossible to passively slash expenses on public programs, because in most cases it's politically suicide. Why they didn't do it like the Danish Liberal-Conservative Government and freeze taxes and then quietly and ...