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    "How The Fight Started"

    in Humor - Spartan Jokes

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    haha. nice. I bet most of those are true stories.

     

    My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming anniversary. She

     

    said, 'I want something shiny that goes from 0 to 150 in about 3 seconds.'

     

     

     

    I bought her a scale.

     

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    R.U.S.E.

    in General Game Talk

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    At the ongoing Game Developers Conference 2009, Ubisoft has announced a new real-time strategy game - R.U.S.E. This strategy game will be released during the fiscal year 2009/10 for the PC, PS 3, and Xbox 360 platforms.

     

    Eugen Systems, the creators of the action-based real-time strategy game Act of War: Direct Action, have developed this World War II-based strategy game R.U.S.E., which will be published by Ubisoft. The developers boast that R.U.S.E. has been optimized for the Intel Core i7 processor based PC platform. So expect higher hardware requirements to run this WWII RTS game smoothly.

     

     

    Key features of R.U.S.E. include the following:

     

    * Fight a war of perception using recon units and your spying network to gather intelligence about your enemy and then strike at his Achilles heel

    * Use your deception skills to mislead your enemy: decoys, camouflage, radio silence, deciphering, intoxication, etc.

    * Combine military manoeuvres and cunning stratagems for victory: your brain is the ultimate weapon

    * From captain to the chief-in-command, live an epic campaign full of manipulation, jealousy, and betrayal

     

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    Experience war as a strategist

     

    * Command a huge spectrum of units: dozens of infantry, vehicles, and aircraft units with specific abilities

    * Wield executive power: secure revenues, plan production units, and launch advanced research programs

    * Undermine the enemy's strategy by cutting its supply lines and weakening its logistics

    * Use the exclusive IRISZOOM engine, with the most intuitive interface, to easily identify the balance of power and to run into action

    * Fight on immense and incredibly detailed maps, the biggest in a RTS game: a perfect playground for strategy

     

     

    Fooling real people is the ultimate thrill

     

    * Test your strategic skills with fast-paced, addictive, and cooperative and adversarial skirmishes, up to 8 players

    * Face unpredictable battle situations and reverse the balance of power by using bluffing and deception against your opponents

    * Choose your nation between 6 Axis or Allied powers with specific units and abilities

     

     

    In R.U.S.E., players will have to use their brain as the ultimate weapon, and it will be a game of deception. How? Check out the video below.

    ____R.U.S.E.____

    YouTube, the UK and the Performing Rights Society for Music

    in Spartans general chat

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    YouTube, the UK and the Performing Rights Society for Music

    We have invested a lot of time and effort trying to ensure that our community can find and enjoy the music they love, and we have strong partnerships with three of the four largest record labels in the world, as well as many independent labels. But copyrights in music can get pretty complicated. For example, there may be several different copyrights in a single music video, controlled by different organisations with different interests. The visual elements and the sound recording of a music video are typically owned by a record label, while the music and lyrics of the song being performed are owned separately by one or more music publishers. These publishers often designate organisations called collecting societies to issue licences and collect royalties on their behalf. In the UK we've had a licence from the collecting society called PRS for Music to make music videos provided by our record label partners available to our users in the UK.

     

    Our previous licence from PRS for Music has expired, and we've been unable so far to come to an agreement to renew it on terms that are economically sustainable for us. There are two obstacles in these negotiations: prohibitive licensing fees and lack of transparency. We value the creativity of musicians and songwriters and have worked hard with rights-holders to generate significant online revenue for them and to respect copyright. But PRS is now asking us to pay many, many times more for our licence than before. The costs are simply prohibitive for us - under PRS's proposed terms we would lose significant amounts of money with every playback. In addition, PRS is unwilling to tell us what songs are included in the license they can provide so that we can identify those works on YouTube -- that's like asking a consumer to buy an unmarked CD without knowing what musicians are on it.

     

    We're still working with PRS for Music in an effort to reach mutually acceptable terms for a new licence, but until we do so we will be blocking premium music videos in the UK that have been supplied or claimed by record labels. This was a painful decision, and we know the significant disappointment it will cause within the UK. And to be clear, this is not an issue with the record labels, with most of whom we have strong relationships.

     

    While negotiations continue, we'll still be working to create more ways to compensate musicians and other rights-holders on YouTube. In addition to various advertising options, we recently introduced a click-to-buy feature that enables fans to purchase downloads of their favourite songs. We're also proud of our Content ID tools that help rights owners identify their content and even use the power of our community to increase advertising and revenue potential.

     

    We will continue to seek partnerships that benefit our community, music publishers, music labels and, of course, musicians and songwriters, and we will work hard with anybody who shares this commitment. We hope that professional music videos will soon be back on YouTube for our users in the UK to enjoy, and if and when that time comes, you can be sure that you'll be the first to know.

    What & Why

    in Humor - Spartan Jokes

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    Lily Allen - The Fear [Explicit Version]

     

    Lily Allen is I think a clever singer-songwriter, she is also the daughter of actor/musician Keith Allen,

    Another one of her songs to keep a look out for is a song called

    which is about her little brother.

    Zeno has no internet

    in Spartans general chat

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    Had Hornets round my way in the last few years. One time in my cousins we had a bastard in the kitchen I swear it was like an attack helo circling me and it took two hits with a rolled up paper just to stun the bad boy.

    Blimey what paper are you reading the beano or the sun.

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