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Zeno~SPARTA~

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  1. Its still on the server, its just turned off, if we ever decide to get into it, it can be turned on again in a minute (so long as there have been no patches.
  2. I have turned the crysis server off. If anyone is inconvenienced by this please speak up and I will turn in it back on.
  3. 1/6th scale must be incredibly demanding, since its so big you would need to work on every little detail.
  4. For all of american brothers on the verge of cardiac arrest, this is a joke. Her Britanic majesty's government is not interested in reacquiring its former interests in the Americas, the days where the sun never set in the british empire are long gone and since it always rains in the UK we can safely say that the sun doesnt even shine on the british empire. Peace. Krambo gives spelling lesson in sms language!!!! Durka it seems Suzanne had the same question as you so here, for your edification, is the answer. [Q] From Suzanne: “Why is ketchup also called catsup?” [A] Ketchup was one of the earliest names given to this condiment, so spelled in Charles Lockyer’s book of 1711, An Account of the Trade in India: “Soy comes in Tubbs from Jappan, and the best Ketchup from Tonquin; yet good of both sorts are made and sold very cheap in China”. Nobody seems quite sure where it comes from, and I won’t bore you with a long disquisition concerning the scholarly debate on the matter, which is reflected in the varied origins given in major dictionaries. It’s likely to be from a Chinese dialect, imported into English through Malay. The original was a kind of fish sauce, though the modern Malay and Indonesian version, with the closely related name kecap, is a sweet soy sauce. Like their Eastern forerunners, Western ketchups were dipping sauces. I’m told the first ketchup recipe appeared in Elizabeth Smith’s book The Compleat Housewife of 1727 and that it included anchovies, shallots, vinegar, white wine, sweet spices (cloves, ginger, mace, nutmeg), pepper and lemon peel. Not a tomato in sight, you will note — tomato ketchup was not introduced until about a century later, in the US, and caught on only slowly. It was more usual to base the condiment on mushrooms, or sometimes walnuts. The confusion about names started even before Charles Lockyer wrote about it, since there is an entry dated 1690 in the Dictionary of the Canting Crew which gives it as catchup, which is another Anglicisation of the original Eastern term. Catchup was used much more in North America than in Britain: it was still common in the middle years of the nineteenth century, as in a story in Scribner’s Magazine in 1859: “I do not object to take a few slices of cold boiled ham ... with a little mushroom catchup, some Worcester sauce, and a pickle or so”. Indeed, catchup continued to appear in American works for some decades and is still to be found on occasion. There were lots of other spellings, too, of which catsup is the best known, a modification of catchup. You can blame Jonathan Swift for it if you like, since he used it first in 1730: “And, for our home-bred British cheer, Botargo, catsup, and caveer”. [Caveer is caviar; botargo is a fish-based relish made of the roe of the mullet or tunny.] That form was also once common in the US but is much less so these days, at least on bottle labels: all the big US manufacturers now call their product ketchup. Simple question: complicated answer!
  5. Hey Inimigo You are far more serious about il2 than we are or ever will be so this is not as issue for me. Cheers zeno
  6. dl'd and watched. They are getting better.
  7. Following some minor trading on my EVE account, I was reminded of one of the worlds greatest traders and recounted one of his most famous exploits to some of you. At the time I could not remember his name, but now I do. George Soros is famous for "breaking" the Bank of England in 1992, which was following a poor, governement inspired, fiscal policy focused on exchange rate protection instead of inflation. Unable to raise interest rates for fear of recession, the Bank of England and other central banks bought pounds to counter the sales by speculators. In the end the other central banks were unwilling to buy an overvalued pound and stopped buying it. Unable to continue protecting the pound it collapsed. This day was known as black Wednesday. George Soros was the most notable character behind this at the time. He saw that the pound was overvalued and brought enourmous selling pressure to bear on it. Interestingly this huge correction brought about a major change in UK fiscal policy whereby the Bank of England became independent of government and its focus was to manage inflation through interest rates. This has made the UK one of the best performing economies in the euro zone and that day in 1992 is now known as white wednesday. I am not a wise monkey, but I am pretty sure that trying to resist "market" pressure in whatever endeavour is as futile as king Canute trying to turn the tide. Sorry to bore you, feel free to tk me at the next opportunity.
  8. E you're right to share this info with everyone even if only few wil be able work with you on the recruiting. Getting good people into our community is the key not the door the through which they come or the game they ultimately play!
  9. good luck with that, what a nightmare these pc's are.
  10. A huge thanks to you Kanima, Inimigo is always on our case just so that he can slaughter us, lol.
  11. Apparently you mean non eve and non cod4 since friday night is GRnet night on server 5 for COD4.
  12. http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/ind...s=M1ARTM0012847 Alternate source
  13. The longest range recorded for sniper kill is 2,430 metres (2,657 yd), accomplished by a sniper from Newfoundland, Corporal Rob Furlong, during the invasion of Afghanistan, serving the Canadian Forces, using a .50 caliber BMG (12.7 mm) McMillan TAC-50 bolt-action rifle. This meant that the bullet had a flight time of ≈ 4.5 seconds, and a drop of ≈ 70 meters (230 ft). The previous record was held by US Marine sniper Carlos Hathcock, achieved during the Vietnam War, at a distance of 2,250 metres (2,461 yd). By contrast, much of the US/Coalition urban sniping in support of operations in Iraq is at much shorter ranges, although in one notable incident on April 3, 2003, Corporals Matt and Sam Hughes, a two-man sniper team of the Royal Marines, armed with L96 sniper rifles each killed targets at a range of about 860 metres (941 yd) with shots that, due to strong wind, had to be “fire[d] exactly 17 meters (56 ft) to the left of the target for the bullet to bend in the wind. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniper
  14. Couldnt have done this without the generous donation of yourself and a few others, thanks guys.
  15. I am about to finish learining level IV I am going to train for a Retriever, this character will exist to make money. Here is the new schedule: Skill plan for Z4DR0 1. Eidetic Memory I (41 minutes, 37 seconds) 2. Eidetic Memory II (3 hours, 3 minutes, 4 seconds) 3. Logic I (38 minutes, 14 seconds) 4. Logic II (2 hours, 48 minutes, 59 seconds) 5. Spatial Awareness I (11 minutes, 47 seconds) 6. Spatial Awareness II (54 minutes, 57 seconds) 7. Science IV (1 day, 4 hours, 34 minutes, 27 seconds) 8. Mining IV (1 day, 5 hours, 17 minutes, 18 seconds) 9. Astrogeology I (34 minutes, 30 seconds) 10. Astrogeology II (2 hours, 40 minutes, 44 seconds) 11. Astrogeology III (15 hours, 9 minutes, 12 seconds) 12. Industry IV (1 day, 5 hours, 17 minutes, 18 seconds) 13. Industry V (6 days, 21 hours, 40 minutes, 48 seconds) 14. Astrogeology IV (3 days, 13 hours, 43 minutes, 21 seconds) 15. Mining Barge I (1 hour, 5 minutes, 3 seconds) 16. Mining Barge II (5 hours, 2 minutes, 59 seconds) 17. Mining Barge III (1 day, 4 hours, 33 minutes, 55 seconds) about 16.5 days.
  16. Hi Inimigo, we still run a GRAW2 coop server 24/7 and some of the guys still play it. I know Athlon does. Cheers zeno
  17. downloaded, need to find the 7zip program
  18. http://www.onlinegamecommands.com/eveonlin...rningskills.htm X indicates where I am as of now Instant Recall - Level 1x Analytical Mind - Level 1x Learning - Level 1x Instant Recall - Level 2x Analytical Mind - Level 2x Learning - Level 2x Instant Recall - Level 3x Analytical Mind - Level 3x Learning - Level 3x Instant Recall - Level 4 Analytical Mind - Level 4x Learning - Level 4 Instant Recall - Level 5 Eidetic Memory - Level 1 Eidetic Memory - Level 2 Eidetic Memory - Level 3 Eidetic Memory - Level 4 Analytical Mind - Level 5 Logic - Level 1 Logic - Level 2 Logic - Level 3 Logic - Level 4 Learning - Level 5
  19. Gave into what Kram. I play COD4 on our server every night, This Friday night, Saturday night were the GR.net nights I was one of the first to start and one of the last to leave, I put in 4 or 5 hours a day learning how to run a COD4 mod server, I am heavily invested financially and in time, so tell me what it is you think I have given in to.
  20. Don't be sorry, I only lost 2 newbie ships. This does not upset me and it wont add a lot of credibility to to Hairy Pusay. The pod killing is a bit unneccesary but equally this is inconsequential to me. I will train this character and build up a secondary character until this war is over.
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