Really? Obama was asked to serve in the military and he also dodged the draft. Odd it's never come up.

Or do you mean congress sent him a bill authorising him to change the base names and he vetoed it? Name of the bill and date?

Or do you mean Obama was asked by an individual once, and that's exactly the same thing to you?

Well... it is. In 2001 a grocer was convicted for using scales which only showed imperial weights, but that doesn't mean that the people have wholeheartedly adopted the system (see this article from BBC News Magazine for example).

I visited in 2002, and found that it was metric enough to make it comfortable for an Australian We were visiting a friend who is a vet nurse... who would weigh animals at work in kilograms, but herself in stones. If you've watched Gav and Dan in the slowmo guys videos, they measure distances in centimetres, inches, metres, kilometres, and miles.

Might I also point out that the U.S. is also officially a metric country, and has been for 148 years, after an act of congress was passed authorising the use of metric weights and measures in 1866 (ref http://science.howstuffworks.com/why-us-not-on-metric-system2.htm), and having been the only English speaking country to become a signatory to the Metre Convention (in 1875).

“WWF strongly condemns this offensive and tasteless ad and did not authorize its production or publication. It is our understanding that it was a concept offered by an outside advertising agency in Brazil. The concept was summarily rejected by WWF and should never have seen the light of day. It is an unauthorized use of our logo and we are aggressively pursuing action to have it removed from websites where it is being currently featured. We strongly condemn the messages and the images portrayed in this ad. On behalf of WWF, here in the US and around the world, we can promise you this ad does not in any way reflect the thoughts and feelings of the people of our organization.” http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2009/WWFPresitem13540.html

but apparently, the Brazilian arm of the organisation might have authorised it (at least the picture) after all http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/sep/03/wwf-911-tsunami-ad

hmm i dunno, either way it's a terrible advertisement.

My only problem is torture, whether it be prisoner abuse in Afghanistan, Iraq or Guantanamo Bay, is frankly no different to extraordinary rendition, other than that the latter operates in a netherworld of the Geneva Convention and the UN Convention Against Torture, but which after all was authorised to be used by the CIA by none other than president Clinton in 1995 in a presidential directive.

That of course does not absolve Bush of guilt, but unless I have missed previous segments where Olbermann covers this, he is holding him to double standards.

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Yeah, those ads were irritating. It's not as though they hosted the clip, or created the content. They just uploaded family guy to youtube. A service young basement-dwelling misanthropes have been providing ad-free for the last 3 years.


Hula is authorised to stream Family Guy - so these clips won't be foxed as thee are from hulas youtube account (hula is region blocked to USA only)

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I am impressed, but it is an utter disgrace that there will not be a PC release.

I understand the concept that 'consoles pay', but if developers made games that had quality multiplayer content (or some other equivalent that required a unique CD key authorisation method), then people would be inspired to buy more PC titles. Take Battlefield 2 for example: that is a FPS shooter that many many people still play, even after the release of a sequel - BF2142. Or the success of Warcraft, Dark Age of Camelot, EQ1/2, etc. As much as I think highly of the current console platforms, I simply won't be forced to purchase one when my machine is certainly capable of playing these modern games.

You also don't need to spend many thousands of dollars for a good system, like you one had to years ago, either. I don't think this is as much of the argument it once was.

I just wanna play Jedis too

Damn, doesn't work in the UK (not for me anyway! Get a 'This video is currently not available' on the embed, and 'We're sorry, but the provider of this video has not authorised Google to display this video in your location' on its page).

Oh paydirt!

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Arrogant alien invades earth. **** Off., 21 December 2000
Author: Gary

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

*Some spoilers*

Don't you just hate people who come to your house un-invited, criticise the decor, break something without offering to pay and then push of without so much as a by-your-leave? Well, the arrogance and pomposity of this ET is beyond belief. Despite the flaunting of superior technology he lacks even basic common sense. He leaves his spaceship surrounded by people pointing guns at him, says nothing, then reaches into his jacket and takes out something that makes a sudden movement resulting in his wounding. What does he expect? But no, of course it's all our fault and he sulks. we were too stupid to realise it was a gift, he laments. Well, excuse ME, Mr Alien entity, but we don't have space ships landing every five minutes and scaring the hell out of us, did you take that into consideration? And that huge robot of yours should respect our customs and wear his underpants INSIDE his trousers, this is a public place. But no, Klaatu is here to tell us our business and arrogantly expects us to organise a conference just the way he wants rather than taking a more diplomatic approach or doing a television broadcast which would be more practical. Finally, he decides to do just that, after much huffing and puffing.

Fortunately for Klaatu, the military are none too bright either when he decides to go walkies around Washington. No one thought to take his picture or show a sketch or photo-fit of him over the TV or newspapers thus allowing him to move into a boarding house where he meets Helen and her son, Bobby. Bobby is a bright kid. After seeing Klaatu go into the space ship at night he comes to the perfectly reasonable conclusion that he's a diamond smuggler. And Helen is an irresponsible mother in allowing him to wander around with a total stranger who could be a child molester or something. I'm sure they get them in outer space too. Meanwhile the military continues it's bungling. Only two men guard the most dangerous object in the world without any other hardware or electronic surveillance and the public seems none too curious, either. Also despite there being soldiers on every street corner, not one of them notices a great big robot stomping along the pavements looking for Klaatu. Could his low opinion of the human race be justified? Possibly. Helen is told to say to Gort: "Klaatu barada nikto." But instead she tells him: "Gort Klaatu Barada Nikto" which isn't the same thing. She was lucky not to get zapped.

Now, I could go on all day (and I usually do) but it has to be said that Klaatu's out of order. He enters American air space without permission, lands an unlicensed vehicle in a municipal park, damages military property, deals in un-authorised currency, obstructs traffic, illegally uses a service elevator, kills two men, damages some deck chairs, knocks down a wall and finally tries evading a taxi fare. Are we meant to be impressed?

In fairness, he does pay a great personal price for his reprehensible behaviour but remains supercilious and lacking in humility to the last. He gives us some fascistic nonsense about a system that crushes any aggression with robots that fly around the galaxy. What is this, dumb and dumber? Can you imagine how many arguments and punch-ups there are amongst billions of inhabitants on a planet PER DAY? Get real. And EXCUSE ME, Mr Silver jumpsuit, but doesn't all human progress rely on aggression and individuality? It's every human's right to start wars, oppress the weak and drive around at dangerous speeds in a jeep while having one hand on a phone. We saw off Communism and we'll see you off too, MISTER Klaatu.