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jimmy olsen

#3435
September 23, 2009, 09:24:33 AM
Quote from: Neil on September 23, 2009, 07:51:31 AM
Sweden deserves a plague of supervillains, what with their collaboration with the Holocaust and all.
Apparently this is the first spectacular heist there in recent times.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6845818.ece
QuoteSweden has seen a series of spectacular robberies in recent years. Last year, a group of men paralysed large parts of Goteberg, the country's second-largest city, by spreading out spikes in the road, burning out cars in strategic spots and leaving suspected explosive devices in the centre as they raided a sorting office.

In 2006, Goteborg's international airport was partially closed after a group of masked men crashed through a gate and held up baggage handlers as they were unloading crates of foreign currency worth 7.8 million kronor ($1.1 million).

Four years earlier, robbers pulled off a similar heist at Stockholm's Arlanda Airport, when staff were loading foreign currency worth 43 million kronor onto an aircraft.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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derspiess

#3436
September 23, 2009, 10:49:39 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on September 23, 2009, 09:17:44 AM
Quote from: derspiess on September 23, 2009, 08:50:24 AM
I'm getting a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate on 10/10 :)

Share?

I'll send you one of my pre-orders of the Home Premium version I won't be using :P
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

charliebear

#3437
September 23, 2009, 11:08:58 AM
Doesn't it just figure?  Today is the first full day of Autumn, and we have an expected high of 80F.  Great for gardening, though.  I planted a few butterfly bushes this morning. 

The high humidity isn't so great.

Josquius

#3438
September 23, 2009, 01:48:13 PM
Quote from: charliebear on September 23, 2009, 11:08:58 AM
Doesn't it just figure?  Today is the first full day of Autumn, and we have an expected high of 80F.  Great for gardening, though.  I planted a few butterfly bushes this morning. 

The high humidity isn't so great.
How is today the first day of Autumn? :unsure:
Surely that was the 1st?
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Razgovory

#3439
September 23, 2009, 01:50:42 PM
Position of Earth vis a vi the sun.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Barrister

#3440
September 23, 2009, 01:53:09 PM
Quote from: derspiess on September 23, 2009, 10:49:39 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on September 23, 2009, 09:17:44 AM
Quote from: derspiess on September 23, 2009, 08:50:24 AM
I'm getting a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate on 10/10 :)

Share?

I'll send you one of my pre-orders of the Home Premium version I won't be using :P

I'd take one of those. :)
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

jimmy olsen

#3441
September 23, 2009, 02:18:56 PM
Quote from: Tyr on September 23, 2009, 01:48:13 PM
Quote from: charliebear on September 23, 2009, 11:08:58 AM
Doesn't it just figure?  Today is the first full day of Autumn, and we have an expected high of 80F.  Great for gardening, though.  I planted a few butterfly bushes this morning. 

The high humidity isn't so great.
How is today the first day of Autumn? :unsure:
Surely that was the 1st?
Autumnal equinox is the first day of autumn. :contract:
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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1 Karma Chameleon point

Grey Fox

#3442
September 23, 2009, 03:16:01 PM
Quote from: Tyr on September 23, 2009, 01:48:13 PM
Quote from: charliebear on September 23, 2009, 11:08:58 AM
Doesn't it just figure?  Today is the first full day of Autumn, and we have an expected high of 80F.  Great for gardening, though.  I planted a few butterfly bushes this morning. 

The high humidity isn't so great.
How is today the first day of Autumn? :unsure:
Surely that was the 1st?

:huh: Summer doesn't start the first of June btw. Nor does Winter start the first of December.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

Neil

#3443
September 23, 2009, 03:17:57 PM
Quote from: Tyr on September 23, 2009, 01:48:13 PM
Quote from: charliebear on September 23, 2009, 11:08:58 AM
Doesn't it just figure?  Today is the first full day of Autumn, and we have an expected high of 80F.  Great for gardening, though.  I planted a few butterfly bushes this morning. 

The high humidity isn't so great.
How is today the first day of Autumn? :unsure:
Surely that was the 1st?
Surely British education can't be this bad, can it?
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

Josquius

#3444
September 23, 2009, 03:23:49 PM
Quote from: Neil on September 23, 2009, 03:17:57 PM
Surely British education can't be this bad, can it?
We're told Autumn= September, October, November.
No mention of equinoxes.

Checking up on things both are right.
1st September is Meteorological, today Offset Astronomical (whatever offset means here)
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Neil

#3445
September 23, 2009, 03:26:25 PM
Quote from: Tyr on September 23, 2009, 03:23:49 PM
Quote from: Neil on September 23, 2009, 03:17:57 PM
Surely British education can't be this bad, can it?
We're told Autumn= September, October, November.
No mention of equinoxes.

Checking up on things both are right.
1st September is Meteorological, today Offset Astronomical (whatever offset means here)
Nope.  Only one is right.

It looks like you were told by complete idiots.
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

Ed Anger

#3446
September 23, 2009, 04:11:39 PM
Quote from: derspiess on September 23, 2009, 08:50:24 AM
I'm getting a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate on 10/10 :)

Awesome. I'm getting a freebie license too. Don't know if I'll install it though.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

derspiess

#3447
September 23, 2009, 04:24:46 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on September 23, 2009, 04:11:39 PM
Quote from: derspiess on September 23, 2009, 08:50:24 AM
I'm getting a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate on 10/10 :)

Awesome. I'm getting a freebie license too. Don't know if I'll install it though.

So are you getting all the useless crap that goes along with it as well?
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Agelastus

#3448
September 23, 2009, 04:26:14 PM
Quote from: Tyr on September 23, 2009, 03:23:49 PM
Quote from: Neil on September 23, 2009, 03:17:57 PM
Surely British education can't be this bad, can it?
We're told Autumn= September, October, November.
No mention of equinoxes.

Checking up on things both are right.
1st September is Meteorological, today Offset Astronomical (whatever offset means here)

I refute this 100% - most people I know treat the equinox's as the start and close of seasons. The others I haven't asked.
"Come grow old with me
The Best is yet to be
The last of life for which the first was made."

Ed Anger

#3449
September 23, 2009, 04:27:09 PM
Quote from: derspiess on September 23, 2009, 04:24:46 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on September 23, 2009, 04:11:39 PM
Quote from: derspiess on September 23, 2009, 08:50:24 AM
I'm getting a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate on 10/10 :)

Awesome. I'm getting a freebie license too. Don't know if I'll install it though.

So are you getting all the useless crap that goes along with it as well?

No idea. One of the IT jockeys said that if I want one , just ask. I asked.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive
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