Marty

PSP 4,000 will have enhanced battery, additional colors, and more trigger-like buttons on the shoulders.

"If Microsoft was still insisting that nothing was wrong, that would be one thing, but its decision is already hurting it both in the pocketbook and in the reputation department."

I'm sorry but there's no verisimilitude in this explanation -- how does Microsoft "hurting" justify terminating someone's employment...? If a guy has a mid-life crisis and wallows in pity all day, should his wife have no right to criticize him since he's suffering?

Also, on the guy saying there'd be repercussions... its called rhetoric. Politicians often start speeches, for example, saying something along the lines of "I'm not so good at fancy speeches or smooth talking..." -- that's not an invitation for the audience to boo him off, f.y.i.

dont get me wrong, i have the highest respect for the Byzantines and I think their miraculous longevity is owed to the fact that they were such a gifted and clever people

there was a really good explanation on NPR yesterday about what's going on out there. The gist of it if I remember right is that in the Soviet era, Georgia was kind of like the "Florida" of the Soviet Union... All the rich fellows had all their fancy dachas down there... and so these ex-Soviet lackeys who are now capitalist oligarchs were not amused that the place achieved independence after the break-up. The key thing, too, is that these Ossetians that the Russians are protecting as if they're ethnic Russians are NOT ethnic Russians -- they're Ossetians. They're a group related to the Persians and descended from the Scythians and Russia just issued them citizenship in the past 10 years as an excuse to say "look! they're Russians! we're defending them!" It's incredible stupidity -- just like women who lie about their weight on their driver's license and think that it magically means they weight that much!

oh no! 1 is down! this is 2! taking command! oh no, 7 is... down!

where are you?

8! report status?

oh now! 8... is down!

They're in NATO but I don't think the U.S. really has that much power or influence over them. They wouldn't let the 4th ID launch from their soil to invade Iraq, they've been fighting our buddies the Kurds, etc.

The whole region is really confusing to me. I'm shocked that the U.S. navy or the Euros have zero-presence in the black sea and that its like a Russian water park. You'd think they'd have a carrier group around the area near istanbul to respond to situations like this since there's so many flashpoints in the caucus on balkans! I mean, we have like 3 carriers around Korea and probably more in the Persian Gulf... That seems to me like Darth Vader parking 2 death stars over a single planet!

I'm not saying btw that we should have intervened in Georgia, but certainly we should have had U2s, fighter patrols, etc. near at hand so that we could have kept an eagle eye on everything going on there so we could throw down a packet of photos to the Russians at the UN and be like "Withdrawn, eh?" instead of having to wait hours and hours for confirmation from fog of war or whatever.

space emo!

I feel bad for Turkey. Constant war in Iraq to the south, constant fighting and quarreling in the Balkans to the northwest, insanity in iran and Afghanistan right nearby, crazy Greeks on Cyprus, Kurdish rebels acting up, and now Russians invading Georgia right next door too! What a terrible spot in the world to have a county -- it's no wonder the Byzantine Empire was pwned so bad.

I'm not buying this game now just out of spite of fanboys and the pan-handling "indie" game developer.

so since AOLtimewarner own gametap and joystiq, if they offload gametap does that mean no more coverage of it here?