Crap Throwing Monkey

That? Fun? Are you insane?

I'm sorry, but that's such an outright stupid !@#$ing understatement it has me laughing out loud.

By the way...you have quite possibley the gayest mascot ever. Worse than Billy Buffalo, even...

Of course, the most glaring needs are the lines...so I'm sure TD will use all those high picks to take stud skill players - maybe another WR, to replace Moulds, a CB, probably another RB. And we'll fill out the offensive line with some practice squad rejects from Houston and Cleveland. Why the hell would anyone be insane enough to look forward to TD addressing this team's needs in the off-season...again?

Hopefully the entire defensive line. Preferably out of a cannon into lake Erie. They have got to have the four slowest-moving defensive linemen in the history of the NFL.

At this point, I think the question is: is anyone not?

...and yet, you still lose in the end? !@#$ing Bills...

Gray wool. Over-the-calf, of course.

Why don't you go kill yourself, BF?

But when do I get to keep my shoes on when I go through security? !@#$ing Richard Reid...dumbass thinks he can blow up an airplane with a pair of Nikes and a book of matches, and because of that idiot I have to walk through airport security in my socks.

Well...we got rid of Rich in Ohio. We need to keep one token Talking Points Spewing Chickenhawk.

"Within their borders" in this case is a Western interpretation not entirely applicable to the region in question. From the sound of it, this was in Pakistan's Northwest Free Province...a region that, at best is only loosely governed by Pakistan. I'm pretty sure the people there don't much consider themselves "Pakistani" (clan/tribal loyalties, as BiB said), and I wouldn't be surprised if your average Pakistani didn't consider them Pakistani either. Plus...most of the reports I've seen (save the one from the Telegraph) emphasized Musharraf's statements and deemphasized the US role (e.g. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051203/ap_on_...qaida_killed_5). It seems a reasonable assumption that that's for the reason you suggest.

I've never heard of the Japanese commander radioing on Indianapolis' behalf. I would suspect no, for two reasons: 1) it sounds very un-Japanese (i.e. not consistent with their twisted Bushido philosophy of the time), and 2) sending such a message would have been equivalent to saying "Here I am!", and the I-Boat would have been sunk post-haste. I believe the I-Boat radioed the Japanese fleet about the sinking, and the message was intercepted and decoded by US Naval Intel...but the Japanese had a nasty habit of lying, exaggerating, or being just plain incorrect about such reports, so it wasn't followed up. The Indy was allowed to radio...the problem was that she sank in about 10 minutes, in transit from Guam to Leyte after performing a special mission that in effect detached her from the normal command structure. Basically, no one was really aware she was in the area, and communications on the subject, for a variety of reasons (most being human error compounded by policy), was unreliable. Same old story: the information existed, but wasn't available in total to any one person involved. Thus Guam knew she left, but never got notice of her not arriving, and assumed nothing was wrong since notice of arrival wasn't routinely sent, and when she was overdue Leyte assumed Guam still had her...so she ended up being off everyone's board when she was sunk.

I'm just being a hindrance to intelligent conversation. That's all. Of course, I'm perfectly happy to be a hindrance to "intelligent" conversation the likes of "Does sound travel faster than light in space?"

You mean...like this one? Give me a break...people like you and meazza demonstrate on a daily basis that you aren't capable of intelligent, reasonable discussion. Then you whine because I sink to your level?

Ed's contribution has been precisely zero for a very long time. He does have an excuse, though, as he is a horrible human being.

A legend in your own mind.

Okay...even postulating that college ball is somehow within the realm of Congress' responsibilities...why the !@#$ does the Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committees think it's his responsibility? Oh...he's from Texas. Figures. I've got $10 that says he thinks the Aggies or whoever he roots for is ranked too low.

Read the Dallas Morning News? Why on earth would anyone do that? Are you sure you're not clinically insane?

Pretty much. I believe it was the mathematican Marian Rejewski who broke it; you might find details on the internet, but David Kahn details it in The Codebreakers as well (which is a big-ass book, but will tell you everything you ever want to know about the history of cryptography you'll ever want to know). But at any rate...even aside from that, given the Poles' track record of courage in WWII (Lancers - guys on horses with friggin' spears - charging tanks ), I'll never complain about them supporting us.

Sure...go ahead and defend Michael Irvin...

Does that injury heal quickly, or do you have to nurse it along?

You're so cute when you're defending your stupidity. Why don't you tell me to die again?

When the Germans introduced Enigma, the Poles used intercepted message traffic to reproduce the inner workings of the machine (which was a hell of an accomplishment. Kind of like reproducing a 5-liter V-8 from the contents of the exhaust). Just before the Germans invaded, the Poles gave their work (i.e. the copy of the device they built, and all the data) to the French and British. The British institutionalized the workings of reading German message traffic (which in itself was an impressive accomplishment), but did so based on the Poles' work. That's why the code-reading devices in British employment were referred to as bombes - Polish for "bomb", a reference to the ticking noise the device made while working. What you're thinking of is the few times German submarines were captured, and the current settings for the Enigma device were found (and once, when a more advanced Enigma device - with four rotors instead of three - was captured). Again, an accomplishment not to be diminished, as it let the British read German naval traffic real-time for certain periods of the war, but it doesn't change the fact that the British effort was ultimately based on the truly amazing efforts of Polish mathematicians before the war.