I did my disseration for my Master's degree on the whole history of Iraq and conflict in the XXth century. The seeds of conflict were sown as early as the 1920s right after WWI when Iraq became a British protectorate. Kuwait which until then had been a port city was cut from the southern province of Basra and made a state for the interest of the British. The Kurdish territories in the north were never actually part of what was Iraq in the past but despite the fact that they had different peoples and religions than the majority of Iraq was still incorporated by the British into Iraq as it held important oil reserves. Because of these issues and many others Iraq wasn't a very stable country until the Ba'th party with Saddam as an important member came to power in the late 60s. Then lets not forget that the Iraq-Iran war of the 1980s was supported by the USA and its allies in the region. The Kuwait occupation of 1990 should be judged in the right context. Iraq was weakend economically by the war, it was indebted with tens of billions of dollars to Kuwait which also demanded the sum to be payed back at once. Further more Kuwait had occupied the oil fields of southern Basra and didn't want to give them back, it was rigid when negotiation with Iraq and it also undermined Iraq's economy by selling its oil under the OPEC quota, fully supported by the US in this. These problems combined with the fact Kuwait was considered Iraqi territory and the USA didn't make its intentions very clear is what actually lead to the Gulf War. It seamed to Saddam to be an easy way of solving all his problems. It was all in the interest of the USA. If they really had wanted to depose of Saddam who they knew was a very cruel leader they could have easily done so then when they also had a lot of support from the population. They willingly left the Iraqi people to suffer for another 13 years and then went to war against them under false pretenses. WAY TO GO! I don't hate the USA but I do hate the hypocrisy of its policies and its leaders. How do you destroy a country? With two bushes!

While the outdoor images are interesting, I don't think I would like to work there.

@john2 said: @charly2008 said: Hi, I used the free PDF Creator charly how are you able to get this?!! i tried pdf creator but im not able to get the same result as yours. i'm still getting the old white pdf. is there any setting that you do? What are the exact steps that you take to make a pdf? In google chrome i'm just right clicking and print and i get the pdf. Charly's example is just a bunch of (rasterized) screenshot placed into a .pdf.. if you're ok with that then it opens up a lot more possibilities? -with the 'white' pdfs you're making, you can keep zooming in and the text remains crisp because the font size is actually updating instead of simply zoom in on a rasterized font.. -you can select & copy/paste etc from the 'white' pdfs -the links will remain active (if they're written in http:// form..) zoom in on charly's pdf for comparison and you'll see the difference.

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@solo said: Freelancer here, so I'm potentially at work all the time. I even worked yesterday (Thanksgiving) stopped for lunch/dinner and continuing today. I could do with a good cup of Java right now. I'm just thankfull I have work this week.

@tomsdesk said: Jan, went with the Cintiq12WX bundled with Painter12: a reasonable business deductable, I think...and after watching all the videos I could find, I think I'm gonna be thanking you more later. Good to hear you liked my suggestion. You can thank me by buying me one also.

The search is working, but from some reason it freezes IE and still don't load the search bar in Chrome. I just have no more ideas about what to do... Here are the files. js_overlay.zip

@irwanwr said: :?: quite entertaining thread though. at least from the dialogue I think because this was the most viewed forum out of the 3 that was providing the polls series 2 will return here

Very interesting. I always found it hard hard to believe that so many artists of similar historical periods would all have 'savant' type abilities enabling such accuracy. Also, some of the painters mentioned were very prolific, and many of their paintings show little evidence of having to use 'CTRL-Z' - pointing to the use of technical aids rather than a process of gradual 'refinement'. Funny, when I was attending 'Art' evening classes, I was told that my work displayed too much of my engineering drawing training - so it's nice to see some acknowledgment of the 'old masters' debt to technology, to balance the usual emphasis on art's conceptual dimension. Also, lovely to see that despite his long stay in California, Mr.Hockney has still kept much of his Bradford accent - made me feel right at home when watching the videos!

The guys in the airplanes had to fly dirty though. Flaps down. I'd fly mine to work but they keep the door from the helipad locked.

@dale said: What a beautiful house, and I really admire your attention to detail, but given your background in computers and code, I'm sure detail is second nature. That and being borderline sociopath/obsessive-compulsive… For anyone else contemplating their own build I'd reiterate that obsession with detail thing; so many contractors are happy to let precision slip because it's just a job to them, day in, day out. If you show them the potential for making something nicer than they usually get to do, take part in the process and the work, turn up with enthusiasm every day, then it is amazing how much harder most of them will try. Details matter during the build, after the build as you live there and later when you want to change things. It's also good to live on the Fine Homebuilding website for a year or two to learn (at least) the words and phrases that communicate some knowledge of what you're up to. Better yet, you're likely to know something new in the field that might interest your subcontractors. @dale said: Oh and I still consult for a Nanaimo Company, and do make it down to the Island from time to time. Maybe we can meet sometime, and I can buy you a beer. Cheers Nice idea Dale. Sounds like a plan… Oh, and @dale said: Since I haven't been on the tools for 7 years or so, I got lazy and figured out the compound miters in Skp. I can't count the number of special printouts I did from the SU model to illustrate a detail of the roof decking angles, or rafter tenons, or electrical layout or, or, or. Invaluable.

Amusing, but who would know, other than nurses and doctors? Butt, nipple, vibrator, female-to-male connection, stud aren't just words used by writers to Penthouse Forum; they are legitimate building-trades words (but, then again, the building trades industry is predominantly male....)

@liam887 said: My steam account is Liam887 but my origin was liamk887 Got it.

we added a new mini publication on http://books.sketchucation.com - MP07 - French Birdie chair by Alvydas. we are open to requests, so if you want to learn how to do something in Sketchup (modeling, texturing, scripting, ...) ask away !

good tip, chris. considering the time he will spend teaching sketchup skills the cost is a bit steep. thanks anyway.

D'you think they might publish Best Player results on WikiLeaks?

Great! Thanks.

You quoted Fairleigh Dickinson University also known as Fairly Ridiculous University...good job with the research. Waiting for more nuggets of genius insight.

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One note about comparing compressed image formats: the content of the image will give different results for the same dimensions. So its not as simple as one format being always better than the other.