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She's back with him, and if you believe the rumors, they're recording duets and planning a marriage. This after he repeatedly punched her face, bit her, and assailed her with untold verbal abuse. Many women are afraid to leave or don't have the support or resources to walk away from such a relationship. Rihanna has those, but she's choosing to remain with him. It's no wonder people believe violence is a normal part of a relationship.

Well it doesn't tell anyone where you live, it just shows a picture of the street view of your house and everyone else's house just like anyone could get by walking down the street. I have used it for locating specific buildings to make easier directions, I've used it to explore neighborhoods in order to judge if I want to rent a specific apartment or stay at a hotel in that area.

To be fair, the "spend" plan has only one single goal: employment. Germany and France don't seem to know much about successful employment policies, considering they have both consistently suffered some of Europe's highest unemployment numbers even in the "boom" times, hovering around 9% while the US and UK were 3-4 percentage points lower...

Someone please explain to me exactly how a criminal could use Google street view to commit a crime that he would not have been able to commit without it. Utter paranoia and fear-mongering. We've had this service for years and I've only ever heard a few minor complaints. It's a very powerful tool, very useful. If it's legal to walk down a street and snap a photo of someone's house, then Google is breaking no laws here.

Hahaha that makes two of us. However I do think it's a pretty varied chart... pop, hip/hop, rock, country, even a novelty song all in the top 10. Definitely heavy on the hip/hop and country for my taste but no one can deny their popularity as genres here.

I was hoping Poker Face would move to #2... <_<

Oh man, I need to break this down. Older classics, pre 1970: South Pacific, The Music Man, My Fair Lady, Oliver, Cabaret Campy cheesy crap, 1970-1990: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The Wiz, Hair Modern: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Moulin Rouge, Hairspray, Chicago, Rent It's difficult to rate musical films that are based on stage musicals, as the stage musicals are almost always better.

Is Poker Face closing in on the lead?

Do I think the EU should spend its time and resources on better things? Yes, of course. But I also think we should always re-evaluate how we communicate. Why do people get so up in arms at the very idea of adjusting our language to better suit the circumstances? In America, everyone used to call the airline server a "stewardess" but as more and more males started to take the job, it was circulated that "flight attendant" is a better title. So over time, by using "flight attendant" in airline industry lingo and having the media adopt the phrase, it has become the most popular and preferred title.

Kipling lives! :lol: The idea of colonialism "developing" nations and fulfilling some noble duty (White Man's Burden, etc.) came at the very end of the era of colonialism and was mostly limited to British colonies. The vast majority of colonial exploits (in Latin America, East Asia, Africa and the Middle East) from the 15th through 20th centuries were characterized by brutality and genocide, funneling satellite resources back to the European power, human trafficking and slave trade, forced religious conversion, devastation of local culture, religion, race and identity. And frankly the notion that even the gentler, modern British colonialism of the 20th century is somehow noble or moral is extremely dubious.

It is a bit sexist how women must be addressed as married or not married (Mrs. or Ms.) while men are always simply Mr. Just sayin'...

I have a real problem with this. If you're measuring success by "democracy and free elections" then how can you possibly support colonialism, which is damned near the exact opposite of democracy and local sovereignty?

This explains a lot. You're making a case for education, buddy. You could really be part of a public awareness campaign. "Stay in school or you will turn into ME!" :lol:

As someone who is currently studying to get a Masters degree in International Development, I can say clearly and frankly that Thatcher and Reagan are responsible for the deaths of millions of people in developing countries. They both hijacked the international financial institutions with their toxic "Washington Consensus" which created structural adjustment policies in the World Bank and IMF. Structural adjustment has failed MISERABLY and has been denounced by even the rightest of conservatives. Thatcher is a pathetic, miserable, disgusting creature who (with Ronald Reagan) put ideology above the ethics and all else... an ideology which has been proven time and time again to be false and wrong. Honestly, she and Reagan may be responsible for as many deaths of George Bush if not more...

Oh man this came out when I was 12 - and I was a very impressionable 12 year old! My friends and I spent the rest of the summer playing Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board and playing with ouija boards and burning candles in the middle of the day and generally freaking out our parents :lol: After Scream was released later that year, Neve Campbell became an unlikely teen superstar (at 23 years old, haha). Christine Taylor is also great in The Craft... she's great in everything though.

Not a great response to an accusation of insensitivity... you replaced "abos" with "crawling with bloody asians" :lol: They go to Australia with the intention to work, period. If Australia won't grant them a visa, they can't get "legal" jobs so they'll work illegally or in the informal sector. Australia, like every developed country, relies on below market wage labor provided by immigrants.

Yeah... ostensibly. Then a series of bizarre, age-old alliances created a chain reaction that no one foresaw or could explain. And there were a lot of reasons... perhaps Germany was jealous of Britain, certainly France was furious at Germany because of the loss of Alsace. Hell, I think sentiment was a big part of it. Most of Europe's leaders, Wilhelm of Germany especially, had a chivalrous, romantic delusion of grandeur about war, that war was grand and exciting and romantic. But couple that sort of Medieval attitude with very modern technology and weapons and before long it was a fukking bloodbath. Guns of August is a great WWI read that really shows how idiotic and pointless the whole thing was. Just a bunch of degenerate (and incestuous) "nobles" oohing and aahing over the "glory" of war while millions were suffering excruciating and pointless deaths... still can't believe people idolize the aristocracy and nobility of Europe, it's a backward, Medieval concept in my opinion... (hope I don't get slammed for that :lol:)

PS Those Slumdog kids were so adorable in their little tuxes!

Really impressed this year... the best ceremony I've seen in many years... very entertaining and I have absolutely ZERO qualms with any of the winners. Sean Penn and Kate Winslet were both sensational. I liked the format of bringing out previous winners. Let's be honest, we're all a bit sentimental on Oscar night and we love seeing clips from past shows. This expanded on that, bringing past winners to stage to shrewdly describe the performances (who can tell by a 10 second clip?). Great speeches this year, too... Sean Penn, Penelope Cruz and Kate Winslet all charmed... Dustin Lance Black was utterly breathtaking.

You can hope. I think Milk is the only film that stands a (very small) chance against Slumdog. After Brokeback got snubbed for that pile of $h!t Crash, the Academy may have felt obliged to vote for Milk this year. Having said that, I agree that Slumdog will almost certainly win and deserves to.

He's a State Senator in the UTAH Senate. He's not a US Senator.

While I admit the movie terrified me as a child, I look back now at those scenes where a tiny doll leaps up and overpowers a grown adult, throwing him to the ground... I can't help but laugh hysterically. I'm actually not offended by the prospect of a remake because the original film was just so awful itself.

Should Christopher Nolan make another Batman film, especially with Christian Bale, I think it might be unwise to include the Joker with a new actor (though not for any reason other than inevitable and endless Ledger caparisons). But when another creative team takes on the Batman series, which will surely happen sometime in the future, it would be fine to pick a new Joker! Hell, maybe the next generation will want another campy, cheeky Joker in the Nicholson vein.

Flo Rida is also #1 on iTunes in Australia, New Zealand and Canada and rocketing up the chart in Ireland, France, Finland, Greece and Sweden. Looks to be a huge, global hit.

My thoughts exactly. It's a playground for the super rich. Nothing organic or natural about it. Billion-dollar skyscrapers in the middle of the desert, funded by idiotic real estate speculators whose dreams of "flipping" their way to millions is crashing all around them. From what I hear, all these skyscrapers and developments are empty - either because their owners are trying to flip them or because they're "3rd or 4th homes" for the superrich. Who wants to live in a neighborhood where your neighbors only spend a week a year in Dubai? Tacky and tasteless, like Las Vegas without the googie kitsch or vice. They can have their indoor ski resorts. I'd much rather go to, you know, a real mountain with real snow.