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Offline Nemesis6

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Re: The Battle of Tripoli
Reply #80 on: August 29, 2011, 08:41:29 am
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/08/28/libya.gadhafi.nanny/index.html?iref=NS1

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Re: The Battle of Tripoli
Reply #81 on: August 29, 2011, 05:59:58 pm
I cannot believe he was actually named that.

I mean who the **** names their kid "Hannibal"
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Reply #82 on: August 29, 2011, 06:38:11 pm
It depends on your perspective, I would have thought, after all, I'm sure the same could be said about calling your child 'Richard' from the perspective of the Middle East ;)

The problem is, most people in the West think of Hannibal Lecter, not the very succesful Carthaginian general ;)
 

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Reply #83 on: August 29, 2011, 06:52:29 pm
Exactly. Given the location of Carthage it's not that weird a name.
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Offline Kosh

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Reply #84 on: August 29, 2011, 11:46:46 pm
Doesn't change the fact that he's evil. If he isn't dead already it will be good riddance when he does die.
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Reply #85 on: August 30, 2011, 12:00:22 am
Er... well.... One's name doesn't make them good or evil. I think the point was just that it's not as ludicrous of a name over there as it would be over here.
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Reply #86 on: August 30, 2011, 02:59:01 am
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Offline Kosh

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Re: The Battle of Tripoli
Reply #87 on: August 30, 2011, 06:02:38 am
Quote from: redsniper on August 30, 2011, 12:00:22 am
Er... well.... One's name doesn't make them good or evil. I think the point was just that it's not as ludicrous of a name over there as it would be over here.


I wasn't referring to the name.
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Reply #88 on: August 30, 2011, 06:13:09 am
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