SgtJoeFriday

For a lot of you, I'm sure this one will be tough. For me it's easy... And she's the only one out of these to make it to the final four.

Trooper! That's awesome though. The PS3 bundle at Walmart was awesome. Why were they stupid? Poor parenting is the easiest answer. My wife manages a department store and had to be at work at 3 AM. Naturally she didn't get any sleep. With her schedule for work we aren't able to really enjoy Thanksgiving. HOWEVER, the upside is we don't have to share it with her family. And we get better deals.

WOA WOA WOA are we re-voting just because the girl you want to didn't win? HMM? lol ;D Alyssa

Mark Martin is NASCAR's Susan Lucci. Did you see that stat, 400 top ten finishes. That guy is a God. Watching him in an interview before the race, his arms are buff. He works out ALL the time and gets going listening to rap. Next year....Next year. But to the point. Nobody anywhere has four in a row. Jimmy and Knaus have done something that gets them mentioned in the same breath as the greatest ever to race. Not "oh and also great the #48 team." The SAME BREATH. It's impressive given the level of competition that exists today. Back in the day when Petty was winning 200, he would race in Joe Bob's race that was sanctioned against maybe 2-3 other guys going for points and then a handful of locals. He'd win by a lap or more. Now there are more cars finishing on the lead lap then ever before. That's pretty freaking competitive. It is one of the most incredible things to have happened in sports. HISTORY.

Can you imagine, it's down for about a year. It's fixed and they start slowly testing and ramping up their speed. Then somewhere around December 2012 they put it to the ultimate test and BOOM Earth, gone. lol I can't wait to see what happens. By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS, Associated Press Writer Alexander G. Higgins, Associated Press Writer Sat Nov 21, 10:42 am ET GENEVA – Scientists moved Saturday to prepare the world's largest atom smasher for exploring the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs. The nuclear physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider were surprised that they could so quickly get beams of protons whizzing near the speed of light during the restart late Friday, said James Gillies, spokesman for the European Organization for Nuclear Research. The machine was heavily damaged by a simple electrical fault in September last year. Some scientists had gone home early Friday and had to be called back as the project jumped ahead, Gillies said. At a meeting early Saturday "they basically had to tear up the first few pages of their PowerPoint presentation which had outlined the procedures that they were planning to follow," he said. "That was all wrapped up by midnight. They are going through the paces really very fast." The European Organization for Nuclear Research has taken the restart of the collider step by step to avoid further setbacks as it moves toward new scientific experiments — probably starting in January — regarding the makeup of matter and the universe. CERN, as it is known, had hoped by 7 a.m. (0600 GMT) Saturday to get the beams to travel the 27-kilometer (17-mile) circular tunnel under the Swiss-French border, but things went so well Friday evening that they had achieved the operation seven hours earlier. Praise from scientists around the world was quick. "First beam through the Atlas!" whooped an Internet message from Adam Yurkewicz, an American scientist working on the massive Atlas detector on the machine. "I congratulate the scientists and engineers that have worked to get the LHC back up and running," said Dennis Kovar of the U.S. Department of Energy, which participates in the project. He called the machine "unprecedented in size, in complexity, and in the scope of the international collaboration that has built it over the last 15 years." Later Saturday the organizers decided to test all the protection equipment while there still is a very low intensity proton beam circulating in the collider at 11,000 times a second. The tests will take 10 days, Gillies said. The current beam has relatively few protons to avoid damage to the LHC should control of them be lost. Gillies said CERN decided against immediately testing the LHC's ability to speed up the beams to higher energy or to start with low-energy collisions that would help scientist calibrate their detection equipment. In the meantime CERN is using about 2,000 superconducting magnets — some of them 15 meters (50 feet) long — to improve control of the beams of billions of protons so they will remain tightly bunched and stay clear of sensitive equipment. Gillies said the scientists are being very conservative. "They're leaving a lot of time so that the guys who are operating the machine are under no pressure whatsoever to tick off the boxes and move forward," he said. Officials said Friday evening's progress was an important step on the road toward scientific discoveries at the LHC, which are expected in 2010. "We've still got some way to go before physics can begin, but with this milestone we're well on the way," CERN Director General Rolf Heuer said. With great fanfare, CERN circulated its first beams Sept. 10, 2008. But the machine was sidetracked nine days later when a badly soldered electrical splice overheated and set off a chain of damage to the magnets and other parts of the collider. Steve Myers, CERN's director for accelerators, said the improvements since then have made the LHC a far better understood machine than it was a year ago. The LHC is expected soon to be running with more energy the world's current most powerful accelerator, the Tevatron at Fermilab near Chicago. It is supposed to keep ramping up to seven times the energy of Fermilab in coming years. This will allow the collisions between protons to give insights into dark matter and what gives mass to other particles, and to show what matter was in the microseconds of rapid cooling after the Big Bang that many scientists theorize marked the creation of the universe billions of years ago. When the machine is fully operational, the magnets will control the beams of protons and send them in opposite directions through two parallel tubes the size of fire hoses. In rooms as large as cathedrals 300 feet (100 meters) below the ground the magnets will force them into huge detectors to record what happens. The LHC operates at nearly absolute zero temperature, colder than outer space, which allows the superconducting magnets to guide the protons most efficiently. Physicists have used smaller, room-temperature colliders for decades to study the atom. They once thought protons and neutrons were the smallest components of the atom's nucleus, but the colliders showed that they are made of quarks and gluons and that there are other forces and particles. And scientists still have other questions about antimatter, dark matter and supersymmetry they want to answer with CERN's new collider. The Superconducting Super Collider being built in Texas would have been bigger than the LHC, but in 1993 the U.S. Congress canceled it after costs soared and questions were raised about its scientific value Gillies said the LHC should be ramped up to 3.5 trillion electron volts some time next year, which will be 3 1/2 times as powerful as Fermilab. The two laboratories are friendly rivals, working on equipment and sharing scientists. But each would be delighted to make the discovery of the elusive Higgs boson, the particle or field that theoretically gives mass to other particles. That is widely expected to deserve the Nobel Prize for physics. More than 8,000 physicists from other labs around the world also have work planned for the LHC. The organization is run by its 20 European member nations, with support from other countries, including observers Japan, India, Russia and the U.S. that have made big contributions.

GO DUCKS!! I love the smell of Roses in Pasadena in January.

Now they've gotten to Christina too. It's invasion of the body snatchers. lol

Losing the shiny Vampire argument? This is not the way to end it. And of the 20 people in RI I think you're the only one playing in Urgent Fury so good luck finding someone here. LMAO

torrent is just a way to bypass extreme overpricing im sorry but a computer program is NOT worth more then a brand new laptop IMO It is to the person or persons that put in hours and days of training and effort to build the program.

Old and Lucky you are a post whore.

Mod boxes, hacked games, pirated videos....ALL cheating and those that participate get no respect from me.

It's amazing just how advanced everyone was except us. All we had going is grit and determination. This Sunday on the Military channel is a first time ever return to Iwo Jima. They are going to explore the island from where we landed to where they were hold up in. Should be incredible.

I am saddened that Beil lost.

I used to get 3-4 a week then I got married.

they just keep getting better and better... they should try writing novels and shit. She's sending "massages" mmmmmm hope she's cute and from the tone, I assume "The Happy Ending" is included.

Whatever, I can do 17 hours, have a Monster Energy drink and do 17 more. What a punk. Kids these days. I thought American kids were pussies. That wanker is sad. He's going to become someones "Catcher" soon. lol I think he got tired of his Death Streak kicking in.

I agree with that. I guess I got my fill of sniping from the Spec Ops. The stealth missions on Veteran are a fucking blast. It's totally worth it getting sniped in the eyeball 20 times just so I can do it again. The Chernobyl one is fun as hell. Chernobly was EPIC... fun as hell! *Try lining up those 3 guards for a 3 for one bullet kill! One of the reasons I LOVE Operation Flashpoint is sniping. You can hit guys at 600-700 meters and you have to actually raise the scope and you can watch it arc.

The Staff is already hard at work determining the rule setups for Urgent Fury competition. I for one am logging as many hours as I can getting to know the game. Regardless, we are listening to your suggestions and investigating ourselves. I doubt setups will be announced until tournament time. But the only way to be sure is to keep checking back and keep posting suggestions.

The last level I'm given what's considered the best sniper rifle in the world(CheyTac) and I didn't use it, THE ENTIRE MAP. WTF I wanted a true sniper map. The one in COD:MW was awesome and that you had ONE SHOT at the end was heart dramatic. But no, it comes down to a knife throw. YEAH. It was a good game, I did like the breach doors. It was fun to go threw, slow down and POP, POP, POP, CLEAR! That's good stuff.

"wasn't hurt"? did you see him drop the pistol and grab his hand. That looked like he was pretty hurt. And when he turns you can see a dot on his hand. Looks like he hit the full auto switch and wasn't ready for it. LOL

I know that's right. I've come so close to throwing my controller at my TV screen and that would be exactly the type of situation that could cause me to lose my self control. Especially watching the kill replay. I'd watch that, and throw my controller. That's one of those tough ones to believe. How did he know to throw it there? AND hit a guy on the run? That's so much more then a regular Ninja Perk.

I know, and a couple of the levels are TWO players only.

Not there yet but OMG does there have to be so freaking many hoards of bad guys. I must have forgot on purpose about how hectic it can get.

http://www.marines.com/main/index/winning_battles/history/missions/founding_of_the_marine_co Happy Birthday and THANK YOU. In tribute, I watched Jarhead today.

It Felt very surreal. It made the news before release but I am VERY surprised it isn't ALL over now after release. I would think some parents advocacy groups would be CRYING more. But I'm sure it will come.