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BTGBullseye

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  1. Yeah, you'd have to choose your own since I personally would consider over 2 hours of content to be the "golden moments".
  2. 2006 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006 Russia cuts the shipment of natural gas to Ukraine over a price dispute. NASA's Stardust mission successfully ends, the first to return dust from a comet. NASA launches the first space mission to Pluto as a rocket hurls the New Horizons spacecraft on a 9-year journey. Pope Benedict XVI issues his first encycylical, Deus Caritas Est. The final contact attempt with Pioneer 10 receives no response. NASA's Cassini–Huygens spacecraft discovers geysers of a liquid substance shooting from Saturn's moon Enceladus, signaling a possible presence of water. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter enters Mars orbit. The United Nations General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to establish the United Nations Human Rights Council. A scramjet jet engine, Hyshot III, designed to fly at 7 times the speed of sound, is successfully tested at Woomera, South Australia. The European Space Agency's Venus Express spaceprobe enters Venus' orbit. Nuclear program of Iran: president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad confirms that Iran has successfully produced a few grams of low-grade enriched uranium. Iran announces a deal with Russia, involving a joint uranium enrichment firm on Russian soil; 9 days later Iran announces that it will not move all activity to Russia, thus leading to a de facto termination of the deal. The Human Genome Project publishes the last chromosome sequence, in Nature. The United States Armed Forces withdraws its forces in Iceland, thereby disbanding the Iceland Defence Force. 2006 Lebanon War: Israeli troops invade Lebanon in response to Hezbollah kidnapping 2 Israeli soldiers and killing 3. Hezbollah declares open war against Israel 2 days later. Twitter is launched. A resolution to end the 2006 Lebanon War is unanimously accepted by the United Nations Security Council. The International Astronomical Union defines 'planet' at its 26th General Assembly, demoting Pluto to the status of 'dwarf planet' more than 70 years after its discovery. (and causing a split amongst astronomers) North Korea claims to have conducted its first-ever nuclear test. No. 5, 1948 by Jackson Pollock becomes the most expensive painting after it is sold privately for $140 million. Mercury transits the sun. It is visible from the Americas, Eastern China, Japan, Australia, and Polynesia. Swift raids: Homeland Security police detain workers at 6 meatpacking plans in the midwestern U.S.
  3. Might want to think about adding a donations system... And getting rid of that giant blank space under your logo on the main page.
  4. Put your specs in the Hardware forum, and I'll see if I can help you speed it up some.
  5. Minus the vodka.
  6. I agree with that. The rest however, I do not. (other than the fact that most people can't even talk about it in a logical manner)
  7. 2004 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004 (in order to fix the problem of it not telling me when there's another post right before mine, I'm posting a quickie, then editing in the meat) International Year of Rice. (by the United Nations) International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition. (by UNESCO) 2004 World Health Day topic was Road Safety. (by World Health Organization) NASA's MER-A (Spirit) & MER-B (Opportunity) lands on Mars. A whale explodes in Tainan City, Taiwan, while being transported through the town to a university for a necropsy. Facebook launches. (and privacy dies) Scientists in South Korea announce the cloning of 30 human embryos. NASA announces that the Mars rover MER-B (Opportunity) has confirmed that its landing area was once drenched in water. The largest expansion of NATO to date takes place, allowing Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia into the organization. The largest expansion to date of the European Union takes place, extending the Union by 10 member-states: Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Malta and Cyprus. North Korea bans mobile phones. The first transit of Venus since 1882 occurs; the next one will occur in 2012. In Mojave, California, SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight. The U.S.-led coalition occupying Iraq transfers sovereignty to an Iraqi Interim Government. Preliminary hearings begin in Iraq in the trial of former president Saddam Hussein, for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Cassini–Huygens spacecraft arrives at Saturn. Vatican City gains full membership rights in the United Nations except voting. NASA's MESSENGER is launched (it is captured into Mercury's orbit on March 18, 2011). During the Republican National Convention over 1800 individuals were arrested by the authorities in New York, USA. However 90% of those charges were eventually dropped. In Mojave, California, the first Ansari X-Prize flight takes place of SpaceShipOne, which is competing with a number of spacecraft (including Canada's Da Vinci Project, claimed to be its closest rival) and goes on to win the prize on October 4. A team of explorers reaches the bottom of Krubera Cave, world's deepest cave. The depth reached is 2,080 meters (6,824 feet), setting a world record. The Ubuntu operating system is first released. Brazil successfully launches its first rocket into space. The Cassini probe passes within 1,200 km of Titan. The European Space Agency probe Smart 1 passes from Earth orbit into the orbit of the Moon. NASA's hypersonic Scramjet breaks a record by reaching a velocity of about 7,000 mph in an unmanned experimental flight. It obtains a speed of Mach 9.6, almost 10 times the speed of sound. The world's tallest bridge, the Millau bridge over the River Tarn in the Massif Central mountains, France, is opened by President Jacques Chirac. The House of Lords rules that the British Government breaches human rights legislation, by detaining without trial foreign nationals suspected of being terrorists. One of the worst natural disasters in recorded history hits Southeast Asia, when the strongest earthquake in 40 years, measuring 9.3 on the Richter scale, hits the entire Indian Ocean region, which generates an enormous tsunami that crashes into the coastal areas of a number of nations including Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Indonesia. The official death toll in the affected countries stands at 186,983 while more than 40,000 people are still missing. Astrophysicists from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching near Munich measure the strongest burst from a magnetar. At 21:30:26 UT the earth is hit by a huge wave front of gamma and X-rays. It is the strongest flux of high-energetic gamma radiation measured so far. The Russian Federation stops recognizing Soviet Union passports as legal identification.
  8. I've done it before... TWICE!!!
  9. sounds like a damn good idea. Screw her. Take a good camera with you... Bring back memorabilia... You know, just violate the entire time-space continuum while you have the chance. What? What what?
  10. Testing my recently re-ripped audio CDs... Just found 3 of the albums I've been looking for for over 2 years, and if they all sound clear and good I'll upload them to my PirateBay account for anyone to get. (I haven't found any decent torrents of these albums in FLAC anywhere)
  11. A glass of Arizona Green Tea with Ginsing & Honey, with a drop or two each of lemon and lime juice, and about 2 shots worth of orange flavored vodka.
  12. NEOScavenger 0.987b. NO MORE EXE FILE EDITING!!! YAY!!!
  13. I've seen several of those... Mice shortings too... Then again, I've also seen USB ports that got fried because of low-grade USB1.0 thimbdrives, and would shut off the entire system if you touched any of the metal of the port with anything in any way. (my brother's PC lasted an extra 3 years after this, and I killed two of my own systems with it) Yeah, they like compression nowadays, and us "old fogies" don't like it. (I'm 26 BTW)
  14. The big problem is that the final audio length would only be about 15 minutes shorter than the total video lengths...
  15. Female/FreeMAN
  16. 2001 - A Space Odyssey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001 The first day of the 21st century. Noah, a gaur, is born, the first animal of an endangered species to be cloned. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission approves the merger of America Online and Time Warner to form AOL Time Warner. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, launches on the Internet. The Congressional Budget Office of the United States forecasts a $5,600,000,000,000 budget surplus for the next 10 years. The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid. The deorbit of Russian space station Mir is carried out near Nadi, Fiji, with Mir falling into the Pacific Ocean. Soyuz TM-32 lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying the first space tourist, American Dennis Tito. A large trans-Neptunian object (28978 Ixion) is found during the Deep Ecliptic Survey. George W. Bush signs the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, the first tax cut of a series now known as the Bush tax cuts. The world's longest train is set up by BHP Iron Ore and is recorded going between Newman and Port Hedland in Western Australia (a distance of 275 km, or 170 miles) and the train consists of 682 loaded iron ore wagons and 8 GE AC6000CW locomotives, giving a gross weight of almost 100,000 tonnes and moves 82,262 tonnes of ore; the train is 7.353 km (4.569 mi) long. The world's first self-contained artificial heart is implanted in Robert Tools. The FBI arrests Dmitry Sklyarov at a convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, for violating a provision of the DMCA. (he actually did nothing illegal, and all charges against him and the company he worked for were eventually dismissed) The 27th G8 summit takes place in Genoa, Italy. Massive demonstrations are held against the meeting by anti-globalisation groups. One demonstrator, Carlo Giuliani, is shot dead by a carabiniere. Several others are badly injured during a police attack on a school used by the protesters as their headquarters. Windows XP is launched by Microsoft. The United States, Canada and Israel withdraw from the U.N. Conference on Racism because they feel that the issue of Zionism is overemphasized. United States v. Microsoft: The United States Justice Department announces that it no longer seeks to break up software maker Microsoft, and will instead seek a lesser antitrust penalty. Donald Rumsfeld warns of $2,300,000,000,000 of Pentagon spending that cannot be accounted for. 2,997 people are killed in the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia and in rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania after American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 are hijacked and crash into the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, American Airlines Flight 77 is hijacked and crashes into the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93 is hijacked and crashes into grassland in Shanksville, due to the passengers fighting to regain control of the airplane. The 2001 anthrax attacks commence as letters containing anthrax spores are mailed from Princeton, New Jersey to ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the New York Post, and the National Enquirer. 22 in total are exposed; 5 of them die. U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security. War in Afghanistan (2001–present): The United States invades Afghanistan, with participation from other nations. NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles (180 km) of Jupiter's moon Io. The iPod is first introduced by Apple. U.S. President George W. Bush signs the Patriot Act into law. The Doha Declaration relaxes the grip of international intellectual property law. The People's Republic of China is admitted to the World Trade Organization after 15 years of negotiations. In the first such act since World War II, U.S. President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against any foreigners suspected of having connections to terrorist acts or planned acts against the United States. Law enforcement raid members of DrinkOrDie in Operation Buccaneer. (and freedom dies just a little bit more) U.S. President George W. Bush announces the US withdrawal from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. The People's Republic of China is granted permanent normal trade status with the United States.
  17. Banned for not getting the time right. It says 5:04 am.
  18. What do you have to say? Please? Thank you?
  19. Penis dicks.
  20. Going through all my old backup disks from 2006 and getting all my Freelancer mods back.
  21. Actually, it made sense since people could conceivably damage their game cartridge, but not their console, requiring them to repurchase the cartridge... And they were planning on producing more consoles after the game release.
  22. sTSA_sWGM44
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