Oh you mean this ....? It’s a pretty good abstract I think, fairly credible, given it was written by a Phd. who was also the former director for the Pentagon’s China policy.

It would be an adjunct to the South Stream Pipeline then, wouldn’t it? I don’t know .... the Black Sea is pretty gnarly to build in I would imagine. They already have those gas pipelines running through Ukraine anyway.

Yes, the Qatar-Turkey Gas Pipeline. And yes, that’s exactly what this Syria thing is really all about: money, money, money, money, money.

As long as the gas flows from Russia to Turkey, it won’t escalate any further.

Putin is weighing his options very carefully. The Gazprom Blue Stream Gas Pipeline runs through Turkey. Turkey is a massive customer of Gazprom’s. And Turkey is also heavily dependent on that gas. If Russia shuts off the gas, it stands to lose a ton of revenue. Turkish president Erdogan will then have to deal with a…

They’ve probably got a team of a dozen film editors working on different parts of the film at the same time, with JJ and his AD’s overseeing them. At this point, it’s all editing, editing, editing. Aside from actual production and footage, film editing is what it’s really all about.

I heard that for every lens flare that ended up on the cutting room floor, JJ Abrams died a little bit inside.

Looks like the pilots ate at Chipotle (where the “e” is for “E.Coli”) last night.

Kind of wondering about Finn and that light saber —- is he doing it with some Jedi training under his belt, or is he just sorta hacking away with it? There’s a leeeeettle skill there from what I can see in the clip, as he has that stormtrooper on the defensive, and there’s some confidence in his swings.

No doubt, the Russians, Iranians and French will have huge contracts from the Syrians in the rebuilding and reconstruction. And thanks to the new lows in Middle East foreign policy achieved by Obama, the Russians will be really entrenched in the Middle East on an unprecedented level, and an alliance or coalition will…

Old as they are, they’re still oh-so-beautiful planes.

Same here. Huge Lakers fan. Man, the NBA’s not going to be the same with Kobe gone. I consider him the last of the greats from that bygone NBA era with Jordan, Malone, Stockton, Reggie, Patrick, Hakeem, Scottie, Clyde, Charles ..... NBA players nowadays seem a lot more callow, less physical ..... and generic. Aside…

The Blazers during Clyde the Glide’s time had much, much better chemistry than the Clippers do now. I remember those days, man ... the Golden Age of the NBA, with Jordan and all the other NBA greats still around. Clyde had the likes of Terry Porter, Cliff Robinson, Jerome Kersey et al. They couldn’t get over that hump…

Everyone keeps waiting for Russia to go down the tubes, but it isn’t happening. This whole ‘decline’ thing reminds me so much of American attitudes about Cuba —- again, how’d that work out after more than 50 years of sanctions? Maybe Russia can’t build large military ships any more ... or maybe it doesn’t need to ...?…

You know, you read too quickly and thus suffer reading comprehension issues. But it’s okay — better to read too quickly and open your mouth and let everyone definitively know your foolishness, than to leave people guessing.

Not my fault you have a reading comprehension problem. Read what I wrote again. Slowly. And this time, with less indignant self-righteousness.

Such as .... what? Do you have any pics as examples of Berlin ‘design’?

The Clippers aren’t an elite team. In order to be in that class, you actually have to win something of note. They definitely have a tremendous amount of potential though to one day become an elite team.

Really? Sorry, I was born 1981, and really don’t remember that. But hey, look, it’s 2015! I also notice that a lot of the countries that don’t have good relations with the West have developed some extent of autarky: Cuba, Russia, Iran —- and especially China, before it got a taste of Hong Kong and it then decided to…

Oh, definitely for homes or residences, Scandinavian design and architecture is definitely up there (and even that’s been heavily influenced too by living in 24-hour nights nearly several months a year and harsh winters). But for commercial or large building architecture? Really? Like I said, leave the old church…