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An Internet forum is a facility on the World Wide Web for holding discussions, or the web application software used to provide the facility. Web-based forums, which date from around 1995, perform a similar function as the dial-up bulletin boards and Internet newsgroups that were numerous in the 1980s and 1990s. A sense of virtual community often develops around forums that have regular users. Technology, computer games, and politics are popular areas for forum themes, but there are forums for a huge number of different topics .

Internet forums are also commonly referred to as web forums, message boards, discussion boards, discussion forums, discussion groups, bulletin boards (but see also dial-up bulletin boards), fora (the proper Latin plural) or simply forums.

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Internet forums are prevalent in several developed countries. In terms of countable posts, Japan is far in the lead with over two million posts per day on their largest forum, 2channel. The United States does not have any one large forum, but instead several hundred thousand smaller forums, the largest of which are GameFAQs, Gaia Online, and IGN. Other countries such as China, the Netherlands, and France are also home to hundreds of independent forums. Some countries such as Finland and Sweden do not have many prevalent forums despite having open and easily available Internet access. As of yet no study has been done on the prevalence of forums in countries around the world. It is also dubious as to whether any country has its own fora, as - especially in the English language - contributors to a forum often come from outside the country in which the forum is hosted. There is often not a 1-1 relationship between languages and countries: for example, English language fora are contributed to by people all over the world, whilst Japanese language fora are likely to be contributed to only by Japanese people, but Japanese people also contribute to English language fora, so there is no 1-1 relationship between Japanese language fora and Japanese people contributing to fora.

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7 dead in shooting at Fort Hood, Texas
Trojan_Ripper Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:19:26 -0000
TalkRadio 570 KLIF (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FORT_HOOD_SHOOTING?SITE=KLIF&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT) Army: 7 dead in dual attacks at Fort Hood, Texas - USATODAY.com (http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2009-11-05-Fort-Hood_N.htm?csp=34)
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Questatement Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:46:01 -0000
A Real Islam Policy for a Real America (http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/012935.html) ---Quote--- The key to this liberal ideology is the belief in tolerance or non-discrimination as the ruling principle of society, the principle to which all other principles must yield. We see this belief at work in every area of modern life. The principle of non-discrimination must, if followed consistently, destroy every human society and institution. A society that cannot discriminate between itself and other societies will go out of existence... ---End Quote---
Zimbabwe plan
Charlatan Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:50:20 -0000
If they have taken the farms away from the farmers, and divided the land between the people, then the people must come to the rescue of the state. If they were to sell their foodstuffs at a super market, the supermarket would make money, and the people would have something to eat. Simple. To make the state recover they simply cut off a few zeroes all the time until it stabalises. They can stabalise it by having the businesses of the state expand by buying land. No need for government intervenation at all. If the business capitalise on the cheap land, as they are stuck there, the state will get enriched, the businesses will rapidly expand, employing more people, and then there will be more money flowing there. The only problem is that the state imports so much goods, so, they should stop that! Boycotting foreign goods will result in the state becoming richer, as the money stays in the country that way. Then the currency will rectify, the people will have food and jobs. They should build purely industrial and commercial buidings so that if they are taken away then they will provide jobs for people, and explain to Mugabe that it is for everyone's good and well being.
U.N. debates Gaza war investigations
Charlatan Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:41:18 -0000
U.N. debates Gaza war investigations - CNN.com (http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/11/04/un.gaza/index.html) This war is over with. If they want to prove anything it can be done by esp hypnosis, but how do you prove it in court? Esp is based on elecrcity. You can see it leaving the body and going into the new body with the right scope os sensor, but there is a lot of noise. You will probably see the whole spectrum if you find it, or not. The body and brain works on electrical signals from one mind to another, like a telephone. The brain works on electrical signals and is tied to the subconscious. Now we can see it and know how it works. Now that we have proved that there is an esp, we can go to esp hypnosis. This is when people picture the person in their mind and pretend to hypnotise them - in their mind - and get the truth. Aleternatively, if they want to save time, they could have everyone sit in court and let the jury do it to them. Then they pass a verdict. End of story.
Union seeks injunction against British Airways
Charlatan Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:46:13 -0000
Union seeks injunction against British Airways - CNN.com (http://edition.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/11/05/uk.british.airways/index.html) To appease the workers of the airlines all they need is more money coming in. If they were to make more money by raising ticket prices they would still make the same amount of money, as those travelling business class are paid for by the companies hey work for. The rest will be supplied by people who can afford to travel, which is the rich anyway. People will complain but they will pay. This cost of salaries will be covered by the increased air fare price, as if it empties, just raise the price more. The problem is that most people cannot afford to travel, but those that do travel anyway will afford it anyway. If they were to raise the prices they will afford the employees and also with the shrinking people in the cabins they just make it their problem - there will always be someone travelling, plod it off onto them. Alternatively, they could also sell tickets in bulk to the airports. That will lower costs of tickets and then they will get more people, but that leaves the problem of the vacancy of the planes, and thier accounts. This means they will make less money, unfortunately - by my calculations - but I could be wrong after all. Or, they could also liquidate. If they simply sold off all thier planes they could make a sizeable income and keep it - the sharholders - and the planes will be picked up at a steal. That will allow the new shareholders to make their own way, who will no doubtedly opt for option one I suggested - raising the ticket prices. Looks like the only way out of this is to 'tax the rich more', who can afford it, inevitably. Or they could sell shrares slowly, but that only provides capital, and in this business that is useless.
GM: Opel job cuts could hit 10,000
Charlatan Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:33:11 -0000
GM: Opel job cuts could hit 10,000 - CNN.com (http://edition.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/11/04/germany.opel.gm/index.html) When it comes to saving jobs people should pull out all the stops. To save tha jobs here a new plan is needed. If they were to sell fifty five percent of the shares to make up the difference, why not sell about twenty percent of the shares to make for a short term benefit? With the increase in capital they could make that money run through the business continually, a 'closed circuit circulation', by using the money they make from the sale of the shares to buy franchises in the supermarket franchises. This means that they will always be turning a profit, as they will buy food stuffs and sell food stuffs indefinately, along with other brands of end user goods - goods that go nowhere but to consumers - and then turn a profit there aswell. Basically the business could use the capital of selling the shares to branch out into other sectors, and, with the profits coming in from those areas, generate more money for running the business. Then they could alternatively incorporate a chain coorporation, where instead of using the money from selling shares to buy franchises, they could buy a mine somewhere. This means they will pay next to nothing for their raw materials, and raw materials cost a lot more than salaries of employees, and then they could contorl their business from the raw materials to the finished goods. This will cut prices dramatically for producing cars and let them lower thier price for them, so tha teverybody could afford them. Then seeing as how it is so cheap to replace cars, people will! That means they have control over the beginning, the manufacture and the retail - closed circuit, guaranteed returns.

 
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