Pakistan would have to fire first. India has an official no first use policy on nuclear weapons. The only actual one in existence right now.
More like giant cherries
Pakistan's government is unstable enough as it is. It sounds like there is a chance that some crazy person could get a hold of the nuclear button in the event of war.
edited 1st May '11 9:04:28 PM by storyyeller
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For my last post, I just found out "Usama" is the alternative name for Osama bin Laden, so Fox News is a hipster?
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Watch your head...
So what if he's dead. True, he had it coming and justice demands that he die. But has his death changed anything? I doubt it, there are still terrorists out there, and nothing short of an act of God will change that EVER. So, really, what do we do now is the real question.
Still It is good to see that coward dead. God bless our troops.
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Fuckin' Arabic-Latin alphabet transliteration, how does it work?
Gunpla is amazing!
He was still an inspiring leader. Its not going to be a deathblow but a painful blow nonetheless.
This is still a major symbolic and morale restoring victory.
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So what, he was a coward? in comparison to people who hired him to betray his own people? What?
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DUMB
If they're using a nonstandard transliteration, I'm guessing it's more accurate.
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Also, if they don't have an successor lined up, there will probably be a power struggle, which could mean multiple things.
edited 1st May '11 9:09:50 PM by tclittle
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Gunpla is amazing!
Your not implying...
Oh lawdy. Get a tinfoil hat.
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I don't make a habit of defending Fox News, but Usama might be more accurate.
Hodor
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Sober Irishman: Well, since you asked...
Now, mind you, the rules aren't set in stone, and there's a lot of times where people will use weird ways of writing (Osama/Usama, Mohammad/Muhammad and so on), but generally it works like this.
ا = A
ب = B
ت = T
ث = Th
ج = J
ح = H
خ = Kh
د = D
ذ = Dh
ر = R
ز = Z
س = S
ش = Sh
ص = S
ض = D
ط = T
ظ = Z
ع = '
غ = Gh
ف = F
ق = Q
ك = K
ل = L
م = M
ن = N
ه = H
و = W or O
ي = Y or i
Now mind you, this isn't perfect. Considering this way, a lot of letters overlap. It's also pretty simplistic, since I didn't cover a lot of things and Arabic doesn't have true vowel letters.
edited 1st May '11 9:15:41 PM by Zersk
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I feel terrible, I screencap'd the page, then submitted it to failblog. I should remove it ... or I could count on my obscurity and have the pic ignored like my other pics.
With a '0', not an 'O'
Gunpla is amazing!
Oh god, I'm trying to learn Katakana, I cant look at any more symbols. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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I just mean my brain can't handle any more non uh...letters.
edited 1st May '11 9:17:42 PM by Thorn14
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Thorn: That's an alphabet, not a syllabary! >:/
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I thought it was an abjad? Anyway, Wikipedia's «native language + transliteration» thingie gives it as «ʾUsāmah».
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On the "nuclear hellstorm" mentioned earlier, I believe Wikipedia has the answer to that issue right in the same section: "By March 2003, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had been waterboarded at least 183 times by the CIA." Somehow, I doubt he's a reliable source, especially since I hear he had a tendency to brag about imagined terrorist plans even without being tortured.
edited 1st May '11 9:20:27 PM by EmilyD
Because I simply cannot resist:
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Tzetze: Aren't Abjads alphabets?
edited 1st May '11 9:24:04 PM by Zersk
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Zersk: Oh, neato.
DUMB
I thought that «alphabet» was reserved for those with vowel graphemes, but hey, you're more of a linguist nerd than I. 
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Sober Irishman: Honestly it's a bit more complicated than that. There are also special things that go around the letters saying what vowel comes after it, whether it connects to the last one to make a complete syllable, and so on. Read the Wikipedia page, here.
Tze: I am?! O-o
Well, in any case, I just checked. They're sort of both. They're seperate from alphabets, though people call abjads alphabets (the Arabic alphabet, the Phoenician alphabet, and so on).
edited 1st May '11 9:31:49 PM by Zersk
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Yes, I'm pretty sure that's the distinction (speaking as a student of linguistics). Alphabets have one grapheme per phoneme including vowels; abjads hv n vwl chrctrs.
edited 1st May '11 9:31:25 PM by EmilyD
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Though Arabic's a semi-abjad, having half-vowels.
EDIT: Well that was an interesting tangent.
edited 1st May '11 9:33:19 PM by Zersk
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Except Pakistan has nukes. Allowing India to get in a nuclear shootout with them would be a mistake.
Except for 4/1/2011. That day lingers in my memory like...metaphor here...I should go.