China Can Haz Aircraft Carrier?

That's the Varyag, a Soviet-era Aircraft Carrier acquired by the Chinese. It is China's only aircraft cariier so far, though, predictably because they are more difficult to make than toothbrushes and silly-bands. From the Center for Strategic and International Studies:

The acquisition of an aircraft carrier is driven in part by China’s desire for international prestige. The United States, United Kingdom, France, Russia, Spain, Italy, India, Brazil, and Thailand operate a total of 21 active-service aircraft carriers (the United States alone operates 11). An aircraft carrier is widely viewed by Chinese as a symbol of national power and prestige. PLA officers often remind foreigners that China is the only permanent member of the UN Security Council without a carrier. At the same time, however, the procurement of the carrier is a consequence of an improved continental threat environment that has imposed constraints on China’s ability to develop sea power.

Yeah, they don't sound too worried. And yet, China having zero aircraft carriers when we had eleven was an infinity-to-one ratio, and now it's just down to eleven-to-one, which isn't nearly as good, so perhaps we should be. Read the rest of the article here, as it is an interesting look at China's current military capabilities (just successfully tested a stealth fighter and an ASAT weapon, for example, which puts them around 20 years behind us, or so).

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The First Step Is Admitting You Have A Problem

These are a sampling of quotations from college students across the country and world after they were asked to give up the Internets for just one day. Ohhhh boy. We need to have a little talk, young people. You guys didn't live throught the crack epidemic, which sounded quite a bit like this. Obviously I can't complain too much, though, because if people didn't waste huge amounts of time on the Interwebz then sites like this would not exist.

Boromir Gets Stabbed In London Bar Fight, Continues Drinking Until Last Call

My new favorite Hollywood badass, actor Sean Bean (also known as Boromir to fanboys everywhere), got involved in a bit of a kerfluffle in London last weekend. from the Daily Mail:

Apparently Bean was smoking in front of his local pub in London with a "glamour model" (which is British for topless model) when someone walking by made a lewd comment about her. Bean chased him off, but when he went out for another cigarette the guy was waiting and stabbed him in the arm and punched him in the face. Bean chased him off again, but instead of going to the hospital, he patched himself up with a first aid kit and kept on drinking.

My BOY! You think he was gonna lose his buzz or his glamour model (who turned out to be Playmate April Summers) going to the hospital for nothing more than a stab wound? Fuck to the No! Eat it, Russel Crowe and Sean Penn. There's a new sheriff in town, and he has a lilting british accent.