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[quote]Obama's middle eastern leg of the apology tour... he threw Israel under the bus, emboldening Iran, and their proxies in the region.[/quote] That's called posturing. While it's often deep with significance, it's not always followed by actual actions. [quote]Sure lets not offend the Russians. Apparently they are unconcerned about our sensitive feelings (Iran sanctions, fuel cut-off to the Ukraine in winter, weapons (well beyond what is needed) to Chavez, clamp down of the

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[quote]You do understand that it took the US under President Reagan to break their back and cause them to collaps. We don't have the cash to do that now with us in hock to the Chinese that also want to see us fall. The people that want technological support don't need a lot of cash and the stuff they want to do is nuke Israel and the USA. They care not about politics until they have destroyed USA, Russia is also under attack from the same people that hate us. That free market crap you speak o

Reply to Total Capitulation in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]Leuki, he was supposed to "improve foreign relationship" according to the liberal dictionary. Wherein it means "stab our allies in the back in order to attempt proven to not work appeasement policies with our enemies[/quote] Point me one element where the USA under Obama has strategically stabbed an ally in the back. And you *are* talking out of your ass. The strategy DID worked in the past, especially against that very ennemy. You won Cold War, didn't you? You are simp

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[quote]When has appeasment ever been proven effective? This isn't ancient history either.... look no further than "peace in our time." Lets say for the sake of argument that there are more effective ways to protect Eastern Europe from attack, why not get the Russians to give up something before just scrapping the plans? Pure folly.[/quote] Because you don't want to confront the Russians head-on. It never has been the solution. You have to make small concessions from time to time, and

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[quote]When we "appease Israel", will we do what we usually do to appease evil dictators, like organising huge demonstrations for the place and demonising any politician saying anything negative about it? Or does "appease" mean something else when it is directed at Israel?[/quote] "Appease" = Doing concessions that will make another country modify it's behavior to gain time. Be it an ally or a rival (but not an "ennemy", since when you got down to open war, you just wanna w

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A completely partisan post, with a completely blind view of the situation. The BMD Shield drop happened because Obama needs Russia's non-interference in sanctions against Iran. Obama promised to do such "crippling" sanctions before September 25th to Israel, and Russia's potential blocking of the sanctions PLUS the capacity of Russia to supply refined fuel to Iran through land access forced Obama's hand to make a deal with them. Poland still will get military and techology supp

Reply to Elemental: Max number of players = infinite in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

What will come after Elemental? Maybe a RPG game where you can enter your Elemental's game, and try to deal with the current faction present? ;-)

Reply to Totalitarian care in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]This is not just socialized healthcare like the UK and Canada,[/quote] Actually, I don't know what kind of healthcare you think we have in Canada, but many of the elements you are showing up-here are already including in our healthcare system, and most of the elements that aren't are actually more private-healthcare oriented. I'd like to know a little more about the private healthcare system that will be outlawed. Why those and not others? Is it because they are conside

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[quote]While poorly phrased, I think that's one of the reasons I like tactical combat as well. Not only does it make it very unlikely for that situation to happen (I've seen it happen in Civ4, and I'm always ticked) but a human player can 'see' it coming and go 'I'm getting out of here!'[/quote] Civ4's probability calculator was poorly written, by the way (and not always reflecting the truth). You shouldn't criticise these auto-resolve based on it. (bloody hell. I'm trying to

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Especially if the perpretator posted the video himself. Then everybody will assume it's just a publicity stunt for self-promotion.

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[quote]My reputation is in shards, I'll never recover from this terrible slander.[/quote] This is the Internet. You could rape a dog, and they'll have forgot it by tuesday.

Reply to Visualizing Obama’s Job Numbers in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]Most Iranians care about inflation, the economy, and petrol prices. They couldn't care less about Israel or the "Palestinians" or any issue they understand as an Arab issue. Ahmadinejad's saber-rattling at Israel is not gaining him votes, it's losing him votes.[/quote] Agreed on that topic, but then again, the majority of his saber-rattling statements happened a few years ago, or trying to surf on the muslim reaction of Danish cartoons. He would be trying to divert the

Reply to Visualizing Obama’s Job Numbers in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]Yes, the man who wants to destroy Israel might be replaced with the other man who wants to destroy Israel[/quote] Do you even know what you are talking about? The current president is a known demagogue, and the saber-rattling at Israel is just a way for him to gain votes. Most of the moderates, while opposing Israel in the traditional way that most arab countries (YOUR ALLIES) do, don't go as far as the current President say. The topic on which all (because, FLASH NEWS,

Reply to Elemental – polishing for Alpha 0 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Yes, but while MoO2's tactical combat vas very nice initially, I always felt it was more of a chore at the end. Seriously, I got so bored having to always more every single one of my ships at every single freaking battle. About the "if the AI sucks, let Frogboy develop a new one". I feel like he's already struggling a lot to create the best Strategic AI possible, and that is still a far way down (even if I feel like he's had the best AI in the video game industry). Asking him to impli

Reply to Visualizing Obama’s Job Numbers in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]well... as far as I can see he is doing a lot worse than any other president in the history of the US. But that is because he is failing to deal with some specific really REALLY bad situations (ex: almost nuclear iran). He might not be the most incompetent president in US history, but his results are going to be the worst.[/quote] Because results after 6 months in office are ennough to judge his entire presidency? Come on. Bush was criticised horribly too until 9/11. Gi

Reply to Elemental – polishing for Alpha 0 in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I am with Luckymann on that one. Tactical Combat does not a good game make. If you have tactical combat, it gives the human player an edge the ennemy AI doesn't have, unbalancing the game elements. If the AI already struggle with strategy, asking it to go for the tactics as well is not optimal. I had a suggestion once posted on the GalCiv2 forum, which could incorporeate tactical genius with less micro-management on the part of the player. Wait a minute... finding link...

Reply to Visualizing Obama’s Job Numbers in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]I wonder if it can be a lie if Obama said it.[/quote] Off course it can be. But I have a hard time to believe that the President actually genuinely lied intentionnaly to the public about that. For that matter, I don't believe Bush purposely lied about the invasion if Iraq either (or for most of the things people accuse him of lying about). He was given wrong intelligence, and he took the best decision based on his own guts and what he's been told was the best one.

Reply to Visualizing Obama’s Job Numbers in Politics JoeUser Forums

The video effectively creates a causality link between the stimulus and the additionnal lost jobs compared to prediction. Could it be that the predictions were mostly wrong?

Reply to Can you be an environmentalist but be a global warming skeptic? in Politics JoeUser Forums

I am of the "If we aren't sure and we can't agree on definite answers, let's push gently the industry the right way anyway. It can only be good for us in the long run" Now, would anyone disagree that, if you forget the economical implication of stopping Carbon emissions from our industries (actually, all the emissions), it would be a good thing? Now, if it's a good thing anyway, how about starting to do things in a way that they will actually be the ones pushing for better sta

Reply to Can you be an environmentalist but be a global warming skeptic? in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]electric consumption IS carbon emissions... And there is NO price benefit to reducing carbon emissions, none at all. Unless you start taxing carbon emissions, in which case there will be a "cost" per carbon and companies will calculate if its cheaper to implement a carbon reducing temp, or pay the fine.[/quote] Sorry. Not in my homeland, where most of our electricity comes from non-carbon sources. Anyway. The Carbon Credit Market I proposed in my earlier post

Reply to Can you be an environmentalist but be a global warming skeptic? in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]That is called saving money on electric bills, and all companies do what they can already. I reduce power consumption whereever I can, but I make calculations of consumption, cost to implement, and cost of electricity to determine if I save or waste money, and when its waste, I do not do it.[/quote] Yes. And it works well when it comes to electric consumption, doesn't it? Now, we could do the same thing with carbon emission. If we could find a way to apply these things

Reply to Can you be an environmentalist but be a global warming skeptic? in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]Your "cure" was to stop CO2 emissions... you said that on the CHANCE it might be harmful to the environment despite all the evidence to the contrary, that we should eliminate it. Reducing or eliminating CO2 emissions has devastating effects on the economy AND on the environment, with many ill thought of plans or just plain fraud going on that causes environmental harm. People are throwing away perfectly good products to replace them with eco friendly ones (the cost in pollution to prod

Reply to Couple ordered to stop holding bible study at home without permit in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]actually i figured after all 15 had been hauled in for suspicion of possibly considering attempted terrorist attacks with an enhancement of special circumstances (incidental conspiracy to perpetrate vandalism on an american-made motor vehicle within 12 hours of noon or midnight), the fbi could ihandle that part of it both before and after nserting a couple highly motivated jihad-inciting confidential informants into their midst.[/quote] And it would have turned out they were ju

Reply to Elemental team dinner in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Everybody, save that picture, and start doing face analysis. We have to trace back these people. With ennough blackmail, one of them will give us Bear Cavalry, I am sure of it.

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How will the lucky Hundred be notified? Email? Impulse notif? Personnal Message on the board?