The Evangilical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA, is the largest Lutheran sect in the US) have for along time acknowlged what Luther did to the Jews was wrong. Their confermation classes spend a good amount of time on the subject.
[quote who="Benmeister" comment="6"]. These days, being a fiscal conservative puts you left of center. [/quote] lol...the only thing he saves on is the war... doesn t make him fiscally conservative.
[quote who="Benmeister" comment="3"]Actually, Obama's more moderate than Clinton if you look at his positions on the issues. [/quote] http://obama.senate.gov/votes/ I d say this shows him as quite to the left.
Many of us Californians love truck drivers and I know personnaly many business owners who'd rather the state relax the trucking law. Most of California's counties are Red counties, unfortunatly we get controled by blue areaas around Frisco and LA.
lol... good times!
[quote who="Dr Guy" comment="23"]Fortunately for us colonials, one that Queen Isabella took seriously. Point taken. [/quote] Yes I am glad to be a bastard child of history!
[quote who="zergimmi" comment="36"]As for Kyoto, it seems you guys are out in the cold on this one now, and there is a lot more to Kyoto thn just carbon trading, and taxing countries that refuse to sign up which one day you may learn about if you ever get a President with a spine, who has the balls to stand up and be counted.[/quote] Lol, stand up and be counted, don t ya mean lay down to be numbered... The problem with submitting to a tax is we d have to thenallow someone to be able t
[quote who="Dr Guy" comment="20"]This is true. But the dark ages saw a regression in knowledge. Which lead to the belief that the world was again flat (the Greek and Roman civilizations, did not really permeate to all of northern europe). Given the mumbo jumbo that passes as proof and discourse on the issue of Global Warming, it would seem we are again headed for a dark age of knowledge. Where scientific method is thrown overboard in the Jihad to convert all of the "pagans" to the new religio
http://www.aconvenientfiction.com/ This shows some great flaws in the global warming groups Ideas.... M favorite is the hockey stick of warming.... what ever did happen to that medievel warm period? [quote who="Dr Guy" comment="8"]Those of us who are skeptics are treated like heathens or pagans who are dangerous because we speak heresy about their religion and must be dealt with as such.Pretty much the way Columbus was treated in 1
[quote who="zergimmi" comment="11"] then there is no need to have a gun to defend your rights..[/quote] If ya look at history an armed people have more rights then the unarmed ones, governments tend to do more for people that can fight them. Therefore an armed poulace will more like have more rights then a disarmed one. [quote who="zergimmi" comment="11"]l.As for killing convicted felons, it is not a deterrent, nor should it be seen as a way of ensuring people do not reoffend, d
[quote who="zergimmi" comment="8"]I said we do not need guns, so why have them.[/quote] 1.Armed Citizens are more able to preserve their rights then unarmed ones. The Wiskey Rebellion was praised by Jefferson he felt it was good for The U.S. (he is also the founder of the Anti-Federalist party which is the direct ancestor of the modern Democrats.) &n
[quote]I do that too. Question though...I have never had a transport left over after an invasion...even if I only loose a handful of troops the transport is gone. Am I doing something wrong? [/quote] Nope, you always lose a 'sport in an invasion, even if you gain more troops than you had before landing. I think of the 'sport as a rep
I agree with dystopic on this. Canada and even Mexico has a better chance for an NFL team then does the European adventures that the League has tried. Simply for the fact that the boarder areas have always gotten the ablity to see games for free. Ah, reminds me of an influence starbase!
In a tough TA no tech trade game, I had both plagues happen once, practically back to back too. I only had the cure for the killer version a few weeks before the ablity one hit. I believe the drengin must have been researching something huge (or the conquests they were undertaking left them recovering from massive debt) cause they never got either cure. It was funny to see them go from gobbling several Civs up to only having a bit over 500 million on each of their worlds.
Depends... are you building defenses? What tech speed are you on? If your on a fast tech speed there seems to be not much you can do. But if you play the slowest tech speed (at least in a TOUGH game not sure on the higher settings) and get to starbase defenses II a fully defended starbase will obliterate large number of fleets before needing a repair construct. In my games now I only build up starbases to the first level of defence and have constructs near by if I feel
[quote] So this is wrong then or am I just not understanding it... a little of both. that link you provided is a conspiracy theory website - not the most reliable. i think whoever wrote that quote misunderstood the point. that part that says "cannot claim any unlimited validity" really just means there's no way (we can imagine) to experimentally prove that constancy of the speed of light in all situations. basically it's just Einstei
[quote]i think this explanation might be what you're looking for... Stephen Hawking is really the best place to turn, even more so than Einstein. [/quote] So this is wrong then or am I just not understanding it... [quote] However in a book that he revised in 1952, Relativity: the special and general theory [20] on page 76 he makes his important statement - that in General relativity, the law of the constan
[quote] There are several ways of describing the situation that causes escape to be impossible. The difference between these descriptions is how space and time coordinates are drawn on spacetime (the choice of coordinates depends on the choice of observation point and on additional definitions used). One common description, based on the Schwarzschild description of black holes, is to consider the time axis in spacetime to point inwards towards the center of the black hole once the horizon is
[quote]from Firebender's post #832 [/quote] OPPS! This should have been 834
from Firebender's post #832 [quote]forumid=346&aid=160212">sorry but the game story has it wrong about Stargate's thread, FTL isn't possible either. Till so far in that thread the only credible piece of resistance offered in the subject was on the topic of light being not totally without mass because it is effected by black holes. (I know I should post it in that thread but there is hardly any activity so...) Light isn't effeced by the gravitational pull of the black hole b
[quote] my bigger point was that the 'cultural hypochondira' in the home is a result of extensive advertising, which is occuring so that comapnies who make saftey products can make that much more money. serious communicable diseases are one thing, but the neurotic drive to kill off every microorganism in the home, whether it's a threat or not, is a little much. we're santizing our environment to such a point that our immune systems don't work as well as they should. [/quote] its not
[quote] Btw, no one may militarize space. International law. International law is a paper tiger. The U.S. and other governments have looked into weapons based on Satelites, even if some or all of them dont have them. A pox on international law. Looked into. When they actually do it. Tell us. [/quote] HAHA! The thing is Firebender you sound like it CANNOT happen because In
[quote] Btw, no one may militarize space. International law. [/quote] International law is a paper tiger. The U.S. and other governments have looked into weapons based on Satelites, even if some or all of them dont have them. A pox on international law.
[quote] Hey, American debt is what, $50 trillion? We're still operational (more or less). Perhaps the debt cap should be 50,000 bc? 9 trillion actually, which isn't much beyond what GalCiv allows (500 bc is 500 billion credits, or 5 trillion credits). [/quote] mm thats only 1/2 a trillion. 1 trillion = 1000 billion =
[quote] Because budgets aren't infinite. Having made many multiplayer games over the years, I'm very aware of the costs of making multiplayer games. Therefore, I didn't want us to spend the time and resources (money) into a feature I know for a fact that a tiny % of users would use. I wanted to focus our development resources on the single player experience. Which we did. The sales and reviews of GalCiv II seem to justify our decision. Now, as I've said,
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