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Probably not for a bit. Not until there's some sort of premium setup in place. Otherwise the costs could get out of control.
Sounds very cool. I'll be picking this up!
Machi - it's really hard to take you seriously when you're such an extremist. So now America "trained" Hussein and put him in power. Do you have any idea what you're talking about or do you merely regurgitate idiocy written on various left wing news sites? If you think that American reaction to being attacked is isolationism, I suggest picking up history book. The US has consistently reacted very strongly when attacked, often seemingly irrationally. 1) War
Domestically: Liberals are interested in people's intentions. Conservatives are interested in people's capabilities. On foreign policy: Liberals seem to be concerned with a nation's capabilities Conservatives seem to be concerned with a nation's intentions
I disagree, I think it's just a matter of delegation. Amazon, Google, and ebay aren't terribly complicated businesses to "run". Think what Stardock does already: It runs a growing blog community (JoeUser.com), it runs the most popular customization site in the world (WinCustomize.com), it released a strategy game this year that just won tb strategyg game of the year from Gamespy and was a finalist for strategy game of the year from Gamespot and elsewhere, and is the world's leading so
What if you found a time machine in which you could go back 10 years in time? What business, political, and humanitarian things would you do or prevent? Or more to the point, that you could send a note to yourself 10 years in the past? What would you do? What if you only had a few minutes to decide? So you couldn't do research, you just had to go off the top of your head? Here's what I would do if I were limited to things I could think of in 3 minutes. 1) Buy as much
I'm with you on item #4!
No one should have to stand and pledge allegience to the flag. But at the same time, it shouldn't be forbidden either.
Oh good grief. And meanwhile, unnamed sources also claim that Saddam defeated an entire division of US troops single handedly. Your argument would be more credible if you'd done a better job doctoring the photo to give Saddam a black eye. Sheesh.
Mach: Have you ever...you know, actually been anywhere? Ask a Palestinian how they are treated in Kuwaitt. Ask a Korean how they are treated in Japan. Ask a Turk how they are treated pretty much anywhere in western Europe. Ask an Albanian how they are treated in Greece. Ask a jew how they're treated in France. Tell me Mach, do you still think you're not anti-semetic or are you merely biased against Israel for other reasons? Racism is a worldwide phenonomenon. Sa
Messy: Exactly. I appeasement is so ingrained into some people that they just can't recognize that Americans will never choose appeasement as a solution. Right or wrong, Americans will fight to stop those who are trying to kill them no matter what the end result was. Americans would generally prefer not to right at all. We'd rather just be left alone to live our lives. But anyone who seriously thinks that Americans will tolerate being slaughtered like animals en masse by terrorists
The United States definitely doesn't think it's invincible. Someone in another thread argued that Americans are obstinate against "constructive" criticism. I'm not hearing constructive criticism from Europe. Just self-interested chattering from France and Germany. Mach: I basically just plain disagree with you. You can jump up and down yelling as loud as you want saying that the US cannot "win" the war on terrorism. I disagree and so do most Americans. What I am
Angel: Get a life okay? Comments are for comments by people. Not regurgitating other posts. It is very difficult to carry on a convesation with pages of dribble being posted. If you have something to say, type it yourself. Don't make me IP ban you please.
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Exactly. The charge taht the United STates has gone fascist is well...nuts. It is also devoid of any sense of perspective. That is, if the US is "fascist" then so is nearly every country out there. Freedom of speech in the United States is still quite in force. I'd say we're better off today in terms of freedoms than we were 8 years ago when Janet Reno was offing people with the FBI and ATF on what seemed like a regular basis for pretty weak reasons.
lol. They're coming to get you heh heh. They're coming to get you ho ho. They're coming to get you hah hah. They're coming to take you away. ;)
No matter where you are, have a merry Christmas!
Mach: No, your analogy isn't correct. Because at the end of the day, the US has the means to eliminate Islam entirely if the majority of Americans were convinced that their lives were on the line. There isn't an infinite number of terrorists like you seem to believe. Let's look at the world as it is, not as you wish it was: Terrorists attack the United States in 9/11 ostensibly over various vague issues (primarily because US troops were based in Saudi Arabia
Please refrain from strawman arguments. At no time have I even suggested that mass extermination of the Islamic world was something that was good let alone "Eager". Let me dumb it down here since some people seem to willfully mis-read what I say. If a man goes up to another man and punches him in the nose, odds are the other man's reaction is going to be to fight back. And yet many people, particularly on the left, are telling the man who just got punched tha
Attack of the Clones is on tonight. Oh so wrong. A long while back I wrote a fan-fiction synopsis/screen play of how I imagined/hoped Episode 2 and 3 would be. My Anakin isn't bitchy and whiney and angry. Instead, he's more of a rogue. A Han Solo type. Happy go lucky whose fatal flaw is over confidence. He's so self secure that what leads him down the dark path is his belief that light side, dark side are really just artificial terminologies. But what I imagined Episode 2 be
Chad: They are of the race of the Valar. Your statement is like saying Asians aren't humans. Asians are Asians but they are also humans. The Maia are of the Vala but are less powerful than the ones we tend to think of as Valar. Though it is ultimately semantics. For people not into Tolkien, the point is that Gandalf, Sauron, and Saruman are all kin. Elves, Dwarves, Humans, Maia.
Cornbread: Do you really want to put your position of having to argue that everytime we don't understand something we should throw up our hands and say "Magic!". Do you know how television works? Many people don't. Maybe god is what makes television. Just because we don't understand everythign doesn't prove there's a God. At the same time, it doesn't prove there isn't one either.
Individuals can think of reason, diplomacy and justification. But humans, as groups, think of survival and security.
Mac: The Roman Empire didn't fall because the government became too arrogant. If arrogance were a cause for governmental downfall France would have long ceased to be a nation state. ;) Also, as individuals, we humans are capable of a great deal of enlightened thought. But as groups, we humans haven't changed all that much in the last few milenium. If Americans start getting killed wholsale, all cries for restraint will go right out the window.
Jeremy: Certainly. But I tend to think that it is better to assume the worst and hope for the best. Human nature has gradually improved but it's all a matter of thresholds. I am not willing to give credence to arguments of "why do they hate you?". There are always reasons why people hate things. It doesn't give them a license for murder. Repeat enough times and the victims will eventually reach the point where they think it's an us or them proposition.