utemia

Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame in Movie Reviews JoeUser Forums

Recently I watched this little treasure *cough* with my 9, 6 and 4 year old nephews and niece. Has any of you watched this film? It is _NOT_ for children - at all. The plot has murder in it, tons of violence like attempted burning of villagers inside their own house, a merciless hunt for Esmeralda with the accompanying burning down of Paris, a song where Claude Frollo sings about hell and damnation and his obcession with Esmeralda and why he wants to kill her, all painted in red and with flam

Reply to My Son. My Felon? Part 2. in Current Events JoeUser Forums

A propos - the EU parliament stopped the US from using european bank data from SWIFT. You guys (CIA) were simply accessing private european banking data (names, accounts, amounts) without any legal grounds. Well, apparently it could create a diplomatic hiccup because this data was analyzed in regards to terroristic financial trails and apparently the data had been quite successful in finding terror cells and stopping attacks. But the liberals and socialists in

Reply to My Son. My Felon? Part 2. in Current Events JoeUser Forums

hmm Maybe you should contract the border guard job out to professional thieves and conmen lol as a way to work off their sentence and it would save the taxpayer some money. Don't they say it takes one to know one? Hah those customs people I met at the border to Slovenia and Austria certainly were some part criminals.

Reply to My Son. My Felon? Part 2. in Current Events Stardock Forums

Border patrol people are a strange bunch all over the world. You have to have a certain character trait in you to find joy in going through other peoples stuff. Sometimes it comes close to harrassment if you asked me. Of course, they also catch drug and money smugglers - but your story is typical for all border controll people I've met. Traffic in Europe is without border controlls since a few years though, thank goodness for that. Soooo you committed a felony? lol Gun running <s

Reply to My Son. My Felon? Part 1 in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Hihi I liked mercy buttercups - very funny. If you want to see something funny watch this - that is the former minister of baden württemberg. He was going on about how english is the new lingua franca and that everybody has to be able to speak english, from simple workers upwards. He held a speech in english and his english is really really horrible. The speech starts about 20 seconds in <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.co

Reply to My Son. My Felon? Part 1 in Current Events JoeUser Forums

wa la - did you mean voilà? I am not too sure of some of the colloquialisms.

Reply to My Son. My Felon? Part 2. in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I didn't mean forced as in coerced. I meant it in the sense that it would be just a political necessity to secure votes. Political parties have to present themselves in such a way that they appeal to the majority of potential voters after all. If a new far right party were syphoning voters from the traditional Republican voter base, the Republicans would have to react to that or risk the Democrats having an easy victory. So appealing to more centrist democrats

Reply to My Son. My Felon? Part 2. in Current Events Stardock Forums

OR the republicans were forced to be more liberal in their program to get the more conservative democrats to vote for them in order to keep the far right out of power. In such a scenario people would have to weigh their decisions more. In a sense, the election would become more political itself. It would be very interesting, that's for sure. The independant senators are already good for excitement.

Reply to THE WAKE-UP CALL in Misc Stardock Forums

One good thing the military does it to educate men to tidiness and personal hygine. Sheesh, waking up and getting ready on your own with 18, 19, 20 years? Squad leaders must be a mix between nanny and motherhen with the patience of saints.

Reply to My Son. My Felon? Part 2. in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote]And I have yet to see a group (liberal, conservative, republican, democrat, libertarian) that actually has everything right....as is most things in life...the truth is often a little bit of each.[/quote] A grand coalition of both conservatives and democrats should govern together. Then you could take the best from both sides.. wishful thinking, doubtful that it would work, too. But I could imagine smart people with different oppinions working together instead of only against each other

Reply to My Son. My Felon? Part 2. in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Maybe a more diverse political spectrum than Republican vs Democrat would be good. I read that the Tea Party movement is gaining in importance and could be a deciding factor in the elections next fall. Who knows, maybe they form their own party. The "Left" party is very new in Germany and was formed by more left faction of the social democrats (SPD). So now Germany has conservative parties CDU (Christian democratic union) and FDP (Free Democratic Party), the liberal parties SPD (Social Democr

Reply to Abstinence Program Shows Success in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I just saw the picture of Sarah on her last speech where she wrote "Energy" "Tax" "Lift american spirit" on her palm as a crib. Didn't she make fun of Obama for using the teleprompter.. it is sort of emberassing that she needs to write down such keyelements of the republicans' political program. One would think that she should be able to give a speech about her political position without a crutch like that.

Reply to The politics of energy in Politics JoeUser Forums

Windturbines do not need a lot of land to be effective. Just alot of wind. There are serious issues connected to windpower though, it is not without problems like killing birds and they make alot of noise. But you don't need a huge empty field for just one windturbine. France - interestingly enough, most reactors are along the rhine river. If a worst case accident should occur the radioactive fallout would go down on Germany because the wind is almost always blowing from the west. Now

Reply to My Son. My Felon? Part 2. in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I read in the paper here that some of the tea party movement is criticising the Bush administration for giving the government too much means or leeway to snoop around in people's lives and to use technologiy to overhear and oversee what you're doing. That patriot act had some real doozies in it if I remeber it correctly. Too much police state they claim. Funny thing is that this claim about a police state and thought police etc comes from the republicans against Bush, where Dr Guy has the sam

Reply to The politics of energy in Politics JoeUser Forums

Leauki, I didn't try to be very sarcastic. I think the Sowjet Union is a good example of what can happen if one acts irresponsibly and the amount of damage that can be caused, with long term negative effects for both man and the environment. I trust that the US and most european nations are handling their nuclear waste and also the power and research plants responsibly, but I don't trust Russia nor China nor India or Pakistan to do the same. And even here, accidents do happen. Radioac

Reply to My Son. My Felon? Part 2. in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I don't get how this has to do with Obama? There is no thought police in the US. Under Bush the same thing could have happened if you had the same ridiculous people like Mr A around. The police and SS have the obligation to investigate if someone calls in a tip, even if it had been a 14 year old boy who talked with his friends in school about something that they found interesting like white house security. That practise isn't connected to which political party is currently in power. A

Reply to My Son. My Felon? Part 1 in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Only in America. If something similar had happend in a school here, and if I were a teacher who had been there, I'd have asked the kids first what that had been all about. Kids talk about stupid things all the time after all, that is no reason to call the police. Paranoia seems to be a widespread american faible with some issues. I am sorry for your boy - he didn't do anything wrong.

Reply to The politics of energy in Politics JoeUser Forums

Yes well, I'd rather have ZERO chance of the equivalent of a nuclear bomb exploding in low orbit. One human error or maintenance oversight, miscalculation or otherwise could cause a huge accident that would probably cause alot of radioactive fallout. It's like detonating a bomb. 100% security is hard to achieve though. Dumping the whole meess into the sun would be nice. [quote]Nobody has to guarantee it. The knowledge will come to future humanity after the first few thousand deaths, j

Reply to The politics of energy in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Nitro Cruiser" reply="17" id="2531931"] One country has got it right though. China is on track to become the leading producer, world-wide of solar panels and wind-turbines. Key word "Producer"... not user. The Chinese know exactly where they get the most bang for the buck. They gladly sell things they would rarely consider using themselves. So it selling imperfect technologies, of minimum value to the righteous weenies that will buy it, is "getting it right", t

Reply to The politics of energy in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote who="DoomBringer90" reply="18" id="2531933"] I haven't heard of a way to mitigate the toxicity of nuclear waste. All you can do is bury it somewhere and hope that nobody finds it or stumbles across it. But such a place hasn't been found - most of the places in use or future sites pose some risk. It is fairly difficult to find a place that is absolutely earthquake secure, has the right sediment that allows for a secure site and that will remain like that for a few thousand y

Reply to The politics of energy in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Leauki" reply="16" id="2531926"]Could we not fill abandoned oilfields with nuclear waste? I'm not sure the toxic waste would be more dangerous than the oil (if we hadn't used it up) in a few thousand years so we'd simply be replacing one danger with another. [/quote] The radioactive halflife of spent nuclear fuel is really really long. I forgot the exact number, but I recall something like 25 000 ye

Reply to The politics of energy in Politics JoeUser Forums

Gas is dangerous. Every once in a while an appartment house explodes because of a faulty gasline. Just recently it happend in Lüttich in Belgium - 15 people died. I haven't heard of a way to mitigate the toxicity of nuclear waste. All you can do is bury it somewhere and hope that nobody finds it or stumbles across it. But such a place hasn't been found - most of the places in use or future sites pose some risk. It is fairly difficult to find a place that is absolutely

Reply to Abstinence Program Shows Success in Blogging JoeUser Forums

That is a good story. I think my parents would have done the same had I or my sisters become pregnant that young. Even though - my cousin, the daugher of an uncle in croatia, had a bit of a wild youth as well. She became pregnant when she was very young and the parents kicked her out and took the baby in. My mother finds nothing wrong with that at all, even though I think it was very cruel and wrong.

Reply to Abstinence Program Shows Success in Blogging JoeUser Forums

If you were a politician and a prominent public figure with a strong moral and religious conviction that you would broadcast, then yeah.. it would make you look strange to me. Hypocrite is maybe a bit strong, but my oppinion certainly goes into that direction. Even if her daughter behaved irresponsibly like she did and not Sarah herself - it reflects back on her. If your son had sex, it wouldn't make you a hypocrite. If he slept around and acted completely the opposite of what you tel

Reply to The politics of energy in Politics JoeUser Forums

Germany is alot smaller than the US. Texas is several times bigger than Germany - so maybe size is an issue in the distribution of energy. You probably know that Germany has passed a law to stop using nuclear energy in the future and to compensate that loss with "green" energy. Renewable energy is already providing 16% - and it is possible to increase that to compensate the loss of the nuclear power plants. I am leery of nuclear power. One - the problem of nuclear waste hasn't been so