At least you accept that throwing bombs indicates a conspiracy.
However, don't you think that's too late to find it out?
It's like predicting earthquakes from the view of fallen buildings!
1 American life > 100k non-American lives 1 Israeli life > 1000 Palestinian lives Iraqi Petrol > 650k-1.3M Iraqi lives American Pride > 3000+ American soldier's corpses
Now that you learned these (in)equations, can you differentiate an ex-american-funded terrorist organization (al-Qaeda) and an armed liberation army who fights for the independence of their country (IRA)? (yeah, I know that a fraction of IRA signed the dissection of Ireland, but this was never accepted by the head of IRA)
That's completely true!
Many cdda rippers don't bother to do the minimal error checking or jitter correction
just because of some speed penalty. So every generation creates ticks or glitches if
the CDs got scratched (and they do a lot).
What *I* find weired is that computer games, when they get copied^H^H^H^H backed-up
their speed is reduced. I mean that if you copy Doom3 for example, each generation
will have fewer and fewer fps!!
And, could someone explain me, why the fsck do people re-encode their 128kbps mp3's to
256kbps expecting sound quality increase???
I think we need much more psychiatrists here...
Ahem, I just bought tape cartridges (LTO4) for $45 and they have a native capacity of 800GB. Exactly WHEN am I going to be able to buy an SSD drive of 800GB for $45? In 2012-2014? I really doubt it:(
About Kuwait, I've just heard that it used to be "in" Iraq and then seperated. I didn't know anything more. Sorry!
Macedonia is a geographical division of Greece, at the north part of it. As far as I know they've considered that the name collision was an attempt to claim Macedonia (the division). Macedonians (the country) claimed some symbols, as the one that they wanted to have in their flag but later dropped it, and I *THINK* that they claimed the nationality of Alexander the Great.
My opinion is this:
For the name collision: I don't give a s*it. Who cares if there is a Quebec in Canada and also there is another Quebec (a small town) in Africa. Who cares if there is the US state Georgia and also the country Georgia (in Europe). Would that mean that the European Georgia will claim the land of the US state?
For the symbol: Who cares?
For the nationality of Alexander the Great: Let them get it. I can't see the difference between todays American Imperialism and past Greek Imperialism. He was a conqueror, true. He was also a murderer, a slayer; he burned numerous of cities "just for fun" and he demanded to be worshiped like a god. Sure, all of these are written on our school history books, but in a way that they seem "minor faults" compared the "spread of greek civilization" (read: assimilation of other cultures). We even have had a sculpture of his in our school. Alexander the "Great" have done something that Greece NEVER had done and I hope never will do: To occupy a foreign country, and moreover imposing power by brutal means.
About greeks hatred on other nations... I think that the issue with FYROM/Macedonia/whatever has faded. The only people that still cry for it, are some close-minded (or even none-minded) old ladies (80y+) bearing crosses, holding pictures of Christ, some fat priests in black who resemble to Death Himself, and the accompanying ultra-nationalists of Hrisi Avgi (Golden Dawn, the greek neo-nazi party).
The most hated minority in Greece, is Albanians. As they have massively immigrated here, their large numbers created xenophobia, leading to racism. The situation worsened as illegal immigrants (without the "green card") have accumulated in such a large number, that the well-known phrase "they take our jobs" phrase became common. Calling someone "albanian" here is considered a result. And so goes for other balkan countries. A very hot issue in news these days is a gang rape of a bulgarian student by 4 classmates of her plus 2-3 girls watching and recording the rape. Of course the case has made its way to the courts, but, the local school council, expelled all involved students for 5 days, believe it or not, INCLUDING the victim!!! Now talk about racism. Ah, not to mention Turks! This word is like taboo. But above all, the most intensively attacked minority are non-Orthodox people. I remember telling my religion teacher that I am an atheist and she claimed that I am evil, I am controlled by Satan, and once said that whoever opposes god (that included me I guess) is an antichrist, which prepares the coming of Satan and the triumph of Evil. Say no to premarital sex! Or even that sex is only for productive purposes, contraceptives are evil. Civil marriage (the one done in municipality, not sure about the english word) is prostitution. Greek authorities even banned a book which supposedly offended church and arrested a bookshop owner who sold it. As I said before, they even arrested a web directory owner (current event, during the Internet-meeting-thing in Athens ironically) for linking to someone who bashes a tele-evangelist who says that we are the ones who brought civilization to the world, we had conquered the earth, we come from space, the Byzantine Empire will rise again, blah blah blah.
Geez. That's not a developed country. Not even developing. To tell the truth, I don't feel very proud for being greek. I regret participating in all these parades from primary to high school and mostly for being proud of Alexander when I was a kid.
-- You may not reply to feeble arguments, but you will certainly make them! The very idea that someone like you would be ignorant of Saddam's aggressive military action which violated the cease-fire, for starters.
Clarification. I never, ever, supported Saddam. He was a dictator, like all the others in Saudi Arabia for example, close ally of US. After all, he came to power with the help of USA, how would it be possible not to be a dictator? You help some, you make them your friends, you make them do your job (Iran-Iraq war) and then you betray them. That's a good strategy, at least in the short run. For starters, Saddam violated no-fly-zone (by flying over it, not by bombing US troops), but NEVER EVER invaded US. Ah, the first gulf war was because of Iraq aggression on Kuwait, a detached province of Iraq, NOT on US.
-- Serbia invaded Kosovo, Bosnia, and Croatia. Someone had to stand up and stop this. Iraq? Neither Kosovo, Bosnia or Croatia belong to the US. UN is the only organization that must stand up and stop this, not US. But what do you care? You didn't even PROPOSED the aggression in Iraq to UN, why should you hear its opinion?
-- Iraq attacked American and UK peacekeepers in the no-fly zones (presence supported by the cease-fire) HUNDREDS of times. Right, whatever you say. How many of them did he kill?
-- So much of your list is wrong, as if it came from one of Chomsky's bestselling fiction books. For starters: Ok, concrete argument. Undeniable. Oh, btw, you consider Chomsky's books as fiction?
-- Chile in 1972 was not a democracy. It was a single-party dictatorship led by a Soviet colonial governor. The rest of your list is similarly faked (for example, the Soviets invaded Grenada and were the actual aggressors there). Copy from wikipedia: ``1972 -- The CIA funds and helps orchestrate a military coup against the democratically elected Chilean President Salvador Allende; General Augusto Pinochet becomes the military dictator until 1990.'' Read about those: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet Pinochet was charged a few days ago for tens of crimes, and now doesn't have the protection due to health problems.
It's not MY list you IDIOT. It's WIKIPEDIA, goddamn. Don't EVER, EVER heard of it? NO? Well, take a history book from a library! (you know what it is, right?)
-- Count again. You have not named ONE. Neither was terrorist (the US has not committed terrorism for ages). The Iran airliner was a matter of Iran creating a war zone and then flying a poorly-identified civilian airliner right through the middle of it. The US firing on it was an accident. The shelter bombing was a perfect example of the terrorists in Iraq using civilians as human shields to trick the US into bombing places like this.
Which war zone??? It was its route! Poorly identified? So what? You shoot down whatever you purely identify instead of trying identifying it better? Does the airliner looks like a tomahawk missile? Regarding its size, speed or shape? Accident? Yeah, this accident had a cost of 290 lives! Why US never apologized but just gave an insulting amount of US$150-300k?
--...then he is lying So your word should be taken over your President's word? That's ok, let's suppose that I trust you. HOW THE HELL do you know about the WMD? Can you cite me a resource more reliable (to your eyes) than the word of your President? Ah, btw, so YOUR President is a LIAR!!! Good, for once we agreed.
--...Libya attacked the US first... Throughout the history the only nations that attacked US was Great Britain (seize of Washington, a century ago) and the Axis (destruction of US navy at Perl Harbor). NEVER EVER a missile has flied above US skies. I might be wrong about that, I haven't study US history that much, but I'm sure as hell th
I do not city ANY untrusted source. Actually I do not cite ANY non-American source. All sources are from well known and respected organizations. Will you EVER open your eyes? Or you just watch your, ohmygawd, so immensly retarded president? I've even heard that a new word was formed just for him "bushism" (581000 hits on google).
So, please take a look below. I WILL IN NO WAY reply again to feeble arguments. As you can understand, I cannot loose my time typing pages just because you told me "you're lying!". By the way, English is not my native language, so please tolerate any grammar mistakes.
-- I don't know about the third country, but two of these (Iraq and Afghanistan) attached Americans FIRST, thus being the true aggressors.
The third is Yugoslavia. Excuse me but HOW and WHEN exactly Yugoslavia or Iraq attacked US? As for Afganistan, well, if Taliban supported al Quaeda (which may be true) that's YOUR fault. You supported them in the conflict against the previous Soviet-supported government. But then again where's Osama? Where's the Taliban leader? Did you find them? Or just killed civilians?
Oh, just to name more wars, IN NO WAY THIS LIST IS EXHAUSTIVE! Korea 1950: (and partly China) during Korean War Cuba, 50s: in order to overthrow revolution (somewhere in '50s don't remember exactly) Viet-Nam 1959-1975: failed attempt to impede northern forces of Ho Tsi Minh to gain control of the entire state. Laos: 1968 Cambodia: 1968 Iraq, 1968: Intelligence intervention to support the coup which overthrew the government and gave Saddam the power (ironic?) Greece, 1968: (not war) USA-assisted coup to impose junta. Not officially accepted by US. Chile, 1972: (not war) USA-driven coup to overthrow democracy in Chile and impose dictatorship lead by Augusto Pinochet. Grenada, 1983: Overthrow of government Iran, 1988 Panama, 1989 Iraq, 1990 Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Kosovo, 1993 Bosnia, 1995 Iraq, 1998 Serbia (Yugoslavia), 1998 Afghanistan, 2001 Iraq, 2003
Also, countless times US attacked in small-scale missions Lybia, Libanon, and so on.
Just to name two famous US terrorist actions Iran, 1988: Terrorist act of shooting down of commercial airplane, resulting to 290 civilian deaths [1] Iraq, 1991: Bombing of shelter in which women and children under 15 were protected [2]
-- THe actual casualties are about 50,000 (iraq body count site): almost all of them caused by the aggressors (Saddam loyalists and terrorists)
Yeah, except that present Iraqi regime is US-driven. Certainly a part of fatalities is from you what call terrorists, but doesn't change anything, the people would have not been killed if US did not occupied Iraq (sorry, liberated!). If you believe that direct US kills are small percentage, what can I say, OPEN YOUR EYES!
The link I gave was from Economist, not from North Korean propaganda site. Oh, here is the document: web.mit.edu/CIS/pdf/Human_Cost_of_War.pdf Hey! It's from MIT, that's USA. Well IF you have heard of MIT, because judging from your responses quality, I doubt. Probably you should "stuck in Iraq" as one US politician told.
-- You strike out there too. Oil has nothing to do with any of it.
Ooh, what a brilliant argument. I will answer to this. Just wait to reach fifteen, and then your intellectual capacity will enable you to think.
-- More than 500 have found so far. Can you consider saying something true for once?
Strange, but I thought that it was the other way around.
About Peace:
When I read the [1], I thought that the US is the repressive state. After invading in so many countries (3 in 5 years!) it seems to my that it is the most aggressive nation ever. Causing more than 650.000 fatalities in a war just for oil, it is something that even Hitler or Roman emperors haven't done. Iraq didn't have weapons of mass destruction, admitted Bush. Terrorism threat has increased, according to CIA. US had more fatalities in Iraq war rather in twin towers. For what? Did you really believe that Saddam could nuke the US? He couldn't even bomb troops sieging Baghdad. Were he able to create big terrorist acts like what Al Quaeda does? Oh, come on, he had no transactions with extremists and much much more terrorist activity is watched in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia than in any other country.
About Freedom of Speech:
Yeah, that's the most stupid thing I ever heard. Especially after 11/9 civil liberties are literally gone. No, it's not only what I've seen on "Fahrenheit 9/11".
About criminalization of bloggers:
I know that China runs after bloggers, but what happened here in Greece, it was unprecedent. A web directory maintainer was arrester [2] for LINKING to a blog bashing a nationalist tele-evangelist [3], who btw support that us greeks have come from space, were spread throughout the world, we made pyramids, and with the aid of Russia will conquer the world and restore the Bizantine Empire. Ah, also that centaurs have existed. Oh, I forgot that a bookstore owner has been arrested for selling a BANNED book of Mimis Androulakis that was considered offensive to church. Also books of hime were burned in public in Thessaloniki by local orthodox believers. Does this remind you of Medieval Times or to Nazi Germany? I also remember that US citizens referring through a link (but not by plain text) to mp3 sites were prosecuted, at a court win of RIAA.
In no other country a referrer to a censored book or site was arrested -- even in China (which btw, is far from being considered communist, time has passed sine Mao was in power), blogs are banned or even bloggers are arrested. But no site owner referring to them was punished. Are we really a democratic nation?
Microsoft just said that to blind people that accused it for cooperating with the Chinese Government for filtering the web.
Try to be objective... I know that this is difficult. When you in US were watching your missiles hitting Belgrad and shouted out WOWs, we were seeing human parts of babies thrown apart. I personally cannot forget one video transmitted by the greek public channel NET showing a hand of a baby lying to the scene of bombardment of a train in Yugoslavia. Did you see such images or you just enjoy Rambo killing thousands of evil enemies defending freedom fighters (=afgans, ironically).
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At least you accept that throwing bombs indicates a conspiracy. However, don't you think that's too late to find it out? It's like predicting earthquakes from the view of fallen buildings!
1 American life > 100k non-American lives
1 Israeli life > 1000 Palestinian lives
Iraqi Petrol > 650k-1.3M Iraqi lives
American Pride > 3000+ American soldier's corpses
Now that you learned these (in)equations, can you differentiate
an ex-american-funded terrorist organization (al-Qaeda) and an
armed liberation army who fights for the independence of their country (IRA)?
(yeah, I know that a fraction of IRA signed the dissection of Ireland, but this
was never accepted by the head of IRA)
That's completely true! Many cdda rippers don't bother to do the minimal error checking or jitter correction just because of some speed penalty. So every generation creates ticks or glitches if the CDs got scratched (and they do a lot). What *I* find weired is that computer games, when they get copied^H^H^H^H backed-up their speed is reduced. I mean that if you copy Doom3 for example, each generation will have fewer and fewer fps!! And, could someone explain me, why the fsck do people re-encode their 128kbps mp3's to 256kbps expecting sound quality increase??? I think we need much more psychiatrists here...
From my part, I've seen gold coated TOSLINK (fiber optic) plugs... Does anyone know why???
20% premium?
:(
Ahem, I just bought tape cartridges (LTO4) for $45 and they have a native capacity of 800GB.
Exactly WHEN am I going to be able to buy an SSD drive of 800GB for $45? In 2012-2014? I really doubt it
About Kuwait, I've just heard that it used to be "in" Iraq and then seperated. I didn't know anything more. Sorry!
Macedonia is a geographical division of Greece, at the north part of it.
As far as I know they've considered that the name collision was an attempt to claim Macedonia (the division). Macedonians (the country) claimed some symbols, as the one that they wanted to have in their flag but later dropped it, and I *THINK* that they claimed the nationality of Alexander the Great.
My opinion is this:
For the name collision:
I don't give a s*it. Who cares if there is a Quebec in Canada and also there is another Quebec (a small town) in Africa. Who cares if there is the US state Georgia and also the country Georgia (in Europe). Would that mean that the European Georgia will claim the land of the US state?
For the symbol:
Who cares?
For the nationality of Alexander the Great:
Let them get it. I can't see the difference between todays American Imperialism and past Greek Imperialism. He was a conqueror, true. He was also a murderer, a slayer; he burned numerous of cities "just for fun" and he demanded to be worshiped like a god. Sure, all of these are written on our school history books, but in a way that they seem "minor faults" compared the "spread of greek civilization" (read: assimilation of other cultures). We even have had a sculpture of his in our school.
Alexander the "Great" have done something that Greece NEVER had done and I hope never will do: To occupy a foreign country, and moreover imposing power by brutal means.
About greeks hatred on other nations...
I think that the issue with FYROM/Macedonia/whatever has faded. The only people that still cry for it, are some close-minded (or even none-minded) old ladies (80y+) bearing crosses, holding pictures of Christ, some fat priests in black who resemble to Death Himself, and the accompanying ultra-nationalists of Hrisi Avgi (Golden Dawn, the greek neo-nazi party).
The most hated minority in Greece, is Albanians. As they have massively immigrated here, their large numbers created xenophobia, leading to racism. The situation worsened as illegal immigrants (without the "green card") have accumulated in such a large number, that the well-known phrase "they take our jobs" phrase became common.
Calling someone "albanian" here is considered a result. And so goes for other balkan countries. A very hot issue in news these days is a gang rape of a bulgarian student by 4 classmates of her plus 2-3 girls watching and recording the rape. Of course the case has made its way to the courts, but, the local school council, expelled all involved students for 5 days, believe it or not, INCLUDING the victim!!! Now talk about racism.
Ah, not to mention Turks! This word is like taboo.
But above all, the most intensively attacked minority are non-Orthodox people. I remember telling my religion teacher that I am an atheist and she claimed that I am evil, I am controlled by Satan, and once said that whoever opposes god (that included me I guess) is an antichrist, which prepares the coming of Satan and the triumph of Evil. Say no to premarital sex! Or even that sex is only for productive purposes, contraceptives are evil. Civil marriage (the one done in municipality, not sure about the english word) is prostitution. Greek authorities even banned a book which supposedly offended church and arrested a bookshop owner who sold it. As I said before, they even arrested a web directory owner (current event, during the Internet-meeting-thing in Athens ironically) for linking to someone who bashes a tele-evangelist who says that we are the ones who brought civilization to the world, we had conquered the earth, we come from space, the Byzantine Empire will rise again, blah blah blah.
Geez. That's not a developed country. Not even developing.
To tell the truth, I don't feel very proud for being greek. I regret participating in all these parades from primary to high school and mostly for being proud of Alexander when I was a kid.
-- You may not reply to feeble arguments, but you will certainly make them! The very idea that someone like you would be ignorant of Saddam's aggressive military action which violated the cease-fire, for starters.
...then he is lying
...Libya attacked the US first...
Clarification. I never, ever, supported Saddam. He was a dictator, like all the others in Saudi Arabia for example, close ally of US. After all, he came to power with the help of USA, how would it be possible not to be a dictator? You help some, you make them your friends, you make them do your job (Iran-Iraq war) and then you betray them. That's a good strategy, at least in the short run.
For starters, Saddam violated no-fly-zone (by flying over it, not by bombing US troops), but NEVER EVER invaded US. Ah, the first gulf war was because of Iraq aggression on Kuwait, a detached province of Iraq, NOT on US.
-- Serbia invaded Kosovo, Bosnia, and Croatia. Someone had to stand up and stop this. Iraq?
Neither Kosovo, Bosnia or Croatia belong to the US. UN is the only organization that must stand up and stop this, not US. But what do you care? You didn't even PROPOSED the aggression in Iraq to UN, why should you hear its opinion?
-- Iraq attacked American and UK peacekeepers in the no-fly zones (presence supported by the cease-fire) HUNDREDS of times.
Right, whatever you say. How many of them did he kill?
-- So much of your list is wrong, as if it came from one of Chomsky's bestselling fiction books. For starters:
Ok, concrete argument. Undeniable. Oh, btw, you consider Chomsky's books as fiction?
-- Chile in 1972 was not a democracy. It was a single-party dictatorship led by a Soviet colonial governor. The rest of your list is similarly faked (for example, the Soviets invaded Grenada and were the actual aggressors there).
Copy from wikipedia:
``1972 -- The CIA funds and helps orchestrate a military coup against the democratically elected Chilean President Salvador Allende; General Augusto Pinochet becomes the military dictator until 1990.''
Read about those:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet
Pinochet was charged a few days ago for tens of crimes, and now doesn't have the protection due to health problems.
It's not MY list you IDIOT. It's WIKIPEDIA, goddamn. Don't EVER, EVER heard of it? NO? Well, take a history book from a library! (you know what it is, right?)
-- Count again. You have not named ONE. Neither was terrorist (the US has not committed terrorism for ages). The Iran airliner was a matter of Iran creating a war zone and then flying a poorly-identified civilian airliner right through the middle of it. The US firing on it was an accident. The shelter bombing was a perfect example of the terrorists in Iraq using civilians as human shields to trick the US into bombing places like this.
Which war zone??? It was its route! Poorly identified? So what? You shoot down whatever you purely identify instead of trying identifying it better? Does the airliner looks like a tomahawk missile? Regarding its size, speed or shape? Accident? Yeah, this accident had a cost of 290 lives! Why US never apologized but just gave an insulting amount of US$150-300k?
--
So your word should be taken over your President's word? That's ok, let's suppose that I trust you. HOW THE HELL do you know about the WMD? Can you cite me a resource more reliable (to your eyes) than the word of your President?
Ah, btw, so YOUR President is a LIAR!!! Good, for once we agreed.
--
Throughout the history the only nations that attacked US was Great Britain (seize of Washington, a century ago) and the Axis (destruction of US navy at Perl Harbor).
NEVER EVER a missile has flied above US skies.
I might be wrong about that, I haven't study US history that much, but I'm sure as hell th
I do not city ANY untrusted source. Actually I do not cite ANY non-American source. All sources are from well known and respected organizations.
Will you EVER open your eyes? Or you just watch your, ohmygawd, so immensly retarded president? I've even heard that a new word was formed just for him "bushism" (581000 hits on google).
So, please take a look below. I WILL IN NO WAY reply again to feeble arguments. As you can understand, I cannot loose my time typing pages just because you told me "you're lying!". By the way, English is not my native language, so please tolerate any grammar mistakes.
-- I don't know about the third country, but two of these (Iraq and Afghanistan) attached Americans FIRST, thus being the true aggressors.
The third is Yugoslavia. Excuse me but HOW and WHEN exactly Yugoslavia or Iraq attacked US?
As for Afganistan, well, if Taliban supported al Quaeda (which may be true) that's YOUR fault. You supported them in the conflict against the previous Soviet-supported government. But then again where's Osama? Where's the Taliban leader? Did you find them? Or just killed civilians?
Oh, just to name more wars, IN NO WAY THIS LIST IS EXHAUSTIVE!
Korea 1950: (and partly China) during Korean War
Cuba, 50s: in order to overthrow revolution (somewhere in '50s don't remember exactly)
Viet-Nam 1959-1975: failed attempt to impede northern forces of Ho Tsi Minh to gain control of the entire state.
Laos: 1968
Cambodia: 1968
Iraq, 1968: Intelligence intervention to support the coup which overthrew the government and gave Saddam the power (ironic?)
Greece, 1968: (not war) USA-assisted coup to impose junta. Not officially accepted by US.
Chile, 1972: (not war) USA-driven coup to overthrow democracy in Chile and impose dictatorship lead by Augusto Pinochet.
Grenada, 1983: Overthrow of government
Iran, 1988
Panama, 1989
Iraq, 1990
Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Kosovo, 1993
Bosnia, 1995
Iraq, 1998
Serbia (Yugoslavia), 1998
Afghanistan, 2001
Iraq, 2003
Also, countless times US attacked in small-scale missions Lybia, Libanon, and so on.
Just to name two famous US terrorist actions
Iran, 1988: Terrorist act of shooting down of commercial airplane, resulting to 290 civilian deaths [1]
Iraq, 1991: Bombing of shelter in which women and children under 15 were protected [2]
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiriyah_shelter
Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Wars for details (this list contains not only wars, but all military actions)
-- THe actual casualties are about 50,000 (iraq body count site): almost all of them caused by the aggressors (Saddam loyalists and terrorists)
Yeah, except that present Iraqi regime is US-driven. Certainly a part of fatalities is from you what call terrorists, but doesn't change anything, the people would have not been killed if US did not occupied Iraq (sorry, liberated!). If you believe that direct US kills are small percentage, what can I say, OPEN YOUR EYES!
The link I gave was from Economist, not from North Korean propaganda site. Oh, here is the document:
web.mit.edu/CIS/pdf/Human_Cost_of_War.pdf Hey! It's from MIT, that's USA. Well IF you have heard of MIT, because judging from your responses quality, I doubt. Probably you should "stuck in Iraq" as one US politician told.
-- You strike out there too. Oil has nothing to do with any of it.
Ooh, what a brilliant argument. I will answer to this. Just wait to reach fifteen, and then your intellectual capacity will enable you to think.
-- More than 500 have found so far. Can you consider saying something true for once?
I said HE ADMITTED IT. Read here:
Strange, but I thought that it was the other way around.
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About Peace:
When I read the [1], I thought that the US is the repressive state. After invading in so many countries (3 in 5 years!) it seems to my that it is the most aggressive nation ever. Causing more than 650.000 fatalities in a war just for oil, it is something that even Hitler or Roman emperors haven't done. Iraq didn't have weapons of mass destruction, admitted Bush. Terrorism threat has increased, according to CIA. US had more fatalities in Iraq war rather in twin towers. For what? Did you really believe that Saddam could nuke the US? He couldn't even bomb troops sieging Baghdad. Were he able to create big terrorist acts like what Al Quaeda does? Oh, come on, he had no transactions with extremists and much much more terrorist activity is watched in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia than in any other country.
About Freedom of Speech:
Yeah, that's the most stupid thing I ever heard. Especially after 11/9 civil liberties are literally gone. No, it's not only what I've seen on "Fahrenheit 9/11".
About criminalization of bloggers:
I know that China runs after bloggers, but what happened here in Greece, it was unprecedent. A web directory maintainer was arrester [2] for LINKING to a blog bashing a nationalist tele-evangelist [3], who btw support that us greeks have come from space, were spread throughout the world, we made pyramids, and with the aid of Russia will conquer the world and restore the Bizantine Empire. Ah, also that centaurs have existed. Oh, I forgot that a bookstore owner has been arrested for selling a BANNED book of Mimis Androulakis that was considered offensive to church. Also books of hime were burned in public in Thessaloniki by local orthodox believers. Does this remind you of Medieval Times or to Nazi Germany? I also remember that US citizens referring through a link (but not by plain text) to mp3 sites were prosecuted, at a court win of RIAA.
In no other country a referrer to a censored book or site was arrested -- even in China (which btw, is far from being considered communist, time has passed sine Mao was in power), blogs are banned or even bloggers are arrested. But no site owner referring to them was punished. Are we really a democratic nation?
Microsoft just said that to blind people that accused it for cooperating with the Chinese Government for filtering the web. Try to be objective... I know that this is difficult. When you in US were watching your missiles hitting Belgrad and shouted out WOWs, we were seeing human parts of babies thrown apart. I personally cannot forget one video transmitted by the greek public channel NET showing a hand of a baby lying to the scene of bombardment of a train in Yugoslavia. Did you see such images or you just enjoy Rambo killing thousands of evil enemies defending freedom fighters (=afgans, ironically).
[1] http://www.economist.com/world/africa/displaystor
[2] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/30/greek_blo
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimosthenis_Liakopou