I was being semi-sarcastic, the real solution is colonizing space. Then we don't die when we have one big catastrophy. What I was meaning is that by weaponizing space, or by having nuclear weapons at all we risk having a war where lots of people die. If we don't have the weapons, we risk being hit by a big rock, and EVERYONE dying. so we go for the lesser of evils.
I didn't say a coup was likely, nor did I say that such a coup government would last, however it is always posible. One man dedicated to dying for his cause can always do lots of damage.
It's high grade metal, The removal of the rubble at ground zero is nececary for the freedom towers anyway. It would be wastefull not to use it, although I would prefer for as much of the rubble and steel from the WTC to go into the freedom towers as posible.
If someone decided a coup would be advantagous they still might try, and may even suceede. There's something to be said about being willing to kill people, even your own citizens.
I'm just as dead if a dinosaur killer hits. Actualy I'm in a "safe" area, so I'm far more likely to be dead if a dinosaur killer hits. Thanks for playing.
Grow the fuck up. Raw naked force has resulted in the resolution of more conflicts than any other method in history. It will continue forever because it works.
Yeah, sure mankind will benefit from a lack of weapons in space, until the next dinosaur killer comes along and wipes us all out. Dammit we NEED those weapons in space! As far as KE weapons go, at least they don't have the long-term nastyness of nukes. Even if we kill off half the human race because of those weapons (3+ billion people) if they prevent the death of the Human race (6+ billion people) then I'm going to count it as a good.
I'm not rejecting it, I'm simply saying that it can't be properly called a theory because it's simply not testable on a human time scale. Gravity is testable and verifiable, the relationship of gravity to distance, is readily verafiable, orbital mechanics is readily testable, evolution is meerly observable, and therefore simply a hypothosis. It's a good hypothosis, and it may even be right, but it isn't testable. Now, please stop being an asshat and read what I actualy said.
BitTorrent is not illegal because it has substantial non-infringing use, same with BitKeeper. Please go to the back of the line, and wait your turn to try again.
Two words, shit happens. With the information we had the risk of not invading outweighed the risk of invading in the mind of the president. If he was wrong about the risk, well it was his call. The intelegence was faulty. It's not like we could trust anyone at their word about what was going on. The reason we attacked Iraq was because Iraq was not in complience with UN weapons inspections, and we had intelegence indicating a high probability of having WMD. It was not directly related to 9/11.
Fun Miltary axioms "Kick their ass, don't piss on 'em" When a milatary action is taken, half measures simply put you at risk of defeat, so rather than pissing on them (taking out a handfull of instalaitons) we kicked their ass, and made them unable to resist in an organized and effective manner. Since the invations extremists have not taken substantial areas away from the oupation, nor have they substantialy slown down our progress, yes they've killed people, but killing people without attaining an objective is simple barbarism, not warfare. Thanks for your input though.
We've always had the same core beliefs, it's the world that's shifted. Once upon a time we were seen as radical, now we're seen as reactionary, and all without changing a tune. It's all about Individualism and Personal Honor. We've made concessions to the needs of the size of our nation, but all in all, we still try to uphold the same principals, or at least like to think we do. The more stressfull the world situation gets the more we fall back on those pillars of our philosophy. Any other course of action than the one Bush took after 9/11 would have very likely lead to revolution. WE DO NOT GIVE IN TO OUR ENEMIES. Trillians for defence, but not one cent for tribute (paraphrasing the original quote). And before you bring up Iran-Contra just remeber, it stands out because it was the only time we've done it. We won't give in to Al-Quaida and we will not give in to random nut-jobs in Iraq. We will hunt them down, and we will destroy them, root and branch.
Yeah, have fun with no wheat. And not a lot of soy beans. It will kinda suck to not have oranges though. Guess we'll just have to get them from florida. Talking food with the US is kinda like talking nukes with the US and Russia, Kansas grows enough food to feed the whole world by itself, but hey, you grow more than us, big whup.
All parts of the bible before exodus are pure hersay anyway, and carried through oral tradition. Any numbers or time frames in Genesis must consider the ability of Moses to conceptualize them. Evolution is an extrapolation based on an observation, it has never been tested. Creationism is based on what a "prophet" said, and the modern Intelegent Design "theory" is based upon problems with evolution theory. None of these three "theories" have yet been tested because none of them have any predicitons that are testable in the lifetime of the experimenter. Basicly all three are psudeo-scientific bullshit roughly akin to astrology. None of them can even be called theories because of the lack of testing, the best they can be would be hypothesies.
We already won by military means. You're right, a foreign army cannot win against a gurilla force with the support of the populace, however an occupier with the support of the populace has already defeated the guerillas and it's just a matter of time before they are hunted down or surrender. By the way, That only holds when the occupation is unpopular in the home country of the occupier. The American Revolution was increasingly unpopular in England, and Vitenam was unpopular in the US. The Second Gulf War is popular in the US, and the occupation and reconstruction is popular, or at least accepted, in Iraq. The only place the US will "lose" the occupation is at home.
As a far right wing libertarian "faggot" I would prefer bush to win, however I feel he's handled the war quite well. I do hate it when my libertarian ideals and my imperialistic ideals conflict though. Such is life, and I wish you the greatest of enjoyment.
My linux system interfaced rather well with my PalmOS PDA until it bit the dust. I doubt it will have any trouble with any new ones. Plucker should do what you want with documents, and there are also other Linux programs for generating Palm OS files that will work just fine. Can't realy help you on the word processor side of things since I don't use them.
Alright, What whould people from the United States of America be called? Unionites? Uni's? Uniteds? Unionians? Unionists? I'm pretty sure that none of these names would go over very well in the portions of the country that tried to split away in 1860, so we stick with Americans, at least for now.
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Linguistic shift. It has been over 200 years you know.
I was being semi-sarcastic, the real solution is colonizing space. Then we don't die when we have one big catastrophy. What I was meaning is that by weaponizing space, or by having nuclear weapons at all we risk having a war where lots of people die. If we don't have the weapons, we risk being hit by a big rock, and EVERYONE dying. so we go for the lesser of evils.
I didn't say a coup was likely, nor did I say that such a coup government would last, however it is always posible. One man dedicated to dying for his cause can always do lots of damage.
It's high grade metal, The removal of the rubble at ground zero is nececary for the freedom towers anyway. It would be wastefull not to use it, although I would prefer for as much of the rubble and steel from the WTC to go into the freedom towers as posible.
If someone decided a coup would be advantagous they still might try, and may even suceede. There's something to be said about being willing to kill people, even your own citizens.
I'm just as dead if a dinosaur killer hits. Actualy I'm in a "safe" area, so I'm far more likely to be dead if a dinosaur killer hits. Thanks for playing.
There was no if or then in there. There were two INDEPENDANT clauses. Now what part of Will not be infringed is dificult for you to understand?
I think the superlaser counts as a WMD, but that's just my understanding.
Grow the fuck up. Raw naked force has resulted in the resolution of more conflicts than any other method in history. It will continue forever because it works.
*dons asbestos longjohns* But it had a pretty mushroom shaped cloud, how can hippies not like mushrooms?
We didn't sign that treaty with the internatinal comunity, we signed it with the Soviet Union. There are advangtages to hegemony.
Yeah, sure mankind will benefit from a lack of weapons in space, until the next dinosaur killer comes along and wipes us all out. Dammit we NEED those weapons in space! As far as KE weapons go, at least they don't have the long-term nastyness of nukes. Even if we kill off half the human race because of those weapons (3+ billion people) if they prevent the death of the Human race (6+ billion people) then I'm going to count it as a good.
I'm not rejecting it, I'm simply saying that it can't be properly called a theory because it's simply not testable on a human time scale. Gravity is testable and verifiable, the relationship of gravity to distance, is readily verafiable, orbital mechanics is readily testable, evolution is meerly observable, and therefore simply a hypothosis. It's a good hypothosis, and it may even be right, but it isn't testable. Now, please stop being an asshat and read what I actualy said.
BitTorrent is not illegal because it has substantial non-infringing use, same with BitKeeper. Please go to the back of the line, and wait your turn to try again.
Two words, shit happens. With the information we had the risk of not invading outweighed the risk of invading in the mind of the president. If he was wrong about the risk, well it was his call. The intelegence was faulty. It's not like we could trust anyone at their word about what was going on. The reason we attacked Iraq was because Iraq was not in complience with UN weapons inspections, and we had intelegence indicating a high probability of having WMD. It was not directly related to 9/11.
Fun Miltary axioms "Kick their ass, don't piss on 'em" When a milatary action is taken, half measures simply put you at risk of defeat, so rather than pissing on them (taking out a handfull of instalaitons) we kicked their ass, and made them unable to resist in an organized and effective manner. Since the invations extremists have not taken substantial areas away from the oupation, nor have they substantialy slown down our progress, yes they've killed people, but killing people without attaining an objective is simple barbarism, not warfare. Thanks for your input though.
We've always had the same core beliefs, it's the world that's shifted. Once upon a time we were seen as radical, now we're seen as reactionary, and all without changing a tune. It's all about Individualism and Personal Honor. We've made concessions to the needs of the size of our nation, but all in all, we still try to uphold the same principals, or at least like to think we do. The more stressfull the world situation gets the more we fall back on those pillars of our philosophy. Any other course of action than the one Bush took after 9/11 would have very likely lead to revolution. WE DO NOT GIVE IN TO OUR ENEMIES. Trillians for defence, but not one cent for tribute (paraphrasing the original quote). And before you bring up Iran-Contra just remeber, it stands out because it was the only time we've done it. We won't give in to Al-Quaida and we will not give in to random nut-jobs in Iraq. We will hunt them down, and we will destroy them, root and branch.
Yeah, have fun with no wheat. And not a lot of soy beans. It will kinda suck to not have oranges though. Guess we'll just have to get them from florida. Talking food with the US is kinda like talking nukes with the US and Russia, Kansas grows enough food to feed the whole world by itself, but hey, you grow more than us, big whup.
All parts of the bible before exodus are pure hersay anyway, and carried through oral tradition. Any numbers or time frames in Genesis must consider the ability of Moses to conceptualize them. Evolution is an extrapolation based on an observation, it has never been tested. Creationism is based on what a "prophet" said, and the modern Intelegent Design "theory" is based upon problems with evolution theory. None of these three "theories" have yet been tested because none of them have any predicitons that are testable in the lifetime of the experimenter. Basicly all three are psudeo-scientific bullshit roughly akin to astrology. None of them can even be called theories because of the lack of testing, the best they can be would be hypothesies.
Where was Me inapropriate there? Stop being an anti-me nazi and learn the acutal gramatical rules for english.
We already won by military means. You're right, a foreign army cannot win against a gurilla force with the support of the populace, however an occupier with the support of the populace has already defeated the guerillas and it's just a matter of time before they are hunted down or surrender. By the way, That only holds when the occupation is unpopular in the home country of the occupier. The American Revolution was increasingly unpopular in England, and Vitenam was unpopular in the US. The Second Gulf War is popular in the US, and the occupation and reconstruction is popular, or at least accepted, in Iraq. The only place the US will "lose" the occupation is at home.
As a far right wing libertarian "faggot" I would prefer bush to win, however I feel he's handled the war quite well. I do hate it when my libertarian ideals and my imperialistic ideals conflict though. Such is life, and I wish you the greatest of enjoyment.
My linux system interfaced rather well with my PalmOS PDA until it bit the dust. I doubt it will have any trouble with any new ones. Plucker should do what you want with documents, and there are also other Linux programs for generating Palm OS files that will work just fine. Can't realy help you on the word processor side of things since I don't use them.
Alright, What whould people from the United States of America be called? Unionites? Uni's? Uniteds? Unionians? Unionists? I'm pretty sure that none of these names would go over very well in the portions of the country that tried to split away in 1860, so we stick with Americans, at least for now.