Sure, but all kinds of thing are undesirable, that doesn't mean that they all get 'rehab' programs to drag themselves out of their own mess.
I'd rather we spend the money spent on rehab programs on the problems of people who didn't put themselves in that position. [abuse victims, children put into foster care, and so on].
If it was legalised, why would there be rehab services? I mean, I dare say there would be the equivalent of 'AA', but there wouldn't be anything like there is now with methadone programs and so forth.
You don't see recovering alcoholics getting free shots of coffee to help them get over it.
Sure, you get all the big generic stuff. But the big generic stuff is crap these days, as they make it for XBOX, PS2 and whatever else they can put it on.
I really do hope that the mac gets good games like Dawn of War ported over, because I have mac using friends who I want to play more games, but I'm not sure how likely that is.
Well then you wont mind when i decide to sit down right next to you and your girlfriend in the park, recording everything you say, speaking over you, hitting on your girlfriend, eating your food, farting, and basically doing whatever i dam please.
Oh, I'm sure he will mind, in fact, he'll probably go somewhere else. But if you follow him, you're no longer invading his privacy, you are stalking, which is something completely different!
The whole point of doing 3 syncs was that typing them out gave the system the time to finish the first one.. by scripting it, you are missing the point.
Comparing nothing but military might, the world consists of one Ultrapower and a bunch of pipsqueaks. There is nothing in France's arsenal to stop the US military from invading France, not even if all the hairy armpit girls stood upwind.
Don't forget that France has nuclear weapons, not just your generic kind either, they have the real deal, long range mission variant. So yeah, you could invade any time you want, but they could level Washingon and New York on their way out.
PS: You also forgot about China, which has the biggest army in the world:P
But that's the thing.. your anti-USism is getting in the way again. Just because the US killed a whole lot of people DOESN'T MAKE IT RIGHT when someone else does it.
Hell no, they are pretty indifferent to destruction when it comes down to it. What they want is to be able to run the country according to their own whims, not caring about the US, the UN, or Joe Iraqi living down the street.
If the US pulled out tomorrow, I suspect Iraqi would dissolve into civil war instantly, with a wide variety of factions going for it.
Well, there are no unions or other non-government organizations.. except for Joe Terrorist who certainly doesn't have Joe Iraqi's best interests at heart.
It's called a revolution. It starts small, with targeted attacks on visible symbols of the oppressors. It ends in everyone standing up and saying "Yes. Enough is enough. Down with the current system. We'll take over now."
Everyone? Or just the militants. This strikes me as naive in the extreme. Mainly because I can't see how 'everyone' is going to assume control. Someone has to have authority, and it's not going to be Joe Iraqi off the street.
You forget that Saddam ( like Bin Laden ) was trained by the US and installed by the US and backed by the US. In fact he was one of their closest allies until 1991. I'm not saying that Iraq should return to what they had before. In fact, that is what you are saying by approving of the so-called 'elections'. Elections under the supervision of the US forces and the current interim government will only produce another Saddam. And that's exactly what the US wants.
Don't know about the 80's. How about the 90's? The Taliban, which was set up by the CIA and backed at every turn by the US and UK governments.
PS: Yes, this was my point. Today's allies can be tomorrows people who are loading people into ovens just because they come from the wrong village. You're going to feel like a bit of a tool for supporting them then, surely. Or maybe you won't, because it was all in aid of hating the US.
This is why you are wrong, because you can't look over your hatred of the US to see the real situation. [For bonus points, read something that isn't Green Left Weekly].
Well, riddle me this? How the hell is militants derailing the election process going to produce a democracy? I'm not saying that the US way is any more likely to succeed.. but at least it isn't driving car bombs into buildings full of people.
We support any group who tries to free the Iraqi people from their current oppressors.
This is your biggest mistake. You should be more choosy about who you cuddle up to, lest it come back to make you look like an idiot later. For bonus points, name the major sponsor of Afghani militants in the 80's.
The Iraqi people should be free to choose whoever they want to run the place, whether you label them religious fundamentalists or not. This is the secret to self-determination. The fact is that they have widespread popular support, and according to our democratic values, therefore earn the right to government.
But these religious fundamentalists are responsible for the genocide of various social groups in Iraq. Surely that makes them more 'oppressive' than the current Iraqi leadership which, to my knowledge haven't yet done that.
The question is, if these religious fundamentalists have popular support, why don't they just wait for the elections, and win those, rather than blowing up the very people they are trying to rule over with car bombs. The answer is of course, that they don't want that sort of government, with all of the relevant oversight that comes with it. They would rather be able to cause people to disappear in the middle of the night, like the good old days. You honestly can't expect me to believe that the average Iraqi citizen wants this.
Iraqi Citizen: Cool! Reign of terror! I hope my family and I disappear in the middle of the night like the good old days.
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I'd rather we spend the money spent on rehab programs on the problems of people who didn't put themselves in that position. [abuse victims, children put into foster care, and so on].
You don't see recovering alcoholics getting free shots of coffee to help them get over it.
Actually, they were the Collins.. That's the only reason the whole thing stuck in my mind. [They managed to do WHAT?!]
At last years naval exercises, Australia got a lot of flak from the US for beating them with our subs :)
[Aussie aussie aussie!]
I really do hope that the mac gets good games like Dawn of War ported over, because I have mac using friends who I want to play more games, but I'm not sure how likely that is.
Oh, I'm sure he will mind, in fact, he'll probably go somewhere else. But if you follow him, you're no longer invading his privacy, you are stalking, which is something completely different!
Sure, we have 25 'severity 1' incidents per year, with an incident not counting if it was proved to be a problem with the software itself.
Then you only need one sync :)
Um..
> sync
> sync
> sync
> halt
is not the same as: sync;sync;sync;halt
The whole point of doing 3 syncs was that typing them out gave the system the time to finish the first one.. by scripting it, you are missing the point.
Or struck!
Oh, is that all?
PS: Yes, I am being sarcastic. :P
Where do you think all the fucking money goes :P
Oh god no, don't do it. Please no! [Glory to the many!]
Don't forget that France has nuclear weapons, not just your generic kind either, they have the real deal, long range mission variant. So yeah, you could invade any time you want, but they could level Washingon and New York on their way out.
PS: You also forgot about China, which has the biggest army in the world :P
But that's the thing.. your anti-USism is getting in the way again. Just because the US killed a whole lot of people DOESN'T MAKE IT RIGHT when someone else does it.
Uhh... what about the.. you know.. genocide?
From Transgamers point of view... yes.. yes it is.
Hell no, they are pretty indifferent to destruction when it comes down to it. What they want is to be able to run the country according to their own whims, not caring about the US, the UN, or Joe Iraqi living down the street.
If the US pulled out tomorrow, I suspect Iraqi would dissolve into civil war instantly, with a wide variety of factions going for it.
Well, there are no unions or other non-government organizations.. except for Joe Terrorist who certainly doesn't have Joe Iraqi's best interests at heart.
Maybe someone else will write a TCP/IP stack for windows, but it will be hard.
Everyone? Or just the militants. This strikes me as naive in the extreme. Mainly because I can't see how 'everyone' is going to assume control. Someone has to have authority, and it's not going to be Joe Iraqi off the street.
Crap, my response to your first paragraph was eaten by HTML voodoo. Rest assured it was very insightful!
Don't know about the 80's. How about the 90's? The Taliban, which was set up by the CIA and backed at every turn by the US and UK governments.
PS: Yes, this was my point. Today's allies can be tomorrows people who are loading people into ovens just because they come from the wrong village. You're going to feel like a bit of a tool for supporting them then, surely. Or maybe you won't, because it was all in aid of hating the US.
This is why you are wrong, because you can't look over your hatred of the US to see the real situation. [For bonus points, read something that isn't Green Left Weekly]. Well, riddle me this? How the hell is militants derailing the election process going to produce a democracy? I'm not saying that the US way is any more likely to succeed.. but at least it isn't driving car bombs into buildings full of people.
This is your biggest mistake. You should be more choosy about who you cuddle up to, lest it come back to make you look like an idiot later. For bonus points, name the major sponsor of Afghani militants in the 80's.
The Iraqi people should be free to choose whoever they want to run the place, whether you label them religious fundamentalists or not. This is the secret to self-determination. The fact is that they have widespread popular support, and according to our democratic values, therefore earn the right to government.
But these religious fundamentalists are responsible for the genocide of various social groups in Iraq. Surely that makes them more 'oppressive' than the current Iraqi leadership which, to my knowledge haven't yet done that.
The question is, if these religious fundamentalists have popular support, why don't they just wait for the elections, and win those, rather than blowing up the very people they are trying to rule over with car bombs. The answer is of course, that they don't want that sort of government, with all of the relevant oversight that comes with it. They would rather be able to cause people to disappear in the middle of the night, like the good old days. You honestly can't expect me to believe that the average Iraqi citizen wants this.
Iraqi Citizen: Cool! Reign of terror! I hope my family and I disappear in the middle of the night like the good old days.
You don't particularly upset me, but I have decided to try and point out to you how god damned stupid the extremist left is.
[Just as stupid as the extremist right when it comes down to it, but there are less extreme rightists on this site.]
Now, just try and relax, and admit that supporting religious fundamentalists, just because they are anti-US is a mistake.