you know, the funny thing is that just about the only people who regularly kill peasants that they don't know by pushing a button are American servicemen. OBL didn't just sit back and push a button, but he is definitely an evil fucker all the same.
"would you eat meat of you had to kill and butcher the cow yourself?
many times I'v thought about this one, and the answer I came up with is sometimes. All else in my life being equal, I would NOT kill a cow to eat beef, nor a pig to eat pork. I WOULD kill a lamb for food, and a chicken, and I have killed fish and rabbits several times for food. I know that my position is not a moral one, but it's the most honest one I can give, having lived on a farm for some small part of my life.
yes, they would. People like GWB and Osama make this kind of judgement all the time - both are responsible for killing many thousands of innocents. THEY call it "collateral" damage and other such abysmal nonsense.
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this is the gayest idea I've heard of in a long time. Americans are so pathetic sometimes. Why not try introducing literature to the KIDS AT SCHOOL instead?
but it actively discourages the use of your 'phone. Who fucking cares if it costs your caller a million bucks to get to you? It's their peoblem, your number alone tells them what kind of line it is, if they don't want to make the call, they aren't forced to. Mbile 'phones are PERSONAL 'phones, I've almost given up making private calls on the company landline because of my GSM 'phone's messaging ability - most others have done likewise - and the answerphone has gone the way of the dinosaur here now; why leave a meassage when an SMS is so much more effective and concise?
working time directive says the same thing for Euros. 40h per week is normal, some professions are exempted (like doctors) and France is trying to lower the number to decrease unemployment (?)
if you're white, you're a European too. don't sweat it, he only said the US mobile 'phone system was shit, not the people. They are, of course, but that's another issue entirely:-]
fair enough, but I do find it troubling that the USA spends so much more effort on finding new reserves of oil than it does on educating (or legislating) changes in fuel consumption patterns. It's verging on scandalous that the average fuel consumption of private vehicles in the US should actually be rising. we all know that the American penchant for 2-tonne (or even 3-tonne) 4WD trucks is to blame, but why aren't these vehicles taxed back to the margins where they belong? And why can't the US make a significant move to discourage gasoline use through tax on fuel? It really seems like a crazy situation to a European like myself.
ALL "democratic" western governments are corrupt, it's no particular slur on GWB's crew. Try Googling for "Tony Blair Bernie Ecclestone" and see what you get. Why do the Chinese need to innovate to get to the moon? America already showed them how, and the Chinese hardly have to convince the population to come up with the money, do they? And GWB not capable of REAL corruption, remember you wrote that when Big Oil starts drilling in YOUR favourite national park.
a British monarch hasn't done anything without permission since the time of George III. Quite right, too. You can thank Cromwell for that if you want - talk about tough love though.
what do you mean ANYMORE? The USA is living on borrowed time as the world's leading nation - how many of your "American" computers are actually manufactured in China? What happens when China gets to the moon? What happens when China's GDp overtakes that of the USA? What HAPPENED when the Chinese captured a US spy plane? We saw the balance of power right there. Quite frankly, the prospect of the filthy, murderous Chinese state apparatus dictating the fate of the entire world far more frightening than GWB's corrupt regime. When WWIII starts, the USA can count on my support. I don't think it'll help much, but it's yours all the same.
I certainly wasn't. The French have far more perfected the art of living than either the Americans or the British, although the little I've seen of Italy suggests that they may have gone further still. The British are certainly a much more modest race than both of the others - both the French and Americans seem to think that they invented democracy and the rule of law, when it rather seems to me that the Magna Carta did more than both.
The Irish seem to be doing very well these days, from what I can see. We still get a lot coming over to London, but I don't think they are fleeing poverty, but rather looking for the broader opportunities that a larger community inevitably offers. Same reason that Londoners go to NYC. John Lennon said that moving from London to NYC was like moving from Liverpool to London, IIRC.
Re-purposed Nazi weapons put men on the moon. How does your precious Bill provide for a fairer society than that enjoyed by Canadians? And I never said that I built your country - I'm 29 years old and have lived in the UK, the US and France. I never built much of anything, myself. Careful how much of your ancestor's achievements you claim for yourself, you're just standing on their shoulders claiming that you're the tallest in the world.
maybe so, but if America had never ceded from the Empire, I rather suspect that the commonwealth might never have been established. I agine what the world might have bee like if the British Empire had become properly democratic - India and the Americas would probably have steered the whole enterprise eventually. If properly handled, it could actually have worked. At least it wouldn't have been so fucking harsh on the native Americans - their fate always seems to me such an ignored crime, Canada did it so much better.
who's gonna stop 'em? If it's not the American people (and let's face it, it's not) then that only leaves the Chinese - and they're even fucking worse! One day, maybe the UN (or, more likely, the EU) will have enough clout to stop the American govt acting like they own the fucking planet.
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you know, the funny thing is that just about the only people who regularly kill peasants that they don't know by pushing a button are American servicemen. OBL didn't just sit back and push a button, but he is definitely an evil fucker all the same.
"would you eat meat of you had to kill and butcher the cow yourself?
many times I'v thought about this one, and the answer I came up with is sometimes. All else in my life being equal, I would NOT kill a cow to eat beef, nor a pig to eat pork. I WOULD kill a lamb for food, and a chicken, and I have killed fish and rabbits several times for food. I know that my position is not a moral one, but it's the most honest one I can give, having lived on a farm for some small part of my life.
yes, they would. People like GWB and Osama make this kind of judgement all the time - both are responsible for killing many thousands of innocents. THEY call it "collateral" damage and other such abysmal nonsense.
you ever killed an insect?
this is the gayest idea I've heard of in a long time. Americans are so pathetic sometimes. Why not try introducing literature to the KIDS AT SCHOOL instead?
but it actively discourages the use of your 'phone. Who fucking cares if it costs your caller a million bucks to get to you? It's their peoblem, your number alone tells them what kind of line it is, if they don't want to make the call, they aren't forced to. Mbile 'phones are PERSONAL 'phones, I've almost given up making private calls on the company landline because of my GSM 'phone's messaging ability - most others have done likewise - and the answerphone has gone the way of the dinosaur here now; why leave a meassage when an SMS is so much more effective and concise?
what is an "oz"? my ericsson T-29 is 82g - if it were much smaller and lighter it would blow away.
working time directive says the same thing for Euros. 40h per week is normal, some professions are exempted (like doctors) and France is trying to lower the number to decrease unemployment (?)
It's always nice to meet a fan. Watch out for my new book, coming soon.
he meant the stupidest, and you just proved him right, Homer
if you're white, you're a European too. don't sweat it, he only said the US mobile 'phone system was shit, not the people. They are, of course, but that's another issue entirely :-]
fair enough, but I do find it troubling that the USA spends so much more effort on finding new reserves of oil than it does on educating (or legislating) changes in fuel consumption patterns. It's verging on scandalous that the average fuel consumption of private vehicles in the US should actually be rising. we all know that the American penchant for 2-tonne (or even 3-tonne) 4WD trucks is to blame, but why aren't these vehicles taxed back to the margins where they belong? And why can't the US make a significant move to discourage gasoline use through tax on fuel? It really seems like a crazy situation to a European like myself.
ALL "democratic" western governments are corrupt, it's no particular slur on GWB's crew. Try Googling for "Tony Blair Bernie Ecclestone" and see what you get. Why do the Chinese need to innovate to get to the moon? America already showed them how, and the Chinese hardly have to convince the population to come up with the money, do they? And GWB not capable of REAL corruption, remember you wrote that when Big Oil starts drilling in YOUR favourite national park.
I have to admit that it's the finest troll ever. A thing of rare beauty, indeed. Hats off to you, mein count.
a British monarch hasn't done anything without permission since the time of George III. Quite right, too. You can thank Cromwell for that if you want - talk about tough love though.
what do you mean ANYMORE? The USA is living on borrowed time as the world's leading nation - how many of your "American" computers are actually manufactured in China? What happens when China gets to the moon? What happens when China's GDp overtakes that of the USA? What HAPPENED when the Chinese captured a US spy plane? We saw the balance of power right there. Quite frankly, the prospect of the filthy, murderous Chinese state apparatus dictating the fate of the entire world far more frightening than GWB's corrupt regime. When WWIII starts, the USA can count on my support. I don't think it'll help much, but it's yours all the same.
I certainly wasn't. The French have far more perfected the art of living than either the Americans or the British, although the little I've seen of Italy suggests that they may have gone further still. The British are certainly a much more modest race than both of the others - both the French and Americans seem to think that they invented democracy and the rule of law, when it rather seems to me that the Magna Carta did more than both.
The Irish seem to be doing very well these days, from what I can see. We still get a lot coming over to London, but I don't think they are fleeing poverty, but rather looking for the broader opportunities that a larger community inevitably offers. Same reason that Londoners go to NYC. John Lennon said that moving from London to NYC was like moving from Liverpool to London, IIRC.
Re-purposed Nazi weapons put men on the moon. How does your precious Bill provide for a fairer society than that enjoyed by Canadians? And I never said that I built your country - I'm 29 years old and have lived in the UK, the US and France. I never built much of anything, myself. Careful how much of your ancestor's achievements you claim for yourself, you're just standing on their shoulders claiming that you're the tallest in the world.
maybe so, but if America had never ceded from the Empire, I rather suspect that the commonwealth might never have been established. I agine what the world might have bee like if the British Empire had become properly democratic - India and the Americas would probably have steered the whole enterprise eventually. If properly handled, it could actually have worked. At least it wouldn't have been so fucking harsh on the native Americans - their fate always seems to me such an ignored crime, Canada did it so much better.
duelling would make EXCELLENT television, you hae to admit - WAY better than Judge Judy
who's gonna stop 'em? If it's not the American people (and let's face it, it's not) then that only leaves the Chinese - and they're even fucking worse! One day, maybe the UN (or, more likely, the EU) will have enough clout to stop the American govt acting like they own the fucking planet.
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shitty looking box? A PS2 or a Gamecube looks a helluva lot better than most PCs. If your were talking about Macs, I could see your point.