I don't play WoW, so I don't deal with the grind. I played DnD Online for a while, but hit the "need uber items" wall and refused to play that game. I've been playing Hellgate London lately. So far I've been getting alone with the items I can find and upgrade (that's a big plus for the game!). On my last quest, I got my butt slapped around a lot, but I finished the quest. I probably should not have been soloing the area.
There are a few things I dislike about online games:
1. Cheaters. Diablo II was the worse as they didn't seem to care about it enough to do anything that worked.
2. The chicken and egg problem of items and character viability. You need to get the best items to play the hard levels. You only get the best items after spending way too long in the hard levels. Again, Diablo II gets an F in this. Each patch made it worse because they would nerf your good skills into uselessness.
3. Spending forever doing the same crap over and over and over and over. I don't like farming and I refuse to pay real money for virtual items. I play the game to have fun. I pay my monthly fee to have fun. If I have to pay someone to play the boring parts or for necessary items, then the game design is WRONG. Same if I need a bot to do boring parts. If I need to spend hours doing stupid and repetitive crap, then I won't play. Doing stupid and repetitive shit is called a "job". They pay me to do it, I don't pay them.
4. Nerfing. I hate when my favorite character is made useless. Especially for stupid reasons, "the class is too powerful in PvP." So? I don't play PvP, so I don't care.
The dupped SOJ economy was one of the reason for setting up our own server. BTW, what was the big attraction to SOJs? The Wedding Band was way better!
Running our own server gave us advantages besides eliminating the hackers and cheaters. For example, we unnerfed the Necro so he was useful again. We removed physical immunes so that fighters could get through certain areas, but we upped the toughness of everything to somewhat make up for that. We tweaked the drops to be slightly better because none of us wanted to do 10,000 meph runs to get one good item. We also added a few custom unique items.
We stayed interested in the game for another year. Had we been stuck on blizzard's server, we all would have quit playing very soon.
I still won't buy a Blizzard product. We ran a bnetd server because we got sick of the cheating on their servers. Every single person who was allowed on our server was legitimate because we verified them by going onto the blizzard servers. A quick chat to make sure the person logged in and all was cool. The bnetd people would have liked to have verified CD keys, but Blizzard refused to cooperate.
We weren't hurting anyone. We weren't stealing from Blizzard. In fact, we _reduced_ blizzard's costs because they had a lower load on their servers. They are just assholes. I chatted with one of the VPs at blizzard, and the way he spoke at me and my friends verified he was a complete and total asshole.
I was a big buyer of Blizzard products up to that point. I haven't bought a single thing from them since.
Senators have enormous power in a state. They get the federal funding that this state is so addicted to.
Ok, that was unfair. I'm implying that only this state is addicted to pork. In reality, all states are firmly attached to that pork teat.
I should clear things up a bit. I think California is merely attempting to extort additional funding from the Feds before they jump naked into the Real ID pool. California has been very happy to go along with the Federal ID requirements in the past, so I don't believe for a second that our elected officials have suddenly discovered their backbones.
Oh, and to whomever moderated me down as a troll. Bite me. You are obviously a Box/Feinstein socialist/communist fanboy. My previous posting was hardly a trolling attempt.
I was born in Kaliforniastan and have lived my whole life here. I don't, for one second, believe this state will fight the national ID system. Our two senators (Box and Feinstein) are socialists to the extreme. They firmly believe in the nanny-state and have always fully supported forcing the peasants to be tagged and bagged.
Why do I still live here? I'm a contract tech worker (Linux system administrator) and this is where the jobs are. Plus, the weather is better than most other places in the world. To move to another state I would have to take a permanent position, which I am not against. However, nothing has come along that has attracted my attention enough.
When you suppress speech because it might offend someone, you leave the door open to suppress anything and everything. No matter what you say, there's always someone who will be offended. For example, "I love kittens" could offend people with cat phobias.
The muslim world is offended by all criticism. They are offended by the slightest bit of disagreement. Unfortunately, Europe has allowed their ultra-thin skin to destroy free speech. I forget his name, but there's a billionaire muslim in England who keeps suing people (using the hate-speech argument) who criticize islam, not matter how even handed and fair the criticism might be. No one can afford to take on a legal battle with someone who has virtually unlimited funds and the support of an idiotic law.
The facts say otherwise. Here's a list of terrorist attacks for the past week by the religion of hate. Of the 34 incidents, 2 were against soldiers, 2 are not clear, the other 30 are all against civilians. So saying the muslim terrorists are fighting oppressing armed forces is complete bullshit.
Date, Country, City, Killed, Injured, Details 3/23/2008, Somalia, Mogadishu, 1, 0, A doctor is reported killed in an attack by Islamic terrorists. 3/23/2008, Pakistan, Torkham, 2, 50, al-Qaeda terrorists bomb a restaurant and an oil facility, killing two people. 3/23/2008, India, Srinagar, 4, 3, Lashker-e-Toiba militants ambush and kill four policemen. 3/22/2008, India, Bakhna, 1, 0, A young man is abducted from his home and brutally killed in captivity by Hizb-ul-Mujahideen. 3/22/2008, Iraq, Latifiya, 1, 0, A civilian is kidnapped and beheaded by the Mujahideen. 3/22/2008, Pakistan, Hangu, 4, 25, Sectarian strife between rival mosques leaves four dead. 3/22/2008, Afghanistan, Kunar, 1, 0, A civilian is brutally murdered by Sunni extremists. 3/22/2008, Afghanistan, Jawzjan, 1, 0, A district chief is stabbed to death by religious extremists. 3/21/2008, India, Kupwara, 1, 0, A 40-year-old man is dragged out of his home by Mujahideen, who then slash his throat. 3/21/2008, Afghanistan, Kanduz, 1, 0, A local cop is gunned down by the Taliban. 3/21/2008, Iraq, Mosul, 1, 0, Holy warriors kidnap and decapitate a civilian. 3/21/2008, Afghanistan, Kabul, 2, 4, Two people are killed by a Fedayeen suicide bomber. 3/20/2008, Pakistan, Wana, 5, 9, A Shahid detonates himself in a car bomb attack, killing five local soldiers. 3/20/2008, Somalia, Mogadishu, 7, 20, A 7-year-old child is among seven people killed when Islamic terrorists attack a government base. 3/20/2008, Iraq, Mosul, 2, 7, Two civilians are killed in a Mujahideen bombing attack in a neighborhood. 3/20/2008, India, Gawari, 2, 0, Two children are killed when Lashkar-e-Toiba lob a grenade into the yard of a house. 3/20/2008, Thailand, Pattani, 1, 0, Muslim radicals gun down a local Imam. 3/19/2008, Thailand, Yala, 1, 0, A Buddhist village guard is shot to death by Islamic terrorists. 3/19/2008, Thailand, Yala, 2, 0, Two people are killed when Muslim radicals throw a grenade into a moderate mosque. 3/19/2008, India, Srinagar, 1, 16, One person is killed, and sixteen others injured when Jihadis plant a bomb along a city street. 3/19/2008, Iraq, Balad Ruz, 5, 16, A female suicide bomber kills five innocent people at a market. 3/19/2008, Thailand, Yala, 1, 0, A 70-year-old Buddhist is murdered by Mujahideen gunmen at a grocery store. 3/18/2008, Iraq, Baghdad, 10, 74, Ten Iraqis are killed by Islamic militants in three separate bombing attacks. 3/18/2008, Yemen, Sanaa, 2, 19, A schoolgirl is among two killed in a bomb attack on the US Embassy. 3/18/2008, Israel, Jerusalem, 0, 1, A rabbi is stabbed in the neck by a Palestinian. 3/17/2008, Kosovo, Mitrovica, 2, 130, A suspected Muslim radical tosses a hand grenade into a crowd of protesting Serbs, killing two people. 3/17/2008, Thailand, Yala, 0, 8, Eight children are injured when Mujahid set off a bomb at a playground. 3/17/2008, Afghanistan, Girishk, 7, 11, A Shahid blows himself up near a security convoy, killing three civilians and three multinational troops. 3/17/2008, Thailand, Yala, 2, 0, Two men are shot to death by Muslim militants. 3/17/2008, Iraq, Karbala, 43, 73, A female suicide bomber murders over forty Shiites near a shrine. 3/17/2008, Pakistan, Swat, 2, 3, Two young cadets are killed when a Shahid detonates himself at a police training center. 3/17/2008, Iraq, Baghdad, 5, 11, Five children are killed when Jihadis lob mortars onto a soccer field. 3/17/2008, Iraq, Baghdad, 3, 11, Mujahideen bomb a minibus, killing three civilian passengers.
But only when they have a chance of taking out a good number of non-muslims. You'd be better of saying, "they sacrifice everyone else's lives for their believes."
Lets be clear about something. Most muslims, as in an overwhelming majority, don't want to have anything do do with violence.
According to surveys, the majority of moderate muslims aren't against the violence against "infidels". They may not be actively involved in the violence, but they support it.
Note also, that most muslim violence is directed against other muslims
The number of attacks is split about even against muslims and non-muslims. More muslims are killed because each attack tends to have more casualties.
Yes there is a problem with poor levels of education
And who's fault is this? The middle east is buried in oil money. They could build universities that rival the best the West has to offer. Instead, they build reglious schools and mosques so they can teach that all their problems are because of evil Americans and Jews (I suppose American Jews are double plus evil).
but if we are to be honest, christians do the same thing quite often
How many Christian sects are urging their followers to blow up people? There have been a few, but they are incredibly rare. Contrast this with the religion of hate. It's one thing to preach non-believers are going to hell. It's another thing to urge your congregation to hurry the process along.
I discussed the muslims with a friend who spent a considerable amount of time in the middle east (numerous countries). It's his opinion that one of two things are going to happen. Either islam will become more tolerant or islam will cease to exist because the West will finally become fed up with the murder and hate and deal with it in a rather violent fashion on a grand scale.
The latter sickens me. However, if it came down to a choice between being subservient to islam or wiping them out, well, call me evil but let loose the dogs of war. The stated goal of islam as preached in their MODERATE mosques is the subjugation (with force) of the entire world to sharia law. I don't intend to go along with that plan.
When will the Council of Imams (the only real ruling body of that religion) denounce the violence against civilians? They won't denounce it because the terrorists are doing exactly what they want.
Please post your list of terrorist attacks by Christians and Jews. For every one terrorist attacks by all other religions combined, I can list a thousand by the religion of hate (islam).
Post a cartoon of the muslim prophet, they go on a murderous riot.
Arrest a muslim for violently attacking a police officer, they go on a murderous riot.
A couple of muslim thugs get themselves killed eluding the police, they go on a murderous riot.
Criticize muslim for being unable to accept criticism, they go on a murderous riot.
I did answer your questions. I insulted you because you have a very useful skill in that you can ignore the facts.
In the middle east, violence begets violence. But peace begets even more violence because it's seen as a sign of weakness by the islamofascists. The Israelis learned this lesson. You haven't.
Who gives a rat's ass what resolutions the U.N. has passed. They pass resolutions condemning Israel on an almost daily basis. They have yet to pass a single resolution condemning the Palestinian attacks against civilians. The U.N. is dominated by anti-Israel despots.
You are ignoring the simple fact that Israel was attacked first, and they responded as any reasonable nation would, by fighting back and winning, despite overwhelming odds against them. Yes, they took some land. That's rather typical when you beat the crap out of an aggressor.
I must assume you didn't go very far in school, or you went to school at the "University of Anti-Semite".
The Israelis have tried on numerous occasions to make peace. They gave them back a shitload of land in hopes of coming to some reasonable compromise. The Palestinians decided that launching rockets from their new land at the Israelis was a fine thing. We (the U.S. and Europe) have poured billions of dollars into the hands of the Palestinians. Notice any schools, factories, hospitals, or the most basic infrastructure? Of course not. The money was siphoned into private bank accounts or used to buy more rockets to lob at the Israelis. Fuck the Palestinians. They don't want peace. They only wish to kill more Jews, no matter what the cost.
For a time I was the primary (er, only) technical person for an eCommerce site. I learned one important lesson. Sales people have zero morals. They would lie to their own mother to make a sale. Hell, they would toss in sex with their baby sister to make a sale. I felt sleazy just keeping their servers running. I hope I never have to take that kind of job again.
That's a fallacy. Most European countries either don't have a constitution or have one that is only a few decades old - much like most European countries. You're lands may have been inhabited for a thousand years or so, but your existence as a "country" is very short. The U.S. is an older country than all the countries in Europe with only a couple of exceptions (UK and I think Denmark). The UK doesn't have a written constitution. They used to brag about that. They don't now that the nanny state treats them like property.
And you go and prove you are an asshole by saying a typo proves I don't understand the English language. FYI, I was in the honors program for English in college.
The problem is the Feds have started using anti-terror laws against citizens for crimes that had absolutely nothing to do with terrorism. You might trust the government to not go down that slippery slope. I believe they have only paused long enough to put their racing skis on.
BTW, Good discussion. When do we start calling each other nazis?
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I don't play WoW, so I don't deal with the grind. I played DnD Online for a while, but hit the "need uber items" wall and refused to play that game. I've been playing Hellgate London lately. So far I've been getting alone with the items I can find and upgrade (that's a big plus for the game!). On my last quest, I got my butt slapped around a lot, but I finished the quest. I probably should not have been soloing the area.
There are a few things I dislike about online games:
1. Cheaters. Diablo II was the worse as they didn't seem to care about it enough to do anything that worked.
2. The chicken and egg problem of items and character viability. You need to get the best items to play the hard levels. You only get the best items after spending way too long in the hard levels. Again, Diablo II gets an F in this. Each patch made it worse because they would nerf your good skills into uselessness.
3. Spending forever doing the same crap over and over and over and over. I don't like farming and I refuse to pay real money for virtual items. I play the game to have fun. I pay my monthly fee to have fun. If I have to pay someone to play the boring parts or for necessary items, then the game design is WRONG. Same if I need a bot to do boring parts. If I need to spend hours doing stupid and repetitive crap, then I won't play. Doing stupid and repetitive shit is called a "job". They pay me to do it, I don't pay them.
4. Nerfing. I hate when my favorite character is made useless. Especially for stupid reasons, "the class is too powerful in PvP." So? I don't play PvP, so I don't care.
The dupped SOJ economy was one of the reason for setting up our own server. BTW, what was the big attraction to SOJs? The Wedding Band was way better!
Running our own server gave us advantages besides eliminating the hackers and cheaters. For example, we unnerfed the Necro so he was useful again. We removed physical immunes so that fighters could get through certain areas, but we upped the toughness of everything to somewhat make up for that. We tweaked the drops to be slightly better because none of us wanted to do 10,000 meph runs to get one good item. We also added a few custom unique items.
We stayed interested in the game for another year. Had we been stuck on blizzard's server, we all would have quit playing very soon.
I still won't buy a Blizzard product. We ran a bnetd server because we got sick of the cheating on their servers. Every single person who was allowed on our server was legitimate because we verified them by going onto the blizzard servers. A quick chat to make sure the person logged in and all was cool. The bnetd people would have liked to have verified CD keys, but Blizzard refused to cooperate.
We weren't hurting anyone. We weren't stealing from Blizzard. In fact, we _reduced_ blizzard's costs because they had a lower load on their servers. They are just assholes. I chatted with one of the VPs at blizzard, and the way he spoke at me and my friends verified he was a complete and total asshole.
I was a big buyer of Blizzard products up to that point. I haven't bought a single thing from them since.
We only do that to annoy the Europeans. We would have switched long ago if we weren't so amused by the confusion of international visitors.
YOU BASTARD! Now I'll never get a good night of sleep!
$text = "The bookkeeper was very careful to keep proper books as he did not wish to be booked for fraud."
$text =~ s/book/publication/g;
Yeah, that will work. Not.
Senators have enormous power in a state. They get the federal funding that this state is so addicted to.
Ok, that was unfair. I'm implying that only this state is addicted to pork. In reality, all states are firmly attached to that pork teat.
I should clear things up a bit. I think California is merely attempting to extort additional funding from the Feds before they jump naked into the Real ID pool. California has been very happy to go along with the Federal ID requirements in the past, so I don't believe for a second that our elected officials have suddenly discovered their backbones.
Oh, and to whomever moderated me down as a troll. Bite me. You are obviously a Box/Feinstein socialist/communist fanboy. My previous posting was hardly a trolling attempt.
Once you graduate, the engineering degree has a good chance of getting you a well paying job where you get to use your brain to create "stuff".
With an easy to get liberal arts degree, you have the opportunity to join the exciting world of the fast food service industry.
I was born in Kaliforniastan and have lived my whole life here. I don't, for one second, believe this state will fight the national ID system. Our two senators (Box and Feinstein) are socialists to the extreme. They firmly believe in the nanny-state and have always fully supported forcing the peasants to be tagged and bagged.
Why do I still live here? I'm a contract tech worker (Linux system administrator) and this is where the jobs are. Plus, the weather is better than most other places in the world. To move to another state I would have to take a permanent position, which I am not against. However, nothing has come along that has attracted my attention enough.
Which means you don't have freedom of speech.
When you suppress speech because it might offend someone, you leave the door open to suppress anything and everything. No matter what you say, there's always someone who will be offended. For example, "I love kittens" could offend people with cat phobias.
The muslim world is offended by all criticism. They are offended by the slightest bit of disagreement. Unfortunately, Europe has allowed their ultra-thin skin to destroy free speech. I forget his name, but there's a billionaire muslim in England who keeps suing people (using the hate-speech argument) who criticize islam, not matter how even handed and fair the criticism might be. No one can afford to take on a legal battle with someone who has virtually unlimited funds and the support of an idiotic law.
The facts say otherwise. Here's a list of terrorist attacks for the past week by the religion of hate. Of the 34 incidents, 2 were against soldiers, 2 are not clear, the other 30 are all against civilians. So saying the muslim terrorists are fighting oppressing armed forces is complete bullshit.
Date, Country, City, Killed, Injured, Details
3/23/2008, Somalia, Mogadishu, 1, 0, A doctor is reported killed in an attack by Islamic terrorists.
3/23/2008, Pakistan, Torkham, 2, 50, al-Qaeda terrorists bomb a restaurant and an oil facility, killing two people.
3/23/2008, India, Srinagar, 4, 3, Lashker-e-Toiba militants ambush and kill four policemen.
3/22/2008, India, Bakhna, 1, 0, A young man is abducted from his home and brutally killed in captivity by Hizb-ul-Mujahideen.
3/22/2008, Iraq, Latifiya, 1, 0, A civilian is kidnapped and beheaded by the Mujahideen.
3/22/2008, Pakistan, Hangu, 4, 25, Sectarian strife between rival mosques leaves four dead.
3/22/2008, Afghanistan, Kunar, 1, 0, A civilian is brutally murdered by Sunni extremists.
3/22/2008, Afghanistan, Jawzjan, 1, 0, A district chief is stabbed to death by religious extremists.
3/21/2008, India, Kupwara, 1, 0, A 40-year-old man is dragged out of his home by Mujahideen, who then slash his throat.
3/21/2008, Afghanistan, Kanduz, 1, 0, A local cop is gunned down by the Taliban.
3/21/2008, Iraq, Mosul, 1, 0, Holy warriors kidnap and decapitate a civilian.
3/21/2008, Afghanistan, Kabul, 2, 4, Two people are killed by a Fedayeen suicide bomber.
3/20/2008, Pakistan, Wana, 5, 9, A Shahid detonates himself in a car bomb attack, killing five local soldiers.
3/20/2008, Somalia, Mogadishu, 7, 20, A 7-year-old child is among seven people killed when Islamic terrorists attack a government base.
3/20/2008, Iraq, Mosul, 2, 7, Two civilians are killed in a Mujahideen bombing attack in a neighborhood.
3/20/2008, India, Gawari, 2, 0, Two children are killed when Lashkar-e-Toiba lob a grenade into the yard of a house.
3/20/2008, Thailand, Pattani, 1, 0, Muslim radicals gun down a local Imam.
3/19/2008, Thailand, Yala, 1, 0, A Buddhist village guard is shot to death by Islamic terrorists.
3/19/2008, Thailand, Yala, 2, 0, Two people are killed when Muslim radicals throw a grenade into a moderate mosque.
3/19/2008, India, Srinagar, 1, 16, One person is killed, and sixteen others injured when Jihadis plant a bomb along a city street.
3/19/2008, Iraq, Balad Ruz, 5, 16, A female suicide bomber kills five innocent people at a market.
3/19/2008, Thailand, Yala, 1, 0, A 70-year-old Buddhist is murdered by Mujahideen gunmen at a grocery store.
3/18/2008, Iraq, Baghdad, 10, 74, Ten Iraqis are killed by Islamic militants in three separate bombing attacks.
3/18/2008, Yemen, Sanaa, 2, 19, A schoolgirl is among two killed in a bomb attack on the US Embassy.
3/18/2008, Israel, Jerusalem, 0, 1, A rabbi is stabbed in the neck by a Palestinian.
3/17/2008, Kosovo, Mitrovica, 2, 130, A suspected Muslim radical tosses a hand grenade into a crowd of protesting Serbs, killing two people.
3/17/2008, Thailand, Yala, 0, 8, Eight children are injured when Mujahid set off a bomb at a playground.
3/17/2008, Afghanistan, Girishk, 7, 11, A Shahid blows himself up near a security convoy, killing three civilians and three multinational troops.
3/17/2008, Thailand, Yala, 2, 0, Two men are shot to death by Muslim militants.
3/17/2008, Iraq, Karbala, 43, 73, A female suicide bomber murders over forty Shiites near a shrine.
3/17/2008, Pakistan, Swat, 2, 3, Two young cadets are killed when a Shahid detonates himself at a police training center.
3/17/2008, Iraq, Baghdad, 5, 11, Five children are killed when Jihadis lob mortars onto a soccer field.
3/17/2008, Iraq, Baghdad, 3, 11, Mujahideen bomb a minibus, killing three civilian passengers.
No they aren't. If someone kicked the shit out of you for being a muslim, that would be a hate crime.
Again, no, it is not a hate crime. Making unjustified negative statements about a group of people may be morally wrong, but it is not a hate crime.
I suggest you do a little research on the meaning of "freedom of speech."
Freedom of speech must include the right for someone to say something that you find reprehensible, or it means absolutely NOTHING.
But only when they have a chance of taking out a good number of non-muslims. You'd be better of saying, "they sacrifice everyone else's lives for their believes."
According to surveys, the majority of moderate muslims aren't against the violence against "infidels". They may not be actively involved in the violence, but they support it.
The number of attacks is split about even against muslims and non-muslims. More muslims are killed because each attack tends to have more casualties.
And who's fault is this? The middle east is buried in oil money. They could build universities that rival the best the West has to offer. Instead, they build reglious schools and mosques so they can teach that all their problems are because of evil Americans and Jews (I suppose American Jews are double plus evil).
How many Christian sects are urging their followers to blow up people? There have been a few, but they are incredibly rare. Contrast this with the religion of hate. It's one thing to preach non-believers are going to hell. It's another thing to urge your congregation to hurry the process along.
I discussed the muslims with a friend who spent a considerable amount of time in the middle east (numerous countries). It's his opinion that one of two things are going to happen. Either islam will become more tolerant or islam will cease to exist because the West will finally become fed up with the murder and hate and deal with it in a rather violent fashion on a grand scale.
The latter sickens me. However, if it came down to a choice between being subservient to islam or wiping them out, well, call me evil but let loose the dogs of war. The stated goal of islam as preached in their MODERATE mosques is the subjugation (with force) of the entire world to sharia law. I don't intend to go along with that plan.
When will the Council of Imams (the only real ruling body of that religion) denounce the violence against civilians? They won't denounce it because the terrorists are doing exactly what they want.
Please post your list of terrorist attacks by Christians and Jews. For every one terrorist attacks by all other religions combined, I can list a thousand by the religion of hate (islam).
Post a cartoon of the muslim prophet, they go on a murderous riot.
Arrest a muslim for violently attacking a police officer, they go on a murderous riot.
A couple of muslim thugs get themselves killed eluding the police, they go on a murderous riot.
Criticize muslim for being unable to accept criticism, they go on a murderous riot.
Are you starting to see a pattern?
You are what is known as a "useful idiot."
I did answer your questions. I insulted you because you have a very useful skill in that you can ignore the facts.
In the middle east, violence begets violence. But peace begets even more violence because it's seen as a sign of weakness by the islamofascists. The Israelis learned this lesson. You haven't.
Who gives a rat's ass what resolutions the U.N. has passed. They pass resolutions condemning Israel on an almost daily basis. They have yet to pass a single resolution condemning the Palestinian attacks against civilians. The U.N. is dominated by anti-Israel despots.
You are ignoring the simple fact that Israel was attacked first, and they responded as any reasonable nation would, by fighting back and winning, despite overwhelming odds against them. Yes, they took some land. That's rather typical when you beat the crap out of an aggressor.
I must assume you didn't go very far in school, or you went to school at the "University of Anti-Semite".
The Israelis have tried on numerous occasions to make peace. They gave them back a shitload of land in hopes of coming to some reasonable compromise. The Palestinians decided that launching rockets from their new land at the Israelis was a fine thing. We (the U.S. and Europe) have poured billions of dollars into the hands of the Palestinians. Notice any schools, factories, hospitals, or the most basic infrastructure? Of course not. The money was siphoned into private bank accounts or used to buy more rockets to lob at the Israelis. Fuck the Palestinians. They don't want peace. They only wish to kill more Jews, no matter what the cost.
I bet this violates the disabilities act. I'm color blind, which (technically) is a type of handicap. Time to sue! Big bucks coming my way.
For a time I was the primary (er, only) technical person for an eCommerce site. I learned one important lesson. Sales people have zero morals. They would lie to their own mother to make a sale. Hell, they would toss in sex with their baby sister to make a sale. I felt sleazy just keeping their servers running. I hope I never have to take that kind of job again.
That's a fallacy. Most European countries either don't have a constitution or have one that is only a few decades old - much like most European countries. You're lands may have been inhabited for a thousand years or so, but your existence as a "country" is very short. The U.S. is an older country than all the countries in Europe with only a couple of exceptions (UK and I think Denmark). The UK doesn't have a written constitution. They used to brag about that. They don't now that the nanny state treats them like property.
And you go and prove you are an asshole by saying a typo proves I don't understand the English language. FYI, I was in the honors program for English in college.
The problem is the Feds have started using anti-terror laws against citizens for crimes that had absolutely nothing to do with terrorism. You might trust the government to not go down that slippery slope. I believe they have only paused long enough to put their racing skis on.
BTW, Good discussion. When do we start calling each other nazis?