Fox says: Responding to a request from 13 Democratic congressmen and the State Department, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (search) will be sending a group to make sure the United States holds a fair election in November.
So this is a self-inflicted slap in the face. It often happens in European democracies, to invite outside observers to elections.
Merry never recieves his Westernesse-enchanted blade, and the ability of him and Eowyn to kill the Witch King of Angmar makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
In the movie, the hobbits get their blades from Aragorn. As a Dunedain, he could have some Westernesse-enchanted blades. Makes sense to me.
I cannot believe this. 'Android' is a word of Greek origin, it appears in 1913 Webster's dictionary. How can one own a word like that? Did he sue Douglas Adams for calling Martin an android?
And the articles not being shown are the ones that wouldn't show up anyway.
Knowing that something has been censored is a knowledge in itself. In Poland, one of the gains of the opposition movement in the 80's was that the state censorship had to mark every place in published text they had tampered with.
We don't know if the solid which exists in the given temperature range is as durable as steel. I'd be surprised. Durable materials, under atmospheric pressure, have high melting temperatures (except for diamond, which burns in relatively low temperature). As steel beams in WTC would degrade anyway in the heat, this liquid wouldn't save the Towers anyway.
Then good ol' George decided to go to Afghanistan and shoot some people
This is unjust. Invading Afghanistan was justified. The Taliban regime was hiding suspect (to put it mildly) terrorists and did not want to give them away. They were also a bunch of cruel people oppressing a war-torn country (no issue of national sovereignity here, as many Talibans came from abroad). The USA were right to attack. The problem is, how they carried out the operation. Allies should be respected, not commanded. If you prefer to do everything alone, don't complain if people offended turn your backs on you.
It is apparent you have no respect for them if the human in question does not have an American passport --- a form of racism, I suppose.
Should have been: It is apparent you have no respect for human rights...
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A very real change in Iraq policy would need to send some serious messages. It might even require some mass civilian casualties. Drop a BLU-82 or MOAB on Tikrit and Fallujah. Stop interrogating Iraqi detainees, but killing them and letting dogs and pigs eat at their rotting bodies. Let them know that these little kidnappings and chicken-shit roadside bombings will be punished 100-fold, 1000-fold.
Hello? This is 2004, not 1004. You're not on a crusade to get the Holy Grail from the infidels. It is apparent you have no respect for them if the human in question does not have an American passport --- a form of racism, I suppose.
Using Mathematica for some statistics is an overkill. And a seriously overpriced solution, too. I'd recomment Matlab, which is cheaper and has *better* (IMHO) plotting capabilities then Mathematica.
Saddam was warned by the United Nations that if they didn't comply, there would be "dire consequences". What did the UN have in mind when they composed and unanimously accepted this resolution, if not a forced change of regime?
Not necessarily war.
The USA has been warned beforehand that it will be very, very difficult to make Iraq a peaceful, democratic country. You have ceased to try it now (Alawi is not a democratic leader). The best we'll get will be a US-friendly dictatorship with a mild respect for human rights and perhaps some democracy on a local level. Not that the USA is trying to implement it. You prefer to appoint all officials down to the lowest level. Stop pretending the future of Iraq will be brilliant. It will not be.
Another poster made a very good argument about it, I'll only add that Saddam, apart from his war with Iran (which the USA helped him to wage) and invasion of Kuwait (as it turns out, US diplomats assured him the USA would turn a blind eye to it), did not intend to conquer Middle East. Saddam wanted to be a pan-Arab leader, to win hearts of Arabs worldwide. Something unlike Hitler.
The world asked the US to play World Cop. Why are they whining when the US does what it's been asked? Because the US doesn't take dictation from the European countries.
You've got a point, but Bush after 11.09 became so arrogant towards his allies, countries which wanted to help him (NATO voted to use Article 5. in Afghanistan and Bush said "thank you very much, if somebody's willing to help, I'll ask him and tell him what to do"). Alliances don't work that way. I hope the EU gets strong enough diplomatically and militarily to be an equal player with the USA, than you won't here any "whining" from us.
Poland: Well, you wouldn't think they'd go for invaders, but...
64% of Poles oppose Polish military presence in Iraq. The support for sending Polish soldiers there never exceeded the opposition. I don't know the exact logic behind our military presence in Iraq, but it was never made clear by the government.
Polish support for Iraq occupation is waning, also because despite being one of the most active supporters of the USA in Iraq, Poland has no influence on what is going on in Iraq. For example, we proposed to try to elect local administration in Iraq, not to appoint it. The Americans didn't want to hear about it and, in one of Polish diplomat's words "acted as if they were offended when anything was being proposed to them".
Global economy is not a zero-sum game. Recession in the USA always means trouble in Europe.
Most people in the world are not mean towards the USA and do not think the line 'what's bad for them is good for us'. It will be good for EVERYBODY is we stop greenhouse effect, for example.
Particularly Eastern Europe countries remember that Carter made the USSR and its satellites sign Helsinki accords (on human rights). This may sound funny, because it was just paper, and the communists never meant to implement them, but it was a real weapon in communist courts in Poland, used by the lawyers to defend people from the democratic opposition.
Actually many other countries would starve to death in this scenerio, we would have more food since we would no longer be exporting it.
Not really. The USA is subsidizing its food exports, so an end of food exports from the USA means room on the market for other producers. For example poor African countries and (richer than African) South American. People are starving there NOW, partly because of European and American food export subsidies.
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That still does not mean that England became a democracy with the end of the Civil War.
Fox says: Responding to a request from 13 Democratic congressmen and the State Department, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (search) will be sending a group to make sure the United States holds a fair election in November.
So this is a self-inflicted slap in the face. It often happens in European democracies, to invite outside observers to elections.
What kind of a democracy you're talking about? With kings and 10% people allowed to vote, like in XIXth century England?
Promises can be broken.
Merry never recieves his Westernesse-enchanted blade, and the ability of him and Eowyn to kill the Witch King of Angmar makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
In the movie, the hobbits get their blades from Aragorn. As a Dunedain, he could have some Westernesse-enchanted blades. Makes sense to me.
I cannot believe this. 'Android' is a word of Greek origin, it appears in 1913 Webster's dictionary. How can one own a word like that? Did he sue Douglas Adams for calling Martin an android?
And the articles not being shown are the ones that wouldn't show up anyway.
Knowing that something has been censored is a knowledge in itself. In Poland, one of the gains of the opposition movement in the 80's was that the state censorship had to mark every place in published text they had tampered with.
We don't know if the solid which exists in the given temperature range is as durable as steel. I'd be surprised. Durable materials, under atmospheric pressure, have high melting temperatures (except for diamond, which burns in relatively low temperature). As steel beams in WTC would degrade anyway in the heat, this liquid wouldn't save the Towers anyway.
Then good ol' George decided to go to Afghanistan and shoot some people
This is unjust. Invading Afghanistan was justified. The Taliban regime was hiding suspect (to put it mildly) terrorists and did not want to give them away. They were also a bunch of cruel people oppressing a war-torn country (no issue of national sovereignity here, as many Talibans came from abroad). The USA were right to attack. The problem is, how they carried out the operation. Allies should be respected, not commanded. If you prefer to do everything alone, don't complain if people offended turn your backs on you.
Even a bit earlier: until Bush started pushing around everyone who wanted to help him in Afghanistan.
It is apparent you have no respect for them if the human in question does not have an American passport --- a form of racism, I suppose.
Should have been: It is apparent you have no respect for human rights...
A very real change in Iraq policy would need to send some serious messages. It might even require some mass civilian casualties. Drop a BLU-82 or MOAB on Tikrit and Fallujah. Stop interrogating Iraqi detainees, but killing them and letting dogs and pigs eat at their rotting bodies. Let them know that these little kidnappings and chicken-shit roadside bombings will be punished 100-fold, 1000-fold.
Hello? This is 2004, not 1004. You're not on a crusade to get the Holy Grail from the infidels. It is apparent you have no respect for them if the human in question does not have an American passport --- a form of racism, I suppose.
Using Mathematica for some statistics is an overkill. And a seriously overpriced solution, too. I'd recomment Matlab, which is cheaper and has *better* (IMHO) plotting capabilities then Mathematica.
Saddam was warned by the United Nations that if they didn't comply, there would be "dire consequences". What did the UN have in mind when they composed and unanimously accepted this resolution, if not a forced change of regime?
Not necessarily war.
The USA has been warned beforehand that it will be very, very difficult to make Iraq a peaceful, democratic country. You have ceased to try it now (Alawi is not a democratic leader). The best we'll get will be a US-friendly dictatorship with a mild respect for human rights and perhaps some democracy on a local level. Not that the USA is trying to implement it. You prefer to appoint all officials down to the lowest level. Stop pretending the future of Iraq will be brilliant. It will not be.
What we have in Iraq is terrorists attacking non-US civilians. Much better? For the US, certainly. For the Iraqis --- I doubt it.
Besides the "problem" of pedophiles in "chat rooms" being completely overblown
You're right. Most pedophiles attack children they know: their own, their family's children or their neighours.
Another poster made a very good argument about it, I'll only add that Saddam, apart from his war with Iran (which the USA helped him to wage) and invasion of Kuwait (as it turns out, US diplomats assured him the USA would turn a blind eye to it), did not intend to conquer Middle East. Saddam wanted to be a pan-Arab leader, to win hearts of Arabs worldwide. Something unlike Hitler.
I am afraid you'd have to dig for some books on the history of democratic opposition in Soviet block.
The world asked the US to play World Cop. Why are they whining when the US does what it's been asked? Because the US doesn't take dictation from the European countries.
You've got a point, but Bush after 11.09 became so arrogant towards his allies, countries which wanted to help him (NATO voted to use Article 5. in Afghanistan and Bush said "thank you very much, if somebody's willing to help, I'll ask him and tell him what to do"). Alliances don't work that way. I hope the EU gets strong enough diplomatically and militarily to be an equal player with the USA, than you won't here any "whining" from us.
Poland knows that Saddam was not Hitler.
Poland: Well, you wouldn't think they'd go for invaders, but...
64% of Poles oppose Polish military presence in Iraq. The support for sending Polish soldiers there never exceeded the opposition. I don't know the exact logic behind our military presence in Iraq, but it was never made clear by the government.
Polish support for Iraq occupation is waning, also because despite being one of the most active supporters of the USA in Iraq, Poland has no influence on what is going on in Iraq. For example, we proposed to try to elect local administration in Iraq, not to appoint it. The Americans didn't want to hear about it and, in one of Polish diplomat's words "acted as if they were offended when anything was being proposed to them".
Global economy is not a zero-sum game. Recession in the USA always means trouble in Europe.
Most people in the world are not mean towards the USA and do not think the line 'what's bad for them is good for us'. It will be good for EVERYBODY is we stop greenhouse effect, for example.
Particularly Eastern Europe countries remember that Carter made the USSR and its satellites sign Helsinki accords (on human rights). This may sound funny, because it was just paper, and the communists never meant to implement them, but it was a real weapon in communist courts in Poland, used by the lawyers to defend people from the democratic opposition.
Actually many other countries would starve to death in this scenerio, we would have more food since we would no longer be exporting it.
Not really. The USA is subsidizing its food exports, so an end of food exports from the USA means room on the market for other producers. For example poor African countries and (richer than African) South American. People are starving there NOW, partly because of European and American food export subsidies.
And they are particularly keen on bringing YOU down. Now, go on with your paranoia.