Exactly. Anyone who wasn't white was suddenly voting on race almost entirely, instead of on the issues. Any black who publicly supported mccain/was against obama was riddled with death threats and hate mail simply for not supporting the messiah Obama. It's absolutely fucking ridiculous.
Why not look at the fact that if other racial groups voted teh same way that blacks did, McCain would have won by a landslide. Black voted 95+% for Obama, and I've yet to hear of one who didn't say that a major reason was cause they wanted a 'brother in the white house finally' or some derivation thereof. Yet, if you were white and DIDN'T vote for Obama, you were a racist? Maybe I'm fucked up in the head here, but blacks voting for him CAUSE he's black and NOT for mccain cause he was white is the racist part, seeing as almost all across teh country wherever ballot initiatives or other races were occurring and people with the same 'stances' as obama were running, blacks voted against them majoritively.
First off, the area known as Palestine was inhabited by natives for hundreds of years yes, BUT, jews in the late 1800's and early 1900's started flocking there in decent numbers and buying the land from the Arabs that lived there for extremely low prices cause it was a desert shithole. Fast forward to the 40's post holocaust to just before and after Israel was created, and the Arabs who sold the land to the Jews, and in the process laughed at them for being fools buying shithole desert land, were envious of the paradise that they were creating with the land they had bought, and wanted it back. They then rallied around the whole 'hate the jews' slogan and that they stole their land, and immediately attacked them from all sides.
Israel defended itself from all attackers then, and subsequently in every invasion attempt since, at one point being in a position to wipe Egypt off the map after encircling over 100,000 egyptian troops poised to invade Israel.
Hamas has been firing rockets for years into israeli cities, and prior to that palestinian terrorists would suicide bomb them. These people were offered time and again their own state, their own land, but due to their refusal to admit that Israel exists or even has a right to negotiate with them, they refused these offers. Israel has bent over backwards not to rape the living hell out of those who have been attacking them for years, and the palestinians have wholeheartedly supported the campaign of rocket attacks and bombings of israeli towns and villages. Due to this, they help hamas hide their people, weapons, and use their homes and schools and hospitals as points to attack israeli's from so when return fire comes, they can scream OMFG THEY SHOT A HOSPITAL! That is bullshit.
And no, I'm not a supporter of Israel as a whole. I believe we (the US) should not be sending them shittons of military aid every year, and I also believe we should have leveled one of their major cities after their attack on the USS Liberty.
That's pretty much how 2 of the first semester required courses for Comp Sci at the community college I went to were. Here's a computer, 'you press this button to turn it on after plugging the end of this cord in'
Somehow multitasking and how to open a web browser were also required things.
My.net teacher was a complete moron too, up to the point of taking points off of the projects we had to do because I included error checking in every single one (apparently I wasn't allowed to use knowledge of programming that I already had, and she hadnt taught that yet!)
That was 2 years ago, I dropped out, now I'm joining the military to hopefully get a real education crashcourse style.
The parents knew EVERYTHING that was being said between their daughter and the 'boy' on myspace, and even got into huge fights with her about it. Her mom bitched to a reporter that she fought with her daughter over the language in one of her daughter's responses to him as well as that 'she wouldnt get off the computer when i told her to' Yea, it's definitely not their fault for letting their daughter, whom they knew to have the mental integrity of a wet tissue, get involved in something that ended like this. It makes no difference whether it was lori drew or a legitimate teenage boy, the parents let this happen either way.
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The idea was for the player's to choose whether a major storyline character lived or died, which is pretty close to it compared to other games that have come out.
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Back in like 2002 or 2003. Nuhmidira's Bestowment which required you to choose between killing good ol Nuhmie or letting her live, your choice determined what kind of imbuement your item got.
The republican party hasn't been about the claimed ideals for a long time, I thought this was common knowledge? Bush isn't my guy by any stretch, but facts are facts.
Presidential econ policies take years to come about, Clinton rode on the success of Reagan/Bush Sr's policies, and Bush staved off a recession with his 02 tax cuts, but congress failed to act to eliminate the majority of the damage that was on the way.
No, on Clinton and the Dems forcing the banks to give loans to everyone as it is the 'right of every american' to own a home, and they didn't care if the people couldn't pay the loans back, cause god damnit, it's their right to own a home.
The New Deal of Roosevelt's day did NOTHING to help the economy. It merely dragged the depression out into the 50's. You can't fund massive building projects when...holy shit...you have to borrow all the money to fund them! Look into the facts sometime and you will see that Roosevelt did nothing to help the economy other than force it to submit to government intervention when it would have fixed itself within a few years had it been left alone, just as the economy would do in this current crisis. This current crisis is a direct result of Clinton signing NAFTA as well as his policies.
Why ban wikipedia? There is nothing wrong with it. I've been writing research papers for a friend the last few weeks using mostly Wikipedia + the sources linked from the pages to write the majority of them, and gotten A's on all of them so far while trashed. These are college papers for a history degree. The wealth of knowledge on wikipedia is great if you fact check / have an ounce of common sense which is all that's required to tell if they are fake or not.
You see so many similar stories cause parents/close ones, instead of being logical about things, immediately say HOLY FUCK THE DOCTORS DID IT!!!! They refuse to accept that it was a natural thing, and instead want to blame anyone they possibly can to try and make someone else take responsibility.
I never said they occurred with guns, it's simply a matter of verifiable fact that violent crime rates in both countries have gone up almost every single year since the hand gun ban was put into effect. It doesn't matter what weapon is used, it matters that the people have been deprived of self defense making it far *safer* for criminals to prey on them.
It is also still a fact that 1-2 million crimes are prevented in the US every year by people using guns to scare off criminals/protect themselves. It's also a fact that the most dangerous places in the US are those with gun bans. Look at washington DC, or hell, all of the 'gun free zones' in the US where mass, or attempted mass, shootings have occurred.
If someone is intent on committing assault, theft, or any other crime against your person unprovoked, then imo they lose whatever protection the law has against harming another person. If someone comes at me, armed or not, with the intent of harming me or stealing from me, I will leave them with a permanent disability, most lucky the inability to ever have children or to use one of their eyes. The wanton violence and disregard for other's rights that criminals have because the law protects them from being justly dealt with in self defense is disgusting and needs to end. If every time a mugger tried to steal an old woman's person they got shot in the face, there'd be a whole lot less muggings.
There aren't droves of criminals out to mug/rape/kill the average person, but here are the facts. Guns are used by those same innocent citizens, on average, ~2million times per year to scare off attackers / stop crimes from happening. Look at, iirc, Kennesaw, Georgia. They passed a law ~30years ago mandating that every head of household must own and maintain a firearm, and within a year crime became almost nonexistant.
Now, look at Australia/Britain, where after the handgun bans were passed, home invasion w/ the family/owner being home SKYROCKETED. Why? Because criminals have nothing to fear from someone they know for a fact will not be able to defend themselves. Nearly every single criminal/former gang member interviewed gives the same answer when asked 'what was your biggest fear when mugging/jumping someone?' "that they have a gun"
You'll never see that start happening again. All the people who OMFG THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!! and have their own...want someone else to take care of their children for them. Gone are the days of parents actually taking responsibility for upbringing of their children.
The banks were told by the Clinton admin/dems of the 90's essentially the following: "It is every americans RIGHT to own a home, so you are going to give them loans even if they cant pay them back or we will make your 'lives' a living hell until you fucking give in."
This entire mess is a result of Clinton's economic policies, because contrary to the popular belief that clinton's presidency brought massive economic growth and prosperity, the simple fact is that presidential policies lag 4-10 years after being implemented. He was merely riding on the success of Reagan/Bush Sr's economic policies and nothing more.
On the internet speed/access issue:
If you weren't a fucking retard you wouldn't have brought it up. All of the countries that top the US in access/speed aren't nearly the size of the US, and as such their population density is much greater. It's easy as fuck to build a Fiber network if almost your entire population lives within extremely high density areas, but not a single one of those countries would be capable of maintaining the same level of network access/speed if they had to deal with the sprawling communities like the US does. Any belief to the contrary is utopian dreaming and nothing more than naivete.
Who cares if it is efficient, when all it is is the government saying 'we know how to save your money better than you do so give it to us now.' It's money that I worked hard to earn, and if I chose to invest it (assuming I was allowed to opt out/keep it) I would be able to make way more than the government will give to me when I qualify to start receiving SS benefits. And even if I couldn't, it's money that *I* earned, and the government has no place telling me they can better spend my money for me.
I personally like my dad's friends point of view with his son, who is like 4 or 5 years old. "If you're gonna be dumb ya gotta be tough." One instance of this is we were all underneath my car while looking at the exhaust (he had a barn with a 5 foot drop off behind it that he setup 2 tracks for a car to back out over for work under the car) and the kid reaches up and touches the exhaust efore anyone can say anything and he yanks his hand back and says "ow thats hot" to which my dad's friend says "Damn right its hot, bet you wont be doing that again will you?" and the kid shook his head quite hard while saying no way. In my opinion, kids today are too babied and just not ready for the real world.
How the hell does McDonald's bear responsibility for what a private citizen chooses to purchase and consume willingly knowing full well that greasy fatty foods are bad for your arteries/heart? That's just as ridiculous as all the people who cried that McDonald's made them fat.
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If I ever had the money for a 360 I'd get it almost entirely for Geometry Wars, atleast until i played COD5 a few weeks ago at my friend's house.
NERVA (Nuclear) rockets are the way to go.
Exactly. Anyone who wasn't white was suddenly voting on race almost entirely, instead of on the issues. Any black who publicly supported mccain/was against obama was riddled with death threats and hate mail simply for not supporting the messiah Obama. It's absolutely fucking ridiculous.
Why not look at the fact that if other racial groups voted teh same way that blacks did, McCain would have won by a landslide. Black voted 95+% for Obama, and I've yet to hear of one who didn't say that a major reason was cause they wanted a 'brother in the white house finally' or some derivation thereof. Yet, if you were white and DIDN'T vote for Obama, you were a racist? Maybe I'm fucked up in the head here, but blacks voting for him CAUSE he's black and NOT for mccain cause he was white is the racist part, seeing as almost all across teh country wherever ballot initiatives or other races were occurring and people with the same 'stances' as obama were running, blacks voted against them majoritively.
First off, the area known as Palestine was inhabited by natives for hundreds of years yes, BUT, jews in the late 1800's and early 1900's started flocking there in decent numbers and buying the land from the Arabs that lived there for extremely low prices cause it was a desert shithole. Fast forward to the 40's post holocaust to just before and after Israel was created, and the Arabs who sold the land to the Jews, and in the process laughed at them for being fools buying shithole desert land, were envious of the paradise that they were creating with the land they had bought, and wanted it back. They then rallied around the whole 'hate the jews' slogan and that they stole their land, and immediately attacked them from all sides.
Israel defended itself from all attackers then, and subsequently in every invasion attempt since, at one point being in a position to wipe Egypt off the map after encircling over 100,000 egyptian troops poised to invade Israel.
Hamas has been firing rockets for years into israeli cities, and prior to that palestinian terrorists would suicide bomb them. These people were offered time and again their own state, their own land, but due to their refusal to admit that Israel exists or even has a right to negotiate with them, they refused these offers. Israel has bent over backwards not to rape the living hell out of those who have been attacking them for years, and the palestinians have wholeheartedly supported the campaign of rocket attacks and bombings of israeli towns and villages. Due to this, they help hamas hide their people, weapons, and use their homes and schools and hospitals as points to attack israeli's from so when return fire comes, they can scream OMFG THEY SHOT A HOSPITAL! That is bullshit.
And no, I'm not a supporter of Israel as a whole. I believe we (the US) should not be sending them shittons of military aid every year, and I also believe we should have leveled one of their major cities after their attack on the USS Liberty.
That's pretty much how 2 of the first semester required courses for Comp Sci at the community college I went to were. Here's a computer, 'you press this button to turn it on after plugging the end of this cord in' Somehow multitasking and how to open a web browser were also required things. My .net teacher was a complete moron too, up to the point of taking points off of the projects we had to do because I included error checking in every single one (apparently I wasn't allowed to use knowledge of programming that I already had, and she hadnt taught that yet!)
That was 2 years ago, I dropped out, now I'm joining the military to hopefully get a real education crashcourse style.
The parents knew EVERYTHING that was being said between their daughter and the 'boy' on myspace, and even got into huge fights with her about it. Her mom bitched to a reporter that she fought with her daughter over the language in one of her daughter's responses to him as well as that 'she wouldnt get off the computer when i told her to' Yea, it's definitely not their fault for letting their daughter, whom they knew to have the mental integrity of a wet tissue, get involved in something that ended like this. It makes no difference whether it was lori drew or a legitimate teenage boy, the parents let this happen either way.
The idea was for the player's to choose whether a major storyline character lived or died, which is pretty close to it compared to other games that have come out.
Back in like 2002 or 2003. Nuhmidira's Bestowment which required you to choose between killing good ol Nuhmie or letting her live, your choice determined what kind of imbuement your item got.
There is no twitch in WOW pvp, what are you talking about? The game is all autohit dicerolls of level/item/class vs level/item/class. Asheron's Call had fully twitch based pvp, of course there was auto targetting but you could manually dodge arrows/magic bolts + move while casting allowing for truly fast paced and fluid PVP combat, also allowing 1 person to take on multiple people, or a small group of people to take on a much larger group.
Darkfall is going even further and blending FPS combat (third person perspective for melee, first person for missile/magic) with MMORPG elements. Full loot, no restriction pvp, no levels (entirely based on raising individual skills ala UO), no autotarget/hit, kingdom/city building + siege warfare, essentially complete player freedom to do damn near anything.
The republican party hasn't been about the claimed ideals for a long time, I thought this was common knowledge? Bush isn't my guy by any stretch, but facts are facts.
Presidential econ policies take years to come about, Clinton rode on the success of Reagan/Bush Sr's policies, and Bush staved off a recession with his 02 tax cuts, but congress failed to act to eliminate the majority of the damage that was on the way.
No, on Clinton and the Dems forcing the banks to give loans to everyone as it is the 'right of every american' to own a home, and they didn't care if the people couldn't pay the loans back, cause god damnit, it's their right to own a home.
The New Deal of Roosevelt's day did NOTHING to help the economy. It merely dragged the depression out into the 50's. You can't fund massive building projects when...holy shit...you have to borrow all the money to fund them! Look into the facts sometime and you will see that Roosevelt did nothing to help the economy other than force it to submit to government intervention when it would have fixed itself within a few years had it been left alone, just as the economy would do in this current crisis. This current crisis is a direct result of Clinton signing NAFTA as well as his policies.
Why ban wikipedia? There is nothing wrong with it. I've been writing research papers for a friend the last few weeks using mostly Wikipedia + the sources linked from the pages to write the majority of them, and gotten A's on all of them so far while trashed. These are college papers for a history degree. The wealth of knowledge on wikipedia is great if you fact check / have an ounce of common sense which is all that's required to tell if they are fake or not.
You see so many similar stories cause parents/close ones, instead of being logical about things, immediately say HOLY FUCK THE DOCTORS DID IT!!!! They refuse to accept that it was a natural thing, and instead want to blame anyone they possibly can to try and make someone else take responsibility.
I never said they occurred with guns, it's simply a matter of verifiable fact that violent crime rates in both countries have gone up almost every single year since the hand gun ban was put into effect. It doesn't matter what weapon is used, it matters that the people have been deprived of self defense making it far *safer* for criminals to prey on them.
It is also still a fact that 1-2 million crimes are prevented in the US every year by people using guns to scare off criminals/protect themselves. It's also a fact that the most dangerous places in the US are those with gun bans. Look at washington DC, or hell, all of the 'gun free zones' in the US where mass, or attempted mass, shootings have occurred.
If someone is intent on committing assault, theft, or any other crime against your person unprovoked, then imo they lose whatever protection the law has against harming another person. If someone comes at me, armed or not, with the intent of harming me or stealing from me, I will leave them with a permanent disability, most lucky the inability to ever have children or to use one of their eyes. The wanton violence and disregard for other's rights that criminals have because the law protects them from being justly dealt with in self defense is disgusting and needs to end. If every time a mugger tried to steal an old woman's person they got shot in the face, there'd be a whole lot less muggings.
There aren't droves of criminals out to mug/rape/kill the average person, but here are the facts. Guns are used by those same innocent citizens, on average, ~2million times per year to scare off attackers / stop crimes from happening. Look at, iirc, Kennesaw, Georgia. They passed a law ~30years ago mandating that every head of household must own and maintain a firearm, and within a year crime became almost nonexistant.
Now, look at Australia/Britain, where after the handgun bans were passed, home invasion w/ the family/owner being home SKYROCKETED. Why? Because criminals have nothing to fear from someone they know for a fact will not be able to defend themselves. Nearly every single criminal/former gang member interviewed gives the same answer when asked 'what was your biggest fear when mugging/jumping someone?' "that they have a gun"
You'll never see that start happening again. All the people who OMFG THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!! and have their own...want someone else to take care of their children for them. Gone are the days of parents actually taking responsibility for upbringing of their children.
The banks were told by the Clinton admin/dems of the 90's essentially the following: "It is every americans RIGHT to own a home, so you are going to give them loans even if they cant pay them back or we will make your 'lives' a living hell until you fucking give in."
This entire mess is a result of Clinton's economic policies, because contrary to the popular belief that clinton's presidency brought massive economic growth and prosperity, the simple fact is that presidential policies lag 4-10 years after being implemented. He was merely riding on the success of Reagan/Bush Sr's economic policies and nothing more.
On the internet speed/access issue:
If you weren't a fucking retard you wouldn't have brought it up. All of the countries that top the US in access/speed aren't nearly the size of the US, and as such their population density is much greater. It's easy as fuck to build a Fiber network if almost your entire population lives within extremely high density areas, but not a single one of those countries would be capable of maintaining the same level of network access/speed if they had to deal with the sprawling communities like the US does. Any belief to the contrary is utopian dreaming and nothing more than naivete.
Who cares if it is efficient, when all it is is the government saying 'we know how to save your money better than you do so give it to us now.' It's money that I worked hard to earn, and if I chose to invest it (assuming I was allowed to opt out/keep it) I would be able to make way more than the government will give to me when I qualify to start receiving SS benefits. And even if I couldn't, it's money that *I* earned, and the government has no place telling me they can better spend my money for me.
I personally like my dad's friends point of view with his son, who is like 4 or 5 years old. "If you're gonna be dumb ya gotta be tough." One instance of this is we were all underneath my car while looking at the exhaust (he had a barn with a 5 foot drop off behind it that he setup 2 tracks for a car to back out over for work under the car) and the kid reaches up and touches the exhaust efore anyone can say anything and he yanks his hand back and says "ow thats hot" to which my dad's friend says "Damn right its hot, bet you wont be doing that again will you?" and the kid shook his head quite hard while saying no way. In my opinion, kids today are too babied and just not ready for the real world.
How the hell does McDonald's bear responsibility for what a private citizen chooses to purchase and consume willingly knowing full well that greasy fatty foods are bad for your arteries/heart? That's just as ridiculous as all the people who cried that McDonald's made them fat.