Meshugger

Not much chance of that happening as we were pretty much neutered after Bosnia, also there is a reason Bondsteel is there. Though I think(hope) we are still strong enough to protect ourselves. Things will get messy fast if they get stupid enough to go over the border in to Serbia. From what i've heard of the Balkans, nothing is really off the table....well except for Slovenia to start invading anyone.

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Oh, now it gets interesting since Macedonia is aligned with russian interests. I would be surprised if the Serbs suddenly start showing interest in..."removing kebab" as they say.

Well the same thing can be said for, say, the overwhelming majority of your fellow human beings, yet their existence is generally not portrayed as a problem; furthermore, most ethical systems call for, indeed, treating them as your friends. I may be missing something here. Yes and governments are made up of human beings. And you do not want other human beings having too much control over you and yours. Every problem this world has ever had, has or will have begins when one human being seeks to impose his will on the lives of other human beings. Sometimes that is done out of imagined benevolence (I just want to help these poor fools) or arrogance (I want to save these poor fools) or malice (I'm going to show these poor fools) the end result is the same. Government does have a purpose but it must be limited, and it must be kept in those limits. Too many people see the government as a means to make people do, live, act the way they want. That is my biggest problem with the religious right and everyone on the left. You can't fix human nature, the only way to protect yourself is not allow your government to become so powerful it can do whatever it wants with no consequences. Nonsense comrade. When we the people wish to remove guns, it is only because the people wills it. We live in civilized society now and you don't go against the people as some sort of separatist now, do you comrade?

What was it? About 20 armed insurgents or so? Too little to tell anything yet.

Sadly, it's probably already out in Japan. If the reaper has tentacles you can be sure it has. You people saying it like it is a bad thing. Liars.

Bruce: just google Loverslab.com and all your fetishes wishes will come true. Have fun!

Meshugger is a shady fellow. Don't listen to the haters. Direct language is always the best form of communication. As for me, i have already stated that philosophers dabble in the most stupid things in the name of sparking a debate. Carry on. *grabs popcorn*

Hot chicks are soooooo passé. Ugly is now the new beautiful, you silly kids.

Michael Koretzky from SPJ has a discussion with Oliver Cambell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKdqocsXp08

"Lookism"?! http://www.love-shy.com/lswiki/Lookism I really do not say this often, but please, with sugar and cherry on top, get the **** out of videogames.

My personal advice: skip step 2. Nah, the atmosphere and set pieces are awesome Keep in mind that the "Alternative Edition Redux" is only available through download on the 'net as it is not an official release. Just google it and do not feel bad for dowloading it since it falls under as an educational piece.

Dying is fine, but I wouldn't include killing in a child's story, but then again, I'm no author.Well given the age range, why not? Child is everything up to 12, no?Depends on how the killing is done, how it fits in the story. Heh the Animal Farm film was ok, up to the ending which was needless. Honestly, at eleven, twelve, I was reading things like Stephen King's It, Herbert's Dune, Lord of the Rings, etc. Nobody was reading me anything anymore. If your child is that age and still depends on you for reading to them, there's something wrong. Reading Dune at 11 might be boring to some considering the political intrigues, but reading It at the same age left you with a weird feeling because of what the children had to do to become adults. Sure it was more of survival pact between friends, but still the innocence of childhood had gone when i read it at the same age. I saw the filmed IT before reading the novel at 11 or 12, and remember being freaked out quite a bit by the more brutal nature of IT and the other stuff(rereading it now actually, and catching a lot more "mystical" stuff I missed before). About a month later I dropped my keys down a storm drain(like what Pennywise was in when Georgie encountered it) and was scared that IT would get me while I was down there getting them back. Still haven't read Dune though, should really get around to that sometime. 1. Give Prophecy Theme a listen - After listning, are you now feeling that tingle of mystique? Something greater than just a standard sci-fi? Maybe even something trancendental? Good, then follow the next step. 2. Watch Dune - Alternative Edition Redux [fanedit] - It is the version that actually makes sense. Avoid any other. - Realize that this is really a flawed jem. It's pretty much the best hero's journey that you can find with themes of destiny, precience and overcoming oneself. 3. Read the book. - Your life is now complete. (I only read four first books of Dune due to SPOILER: )

Dying is fine, but I wouldn't include killing in a child's story, but then again, I'm no author. Well given the age range, why not? Child is everything up to 12, no? Depends on how the killing is done, how it fits in the story. Heh the Animal Farm film was ok, up to the ending which was needless. Honestly, at eleven, twelve, I was reading things like Stephen King's It, Herbert's Dune, Lord of the Rings, etc. Nobody was reading me anything anymore. If your child is that age and still depends on you for reading to them, there's something wrong. Reading Dune at 11 might be boring to some considering the political intrigues, but reading It at the same age left you with a weird feeling because of what the children had to do to become adults. Sure it was more of survival pact between friends, but still the innocence of childhood had gone when i read it at the same age.

Has this been posted yet? https://archive.is/0LoNG Wasn't it The Guardian that originally posted the Snowden leaks? What kind of tripe is this?

That's correct. It's a capitalism/socialism hybrid, and yes, it sucks. It's actually worse than socialism. I think the word that you are looking for is corporatism. It's a thing fascists used to fancy. Socalists would've simply, or at least tried to, implement an american NHS or single payer system.

I saw the Devil Sweet Jesus.

Same here, i learned english through watching M.A.S.K. and Transformers with subtitles. Dubbing is the work of Satan.

I always considered Animal Farm a book for children, I find it interesting, that most people don't (?) I read it in middle school, and then again as a middle school teacher. It was a vastly different book the second time, and I appreciated it much more. On the other hand, Catcher and the Rye was a bit of the opposite. In High School I read it and was enthralled and fascinated, as an adult I read it and was saddened. Heh, for me it was different. I read Catcher in the Rye after being a teenager and wished that i would've read it earlier, as it would've greatly helped me handling the usual teenage angst that everyone goes through.

A 'deceptive' question like why are families a good thing? I have a better question: why do these topics attract the illiterate? lol, what cowardice. Please try to point out who is illiterate by name instead of hiding by passive aggressiveness. Topically, i would wager that the artists are better at conveying moral messages than the academia:

Sounds good but in practice it doesn't work so well, in my experience. You'd think elected officials living right next door would be good for transparency and accountability, but it just as easily promotes clientelism and nepotism, it's just human nature. Having most decisions be made at the local level also has great potential to create greater levels of inequality between parts of the country, and it encourages the creation of multiple redundant administrations... which results in an even bigger overall state apparatus -and consequently mismanagement, waste and corruption- than with bona fide centralization, only now we're calling it "local". It also requires a proportionally larger oversight administration, judicial or not, with all that entails. I say maximum political power should go nowhere. Or to Skynet. That's problem isn't it? Because of the human condition, power will always attract people like a magnet. You cannot destroy it since that paradoxically requires the power of a god-emperor to enforce it, like Skynet. So therefore i compromise with having political power local as it makes the totality of it fragmented, and at least minimizes the risk of injustice by design with the nightwatcher focused on enforcing rights. Or maybe what humanity really needs purpose through edicts of the philosopher kings, and not plebic democracy. Who knows, i sure don't.

Which is also true of political parties in the first place. They've (re-)inflated a housing bubble, allowed most of our capital city to (continue to) be sold to Russian mobsters, and engendered the creation of a great number of zero-hours jobs. They've cut government services and failed to make savings from it. So no, not really. But no British government has done a good job since the War. This is probably one of the reasons why i have become more fan of the nightwatcher state in the past few years. Maximum political power should go the local municipalities, where the elected officials will be living among the constinuents. The function of the central government should only be military defense, securing the rights of the citizens according the constitution and national infrastructure. This promotes personal responsibility, which minimizes the risk of creating unnecessary government bodies, filled with beaurocrats doing nothing of value. As for healthcare, the state will pay for the insurance, thus allowing local hospitals with local tax money and private clinics exist. Yeah, i'm a dreamer.

Fun fact: Stanislaw Lem, the writer of the book thought that Tarkovsky was an idiot for focusing on love and disowned the move.

Same here. But they had some great funding, they even had their own building with a nice garden, seperated but equal from the others So the stuff from the arts faculty, then ?\ I would say more of the philosophy department. It lacks the horrible prentiousness found among the art students. I've been drinking with both parties during my days in the academia and you'll notice a certain pattern emerging: the former is more about a whimsical idea to spark a debate about anything and the other is more about narcisism with a hint of madness. Also, the philosopher wakes up the following morning wondering what the hell was the point of all that jibberish while other wakes up knowing which people you should put on your ****-list. My experience has been that both are packed with people who think the **** they make up is profound despite it not being particularly good. And they tend to be bourgeois as well. You must've attended a hipster-university, my condolences. True on hating the bourgeois though, but different in how they articulated it. Since the philosophers actually had classes in reason, ethics and morality, they could at least criticize them for being hazardous to a just society (from affording good lawyers to creating laws that benefit only them), the immorality of vices leading to inequity due the potential power and so on. The "artists" just thought that they were the first reading Karl Marx and attended every new kind protest for the sake of protesting. They did posess that raw spirit that one can admire. Too bad it was almost always focused on dumb ****. Oh I was saying that the students of art and philosophy are largely bourgeois. More so than the STEMlords or economics and pre-law students at any rate. Ooops. One word, or the lack if it, can change everything :D I have no excuse except i live in a country where the humanities are exclusively different shades of left that i imagined myself reading as they hated the bourgeois. Well, they wanted secretly to be artistocrats themselves, but that's another matter.

Stalker is one of my favourites as well, but i like Solyaris more. Probably due to my personal thoughts about religion, spirituality, love and the human condition. But do not throw Hollywood under the bus, there's some really good stuff out there. Network probably has the best dialogue in a movie that i know of. It's another personal favourite of mine, but filled with top-actors of the day.