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I simply refuse to touch any DLC to begin with. Except "free stuff", such as Shale for DA. I encourage others to do the same.

I want the world to be equally outraged over the female version of Rapelay: As a woman, you rape men at the subway. I want to see men cry, i want to see male experts having long interviews about the moral implications of being raped at the CNN morning news. Then, and only then, our society has true equality of the sexes. P.S. Gromnir scored some interesting points there.

I actually agree with one thing he said! Namely, if you're going to have an interactive story, don't add necessary info right into a datalogue in textformat. It should be interwoven with the story as you progress instead. It is quite irritating to have to read the damn thing all the time in order to understand the story, motives and characters. Did FFX need a silly datalogue? Of course not!

Has any group taken responsibility for the attack yet?

- Bill Hicks

Never heard of it.

Some women who claimed to have lost their husbands in chechenyan war. A.k.a the "Black widows".

You should add attachments where the words "rights" and "privileges" are clearly defined within the context of your question. If your question was context-free, you could easily ask the following: "Should rapists in prison have the right to vote for who first has the privilege to pop the cornhole cherry of the prisonguard?"

Ok, time for a better update. I did my time in the finnish armed forces roughly 10 years ago at the coastal battalion brigade. My superiors wanted to enlist me into the Officer Cadet school, thus lengthening my experience by another 6 months. But thanks to my pollen allergy, i had to politely decline due to no one will obey an officer that is constantly sneezing during summer time. They agreed (phew!). I had my own personal assault-rifle, and got to fire machineguns and bazookas with live ammo as well. In retrospect, it was a fun experience, but while you were there, you really did't enjoy it one bit. The army is not a rite of passage to manhood, and i did not learn how to respect authority either. Rather, i learned that you can cheat the system for your own benefit and how imposed authority often makes ordinary people into complete douchebags. What i did learn however, was that: - The physical strain that your body can be accustomed to is much more that you think. By the end of my time in service, i could run 10 km without breaking any sweat. I had gained 10kgs in back muscle alone. I could be awake for 40+ hours with full equipment and be on the constant move. I could live on cabbage for three days straigth without feeling any weaker. I could walk 60km with full backpack in one day. - The mental strain that your mind can take is much higher than you might think. You learn what apathy truly is, you learn that no matter how bad you feel on the inside, the outside world is not there for you. You will learn on how to deal with your mental state, you will get to know yourself much better. You will learn to appriciate the smaller things in life. Like smells, or a good view, and how to make the best out of them. - You will learn what working as team really means. The social bonding that you experience with your comrades is unparallaled. You mess up, the whole company gets the blame. If you cheat, you make damn sure that no one will be involved, even if it was involuntarily. So in conclusion, my pros and cons with having a conscription is: Pros: - It unites the people of your nation. There is no "US vs Them" in terms of real patriots that have joined the army and those that have not. It levels out the armed forces from becoming an elite group of people that have a hard-on for war and weapons. - It also works as a great social contract. People who will most likely never meet, not to mention talk to each other, will have to work with each other. This will decrease the rifts between different groups of society. - The leaders of the nation will not have aggressive, expansionistic policies since no one wants to send their sons and daughters to war unless they really have to. This notion is only appliable if you live in a very free and open society, like a democracy. Totalitarian governments couldn't care less about their people. Cons: - It is not true freedom of choice. Each individual should develop themselves as they see fit. The will to give your life for your country should be mandated by the individuals themselves, not by the leaders of the their country that wishes to play a game of realpolitik. - Instead of a highly effecient, better equipped army with a tremendous morale, you will have to deal with an army of every damn fool that you know. The equipment will be cheap and less high-tech, and most soldiers do not have the strength to kill when they really have to. - The tremendous cost on society. Being ready to arm each and everyone over the age 18 will bring quite a huge burden on the national budget, and consequently its citizens.

Been there, done that. Maybe i post more later.

What is so special with "CECH-2100" model of the PS3? Rumored to have a 45nm GPU. Thus, it will use less current than the previous models? Tall about being frugal

What is so special with "CECH-2100" model of the PS3?

My gut-feeling is telling me that things were much more intense during the civil rights-era. It will pass.

Considering that the "romance-system" in the previous installment was collecting cards of your, eh "lays", i bet that it will be more refined in this one. Like a game of poker, perhaps? I wonder who the "Queen of diamonds" will be? and gays would be able to collect all four "kings", or so to speak

Wrong book, this is the correct one. The guy even recieved the Nobel price in economics.

I will not make any comments about your lunatic imaginations and theories about the society you imagine I desire to be in. You have no clue about me it seems, except the dogmas and prejudgements about Muslims injected into your mind. I have found no point in the rest of your post except a desire to depress Muslims with one sided fascist political tricks. No Muslim can stand such a pressure and every logical one can see that the end of this way is a completely polarized world like it was in the middle ages, where Muslims and Christs are living seperately and hating each other. So you are wrong. The path you talk about is not a path for humanity. It is a narrow path for few narrow minded Muslim hater racist countries in which no Muslim lives or desires to live in. The whole point of free speech is not to supress any dissident voice, no matter what you think of it. The moment you try hush a voice or burn a paper, you are committing an act of tyranny. A great example of freedom of expression is the renaissance-peroid. It did wonders to art, music, poetry, philosophy and science. Are you of the opinion that the renaissance was bad for humankind? What's your opinion about Voltaire, the guy who said that "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."? Or those influenced by him? Jefferson, Franklin and others of the enlightment?

It pretty much boggles down to what kind of society you want to live in: one that forbids opinion, art and music that can be considered as disrespecting, or one that permits all of it. The muslims can protest as much as they want, but no laws should be made in favour for anyone, or any group, in which they think that can be protected from opinion that doesn't suit them. Many countries fail at this, but that is the path humanity must take. Everything else leads to thought control in the end.

Whoa, the threshold was that high? What regular employee makes that much? A surgeon, a lawyer?

"State of the art graphics!" *footage of a nude woman* YES About the Unlimited detail-thingie, i am very sceptical before there's an SDK or anything that other could be considered as useful.

Who are we to judge the voluntary transaction between two soverigns? One pays for the goods and services provided by the other, it's perfect harmony, and since it is within a closed system of the two participants, no one else is involuntarily afflicted by it. /rationalist

Amedinejedad is elected through the same process as Blair and Bush were? Iran has the same institional process as every other democracy? What?! And what about the moonlanding? WHAT?!

Nothing's gonna happen. No revolution, nada. When the avarage joe realizes that his everyday job is still the same, there's still bills to pay, kids to watch, and his favourite TV-show is still broadcasting, what is he going to care? That some guy, somewhere might get a fraction of his taxmoney for a broken toe? Give me a break! Are the Rangers playing in the play-offs? Awesome! Is junior getting good grades in school? Great! How's work then? Still a b*tch, but he's getting by.

In other news, let me introduce you to the bravest and most awesome lady of the middle east: