EnderAndrew

Just like how we built the Panama canal, created jobs down there, built factories and then turned everything over. We just gave it to the people and left. Every place where we have closed a military base has begged Americans and their money to come back. I have a friend from Bolivia. He talks about how people hate the US, and see us as arrogant, rich bastards. But at the same time he said everyone in Bolivia would come live here in they could in a heart beat. Dare I say some of the hatred the US receives is actually envy clothed in disdain?

Thank you Dark Helmet.

Top-Shelf Long Island Ice Tea. I had a place charge me $15 for one.

I think it aids capitalism, as capitalism is all about competition. If you can't put out a product that can compete with open source, then maybe you're in the wrong business. Either we get free software, or we get better commercial software, and either way the consumer wins. My main concern is international law on intellectual property. Interpol apparently oversees illegal copying of movies, as we get said warnings. But do they do anything? Retail establishments in Asia sell pirated DVDs, CDs, video games, software programs, etc. If countries like the United States don't find a way to protect their intellectual property overseas, we will be in a hurt of trouble.

Those are Life Alert buttons, incase Annie falls down on Mustafar again and can't get up.

From what I understand, the first thing Alberta did was pay off their provincial debts. Smart move.

Even as a Sentinel/Weapon Master with a low Wisdom score, spamming Force Wave was very effective.

I thought the buttons were there because Palpy got all his parts from Radio Shack.

Linux communities already split up and war amongst themselves too much. GPL is probably the right way to go for an OS, but for smaller projects I'm all about the CCL.

Saudi Arabia is also the home to Mecca, so it's a very important country. The UN's initial interest in the Iraq/Kuwait affair was probably more about Iraq possibly going into Saudi next. I've also been told that Alaska has vast ammounts of oil, but as we don't really tap it, we don't know how much is up there.

I think D20 is more polished than first edition, but I still wouldn't call it balanced.

With Germany that was certainly the case as we had a showdown in Berlin. I don't think the USSR ever really considered moving into Japan however.

Creative Commons License gives people some limited control over their contributions to open source, and it also requires that if you change code that you share your changes. With GPL, you can download code, change it, and never share your changes. CCL benefits open source communities more, in my opinion.

And helped finance Japan's recovery to boot! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> And Germany's to a lesser extent. We helped rebuild car plants, I know.

I'm a big fan of the CCL, personally.

Never noticed that before, probably because I avoid war in Civ.

I love how people have no appreciation for the money we give our nations in relief, in addition to the support our troops can given to other nations in times of need. Fundamentalists looking for war will continue to do so regardless of whether or not the US is in power. You are fooling youself if you truly believe the world would be a safer place without the US. Last time I checked, we did bail Europe out in two world wars.

The UN just ignored Rwanda like it wasn't happening. Some still maintain that genocide never took place, and to this day not much has been done about it. Some don't seen killing 800,000 people, mostly civilians as a war crime somehow. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/africa...nda/default.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1288230.stm The majority Hutus and minority Tutsis lived in the same area, spoke the same language and might as well have been the same people except a difference in height, and the names they called each other. They hated each other for childish reasons and the Tutsis were slaughtered en masse on speculation. Bush could have gone into Iraq sooner on the pure sympathy vote because initially we had very little intel. We didn't know where Al Quaeda was, who they cooperated with, etc. Saddam didn't publicly support terrorism, and give terrorists money. We could have played that angle, but we sought diplomacy and factual justice. We wanted to go after the people actually responsible. And the US has been responsible for quite a few regime-changes over the years. But the US also changes administrations every 4 or 8 years. The actions of this government 20-30 years ago are very different from the actions from the government of the past 10 years. We had a 9/11 commission here in the states to examine what went wrong, who was to blame, and what we can do better in the future. Rice and Bush were asked several times why we didn't just assassinate bin Laden before, since we knew he was a major threat. They responded that it is no longer policy of the US to engage in assassinations, or other illegal activities. We did try to kill Castro back in the day, but we no longer treat the world as our playground. The US was a worse reputation today, because people now know what we did in the past, but they don't judge us by our current actions of diplomacy. Edit: And by the way, go to factcheck.org - they are a non-partisan group who simply checks facts. They blast all sides when they are wrong, and they have verified that Halliburton hasn't given one penny to **** Cheney since Cheney stopped working for them. It probably doesn't hurt Halliburton that Cheney may have some friends there, but they didn't directly pay to get their contracts. Believe it or not, we prosecute government officials if we discover they illegally took bribes. http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/01/cun...d.ap/index.html

Then the conclusion is: your leaders are stupid. Really, I think they deserve more credit than you give them. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Either that or we weren't motivated my money, but perhaps by conscious. It is possible. Either that, or we weren't looking for direct profit, but indirect profit if you insist on seeing a monetary motivator. War causes people to have faith in an economy, and generally leads to production and new jobs.

I'm down with those two. I don't just consider the physical locale. I consider the people we'll deal with there.

Yes. I can understand why you might think that way. But before we went in, both Bush and Blair promised that every cent made from every drop of Iraqi oil would be used to benefit the people of Iraq. We would not take any oil, nor would we put in a leader to sell oil to us at a given price. We allowed the people or Iraq to elect their own leaders. Last time I checked, we didn't profit from this war, but it has cost us over $100 billion dollars. We're not there for economic profit.

Oh, and by the way, I said he was bursting with the flavor of Scott Baio. I believe to love is "amor" in Spanish.

Pinnochio likes the texture of sandpaper! Oh yeah, that's the stuff! And I think sandpaper would be bad for a DS touchscreen. Again, I am on topic.

If you have access to get to the source code, then you can compile said soure code. Linux has always been distributed under the GPL. In fact, I think the GPL was written for Linux.

I'm guessing Cato Neimoidia is home to the Neimodians. No thanks.