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well My main problem with it is that the government has religion DEFINE marrige (one man and one woman, no other combinations)

a) they have not "politely asked us to leave." check your facts. b) they have not descended into civil war, either. at least not yet. and our presence is not necessarily the reason for a lot of the problem. insurgency from iran, however, may be. except that we upset the only thing that was keeping any sort of civil war in check and were incapable of placing somthing in the subsiquent power vacum in time to keep the rebellious groups in check. obviously you do not understand the definition of an empire. are they actually teaching in schools anymore? taks <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Really? An empire requires that sombody have enough time, money, and drive to make it. otherwise it generally just falls apart. America can't have the traditional model of an empire because we don't have any "undiscovered country" to claim as our own and place all our malcontents and unwanted citizens. Instead we have to claim another country and make sure that the selected government we put in place is little more than a puppet with us pulling the strings. Only problem is that where we are trying to put our little empire is exactly where it's not wanted, and so anytime we try to "encourage democracy" we get a group selected that absolutly HATES us so we generally try to find reasons to stick around and try to make it a puppet. At least until a regime change. Anyway get off your high horse taks.

except that the government has decided to use the church to standardize religion. You can only get married by either a pastor (or other rep of the church) or a judge (I think), plus you have to jump through several hoops to get to that point including blood tests, premarital counceling (which can be provided by a pastor) AND marrige and all the benefits thereof are ONLY for a marrige between opposite genders. That sounds like a religious institution to me.

Just like Sims LOL <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I heard you like the Sims, you sissy. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Nah... singles

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070118/lf_af...at_070118055859 Why must we be such a posessive people? And I can guess that Federal Court is gonna be all tore up about this sucker.

Well, lets do a little side by side comparison between the US and a few notable empires from history. The US has no colonies, never has. The US controls the government in no sovreign nations and never has for much longer than a short trasitional period. The US has never began a war when not attacked or under the pretext of a treaty violation (and that is new). The US maintained ownership of no foreign posessions won in any war except Puerto Rico and Guam and they voted to become US territories. When a nation like the Philipenes asked us to leave, we left. US military bases overseas are there by the consent of the host nation. There are leases and those nations are paid for the use of their soil. Even Cuba receives payment for Guantanamo Bay as dictated in our treaty of 1909. Now compare that to a few of the old colonial "empires" like France. The heads of all foreign posessions were frenchmen. The natives were not allowed to own property and with few exceptions those colonies were only surrendered back to local government at gunpoint. Even the largest most succesful empire in history, the British, could not match the US record. The British have a good track record for transitioning colonies to independant states but often enough it also had to be done at gunpoint. Did they leave the 13 colonies just because we declared independance? No. Plus the British have never been shy in attacking sovreign nations for real or percieved threats to colonial interests. The Crimean War, the Anglo-Afghan wars. They were not above brutally repressing free people not wanting to join the commomwealth. The two Boer wars serve an example. Heck WWI was ALL about empire, colonial interests and mercantilisim. If not for the Zimmerman Telegram Incident the US would not even have involved itself in THAT. We had no colonial interests or territory to defend. To suggest the US is an empire is both factually incorrect and intellectually dishonest. No ducks here. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> well the reason we don't have "colonies" is because every piece of territory in the world is claimed, instead what we have is iraq, they politly asked us to leave but we haven't and so they decended into a civil war. The only difference between out empire and the brits or French is that we don't have the consistant leadership that wants one to that degree, and we operate our pet countries with one degree of seperation (you think that we are ever going to let the iraqis go alone until they vote in a pro us government?)

And comic book geeks will rave about how the situation usually causes victories and defeats (there have been numerous Hulk V superman debates and uncountable Batman v everyone debates using this)

it's geekasm... not geekgasm... If your going to steal my word at least spell it correctly And Song of Ice and fire sounds nice... too bad I don't get HBO. (they did make a comic about it though

You poor, poor lost soul.. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> hey, I was working the preorder line. I had a reason to be there. and my highest level is only 43ish right now... At least I'm not as lost as my friends entire family (probably 20 lvl 60's between em)

The daily show covered his loss of power, it was good coverage too.

he's good right now as a symbol. If the government actually let him get away on purpose the reason wouldbe that if they caught him the population would loose all desire to go after any of bushes proposed targets. So in this hypothetical letting him get away on purpose senario, Osama would get away, Bush would claim he went to Iraq, we invade Iraq, and now that public opinion is again receeding it might be a good idea "capture" him. Again, hypothetically. the only difference it would make now would be to get the public to view bush as having succeeded in his pet war.

installing burning crusade

I'd see it more like Xwing Alliance where except that you wouldn't jump to waypoints. The missions would probably be more like your attached to one of the outlying vessels in the fleet and misjump and have to find your way back to galactica.

wasn't that the name they gave the hulk so he didn't sound gay? in the tv show.

The AI in COH does cheat... (tanks randomly chase after hidden snipers) however it also doesn't use its' extra abilities that much (never seen the expert AI fire off smoke or get veterancy) Really you shut it down rather quickly if you just use your building unit to cap points while building at your base (I generally do two rovers one building squad) then you deny them the resources needed to produce units... except for manpower, thats where fighting Blitzkreig and Airborne doctrines get sticky (able to produce stuff thats good against anything for just manpower... airborne, how I loathe thee) oh, and for an old time easter egg, hit ctrl ~ and on the console type in ee_bigheadmode(1) it's funny.

the fact that you used the letters or what? I just thought it stupid funny that they randomly decided to put the YMCA dance in there as a tool

Well... you could pose the question of "is sombody that can eat planets really evil if they are just trying to survive?" Mainly because if you look at it, killing somthing to survive is considered a "good" act. But Nihilus is considered evil because he's eating planets to survive. I think that Evil is generally an act WITH THE INTENT TO HARM or Cause harm. while most of the time this is potrayed as a nutjob with sadistic tendancies, you could find sombody like Dr. Manhattan (of watchmen) who is calculating and willing to wait (what is it with instant gratification?)

I'm amazed... this is way out in left field and doesn't get closed, but the troop discussion got closed while on topic because meta was bored... so uh... yeah... coins... how bout that.

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Rule 34?

it has a set routine that once you get it down you can usually beat them silly. Generally it'll take whatever unit it has the resourses for and will spam it. (the two usual choices by an axis comp are Pioneers and Stugs, Allied computer uses engineers and Shermans, unless their airborne then they get all antitank weapons.)

does it say that because it was within sight of one of your units or does it sometimes just randomly say "Ship X sunk due to battle damage sustained at X date"

Mandalore at that period was a strategic genius. Revan? Maybe, the only real "prowess" in terms of strategy he showed was preserving factories and industrial sites across the galaxy during the Civil war. This would have allowed him to simply recrew those factories and put more material out faster than if he had ordered the planet taken just a tch faster. Thrawn still puts Revan to shame.

WoW, Bouts of Armada 2, Some Brothers in Arms : RTH30, and generally watching alot of tv... Monday night is going to be interesting for me as I'm signed on to work the midnight launch of WoW:BC at my second job.

well... Daily show with John Stewart, and Law And Order (if I can catch it) have my interest right now. otherwise it's Netflixed or reruns of Startrek.