J.E. Sawyer

Writing in Badnarik.

Maybe Eichmann fans just really like prompt trains.

It's not enough to check heraldry. A lot of genealogy places will whip out a crest based on your last name and call it a day. Sharing a common surname doesn't insure relation. It's astounding how many people with Scottish blood will claim to be related to the Stuarts. Of course, they never actually trace it back themselves and certify what they've been told, but that doesn't stop them from claiming it all the time. I am 15/16ths German (Bavarian/Donauschwaben), 1/16th English. My ancestors were farmers, vinters, blacksmiths, and all-around regular peeps.

2002 Audi A4 3.0 quattro.

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I remember Chris Jones being pretty good at Quake 3 and Wolfenstein. I can't really keep up in FP deathmatch games, so I go for teamplay, which I enjoy more anyway.

I used to be conversational in German, but even that is questionable now. I don't stick to studying and communicating in any language long enough to be very proficient. I've studied Spanish, French, MS Arabic, Latin, German, Welsh, Danish, and Icelandic. I'd like to think I know a fair amount about Germanic and Romance languages. I help tutor my girlfriend in Italian even though I really don't know the language at all.

(previously posted on another forum where I saw mod projects rise and fall continuously) Hello. My name is Josh Sawyer. I am a game developer, formerly of Black Isle Studios, currently working for Midway San Diego. I

Sabre.

No, I'm not any good.

Today, Mariel Zagunis won the gold medal in women's individual sabre and Sada Jacobson won the bronze. It's the first time an American woman has earned any Olympic medal in fencing, the first American Olympic fencing medal in 20 years, and the first gold in 96. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2...ing/3574244.stm

I don't know where Black Beach is, but Dog Beach is in Ocean Beach/Point Loma. It is not crowded, but in addition to human filth, you also have dog filth.

If someone tells you to go to Mission Beach, do not. It is horrible and contaminated and will be the vacation you remember for getting Heptatitis. Ocean Beach is filthy and crowded. Pacific Beach is also filthy and crowded. Point Loma? Guess what? Filthy. Also, crowded. The best beach in San Diego is on Coronado. It is clean, open, and not full of disease. Anyone who argues against this point is probably a plague-ridden hippie who wants you to die after inhaling a discarded syringe full of human blood and feces.

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I guess you do, since you point out Rome, skip the British Empire, and go straight to the U.S. The British Empire depended on trade and and a complex network of relationships with client power groups within the different countries it administered. Rome, on the other hand, used a much less elegant model. Huh? The term "client-king" can very specifically be used to refer to the setups that Rome initially had on Britain. Mix-ups over that nonsense led directly to the Iceni revolt. In deployment range and overall range of influence, the British Empire was far more like the U.S. than Rome. Either we get to split hairs over types of empires or we don't. I see more similarity in range and type of influence between the British Empire and the U.S. than the U.S. and Rome. The US model is far removed from the British Imperial modus operandi, until Iraq, of course. Which the US ballsed up royally because it stubbornly refuses to accept it's imperialistic obligations. Look, if we're receiving more than a) Jack and b) s*** in imperial benefits from this mess, I'd be more than willing to state that we have a greater responsibility. But seriously, we could magically suck all the oil out of Iraq right now and it wouldn't make a big dent in the cost, financial and otherwise, of this war. (which is why you were so comprehensively suckered into supporting terrorists like the IRA in the 70's, 80's and early 90's) I am reminded of Die Hard. Big Johnson: Just like f***in' Saigon ain't it, Slick? Little Johnson: I was in junior high, d**khead. Post-1993, feel free to include me among the suckered. I think an America that finally accepts the responsibility of post-superpower flagbearer for liberal democracy would be a Good Thing. Okay, before I tackle this, I'd like to say that I don't really give a rat's ass who finds what country guilty of what. I don't have any big interest in making America seem great and other countries seem bad. That said, there is no way that Europe and the U.S. are going to see eye-to-eye on this at any time in the near future. The U.S. possesses such a massive amount of military might beyond Europe that it is silly -- especially in deployment capability/range. Our European allies have a grand total of six carriers. The stars of this fleet being the three low-capacity U.K. carriers and the one big leaky French carrier. Christ, U.S. Army Europe's armored division is larger than the entire British armored division, and the U.K. outstrips the other European countries. So the U.S., by far, is more capable of being the superhero of "liberal democracy", European powers very often disagree as to when the U.S. should be that superhero and when they should not. For purposes of this discussion, who is right and who is wrong are irrelevant concerns. It should simply be stated that there is not a lot of concord on these issues, that makes "stepping up" very difficult for the U.S. to do in many cases. Anyway, sorry for the derail.

****, please. The British Empire was far larger and spanned a greater distance than the Roman Empire. http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/worldhis/map27.gif http://www.makedonija.info/roman.gif Whoop-ti-do. While the United States certainly exerts a stronger level of control over the world than any single government in history, the United States has no need for a traditional, knock-over-your-government-and-plant-our-own-people-there-empire. Your peeps are still, in my mind, the undisputed champions of that pasttime.

I posted a picture of Snoop Dogg and said that the reaction in San Antonio to the last-second game-winning shot was awesome.

owned.

*SOUND OF BRAKING CAR* Some -- I repeat, some -- Libertarians are objectivists. Objectivism is not libertarianism. I consider myself to be a Libertarian. I also consider Ayn Rand to have been a horrid, foolish gorgon of a human being. Proceed. *SOUND OF CAR SPEEDING AWAY*

Silence of Spurs fans = priceless. I loved the fact that Fisher was practically out of the stadium by the time anyone reacted.

I always figured it was supposed to be from the American "Deep South". "Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel" sort of fits with that theory.

Most poorly balanced system ever. Juicer + Glitterboy + Chinese Antiquarian = party of non-stop laughs!

"Ya hya choudhada!"