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or prince of persia

Yea....thats kinda of frowned apon nowadays.

HK's last British governor was appointed by the Queen. Ruled till 1997. Very unpopular in HK I might add. The current governor, however, was voted in by the HK people. (Not that popular either these days.) The first direct presidential elections were in 1996, yes. But since 1946 Taiwan has been becoming more and more democratic (and doing alot of this by freeign up those things that help democracmy: Freedom of the press, etc) They also fear what happens when they start flying the flags. China could be upset down the line if the see the idea of democracy spreading to the mainland. What of the press freedoms they currently enjoy. Alot of "what if's" I think he specifically supports the "status quo". I HIGHLY doubt he said he supports the "'one-China-policy". Could be wrong, but would be shocked. They didn't want to endanger the "transfer of power" from the British. That, and America. And that "peaceful approach" is about as peaceful as Taiwan offered China. So you can't say they didn't try.

Just to be clear:

Your correct, I should have been clear, but I want to point out: "One DEMOCRATIC China", menaing unless China becomes a democracy, they won't join. Hence the "status quo", but status quo means there are thousands apon thousands of missles pointed at them. The people want democracy, via the status quo or via changes in the mainland or independece. Why do they have a strong military tho? .......got it? Yep, it's American arms. America (via trade and other routes) has done more than a little bit to help them as well. Doesn't mean we own them. They have had democracy for what, 20+ years? It's obvious they want to keep it. Whatever their past.

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Taiwan already has all those things that you have listed, minus the flags. And no one has to "grant" it to them. None of that is the issue tho. The issue is independence, which the election of Chen Shui-bian indicates, is the popular stance in Taiwan. Lets face facts, do you think that China would have not invaded yet if it wasn't for the US military?

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Did not. Good find. they may be taking this "numbers" thing too far

EA is where good series (minus sports) go to die

thats riiiiiidiculous. I assume the player is the smaller black smear in the foreground and not the big black smears in the back.

The game was rigged. Rigged I tell's ya. We'll see you in the Super Bowl I'm 8 for 13 (three of my loses were by 3 points or less, damn you Miami) all I need now is a Denver upset

I'm 8 for 12, which frankly, isn't great. If I win out I'll be 10 for 14. I missed my carolina and steelers picks both by 3 points :"> No one meantion the bears

Miami 14 Carolona 3 Titans 10 Rams 0 N.O. 0 Minnesota 17 wtf

I have. Those machines needed to be specially designed for their intended purposes too. BTW, I hope the fact that this story was post on YAHOO NEWS wasn't lost on you guys

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I heard alot of that touched on in the AICN talkback, but thanks for the link and details. I never really thought of the ying/yang and the quote "There are two players, one light, one dark" together until now. The last link, priceless I don't see how you see the Philadelphia experiments play into this, tho I'm curious.

Good Point. I'm sure he still shows up at Winterwind now and then. We should PM him ot come back

I just noticed that there is heavy rain and high winds in the forecast in Chicago for Sunday.

1. Welcome to the person above me with no posts 2. Just noticed that this thread calls the show "The Lost" in the header. How far we've come

ZING!

I tired....nada try babelfishing the french pages just to see what you get

You might get a kick out of this. Every season this happens: Yahoo Sports page has "experts" like Chris Carter that make picks each week. It also polls Yahoo users for their picks. The only people over .500? The Yahoo Users. LINK

I knew I should have voted Kerry......

Thanks, I appreci.....wait a minute..... Anyways, I hope I win, so I can taunt you guys