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cowboy hats are very Texas Maybe like a handmade shotgun or something

it's.....eldar

I got bored, sorry OK, I'm done now

I adjusted the colors and warmth of the picture just a bit and I think the outcome is a large improvement.

Elf-fetish much?

They try to bully Japan now and they bully the Koreas as much as we (the US) do.

You are too nice to be a moderator. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You wouldn't like him when he's angry who is galadriel? and which tyler? and if we're ranking beckinsale, adriana lima, alba, petra nemcova

Still, Taiwan is a very close US ally. Nice way to start some "$hit" You couldn't see them bullying Japan? They reallllllllllllllllly don't like the Japanese. Vice Versa. I agree they arn't going to be trying to take over the asia-pacific rim anytime soon (as they can't), but assuming that the "China is THE world power" future comes true, it's not something that is beyond possibility. Hence somethign to fear.

I see a "Dar" pattern

One word: Taiwan

aka. Darque

Is this really what that other 20 page thread was about? People saying what their fanboys of?

o no? :ph34r:

I was watching Letterman awhile back when she was on and she told a story about how she wizzed (is "pissed" edited? <- testing) in the directors coffee thermos for making her do that scene.

Favorite Pixies song? I havn't heard alot of them, but I never liked much other than "where is my mind". I'd like that to change. Dane Cook - retaliations

Is that an urban myth or based on evidence? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> http://wired.com/news/20050620_chinablogs....tw=wn_tophead_1 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/13/ms_ban_freedom/ real

O, and I'm still a Kate Beckinsale Fanboy

does that fact that they are all pixels, minues one, matter?

ok, well, duh. So are lots of various investors. Not all of them nessasarily bringing "American" values or having to answer to the American people. Like when Microsoft (I think it was MS) help the Chinese gov censor words like "freedom" on the internet. My point wasn't that US companies are solely driving the chinese market, but that US companies have a unique role to play in this. as I said, we're already there. Edit: to a degree Want to venture a guess who is number one in human rights violations and in the bottom five of press freedoms? I'm guessing China doesn't get "nicer" when it gets more powerful. Without, of course, some serious reforms. Those reforms would, of course, very likely hurt the chinese economy badly for some time to come. As I said, interesting, isn't it?

Isn't it kinda already. I mean, Taiwan and what not? Them building nukes, us trying to build new tactical nukes. What I want to see is what part American corporations wnd up playing in all this. Not from a "corporations are evil" perspective, but just because they seem to play a very interesting role in all of this. They help support Chinese expansion in many regards while spreading american ideas.

There aren't wannabe black rappers in Soviet, are there? Seriously, China is trying to copy the West so much, they are losing their own identity. The democratic ideas will eventually get there in this age of Internet, so be patient. China is not going to be a carbon copy of the USSR. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm not saying they will be. My response was in reference of Groms question about what will Europe do when China rises in power. My thought: Align themselves closer with the US and vice versa.

nah

Lots of reasons. Just as there is lots of positive to it.