Gorgon

Guy on the train today had a swastika tatooed on his cheek. Looked around at everyone ominously. It's one way of always being able to secure plently of legroom I suppose. Something about him made me think he was more mental case than Nazi though.

Marvel Thor was always a stupid idea.

Norse Mythology is right up there on the cool scale, but I don't think it will make a good movie. A tradional animation on the other hand... There are a couple of those aleady but I would sure like to see one with a Peter Jacksonish budget.

A completely pointless exercise, ww1. And after they actually thought that man had learned a profound lesson and would never do anything like that again. Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if the populations on either side actually had gone past their breaking point for what they would endure and rebelled, as was in the cards had the war gone on much longer. That might well have spared us ww2. Just a thought.

Is that another way of saying that people start out naively thinking they can effect social change and inevitably end up old and shriveled in mind and spirit resigned to stop trying to change anything.

It's easy enough to be critical, the hard question is, who would you prefer be in power.

I can understand how they would be able to disrupt cellular services but how the hell did they disrupt electrical services? Id love to see what they had inside those stealh choppers. :drool: a bribe at the local electrical company perhaps.

Boobs never hurt anyone.

Hezbollah have repeatedly stated that they only go after military targets. It's bull, given the kind of missiles they used against Israel, but the distinction genuinely seemed to matter to them. I'm thinking that kind of distinction might be in the ascendancy in order to appeal to a wider base.

Your academic career is starting to affect serious environmental damage to your language.

We want those things in our games precisely because they are taboo and exciting. And yes, an angel dies every time a customer porks a hooker. (honestly who cares, prostitution is a fact of life, just concentrate on the worst attendant problems, like human trafficking and drug addiction)

I used to get those too. I guess nowadays I don't care enough about anything to get stressed or get stuck into fight/flight mode. This is not a good thing by the way.

I makes perfect sense to me. I mean we are talking about depictions of sex being censored because they are thought to have negative effects on children, hence something gets to be for adults only. 16/18/21+. The science suggests that sex and violence absorbed through entertainment media is not the cause for either crime or mental illness in adulthood, the damaging effect is very hard to pinpoint except as a sort of poorly defined parental idea that it's the 'right thing' to do.

I'm not so sure about the 'he resisted' part. What would we do with him alive, the Hague ?. Also there was the time pressure, making it more likely that they offed him to avoid having to drag him out of there. Well, that and the fact that they have been trying for 10 years to kill him any way they could. I don't know either way, just sayin' it's a bit convenient.

The UN security council passed a resolution high fiveing the raid and the death of Osama, Unanimously... That never happens.

The timing is entirely off for this to be a hoax. It's like faking the 10th moon landing. Why even bother.

I wouldn't break out the beer, but this guy was entirely off the charts in the evil mastermind score, high fives are in order.

Is anybody saying that.... I think no.

'Resisted'. I wonder. Anyway I wouldn't hold it against them.

Cool

Why is this troubling. I'm not troubled. They were probably gunning for Ghadaffi, but as we know his saves vs bombs are off the charts and he can only be hurt by magic fire. They should have known better. But... if they had been able to cut the head off the snake and end this, surely that would have been desirable for everyone. (well except the Ghadaffi cadre)

Potatoe Potaato

We have a simple proxy system. An MP can vote any way he or she likes, but if he doesn't show up to press the button his vote will be tallied with the official party line.

What was your point again. That there is no such thing as 'undemocratic', as in not democratic. Don't be silly.

Democracy is not a value. Might as well argue that it's "unamerican". Nonsense. It's entirely possible for a system to be less, or more, democratic. We aren't using a specific yardstick, but those kinds of comparisons are as common as pie.