Gorgon

You do know that 99% of those 'caught on camera' ones are fake and paid for by the pepsi in the background right.

So we are discussing a situation where sacrifice is demanded in order to prevdent a country changing name. Well, stopping half of Germany from becoming East Germany would have been worth a measure of lives. On the other hand I don't think many people are that sad that the Soviet union is no longer. So I guess the answer is, it depends.

You have broken the circle of clowns !

It all revolves around one NPC and is pretty illogical, but there are plenty of other things to enjoy about the game.

I don't see why people should feel obligated to serve in a war they feel is imoral. A lot of people fled to Canada or Europe during Vietnam, and considering that the whole enterprise was a monumental failure I don't see how serving out of a sense of possibly misguided loyalty is better than refusing. A war where litterally everything is at stake like ww2 is another matter.

" Rommel and plenty other higher ranking officers who wasn't involved with the nazi party had been in the military since and during WW1. People don't just quit their lifes work overnight, Germany was their country no matter what, and it had enemies to vanquish (just as Japan, UK, whomever had). But I know it's oh so easy for you to sit there and pass judgement in the bliss of hindsight. Oh and I'm not saying the SS Wikings didn't know what the Nazies did, I'm just saying I can understand why someone would want to blow away commies. happy.gif" It seems to me that if your country's leadership takes a bad turn and you are asked to help make things a whole lot worse, you have a choice to make. All the usual comments about 'benifity of hindsight' aside. There are planty of explanations, but there aren't any excuses for chosing to support mass murder by compliance.

Rommel helped the ambitions of a perverse regime, but even his enemies said he fougth honourably, so he gets marks for that. The blue eyed innocence excuse doesen't work for the volounterr SS groups. You give them too little credit, they knew full well what the Nazi regime was all about.

"So can you really blame the Nazi storm troopers for being part of Hitler's army?" Yes I can, the SS were all volounteers, as was the vermacht officer corps. Low level officers and enlisted men are the only ones who could be considered free from blame for having participated in Nazi expantionism.

I have no loyalty to my country whatsoever

More importantly, does your cleaninglady give blowjobs to people other than David.

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What does it matter what tonnage was intercepted if it didn't impact the market enough to change people's habbits.

You voted him president for life ?

Once you vote a president into office you can't just expect him to leave if he should become unpopular. If he did leave as a result of a popular campaign led by the opposition that would be a lot more worrying for democracy. As for the lying part, so what, all politicians lie. You get to vote him out of office after his term. I'm not sure about the alegations of voting fraud, it's the first i've heard of it.

Why should he resign when he still has a popular mandate. The voters can throw him out next time around. He doesen't have to resign just because people are demonstrating.

Sometimes seizures can cause altered personality. Especially if the frontal lobe has recieved significant damage, although it is pretty rare.

They are afraid they are going to disintegrate because people don't speak French ?

I always thougth the whole light side/dark side was a question of the force manipulating your emotions and making you act according to them. The light side reject their emotions and resist their influence through meditation. The dark side embrace them. But, inexplicably, their emotions always seems to lead them towards egotism rather than altruism. A bit of a flaw in the terminology.

I ran and the lightsabers got stuck in a clipping error by the pillars, then I just force choked/ force lightning untill she went.

Defence is 10% on average, double under Reagan as he spent the USSR out of business Why leave wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budg...e_United_States

uhh, I thougth purality meant that votes could travel states, but it does say that First past the post is an example of plurality voting so it is in fact the opposite. In any case, I don't really see the need to rank candidates in order of preference, one vote should be sufficient which could either be cast for a specific candidate or for a party.

"Plurality voting is another matter entirely, and I think it's stupid." And throwing out votes is not ? Purality voting would allow the creation of an an actual political spectrum represented in choices of paries, rather than two more or less indeterminable cumbersome giants. Presidential elections should be plurality based.

Chinese gymnasts and couchpotatioes all have the same neural pathways. The rest, i'm afraid, is just practice and luck. The test shows abosolutely nothing.

" Post #77 Level 4 Posts: 1,192 All the Nordic countries at the top of the Economist study have relatively small populations compared to that of the UK and definitely the USA for example. Iceland (second in the list) has the a population of approximately 300,000 (around 1000 times less than in USA). So does population size have any bearing on the effectiveness of a democracy? " I would think so, it is easier to be close to government when you don't number hundreds of millions.

If you want to protect the voice of the minority you have to get away from the two party system. There are a lot more than the two choices of political ideology you get to choose from you know. Without the electoral college, independent candidates could be allowed to harness votes nation wide and not have their votes thrown out and their mandates given to the winner. This could facilitate the creation of alternatives to the two party stalemate.