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  1. Strictly not true! Just look at Israel where everyone that isn't suffering from a serious physical disability must serve in the army for no less than six years, or something like that. Anyway, it's entirely possible that I just made that up given my present level of intoxication, but I think I remember something along those lines. You go and check it out and prove me wrong, or not. )
  2. Well, it's just that some people are cowards. Simple as that. Nothing really wrong with that, apart from the sad fact that they depend on better people than themselves for their welfare. What really amuses me is that some cowards are too afraid to even openly declare their cowardice, choosing to conceal it behind lame rhetorics and land-of-candy style idiosincrasies instead. Cowardice is just another form of immaturity.
  3. OMG!!1 Big, uniform-clad hunks stalking you day and night! The wet dream of uh... some people I'm sure.
  4. In fact, you don't need to carry the weapons with you. Just find one of those black weapon containers that are spread around the map (like the ones from ICA supplies) and place the rifle(s) you want to conserve in it. At the end of the mission, they are added to your available arsenal for use in the future. It sucks however that you can't use the larger rifle cases (like the one used to conceal the Dragunov in the tutorial) to carry other rifles, barring the FN2000. It severely limits the usefulness of non-concealable guns.
  5. Maybe the same people that came up with the idea of human rights for apes... "
  6. Awesome. (w00t) Take that, you dirty commies! As for the compass one: Your political compass Economic Left/Right: 1.50 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.49 According to that I'm standing right up there with G. Schr
  7. O RLY?
  8. Why, what a silly question. Of course I don't do it to serve the government (who the hell wants to serve a government that is all for granting human rights to simians, anyway?!). I just want to "shoot things". Well, that, and the fact that I've repeatedly failed at getting into academic life are my reasons for joining. Heh. Do you know if being missing a testicle is enough to be declared inept? You can't serve (as an officer at least, not sure about plain troops) here unless you have a perfectly complete reproductive system. What with not being ballsy enough and all...
  9. What can I say Sur, it's not like you folks don't know me. Aw, that almost hurt. Tell you what, I'll leave humor to those qualified for it when you do the proper with sarcasm. How's that sound? Anyway, I'm all for discussing topics. But when people make broad generalizations (in a rather provocative fashion) and go around flashing their credentials (and OMG personal experience!) as all the justification they need to talk rubbish, I tend to snap. And hey, one last thing. Your newly-acquired degree in psychobabble doesn't give you carte blanche to patronize. Deal with it. EDIT: Oh, almost forgot:
  10. -"I must agree wholeheartedly with the young lady here. It's a proven fact that due to men's cranial structure they are substantially retarded emotionally speaking. It's also a proven fact that men's expanded cranial capacity gives them increased intelligence and sometimes even telekinetic abilities. Also, everyone knows that if they teach it at uni, it must be true, and will always be as it's the case with the undeniable truth derived from phrenology and craniometry."
  11. That'll be the day.
  12. LOLita?
  13. no u
  14. Once Llyr goes all relativist, it's not really possible to win the argument, since morality, justice and other similar notions are not only arbitrary (and thus, easily reversible), but also full of double-standards and contradictions. Therefore, the only answer left to the question of "How do you justify killing those nice fellas?" that can't be contested is "Because we can".
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  16. I'm sure you think that sounded really deep, but in fact, it was quite lame. Anyway, it seems to me that you need to revise your definition of "civilized".
  17. You are entitled to your opinion, but the massive participation in the last elections shows how marginal support for those groups is. So it's not just that li'l ol' me is happy with this guy's death, it's that a great many people in Iraq are going to be sleeping easier from now on. The man's only going to be a martyr for like-minded fellows, that with a bit of luck, will share his fate. And yeah, "there will always be a Hitler", but after Hitler (the one and only), there hasn't been anyone like him, thankfully. You've got to be kidding me, because you can't seriously expect me to believe that you see any similarities. I'm going to break one of those unwritten rules of teh intarwebs and make a "Hitler" kind of argument, seeing as you did it yourself. So, was it wrong for allied WWII soldiers to celebrate Hitler's death and the defeat of the Third Reich? If not, how is it wrong to celebrate this butcher's? On the other hand, people celebrating 9/11 is akin to SS officers celebrating the last batch of gassed prisoners. This guy brought it upon himself, it's that simple. It's not a matter of "an eye for an eye", either, as this entire business didn't stem from the need to bring him to justice, as much as it did from the need to stop him from doing his trade and cripple his operation as much as possible. I don't believe in "an eye for an eye", either. So now they can't be held responsible for their actions just because they are spoonfed propaganda consistently? Sorry, but being misinformed isn't the same as being children. The problem is that it's much easier to vent one's frustration in form of rage at some distant and very abstract Evil Empire, than to try and deal with one's own shortcomings. It's a sickening and rather pathetic case of collective victim complex. EDIT:I saw on the news that they tried to get him alive, but he was too entrenched and they feared he would escape so an airstrike was called in.
  18. In other news, French team striker and a personal favorite of mine, Djibril Cisse suffered a rather ugly looking leg break in their last warm-up match against China. Second one for him in less than two years. Yup, he's gonna feel that one in the morning.
  19. Get real.
  20. I, on the other hand am quite happy that this bastard got splattered over several yards. He had it coming, you know, what with his hazardous job and all. He was not only a terrorist, but also one that seemed to enjoy his work a bit too much. And regardless of what you say, it'll be difficult to find a replacement that is as bad as he was. It doesn't matter if he's martyred, because that martyrdom only means something to a handful (yes, a handful) of radicals that are too stupid to integrate in society and learn to live with the new times. People like that deserve whatever they get, and what they get is often a cluster bomb. No, I'm not afraid like most of the others here to claim openly that I'm glad he's dead, and if I was stationed on Iraq, I'd probably celebrate (read: drink). The only thing I regret is that his family wasn't targeted as well. Maybe that would be a good incentive for those losers to find a real job. Hell, it worked for Saddam, didn't it? But what I find most appalling of all is that you accuse anyone of hypocrisy. In case you have forgotten (or perhaps you never stopped to think about it) it is the death of men like this that sustains your precious state of welfare, among other things. Yes, it's so very easy to promptly take the moral high horse when some human waste or another is blasted to kingdom come thousands of miles from the comfy chair from which you write. Sorry, but the world is neither fair not egalitarian, and I have to choose, I'd much rather not get the raw end of the deal. The human being is not a kind creature at heart. So you wallow all you want in your grief for the death of men that would first rape you, then rape you again, and then behead you without thinking twice. In the meantime, there are people out there willing to prevent that from happening, fortunately for you. I agree with you, though. It's a shame they didn't take him alive. I hear they have this leisure facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that is just a delight to spend time in. People kill to go there! EDIT: Good to have you back, Commie!
  21. But you don't know that. That's the problem. That's why not every hetero couple is allowed to adopt. It's not about abuse, either.
  22. Yeah, how about, Area 51?
  23. No, I meant the familiar environment. Familiar conditioning can vary widely within a given society, and thus, I think it's independent from that. No, but the act of "deciding" doesn't really need to be a conscious one, and even when we think it is, to what extent are we actually choosing instead of acting reflexively due to the effect of our conditioning?
  24. Notice the "rather" as opposed to "absolutely" in my original statement. The Middle Ages lasted for less than a thousand years, at most. At any rate, that period can only be considered a regression in Europe, as the Arab culture, for instance, flourished during that time. So, yeah, a rather steady rythm of progress. Up until WWII, that was actually the case. And ever since, military spending in R&D has been quite sizable due to the US' need to keep a technological edge. Most of the technologies invented for military use end up being converted in a way or another for civilian use. And yeah, I already conceded that the risk of total annihilation due to nuclear war exists, but there is also the risk that an asteroid will wipe all life from the face of the Earth. It's just no excuse not to go forward.
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