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Right. And it remains to be proven that you would purchase such computer at the retailer in case you couldn't "clone" it, thus making the retailer lose money with your "theft". Nope, sorry but internet filesharing is not the same as "stealing". No matter what the RIAA/MPAA say.

You, my dear, are either truly paranoid or completely ignorant of what the concept of MAD entails. Or perhaps you just underestimate the chances of nuclear war happening during the Cold War. You say that the soviets weren't martyrs but you are quite wrong. They were willing to retaliate to a nuclear attack with one of their own even knowing that such action would only mean to die killing. Isn't that what a martyr does? We have seen what terrorism is capable of at its worst. It can't be much worse than 9/11. It has been argued that the next step is an attack using a small nuke or a biological weapon. Not even that would come close to what a large scale nuclear war would have caused. It is likely that mankind itself would not survive such a thing. So, by all standards, we are safer today than we were back in the '60s.

It's true that you didn't explicitly claim that everyone that's against abortion is a religious zealot, but a certain quoted comment was meant to dismiss that stance as the result of bigotry (in this case, religious). And if it didn't then it was just out of line. But anyway. In fact only the last paragraph of my post was about that. Now it's you who's ignoring stuff. And why the hell do I sound more and more like a religious person each passing day!?

Uh, I'm not sure what was your intent with that comment, but I know mine wasn't to offend anyone. I wasn't baiting... this time. If anyone has taken offense, I apologize.

Right. People with anger management issues wouldn't snap your neck "under normal circumstances" either, but if you piss them off, they will. They lose control too and their instincts take over. Does that mean that people with such issues shouldn't be prosecuted?

Not as often as I'd like to, no. Now please enlighten me. Exactly, how does that relate to anything? I'd like to hear your opinions as a sex lame retort master.

I'm all for people accepting responsibility for their actions. While I accept that in some cases and under certain circumstances abortion is not only an acceptable but the preferable option, I'm not sure I like the idea of abortion being equiparable to condoms or the day-after pill as an anti-conceptive method. It might be shocking to some, but pregnancy is the obvious result of sex. As things are right now it's easy enough to avoid that result (provided that we aren't talking about rape) without resorting to abortion. If anything, the only reason I can find that would warrant abortion (again, provided there are no other medical reasons) would be to spare the child the experience of having such stupid parents and to prevent that stupidity from being passed on to the child by the genes. And please don't resort to putting words in people's mouths (I'm referring to that comment about childbirth and God) because not everyone that is against an "anything goes" attitude towards abortion is a religious zealot. You can do better than that.

And you should play the Hitmans... damn cool games. :cool:

It is not so easy to support because it's based on a false premise. While it's true that famine is a serious problem in some parts of the world, it's not true that there isn't enough food in the world to feed everyone, or that enough food couldn't be produced. Not to mention that killing people for whatever reasons (even if they are a burden to society) is forbidden in most countries. And last time I checked, when you eat someone, they tend to die in the process. That would make implementing your suggestion complicated... from a legal standpoint. I guess that depends on how you define "better". By my standards they are way better off this way. But I don't think the USSR was some kind of utopic eden, so that's just my opinion. And about the mafias, well, with the USSR it was more or less the same, only back then gangsters wore uniforms and addressed you as "comrade". Can't argue with the fact that the rich got even richer, but it's true too that the world is a safer place now without the menace of MAD hovering over our heads, so all in all I'd say it was a fair exchange.

I don't think that's true. At least not in the EU. And if it was, everyone in the galaxy would end up being Force sensitive, considering that the children of non-Force sensitive can be so.

You have too much faith in fans attending to reason. "Begun, the Canon Wars have"

I don't get it. Are you on some kind of anti-capitalist crusade? I don't think I will be getting neither, at least until prices drop a bit and not unless there are some games that I really want to try. Not because I don't like consoles, simply because I can't afford to buy everything I like. And if everything works out as it should, I won't have time for gaming, either.

If you need to ask that, you are too sensible to grasp the answer.

That is something I hear rather often. While information is indeed power, it is not power in or by itself. Ultimately, it is economic strength that dictates the rise and fall of powers, as it has been through History. I don't see that changing with the advent of the era of the information the same way it didn't change when we discovered how to split the atom. After all, it wasn't a nuclear war that ended the USSR. It was clever economics.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner.

The existence of this thread is tangible proof that OE needs to release a new game NOW.

I agree. However, it's debatable whether downloading stuff is stealing.

Get real.

I wouldn't know. Neither would you, for that matter. Fortunately for mankind, Lucius hasn't written any books that we know of. However, his two first posts in this thread were rather aggressive, in a physical sense. Oh, of course. When someone complains about it, "it was just a figure of speech" or "I was just kidding". I'm not buying it. Much less coming from this dumb f u c k and his attitude towards anything that isn't in communion with his opinions. What? If "growing out of my trollish behavior" means sticking my head deep in my ass as you do right before posting, then no. I definitely haven't. "sillynumbernameman" ROFL. And here I thought you had already finished your kindergarten graduate...

Hey, what can I say. I get my kicks out of drawing hypocrites into the open.

And I guess you aren't an extremist for saying you'd like to punch her just because she posted some nonsense on the internet? Hilarious.

That is relevant to the topic how?

Read the other 30 pages and prove that those "studies" aren't agenda-driven as it's been argued. If you spent less time trolling and more time thinking you would have realized that faith isn't the opposite of science or facts. It's amusing to see atheists trying to dumb the issue down to that. That's pretty funny. For starters, you are mistaking science and philosophy. Science is not about the search of truth, but about the search of the mechanisms upon which the physical world works. It's not about the "what?" but about the "how?". If you have one object and join another of the same object, you don't have two objects. You have one object and another object. You say you have two because that's how we have established numeric algebra. Ultimately mathematics is just a formal, abstract construct whose relation with the physical world is not self-evident.

Adulthood is terribly overrated.

Well, I just hope you avoid leverfest puzzles ala HotU. Boy, did those suck. I'd much rather have a conversation-driven problem to solve (remember the murder case in K1?) than go around the map pulling levers until I hear "click" in the other side of the level. Boring.