OT: Galactic sterilisation

[narf poit chez BOOM]

*wander's off to get a 4-liter chocalate milk*

*wander's back*

[JurijD]

Originally posted by Puke:
whoops, got that Last post in before reading the wind-down. ignore me, as usual.

so, if we wanted a burst of radiation to sterilize the planet, am i correct that we could only expect to zap one hemisphere of it? it wouldnt be all that hard to repopulate and keep the species going if we had a whole half the world to work with. Maybe JurijD would get lucky, and only the americas would be wiped out. Admittedly, that wouold not bode well for our nothern and southern neighbors, but acceptable losses, and all that.

Well I did think about that. (already had plans on creating a black hole somewhere near us) Couldn't get the damn Tesla matter-energy transformer to work properly.
But the real problem is that these bursts Last for several decades and hehe the Earth tends to rotate every now and then (I read 24h somewhere... I don't know where Oleg, should you want my refrences again)

But seriously... this issue I raised that was directed against the US is the same as with that military thing you were talking about. And as Fyron pointed out: The US and its citizens are two different things. I got nothing against you poeple, I even got several american friends... heck my english teacher was American and we let her live.

I mean you people can't help it if you got leaders that have **** for brains.... I mean you tried to elect a better president (Gore got something like 63% of total cross US votes) but the courts didn't agree with you.. so lets hope you get democracy going again before the next election. Or at least deal with this silly electoral system before it bites you in the *** again.

Forget about each individual state and just simply add up all the votes cross country. Isn't that the most fair and democratic way? And besides everyone else is doing it

[ January 09, 2004, 00:09: Message edited by: JurijD ]

[Loser]

Everyone else is doing at lot of things we aren't, buddy. Our way is better. ^_^

Anyway, your figure is a little off. The difference between 47% and 63% is pretty big, but remember that was just an estimate. They never did finish counting the votes in Florida. A U.S. Presidential candidate does not need the majority to win, he just has to have more votes than the other guys. It's kind of like running from a bear in that way.

Let the party resume.

[President_Elect_Shang]

It truly saddens me to think that the concept of the military has been reduced to that of a nameless and faceless organization for the sole purpose of preserving an argument. If it was not for those same nameless and faceless people there would be no �military� to speak of in the first place. But rather than concede a point or let it drop it is easier to shape the truth into a surrealistic Version, for what? Just to argue more. It also shames me to think that I have sat here and typed up my responses, conceding and apologizing for when I was mistaken, just to see that only a very few others where able to do the same. The self-righteous have truly gained the majority, able to counter every point conceivable to continue their argument. Well, I think that is about enough from me.

Fyron for your information:
Military (adjective): Of or relating to SOLDIERS
Military (noun): military PERSONS

[Atrocities]

Puke what you posted was in no way funny. You have to understand that it hurts people who have loved one serving in the military and is rather rude considering what is going on in the world today. Additionally all of my friends and family who have served in the armed forces have never said anything negative about their experience, even the guy who was court marshaled, and most of them are very intelligent, hard working, family people with good jobs and stable income.

I hope that in the future you will considered the harm an animosity that such a derogatory post would generate and refrain from posting.

[ January 08, 2004, 12:42: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

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Originally posted by Atrocities:

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Originally posted by Puke:
and how! moderate me down before someone mistakenly places credibility on anything i say!

Fyron that is just cold man. Cold. I rated him 5 some time ago and stand by it.

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People like you make me sick. Can't even give a guy the rating he requests. j/k

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I understand the error of my ways now. Please forgive me. I was horribly wrong and will forever live with this regret.

[ January 08, 2004, 12:50: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[Fyron]

Those are rather crude and irrelevant definitions...

All I was saying was that your tactic of guilt-mongering was completely irrelevant to what was being discussed (as guilt-mongering tends to be). I have shaped no truths, created no surrealistic Versions, none of that bunk. Noone "reduced to that of a nameless and faceless organization for the sole purpose of preserving an argument," that is what "the military" has always been. "The military" does not equal "the men/women of the military." They are two separate entities. You are just confusing issues and do not want to accept the fact that one can mock the organizations that are the military without mocking random soldiers in them. You can certainly mock the soldiers themselves, but you do not have to do so to mock the military.

[ January 09, 2004, 00:52: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[oleg]

Jura, yes, I made a mistake. I forgot to take a square root of 1000. That is 33 km you are so proud about. Still, I think the whole idea of our incrediable luck while millions and millions of other civilizations dying around us is absurd. It is dangerously close to the christian doctrine that humanity is the chosen breed because Christ was born here and not on Epsilon Eridani (just an example) and only we will be saved in the whole Universe

[narf poit chez BOOM]

You can certainly mock the soldiers themselves, but you do not have to do so to mock the military.

or, in other words, stupid systems can have smart people and smart systems can have stupid people.

um, that comment doesn't change my spectater status. i made no comment on the validity of any statements made here, not because i don't have an opinion, but simply because this thread is to 'hot'.

[ January 09, 2004, 01:27: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Fyron]

You know what the best thing about the EU is? They love the US so much that they are trying to imitate it! Think about it... lots of independant states that all fall under one "nation," lacking national borders, one currency, separation of powers between the state governments and the overal national "government." The EU is just in phase 1 of the transition right now.

[ January 09, 2004, 01:37: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]