5,460 Forum Posts by "HighlyIllogical"
Speaking of flying, anyone know any good places to eat in Chicago?
At 7/13/07 02:15 AM, cellardoor6 wrote: Yeah, and you're too stupid to realize that a terrorist group doesn't fill those guidelines.
Cellar-- I really do agree with you, here. Unless:
"Section II. Combatants and Prisoners of War
Art. 43. Armed forces
1. The armed forces of a Party to a conflict consist of all organized armed forces, groups and units which are under a command responsible to that Party for the conduct or its subordinates, even if that Party is represented by a government or an authority not recognized by an adverse Party. Such armed forces shall be subject to an internal disciplinary system which, inter alia, shall enforce compliance with the rules of international law applicable in armed conflict."--- http://www.genevaconventions.org/
Otherwise, they're terrorists/criminals/whatever you want to call it.
Targeted assassinations are legitimate when used against terror subjects. For example, Israel's assassination/justified attack on terror mastermind "Sheik" Yassin was so remarkably justified it's not even funny.
At 7/12/07 11:58 PM, stafffighter wrote:At 7/12/07 09:39 PM, aviewaskewed wrote: I'd mow your grass for you Seven.I have no idea how to spell euntandra so I'll just say he dosen't mean your lawn.
Is that siggable, or what?
At 7/12/07 10:36 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote:
And she's out of highschool.
Have fun on your statutory date!
Kidding, kidding.
They are?
Apparently so, says the House.
Barring a negative vote in the Senate (or modifications) and then an inevitable Bush veto (if it passes), they might be.
It's nice to see some real action!
The US has done government healthcare before, and it does it pretty well, I would say.
But, really, can the free market do it alone? As seen in the US, with 40 million people uninsured, I think not.
A private/public partnership would work.
Our thoughts are with you, Mal.
Heheee.
When Moore talks, his flab jiggles...
Once again, to be apolitical, but post something funny: http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/5289-michael-mo ore-rips-into-wolf-blitzer
At 14 minutes, 15 seconds, does Mikey-boy demean Dr. Gupta?
Not to be political in the lounge, or anything, but, uh, yeah, this is really REALLY funny.
At 6/26/07 06:11 AM, ForkRobotik wrote: It's Vietnam all over again.
It's certainly not vietnam. IN vietnam, I can't remember too many times that we killed ARVN forces.
At 7/10/07 02:36 PM, Der-Lowe wrote: I never trusted Pandas...
Speaking of pandas, how does floss strike you?
Speaking of random funny s*it: Random YouTube.
At 7/9/07 10:32 PM, SevenSeize wrote:
and I'm not saying I'm the one responsible for their vacation, I'm not saying I'm not..... but if anyone else continues their shenanigans, I will be happy to send them on a vacation as well.
Hey, Farva, what's the name of that restaurant you like so much?
At 7/9/07 02:24 AM, LadyGrace wrote: she's pulling an Oscar Wilde...
But Oscar wilde was witty!!!
I'm spending two weeks in a frat house at Brown...
It's a week and a day through and I've just discovered two locked lounges and tons of other rooms.
Skull and bones, maybe?
I hope so.
Speaking of which, one of the rooms has a piece of paper over the window (this is one of the locked lounges)...I wonder what's in there. The other one has a bed, I think, and some shelves...at least, as far as I can see. There's another corridor on one side and some more stuff to the other (which I can't see).
Hmmm...
Wait...so there are more defenses than crimes?
I'm confused now.
As you've said it, there are 5 times more defensive uses than crimes.
At 7/8/07 03:10 AM, Steel-Reserve wrote: And that bothers me. It truly bothers me, that children are allowed to take on jobs to support their families, but are denied the right to prove themselves as adults, under the law.
When you turn 18, as the age of majority currently is, you're an adult. We have those in place for a reason. It's how our society is – at 18, you can go to war, for one, and your parents aren't legally responsible for you anymore. Age of consent is 18 for a good reason. It is well documented that children are not developmentally able to give informed consent.
Definitely the clay soldiers.
And the Great Wall, as well as the Leaning Tower, Giza Pyramids (or pyramid, anyway, it's immaterial) and Taj Mahal. Probably the Panama Canal, and maybe the US interstate system, as someone had mentioned a while ago.
While I read a lot of the literature, I do love films: Dr. Strangelove, and so forth.
Quite impressive, and I'm sure that it's quite, ah, useful.
At 7/8/07 04:44 AM, cellardoor6 wrote:
1) More crimes are prevented than caused with firearms in the US.
Source?
"approximately 1 percent of all violent crime victims used a firearm in an effort to defend
themselves." -- FBI Site
Wow. I'm actually quite surprised by teh intarwebz, for once.
Let's just look at Australia...
Since their buyback of weapons (equivalent to 40 million guns bought back if it had been donein the US, source "Evaluating Gun Policy: Effects on Crime and Violence," The Brookings Institution, 2003) and increased controls on guns, there's been a 44% drop in the use of guns in robberies, for one.
At 7/6/07 03:59 PM, SevenSeize wrote:
No, I don't play Fallout. I freaking worship Fallout.
I've been trying to find a bitTorrent for Mac OSX Fallout 2...
And I can't. Blargh.
I really wanted to play it, too!
Seven, I just clicked on your sig...
Do you play fallout? Or am I just being dumb?
At 7/5/07 09:40 PM, stafffighter wrote:At 7/5/07 09:04 PM, Grammer wrote: My doctor tells me to be enthusiastic about my depressionAnd remember, you have to be happy before you can get any of the things that'll make you happy.
It's a medical catch-22.
The age of consent law is designed to protect minors. If we thought that minors were mature enough to have consensual sex, then, well, there wouldn't be much of a point to having a voting age, a driving age, a drinking age, a draftable age, or any such thing.
That's a really cool website!
