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At 7/23/04 07:58 AM, mabzie wrote: we should go, because people are being mass murdered.

The American government are threatening SANCTIONS! I mean, WHAT!? What these people ned is MORE food and water. However, I woud not oppose the installation of a new government, or at least some butt-kicking by Western Governments of the preent one, because they seem to be very happy with the present situation.

At 7/23/04 12:14 AM, Metal69hed wrote: And why would we be in a depression?

Hell, you're a good few hundred billion dollars in debt... I had a BRILLIANT website that talked about Wall Street Crash, and how it might happen again, but I lost it. It was slightly satire, but made for a good read.

I have no problem with the shock ads that are used by the government and charities to un-promote* smoking. If they're exceptionally shocking, then they should be shown after the 9pm Watershed, but as long as parents are smoking around children, children AND parents should know about the dangers.

There is one around at the moment where a father, dying of throat cancer is in a hospital bed with a tube in his throat so he can breathe. It doesn't make for easy viewing, but as long as we're selling cigarettes, we should have these ads.

*I am fully aware this is not a word. I made it up. I can do that, because I'm cool.

At 7/23/04 04:25 AM, NoHitHair wrote: I don't think I've ever seen my taxpayer dollars wasted so frivilously.

I'm already against my tax dollars going to so many "beneficial" things and now this?

500 Breast Enlargements? Wow. Now that DOES waste taxpayers money. And I should know about wastes of money. Labour have been in powere for 7 years here.

At 7/23/04 12:32 AM, Gunter45 wrote: That's some messed up stuff, how'd he get access to your hotmail account?

Brute-Force? It'd be the way I'd go about it if I really didn't have a life.

*Goes back to updating his website*

Damnit, it's the greatest conspiracy ever, and noone gives a damn.

I mean, c'mon, this makes the "Illegalize Masturbation" thread look like chump change.

This is quite possibly the most momentous coup ever, and noone even noticed....

Sometimes I think my genius is wasted on your guys... wait, I'm not all that smart... never mind....

At 7/22/04 05:49 PM, PalmClease wrote: The reason the government gives tax breaks to married couples is because; when the woman is pregnant she is unable to work! Same sex marriages do not have this problem (unless they are woman)

Is it? Then the Government should only give tax breaks to married couples WITH children, shouodn't it?

Reason being that the child will grow up thinking that mom and mom or dad and dad, is how babies are made and how things work. When you are totally messing up the way the child learns about life. This can cause numerous problems. ( I will not list them, for they are way to long)

List them. Go on, we've got time. List the REALLY major problems causes by thinking that homosexuality is a morally correct choice of lifestyle. In your answer, referr to the fact that no gay person would EVER say to their child that babies are made with a mom and mom, or dad and dad.

And last reason that same sex relationships should not get special benefits is because. Non-gay people can wed each other and get tax breaks, then divorce when they meet a woman. And in doing so save a ton of money.

Yes, but that could happen now with heterosexual people. They could marry, and do just as you said. What's the difference?

Note: Of course, this never happens? Why? Because it's Lunacy...

So if you want gay marriage then don’t call it marriage and don’t ask for special rights. Then you will get what you want. Which is an acknowledged commitment between to people to have a monogamous relationship between the 2 of you. Which is why people get married, they don’t do it for the tax breaks.

So, let's remove the tax breaks for heterosexuals too... Just in case any of them were thinking of doing anything as unscrupulous as your ideas.

At 7/22/04 05:49 PM, Metal69hed wrote: Do you understand how many other nations we help support with money as well? Even North Korea.

http://www.peacenowar.net/Palestine/News/US%20aids.htm

Well, the US gives $3bn to Isreal, which is 30% of it's budget, so it must give out $10bn in Aid (military AND economic) in total.

http://www.vexen.co.uk/USA/foreign_aid.html

Over 50% of its [Americas] aid budget is spent on middle-income countries in the Middle East, with Israel being the recipient of the largest single share.

http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Debt/USAid.asp

The US gives 0.14% of its GDP in Aid. The UN Target is 0.7%.

At 7/22/04 05:41 PM, IceWraith15 wrote: Except in a Capitalism like the U.S, the people would protest and the government would crush any hope for it's re-election, the goal of most administrations.

Yeah, because that's happened SO many times when the US Government has declared war or bombed somebody. I'm well aware I'm linking to a filthy scummy hippy communist site here, but look at the link below, and tell me that the people protested when the Government made those actions.

http://www.neravt.com/left/invade.htm

Amazingly right-wing? Are you insane? Haven't you ever heard of the Democratic Party? If the U.S is so right-wing, explain how there is so many anti-Bush people in the country?

Because they vote for the Democrats. You dont seem to get me. Approximately half the US are Democrats and half are Republicans. The Democrats are Right-Wing. They compare to our Conservative party in the UK. The Republcans are VERY right-wing, comparable to the BNP in the UK. There are so many Anti-Bush people in your country, because it is a country of 300million people, and theres bound to be a FEW million who dont like your president...

Except that the U.S is helping their nation restore it's hopes, Saddam Hussein is the one that suppressed them.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Helping them restore their hopes. Heard it! They still dont have food or water or electricity. Sure, they can protest against their govenrment, but who wants to give a damn about voting, when they're hungry?

Check the link below.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3846831.stm

- Water treatment facilities across Iraq are currently operating at about 65% of their pre-war capacity
- ...raw sewage from 3.8 million people flows daily into the river Tigris.
- A World Bank assessment in October 2003 concluded that only 6 out of 10 Iraqis in urban areas had safe drinking water.
- Baghdad receives 8-12 hours of power a day. As countrywide distribution is now fairer, this is less than the estimated 20 hours the capital enjoyed under Saddam Hussein.

Now you can start persuading me that their hopes are restored.

(Slaughters many peoples and enslaves others, razes many cities)

11,000 Dead in Iraq. Bombing of Iraq for 10 years. Guantanamo Bay anybodt?

At 7/22/04 05:34 PM, Metal69hed wrote: We contribute humanitarian resources to Sudan. Not everything is about blood and guts, even soldiers do more than kill.

The United Nations has appealed for almost US$350 million to cover urgent needs this year for all its agencies working on the crisis. Yet, according to latest UN figures, this appeal has so far received just one third of the money needed, with contributions totaling only around US$114 million.

By comparison, the US has given $89.5 million and the UK has given $52.1 million.

Source: Oxfam

Interesting, the US and UK gave more than I thought they'd give. Pretty poor show oof giving aid by other European Countries, actually. I post this purely for informatice purposes.

At 7/22/04 05:28 PM, duckman1088 wrote: thank you bum

It's amazing what google can do for you. By the way, that took me 23 seconds to find. SEARCH for statistics, i implore you!

At 7/22/04 02:13 PM, Metal69hed wrote: The Romans grew into a powerful republic and went on campaigns to destroy to gain profit. The people they dominated were allowed to have leaders and run things on their own terms, so long as they did not oppose the Romans. The Romans found entertainment in watching men die from being savagely killed or man to man combat. They ruled with an iron fist, sometimes being awoken to their mortality by natural disasters, but ultimately crumbled from the inside and their surviving enemies invaded. If you believe we treat others like that (Japan and South Korea for example) than you don't know enough about why we do the things we do.

Powerful Republic - Check
Destroys to gain Profit - Check
People they dominated were allowed to have leaders and run things on their own terms, as long as they did everything the romans/Americans said - Check

Sure, the Gladiiators aren't there... But there are a few natural disasters that pull the Americans together and make em wake up. Things like 9/11, though not natural, do so to.

The British Empire is a crazy comparison. Haven't you ever heard of the phrase "the sun never sets on the British Empire?" They were the pinnacle in the age of imperalism. People throw around the term imperalism now because of its strong meaning, but they should read up about that age and learn what REAL imperalism is. Britian is no longer like that though and haven't been for a long time. Their loss of Hong Kong in the late 90s (1997 or 1998) symbolized their final territory loss. Britian is much different now, and how can any American place them in a bad light? They are our buddies, those jolly good chaps. :D

Pinnacle in their age of Imperialism - Check

Well, all you're saying there is that the British Empire fell after a while, which it did, but how can we say that wont happen to the Americans?

I'm not even going to get into Greece. You should see the blatant difference yourself without help. If you need a hint try learning about the city states and the fighting between them.

Huge differences between the more Right-Wing and militarilised Sparta, and the poncy liberal Arty-Farty Athens? - Something like that.
Repeated clashes between Atheniaans and Spartans? - Farhanheit 9/11, anybody?

At 7/22/04 04:02 PM, BorgClock wrote: Dude, who funds 90% of the UN... THE USA! If the UN is doing a ba job, it is OUR FAULT!

WRONG! The USA has an input of 22% of the UN Budget.

http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de...einte_nationen/finanzen_html#1

At 7/22/04 01:14 PM, Metal69hed wrote: How can you compare America to the Romans, Greece, and Britian? That is such an insane difference that it has led me to believe that you never learned much history on any of these nations.

They were the superpowers, everyone did what they said, nobody opposed them. Carte to name many differences?

At 7/22/04 09:05 AM, antiklaus wrote: CNN (7/22/04) "President Bush has affirmed that he has approved sales of a variety of weapons to Iraq, many of them ironically, the very weapons of mass destruction his administration had hinted that Iraq originally possessed.

Can you link to the source for that?

At 7/22/04 02:35 AM, IceWraith15 wrote: What will they think when China becomes a superpower? How will they feel when a communist nation invades other nations?

Pretty much the same as when a capitalist country invades other nations.

People have forgotten that they are lucky a Democratic Republic is the world power.

Yes, we're so lukcy that a country with HUGE military supremecy is democratic. This is the most bullshit thing I have ever heard. AMerica is amazingly RIght-Wing. It doens't matter how it's people vote, after the elections there will be a right-wing government in power. It's hardly democracy, from someone else's point of view, is it?

:Have people already forgotten the times when tyrants invaded their nations and crushed their nation's hopes?

I could show you a few people in Iraq that haven't.

Take one look at the superpowers of the past and you will see just how "Imperialistic" the United States is.

Romans: Invaded Lots of countries, very powerful both militarily and economically.
Greece: Invaded Lots of countries, very powerful both militarily and economically.
Britain: Invaded Lots of countries, very powerful both militarily and economically.
America: Invaded Lots of countries, very powerful both militarily and economically.

But don't you feel more comfortable having the most powerful nation on Earth be a Democracy acting as best as it can to help the world?

I would feel very happy if that happened.

At 7/22/04 09:42 AM, antiklaus wrote: Natural resources in Sudan include:

petroleum; small reserves of iron ore, copper, chromium ore, zinc, tungsten, mica, silver, gold

Yeah, but they're in plentiful supply already.

At 7/21/04 05:47 PM, PruneTracy wrote: Pokemon?

Yes. The government can ban Pokemon. Next question.

At 7/21/04 04:40 PM, specimen56 wrote: I think its a start. I always have the major hypocracy of democracy in my mind:
Say I choose candidate A, but the masses choose candidate B. I am ignored, even though I am told that I will be listened to. IDemocracy is a good building block, but too many people get ignored...

Yeah, well, your (and our) method of emocracy is flawed. If there was a system of Proportional Representation, then your voice would count.

EVERY page that uses sessions MUSt have this code at the start:

session_start();

Obviously inside PHP tags... Then it's simply a matter of getting their username, or password or whatever you want to store as a variable, and doing something like this:

$_SESSION["username"] = $user;

And then, on another page, you can put:

$user; = $_SESSION["username"]

And then... that's about it. Remember to put the session start code at the start of every page though.

At 7/21/04 05:00 PM, TheShrike wrote: "Change your signature picture. These sorts of pictures are not allowed, according to admin. (dobio@newgrounds.com)"

FUNK can verify that.

I'd prefer to verify it myself, if you dont mind. Please e-mail me your Newgrounds Password.

Ha... Silly old shrike will be fooled by my cunning plan to secretly... get his password!

At 7/21/04 03:57 PM, ACDC492 wrote: Cencorship is bullshit no matter what form it is in. If someone has an opinion they should be able to express it. I'm not sating go out and discriminate. But if you got a good point you should express it.

Should people be allowed to incite hatred against other religions and/or races?

At 7/21/04 10:29 AM, The_Enforcer wrote: A rich guy pays 10 million in per year
A poor guy pays 10 thousand in per year

When both men retire they get a 600 dollar check every month from social security.

it's basically income redistribution which is inherently unfair to those of us who work for a living.

Yeah, but it doesn't matter to the rich guy, cos he's rolling in it already. YES it's income redistribution, and it IS fair to thosewho work for a living.

Out of interest, per day, how much more actual work does a CEO of (for instance) Haliburton do than a binman?

In your answer, relate it to the fact that the CEO earns approximately 50,000 times more than the Binmman, and therefore should be working 50,000 times as hard.

At 7/21/04 02:41 PM, TheShrike wrote: No, you were definitely banned. I can tell you the exact ban message, if you like. The system lifts bans at 4am or so every day. If you got banned at 8pm on tuesday, it's lifted at 4am wednesday. Effectively, it's not a one day ban, but a 'less than half a day' ban.

Wow. Yer learn something new everyday. I like this ban system. So, everyones bans are cut a bit short?

And go on, tell me my ban message.

At 7/21/04 01:44 PM, TheShrike wrote: So... to clear some things up:
Bum, spanishfli, and a couple of new regs were the only ones banned (1 day bans). I have no idea why anyone else was spared. Perhaps Dobs didn't see them. Or perhaps it was a case of him showing favoritism. Truth is, I honestly don't know.

Are you sure? I didn't get banned.... Did I? No, i didn't, Dobio just stole my sig.

Wait, you're a liberal, but don't like the idea of Democracy...?

At 7/21/04 11:39 AM, specimen56 wrote: Although I would love a society with no restrictions, I see that it would not happen. It would work, but not happen.

In 2002/03, the total number of crimes in England & Wales was around 12,308,000.
Source: http://www.crimestatistics.org.uk/output/Page54.asp

Would the number of crimes not go up under an anarchist society? Also, would we not be able to effectively punish those such as murderesrs, etc.?

At 7/21/04 10:21 AM, The_Enforcer wrote: The church and catholics aren't homophobic. The church and catholics DO NOT fear homosexuals. If they see a homosexual they do not get scared and run away like someone who has arachnophobia would do if they see a spider.

1) If we are goig to use a dictoionary, we use dictionaries for the whole word. Please visit: Dictionary.com, and close tha matter. Look at ALL three meanings.
2) Using your crappy literal definitions, what is a paedophile?

At 7/21/04 11:22 AM, specimen56 wrote: Ok, I agree it may not happen anytime soon, but then again neither will an Anarchist society.. all in an ideal world...

So, you said you want no rules, and no restrictions, but then agree an Anarchist Society will happen no time soon...?

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bumcheekcity IS a username (in fact, it's the ONLY username) and my password is correct...