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Walk about randomly yelling words that have to do with a Union and see how long before the managers panic :)

Since none of you Yanks have gotten around to it, 'bout time this thread had a visit from a good president :P

Well, if they're going to clone anything they should try mammoth first.

You find so many frozen in Siberia that local hunters use the meat from frozen mammoth to bait fox traps. Apparently foxes go nuts for it..and, for those undoubtedly wondering, it apparently tastes like steak, but more pungent.

They've even got frozen mammoth sperm. And, with living elephants, the possibility is there for invitro-fertilization, rather than cloning even.

So when the first wooly mammoth starts roaming again, I'll start to believe that maybe they could clone a Rex lol

Smart timing on the part of the Sovie...err, Russians.

The army is rebuilding quickly, the navy is getting new submarine classes - and thanks to Putin they can carry all the old battleflags (And yes, he told the Red Army they can call themselves the Red Army again.

And with the US bogged down in Iraq, being bled white and drained of cash, it's a perfect time to project Russian power again. It's all about rebuilding Russian pride and foreign influence, as far as I can tell.

At 6/1/07 11:10 PM, Memorize wrote:

At 6/1/07 10:35 PM, TheSovereign wrote: This thread proves that Americans are ignorant of everything outside their country.

And just proves that everyone outside the US are ignorant about America.

Actually, it proves both. Wallow in ignorance with your brother-man across the border!

At 6/1/07 08:19 PM, Halicarnassus wrote:

At 6/1/07 08:18 PM, Liopleurodon wrote: WAAH!!! WAAH!!!

Politics is that a way buddy.

Don't bother writing something that long in general :/

Ah, I didn't have enough vernacular usages of 'uber' and whatnot? I'll try to be less informative in future :P

At 6/1/07 11:03 PM, Dante-Son-Of-Sparda wrote:

At 6/1/07 10:35 PM, CaptainChip wrote:

At 5/30/07 04:07 PM, Jimmy3280 wrote:

Osama isnt communist. I think he was part of Theocracy: a government entirely based on religion.

yes he was

No, no he wasn't. See, the U.S. gave him money to kill Soviets when the USSR invaded Afghanistan in the 80s, but that's as close as he got to communism was killing them.

The irony of course is that the skills and weapons the CIA taught him are being used against the US now. Shows how much things change in twenty years.

You know, I love hearing ill-informed people calling the French "pussies". Really, helps me sort out the people who've never read a history book in their lives.

See, the french were bled white in World War I. Four years. The US came into the conflict in the last year. One year of hell versus four, the latter including the most horrendous losses in human history to that point. Then, not even a quarter century later, the most advanced military machine rolls into a country that had been devastated (but victorious) in the first war. It's easy to snipe at a country from a place that hasn't been invaded since Canada and England burned the White House in the War of 1812.

And then, even after the nazi war machine rolls through, the French take up a ferocious underground Resistance. Raise your hands if you know how much aid the Resistance gave the D-Day landings? They cut thousands of phone lines, blocked hundreds of roads, de-railed trains, and mauled a panzer division that could've tipped the balance in Normandy. All with the vicious reprisals of the nazis, including the elimination of entire villages.

That's courage. So please, don't stand up and try and mock a country that's gone through more hell in the last century than you can possibly imagine.

As for Canada? We do fight. When it's necessary. On the battlefields of Europe, Canadian forces fought some of the most ferocious battles of the entire conflict. Vimy, Dieppe, Hong Kong, Falaise, Korea, Afghanistan. Canada fights when it feels it has to, in the defense of democracy. And to my immense pride as a Canadian, we never do it for personal gain, or for territory, or for any gain whatsoever - we do it because it's the right thing to do.

Hello chaps and any ladies present.

Ironic, but first posts for me are always political. Anyways, on to the main event.

Here's my communism doesn't work.

Central Planning.

Leaving aside the dictatorship in practice and the fact that Marx wrote in a context that is now outmoded, Central Planning essentially dooms the communist state.

(And to right wingers, that's what brought down the USSR, not Ronald Reagan.)

The trouble with central planning is that it becomes rather dicey the more you apply it. Sure, it might be great if you're dealing with a dozen or so factors. But an entire economy? Thousands of factors, each coming across the desk of bureaucrats in far-off Moscow, say.

So say you have a pipe factory outside of Kharkov. Moscow tells this factory to produce 80,000 tons of pipes. Now, since there is no market to dictate was products are needed, the factory has no incentive - since the workers gain no bonus for working harder. So the factory churns out, say, a batch of massive 500 pound pipes. All well and good. Trouble is that the valve factory in Smolensk hasn't been told that there are 500 pound pipes being made in Kharkov. More to the point, the *need* in Leningrad is for small 5 pound pipes. So not only can nobody really use the pipes, even if they were useful there aren't any valves to fit them.

That's just a small example. Expand the metaphor to include the thousands of factories making up a communist state. It becomes impossible to organize, and the more one attempts to micro-manage the worse it gets. There are just too many factors to deal with. But, since the alternative is an open market where competition and demand determines what is made, Communism seeks to stick to an impossible system.

Which, after a decades-long arms race in the case of the USSR, was decrepit and unable to stay competitive.

So that's why communism fails, folks. Leaving aside all the other factors that essentially doom it, it just can't work economically. So it's not a bad system...if you like dictatorship, aged political thought, and a moribund economy.

(Which is why China isn't really communist. It's dictators in red hats with a lot of cash. The rest is just window dressing)