Albert Schweitzer

No, this is not a new US-bashing thread but it discusses the gap that there might be between the european teenagers and the american teenager generation. I hope some of you know the show MTV DISMISSED. it is about either 2 males trying to compete for one girl or two girls chasing after one male. The entire show is so plastic and I must admit I get so disgusted by the superficiality the candidates reflect. The candidates that appear in that show are so media-influenced charachters that always seem to represent two stereo-types..either the outgoing cool MF with the "I like Bungee and me ike ....surfing..and sex in the Jakuzzi.." and the other is usually the "silly wannabe-romatic writing and reading out silly poems and dont want to have sex before marriage". None of the candidates has teeth that are less white than Calcium in its purety and wears a shirt with darker colors than bright orange and Timberlands with the slightest stain on them. And in the end the former-chearleaders go for the sports-maniac with no brain and the quiet guy is dismissed. And the most ridiculous thing is the racist issue about it. A second subdivision of the show only caters to afro-americans..so you basically only see (excuse that expression) black participants in a wannabe-queens environment. What about the chinese? will we soon have a show for chinese-only as well? Please share my grief and contribute For the girls this is simillar

Hell those North Coreans are a bunch of attention-seekers.

And then there are three or four countries that have said they won't do anything. I believe Libya, Cuba and Germany are the ones that I have indicated won't help in any respect," Rumsfeld told the House Armed Services Committee. (Rumsfeld today in the foreign relations comittee) Nice comparison Rumsy. So Germany is now in the league of Castro and Gadafi. Wow, we are the axis of evil again. So I guess the new Axis forces of 2003 will be Germany Cuba and Lybia instead of Germany Italy and Japan. Well times change

AN UPCOMING PROBLEM ALL OF US WILL HAVE TO FACE I would like to discuss what is going to happen to this forum one day! As you might know this forum concentrates on OPERATION FLASHPOINT 1985. What will happen once OPERATION FLASHPOINT is out of fashion? Or what will happen if Operation Flashpoint 2 comes out? What will happen....or better...what should happen to our accounts? Should we be able to transfer out post-counts? Should this forum simply become a Codemasters forum? I love this place and I dont want to loose it...maybe a constructive brainstorm will help us and Codemasters to one day find a new old home for us!

So true, but MTV is having great success with the show especially in the lower-age segment. I hate stereotypes and I am afraid this gonna foster it even more. Not only clothes are important but nowadays you even need to adapt an entire life-style. And the worst..it tells younger people the message to what they think is most important in life: success with girls. This prefabricated character-forming is scaring me!

Well I am getting kind of bored..now even CNN slightly calms down a bit cause thy notice they start to bore people with Iraq. The former slogan "war on Iraq" is now called "the case of Iraq". And always the same damn information..Bush speeches impacting international stock-markets... the price of gold rising because it is a crisis-safe investment. The we hear a short interview (nothing new) with Mr. Blix and then some boring comments from Blair and finally some counter-comments from some insignificant french diplomats. And all this packed in a ton of advertising about "Belgium, the great place to invest in" and a silly weather forecast that never covers the places you are right now!

In no second of the whole conflict did the criminals have a serious strategy. Whether they were too much pumped of adrenaline or simply overestimating themselves..who knows..but the end of it was simply silly...what a ridiculous ending...too many people watched FACE-OFF I guess.

I still dont get how this turned out to be such an amateur battle.

Still, admit it...it was kind of boring... the opinions from Fischer to Straw and Powell were preproduced. This wasnt a discussive meeting, this was reading out premade speeches. Kind of dissapointing..and I got bored..terribly bored..feel asleep and later on switched to discovery channel

We even got an ugly german now in the council...I didnt listen to his speech (big thunderstorm in Malta, no more foreign TV tonight). I agree though that Powell and the way he talked appeared to be addressing the americans rather than the council. The british ministre held a powerfull speech. China and Russia only touched the issue quite superficially. I guess they dont want to get too involved. Did you notice that Powell seems to love his pencil, he was druming the table all through the meeting!

A community is a very important Marketing tool. Codemasters had a very weak starting with OFP (as far as Marketing is concerned) so I guess they learned their lesson. If u believe it or not but we are important start-up potential for new Codemasters games

and a great share of those civillians were thrown into battle with a farmers-fork and ended up as cannon-fodder

Undeclared yes. But the iraqi government never neglected that more of those warheads "could be found".

I dont understand why "western nations" dont apply their rules of law on Iraq. As an example take an ordinary court-case in which a murderer is being accused. In case their is no serious proof the assumed murdered has to be relieved. Right now the US has NOT provided a serious proof. Actually we went allready so far that Saddam himself has to proof that he is not guilty. ("umkehrung der Beweislast" as we call it in German) Still, evidence is missing. Sticking with the example of the murderer we could say that right now we are accusing Saddam simillar to "we know you had a rifle, still u refuse to show it to us". Does this justify us to find the person guilty? Bring forward serious undoubtable trustworthy proofs and a serious trial can begin. But dont prostitute western law jsut because we are talking not about a western nation.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (DarkLight @ Feb. 04 2003,16:59)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">6--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (desantnik @ Feb. 03 2003,016)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">It was a battle of demotivated, underfeeded, exhausted men without bullets.<span id='postcolor'> I would say that is a bit untrue since the Russians were generally highly motivated by one form or another. Plus if this was the death grip anybody would do everything his body would allow to fight back. I dont think the Russian soldiers suffered from demorelization nearly as much as the Germans.<span id='postcolor'> In the beginning they probable did, cuz Germany kicked Russia's ass at first... After a while Russia started using other tactics, this resulted in them being able to fight back => more motivated soldiers on the Russian side...<span id='postcolor'> Is there any theory out there that the approaches the Eastern Front issue "if there wouldnt have been a winter". Seriously, just imagine what would have happened if Hitler would have waited a bit longer. I doubt that in case they would have started after the winter they wouldnt have been able to take Moscow!

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Oligo @ Feb. 04 2003,10:09)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">but in the end, soldiers fight and kill to go home.<span id='postcolor'> Nicely said...and I believe you are very right! But for a person who believes in God this is a very tough point of concern. Many of those former german soldiers after the war feared to die because they were ashame and feared to justify their doings to god. I worked in a home for old people because it was obligatory in my school. I met many old former soldiers that were realy realy afraid to die, and they were so ashame of themselves that they blushed when a priest came to visit them.

can someone please post a serious comment! I wanna get back on track!

All I can add here is that all the comments that were published by the "labour party" made absolutely sense to me. Now after the selection-results, I start to believe that the Israelis want peace, but definetly not not not by taking a tiny little step backward... slightly dissapointing!

he still refuses to talk about stalingrad. I usually meet him during family-celebrations so I guess he doesnt want to ruin the athmosphere. But no, he wasnt a POW. The only thing he constantly he repeats was: the british killed germans for defending their freedom, so did the french, the russians and the americans. And what did I kill for?

what is the point u are making here! the formula is usually very simple. you can say "you are an ignorant xxxx" if you add the second obligatory piece to your sentence such as "because.......(facts)...>"

awesome

can someone please explain the difference between adventure and roleplay to me!

What is up with the interview that a british "whatever position" held with Saddam. I heard on CNN that we will soon be able to watch it on TV

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Warin @ Feb. 02 2003,20:24)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I just picked up the Beevor book the other day for cheap at a book sale in the Mall I work at. Â I've read Enemy at the Gate (Of which only 4 pages even mention Vasily Zaitsev! by William Craig, and I found it fascinating. Â I think Stalingrad was definitive in it's demonstration that the German Army was NOT an unbeatable behemoth. Â And it also exposed Hitler as the raving lunatic that he was, in that he refused to allow Paulus to withdrawl the German 6th Army Group from Stalingrad... a city that had virtually no strategic significance. I play a wargame called Advanced Squad Leader, and one of the best campaign games to date for the game is called Red Barricades, Â which simulates the battles for the Barrikady factory complex. Â Very interesting!<span id='postcolor'> It was a demonstration that Blitzkrieg itself bears high risks. Without perfect logistics of supply it is deemed to fail. And no, it wasnt a battle russia against germany, it was a battle of germany against the winter, against the lack of supply and the lack of german troops. Lets not forget that the reasons that made Stalingrad happened was that the german troops were flanked by badly trained rumanian and italian troops. I insist on the fact that stalingrad would have been a failure even without enemy counterforce. An oncle of mine fought in stalingrad and he told me the story that they often found entire squads being frozen to ice. And those men were not exactly lying on the ground but basically turned into ice-sculptures caught by the ice between one step to the other. It was a battle of demotivated, underfeeded, exhausted men without bullets.

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