Albert Schweitzer

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Oligo @ May 15 2002,15:46)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Everybody pays taxes. Nobody does it happily. Oh well, at least some of the money goes to goodish things. But what really makes me go ballistic through the roof is the support paid to the political parties from the tax money collected (at least they do that in Finland). I mean, some of my fucking money goes to finance the 'seminar' weekend of some party officials in some summer cottage, where the party officials get their cocks sucked by the secretaries hired with my goddamn money, drink booze bought with my money and eat fucking caviar, with MY FUCKING HARD EARNED DINERO! It's just disgusting. Â Â Â <span id='postcolor'> So true, so true It is especially worse for those that work for the EU. In the morning all they do is inscribe themselves that they arrived and then they can make a shopping trip with their little girl-friends through the city for the rest of the day. AND THEY GET PAID extra money for having had the stress to travel elsewhere! Whether thy actually worked or not is not controlled. Maybe I am in the wrong business!

Do you know the "pyramid of needs and wants"? Of course someone wants to have food first! But right after that we ask for hygene and freedom/self-recognition. But that wasnt the point here, he didnt say "food for freedom". The point was "luxury instead of freedom". This is like women that live in a harem. I dont think they are happy with living in a golden cave

Yeah, they shaved pretty much everything belly-downwards due to a risk of infection. And they were right to do so. I remember that in older days in Germany people put horse-hair into wounds so they would get infected and leave a manly scar.

Wow! THis is getting a who is right, who is wrong thread! Anyway I wont be able to change your point of view anyway..but allow me to make the following comment...It is very funny what you say.For Centuries people have fought for their rights, their right of being considered equal withn the Patrizian class. THis triggered of that each and everyone has an equal vote, that judicative will be seperated from legislative....bla bla bla. (all pieces of the democracy puzzle). Now if you say that you would give all this up, just for a handfull of money shows that you have never been anywhere where human rights are not respected. I wonder if you would change your perception if you would live in Burundi (and yes, the UN consideres free elections in African countries as the most important step for progress). And secondly it is also pretty lame to sell something generations before you have fought for, e.g. that all humans are equal. It sounds like someone who is slightly spoiled by the amount of human rights he enjoys.

me 1.8 and 70kg. I didnt exactly change weight but I still see a little transformation. I dont know how old you are but now that I am 25 I have to be more careful with what I eat and what I drink. It was different when I was 20!

When they removed my appendices (I spelled it wrong I guess) They fully shaved me. Noone can tell me that those weeks of regrowing werent hell! So damm fucking itchy. And at those times I was at boarding school. Damm every morning when I came out of shower everyone had a good laugh cause I looked like a pre-teenage again. I just hope for the sake of the girls that they dont have the same problems, cause they would suffer terribly like I did!

It is not him!!

4--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Die Alive @ May 14 2002,164)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Albert Schweizer @ May 14 2002,09)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">(I know I should be polite, but what the hell do they learn at school?) <!--emo&<span id='postcolor'> Drinking? -=Die Alive=-<span id='postcolor'> It is strange! I realy love to get drunk (how irresponsible to say this, I bet the next school shooting will be blamed on me) but I just cant touch a single drop of alcohol before 10 o`clock at night. I hate the smell. the taste and I hate drunk people in the afternoon-sun. But as soon as disco-fever gets me, around 12 at night, the bar-keepers get to know me!  But I think I get a little belly now, so I have to stop drinking so much! More sports...more sweating in the sun..less disco-fever  Â

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Longinius @ May 14 2002,15:51)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">"And your silly comment about `money instead the right to talk` will definetly turn out to be wrong one day. Just wait till you sit in prison one day e.g in Guatemala as a tourist, just because they think you were importing drugs. And they will probably not allow a single phone call. And since noone gave you money to shut up you wont even be able to corrupt the angry officers. Most people usually then shout: "I am an american" or "I am a german" Â and you too will shout "I am from a democratic country, I want to call the embassy, I got rights!"" Well, that has nothing to do with freedom of speech. That has to do with your rights as a suspected criminal. Freedom of speech is my right to say whatever I want without getting punished for it, not about smuggling drugs and then calling my lawyer.<span id='postcolor'> But all those right have evolved from democracy! BTW there can be democracy within a communistic regime!

Over here they would kick you badly for such an unprofessional questionaire! (oh, damm, I forgot I shouldnt be so arrogant, but just couldnt help it). Just tell the guy he should start reading books about how to develope a questionaire (e.g. Patton / yin).. Even a fuc**** 13 year old can develope a better one. In a dissertation the development of a secondary research tool (questionaire, interview, case study...) counts more than 40%, he would have screwed it. And since most people on this planet drink alcohol a questionaire must have a sample size of at least half a percent of the original population (n=>0.05N). Which means his questionaire is not representative. He would do better if he would only talk about: "How much OFP-players drink in average!" And he could be assured that his findings would soon make the alcohol-industry see all of us as the new favourite target group! (I know I should be polite, but what the hell do they learn at school?)

BTW Dempcracy is not a `ruling-system`, it is an ideology which helps to develope system to govern a society. But in order to understand this you must read Hobbes, Milton, Rousseau, Paine, Locke, Macchiavelli, Bodin.... Democracy is simply the goal of all people sharing in directing the activities of the state, as distinct from governments controlled by a single class or autocrat (piece of republic). Each member of the society then acts either directly or through representatives. Such a philosophy places a high value on the equality of individuals and would free people as far as possible from restraints not self-imposed. It insists that necessary restraints be imposed only by the consent of the majority and that they conform to the principle of equality. Now I can assure you that the romans took the greek democracy as a base-point to develop their Republic (not all humans were equal in terms of votes, but at least everyone had a represenative). Now to say that democracy is not the final stage is just silly since democracy is not a stage, it is an ideal. And your silly comment about `money instead the right to talk` will definetly turn out to be wrong one day. Just wait till you sit in prison one day e.g in Guatemala as a tourist, just because they think you were importing drugs. And they will probably not allow a single phone call. And since noone gave you money to shut up you wont even be able to corrupt the angry officers. Most people usually then shout: "I am an american" or "I am a german" and you too will shout "I am from a democratic country, I want to call the embassy, I got rights!"

This looks like a pretty small table for a lot of stuff. But he implemented the `Tokyo solution`, just pile it all up to towers and it will fit. I need a 1.8m x 1.3m table to satisfy my computer & accessories demands!

We agree to disagree! But lets stick to the topic of this thread

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Red Oct @ May 10 2002,23:22)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">O i dont wana sell it. finding mint condition WWII weapons is hard as hell to find at a reasonable price. i just want it cuzz it may eventually become priceless<span id='postcolor'> Hehe. I the forrest behind our house we used to dig for that stuff like hell. Well we didnt find weapons (some did though) but a lot of amunition, helmets, weapon belts and stuff like that!

Do we get bonus points for being banned several times? (cause I would lack behind then)

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (denoir @ May 13 2002,17:06)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Albert Schweizer @ May 13 2002,16:40)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">BS, not quite right! China is not gonna grow a strong nation within the next decades because it hasnt reaced the stage of the so called social maturity. Do you remember Japan a while ago, people were willing to work like machine, the company was more important than oneself. Once a country is exposed to success for a longer period of time this changes. Look at Japan now! China is a totally unstructured country. With a middle-age west and an over-urbanised east. Without democracy and maturity they not gonna reach jack-shit. Cause man-power does not count (look at ethopia or India or Indonesia)<span id='postcolor'> LMAO! Social maturity? Chinese society is a lot older then any western country. Whoever said that democracy is needed to prosper? Democracy is just a current fashion thing - was the Roman empire democratic? I think that it is wrong that we try to impose our political and social views on China. It is a different culture and they have their own path to go. Civil rights, like freedom of speech is just one of our social constructions, not something given by default. I would for instance gladly give my "right to free speech" away to get the "right to a shitload of money and chicks". Civil rights are not natural in any way, it is just something we have constructed in the western world because we like it. That doesn't give us the right to force other people to adopt it.<span id='postcolor'> Older societies? Oh, I forgot that the egyptians and the Romans and the especially the Inkas are still world-leading high-cultures. Those were cultures that prospered due to certain preconditions being present. Anyhow, the romans had a very democracy like administration (being composed of reperesentatives) but when I said social maturity I meant something else (and I am sure you know what I meant). I would for instance gladly give my "right to free speech" away to get the "right to a shitload of money and chicks". Not quite my style of discussing things! I bet there are quite a few out there that would pay you to shut up! But since this option is not realistic it is simply useless! Democracy is something I deeply believe in, and to believe Chinese people chose this kind of surpressive political system (It is a different culture and they have their own path to go) is naive. Anyway, democracy has nothing to do with cultures since it has spread all over the world and is without any doubt the final stage of cultures (so far) on this globe! I lived in Asia quite a while and their culture does definetly not support any surpressive political system that takes freedom away from them!

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (theavonlady @ May 13 2002,16:59)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Albert Schweizer @ May 13 2002,16:50)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">It is such an abstrusum! On the one side we have Israel voting AGAINST an Independant palestininan state! We also find `best examples` of apartheid in the palestinian districts, where the good roads are only to be used by Israelis and the palestinians need to wait hours to only to cross those.<span id='postcolor'> Speaking of BS ............. It's a fascinating new definintion here for apartheid, when the whole reason the roads are closed to the PA are because they 1. go through Isreali areas under Israeli control. 2. Have been used to commit numerous drive by killings, firebombings and stonings over the last 9 years. 3. Are used to transfer suicide bombers, terrorists and weapons caches. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Furthermore we see people being guarded all day by TANKS (that would already make me agressive).<span id='postcolor'> You mean it's alright for Arafat and company to declare a war back in October 2000 but they don't deserve to face the consequences? </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">And we see the Israelian army constantly destructing West-Bank and Gaza. (searching for terrorists but damaging more than just terorist infrastructure)<span id='postcolor'> Yes, while Israel has basked peacefully in the Mediteranean sun ever since signing the Oslo Agreements. Is your memory capacity limited to a month of news? </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">And still, all those occupations didnt prevent the suicide bombers! Surprising no? Ever thought about the fact that they actually cause the opposite. With this behaviour young palestinians are basically pushed into the arms of extremists.<span id='postcolor'> They were already there ages ago, whipped up by Arafat and every MuslimIman in every mosque for years already. But you Europeans said be patient. BTW, the terror rate is still way down compared to what was happening before the last incursions and would have remained that way had we not withdrawn, after which the last attack took place in Rishon Letzion. There was a direct correlation between our fighting the terrorists and the drop in terror inciddents against Israel. Get your facts straight. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">This reminds me of a typical IQ-test. How often is a mouse gonna push the red button untill it understands that it will cause an electrical shock? Well the Israelians have pushed this button probably a 100 times (not very smart eh?)<span id='postcolor'> Funny. The Israeli's weren't pushed all this time? This all came out of the blue. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I realy realy hope that something like this will in fact never happen again. But if you studied a bit about the Weimarer Republic and following years of German history you would see that the conflict in the Middle East is a `soup` made up of the same ingredients as the one in Nazi Germany.<span id='postcolor'> On our side, I would call that utter crap and dispicable coming from a German. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">The similarities are astonishing. And you will be surprised how fast things can escalate (especially if you dont consider your opponent to be human)<span id='postcolor'> Go ahead. Point them out.<span id='postcolor'> in termns of statistical rules you are simply wrong. Of course there is a certain downturn of terorist attacks after such an attack being launched (but ups and downs dont make a curve, a `trend` makes a curve). But since centuries we know that after an assault any enemy needs a short time to recover and reorganise its lines, but then usually reattacks. But of course, if you would have bombed out the whole West Bank and Gaza, the suicide bombers would indeed dissapear for a quite a while! A very childish solution no? On our side, I would call that utter crap and dispicable coming from a German. Dont be silly! I have a german passport indeed, but an argument is an argument, whether it comes from a german or a french or a dutch. Dont try to push me back with that kind of revenge-ist accusal. Did I mention that I was born 1977, a few decades AFTER the `bad germans`! But you did not come to talk about the vote yesterday that openly sais: Israel is never gonna accept/discuss the existance of a state of palestine. I mean what is all that bla bla bla about peace-talks when you would never give them what they want? Still surprised about suicide bombers? Well at least they lose more than you do!

BS, not quite right! China is not gonna grow a strong nation within the next decades because it hasnt reaced the stage of the so called social maturity. Do you remember Japan a while ago, people were willing to work like machine, the company was more important than oneself. Once a country is exposed to success for a longer period of time this changes. Look at Japan now! China is a totally unstructured country. With a middle-age west and an over-urbanised east. Without democracy and maturity they not gonna reach jack-shit. Cause man-power does not count (look at ethopia or India or Indonesia)

People have tooooo much leisure! Â Â Anyhow, anyone that does horse-back riding could have given you little advises on the ass-issue. When I did long trips I even used a special creme which in fact is nothing else than grease from the skin/hair of a deer (no kiddin), so called Hirsch-talg. Without it, or even with a 3-day old shaved ass you would be sitting on sand-paper and you would slowly slowly be rubbed away.

I dont even know all those calibre`s! (even wonder if it is important to know them). But I could still say: this is a big bullet and this one is a small bullet. Â But I would probably chose this calibre

It is such an abstrusum! On the one side we have Israel voting AGAINST an Independant palestininan state! We also find `best examples` of apartheid in the palestinian districts, where the good roads are only to be used by Israelis and the palestinians need to wait hours to only to cross those. Furthermore we see people being guarded all day by TANKS (that would already make me agressive). And we see the Israelian army constantly destructing West-Bank and Gaza. (searching for terrorists but damaging more than just terorist infrastructure) And still, all those occupations didnt prevent the suicide bombers! Surprising no? Ever thought about the fact that they actually cause the opposite. With this behaviour young palestinians are basically pushed into the arms of extremists. This reminds me of a typical IQ-test. How often is a mouse gonna push the red button untill it understands that it will cause an electrical shock? Well the Israelians have pushed this button probably a 100 times (not very smart eh?) and instead of just not touching it they hope that the battery for the `shock` will run out of power. And at the same time you take hours and hours to remind people about the cruelties of the Holocaust to prevent that something like this will never happen again. I realy realy hope that something like this will in fact never happen again. But if you studied a bit about the Weimarer Republic and following years of German history you would see that the conflict in the Middle East is a `soup` made up of the same ingredients as the one in Nazi Germany. The similarities are astonishing. And you will be surprised how fast things can escalate (especially if you dont consider your opponent to be human)

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (LordZach @ May 06 2002,17:32)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">someone needs to dig up that video of the chinese government shredding all those pirated cds  <span id='postcolor'> Oh, that was a fake too? have you ever tried to find an authentic aftershave e.g. from Channel in South-East Asia? They all look like the original but they smell like simple coconut-butter! I dont know why they are so horny for brands over there, but quality is equal to zero!

I was terribly bored, went to a store, looked at the screenshots printed on the back of the game-boxes, saw the nice resolution and bought it...simple as that. Oh, and since I had a new computer I loved to see that the game had pretty demanding hardware requirements!

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (WKK Gimbal @ May 06 2002,15:17)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (IsthatyouJohnWayne @ May 06 2002,14:17)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Yes many Scandinavians fought bravely in WW2 (this was not what i was talking about in reference to a lack of experience fighting terror)<span id='postcolor'> LOL, man. You need to read a history book that doesn't have "written and printed in U.S." on the back. You don't know FUCKING SHIT about what happened in Skandinavia during world war 2, with all your fance high-school history book theoretical no-good bullshit knowledge. I'm Danish - and as the Danish government was forced to capitulate to the German invasion force (the had about 500% more troops on stand by at the border in case we complained) the nazis began a systematic sorting of our population, to pick out jews and other minorities to be send to their death. Sweden became a safe haven for many of these people, who where smuggled out of Denmark by brave fishermen from both Denmark and Sweden. Had they not been able to hide in Sweden they would all have died in KZ camps. It's easy to sit back and judge others in your safe continent 100 miles away from the rest of the world. Unfortunately this distance also makes many Americans very unaware of how the world is put together - this is proven again and again in incredibly stupid retard posts like yours. Â <span id='postcolor'> Nice insulting! I live around the corner and my books dont have the "made in US" on the back-cover. Still I must insist on the fact that indeed there were Danish, Swedish, Polish, French, Tscheck, Dutch... (well I cant stop) soldiers to be found in the centre units of the SS, and not forced but ideological perverted as the german SS-members. And as in any country there were not only brave fishermen but neighbours telling the SA where jews were hiding themselves. Thanks god that the historical work has advanced so far that we no longer suffer under total stereotyping. Anti-semitism was a European illness and people were infected anywhere.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (USSoldier11B @ May 06 2002,12:43)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Why should the Chinese government not like to see U.S. as the good guys? After all, we granted them MFN trade status. Russia and China aren't to friendy as of late. Hmmm.....another software company openly counterfieting OFP, sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.<span id='postcolor'> Nice try, but it is not going to happen. I suppose this is due to the fact that they got different copyright laws (near to none) and many of the small factories live from those fakes. I wouldnt cut the bridge I am standing on!