Albert Schweitzer

Damm ran, time to change your avatar. Since 1400 posts you havent changed yours! It is getting kind of boring!°  BTW: Yesterday I was playing online and in fact after hours of research of hundreds of the most renowned scientists we succeeded in developing a new generation of suicide-bombers. The advantage is, that only the person at the bottom touches Israeli ground an therefore can be checked at checkpoints, the persons on top basically pass 'duty free'! And with the power of 6 people and their bomb-belts you can cover the area of a multi-floor mega-store! (we intended to put more but someone threw a grenade and our tower was blown into pieces! )

Oh, they already had a few blasts ins Paris. You know what they did? Well even if you do know, Im gonna tell ya! Well they took all dustbins away from the streets or sealed them. => a dirty city gets even more dirty!!!

Now this is strange indeed. I faced every stupid bug that this game seem to have but with the mouse only in the map editor?, no, that I havent! I dont think it is a question of DX8 or DX8.1 or whatsoever. It cant be a hardware conflict either. I have never heard anyone else talk about it! Did you check Avons FAQ Site, she has a lot of good solutions! Even about mouse lags! Avon Lady FAQ Strange! I guess you already tried reinstalling! Very strange! Â

no, I guess it was the Famas You talked about a german standard rifle (G36) (i know that I constantly talk about stupid Germany but in this case I had no choice) the german suckers below carry one! (strange ones though) I can tell you why. It is probably due to the recent attacks on Synagoges all around France and the killing of german tourists by terrorists in Djerba. They took a truck with which you transport gazoline and supposingly drove into it (but that is not sure yet). Many tourists got killed in the fire! Maybe they were protecting a synagoge or something and were just a little bit more alert?

346 is a number that scares me! Seriously, it is not that I would refuse to sit on a seat with that number, but I just dont like it, it doesnt have a positive rather a negative sound and appearance!

Damm, this happens when someone uses only 30% of his brain when he posts after 1.00 am. If I am 25, then where do you want me to click? Am I 21-25 or 25-30? Depends on the month? One day, when you are 60 you have enough time to run your brain at 30% (you probably will have to) so take the chance and use more of it right now!

hehe.. Â look what I found. The Taliban may not be that stupid...and after all, their strict laws seem to have a reason, let me just post the first few lines of the article: Taliban orders women aid workers to stop driving Reuters, May 31, 2001 By Sayed Salahuddin KABUL (Reuters) - The ruling Taliban's religious police have ordered foreign women providing humanitarian aid in Afghanistan to stop driving on grounds they are damaging the society, aid workers have said. They said the foreign ministry had proclaimed the ban on women driving after it received the orders from the Taliban's Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. "It has been seen that some foreign women drive cars in the cities, which is against Afghan tradition and has a negative impact on the society," said the letter issued on May 24. "Therefore, you (foreign ministry) are requested to inform the relevant foreign aid agencies that in future foreign women must not drive cars and must observe the tradition of our country and abide by the regulations of the Islamic Emirate," it added. Damm,THe roads in Afghanistan must have been a safe place for anyone!!! Source: Taliban orders women to stop driving

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (theavonlady @ April 16 2002,13:47)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">"National safety surveys show that women are better drivers than men." - Facts on Women Drivers "The male fatal crash involvement rate per 100,000 population was 3 times as high as for female drivers in 1994. Female drivers continue to exhibit safer driving statistics than male drivers. Males accounted for 67 percent of total fatalities, 68 percent of all pedestrian fatalities, and 86 percent of all pedalcyclist fatalities in 1994. 22 percent of male drivers involved in fatal crashes were intoxicated compared to 11 percent of female drivers. 37 percent of female drivers involved in fatal crashes were unrestrained at the time of the crash compared to 47 percent for male drivers involved in fatal crashes." - National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (NHTSA) "Male drivers are more likely than women to break traffic laws in virtually every category raised." - AUTO INSURANCE SURVEY REVEALS WOMEN DRIVERS ABIDE BY TRAFFIC LAWS MORE THAN MEN Â Â Â <span id='postcolor'> Nice those statistics. Women are careful drivers, so what!! That doesnt make you a good driver. And of course does the statistic (I guess so) not include the tiny tiny accident (womens favourite) where neither the police nor the insurance is informed. Those scratches on the walls in public garages for example always stems from women, and surprisingly most scratches are always to be found in the "Only for women" parking section. Of course we got Mercedes and BMW as police-cars in Germany. But this is not luxury, this is the obligation of a government to use national-products. It is like the citroen police car in France or the Italian Fiat police-cars. (Now again noone believes me): When Porsche has created a new anniversary-model they always, as a promotion of "Made in Germany" give a few cars to the ambulance and to the police fo their county (not many, maybe three or so). And so in county where the car is produced you can actually get caught by a Porsche-Police, now that is not fair, no way to try to race off! Â Â (and I hope no girl ever touches those cars) Oh, rusty old Mercedes, do still think you can get me Well, I can still go 40 more!!!

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (pirate @ April 16 2002,11:57)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">. Why cant israel do the same. Get the hamas and hizbullah leaders one by one. israel has all the means to make that possible.(intel and arms)<span id='postcolor'> Because those groups are not only located in palestine, and because suicide bombers do not exactly get born in this position but can easily be recruited (you dont even need fancy training camps for them. Oligo. Now if you talk about a fight of exsistance, staying alive or dead, having nukes or not, then you are actually going further with this scenario than I would ever. Countries can hardly get fully wiped out nowadays. Simply not possible due to international networking (alliances, export-improt dependance). If you dare to wipe out a country nowadays you will be wiped out yourself. The best example is Iraq. I was rather thinking about a war of decades, with little battles now and then and the constant threat of enemies at the border. This already can throw country back into stone-age. Just imagine Isreal would have to fully secure and protect its borders with the constant threat of military attack (not teenagers with AK like right now). Then after a while the economie would stop progressing and only producing deficits. This can have a worse impact than a few 'dead settlers' or a lost 'chopper'. Israel has a hard time already in the Middle East. They are fully surrounded by arab states, which at the moment, not actually represent a threat? But what if? You dont need to send nukes and missiles to get Isreals attention. Just position a few tanks near the border. They constantly need to be awake, and without sleep, noone can be productive! Â ( i know that I am not realy refering to or neglecting your comment, I just want to guide the discussion to the question: what is gonna happen in the far future. Can Israel ever rest?)

I see those people every day of my life (and in fact it is a typical german desease). People that not only blame others for their miserable life but also try to punish those they consider guilty. I feel absolutely no sympathy for them. Those guys often grow up and then start to hit their wife and children, sorry, zero tolerance.

dont tell us, tell them! THREAD CLOSED, I guess

here a lady had to learn that 'R' on the gear does not mean "rally"! And here you can see how emancipated german police is! And the effect that female police-officers have on the statistics! This security-firm knows its best customers and adapted the ads correspondingly! Or why did thy put a girl?

a low QRS means your atteries suck or you heart cant keep up to demands. A high QRS means you got a constant pressure overload! I guess this patient is called Speedy Gonzalez

what I heard is that Israeli authorities first want to check the figures themselves, so no falsification can be published from the other side. mmmmh? Why cant the RedCross do that, they are realy an independant source! Anyway, I am sure it is gonna take 3 months until the RedCross has compared their list of inhabitants with those that surivived. And untill then noone cares anymore! I just wonder where all those pictures come from which are shown on CNN and BBC, are those done by amateurs? Today I saw pictures of a journalist who ran away from 2 israeli jeeps and the soldiers inside constantly threw shock grenades at him. He had a hard time to decide whether he should keep the camera on his sholder or drop it and run like a rabbit! Well he kept the camera but still ran like a rabbit! Anyway, the occupation as it seems right now will not fully end since the Army will remain (constantly) is some of the cities near the border!

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (theavonlady @ April 15 2002,19:45)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">It's two thumbtacks that went straight through the soles of my sandals.<span id='postcolor'> But before you intended to shout: "ouch" you decided to approach the issue mathematically and to draw an appropriate diagramm of the splinters. This gave enabled to precisely set the upcoming noise-level of your upcoming "ouch!" correponding to the damage occured by the splinters! Very wise indeed!

cheers!

Okay, I wrote it, typed it, meant it, strange shoes though! Is that the torsion curve of your new shoes? The contraction vs repulsion capabilities?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Oligo @ April 15 2002,15:26)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Arafat's ineffectual strategy and utter recklessness have thus caused a crisis that induces all, even the Israelis, to wish him a long life, for his death might precipitate the most damaging of wars<span id='postcolor'> Why did you put it all into Italic? Was tough to read! I dont realy like the comment, even though it might be from a well reputed magazine such as TIME. I dont like when journalists play through a whole war-scenario, how wrong can it go? There are too many factors in the equation that just can go wrong! Furthermore I think you cannot calculate war by saying: okay we got 1000 tanks on the left side and 500 on the right side, but the right side can kick 3 before it gets kicked, so the right side wins! That is a silly estimation. Furthermore I think it is a total missuse to estimate the presence and possible impact of Anthrax (I think he/she slightly downplays its power.) One of the reasons is that war-material doesnt queue up to fight one against one. In WWII the russians often send thousands of soldiers just to 'entertain' the germans while attacking elsewhere. The same could be done with Israels airforce too. Even if you can kill 8 for 1 I dont think this works logistically, you cant kill all at the same time and while your few planes are busy searching for the enemy he can do harm elsewhere. My thesis therefore is: Israel could face a war with one country, but would not be capable to face the Arab world on a multi-country front, especially not if seen in the long term! I agree though that the arab armies are a bunch of .....XXX.....; Big numbers but small reality! I ve read a similar one (from a very unknown source though) War-scenario

Didnt I tell ya she was buying shoes!

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Oligo @ April 15 2002,08:27)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Albert Schweizer @ April 12 2002,15:41)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Now the Gulf War is not the best example! Air superiority however does NOT change the situation in a great way as you know from the Gulf war or the ethnical conflict in Jugoslawia. Ground superiority is what counts! The Iraq as well as Jugoslawia were bombed back to stone-age but the deciding battles were fought by tanks (or in the case of Jugoslawia by mechanised infantry! But this could still be discussed. But what could not be discussed, (from a German perspective) is the risk you take when opening a war-front to the South the North and the East at the same time. Technology is not the determining facotr then. Without a Blitzkrieg a situation like this cannot be solved. Since an offensive war (e.g Blitzkrieg) is out of question for Israel I wonder what would happen. But this is going to far<span id='postcolor'> Air superiority is everything when two conventional force armies are facing off. Planes are just excellent for taking out large armored formations. And by taking out I don't mean blow up every tank, but destroy the means and will to fight. An armored column without fuel, ammo and tank crews is useless. That's what the yanks did to the Iraqis in Gulf War and that's what the Israelis will do to the arab armies if they threaten Israel. This brings me to an another point. If such an escalation was to happen, the Israelis would not necessarily wait for an attack by the arabs. There is a saying: "An attack is the best defence."<span id='postcolor'> I agree with Longinius that this was a brilliant move, but do you think this could be repeated? I have slight doubts! Especially since the Israeli air-force (in terms of numbers) does not quite have the capacity for such a Blitzkrieg. They definetly have the potential to undertake a few "surprising visits' at neighbours bases, but if you look at the surface this airforce would have to cover, protect and defend... a pretty hard task! Anyway, the war has changed! I think the Arab countries would not directly go into that, a financial support of the Hamas would be a better strategy to persue! Dont you think so too? In this case Israel would not have official justifications to attack neighbouring countries, I dont realy think that the Israeli would support another war too! Furthermore is Israel a pretty 'easy' target. A great part of the population (tell me if I am wrong' is concentrated around cities, the whole country is very intensively developed. It is in fact easy to hurt (lets not talk about B-weapons here) this nation by targeting civillians, symbolic locations, maybe even supply-channels!

Didnt I say the new Starwars sucks, it is for 16 year olds. I liked the first one (maybe because I was younger) but the new one..........................sucks................!!!

Dont talk about the europeans in general! WILL YA! Avon lives there, she has to face the cruelties on a daily basis. Something you can never imagine. I say this so biased because I dont wany anybody to judge germans in that way: from a distance!! We need SOLUTIONS and we need to understand the issue from a distance! For a european that should be the primary objective right now! I thank Avon for her comments, even if she only describes it from her point of view (and she never said that her comments reflect the total truth). Only by discussing you can get an impression of the issue. I wish people would discuss more instead of binding dynamite-belts around their waist and killing innocent children that just learned to spell their name. Please dont stop posting Avon, people are reading your comments and acknokledge you lonely fight in this forum! Please continue the discussion, dont let an important thread like this die, cause wherever discussion stops you see arms doing the rest! (didnt want to sound like papa pope, but I did! )

Oh, I thought you were hidding yourself because soon the world-cup is gonna start and you dont want to face the desasterous performance of your team! Denmark!

Sorry, I dont get what you mean with 'cofusing cause and effect'!  My english sucks I think that the cause: 'christianity practiced in most powerful cultures' lead to effect 'having the most powerful resources to convert and surpress others'! However, I dont see any remark in the bible that sais that, besides praising the message of Jesus, sais you need to convert others. (But I dont realy know the bible anyway). Again like in the Muslim religion we have the problem with misinterpretations (I guess). One thing about christianity that I like it its ability to evolve. Its rules have changed and adapted to changing world pictures and practicability. Okay, some very weird communities in this world have a strange way of dealing with a changing world, and in the US you find many people (e.g. around the state of Missisippi) that to me appear more fundamentalist than some of the palestinians, but that does not say anything about the religion.  Unlike in the Middle East for example were the Jews in Europe not exactly disliked for their religion, but for their minority status. In the middle ages Jews were not allowed to have ordinary jobs (or noone would have bought from them) so they had to survive by making business with basically nothing, lending money for interest. Of course whenever anyone had a problem to return money, he could simply accuse all jews of being devil-like, they would have thrown them out of the village and wouldnt have to pay back a penny. Not better than hating someone for his religion. But back to the topic! I think that Israel has been wondering around the world for generations and generations without having its own home. And they were treated badly wherever they appeared. And what could they have done against it, they were always a minority? So apart from the question of who is to blame for this conflict and how to solve it, they should understand how it is for nation to grow up without homeland and to be treated as minor-quality human (I am refering to palestinians). Most of the Israeli have lost all of the sensitivity which they have won throughout centuries of own bad experiences. I think the palestinians feel being kicked around like a football, just like european jews once did. Wherever palestinians live in the Arab worl they are always treated like poor second class people. Where can they go! Anyway, there must be a fast solution for this conflict. I am fed up of seeing  on TV young faces of 16 year old girls that want to blow up themselves for the 'palestinian thing' and the mothers sitting next to them and smiling proudly! This is so perverted!

Denoir, you are judging religions like cars! You cannot approach it with a simple generalisation like that. Dont forget that chrisitianity surivived/prospered in countries with a high intellectual/educational potential. Those were countries that changed constantly and constanlty underwent a culutural evolution. Being a religion based in the most powerful countries of the world gives you incredible power and offers you to put into practice / force your most cruel ideologies. I wonder what would have happened if Gutenberg would have lived in the Arab world and the Muslim nations would have progressed faster than Europe. But I suppose they would have left the same bloody steps in history like christianity did! The inquisition definetly is a perverted piece of the christian history, but 1500 years of 'people getting stoned' (I dont mean drugs ) for having broken the most inhumane rules (e.g women get stoned for being raped) is nothing better. Less known, less dicussed but not less important. The colonisation of the world by western countries again gave the christian religion another tool to force other cultures to adopt its ideologies, again a reason to accuse the religion. But I repeat, I wonder what other religions would have done with it. BTW my city was the capital of the New Roman empire, the first christian empire in Europe that was bigger than that of the actual Romans. The incredible powerful King was called Kaiser Karl (something like King Carl or Corl). He was the first one with the so called Scaras which nowadays you call Knights! This guy was cruel as well, but not more cruell than any religious leader of his times!