Albert Schweitzer

mybe she needs some creative-silence. You know she is creating the FAQ MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT site right now!

You want a critical comment? Well, the slogan sucks: "but we kick the most ass"! That lacks some power!

Dear Collectors. We have to repeat the following since we have the impression not everyone knows: the fatah puppet is only worth its collectors price if the dynamite-belt and the molotov cocktail are BOTH still in the case. If any of those two are missing, the collectors price-standard will be lowered down to around 55% (which is around 450% of the initial purchase price)

but you stand in line right behind me! She will kick us both into the minefield with her new shoes!

stupid bug, I know that scout has posted a comment before me, but I can still post and mine can be seen first! What the hell is that? Â anway, democracy is not a must! But this is just bureaucracy. Be happy that there is Arafat, otherwise you would have even more extreme movements driving the nation!

AH, I am sure she will be back! Â You know girls: they just want to go and buy a pair of shoes, they dissapear for a week and finally....................got their pair of shoes! and then they return it to the shop the next day because you didnt immediately shout:" wow, they definetly look great and make you look as if you were 17"!

Man, this world is so damm odd! And people realy ask me why I am so sarcastic. You wouldnt have found a more beatiful piece of religious propaganda in Afghanistan

repetitions suck!!!

Dear forum members Since we have experienced a increase of unaesthetic material in our forum we have decided to make use of the new Freeware Server-software UGLYEDIT 1.4 from boobysoft! Therefore images as the one sent to us before will now longer appear in the original form but immediately edited, as can be seen below! BTW: the ones of you that use BAZAA, watch it this programm has marketing research activities, in other words spy-capabilities. I propose to you to download the unofficial Bazaa Lite (you can download that everywhere) it is basically the same, except that those spy-functions have been cut out by professionals!

in the year 1974 at the arabic conference the PLO was declared as the only legal representative of the Palestinian nation, and therefore respected by the 'Weltsicherheitsrat', I dont know how to translate that but it is the legal (judicative) body of the UNO or UN. By the way, this vote was repeated once again on Wednesday night in connection with a resolution by the UN (Mr. Annan) and accepted by 14 out of 15 members (Syria did refuse to vote). I guess that is legal enough! source Head-lines president of the state of Israel Mosche Kazaw yesterday said  that Europe with its criticism of the Israeli offense would basically provoke and encourage terrorism (ouch!!! )

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Longinius @ April 13 2002,09:03)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">"Arafat is democraticly elected as president Mubarak is democraticly elected in egypt, means they arent. there is much discord behind the scenes althought the palestinians are careful not to show it, as i said before, he is leader for life, or until some1 will pull him off and take his place. simple as that. Sharon came to power only after moderate leaders failed to come to terms with Arafat, which means that sharon will be replaced by the people of israel. Arafat though, wont, there is no democracy in the PA system." You know, Hitler was elected to. Sometimes, democracy just isnt that great.<span id='postcolor'> Wow, excellent comparison. That was a crosspersonification which was totally unecessary. This is basically implying ...well you know yourself!!!! Anyway, Arafat is the legal representative of a nation (or an ethnic minority if you wish). I see absolutely no reason of questioning this position he holds.

Speed 2 was not so unrealistic. Those ships take at least 45 minutes to slow down to speed zero. Brake into their software and give them them wrong direction, possibly cross another ships path! Bum Bang and sink two at once!

And now you must understand, Scout, that it is an issue that for the western world is so hard to grip. The genocide of Jews in Germany was based on a different aspect. Actually an aspect which is far more easier to solve. Pure propaganda which told the people that the Jews are to blame for the german misery. But we have no experience with the rensentiments in the Middle East. How tolerant are they? DO they differntiate between the Palestinians struggle for own territory or do they think in terms of muslimic propaganda? But before you send diplomats to solve this question (and solve it for centuries) you must first understand the basis of this war! And Israel as the most WESTERN country did not do a good job to make us understand it! And therefore you dont get the sympathy you think you deserve. A very insensitive move!"

Since I worked in Thailand I can tell you about my fascination of Thai-boxing. The good thing is that is as famous and westernised as ordinary boxing. It is a business with strict rules and federations. And there are clear rules. And finally Thai-boxing has and never had any other purposes than to be a sport. Thats what I like about it. I watched many matches (they are on TV basically ever day). It is great to sit in those arenas and shout and cheer for you star!

and Bleh, I am not to sure if your Avatar from Private Ryan is correct. I know for sure that during the Stalingrad offensive, the germans did not have such thing as trained snipers. But anyway what about RYAN was correct?

The city that gets the construction-contract will be rich, thats for sure! Or maybe the entrepreneur that will supply the light-bulbs for this ship will already become a millionaire

Man, dont be so harsh, your people were looking for such a long time for their own teritory...you shouldnt even think about this scenario! And yes, I agree! I think that the Muslim nations do try to impose their religion on other countries (oopps a german shouldnt say such racial things) but that is a fact. The Quarran leaves so much space for different interpretation that it can easily be misused (or abused). This is one of the factors where I can understand the critical Isreali opinion about peace! Is it realy a question of terirtory or does the Arab world realy not accept the Jewish religion on this planet? This question may be asked, and it is not as odd as it sounds!

Jedi Knight 2 sucks, it is for children, I kicked it out of my HDD (rented from Video store) and I will never buy it. the first one was the best. Operation Flashpoint (with 2billion addons) Wolfenstein Global Operations beta version Medal of Honour Civ III (I shouldnt have bought it, the first version was great already) Gothic (I cant beat it, it is too tough for me, thats why I like it) Delta Force (I hate it, I bought a version while I worked in Asia, and even though I bought it in a store I think it must be a stolen one. Doesnt support any Graphic card... Moderators, I legally bought in a great Asian store, so no accusal please) I never player Counter-strike, did I realy miss anything Yesterday I watched 1 hour demo of Unreal Tournament 2003, it realy rocks!!! I couldnt look at it, so I did some editing, now at least I dont need to close my eyes when I see the picture

I know, we always read those cheap articles about the 'planes of the future' and 'hotel in space' and 'Chinese wall used as a antenae' but with the cruise-ships is the truth. In Germany (of course, great Germany, shut up Albert (my real name is VAL)) they built those mega-cruises and they already need to enlarge a whole area because the water is not deep enough for future projects, and they gonna come very soon. Anyway, there will never be a civillian ship which is larger than a military one cause Cruise-ship (exceeding a certain amount of brutto registre tons) by definition must be military equipment. I know it sounds odd but believe me it is true. That is why you have the military authority-line on all big cruise-ships. And, in case of a serious war the military is allowed to make use of them. I am not talking bullshit!!! I had a course on 'cruise-ship tourism'and that part I remember. I wish I could state a source so you could verify!

As a European I would probably behave like this guy in P. Diddy's video of 'bad guy' (or what the stupid song is called): " hey I got nothing against you and you gangsta stuff, but we dont want you here in our neighbourhood, we feel intimidated by you and the offending number plate on your car, .....but if you got one of your cool parties ...give me a call! lol Â

Maybe you misinterpret the use of oil. You dont just simply need oil to run cars, but it is the essence of most modern materials. Ever tried to build a road without the use of oil (we call it asphalt),ask the romans cause that is what our roads would look like. But this is only a tiny fraction of the chemical use of oil. And no, Norway would probably not be sufficient to supply Europe and the price would rise to an incredible height. Anyway, we got moral obligations to which I FEEL we must stick to. So bringing peace to the middle East is a must! And this needs to be solved without answering the question 'who is right and who is wrong'. Or as Michael Jackson (the smart philosopher) would put it: we are the world we are the children..lalalala (No I am smoking ordinary cigarettes..nothing odd) And denoir I think also that we agree on the consent. i would never dare to downplay the importance of air superiority, that would be silly...

Again, as I said. I dont think you need to blast of houses,t anks and buildings to win a war. And even if, how much intelligent damage did the planes do, they blew up some anti-air defense and some tank-dummies. This wasnt a war of great battles anyway. Your comparison with the 'policeman shooting someone is not a war either' is out of range since a war is not defined by the amount of people being killed but by the political context! The actual strength of Jugoslawia (one of the biggest troups in europe) was its infantry! And those didnt get damaged at all! Milosevic did not retreat because he was weakend by air-attacks, but because he was afraid of losing power! To win You must gain infrastructural advantages such as controling roads a.s.o. To collection of weapons started of disappointingly I agree but improved throughout the months. And this argument of 'I was there' definetly counts if you want to descipe athmospherics, attitudes and personal experiences but doesnt count if you discuss the whole picture! But I think we have very well described our different positions. We end up nowhere if we try to fully convince each other.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Shadow @ April 12 2002,17:01)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Current system: P-III 1GHz (100fsb-slot1) 512MB SDRAM ASUS P3V4X motherbord Adaptec ASC29160 scsi controller 2x36GB U160 seagate SBLive!Platinum CL Ge-Force 3 Hitachi 19" (107KHz) WinME OFP runs great in 1280x960@32 ...but I'm looking forward to my little upgrade project (I'm getting my P-IV 1.8 0.13m on monday, along with a Intel 850 Maryland motherboard with 2x256MB RDRAM) I would suggest you aim a little higher than a 1.5 GHz if you can spend the money. a 1.8GHz ain't that much expensive than a 1.5 Â hmmmm come to think of it. The lowest CPU available over here is 1.7 end its approaching EOL very fast (EOL=EndOfLife).<span id='postcolor'> I got a PIV 1.3 and plan exactly the same upgrade. I have to get a now motherboard as well, because of the socket, But I am aiming for an 850 again. But I thought about waiting. It is not gona take long until you get the stupid 2.0 for the same price. (since we got the 2.4 out already)

why? Mr. Nobel wouldnt have liked him anyway! Someone who tries to prevent explosives from blowing of! No, I am sure he wouldnt have liked that, he spent all his life to develope dynamite and finally this.....

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (denoir @ April 12 2002,17:07)</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 2002,16:42)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I dont agree with that! The planes didnt change Jack-shit! If you believe that then you are a victim of western military propaganda! The slaughtering continued.... and as you said they hit strategic targets (that indeed) but did not shake Milosevics military power.<span id='postcolor'> It made all the difference. Milosevic agreed to leave Kosovo alone after the bombings and allow a UN peacekeeping force in. There were no significant losses of Serbian military hardware, but that didnt matter. War is politics. Milosevics war lost gradually popular support after NATO started to bomb Serbia. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"> When the ground troups moved in (1999-06-10), yes there were ground troups (mechanised I mean light tanks, and they were indeed numerous) the UN was capable of controling military traffic. There might not have been as much blasting and shooting as with the airforce but that does make you win a battle anyway! In my consideration was the KFOR that settled the situation. YOu need to build a front /border and for this you need ground-troups, otherwise you end up in an endless slaughtering! <span id='postcolor'> There was no blasting and shooting at all from KFOR. The Serbian military was allowed to withdraw it's army more or less intact. KFOR did absoultely nothing, and they still don't (except for humanitarian aid and disarming the civilians). I know this from first-hand exprience as I was in Kosovo for six months as a member of the KIE/PJCIE (KFOR Intelligence Estimate/Permanent Joint Council Inteligence Estimate) team. Â We made a report on the current Serb military capabilities and how KFOR's presence changed the situation. The conclusion was basically that the only thin that KFOR had done was to create a strong black market for medicine,food and even weapons. Anyhow, my point being, there was no ground war in Kosovo. The victory was accomplished by internal Serbian political pressure that came during the bombing.<span id='postcolor'> there were more unfriendly incindents than you probably can imagine. Little cruelties that dont fit into the clean image of the "surgical war"! One I remember was the shooting between two Serbs, one sniper and one with an AK47! they were hiding in a car and had clear intentions and finally opened fire on german post, and were both eliminated. But this is only one incident I remember, the whole process was far more effective (maybe not as efficient) than the bombing! The official collection of all weapons was a tremendous success and probably more influencial than blasting away a so called "propaganda" radio-station. There was resistance on BOTH sides against the peaceful seperation of the ethnics. And the KFOR often found itself being caught in the middle. How long the process was and how much of the job was (and still is) done on the ground can be seen here The balkan diary. And there is still lots to do. I would never agree to say that a war can be won with air superiority