Frisbee

Once again I'm amazed by the difference in 'shading' the politics in the US and the EU have. Against gay marriage, abortion and such : seems very conservative to me. :x I may not be very well informed, but I don't really see many good things Bush has done for the US. Weak economy and dollar, huge resources for a war, increasing poverty at home, etc. Then again, I can't say I actively follow US politics, the snippets I do pick up are of course largely coloured by the media which supply them. Can't make an assesment as accurate as I could if I was an American citizen.

The same thing happened with the Flemish (extreme) right party Vlaams Blok (now Vlaams Belang). They're not trying to force them out, just not working with them, and there's pretty much nothing wrong with that.

It made me think of the drop pods with 3-4 gundams in it, featured in just about every gundam series. (made me think of Heinlein too though) I wonder how 'covert' this insertion would be though, I'd imagine they'd have to drop pretty far from the target area, so they're not spotted landing.

Should have said Outpost instead of base, he crashed right near the flag at the construction site. I was AT'ing with a buddy as medic who was near me to heal me, a UH60 crashes down, explodes, kills us, the pilot is in the sitting animation above the wreck (so he probably did bail out at the last second), falls off and is promptly revived by a medic. Maybe the medic didn't bail out first, but this was seemingly a bit too well orchestrated to be coincidence :x

Well, I've been playing the demo on and off with some mates of mine, and I must say I kinda like it. Yes it bothers me when I nail an Abrams' from behin right under the turret two times and it keeps on trucking. Yes it bothers me when people suicide with a helo, clear a flag zone with the resulting explosion, and get revived by the medic who parachuted out beforehand. And why do those infidel pig-dogs still stand after an SVD round to the head anyway? But : make a squad with some friends, use teamspeak to issue commands, spawn at your squad commander, get proper loadouts (support + medic + assault is nice) and decimate the opposition in a well-organised manner, I believe the 'in' term is 'pwnage'. Multiple gun positions in vehicles, a decent command interface, teamwork is very much encouraged/forced, all in all it's quite playable. Of course, much of the strategy and teamwork is as of yet lost on the rambo people playing now, but there are some servers where you see a good commander move squads to hotspots, mine key areas and shell the hell out of an enemy encampment. Afterthought : OFP : feels like real war BF2 : feels like latest hollywood war movie Looking forward to playing this in a well organised manner sometime soon though, should improve the fun a whole lot.

I meant to say the Vatican. Good to see you dislike everything equally.

Let us start with Rome, or whatever city the US religious right considers as holy shall we?

Yes yes, a game is the same as actually running and moving? You know, getting outside and exercising a bit? Some people aren't brainwashed enough to put their lives on the line for morals and ideals which they think are theirs. Willingly die for a governement how...incredibly...not-sad. *cough* Why play sports for fun? Professional players would laugh in your face anyway, they're real sportsmen. Hunting? Not like we need to hunt to gather food, yet a lot of people seem to enjoy it as a hobby. And if you can honestly say you never played soldier and had at least some fun doing it... Really now, cut the bullshit already.

Like the ones saying France owes the US?

Haha, bookmarking material. If someone brings up Fox I can just paste it.

Sad, but he should have known/knew the risks. But still, is it so that a large number of people join up because of reasons like this? Money for college, things like that. On one hand it's sad that people have to put their lives on the line for things they need (or maybe they're being materialistic bastards, I don't claim to know). On the other hand, joining up is probably better than going for a criminal career to finance stuff like this. :/ (I didn't mean to offend anyone, it's a death to be mourned without a doubt)

Nice, I might get that aiptek as a repalcement for my old worn graphire2. Got much use out of it, bit small after a while, but still very nice in my experience. Going to search for some reviews tommorow, thansk for the tip.

Hey...they're blowing up hospitals too you know. It isn't completely unfair to assume that your liberators will help more than they do harm. Well, I'm still curious how it'll be handled, there might be some way to mend the mess Iraq is in now, at least I hope so.

Selective memory must be fun, people have told you time and time again where the US supported/installed fascist dictatorships, you don't have to bomb someone to make them dislike you. No, honestly. Bombing and shelling a city with civilians inside doesn't strike me as a particulary effective way of avoiding civilian casualties. But hey, they're all terrorists, right? Right? Wait, christianity is good, above-all and perfect? All religions have or have had wackjobs interpreting things in a way to advance their own agenda. (crusades anyone?) Christianity is not better than Islam. Worthless answer, but yeah well, what's one to do when one doesn't have a real one? "We saved your asses twice! So STFU and follow us blindly, you can't have an opinion of your own anymore!" Yeah, 9/11 sure was flashy, but you do know terrorists have blown up people all over europe as well? Oh yeah, it's great to see you're linking 9/11 with all muslims, very productive. Again, Iraq <-> AQ, link? We'll see how you like it, what will you be doing? We might want to keep an eye out for you on CNN. Hm, venting frustration? I'm sure this post will will be ignored but yeah well.

Oooh...I'd die. I enjoy my confinement away from people sometimes, but still need it occasionally. And no internet? That'd be torture. I could probably stay everywhere in the EU, I'd prefer Sweden, or even Holland, because they seem interesting to me, and they have better broadband ISP's. Worldwide...hmmm Canada (western, less crowded and nice scenery ), Australia (western but with a better climate) or maybe Japan, even though that I think that the cost of living and the culture clash would make me not like it *all* that much. I'm fairly happy here so far, I'll see how I think about it when I have to enter the job market. ^^

Heh, then we can ban it like headscarves and such. Very much so, it's what I meant to imply with my previous post.

Bah, Belgium's province of Luxemburg and the country Luxemburg right next to it? This happens on such a scale in so many countries...

I can't do anything to counter the people in those area's, if I go there I just take a gamble to get mugged. Will it solve anything? No. I don't see how me possible endangering myself will do anything. Besides, I really have no reason to go there for, no shops, nowhere near my school, and I don't know any people there. Oh and btw, two out of the four times that insults were hurled at me on the street they were "Belgian", just white trash/skinheads. Once in Mechelen, and once when I was on a school trip in the Ardennes. The two other times it were the Morrocan "gangs" people can go on about. People like this exist on both sides of the spectrum, I don't avoid a neighbourhood because it has immigrants in it, I avoid an area because it might expose me to unecessary risks. You don't prove points by getting your arse kicked. Also, I am half Thai so in essence I'm no pure Belgian myself, what'd be the law system for people like me?

unfortunately, most governements are like that nowadays. Indeed, even the more moderate people are going : "OMG, why can't we ever say something about Islam without being stoned to death with racism accusations?" or even moderate muslims : "OMG, why is everyone seemingly against us this time?" Both sides have people who want the polarisation to continue, it's so sad. People here in Belgium are commenting on it too. I'm sure most of them don't even know any of his work, besides the pieces quoted by muslim representatives to prove their point, so they conclude that "the muslims are blowing it out of proportion again". Sigh.

Hehe, maybe. I'm in favour of this one actually. There are some parts of Mechelen, Brussel or Antwerpen which I try to avoid, but since I don't live there but just go to school in Mechelen, and go shopping in the others, I mostly stay in the bland populated streets. Train stations at nightfall suck though, I don't like waiting for the bus when it's late.

My friends have experienced similar problems in the city nearby, though that was mostly Marrocans who somehow had a beef with them from school, or someone who had a beef with them asked these guys to beat my friends up. Well, that'll happen, but resorting to carrying firearms is silly. This isn't the wild west, if you start carrying guns so will they. Now, instead of getting beat up and losing your money, you will, at worst get shot and lose your money, maybe you can take one down with you, but as you probably have noticed yourself, the people who do these sorts of things are always in groups, can't do much about that with a pistol. An AK perhaps?

I'm belgian, but I love seeing Anderlecht lose too. Bunch of bigheaded idiots if you ask me. *hides from the Anderlecht supporters* Oh and I'm not too keen on football, so I don't really support a team, so don't go calling me a Brugge supporter either.

Terrorists kill civilians unscrupulousely, but do so "to strike at the American aggresor", the infidels, the land of the free, however you wish to put it. You attack Iraq with most likely good intentions (hey, you're not devils, I'm not stepping over that line) but you're killing people. Bombarding houses in urban area's with jets just doesn't seem to comply with "minimizing civilian casualties". I'm no expert by any means, but the US has to have better means than that at its disposal? Moral high ground/road meaning that, being the good guys you have to "set the example". Condemning terrorists is hard when you're in essence almost doing the same thing (again, I'm not saying that you're worse than "the terrorists" in general, numerically maybe a worse record in Iraq, but I digress) even by accident just comes across in a strange way. Edit : I agree.

Details, you say. Being able to look at things from multiple perspectives is good, not being able or worse, not willing to is nothng to boast about. At best you went in because there were doubts about WMD's gotten in during a gap in controlling Saddam's WMD-acquirring ambitions. You went to Iraq on that, and "possibly" ulterior motives. People are dying there now, accept the responsibilty now as well. Moral high road isn't all that much fun huh? (edited in that last quote)

The letters are still on it. Who cares about a bloody little flag on a lisence plate anyway? Silly nationalists, don't see me asking for a belgian or even flemish flag on my plates. Bow down to Brussels commoners!