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</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">No, but does that take away my right to talk about it? <span id='postcolor'> According to you, no, but in your words; It makes you stupid. You said it. Not me.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (denoir @ July 23 2002,02:34)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I find it highly amusing how people have misconceptions on what democracy is. It is not some fantasy wonder solution. Democracy is the rule of the mediocre. The good thing about it is that people are happy about it in average.<span id='postcolor'> Thats right, democracy does not assure good leaders, but it allows bad ones to be removed.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I was saying that people who aren't trained in a certain field, but still talk about it like they are, are stupid. <span id='postcolor'> Are you trained in politics? The important part of democracy is that everyone is involved in the political process.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (FSPilot @ July 23 2002,01:57)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Paratrooper @ July 23 2002,01:54)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Who decides who is 'educated' and who isn't?<span id='postcolor'> People who have any amount of political training are educated, people who don't, aren't. Â It's just that simple. Â If you didn't go to high school, are you educated? </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">As for putting words in you mouth, we don't need to. Your ideas directly contradict the US constitution.<span id='postcolor'> You're telling me that I said things that I didn't say. Â My ideas don't contradict the U.S. contstitution. Â The ideas you're saying I said, are.<span id='postcolor'> Read Denoir's post! look at what YOU said!

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (FSPilot @ July 23 2002,01:50)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Paratrooper @ July 23 2002,01:43)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">From what you have said, you don't strike me as a highly educated person. What if you had no rights in this autocracy you propose?<span id='postcolor'> Resorting to childish insulting are we? Â That's very mature of you. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">You said that uneducated people should have no right making importrant decisions. You even said that uneducated people should not have the right to criticize the president of the united states. Right? That's two constitutional violations.<span id='postcolor'> Once again, stop putting words in my mouth. Â I never said either of those things. This is pathetic. Â Neither of you are making any arguable points.<span id='postcolor'> That isn't an insult, it is presenting a massive flaw in you naive suggestion. Who decides who is 'educated' and who isn't? You don't seem to understand why your proposal is flawed, and hence my low estimation of you education As for putting words in you mouth, we don't need to. Your ideas directly contradict the US constitution. Ipso facto, QED.

I think your history has let you down there!

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (FSPilot @ July 23 2002,01:39)</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">So you are saying that you are against the Amercan constitution? That's very un-American of you.<span id='postcolor'> Uneducated people leading the country is not in the constitution. Â And no need to double-post </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1. Thats not an opinion it is a fact. 2. Rule by an 'intellectual elite' would be tyranny<span id='postcolor'> It's your opinion that you hold as a fact. Â And being led by trained politicians is not a tyranny. Â Don't twist my words around. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Well he said that he is against the democratic voting system where everybody has the right to vote, right? <span id='postcolor'> I didn't say that. Â Stop twisting my words around. Â It defeats the purpose of arguing.<span id='postcolor'> From what you have said, you don't strike me as a highly educated person. What if you had no rights in this autocracy you propose?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (denoir @ July 23 2002,01:37)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Paratrooper @ July 23 2002,01:35)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Tex [uSMC] @ July 23 2002,01:33)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Paratrooper @ July 23 2002,01:29)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Very good! The majority of Brits wouldn't know that. but you are on the internet.. <span id='postcolor'> Believe what you want. You did ask the question after all.<span id='postcolor'> I can't know if you looked it up or not, so its not a very good test is it?<span id='postcolor'> Bah, with google I can tell you who queen Victoria lost her virginity to <span id='postcolor'> Indeed.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Tex [uSMC] @ July 23 2002,01:33)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Paratrooper @ July 23 2002,01:29)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Very good! The majority of Brits wouldn't know that. but you are on the internet.. <span id='postcolor'> Believe what you want. You did ask the question after all.<span id='postcolor'> I can't know if you looked it up or not, so its not a very good test is it?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (FSPilot @ July 23 2002,01:25)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (denoir @ July 23 2002,01:20)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (FSPilot @ July 23 2002,01:18)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (denoir @ July 23 2002,01:16)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Just a shot in the dark: perhaps because that is the fundament of democracy?<span id='postcolor'> Uneducated people making important decisions is the fundament of democracy? Â I certainly hope not.<span id='postcolor'> No, uneducated people making importrant decisions that's Bush. Uneducated people voting for uneducated people that get to make importrant decisions - that's democracy.<span id='postcolor'> Well, that's your opinion. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">So you think only "educated" people should have the franchise? <span id='postcolor'> educated as in people that know what they're doing, yes.<span id='postcolor'> 1. Thats not an opinion it is a fact. 2. Rule by an 'intellectual elite' would be tyranny.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Tex [uSMC] @ July 23 2002,01:26)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Paratrooper @ July 23 2002,01:17)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Bravo! Now what about something requiring a little knowledge, 1660 say?<span id='postcolor'> Ah, almost had me, but we covered this in World History last year. Charles II was restored to the throne by invitation from Parlaiment  <span id='postcolor'> Very good! The majority of Brits wouldn't know that. but you are on the internet..

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (FSPilot @ July 23 2002,01:18)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (denoir @ July 23 2002,01:16)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Just a shot in the dark: perhaps because that is the fundament of democracy?<span id='postcolor'> Uneducated people making important decisions is the fundament of democracy? Â I certainly hope not.<span id='postcolor'> So you think only "educated" people should have the franchise?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Tex [uSMC] @ July 23 2002,01:12)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Oh shit... dont tell me... I know its something to do with the Norman invasion... Battle of Hastings, maybe?<span id='postcolor'> Bravo! Now what about something requiring a little knowledge, 1660 say?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Trigger Happy @ July 22 2002,22:38)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">OK, the V-80 is a prototype. I love it... but would a prototype be used in a conflict situation? Isn't the definition of a prototype that it's used to test ideas etc, and probably only a handful of them are built? Has there actually been any prototypes used in "real war situations" except for some things the Germans put out in WW2? The V-missiles comes to mind. Â But maybe there were too many of them built so it was no longer a prototype. I'll bet you correct me if I'm wrong... /Happy<span id='postcolor'> I can't believe how many times I have had to say this; V- 80, or Vertoyet-80 is simply the project name it was revealed to the West under at the MosAeroshow, in 1992. Not the name of the prototype. It is the KA-50.

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Infact its that sort of attitude that has allowed the crimes of the 20th Century to happen. Underlying hate and contempt for different people in society.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (MDRZulu @ July 22 2002,23:12)</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">Next time you Americans curse out fundie muslims, remember that you have your own brand of them in your very own country..but they are ok because htey are 'christians' Â <span id='postcolor'> You think we dont fucking curse out the christians either who wait for you outside stores saying jesus loves you all the time and bunch of bullshit. I havent personally talked to one even because they piss me off I just give them a dirty look then keep walking. Somehow those fools got their own TV station too...PBS and Ill be glad to let you know I deleted that channel.<span id='postcolor'> If you can't tolerate different people, no matter how 'annoying' then I pity you.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Warin @ July 22 2002,22:48)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (RalphWiggum @ July 22 2002,22:29)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Warin, cool down~~~ I don't like the decision, but just being a devil's advocate here. yes..american "fundamentalists" are as problematic as muslim ones. but they don't fly planes or drive truck loaded with bombs into "enemies"...they don't have guts to do so.... <span id='postcolor'> I wonder how many children will be born into already too large familes that will starve to death because of famine or drought. To me, informed planning including contraception is a way to keep families from having more children than they can support. Â And I dount the UN is endorsing abortion as a method of family planning... So if 10,000 children born in the third world starve...and those children would never have ben born because of proper family planning...who is responsible? The fundie catholic who had the money killed because condoms are evil? Â Not to speak of preventing sexually transmitted disease.. Oi. Not angry..just...frustrated...<span id='postcolor'> Well there is more to this issue than just small families=good. Poor people in the developing world need their children to support them, and to work the land they subsist of.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Albert Schweizer @ July 22 2002,21:40)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (FSPilot @ July 22 2002,18:52)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Russian. Not just because of the game too. Â I've always loved Russia. Â The language, the environment. Â Everything. Â They have great military aircraft, and a very proud history. I took a ground school (teaches you the book stuff of flying) course with two ex-Russian pilots. Â One was a fighter pilot, the other a helicopter pilot. Â They were both very nice people.<span id='postcolor'> Damm hell you are absolutely right!, but besides that "history" Â issue you find a far more fascinating one: culture. Just think about the amount of famous painters that have create new trends e.g. Chagall, Filonov, Kandinski, Baranov Rossine,... and then about literature and music: everyone knows Rachmaninov, Rubinstein, Tchaikovsky and the ballet. But the problem is that all damm morons from the russian countryside have no clue about the REAL tradition they have and what the Really can be proud of. Instead they are whining about the military power they lost. I hope the universities can keep the best students at home (and not let them emigrate to germany, US, whereever) and the arts will once again florish, cause right now many arts could need some new impulses.! Â <span id='postcolor'> Much of the finest art flourishes out of hardship, I'm sure Russia will produce fine cultural exports once again.

This is something my freinds and I are often talking about. What country do you admire and want to be a citizen of? The rules are: Not a neighbouring country, or a one time colony. So a Briton could not pick New Zealand for instance. Or a Russian, Belarus. Oh and not your own country! I am a big admirer of the Swiss, direct democracy et le plein air!

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Jamesia @ July 22 2002,21:22)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Placebo, can you not do something about topics like this, only they annoy me to no end. The people who make them give topic titles that get your hopes up a lot, and then inside it is nothing to do with the title. for example...... New vehicle for next patch! Inside: requesting a new vehicle. WHY?! it really annoys me and Im sure it annoys other people aswell. I understand that you can do nothing about this, but I just thought I ought to voice my views.<span id='postcolor'> Absolutely!

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Ruud van Nistelrooy @ July 22 2002,14:51)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Lets not forget the V-80 is a prototype of the real life whirly death thing, if they put in a chopper that was a realistic representation of what the real KA-50 (or the much cooler looking KA-52) is like, then it would be the don, and imbalence the game greatly. The dual rotor thingy should be more stable but they may've knakcered up the prototype...<span id='postcolor'> Its just the best, yet flawed representation they could make. Not deliberately made worse for game purposes.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (residuum @ July 22 2002,19:15)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">8--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Paratrooper @ July 22 2002,138)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Well I've always been a strong exponent of elocution,but I can't say the SA 80 is worth adopting. I will say that our armed forces are the best in the world, even if they are kept lean by the Chancellor.<span id='postcolor'> I thought this was a thread about praising other countries. Â Comments like "will say that our armed forces are the best in the world" will turn this into another patriotic "Who's the best" thread. Shame on you. Â <span id='postcolor'> I was commenting on his comments. Me saying that I agree with his praise of our armed forces isn't a reason to start a "Flame war" , now is it

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Turkish @ July 22 2002,17:27)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I'd be English. Â I find England and its people fascinating. Â I'm always trying to perfect my accent. Â I watch all the BBC I can (I know TV only gives you a limited view into the culture, but at least you can learn to mimic the accent), and Snatch is my favourite movie (obviously). Militarily speaking, I think the Brits have always had a cutting-edge military. Â Easily on a par with the US Army (of which I am a part). Â The SAS is responsible, IMPO, for inspiring every special forces unit to date. Â And the SA80/L85A1 is one of the best (and coolest looking) assault rifles available. Â I wish the US Army would switch to it (though the M16 is growing on me). The only thing that sucks, is the gun laws there and in Australia are unbelievable.<span id='postcolor'> Well I've always been a strong exponent of elocution,but I can't say the SA 80 is worth adopting. I will say that our armed forces are the best in the world, even if they are kept lean by the Chancellor.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">It takes a while for the brain to die<span id='postcolor'> Not when its been blown to bits!