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  2. Posted

    I dont think anyone would deny the involvement of AQ in the events of 9/11.

    What we doubt is that Iraq has any connection to either AQ or 9/11. Now, from what i hear, 26 pages of the 9/11 report are censored as 'national security concerns' and the rumours i hear are that those are hte sections dealing with the complicity and overt support of certain Saudi families for AQ, and funding for the 9/11 attacks. No wonder they are censored. Here your goernment is trying to link AQ and 9/11 to Saddam... it wouldnt do for the same government to release a report that says it was actually one of your allies!

  3. Posted

    Ok, AFAIK:

    The minute you create something (video, audio, written, etc) you have copyright on it. It isnt something that you need to file for. You have to file for trademarks though.

    These guys stole the camera with the tape. They didnt ask permission to plaster this guy all over the internet. So yes, they did something illegal, and they should be punished for it.

    If the kid had been hamming it up, and they had been taping him, that would be a whole different story. But the way they did it was wrong.

  4. Posted

    And a model of fidelity in a place where quickie weddings are invariably followed by quickie divorces.

    He and his wife were married for 69 years.

    Rest in peace, Mr Hope

  5. Posted

    Thanks for the thought. If you have comments on how the forum is moderated, please PM them.

    The rest of you should get post count reduction for spamming, but I am in a good mood, so I will just issue a warning biggrin_o.gif

  7. Posted

    Well maybe if it was better, and we need more people in it. It only three or four people.

    A lot of missions only have three or four people in them biggrin_o.gif

    You could always edit in OFPlike faces onto yourselves so it isnt obvious who you are smile_o.gif

  8. Posted

    President Bush wasn't saying it because the powerpuff girls said it.  It was a catch phrase before 9/11.  The thing is that President Bush was trying to inspire the nation by saying it.  It's sort of a motto for the war on terror.

    Sadly, it makes him look like a moronic cowboy. Sort of like telling the malcontents in Iraq to 'bring it on'.

    5 dead in two days. They sure brought it on...

    Whats a motto?

    Whats the motta is that the American president is a moron smile_o.gif

  9. Posted

    I was a big dorky kid like this when I was in highschool, (Now I am a big dorky adult biggrin_o.gif) and I can see how this would affect someone who wasnt vrey confidant and secure to start with.

    My opinion is that it's not the fame that is humiliating and degrading to this kid, it's what his real life peers are doing to him. It's tough being a big dorky kid to start with, and if you dont have a good group of friends to keep you relatively stable, then something this could easily cause a lot of problems.

    I think the kids who did it deserve to be nailed to the wall. They stole the camera and the tape, and then started this whole thing. If the kid had left the tape in a camera that was available to all, anytime, then it would be his fault. But there was theft involved. Plus these kids knew EXACTLY what they were doing, and intentionally set out to make this kids life hell. I hope the courts award the full amount. smile_o.gif

  11. Posted

    He's sticking to his campaign promises, which were pro-life.

    Umm... yeah. Cept none of the rhetoric was acted on. It's quietly just slipped away.

    All sorts of stem cell research is still being done.

    Strange that the campaign promise generally stopped being enforced after Bush was spoken to by former First Lady Reagan.

  12. Posted

    @ July 26 2003,22:06)]
    Not if they're attacking at children's hospitals.

    You can bet that if there were casualties from the hospital, it would be all over Fox and CNN.  

    'Look at the evil bad guys!  See?? Dead americans from protecting these iraqi children who are dead too!'

    The fact they arent talls me that this was a fairly precise attack on the american troops, not just a random RPG/Mine attack.

    Looks like resistance is going up now, not down.

    But only time will tell

    I cant believe my eyes....

    wonder why there isnt anything about that in the CNN or that kind of media... Becouse they dont want to show anything negative about USA....  rock.gif  

    I was at Bulgary... I was watching the local news... where there was dead children, women, innocent civilians bombed to death all over baghdad...  wake up.... the NEWS is not all what happens out there... those medias are ALL fileterd by their goverments...

    You miss my point smile_o.gif

    If Iraqi rebels attacked US forces and killed civilians, you can bet that it would be all over the news!

    You wont see civilians dead if they were killed by the US though, I agree.

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    worms are for food,  not for blood. i'm setting up PETW = People for Ethical Treatment of Worms. tounge_o.gif

    i say this is a cool concept along with stem cell, one of best ideas so far.

    Am I the only one that remembers Dubya swearing up and down that he would move heaven and earth to make embryonic stem cell research illegal anywhere in the US of A?

    Have you heard such rhetoric since?

    I heard that one Nancy Reagan went and had a talk with Shrub, and explained that embryonic stem cell research was one of the only promising avenues in research into Alzheimers.

    It's sad that until a friend of the rich and powerful needs something, new and controversial techniques and research is usually shunned by the powers that be.

  15. Posted

    i like the fake cockpit painted on the canadian planes

    Fake cockpit?

    on one of the first pics , you can clearly see red round painted areas underneath the real cockpit

    I guess my monitor at work here sucks, because I dont see that at all. I'll have to check when I get home.

    I dont know why they would have to fake cockpits though...

    ALl the screenies I've seen have had beautiful cockpits smile_o.gif

  17. Posted

    This is a cool concept.

    I was watching a show on Discovery about how many organisms there are undiscovered in the worlds oceans that might offer similar medical benefits.

    Hopefully we are a little more responsible harvesting them than we have been with harvesting fossil fuels and minerals.

  18. Posted

    Not if they're attacking at children's hospitals.

    You can bet that if there were casualties from the hospital, it would be all over Fox and CNN.

    'Look at the evil bad guys! See?? Dead americans from protecting these iraqi children who are dead too!'

    The fact they arent talls me that this was a fairly precise attack on the american troops, not just a random RPG/Mine attack.

    Looks like resistance is going up now, not down.

    But only time will tell

  19. Posted

    I think it's obvious what I personally think about Dubya.

    But if he sends aid to Liberia (who has asked for it on many occasions), and helps them avoid the sort of bloodshed that seems endemic to conflict in Africa, then he will move up a great deal in my estimation.

    Sometimes 'the right thing' doesnt have obvious profit involved in it.

    150 000 victims in 4 years , the bloodshed already started

    (and no i don't talk about victims of domestical accidents)

    :S

    I guess I need to do more reading on Liberia. I didnt think it had gotten to that point yet sad_o.gif

  20. Posted

    Lets see what mr Bruckheimer can squeeze out of this mess unclesam.gif

    I genuinely hope there isnt anything in Liberia to give Bruckheimer (that evil bloodsucker! See 'Pearl Harbor' for clarification) a chance to make a movie.

  21. Posted

    I think it's obvious what I personally think about Dubya.

    But if he sends aid to Liberia (who has asked for it on many occasions), and helps them avoid the sort of bloodshed that seems endemic to conflict in Africa, then he will move up a great deal in my estimation.

    Sometimes 'the right thing' doesnt have obvious profit involved in it.

  22. Posted

    From the report on the failures around 9/11, it's pretty apparent that the events of that day could have been prevented, had there been more sharing of information, inter-agency cooperation, and better anlysis of information.

    Some tinfoil hat sorts will imply that those failures point to US complicity in allowing the events of 9/11 to happen.

    That is utter rot as far as I am concerned. Look at the row currently ongoing over the WMD 'evidence' that Bush used. I think that is clear evidence that no matter how careful you might be, someone will spill the beans.

    So... orchestrated? No. Avoidable? Yes.

  23. Posted

    If we were in a similar situation, I am not sure we could be as 'forgive and forget' as you seem to be.

    You're probably right.  As much as I hate to admit it, if I was tortured by an occupying army I probably wouldn't turn the other cheek.

    I think the worst part is that there seems to be an almost cultural ignorance in Japan as to the attrocities commited by Japanese troops during WWII. Bot to indigenous populations, and to prisoners of war. Most Japanese today either dont know or deny the things that happened. And never once has there been an official apology by Japan to the people they did this to.

    Dont get me wrong, I dont see the Japan of today as being like the Japan of that period. But it bothers me that while the German people have repeatedly apologised for, and educate people about, what happened in WWII... The Japanese seem happy to forget.

    Back to Korea..

    I finally picked up a copy of that National Geographic with the article on Korea and the DMZ. Very interesting. It's strange, that in spite of all the nuclear rhetoric coming out of Pyongyang, that there seems to be a slow but steady movement towards more cross border travel and understanding.

  24. Posted

    I can understand that.  But the people they fear and hate are long gone.

    maybe i just dont hold grudges like other people smile_o.gif

    Dont take this as a flame, because it's not meant to be one smile_o.gif

    Neither you nor I can even remotely understand what the 'average' Korean might feel in this regard.  I suspect pretty much every Korean person has parents and grandparents who had horrific things happen to them at the hands of the Japanese only a few decades ago (60 years really isnt a long time in the grand sceme of things).  If we were in a similar situation, I am not sure we could be as 'forgive and forget' as you seem to be.

  25. Posted

    I don't understand that at all.  Most of the people from WWII are either dead or living in a retirement home.  Today's Japan isn't anything like WWII Japan.

    ...

    I think  crazy_o.gif

    The Japanese were as brutal and cruel to people in occupied territories during WWII as the Germans ever were.

    I'm not saying that the Japanese of today are like that, but old hatreds and fears die very slowly.

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