Fifoo
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Of course, it is difficult and inappropriate to address this issue based on (hypothetical) statistics, statistics tell only part of opinion.
By cons, what can be observed, these are facts encountered and specific cases that might show how certain conditions lead people to react and act differently from their principles. It is these features that, by their uniqueness, make the subject is interesting on several points, and give food for thought. For in the world around us, many factors can act in this direction...
An interesting case is the duty of disobedience.
Seen on the occasion of a documentary (it was not that long) on a French television channel, called "Game of Death" (Wednesday, March 17th on France 2), when a (false) game show presenter asks players to deliver electric shocks (up to 450 volts) for each wrong answer to a candidate. Despite her cries, 81% of players continue electrocution! Result chilling: the mere submission to the authority of television can transform ordinary people into potential murderers! This proves that the packaging of individual citizens can neutralize all moral considerations. The anguish about the idea of breaking with the authority means rebellion is an event that most people are unable to cope.
Disobedience would surely be the proper way to resolve the internal conflict between torturing a stranger and his conscience. The staging of authority sufficient to overcome any scruples. This experiment in social psychology helps explain the behavior of cowardice that was observed during the Holocaust, and the attitude of the police during the raid at the Vel d'Hiv. On the other hand, there are testimonies of men and women who risked their lives, saved thousands of Jews during the war. Farmers, industrialists, Muslim or Catholic, they hid, fed, employed Jews. They made them cross borders or procured false papers. The risks were terrible, some have paid with their lives. But their belief and conscience were stronger than fear.
"Obedience begins with consciousness and consciousness by disobedience." This slogan inscribed on the walls in May 68 gave food for thought. As the words of the philosopher Herbert Marcuse: "The duty to resist is the engine of historical development of freedom. Without this right of resistance, we would still at the primitive barbarism."
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Here we are... together again. :happy:
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@Pyrosocial
For now I did not request one, but if you want, your honor, since the idea came from you :thumbsup:
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An another nice picture... with flames.
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm117/Dragenfly_photo/Dragon.jpg
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@ Pyrosocial
Thank you for trying to help out, I myself am not a modder (maybe one day) so if it was possible to obtain permission from the artist to use his concept, perhaps that asking for help to the Nexus community could be a good idea. This is something to follow in any case.
@ Maharg67
:woot: I... I think I'm falling in love! :wub:
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I would have liked to vote for both... :confused:
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I think this shows that many people have not escaped the general malaise of our society. By forbidding, you find yourself facing a sanitized society in which the individual as such has no place if it does not fit the social mold. Also a society model dominated by money, it is the recognition, the money has taken a disproportionate place in our society. Especially with the easy money.
Compensation for work often seems dwarfed by the easy money collected by speculation or luck. The disgusting lifestyle of young dealers or gains games on TV make fragile the righteous speeches about the need to work to succeed. And these are just a few examples among many others. The game shows are multiplying, offering quick money, trips or cars out the wazoo... Heeded the desire of the viewer who identifies fortune necessarily the one who plays. Fortunately, in some cases, kindly obliges, earnings are paid to a charity or some humanitarian associations.
Today the National Education must confront the difficulty of young people to admit that their studies will secure their future. But now the problem is likely to increase. With the opening of online games in 2010, a kind of virtual casinos, the gambling will be everywhere, including in your home. The moral that wealth is the result of work does she risk not being undermined by promises of cash as exciting as illusory?
So do not be surprised to see people confused, having no solid benchmarks, or hope, sinking into alcoholism, drugs, suicide or delinquency. If it is certain that some things need a total ban, because it does not respect the fundamental principles of human rights, such as slavery (good point, evilneko), for other things, before trying to ban everything it should above all try to find remedies to cure our sick society of all its excesses. And this is no small matter...
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Wish granted, but for this to work there should be a better translation tool. Because in French "to wish", "to hope for" and also "hope that" have the same meaning: "souhaiter".
I seriously wish for a better tool apart Google's one to succeed to express wishes for a much better way. :rolleyes:
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Thanks Maharg67. Nice, really nice. Do you think we can tame it the same way as the Dragons of the North?
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Wish granted, now you live in a hermetic bubble that protects you from all external allergies, but not those located within it.
I hope that all go for the best in the best of worlds. :confused:
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No I understand that, the constitution is the foundation of our society, i never said its to be bypassed, such a decision should NEVER be made ever, I know what it stands for I understand the terms, but you can't allow one document even if its one that is perhaps the most important, and to which I have great respect for, ruin millions of lifes if something severe were to happen. Sometimes the rules have to be broken in order to perserve human life or perhaps the entire species you never know, but the constitution has been ignored once (This being prohibition since it was an obvious ignorance towards the people's rights.) and I believe that unfortunatley, this will repeat. Think about it, whats better, something that could tear a Nation apart (Not talking about beer, i mean something extremely serious whatever that may be.) or the peoples view; I'd go for the peoples view because its our choice its our right, but if our government decides its better to go against our wishes, they probley would. But lets not go further into politics, Nexus doesn't alow politics.
The freedom ends where someone else's begins...
This concept is not easy to implement, and leads often to conflict situations, and will not be easy to manage.
You might say we should simply ban this or that. But in many cases it will not work.
Because the problem is that when you prohibit something, there will always be more people who will also pass this ban by illegal means or hidden action. And of course you will then create parallel or illegal markets that you can not control without further increase your blood pressure by actions rebuke, which will result in an even higher increase of the negative effect of the ban and bring you inevitably towards a more confrontational situation to manage, a vicious circle without end.
This is the snake biting its tail ... Rather than prohibit, we must educate.
Educating by raising awareness in the field of Health and the public, media, news, school and street. Educating by providing the means to help those affected by alcoholism plague that is affecting more and more young people in our society...
Educate to empower.
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However, as I have said before, if BP and their board are to be held truly to account, caution needs to be exercised. Far better for them to have profits to be garnished in order to pay and to keep paying. And, if individuals are to stand trial, we don't want to create the sort of atmosphere where their lawyers can argue it would be impossible for them to receive a fair hearing, thus preventing extradition.
As usual in such cases, it always ends with an incessant and infernal legal battle, which lawyers, experts, plaintiffs, and judges are passing the buck - if I may use that expression - by dint of arguments legal, applications expertise and cons of second opinions, only to find anything to circumvent those laws through their complexities, especially in the field of International Law, and thus hope to avoid harsher sanctions, or even most of the time, to get by very cheaply.
I do not criticize the work done by the men of law and lawyers, they know very well how to do their job, and they are paid for it, but ultimately, it was the cat who will eat the mouse, and not vice versa, if the slightest false-legal maneuvering will come to them...
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Teleport (ninja smoke teleport) - To go anywhere, anytime... and try to get out of all possible situations. :ninja:
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My Ban "consequences"... for teleporting (the best ninja power).
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@ Pyrosocial
The artist who created the illustration for the cover's magazine HeavyMetal is James Ryman and the graphics is called Cyberhunter. The artist is particularly known for having greatly contributed to the illustrations for Dungeons&Dragons, Warhammer Online, WarCraft, and Doghouse.
Unfortunately, its graphics are copyrighted, and it will ask permission to make a mod for the weapon and armor that interests us.
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Let us talk about Dragons again... Smaug - by Matt Dixon.
http://www.heavymetal.com/images/galleries/full/9/Smaug.jpg
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Ban Pronam for nothing. :whistling:
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I myself would like to think ANARCHY would work, but it wouldnt
though anarchy isn;t an option, it has my heart and sould (just not in practice)
... such as a Mercantilism system? :rolleyes:
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Your story is a very touching one... I love the end with the concept of peace and serenity that surrounds it, the detachment that a man can have on the vision of his own world and to disregard any materialism, is it the beginning of wisdom? It is both sad and noble. Kudos given. :thumbsup:
However, just a little criticism on the structure of it if you don't mind. If I understand well the story, there is a technical incompatibility in its evolution between the fourth and fifth stanza, unless the subject that I lead by example is not the same character in the story and in this case it would be good to be a little more specific in the narrative technique to avoid doubt.
Then it happened. A crack like thunder ripped the peaceful air. A soldier ahead of him dropped to the ground, and he knew exactly what had happened. It was gunfire. At that instant, another soldier screamed to find cover, but before the man could react, another shot rang through the air, hitting him in the leg. Everything happened so fast after that. Men in white camo came storming out of the bush covered hills. Bullets were flying in all directions. The man couldn’t do anything, the bullet was stuck in the bone and he couldn’t move his leg. He lay there in the snow bleeding out. He reached for his sidearm, the standard issue M9 9mm Beretta Pistol, and started firing at the white suited targets pouring out of the hills. Another shot rang towards him and struck the gun, sending fragmented metal into his arms and disabling the weapon. There was nothing he could do.
He sat there in the red snow, watching as one after another dropped. Next to the man now lay the body of his best friend. He ran over to help him, but ended up with a back full of shrapnel from a grenade blast. This went on for an hour, and the whole time, he could do nothing but stare into the lifeless eyes of his friend. He grew faint from blood loss, and passed out before the battle was over. When he came to, he was in a MASH, a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, with bandages up both arms and on his right leg. He couldn’t remember what happened at first but as his memory slowly returned, he wished he didn’t remember. The bloody snow, the gunfire, the body of his friend lying next to him, it all came back to him. At first, he was too shocked to do much, but as it wore off, he started to cry. He had lost everything once again.
If that is the same person in the highlided quotes, it would be better to write in the fifth stanza: "He tried desperately to crawl towards him to help," or, perhaps: "Jumping over obstacles with his one good leg, he tried to help him," or better for showing the character's determination: "Jumping over obstacles despite his injured leg, he tried to help him, but in vain, he ended up with..." and so on. You see, there are several possible narrative techniques and styles, especially when you're not limited by the number of words.The hardest part is finding the style that goes perfectly with the spirit in which you want to tell your story or set the hero's psychology: dramatic, lyric, etc...
Keep up the good work! :smile:
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Thank you all for your replies and contributions here.
I'll be the apostle of the devil in you with this message, but do not misunderstand my intentions. Consider that I am neutral in this debate, at least for now, because I do not want to influence those who wish to contribute to the discussion. Some people already know me well enough to know what would be my position on the subject. :whistling:
Do you think everyone is willing to put themselves in danger (literally as figuratively) to help someone? I will be very hard, but the majority of people, or almost all, always takes the side of the strongest. And it starts at school. We also see it in our workplaces and in our everyday life... Someone who has enough charisma can be regarded as a leader in the collective unconscious and it is enough to tell any nonsense, "flogging" someone, etc ... so that his followers do ask no questions and acquiesce without flinching.
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Everything is a question of monopoly.
Despite laws against monopolies that exist in some states, as is the case in the U.S., from the moment the Trust-companies have a great influence on the economy of a country, they create some kind of indulgence from the policy. And nothing will prevent them from continuing to ignore everything related to the deterioration of our planet. In most cases, for large companies the only thing that interests them at the highest point is to make profit. That is the harsh law of the market and how the liberal world economy works.
So of course we can be indignant about when this kind of disaster happens, and indeed it's very unfortunate, but in reality nothing will change as attitudes remain the same point. This is the least of their worries in their policy of exploitation, and anyway the insurance will do the rest. Their great concern is to recover maximum crude that continues to escape from the leak, not to bemoan the consequences of the accident that have, anyway, a strong impact on the environment.
The oil "is spread over a 320 km radius around the wellhead, where it is leaking right now, and it is not a monolithic sheet," said Thad Allen, commander of the guard U.S. Coast. "There is literally hundreds of thousands of small webs".
The CEO of BP, Tony Hayward, said that about 10,000 barrels were collected daily through the funnel installed Thursday. This is "probably the vast majority" of crude escaped, he said. It is unclear however how much is discharged each day from the well since the explosion on April 20 and then sank two days later from the Deepwater Horizon platform, operated by BP. The estimates are between 2 and 3 million gallons per day. - Quoted from Le Monde's article of 06/06/2010: BP ensures that the funnel gets the "vast majority" of oil leakage.
I would not wish to throw the first stone, but the media in France have discussed the case by disclosing, by the confession of the said company that the operators of the drilling platform have neglected the principles of safety when alarms were triggered by three times, before the disaster happens, leading to what are known. As luck - from the moment the U.S. has demanded that "light be made" on the causes of that disaster, the company leading this oil revealed the facts of growing concern, as and when as the days passed. What a mess, and what did they have to gain? To be an indictment for a possible court appearance. Then, of course, one may wonder whether cooperation would be the same if this had happened in a part of the world where population facing less pressure, and more geographically remote, or even a country lost to the other end of the world. Of course, for the oil-company, economic issues are not the same...
Do you really think they can take the risk to stop any exploitation of the deposit and so losing their investment? Well, by force of circumstances, it is ultimately the disaster that was responsible for putting an end to exploitation of this deposit, and optics to continue the operation of the so famous and precious black gold will be seriously compromised there, for a long time if not more, and the U.S. are considering now challenging the operation of these resources under certain conditions - at least near the coasts of the United States. But make no mistake, energy demand is increasingly growing, and the drilling conditions and resource exploitation are increasingly difficult as the years pass, which necessarily increases proportionally the chances of accidents and the seriousness of these, needless to say... But history will repeat itself and we will forget all this soon enough until the next disaster. :dry:
All that the world has earned it, is one more ecological disaster on our hands over to manage with all that entails negative. Thank you to those who are responsible, and too bad for others who have to suffer the consequences... There is food for thought and in any case, it is a good lesson to think, because we're all involved in it to a greater or lesser degree, this concerns us all without exception.
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Thank you, Pyrosocial. And great idea! :thumbsup:
I must confess that I found them quite impressive by their graphic beauty. This is one reason among many why I wanted to add the illustration to this selection.
I will go and do some research on the identity of the artist who made this picture, so why not someone to emulate them.
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Very true as reasoning, Aurielius but myrmaad has right to raise the issue because everyone can interpret the concept of weak differently, so here are some details.
The question is very simple, are you ready to defend (the) minority (s) or will you choose for your store to benefit the majority, even if it is contrary to your principles, but in this case understand that you might want to bear the consequences, this is a matter of choice to do...
Obviously the answer to give is less clear because of its ambiguous nature, and the term "weak" could confuse you. One must understand the word low in its proper sense, as figuratively, where that person does not represent the majority and could be in conflict with it, or need help ... I leave you to think.
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@Maharg67
Some videos are not viewable on other sites - limited authorization by YouTube integration. I left the video in my previous post to get an idea of its content.
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Here are a few illustrations created by talented artists, they were used for the covers of the famous illustrated fantasy magazine, HeavyMetal. They represent the Dragons to part of the subject, except the second picture in the middle, but I found it too pretty not to be ignored in my selection. Enjoy it. :wink:
http://www.heavymetal.com/shm/images/0789.jpghttp://www.heavymetal.com/shm/images/0110.jpghttp://www.heavymetal.com/shm/images/1102.jpg
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Perhaps they are too busy with their terran activities... Ack, Ack, LoLol ZAP!
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