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Well, you would know all about patronization, you do remind me of someone in that respect. Please explain what you mean by blinders. I have heard of blinkers (items of horse tack used to prevent them being distracted) but not blinders (at least here in the UK we don't blind our horses). YOUR arguments would carry more credence if they were not so impenetrable. A blinder is a blinker. Tell me something new, something that has substance, for example on how you handle political correctness on the internet. Up to now your diversion is just a credit to my argumentation, namely that it doesn't exist. C'mon - you can do better.

No I mean blinders. And I don't have to reflect about the good visible first: Political correctness does not exist on the internet. As such, patronization is the worst counter-argument by a mile. Actually it is none at all.

People simply love Cinderella tales more than the horror of daily life. That's it.

On the internet, political correctness doesn't exist, not even to some extent. In a common atmosphere of being right per se, no matter how foolish one is, there is absolutely no space left for self-dicipline or self-restriction in the discussion. The first hello, if ever, ist always followed by an epithet. As such the thread is ridiculous, perhaps not for the discussers, but for the readers that don't have blinders on.

Worst case scenario, eh? It is possible that the Italian soul simply needs high quality corruption to feel comfortable, yet the adulterated lambrusco politics of pseudo-Mussolini has absolutely no impact to the other Europeans. Gosh, this ego-populist is a political joke of its best. Forza Italia, wherever. Giro giro tondo casca il mondo, casca la terra, tutti giù per terra.

Evidently Daraa is surrounded by a brigade of Bashar al-Assad's Republican Guard. The snipers that shoot at civilians high probably belong to Assad's fourth column. Both units are Shiite. The Syrians as well as the Syrian army are largely Sunni. It is quite decisive now if the Syrian army tries to take a stand in the conflict and what the Sunni clergy might have to say and the Shiite answer by the Iranian Ayatollahs that'd follow. A Sunni fatwa against the Shiite minority regime is less probable cos this would directly lead to open civil war if not to something more worse Israel and the Kingdom of Jordan are absolutely not interested in due to the running Palestinian conflict, especially in the Gaza. It is possible that the bloody Syrian conflict goes back and forth for long without clear outcome.

Well, I hear no voices from on high, as such I don't know if you are a legal one or a pirate and high probably never will. And what goes for you goes for the vast majority of all members that produce nothing, This is no multiplayer forum with direct interaction of players in game. All we know is that already statistically seen many of the members are illegal. I still believe that the eschewal of inoffical installation support (btw totally unasked by the game publishers) is the only key to dry out the phenomenon, at least on the forums. Any alternative?

You'll probably find none of the illegals unless he reveals himself. And then a report by us is already again useless. Oh well, you could denunciate the wrong half of the members. But is that really what you want?

Being that the thread is a discussion about internal American security issues, then I think the Constitution is relevant. That you might find it a document that means not much to you is understandable but not germain to the discussion, my point was that the Constitution is ONLY relevant to the internal affairs of the Untied States..not foreign countries. What I might find or not shouldn't bother you. It doesn't bother me either what you might find or not as long as the threads in question are marked as internal US - from now on! This would at least warn the non-US perhaps not to participate in your internal discussions. Keep in mind that this forum is a public one and the US are just a part of the public.

Oh yes. Most people on this planet are absolutely not interested in the US Constitution, And not every foreign soldier that enters a house leaves it on his own feet as well. That's a problem, isn't it?

@ Skevitj Fertility is known to decrease after exposure to radioactivity (Radzikhovsky and Krisevich 2002). If the WHO doesn’t even know this simple fact the dudes haven’t yet run through a simple roentgen irradiation and have thus no idea of the critical dose. Their statement is actually a medical piss-take of its best as is their medical ethos behind. Dangerous this disinformation is, as is the denial of the published research reports on the increase of stillbirths and deformities among newborn babies and animals caused by Chernobyl throughout Europe. The latter is vividly known to any, I repeat, to any European animal breeder of 1986 and thereafter. It is possible that the younger generation without own experience in life and job is to be fooled again with the opposite of what is true, but still atom policy is not yet made by them. And we who we are politically in charge say: Enough is enough! Every man is free to go for a ride to live in the Pripyat Swamps or in the area of Fukushima, to collect yummy mushrooms from Bavaria or to eat delicate caribou meat from Scandinavia or crispy roast wild boar from France - still highly radioactive contaminated food - one generation after Chernobyl. Do it! You have indeed argued the facts away. Dismissed!

The significant increase of rare thyroid cancer after Chernobyl is a fact in reseach and no longer in the public debate, You can't argue it away. Don't even think of it! Actually we are talking about an additional rate of increase of thyroid cancer by 5% in all European populations that has started with a latency of 3-5 years after the accident. However, one of the most interesting negative effects caused by Chernobyl is the rapid decrease of fertility, the reproductive performance especially among those Europeans (predominantly men) that were born between 1960 and 1970. In 1986 they normally should have been in the natural prime of sexual life that follows the puberty,

Yes, I'm sure. You probably mean two weeks after the official game release by the known crack release group in the case of Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed 2. Allegedly it was a warning directed to Ubisoft to be more focused on the quality of the game instead of the game protection (cnet News). I wonder how a cracked game that levers out Ubisoft's controversial always on' PC DRM ever could be released already before the official game. As it is already said here on the Nexus one merely randomly identifies an illegal user and this primarily on the basis of typical questions in connection with game installation and customising or when compiled mods and community tools explicitly call for the actual crc etc. of security related game files. At this the dark figure of illegals in forums is a function of time and national game restrictions, the longer the game is on the market and the higher the restrictions are (blood etc.), the lower is the share of the legals. On the contrary, the share of "a pirate I was meant to be" martyrs, the professing mayflies, is always very low, on forums with predominantly educated users it is unquantifiable. If you think that there are many mayflies on the way though, well, then you got a first impression of the actual share of piracy.

Tell that to the programmer who was just laid off because the game maker didn't make enough profit to keep him around. :rolleyes: That's just a populist argument from silence, a horror scenario from afar for any family man involved in the business, or are you perhaps able to mention a concrete and verified case? Guess not! Moreover, the professional, often company-internal programmer who cracks the source code is the pirate, the private beneficiaries of an illegal free download offer are not, they are illegal users and as such juridically to be handled - no support at all, financial penalty if applicable. To lodge an appeal for the latter is exlusively up to the company as the aggrieved party and not up to forum members who are usually not on the payroll of the game company. Addendum Actually, systems like DRM fully accomplish what they really should do: reduce piracy to a calculated claim level, cause a delay during the first decisive weeks of the game, when most of the sales are made and professional cracks are not yet uploaded (probably by this very reason). So if one is actually willing to support the company’s interests in the fight against piracy one should ultimately leave any own game installation support parallel to the official undone for at least two or three months after release not to feed illegal users exactly in the phase of sales. This would secure the company’s profits and reduce the success of piracy as such on the long run, for users, the legal as well as the illegal, have one decisive thing in common – they are fired up for the new game, they cannot wait that long. Though for the legal ones the official support is wide open for individual help, for the illegal ones the public forums are the only alternative.

I tend to share the conflict. I don't even know who the proper authorities are and where we might and why we should denunciate folks as pirates that almost love to denunciate themselves in front of the gallows. The Nottinghamshire County Sheriff's Office occured to me or perhaps Stanley's Junk Shop on Booty Island. Live and let die!

Only a good seller is to be called "good", no matter how many thumbs go up or down by means of whatever. Do you believe in pro or con promo? I don't. What I need to know I find in the reports that deal with the product.

Nothing will happen in Western Europe, I'd say. The people there aren't living in the epoch of Wihelm II. and Hitler anymore. Time has changed as has the common understanding of the Europeans. So one has to watch out for trumpeters of hate elsewhere. I really don't see a World War III of two opposing classical factions appearing on the horizon, but many local wars because of unsolved ethnic or cultural conflicts and, of course, the struggle for the access to resources. Apparently we have chosen the lesser of the two evils. Are we indeed to be blamed for it? Guess not, for in this way mankind doesn't go the way of the dodo bird, at least not in a hurry. Hope this helps. Sorry, if it doesn't. Get on with it.

Peaceful conflict solution aiming at a win-win goal is always a workable alternative. The opponents just have to come down a few notches, trying to understand the people on the other side, what they really want and what they reject, what they actually mean, what they have to offer and what we have that they perhaps need. Talks on an equal footing, that is something decisive our rulers and diplomats have not yet learned from history, probably because they don't have to risk their lives on the battlefield when things go wrong and because they are not familiar with role playing. Instead they take their own role and the lifestyle behind for absolute. And that is often a deadly error. We haven't yet seen Western diplomats talking to the Taliban or other groups in the game. What we see are exclusively talks about the other side, today they talk about Ghaddafi, it's political self-expression of its best that plays on delimination, exclusion and demonization that aims at a win-lose goal. And it goes both ways. That is just ridiculous.

The eighteen-year-old Hamza bin Laden, successor of his father Osama in the military leadership of al-Qaeda is still operating in the eastern Pakistani provinces, the Pakistani secret service reports (Al Jazeera). That qualifies Gaddafi's statement fueling the 9/11 fears of the West on the actual influence of al Qaeda cells among the Libyan rebels. These cells are there, no doubt, but probably twice as many if not more you'll find sleeping in any European country, always equipped with a student ID card, waiting for the clarion call for action. I doubt a role of al-Qaeda, even a minor one, in the battle for Libya. And because it has started as an Arab revolution by the people for the people we should not operate with troops on the ground, or it might end as the colonial remake of the West Gaddafi is writing on the wall.

In some ten years the US empire as we know it will be no more cos after having lost all wars from the Korean War in the 50s through to the Afghan and the 3rd Iraq War of today, expensive imperial military bases almost throughout the known world as erstwhile the Romans and a military budget beyond good and evil the US inevitabily will return to a flourishing national normality as the Italian, German, British, French and Russian empire did already earlier. A possible succession of a militant Chinese empire still remains questionable. The old structures of military alliances that have led to WW-I and II are less valuable already in these days as a brief look at the international handling of the Libyan conflict proves. And the dreaded military clash of monotheistic cultures on a large scale that was open to debate in the 90s and thereafter is actually less probable considering the people's uprisings in the Muslim world of today. WW-III reveals itself as the beloved declaration or war game of me and others when we were boys and of adults that are still trapped in the puberty and its strange feelings of invincibility and immortality, unable to solve conflicts peacefully. What we will see in the future that are these countless minor conflicts, often because of the control of local resources or simply ethnic reasoned for rooted in former colonialism, terrible enough for all those people that are involved.

... unless their fuel rods start melting down! "Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain". How true

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