Bulldrek v3.0

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Congrats.

Myself, I'm amazed I still have an account here. I had heard there was going to be a wipe.

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But I've yet to see anybody debate what I said, which I take to mean either none of you disagree or none of you thought to, which is pretty damn sad. In order to debate, one must raise a salient point which multiple diverging views can be discussed upon. In this case, history indicates that you hav...

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I'll take "Because we like Lilith better than you" for one thousand, Alex.

It happens sometimes. Personally, not everyone shows up on my "give a shit" meter.

I'd just rub some dirt on it and walk it off if I were you.

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I realize I missed your big publishing debut. Our local gaming shops have been remiss in stocking White Wolf products.

However, this week I picked up Houses of the Fallen and saw your name on it! Congratulations!

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Egads, I've still got a post count. Even over P1k.

You've no idea how much of a relief that is. Considering the violence and all.

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Bush wouldn't do that. But Carl Rove wouldn't hesitate a moment about planting kiddie porn on his own grandmother if it meant keeping Bush in power. Bush wouldn't do it, but he'd have to be a bigger idiot than everyone says to not know who's doing it for him. Ah yes. The kingmaker. Rove scares me m...

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Instant Cash wrote:I want to say they average around 300lbs of usable meat but then you have to trim that down even more for actual eatable pieces.

Yeah, but as I understand it the remainder makes for decent bologna or sausage, so you're still probably getting the full 300lbs.

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That depends. As I said, from what I'd previously heard it did. Well, I can honestly tell you that most people that hunt were brought up in rural areas, at least in the US. As such, the American hunting culture is very much a vestige of more rustic days. In many cases it's a hobby that's passed fro...

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Sowhat wrote:And Trav, I didn't say that that was wrong.

Then the issue isn't really with American hunting culture, wouldn't you agree?

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Do any of you actually think that shooting wild animals for sport is anything other than inhumane and sick? The majority of hunters in the US eat what they kill. While it's still for fun, the animals aren't wasted. People who hunt just for trophies are a distinct minority. Where I grew up, if you l...

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You're mixing HTML and BBCode, Moon.

It's <font color="#ff0099">Yourtextgoeshere</font> or [color=#ff0099]moretypinggoeshere[/color]

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The legacy thing: so what? So they want people who are more likely to have pride in their institution and are more likely to be loyal and more likely to understand the culture, motives, etc of the institution. Makes sense to me. Yeah, but when one of the largest arguments against affirmative action...

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So, what's legacy weighting then? Matt beat me to it. Legacy Weighting is when a school will give you points (On the Admissions Standard) for being the child or Grandchild of a member of the Alumni. He's hit it squarely, too. These admissions take slots as surely as affirmative action does. Bush wo...

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I can do without Affirmative Action if legacy weighting is done away with too. Of course, Bush was a legacy student, so I don't see that happening. Nifty bit of hypocrisy.

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*cough*China*cough* Right. That's why we can't seem to decide whether we want to please or piss off China. There's a difference between being buddy-buddy and tolerating them because of their economic clout. If the US felt they could get the same economic benefit out of Iraq with a non-communist gro...

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Daki wrote:Personally, I think the CP would have full US support if they were willing to break with OPEC and not adhere to production limits.

Naw. They're commies. There's too many old-school unreconstructed cold warriors in the present administration to allow cooperation with a communist group.

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The thing all hiccough cures have in common is that they distract you or otherwise do something that results in your diaphragm relaxing. That's why I never get hiccoughs for more than a minute at a time anymore. I just figured out that all you need is a deep breath and a little concentration on rela...

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Soldier training is to "obey the chain of command". By extention, that includes their government. It does not. Many civilian authorities do not apply to military personnel when they are on active duty. As I mentioned above, soldiers swear an oath of loyalty to the constitution, not to the...

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Willy: Personally I'd say that while I'm not in college, and while taxes are still a noteworthy thing to me, I find that the Bush tax cut does not benefit the average person as much as it claims it does, especially in the area of dividends. The man's taking a barely progressive system and slipping h...

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I roll to disbelieve!

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It might work. Still, you'd need to establish Eddy Brock as Parker's rival at the Daily Planet to do that, and you'd have to come up with some way for Spiderman to get rid of the alien costume that doesn't involve Reed Richards.

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All the need now for the third movie (Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst have signed on for three Spider-Man movies, according to the pop-up info things on the first movie's DVD) is Venom and they'll really get all of Spidey's big-time personal enemies. Venom's too complicated to put in a movie. I don...

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Organizers overinflate their numbers, usually by counting all who attended rather than a peak number of who was there at any given time. Ergo, while organizer numbers can be impressive, they're not really accurate as to the size of the protest, as their numbers include people who may have only been ...

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To clarify what Daki said, I would say that a majority of the American people think that war with Iraq is acceptable and necessary. Some agree with Bush that we need to go in immediately. Some think we need to give it just a little more time. Some think we need to wait on the U.N. to come to the sa...

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Here, Cain has butchered the classic "chickenhawk" argument. Here's where he got it wrong: True, "chickenhawk" has fallen into use as a derisive term against conservative politicians who advocate war but never served in the military. However, more specifically, it's referring to ...

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3278 wrote:Wow. Babelfish?

Worldlingo. Babelfish lacks Dutch

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Eva is een kracht van aard. Dennis overschaduwt mijn gonaden met zijn het prominente bekken duwen. Ik ben een vrij weinig meisje.

Or something like that.

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okay, with all that in mind, how is it that people are seeing President Bush as being the same as Hitler? Because they're idiots and knee-jerking. I'm afraid for our civil liberties. I am uneasy around John Ashcroft. I am unnerved by the situational ethics of Cheney and Rumsfeld. I'll even quote Ma...

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Like most TV I watch, I was flipping past and stopped because something caught my eye. After this little scene, I was so disgusted I moved on. So in all fairness, they may well have gotten into in depth analysis after I left... but I doubt it. I think the point is that "The View" relies u...

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As far as the creativity argument goes-- I've yet to see or hear about anyone coming out of the military more creative than they were going in. Better trained in some aspects of problem-solving, perhaps, but actual creativity? Heck, my studies seem to indicate that we can't really teach creativity,...

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Trav: I don't recall using the "killbot factory" term anywhere. Drones, yes. Killing machines, no. Semantics. I assigned a convenient title to your misunderstanding of what military training does to people, by using a pop culture reference to the Simpsons. Your waffling over my choice of ...

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*Sucks up the misty Blitz with his specail Vaccum cleaner of Ethereal and Immaterial Devouring. Blitz is sucked into the vaccum's container, a Bag of Devouring. Screams and struggle can be heard from within the vaccum cleaner as Blitz is well devoured by the Bag of Devouring* *sticks the bag of dev...

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:: Sobs in frustration as her misty-whiteness spills out the ripped end of the tail. Finally gives up and floats around all ghostly like, making faces at various beasties behind their backs. :: See? What'd I tell ya? Caz's chew toy. Find something that has body armor, or pointy teeth, or at least a...

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what if the US goes to war with Iraq and then Europe decides it's time to put the 'US bully' in its place by forceful means? I find it hard to believe that's in anyone's interests. Trade sanctions, sure. Attempts at war crime trials, sure. Military engagement? No, the world is too economically inte...

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See, there you go again. That's a novelty costume. No inherent deadly qualities. That relegates you to the role of "Caz's chew toy" in Bulldrek, Blitz.

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:: grumbles that her keen new body lasted all of about 10 min as Misty Blitz emerges from the tattered shell :: Gawd...anime sailor, or teen wolf..what kind of choice is that? Well, given your track record, I'd say the best body to choose for gallavanting around Bulldrekkia would be the one least l...

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Would it be clouding the issue too much to discuss reliance upon alternate methods such as trade sanctions, visa restrictions, revoking of diplomatic envoys, and collaboration with international agencies and treaty alliances to do the same? Also, what about espionage? In many cases countries spy on ...

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Well, since you went to the trouble of discorporating your body, we'll have to get you a new one. We've got a few on loan from Overlord. Let's check the list. Hmm...we've got three models. "Anime girl in sailor outfit," "Image comics bad girl," and "Teen Wolf." Teen wol...

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I think we can agree that retaliation against an obvious military threat is justified. If you're attacked, you have a right to fight back.

What constitutes an attack and the extent of how you can fight back would be what's under debate, I suppose.

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Problem-solving is usually relegated to following procedure. Actual creativity is not taught. I'm still not seeing where this equates to the killbot factory. As I said, it's geared towards keeping people alive. It's not brainwashing. You're blowing this out of proportion. Right now, we have one of ...

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Training for buck privates is, from a psychological standpoint, an attempt to erase the sense of identity and replace it with an unthinking loyalty to the group. The US military, among others, has pretty much been honing this technique for years-- and they're even proud of it, they don't try to den...

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Lord Death Hand wrote:What kind of love?

Punch-drunk crotch ferret love, I'd assume.

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Szechuan wrote:Take your time regenerating. It helps make the pain go away.

The guy's a stuffed animal. This isn't exactly a manly stickbeating

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Thank you for the correction. I'm not as current on NK as I am on Iraq. Apparently, I have more reading to do. No problem. Like I said, I'm with you that Iraq agreed to a much more severe sanction in order to keep its sovereignty, so I'll back you on the fact that they're inherently different situa...

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have disarmament mandated Well, two out of three ain't bad, Bethy. North Korea is actively defying UN resolutions that were part of a peace agreement. Otherwise, I concur. Iraq wagered its sovereignty on the disarmament process, and thus it's in an infinitely more precarious situation if it wishes ...

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The real issue is oil. More than that at stake now. Originally? Perhaps it was oil. Perhaps it was political expediency to boost Republicans in elections. Perhaps Bush genuinely has a grudge over the assassination attempt on his father. Now? It's more complex, and the stakes are higher. Big questio...

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CNN has had pretty good coverage of pro-war demonstrations in DC, including a few involving the freepers and some Iraqi expatriates.

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Daki wrote:A correction... there are people who support military action against Iraq. We just don't get any media play.

Au contraire. The media uses pro-war demonstrations to downplay the anti-war movement. Has for some time.

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Soldiers don't swear an oath to the president, nor to the government. They swear to the constitution. It's an important distinction, albeit one that has almost never been tested. The oaths a soldier takes apply as surely to internal threats as to external ones. Please, folks, let's not demean the fi...

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Gratz, Jestyr!

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