TheBigOne

[quote]Not true. Germany was sinking American ships headed to England in both wars before America entered the war. As Leauki pointed out, the ships were not in international waters, so they entered a war zone on their own.[/quote] And The USA rightfully condemned that as a war crime. Being in non-israel waters hardly qualifies as being in a war zone either. Additionally Blockades are only legal if acknowledged by the Security Council, which this one isn't.

the ships were turkish and therefore Isreal would have needed to declare war on turkey first before boarding them.

Leauki being at War is a very legal term requiring a formal declaration of War and can only happen between recognized states, as Gaza isn't recognized by Israel as independent state at all they can't be at War, in a sense which allows them to have a blockade, with them. And additionally to that you can't extend a blockade to areas outside your territorial waters as long as you are not in war with the countries you are operating therein. Why didn't Isreal just take the normal approach

[quote]The second thing is that Israel does have the right to create a blockade. Blockades are a perfectly legal means of fighting a war[/quote] Yah blockades are legal if you are at war - Israel however is not at war with Gaza. And neither are they at War with Turkey which would allow them to board turkish territory (which the ship is as long it is not in isreal territory). Don't get me wrong they have the right to search the ship for Weapons (they however have no right to demand the

So Indonesia recommended its Bureaucracy to use open source software (not even forcing them to , just recommending) and now the International Intellectual Property Alliance ( RIAA and MPAA are members of it for example) pressures the US government to put them on a special watch list of countries which don't respect IP. "The Indonesian government's policy... simply weakens the software industry and undermines its long-term competitiveness by creating an artificial pr

well the child is still innocent though, no fault for having such parents (unless you are buddhist then he is very much at fault)

[quote]But it gets worse. Because that's the average. If you're an American living in say California or New York, it's like being at $45k. And France, Germany -- the "nicer" places in Europe, are at $28k. Imagine the changes in your lifestyle (and living in CA or NY, as expensive as it is, is a lot like France or Germany in terms of costs).[/quote] ehm the GDP per capita nominal in germany is around 44000 $ not 28000 $ while the USA is at ~47000 $ which is not nearly as big a gap a

I am quite curious how you can make any conclusions about tactics at all without having played that game or even seen footage of a real match.

[quote who="SpardaSon21" reply="57" id="2508202"]The original SupCom was ported from PC to consoles much after initial development. This looks to be made from the ground up to be console-compatible, and therefore we are assuming it is being dumbed down for console tards. This is most evident in the new "streamlined" economy, which uses the exact same economy as every other RTS out there. No more pay-over-time for units, everything is up front. They also removed tech le

or somebody just made it completely up ;) would you believe a hacker who posts some emails of sceptics in which they confess that they only deny AGW for their lobby interests? I doubt so , so why should you believe those emails except for the comfortable reason that they fit with your opinions.

If german criminal courts managed to get terrorists sentenced, why should american courts fail? Terrorists are of no concern of military courts, was the oklahoma bomber tried in front of a military court, he wasn't. Terrorism is no new phenomena and so far western countries had no problems trying and sentencing Terrorists (be that the IRA, RAF or ETA) using criminal courts. Also since when are those guys "war prisoners"? I always thought they were just Terrorists not soldiers? You hav

you know that there is a big difference between being exposed to something you know is part of your training in a controlled environment where you know that they are your friends/allies and won't actually kill you and being exposed to it without knowing that. The fact that they are being prepared for waterboarding totally shows that the military considers it torture else there wouldn't be a need to prepare them for it. Its kind of the same like saying that whipping is a legitimate pun

Leauki, the working people produce goods and services, those things are what make up the economy not some income tax. By providing those goods and services they contribute to the wealth of society (and no they don't work for themselves as they don't consume those goods or services themselves) and the whole financial system around it is just a way to increase the efficiency of trading. You also have to ask yourself the question if those who pay income tax would be able to do so without the pai

as I am not familiar with the US tax system could someone please list me up what kind of taxes/fees/whatever a single person household with a income of 15.000/25.000$ pays roughly. Having a macroeconomic and sociological education I do have to say that I find the concept of distinguishing between federal and local taxes to imply that some people are producers while others are takers quite disturbing. It surely makes sense from a political standpoint but whom you pay the taxes to doesn

it is very relevant if you look at the topic of the thread : "the producers and the takers". The majority of the so called "takers" are "producers" as well as they have an employment and there fore produce goods or services. Calling them takers is so wrong from a macroeconomic perspective. You can call the unemployed people "takers" if you want. PS: sorry for the bad links , stardocks forums still have a problem with opera

[quote]"In 1945, 41.9 workers supported each (Social Security recipient), while todayonly 3.3 workers support each retiree."[/quote] if you had told a guy in 1870 that 42 workers would support 1 retiree he'd claimed that this is impossible and will destroy society. Increase of production efficiency makes more than up for it. [quote]In other words, we're developing into a two-tiered society. Some people like to think of it as the "haves" and "have nots." However,

I would consider myself a liberal. Separation of powers and unrevocable human rights and most of the other liberal principles make a lot of sense to me.

sorry i meant to write "who consumes more pays more". I had to focus all my concentration on the names :(

Peter pays most, Paddy the least. The TV set and washing machine are totally irrelevant. Its his own decision that he bought them for the common cause if he doesn't want others to use them he can put them into his own room but then he has to wash all his stuff alone (instead of only doing it every 3rd time) and has to watch TV alone instead of enjoying it with the others. Paddies argument that he needs the more comfortable room is total bullshit because he spends his time in the living room w

[quote]Total capitulation on the defence shield with nothing in return from Russia.[/quote] the defence shield was neither targetted at russia, nor capable of doing anything against russia anyways, nor was it good for anything at all except for wasting lots of money. The problem of a nuclear defense is that you must be able to shoot down 100% of the incoming missles in 100% of the cases or it is fail which is a lot more expensive than just building more nukes as countermeasure or tran

there is a lot of asian games which does exactly that and it seems to work for them (not speaking about the f2p mmorpgs where you can buy game affecting ingame items, but games like free shooters like Combat Arms)

I still fail to see how West-Berlin was occupied (okay they were de jure but not de facto) and especially how they were occupied by russians as you make it sound. If they were occupied they were occupied by France, UK and USA not by Russia and actually West-Berlin has been a island of freedom surrounded by a occupied country. Comparing West-Berlin to Kaesong (this special capitalist zone in north korea) would be a better comparison and even that would be very far stretched. And

I just stated facts, I didn't blame anyone for it (and I don't think there is anyone to blame at all) and you are just projecting things on me. Secondly, calling Mexico very very poor is a incredible overexaggeration, they have a GDP per capita of nearly 10000 $ that is more than some of the new members of the EU. (I also don't see what a topic about an occupied territory has anything to do with Mexico). Extreme problem to US security is also kind of fearmongering, its a rather

Berlin wasn't really occupied after '49. Yah it had a special status until 1990 but after 1971 (Berlinabkommen + Transitabkommen) it belonged de facto to the Federal Republic of Germany. And the "hostile" country was a country of german people of the who didn't want anything more than to live on the other side of the wall and those were the real occupied ones - not West-Berlin. The Wall was to avoid people getting inside into your area not to keep you out, thats a very big difference.

[quote]Jews are not the problem. nazism is. And befoer some twit goes invoking Godwin's law, the simple fact remains. A major aim of Nazism was the erradication of Jews. Apparently, it did not die with the Third Reich, but was just smuggled out to other countries - under the watchful - and approving - eye of the UN[/quote] anti-semitism is no invention of the Third Reich but a ill mind set which is much older, so no it wasn't smuggled out from the UN (you must really hate the UN)