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Regiments / Re: 12e Régiment de Hussards
« on: November 06, 2015, 11:30:51 pm »
Don't build huge quote pyramids. Don't spam. Don't do both at the same time.
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Other Games / Re: Nationstates
« on: November 06, 2015, 10:35:08 pm »
Hehe! Praise Rejenorst who does in his great wisdom grant us all 25 rations for each dollar the heathens reap.
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Off Topic / Re: 5th November 2015
« on: November 05, 2015, 01:50:03 pm »
No.
Gluk, I'm sorry buddy but you're falling for the same error that AGW deniers do. A relative few architects and engineers may say that the towers couldn't have fallen without explosives, but the consensus of the field and peer reviewed papers on the topic say that the official story is entirely plausible and matches the evidence. You characterize this disagreement as "some experts... some government experts". This is a frankly silly way to put it that unfairly assigns some bias or less weight to the backers of the official explanation. The consensus of engineers and architects, physicists, material scientists and mathematicians supports the official explanation.
A few dissenters disagree. A tiny percentage of climate scientists deny AGW. Their arguments have been tried and tested, peer reviewed and debunked. Again, case closed.
Gluk, I'm sorry buddy but you're falling for the same error that AGW deniers do. A relative few architects and engineers may say that the towers couldn't have fallen without explosives, but the consensus of the field and peer reviewed papers on the topic say that the official story is entirely plausible and matches the evidence. You characterize this disagreement as "some experts... some government experts". This is a frankly silly way to put it that unfairly assigns some bias or less weight to the backers of the official explanation. The consensus of engineers and architects, physicists, material scientists and mathematicians supports the official explanation.
A few dissenters disagree. A tiny percentage of climate scientists deny AGW. Their arguments have been tried and tested, peer reviewed and debunked. Again, case closed.
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Off Topic / Re: 2016 US Presidential Elections (Now with politics!)
« on: November 05, 2015, 06:06:08 am »
It isn't too long (only 280 pages, that's really not long!) and only $14. I think it's on sale on Amazon or something... It's a really interesting and worthwhile book on Epistemology and faith. I highly recommend it.
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Off Topic / Re: 5th November 2015
« on: November 05, 2015, 05:58:22 am »
Sorry Gluk, but I think you're just saying what you're heard on truther sites. Go to actual sources and experts, not conspiracy theorists.
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Off Topic / Re: 5th November 2015
« on: November 05, 2015, 05:48:58 am »
Right.
When I say "Case closed", I don't mean to say that we shouldn't be skeptical and inquisitive. What I mean is that qualified experts and investigators have been skeptical and inquisitive for 14 years, and they haven't found any evidence of the US being involved in bringing down the twin towers. And, after all that searching and finding nothing, case closed.
When I say "Case closed", I don't mean to say that we shouldn't be skeptical and inquisitive. What I mean is that qualified experts and investigators have been skeptical and inquisitive for 14 years, and they haven't found any evidence of the US being involved in bringing down the twin towers. And, after all that searching and finding nothing, case closed.
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Off Topic / Re: 2016 US Presidential Elections (Now with politics!)
« on: November 05, 2015, 05:35:57 am »I know this isn't topical but i have to ask.http://www.amazon.ca/Manual-Creating-Atheists-Peter-Boghossian/dp/1939578094
I need book suggestions, my dad gave me 75$ for amazon. I intend on mostly buying books with it but maybe some other stuff as well, i would like book suggestions. Either books on politics or philosophy, also it would be great if the book was cheap and not very large (it's difficult to keep me interested in a book for a long period of time if it's over 300 pages).
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Off Topic / Re: 5th November 2015
« on: November 05, 2015, 05:34:44 am »
Wait a second, what? 9/11 truth theories?
*Cough* No, they do not have any merit. You are being FAR too generous to them if you are saying that because they have a vague sense of cynicism about the government's motives, they have some merit.
Sure, sometimes governments attack their own, and sometimes their allow other nations to attack them in order to stir up public support for military action. That said, so far as I know there is no convincing evidence to show that there was malice rather than incompetence in the case of 9/11, and there is ZERO evidence of a controlled demolition or anything of the sort. The towers fell because they were hit by a plane and set on fire. That's it. Case closed.
*Cough* No, they do not have any merit. You are being FAR too generous to them if you are saying that because they have a vague sense of cynicism about the government's motives, they have some merit.
Sure, sometimes governments attack their own, and sometimes their allow other nations to attack them in order to stir up public support for military action. That said, so far as I know there is no convincing evidence to show that there was malice rather than incompetence in the case of 9/11, and there is ZERO evidence of a controlled demolition or anything of the sort. The towers fell because they were hit by a plane and set on fire. That's it. Case closed.
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Regiments / Re: 63ème Régiment d'Infanterie de Ligne [Recruiting EU/NA] [Champions of NA]
« on: November 04, 2015, 01:22:31 am »
Lawbringer, please respect the regiment leader's - or in his absence, the NCOs' - wishes when they ask you to leave their regimental thread.
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Regiments / Re: 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot #5th Thread [18/6/2015]
« on: November 04, 2015, 12:41:51 am »
Okay. Let's stop the spam and keep this quote pyramid from getting any bigger. Mind the slurs as well.
EDIT: Henri, nice save but I saw the original pyramidal post.
EDIT 2: No warning points were issued, just a few snips. This is a friendly advice post, mind the rules of the forum.
EDIT: Henri, nice save but I saw the original pyramidal post.
EDIT 2: No warning points were issued, just a few snips. This is a friendly advice post, mind the rules of the forum.
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Off Topic / Re: 2016 US Presidential Elections (Now with politics!)
« on: November 01, 2015, 07:28:48 pm »
Let's try to keep the insults down.
UniversitasMetal, please reread Nipplestockings' and my own posts, nowhere did either of us deny the statistics. On the contrary, we embraced them and tried to explain them.
UniversitasMetal, please reread Nipplestockings' and my own posts, nowhere did either of us deny the statistics. On the contrary, we embraced them and tried to explain them.
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Off Topic / Re: 2016 US Presidential Elections (Now with politics!)
« on: October 31, 2015, 06:42:40 pm »
A better culture? Well, let's think about this, really. I think that you're being caught up in and confused in a 'chicken or the egg' problem.
The objectionable culture that is admittedly more prevalent among blacks in the US is that of gangs, and their influence on the male youth in particular. Well, this is not something that is unique to black people. Mafias and mobs exist in all forms among all races and all cultural backgrounds. So why are gangs so significant in black populations in the West, now?
Well, my stance is that it is because of historic and contemporary prejudice, and that the only inheritance for black families to pass down to their children is poverty. Why is that? Well, because the first blacks to come to the US came as slaves without any property or rights of their own. When they were finally able to become free citizens, they still had to deal with institutional apartheid, racism, and the poverty that comes from suddenly being released without having the education, opportunities or connections to find a good job.
Now, generations after black slavery was abolished, and even after civil rights movement, they still have high rates of poverty because black families were always discriminated against, and always had less opportunities than the general population would. This is the inheritance they pass to their children, and when those children are offered more cash than their parents ever earned in exchange for gunning someone down, or muling some drugs, it's hard to say no.
We have a gang problem because we have a class of people that have consistently throughout history been oppressed and kept down. We have a black gang problem, because those people were targeted because of the colour of their skin.
The objectionable culture that is admittedly more prevalent among blacks in the US is that of gangs, and their influence on the male youth in particular. Well, this is not something that is unique to black people. Mafias and mobs exist in all forms among all races and all cultural backgrounds. So why are gangs so significant in black populations in the West, now?
Well, my stance is that it is because of historic and contemporary prejudice, and that the only inheritance for black families to pass down to their children is poverty. Why is that? Well, because the first blacks to come to the US came as slaves without any property or rights of their own. When they were finally able to become free citizens, they still had to deal with institutional apartheid, racism, and the poverty that comes from suddenly being released without having the education, opportunities or connections to find a good job.
Now, generations after black slavery was abolished, and even after civil rights movement, they still have high rates of poverty because black families were always discriminated against, and always had less opportunities than the general population would. This is the inheritance they pass to their children, and when those children are offered more cash than their parents ever earned in exchange for gunning someone down, or muling some drugs, it's hard to say no.
We have a gang problem because we have a class of people that have consistently throughout history been oppressed and kept down. We have a black gang problem, because those people were targeted because of the colour of their skin.
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Off Topic / Re: 2016 US Presidential Elections (Now with politics!)
« on: October 31, 2015, 06:28:14 pm »
How do new immigrants do better than people whose families have been in the US for 300 years? Well, to begin with I don't think that asians and indians are as routinely discriminated against as black people, and I don't think that white Americans tend to fear them nearly as much, though I could be wrong. And, well, there are success stories of people rising up out of communities run by gangs and escaping that kind of life.
The point about rap music is frankly ridiculous, I think. I listen to rock music and sometimes heavy metal, but I've never done drugs or gotten into a fight, never gotten in trouble with the law. Neither have any of my friends that love the same music I do. I'm not a fan of rap music, just musically it isn't my style. But, I don't see how it is any different from the blues or rock, venting frustration through lyrics. Maybe it has risen to prominence by being adopted by gang culture, but... frankly, so what?
The point about rap music is frankly ridiculous, I think. I listen to rock music and sometimes heavy metal, but I've never done drugs or gotten into a fight, never gotten in trouble with the law. Neither have any of my friends that love the same music I do. I'm not a fan of rap music, just musically it isn't my style. But, I don't see how it is any different from the blues or rock, venting frustration through lyrics. Maybe it has risen to prominence by being adopted by gang culture, but... frankly, so what?
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Off Topic / Re: 2016 US Presidential Elections (Now with politics!)
« on: October 31, 2015, 06:05:06 pm »
Slick, I agree that gang culture is a serious problem. But this problem of gangs rising to prominence is because of the perennial disadvantage and discrimination faced by black people in the US, particularly in urban centers. People turn to crime because the only other option is poverty, any opportunity for education or good employment to rise up out of their situation is very unlikely precisely because they and their parents were viewed as 'others' by people like you. When you look at black people as another culture within your own that is different, that has 'the rap music' and gang violence and drugs and all this bad stuff... that is the problem. People need to recognize that you are just like them, and they are just like you. The only difference is that they are raised in a shitty economic situation, and people (like you) think that it is their fault.