Ginger_Warrior

Count me in. That match with manoman was actually my first online SSBB match ever. Maybe now I've had experience, I'll do better(who am I kidding?).

Oh, the Nazis weren't really fascist, they just barred entry of all other races except the Aryans (<-- censored, but you know which race I'm on about. ;) ) Partially through disillusion with the three main parties who have become more professional politicians rather than groups who stand for stone-set ideologies, as should be the case. That's really what's killing politics in this country. There's no way New Labour should be to the right of the Liberals. But then, they could join UKIP before the BNP. I think it's more to do with the scaremongering in the papers leading politics towards the right-wing. When you have a constant paranoia of Muslims, Poles, homosexuals and anyone else the Mail or Telegraph want to scapegoat drilled into your head, without anyone else prepared to actually stick up for those minorities and provide a juxtaposition, groups who openly despise these minorities are going to become more popular. To answer l0l0lpur32's point, unless you have someone explaining that Muslims make up only 3% of this country, and the vast majority are law-abiding, hard-working and productive members of society who, while having their own religious grievances, only follow spiritual Islam and do not generally force their opinions onto non-Muslims, then it's easy to get the idea Britain is being 'Islamified', even if this isn't anywhere near the case. As far as the media are concerned, the tabloids have had to pay out over £1M to Robert Murat and the McCanns for libel surrounding the Madelaine McCann case; surveys show people think crime is rising when it's actually been halved in the past decade; the shock stories in the papers are also being blamed for a lack of consumer spending which may lead to the economic slowdown. There has to be a point where we have turn round to the media in our respective countries, and force them to stop twisting stories so grossly out of context, just to sell a good story.

We've not had a surge in Basra, yet the situation has improved greatly in past few months. It's Afghanistan that's our problem now. Quite clearly, something other than the surge is making a difference.

All this is going to do (both the state-sponsored board of imams, and the teaching about islam in schools thing) is play into the hands of both islamist groups, and the BNP. The BNP are deplored by almost the entire British public, and laughed at by other countries. They have members who organise debates on Bebo to attract youths, and hang off every word Pat Condell gives them. It really doesn't bother me that the BNP profit, because the BNP are so incredibly tiny, it makes no difference. Almost all people have the intelligence to look at them and see them for the racist, homophobic fascists they are. Moderate imams coming into schools and informing people of spiritual Islam is harmless. What you're saying is like suggesting an Anglican priest coming into schools would play into the hands of homophobes. This is the same person who said, and I quote: "It is no exaggeration to say that Iraq is - and will remain for some time - a traumatized society.. Can't you see extremist groups thrive in such societies?

If they don't thrive in Iraq, why are you there again exactly?

No, but then I've not been brought up from the age of 0 to hate the Western World, and I've not seen my fellow Muslims murdered on the streets of Iraq and Afghanistan by said Western World, have I? You cannot begin to deal with a problem if you cannot even understand what grievances the people who want to bomb your country have. Quite clearly, people are inspired by martyrs like him. Look outside your own country for once. Look at how Islamist groups thrive in the Middle East. These people don't seek inspiration from thin air, you know.

Well it's not hard to see how. Young Muslims see this man being tortured for what he believes in - beliefs they themselves can relate to. It encourages them to join terrorist organisations. This is the thing. You torture a man, you have no idea how many people will follow his cause in inspiration of his devotion. What's your solution to the ever increasing influence of hate-preaching anti-western groups? Throw money at pointless things like this and this? Would the Mail rather we teach Christian traditions instead? Oh wait... we already do. Just use sense. If you seek to pacify someone, torturing their brothers in the faith, and bombing their countries into the Dark Ages is hardly away to go about it.

Well it's not hard to see how. Young Muslims see this man being tortured for what he believes in - beliefs they themselves can relate to. It encourages them to join terrorist organisations. This is the thing. You torture a man, you have no idea how many people will follow his cause in inspiration of his devotion.

The way to combat terrorism is through intelligence, not torturing Islamists to the point they become martyrs for the cause. And for the matter, the tsunami has nothing to do with freedom or liberty, and practically every developed nation in the world gave aid. I would expect the world's biggest economic superpower to provide most aid.

It would be ridiculous, if it were true. San Ki-Moon is the Secretary of the United Nations, which is probably the closest to the Leader. You seem to have a notion in your head that every American rushes around yelling that we're the leaders of the world. The UN has no power. Everyone knows that. The US Government has proclaimed itself to that position though. I'm well aware your average everyday American will have no influence over its decisions.

no u win. Epic fail

The 9/11 attacks were on government-owned targets - the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. Surely it would have been more productive to blow up the train lines or the airports themselves, as the IRA did. That would have brought tens of thousands of civilians into disturbance. You don't have to kill to terrorise. Logic simply does not follow your definition. I don't believe they are exactly the same, no. But they share inherent similarities. Such as, the removal of freedom, choice and liberty. How can you proclaim to be the Leader of the Free World, as though it were some medieval religious crusade, while having these methods of torture, and not even giving some of your prisoners the right to a fair trial? It is ridiculous.

When you are the ones claiming to defend people from terrorism... yes. Are you seriously trying to suggest this is not a blatant contradiction?

Terrorism: defined by the U.S. Department of Defense as "the unlawful use of -- or threatened use of -- force or violence against individuals or property to coerce or intimidate". How does this 'torture' not fit in with the US DoD's own definition of terrorism?

Staggering. You despise this supposedly new-found ideology of 'terrorism', and here you are giving apathetic reactions to methods of prison torture which instill terror into people who have never even had a fair trial. How on Earth can you lecture us about the dangers of terrorism when you cannot even sort your own country out? Absolutely unbelievable hypocrisy.

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It has a clear negative impact on the game because it makes the whole skill-raising system unfair. Jagex did not remove unbalanced trading so everyone had to personally earn every single little item they get. We still have MTK. You're not exactly earning items there through work are you? They did it because they felt it was unfair that, while RWT existed, richer people in the real world would always have an advantage over people they were up against in RuneScape. Even if you don't believe this is wrong, it is still unfair. Many people charge for people to borrow their items. If not, it's usually because the two parties involved are friends with each other (shock). It's not like everyone's out there giving BGSs to Level 3 skillers just for the sheer hell of it. I'll wait 'till the novelty of this update has died down, and see if people are still doing it anywhere near to the scale you've made out.

Well, surely if we're doing such a terrible job, you won't mind us withdrawing then. ;) We've not even left Basra. We're stationed in its airport and we can be deployed as soon as the Iraqi Army asks for assistance. Soldiers desert armies. Give me a time in history when that hasn't been the case? There's a saying: "A soldier's finest hour is his first". Once they see the reality of combat, they wake up and smell the roses. How exactly are we supposed to stop that? Fire bullets at them at the registration office and see if they still want to join? That's utter rubbish. We have reports of Islamist terror groups all the time. The front page of the BBC website today had a story about the overturning of a conviction against the Islamist terrorists who allegedly conducted the Madrid train bombings. It could have been the statistics about crime in this country which were published today. Could have been about Robert Murat. But no, absolutely nothing to do with us at all, but it was still on there. Whenever a Muslim is arrested, it's "A Muslim man has been arrested for burglary". Right, so he burgled because he was a Muslim? I doubt it. On the other hand, you never hear, "An atheist man has been arrested...". There is still a quite blatant stereotype, even if people don't realise they have it. You're more likely to get run over by a car, but all we ever hear about is terrorism. I for one only call someone an Islamophobe when they make wholly unjustified remarks about Muslims. Remarks such as "They don't really come here to work", or "They just sponge off the state", or "They're all ticking timebombs". I've no problems with people connecting terrorism to Islamic Fundamentalism.

If Tales of Symphonia sticks to its approximate EU release date, I'll definitely be getting that. I have a feeling it will be next year rather than this though. Animal Crossing: City Folk without doubt. Maybe The World Ends with You.

You mean we retreated to a supervising role? Not quite the same as abandoning. The Iraqi Army has to stand up on its own if we're to withdraw at any point. And you know, we're pretty trained when it comes to training armies in foreign territories. We only built the biggest Empire in human history by doing exactly that. Deaths in the British Army are also proportionately lower than the American loses, probably due to an emphasis on cooperation with those who do want to abide by law and rebuild infrastructure, providing aid to those whose lives we have upturned through our actions, as opposed to the American attitude which appears to be "we'll storm into a city and shoot dead anyone who opposes us" which inevitably creates more hostiles, not less. Kofi Annan's stance on terrorism is spot on. Yes, be vigilant, but the way to stop terrorism is to deprive them of the sanctuaries they thrive in. This involves improving the quality of life and opportunities of those who are likely to turn to extremist groups for salvation; not blowing their cities up with a vague promise of 'democracy' and allowing your home country's media to effectively allow an intolerance towards Muslims.

New Pikmin confirmed: http://e3.gamespot.com/story.html?sid=6 ... ws;title;0

Is there a party?

Yourn ot saying you liked the Wind Waker graphics? >.> I did. Graphics =/= realism.

And if the shop-owner just wants you out of the shop before you cause more disruption, what then? You just get out before you cause more offence. Once again, you're taking the American attitude of self-responsibility and applying it to Iraqis who have a completely different view. Furthermore, you except your allies in the world to do the same. Why should British troops die on a daily basis, when most Britons are against the war and do not believe it's justified, just to fulfil your police-like position in the world? You claim you're building democracy. That's totally un-democratic.

Grats on the levels. You never gave me that 30K btw... or let me borrow that SS. :-w Will 99 Strength have a party?