BlueTear

"Deep" music being the only music able to serve as inspirational music is [cabbage]l.

Yes, because clearly, music found inspirational by one individual has to qualify to the subjective label "deep". Personally, I try to keep my playlists down to songs I "feel" for - quite a lot of the time's there's a direct relation to what I was doing and how I felt when I heard it the first time, though some songs have gained their "emotional imprint" by being run while I do something else. Either way, they're all meant to be "inspirational" in one way or the other, so I'll just name a few of the more commonly represented artists and some of their songs, as well a few notables. System of a Down (Chic N Stu, Toxicity) Billy Talent (Red Flag, Fallen Leaves, Voices of Violence) Raised Fist (Some of these times, Illustration of Desperation) Nine Inch Nails (Survivalism, The Good Soldier) And a few "one hit wonders in my personal playlist": 3 Doors Down(Kryptonite) Raconteurs(Steady, As She Goes) Moby(Extreme Ways)

"Relieving the pressure" is a nice, neutral, geopolitical phrase. What you're talking about is basically telling the, what, 20 million citizens of Iraq that they are going to be left at the mercy of various extremist organizations, religious and etnical groupings, whatever and whoever the surronding countries decides to send in - apart from exporting oil, exporting your extremists so they don't make trouble at home is becoming quite an industry in the middle east - in what would classify as a civil war. Well, that's assuming Teheran doesn't get a bit to obvious about it's funding of various troublemaking organizations, decide to finally put into effect Khomenei's idea of exporting the islamic revolution, or just plain snag parts of the mutual border - the parts they had an 8 year war about. You would then sit back and watch this power struggle, which would involve a fair few more local countries in the region, unfold into a civil war, which would undoubtly lead to ethnic cleansing - they've already tried it smallscale and the only thing keeping a lid on it is men and women with weapons - and all the horrors that entails, with the argument that "it'll be best for them in the long run". Where the long run involvs the Iraqi people, after - in your own words - decades manage to get a working democratic government going. They'll have to deal with Iran - who by then could very well have decided to annex all of Iraq for the "protection of it's citizenry" - and they'll be doing so with an economy and infrastructure that'd be shot straight to hell after decades of civil war. And this is a best-case scenario. The worst case scenario is an even tie between becoming a province in the Islamic Republic of Iran and becoming the Islamic Republic of Iraq. Call my silly, but in my opinion, preventing ethnic cleansing with peacekeepers is a point in it's own right.

Not as impressive as it sounds on papaer, because most of the incessant whiners were just too plain lazy to bother getting a shadowres suit. Yes, in theory, a shadowres suit kicks [wagon], but in practice, surprisingly few people actually put that much thought and effort into their tactics. Still though - now that I'd had a while to chill out from the initial "HELLO, since when does my DoTs crit?! - I'll have to reserve judgement on how this change will pan out. 10% doesn't sound all that bad, but on the other hand, DoTs has some other drawback's DD spells don't suffer from. Btw, someone mentioned farming Primal Air's earlier, and I'd just like to note that just north of the Aldor place in Shadowmoon, over a bigass mountain, there's a fair few spawns of Enraged Air Spirits. The pro is that it's not very well known, the con is that there's creature spawns sprinkled between the elemental spawns so you either have to do a lot of dancing, or fight [cabbage] you don't want to fight. Still, it's a nice option for those days when it seems like the entire server decided to farm primals. (Getting the Primal Mights for Spellstrike myself. PITA to farm the neccesary primals, but I'm too cheap to buy 'em when I know I can farm them)

"Dictatorship of the proletariat" is a temporary mesure meant to suppress the counterrevolution of the dislocated ruling class, not a permanent state of affairs in the communist state. You'd use despotic mesures to instigate the communist reforms. This dictatorship would then dissappear when the need for it had come to an end, and would be replaced by - and I quote from an online version of the Communist Manifesto; "In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all." A micro chip implant that would pick up on anti-government thoughts can hardly be seen as promoting free development of the individual, nor can the excercise of control over the individual via chips like that. Fascism on the other hand... As for why we need to continually critique them; Force the government to adapt to changes in the surrondings.

It's worth taking a look at what can be done with current technology. You have a cellphone? You carry it on you? Congratulations, the government can now track your whereabouts, and the only effort in their way is legal issues. Unless you opt for a chip with global tracking, you can still use several variants with a shorter range; ID information, medical information and monitoring, credit information etc. Yeah, you get a pet-style GPS chip in your child, the child'll be easy enough to track. But if you don't get one for yourself, you're not going to notice a particularly big difference compared to what can be done with current technology. I can't help but to point out that communism, ultimately, was about the abolishment of government in favour of rule of the People. I'd look it up if I were you.

When in doubt; Ask. We're not that big on hiring people to pack things around here (probably because of the various work taxes involved it's by far too expensive for employer to do it compared to any possible "customer happiness") but if someone were packing my groceries, I'd much rather be asked if I would like to have this or that near the bottom, than coming home and finding it squished. Other than that, I think you'll get a hang of the packing order pretty quickly, to a point where you'll pack better than a fair few customers.

Warlock. The only time I put some form of effort into a different class was a paladin I took to lvl 32 before I realized that my insistance on trying to lifetap was not going to go away, so I tagged along with my guild and rerolled from horde to alliance. And leveled another warlock. So now I have a lvl 60 orc warlock - well, 65ish 'cause my bro played on it for a while after TBC came out before he reopened his own account - as well as my lvl 70 warlock "main". Any other alts are either warlocks or bankalts. Plenty of other classes has aspects I can see myself enjoying, some radically different from what a warlock does, but I like being a warlock, I like a ranged DPS role in raids. And I like playing a class, and learning as much as possible about how to handle it (and warlock, with arguably the most spells used in the entire game sure offers a lot of things to play with) picking up new tips and tricks here and there. Speaking of which; I wish this worked against undeads and people with trinkets =/

What I'd say to warrant being called a moron? Of course I have. Generally though' date=' I try to stay focused rather than giving in 'cause no one else is going to learn anything for me. If it's important, you might as well make a call. If it's not important enough for that, well, I can survive being unreachable for an hour. Or two.

Oh gee, here's me figuring you'd study in school and work when you're getting paid for it rather than texting. I feel so silly now.

So wait... You're not allowed to talk on the phone, but you're allowed to rack up a bunch of text message during the same time? How come?

Millions upon millions of flies can't be wrong; Eating [cabbage] is good for you.

First of all, when I said it was centuries old, I really meant it. It's not some magical new phenomena that needs to be taken through a public approval process; It's a fact of life. Economic warfare is an accepted tactic. It just isn't a tactic that's quite as easily graspable by the general public as shooting someone in the head in a straight-up war. Second of all, who's going to use economic warfare to topple a government that does sensible, peaceful things to allow them to be taken over by dictators? Point being...? Yet laying down to die while Iran builds nukes is hardly going to make anyone sleep better at night. You can't both be complaining over covert economic warfare on part the USA as a Violation while ignoring the covert military warfare waged by Iran. And of the two, Iran is both the one with the worst track record for human rights and the one with most extremist government. Once again, take a pick: You can either talk about how you don't want nuclear weapons to profilate, or you can actually go in with force and do something about it and accept that this will generate civilian casaulties. So what's worth more to you hohto? The spread of nuclear weapons - which you said you were against - or civilian lives in the country that's choosing to develop them - which you seem intent on cushioning from the consequences involved in actually doing something to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. Empthy threats, or act and live with the consequences?

Never. Constant re-evaluation of ourselves, our thoughts, ideas, opinions and beliefs is the only thing that allows us to grow as persons. Anything less is stagnation. And willingly halting your own development because you prefer the blissful ignorance is nothing short of squandering free will.

Of course that's the point, they're not having arguments with the UN or just about anyone with some sense out of sheer spite on everyone else's part. It's not about people in western governments going "oh hey, neither me nor my electorate likes Iran". No forceful action of any kind, whether it be covert economic warfare, UN sanctions or downright war is going to "spare" civilians. Make a choice here; Civilian discomfort or even deaths or additional nuclear weapons ready to threaten the world. If downright war is what's required, downright war is what's required. But if these actions like this or economic sanctions work, we'll spare these same civilians a war. You can't claim that their "suffering" is in vain, because even if it just *might* work, don't we owe it to them and our own conscience's to try these options - even if some people would say it's too late - because they're better options than open warfare? And that's besides the strategical advantages of putting a nation under economic siege before actual warfare. Well, seeing as economic warfare is a few centuries old...? Iran is not Iraq. Iraq didn't have WMD's, nor was the "proof" of such particularly impressive. Iraq was in no major situation to start something, because they'd already been slapped down hard for being aggressors. No fly zones, UN inspectors... How's calling funding various organizations known to carry out strikes against certain targets covert warfare? Not cover economical warfare mind you, but covert, undeclared, warfare. By the apparently oh-so-democratic Iranian government nonetheless. But if a western democratic nation engages in an "undeclared financial war", we're apparently violating all kinds of high and mighty principles?

Lies, damned lies, and statistics. You haven't accounted for social factors , such as poverty, nor the severity of the crimes on question, or the little paragraph at the bottom of the crime rate chart that reads: "DEFINITION: Note: Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence." I guess that explains the crime rate figures listed for New Zeeland, as well as those for Colombia. 'cause quite frankly, 100 crimes per thousand people in the USA and 4 per thousand people in Colombia?

So wearing women's clothing - and the OP states it's women's clothing acceptable in the dress code - is offensive? Hi, I'd like to welcome you all to the 21st century.

Is permitting Iran - a country that didn't manage to get along with Saddam Hussein's Iraq in part because they wanted to overthrow his government to create another Islamic Republic - to develop nuclear weapons, really the smart thing to do? And I don't mean just for the USA here, I mean for just about everyone - 'cause quite frankly, not even the oil-princes of Saudi-Arabia would be spared in a massive export of the islamic revolution. The only scary part here is that Iran is so hellbent on continuing down this path. (And by the way, if Iran is such a sweet and nice country where the leadership is elected and their actions enjoy popular support, it seems to me that rationing gasoline will give them a fair amount of negative publicity. In a democratic country, that is not good for authorities)

And is that a personal belief of yours, or something you've got a scientific study for?

Yeah, I'm feeling mighty silly now, for a while there you really had me convinced you were a completely miserable jackassed [wagon] of a failure. Not sure I'd personally see that as an accomplishment, but hey, whatever floats your boat.

So how do you reckon household accidents involving vegetables is a fact relevant to your previous statement regarding vegetarianism, or vegetarianism in general?

Keep in mind that things don't actually aggro until the first shot hits them, which means firing something with a traveling time - Shadowbolt - and then immediately start casting something that hits instantly - not sure which of corruption and immolate gives the best damage at your level. Most warlocks spend their talent points on instant-corruption first (it's an affliction talent) because it allows you to cast it while moving (Shadowbolt, Immolate and then corruption. Done at max range, you can run a fair while with DoT's ticking on him before he catches you). What faction/race did you go for?

Out of plain curiosity, how to you setup your Curator fights? It's more gear dependant than a fair few of the previous bosses - due to the enrage timer if nothing else - but as far as PUG'ing it goes, I'd hate doing Moroes more.

Yes, because a site contained quotes like "It might be well to state here, that as early as 1902, International Jewry had a plan for the destruction of Christianity in Europe. " and "But he [Eisenhower] did not hate it [war] as much as he hated Germans, and he took a terrible Jewish revenge on over a million surrendered German soldiers and civilians when the war ended" is clearly trusthworthy.

A boycot on german goods called a war by a british tabloid in response to a law that allowed Hitler to pass laws without consulting the elected Reischstag? After he had stuff like freedom of speech suspended? Lol, yes, clearly, the jews were creating chaos and turmoil. Killing 6 million people based on who their parents are has no shades of grey. The UK civilians had that whole island thing going. How about the civilians in countries he actually overran? And to everyone who talks about the economic reforms and whatnot... Hitler started the second world war. He was not brutally assaulted after creating a brilliant future for his country, he send armed forces onto the soveriegn soil of another country. He then procceds with a series of military decisions that eventually leads to the complete ruin of the country and division into pieces handed out to the victors. Germany, as a country, practically ceased to exist! Call me silly, but getting your country divided by losing a war you start - morals aside - is never a Good Thing for your country.