darkmage099

Best friend in Edmonton: My neighbor. We have known eachother since we were in diapers. We're practically family besides the whole look like/same skin color thing. Funny thing is, we didn't go to the same school, so our life together was isolated from school Best friend in Virginia: He was the new kid. I was the new kid. It worked. His dad worked for the Redskins. After I moved, he did too to another team. Haven't heard from him since. Best friend in Atlanta: His best friend for the past 5 years moved to Oregon, and I was the new kid. WE became friends through doing stuff in class. I obviously have a lot more "best" friends but these were the first ones I met.

Err... Why? America, of all the developed nations, probably deserves nukes the least, because it's the most powerful country. That way, we couldn't take over the world... :-s Yes, I agree it's arrogant and stupid to say that only the US should have nukes (i.e., I agree with trapical for the most part), but to take the other extreme seems even less reasonable. Please, explain your reasoning for me before I end up forcing myself into some kind of anti-anti-America-and-Bush rant. U.S.A. deserves them because we are white and are the most powerful country in the world. Bush and Hitler are cool. Amen, brother. Amen.

I have no clue who you are... 10/10

Four words: Push ups sit ups. Sit ups will help with your stomach. You can look up many ways to do them to work different muscles.

IF they do LOTR online, why dont they do WoW?

I'll tell you mine when I make it. @sith: resto shaman or what?

this is me: Monday: half-cardio then upper body Tuesday: full cardio then legs Wednesday: half-cardio then upper body Thursday: full cardio then legs Friday: half-cardio then upper body Saturday: rest Sunday: rest

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I see no problem in the OP :roll: On topic - Cool, its little, strange, quirky things like this that remind me of the true strangeness and randomness the human race is capable of. Now is the time to change the saved number of the deceased to your own and text them - messaging from beyond the grave! I meant like why should anyone care? It's not anything bad. It's mildly interesting...just kind of random.

Now that I have a general Idea of where you are coming from on this topic we can really begin to discuss the topic here. That wikipedia article is so negative there is no room to laugh even if it is true. This is considering that the article itself has been through over 10 revisions since it was put up and it still is only covering the basic things that "trade unions" are mainly used for. In all, it really should not be a summary of all the other sources that it cites and instead should cover what could possibly be 20-30 pages on written paper. Looking at "The Washington Post" article I can clearly see where you get the corruption factor now. Yes, for the most part that is the only thing unions serve now and have become just like the things they have so dearly fought against. What must be realized and was said in a previous post is that if the CEOs("Corporate Executive Officers" for those who don't know) of all these companies were to cut back on their salaries, there would be no need to cut-back on retirees benefits in the slightest. This last sentence is assuming both sides can get over their "ego's" anytime soon. What we need to have these days is unions that specialize in specific skill areas in order to better negotiate the needs of the people they represent. yes, I do realize that this would bring us back to the days of the guilds, but when you think about it it allows for more leeway in matters of negotiation in todays "North American" societies. So you agree there needs to be reforms? I'm not saying we should totally get rid of these unions but we need to make it so they aren't hurting companies so badly! Any suggestions. /disucss

OK, I'm going to create on on proudmoore next time I get bored I guess...probably Drenai warrior. That work? Join me when you can :P I wont level past like the starting area.

OP, why do you have a problem with this. I see no negative effects.

There are the ones I mainly used: Washington Post Wikipedia. Herald Tribune. "This is a huge corporation," Gettelfinger said. "They are paying out dividends, their equity in their stock is up a lot, they have a lot of cash on hand, they've stated that they have no intentions of going into bankruptcy." Great, milk em till they are dead. The union wont start to actually cooperate with the company unless it's bankrupt!

PVE!!! Okay fine! I'm ready when you are. Ally or horde? I told you I'm doin' a warrior. I'm going to check out what realms need tanks atm. EDIT: Just checked out Proudmoore... 3.6:1 A to H ratio! WTF

You lost all credibility when you failed to learn to read! I'm a she. And I'm not looking to get rid of the unions entirely but rather for some reform where they have a little less power. If you are going to quote me then quote me in entirety, otherwise you are twisting my words. We still do not know which article you used for that first post. That was the only part of your post that pertained ti Wiki...how is that twisting your post? Also, I thought it was fairly obvious what wiki pages I was looking at. Hint: type in labor/trade unions....

You lost all credibility when you failed to learn to read! I'm a she. And I'm not looking to get rid of the unions entirely but rather for some reform where they have a little less power.

As you all know level 66 for me is ice lance (spam). I was wondering whether I should respec frost or not... Pros: 1. A change 2. More PVP survivability 3. Ice lance spam 4. WE Cons: 1. I always top frost mages in raid dps 2. Fire has more burst 3. I can usually get someone close to dead with this: combustion--trinket(+dmg)--pyro--fireball (if they are far away enough)--fireblast--dragonbreath--scorch--blastwave--fireblast--AE till dead. 4. I dont know how to play frost Whachu think? Link to my character.

OK, maybe the issue is badly run unions (seems to be a lot) rather than unions altogether. When you go back to your little Utopian dream world where you are President, go ahead and trust your companies. But in the real world, you can not expect ethics to overcome greed. You are right. The greed of the unions has overcome its original purpose. Some unions have ceased to reason with the company, and the company cannot do anything about it. Therefore, it suffers, and according to the statistic indy provided, the other 87% suffer. I'm not talking about just throwing them out. I'm saying there needs to be an alternative or a modification because the status quo is not good. Laws: I'm saying the solution to the problem is to either reform unions, have the gov't do something about this corruption, or another effective solution that kills companies such as GM. 1. you want to argue wiki? I'll be happy to debate about that in another thread. 2. Yes, and that would include all workers and PREVENT it from bad management. 3. They wouldnt because you arent completely throwing out the system. 4. See 2 5. Yes they fixed stuff but today they aren't helping much. There needs to be a reform.

1. Their facts are usually never wrong. This is internet debate, not real debate. 2. I never said they should disband overnight! I said we can do a better job with what the unions are doing with lets say "labor laws". They reason unions are hated so much is because their bargains can be UNREAL, and they refuse to negotiate. A simple GM employee "If the deal is ratified by UAW members, the company said it expects to save $3 billion a year before taxes in health care costs"(Washington Post). A simple cut saves them 3 billion! "Hourly workers at GM currently have no deductibles and pay no monthly premiums but do have nominal co-payment charges. Overall, they pay about 7 percent of their health care costs; the national average is about 34 percent." (Washington Post). They are literally forcing companies out of business. 3. Fantastical law-making skills 4. OK 1. see # 3 2. Or we can set standards and not force companies out of business by asking ridiculous amounts of money.... 3. Past tense = irrelevant 4. Or we can have a set workday. 5. That was then. They may have been great in the past but work ethics should be in place right now.[/i]

Do your own homework. I did LD last year and I can tell you: people on TIF wont help. Internet debate != ld or policy student congress or anything. That being said, you aren't even giving us your value premise and whatever the hell the other thing is called. Your first step in writing a case is coming up with those two. You gotta know what you're arguing. We cant do that. We can support you that with contentions though.

Ok :P tell me when you have made up your mind.

Cant do blackrock, my ally is there. We should meet sometime. We'd have some real fun! Why wait till 2.3? The leveling only affects 20-60, or so I've heard. I want to roll a warrior so yeah...I dont really care what faction or race.

Server faction class race? I want to reroll too!

Exactly. And can't you see a re-occurring theme in there? :P Both you and Andy have a nasty habit of giving up when you're like 98% of the way through. So I'd be a pretty big idiot if I did this. Oh and I'm never gonna sell or delete my account. Spent way too much time on it to give up for a few hundred bucks. Is there a "rule" on EU servers that makes you delete your account before you can make another one? Seriously...reroll with them for a bit (if you think it is worthwhile) but dont delete your other character...?

Illiterate-ism is affecting you.