PoLiX

Sadly the past can sometimes show what could happen in the future.

US History books are certain levels of biased depending where you go. When one of my cousin's was up here from the south, he had to write a paper still for a class, so I was looking in his history book. Maybe 2 mentions of any great black people in it. Your not calling this biased? It also was nicer about the Confederacy then my own history book was. Again, this is not biased? It's pretty simple to see, that depending where you are, depends what is taught to you. Like in some states where you can not learn about evolution, that knocks a bias right into their books. Yes, these are just small examples, but they are examples of it all.

I did not blame bush. Only meant he supports outsourcing and even signed a bill dealing with it. So he has caused companies to want to outsource more and more. If you really think outsourcing is a great idea, wait until your job is threatened by it, or someone in your family loses their job to it. It only helps the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. Nowhere does it help the middle people who would normally work those jobs they are sending over seas. Not really anti-american here, but I think the US deserved 9/11. It was a wake up call, and made people realize that we aren't safe from everything. Were not in some little bubble where were safe from everything, and everyone is afraid to do anything to us. But it did not mean we needed to suddenly go over board and go out to eliminate it all. How did bush know Iraq had the WMDs? He had the reciepts. The US provided Iraq and Iran with all their WMDs and most their armored vehicles. We put Suddam in power. We put Osama in power. It backfired, we -*BAD WORD*-ed up, so now we gotta clean up our mess, only to probably make an even bigger one. If we had just left all of it alone over there, we'd have been fine. The US can't be a country and be the world police at the same time. We either need to focus on our problems in our borders, or the ones outside.

Hmm, the company my dad worked for is not on the list. They sent all their work to Taiwan because rather then paying my dad $12/hr, they could pay people 15 cents and hr. He actually even had to train his replacement for over there. Think about how that must have felt, especially for all those other people in the list of companies. And Syrus - Outsourced means the company went over seas, not failed. Thanks to bush, they sent most of their work over seas to cheaper countries where they could gain more profit (like those CEO's really need more money) by paying workers less. Yes, I'll agree it helps the people over there, but it's not worth costing our own people their jobs.

1. Bush is pushing the limit on seperation of church and state. That right there makes me not vote for him. 2. Gays and Lesbians are fine by me. They are normal people who just think differently about sex. Marriage is the union of 2 people. Man and Woman, Woman and Woman, Man and Man, all are people, and they're uniting. (union might be the wrong word, but yea). 3. Bush is trying to push Democracy on other countries. Who said a Democratic Government is best? We have yet to see one last a mellinium, unlike Kings and Dictators. For all we know, a democracy could be flawed and cause more problems then it's worth. I'm not against it, just stating the fact that other countries can run and live happily without Democracy. Cuban people for the most part are happy. Yes, the ones jobless and poor are not, but neither are unemployed/poor americans. 4. Kerry has already began going against the things he has said. He seems to have forgotten he isn't president yet. Really, I could go on for a while. I had to debate this in class once, and heard some really good info I can't think of at the moment, but was a great debate, especially since I wasn't even in college or that class but I got into it all.

Wow, something I haven't done since the creation of these forums, right? Right. PoLiX -> Detached

if any of you have watched a beheading video before, you'd know it's rather messy and lots of blood comes out. I'll find it again if I have to. Was of a russian soldier. No there wasn't a 10 ft squirting guiser of blood. But you do see some blood shooting slightly up and all. like a very small gush of it. I'm not saying the Nick Berg one wasn't real, but the blood thing makes me still kind of question it.

seeing as i have no part in SSI anymore, and its not the biller i coded personally for my own use (which still has bugs i've never sat down to fix to make it giveable to anyone), i could care less really, lol.

i could send you the SSI Biller seeing as its mostly my work onto SOS's version of Cat's biller.

lol

well, ive seen you around, so you can use me as a reference if needed.

If you would also take notice, both of those Zones have 1000+ posts in their forums, or atleast near in mg's case. hit 900 Posts, NON SPAM, and you got it. MG's old forum had that case, so when they moved they started out with their own category.

Well, your brother gave all his maps to gamemapping.com, seeing as half their maps says made by anaconda, i not sure what another forum would do. Zone Development was sponsored by GameMapping.com, so maybe talk to julius about doing this type of stuff in there. I'll think about it for a bit man, but eh, not sure.

done - i'll setup a member group for the staff and give you mod over it.

From complacency to selfishness. this is where the US stands. People become more and more selfish everyday. Greedy little -*BAD WORD*-s who hold all the power because of their money and won't spare any. There is those who do, such as Bill Gates (if you live in washington, you'd know he gives a -*BAD WORD*- large amount to schools) and those who don't such as huge coorporate CEOs who think they are above the people.

GeForce 2 - theres your prob. My cous had the same prob. Had to undo "Hide modes this adapter cannot display" and it worked just fine.

Constantly pissing other countries off, spreading our troops thin, its all gotta hit us back sometime. Every great Empire has fallen over time, and if the US goes, i think it will be -*BAD WORD*- personally. Everyone who was scared off by the US will go in and grab what they can, and then began going after others. So yes, the US shouldn't be the world police, but if we weren't, enemies would join forces and turn some of this world to -*BAD WORD*-. So i agree partially with that, but i still don't think the US needs to be involved with so many wars and operations at once. Bush should of atleast finished Afghanistan before going to Iraq and whereever he wants to go next. I seriously thought Clinton was one of the best presidents we've had in years, and Bush is just messing a lot of his stuff up (-*BAD WORD*- republicans). I sometimes think i'd rather be in Canada or Mexico or somewhere out of this -*BAD WORD*- country where they are not always worried about what country they gotta destroy next. It's re-*BAD WORD*-ed for this country to continue fighting wars it doesn't really need to, and lose and cost so many lives to be lost it doesn't have to. Maybe someday this will happen, but i think until we get a level headed president who doesn't wanna blow everything up, were mostly -*BAD WORD*-ed. I give the US at most maybe another century... if that.

moving to tech support, someone here might know

done

Well, when i was still in HS, in our district, you didn't even have to stand if you didn't want to, and alot of teachers -*BAD WORD*-ed and wrote referals if you didn't, but they normally were thrown out. So yea, its not required in some places.

but if its removed, its not forcing you to not believe in god, its just making it no longer a factor in the pledge.

Personally, i beleive like many others, it should be removed. Even a few of my friends who are christian also agree with me. This country might of been founded by god believing people, but it is not a nation ran by the laws of god. If you have freedom of religion, what says your religion does not beleive in God, or some shiz like that, or your an atheist. Its why most people refuse to reside the pledge of allegiance, because they not only don't believe in what the US is doing, but also do not believe in the line "One Nation Under God". Whats your opinion?

yea, but then it'd be their own fault for changing it. Deadly: if its not broke, don't fix it. Changing banners works just fine, why play with it and cause bugs or somethin. Seems everytime somethin seems to be played with, something else related to it ends up with a bug.