Hakaku

Here, let me break it down even simpler: That's the gyst of the argument. Like I said, the rest of my paragraph was harsh, but I don't take condescendence over another people as a matter that should be joked upon any more than Confess finds the shoe being thrown funny. I'm not making invalid statements, as I clearly re-explain them in the following two posts, but I am changing his position to make his main statement easier to attack (aka the straw man argument). I would say that the bias I wrote towards Westerners is the same as that towards Arabs; but it's not. Fortunately I'm capable of self-criticism, since I include myself (and those close to me) in this geographical statement, so I hardly call this a bias. Once again, relativism is hardly my main statement. If you're truly bothered by differences in opinions, then there's not much I can add since it's a biological and psychological fact that no two people are alike. But I'll leave these quotes speak for themselves:

I'm not talking relativism (or cultural relativism for that matter), I mentioned that "Bak's perspective", aka generalization is just as 'bullshit' as his condescending tone towards Arabs. Hence the harsh tone in my reply, because the term "civilized" is far overrated, and I would have thought people better than to pursue this colonialistic perspective of the world, as along with its antonym, savage, they were terms widely used by Europeans to describe first contact nations in the Americas; a racist perspective that has persisted until the late 1950s in North America. If we were simply talking about disrespectful manners, then that's a different story; but it shouldn't be equated with a people being more civilized or not.

I accept this challenge! You and I, 3 o'clock tomorrow. Be there.

Define "civilized". No, he's throwing it out of anger at Bush. Obviously that's a realistic action if you ask me. No, I'm pointing out the fact that your view of Arabs is comparably the same view as the colonialists who came to North America had of Native Americans. And your idea of "they should act more like grown ups" is completely unfounded if not ridiculous. I'm sure you could find thousands of stories in the news where people "should act more like grown ups" back home in North America, but people simply don't act like monotonous ordely upper class robots. People are different, and so is culture, beliefs, and religion.

That's a pretty low colonialistic approach if you consider your own more civilized than someone else. I suppose you still believe that Native Americans are souless savages too? And that everyone should be converted to Christianity through all repressive means possible? Fact is, maybe your perspective of Arabs isn't very high, but from an Arab's point of view, Americans are simply barbaric tyrants that they'd rather have out of their country (maybe 'uncivilized' from their perspective too). They can't be polite and say "please, would you possibly move out of my nation soon" : because face it, that's a horribly unrealistic way of getting the troops to pull out. They may not have their technology up to par with the United States, but there's simply no way you can consider another country more or less civilized. If anything, you reinforce the stereotype that Westerners can't learn to adapt to different cultures in the world, and if you'd have to have a go at it again, you'd still ridicule yourself by going back and fight in 'Nam. Afterall, there surely are grown-up ways to express disagreement.

Like I said, it has nothing to do with freedom of speech, and Iraqis have been expressing their opinions since and before the war erupted. An Islamic-based government is not the same as Communism, and the American invasion did not better the living conditions in Iraq as nearly 5 million Iraqis have been displaced since 2003 (a figure quadruppling the displacement of refugees in any other war in Iraq), without counting the direct and indirect number of fatalities related to the invasion (~100k civilian deaths reported), and destruction of buildings and villages. The current constitution and government is a huge joke, incapable of sustaining itself without direct foreign assistance; and it's not like foreigners are going to abide by Iraq's constitution either, unless of course the media manages to dramaticize the story out of proportion rendering the government incapable of taking any major decisions on how to deal with the act without becoming a huge controversy leading to their political demise. So it's not the Iraqi excercising his freedom of speech, but rather western media's influencial ability to prevent any major actions taken against him. (Just look at Omar Khadr for instance)

YOU KNOW BETTER LOL It shouldn't be that difficult to write a similar plugin for ASSS though.

Well Confess, when you're the world's most unliked president in someone else's country raging war on them, you can't expect everything to run smoothly and be as easy as stealing candy from a baby. And honestly, only a paranoid person would think up that a shoe could easily turn in a bullet in such a situation. The actual symbolism is that in Islamic countries, the sole of the foot represents the utmost insult upon someone else, hence why he says "here's your farewell kiss, you dog", and why George W. Bush doesn't understand because it represents two entirely different cultural point of views. And no, democratic rundowns did not give him any more freedoms to throw a shoe than under an islamic-based government: the difference is you don't hear about the others since our media is biased only towards things that relate to Americans abroad. So the only freedoms it gave were the freedoms for Americans to impede over other people's human rights.

lol trust me root, that's kinda what I want to do. But the cops are right beside the picket lines eating their doughnuts and drinking tim hortons coffees, and the minute they see someone try to provoke any action against the picketers, they bust them outta their car and all. Kinda rediculous, but not like you could ever rely on them. No, it's a 20% increase of cars. I'm not sure what's the exact ratio of bus commuters per vehicles, but a lot of people who use the buses regularly are simply staying home and not going anywhere because they don't have the money to pay for taxis. Others who live 15 minutes away from everything simply walk, but I live in a rural region, so there's nothing but cows and snow around. Downtown on the other hand is gridlocked during rush hours; and leaving at 6am, it took me 2 hours and 40 minutes to get to my exam last time.

How I loathe this bus strike...... http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTV...81212/20081212/ It's gonna last a month most likely, and it's causing problems all around. Not only is it a huge hinderance on people, but traffic is an ass with 20% more vehicles on the road, and businesses are slowing down in a time when we'd expect shoppers to be all over the malls and such. That plus those bloody hippy bus strikers are picketing students at universities and colleges. Fuck them. I have exams to do; I swear I'll take their signs and beat them off the road one by one if I have to.

"Hakaku hugs your mother while minigolfing even though we said not to"

Keep the bases comin peoples! And I expect at least one outta you Gibbit Gibbit > Ok just for you hak <3

Well, he's been saying for over a year that he intends to quit (originally he said sometime in October following his marriage), and now he says by the new years he'll be gone. I wish he didn't :/

I ain't goin no where for holidays :/ I'm also working; can't complain though, since it means more hours and more money (which I really need at this point). Though I hate the increase of customers and stress, gah...

Damn, 21.9

The funny thing is, that by making a big thing about it, the IWF has effectively increased traffic to the image (Wikipedia has gotten near 400k unique visitors today) and increased by-passing to view the image. Oh, and what about diaper commercials? And videos on Youtube? And personal non-digital photos? Will the UK ban those too (since they also fit the definition of "potentially illegal")? What will happen to someone who does take a photo? And what if they're a minor themself? We might as well ban everyone aged 18 and under from existing altogether at this rate.

So I suppose they'll completely ban Cupid then? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cupido.jpg

I made my guy do a 360 and -1m. 5.6 record with wiggling though.

True, though Powerball cheats by using bots, and The Complex has 0 pop 24/7.

1. Most bot-oriented zones are very capable. (not sure how you wanted me to answer this) 2. Only one zone is ASSS (Hyperspace). 3. Depends on the zones and gameplays evidently. You could have kills, deaths, ratio, average, banners, points, squad, tks, flag wins, etc. 4. Maybe. 5. hawkaloogie. Without access to SSC billing, you would need every zone's bots and the such to send you the information. Most people probably aren't really willing to do that; and most zones (EG, TW, Deva, Premier, etc.) already have their own scores website.

It's the end of subspace!