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How are these people controlled? There is an unknown person sent to represent you, for example, at a UN meeting. Next meeting, someone else will be sent. How will there be any continuity? You don't know little or nothing about the person you are sending somewhere, there is no history you can build ...

Hamstray, this is silly. I see two possibilities. One is that for you this is just a rhetorical thing- you're trying to make it into an absolute, so as to take advantage of ambiguity in the way we define words. Like saying "a ham sandwich is better than nothing, nothing is better than eternal ...

Thanas wrote:You need however not be a pushover or a weakling.

The degree of concentration of power accepted is an indicator for submissiveness.

How exactly, Hamstray, do you think politics would work if Austria would send a comittee of, like 5 people, to every international conference? Someone has to represent the State. People usually choose someone with strong opinions, and the will to stand for them, when it comes to leading and represe...

To be fair, the carnival guild that most likely butchered is indeed of Austrian origin, so the assumption wasn't that far off.

LaCroix wrote:Well, there has to be a spokesperson, right? Like, a Chancellor, a President... Like in every Nation of this Planet...

classic argumentum ad populum

LaCroix wrote:61% want a strong man in charge of Austria (which is a joke question - who wants a pushover in charge?)

pretty narrow-minded. how about a "senate" or some other form of non-single-concentration of power? or how about delegative democracy?

How is this even a sport?
Isn't this based on luck? Better test for luck enhancing drugs.

I think you're going to have to actually explain how you think all of this is 'some kind of morality down your throat'. Use examples. I have given those, have I not? They were already discussed. No shit. It's a prison. They have a society based on religious proscription of activities that would dis...

Showing 'authority' or 'social structure' as something enforced by violence is hardly 'ironic', and since Dillon's motivations directly contradict your vague memories, I think the work and your perception of it are pretty separate things. It is the irony which is actually what I am missing here. Sh...

Stark wrote:They're still exceptionally violent criminals.

Yes, that's why they are doomed to die in the first place. They deserve to ...

And yes, Ripley foolishly wandering around a planet LITERALLY POPULATED BY RAPISTS is the victim of an attempted gangrape. Clearly this is 'morality'! The whole concept is basically skewed. Dillon didn't stop the crime because it was a crime or wrong or Ripley needed protecting - he was angry they ...

JLTucker wrote:You're funny. Do you really think that scene was to only show that rape is bad?

It fits in with overall dogmatic 90s mentality.

Violent killers motivated by machismo to violent and risky activities and you think this is shoving morality down your throat? Maybe you should rewatch the movie. :lol: If it's a macho/religious attitude that drives them to sacrifice/repent at the end... Also there is that nearly rape scene; Rape i...

Stark wrote:In the end, Dillon motivates some of the prisoners to confront the alien through simple macho bullshit pride; hardly a moral statement.

That is a form of morality, albeit a very shallow one. I don't remember any indications that it was to be taken with any sort of irony.

It was long ago that I watched it. That they would lay down their life for not only for her, but the inmates is quite optimistic. Couple that with Dillon using religion in a non-terrible way to get them to try and see the error of their ways is good too. I had the impression it wants to shove some k...

100 duck sized horses seem less threatening than 100 duck sized ducks.

Faced such a question I wouldn't be sure it wasn't some kind of metaphor for internal or external affairs policies.

If money is an issue don't do stuff that will get you sued.

Zaune wrote:Fuck it, I'm going back to Canada.

Wouldn't have noticed that it rains all the time if it hadn't been pointed out to you?

Become a member of the Russian parliament and then poison him with Polonium.

I'm rather curious how eating it rather than smoking it affects the body. There's obviously nothing doing damage from smoke, but you do get a more concentrated dose. It takes longer to kick in and effects last longer. I'd recommend against doing so if you have no idea what dose has what effects on ...

Welf wrote:No, it's not. "Milliarde" is the best possible word for 1000x1000x1000.

Confusion starts to arise once it gets to Billiards

Most of you lot constantly decry the US for throwing its weight around / imposing unilateral sanctions / trying to destroy the economies of any country it doesn't like. As such you should be glad that one bank valued freedom over ingratiating itself with US politicians and bravely provided a servic...

A bit of fairly recent (though not that new) important news getting overlooked here (is it because everyone is preoccupied with the gun debate?): http://money.cnn.com/2012/12/12/news/companies/hsbc-money-laundering/ NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Federal officials expressed pride when they announced their $1.9...

So correct me if I'm wrong here, but... Man in China attacks kids at a school with a knife, 22 wounded, no fatalities. Man in Connecticut attacks kids at school with gun, 27 fatalities and more wounded. Even one fatality is one too much. Turning this into gun debate, either side whether it's about ...