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But anyway, please do elaborate on how exactly Greek debts can be inflated away. Timeframe, inflation rates necessary, etc. Well, with a 5% inflation rate for 10 years, you get ~63% inflation as a whole. Meaning a debt reduction by ~39%. After 15 years, it's 200% inflation/ 50% debt reduction. I th...

What I meant by punishing was losing common market access for rejecting core EU freedoms, not that it is not a consequence of Britain‘s own actions. It is. The 4 freedoms of the common market are not negotiable, and rightly so. Otherwise other EU members could start picking cherries, which would en...

"Inflated away". Lol. It's like folks don't even know how the Euro works. Next thing you know, they'll be telling us that infinite exponential growth is sustainable on a planet with finite resources. For somebody who posts on stardestroyer.net, you have a quite narrow view: We have the wh...

Of course this will happen, and if Britain is punished thoroughly enough for leaving, the others will be afraid and sit tight, but you seem to think fear will keep people in line for a sufficiently long time? *shrugs* I mean, the underlying issue is not resolved- there is no fiscal union, only a mo...

How could you claim to know what the people of Greece thought? Well, if they would have wanted to leave the EU, they could. They did not, hence they wanted to stay in the EU. Or at least the people in charge, to be more precise. But if the people would see things differently, there would be a party...

Heck, even Greece stayed in the EU in 2010 because leaving it - or the Euro - would have most probably created considerably more harm to the country than staying. so this is the version of history which gets written down in the books. No mention at all of the sanctions, blackmail, and soft coup car...

BabelHuber, that may all be correct, but in no way it addresses my point... Well, my points are: - The Euro does have its negative side effects, as you correctly stated. But it was introduced in another time, it was thought to be a vehicle to drive further integration and we can hardly get rid of i...

The euro crisis has been going on for, what, decade? Two decades? How long can a problem linger without being resolved and yet be seen as a critical problem? A decade (if you pick the starting point when the bailouts of the banks after the GFC started, leading to exacerbation of debt burdens across...

AniThyng wrote:The Muslim's I know she likely to consider this blasphemy at worst, the imam misguided at best...

True. But you have to start somewhere, otherwise nothing will ever change.

So if we want to have modern, liberal muslims, we also need to have mosques with liberal imams.

In Berlin, a new mosque for liberal muslims is created - with a female imam: http://newscdn.newsrep.net/h5/nrshare.html?r=3&lan=en_AU&pid=14&id=Sccf80d5aWQ_us&app_lan=&mcc=311&declared_lan=&pubaccount=ocms_0&showall=1 A German lawyer born in Turkey has founded a liber...

A delay action at the best. I am a pessimist and predict the neoliberal banker capitalist will only spew hot air in the beginning and nothing will change later. The rest the EU will also take this as confirmation that they can continue in the exact same way as before rather than a wake up call to c...

None of which support your claims for reasons that have been heavily explained to you. Except that I don't claim , I'm analyzing the evidence at hand. The lack of a scorch mark on one occasion doesn't change that there's scorch marks and far more with regularity. Proof that it's "far more regu...

Babel, we have given you both on-screen examples of the damage caused and quotes of people citing the damage I have never disputed this. I just have stated that there are other examples , like: - A phaser shot hitting a wall and not damaging the wall, not even a scorch mark - Guys taking cover behi...

We know about NDF; but we don't automatically assume NDF is a sign of inferiority, it is after all, a very effective device for making your foeman dead. I haven't stated that phasers are bad weapons, just that they have a range of limitations which are still valid - as long as we don't talk about N...

Q99, have you even checked the main site? http://stardestroyer.net/Empire/Tech/Beam/NDFTheory.html Hand Phaser Momentum and Battery Storage According to the TM, hand phasers can "explosively uncouple" 650 cubic metres of rock with maximum power 0.28-second bursts. This would be consistent ...

Q99, you also have to explain why people simply disappear on high phaser settings, without any side effects like an explosion. The NDF-theory can neatly explain this, your direct energy theory cannot. Also, with your theory trained soldiers would behave stupidly, which is less plausible than technic...

You keep saying this but we see phasers cut metal, weld metal, make bank vaults go poof, etc.. You aren't backing up that it doesn't work, we have evidence to the contrary. I explain it a last time, since I get tired of repeating myself: Sometimes a higher energy output would be advantageous to a s...

NecronLord wrote:[Motherfucker why does it matter if it's 'direct' or not?

Because then it's a completely different type of weapon with completely different characteristics and completely different tactical ramifications.

NecronLord wrote:Or they'll just stun you because you are not obscured.

Except if I stand between a packing crate and the outer hull

Even IF the burn effects are due to waste heat from that process, that is still energy being delivered to the target. Yes, but this is at least a consistent theory - if the NDF works on a target, lots of damage is done. If the NDF doesn't work, almost no damage is done. The NDF always seems to work...

Are... you suggesting that they should go EVA and shoot in through windows? What? No! I'm suggesting that if a certain location gives you an advantage during a shootout, the people involved would most likely try to be at this location (e.g. being in front of the outer hull so the enemy won't risk t...

Fact of the matter is, it can and has been used to do feats of this level, just not in combat. So, yea, your excuses are excuses, you can't ask us to just ignore all other instances of high power. Except that the NDF-theory can explain everything - if some materials aren't affected by a phaser, the...

NecronLord wrote:It's not a hard and fast rule that they don't do anything consistent with a 'conventional' energy weapon by any means.

And this cannot be an NDF-reaction which looks similarly to a direct energy weapon because?

Simply being dismissive and insulting towards an argument isn't a good argument. I get your argument, it's just that your argument doesn't counter the reality of shown feats. "In real life if you see a weapon do something in one circumstance, it can do it in others. It's as simple as that.&quo...

Gentle parody aside, focusing on the packing crates isn't really valid any more, there are tons of examples of packing crates resisting blasters since the Star Wars TV serieses came out, when the blasters should logically also be switched to high-power and used to blow through them. It's an effect ...