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Forum: General Discussions 16 Feb 2007, 01:58
Replies: 9
Views: 2,661
Posted By Vermillion
Re: The First 100 Hours

Well firstly it had to be a non-binding resolution, as Congress has no power to pass a binding resolution regarding troop deployment, that is an executive power. They can control budgetary expenses,...
Forum: General Discussions 24 Nov 2006, 01:23
Replies: 89
Views: 7,962
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Jesus rejected for Christmas

I don't take lessons on morality from people who don't take lessons on morality from themselves.

In the United States, half the country firmly, sometimes fanatically believes that Jesus would want...
Forum: General Discussions 23 Nov 2006, 14:28
Replies: 89
Views: 7,962
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Jesus rejected for Christmas

You should go with your first instints in case like this, they are seldom wrong.

I note you ignored the rest of my post. Must have been like people ignoring when God talks to them ll the time.
Forum: General Discussions 23 Nov 2006, 14:26
Replies: 132
Views: 12,385
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Are you ready?

That doesn't even make basic sense.

You are essentially saying that because there is no chance that I will (while sitting at my computer typing) spontaneously turn into a Red Giant Star with a...
Forum: General Discussions 22 Nov 2006, 18:14
Replies: 89
Views: 7,962
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Jesus rejected for Christmas

So, to be clear... GOD spoke to you last night, I assume you have a bush in your room that caught fire or some such. There was no ambiguity in your statement, no question as to wheither it might have...
Forum: General Discussions 20 Nov 2006, 12:35
Replies: 89
Views: 7,962
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Jesus rejected for Christmas

So... prayer has nothing to do with God? Its just a Christian version of a Blackberry?

"Dear Lord: breakfast at 8:15, call mother at 9:00, meeting with the staff at 10:15... Oops, wait, thats...
Forum: General Discussions 19 Nov 2006, 13:19
Replies: 89
Views: 7,962
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Jesus rejected for Christmas

Why did you need to pray? I mean, if its God, surely he knew what was in your mind and decided to do it or not do it based on its own merits. Where does 'prayer' enter into it? Or does god do things...
Forum: General Discussions 18 Nov 2006, 14:03
Replies: 54
Views: 7,421
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Travel to the US

Well, that's more or less true, but for how long one wonders...

http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/applying/iris/intro

Iris scans at Heathrow have already been installed; at the moment they are a...
Forum: General Discussions 18 Nov 2006, 13:26
Replies: 89
Views: 7,962
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Jesus rejected for Christmas

Jesus replied, "Slaves, obey your earthly masters with deep respect and fear. Serve them sincerely as you would serve Christ." (Ephesians 6:5)

And so on.



Really? Whining emails are the...
Forum: General Discussions 17 Nov 2006, 14:44
Replies: 89
Views: 7,962
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Jesus rejected for Christmas

The issue is not weither charities are religious in origin, but weither they are conversionist religions. The Salvation Army places no limits or qualms on its donations. A Lesbian transexual apostate...
Forum: General Discussions 17 Nov 2006, 14:35
Replies: 54
Views: 7,421
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Travel to the US

I'm just guessing, but I rather suspect the data is stored somewhere. Otherwise one questions the value, unless they managed to trick Bin Laden and other top members of Al qaida at some point in the...
Forum: General Discussions 15 Nov 2006, 00:23
Replies: 89
Views: 7,962
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Jesus rejected for Christmas

A talking Jesus doll that quotes Bible verses?

Maybe the Marines turned the dolls down because they did not want 4000 children to grow up with an unreasoning hatred for the USMC based on the...
Forum: General Discussions 13 Nov 2006, 16:58
Replies: 132
Views: 12,385
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Are you ready?

I notice that it does not specifically say two people of opposite genders, thus implying they might be gay. And since we all know what the Bible says about 'lying together' if unmarried, I take this...
Forum: General Discussions 8 Nov 2006, 22:51
Replies: 26
Views: 2,998
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Nancy Pelosi

Actually, weeks ago Pelosi stated openly that she would not investigate or seek impeachment for Bush Jr. She did not make any such promises for anyone else mind you, but since Rummy has just...
Forum: General Discussions 8 Nov 2006, 22:48
Replies: 108
Views: 9,252
Posted By Vermillion
Re: 654,965 Dead Iraqis Later

Oh, and KaneED, doing just fine, working a lot, wandering back and forth between the UK and France periodically to try and get a book finished...
Forum: General Discussions 8 Nov 2006, 22:46
Replies: 108
Views: 9,252
Posted By Vermillion
Re: 654,965 Dead Iraqis Later

That doesn't even make any sense.

Firstly, I agree, the war was a mistake for an assortment of reasons. But your logic here seems to have been that BECAUSE the war was a mistake, there can...
Forum: General Discussions 8 Nov 2006, 18:44
Replies: 108
Views: 9,252
Posted By Vermillion
Re: 654,965 Dead Iraqis Later

Really? And you are certain of this why? You feel confident of your assertion for what reason?

Why have the number of Insurgents steadily increased over the last 3 years? If people were going to...
Forum: General Discussions 8 Nov 2006, 16:44
Replies: 108
Views: 9,252
Posted By Vermillion
Re: 654,965 Dead Iraqis Later

No, AN Iraqi resistance, to some degree was inevitable. There would certainly be a portion of the population, likely the former Baathists who were opposed to the US presence and the US deposing of...
Forum: General Discussions 3 Nov 2006, 18:07
Replies: 108
Views: 9,252
Posted By Vermillion
Re: 654,965 Dead Iraqis Later

I don't think anyone suggested that the war was to secure cheap oil in the shirt term for the US. war in the middle east, regardless of success or failure or how wise or stupid the war is, would...
Forum: General Discussions 30 Oct 2006, 13:36
Replies: 94
Views: 13,927
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Favourite Quote from a movie

"That's right. I've killed women and I've killed children. I've killed just about everything that walks or crawls at one time or another, and I'm here to kill you, Little Bill for what you did to...
Forum: General Discussions 6 Oct 2006, 19:23
Replies: 88
Views: 7,061
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Another School Shooting

People who are considering a murder-suicide should really try suicide-murder instead. The order of things makes such a difference?

Did somebody on this thread actually make the point that, if...
Forum: General Discussions 20 Sep 2006, 22:57
Replies: 68
Views: 6,376
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Religion and the truth

You are in error, the bible is quite specific in the amount of time that has passed since the creation. The Bible provides an unbroken line of lineage from Adam through to Solomon, including ages of...
Forum: General Discussions 5 Jun 2006, 18:57
Replies: 67
Views: 6,287
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Faggot nostalgia

I'm still around from time to time, but my life is somewhat crazy busy at the moment, I am shuttling back and forth between Oxford and Paris every couple of weeks, trying to get archival...
Forum: General Discussions 2 Apr 2006, 20:18
Replies: 37
Views: 2,284
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Poker

I occasionally dip my hat into the ring, I have played in professional poker tournaments in the UK and in Canada. Best showing was top 15 at the Oxford IV tournament, part of the European Poker Tour,...
Forum: General Discussions 23 Mar 2006, 01:15
Replies: 41
Views: 3,303
Posted By Vermillion
Re: House

Unfortunate, I thought this thread would be about that absolute cracker of a TV show starring Huge Laurie, currently one of my favourites on television...
Forum: General Discussions 23 Mar 2006, 01:13
Replies: 31
Views: 2,589
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Action buffs: two interesting looking movies out in the UK this year

Clint Eastwood is directing two seperate war movies, both about the Battle for Iwo Jima, Pacific theatre, WWII. One is a tale of the Americans invading Iwo Jima, the second is a take of the Japanese...
Forum: General Discussions 21 Mar 2006, 11:56
Replies: 45
Views: 4,178
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Go Bush Go!

The debt ceiling during Clinton's 8-year presidency went from $4.3 trillion to $5.9 trillion. During the first 6 years of Bush Jr, it has gone from $5.9 trillion to almost $9 trillion.
Forum: General Discussions 21 Mar 2006, 11:45
Replies: 45
Views: 4,178
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Go Bush Go!

Which is, of course, the big question. At what point does the US debt reach a point where it is no longer manegable, and starts to have a serious effect on the country? The US in in a unique...
Forum: General Discussions 20 Mar 2006, 12:42
Replies: 79
Views: 4,067
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Do not Panic. Do not Run. Step calmly into your pre-prepared coffin.

I do, but the moment this state starts following along the footsteps of the US along the same levels, I can always flee back to Canada.

besides, at the moment, and for the next 2 months, I am in...
Forum: General Discussions 20 Mar 2006, 03:05
Replies: 106
Views: 7,652
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Yahwe's Career

Ah I remember about two years ago when I faced a very similar problem; staying with my government agency in Canada or taking an academic position at Oxford. I also posted here and asked for advice,...
Forum: General Discussions 19 Mar 2006, 17:04
Replies: 54
Views: 3,575
Posted By Vermillion
Re: [Iraq] 'air assualt'

The 'strategists' were in some sense, the Bush Jr. administration just ignored them. You should read some of the pre-war assessments of what Post-war Iraq might look like, and what the US should and...
Forum: General Discussions 19 Mar 2006, 15:55
Replies: 54
Views: 3,575
Posted By Vermillion
Re: [Iraq] 'air assualt'

The problem is, I actually feel for the average American soldier in Iraq. Obviously there are some serious baddies (see Abu Graib) but the average soldier is no more monster than the average anybody....
Forum: General Discussions 19 Mar 2006, 13:07
Replies: 54
Views: 3,575
Posted By Vermillion
Re: [Iraq] 'air assualt'

Ah Yahwe, its good to see that you have not changed at all. Your self-destructive consistency is a bastion for all of us.

I'd ask how have you been, but your response would just be an infamous...
Forum: General Discussions 19 Mar 2006, 13:04
Replies: 79
Views: 4,067
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Do not Panic. Do not Run. Step calmly into your pre-prepared coffin.

Lord knows why I am taking a position here which might be seen as defence of Bush Jr, for whom I have an actrive dislike, but I'm not entirely sure that is fair.

I don't like Bush, but he does not...
Forum: General Discussions 18 Mar 2006, 18:38
Replies: 54
Views: 3,575
Posted By Vermillion
Re: [Iraq] 'air assualt'

I was talking about the US government, not the governments of any other country you care to mention.

As far as I know , the 'Hearts and minds' operations of the Turks is to pull out your heart and...
Forum: General Discussions 18 Mar 2006, 17:42
Replies: 45
Views: 3,693
Posted By Vermillion
Re: No , Seriously , You must have that Bird Flu theyre all talking about

Actually, historically we are seriously overdue for a massive Viral die-off, (AIDS had such great potential but never quite lived up to the hype) so perhaps your co-workers are all keen students of...
Forum: General Discussions 18 Mar 2006, 17:38
Replies: 54
Views: 3,575
Posted By Vermillion
Re: [Iraq] 'air assualt'

No, No, No, the standard US tactic is to play for the hearts and minds of the local population (build electrical grids, feed the homeless, fund hospitals (but only ones that do not promote abortion))...
Forum: General Discussions 18 Mar 2006, 17:35
Replies: 54
Views: 3,575
Posted By Vermillion
Re: [Iraq] 'air assualt'

Not at all, there is one very simple solution to counter-insurgency. Complete and utter foreign control over every aspect of the society, from controlling government, to civil society to writing...
Forum: General Discussions 18 Mar 2006, 12:37
Replies: 54
Views: 3,575
Posted By Vermillion
Re: [Iraq] 'air assualt'

This is a counter-insurgency in an occupied country. The human side of the operation IS part of the tactical side. Every military operation in this kind of war HAS to be combined with a consideration...
Forum: General Discussions 17 Mar 2006, 13:23
Replies: 79
Views: 4,067
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Do not Panic. Do not Run. Step calmly into your pre-prepared coffin.

Perhaps this is Bush Jr's attempt to create a 'Pax Americana' on the Augustan model.

We are in charge, and we are going to stop pretending we are not in charge, so sit up and brush your teeth or I...
Forum: General Discussions 17 Mar 2006, 13:14
Replies: 50
Views: 3,668
Posted By Vermillion
Re: This thread is not about abortion

'Allo, 'Allo, 'Allo...

Just need to drop by every now and then. Keep you on your toes, Make sure this hasn't become Yahwetarion, the game yet...
Forum: General Discussions 16 Mar 2006, 00:30
Replies: 50
Views: 3,668
Posted By Vermillion
Re: This thread is not about abortion

Out of curiosity, if the issue is 'Let God decide', didn't God already decide and people are trying to get around it? The child cannot survive without full life support, including automated breathing...
Forum: General Discussions 28 Nov 2005, 04:25
Replies: 156
Views: 10,054
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Free Speech In Europe

I like how you made two completely dissimilar things look kindof the same there in order to turn it into an insult. And the book burning comment, made as if it was somehow a logical extension of...
Forum: General Discussions 27 Nov 2005, 16:01
Replies: 156
Views: 10,054
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Free Speech In Europe

I agree entirely. Lots of reasons why the man should spend a long time in a small cell.






And here comes Cuddley_Battleship to defend the holocaust deniers.

Holocaust deniers also do...
Forum: General Discussions 27 Nov 2005, 15:39
Replies: 156
Views: 10,054
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Free Speech In Europe

I don't even understand what that means, though I gather it was supposed to be insulting...

Clarify?
Forum: General Discussions 26 Nov 2005, 19:20
Replies: 156
Views: 10,054
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Free Speech In Europe

Well, to deal with the specific before the General, this particular law is currently in the news because it is being invoked against Holocaust-Denier and all around evil bastard David Irving. I was...
Forum: General Discussions 20 Nov 2005, 19:59
Replies: 75
Views: 12,604
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Your Life Update Thread

Employment: I am still a tutor at Oxford in the Modern History faculty, as I have been for the last year since I left my job with the Canadian Government. Enjoying it a great deal so far, trying to...
Forum: General Discussions 17 Nov 2005, 15:04
Replies: 46
Views: 5,475
Posted By Vermillion
Re: The First Holocaust

This is turning into a massive aside, and I freely admit my contribution to that trend, but some facts need to be corrected here.

Firstly, common mistake so no harm/ no foul: Probably about 3-4...
Forum: General Discussions 17 Nov 2005, 14:43
Replies: 58
Views: 4,474
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Are we, as a species, screwed?

As has been stated, evolution is based on two basic principles:
1) Continuing random mutation caused by both genetic and environmental procsess. Note I said random, not only beneficial or only...
Forum: General Discussions 16 Nov 2005, 20:34
Replies: 16
Views: 3,419
Posted By Vermillion
Re: I Question Your Patriotism

All the time.

Whenever a national mood sweeps the country, it is not all that uncommon for the minority to be called anti-(insert country). During the First World war, not volunteering was...
Forum: General Discussions 15 Nov 2005, 03:14
Replies: 90
Views: 5,490
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Royalty

By the way, the argument as to wheither the Monarchy is a net contributor or net drain on funds in the UK is utterly irrelevant to the maintenance of the Monarchy. Unless the cost of the Royals rises...
Forum: General Discussions 14 Nov 2005, 12:06
Replies: 90
Views: 5,490
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Royalty

Yes, they probably would, meaning the loss of the income of the land for a one-time financial gain the government would probably spend on some asinine 'get re-elected' project. In the Hands of the...
Forum: General Discussions 14 Nov 2005, 01:53
Replies: 90
Views: 5,490
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Royalty

The British Monarchy is a net contributor to Great Britain. Income of the Crown estates, all the land owned by the Windsor Family, is donated to the British Government. In 2004, that was a total...
Forum: General Discussions 14 Nov 2005, 01:40
Replies: 45
Views: 4,033
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Blowing up Jordan

Setting off explosives at Tourist/ vaguely Western related sites in Jordan is hardly surprising, no more surprising than the many recent bombs set off at similarily themes locations in Saudi Arabia,...
Forum: General Discussions 11 Nov 2005, 17:59
Replies: 69
Views: 7,404
Posted By Vermillion
Re: So what's this thing going on in Paris?

That's not really true at all. The PCF lost over 3/4 of its members, and 21 of its 72 deputies following the signing of the Nazi-Soviet pact, an unexpected alliance which caused the PCF to either...
Forum: General Discussions 11 Nov 2005, 17:41
Replies: 60
Views: 6,024
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Gay/Lesbian adoptions

Best point in the thread.

Far too many people who oppose same-sex adoption seem to be presuming that were a same-sex couple to adopt, they would be snatching a child away from a mixed-sex family...
Forum: General Discussions 22 Oct 2005, 02:13
Replies: 14
Views: 2,010
Posted By Vermillion
Re: A British Constitution

A codified constitution is absolutely no guarentee of freedoms being maintained. Britain may use a system of precident in its rulings rather than a constitution, but in reality the United States...
Forum: General Discussions 10 Oct 2005, 20:19
Replies: 30
Views: 3,035
Posted By Vermillion
Re: [Firefly] Serenity Trailer

Very impressive movie, original concept and strong writing. They had a lot of characters but managed to make them all plausible and none of them steriotypes. One of the better movies I have seen...
Forum: General Discussions 6 Oct 2005, 13:19
Replies: 28
Views: 2,582
Posted By Vermillion
Re: If God was real...would you love and obey?

When you say the 'Bible' is accurate, I assume that means both the old and new testaments.

Thats a problem, because in the old testament, God is an evil, vindictive, petty, mass-murdering SOB.
Forum: General Discussions 27 Sep 2005, 12:59
Replies: 2
Views: 1,640
Posted By Vermillion
Loss of a Legend

Yesterday, Agent 86 died in his home.

Don Adams, brilliant comedian famous for his role of Maxwell Smart in TV's 'Get Smart', was a truly funny man. I loved that show, though I only saw reruns of...
Forum: General Discussions 27 Sep 2005, 12:19
Replies: 84
Views: 6,277
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Britain

I think it is so CUTE when people assume that the growth of police power of the state and the suspension of normal liberties and rights won't apply to THEM, it will only ever be used on (insert...
Forum: General Discussions 23 Sep 2005, 11:54
Replies: 69
Views: 4,786
Posted By Vermillion
Re: It Has to be said, its youre a muslim, youre praising allah like never before

Submarine commanders never had the authority to launch their missiles on their own, without any command authority. In the case of a war they would get launch instructions, or in case the national...
Forum: General Discussions 21 Sep 2005, 01:44
Replies: 81
Views: 8,704
Posted By Vermillion
Re: CGI Kiddie Porn!!!

I disagree, I dont think the issue is so simple that it can be boiled down to such a basic premise as 'experiencing any event by proxy corelates to people acting on this event.'

We ban smoking in...
Forum: General Discussions 20 Sep 2005, 17:55
Replies: 81
Views: 8,704
Posted By Vermillion
Re: CGI Kiddie Porn!!!

The age of consent in Canada is currently 14 years old.
Forum: General Discussions 20 Sep 2005, 17:10
Replies: 19
Views: 2,214
Posted By Vermillion
Weirdos of days gone by

Say, whatever happened to the likes of Insane Badger, Warfalcon, M.ar.d, and all the other lunatcis on the far-right? Somehow this place seems to have lost some of its comedy value without their...
Forum: General Discussions 20 Sep 2005, 16:29
Replies: 81
Views: 8,704
Posted By Vermillion
Re: CGI Kiddie Porn!!!

'lo acropy

This issue has nothing to do with the dangers of child pornography to general society. If thats all we were talking about, then I would say legalise it right away.

What we are...
Forum: General Discussions 20 Sep 2005, 13:05
Replies: 81
Views: 8,704
Posted By Vermillion
Re: CGI Kiddie Porn!!!

OK, so child sex is wrong, getting kicks from having sex with a child is wrong, child exploitation and abuse is wrong. We are unanimous.

However the actual question is, is there any danger from...
Forum: General Discussions 14 Sep 2005, 17:12
Replies: 93
Views: 6,356
Posted By Vermillion
Re: is Norway really the best country in the world?

Of course you remember me, you made reference to that fact in your response to my post several months ago. Lying just to score weak rhetorical points is so crass.

Insulting punctuation? Seriously?...
Forum: General Discussions 14 Sep 2005, 16:53
Replies: 93
Views: 6,356
Posted By Vermillion
Re: is Norway really the best country in the world?

Ah, I see many things have not changed. After my long absence nothing makes you feel more welcome than the initial gratuitous, irrelevant insult from good ol' reliable, predictable Yahwe.

And how...
Forum: General Discussions 14 Sep 2005, 15:44
Replies: 56
Views: 5,460
Posted By Vermillion
Re: British police gone nuts

Was he right about something? Has Taxan been slandered unjustifiably? I dont know, all I can see are his posts over the last couple days, exemplified by this thread. Ithat evidence certainly seems to...
Forum: General Discussions 14 Sep 2005, 15:34
Replies: 93
Views: 6,356
Posted By Vermillion
Re: is Norway really the best country in the world?

While I am no expert on the subject, a quick look at statistics on the topic shows that this is quite a questionable statement.

In terms of percentage of asylum seeks granted asylum, Norway ranks...
Forum: General Discussions 14 Sep 2005, 13:16
Replies: 56
Views: 5,460
Posted By Vermillion
Re: British police gone nuts

I see. So when faced with the reality of the fact that the US government was incompetent in its handling of a major crisis, he took umbrage and, in order to demonstrate how it could not be true,...
Forum: General Discussions 14 Sep 2005, 12:58
Replies: 93
Views: 6,356
Posted By Vermillion
Re: is Norway really the best country in the world?

Greetings again...

I apologise for my extended absence. My professional life following my move to the UK was consuming rather a lot of my time, and I was out of country researching rather a lot,...
Forum: General Discussions 14 Sep 2005, 12:55
Replies: 56
Views: 5,460
Posted By Vermillion
Re: British police gone nuts

As you know I have been absent from these boards for some time now, almost a year in fact. After a quick but of reading, I discovered the following facts.
-Yahwe has been unbanned or made a new...
Forum: General Discussions 14 Sep 2005, 12:47
Replies: 93
Views: 6,356
Posted By Vermillion
Re: is Norway really the best country in the world?

When I was at LSE there was a Norwegian woman studying there who was, and remains, the hottest woman I have ever seen, in all the countries I have visted and lived in, in all the many years of my...
Forum: General Discussions 13 Aug 2005, 16:13
Replies: 8
Me
Views: 2,045
Posted By Vermillion
Me

Greetings.

Sorry for my quick arrival and disapearance a couple weeks ago, but I am currently travelling in the Czech Republic, and have not exactly had a lot of time for showing people how wrong...
Forum: General Discussions 1 Aug 2005, 00:35
Replies: 20
Views: 3,153
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Lawyers representing terrorists

I am no lawyer, but I do believe that the 'Attourney-Client' privilidge does NOT extend to a case where the Lawyer discovers information about a crime in progress or about to happen, or information...
Forum: General Discussions 24 Sep 2004, 18:47
Replies: 18
Views: 3,202
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Moving on...

As it is my last day, I suppose I can reveal the truth...

UFOs are real, but they are not extratrrestrial life, they are scouts and probes based on the Nazi flying disk ship designs, sent from the...
Forum: General Discussions 24 Sep 2004, 18:37
Replies: 18
Views: 3,202
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Moving on...

This guy is a disgrace to the name Vermillion.

Lindy Hop? Fetish photographer looking for Drag Queens?

I need to go shower, and possibly change my handle...
Forum: General Discussions 24 Sep 2004, 18:34
Replies: 18
Views: 3,202
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Moving on...

I'm Canadian, so no.

Yes my girlfriend is coming with me, She gave her father some excuse, and he does not know I am taking off for the weekend, so there is no reason for him to put two and two...
Forum: General Discussions 24 Sep 2004, 14:32
Replies: 11
Views: 1,781
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Resident Evil 2

Resident Evil II sucks giant mutated demon donkey c*ck in hell. The steaming pile of effluent should never have been thought of, let along written or filmed. It is directly responsible for the fact...
Forum: General Discussions 24 Sep 2004, 14:19
Replies: 18
Views: 3,202
Posted By Vermillion
Moving on...

Greetings all:

For those who have been following my recent misadventures, (I still walk around with my hands in the air after the Boss' desk incident, by the way), today is a watershed day for me....
Forum: General Discussions 22 Sep 2004, 18:37
Replies: 40
Views: 2,323
Posted By Vermillion
Re: when will they learn that no amount of killings will get them there demands?

Issuing demands has nothing to do with actual results. Demands are not offered in such a way as to be met, they are offered in such a way as to make a political statement. Taking prisoners is one...
Forum: General Discussions 20 Sep 2004, 16:36
Replies: 133
Views: 8,649
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Dante's views and/on Anti-capitalism

It is not pointless coming up with alternatives, as without them, the argument largely resembles:

"Oxygen sucks"
"Well, maybe it does, but can you suggest anything else we can breathe?"
"No,...
Forum: General Discussions 20 Sep 2004, 14:26
Replies: 133
Views: 8,649
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Dante's views and/on Anti-capitalism

So, as far as I can understand, you point is that Capitalism sucks, but every other system out there sucks even more?

Fine then, I'll give you that one.

As has been stated before, if all you...
Forum: General Discussions 17 Sep 2004, 20:17
Replies: 133
Views: 8,649
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Dante's views and/on Anti-capitalism

I should add, how well a system works also depends on your desired end state. If your desired end state is an egalitarian system which, though poor, unprogressive and uncompetitive, places the needs...
Forum: General Discussions 17 Sep 2004, 20:14
Replies: 133
Views: 8,649
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Dante's views and/on Anti-capitalism

I say again, Capitalism is just an economic system, it can no more be moral or immoral then any other system, and to start with that as a basic premise means every opinion you will have on the...
Forum: General Discussions 16 Sep 2004, 19:31
Replies: 133
Views: 8,649
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Dante's views and/on Anti-capitalism

Silence?

Thats unfortunate, this was an interesting topic for a change...
Forum: General Discussions 16 Sep 2004, 16:30
Replies: 32
Views: 2,075
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Talk about a crappy day/night

You know...

I was in a fairly bad mood this morning because when I was getting ready for work, my naked girlfriend ran up and hugged me from behind as I was about to leave the house, not realising...
Forum: General Discussions 15 Sep 2004, 18:58
Replies: 133
Views: 8,649
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Dante's views and/on Anti-capitalism

While I doubt that, even if they did, every historian would tell them they are all completely wrong. Marriage has existed since long before the time of Christ, and in fact long before the time of the...
Forum: General Discussions 15 Sep 2004, 16:13
Replies: 133
Views: 8,649
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Dante's views and/on Anti-capitalism

Firstly, there would be fewer broken homes, not less. Sorry, but that is one of my big pet peeves, along with the constant and irritating misuse of the word 'Decimate'.

Secondly, Divorce is a...
Forum: General Discussions 15 Sep 2004, 14:57
Replies: 133
Views: 8,649
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Dante's views and/on Anti-capitalism

The part where your 'income' (in goods or money) is completely unrelated to your output.
Forum: General Discussions 15 Sep 2004, 14:56
Replies: 133
Views: 8,649
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Dante's views and/on Anti-capitalism

Arguing with me is not stupid. I like to pretend I am an exprt on all things, but the reality is I am only an expert on MOST things. :)




OK, this is generally true, but is the...
Forum: General Discussions 14 Sep 2004, 20:21
Replies: 133
Views: 8,649
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Dante's views and/on Anti-capitalism

Is it?

This is a topic for a whole other thread, but I think religion is extremely natural. It is human nature to make up takes and stories to explain what we cannot otherwise understand. Just as...
Forum: General Discussions 14 Sep 2004, 19:56
Replies: 133
Views: 8,649
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Dante's views and/on Anti-capitalism

Firstly, what they destroyed had little to do with Socialism, and had everything to do with democracy. They restroyed the fledgling democratic state which the first revolution was struggling to...
Forum: General Discussions 14 Sep 2004, 16:53
Replies: 133
Views: 8,649
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Dante's views and/on Anti-capitalism

I mean this with the greatest respect, but that post doesn't mean anything.

The second Law of thermodynamics, carnot's principle, applies to natural systems in a natural state. Left on their own,...
Forum: General Discussions 14 Sep 2004, 16:46
Replies: 133
Views: 8,649
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Dante's views and/on Anti-capitalism

No, not standard Leninist models, because even he abandoned them when he introduced the NEP, the only functioning socialist system the world has ever seen.



I disagree completely. Off the top...
Forum: General Discussions 14 Sep 2004, 16:02
Replies: 133
Views: 8,649
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Dante's views and/on Anti-capitalism

I have a personal pet peeve when people try and apply the theory of entropy (a law of physics, not of economics) to everything as some sort of universal inevitability. Entropy dictates that complex...
Forum: General Discussions 14 Sep 2004, 15:58
Replies: 133
Views: 8,649
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Dante's views and/on Anti-capitalism

Yes, as a third world country it is certainly top of the heap, which is in fact why it is not a third world ****ry, but one of only three second world countries left on the planet. Compared to some...
Forum: General Discussions 14 Sep 2004, 15:25
Replies: 133
Views: 8,649
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Dante's views and/on Anti-capitalism

On the contrary, Soviet Russia was a socialist system: they just had to find a way to deal with the endemic problem of Socialism, the lack of motivation to excel.

Lenin came up with the best...
Forum: General Discussions 9 Sep 2004, 20:48
Replies: 67
Views: 4,894
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Troops storm Russian school

Don't MAKE me get all historical on your ass...

Hitler's Party was elected by the popular vote, several times in fact, though the validity of the elections became less and less as he set about...
Forum: General Discussions 8 Sep 2004, 18:30
Replies: 87
Views: 5,682
Posted By Vermillion
Re: UPDATE: Vermillion f**ks up and flees the country

Oh its far more entertaining when you are the guy it's happening to, trust me.

Since we were already breaking several federal laws (and a few of God's laws, I suspect) in the course of the deed, I...
Forum: General Discussions 8 Sep 2004, 18:28
Replies: 67
Views: 4,894
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Troops storm Russian school

I called it...

http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2004/09/08/russia_hostage040908.html
Forum: General Discussions 8 Sep 2004, 18:23
Replies: 87
Views: 5,682
Posted By Vermillion
Re: UPDATE: Vermillion f**ks up and flees the country

Oh, I am discovered. I am a huge liar, who has somehow consistently kept these fantasy threads of imagination going for years now. Nothing of what I say is ever true ever.

Except that.

and that...
Forum: General Discussions 8 Sep 2004, 15:23
Replies: 87
Views: 5,682
Posted By Vermillion
Re: UPDATE: Vermillion f**ks up and flees the country

Just so everyone here knows, as of around 3:00 pm yesterday afternoon, I am the God damn King of this Motherf**king Planet.

I have been walking around for the past 18 hours with my arms up in the...
Forum: General Discussions 7 Sep 2004, 20:53
Replies: 87
Views: 4,069
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Who here is circumcised?

I am not religious, I am snipped, and I have never expressed on my own part, nor recieved any complaints from women.

Were it not for threads like this one I doubt I would ever really have thought...
Forum: General Discussions 7 Sep 2004, 19:07
Replies: 50
Views: 3,455
Posted By Vermillion
Re: I may or may not have ****ed up my life

Don't be retarded: get your ass in gear, do what is necessary and finish your degree.

1- I am hardly unbiased here, as I went to university thrice for three degrees, so obviously higher education...
Forum: General Discussions 5 Sep 2004, 19:05
Replies: 67
Views: 4,894
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Troops storm Russian school

A few facts, drawing from briefs on the situation and what I know of like events:

-The Children were not fed or watered in 52 hours, absolutely no provision was made for their nourishment, even...
Forum: General Discussions 2 Sep 2004, 18:52
Replies: 87
Views: 5,682
Posted By Vermillion
Re: UPDATE: Vermillion f**ks up and flees the country

Are you staff or student?

And what will you be doing in the Dojo? I am looking to continue my Muay Thai, but could not find a specific society for it...
Forum: General Discussions 2 Sep 2004, 18:50
Replies: 21
Views: 2,947
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Last night

Good self defence courses teach that there is no more effective hand weapon to carry then a telescoping baton or rod. That and some decent self defence classes, or training in a hard martial art,...
Forum: General Discussions 2 Sep 2004, 03:23
Replies: 38
Views: 8,474
Posted By Vermillion
Re: wjat are your favorite sayings?

"Peoples is so Stupid" (A mantra at work, we say it all the time) (Said like Yosemite Sam would say 'Camels is so stupid')

occasionally substituted by:

"Everybody knows, the world is full of...
Forum: General Discussions 2 Sep 2004, 03:21
Replies: 87
Views: 5,682
Posted By Vermillion
Re: UPDATE: Vermillion f**ks up and flees the country

Besides, who said anything about me being a spy?


Boogster, I will be completely honest. I posted this whole thing because I was curious about what others would do, after all this isn't exactly...
Forum: General Discussions 1 Sep 2004, 02:53
Replies: 87
Views: 5,682
Posted By Vermillion
Re: UPDATE: Vermillion f**ks up and flees the country

Its only a porno movie if I don't get caught. If I DO get caught, its the worst scenes out of one of the thriller movies where the spy gets interrogated by the North Koreans using hot wires and...
Forum: General Discussions 31 Aug 2004, 21:05
Replies: 87
Views: 5,682
Posted By Vermillion
Re: UPDATE: Vermillion f**ks up and flees the country

So, the girl in question is leaving to go back to school in a week, and has told me that before she leaves she wants to.. ahem, get it on in her father's office., here at work.

I dont have to...
Forum: General Discussions 31 Aug 2004, 04:37
Replies: 43
Views: 3,148
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Fascism

The guy is retarded. He missed two or three of the basic defining charictaristics of fascism. Is he actually a professor or just some guy trying to seem clever on the web?
Forum: General Discussions 30 Aug 2004, 19:02
Replies: 41
Views: 2,571
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Islam And The Decline Of Wit

Ask the communities, they are the ones who wanted them set up. Canada being all nice and egalitarian said fine, as long as you do so within certain guidelines.



Actually they use substantially...
Forum: General Discussions 30 Aug 2004, 16:13
Replies: 41
Views: 2,571
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Islam And The Decline Of Wit

Firstly: yes, this case in Iran IS unusual in two ways: usually the death penalty for these crimes is commuted to a lesser (though still horrible) sentence. In Nigeria for example though there have...
Forum: General Discussions 26 Aug 2004, 21:31
Replies: 87
Views: 5,682
Posted By Vermillion
Re: UPDATE: Vermillion f**ks up and flees the country

Interesting idea: PM me about it and we will see what we can do...

But no haggis.

Dear God, no haggis.
Forum: General Discussions 26 Aug 2004, 19:29
Replies: 87
Views: 5,682
Posted By Vermillion
Re: UPDATE: Vermillion f**ks up and flees the country

Stop asking where I work.

Though I will say, I certainly do not frequent these boards in any professional capacity... If I did, I would not say half of the stuff I have said. Also, it would not be...
Forum: General Discussions 26 Aug 2004, 15:50
Replies: 87
Views: 5,682
Posted By Vermillion
UPDATE: Vermillion f**ks up and flees the country

Well, even the great and knowledgeable Vermillion can totally and utterly f**k up every now and then.


As many of you may recall, I was faced with a decision not long ago about stay at my current...
Forum: General Discussions 24 Aug 2004, 14:12
Replies: 2
Views: 1,298
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Hey Vermillion

There is one in Canada too, both are spelled wrong. Those silly people spell it the way it is found in the "Dictionary".

They are, of course, all in error.
Forum: General Discussions 23 Aug 2004, 21:07
Replies: 40
Views: 2,074
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Annual nukes

I think you mean the Crossbow. Nobody minded terrible much that the English used the Welsh Longbow (except possibly the French). It was a nasty weapon, but it took a lifteime of practice to truly...
Forum: General Discussions 20 Aug 2004, 20:33
Replies: 40
Views: 2,074
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Annual nukes

They did not drop just one because they wanted to be sure japan knew it was not just a fluke or one-off, that the power represented could be repeated.

Japan was not about to surrender, not after...
Forum: General Discussions 19 Aug 2004, 21:11
Replies: 40
Views: 2,074
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Annual nukes

Well, its just my opinion now, not me being all Historiany (Yes, I have a doctorate, I CAN make up new words), but here goes.

Obviously the crimes of the japanese against the Chinese and Koreans...
Forum: General Discussions 19 Aug 2004, 20:14
Replies: 40
Views: 2,074
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Annual nukes

Well TECHNICALLY he is semi correct, in that there were about 180 or so concentration camps which ranged from fairly civilised (the Stalag Luft series) to downright demonic (Dachau), but taken as an...
Forum: General Discussions 19 Aug 2004, 19:05
Replies: 40
Views: 2,074
Posted By Vermillion
Annual nukes

I am surprised the anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki passed us by without the annual "Dropping nukes was great/good/ok/terrible/evil/necessary/unecessary/funny" debate that I always win.

Ah,...
Forum: General Discussions 5 Aug 2004, 20:23
Replies: 15
Views: 1,471
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Democracy in the middle east

Of course they won't. Saudi is the middle eastern country the most repressive of women after Afghanistan. I doubt that that question even crossed the minds of saudi officials when they drafted this...
Forum: General Discussions 5 Aug 2004, 15:35
Replies: 15
Views: 1,471
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Democracy in the middle east

This new Saudi Arabia will be slightly less democratic than the Soviet Union was. The USSR had several levels of democracy. Firstly, all of the representatives to the local Soviet were elected by the...
Forum: General Discussions 26 Jul 2004, 18:46
Replies: 95
Views: 5,545
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Employment opportunities

I think you may have missed my point earlietr. Of course there is some racism in Canada, every nation has its fringe lunatics and rednecks, its unavoidable. Also we cannot be this close to the US for...
Forum: General Discussions 26 Jul 2004, 16:31
Replies: 577
Views: 21,150
Posted By Vermillion
Re: The GD Truth Thread

Expensive and new.

Should 'freedom of religion' and 'freedom of speech' include the right to publicly condemn homosexuals as abhorrent and teach your children creationism over darwinism?
Forum: General Discussions 26 Jul 2004, 16:24
Replies: 119
Views: 6,827
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Britain

(Assuming the is is real and not a load of tripe)

Why is it a breach of civil liberties? I assume such shots will be given with the consent of the parent or guardian. If the shots do what they...
Forum: General Discussions 26 Jul 2004, 15:13
Replies: 95
Views: 5,545
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Employment opportunities

Of course there is asomething of a race problem here, but not that much of one. Firstly, native land claims get routinely settles in favour of the natives, in particular in the last 10 years. I Think...
Forum: General Discussions 23 Jul 2004, 21:13
Replies: 95
Views: 5,545
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Employment opportunities

I have no idea why it would take so long to get enhanced clearance, enhanced is a joke. Even Top Secret only takes 6 months. There is a backlog right now at CSIS (The agency that does the checks) due...
Forum: General Discussions 23 Jul 2004, 21:09
Replies: 95
Views: 5,545
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Employment opportunities

The Canadian military is small, and its underfunded, but it is of superlative quality, recognised by militaries around the world.

Canada has won the Fort Benning international sniper challenge 2...
Forum: General Discussions 23 Jul 2004, 20:03
Replies: 95
Views: 5,545
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Employment opportunities

Speaking in hypotheticals, to get enhanced security clearance takes only a couple weeks, thats good enough for any job in canadian government, in any agency, even entirely non-security related ones....
Forum: General Discussions 23 Jul 2004, 20:00
Replies: 95
Views: 5,545
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Employment opportunities

We are not much of a military player, except for peacekeeping (a Canadian invention by the way) but we are a sigbnificant intelligence player. Canada, the US and the UK form an unwritten triad where...
Forum: General Discussions 23 Jul 2004, 18:19
Replies: 95
Views: 5,545
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Employment opportunities

FYI, the Canadian version of MI6 is actually two agencies:

Communications Security Establishment: (CSE) the smaller partner, it is a small but well funded agency dealing entirely with Elint and...
Forum: General Discussions 23 Jul 2004, 16:46
Replies: 95
Views: 5,545
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Employment opportunities

Actually, once you reach a certain level of senior management (which you are correct, I am not yet) you are supposed to tell people you work for the Auditor general if they ask what we do. Yet oddly,...
Forum: General Discussions 23 Jul 2004, 16:38
Replies: 95
Views: 5,545
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Employment opportunities

There are no conspiracy theories. Those that people talk about are completely made up. And those I already know about I am legally bound to state that they too are all completely made up.

Not to...
Forum: General Discussions 23 Jul 2004, 16:36
Replies: 46
Views: 3,555
Posted By Vermillion
Re: that king arthur film

Oh, and on a similar but utterly different note, why can't the people who make these fils do their damn research? They obviously did some, to get things like the saxon armour and the cool...
Forum: General Discussions 23 Jul 2004, 16:10
Replies: 46
Views: 3,555
Posted By Vermillion
Re: that king arthur film

Actually, what I read agrees with 1-X, Arthur was suspected to be one of the lst Briton kings who turned the tide (briefly) against the Angles invasion, before getting killed and his people were...
Forum: General Discussions 23 Jul 2004, 15:54
Replies: 95
Views: 5,545
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Employment opportunities

I will try and answer all comments at once.

No I don't have a gun.

Yes, my speciality in my studies was Germany and the USSR in the second World War, as well as the French resistance (MA...
Forum: General Discussions 22 Jul 2004, 19:37
Replies: 95
Views: 5,545
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Employment opportunities

Ten points to you, yes I did. It was just over a year ago. The difference is firstly, the position was not at Oxford, and secondly, I was lower ranked in my job and feeling somewhat disaffected under...
Forum: General Discussions 22 Jul 2004, 19:28
Replies: 95
Views: 5,545
Posted By Vermillion
Employment opportunities

I have a dilemma. I recently got a moved up the ladder after winning a competition in my current employment. For those of you who know what that is, I now have access to pretty much everything, and I...
Forum: General Discussions 15 Jul 2004, 19:22
Replies: 48
Views: 3,207
Posted By Vermillion
Re: I now have a new credit card... are they insane!

It depends on the bank and on the person, and on the type of platinum card. My Uncle for example has a medical platinum card which has no credit limit at all. (drool) he could buy Bolivia if he...
Forum: General Discussions 15 Jul 2004, 14:49
Replies: 48
Views: 3,207
Posted By Vermillion
Re: I now have a new credit card... are they insane!

I won't comment on the limit on my Platinum card cause that would just be showing off, but then I am older semi-respectable professional guy, so its not that uncommon.

If you want to fix your...
Forum: General Discussions 15 Jul 2004, 14:45
Replies: 72
Views: 5,914
Posted By Vermillion
Re: lesbians

I slept with a lesbian for a few months once, she was an ultra hottie who stated she was still a lesbian, not bisexual and would not sleep with a guy ever other than me. She had a girlfriend, and...
Forum: General Discussions 15 Jul 2004, 14:40
Replies: 52
Views: 3,496
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Republicans

The problem with republicans is their fringe.

Seriously, look at the fringes of the two parties and compate:

Democratic Fringe: man or woman who sleeps on a mat, wears nothing but hemp clothing...
Forum: General Discussions 14 Jul 2004, 21:20
Replies: 70
Views: 7,183
Posted By Vermillion
Re: [Pointless] Who has the best Avatar?

I love Phang's, but thats quite possibly because his is from the greatest show ever to be on television in the history of ever.

(ever)
Forum: General Discussions 14 Jul 2004, 21:15
Replies: 52
Views: 3,496
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Republicans

"Abortions for all..."
"Boooooooooo!"
"Very well, no abortions for any one."
"Boooooooooo!"
"Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others."
"Yayyyyyyyyy!"
Forum: General Discussions 6 Jul 2004, 16:34
Replies: 177
Views: 11,724
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Why you should support what Bush is doing.

(sobbing)

It's true, It's true...
Forum: General Discussions 6 Jul 2004, 15:33
Replies: 177
Views: 11,724
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Why you should support what Bush is doing.

Thats somewhat disingenuous.

I have always argued there were at one point WMD in Iraq. At ONE point.

We know at one point he used first generation chemical weapons on Kurds and on Iran (the US...
Forum: General Discussions 6 Jul 2004, 05:00
Replies: 177
Views: 11,724
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Why you should support what Bush is doing.

Again, according to Carl Zeiss. The UN report seems to have a different opinion.




That argument works the other way as well of course, they are called Dual use for a reason, and one of those...
Forum: General Discussions 6 Jul 2004, 01:40
Replies: 177
Views: 11,724
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Why you should support what Bush is doing.

Perhaps you missed the part where this UN report was an analysis of Companies which had done military business with Iraq between 1980 and 1991. Clearly these companies sold weapons, weapons...
Forum: General Discussions 30 Jun 2004, 05:29
Replies: 177
Views: 11,724
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Why you should support what Bush is doing.

Hardly. I am disrespectful of QDeathStar's view because his view deserves no respect. As it was only to him I was referring you are quite baseless in extrapolating that to presume to know my opinions...
Forum: General Discussions 30 Jun 2004, 05:16
Replies: 177
Views: 11,724
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Why you should support what Bush is doing.

How's this for specific? The following are 24 US companies identified by the UN Iraq weapons dossier report as having done military business with Iraq between 1980 and 1991. The report also lists...
Forum: General Discussions 29 Jun 2004, 16:34
Replies: 177
Views: 11,724
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Why you should support what Bush is doing.

And away we go...


Ok, I suppose I have to weigh in and try to deal with some of the startling ignorance typified by the post that started this thread. Many of you have already done an excellent...
Forum: General Discussions 28 Jun 2004, 20:45
Replies: 177
Views: 11,724
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Why you should support what Bush is doing.

Dear God people... I was going to post a nice long diatribe tearing QDeathStar and his silly opinions and inaccurate facts a new butt hole, but is there really any point anymore?
Forum: General Discussions 9 Jun 2004, 21:19
Replies: 26
Views: 2,694
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Violence

I played MKII as well, and was extremely good, but not unbeatable as I was with the first. Jax was terribly effective (In particular once you learned how to use his floor pound properly) but as I...
Forum: General Discussions 9 Jun 2004, 21:04
Replies: 26
Views: 2,694
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Violence

I remember when my family moved to france for a few months on my father's sabbatical, I found an arcade with MK I in it, which had only recently arrived in Europe. (Apparently Europe was a year...
Forum: General Discussions 9 Jun 2004, 20:38
Replies: 26
Views: 2,694
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Violence

Ah Mortal Combat 1... There was a time, in my distant youth, when I was un-fu*king-touchable at that game. Could beat the game with any character one one quarter, and won every tournament I played...
Forum: General Discussions 8 Jun 2004, 21:42
Replies: 48
Views: 4,164
Posted By Vermillion
Re: I cant ****ing believe this

No it doesn't. How is 'Fred' in any way involved? How will his knowing the situation make anything better or easier? What part does he play in the problem, or the solution?

Besides, even if you...
Forum: General Discussions 8 Jun 2004, 21:15
Replies: 48
Views: 4,164
Posted By Vermillion
Re: I cant ****ing believe this

Hardly. It was a correspondence between father and daughter, on a personal issue the father clearly has serious issues about. Personal correspondence follows a very simply rule. was the letter...
Forum: General Discussions 8 Jun 2004, 20:23
Replies: 48
Views: 4,164
Posted By Vermillion
Re: I cant ****ing believe this

None of your business, she should not have showed you a clearly VERY private email her father sent to her.
This is her situation to deal with, her father (In an obtuse and idiotic manner and through...
Forum: General Discussions 5 Jun 2004, 00:29
Replies: 96
Views: 5,272
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Bush manages to insult D-Day veterans...

D-Day was not the turning point of the war, The Germans had already been defeated in the East, as somebody else mentioned. By June 1944 it was just a matter of time. However the Normandy invasion did...
Forum: General Discussions 1 Jun 2004, 19:30
Replies: 51
Views: 3,494
Posted By Vermillion
Re: The Domino Effect?

Actually, about 40% of Canada is catholic, 36% is protestant and 18% other religions.

Though, in the same survey, people were asked if they considered themselves religious, and 58% said no.
...
Forum: General Discussions 1 Jun 2004, 19:14
Replies: 143
Views: 5,865
Posted By Vermillion
Re: More Oil for United States

Well, I will have to somewhat disagree. While dictatorship is the norm in the middle East, as is fanatic opression of political minorities, religious minorities and women (though women had a better...
Forum: General Discussions 1 Jun 2004, 16:48
Replies: 51
Views: 3,494
Posted By Vermillion
Re: The Domino Effect?

Yes.
This is an addictive, lethal substance which harms not only yourself but others around you. It has no positive effects whatsoever except to sate an entirely artificial addictive need which has...
Forum: General Discussions 1 Jun 2004, 16:42
Replies: 51
Views: 3,494
Posted By Vermillion
Re: The Domino Effect?

As you well know, there is an enormous differences between public places and one's own home.

However, to be blunt, given the dangerous nature of secondhand smoke and the problem of forcing your...
Forum: General Discussions 1 Jun 2004, 16:33
Replies: 51
Views: 3,494
Posted By Vermillion
Re: The Domino Effect?

Smoking kills people.

Smoking near other people, such as in enclosed places, also kills them.

Feel free to rebut either of those points. If you are unable to then please refrain from protesting...
Forum: General Discussions 1 Jun 2004, 16:23
Replies: 143
Views: 5,865
Posted By Vermillion
Re: More Oil for United States

Nobody argues Hussein was not a bad man because.. well, he WAS a bad man. In fact a very bad man. However the 'bad man' argument has undergone a change in the last couple months.


What's really...
Forum: General Discussions 1 Jun 2004, 14:43
Replies: 143
Views: 5,865
Posted By Vermillion
Re: More Oil for United States

I am tired of the western cultural imperialism so omnipresent in these threads. Always the same thing: every thread involving politics inevitably turnd into one or a combination of: bash the US, bash...
Forum: General Discussions 31 May 2004, 14:52
Replies: 143
Views: 5,865
Posted By Vermillion
Re: More Oil for United States

Nodrog, even if we accept your argument that the government has no responsability but to its own people:

1) Fine, then do not use 'international responsability' as a justification for your...
Forum: General Discussions 17 May 2004, 19:53
Replies: 29
Views: 2,804
Posted By Vermillion
Re: The Pope is making someone who committed suicide a saint.

That is why most countries have another authority to go to when it comes down to laws that may cross lines of concience. The constiturion in the US or the Charter of Rights and freedoms in canada...
Forum: General Discussions 17 May 2004, 19:45
Replies: 146
Views: 8,039
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Im in trouble at uni

You missed the exam? As in, not 'you failed the exam' but you missed writing the exam?

As I recall, was not the original problem that you forgot to do the assignment, then later on, when reminded,...
Forum: General Discussions 17 May 2004, 19:41
Replies: 29
Views: 2,804
Posted By Vermillion
Re: The Pope is making someone who committed suicide a saint.

Good for you, but the law does not agree (up to a point). Moreover, I have no problem at all with you believing that, nice to see someone with the courage of their convictions. However it is when...
Forum: General Discussions 17 May 2004, 15:50
Replies: 146
Views: 8,039
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Im in trouble at uni

Christ man; basic problem solving 101.

Need documentation: Go GET documentation.
-from TA, from fellow students, from Prof, to show you are serious about getting the work done.

Once...
Forum: General Discussions 17 May 2004, 15:41
Replies: 34
Views: 2,595
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Cults, sects & factions

Sounds like the guy is a charalan and your girlfriend and her fellow students are guillible idiots. Learnign how to sit probperly for two years?

However, the fact that he is taking advantage of...
Forum: General Discussions 17 May 2004, 15:36
Replies: 146
Views: 8,039
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Im in trouble at uni

Do NOT play the ADHD card in an email, it smacks of deperation. Further, you already stated you forgot about the assignment twice, so whats the point in now providing a medical excuse if you have...
Forum: General Discussions 17 May 2004, 15:25
Replies: 29
Views: 2,804
Posted By Vermillion
Re: The Pope is making someone who committed suicide a saint.

There was no child.
Once it was born, it was a child. Look up 'child' or 'baby' in the dictionary.
As such, there was no threat of murder. Please consult the criminal code of your country for more...
Forum: General Discussions 6 May 2004, 16:51
Replies: 94
Views: 5,333
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Is GI Jane the poorest movie ever made?

There was a starship troopers 2? Why was I not informed?


Mind you, if it was really that bad, perhaps its a god thing I was unaware of it...
Forum: General Discussions 6 May 2004, 16:40
Replies: 86
Views: 3,933
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Your secrets - being Sex Gods.

Now that's just mean-spirited.

Careful, keep up with that and I won't love you anymore.
Forum: General Discussions 6 May 2004, 16:25
Replies: 86
Views: 3,933
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Your secrets - being Sex Gods.

Bitterness, yes.

My superiority complex however is longstanding and massive.

The rest, well I still drop by every now and then to see if anything interesting is being discussed, and of course...
Forum: General Discussions 6 May 2004, 16:20
Replies: 71
Views: 4,584
Posted By Vermillion
Re: I dont believe it...

If you need any pointers, let me know. Barring my time spent abroad travelling or studying, I have lived here all my life.
Forum: General Discussions 5 May 2004, 20:30
Replies: 71
Views: 4,584
Posted By Vermillion
Re: I dont believe it...

Ottawa eh?

Nice place to live. Good choice.
Forum: General Discussions 5 May 2004, 19:45
Replies: 94
Views: 5,333
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Is GI Jane the poorest movie ever made?

Firstly, Plan 9 from outer space is an Ed Wood film, which is a whole new level of Camp. The movie was god awful, but at least it crossed that line from stupid to at least being amusingly stupid....
Forum: General Discussions 5 May 2004, 19:29
Replies: 94
Views: 5,333
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Is GI Jane the poorest movie ever made?

Please.

Bad though these may be, none of them compare with the holy trinity of truly crapulent movies:

3) Highlander II: No, it was all actually aliens, the plot (literally) does not follow,...
Forum: General Discussions 5 May 2004, 16:22
Replies: 86
Views: 3,933
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Your secrets - being Sex Gods.

Don't get me wrong, I have been part of these forums for longer than I care to recollect without weeping. But you have to admit, the number of sexually inexperienced/ virgins on this board is...
Forum: General Discussions 5 May 2004, 16:17
Replies: 86
Views: 3,933
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Your secrets - being Sex Gods.

If anyone would know, it would be Nod...
Forum: General Discussions 5 May 2004, 16:14
Replies: 86
Views: 3,933
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Your secrets - being Sex Gods.

Any why would you resent that? Besides, I can hardly be universally superior, after all you just corrected my spelling.

I am no expert in all things, I simply know what things I am an expert in.
Forum: General Discussions 5 May 2004, 16:05
Replies: 86
Views: 3,933
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Your secrets - being Sex Gods.

Possibly... Comes from having very little shame I suppose.




Indeed, which (I am just postulating here) is probably why I stated in my original post that "every woman is different". ;)
Forum: General Discussions 5 May 2004, 15:33
Replies: 86
Views: 3,933
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Your secrets - being Sex Gods.

Do they? From my several years of participation on these boards I have noticed that the VAST majority of people here are neophytes, virgins and children.

If it were not for pornography most GD...
Forum: General Discussions 5 May 2004, 15:09
Replies: 86
Views: 3,933
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Your secrets - being Sex Gods.

Fine, here then.

Don't just 'go for the hole' if you will excuse the expression. Unless a quickie is underway, generally my girlfriend will have at least 1 or 2 orgasms before we ever get to...
Forum: General Discussions 4 May 2004, 19:46
Replies: 172
Views: 14,202
Posted By Vermillion
Re: What psychological oddities do you have?

So, essentially you are a complete looney-tune who happens to be good at parties?
Forum: General Discussions 4 May 2004, 18:29
Replies: 172
Views: 14,202
Posted By Vermillion
Re: What psychological oddities do you have?

Paranoid: Low
Schizoid: Low
Schizotypal: Low
Antisocial: Low
Borderline: Low
Histrionic: High
Narcissistic: Moderate
Avoidant: Low
Dependent: Low
Obsessive-Compulsive: Low
Forum: General Discussions 4 May 2004, 15:43
Replies: 128
Views: 6,909
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Americans are evil and torture Iraqis true story

"Whose bike is this?"
"It's not a bike baby, its a Chopper."
"Whose Chopper is this?"
"It's Zed's."
"Where is Zed?"
"Zed's Dead baby... Zed's Dead."
Forum: General Discussions 3 May 2004, 21:13
Replies: 86
Views: 3,933
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Your secrets - being Sex Gods.

That was my fault, judging from the threads and posts on this board, I assumed that the vast majority of paricipants here needed help even dating a girl before they would ever be able to put any...
Forum: General Discussions 3 May 2004, 18:43
Replies: 86
Views: 3,933
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Your secrets - being Sex Gods.

To you they are not. Fortunatly for me I have no interest whatsoever in sleeping with you.

To women, I know a hundred interesting or exciting or romantic or funny stories I can regaile them with...
Forum: General Discussions 3 May 2004, 15:43
Replies: 86
Views: 3,933
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Your secrets - being Sex Gods.

Confidence and not being clingy. I have simply never had any difficulty getting a Girlfriend, and the girl I am dating now is an ULTRA-hottie (and a massage therapist). Confidence is the NUMBER ONE...
Forum: General Discussions 2 May 2004, 19:45
Replies: 43
Views: 1,971
Posted By Vermillion
Re: the pedantic fcuk thread

No, I'm a professional Historian.

I was going to counter the almost entirely irrelevant (and largely wrong) post you offered, until i realised that you were arguing based on your reading of a...
Forum: General Discussions 1 May 2004, 18:36
Replies: 128
Views: 6,909
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Americans are evil and torture Iraqis true story

You know what's funny? I was just reading the biography of Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder and first head of the KGB, and he used almost that EXACT same line to justify the excesses his agency performed...
Forum: General Discussions 1 May 2004, 03:08
Replies: 128
Views: 6,909
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Americans are evil and torture Iraqis true story

Consider this:

This is a crime because these prisoners are protected by the Geneva convention, they cannot be abused or degraded this was according to international law. Yet this is what happens...
Forum: General Discussions 30 Apr 2004, 16:42
Replies: 31
Views: 1,771
Posted By Vermillion
Re: "I want that baby"

You do realise every one of those bangbus things are entirely set up, involving women prepped beforehand and well aware of what is about to happen?
Forum: General Discussions 30 Apr 2004, 16:12
Replies: 31
Views: 1,771
Posted By Vermillion
Re: "I want that baby"

In a thousand years, when anthropology students discuss the fall of 20th century civilisation into chaos and anarchy, teachers will draw parallels to the end of the Roman era, when decadence and...
Forum: General Discussions 30 Apr 2004, 15:16
Replies: 11
Views: 1,543
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Educate me on the Cold War!

OK, a few things. Stalin did not try and 'install' Communist governments in any of these states. Korea, occupied by the Japanese during WWII, was invaded by the USSR in 1945. With the US moving up...
Forum: General Discussions 30 Apr 2004, 03:33
Replies: 11
Views: 1,543
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Educate me on the Cold War!

Can't really help you because the topic as you have listed it truly vast.

Firstly, what are the 'early stages' as you define them? The division of Europe is 1947-1950. The Korean War is 1950-1953....
Forum: General Discussions 29 Apr 2004, 19:29
Replies: 43
Views: 1,971
Posted By Vermillion
Re: the pedantic fcuk thread

Just so everyone is clear, very very little of what has been said above is true.

The two seminal dates for significant European interference in Africa, resulting in a complete shift in how the...
Forum: General Discussions 28 Apr 2004, 18:37
Replies: 49
Views: 2,418
Posted By Vermillion
Re: German women

When I was doing my MA at the LSE, I dated a few girls over the 13 months, a Moroccan girl (only Islamic girl I ahve ever dated), a Norwegian girl (natural blonde, 6 feet tall) and finally settled on...
Forum: General Discussions 19 Apr 2004, 19:46
Replies: 59
Views: 4,689
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Worlds Sexiest Woman

I have posted this so many times...

So, short form:

1) do Google seach for Jakki Degg
2) know she warmed my bed for several months..

thats about it really.
Forum: General Discussions 19 Apr 2004, 18:11
Replies: 59
Views: 4,689
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Worlds Sexiest Woman

I concur.

She makes my socks roll up and down.

PS: You know if this thread continues, I am going to have to post my Jakki Degg thing again...
:)
Forum: General Discussions 19 Apr 2004, 18:06
Replies: 77
Views: 4,217
Posted By Vermillion
Re: The other Hamas leader...

While I agree that the unilateral, universal and unquestioning support of Israel by the US certainly excacerbates matters, I suspect even the US could not put an end to this, even if the political...
Forum: General Discussions 19 Apr 2004, 16:26
Replies: 77
Views: 4,217
Posted By Vermillion
Re: The other Hamas leader...

Ah, defensive wars. Did you know that Rome conquered the entire world without ever engaging in an offensive war? Did that make them any less imperialist?

As for keeping a buffer region which has...
Forum: General Discussions 19 Apr 2004, 16:12
Replies: 10
Views: 1,533
Posted By Vermillion
Re: [MOVIE] the passion of the christ

To quote my father when commenting on this film:

"Well, if you didn.t like the book you probably won't like the movie."
Forum: General Discussions 8 Apr 2004, 15:00
Replies: 16
Views: 2,346
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Rwanda

For what it's worth, thats not really the case. German soldiers, especailly SS and HJ forces, were heavily indoctrinated along party and racial lines, to the point that they were nearly single minded...
Forum: General Discussions 8 Apr 2004, 14:54
Replies: 87
Views: 6,621
Posted By Vermillion
Re: fun in the middle east

While I agree that one cannot always criticise troops for the orders of their masters, an important legal military principle was established at Nuremburg following the Second world war: the precident...
Forum: General Discussions 7 Apr 2004, 19:21
Replies: 120
Views: 8,532
Posted By Vermillion
Re: see, this is why teenagers shouldnt be allowed on the internet...

By the way, I just got some PMs about the whole lie-detector test thing from last page, I said I would respond in public thread, but if people want to talk about it or ask questions, its best to do...
Forum: General Discussions 7 Apr 2004, 16:04
Replies: 120
Views: 8,532
Posted By Vermillion
Re: see, this is why teenagers shouldnt be allowed on the internet...

That's a total assumption.

Does the demand for child pornographjy make it more likely for children to be abused? Probably, but really I don't know.

Does the existence of chuild pornography...
Forum: General Discussions 7 Apr 2004, 15:44
Replies: 120
Views: 8,532
Posted By Vermillion
Re: see, this is why teenagers shouldnt be allowed on the internet...

Axctually, as far as I can tell that statement ends the debate. If we agree on that, then why are we still arguing? Child porn is produced because of demand. If we resrict demand, we reduce supply....
Forum: General Discussions 7 Apr 2004, 15:42
Replies: 120
Views: 8,532
Posted By Vermillion
Re: see, this is why teenagers shouldnt be allowed on the internet...

No, they do not hold up in court because of several reasons:

1) There is no way to know if the person has been trained to deceive the test: It is generally considered imposible to teach yourself...
Forum: General Discussions 7 Apr 2004, 15:31
Replies: 120
Views: 8,532
Posted By Vermillion
Re: see, this is why teenagers shouldnt be allowed on the internet...

Yes they do, they are actually surprisingly accurate unless the target has had extensive boring training on how to confuse or defeat them. Trust me on this one.


Firstly, the reason people...
Forum: General Discussions 31 Mar 2004, 19:14
Replies: 11
Views: 2,028
Posted By Vermillion
Re: an insult i found amusing

Worst insult I have ever heard:

Was in line at a club, waiting, and this girl reaches the front. he bouncer asks for her ID, she doesnot have it, so she is refused entry. The Girl was obviously...
Forum: General Discussions 31 Mar 2004, 17:01
Replies: 61
Views: 3,798
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Its time for another theology debate based on something utterly unprovable.

Sort of, I suppose. My main point is simply that Pascal was making a case for deciding between belif and nonbelief in God. he never took into account the possibility of differing, and even mutually...
Forum: General Discussions 31 Mar 2004, 16:36
Replies: 61
Views: 3,798
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Its time for another theology debate based on something utterly unprovable.

I am about as agnostic as you can get, and do not believe in God or divine intervention or anything, but none the less allow me to point out some of the vast logical flaws with your thesis:
...
Forum: General Discussions 25 Mar 2004, 16:43
Replies: 90
Views: 6,339
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Guantanamo Bay

It is an interesting post, and it certainly makes your personal world view clear, but it is also almost completely irrelevant.

Firstly, though your decision to take the global view was...
Forum: General Discussions 24 Mar 2004, 21:39
Replies: 122
Views: 6,387
Posted By Vermillion
Re: an open question about nodrog to all users

The Nod is dead, long live the Nod.
Forum: General Discussions 24 Mar 2004, 18:31
Replies: 90
Views: 6,339
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Guantanamo Bay

Yes, there is a war on terror going on. This can be seen by all of the terrorist attacks against US interests and citizens by one organisation, Al Quaida. They have launched a number of damaging...
Forum: General Discussions 23 Mar 2004, 20:52
Replies: 90
Views: 6,339
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Guantanamo Bay

I suspect they had an interest in cleaning it up, just no solid idea of how that would be accomplished. I agree that the aftermath of the war in afganistan was handled terribly, and if the US were...
Forum: General Discussions 23 Mar 2004, 19:58
Replies: 93
Views: 5,012
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Israel kills off Ahmed Yassin

According to that article, the co-head of Hamas' military wing is a guy called Adnan al-Ghoul.

Apart from being terribly appropriate, that is one of the cooler arabic names I have ever heard.
Forum: General Discussions 23 Mar 2004, 19:00
Replies: 93
Views: 5,012
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Israel kills off Ahmed Yassin

Curses.

Stupid millenium...
Forum: General Discussions 23 Mar 2004, 18:59
Replies: 93
Views: 5,012
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Israel kills off Ahmed Yassin

If that Jew organised an organisation designed for the purpose of killing all Palestinians everywhere, spoke publicly of nothing but their complete and total genocide, and organised, funded and...
Forum: General Discussions 23 Mar 2004, 17:38
Replies: 93
Views: 5,012
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Israel kills off Ahmed Yassin

Firstly, as has been pointed out, I was playing the Israeli side of the equation, presenting their situation and the reasons for their actions. My point, as I stated quite clearly, was that from...
Forum: General Discussions 22 Mar 2004, 19:51
Replies: 90
Views: 6,339
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Guantanamo Bay

While I am pretty much 103% against the war in Iraq, I disagree that the US should not have been in Afganistan. The Afgan war was a reasonable and even necessary step in the 'war against terrorism',...
Forum: General Discussions 22 Mar 2004, 19:32
Replies: 93
Views: 5,012
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Israel kills off Ahmed Yassin

Having written a long post in this thread recently about the error of killing this man, I will now play the devil’s advocate, and point out the other side:

What the Hell is Israel supposed to do?...
Forum: General Discussions 22 Mar 2004, 16:22
Replies: 93
Views: 5,012
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Israel kills off Ahmed Yassin

Ok, I think it would be helpful to know a little bit about Hamas, and why this is such a big deal. To the rest of the world, hamas is a semi-political terrorist organisation, bent on the elimination...
Forum: General Discussions 18 Mar 2004, 15:56
Replies: 77
Views: 4,343
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Spain may withdraw Iraq troops

I'd like to see anyone come up with a metaphor that conveys your point worse.

You are mistaken, I dont even remember what your point was, just that it was an appauling metaphor to explain it.
...
Forum: General Discussions 17 Mar 2004, 17:03
Replies: 77
Views: 4,343
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Spain may withdraw Iraq troops

Worst

Metaphor

Ever.
Forum: General Discussions 12 Mar 2004, 19:51
Replies: 78
Views: 6,520
Posted By Vermillion
Re: famous person fantasy

I was unaware, what are you studying? I was in the ept. of International History.
The little sandwich bar beside the main entrance (Damn, I've forgotten its name) makes the best grilled cheese...
Forum: General Discussions 12 Mar 2004, 17:43
Replies: 78
Views: 6,520
Posted By Vermillion
Re: famous person fantasy

I am more than aware of my smugness and arrogance in this particular egard, and I will happily apologise for it, I know it must be annoying.

But...


Come ON! It was Jakki Degg! Be happy I'm...
Forum: General Discussions 12 Mar 2004, 17:17
Replies: 78
Views: 6,520
Posted By Vermillion
Re: famous person fantasy

To be fair, I was a history geek when I pulled this particular Stunna. And I will have my memories of the astonishing things we did together to keep me warm until the rest of my days...

Besides,...
Forum: General Discussions 12 Mar 2004, 16:35
Replies: 78
Views: 6,520
Posted By Vermillion
Re: famous person fantasy

No, I was at the LSE, she was working and living in London at the time.
Forum: General Discussions 12 Mar 2004, 16:33
Replies: 78
Views: 6,520
Posted By Vermillion
Re: famous person fantasy

It has been well over three months since I reminded people of this, so I am overdue...

While in the UK doing my MA, I dated for about 3.5 months, and slept with repeatedly, a young woman called...
Forum: General Discussions 8 Mar 2004, 17:00
Replies: 50
Views: 3,420
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Gay Marriage

So this is what you do for fun on Sunday when bored?

Immature little twerp.
Forum: General Discussions 5 Mar 2004, 20:00
Replies: 49
Views: 4,076
Posted By Vermillion
Re: In a gender prejudice world what are transexuals allowed?

In Thailand, there is a phenomenon called a Katoey. These are women but with male sexual organs. Essentially, they are just men who have undergone hormone therapy and occasionally cosmetic surgury,...
Forum: General Discussions 26 Feb 2004, 17:40
Replies: 16
Views: 1,752
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Holocaust Survivor

How can it not be? jesus was killed by the Romans after being turned over to Pilate by the hebrew religious authorities. The story is anti-semitic to a point.

Keep in mind that most of the gospels...
Forum: General Discussions 26 Feb 2004, 17:36
Replies: 18
Views: 3,361
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Oral Sex Gives You Mouth Cancer

Human papilloma virus causes genetal warts. On males this is an unsightly and unpleasant affliction, but not a damaging one. In women getting genetal warts causes an increased chance of cervical...
Forum: General Discussions 26 Feb 2004, 17:33
Replies: 105
Views: 4,224
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Why I hate Catholicism

Oswald was a fag.
Forum: General Discussions 26 Feb 2004, 17:30
Replies: 16
Views: 1,752
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Holocaust Survivor

The general guideline for a 'holocaust survivor' is somebody who went through the camp system of the third Reich and survived. This could be one of the 200+ concentration camps, or one of the 6 death...
Forum: General Discussions 16 Feb 2004, 17:10
Replies: 32
Views: 3,014
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Famously Misheard Lyrics

Goo-goo-ga-joob, Goo-goo-ga-joob.


Wait.....

really?

(boggle)
Forum: General Discussions 16 Feb 2004, 17:06
Replies: 47
Views: 2,682
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Well hows was your valentines day?

Took my girlfriend out for spectacular (and stupidly expensive) dinner, gave her a dozen roses and a couple other things, then we went home and had hours of wild oiled monkey sex.

Good times.
Forum: General Discussions 15 Feb 2004, 01:39
Replies: 189
Views: 6,693
Posted By Vermillion
Re: I think this guy dislikes communism :(

I liked the comment about how Stalin killed 200 million people.

(Hint: population of USSR 1939 = 170 million)
Forum: General Discussions 12 Feb 2004, 16:05
Replies: 37
Views: 2,296
Posted By Vermillion
Re: hey so guys ive dropped college, after you all telling me not to

The fact that you dropped out of college speaks very ill for your future, but as others have said is not necessarily the end of all things.

The fact that apparently you dropped out of college...
Forum: General Discussions 11 Feb 2004, 21:16
Replies: 73
Views: 4,539
Posted By Vermillion
Re: This stupid wall in the Middle East

If you fled to the US, and they willfully turned their backs on you and refused to let you and other refugees like you into the country, sending you instead back to the Pogroms, then they would have...
Forum: General Discussions 11 Feb 2004, 16:40
Replies: 73
Views: 4,539
Posted By Vermillion
Re: This stupid wall in the Middle East

Devil's Advocate time.

As a Climax to the wave of anti Semitism that swept the world in the 1920s (as it does every hundred years or so) a new leader in Germany built up a state based largely on...
Forum: General Discussions 26 Jan 2004, 20:56
Replies: 264
Views: 13,190
Posted By Vermillion
Re: could the title music for Enterprise have gotten any worse ??

God help me for getting involved in this thread.

Moden naval fleets have size and ship type according to their mission. Not all fleets would have the same number of ships. Thus fleets assigned to...
Forum: General Discussions 23 Jan 2004, 16:47
Replies: 264
Views: 13,190
Posted By Vermillion
Re: could the title music for Enterprise have gotten any worse ??

YEAS!

Firefly remains one of the best show I have ever seen produced on network television. I bought the DVD of the series, but I find I cannot watch it because I get so infuriated with the...
Forum: General Discussions 23 Jan 2004, 16:20
Replies: 91
Views: 5,983
Posted By Vermillion
Re: The "Age Gap"

I am 30, my girlfriend is 19. I get a few interesting questions about it, but to be fair the most of them are from my male peers who are insanely jealous.
Forum: General Discussions 23 Jan 2004, 16:13
Replies: 264
Views: 13,190
Posted By Vermillion
Re: could the title music for Enterprise have gotten any worse ??

To be fair, the first season of B5 was not great. It was full of 'Dukes of Hazard' episodes*, silly trek-esque plot twists and though a neat character, The original captain was simply not a very good...
Forum: General Discussions 23 Jan 2004, 03:39
Replies: 39
Views: 2,124
Posted By Vermillion
Re: When did the cold war start? is it really over?

Fair enough, but most historians say those dates for a reason, not just because we are a big cabal trying to control the flow of information. Thus if you are going to disagree with us, one had best...
Forum: General Discussions 22 Jan 2004, 21:10
Replies: 264
Views: 13,190
Posted By Vermillion
Re: could the title music for Enterprise have gotten any worse ??

The religion would have been fine, and in fact interesting (Aliens that have been mistaken for Gods) except that they started taking it too seriously by the end, the whole thing with the Pah Wraiths...
Forum: General Discussions 22 Jan 2004, 21:08
Replies: 39
Views: 2,124
Posted By Vermillion
Re: When did the cold war start? is it really over?

None the less, despite all the silliness, the Cold war was determined by a series of fairly specific events, and it is pretty much commonly held now that the dates I gave you represent the singular...
Forum: General Discussions 22 Jan 2004, 20:24
Replies: 39
Views: 2,124
Posted By Vermillion
Re: When did the cold war start? is it really over?

I would have to check the Oxford statutes to be sure, but I am fairly confident that you do not get a Doctorate degree conferred upon you for beating up the previous owner.

Besides, I took Muay...
Forum: General Discussions 22 Jan 2004, 20:21
Replies: 39
Views: 2,124
Posted By Vermillion
Re: When did the cold war start? is it really over?

If I said, it would have been true...
Forum: General Discussions 22 Jan 2004, 20:06
Replies: 39
Views: 2,124
Posted By Vermillion
Re: When did the cold war start? is it really over?

The cold war began on August 29th, 1949, and ended on July 1st 1991.
Forum: General Discussions 22 Jan 2004, 18:00
Replies: 39
Views: 2,124
Posted By Vermillion
Re: When did the cold war start? is it really over?

These are all interesting ideas, though you are all wrong. ;)

The Cold war had nothing to do with the countries not really liking each other, if that were the case the US and Russia disliked each...
Forum: General Discussions 22 Jan 2004, 17:24
Replies: 91
Views: 5,983
Posted By Vermillion
Re: The "Age Gap"

My girlfriend is 11 years younger than me.

So 2 years is no big deal.
Forum: General Discussions 22 Jan 2004, 17:17
Replies: 264
Views: 13,190
Posted By Vermillion
Re: could the title music for Enterprise have gotten any worse ??

Dear God no.

Voyager had the most potential of any of the shows, here was an opportunity to be really innovative, take a starfleet vesel and drop it in a part of the galaxy which has never heard...
Forum: General Discussions 12 Jan 2004, 19:39
Replies: 113
Views: 7,735
Posted By Vermillion
Re: so this mission to mars then

You are correct on both counts, however where I have a problem is the thesis that somehow it is less expensive to mine the same minerals from the crust of ANOTHER planet, which is lacking things...
Forum: General Discussions 12 Jan 2004, 16:42
Replies: 113
Views: 7,735
Posted By Vermillion
Re: so this mission to mars then

I dont understand the whole "resources from space" argument.

The obvious lack of oil or any kind of hydrocarbon based resources out there has already been addressed. As for minerals wealth, there...
Forum: General Discussions 12 Jan 2004, 16:28
Replies: 271
Views: 14,045
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Net blamed for Rise in Child Porn

It seems to me that the statistics cited do not show that there has been an increase in child pornography, but rather that there has been an increase in charges laid in child pornography.

The...
Forum: General Discussions 22 Dec 2003, 23:00
Replies: 17
Views: 1,802
Posted By Vermillion
Re: US moves to high terror alert

This whole gimmic is terribly unfunny.
Forum: General Discussions 22 Dec 2003, 20:35
Replies: 17
Views: 1,802
Posted By Vermillion
Re: US moves to high terror alert

Firstly, its condition orange. Condition red is only in effect in the instance of an actual terrorist attack. Secondly, the US developped its own threat condition colour code with the creation of...
Forum: General Discussions 22 Dec 2003, 20:04
Replies: 17
Views: 1,802
Posted By Vermillion
Re: US moves to high terror alert

Not cancelled yet (knock on wood) but I am on call now...

Stupid terrorists. Now its personal.
Forum: General Discussions 22 Dec 2003, 20:03
Replies: 17
Views: 1,802
Posted By Vermillion
Re: US moves to high terror alert

High Condition (Orange). A High Condition is declared when there is a high risk of terrorist attacks. In addition to the Protective Measures taken in the previous Threat Conditions, Federal...
Forum: General Discussions 22 Dec 2003, 19:59
Replies: 17
Views: 1,802
Posted By Vermillion
Re: US moves to high terror alert

I believe the alert level has increased 7 times in the last 2 years.

Trust me it had better be serious. Every time the threat level increases the US (and Canada) spend tens of millions of...
Forum: General Discussions 19 Dec 2003, 15:48
Replies: 17
Views: 3,054
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Not cars, not trains, but aeroplanes!

Air travel tends to be subsidised because it is incredibly expensive, and yet is is not an industry we can do without.

Airlines are a funny industry, they do well during boom times, but during...
Forum: General Discussions 18 Dec 2003, 21:51
Replies: 41
Views: 3,925
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Love advice :/

You were doing fine until you insisted she ACT RIGHT NOW THIS INSTANT OR YOU LEAVE, which you then did. Tell her your problem, explain why it hurts your feelings, and then let her fix it herself.
...
Forum: General Discussions 18 Dec 2003, 21:43
Replies: 65
Views: 6,984
Posted By Vermillion
Re: How to blow up France

Think about that for a second.

If you start a giant wheel in space spinning, it is not producing energy, it is simply maintaining the energy that was put into it. As there is no drag or friction,...
Forum: General Discussions 15 Dec 2003, 16:55
Replies: 37
Views: 2,562
Posted By Vermillion
Forum: General Discussions 15 Dec 2003, 16:54
Replies: 58
Views: 3,496
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Help Me Define "White"

"Aryan" LOL!

There is no such thing as an aryan, at least as it was defined by the third Reich. There actually are Aryans, they were the original racial sub-group to populate India some thousands...
Forum: General Discussions 15 Dec 2003, 16:50
Replies: 58
Views: 3,496
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Help Me Define "White"

I. Capoid or Khoisanid Subspecies of southern Africa
A. Khoid (Hottentot) race
B. Sanid (Bushmen) race

II. Congoid Subspecies of sub-Saharan Africa
A. Central African race
1. Palaecongoid...
Forum: General Discussions 15 Dec 2003, 16:17
Replies: 8
Views: 1,228
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Question Time

Dewey Decimal Classification System
Forum: General Discussions 14 Dec 2003, 22:02
Replies: 57
Views: 3,803
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Hitler was right

So, is your only point that "dictators are bad"?

Good for you. have a cookie.
Forum: General Discussions 14 Dec 2003, 19:43
Replies: 57
Views: 3,803
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Hitler was right

What are you, 13 years old? I wonder if you actually, genuinely believe in that comparason, or if this is a (very) weak attempt at a troll...
Forum: General Discussions 12 Dec 2003, 18:01
Replies: 180
Views: 9,749
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Should gay people be allowed to have children?

There is a reason we have rights, which are deterimined by constitutions and codified into laws, that is so that the vagueries of popular opinion cannot sway them. The whole gay marriage thing in...
Forum: General Discussions 11 Dec 2003, 22:20
Replies: 180
Views: 9,749
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Should gay people be allowed to have children?

Need I remaind again: I was challenged that "Worse things than the Holocaust happen today and are ignored by the world".

Stalinist terror over 40-odd years did not happen today, or in the recent...
Forum: General Discussions 11 Dec 2003, 22:18
Replies: 180
Views: 9,749
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Should gay people be allowed to have children?

(One faint attempt to get this back on track)

Did you read what I said at all? I am not making this up, go read something into the sociology of bulliying. Find how it works.

And once that is...
Forum: General Discussions 11 Dec 2003, 20:08
Replies: 180
Views: 9,749
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Should gay people be allowed to have children?

Well then you apparently dont know what to tell me.

Any basic study of the patterns of bullying shows clearly that kids are not bullied because they have some odd thing about them or their...
Forum: General Discussions 11 Dec 2003, 19:48
Replies: 180
Views: 9,749
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Should gay people be allowed to have children?

Firstly, Chechnia is unquestionably a terrible and tragic situation, it bears no comparason to the holocaust.

Secondly, even if it did, I have no problem at all if in 60 years the Chechens still...
Forum: General Discussions 11 Dec 2003, 19:46
Replies: 180
Views: 9,749
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Should gay people be allowed to have children?

I love how you have blanket accepted (and then projected onto me) the unsubstantiated assertion that somehow children of homosexual parents will automatically suffer some vast drop in the quality of...
Forum: General Discussions 11 Dec 2003, 19:41
Replies: 180
Views: 9,749
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Should gay people be allowed to have children?

Firstly, no they dont. Please find me one worse thing.

Secondly, the point I think you were TRYING to make was that terrible things do happen and are ignored by the world.


So what? What does...
Forum: General Discussions 11 Dec 2003, 19:37
Replies: 180
Views: 9,749
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Should gay people be allowed to have children?

Grandiose overgeneralisations much?

Firstly, the assertion of a childhood of hell is just that, a blatant assertion, and an exaggerated silly one at that. Why would you assume that children of...
Forum: General Discussions 11 Dec 2003, 19:33
Replies: 47
Views: 3,716
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Dude, Wheres My Country?

Clearly there is a consensus here that he tends towards the overly dramatic and exaggerated, and there are people like Intrepid who keeps repeating that he does nothing but outright lie without...
Forum: General Discussions 11 Dec 2003, 19:23
Replies: 180
Views: 9,749
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Should gay people be allowed to have children?

We are not talking about the 1600s here, we are talking about an event which ended less than 60 years ago, in which an agency within a nation exterminated about a quarter of the jews in the world in...
Forum: General Discussions 11 Dec 2003, 17:19
Replies: 180
Views: 9,749
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Should gay people be allowed to have children?

I believe that black/asian/poor/short/uneducated/rural/fat parents have a different influence on a child compared to white/rich/tall/educated/urban/thin parents.

We are not all like, so why should...
Forum: General Discussions 11 Dec 2003, 17:16
Replies: 47
Views: 3,716
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Dude, Wheres My Country?

Poor Michael Moore.

I think the man has some exceptionally important things to say, and some very important facts to reveal to the general public. I think 80%, or more, of Bowling for Columbine...
Forum: General Discussions 11 Dec 2003, 17:01
Replies: 180
Views: 9,749
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Should gay people be allowed to have children?

By the way, whoever said there are not enough children out there to adopt are dead wrong. What is lacking is pefect little 6 month to 18 month old infants to adopt.

There is what is referred to...
Forum: General Discussions 11 Dec 2003, 16:54
Replies: 180
Views: 9,749
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Should gay people be allowed to have children?

So is prejudice a reason to discriminate? Does that not just reinforce ignorant behaviour?

And in all honestly, think back to grade school: Bullies did not need a reason to be bullies. They did...
Forum: General Discussions 11 Dec 2003, 15:27
Replies: 106
Views: 7,735
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Are you Right or Left wing?

I think the Political Compass is broken.

:cool:
Forum: General Discussions 10 Dec 2003, 20:58
Replies: 63
Views: 5,230
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Interesting decisions out of the US

Yes I am sure the competition from Columbia, Ethiopia, El Salvador, Eritrea, Macedonia, Uzbekistan and Albania will be massive.



If you want to complain about the $18B taxpayers bill for...
Forum: General Discussions 10 Dec 2003, 20:08
Replies: 63
Views: 5,230
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Interesting decisions out of the US

Good for you.

In the course of my work I come into contact with government, military and intelligence people from the US on a very regular basis. Numerous of them, at least a dozen, have called...
Forum: General Discussions 10 Dec 2003, 19:53
Replies: 63
Views: 5,230
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Interesting decisions out of the US

Piffle.

Firstly, that was money donated to the reconstruction of Iraq. Was it only donated by the US so they could get it back again?

Lets talk about Canada. Canada donated a quarter Billion...
Forum: General Discussions 10 Dec 2003, 16:30
Replies: 63
Views: 5,230
Posted By Vermillion
Interesting decisions out of the US

http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/12/10/iraqcontracts_031210

Highlight:

"Canada and other countries that refused to take part in the U.S.-led war on Iraq are now banned from bidding on $18.6...
Forum: General Discussions 9 Dec 2003, 22:00
Replies: 66
Views: 4,595
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Racist attack

OK, now based on this clarification:

The origin of your anger is in many ways irrelevant, assuming that the basis for your anger had nothing to do with race.

The fact is, given a situation, you...
Forum: General Discussions 9 Dec 2003, 21:50
Replies: 36
Views: 3,267
Posted By Vermillion
Re: America lurches to the Left

Firstly, the Republicans are not Centre Right, they are very Right (Nod, dont even bother, we all read the other thread about 'what is right and left')

Secondly, Bush's approval rating is...
Forum: General Discussions 9 Dec 2003, 19:49
Replies: 66
Views: 4,595
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Racist attack

I have no idea what Crash is thinking, nor do I care to. I do know what he typed. If his text did not reflect what he actually meant to say, whose fault is that, and how am I, or anyone, supposed to...
Forum: General Discussions 9 Dec 2003, 19:47
Replies: 36
Views: 3,267
Posted By Vermillion
Re: America lurches to the Left

By the way, the former Democratic candidate who was not elected endorsing another Democratic candidate who represents similar views is hardly 'America Lurching to the Left'. In fact, it was an...
Forum: General Discussions 9 Dec 2003, 19:42
Replies: 66
Views: 4,595
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Racist attack

Wrong. You were upset because a sibling was hit first, but you quite clearly state that you hit them because they were black. I quote: "because they were black/asian I hit them instead."



...
Forum: General Discussions 9 Dec 2003, 19:38
Replies: 66
Views: 4,595
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Racist attack

No, thats not different at all.

The gender of the target made you act differently, thus your actions were heavily affected by gender, and thus genderist (sexist). Now in this example of course,...
Forum: General Discussions 9 Dec 2003, 19:33
Replies: 66
Views: 4,595
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Racist attack

Crash, I acn only assume you are confused or being unclear, because otherwise you contradict yourself with every statement. You hit a guy because you were mad. The reason you were mad is irrelevant....
Forum: General Discussions 9 Dec 2003, 17:28
Replies: 66
Views: 4,595
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Racist attack

You are. You just admitted that the attack was racially motivated. Your reason for being upset was not, but you stated quite clearly that you hit them because they were not white. That makes it a...
Forum: General Discussions 9 Dec 2003, 15:46
Replies: 66
Views: 4,595
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Racist attack

Explain to me how this is not the dictionary definition of a racially motivated attack. You hit them because of their race, and then (in this hypothetical) were foolish enough to admit it.
Forum: General Discussions 8 Dec 2003, 22:49
Replies: 57
Views: 4,974
Posted By Vermillion
Re: These forums are inherently racist

Showed me.

Though notably, if you read through the actual origin of Santa as listed on the page, it comes from a diverse collection of sources, secular and religious.
Forum: General Discussions 8 Dec 2003, 22:14
Replies: 57
Views: 4,974
Posted By Vermillion
Re: These forums are inherently racist

Actually, the fat Jolly Santa image, the sleigh and reindeer, the Red hat and suit, and so on are not creations of Christianity, they are all creations of Coca Cola Ltd. and thus not religious at all.
Forum: General Discussions 5 Dec 2003, 19:35
Replies: 33
Views: 2,197
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Maxine Carr.

I do not know the name of the prison, and the source I cannot reveal anyways, the tale came to me over the course of work-related security meetings in London, UK. I will have to find out more abut...
Forum: General Discussions 5 Dec 2003, 18:44
Replies: 48
Views: 2,263
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Victory for the EU! Thank you George :D

China has no need for the Middle East. If they need oil (which currently they dont really, having lots of it) they will move ahainst Vietnam or or the like, not militarily but politically. There is a...
Forum: General Discussions 5 Dec 2003, 15:27
Replies: 72
Views: 4,555
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Victory for the USA! Thank you Russia :D

I believe he is trying to infer that the US government secretly arranged for the film to be made on radioactive land without telling anyone to covertly experiment on them, cruelly running...
Forum: General Discussions 5 Dec 2003, 15:22
Replies: 33
Views: 2,197
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Maxine Carr.

No, there are no crimes in the UK that can get you the death penalty. Until about 3 years ago, ceertain crimes, such as High treason or high crimes against the monarchy, could be deemed crimes...
Forum: General Discussions 5 Dec 2003, 01:51
Replies: 48
Views: 2,263
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Victory for the EU! Thank you George :D

"The EU had carefully drawn up a list of products to target, which are produced in states expected to be the key battlegrounds in the November 2004 presidential election, such as citrus fruit from...
Forum: General Discussions 4 Dec 2003, 19:49
Replies: 106
Views: 7,735
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Are you Right or Left wing?

"he used to dip his bald head in oil and rub it all over my naked body..."
Forum: General Discussions 4 Dec 2003, 19:48
Replies: 72
Views: 4,555
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Victory for the USA! Thank you Russia :D

I can do that. Send me his specifics and I will forward it to the relevant agency. BTW, if you wish to get him in real trouble, better off reporting him to the DHS rather than the CIA.

That'll...
Forum: General Discussions 4 Dec 2003, 19:44
Replies: 19
Views: 1,769
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Sociology Question

What are you reading?
Forum: General Discussions 3 Dec 2003, 19:34
Replies: 132
Views: 5,474
Posted By Vermillion
Re: free market

Sortof an interesting basic question isnt it? It is better to have a society where everyone lives at 60%, or a society where 2/3 live at 40% or below and 1/3 lives at 90% or above?

(The...
Forum: General Discussions 3 Dec 2003, 17:39
Replies: 132
Views: 5,474
Posted By Vermillion
Re: free market

I am not confused, but I did fail to define my terms, which was silly. Like left and right (see other thread) there are many different definitions for Communism, ranging from Stalinism to the...
Forum: General Discussions 3 Dec 2003, 17:24
Replies: 132
Views: 5,474
Posted By Vermillion
Re: free market

You learnt wrong. Socialim and Communism are on the same side of the political spectrum, but they are certainly not temporal stages of each other. A socuialist state can become a communist state with...
Forum: General Discussions 3 Dec 2003, 17:00
Replies: 106
Views: 7,735
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Are you Right or Left wing?

The origin of the terminology simply refers to 'right wing' as being establishment and wealthy: the nobility, while the left wing is revolutionart and anti-establishment,: the peasantry and working...
Forum: General Discussions 3 Dec 2003, 16:52
Replies: 132
Views: 5,474
Posted By Vermillion
Re: free market

Ah, so in fact when you say Socialism, you actually mean Communism, which has indeed fallen in many states, largely because of its dictatorial nature.

However there exist a number of 'socialist'...
Forum: General Discussions 3 Dec 2003, 15:42
Replies: 72
Views: 4,555
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Victory for the USA! Thank you Russia :D

Not really no. The USSR, the USA and China all conducted experiments in which soldiers would advance into regions in which an atomic bomb had recently been detonated. (recently as in, within the last...
Forum: General Discussions 3 Dec 2003, 15:29
Replies: 106
Views: 7,735
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Are you Right or Left wing?

One should add:

"If you disagree in any way with this terribly broad categorisation, see 'liberal' above."
Forum: General Discussions 3 Dec 2003, 15:24
Replies: 132
Views: 5,474
Posted By Vermillion
Re: free market

Sic ad nauseam
Forum: General Discussions 2 Dec 2003, 21:37
Replies: 106
Views: 7,735
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Are you Right or Left wing?

I am centrist, slightly left.

I work in a high income bracket, and thus pay prodigious taxes, but dont really mind too much.
Forum: General Discussions 2 Dec 2003, 21:34
Replies: 30
Views: 3,497
Posted By Vermillion
Re: the AIDS debate

1) You are correct of course, foreign aid for the sake of kindness is silly.

Britain, please pay back (with interest and inflation of course) the enormous amount of foreign aid you recieved...
Forum: General Discussions 1 Dec 2003, 21:59
Replies: 30
Views: 3,633
Posted By Vermillion
Re: The Perfect Toast

When I went to the LSE to do my Masters, it was the first time I had pent any length of time in the UK. I had been there on visits and on buisness, but this was the first time I had been able to...
Forum: General Discussions 30 Nov 2003, 19:35
Replies: 65
Views: 6,984
Posted By Vermillion
Re: How to blow up France

Actually there have been Fusion reactors online for ages, the technology was pionerred by the Soviet Union, which is why fusion reactors of the same type still bear the soviet name of tokamak...
Forum: General Discussions 28 Nov 2003, 21:46
Replies: 18
Views: 3,526
Posted By Vermillion
Re: One inch punch

I will stick to Muay Thai,

"The art of 8 limbs"
Forum: General Discussions 27 Nov 2003, 18:16
Replies: 188
Views: 9,987
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Mech stuff

Uh... how to say this...

No.

It has nothing at ALL to do with the number of legs, but rather the design of the body and the limbs. Otherwise Millipedes should be reaching relativistic speeds,...
Forum: General Discussions 27 Nov 2003, 17:51
Replies: 188
Views: 9,987
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Mech stuff

One leg, two, four, six, thirty, whatever.


I dont care how many legs you want to put on it, but if you want to put it on legs at ALL, you first have to explain how they might provide ANY...
Forum: General Discussions 27 Nov 2003, 17:48
Replies: 188
Views: 9,987
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Mech stuff

It has nothing to do with brainpower. How much thought do you put into each step you take? Its done on instinct and familiarity, in other words, programming. However, as humans we have the ability to...
Forum: General Discussions 27 Nov 2003, 04:48
Replies: 30
Views: 3,200
Posted By Vermillion
Re: The priorities of the western world

Hey, I sympathise with them.

Seriously, put yourself in the shoes of the US administration for a moment: They seriously WANT to have free elections in Iraq and then pull their forces out, but they...
Forum: General Discussions 26 Nov 2003, 23:26
Replies: 188
Views: 9,987
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Mech stuff

Ok, now THAT was funny.
Forum: General Discussions 26 Nov 2003, 18:58
Replies: 188
Views: 9,987
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Mech stuff

Now there is a solid counter argument. "You think my theory is stupid? Oh yeah? Well I bet there are other theories that are even stupider!"



Absolutely, impossible to tip over. Unless, you...
Forum: General Discussions 26 Nov 2003, 14:31
Replies: 210
Views: 15,940
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Fox Hunting is gay

Way off base. My participation in the original argument of this thread was minimal, I certainly do not need to, nor have I ever needed to, resort to such tricks to bolster a case. Here I am trying to...
Forum: General Discussions 25 Nov 2003, 22:33
Replies: 210
Views: 15,940
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Fox Hunting is gay

Honestly, I don’t think those top 6 people realise that they are doing this. There is certainly no lack of intelligence in that list, and I would be VERY interested to see what would happen if that...
Forum: General Discussions 25 Nov 2003, 22:21
Replies: 210
Views: 15,940
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Fox Hunting is gay

Why is arguing on precedent so wrong? We as a society have decided that Animals have certain rights. Why can that not be accepted as a given (which it is) in order to make an attemptto stay on topic?...
Forum: General Discussions 25 Nov 2003, 22:12
Replies: 188
Views: 9,987
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Mech stuff

Sorry, there was so much wrong with your post that I was unable to adress it all in my last message.

Actually, Artillery is excellent against armour, capable of destroying or disabling it with a...
Forum: General Discussions 25 Nov 2003, 22:07
Replies: 188
Views: 9,987
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Mech stuff

Ok, so when exactly did this absolutely leave the realm of reality? Where to begin...

1 meter thick armour? Are you insane? The largest battleship ever built has maximum external armour thickness...
Forum: General Discussions 25 Nov 2003, 20:35
Replies: 210
Views: 15,940
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Fox Hunting is gay

Yes, but you can’t let these people, intelligent as they are, derail a debate with their sometimes-inappropriate higher questioning and occasionally non-sequitor philosophising. There needs to be...
Forum: General Discussions 25 Nov 2003, 20:03
Replies: 210
Views: 15,940
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Fox Hunting is gay

The argument "We should give animals legal protection" is a non starter, as from a pragmatic point of view, it is difficult to justify.

The proper approach should rather be, We DO give animals...
Forum: General Discussions 25 Nov 2003, 17:52
Replies: 188
Views: 9,987
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Mech stuff

Assume for a moment that we actually could pull this off. Assume for a moment that we had the technology to make mech-type vehicles that did not fall over when they walked, that could navigate broken...
Forum: General Discussions 24 Nov 2003, 16:47
Replies: 210
Views: 15,940
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Fox Hunting is gay

Ah, the wonders of predicting the future using the Bible/ Nostradamus/ The Koran/ Psychic Reading/ tea leaves/ chicken entrails.

(Prediction)
"In a year in the future, a tree shall grow, and upon...
Forum: General Discussions 21 Nov 2003, 21:02
Replies: 40
Views: 5,184
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Social Darwinism

Why not, after all, Durkheim did. How do you think he came up with his famous definition of Suicide, and its classifications? Experimentation does not have to mean watching people leap to their...
Forum: General Discussions 21 Nov 2003, 19:57
Replies: 67
Views: 6,371
Posted By Vermillion
Re: King, Emperor...

We are talking about rents that are slightly below the average, not vastly below. And as to why, I do not know, possibly because the Monarchy does not have to keep up with competition. The current...
Forum: General Discussions 21 Nov 2003, 19:49
Replies: 40
Views: 5,184
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Social Darwinism

Wow no. Before I got my doctorate I worked for a Social Sciences Research council, which on a daily basis administered research projects from thousands of academics conducting large scale emprical...
Forum: General Discussions 21 Nov 2003, 19:39
Replies: 40
Views: 5,184
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Social Darwinism

I never commented on your persona, only on your points such as they were, and the knowledge, or lack thereof, they demonstrated about the topic you chose.

As for your point, still makes no sense....
Forum: General Discussions 21 Nov 2003, 01:13
Replies: 67
Views: 6,371
Posted By Vermillion
Re: King, Emperor...

Ok, so now we are into national privitasation on a level higher than even Lenin was willing to do, and are clearly in the realm of fantasy.

And even in terms of fantasy, No, I am not clear on how...
Forum: General Discussions 21 Nov 2003, 00:22
Replies: 67
Views: 6,371
Posted By Vermillion
Re: King, Emperor...

I never said that, I said they own some land in London, about 3-4 blocks. Thats far from half.



And how exactly do you plan to take away their land? It is owned by the family, if they were to...
Forum: General Discussions 20 Nov 2003, 22:45
Replies: 210
Views: 15,940
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Fox Hunting is gay

I have to admit, Fox hunting always struck me as somewhat absurd. I mean, if you are deer hunting, at least you get to kill the deer. May not appeal to everyone, but at least there is some visceral...
Forum: General Discussions 20 Nov 2003, 22:42
Replies: 210
Views: 15,940
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Fox Hunting is gay

Or, leave the Fox Hunting and ban Toffs.
Forum: General Discussions 20 Nov 2003, 22:40
Replies: 67
Views: 6,371
Posted By Vermillion
Re: King, Emperor...

Sorry all, but as has already ben stated, the British Monarchy is a net HUGE contributor to the UK economy, that is it gives far more than it takes.

The Monrchy still own a great deal of land in...
Forum: General Discussions 20 Nov 2003, 22:27
Replies: 40
Views: 5,184
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Social Darwinism

Ok, Clearly you know litle about Social Darwinism, which is applying the competetive elements of evolutionary theory to a social, racial or national level.

(EDIT: Seems Bloomers just said that,...
Forum: General Discussions 18 Nov 2003, 23:01
Replies: 84
Views: 8,857
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Top Court in Massachusetts Says State Can't Deny Gays Right to Marry

And, for my all time favourite line...

BA: Baldrick, fail me and I shall do unto you what God did unto the Sodomites.
Bald: What DID God do unto the Sodomites?
BA: (Pause) I dont know, but...
Forum: General Discussions 18 Nov 2003, 22:59
Replies: 84
Views: 8,857
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Top Court in Massachusetts Says State Can't Deny Gays Right to Marry

Rev Lovejoy: I say, divorce him and be done with it
M. Simpson: Isn't that a sin?
Rev Lovejoy: Have you ever actually READ this thing? Pretty much everything is a sin. Technically,...
Forum: General Discussions 18 Nov 2003, 22:55
Replies: 84
Views: 8,857
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Top Court in Massachusetts Says State Can't Deny Gays Right to Marry

(sigh)

True, but you know what I mean.

Besides, I suspect he was in there somewhere near the margins, watching...
Forum: General Discussions 18 Nov 2003, 22:51
Replies: 84
Views: 8,857
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Top Court in Massachusetts Says State Can't Deny Gays Right to Marry

Depends. It is is a real, genuine old testament Jesus?

Then once you weed out those who have sex before marraige, those who use conraception, those who touch the skin of a woman when she is n her...
Forum: General Discussions 18 Nov 2003, 22:46
Replies: 84
Views: 8,857
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Top Court in Massachusetts Says State Can't Deny Gays Right to Marry

Ah, but in the Bible, Christ consistently says, "get thee behind me satan".
Forum: General Discussions 18 Nov 2003, 22:11
Replies: 84
Views: 8,857
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Top Court in Massachusetts Says State Can't Deny Gays Right to Marry

Good question. Depends on the nation I suppose. Canada should not be able to, as in this case the will of the people would go directly against our Charter of Rghts and freedome. The people cannot (or...
Forum: General Discussions 18 Nov 2003, 21:49
Replies: 256
Views: 20,251
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Tories to re-introduce Death-penalty?

Excellent use of sarcasm. However, the fact is you seem to be maintaining that imprisonment, for any amount of time, is an unrecoverable harm equal to being killed.

That is what you are claiming...
Forum: General Discussions 18 Nov 2003, 21:40
Replies: 256
Views: 20,251
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Tories to re-introduce Death-penalty?

Stop and think about that for a second. How did the US department of Statisctics come up with the percentage of murders committed by blacks vs whites? By looking at conviction rates. However since...
Forum: General Discussions 18 Nov 2003, 21:22
Replies: 256
Views: 20,251
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Tories to re-introduce Death-penalty?

I am drawing the line? Dont be silly.


A bad advertisment on TV takes away 30 seconds of my life! I want it back!

If you are dead its over, no wrong can me remade. If you are alive, the rest...
Forum: General Discussions 18 Nov 2003, 21:07
Replies: 84
Views: 8,857
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Top Court in Massachusetts Says State Can't Deny Gays Right to Marry

It may be a tautology, but its what we have. Civil authorities define marriage, then administer it. In most states, the Churches are allowed to hold religious marriages which are respected by the...
Forum: General Discussions 18 Nov 2003, 20:24
Replies: 256
Views: 20,251
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Tories to re-introduce Death-penalty?

Oh, and by the way, do you really not want any governmentservices? Asuming you can do without roads, water, electricity, fuel and grow your own food, you are still protected by government services....
Forum: General Discussions 18 Nov 2003, 20:18
Replies: 256
Views: 20,251
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Tories to re-introduce Death-penalty?

Yes it does. You pay for the benefits of staying, and despite your comments, in the UK you get many benefits for your money. If you do not like it, you have complete freedom to leave.

The fact...
Forum: General Discussions 18 Nov 2003, 20:05
Replies: 256
Views: 20,251
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Tories to re-introduce Death-penalty?

Social Contract.

You can feel free not to pay taxes, you just do not get to live in that nation/ state, most states in the world allow you to leave and revoke citizenship any time.

Paying rent...
Forum: General Discussions 18 Nov 2003, 20:01
Replies: 256
Views: 20,251
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Tories to re-introduce Death-penalty?

I see tham as being quite separate, two good reasons among many why there should not be a death penalty.
Forum: General Discussions 18 Nov 2003, 20:00
Replies: 256
Views: 20,251
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Tories to re-introduce Death-penalty?

As I have repeated numerous times, incarceration can be reversed and even compensated. Not only canit be done, but it happens all the time. Death is so far quite difficult to get around.

It is...
Forum: General Discussions 18 Nov 2003, 19:53
Replies: 84
Views: 8,857
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Top Court in Massachusetts Says State Can't Deny Gays Right to Marry

A civil marriage is defined as a marriage administered and legislated by the civil authorities.
Forum: General Discussions 18 Nov 2003, 19:47
Replies: 256
Views: 20,251
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Tories to re-introduce Death-penalty?

Not really. I use the US as an example. The death penalty CANNOT be divorced from politics. In Nigeria it is applied due to the Sharia, in the US it is often applied due to race or politics. Most...
Forum: General Discussions 18 Nov 2003, 19:40
Replies: 84
Views: 8,857
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Top Court in Massachusetts Says State Can't Deny Gays Right to Marry

There are two kinds of marriage. Civil and religious.

The gay marriage debate has NOTHING to do with religious marriages, I say again, Nothing. If a nation like Canada passed gay marriage laws,...
Forum: General Discussions 18 Nov 2003, 19:32
Replies: 256
Views: 20,251
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Tories to re-introduce Death-penalty?

What statistics exactly? Certainly not the ones we both have quoted above. Those, and combined with the department of justice stats (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/prisons.htm) Show that blacks form...
Forum: General Discussions 18 Nov 2003, 18:12
Replies: 256
Views: 20,251
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Tories to re-introduce Death-penalty?

Racism has also been put forward as root cause of this statistical aberation, and it certainly corolates highly with race. Racism has been put forward by a lot of people actually. Low education and...
Forum: General Discussions 18 Nov 2003, 16:16
Replies: 22
Views: 3,039
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Me vs. The System

Children... I am surrounded by children...
Forum: General Discussions 18 Nov 2003, 16:14
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Views: 8,857
Posted By Vermillion
Forum: General Discussions 18 Nov 2003, 16:01
Replies: 256
Views: 20,251
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Tories to re-introduce Death-penalty?

Even if, for a moment, one ignored the moral reprehensability of the Death penalty, and the hypocracy of a civilised state taking revenge on its own citizens, lets consider another factor.

Most of...
Forum: General Discussions 17 Nov 2003, 23:58
Replies: 256
Views: 20,251
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Tories to re-introduce Death-penalty?

Firstly, drug addiction rates in the US penal institutions are higher than in the general non-incarcerated population.

Secondly, if your argument is true, then why do some states, like the US have...
Forum: General Discussions 17 Nov 2003, 23:52
Replies: 256
Views: 20,251
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Tories to re-introduce Death-penalty?

Really? I understand it is not an easy parabole to accept, but the fact is if you oppose thieves and drug peddlersadulterers being beheaded in Saudi Arabia, you are not opposing the fact that a...
Forum: General Discussions 17 Nov 2003, 22:13
Replies: 256
Views: 20,251
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Tories to re-introduce Death-penalty?

You are quite right, I overstated. There is always a lunatic fringe willing to argue anything even if it is in direct opposition to all facts and evidence. yes, there are people who still maintain...
Forum: General Discussions 17 Nov 2003, 21:09
Replies: 256
Views: 20,251
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Tories to re-introduce Death-penalty?

Firstly, nobody, not even ardent pro-CP supporters argues that the death penalty is a deterrent anymore. It is not the death penalty has been instututed, abolished and re-instituted in so many places...
Forum: General Discussions 17 Nov 2003, 20:51
Replies: 256
Views: 20,251
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Tories to re-introduce Death-penalty?

I am not sure Alfred Rosenburg would agree. It is near-impossible to separate politics from capitol punishment as long as the death penalty exists for non-first degree murder crimes.
Forum: General Discussions 14 Nov 2003, 21:10
Replies: 58
Views: 5,865
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Are Muslims Xenophobic and Racistic?

It irritates me how in the US the world Liberal is used the ame way the word mother****er is used in other countries.
Forum: General Discussions 13 Nov 2003, 20:44
Replies: 109
Views: 11,174
Posted By Vermillion
Re: So I am writing a "book"

I KNEW that retro '70s "Baow Chicka- Baow Baow" soundtrack didnt seem very Spartan...
Forum: General Discussions 13 Nov 2003, 20:17
Replies: 109
Views: 11,174
Posted By Vermillion
Re: So I am writing a "book"

You should read into the Spartan military schools and training regimens. Gay sex, and for that matter gay sex with young boys, was not only encouraged but was considered to be a significant component...
Forum: General Discussions 13 Nov 2003, 20:15
Replies: 109
Views: 11,174
Posted By Vermillion
Re: So I am writing a "book"

Christ, the horrors of GD board...

(This is not directed specifically at you Acropolis, but fired out in general)
(It is also the result of me being in a somewhat bad mood today, as there is some...
Forum: General Discussions 13 Nov 2003, 20:04
Replies: 109
Views: 11,174
Posted By Vermillion
Re: So I am writing a "book"

Ah yes, the Spartan league... when gays ruled the world...
Forum: General Discussions 13 Nov 2003, 19:25
Replies: 109
Views: 11,174
Posted By Vermillion
Re: So I am writing a "book"

That is really only true at the extreme. Somebody who spends time trying to get the shape and coposition of middle Greek horseshoes correctly will lost track of the concept, indeed the search for...
Forum: General Discussions 13 Nov 2003, 16:51
Replies: 109
Views: 11,174
Posted By Vermillion
Re: So I am writing a "book"

A few problems:

A marching army of 2 million men is FAR too many. Standard armies in the Athenian world tended to be in the tens of thousands, the largest army ever assembles during the period was...
Forum: General Discussions 12 Nov 2003, 22:24
Replies: 78
Views: 7,886
Posted By Vermillion
Re: so where is the stability in iraq?

Demonstrate to me that they actually are.
Forum: General Discussions 12 Nov 2003, 22:02
Replies: 78
Views: 7,886
Posted By Vermillion
Re: so where is the stability in iraq?

Really? I know a fair bit about the recent History of NI, and I seem to recall that one of the (many) reasons there have been major problems throughout the 1970's and 1980's is because the British...
Forum: General Discussions 12 Nov 2003, 21:44
Replies: 78
Views: 7,886
Posted By Vermillion
Re: so where is the stability in iraq?

To be fair, I will just edit that:

"Plus soldiers don't have the right frame of mind for being a police force."
Forum: General Discussions 12 Nov 2003, 19:40
Replies: 78
Views: 7,886
Posted By Vermillion
Re: so where is the stability in iraq?

I was more or less for the war in Iraq, largely because I accepted the WMD argument (And I work for the intelligence community!) and given that argument, I felt that the deposing of Hussein was a...
Forum: General Discussions 7 Nov 2003, 20:16
Replies: 107
Views: 9,715
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Well, I did it...

While that last comment is a vast exaggeration, none the less your basic point is taken. I have said my piece, I shall let it lie.
Forum: General Discussions 7 Nov 2003, 19:43
Replies: 107
Views: 9,715
Posted By Vermillion
Re: Well, I did it...

Clearly you do care what I and all the rest of the people here who agree with me think, else you would not be posting here and trying so desperately to get a response from your threads.

You can...
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