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  3. Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?

    in Introductions & Off-Topic Discussion

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    Fox Mulder:

    You saw it cross the road with your own eyes. How many chickens have to cross the road before you believe it?

    Moses:

    And God came down from the heavens, and he said unto the Chicken, "Thou shalt cross the road." And the Chicken crossed the road, and there was much rejoicing.

    Richard M. Nixon:

    The chicken did not cross the road. I repeat, the chicken did not cross the road.

    Jerry Seinfeld:

    Why does anyone cross a road? I mean, why doesn't anyone ever think to ask, "What the heck was this chicken doing walking around all over the place anyway?"

    Louis Farrakhan:

    The road, you will see, represents the black man. The chicken crossed the "black man" in order to trample him and keep him down.

    Freud:

    The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity.

    Bill Gates:

    I have just released the new Chicken Office 2000, which will not only cross roads, but it will lay eggs, file your important documents AND balance your checkbook. Unfortunately, when it divides 3 by 2 it gets 1.4999999999.

    Oliver Stone:

    The question is not "Why did the chicken cross the road?"But is rather "Who was crossing the road at the same time, whom we overlooked in our haste to observe the chicken crossing?"

    Darwin:

    Chickens, over great periods of time, have been naturally selected in such a way that they are now genetically dispositioned to cross roads.

    Martin Luther King, Jr.:

    I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question.

    Grandpa:

    In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Someone told us that the chicken had crossed the road, and that was good enough for us.

    Machiavelli:

    The point is that the chicken crossed the road. Who cares why? The end of crossing the road justifies whatever motive there was.

    Albert Einstein:

    Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved beneath the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.

    Buddha:

    Asking this question denies your own chicken nature.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson:

    The chicken did not cross the road—it transcended it.

    Ernest Hemingway:

    To die. In the rain.

    Colonel Harlan Sanders:

    I missed one? :P

  5. Addiction 101

    in Introductions & Off-Topic Discussion

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    I have only known one guy who quit smoking cold turkey. He had headaches for a week, and he gained allot of weight. But, after a few weeks he was really happy with what he did and was quite proud of himself.

    Rich, I think it would help if you could find someone around you to hold you accountable. I don't know if those patches or gum work, but maybe that might be something to try?

    I don't think your week willed... your just human. Humans have a tendancy to give into their basest of base urges. Your not the only one who stuggles, we all do with some sort of addiction or another.

    But, yeah I'd try to find someone you could ask to keep you accountable as you try to kick the habbit.

    Foreign-born Populations Surges In U.s.

    in Hall of Intellectuals

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    Foreign-Born Populations Surges in U.S.

    By GENARO C. ARMAS

    Associated Press Writer

    November 6, 2003, 6:09 PM EST

    http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wi...world-headlines

    WASHINGTON -- The U.S. foreign-born population surged by 1 million in the year ending in March, according to a report released Thursday, evidence the sluggish economy and stepped-up government enforcement of immigration laws after the 2001 terror attacks did not lead to a long-term slowdown in the influx of immigrants.

    The 3 percent rise in the foreign-born population came after an increase of 2 percent, or 700,000, the previous year, according to the Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies. During the explosive growth of the 1990s, the foreign-born population grew at a pace of about 1.3 million a year.

    "For prospective immigrants, being unemployed or having to rely on the government or relatives in this country for support is still often better than life in the home country," said the report's author, Steve Camarota, whose group favors tighter immigration restrictions.

    Camarota estimated that roughly half of the new arrivals the past year likely entered the country illegally, a rate similar to previous years.

    Nestor Rodriguez, co-director of the Center for Immigration Research at the University of Houston, said even a struggling U.S. economy is better than the economies of the countries many leave behind.

    "Unless it's like a huge depression, the business cycles of ups and downs we see doesn't seem to have a big impact," he said.

    The Center for Immigration Studies used Census Bureau data to calculate that the total foreign-born population in March was a record 33.5 million, roughly 12 percent of the U.S. population. Mexico was the country of origin for the most people, nearly 10 million.

    Camarota found that unemployment rates increased for foreign-born and native-born residents between 2000 and 2003. However, while the number of employed native-born residents decreased, the number of working foreign-born residents increased, a trend especially evident among less-educated workers.

    "Does that imply that they are displacing natives and the immigrants already here? There's that concern," he said.

    Eric Rodriguez, director of the Economic Mobility Project for the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group, said that reasoning doesn't account for variations by regions and sectors.

    In many cases lower-skilled immigrant workers are taking jobs that aren't desirable to others, he said. Immigrant workers have filled openings at farms, meatpacking and textile plants and in the service industry.

    Rodriguez pointed to the recent arrests of 250 illegal immigrants working at Wal-Mart stores as an example. Most of the illegal workers were employed by cleaning companies and not Wal-Mart itself.

    "Anyone associated with those jobs will tell you that not a lot of native-born folks want those jobs," he said.

    Camarota's report estimated that 2 million of the 4.5 million new immigrants since the spring of 2000 entered illegally, raising that population to at least 8.5 million. About one-third of the legal and illegal immigrants who entered since 2000 arrived from Mexico.

    The Census Bureau doesn't ask if a person is in the United States illegally. The last government estimate of the undocumented population, released in January, placed the number at 7 million in 2000, most of them Mexican.

    Mario Villarreal, spokesman for the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, said the border has become better protected in recent years because of increased visibility of law enforcement, cooperation with Mexico to warn would-be crossers, and the creation of the Homeland Security Department.

    But the government must further step up patrols and crack down on businesses that employ undocumented immigrants to stem the illegal flow, Camarota said.

    Angela Kelley, deputy director of the Washington-based National Immigration Forum, a pro-immigrant group, said the current immigration system needs fixing to legalize more taxpaying undocumented workers filling low-skilled jobs.

    Her group supports a more tightly regulated and enforceable system, but better legal channels and an expanded number of visas available for undocumented workers.

    The Census Bureau declined to comment on the report.

  9. New Website Theme - Brown

    in General Discussion

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    brownstyle.jpg

    Ug.. I fought this all afternoon. :wall: I think I have something that I'm halfway happy with. But, not totally sold on it (probably cause I'm color blind). After Jeru, mentioned it was green, I had to go back and change all my colors. Hopefully its better now. In case you didn't notice last time - that theme wasn't just tan, but had the 'persian' flare to it. However, this one is Celtic.

    Once again if you want to view it, you much register and then edit your profile by following this link:

    http://wildfiregames.com/0ad/profile.php?m...ode=editprofile

  12. ETH Ultimatium #1 - Matrix

    in Introductions & Off-Topic Discussion

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    Watched it tonight, I don't have time to write up a big comment... just wanted to say that I really enjoyed this one. I think its probably because I didn't let the 3rd be overhipped in my mind. I purposely didn't watch any trailers or spoilers. I think it really helped allot going into the theatre without all that baggage. Anyway, I think it was a great conclusion to the series. The only reason I'm not giving it a 10 is because I reserve that for the best of the best, and there are 3 other movies that hold that spot in my mind :)

    Political Spectrum

    in Hall of Intellectuals

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    Hey cool site stag! Here is what I got:

    Your political compass

    Economic Left/Right: 0.88

    Libertarian/Authoritarian: 2.15

    I think its quite odd, because I thought I was pretty right on the spectrum... I guess, I'm more moderate than I thought...

    Oh, well I guess one simple test can't explain it all.

  21. Celtic Stuff

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    Posted

    kor if you have any suggestions for making the text appear older I'm all ears :lol: I basically just found a welsh translation site and was translating words. You might have some better resources than I had.

    The map I was looking for was:

    Supplement to National Geographic, May 1977, page 582A, Vol. 151 No.5 - CELTIC EUROPE.

    I tried googling it, and I could order it from Amazon, but I'm looking for a free version :)

  23. Sketches

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    Sud, that would be great! I need to go back and confront those celtic buildings again. We changed/cut allot of buildings and changed some functions. So I think that there might be a need to change their visual look. Of course we have the old ones for reference.

    But, yeah, email me (not sure if I have your current adress) - I'll send you some stuff :lol:

    jason@0ad.wildfiregames.com

    Pakistan, Saudi Arabia In Secret Nuke Pact

    in Hall of Intellectuals

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    Pakistan, Saudi Arabia in secret nuke pact

    By Arnaud de Borchgrave

    THE WASHINGTON TIMES

    http://www.washtimes.com/world/20031021-11...12804-8451r.htm

    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have concluded a secret agreement on "nuclear cooperation" that will provide the Saudis with nuclear-weapons technology in exchange for cheap oil, according to a ranking Pakistani insider.

    The disclosure came at the end of a 26-hour state visit to Islamabad last weekend by Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, who flew across the Arabian Sea with an entourage of 200, including Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al Faisal and several Cabinet ministers.

    Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, the pro-American defense minister who is next in line to the throne after the crown prince, was not part of the delegation.

    "It will be vehemently denied by both countries," said the Pakistani source, whose information has proven reliable for more than a decade, "but future events will confirm that Pakistan has agreed to provide [saudi Arabia] with the wherewithal for a nuclear deterrent."

    As predicted, Saudi Arabia — which has faced strong international suspicion for years that it was seeking a nuclear capability through Pakistan — strongly denied the claim.

    Prince Sultan was quoted in the Saudi newspaper Okaz yesterday saying that "no military agreements were concluded between the kingdom and Pakistan during [Prince Abdullah´s] visit to Islamabad."

    Mohammad Sadiq, deputy chief of mission for Pakistan's embassy in Washington, also denied any nuclear deal was in the works. "That is totally incorrect," he said in a telephone interview. "We have a clear policy: We will not export our nuclear expertise."

    But the CIA believes Pakistan already has shared its nuclear know-how, working with North Korea in exchange for missile technology.

    A Pakistani C-130 was spotted by satellite loading North Korean missiles at Pyongyang airport last year. Pakistan, which is estimated to have between 35 and 60 nuclear weapons, said this was a straight purchase for cash and strongly denied a nuclear quid pro quo.

    "Both Pakistan and Saudi Arabia," the Pakistani source said, "see a world that is moving from nonproliferation to proliferation of nuclear weapons."

    The Saudi rulers, who are Sunni Muslims, are believed to have concluded that nothing will deter the Shi'ite Muslims who rule Iran from continuing their quest for a nuclear weapons capability.

    Pakistan, meanwhile, is concerned about a recent arms agreement between India, its nuclear archrival, and Israel, a longtime nuclear power whose inventory is estimated at between 200 and 400 weapons.

    To counter what Pakistani and Saudi leaders regard as multiple regional threats, the two countries have decided to quietly move ahead with an exchange of free or cheap Saudi oil for Pakistani nuclear know-how, the Pakistani source said.

    Pakistanis have worked as contract pilots for the Royal Saudi Air Force for the past 30 years. Several hundred thousand Pakistani workers are employed by the Gulf states, both as skilled and unskilled workers, and their remittances are a hard currency boon for the Pakistani treasury.

    Prince Abdullah reportedly sees Saudi oil reserves, the world's largest, as becoming increasingly vulnerable over the next 10 years.

    By mutual agreement, U.S. forces withdrew from Saudi Arabia earlier this year to relocate across the border in the tiny oil sheikdom of Qatar.

    Saudi officials also are still chafing over a closed meeting — later well publicized — of the U.S. Defense Policy Board in 2002, where an expert explained, with a 16-slide Powerpoint presentation, why and how the United States should seize and occupy oil fields in the country's Eastern Province.

    Several incidents have raised questions over the extent of Saudi-Pakistani cooperation in defense matters.

    A new policy paper by Simon Henderson, an analyst with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, noted that Prince Sultan visited Pakistan's highly restricted Kahuta uranium enrichment and missile assembly factory in 1999, a visit that prompted a formal diplomatic complaint from Washington.

    And a son of Prince Abdullah attended Pakistan's test-firing last year of its Ghauri-class missile, which has a range of 950 miles and could be used to deliver a nuclear payload.

    President Bush was reported to have confronted Pervez Musharraf over the Saudi nuclear issue during the Pakistani president's visit to Camp David this summer, and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage raised the issue during a trip to Islamabad earlier this month, according to Mr. Henderson's paper.

    "Apart from proliferation concerns, Washington likely harbors more general fears about what would happen if either of the regimes in Riyadh or Islamabad became radically Islamic," according to Mr. Henderson.

    GlobalSecurity.org, a well-connected defense Internet site, found in a recent survey that Saudi Arabia has the infrastructure to exploit such nuclear exports very quickly.

    "While there is no direct evidence that Saudi Arabia has chosen a nuclear option, the Saudis have in place a foundation for building a nuclear deterrent," according to the Web site.

    •Arnaud de Borchgrave, editor at large of The Washington Times, is editor at large of United Press International as well.

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