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    Poems

    in Arts and Entertainment

    Posted

    Here is where people put there poems or like poems. I've got one about Ph4nton but if his name was phantom4 that would be alote better.

    Phantom4, Phantom4 what is with your avitor?

    Change it back, change it back or i'll be forced to hack. :D

    Hem, there is a pinned thread for poems in the HoI section of the forums...

    ...er... ...if i understood what you meant right...

    :D

    [EDIT]Uh, please, ignore this post, i see that this has already pointed out... ...my shame...

    :-(

    A regular day in Gaza

    in Hall of Intellectuals

    Posted

    Valahiriu: who cares about Sudan?

    This is the real problem: we are so scared by islamic terrorism and extremism that we inveded a country (not counting Afghanistan) to stop it. We brought destruction and death to a peaceful country (yes i know that Saddam oppressed them: the best reason not to go there and kill some more innocents), but then we have one of the most extremist islamic governments in the area, wich sheltered Osama Bin Laden for a long time. Well, now they are killing an entire ethinc group (or maybe they "limit" themselves to push them out of the borders, by killing some thousand dozens) and what we do? Nothing. No oil in Sudan, no strategic resources there to be grabbed and exploited. So, who cares about Sudan inhabitants? Maybe me and you, Valahiriu, maybe Klaas, or Jeru or Quacker or other people here and there. All good willing people, it's true. The problem is that few of us are able to influence our governments to do the right thing to do...

    A regular day in Gaza

    in Hall of Intellectuals

    Posted

    I agree that Runboston idea should be the only one capable to give relief to the area, alas is the least practicable one in this moment.

    First both sides should try to cool down things, isolate extremists and try to stop the killing and distructions.

    Even this is far from being easy to get...

    Poetry

    in Hall of Intellectuals

    Posted

    No, no, Valahiriu, do not cry! :D

    Well, i ignored this thread for a while, i must admit.

    This one you wrote is quite good, especially for the theme, wich is a hard one to put in verses! :)

    :D:)

    Matteo

    Heritage

    in Hall of Intellectuals

    Posted

    But it's hard to learn these things when your relatives all speak in a very sicillian dialect of Italian all the time :)

    Then learn some Sicilian, Picciriddu! :D

    A part from jokes.

    May surname is slav, Slata=gold Per=feather. Maybe one ancestor of mine was a secret agent in a stage mimic drama called "Goldfeather" :D

    Anyway i do not have any knowledge of those times, since probably my ancestors were living a hard time somewere between the Sudets and the Adriatic coast (another branch of my family comes from Eisenach, near Leipzig). Other possible lineages come from Florence, a jewish community living in the bizantine controlled Dalmatia, and maybe some Switzerland relatives. A big mix indeed.

    Anyway in modern and contemporary times things are much more clear.

    I have to thank the dissolvement of the Jesuites order for my existence, since one of my direct ancestors was one of them, who married after the closing of the order.

    Then my family broke in two parts, one of it made for America and eventually got in contact with president A. Lincoln. I still have some relatives in Florida and Texas.

    The other side remained pretty calm till WWI, my grand-grand father was an Irredentist (a nationalist who wanted that italian speaking lands of the Absburg monarchy went under italian control). As you all already know his dream got true, but meanwhile he was killed in the trenches: getting a silver medal of courage (2nd highest one in Italy): not a good bargain imho. His son followed his example some times later, enlisting as a volunteer in the Alpini corps even if he was an antifascist and needed not to enlist, being a war-orphan. Nonetheless he was sent in Greece first, then into Russia were he was killed together with his cousin: two more Gold medals (first class ones) and two more bad bargains...

    The other grandfather of mine had a different choiche: being born in Trieste in 1899, he was drafted for the last stages of WWI. When his drilling was arriving to an end he put up to be a mechanic to be granted a machine gunner course wich avoided him the danger of the last months of trench-war against the russians. He then stayed there as occupation troops (in Odessa) till Austria asked for an armistice and dissolved shortly after. Then, abandoned by their officers and former government, he and his brothers in arms managed to put together a rail convoy and began a long journey home, passing through the turmoil of Russian Civil war. They never shot a single bullet: i think that this is the main reason because he's still alive and brilliant at the revered age of 104 years (going to 105 next june).

    You can all see why refusing violence is always the right thing to do... :)

    Peaceyo

    Matteo

  12. Why Italians are not to be considered Europeans

    in Introductions & Off-Topic Discussion

    Posted

    *bows*

    Well, of course that is an exageration of our attitudes and uses: taken one by one, italians tend to be much more like any other people you know, those problems arise when italians drive or act as a group (and football fans).

    Anyway, talking more seriously, it's not a little problem, just today i had a discussion with a friend of mine that was enraged because he got fined because he parked in a no-parking area. He refused to admit that parking on pedestrian walkways is all but a sign of uncivility, saing that there was another one on the other side of the road (tell this to a person on a wheel-chair: i bet he would be veeeery happy of you parking on the walkway ... )

    I was really upset...

    ;)

    Wich kind of OS do you run?

    in General TLA Discussion

    Posted

    Currently Linux is the only non-Windows OS we're consciously working to support, but we might wind up with other OS options as a result of our choices. Our major emphasis is on making the darn thing work at all. :D

    Well, it should be not much difficult to port it to MacOS X, since they share the same family (OS X is based on a Unix dialect called Darwin, and supports the X-Windows environment...) :wacko:

    Next World Power

    in Hall of Intellectuals

    Posted

    Hmm... I don't share my European friends' assessment of American foreign policy. It seems as if everything America does is "for oil" to you guys. How much oil is truly in the Balkans? Oil pipelines? Even if there was oil in the Balkans, did America just roll in their and take over the place and start pumping oil? Get serious. The same goes for Afghanistan. There is absolutely no infrastructure in Afghanistan with which to exploit her resources. How is the invasion of Afghanistan "for control of oil" then? Have we intervened in Haiti "for control of oil"?

    It is not only for oil, oil is only one of the reasons (even if the most important), but all the regions/countries you quoted are directly or indirectly involved in the oil drill: a part from the Ploiesti oil fields (Rumania), the balkans are linked to the lands were the best russian controlled pipelines pass. Here the issue is oil transport. Why do you think that the US supported the nationalist (and corrupted) new Georgian president? He got to the power through corruption and violence, his first political act being the claim that he would nevere have granted the Azers of Georgia any kind of political or administrative autonomy. The future for the little republic looks gloomier than ever: civil war can be one of the easiest outcomes.

    The caucasus oil fields are the prize: by sealing the western way of transport (from Baku, through the Caucasus, and either to the Black sea or via Central Europe), the only way to export it is south, through Afghanistan (a pipeline is in project). Why do you think that the US have spread the region with military bases?

    To control the area: in a few years we'll see if this picture is right or wrong, anyway.

    Haiti: it is in the established "area of influence" that the US want to preserve, and it has no relation to oil control, of course. The US begun to act in the caribbean area at least from the Us-Spanish war (but the military interventions date back to the 30' years of the XIX cen.)

    Iraq is a different matter, of course. But who can't see the benefit of a democratic oil-rich country independant of the thuggery of OPEC? That isn't the main goal of the occupation, but it would be a nice side effect.

    I do not agree: Iraq invasion had nothing to do with democracy, wich is not an exportable "good". It must grow from th einside of a country, imposing it is a nonsense. Moreover Iraq wil not be able to control his Oil sources: the american multinational companies will do it (Bremer has already settled this in a way that forbids any future iraqi government to change the things: if this is democracy... :ph34r:)

    Besides all that, don't you guys ever think there'd be easier ways to secure fresh supplies of oil, than rolling in hundreds of thousands of troops costing our government hundreds of billions of dollars? The "America=Oil" Foreign Policy @#$%s don't seem to like rational questions such as these. Their arguments always seem to degenerate into, "America is the cause of my terribly dreary life, wah wah..."

    None of that: you forget that war is very rich affair. Why had the Bush administration elevated military expenses, if not to gear up the military industry economy? America is not the cause of all of our sorrows: the real culprit is our (western) way of life. We want it all and we want it cheap, no matter the consequences. Our governments do what is needed to keep us satisfied (otherwise we would vote someone else, isn't it? ;))

    Peace to all.

    Matteo

    Next World Power

    in Hall of Intellectuals

    Posted

    Well, of course every other big nation on Earth will try to remain on the "victorious chariot" (or "remain firmly on the saddle", if you prefer)

    The problem is (just for istance): why have the US invaded Iraq and Afghanistan and adopted politics that unbalance the political situation in the Balkans and in Cecenia?

    My answer is: they need to control the most exploitable oil sources and the oil transport routes.

    Why? Because the experts esteem, in the next future, a big rise of other countries (China above all) as new "superpowers". The control of oil resources will allow the US to retain a relative predominance in the world.

    Please note that this is only my analysis of the situation, and i do not side with anyone here. My humble opinion is that instead that fighting for resources and world dominance a multilateral agreement for a sustainable development is the best solution to our biggest problems (famine, poverty, diseases, environmental crisis and other things) that deserve much more attention that the classical "who will be the next ruling country" issue.

    ;)

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