Klaas
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Either an official soundtrack release or one of the many leaked things
I'm listening to like 50 songs a minute now to do a stupid DJ set and I'm going really crazy now, that will be enough music for a week after tonight
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Lol I would just keep my mouth shut, I've learned that that's the best way to handle situations like this
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9/10, got the same one wrong as you Tim
Anyway, that's not math, they have calculators for that now
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Well those won't be the only ones I'll write. I also have other classes on which I can write articles, I'll give you a brief overview of those that woulf fit here (so excluding everything concerning post roman history and history itself):
- Oldest times: the beginning of mankind - conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar (including human evolution, the first farming communities, the first towns, the Celts and the Germans)
- Historical practice: guide to being a historian
- Historical critisism: how to handle historical sources
- Historical overview of the third world before the colonization: including history of Africa, Asia and Latin America
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Yep, Big Bang and evolution are two different theories.
There are many sceletons found though, not millions, but a few thousands. It's normal you can't find millions because in a normal invirement (sp?) tissue and bones fade after a few years. These sceletons have been saved due to extreme conditions and a lot of luck. Same for dinosauri, not many of those have been found either compared to how many that have lived.
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I know it was published in '63 Wijit
Well, yep some of those things have happened, but depends on which regime. The Stalin regime (although it already ended around 10 years before this letter was written) was exactly like that and a lot worse. But not all communist regimes were that bad, although most were. Well communism is almost dead now, so nothing to worry about
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Every week I'll post an article here about the history of mankind until the conquest of Gaul by Caesar. I'm following a course now about this time period, so this will also help me studying it
So expect the first one somewhere next week.
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I dunno, I regard them all as equal. Well the only teams I'm still following are Punk and Dragon, and I think both are equal. Punk is probably better for site layout and some projects and Dragon is better with its community (although it's a bit too young imo).
Anyway, they are all great teams and I think and hope they will remain equal in quality and maturity.
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Lol, yep, sounds like a good tabloid joke
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Lol, we have a political party that wanted to close our borders to foreigners. Well, the result was that this party is boycotted by all the others and regarded as a bunch of racists (which is partly true).
Well examples of people worse then Saddam is for example the North-Korean regime, many African regimes, some Asian regimes. Also in the past people like Pinochet and Mobutu were allowed to do what they wanted, they were even supported. Mobutu isn't even so far in the past, and this guy didn't just kill a few people, he was an African Hitler or Stalin, he killed tens of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands. He also kept his people very poor despite all the money Belgium pumped in his country.
Btw, something on American international help. I agree that the US helped us greatly in both World Wars. But, why exactly? In the first one it took until 1917 and a few thousand dead American civilians (Lusitania for example) before they participated in the war. Also, who sais that the Germans were the bad guys in the first world war? I've done a lot of research on it and it becomes more and more clear that is was France and the UK who wanted war, that Germany did it partly out of defense (although they attacked first). Also the French were going to violate Belgium's neutral state, there are letters on that to prove it, and the cannons in Liege were pointed at both France and Germany.
Second world war was something different. But the US only started to participate when Pearl Harbor was attacked, and D-Day was partly to prevent the communists to take over whole Europe. But that was fortunate for us though, a soviet regime would have been worse then just American influence.
Now, just yesterday Germany, France, the UK, Belgium and Luxemburg sat around the table to discuss a bigger and better European defense force. The American commentary on that wasn't that positive, the Americans even insulted us after the previous negotiations between France, Germany, Belgium and Luxemburg. The reason is clear, the US doesn't want another army competing theirs. So, if we had our own strong defense we wouldn't need America's help anymore, but it seems America wants us to need their help. So the conclusion is simple, it has never been about helping us or other countries, it has always been about expanding the American power and influence. And to me this is plain imperialism, and that's a word that doesn't sound too positive in my ears.
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I was only joking, making a site like that takes a month or more, a professional web developer and loads of money
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I'm sure there will be terrain that ressembles roads, like in aok and aom. But I asume you don't mean graphical only, but also a functional ability. Don't think that will be implemented, would probably make the game a bit too complicated.
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Well you could do what I asked for, shouldn't be too hard
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I think Isengard and Barad-Dûr, since there is an alliance between both. There isn't much talk about Minas Morgul or Minas Tirith, so I think this is the most normal combo.
But we can never be sure though, considering what Adam posted.
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Me!
Ok I'll give you a desc:
I want an ecommerce site with the following features:
- shopping cart system
- member system with custom profile fields
- a custom coded forum with all the features of invision
- a ticket system for people with problems
- a news script
- a download script
- a counter with all possible stats
- a flash layout, a bit like this macromedia.com site, with flash forms and such
- a destroy pc of annoying spammer script
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Ehm, please make it ready for next week.
Oh, forgot this: also make a nice admin center with a task system and such, you never know when you need it.
Thanks for the offer DA!
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7 posts ago I reached 200
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Where I'm living, in Ghent, we have a museum of modern art, claimed to be one of the best in the world: The SMAK. Jan Hoet, an art critisist, founded it, and recently an American has taken over his position as manager.
Now, why this little introduction? The SMAK is to me the prime example of how art has declined to another commercial business. All of the works found there are worth millions of dollars, but they are simply rediculous. An example is a 200.000 dollar plastic pot filled with plastic muscles.
So, what do you think of modern art (paintings, music, sculptures, digital art, etc), and what about classical art? Do you think the art of the past is superior or the other way around?
And what about the meaning of art? Should it be about political subjects, criticism on society, or should it be about the art itself, the beauty/uglyness?
Post your thoughts
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Yep, I agree that without Saddam Iraq is much better off. But what I didn't like were all those lies, about those chemical and even nuclear weapons. We are now almost 100% sure there aren't any in Iraq, so enough proof for all the lies of Bush and Blair.
You have to admit though, and this is also the truth, that the war in Iraq was only about oil and territorial influence (and of course local politics). I think if this is a reason for war the UN should indeed oppose it. It's also clear that Saddam was quite a good little boy compared to some other regimes, and it puzzles me why those are not taken care off.
Anyway, that's just the problem I have with the US and UK in general (I admit, France would also do things like this), they do military or just diplomatic actions to gain influence and money, under the illusions that it's to help local citizens, to defend human rights. And the biggest problem is that they also do it the other way around, they also support malicious regimes for the same reasons.
As long as the most important nations keep going on with this policy there will never be worldpeace or a good life for everyone, it will only make things worse. To me Iraq, although it is good that we got rid of Saddam, is just another example of this policy.
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We accept your opinion Adam, atleast I do, and I value it a lot. I just think controversial subjects like religion and politics always give many different, sometimes fanatic, opinions. It's not because somebody doesn't agree it's meant as a personal attacks, also others have their opinion. The thing is that both should consider eachother's opinions instead of just saying "you're wrong". Of course in most cases this isn't possible, but trying is always good.
Btw this isn't pointed to anyone personal or I don't mean I always do what should be done.
Now, back on topic.
I think we quite differ in moral views then Adam. I think a country should not act for its own citizens only (in some cases). These cases are countries who colonized other countries in the past, have corporations in other countries, or gain profit/abuse another country on one way or another. This definition includes almost the whole Western world.
One thing that really disturbs me, and which I consider to be plain Nazism, is killing other people for your country. If you want peace in the world you certainly won't obtain it like that. Anyway, that's maybe the biggest problem I have with America, France, Germany, UK and other powerful nations. They don't want peace in the world, they don't want everyone to have a good life. They only care about their position as a world leader and a little bit about their own citizens. If people need to starve to death for that or if wars need to be made that's no problem to them.
So, why all the whining about the Nazis then? I don't really see the big difference, atleast not for France, USA and the UK.
Adam you also didn't quite understand me I think. What I meant is that the situation in Africa is due to the abuse by Western countries. I didn't mean that it was becayse Western countries don't offer enough help.
Congo for example: tons of gold mines, tons of diamont mines, and still one of the poorest countries in the world. Why? Belgium colonized them and kept them stupid, the country is devided by Western borders, not "tribe borders", Belgium and especially the US have supported the regimes of Mobutu and now Kabila (II) and large European and American corporations are mining all the African wealth there, while the money goes to the Western world, not the local population.
Now for Iraq. Firstly, only the UN should be able to decide if a member can launch a war or not. And if a war is launched with approval by the UN it should be under the control of the UN and not one or a few countries. If you think, even with a good reason, that the UN shouldn't be listened to, you have forgotten what happened before and during the 2nd WW, and you think that you can just do what you like because you have the best army in the world. If the UN fails, and it will fail by arrogant behaviour like this by its most important members, we have taken a step over 50 years back in time, and made the distance to world peace a lot further again.
Second is the reason why Iraq was attacked. I think it's quite obvious now that most given reasons were lies and that it only was about oil and influence in the region, not because Iraq was a threat or because Sadam was a cruel dictator.
Now speeking of cruel dictators, I thought it was America who helped for example Pinochet or Mobutu? They weren't very friendly people either I think
I agree though that an alternative isn't easy to find. But what I think is that other countries should be left alone, except if they are a threat to international peace (and by that I mean a real threat, like North-Korea). Western countries have evolved themselve to what they are now. Other countries should simply be left alone, because they also need time to come to the point where we are now, and that's not possible if you're forced by soldiers and bombs to do this. We also should realize (I'm putting this bold since it's very important):
We as Western people are not superior because we have technology and a good economy, we are only different.
If you can't agree to the sentence above please go study the situation of the second half of the 19th century in Europe and Africa or the situation the the 30s in Germany. History isn't just something to know for a quiz, it's a lesson for the future.
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December would lead again to me since I'm born then
August
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It's Klaas not Klaus! and it's my real name, not my nick!
Lol nice idea though
snow
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Yep most of it sounds a bit made up to me, this is rather a list of someone who isn't really convinced of his/her ideals, who actually knows (s)he's wrong. Although there was and still us much hate towards communism in the US I think it's quite stupid to regard communists as the 'evil spirits' who know they are doing bad things but just want power. Some (Stalin) were like that, but that's something you can say about many (=all) systems and nations.
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The third world will be left to rot, except by the support of private foundations, corporations, and the good samaritans. The government-led support organizations are all but dead, and most of the enclaves don't give a @#$%
Yep, really sounds like the present situation to me
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AoE priests. Those guys were really powerful in single player. With 3-4 and some good micromanagement you could convert whole armies.
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