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Hmmm...

It's people's right to smoke, it's the bar owner's right to ban it, it's the government's right to tax it like anything else... But I wish smokers would stop smoking, they stink like hell -_-

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I DID answer your question, maybe not directly, but in a different response. I said that Paul wants the U.S. to trade and get along with different countries, esp. our enemies. Isolationism, as refered to not getting a given military envolved in other countries problems, perhaps exchanging goods and services with our allies. You bought up NATO, UN and all those other organizations. I was aking why do you feel that those organizations serves a purpose? Please?

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Wait, are you serious? Did you just ask what purpose international peacekeeping agencies serve? I will admit that perhaps NATO is an unnecessary agency no that we realize communism isn't the huge demon we thought it was, but the UN? How about this, the purpose of the UN is to make sure that no countries dicide to try to conquor the world like Germany, Japan, and generally the axis nations of WW2 did. The idea is that if anyone steps out of line the countries of the UN have the power to boycott countries, refuse to trade with them, and if the stuff really hits the fan, band together and create a strong enough military force to stop them.

And when you are arguably the most powerful nation on the planet in a globalized world you DO NOT tell the rest of the world and it's problems to f off, cause then they all think you're the bad guy. Personally I think we have trashed our international reputation enough for one president.

There's the theory that two democracies won't go to war with each other. Seems somewhat plausible; how many wars have there been that involved two true democracies?

One could also argue that sanctions and boycots do more harm than good. They can really devestate a nation's economy, which can lead to the deaths of thousands of innocent lives. Iraq after the American Persian Gulf War is the first example to come to mind. Also, WWII was started by something similar on Germany. It was the economic strife within Germany resulting from the restrictions, aka sanctions, that ultimately led to the Nazi Party's rise.

And in serving it's purpose, it surely has failed at that. Both Persian Gulf Wars, the Iraq War, Vietnam, all of the wars part of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Aren't there studies out there that show youth related crime is decreasing, contradicting people like Jack Thompson?

Oh and since I brought him up, the latest VG Cats comic is pretty hilarious XD

[QUOTE="dante_123456"]i think WW3 is basically already going on. the govt. just haven't said so yet because they don't want to cause mass panic.Hoobinator

It's not really much of a world war when most of the worlds nations seem not to be involved or particularly interested.

I take it you were talking about the war on terror.

Well, I guess one could argue that the "War on Terror" (God I hate calling it that...) is WWIII, when you factor in the numerous bombings targeting the US, it's allies, or it's interests such as the Beirut barrack bombings, the Tanzanian and Kenyan embassy bombings, the metro bombings in the UK and Spain, the assassination of the US diplomat in Sudan, both World Trade Center bombings (93 & 01) and the Pentagon, the War in Afghanistan, the Iraq War thanks to Bush, etc, etc, etc... I suppose all of this could fit into a wider context of a world war, since countries from literally every continent except Antartica have been involved somehow.

But of course, most would associate a world war with more conventional warfare.

Why is it that Mohammed cannot be drawn? Is it to avoid the idolizing of the prophet? If so, this is smart, because lately all the ultra-conservitive Christians have made Jesus out to be the main focus of the religion. Which is false.

Thing is, in Christianity, Jesus is more than just a prophet, he was God incarnate. In Islam, Mohammad was only a prophet. Ummm... right?

2.the checkpoints are god awful. there is zero reason why I should have to 15min of play time because I died. horrible

Be glad we aren't still playing on the Nes. You know, when there were NO save points and if you died on the last level, you had to start all over.

No, this isn't a topic bashing the Wii's graphics :P

It's just that I recently got a new 780p 32" tv and the Wii component cables to go along with it. When I hooked everything up, the images were pretty jaggy. Turns out this isthethird tv, second brand I've gone through. On the first two, not only were there jaggies but there was this shadowing effect. Neither the tv companies' tech support nor Nintendo's tech support have heard of this problem before.

Has anybody heard of this happening before? It was fine with my original SD tv, why is everything screwed up on the HD tv's?