Kosmo

Only thing I can say is that Evil Empires always win Location: the West Pacific The Empire of The glass is half full is a tiny, safe nation, remarkable for its absence of drug laws. Its compassionate population of 5 million have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often. The large government concentrates mainly on Social Welfare, although Healthcare and Education are secondary priorities. The average income tax rate is 22%, but much higher for the wealthy. A large private sector is led by the Trout Farming industry, followed by Soda Sales and Uranium Mining. Crime is well under control. The glass is half full's national animal is the evil badger and its currency is the soul.

Even if I agree with you right there, this begs a question, how do we define "better". For example, better lawsystem? Even if our lawsystem is quite good for judging people who do crimes equally, our lawsystem doesn't make breaking the law impossible, and the same problem remains, people are breaking the law and finding loopholes. So is it that the process is better since the results are much as twisted as any ther lawsystem. I support the freedom of speech, and I like it, as much as anyone, but people don't seem to understand that freedom of speec is not just the freedom to speak about political views but it is also a responsibility, to take responsibility about what you say and the consequenses it might have. Western media and the freedom of speech they practise is more like a shoutfest where people just insult each other and run away to hide, it's not any kind of discussion, it's down right childish. I just want us to seach my theory on Europe and western society in general. In our society religion is not so centered in our everyday lifes and political decisions, and I that makes our society so different from middle east and far east. I came to the conclusion that many major events have led our society to estrange from religion as the major influence in our society. Such major events may have been the industrial revolution and the growing level of education, one major event that has definedly been one of the things that have furthered the so called "dying of religious influence" has been communism in Europe, communists didn't take so kindly to religions and religious people, also World Wars have had a big influence in it too, it was the first modern time where a group of religious people have been systematically terminated. All these events and many more in the past centuries have molded our society in to what it is today. All major events that has had effect in major scale. Same kind of things haven't happened in Middle East and that is why they are still so much ruled by their religion in everyday life and it has effects in their political stance and views too. If Europe were still under the influence of christianity we wouldn't be any different from Middle East.

I understand that, but the point being that they were and still are looking for an excuse to cause trouble, so I thought that it would be cool not to give them the excuse. I don't like the whole pushing of people to the edge thing, when I was in school, there was this kid, small nerd guy and all that, got picked on by some jackass in the school, and one day out of the blue during gymnastics the kid hits the bully in the face with a hockey stick. Wrecked his teeth and almost popped his eye, nasty, and all this for what? Did the bully get something out of it? Did the little nerd get something else than a micro second of satisfaction before realizing that the is in a world of trouble? These kind of pointless things that people do just beucase they can do is just a waste of everyones time and in this case, several lifes, sure the cartoonist didn't have the insight to tell what was going to come, but I would have more sense than do such a drawing.

Yeah, but he could have thought about making it first, and even after he did it, apologise, even if his apologies wouldn't have had so great impact, but it would have saved some lifes atleast, every life you can safe is worth some personal discomfort of an apology. But you are absolutely right, he isn't the one and only reason, the tension between muslims and christians have been tight for long but like someone already said, he made the proverbial last straw. But his chief editor is also a big part of the problem, he is the man/woman who decides what gets published. Also, why did other papers around the world publish it, I understand the "freedom of speech stand" that they are trying to pull, but when the conversation inside your head is "we should really make a stand for free speech and kill few people by pissing off people and directing their hatred towards innocent people, the best idea of the decade" you should really stop for a minute.

I just hope that the cartoonist who thought that it would be a good idea to do the drawings is sleeping well, knowing that he has blood of hundreds of brutally murdered innocent people in his hands. I bet he sleeps like a baby, unless he has already killed himself.

Possibly the most amazing thing ever.

Awww... I don't know what the twist is, I own the Ocarina o' Time, but haven't played it But just a quickie question, if you have played Serious Sam, there is few maps where you are in a big pipe of sorts, and you can run along the walls like the whole surface had gravity, that was some awesome shit, shooting mobs in the ceiling and then running up to them. Would that be doable in Source? It would rock some socks off.

I like what you are saying, ofcourse when we think of strong leaders controlling large amounts of land and people it would be a dramatic military leader, Star Wars is a definition on this, the only foreign politics was a man clad in black armour. Ofcourse the whole point of my emperor is that when you first see him you go like "oh he is propably some sort of leader and quite evil bastard, I bet he eats babies". But I'm always open for discussion on the matter, what makes a conqueror, who is the conqueror that would be had he given the chance, Kane from command & conquer, he is too is a tired old stereotype. Interesting subject, none the less. Well, I'll test you some day, call your work a rip-off and downgrade it's value, I'll see how you react, if you don't react at all, you are no artist if I'm concerned, you don't love your work.

I'm going to add more bulk to his armour, now it's too much like a redman suit from Mythbusters. I already got some good drawings on the details and the armour but they are on paper, I don't usually draw my work from start to finish on my tablet, and you can see that, my linework on the tablet is crappy. I also thought that it would be cool to lose the cape and put some sort of leather jacket on him, I have to see where I go with this in the next few doodles. But since we are on the subject, what do you guys think about steampunk? It's a strange genre and usually mixed up with basic fantasy. I love it.

Oh great c&c guys. What, all of a sudden my emperor is bison? Because they both wear combination hats? What the hell? So it has nothing to do with that he is a military leader, a futuristic hitler? Oh no, it has got to be plagiarism of some fighting game character because stolve said so. Just to be clear because you are obviously retarded as hell, here is a picture of hitler. You know, an evil man, trying to become emperor of the world.

A 5 minute sketch of some sort of emperor for my MMORPG world that I have been building for few years now. I just got my new Wacom Intuos 3 A4 tablet and I'm trying to get used to it, it kicks ass compared to the Volito POS that I had earlier. So the quality of the sketch is what it is, when my new monitor and memory arrives I can fire up the photoshop and do large drawings without the fear that it will crash in the middle of a sessionand corrupting my workfile (yes that has happened). The story for him is that he is some sort of Darth Vader guy, a strong psychic and fierce warrior and rules a dark empire with an iron grip, the empire is based in to a steampunk world but I think the emperor looks more like some sort of warhammer 40k guy than steampunky armored guy, meh, I have to work on that bit more when I'm working on the final version. I'll try to post more concept sketches of the rest of the bunch.

They are just animals, no weight on human life at all, and that is how they treat their women, think of what they think of those who are not their countrymen or from the same religion. Scary.

In the UK last world cup, might have been euro cup or something for football (or to USA peeps "soccer") they banned taxi drivers having little english flags on. Saying that it was racist because over half the population are "multicultural", thats what I call retarded. Adding to that, the English flag is a red cross on a white background.... Wow... that IS rather retard, why the hell would they ban people having their own flag in their own country.

If it bothers you just say the safe sentence; "mawibse is god" and I'll stop responding to your posts until you say othervice. This is a forum, it wouldn't work wery well if we just selected the people we wanted to respond to our posts. You have just taken one of Intelligent Designs prime argument for making ID a valid thing to teach in Science class and turned it into a defense for your personal beliefs in Fairy tale stuff. Unfortunately, anything man can make up, from Mind reading to Santa Claus, falls under that very defense. "It might not be discovered yet" You're no better then the religious yahoos, you dont need facts or studies, faith alone suits you fine. Nothing wrong with it, just wanted you to realize this. I know that already, but what ever my beliefs, I know that they are bunch of fairytale at the moment, but would I want people to teach them in science class? Certainly no, there is no scientific proof for them, and might that there never will be, I have discovered them myself and I want my kids to do so too, so no bullshitting people in school And it's not that much a matter of firm believe that something has to absolutely exist, it's more of a "wouldn't it be cool if Jedis really existed" "dude". Like I said, as scientific as I am, I like to believe in things like Love and such, the world is much cooler that way, afterall I AM in a creative business, viewing world as cold and sterile place wouldn't work that good

I think they can't stop individual or independent organizations or companies using the red cross, it's like a country making the use of their flag illegal, especially when the use is not producing any harm to the flag or symbol itself. And the Red Cross emblem is the swiss flag with negative colors, if you get in trouble with the RC, you can just say that it's not red cross, it's inverse swiss flag

I'd be using Linux right now if it weren't a crap desktop OS. Ubuntu is pretty good desktop OS, but I will second the "Linux is crappy OS"

The soul, Karma and Rebith is as scientific as the Fairy King. Not you again, you have obviously made it your mission to haunt me haven't you. But fair enough, be like that. As you might notice when you read my post again, and this time think about it. I said that I believe in them, as being something that exists but are not as simple or complicated we think they are, they might just be part of nature that are so complex that we don't understand them yet, thusly making them very real. Just like many say that man fitting the description of Jesus really existed but that doesn't make him some sort of mage or son of god, now does it. Humans understand so little of the brain and how it works, the same way we understand so little of the universe, things like these being possible is in the realm of possibility.

Izuno, I would make Win2k to be the version two on the Iteration 2, and that would break the formula, since Win2k is easily better than XP. XP just has fancy things, Win2k has real power under the hood. Oh, and just to add, judging by the articles written by the beta testers and the information trickled from MS itself (Vista not being a total rewrite and all that), Vista is going to suck big time.

Nice, real nice.

As scientific as I am, I believe in soul, I also believe in Karma and Rebith. I believe that they are our perception of nature that is way more complicated that we give it credit for.

Your sidetracking but I'll humor you; We where talking about the balance of Nukes in the absence of nukes, not the balance of the scale they where measured with. Would you say that the "nothing" that was on the scale in your example was in balance? Scientists don't and neither do I. And to steer it in a slightly more on topic direction, even with the fairy tale dream of a world without nukes, the balance of war technology would still heavily tip in favor for USA so... Correction, I am not talking about balance of nukes, I'm talking about balance of power, attacking power to be precise. True, USA has military action power with bundles, but nuke is something to tip the scales, that what created the whole problem to begin with, if Iran doesn't have nuke, he worst they can do is try to invade Israel, but with nukes they can obliterate them without much effort. Well Afghanistan doesn't have nukes so their retaliation wouldn't happen, BUT I'm almost positive that IF USA had used nukes in Afghanista, without a doubt in my mind they would have gotten a retaliation, Pakistan is a good candidate for that. And there are no confirmation wether such countries as Israel, Saudi Arabia and Iran have the ability to build one or even having actual nuclear weapon, so if USA used their nuclear weapons, they would most definedly launch a chain reaction that escaladed in to a full blown World War.

Usually one refers to balance as forces canceling each other out. Not the absence of forces. But that’s not the main issue, so.. if you want to get rid of all nukes why allow Iran to have them? One would think that would be counterproductive to your agenda? So you would say a scale is off balance when there is nothing in it? Interesting, you might want to dabble in to some physics for that one. And I didn't say that Iran should definedly have nukes, I said that USA is not qualified to decide who to have nukes since they have nukes, the power is unbalanced and if USA isn't going to lose their nukes, then I'm afraid that countries that oppose USA's foreign policy should get some too, just to keep them in check. Only thing keeping countries from using nukes is because many countries have them, they would have to risk a retaliation in same kind, and I would love the situation to be just this, so I don't have to fear USA or any other for that matter, nuking anyone. Pleeaase say that again about Russia not "going all ChucK Norris" on Afghanistan, it gives me Goosebumps. *pops in RamboIII in DVDplayer* It's difficult for me to repeat something I didn't even say :roll: You might want to check out what I wrote again, there seems to be a fault in your logic.

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Where does he say that? I didn't mean his posts, I ment that in general all of your posts.

Or perhaps nuke a country? We should give killertomato a nuke as well Kosmo, for balance sakes don't you think? Or take nukes away from everyone, that is balance too you know :roll: Yes of all countries in the world I think Afghanistan and Iraq being referred to as "rather peaceful countries" is dead on. Like ketchup in coffee and hot dog with mustard gas. Didn't I say that "rather peaceful" it's different from "absolutely peaceful and kind", of course I admit that both of the countries were full of nutjobs that could explode any minute, but then again, USA has had them as long as any other country and you don't see Russia or China going in there and going all ChucK Norris on them. It's the anti-Israeli tendency what bothers me, I have no illusions on how Israeli people are better then the rest. Since I have visited Israel several times, I can say in all honesty that Israeli's are a peacefull nation. Don't try to belittle the people who you are discussing with. I'm not trying to belittle you, I agree totally, the over all civilian population in Israel are great people, just like the major Muslim population. But you romaticizing their actions and their goverment doesn't paint that clear of a picture. That is the point I'm trying to drive through here, it's great and good that the goverment and few bad apples are like that, but if you take a normal Palestinean guy, all he wants is the stupid war to end and have a normal life to raise a family and such, just the same as the Isreali bloke, and the Iranian bloke, and the Danish bloke and all the people in the world. But what the message coming through from all of your posts is that all muslims, with no exception are evil mother fuckers trying to rape our babies and kill our women, or some immature shit like that.