Kosmo

Isn't red cross widely used and accepted symbol for medical personnel? Not just in direct connection to the organization, it's like Microsoft said that no one could use windows in houses or the word window in anywhere. It's a common symbol like the dollar sign, no one has the proper ownership over it to say such things.

Well I didn't say anything about Hamas I was speaking of USA campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, both countries that didn't have open war against other country, I know there were and still are militant tribes in Afghanistan and Taliban is no nice organization, but you can look in any country in that area and find some sort of militant organization or tribe. And I know your views on how peaceful and idyllic you think Israeli people are so we don't have to go there.

And when a country goes in to a war to hunt a handful of people and to usher their laws on other countries, rather peaceful countries I might add, you would give them a bundle of toys large and small? Same as above.

After six thousand nuclear weapons hit your country... they don't count. But interesting numbers none the less, this begs for a question, why doesn't USA do something about Russia's nuclear arsenal? How is Russia so safe and sound? What guarantees that they don't use them in any point? Afterall, they are at war right now. I want to ask to all who really oppose Iran having nuclear weapons, why is it so different for them to have nuclear arsenal from USA or Pakistan? Is the matter more on that no one should have nuclear weapons or just Iran? Example, the rumor says that one of Osamas hiding places might be in the border of Pakistan, Pakistan has nuclear weapons, they openly accused India for funding the Afghan drug lords that arm militant tribes in Pakistan, so how are they so much better than Iran? Is it because Pakistans main target is India and not Israel or USA, is that it? We don't care about that because they aren't a threat to USA or their lapdog Israel?

Ferret is right, there is no telling what opinion is right in this matter for the country has pretty much a non-demogratic system, a system of a whole three parties, I would see that even if they chose Al Gore at the first election, things would have been no different. A Problem without an correct answer. BUT, I must say, that when it comes to any president, I judge them not by the arbitrary "descision making skill" but the result of their descision, Bush has made alot of enemies around the world, and alot of people have died in needless wars because of Bush. So I deem him unfit for a leader by default. AGAIN, I must assume that things might have gone differently if there was a different kind of president in charge, since if things were the same under anyone in charge, we would bithc about him too.

I am sorry but I can't just press enough this matter If you honestly think that punishing people without telling them what you are punishing people for is the right thing to do, you are more misguided than the person itself. Edit: Dear Kosmo, I edited your post because you spammed the same line 100 times as though that would make a point. It doesn't. Presenting a well thought out arguement makes a point. Also, if you'll notice the thing I just wrote right above your post, you'll see I already talked about that. But hey, thanks for calling me misguided. -Luv Fletch

Not as much as I know on the the Far East region I'm afraid, they are being secretive in their actions. I can fairly say that when coming to China/Japan/Korea axel, Indochina and India I know everything, but Middle-East is secretive on their part. And to you Mawbise, I just can't help you dude, you are way too off the course for me to help you on your endeavours. Sorry man, I really hope that you hit a book or something.

Sony has just proven the point that Xenon is better than PS3, if the claim wasn't true, they wouldn't be so pissed

Klein is right, nothing is achieved through slander. I'm sorry if I insulted anyone directly. Fairy king? If my memory serves right, you are quite religious person, atleast that what one could assume from your posts. Jesus, Allah, Santa, Easter Bunny, none of them are any more valid or real than the other. Hence Fairy King. Yes. Ouch, there is no nice way of saying this, but that is just horrible. So they should have nukes because it would balance the power? Mommy mommy, he got nukes I wanna have some tooo, its not faaaaiiirrr!!! *mawibse pats Kosmo on the head* Now now Kosmo, some things just isn't fair I'm afraid, now run along and play with your Thaliban dolls. Do you know what balance means? You might want to look that up from the dictionary. Surely one nation holding more than every other nuclear weapons bearing nation combined doesn't count as balance, especially when most of the nations belong to the "alliance" that USA is defending with them. I'm not looking for the interest of the abstract concept of alliance, my interest is in prolonging the life throghout the whole world, no matter what your religious, cultural or political beliefs. So either, USA lose nukes or give others them aswell, you can't have balance without them, and that is just the rock solid truth that even you have to accept. And surely Iran isn't more agressive than USA, USA has good nuclear strike and dozens of battles on Iran, so warmonger? Classy on the Taliban joke there, Hitler Morally I’m allot closer to US then Iran. Just such a thing as how they treat women, oh but that's just West propaganda right? Morally? I believe you mean culturally. Some of us believe that outside observers moral views countering the cultural and religious beliefs of the observed nations are not valid. And I can clearly see that you have taken a hefty doze of anti-muslim propaganda, you don't see them as people anymore. Yes everything you learn in school is lies. Oh by the way, that tinfoil hat suits you Kosmo. And you believe everything your goverment and media tells you, well, the tinfoil hat suits you aswell. I'm just a tad more critical on what I'm told, I don't hold all the answers and there are so many questions unanswered, thusly I believe that something is left untold or just filled with static propaganda information. You on the other hand believe everything you are told and don't question the truth. So who can decide which one of us is closer to the truth, have the integrity to question everything you hear. So let’s see, Afghanistan and Iraq, yep can't be more GLOBAL SCALE WAR then that. Global scale war has effects on global political climate and has long term effects in a major scale. You are right, it doesn't get more global than this. Yes go bend the meaning of words at a whim to inflict insult and make a moot point, that's very mature of you. You asking me to call out my mom - who is btw dead, rest his soul - is equally mature of you there compadre. So who are you to decide if my actions are mature or not? It's like 5 year old talling another 5 year old "to stop being a baby". Yes, quite. Again, your maturity is as overwhelming as mine. Donno, go ask your mamma about it. Dare I say or are you going to guess already? Oh, you have a theory about the existence of founding pillars of religion that never change, go on and tell me all about it, this aught a be good. *grabs popcorn* So you don't consider that when a religion is based on a supposedly two thousand year old document old fashioned? Hmm calling US Nazis and religious beliefs for believing in the fairy king is the basics in spreading love and undermine the theatre of hatred? Way to go Kosmo. What can I say, I calls it like I sees it. Clean your act if you want me to respect you. I think the prophet Kosmo has the way, its called lets insult and disrespect until they succumb to the love! But your perception on me claiming to be the right man to decide on the matter is incorrect. And you, my equally prophetic colleague have done nothing else than "insult and disrespect until they succumb to the love" so you are in no position to judge my actions.

I have absolutely no love for Israel, but neither do I have love for Palestineans, they both play the easiest game in the world, the chips are innocent lives, but neither side loses any because they don't have anything invested. Same thing is going on in Kashmir and Kosovo. And I think that ANY country - mine included - and any individual that supports either theater of hatred and total lack of humanity, are total pieces of shit and should have them killed by lethal injection and their family put in to shame for thousand years. For who in this world has the right to decide on this kind of matters? English thought that they were the kings of the world, bending under Jewish terrorist actions and now USA thinks they are the Roman Empire of the modern world where all their actions go un opposed and unjudged. Same goes for Palestine, they think that they can murder innocent men, women and children just because they have the support of unwanting Muslim countries that don't have much of a choise because of the current political climate is "either with us or against us", religious leaders barking commands from their safe locations and bunkers to the brainwashed masses in both camps they fight a war where the loser is the one that runs first out of innocents to use as a bodyarmor and soldiers to sacrifice for cause that they don't even remember. Now to quote this one thousand times so if Minos post is nuked, the message will live on *fight the powa!*

Short memory?

For a guy who believes in fairy king you sure talk tough. USA has been free game for ages, it’s not like 9/11 was the first try ever, just the first to really succeed. You’d prefer if it was made with a nuke next time? And you prefer the next time US was the one doing the "next time" and with nukes, missiles, bombs and what not? If you haven't noticed, there isn't much of a "balance of power", but I suppose that you don't have any sense on the matter anyway, you are carefully sided with the comfortable west and all that is better for you, goes in your book. Not really, they just don't want countries that are a threat to them or their allies to have them. Exactly, side with the comfortable west against the oh so evil and cruel invaders from other countries. The result was amongst other things a much faster end to the war with fewer casualties then if it had ended by "conventional" means. So you and your propaganda machine keeps telling us. Everyone? Can't do anything? What are you talking about? Read the part above, the part that talks about the "balance of power". There is allot the world is threatened by, and allot of wars in it, to think that only one country is responsible for them all is, well how should I put it, simplifying things most extreme. The only country that at the moment goes around the globe, bombing shit out of countries continents away is USA, you ARE welcome to prove me wrong. An as we are speaking about GLOBAL SCALE WAR the only one that has ever done it is USA. Ahhh "nazi", the word is so misused these days that its meaning is lost, it sure isn't used as the dictionary says it should, that's for sure. If your actions are similar to Nazi's then by definition, you are a Nazi, I'm sorry if your blind fold dictionary and bible tell you other. Oh, my, you sure that stone is older than a religion? How did I miss a solid fact like that, I must be slipping on my old age and all.. Look, I don't care how much you lie to yourself that "religious views have changed during some years and noise like that" but the fact is that the founding pillars still remain, and as long as they remain, there will allways be hatred between religions.

I am truely amazed that I can be amazed day after day how USA has the most ignorant, fundamental leader in the world, and people don't see it. That guy is making the whole country in to a drooling tribe of barbarians.

It is strange that the idea of some country having nukes is a valid reason to attack the country, does this mean that USA is free game? US makes sure that no other country has nukes, and yet, they are the only fuckers that have ever used one in a war. It's like a John Woo stand out, the guy with the pistol is telling me that I should put down my gun for my own safety or he is going to shoot me. I would hold on to the pistol twice as hard then. Especially if the guy had history of popping people on a whim. I don't want Iran or any other country to have nukes, but it doesn't make me sleep well at nights, knowing that there isn't any country that can do anything when the fundamentalist leaders of USA start to roll over everyone. Face it people, the only country that is a major threat to the world and peace is United fucking States, nazis who reign supreme in control of the largest arsenal of weapons in the history of the world with religious view as old as fucking stone.

Yes exactly. A country whose government openly states that Israel should be be erased from the world map should not be given a chance to build nuclear bombs. Quite like country that attacks anything and everythin "in war against terrorism" shouldn't have nukes either.

Looking Glass are working on Bioshock, but not much has been revealed... We NEED Shock3, I would jizz my pants if I got to play that I haven't played Far Cry before, I was put off by the plastic models and overly colourful green terrain... EA is fucking up the licence.. I mean EA is making a sequel to Systie, but everyone knows that BioShock is the spiritual sequel for the Systie, it actually has people working on it that worked on the original Systie, the EA game is just a cash in.

You are easily amused

Non-compete clause is standard procedure in many technology companies, Nokia as an example. But I don't know if the "technology" game developers are making is valuable or unique enough to proceed with legal documents to keep employees down.

I enjoyed FarCry more than I enjoyed HL2 and Doom3, but then again, I enjoyed Riddick loads more than I enjoyed FarCry. I agree with Posteh, back in the days we loathed linear games that didn't offer us anything, now they are the standard of quality? Where are the games like, System Shock 2, Paradroid, Elite, Bioforge of our time? It's becoming rediculous that the risks are way too high to make innovation, every other industry besides entertainment industry is based on innovation, without them the whole indsutry would go down, but entertainment industry is the only one that flies with "the same old bullshit". And I'm not talking about WILD ideas here, I'm more about extra than complete rehaul, like Thief and Riddick, FPS shooters with a twist. push the genre forward. Some day we will have something new in place of FPS shooters, and then we bitch about it being dull. But after I have said all that, I have to say that I'm looking forward to Crysis. Since I looked forward to Doom3 and HL2 too, it doesn't automatically mean that it will be good or anything.

I find it funny how people are like "Muslims are crazy, they pronounce jihad for almost nothing and threaten our lifes and noise like that". We (Europe, USA and friends) are currently having troops in their countries, and there is no insurance if it will end before every single country in the Middle-east is under our rule (by puppet goverments), the threat of the nuclear nation allstars attacking some country is real in Middle-east, it's a genuine threat. And people are wondering why they are pissed at us?

If you dont confront it, and keep apologizing just because your tired of their shit, youll never get it over with. Anyways, now also the germans, french, dutch, spanish and italian papers have republished the cartoons and added a new one: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4670370.stm Theyre being owned by freedom I don't mean that we should apologize or live by their rules, everybody are going to some stupid extremes. How does "respect your fellow man" suddenly turn in to "live by their rules"? I actually like the god idea, but it's very different, Muslims were angry because some racist bitch make every Muslim look like a terrorist, he drew a picture that portrayed the whole Islam as a religion of terror and violence. I happen to know a Muslim, and he is an intelligent pacifist, he doesn't accept any of the things Muslims pull "in the name of Allah" but he didn't like the religious satire either. They probably respect islam as a religion, but the whole thing about using muhammed in drawings was probably to point out the fact that they were using their religion for a war, which in turn shows that all they ment was that they dont respect Islam (yes, their own religion). And you state this as a fact? We decided to take them in, yes.. But does that mean we gotta follow their rules? wheres their tolerance? Again, how does respecting their religion and culture turns in to "following their rules", soon you will be telling me that "I'm either with you or against you". Weird extremes. Just think of what you said here, journalists should be afraid to put their opinions in the newspapers? WW2 anyone? You act like you just want to dig a hole and hide from everything. I'm not saying they shouldn't put their opinions in to newspapers, I just would like them to consider if it is so smart to mock other religions just to sell papers. The Paris riots started from nothing, so the religious tension is very very high, anything can set the flames.

We shouldn't automatically like the games Mapcorians work on, but we should shower them with gifts and honor.

To put it simply: More then one director = No membership in Directors Guild of America = no Oscar. I don't think George Lucas is a member of the DGA and still Star Wars gets nominated. I might be wrong, though. Neither George Lucas nor Quentin Tarantino are members of DGA, but who the hell would want to be in their little gay club anyway, they fined Lucas for not having opening credits in Star Wars. I mean, man can't do what the hell he wants with his movie now?

RD, respect is the problem, the western artists don't respect Islam, the Muslims don't respect laws. I agree with you 100% that freedom of speech is very important. But Denmark, Holland and many other European countries decided to take in people from all religions and all cultures, where is their tolerance? Or don't Muslims count as people? Just today there was in radio that some czech or other baltian beer company was using Jesus in ther commercials and the goverment banned the commercial, is it right? Hell no, but is it worth it to piss off people? Hell no! I would say, that at this time and age, you would be wise to stay off of religious parody. Just a hint, since crazy fuckers are aiming missiles at each others, and I'm not just talking about USA/Europe vs. Middle-East situation, things aren't so great on the Pakistan-India axel either, not to mention Israel situation. And the not so distant Paris riot just shows that things are going to get steamy in our own turf too, so we don't need fuckers like the cartoonist to spice the soup up. Since it's not just Muslims that cause problem, if you think back, you might notice that there has been some rumblings in Ireland too.

Cultures in Middle-east and Asia are very very different from western cultures. As an extreme example I will use Japan, because it is the culture I know best. Honor is everything to these people, they don't go around shouting and badmouthing people like we do, it's our culture, they don't like it, they don't watch Ozbornes. But when we took piece of their culture and made mockery out of it - that is typical to our culture, you don't understand it, mock it - and we literally showed our way of thinking down their throats. This is the prime example of how annoying it is when people who don't know shit about you, your country or your culture come and tell you what is right and tell you how to live and how your ideas are wrong and all that shit. We should not mess with them, not even when it is matter of "freedom of speech".