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This is what pisses me off about the new-BSG. The cylons cannot be distinguished from humans, even by medical doctors. They can successfully mate with humans. Basically they ARE humans, there seems no other reasonable interpretation. Calling them machines seems absurd. They have chromosomes, cells,...

Local council elections are rarely an indicator of general election results. For example, during the 1980s and early 1990s, Labour maintained almost total control of the local councils while the Conservative government (before 1992) held a sizeable majority in Parliament. Broadly speaking (though th...

What claim? I presented an example, Duff Cooper, its not my fault you dont know who he was. Then the example is meaningless. And who is to say they will, you a fucking Jedi master now? see the future you do? Are you mental? If someone robbed a bank, would you lend them money? If he killed a man, wo...

Not quite. They believe the State is the most important actor in international relations, and that ALL states act out of self-interest. They also consider that every state is locked into a power struggle to increase their national power, which basically boils down to military strength (realists con...

I guess that justifies being a schoolyard bully, invading any country that is weaker than you to steal their resources etc. does it? You're either a moron or have such opposite ideals to me to make all discussion useless.

Frankly, it seems to me that they're the same thing in your eyes.

Google is your freind. Use it. But as your sence of history is weak, I shall give you a clue. Duff Cooper was First Lord of the Admiralty at the time of Munich in 1938. Look, you made the claim. I'm not going to do your work for you. Its his private life, and as such its none of your affair unles i...

The Guid wrote:I'd reply to the rest of you post. But I'm clearly dealing with a moron here.

I can see you're not of the Realist school then. As Thucydides said, the strong will do as they will and the weak suffer what they must.

Why don't you think about things before you reply?

FS, Robin Cook had an affair where Arnold Shwarznegger has been connected to sexual harrassment and Gary Condit fell under suspicion because of allegations of witholding information from the police, slightly different matters. Hardly. They're not matters of political belief or consistency, they're ...

*sigh*, I can't believe I am having to defend this man after his death. As the above post by Stuart Mackey points out, that's his personal life, not his political one. They are not neccessarily linked except by tabloids and I resent any implication that someone is unethical merely because of their ...

Yes, clearly we should judge politicians by the colour of their fucking socks , not their political beliefs, which, you know, are what we vote for them to represent in the first place . If I've heard anything stupider than this all day, my mind has blanked it out... I'm not saying don't consider th...

Childish Poppycock. An MP's personal life is his own so long as it does not affect his/her job performance. In that Vein, I present the example of MP Duff Cooper. Is that it? A name? So? And are you therefore saying that a man who is immoral in his private life is going to be moral in his professio...

I'm sorry, but my personal life isn't perfect so I can't comment on other people's quite frankly. I doubt anyone's sinless on that front anyway so I just focus on the politics. So if your girlfriend cheats on you but remains politically consistent, she's a truly ethical person as well? Besides, thi...

We lost a strong criticizer of the worst elements of the New Labour government and a truly ethical man in Parliament, by my standards anyway even if not by some other personal life centric screwballs. You what? Personal life-centric screwballs? I suppose Alan Clark was a truly ethical man because h...

Well gee, that's a stunning rebuttal. You do realize that something mroe then trite comments are expected from you here, right? I don't want to give you a frigging history lesson. Besides, this isn't the thread to do that in. I'm merely telling you that there's more to it than what you said but I w...

I'd have told my allies "Shut up, it was one guy, not worth the deaths of millions". They fucked up by escelating the situation for no real fucking gain. I mean hell, germany was at least trying to get resources when it started WW2. WW1 started because a terrorist assisinated a duke. That...

Either way ... feeding a substantial percentage of your nation's youth into a meat grinder because you're all too full of pride to admit you fucked up was the kind of stupidity you'd like to see come around much less than once a century. And what would you have done, genius? How exactly did whoever...

More and more moderates are speaking out, and that is good. No matter how diverse this group is some should should be universal-- slavery, child rape, murder, etc... and terrorism, especially terrorist attacks targeting civilians. Getting them to agree should not be difficult if indeed they are as ...

Nah mate, this is London we're talking about. Usually the first place of entry and the place with the jobs to keep entrants there. It's a massive melting pot, as I could not help noticing as a Yorkshireman visiting the place. But a majority of the population of London is white British. And there ar...

Actually, the Caliph would do that, but until the position is reinstated officially, it is up to the ulama and umma as a whole. The Caliph would only have had any authority over Sunni Muslims, besides the Caliphs hardly had any authority since the 13th century. Also, doesn't 'ulama' refer to all sc...

The alternative is status quo-- the fanatics continue to run amuck, while the moderate or even liberal Muslims hide in fear. No reformation gets done, and the moderate/liberal ones will continue to occassionally suffer revenge attacks from incomprehending Westerners. The moderates and liberals have...

Having watched BBC and ITV news more regularly than usual since Thursday, have you noticed how they seem to have gone out of their way to show diversity among the bomb victims and others? Of three victims interviewed in one segment, one was a Muslim woman and another was a man of Turkic or Arabic de...

I still think that this is a wonderful example of "dumbfuck terrorism". And now, a brief guide to "dumbfuck terrorism". Step 1 - Choose a country which has been having tumultuous political rivalries and heated clashes in parliament and the media over any number of "War on T...

They probably assumed that the Jedi had already escaped with Palpatine and left the beacon on. After all, in the novel a Carrack captain demanded proof that Grevious still had Palpatine before he'd stop firing on the Invisible Hand. Judging by the novel, it seems Lieutenant Commander Needa (of &quo...

They were homing in on the Chancellor's beacon from the beginning of the battle. RotS novel. They knew it was a trap partly because they didn't think it likely that Grievous & Co didn't know about the beacon, and the fact they could somehow pick up the beacon's readings through the heavy ECM in...

Pure Sabacc wrote: Actually, a good deal of R2's special features were added either by the Naboo Royal Core of Engineers because he was in the service of the queen, or by Anakin. It is true that it is not necissary for his more interesting abilities to be removed, although some of his capabilites ar...