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Reply to Tragedy in the Middle-East in War on Terror PolMach Forums

[quote]Not true. Germany was sinking American ships headed to England in both wars before America entered the war. As Leauki pointed out, the ships were not in international waters, so they entered a war zone on their own.[/quote] And The USA rightfully condemned that as a war crime. Being in non-israel waters hardly qualifies as being in a war zone either. Additionally Blockades are only legal if acknowledged by the Security Council, which this one isn't.

Reply to Tragedy in the Middle-East in War on Terror PolMach Forums

the ships were turkish and therefore Isreal would have needed to declare war on turkey first before boarding them.

Reply to Tragedy in the Middle-East in War on Terror PolMach Forums

Leauki being at War is a very legal term requiring a formal declaration of War and can only happen between recognized states, as Gaza isn't recognized by Israel as independent state at all they can't be at War, in a sense which allows them to have a blockade, with them. And additionally to that you can't extend a blockade to areas outside your territorial waters as long as you are not in war with the countries you are operating therein. Why didn't Isreal just take the normal approach

Reply to Tragedy in the Middle-East in War on Terror PolMach Forums

[quote]The second thing is that Israel does have the right to create a blockade. Blockades are a perfectly legal means of fighting a war[/quote] Yah blockades are legal if you are at war - Israel however is not at war with Gaza. And neither are they at War with Turkey which would allow them to board turkish territory (which the ship is as long it is not in isreal territory). Don't get me wrong they have the right to search the ship for Weapons (they however have no right to demand the

Opensource is damaging intellectual property rights in Politics PolMach Forums

So Indonesia recommended its Bureaucracy to use open source software (not even forcing them to , just recommending) and now the International Intellectual Property Alliance ( RIAA and MPAA are members of it for example) pressures the US government to put them on a special watch list of countries which don't respect IP. "The Indonesian government's policy... simply weakens the software industry and undermines its long-term competitiveness by creating an artificial pr

Reply to How to Treat Jihad in War on Terror PolMach Forums

well the child is still innocent though, no fault for having such parents (unless you are buddhist then he is very much at fault)

Reply to China and Europe vs. the US in World Trade Issues PolMach Forums

[quote]But it gets worse. Because that's the average. If you're an American living in say California or New York, it's like being at $45k. And France, Germany -- the "nicer" places in Europe, are at $28k. Imagine the changes in your lifestyle (and living in CA or NY, as expensive as it is, is a lot like France or Germany in terms of costs).[/quote] ehm the GDP per capita nominal in germany is around 44000 $ not 28000 $ while the USA is at ~47000 $ which is not nearly as big a gap a

Reply to Steam Powered Supcom 2 in PC Gaming PolMach Forums

I am quite curious how you can make any conclusions about tactics at all without having played that game or even seen footage of a real match.

Reply to Steam Powered Supcom 2 in PC Gaming PolMach Forums

[quote who="SpardaSon21" reply="57" id="2508202"]The original SupCom was ported from PC to consoles much after initial development. This looks to be made from the ground up to be console-compatible, and therefore we are assuming it is being dumbed down for console tards. This is most evident in the new "streamlined" economy, which uses the exact same economy as every other RTS out there. No more pay-over-time for units, everything is up front. They also removed tech le

Reply to Global Warming Conspiracy and Fraud Confirmed? Possibly. in Politics PolMach Forums

or somebody just made it completely up ;) would you believe a hacker who posts some emails of sceptics in which they confess that they only deny AGW for their lobby interests? I doubt so , so why should you believe those emails except for the comfortable reason that they fit with your opinions.

Reply to Obama, the lawyer turned president, sets out to ruin legal system in Politics PolMach Forums

If german criminal courts managed to get terrorists sentenced, why should american courts fail? Terrorists are of no concern of military courts, was the oklahoma bomber tried in front of a military court, he wasn't. Terrorism is no new phenomena and so far western countries had no problems trying and sentencing Terrorists (be that the IRA, RAF or ETA) using criminal courts. Also since when are those guys "war prisoners"? I always thought they were just Terrorists not soldiers? You hav

Reply to What do US soldiers think of waterboarding terrorists? in Politics PolMach Forums

you know that there is a big difference between being exposed to something you know is part of your training in a controlled environment where you know that they are your friends/allies and won't actually kill you and being exposed to it without knowing that. The fact that they are being prepared for waterboarding totally shows that the military considers it torture else there wouldn't be a need to prepare them for it. Its kind of the same like saying that whipping is a legitimate pun

Reply to Stardock, Just Release the New Guys, No Beta'ing in Demigod Demigod Forums

you will get that rage anyways :P

Reply to Patch 1.2: Horn of Battle time for effect increased from 10 seconds to 25 seconds. in Demigod Demigod Forums

I am not completely sure but I think it means that Horn of Battle will now heal the same total amount it did before over a longer time period... I mean the way you put it would be total madness so I can't imagine they did it

Reply to 5 Second Countdown in Demigod Demigod Forums

iirc it never was in Online play Dalzk, we just played via hamachi in lan mode in the early times.

Reply to We’re increasingly living in two Americas: The producers and the takers in Politics PolMach Forums

Leauki, the working people produce goods and services, those things are what make up the economy not some income tax. By providing those goods and services they contribute to the wealth of society (and no they don't work for themselves as they don't consume those goods or services themselves) and the whole financial system around it is just a way to increase the efficiency of trading. You also have to ask yourself the question if those who pay income tax would be able to do so without the pai

Reply to We’re increasingly living in two Americas: The producers and the takers in Politics PolMach Forums

as I am not familiar with the US tax system could someone please list me up what kind of taxes/fees/whatever a single person household with a income of 15.000/25.000$ pays roughly. Having a macroeconomic and sociological education I do have to say that I find the concept of distinguishing between federal and local taxes to imply that some people are producers while others are takers quite disturbing. It surely makes sense from a political standpoint but whom you pay the taxes to doesn

Reply to We’re increasingly living in two Americas: The producers and the takers in Politics PolMach Forums

it is very relevant if you look at the topic of the thread : "the producers and the takers". The majority of the so called "takers" are "producers" as well as they have an employment and there fore produce goods or services. Calling them takers is so wrong from a macroeconomic perspective. You can call the unemployed people "takers" if you want. PS: sorry for the bad links , stardocks forums still have a problem with opera

Reply to We’re increasingly living in two Americas: The producers and the takers in Politics PolMach Forums

[quote]"In 1945, 41.9 workers supported each (Social Security recipient), while todayonly 3.3 workers support each retiree."[/quote] if you had told a guy in 1870 that 42 workers would support 1 retiree he'd claimed that this is impossible and will destroy society. Increase of production efficiency makes more than up for it. [quote]In other words, we're developing into a two-tiered society. Some people like to think of it as the "haves" and "have nots." However,

Reply to nudity vs violence in Everything Else Demigod Forums

I think in most of europe, nudity is much less of a problem than violence when it comes to public rage or age ratings.

Reply to so a friend let me on his beta for LoL in Demigod Demigod Forums

pacov, I personally enjoyed LoL a lot more than HoN. The game pace just feels better than HoNs and I always hated the deny mechanic, which is totally counterintuitive, denying should occur by forcing your enemy to not attack the creeps not by killing your own.

Reply to Priest Fix in Demigod Ideas Demigod Forums

switching to fixed values instead of percentage of max health certainly would allow more flexible builds. The synergy between priests and health items indeed is a bit strong right now.

Reply to Ladder Experience/Rankings is too Harsh in Demigod Demigod Forums

they probably still don't work as intended, it would be much easier for us all if Stardock would be so kind to actually reveal how it is calculated, instead of just saying "some sort of Elo" but for some obscure reasons they don't do it, so we have no means of understanding whats going on.

Reply to Fair Taxation in US Domestic PolMach Forums

I would consider myself a liberal. Separation of powers and unrevocable human rights and most of the other liberal principles make a lot of sense to me.

Reply to Replay: PuG vs. PuG stompers in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote]I know I'm not making friends here with this assertion, but you know I'm right: You do not get >80% win rate by usually playing fair matches[/quote] I played supreme commander and had 74% wins using automatch in 1vs1 and there were people with even better stats. If you belong to the top skilled players in a game which doesn't have an as gigantic player base as lets say starcraft you end up with stats like this. And as Demigod is a teamgame you don't even lose automatically w