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Messages - Slim
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« on: October 22, 2011, 07:31:56 pm »
One I whipped up myself.
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« on: October 29, 2009, 02:01:10 am »
Ooooosssshhhhh
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« on: October 20, 2009, 10:37:53 pm »
Original video been removed.
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« on: October 12, 2009, 11:22:10 am »
Yeah well, while we all post our favourites...  EPIC AMOUNTS OF WIN:  
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« on: October 12, 2009, 10:54:32 am »
Didn't he back down on closing Q bay?
If he had carried out that promise then maybe he would of deserved it Yeah, but that was a massive can of worms that I don't think he thought through very well. Its all well and good to shut it down, but where do you send the detainees? And sure, there may very well be one or two innocents in there, which is pretty unacceptable in itself, but you can bet your ass that the majority of them are genuine insurgents/terrorists. The issue really there is that the international law/conventions simply aren't in place to deal with them, so they are effectively in a kind of legal limbo. They aren't combatants of a national army, so the geneva convention doesn't cover them. I spose, in reality, they could be considered spys and simply executed. Anyway, my point is, that Guantanamo will have some truly dangerous men in it, and no state on mainland America wants that burden in their back yard. They can't try them, because frankly, soldiers don't go through the proper procedures of arrest, so there is likely no hard evidence. Its a tricky one, and I spose the best Obama can do in the short term is sort out what actually goes on there in terms of 'torture' and what not. How can the leader of a country that is currently killing civilians in at least two other countries be given the Nobel Peace Prize? I'm sorry what? I didn't realise Obama was stalking the hills of Afghanistan, gunning down women and children. I must have missed that story on NZ Herald. George Bush started those wars. Obama can't, for a plethora of military and political reasons, simply pack up and leave - especially in Afghanistan. Also, the line between combatants and civilians has become so blurred as almost not to exist. America does not target civilians, it knows better than that. Dead women and kids do more damage to their war effort than any insurgent ever could. Hence, they hide in amongst the civilian populations, hoping that the Americans kill some by accident. This is the kind of war that they have established. What choice does America have?
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« on: October 11, 2009, 10:33:24 pm »
At First I was like "WTF Mate..." But after reading this article on NZ Herald, I've kinda mellowed out on the matter. Did Obama deserve the Nobel Peace Prize?
11:22AM Saturday Oct 10, 2009
No one seemed to be expecting Barack Obama to win the Nobel Peace Prize, despite the fact that the bookies were giving odds of seven to one, the same as they had on Morgan Tsvangirai, who was widely touted as the favourite.
But perhaps more surprising is the degree of disapproval with which many have greeted the news.
Critics have said that the award is premature and complained that the new US President has so far done nothing more than make a few inspirational speeches. The prize, they say, should not be for effort but for results. Some have even said that he has merely got the award just for not being George W Bush.
The Nobel decision-makers will look pretty foolish, they complain, if before he picks up the prize in December, Obama decides to send another 40,000 US troops to Afghanistan.
Such a response is misguided. His nomination for the prize may have been submitted less than two weeks after he took office in February.
But in the time between then and the announcement yesterday Barack Obama has wrought a sea change in the international political climate.
Not being George Bush was a good start. For Bush represented an arrogant, belligerent, unilateralist style of American foreign policy which served the world ill. Obama arrived with a heart for peace and an openness of mind to other nations which was in itself a huge transformation.
He may see no alternative to fighting the war against al Qaeda in Afghanistan but everywhere else he has reasserted the importance of the United Nations and of multilateral diplomacy. He replaced military threats with dialogue with Iran and North Korea. He has begun talks with Russia over nuclear disarmament.
He has prioritised peace in the Middle East. He has reached out a hand of friendship to the Muslim world. He has thrown Washington's recalcitrant attitude to global warming into reverse. All change begins with a change of mind by one individual and Obama has been that person.
The world now expects an awful lot more from him. The Nobel award is a recognition of that too. It is just not true that in the past the prize was awarded only where work for peace had reaped concrete proofs. Many times it has been given as an encouragement to see the effort through.
In 1976, the award to the Peace Women was intended to send a signal to the two battling communities in Northern Ireland. In 1991, Aung San Suu Kyi was already in jail when she won the prize in a well thought-out gesture of support for democracy in Burma.
In 1994 the Nobel committee hoped to maintain the momentum to peace in the Middle East by handing the prize to Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin. The prize tries to enhance the future as well as celebrate past achievements.
In his will, the founder Alfred Nobel said that the prize should go "to the person who shall have done the most, or the best, work for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses". It is hard to think of anyone of whom that is truer last year than Barack Obama.
The prize may make life difficult for him domestically, giving his right-wing critics another stick with which to beat him over healthcare.
But to the rest of the world the US President is an inspiration. The Audacity of Hope, he called one of his books. Rarely has a single individual in recent times given so much of the world cause to dare to anticipate that a better world can yet be made.
- THE INDEPENDENT
SOURCE
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« on: September 29, 2009, 09:21:38 pm »
Why do the Ultramarines always get the limelight? Because Marneus Calgar gets ALL the Bitches! 
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« on: September 29, 2009, 02:48:58 am »
A short but hilarious Rhys Darby clip. Will also make his appearance on 7 Days make a bit more sense.
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« on: September 09, 2009, 10:50:46 pm »
9. Looks like a cool little movie. Sort of Matrix Meets Toy Story.
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« on: September 02, 2009, 04:46:27 pm »
I cannot get this song out of my head! What makes things worse, I can't get my hands on an MP3 of it either.
Its a NZ song called Downtime by Kidz in Space. Best NZ song since "Always on my mind" imo.
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« on: August 31, 2009, 08:21:21 pm »
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« on: August 25, 2009, 04:34:37 pm »
I don't get it....
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« on: August 21, 2009, 01:54:15 pm »
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« on: June 05, 2009, 04:26:20 am »
Mate - Let me tell you this. ITS FUCKING BULLSHIT!!! Its a goddamn travesty. Fucking cadbury might as well have slipped on a strapon, bent me over a couch and just gone to town! I honestly hope the people who made this decision, and their families, die of fucking cancer!
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« on: April 30, 2009, 02:25:48 pm »
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« on: March 19, 2009, 02:03:16 am »
Scrumpy is made of epic amounts of win...
Me and my mate who I met backpacking in Western Australia. Enjoying a fine drop at the Little Creatures Micro Brewery in Fremantle, Perth.
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« on: March 05, 2009, 08:55:56 pm »
On a side note, what job are you hoping to get from doing the defense studies course, i was looking at doing it but unless your going to be in the armed forces its not much help, is it? Well put it this way. In otago i was doing a BA majoring, at various points, history, politics and english. There were probably close to 4000 people at some point in the 3 year degree. At Massey, there are maybe 15 people in my year doing a Bachelor of Defence, and half of those are officer cadets. i had a chat with one of my lecturers today who is an officer, and is trying to understand the influx of civilians. He told me there is quite a nice niche in Wellington for policy analysts. But by my thinking there are the following jobs/careers: - Policy analyst of other government type job - Civilian employee within the defence force, which is quite common - Pure academia - Actually just join the army - Journalism - Writer for journals, magazines, books etc - My dream job: Working in a video game, film or television company as a researcher/adviser in terms of military or historical accuracy. - Private security contractors - a huge global market. Some of these jobs are far fetched I know, but I am a lot more excited and confident about my career prospects that I was when i was just another BA clone. The course isn't just pure military studies. It also comprises of history, politics, law, logistics and philosophy. I really think it makes you stand out a bit from the crowd.
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« on: March 04, 2009, 07:05:12 pm »
Hehehe 
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« on: March 04, 2009, 06:51:47 pm »
Why is there always one no it all jack ass in every university lecture / tutorial?
Have started a bachelors degree in Defence Studies at Massey. (Turns out recessions reduce job prospects for unskilled, un-educated people.) The class is pretty cool, bout 6 Kippenburger officer cadets, few ex military guys and some random arts students. But there is this one know it all random "look at my massive collection of guns" guys who goes home at night and watches DVD's of tanks. I just want to hit him right in the jaw.
But its not just now. In almost every class I have ever had there is always one guy that just has to try and get one up on the lecturer, interrupt classes, argue with classmates in a non-constructive way, make loud stupid jokes that no one gets and are just general weirdoes.
Is this just an arts thing, or are they in all classes? Anyone else had any esperiences with these kind of people?
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« on: October 05, 2008, 09:42:42 pm »
Lol na it was just an episode of Future Weapons. I am kind of right though... not all RPG rockets do that liquid metal thing - only the HEAT rounds do.
I did know that Rocket Propelled Grenade was a mistranslation of what the original acronym meant in Russian.
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« on: October 05, 2008, 08:25:23 pm »
Rocket Propelled Grenade?
 Lol RPG doesn't actually stand for Rocket Propelled Grenade. RPG is a transliteration of РПГ, the Russian abbreviation of реактивный противотанковый гранатомёт (transliterated as "reaktivniy protivotankoviy granatomyot"), which translates to the English phrase "reactive anti-tank launcher." Thus rocket-propelled grenade is a backronym. Actually what an RPG fires bares little resemblance to an actual hand grenade. An rpg, on impact, releases a directional "squirt" of super heated liquid capable of penetrating steel. A grenade however explodes causing radial damage. In conclusion, whilst Cnvrt is a complete douche, he is technically correct.
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« on: September 04, 2008, 04:46:36 am »
Yahtzee does not approve of Eve Online... LINK
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« on: August 23, 2008, 03:48:36 am »
Women, in my opinion, prove the existence of God; and that he hates us.
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« on: August 23, 2008, 01:54:05 am »
To be fair, the fact that we as humans have developed from single celled organisms, yet alone an explosion of matter called the big bang, blows my goddamn mind.
Do I believe that we were made by God like the bible describes: no, that would be insane. But who is to say that there is no intelligent design in the process of evolution. I know that the evolution vs creationism thing has been done to death, and I don't want to start it up again, but to say that we understand everything is pretty unfair.
I think, to be honest, you'll find we understand incredibly little. Its just that we as a race, like to talk so much, and so loudly, about what we do know that a lot of people simply take this as believing that we know everything.
On a side note, I'd just like to make the observation on how good this thread has become since Psyche's ban came into order.
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« on: August 21, 2008, 05:29:57 pm »
Faith doesn't really have much to do with intelligence imo. It is hard to explain to someone who has never experienced it, what exactly it is. It is more of a feeling than a thought... It is hard to explain.
In terms of angels and demons. If you are a Christian then you must believe in angels. They are referred to specifically in the bible by name and role. 'Historically' a battle between Satan and God raged. Satan, rather predictably, lost, and so he and the angels that supported him were banished into hell. This is widely accepted throughout the Christian faith, regardless of denomination.
It starts to get a bit tricky though in other ways. We weren't allowed to listen to rap or metal with lyrics that had distinctly 'evil' overtures to them. My youth group leader was convinced they conveyed demonic spirits and what not. Even when I was a reasonably devout Christian I always thought this was bullshit. I always thought this was the area where true faith meets fabricated bullshit on the behalf of the Church. Just a rouse to stop us listening to cool music, or watching porn, or playing violent video games: because they're really demons slowly destroying your soul.
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