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Arwon Bazu                 Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| I've gotta say, if I was a Polish fan I probably would've felt like rioting, too. | |||
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| I'd actually prefer the reverse. A prop-rep upper house. I know that requires some constitutional change but then, the American constitution is a dumb way to run an electoral system. (For 3 reasons--the uncompetitive senate races, the fact that there's no standardised electoral system and states run their own shows in federal elections, and the fact that DC is unrepresented) | |||
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| So, the Argies have to be favourites right now based on what we've seen so far.
Meanwhile, if Trinidad Tobago beat Paraguay and England beat Sweden by a combined 4 goals, T&T can actually go to the second round... (edited by Arwon on 06-17-06 12:04 AM) |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| Wow. Looks like we just *might* have our African bolter. That was one hell of a game.
If the Yanks managed to knock off Italy sometime after I go to bed, that'd make one win apiece and make the final round matches extremely interesting. Group of DEATH. (edited by Arwon on 06-17-06 01:56 PM) |
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Arwon Bazu  Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| I hope, for our sake, that Japan beat Croatia soundly.
SOCCEROOS! |
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Arwon Bazu  Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| Now do I shrug because the loss was expected and we played quite well, or do I rue the multiple missed chances to score?
Bring on Croatia... I'm going to bed. |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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Arwon Bazu  Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| Crappy reffing? You shoulda seen the Australia game. 2 penalties we shoulda been given, including a blatant handball... and Siminic given a second yellow and not being sent off.
Thank Christ we made it through regardless, though. (edited by Arwon on 06-22-06 05:01 PM) |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| Australia doesn't have a prayer tonight, but I'm going out to watch it. One lives in hope. | |||
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| Initial shock and, well, devestation having subsided, we have much to be proud of. Italy know they've scored a cheap and very lucky win, whereas we've won some respect and attention on the world stage for the first time. People won't take us lightly in 4 years time...
Still, legitimate penalty or not (so NOT), it hurts to go down, like that, after having so clearly had them against the wall for the majority of the game. So now it's ¡VIVA ESPAÑA! (edited by Arwon on 06-26-06 04:02 PM) |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| Stupid Spanish continuing their stupid run of stupid heartbreak. I know it was inevitable, but, I know what continued disappointment over long periods of time feels like and it hurts. Maybe next time. (edited by Arwon on 06-27-06 11:58 PM) |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| Gates and Buffet, among others, helped to round up the funds to secure Russia's nuclear stockpile back in the day.
Also apparently Buffet's doing this because he doesn't believe in inherited wealth:
Just to put this in perspective, this 37 billion dollars is about equal to Germany's defence budget, and could run Namibian healthcare for 50 years. It's also 3 times the UN's annual operating budget. Also, Neo... I think that's a rather uncharitable assessment of Carnegie's motives, don't you? |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| In debting tournament circles we call them the Octo-finals. Seems easy enough. | |||
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| I am surprised no-one's thought of this kidnapping tactic before. Israel relies very heavily on its conscription. To directly target that is to threaten all Israelis and potentially undermine the system by making parents less willing to let their children go be soldiers. It's a smart tactic, except for the bit about massive reprisals, since the Israeli government has to be seen to be doing ALL that it can to rescue kidnapped soldiers. | |||
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| Three words.
NEEDED MORE LEX. |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| This came up in another board. Essentially the idea is to state your beliefs regarding politics, society, etc. The expectation is of minimal debate. Obviously, as a cynical contrarian bastard who is occasionally accused of nihilism, this was a challenge, but this is what I came up with. These are beliefs, many of these I can't defend to people with differeing beliefs because they, you know, have different beliefs. Post your own damn you.
God doesn't exist. Privileged white kids need to drop the absurd persecution complex already. Sport is a good thing. There's too much casual anti-Americanism in Australia and elsewhere. It's childish and absurdly hypocritical. Racism still exists, people have just learned to hide it better. The ecological crisis, in all its forms, will change politics utterly when it starts to bite hard. Watch for even the hardcore republicans and conservatives to turn into dictatorial Greens with rationing and restrictions and such... The market is great, but it's terrible with environmental issues or things with great social importance (health, education). Legalise all drugs. Communism sucked, but Russia and most of Eastern Europe are probably even worse-off now. Capitalism and democracy as they were applied didn't help them much, and triumphalist idiots who think these things were magical cure-alls aren't paying attention at all. Feminism is the most abused and meaningless term in politics, it essentially means something different to everyone who uses it... but people who rail against "feminism" for the most part seem to me to be doing the gender-politics equivalent of "I'm not racist, but..." We need more immigration. Everywhere. Monarchy is objectionable at a philosophical level. No government funding for wealthy private schools. I'd rather everyone get a mediocre education than some get a good one and others get a bad one. Dumb people are annoying, but smart people are often unbearable arseholes. Corrolary: Nerds mostly have sh!tty politics. Censorship is NEVER okay. Fuck obsenity laws, fuck your distaste for sexuality on TV, and fuck national security. The fact that this is unrealistic in practise doesn't mean it's not a good principle. Also, protecting kids through restrictions on access to various media isn't censorship. Religion is fine, but it needs to be reduced to a harmless peripheral cultural phenomenon that doesn't affect important things. The Swedes have the right idea. America and the Islamic world do not. The sooner it's culturally acceptable to sell dildos on the street in Tehran and for a guy to make out with another guy in public in downtown Podunk, South Carolina, the better off we will all be. If it's not in the Economist it's a stinking lie. Islamic terrorism will dissappear in its own time and the risk of terrorist attack is vastly overstated, because people have no sense of relative risk. We in the west can't do anything to hasten this terrorism's demise because it's borne from an idea independent of any specific people or entity. We have to wait for the idea to become unfashionable like others have. The big dirty secret of the war on terrorism is that none of our leaders know what to do because THERE'S NOTHING THEY CAN DO. Related: We're kept safe by the tiny number of people willing to set off bombs, not by the government's security measures and invasive laws. These laws are bogus and dangerous. |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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Originally posted by Silvershield The best thing is it took me several reads to figure out which side was which. Game set. |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| I think I'm on les blaus now, they won me over with that performance against Brazil. Also their fans at the pub I was at, as well as being unnaturaly attractive, were in awesome voice with the singing and stuff.
Devestating for England though. I didn't realise there were even any Portuguese people in Sydney, but apparently there are, and it seemed like they were all out on George Street acting like wankers to my sad English friends after the game. |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| I also steal babies. | |||
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 5909 days Last view: 5909 days |
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| The radical factions opposed to peace thing is kinda, you know, how a peace process works, though. They don't succeed until the moderates and pragmatists are strong and confident and supported enough that the process can absorb and move past the actions of the extremists, recalcitrants, hardliners and such.
See also: the Real IRA, Yigal Amir This peace process is like any other, albeit particularly complicated... when it succes, is going to succeed in spite of the words and actions of Israeli and Palestinian hardliners, not merely in the absence of these things. There'll never be a time when peace negotiations can occur completely free of ongoing terrorism and opporession and bad blood. This is fantasy, because if they did, there'd be peace already. The trick, though, is that at various times, support for extreme and militant positions versus moderate ones wax and wane. Circumstances fluctuate over time (in terms of geopolitical climate, electoral politics, the personalities involved, public opinion, and so forth), and it's probably going to be a while before there's another promising window of opportunity, for a peace process to work like the early 90s or the last days of Ariel Sharon's political career. It's very frustrating. (edited by Arwon on 07-03-06 11:16 AM) |
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