Re: If I were in charge ...
 

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by askan:
You seem to have a stutter there Tigga http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif <hr></blockquote>

no I don't, what stutter?? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Re: If I were in charge ...
 

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Growltigga:
[QBWhat's a Brit doing in Kuta anyhows? Shouldn't you be in Ibiza scoring with some Essex girs?

done that, I was in Kuta hoping that all Australian lasses would look like Ella and/or Kylie - however, on getting to the Sari Club, it was more a case of Madge from Neighbours and Angry Andersen - no wonder so many of you are over here!![/QB]<hr></blockquote>

We export the ugly ones, sorta like Fosters. Serves yourself right going to the Sari Club anyway, when you should have been at Club 66 speaking to Balinese girls of "negotiable" virtue.

And why's everyone picking on China? Is this some sort of nuclear arms race chest beating that I don't understand coz we don't have the bomb. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

Askan
2:15 am, just sobered up and must get to work tomorrow.

Re: If I were in charge ...
 

Growltigga: Why do you keep quoting Askan and then not saying anything? Please do not post to my topics when drunk! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[edit: oh okay, you fixed it. sorry for the slander.]

[ 10 April 2002: Message edited by: dmm ]</p>

Re: If I were in charge ...
 

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by askan:

We export the ugly ones, sorta like Fosters. Serves yourself right going to the Sari Club anyway, when you should have been at Club 66 speaking to Balinese girls of "negotiable" virtue.
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No you dont, I have been to Sydney, Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane and didn't see any difference - infact, I will stop there just in case you are a girl

Club 66?? I might have gone to the Bounty but I am shocked that would spend your time discussing the commercial negotiability of their virtue with young Balinese girls - are you a lawyer?

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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by dmm:
Growltigga: Why do you keep quoting Askan and then not saying anything? Please do not post to my topics when drunk! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[edit: oh okay, you fixed it. sorry for the slander.]

[ 10 April 2002: Message edited by: dmm ]<hr></blockquote>

hmmm, the mark of chap is that he knows how to correct his mistakes

Anyhow, what makes you think I am drunk?

hic...

Re: If I were in charge ...
 

If I was in charge of the U.S.

1. Decentralize the Food industry
2. FDA would take over all food and beverage related tasks and the approprate funding for inspections and punishments would be granted.
3. Limit all government donations to 800 $ and under by people. And zero donations from companies in a calander year.
4. Limit election time to 6 months from the call of an election to day the new party takes over.
5. Force states to equalize the tax spending for each county. No more poor area's get shafted.
6. Declare that U.S. laws are only for U.S. and not force them down the rest of the worlds throats.
7. Repeal the U.S.A. Pat bill.
8. Stop santions on Iraq and Cuba
9. Uphold the constitution for a change
10. Make corperations responsible for their actions.
11. Make politicians responsible for their actions.
12. Ban hand guns
13. Save the whales.

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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by tesco samoa:
1. Decentralize the Food industry
2. FDA would take over all food and beverage related tasks and the approprate funding for inspections and punishments would be granted.
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These are not quite opposite, but seem to represent opposite idealogical positions. I take it you mean, "Decentralize food production" and "Centralize food inspection." That will get expensive. Of course, if you were in charge then you could do that, but can you explain why?
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3. Limit all government donations to 800 $ and under by people. And zero donations from companies in a calander year.
4. Limit election time to 6 months from the call of an election to day the new party takes over.
5. Force states to equalize the tax spending for each county. No more poor area's get shafted.
9. Uphold the constitution for a change
<hr></blockquote>
#3, #4, & #5 appear to be incompatible with #9. But I guess if you were in charge then you could modify things a bit. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif
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7. Repeal the U.S.A. Pat bill.
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What is that?
<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>
8. Stop santions on Iraq and Cuba
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Cuban sanctions will be ending soon. Castro won't be cold in the grave before Cuba becomes a free-wheeling democratic capitalist tourist attraction, with a bit of a socialist bent. Unfortunately for Iraq, Saddam appears to be in fine fettle.
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10. Make corperations responsible for their actions.
11. Make politicians responsible for their actions.
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Including you? You're in charge remember! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
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12. Ban hand guns
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http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif You'll get mine out of my cold dead fist. That kind of policy leads to dictators like yourself.
<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>
13. Save the whales.
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Yeah, but how? Nuke the Japanese and Scandinavians?

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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Cyrien:

US Pop 288 mil
Europe Pop 727 mil (all European Coutries)
Added together = A little over 1 billion

China Pop 1.386 billion Standing Army about 300mil
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Can those asking us to lay off China, please explain why China has a standing army of 300 million?

As for me, Cyrien's further point about nukes being the only way to stop such an army goes far to explain China's current interest in expanding their stock of ICBMs at a time when Russia and US are both cutting their nukes way back.

Re: If I were in charge ...
 

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by dmm:

Can those asking us to lay off China, please explain why China has a standing army of 300 million?<hr></blockquote>

Probably to keep the other 1 billion of their population in line. Just a guess though. I don't think anyone has really asked them. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif


<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>
As for me, Cyrien's further point about nukes being the only way to stop such an army goes far to explain China's current interest in expanding their stock of ICBMs at a time when Russia and US are both cutting their nukes way back.<hr></blockquote>

Well the Chinese still have WAY less nukes than either of these nations. About as many as an SDI defense system could stop. Which if implemented has brought a promise from the Chinese to increase their own nuclear arsenal to a point where our SDI system couldn't stop it. Such an action would probably prompt many Chinese neighbors to increase or create their own nuclear arms. Specially Pakistan and India. Gee... some of the people I most want to see have large stockpiles of nukes (even ones declared to be for peaceful civilian construction projects). Well. Perhaps if they do have large stockpiles it would stop military conflicts in those regions. No one wants to be nuked after all...

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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Cyrien:

Perhaps if they do have large stockpiles it would stop military conflicts in those regions. No one wants to be nuked after all...<hr></blockquote>

I appreciate the sarcasm, especially when you consider how many people died in Western India after that mosque was demolished and a trainful of Hindus were set on fire as retaliation.

"Here's a blowtorch kid. Go play in that dynamite factory next to the munitions dump!"