[OT] Cr*ppy Belgium

[Sinapus]

Originally posted by Puke:
for a while, it was popular to disaprove of cluster bombs, because their submunitions dont always explode, and their paper packaging looks just like the packaging on air-dropped food supplies.

Actually, the packaging is shaped very differently. The color of the so-called identical items was the same. (Finally found an image comparison in one of the US is evil sites.) Either that was a training round, or someone decided to make the submunitions a bright color so they could be easier to find by EOD teams.

Which probably proves the "damned if you do, damned if you don't" cliche.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by DavidG:

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Originally posted by Some1:

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Re: anti personel mines. How Can anyone defend the production of a weapon that maims 22000 civilians every year?? (and I sure that number includes a ton of children) Sure the problem may be not cleaning them up but frankly I think the world could avoid a lot of problems if those selling weapons cared a little more about how and who would be using them.

Someone was very drunk or naive when writing this.

R.

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Oh very nice. I offer my 2 cents worth and get accused of being drunk. Got anything less insulting to say?

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Some1, please don't be so arrogant to assume that you hold absolute truth and anyone that disagrees with you is naive. The only one being naive there is the person that believes they hold absolute truth.

Phoenix-D:

"(In US many says " it's not guns whoo kill people, people kill people", yeah, five year olds who find's their dad's gun!)"

Total number of deaths in the US:
2,391,399
Deaths by firearms, all causes:
28663

One percent; the majority of people killed were in the 15-29 range for men and 30-44 for women. Not exactly an epidepmic of 5- year olds getting killed.

Thanks for backing me up there.

[ February 14, 2003, 00:51: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Puke]

Thank you for the clarification, Sinapus.

[primitive]

Fyron:
Some1 breatched good netiquette with his post. But he has already appologized, and that should end it.

All off us posting in these political threads suffer more or less from the arrogance virus. We should all try to keep that patronizing tone out of our Posts.

EDIT: Oops! I did it again, this is hard.

[ February 14, 2003, 01:32: Message edited by: primitive ]

[Ruatha]

I think the only reason we post in these "political" topics is becourse we are frequent posters here.
We somehow got the impression that we "know" eachother and therefore feel comfortable enough to talk about these things, and not only SE4 things.

I think this is a good thing.

And I think Mines should be Banned in SE4 aswell, those pesky buggers kill most of my ships!

IBSE4MT (International Ban for Space Empires 4 Mines Treaty)

Also, people under the age of 30 shouldn't be allowed to have Phased Beam weapons, they migh harm themself, how about that Fyron and P-D, can you find any statistics?

[ February 14, 2003, 07:29: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[minipol]

Originally posted by Ruatha:
I think this is a good thing.

And I think Mines should be Banned in SE4 aswell, those pesky buggers kill most of my ships!

IBSE4MT (International Ban for Space Empires 4 Mines Treaty)

Also, people under the age of 30 shouldn't be allowed to have Phased Beam weapons, they migh harm themself, how about that Fyron and P-D, can you find any statistics?

Hehehe, good humour

[Puke]

Originally posted by Ruatha:
Also, people under the age of 30 shouldn't be allowed to have Phased Beam weapons, they migh harm themself, how about that Fyron and P-D, can you find any statistics?

Indeed, these discussions are far more civil, because forum members here have a kind of reporte. and yes, not only should those under 30 be Banned from PPBs, but those living anywhere within 100 miles of LA should be Banned from having APBs or NSCs, as well. Im sure Fyron would agree.