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Follow the US's lead into easy company profits with little or no effort of course.[br][br]Creating new content is the hardest and most risky investment a company can make. Why should they bother? It's so much safer to just take what you've got that you know is popular, remove it from the market for ...

I'm no expert, and I don't know anything about trademarks in Japan, but my understanding is that Japanese copyright law and US copyright law are pretty compatible these days. It may not have always been hat way, but the US has been pushing all the countries it trades with to be on equal footing with...

Distributing scanlations without explicit permission from the authors is illegal under current US copyright law. They are derivative works. It's just that the authors are perfectly happy to let it slide since it increases the audience and fame of their works at no cost to them. But if that were to c...

1189747074[/unixtime]][br]Nothing in life is free, and if it is, and its on the Internet, its probably infested with cookies and spyware. [br][br]There is lots and lots of free stuff on the internet that has no financial strings attached whatsoever and no spyware or adware (there's nothing inherent...

It's a thing. Comes from ignoring a guy that spent his time talking about a final solution. [br][br]I am very well aware where it comes from. But it is nevertheless irrational in this case. There are times when words do need to spur you to action but the line needs to be drawn somewhere. Imminence ...

Your understanding of what constitutes “speaking down to” vastly differs from mine. I would never assume reiteration or clarification alone constitutes “speaking down to”. That’s just a part of communication. An essential part I’d say. Speaking down to someone would go like this: You say point A. I ...

Hi all. I posted on Nifty for a very short time and then stopped caring about D&D for a long time thereafter. Then I was lured here by super awesome new D&D books, but then having nothing meaningful to say about D&D I ended up being lured into another topic instead.[br][br]This is a grea...

Again, you might want to re-read your post and change your phrasing. "Changed their leadership to a group that's antagonistic to Israel" implies certain things which are very much non-true. [br][br]Why must you always be so indirect? Are we supposed to accept what you say on faith alone? ...

However, the Democratic party has been the "Make peace not war" party for quite a while now. [br][br]I don’t think that’s really provable. I’ve never heard of a democratic platform that asserted a pacifist agenda. What’s more there are plenty of hawks amongst the Democrats. Presidents lik...

Wow! So, according to John, if you really want to criticize Israel for their offensive weapons, you really need to criticize the Democratic party since they were the first to start selling Israel offensive weapons. [br][br]Yes. Mainstream Democrats and Republicans have had pretty damn similar opini...

If a legally elected government came into power in a neighboring state and said its goal was wiping your country off the map, is your country still obligated to aid that government in the name of "supporting democratic change"? [br][br]In my view they are certainly not obligated . I don’t...

[Off Topic][br] And pointing out that your ideas are flawed, unclear, incoherent and so on is incorrect? One would believe you'd appreciate the assistanse - after all, it would lead to clearer and more precise dialogue. [br][br]Not… incorrect exactly. Maybe Inappropriate is the right term. It’s very...

You do realise that I'm not referring to terrorists, right? Because "last 30 years" and "proved effective when dealing with another sort of enemy" are about that.[br] [br][br]No. I misread that. But now I'm not at all sure what you were trying to get across. [br][br] So far, any...

[br]Subtle difference. We're "on the right side" alias "the good guys" if only because the other side is so very wrong, aka "the all too obviously bad guys". That doesn't mean we're making the right choices. [br][br]Frankly whenever any group as large and diverse as a ...

Counting the few failures of the UN vs the vast majority of the last sixty years in which we haven't had world wars...[br][br]...Which is a longer time than any in written history that major powers have not been in active conflict.[br][br]Sounds like a success to me. [br][br]Well the UN has done al...

[br] [br]There's also the fact that "fast and full force, knock-em down and keep-em down" was the right strategy when faced with much larger and slower opponents, and our country hasn't actually gotten around to "let's think about what our goals, means, strategies, tactics and concern...

Where is the part that explains why people from Lebanon (we assume) are justified to invade Israel, kidnap it's citizens, and launch missiles at its civilians then hide out in densely populated civilian areas back in Lebanon? And then to say that Israel should just turn the other cheek... ummm... [...

But you're willing to hold nations to standards that don't actually exist outside your head. Understood. [br][br]There is a fundamental difference between saying “Because the world works the way I say it does, people should do X, Y, and Z” and saying “If our goal is to try and achieve a world that ...

It doesn’t have to be. At least I don’t believe it does though no doubt you will say I am being naïve. Rule of law is the answer for nations just as it was the answer for mankind prior to the advent of civilization. The thing keeping from going to my neighbor killing him and taking his stuff because...

Neither full scale invasion nor a “shock and awe” air campaign were even close to the most rational and moral choices for Israel to make in their recent predicament. Negotiations seem to most people to be the reasonable first step in dealing with a conflict of this nature. It’s not as if Israel has ...