2,901

(25 replies, posted in General)

Just to clarify:

"The swastika is a symbol of prosperity and good fortune and is widely dispersed in both the ancient and modern world"

Indeed, but the only germany-related use is the nazi symbol..

"In 1935, the black swastika on a white circle with a crimson background became the national symbol of Germany. The major difference between the Nazi swastika and the ancient symbol of many different cultures, is that the Nazi swastika is at a slant, while the ancient swastika is rested flat."

In 1935, the nazi party was already heavily influencing the "cultural life" of Germany. That other swastika came along with it wink

2,902

(2 replies, posted in Community)

it's a type of icecream Steve, extremely tasty too...

2,903

(12 replies, posted in General)

Ghosts are bollocks... My cats can see manticores, chimaeras, valkyries, sphinxes, dragons, leprechauns, sybillas, angels, cherubines etc though...

2,904

(4 replies, posted in Universal News)

Urgh, this thread should be moved to uni news..

2,905

(6 replies, posted in General)

Ik zou het niet aanvaarden, de vader maakt nog steeds DT-fouten...

Homo's

2,906

(11 replies, posted in General)

there have been too much of these to repeat mine, just browse the old ones..

2,907

(11 replies, posted in General)

spanish lads have crap keyboards tongue

2,908

(2,376 replies, posted in General)

Portishead - 3rd (my newly acquired album)

2,909

(71 replies, posted in Politics)

"I would hope a worker is able to shop his skills to multiple bosses.  I also hope he is not trapped in a Union field that Puts ceilings on his ability to earn a fair wage."

I'm not going to start a discussion about unions, as that will require another thread and I'll be leaving on a vacation tomorrow tongue

"I dont Choose my Clients, Alan.  My clients choose me.  When they choose me, I become the boss of their project.
All they have to do is hand me the check, and we move on to the next phase.
In between phases, if they breech the contract.....I have the option of walking.  Its something I rarely do, as I said before.  It is bad business to walk, but its also something you must do to survive.  Cant have an overbearing owner.  You learn to pick these types out when you do the intitial meet though."

Yes, they chose you, and because of that, they have certain demands, pretty much like a solicitor gets chosen by his boss. When they chose a particular employee, he became boss of that position too (it might be a project). The bosses too pay the employee.
In between phases, a boss has to meet certain agreements too, or the employee walks. Not much difference there is there? In both cases (employee or your situation) the bosses/clients can redraw the position/project. In the first case, you're unemployed and in the 2nd you lose a paying client. I took your comment and paralelled it (by replacing you with an employee). You can twist it and turn it, but from a macro vision it's all the same wink

2,910

(105 replies, posted in Politics)

I love pork!

As Churchill once said: "Cats look down on you and dogs look up to you, but a pig looks you in the eye and treat you like an equal."

Well, I'm leaving on a 2 week vacation tomorrow, so I won't be posting... I tried to slowly pull myself out every discussion.. Just so you'd know

2,911

(16 replies, posted in Politics)

Next: Obama is linked to Al Qaeda!
Then: Obama is an alien that crashed at Roswell

Einstein: read "From Reliable Sources" by Martha Howell, Walter Prevenier and Marc Boone. That should give you some insight in sources etc. cause really, you're struggling to tell propaganda and facts apart tongue

2,912

(242 replies, posted in Community)

What's that favourite band then?

2,913

(19 replies, posted in Community)

Happy Birthday!!

http://users.pandora.be/Land.of.Arnor/IC/birthday.gif

2,914

(29 replies, posted in General)

"Blizzard should just stick to WoW before they end up with Diablo online and getting driven into bankruptcy to do stupidity."

They won't get bankrupted. They're making indecent amounts of money with WoW and Starcraft 2 will be a huge seller, even if it's total crap tongue

As for Diablo III, I do hope they change some stuff. It's quite an interesting game at first, but halfway through, it gets very repetitive..

2,915

(71 replies, posted in Politics)

indeed. An employee choses his bos as well. You chose your clients. Both make demands towards their clients/bosses and visa versa. That's how our survivalist economy works: the best fitting survives best...

2,916

(105 replies, posted in Politics)

Could you give a piece of text with that in it? I'd like to send that to an islamic friend who studies history as well. It's not that I don't believe you, but I'd like more info about it.

I'd like to emphasize that this case shouldn't be generalised over the whole of islam though. Most islamic people would be disgusted by it. When you strip the situation of every moral value, not much different from banning women as priests cause Jesus didn't have a female apostle. It's merely an extrapolation of a 'religious' text to a social context..

For me, it only proves that Muhammad (like all other prophets) had personal errors as well, and that his person isn't to be considered holy. His message, like all the other prophets' before and after him, is merely an inspiration for personal values, at best..

2,917

(105 replies, posted in Politics)

East, I agree it's despicable, but I do think time and context is something you should consider. Muhammad may have married a 9 year old girl, but it most likely was out of political reasons (most of his wives were). Muhammad needed clan-support, and the best way to do so is by giving them loot and/or a marriage (a similar tactic was used in the west by vikings etc as well). Also, a marriage, defenatly with a political marriage, doesn't automaticly mean sex.

2,918

(33 replies, posted in General)

adblock plus works, greasemonkey too. In fact, only the IC linkifier doesn't work properly tongue

2,919

(33 replies, posted in General)

Lately, it's cool to hate FF and support IE again...

lol

I never voiced an opinion about it either. Although, it's a terrible sad thing to do, I think.... Face it, all other walled borders have quite a bad feeling about them: Berlin Wall, the Israeli wall, the Iron curtain, the Korean wall....

2,921

(105 replies, posted in Politics)

Well, I was wrong tongue Although, fatwas aren't always compulsory.

Still Flint's claim that Islam is perverted is wrong though.. tongue

2,922

(71 replies, posted in Politics)

As I said before, over here it's an honour to be made professor, so they're not the frustrated lot you claim them to be...

And BW, you too are dependent on others, you can't deny that. Your clients' demands always influence you, that's how the economy works...

2,923

(33 replies, posted in General)

FF

2,924

(105 replies, posted in Politics)

"not quite, wfs, because islam goes off more than just the quran, so, no, you can't go by sola scriptura."

Like?

2,925

(39 replies, posted in General)

Define "bad version" UWS? The PC version is horribly outdated but that's it. With a few patches here and there, you'll be fine wink