Gay Common Law Marriage is only a reality where Gay Marriages are officially recognised.

Perhaps you would consider my suggestion for an addition to your signature?
"We are not equal."

OMG! My horrendously huge 4X4 can't cope with 2 inches of snow, now I shall never I get to work!

Have you tried walking? What? What the [] was that look for?

> [RPA] Lloyd List wrote:

> Fokker, try listening to the lyrics that speak of strength, unity and belief that overpowers all. How can that not be beautiful? <

  Strength, unity and belief that overpowers all? Sounds like every "satanic" album ever written.
Look, when did I say I did not like such lyrics? I'll tell you when: nev0r!
  To reitorate: My problem is that there are very few "christian" bands that put the music and the lyric first. Now don't feel discriminated against little ones, I have this same view of most "satanic" bands too; like Deicide, for example.

I have never been a big fan of Christian music in any style or genre, but with Christian metal I can specifiy what the root of my problem is:

Music made by a person or group that is Christian in their belief I can listen to, and probably do listen to without knowing some of the time.

Music that is filled with Christian references, lessons, and teachings, or is simply ranting, I can not and do not listen to. This is not because of the Christianity but because of the lack of content, lack of variation, lack of imagination, and (dare I say it) lack of skill.

"Hey, new album?" (^o^)
"Yeah, they're a Christian band, pretty good stuff."
"Any decent songs?" (^_^)
"This one's about the crucifiction, but from Jesus' point of view."
"Cool." (^o^)
"Yeah, there's a strong message about forgiveness and understanding."
"I have to admit, if a bunch of Romans abused me for three days I wouldn't be thinking about that. What else?" (^_^)
"This one's about how Jesus is with us always, watching and listening."
"Makes him sound like a stalker..." (

Evidence?

welcome to a post written exclusively for those of you who are claiming that punctuation is useless and redundant i cannot help but wonder if this claim is a smoke screen to distract from your own illiteracy my girlfriend assuming shes still talking to me has problems with spelling which is hardly surprising as english is one of the worlds most complicated languages and yet she has never had any trouble with punctuation in any way shape or form anyone with even a small understanding of communcation can see that punctuation is neccessary now some of you may thing that I am being excessive but let us be honest if you remove one mark of punctuation then it will not be long before the scrubbers chavs and the plain stupid will take this as a sign that they can freely butcher the language however they see fit which will make it much harder for non native speakers to understand the language as anyone who has spent any time around an englishman with a strong dialect wilol tell you in fact I am almost certain that some of you would not be able to communicate with me effectively without my above average command of the english language i think I have proven my point

The original post makes me, and my GP, very happy that I do not live in America. The sheer volume of hypocrisy in American society would cause my blood pressure to rise so much I'd have a stroke.

> Econamatrix wrote:

> The title of your thread does not match the content of the first post.

I was expecting some information about the men and women who make up the military. Instead you have provided links about some stuff that inventors and scientists have been working on. Perhaps the companies that they work for have contracts with the military, but for me at least you are still OT.

Looks like the Canadians are dong well:
http://lists.rmc.ca/news_avis/070429sandhurst_e.html

Im struggling to find the results of any truely international competitions. ie a spread from a good number of countries. Most of them miss out my beloved NZ. However I have found this one, too bad to any aussies out there :-P
http://www.army.mil.nz/at-a-glance/news/army-news/archived-issues/2006/362/nzshsw.htm

And here is a more light hearted one from New Zealand:
http://www.army.mil.nz/at-a-glance/news/army-news/394/icc.htm <

  What he said, plus:
You are aware that your wonderful military tech is drastically inferior to the things certain other countries have, yes? Like, for example, look at your civillian exosuit copmpared to the Japanese civillian exosuit. Now imagine what their military suit would do to yours.
And theirs would be "cloaked", yours would merely be "stealthed".

  What? You honestly think the Japanese "defense force" does not do r&d?

> &#9760;ARFeh&#9760; wrote:
> > Einstein wrote:
> Riches wont be possible for a while, just survival.<
Not even when designing say...an amazing compression method? <

  Nice post; both funny and valid.
Shame he ignored it, must not have the courage to admit that it was a failure.

*wind*
*tumbleweed*
*the mournful tolling of an old church bell*

Sorry, I only play real instruments, like bass.

"Why go to all that trouble of designing weapons?"

1) It's safer sitting at your desk.
2) You don't have to deal with weapons dealers.
3) You don't have to transport, or possibly smuggle, weapons.
4) You don't have to deal with mad dictators from tin-pot-little-african-countries who could kill you rather than pay you.
5) You'll make more money selling the design for a single Super Hyper Blasto Cannon to the yanks than you would selling AK47's to Arabs and Africans, or Berettas to mentally ill teenagers who genuinely believe "Gangsta Rap".
6) You could make America pay you to not sell your weapon design to Russia or China.

And that is why I reccomend designing weapons rather than trading them.