lol@schniepel
@arfeh:
maybe post a youtube

in any case you can't be a good christian and love the lyrics from for instance Slayer. You can be a good christian and love his music, thats something else.

What you say makes sense, but even this effect has its limits. The time between production and consumption is not that long economically speaking.

yes oil is rising again, but not at the speed of light. But if you calc the inflation, it can't do anything but go up. Think about it, it can't be as cheap as during the times when there was pure oil spouting out of the ground when you were digging a whole at the wrong place. Going under 30$ it will go under the production cost.

"the less confronting foreign policy of China"
If we go moral again, may I remind you they already have 1/5 of the pop in there own house alone? That itself is bad enough but I will not start to mention places like Tibet or African countries were they do the same as we Euros but then simply a little more excessive and open. I like the Chinese culture, hell I even speak mandarin and know characters, but don't tell me this about their gov.

@shniepel:
You mix up Americans, there gov, and their country. Bad generalizations this way.

@yell: "We supposedly learnt from their troubles.  Not anymore."
I don't get it yell. The US would win from any modern army if nukes were not involved. Every "big" army would have suffered big losses while occupying Afghanistan or Iraq. Even the Chinese. They simply would have accepted more casualties and would use "human waves" like V.kemp said (though he exaggerated, but never the less true).

@han:
"I see no reason to compete if there were no sexual prize"
exactly. Which is why you have an extra workforce in the group with less internal struggle. Internal struggle is beneficial to a certain extent for the survival of the group but only to a certain extend.

roflmao@ the last 6 post.
Its becoming about the funniest thread ever...not that you have to do much effort for that.

I don't see the problem with France either. Prejudice and a false judgment.

@avo:
I don't agree with your opinion. I think a united defense and police system would would be a gain. It would allow us to save on both after the initial set-up cost. It would also make the EU stronger in foreign affairs. I'll give my plee for a unified econ later.

EU police

again I had to edit a medium large post because of pirate day. Its largely annoying.