> ☠ARFeh☠ wrote:

That's what I was implying.

And just because they're "higher quality" they can't be drug users?

Uh huh...>

They could be, but they're less likely to be. The ones I see also have no visible signs of using drugs that alter the teeth or skin such as meth, and they look perfectly normal. They also have no signs of needle marks either.

> ☠ARFeh☠ wrote:

> Yeah!

His whores are though, so he may have a slight problem...>

They aren't drugs, let alone even a good. They are people who deliver a service, like a massage therapist.

Edit: My business partners don't consume drugs either, except for alcohol. The druggy ones work on the streets and charge $20.00, lol. There is a reason they are considered low-quality services.

My solution to illegal drugs is to legalize what we can tolerate, and eliminate the consumers (except for elites) who consume those drugs.

> thirdrock wrote:

> Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed>

At least someone was paying attention to history class lol

Culture is defined by anthropology as the learned behaviors acquired by the members of a social group. In the case of Diversity fanatics, they should stfu because there is no need to preserve a culture. Cultures are adaptions to the experiences of a population, and there is nothing wrong with further adaption if they are exposed to new experiences, such as technology or other people. You will find, for example, that groups in other countries don't necessarily adopt another culture when they are exposed to it like Western media or music, but rather they adapt their own versions of it.

Umm, Carthage fell over two thousand years ago.

> sKoE )= wrote:

> > 2.26 ghz duo processor
> 512 mhz of video memory/1024 mb of max memory.
> 4gb of ram
> NVIDIA GeForce 9800m GS

I have a quad core AMD64 with 2x2GB ram sticks, an ATI X1950, etc. etc.
And my computer is outdated...;-).

But oh well, anyway, IS the game any good??>

They don't come with quads for laptops yet heh.

Yeah it's interesting. I played it for a few hours. It's different from Rome and Medieval, but I'm getting the hang of it. It took me awhile to learn the diplomacy function. Seriously, as France, every country in Europe declared war on me. Then Savoy took Paris lol. I was like "WTF?"

Naval battles are sweet though, and you can research tech.

> Wild Flower Soul wrote:

<So did half the world.. Expansion doesn't make you an empire....>

It does when it's done to the extent of the US and your power reaches to the extent of America's.

<Yes, that's exactly what the recent years have been showing: wars that can't be won, economic crisis.. All very stable.. The British were able to make their glory last for 200 years. The american "empire" is already struggling....>

The British Empire reached its peak in the 1880s from centuries of incremental steps. Then decades later it was in decline. Likewise, the American Empire was an empire for a longer time but did not reach its peak until after WW2 as you correctly said.

And while we are struggling, it's because our elites are a bunch of insolent n00bs. The mechanisms and technology are there for us to restore the strength of our empire under strong leadership. Our Empire is in decay mostly because of Bush for being a n00b, and now Obama isn't helping.

<The US isn't the sole center of this system, nor is it the only system.. I'd suggest you check out Wallerstein's world system analysis >

Of course. But America's periphery extends further than other core countries.

<It is only recently that the US was the world major power, namely after WWII. and it's already losing ground to China and the EU. not because of weak leadership (or you must be a dictatorship), but to poor economic management.>

That too. The good thing is that the Europeans are our buddies .

> [TI] Sitting Duck wrote:

> "And Rome > British Empire."

A moot point since the question at hand was whether America was the greatest empire since Rome. The relative size or importance of Britain to Rome is not important in that discussion. The facts that the USA is not an empire and is not as large or globally important as the British empire was in it's time is the reason you are wrong.>

Yes, America is an empire. It expanded and conquered territories to the pacific US from the original thirteen colonies. America is also able to project its power and influence more than the British. While the US does not directly rule countries as much, much of the world is part of its periphery. Its only recently, because of weak leadership, that that power is being eroded.

> [RPA] Lloyd List wrote:

> Except America isn't an empire...>

Of course it is. Not considering its ability to project its power around the world unlike any nation on earth, manifest destiny and the conquest of the Native Americans automatically makes America an empire.

And Rome > British Empire.

Noir,

Fair enough. Though personally I promote a mixed system.

Noir,

That depends. While Europeans and Canadians tend to have superior basic care, your advanced care quite frankly sucks.