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Thank you. Oh, I suppose I'll eventually get over it. Plenty of cute fish in the sea, dutch college students or otherwise. But the fact that Spain now owes me 14 euros for a bathrobe, that's a sticking point.

Oh Spain, how I hate you right now... First, you eliminated Germany. Last week I memorised and practiced the Deutschlandlied, just for the expected occasion of a german victory. Alas, that was not to be. I could forgive you for that, as that was simply a game. But today... The cute dutch-born...

Well, I have to say that while the thing was kinda sad to watch, in the vein of how suffering is always sad, I don't really see the aggressor in this case to really be "a bully". Rather it is one wild animal trying to make a meal of another wild animal, something quite natural, especially...

Just saw something interesting today. It's rather warm up here in Finland, about 26 degrees Celsius where I come from. So, like any warm-blooded finnish man, when faced with such weather conditions I react in the appropriate way: go out to the bar terraces and have an unspecified number of...

This is correct. The new legislation requires named companies in given areas to provide internet connections at a "reasonable price". This places an internet connection on the same level as postal or telephone services, as basic communications services provided to the public. Though there are no...

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There are rules governing this, Distinction and Proportionality, edit: as codified in their military's Rules of Engagement /edit. If the soldiers' conduct is in line with these, then any civilian deaths are regrettable but there is no wrong-doing involved. If conduct isn't in line, then what...

This is potentionally very good news. I hope that either the coalition troops or the afghan forces they've trained succeed in stabilising the area, and that the country succeeds in forming a responsible political process and legislation, and that the rule of law will prevail in the...

If I had a Cursed Ring of Invisibility, I'd totally throw it in there. For the good of the world.

Over here, it's not that hot right now. About 12 degrees C or so. And it was raining on my way back home from the pub just now. I can handle the temperature, but the rain causes some problems. Oh well, that's the finnish summer for you. Cold, and with not that much snow.

And this, in your opinion, somehow translates into "Catholic Europe came about after Luther"? I must be missing some incredible feat of logic here. So if I was to say, oh, that "as far as Haiti is concerned, after the Dominican Republic regained it's independence, haitian rule covered the...

Sounds like those threads made for some interesting reading. Looking back at the last page, yeah, I guess the posts have become quite large and perhaps not so easy to follow. I'm having some difficulties in keeping track of all the different lines of debate, myself.

So who was this JCM? I've heard a couple of people mentioning of him/her/it.

Hi there. Umm, what's up? Nice day we're having and... uhh... Nevermind, just gimme the moneys plz.

This is kind of my point. As you said, what constitutes murder changes with the times. But so does what people consider right and wrong. Murder itself is simply a label people put on unlawful killing, which tells one little of their morals. It is what they consider to be unlawful killing...

But those morals of the day are not fixed, they can and do change. I understood Soliloquy's question to be about whether or not there exists an objective right and wrong, something that is universal and constant regardless of time and circumstance. The way I saw it, you were taking issue with...

Then I'm glad we are in agreement. For a moment there, I thought you were saying that governments distort the truth because they somehow know they are doing wrong. So does third world debt relief. Both were points in a line of argumentation in a debate I was having with other people. Edited...

Throughout history, regimes have sought to put a positive spin to everything they do, 'good' or 'bad'. I view such as PR stunts and propaganda, and everybody does it. The fact that they cut the amount Haiti had to pay by 40 % is a point in their favor. Huh? Several people in this thread...