Hehe I know. I was kidding too. I think that part in Snatch is hilarious.

In reply to this comment by Throbbin:
>> ^Farhad2000:
As an Uzbek am deeply offended.
>> ^Throbbin:
Sneaky fuckin Uzbekistani.



Really? Sry bro. Was just trying to carry on with the 'Snatch' theme.

>> ^Farhad2000:
As an Uzbek am deeply offended.
>> ^Throbbin:
Sneaky fuckin Uzbekistani.



Really? Sry bro. Was just trying to carry on with the 'Snatch' theme.

Our Lady Rosa Mystica has been a source of friction between Catholic and Buddhist communities in Crooswatta for years. In the last four years, extremists have stopped the construction of the church, which is near a Buddhist monastery. In 2006 and 2007, the Church was targeted by Buddhist extremists, and construction was halted.

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There is an ongoing problem with over-aggressive Christian proselytizing conducted in a dishonest and unethical manner by some conservative evangelical groups. Missionaries have targeted the poor with offers of money if they would renounce the Buddha, for example. They have distributed inflammatory literature, such as pamphlets condemning the Buddha as a reincarnation of Satan.

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Yeah, those innocent Christians just minding their own business....

Sometimes it's really easy to hate Christians, and totally understandable, too.

They prey on the weak. They constantly go around pushing their beliefs onto other people, and then they call anybody who finally gets sick of their shit and stands up to them an "extremist."

They've been doing it for hundreds of years.

Clarke loved his adopted Sri Lankan home...and of course, he never buggered a pre-pubescent male..And the ones he did bugger, well, it never fucked them up-after all, you can't have a decorated and knighted citizen of the crown whose shit stinks now, can ya?

...and yet in the next book, we go and land on Europa, and take out the subsequent monolith swarm trying to blot out the sun with virus straight out of Independence Day.

...and don't get me started on the whole moved-to-pedophile-friendly-Sri-Lanka thing.

ooooo, sry Throbbin: http://www.videosift.com/video/C-Harmony-Conservative-Dating-Service

at least you have good taste!

Embarrassed by history.

Here is a link to the full text and English translation of "The Road to Resurgence" written by Hitler, at the request of wealthy far right industrialist Emil Kirdorf.

http://www.jstor.org/pss/1878145

It costs. (I had a print copy stashed away somewhere. Can't seem to find it, sry.)

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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERkirdorf.htm

Kirdorf, who held extreme right-wing political views, first heard Adolf Hitler speak in 1927. He was so impressed that he arranged to meet Hitler at the home of Elsa Buckmann in Munich. Although Kirdorf supported most of Hitler's beliefs he was concerned about some of the policies of the Nazi Party. He was particularly worried about the views of some people in the party such as Gregor Strasser who talked about the need to redistribute wealth in Germany.

Adolf Hitler tried to reassure Kirdorf that these policies were just an attempt to gain the support of the working-class in Germany and would not be implemented once he gained power. Kirdorf suggested that Hitler should write a pamphlet for private distribution amongst Germany's leading industrialists that clearly expressed his views on economic policy.

Hitler agreed and The Road to Resurgence was published in the summer of 1927. In the pamphlet distributed by Kirdorf to Germany's leading industrialists, Hitler tried to reassure his readers that he was a supporter of private enterprise and was opposed to any real transformation of Germany's economic and social structure.

Kirdorf was particularly attracted to Hitler's idea of winning the working class away from left-wing political parties such as the Social Democratic Party and the Communist Party. Kirdorf and other business leaders were also impressed with the news that Hitler planned to suppress the trade union movement once he gained power. Kirdorf joined the Nazi Party and immediately began to try and persuade other leading industrialists to supply Hitler with the necessary funds to win control of the Reichstag.

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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERhitler.htm

It was not until May, 1919 that the German Army entered Munich and overthrew the Bavarian Socialist Republic. Hitler was arrested with other soldiers in Munich and was accused of being a socialist. Hundreds of socialists were executed without trial but Hitler was able to convince them that he had been an opponent of the regime. To prove this he volunteered to help to identify soldiers who had supported the Socialist Republic. The authorities agreed to this proposal and Hitler was transferred to the commission investigating the revolution.

Information supplied by Hitler helped to track down several soldiers involved in the uprising. His officers were impressed by his hostility to left-wing ideas and he was recruited as a political officer. Hitler's new job was to lecture soldiers on politics. The main aim was to promote his political philosophy favoured by the army and help to combat the influence of the Russian Revolution on the German soldiers.

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Hitler's reputation as an orator grew and it soon became clear that he was the main reason why people were joining the party. This gave Hitler tremendous power within the organization as they knew they could not afford to lose him. One change suggested by Hitler concerned adding "Socialist" to the name of the party. Hitler had always been hostile to socialist ideas, especially those that involved racial or sexual equality. However, socialism was a popular political philosophy in Germany after the First World War. This was reflected in the growth in the German Social Democrat Party (SDP), the largest political party in Germany.

Hitler, therefore redefined socialism by placing the word 'National' before it. He claimed he was only in favour of equality for those who had "German blood". Jews and other "aliens" would lose their rights of citizenship, and immigration of non-Germans should be brought to an end.

In February 1920, the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) published its first programme which became known as the "25 Points". In the programme the party refused to accept the terms of the Versailles Treaty and called for the reunification of all German people. To reinforce their ideas on nationalism, equal rights were only to be given to German citizens. "Foreigners" and "aliens" would be denied these rights.

To appeal to the working class and socialists, the programme included several measures that would redistribute income and war profits, profit-sharing in large industries, nationalization of trusts, increases in old-age pensions and free education.

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>> ^spoco2:

If you can think up a way to make everyone happy in this debate... then you're a genius!


Use P2P to promote your music the Nine Inch Nails way.

http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15124

$750,000 from the special edition straight in to their pocket minus the cost of producing the package and shipping.

There was another story that I can't find a link to of a San Franciscan musician who languished for years ignored by big labels until he put his music up on P2P with his email address. Within days he started receiving requests to play live with offers of appearence fees, travel costs covered etc. Overnight he went from untouchable by labels to making a pretty fine living travelling and making his music. He has never sold a CD or single.

Another good read is:

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rIYYW8s1GvkC&pg=PA168&lpg=PA168&dq=musician+using+p2p+to+book+live+shows&source=bl&ots=s2HPom0-Gt&sig=rqi8GxI94pa-
XKL0Uwg-2I0WhMI&hl=en&ei=a-3BSrD6EseBkQXGrIm1BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CA8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=musician%20using%20p2p%20to%20book%
20live%20shows&f=false

Chapter 13 (sry bout the huge link, google books is a bit meh ; )

Obviously, some people don't have the know how or don't want to spend the time to manage their own affairs to maximise their profits, but it's a very viable business and people are using it.

>> ^thegrimsleeper:
>> ^dead_tofu:
" what´s brown and flies thru the air?.....a xxxxxx meatball!"
i cant hear what kind of meatball, sry...

A remote controlled meatball.


No, no.. a meatball attached to His Noodly Appendage, The Flying Spaghetti Monster.

I coulda watched that clip follow the fat red arrow all the way from Borneo to Malaya (wherever that is...) to Sri Lanka to Jiddah to Cairo to Rome to Madrid to Paris to Warsaw to Boston to D.C. ... No wait, that wouldn't have been a good thing, nevermind.

Although the situation she describes happens far more frequently than official numbers show, this is probably a fake.

1) She says her blood is "halal". Halal means "permissible" or "clean" in Arabic. What she should have said is that her blood is haram, "forbidden" or "dirty". Major factual error.

2) Islam in Sri Lanka is negligible, few have exiled.

3) She is much too focused on Christianity, Jesus and praying. She looks like an inexperienced actress playing for Christian propaganda media.

Even though I'm extremely unsympathetic to Muslims in the West, this does not seem like a legitimate account of honour killings.

Oh god people, please don't bring USSR into the mix! For your enlightenment, here is a current list of countries that have universal healthcare, or some sort of publicly sponsored health care system :

Afghanistan, Argentina, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iraq, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Oman, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Ukraine and the United Kingdom

And I don't think these countries are all led by democrat, leftist, socialist,or son-of-African-immigrant leaders either.

>> ^enoch:
the ideology of man expanding past his mortal coil and perhaps reaching something far greater.maybe even eventually reaching a point to touch and commune with god,is not a new ideology.
it is perhaps the oldest.


Yes, you're right. This is why the transhumanist movement should do its best to be inclusive to spiritual traditions outside of secular humanism. There is much inspiration as well as understanding to be derived from mystical texts and traditions. There even exists a whole school of evolutionary posthumanism that predates the rise of integrated circuits. Writers and spiritualists such as Sri Aurobindo were considering the implications of the next stage in consciousness before Gordon Moore was even born. Therefore, transhumanists should not be presentists when considering the value of spirituality in the discourse over the future of humanity.

More than a transhumanist, I consider myself a Cosmist. The Cosmist perspective comes from the notion that the end of the Universe is the only limit for Consciousness.

My theory is "no laugh track". The humour is far too "cerebral" (which is saying a lot because there is enough blatant slapstick and "dick and fart" jokes in the show) for the average boob toober.

I think if they went off worldwide box sets (and amount of times downloaded from torrents), they'll see that this show was much loved world wide because it was humour done by American's that didn't resemble what we have come to know and hate as "American humour.. err, sry, humor". That is, it was actually fucking funny.

Is there any wonder it was canned.. \= |

Could anyone reccommend a good book of the modern history of Sri Lanka? I find this whole situation confusing.