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Post by LS on Jun 29, 2009 14:02:13 GMT -5
They're one of the biggest countries on earth. Heck, if you had anywhere decent to travel to except for snowy places in Canada, you'd b itch about the same problem.
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Post by Tsaalyo Phoenix on Jun 29, 2009 14:05:00 GMT -5
America is what you get when you take a three year old, who has no knowledge of energy, economy, efficiency, or common sense, and tell him to design a country. Stuff should be built close together, and you should move as close to where you work and shop as physically possible. That's something Europe has done right.
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Post by LS on Jun 29, 2009 14:06:17 GMT -5
It's because we've been 'civilized' for longer. We've had permanent settlements for more than a thousand years, while the yanks and you Canucks haven't.
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Post by Tsaalyo Phoenix on Jun 29, 2009 14:08:16 GMT -5
You never decided to build "suburbia", even when you had the space for it.
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Post by LS on Jun 29, 2009 14:10:39 GMT -5
Yes we did. London's a prime example of it. It's expanding, but the main city hasn't grown. The areas around it have.
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Post by Tsaalyo Phoenix on Jun 29, 2009 14:14:32 GMT -5
Well, London is stupid. It's run by a queen in castle guarded by men in Marge Simpson hats that aren't allowed to speak or move. It's like a Monty Python skit.
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Post by LS on Jun 29, 2009 14:17:30 GMT -5
It is not. The Queen is purely ceremonial. It's ran by an idiot that can't keep the government he's supposedly in charge of agreeing with him, Gordon Brown.
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Post by Tsaalyo Phoenix on Jun 29, 2009 15:32:00 GMT -5
...and you say nobody knows who the Canadian prime minister is. I've never heard of Gordon Brown.
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Post by LS on Jun 29, 2009 15:34:04 GMT -5
Brown is actually notable, Sally. He's our Prime Minister, and is internationally known because he's the leader of a G8 country and a country on the UN Security Council.
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Post by Tsaalyo Phoenix on Jun 29, 2009 15:39:39 GMT -5
Stephen Harper is also a G8 country leader. And Canada opposes the whole concept of permanent membership in the UNSC. Also, the UNSC sucks. Halo should be given that military acronym. Security Council can change their name.
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Post by LS on Jun 29, 2009 15:40:34 GMT -5
The Security Council came first. And of course Canada opposes it. They're not on it.
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Post by Tsaalyo Phoenix on Jun 29, 2009 15:43:19 GMT -5
Granite wheels came first. Newer stuff is better. And Canada opposes it because it turns you five into an old boys club of unchecked nuclear power.
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Post by LS on Jun 29, 2009 15:48:00 GMT -5
Newer is not neccessarily better. Weimar Republic or Nazi Reich? And that's not true. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty does that.
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Post by Tsaalyo Phoenix on Jun 29, 2009 15:57:40 GMT -5
I don't know what the first one is. And you mean the treaty that you five wrote for yourselves? The one that you enforce yourselves? Yes, you couldn't possibly get away with naughty nuclear things, what with the self imposed and self enforced treaty.
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Post by LS on Jun 29, 2009 16:06:38 GMT -5
That was the Nacospeak government between the World Wars. Certainly a lot better than the 'new' Reich, no? And that treaty means that nuclear secrets are not to be shared with other countries. And, if it were really that bad, those other countries could've voted to stop it becoming law. But they didn't.
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Post by Tsaalyo Phoenix on Jun 29, 2009 16:19:53 GMT -5
Economically speaking, they were probably the worst government ever. And pbbt.
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Post by LS on Jun 29, 2009 16:22:29 GMT -5
What, you're trying to stick up for the Third Reich?
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Post by Tsaalyo Phoenix on Jun 29, 2009 16:29:14 GMT -5
Economically, not socially. They pulled the biggest economic miracle in financial history. As a business major, I'm obligated to respect that.
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Post by LS on Jun 29, 2009 16:33:17 GMT -5
You are not. But you want to talk about impressive actions of the Reich? Sweet talking every major country in the world into letting them keep Austria, into handing over the Sudetenland without any challenges, into getting nothing but a meek threat of war for conquering Czechoslovakia and convincing the USSR, after Hitler had already actively persecuted Communists, to help him invade Poland.
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Post by Tsaalyo Phoenix on Jun 29, 2009 16:35:50 GMT -5
I am. They'll kick me out of the program if I start trashing their economic accomplishments. Same as if I started saying globalization is bad. They'd put a sticky on my back saying "PROTECTIONIST" and hang me from the flagpole by my boxers. And yes, that's pretty epic too.
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