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Posted in: GTA cop shooting.
  toms
03-09-2005, 10:44 AM
#9
GTA is like your own personal sandbox. Its up to you what you do with it. "What's in there?" "Only what you take with you." For most missions where time is of the essence you are actually penalised for randomly running over civ...  [Read More]
Posted in: Whitehouse Has Ties to Gay Prostitution
  toms
02-25-2005, 7:03 AM
#3
how do i get a pass? (as long as it doesn't involve sleepig with george or donald...:eek: )...  [Read More]
Posted in: 2005 Hottest Year
  toms
02-25-2005, 7:01 AM
#31
Originally posted by Dave Grohl I googled and found an article from '97 http://www.americasfuture.net/1997/nov97/97-1123a.html A politcal rand by an obviosly biased guy, from 8 years ago. Hardly the most inspiring source since Michael Crichton (w...  [Read More]
Posted in: 2005 Hottest Year
  toms
02-24-2005, 4:50 AM
#22
the point of kyoto isn't really to REDUCE emissions or temperatures, it is just to keep them steady. The only reason it now looks like a bigger reduction is that it is based on level from when it was written (1996?) not the decade or so later that...  [Read More]
Posted in: 2005 Hottest Year
  toms
02-22-2005, 3:31 AM
#15
To be fair, it isn't even really just hte neo-cons.. it is politicians in general who are more worried about short term effects on businesses (and therefore their election funds) than long term effects on the population. The democrats might have bee...  [Read More]
Posted in: 2005 Hottest Year
  toms
02-21-2005, 7:50 AM
#11
Since pretty much every country on earth has ratified kyoto except the US it wil be interesting to see if their economies get trashed in the way the US government says the US economy would be. Or if the US gains a huge advantage by being the only o...  [Read More]
Posted in: Pull Your Pants Up
  toms
02-17-2005, 6:14 AM
#55
i have absolutely no problem with people walking around naked if they want to. Who cares? Who does it affect? Its the same with the pants thing. I thin it looks daft (and i thought it went out of fashion years ago) but that doesn't mean people can'...  [Read More]
Posted in: Pull Your Pants Up
  toms
02-15-2005, 7:49 AM
#50
Anyone else think of flashdance? THat kevin bacon film where they banned Dancing because it was lewd and a bad influence on kids. Or when they tried to ban elvis's dance routines? Or when they were burning comic books in the 60s? Or when hippies with...  [Read More]
Posted in: Move over iPod, here comes the XPOD
  toms
02-15-2005, 7:38 AM
#23
:D http://img.penny-arcade.com/2001/20010801l.gif :D...  [Read More]
Posted in: Freedom worth the price?
  toms
02-03-2005, 6:22 AM
#7
I'm not sure how big of an effect student freedom has on opinions like this, i'd argue that the wider culture has a bigger effect, but i may be wrong. School uniforms have always existed in the uk, school papers hardly exist at all. School democrac...  [Read More]
Posted in: Freedom worth the price?
  toms
02-01-2005, 6:53 AM
#1
First Amendment no big deal, students say This article discusses a study of high-school students in which they were asked about censorship, protected speech, and other aspects of the first amendment. The results are extremely worrisome: "Only...  [Read More]
Posted in: Mr Howard a racist?
  toms
02-04-2005, 5:53 AM
#10
Originally posted by Spider AL Note: The ideal of democracy is that we elect a politician to do what the majority of the public says, not what the politicians personally believe is right, nor what actually IS right, if there is such a thing as absol...  [Read More]
Posted in: Mr Howard a racist?
  toms
01-31-2005, 6:43 AM
#8
also, mainly thanks to the efforts of the media, the phrase asylum seeker has been corrupted into meaning something along the lines of: "workshy benefit claiming untrustworthy foriegn sponger who has come here to live off the state while beggi...  [Read More]
Posted in: Mr Howard a racist?
  toms
01-28-2005, 9:17 AM
#5
Apparently over fifty percent of young people in the UK have negative views of asylum seekers. And one in five people in the uk may vote far right in the elections. Its tricky. Is it a good thing that a major party is trying to represent the views...  [Read More]
Posted in: Mr Howard a racist?
  toms
01-26-2005, 4:16 AM
#3
For those outside the UK, the conservatives are a bit like the republicans, but over the past 10 years they have gone from being the dominant party to a joke (partly cos blair nicked half their ideas). They recently had some REALLY bad polling resu...  [Read More]
Posted in: Spanish bishops defy Pope by advocating condoms in Aids fight
  toms
02-23-2005, 4:36 AM
#21
which goes to show that god must be pro homosexuality, or he wouldn't have made it fun too!!!! :D Come to think of it, maybe he made it all a bit TOO fun... ;)...  [Read More]
Posted in: Spanish bishops defy Pope by advocating condoms in Aids fight
  toms
02-04-2005, 5:30 AM
#17
Originally posted by Kurgan We have toms calling the Pope a "mass murderer" yet again, this assumes that everyone is going to have promiscious sex, and so being against contraceptive methods is the same as causing AIDS, which is the same a...  [Read More]
Posted in: Spanish bishops defy Pope by advocating condoms in Aids fight
  toms
01-31-2005, 6:48 AM
#12
and therefore i have an overwhelming faith that, should heaven and hell actually exist, there is going to be a special place reserved in one of them for the pope... and it isn't the one he is hoping for. He'll be slumming it down there with all the o...  [Read More]
Posted in: Spanish bishops defy Pope by advocating condoms in Aids fight
  toms
01-21-2005, 6:10 AM
#3
good for them! Might actually make the catholic church seem like a well meaning, benevolant organisation rather than a dogmatic organisation more obsessed with maintaining control by fear than anything else... Bet they get beaten down by the vatican...  [Read More]
Posted in: Do you think there will be a war in Iran?
  toms
03-04-2005, 7:10 AM
#48
Originally posted by Dagobahn Eagle It's that easy, huh? Strange how the US, UK, and USSR had to invade Europe in World War II, then. Strange how North Korea is still under Kim Jong-Il. Strange how Communist China is still Communistic... Its not e...  [Read More]
Posted in: Do you think there will be a war in Iran?
  toms
02-03-2005, 6:27 AM
#43
what does it have to do with him? If the people of cuba wanted castro removed they could do it themselves... it isn't like he has a particularly strong grasp on power....  [Read More]
Posted in: Do you think there will be a war in Iran?
  toms
01-26-2005, 3:55 AM
#32
indeed. Soon there will be lots of statments that mention iran, 9/11, wmds and terrorists in the same sentance, without actually technically linking them. Then there will be opinion polls showing most americans believe iran is giving wmds to the...  [Read More]
Posted in: Do you think there will be a war in Iran?
  toms
01-21-2005, 6:27 AM
#26
Originally posted by Captain Wilson Afganistain anyone? Dammit, now you have me worried. Despite my dislike of bush i had, on balance, decided that he would be too bogged down with iraq to be able to carry out his religious plans to "save&quo...  [Read More]
Posted in: Do you think there will be a war in Iran?
  toms
01-20-2005, 7:19 AM
#24
well, on the one hand it the increasing "get troops out of iraq" thing would probably work against him... ...but on the other hand, it is his final term and so he will be thinking about his legacy ("scumbag idiot who destabilised the...  [Read More]
Posted in: NEWS: Girls feed classmates poisoned cake
  toms
01-21-2005, 6:29 AM
#42
wouldn't that post be better suited to the abortion and sex education threads? PLEDGE OR DIE!!!...  [Read More]
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