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Hmm, a one man takeover? I want to know what happened to him in the end. It seems so dump that it almost could be true in away

I dont feel bad for him, somebody find the card and spend, spend spend! Trip to NY from SF, 120 dollars Hotel 25 a night Losing your credit card, priceless

Duke, you should see the Japanese and South Korean parliaments, they are interesting just to watch. Although the sane sort of stuff happens here to, it makes for interesting viewing. One of the best comebacks i ever heard was in the House of Representative here. The treasuer called the opposition leader a coward, he shot back with "captain courageous" not being able to challenge his boss for top job, which he had already said publically he wanted.

Congrat Hlajackey, well deserved! Always nice and considerate! Congrats Vandy! Thanks for all your work in keeping ST in Tip-Top shape! P.S Dam my infernal timezone! I never get these ST jokes

Oh don't even try and justify the actions of the IRA. quote> I never said the IRA action were good, infact i qoute myself here "I dont condone actions of the IRA/INLA or similar groups on the British side". But however they saw it as the best option to remove the British from what they saw as "their country", because there was no way they could take on the British Army headfirst, but without doing something (either diplomatic or militaristic) they would get nowhere. Unfortunately for all involved the IRA meant bombings, shootings and reprisal attacks to get their goal and they justified it as their best way and those commited to peaceful means got shunted . I don't agree with this and there is always a justification for something, but it is also matter of opinion and thus always going to be a sticky situation. I was stressing this point, your terrorist is a freedom fighter to another, you have different opinions. Mine was that it should be all Ireland but after indepth studies, of my own accord i came to the conclusion that it really couldn't be and that it was always going to be English territory (bar some huge unforseen event making all of NI wanting/making to be part of ROI) and that slef-determination for the people that live there is the best option.

For the benefit of Bias, I am an Australian born citizen of Irish descent ( my whole direct family are Irish citizens, and so am i, dual-citizenship ) On a side point Belfast i would like to point out this quote "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" (I dont remember where it's from or who said it). Calling the IRA a terrorist group obviously belongs to your opinion, and i respect that opinion. I believe that the IRA's violent action took place because of the mis-treatment of Catholics and because they were mainly of Irish descent, that's why they were popular for a while and hence the republican opinion (free themselves from their rulers, the Brits). When the two sides, Irish and British actually started treating each other like equals in the 90's, especially after Omagh, the violence started winding down (Bar the hardliners on EITHER side and rather regretably the 1998 bombing. ). I dont condone the actions of the IRA/INLA etc or similar groups on the British side. The best option is the current one, self-determination, free from National Governments influence, but thats not saying that they dont have a part.

Side point here but Australia was actually the first country to defeat Japan on land, on the Kokoda Track in PNG alone, with the help of the local people who got nicknamed "fuzzy-wuzzies". 10,000 army of well trained soldiers (Japan) versusing about 6-7000 reserves (AUS). Considering Australia is still part of Britian that would be considered a "Technical English win". China was a country during WW2 but wasn't actually very organised and there was only colonies in the costal areas. The Vietnamese didn't like the Japanese but didn't like the French either remember that and most of the other nations around this time didn't really have the military to defeat Japan. Alot where still French/English colonies aswell (bar Phillipines which was US and those of the Dutch and Portugese). So i think casting them aside is quite rough. The war would be quite different if Japan hadn't attacked Pearl Harbour. The US helped enormously in both theartes but it's effect was the greatest in Pacfic Ocean. Thats not to say that their efforts in Europe are to go unoticed. The Allies did it together, including USSR, Britain and the US. France had been taken but dont over-look the efforts of the French Underground, they helped enormoulsy with D-Day. I would say that the US did "save the allies asses in WW2" but thats just being self-indulgent saying it in an argument. Aswell as being totally immature to resort to saying that if you can't win an argument and need to try and guilt-trip the person. The US ensured British survival (England - 942 years without invasion) and when the USSR got involved Germany was toast. Britain needed the USSR and US and vice versa.

The bill is controversial but i think truely what will undermine secularism is what needs to be examined. But more to the point this is about the BNP not France or the burqa. Back on Topic, the idea is scary that those people could have been opened up for revenge and vilification etc. But personally part of me wants to say haaa, serves you right and all but to ban them goes back to freedom of expression and like how some countries banned communist/socialist parties when it is a valide view. I donlt really think that there is much to fear from the BNP as they appeal to a small part of English society. I dont think they will ever get a majority in parliament (but they could get balance of power (freak event) which is scary) but i'm sure there would be overwhemling public accord where they couldn't get their policies through. I think we won't really need to worry about them. But the releasing of information that is private is scary.

Hey! Nice work man! What about other cities in Europe aswell or ones outside of Asia/Europe/US? Just a thought, but it's yours so you decide! You really have a knack and you have gone the whole nine with the building sets! Magnificent!

Nice work! I really love the humour in this story! Keep it up!

Nice statelite photos. Wait, you mean there real? Bloody hell? Where do you get the time and patience? *Bows down to SC4 God* They are amazing, i really like that you didn't use the maxis build set for Venice and most of Rome. Imagine the time just on doing the plugins! You have got my vote for most realistic CJ!

Nice start, i like the alternate history and the wit. Keep it up!

I think the term is more based on population as you would still call Mumbai (India) a city even though it lacks alot of what Exile believes a city needs to have. I believe a city is a population of over 100,000. Town is between 10,000-50,000 and in bewteen these to is large town. For it to be classified as city though it has to be it's own seperate identity. Like where i live in the North East of Sydney is around 300,000 people but we are not a city becuase we are just dormitory suburbs really, aswell as a few other factors. Like Shadow (Welcome back fellow Sydney-sider ) said Wollongong and the Central Coast could be Cities in their own right but they are just the sprawl from Sydney, just lifted a few clicks north and south and so on. Newcastle is definetly a City (Population near 800,000) But thse could be based on the fact that i have spent my whole life growing up in a city of over 3 and a half million people so calling a 10,000 strong place a city to me seems kinda strange. For a country like Ireland, Dublin is really the one-horse city (Groan!) Cork is a city as you said over 200,000 people, after that you drop to 70,000. So two cities but Dublin is like the whole centre of the country so i would bend the rules and say that Cork would be a large town. I have actually be to Ireland (not just Dublin but all over) so my argument has some crediblilty. Tokyo is a Conurbation, it's Tokyo-Yokohama now. Conurbation is where city gets so large it merges with another city. Just look at the west side of Tokyo bay, the development goes the whole way to Yokohama.

Nice work Beebles. I like the curves in that main road with no houses on it but just a little bit away.

Wow. I'd conrgatulate that guy for such a sterling effort. Such finese although he should actually be in jail still.

Sorry for the double post guys. I hit reply twice. My net isn't the best.

I was trying to think of a song that the words could easily be changed to mention all the bad things he has done but i couldn't find a song long enough. (Or a good singer but thats a different point) Bush, was a joke, a thief, a general loser. A whole lot of terms. He was so bad he generated his own phrase "Bushisms". I hope that never leaves the english language as a reminder of just how bad things got. The US is healing itself. Once again the people have had enough. Is there no way possible that we can prevent Public Enemy number 1 from doing any more damage to the enviroment? The land that i grew up thinking could never change has surprised me. Those people who voted for Barrack have once again have show that we can overcome. The Republican party deserves to spilt and be scattered to the four winds. They have enforced upon the citizen of the US and thus a lot of the english speaking world things that should never had happen. The time is for healing. May the world move forward now instead of being stuck in neutral, sliding down the hill with no brakes. For a non-US citizen watching on, i breathed a sigh of relief. With our previous kiss arse leader now gone a new chapter begins for our relations with the US. I look foward to the future and hope that may all involved be ready to take the neccesary steps to truly bring about the change we need. Screw the innaugarations, Barrack act now, save our world from more enivromental destruction, the best things happpen when good men do nothing. Barrack act! The time for change is now! Start now!

WHAT? More expensive? I fail to understand, if a train isn't "profitable" then trams, busses, shuttles. Get people out of their cars! If no profit what so ever then just find the mass transit that is least expensive and subsidies it. If, as i have been told that LA and SF airports have little more room and the car route is congested build it. In gact just build anyway, it's ther for when fossil fuels run out.

I am not from California or the US but i would have voted Yes on 1A. You need to build it to take pressure of your roads and i think Duke that you are just a continous nay-sayer. I think you should get a little bit of FDR into you "It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." Atleast we would have tried and the infrastructure is there for the eventual fall of fossil fuels. Or unless your pessimistic ideals persist. Want an example of a "fail" project which was actually a small miracle? Look at Minneapolis-ST Paul Light Rail. The system was may more popular than expected. I know that a proposed high speed rail that has been talked about here for ages should go ahead anyway, even if it won't recover the loss for a while, not every government project is destined to make them money and infact i believe most government services are run at a loss. The proposed Sydney-Canberra- Melbourne route would be a great step (great future expansion) even if it doesn't quite match up to airlines as of yet, the idea is to build for the future, not short term little ad-hoc which seems to have been the continous idea of Western Governments for too long. Pay of the debt and such when you should have been investing it for the future. Want a good example? Take a look at my state of New South Wales in Australia. Enough to scare the hell out of you when almost all of the infrastructture is falling apart of funding neglect, after only 5-8 years, some services can't even get money to pay bills that have skyrocketed with no funding and massive backlogs. Build the rail and they will come. Improve the links in the city aswell(like LA's metro) and 1 Less traffic 2 Less emissions + Greener Economy 3 Greater productivity(for those who believe everything is money), Less time in traffic. 4 The flow on effects into other sectors of the economy like the Great Depressions works, which in the current climate will help. Also Duke, the class is half-empty.

It was around 4-ish when he made the speach here and in fact i had been watching the results for most of today at school. So technically it's the 5th here also.

Woops. Didn't notice the extra page, sorry guys and gals.

Australia says Yes to Obama! Yes we believe you! Today my faith in you was restored!

Nice work you two! Keep it up!

I am Australian and i was happy when we kicked the old lot out to replace them with them and now they want to censor my net. You have no mandate to do so! Child pornography and as such is wrong but filtering the nnet is a one-size fits all approach. Which won't work! If they do there will always be another way! I didn't vote for an Authoritarian government! Censoring the net is the first step to a place of no free speech. Shame Kevin shame! No blanket approaches! Did i make myself clear? Obviously it's not that extreme, sure take down kiddie porn and such, but i fear it will used elsewhere.