Haflinger
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Incorrect, you exercise your sovereignty in the signing of the treaty.All treaties sign away your sovereignty. That's the whole purpose of them, they compel other people to do things.Sovereignty is the absolute right to do whatever you want whenever you want.It is true that you exercise your sovereignty in the signing of the treaty.
Sovereignty isn't the right to do whatever you goddamn please.
Yes, it is. That's what the word means.
The word derives from medieval ideas about kingship. A sovereign is a medieval king; a sovereign state is one that exercises the same powers as a medieval king had.
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I really love Fushigi Yuugi. You probably shouldn't watch it, else your worldview might suffer even greater damage.
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Why does an enemy combatant deserve a trial in war? Utter nonsense. Are we to try and capture alive every enemy combatant during war and take them home for a trial before our courts?
With normal enemy combatants, yes. You capture them as prisoners of war and release them once the war is over.
That's what the Geneva Convention says.
Bin Laden was accused of war crimes, so the normal thing to do would have been to treat him as a POW and then try him for war crimes.
However... I'm not sure I wouldn't have done what the Americans did. There is a slippery slope argument to be made about assassination, but given that the US already has a history of political assassination, I'm not sure that sparing Bin Laden until the end of a trial would have made a difference there. He's an exceptional figure, and we're unlikely to see anyone like him come along again.
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I don't know where you are pulling that out of (ass perhaps?). I was just regular member for a month and now got into gov and I can't say that much goes behind closed doors the GA has any need or interest to know. Of course there are certain matters that must be handled in private as anyone with half a brain understands though.ODN's governance has been democratic for a long time; open though?No, not hardly.Ah yes, the good old "They don't need to know what we're doing" argument. Works well at proving your openness.
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ODN's governance has been democratic for a long time; open though?
No, not hardly.
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I've raided plenty of nuclear nations that didn't nuke me.This is why you never raid nuke-armed "targets".Unless if you have lots of friends and the power to throw sanctions on the "target"...That's because if they had, you'd have gone and whined to your alliance who then would have demanded sanctions.
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Smells like 2007 in here.
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All treaties sign away your sovereignty. That's the whole purpose of them, they compel other people to do things.
Sovereignty is the absolute right to do whatever you want whenever you want.
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lol, your dreamworld grows more amusing by the day.
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There are actually quite a few supporters of GAI on the left of the political spectrum. I actually first encountered the idea (when a mere teenager) in the works of SF writer Mack Reynolds, who can best be described as just to the right of Karl Marx.
It's the middle that hates GAI, and I have no idea why.
I don't really know where I fit on the whole left-right dichotomy. On the one hand, the best-organized country I've ever lived in was Iceland, which is clearly a socialist country. On the other hand, the main reason I think it works as well as it does (and it doesn't always work, if you remember the recent financial crisis there) is because Icelanders loathe the kind of bureaucracy that both left and right take for granted here in Canada.
Anyway to get back to the point of the OP, which is talking about income taxes. Income taxes only work in a money-based system. Remove money and they fail entirely.
Since Warren Buffett does not engage in conspicuous consumption (as the OP correctly asserts), when you tax him, you are taking money away from the people who make money off of storing his money, i.e. investment folks. Some of them do engage in such consumption of course.
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GATO opened a channel for all its allies to coordinate in the run-up to the inevitable war, there was some small commie alliance in it which was also allied to ODN, and over everyone's objections, they brought WalkerNinja into the channel. I don't know why the commie alliance was so !@#$@#$ retarded as to believe that WalkerNinja would defend them in a war against NPO, but they insisted that we were all wrong about ODN, that they were super allies and would stick with the commies. Of course, WalkerNinja sat around for a few hours taking logs, announced that ODN would not help the commies, and then sent his logs to NPO and said that WE were gathering a coalition to attack NPO!!
The small commie alliance was CPCN, one of the forerunners of The International. WalkerNinja actually claimed GATO was planning on attacking NpO.
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I'm going to laugh when him picking up another T causes the Lakers to lose it all.
Technicals get reset when the playoffs start. I'll be really surprised if he gets a single one during playoffs.
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It's only a tool of war if it's used tactically and not for war avoidance.
Avoiding war is a tactic.
You've just said "It's only a tool of war if it's used tactically but not if it's used tactically."
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That would be proposition btw. And no. lol.
For those who appear to be unaware, this is satire. I kinda borrowed most of the wording from a rather more famous old convention.
Peace mode, like nuclear weapons, like cruise missiles, like spies, like navies, is a tool of war. Trying to outlaw it by war is going to work just as well as fighting wars to stop people from firing nukes.
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The linked graph is to a nation currently at 52K.
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It was 300 millions and 10k Tech, but the request was dropped only three days later after a GPA-LSF negotiation. The attack on the GPA also came more than two months later and there was no mention of the LSF incident in the very articulate DoW. The two events were hardly related, if at all.
I know there was no mention of the incident in the DoW. It was however the reason why NATO supported the Woodstock Massacre.
I know this because I was MADPed to them then
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Uh, hi there. I am one of the guys who "did not fight at all". And by not fight at all I assume you meant blew apart 10 nations (a couple solo who attacked me) from 4 alliances until they got to 2k infra and then went to peace mode. But sure I hear that being called not fighting all the time, it must be a new thing.
You're in the second list, the guys who fought for a few weeks and then quit.
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lol, tech. I haven't bought tech in sooo long...
Man I wonder why I still play this game sometimes.
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Of your 17, less than half were ordered into peace mode. And only 4 or 5 are in a range where your side is really fighting anyway.
Another interesting fact, they don't represent every nation above a certain range, as y'all were trying to do.
Wait a minute, you're now claiming that we're not really fighting in the 20-60K range?
Well OK, we're not so much fighting in there as we are taking out the trash. I could go on and list your ZI and near-ZI nations in that range, but that would be introducing yet more facts that conflict with your stunned perception of reality.
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Just try and stop us.
I look forward to you somehow figuring out a way to force NPO's nations out of peace mode.
(Hint: You can't.)
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There is a difference between being surprised at hypocrisy and illustrating it.
I've been complaining about Karma hypocrisy since, well, Karma.
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Okay then can you tell me why it's remarkable that 12% of MK's NS hasn't fought at all?
Because Doomhouse allegedly is keeping NPO at war because peace mode should not be used to avoid alliance wars completely.
Or so you guys say.
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This isn't a list of who's sitting in peace mode.
This is a list of nations who have not fought at all.
Try doing a comparable list of NPO, I think you'll find that a lot less than a quarter of their infra has been in dove for the entire war.
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I don't think Dallas can guard Westbrook all that well, but they should be able to handle Durant. Wouldn't be surprised to see that one go in a sweep.
Heat-Bulls is ... well unless the Heat can pull a little 8-on-5 magic, they're going out here. The talent level drops off so much behind the big three and the Bulls play really good defense.