Nazi Salute.

timothy leary wrote: Who started to split hairs by naming exceptions to the rules, I have no beef with you as long as you remember i before e except after c, lighten up

One thing I never tolerate are grammar nazi's (I kid admins! Don't hurt me!)

That wasn't splitting hairs, just realized that there is not 100% freedom of speech, so I mentioned some cases when they are not.
Someone would have anyway If I havn't


And Pat I meant cases like, well the military, or slander.
Not times when it was just disregarded for some excuse.
Like the Espionage Act, or Patriot Act. Or the various times habius corpus has been suspended.

Snow Dog wrote: I actually created a hot topic. When I posted this I thought i may get a whole lot of you criticizing me. I am gratified so many agree with my views. And whatever Ivan says, if I don't like the way things are in another country, I will say so.

Absolutely brother!

And agreed there, I do believe there are some global rights that even human being should receive, simply by existing and not living wherever. One is freedom of expression!
Besides it's not like America (even Americans) hasn't taken the world's brunt of criticism so I shouldn't be exempt from walking the same road!

But are you classically arrogant?

Vibrationbaby wrote: I know this has nothing to do with nazi saluting but I feel like talking about German airplanes. My first experiences with airplanes was with models and the weirder the more interesting. Plastic kits from Frog and Airfix depicting German aircraft were the most iteresting and I built quite a few. I think my dad was a bit worried at one point though. He bought me a Lancaster once but I had a whole Geswadwer of German fighters. One of the most interesting was the Blohm & Voss Bv 141 experimental reconnaissance  aircraft. It's asymetrical design was revolutionary just like many German designs that explored everything from supersonic flight to variable geometry wings. Suprisingly the Bv 141 was very stable and the engineers  had got it right with the torque generated by  the BMW 801 radial engine  cancelling out the offset godola that contained a three man crew. It was suprisingly stable with textbook pitch and roll characteristics, somewhat of a flying paradox that even suprised the test pilots and designers. It was also a challenge for a 12 year-old kid to make  because of the detail required in painting the glazed crew gondola

Indeed, a very innovative design.  I'm a Bf 109 guy though.  If I could have a whole Geschwader of them, I would.

Then why even say it? 

Equality 7-2521 wrote: Why not also mention that gravity can pull things closer together?

What?
Stifle your mouth.

thellama73 wrote: Gravity is awesome. Governments telling people what they can and can't say, even Peruvian governments, is a path that will, sooner or later, lead to totalitarianism. Boo.

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - March 01 2011 at 17:38

Ivan_Melgar_M wrote: thellama73 wrote: Gravity is awesome. Governments telling people what they can and can't say, even Peruvian governments, is a path that will, sooner or later, lead to totalitarianism. Boo. We got rid of terrorism without sacrificing democracy (this happened in the 90's and early 00's) and without killing all the terrorists as many other countries did. When the leader of Shining Path was captured, it all ended, he's alive in jail even when he was responsible for 70,000 deaths....Not many countries would respect his life. It worked for us. Iván BTW: Do you believe the Government should do nothing when proved that this newspapers used codes to inform and coordinate terrorist acts?

First, actually planning a crime is not the same thing as espousing a political view. Second, why on Earth would you NOT want to kill all the terrorists?

So you don't think restricting the citizenry from voicing their political opinions publicly is a crime against humanity?

thellama73 wrote: So you don't think restricting the citizenry from voicing their political opinions publicly is a crime against humanity?