everyone plagiarizes Gilgamesh
Luo Guanzhong be like "hooo izzz Gigameshu"?
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Convince me that this is worse than the New Jedi Order books.
he gave the maximum punishment he was allowed to give
Actually if you go back, he didn't.
As Lieutenant Spieksma says, had this been referred to a general court, the sentence would have been death.
He did a field court because it was the LEAST punishment he could possibly give once he knew what the crime was.
Hendricks was a fool
And the fool managed to connect.
And that's the problem. Zim wasn't where he needed to be mentally. And Frankel is right that if Zim couldn't stay impersonal and professional in this case, then putting him back in ranks would be a mistake.
Yes, regionally.
The sparsely populated west has the most, where the Indian and Eurasian plate are colliding. The eastern half is SOMEWHAT protected by the North American plate (which actually reaches parts of Japan) and the Filipino plate. But if you look at the map, there are places that are safe-ish, but the whole country gets them.
Define win.
I have little doubt the CCP will retain control over their westphalian state. But if maintaining continuity of government is winning then the taliban is winning.
You're still thinking of the game as a great powers contest, a perception which frankly I reject, because America isn't one great power. It's several powers, transposed upon each other geographically and each fighting for control over continuity of the empire they happen to geographically share.
People who think the wars of the 21st century will be about nations are playing the game by old rules that haven't been the case since Bill Clinton.
The wars of the 21st century will be about philosophy, and once they begin in earnest they'll be every bit as bloody as the 30 years war was.
explain away China's success
No, I'm denying its existence entirely. What you, and frankly, the CCP consider success I call an unsustainable speculation bubble combined with a handful of actual catastrophes waiting to happen.
The amish grocery store down the street doesn't have a card reader.
I have no account on facebook. Or twitter. Or tumblr. OR FUCKING REDDIT (anymore... ALL YOU HYPOCRITICAL TRAITORS). I have no smartphone; I have a flip phone with nothing on it.
I use burner email accounts for everything but logins for bill paying (utilities, etc).
I have been doing this since the 90's.
solely
But it's not solely, and we both know that GB. I look down on you because you're a CLOSET anti-semite. I look down on everyone who's a closet anything, because the only thing I give people respect for is the degree to which I believe they live their beliefs.
Tired of seeing people celebrating and completely blinding themselves to the fact that this is taken place through the exact same deplatforming mechanisms that have been used against us.
I'm anti-SJW in the same way that the SJWs claim to be anti-racist.
There's nothing hypocritical about it. I don't have a problem with the existence of power, just which direction its pointed at.
I think you're taking the wrong lesson here. The lesson is thus:
Sex sells.
They came face to face with the reality of what their company is, and realized that they were deciding whether or not to commit corporate suicide.