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Emerald... I don't  know if you had the answer pre-preppaired or something, because there is NO WORD in my post implying that "We can' t do nothing, it' s their government' s fault". Maybe you have learned the manifesto so well that you go on repeating it no matter what they say to you?

Of course it' s their government' s fault, but there' s something we can do. Restrict tariffs, impland a micro-credit system for their governments and people, build factories in that countries taking the advantage of the low salaries they ask (compared with the salaries of the workers in the origin country), aid that countries to implement a democratical free market system...

Basically what people like you refuse to do, hypocritically conforming to give them a few crumbs in spite of recognising that free market works and communism not.

Fortunatelly this is changing, and the Peace Nobel has gone this year to someone who has become inmenselly rich giving micro credits in India (but also helping millions of people to start a business and get a life, becoming wealthy enough to pay that micro credits back)

Everyone wins, just the opposite to communism, which is "everybody is equally... poor. Except the Party commissioners, of course"

SSH. Tariffs are something that is becoming more and more rare in Western counties. They have never been really popular in capitalist counties, but sometimes some governments like to populistically keep some minority sectors of the economy with tariffs in the import goods or with subsidies. In Spain that minority sectors are Coal and Shipyars. I am sure each West country has a couple of sectors that are being over protected of the foreign competition, but I repeat... THAT never TAKES a COUNTRY to POVERTY, since that country is free to sell their products in any other contry, or market (let's remember that those countries that "we shed to poverty" had 20 years ago half of the world to commerce with, and they were not specially wealthy)

So, basically, if you are a baker who owns a bakery in a neighbourhood with 200 people, and 5, 7, or 10 of that guys say you that they preffer to eat their own crappy home made bread than yours, what you gotta do it sell the bread to the other 195, 193 or 190 guys.

If you don' t sell a bread and you get no money in your safe it' s not because of those 5, 7 or 10 guys, it' s probably because your boss is a corrupted "communist" with 100 or 200 USD in Switzerland.

EDIT: And to prove that Westers counties are open to commerce, you just gotta consult the trade balance of those countries, which is majority negative (they import more than export)

Oh, come on, I thought you were kidding, you can' t be serious.

Do you really mean that if a governor in, let' s say, Pennsylvania, says that cheaper coal coming from Zaire is not good for the american economy and forces the President to ban it, that' s going to seriously affect Zaire' s economy?

What happens with the other 197 counties of the world? Do you really mean that all the countries from the first world do have a systematic program to ban certain products coming from the third world?

I don' t think so... and "now you said it..." doesn' t work for me, sorry.

Have you gone to a toy store lately? Take a look to the labels. China, India, Bangladesh... When an economy from the third world gets opened to free market the first world happily go there to stablish factories where the workers are less paid than in their original contries (but are still better paid than the average worker of that coutry). Everybody is benefited. Many counties, Polan, Spain, Taiwan, Czech Republic, etc have been benefited of that.

Saying that "The first world does not buy my timber/wool/coal/rice, ergo, I am poor" is silly. No product has been overally banned by "the first world".

Less than 0.5 % compared with the other reason, you must agree...

Anyway, the thing that really pisses me off is when privileged, upper-middle-class white people (specifically Americans with their SUVs and food courts) bitch about how bad they've got it with rising gas prices, and illegal immigrants, and over-population. I don't know if any of you have been to Africa, but those ads on T.V. are true. They are actually out there, and are actually starving to death on a daily basis.

My friend, that' s a very common way of thinking, since it' s on the international left manifesto, but it has a problem... It's not true. It' s not "Greedy America" or "the Capitalism" or "Colonialism" which has take the third world to where they are. You only need to know a bit of history to realise that the problems of the third world starts just when the colonialism ends, and those countries abandon the protective umbrella of the Colonial contries to become independant, which might have not been a problem itself, but then majoritary become communist dictadures. Just take a glance to those countries' flags and you' ll easily locate lots of stars, hammers and sickles and even a Kalashnikov, as a show of the "new horizons" that those countries took.

Saying that those countries have been "overexploitated" by the first world is quite common, but it's a lie as well, since those countries majority decided to break with any kind of commercial exchange with he first world and align with the USSR. No commercial exchange, no possible overexploitation.

Just take a look to India, Cuba, Iraq (Pre Gulf war, if you want, I don't  mind...), Egypt, North Corea, Vietnam and the black Africa Countries. Compare those with Countries which chose to go on being close to the West Countries and accept the laws of free market as Singapur, South Corea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Taipei, Israel and Japan... See the difference?

In Cuba, Palestine, Zaire, people does not have hungry because "America is Evil". In those countries people is hungry because their leaders, auto-declared "socialists" or "communists" have entered in the list of the 20th biggest fortunes in the world... In North Corea the people dies of famine while his leader has started an armamentistic war that the contry can' t afford... and the list goes on.

Inneficient economical politics is what takes those coutries to the situations and nothing else.

Feel lucky that your parents didn' t had the same ideas than you...

I'm not 100% sure, but I want to believe.






I also want the poster 

Do you know that those "Alien spacecrafts" seen in the poster were made by Billy Meier with pieces of washing machines, no?

I think that Aliens exist, and they are visiting us.

I think they are smart enough to cover the vast distances of the space and are intelligent enough to develope a stealth technology that helps him not to be detected by our radars.

And I think that they are idiot enough for not remembering to switch the lights off when they arrive to our orbit, because they allways are photographed as blurry light shources. 

I don' t want to focus the discussion on the quirky things... I preffer the game without them.

But missions are easier and more repetive, IMHO.

Of course, Liberty city is SUPERB! But San Andreas was as great (About atmosphere and detail, I am not taking of th emap size) as Liberty City (Considering the TECHNOLOGY they had in the time when both games were released).

I feel teleported when I a play in LC, I feel that nothing better could be done to represent a real city in a game made in 2008... but I felt the same when I was playing in LS, SF and LV in 2004.

I enjoyed inmenselly the change of directions that took in SA, the badlands, the desert, Las Venturas... I really liked Mike Toreno' s missions. I felt that there was a logical evolution between the guy making an easy drive through in mission 1 to the Jamesbondish guy we had at the latest.

Mike is allways the same. It is just that the missions are longer, and there are more enemies, but mission 5 is vistually identical to mission 25.

Dunno... I have the same feeling that I have when I compare an action movie made in 1981 (Raiders of the Lost Ark) with one made in 2007 (Spiderman 3, for example). The newers are tecnology better? Yes. Do I preffer the new ones? Definitelly not.

And I am not saying I am not liking GTA IV. I really like it...

It is just that I feel that "it' s not that much" as the media says. I mean... 100% in IGN, 100% in meristation, 5/5 in Play Station magazine, etc... IMHO, too much. 8.5 of 10 would have been enough.

EDIT: To explain it better... GTA: SA was a Vin Disel movie, and GTA IV is more like Coppola. I' d preffer the second option if I had to go to the cinema, but I am not sure about a videogame I had to play.

I have played it from the release day and I have some conclussions (Comparision between GTA IV and GTA:SA):

Bellic is not so carismatic as CJ. (As Carl Johnson, I mean, but hehe... Chris Jones is more carismatic than Bellic as well...)

Missions are easier. (Maybe because I had to aim with the mouse in GTA:SA and with GTAVI I aim "automatically", since I am playing with a PS3 sixaxis?
Missions in GTA IV hasve less variety: In SA there was which was about aiming polices where Catalina was robbing a bank, if you let the polices reach to his weapons with their hands, they would shoot at you and make the alarm. You had to steal something to the army, drive trucks, get into an Hercules aircraft with a motorcycle and make it explode, get into a carrier and steal a fighter, make more races, sneak into houses and steal things... Dunno, I have the sense that 90% in GTA IV are "drive and shoot to people".
GTAIV has less "silly things that make you feel this is a videogame and not the real life". The "hidden objects" are pigeons with a discreet orange blow, not horseshoes or shells floating in th air, for example.
Radio stations were far better in GTA:SA, IMHO.
GTA IV map is smaller, but has more volume of things happening... Not sure if this is good or not, since I loved to go to the desert of San Andreas, put my leather jacket on, and ride my Harley with a country station on...

Anyway, I am discovering that GTA IV is not that great as the media says... except for the city. It' s just the possibility of walking in NY and the feeling that it is alive (without danger of getting your wallet stolen) that makes it great for me.

No probs, I didn' t know you goofed, I was not trying to be a smart ass...

Which is the second episode  from the Simpsons, Toumas? Bart, the General?

First I was almost sure that you were the one making weight lifting, along with 2 guys who resembled you. Now I quite sure that all 4 are you, photoshopped... correct? 

I didn' t like the Simpsons since, let' s say, season 7 or 8. Maybe since they focused on Homer... why? He makes so stupid things that it is obvious that he has some mental dissorder or something. Is it fun to laugh with that? It is like laughing of the animated gif of that retarded fat kid, the one resembling Andy Pen15... Pathetic. I liked Futurama a lot, maybe it had indeed a little loss of quality, but I would liked to see a "final".

I tried to see Family Guy. I swear. I gave it 5 or 6 opportunities, it had to be good if many people liked it and if it had so good critics...

I really hated it.

It not only didn' t succeded in making me LAUGH, but also failed on it's attempt to make me SMILE. A bad copy of a character that was not good (Homer). Total floor (opposit to "top"?) humour. I hope it' s cancelled soon.

24 never catched me.

Lost and Prison Break have to finish soon, because, since I could stand a couple more seasons of Lost, I think Prison Break needs a grand finale before turning (too) boring.

And I love Dexter, as my avatar shows, but I think they should do the third season and stop.

Somebody likes "How I met your mother"?

It's funny that you mention Indira Gandhi and Benazir Bhutto as an example of female leaders respected by their population ^_^.

The TV focused on me (Laughing) and Lorena (laughing as well) when Alonso broke his motor in the GP of Catalunya... Does somebody have the images/seen them/etc?

Hey Radiant... Actually, no. We don' t want you to join our group in Paris.

hehe...



Of course we don' t mind if you join us, foooool! We will probably have to open another thread for the pre-mittens in Paris.

Hey, pre-mittens in Paris! See you there, Quintaros and Disco. Everybody else is invited, though! We must have a date there.

Darth, send me a PM with your ideas, because I am basically "passing" of gathering info about everything regarding to Mittens, since I know I just gotta:

Get a big car.
Drive to the north.

Huw, I think that you are trying to keep the flame of a thread that interests nobody, actually...

As said, I probably made the mistake of stablishing that pattern based on people above 30 years... I think it's changing in the younger generations.

Non conjugating, no need to add particles in the verb since the subject, direct object and indirect object have to be mentioned... Yes, English is a good languaje for being able to speak soon with not much studying...