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#266028
Topic
Global Warming
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266028/action/topic#266028
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Let us not be stopped by that which divides us but look for that which unites us
If we could reduce the world's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios remaining the same, the demographics would look something like this:
60 Asians 12 Europeans 5 US Americans and Canadians 8 Latin Americans 14 Africans

49 would be female

51 would be male

82 would be non-white

18 white

89 heterosexual

11 homosexual

33 would be Christian

67 would be non-Christian


* 5 would control 32% of the entire world's wealth, and all of them would be US citizens



* 80 would live in substandard housing



* 24 would not have any electricity
(And of the 76% that do have electricity, most would only use it for light at night.)



* 67 would be unable to read


1 (only one) would have a college education.

* 50 would be malnourished and 1 dying of starvation



* 33 would be without access to a safe water supply



* 1 would have HIV



* 1 near death



* 2 would be near birth



* 7 people would have access to the Internet


If to take a look at the world from this condensed perspective,
the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes evident.
Think of it!
If you woke up this morning with more health than sickness,
you are luckier than the million that will not survive this week.
If you have never experienced a war,
a loneliness of an imprisonment,
an agony of tortures
or a famine
You are happier, than 500 million persons in this world.
If you are able to go to church, mosque or synagogue without fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death,
you are happier, than 3 billion persons in this world.

* If there is a meal in your refrigerator,



* if you are dressed and have got shoes,



* if you have a bed and a roof above your head,


you are better off, than 75% of people in this world.

If your parents are still alive and still married,
then you are a rarity.

* If you have a bank account,



* money in your purse



* and there is some trifle in your coin box,


you belong to 8% of well-provided people in this world.

If you read this text, you are blessed three times as much, because

1. Someone has thought of you;



2. You do not belong to those 2 billion people which cannot read



3. and... you have had your computer!


Someone has told once:

* Work like you don't need money,



* Love like you've never been hurt,



* Dance like nobody's watching,



* Sing like nobody's listening,



* Be surprised, like you were born yesterday,



* Tell the truth and you don't have to remember anything,



* Live like it's Heaven on Earth.


This is your World!
And you are able to make changes!
Hasten to do good works!
Think of it!
Post
#266011
Topic
The saddest thing ever - WOW Radio!!
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266011/action/topic#266011
Time
Ok!
Well, I got plenty of HW to do, and I have to sleep for Track Practice tommrow (first day---yeah--on January 16! ) but I'll play for a bit----
Alek---this is kinda getting boring---you came here, you made your point-----now are you just gonna keep posting in this soon to be dead for sure thread, or are you gonna contribute/post to other areas of the site, or are you just going to leave now?
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#265974
Topic
Global Warming
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265974/action/topic#265974
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hehe---I got scared one time--- We put up a sign in our window that said "THIS IS A CATHOLIC HOME, AND WE DO NOT ACCEPT LITERATURE FROM ANY OTHER RELIGION" and yet this massive group of 15+ came down our street and stayed knocking at my door for five minutes, laughing when they saw the sign. I shut off the PS2 and went to take a shower--they were finally gone-hehe
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#265970
Topic
Terrorists 'use Google maps to hit UK troops'
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265970/action/topic#265970
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The thing thats crazy is that alot of the data is old---really old---2 years in some cases! (A mall near by that was completed about a year and a half ago still shows as being under construction) but since we have semi-permanent bases their, its amazing that the Terrorists could actually make a mortar attack with the data---I would like to see all of Iraq one big blob on the map, I wonder if they are going to act upon it.
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#265930
Topic
Terrorists 'use Google maps to hit UK troops'
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265930/action/topic#265930
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Terrorists 'use Google maps to hit UK troops'

By Thomas Harding in Basra
Last Updated: 2:06am GMT 13/01/2007



Terrorists attacking British bases in Basra are using aerial footage displayed by the Google Earth internet tool to pinpoint their attacks, say Army intelligence sources.

Documents seized during raids on the homes of insurgents last week uncovered print-outs from photographs taken from Google.

The satellite photographs show in detail the buildings inside the bases and vulnerable areas such as tented accommodation, lavatory blocks and where lightly armoured Land Rovers are parked.

Written on the back of one set of photographs taken of the Shatt al Arab Hotel, headquarters for the 1,000 men of the Staffordshire Regiment battle group, officers found the camp's precise longitude and latitude.

"This is evidence as far as we are concerned for planning terrorist attacks," said an intelligence officer with the Royal Green Jackets battle group. "Who would otherwise have Google Earth imagery of one of our bases?

"We are concerned that they use them to plan attacks. We have never had proof that they have deliberately targeted any area of the camp using these images but presumably they are of great use to them.

"We believe they use Google Earth to identify the most vulnerable areas such as tents."

One soldier has been killed in the past six months following a mortar attack and there have been several injuries.

Since the maps were found intelligence chiefs have been keeping track of where rounds land to see if the insurgents are using them to pinpoint weakly protected areas.

The British camps experience mortar and rocket attacks on a daily basis.

Salvos are fired from up to four miles away and are increasingly accurate.

Yesterday three rounds were fired into Basra Palace at a block close to where The Daily Telegraph was staying. No one was injured.

Intelligence sources also believe that the insurgents are receiving more training and weaponry from Iran to improve their fighting skills. But the British are gathering more intelligence on mortar crews and launching several "strike operations" to detain the operators.

Anyone with the internet can sign up to Google Earth and by simply typing in the name of a location they can receive very detailed imagery down to identifying types of vehicles.

The company is one of several internet outlets that buy aerial imagery, usually taken by aircraft but sometimes by satellite, from governments or mapping companies.

It is unclear how old the maps are but it is believed the Basra images were made within the past two years.

Major Charlie Burbridge, the British military spokesman in Iraq, said: "We take the security of our bases very seriously and we constantly review the means to provide secure accommodation for our soldiers.

"There is a constant threat of reconnaissance missions to access our bases and using these internet images is just another method of how this is conducted."

A Google spokesman said the information could be used for "good and bad" and was available to the public in many forms. "Of course we are always ready to listen to governments' requests," he said.

"We have opened channels with the military in Iraq but we are not prepared to discuss what we have discussed with them. But we do listen and we are sensitive to requests."

There have also been reports that the images are being sold to rogue militias in the market place in Basra.

The British security services are concerned that terrorists will be able to examine in detail sensitive infrastructure such as electricity stations, military basis, and their own headquarters in London.

Soldiers from the Royal Green Jackets based at the Basra Palace base said they had considered suing Google Earth if they were injured by mortar rounds that had been directed on the camp by the aerial footage.

"Even if they did blank out the areas where we are based it is a bit after the horse has bolted as the terrorist now have the maps and know exactly where we eat, sleep and go to the toilet," one soldier said.
Post
#265806
Topic
The saddest thing ever - WOW Radio!!
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265806/action/topic#265806
Time
Yes, yes--but to take your point about how people were "dissing" WOW radio in the first place-----Well, many things are dissed on the internet, hell everything is somewhere---Im 100% positive your going to find people that hate Gundam and hate sliced bread and hate chesses. You can diss, you have the right to, about anything and everything you want. but for people to create crazy accounts to do 2 posts with nothing but insults toward others--its stupid, and just boring------if everyone did that, the internet would be one fucked place, thats for sure-----well, good conversing with you Alek----its 11:35 pm here and I think I'm gonna get some rest now------
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#265801
Topic
The saddest thing ever - WOW Radio!!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265801/action/topic#265801
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Oh, I hope I'm not sounding bad about the 5 paragraph thing, I guess I just think in the first few pages of this, it should not have been blown to such a proportion----It's interesting, but I don't think this is really something worth arguing about---people listen to WOW Radio for tips on playing the game, thats it----but I don't think its the coolest, nor the most dorkeyest thing in the world--its just...there. If I ever start playing WOW, (I doubt it, but my uncle plays it and has been trying to get me to play it) I would probably listen to the station for a while to get a baring on things. Thats it-and I think its very immature and very stupid for people (not you Alekseyev but people like less QQ more pewpew and others) to actually waste time when they could be doing anything else (hell, playing WOW!) to post on a fourm and throw insults at people who don't like the game, or simply just don't care for it! Fuck, the games I love get bad wrap alot (alot of the Gundam Games for PS2 for example) and I swear by them, but I don't go out trolling other fourms in my "spare time" like those others have. Sorry bout the misconception Alex.
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#265794
Topic
The saddest thing ever - WOW Radio!!
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265794/action/topic#265794
Time
Ummm....One question...why would any one waste any time joining a forum to post one time a 5 paragraph mini-essay about WOW or these little posts with nothing but slang and prfanity at others and how people here are talking about it. Do some of you actually have lives? I would not go to a WOW forum to post an essay about how much better Star Wars is, or how SW is just as good as WOW or what ever. I swear--a lot of this (not anyone specifically) is getting on the verge of trolling and is kinda annoying and just shows what odd lengths some people would go too, for no reason at all--but then again-------theres my 2cents. But yes, welcome Alekseyev, hopefuly it won't be your last post here.
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#265371
Topic
Global Warming
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265371/action/topic#265371
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A Christian Exodus from the Arab World

By Amira El Ahl, Daniel Steinvorth, Volkhard Windfuhr and Bernhard Zand

Violence, terrorism and the Islamists' growing influence pose a threat to Christianity in the Middle East. In some countries, members of an unpopular Christian minority are already fighting for their survival -- or fleeing for their lives.

Christians praying in Syria
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Christians praying in Syria
In New Baghdad, the driver of a minibus, a Shiite named Ali, set out at 7 a.m. on the last Sunday before Christmas. A few hours earlier he had received a call on his mobile phone with instructions to pick up five passengers for a long trip outside the city. His first passenger, he had been told, would tell him who the other passengers were and what their destination would be. He was also told not to mention a word to anyone.

The first passenger was a 24-year-old man named Raymon, who was sitting on his suitcase a few blocks away. He directed Ali through the city's dreary east side, where having a Shiite as a driver is a smart move -- first to the Karrada district, where Amir and Fariz boarded the bus, and then to Selakh, where Wassim and Qarram were waiting. By 9 a.m., Ali had picked up all of his passengers and the bus left Baghdad and began traveling to the northeast -- for the 350-kilometer (218-mile) journey to Kurdistan, the only part of Iraq that is anything close to safe.

The five young men traveling in Ali's red Kia were the last seminary students at the Chaldean Catholic Babel College to leave Baghdad. Four priests have been abducted since mid-August, and two others were murdered. Father Sami, the director of the seminary, was kidnapped in early December. The community managed to raise $75,000 to buy his freedom, but after hesitating for weeks, Emmanuel III, the Chaldean patriarch, decided to withdraw the teaching institutions of his community from Baghdad. He ordered the evacuation of the city's four Catholic churches, the Hurmis monastery and the college in the city's Dura neighborhood, but chose to remain behind in the city as the lonely shepherd of a rapidly shrinking congregation.

A history that traces back to the Ottoman Empire

Present-day Iraq was still part of the Ottoman Empire when Iraq's Catholics opened their first priest seminary. They moved it from Mosul to Baghdad 45 years ago and, in 1991, untouched by then dictator Saddam Hussein's regime, they founded the Babel College for Philosophy and Theology in Dora. It would only exist there for 15 years, a flicker in the history of the Chaldean people. "I don't know when or whether we will ever return," says Bashar Varda, the man Father Sami has entrusted with running the seminary.

Christians have lived in the Arab world for the past 2,000 years. They were there before the Muslims. Their current predicament is not the first crisis they have faced and, compared to the massacres of the past, it is certainly not the most severe in Middle Eastern Christianity. But in some countries, it could be the last one. Even the pope, in his Christmas address, mentioned the "small flock" of the faithful in the Middle East, who he said are forced to live with "little light and too much shadow," and demanded that they be given more rights.

There are no reliable figures on the size of Christian minorities in the Middle East. This is partly attributable to an absence of statistics, and partly to the politically charged nature of producing such statistics in the first place. Lebanon's last census was taken 74 years ago. Saddam Hussein, a Sunni who is himself part of a minority, was fundamentally opposed to compiling denominational statistics. In Egypt the number of Christians fluctuates between five and 12 million, depending on who is counting.

Graphic: Christians in the Arab World
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Graphic: Christians in the Arab World
Given the lack of hard numbers, demographers must rely on estimates, whereby Christians make up about 40 percent of the population in Lebanon, less than 10 percent in Egypt and Syria, two to four percent in Jordan and Iraq and less than one percent in North Africa. But the major political changes that are currently affecting the Middle East have led to shrinking Christian minorities. In East Jerusalem, where half of the population was Christian until 1948, the year of the first Arab-Israeli war, less than five percent of residents are Christian today. In neighboring Jordan, the number of Christians was reduced by half between the 1967 Six Day War and the 1990s. There were only 500,000 Christians still living in Iraq until recently, compared to 750,000 after the 1991 Gulf War. Wassim, one of the seminary students now fleeing to Kurdistan, estimates that half of those remaining Christians have emigrated since the 2003 US invasion, most of them in the last six months.

Greater affluence

Demographics have accelerated this development. Christians, often better educated and more affluent than their Muslim neighbors, have fewer children. Because the wave of emigration has been going on for decades, many Middle Eastern Christians now have relatives in Europe, North America and Australia who help them emigrate. Their high level of education increases their chances of obtaining visas. Those who leave are primarily members of the elite: doctors, lawyers and engineers.

But there are deeper-seated reasons behind the most recent exodus: the demise of secular movements and the growing influence of political Islam in the Middle East.

The Christmas procession in Bethlehem: "A wave of emigration"
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The Christmas procession in Bethlehem: "A wave of emigration"
It was a Syrian Christian, Michel Aflaq, who founded the nationalist Baath movement in 1940, a career ladder for Iraqi Christians until 2003 and still a political safe haven for many Syrian Christians today. Former Egyptian President Gamal Abd al-Nasser had no qualms about paying homage to the Virgin Mary, who supposedly appeared on a church roof in a Cairo suburb after Egypt's defeat in its 1967 war with Israel. And former Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, who died in 2004, insisted on sitting in the first row in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity during the annual Christmas service.

But those days are gone. The last prominent Christians -- Chaldean Tariq Aziz, Saddam's foreign minister for many years, and Hanan Ashrawi, Arafat's education minister -- have vanished from the political stage in the Middle East. And since the election victories of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Hamas in the Palestinian Authority, the rise of Hezbollah in Lebanon and the bloody power struggles between Sunni and Shiite militias in Iraq, the illusion that Christian politicians could still play an important role in the Arab world is gone once and for all.

A history of discrimination
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#265216
Topic
Global Warming
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265216/action/topic#265216
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taught to hate them? I was forced in seventh grade to learn Islam for 2 months. while learning how bad the catholics were in the 16th hundreds, and how useless the jews are now. Thats in public school Gomer. To show how disgusting this was, the book said Gihad ment stuggle. In the direct translation, in means holy war btw. So no. We are not being taught to hate them.
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#265206
Topic
Global Warming
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265206/action/topic#265206
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Originally posted by: C3PX
Originally posted by: Go-Mer-Tonic
You are 14.


Whoa! That was perhaps the harshest come back imaginable. Especially toward somebody who proclaims their youth with every post. Humerously Gomer, you use it as an insult and you claim to be much older than that, yet your arguaments and your posts, while not over puncuated and full of caps, have yet to make you seem older than that. You should at least directly address others comments. Instead you just say there must have been a morally higher action to take than the one taken. I must say, I am very happy you have nothing to do with ruling the country. WESHALLPRESERVE is getting a little extreme posting real pictures of real disembodied heads, but I understand the point he is trying to make. You do understand that some of these people whose bodies are now short one head were not all militants? There have been reporters and missionaries and plenty of others. And that is only to mention the American ones, they do this to their own plenty. Does that not make you feel uneasy? You know if they could get their hands on you, they would love to saw your head off, film it and broadcast it to the world. They don't give a damn how soft hearted your are towards them. I can't say war is any beautiful or glorious thing, it is awful. It is more awful than you know. But sometimes there are no alternatives. These people will stop at nothing to achieve their means. NO, not al Muslims are bad, but I laugh at how the popular thing to do is to bash Christians and defent Muslims. I have studied their religion, and to say it is a religion of peace is laughable. The religion of Islam by its very nature is a huge threat to anybody who is not part of it. I have Islamic friends, good friends, but and this is not something I can talk about with them because it is a sore subject, but the truth is that they have rarely ever even opened their Qu'rans. It isn't even so much about what is written, though you certianly don't find much evidence for a peacful religion if you bother to read the thing. The biggest problem is the conditioning these people go through. The things they are taught. They are taught to hate. And that is the biggest problem. Not the religion so much, but people being conditioned to hate. What do you do with that? How do you teach somebody not to hate you, when they have practically been fed this hatred since infancy? There is no real great solution to the problem. Definately not a non violent one. I know you are questioning why we are there in the first place. Well, Saddam could have prevented this whole thing, but he would not give in. In the amount of time he was given he had plenty of places to hid a good amount of weapons. If he didn't have any why not give in right away? No, this is not a black and white subject. Don't ever mistake it for one. This is a VERY complicated mess. Thank God it is not your mess to deal with Gomer. In war usually nobody wins, in this case I think the Iraqi people win. Even if not all of this generation feels that way, the next one might.


Gomer is just going to ignore this entire post and forget about it completely.
Now, on to Hamburger helper!