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World War I had a peculiar inertia that once started, it could not be easily stopped. No one person could be blamed for the beginning of the war. It was the inevitable result of colonialism run amok.
Interesting that we have such different spins on the methodology... I follow the line of one of my mentors (a former Ranger in the Pacific); he was never afraid of sustanined fire as the shooter likely was in the spray and pray mode, the shot, pause, shot mode was what scared him. According to him, "That SOB was looking right at what he was shooting at!"One shot; one kill.
Exactly. It's a waste of ammo. It only is effective en masse and in close quarters. If a man is well trained in combat, he can achieve his objectives with any makeshift weapon, so long as he is sufficiently competent to employ it. Samson did pretty well with the jawbone of a donkey. Muhammad Atta and his crew did quite a bit of damage with box cutters. It really doesn't make any difference with someone who is trained, focused, and determined to succeed.
This is highly possible. The Iroquois were one of the most highly sophisticated civilizations in North America.
I can make any semi-auto loading rifle fully automatic without modifying it one bit. All I have to have is a belt loop and a steady hand/hip. It's called bump firing.
I'm thinking this topic should be moved to another forum. Perhaps General History Chat? We've kinda strayed from the study of History I think.
To be honest, Moses' document was sufficient. No actually God's one law in Eden was sufficient. But stupid man couldn't even follow one lousy rule. So then ten rules had to be made, and again man blundered. So now we have lawyers that must spend years of their lives learning all the rules we have now, and guess what? Crime is at an all time high, and lawyers are never lacking work. So what will we do? Add more rules–take some away? It wouldn't matter, man won't follow them, he never has, and most likely he never will.
Adolph Eichmann was a bureaucrat too. Hannah Arendt taught us about the banality of evil no? Oh nevermind, you're right, it's not the bureaucrat's fault. It's ours for letting him have a job in the first place. We deserve what we get.My bed awaits.
I've got a few of those as well. My guess is that if there is one offending add-on installed for you, it would be SmarterFox since that tweaks things under Firefox's hood. You might want to try temporarily de-enabling it or uninstalling it to see if that clears up your problem.
I've been suspicious of that addon. I don't really like it anyway. I'll remove it.
I think it has outlived its usefulness and a new Constitutional Convention could come up with something better. The founding fathers were not guided by the hand of a deity and there are major flaws inthe document that have to be constantly worked around in order to get things done. It is like an oldFord--it was great in its day, but it is time to turn it in for a new model. That is my opinion.
What could we come up with that is better? Our Constitution is the oldest in the world and is still functioning (or trying to despite the best efforts of the Republicrat two party dictatorship to subvert it).Here is a list of things our government ignores:Congressional supremacy in the three branches of government. How? The President can now declare war (with executive orders), declare martial law (executive order again), suspend habeas corpus (see martial law), and virtually sign treaties via the State Dept. The Supreme Court overturns and nullifies laws based on political ideology (handpicked by the President see FDR's Court Packing attempts etc...).Posse Comitatus is now dead. The President can federalize national guard troops, and has established the Northcom division that deploys domestically. The Constitution says states may have militias (and were never to be federalized hence defeating the purpose of having militias). The 2nd Amendment is being nullified in places like Washington D.C. and New York City even when the Supreme Court has ruled they couldn't outlaw handguns...yet they still do.I could go on and on, but it's obvious that the Constitution is not broke; it's the government that has defecated on the Constitution over and over again that is the real culprit. We have careerist politicians and bureaucrats who have become distant mini tyrants who have pillaged the people and stuffed their coffers with our blood, sweat, and tears. Thomas Jefferson said that the liberty tree must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots. It doesn't have to be actual blood necessarily, but liberty will fade if we the people allow the government, our partner, to renege on its obligations as explained in the contract we signed in actual blood over two hundred years ago.
Okay fair enough. Man is corrupt by nature. Out of the hearts of men come slanders, murderers, thieves etc…etc…etc…Priests don't need taxes, they need tithes.Kings don't need taxes, they need tribute....there is a difference.Craftsmen don't need taxes, they need to produce a product.Soldiers do need taxes to get paid, but they produce a product....security.Now as to the man as independent and free. Man has been given inalienable rights (well our governmental philosophy says so anyway), that boils down to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Now having established this, man's rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness can and often is, threatened by tyranny. What greater form of tyranny is there than to forcefully extract wealth from someone? Taxation is a forceful extraction of wealth from an individual, however, in our nation's case, the people are the extractors since the people are the government. So we are extracting taxes from ourselves for our mutual benefit. This is fine, but when our elected representatives begin to arbitrarily raise our tax burden to offset budgetary blunders, prop up reckless entitlement programs, and bail out irresponsible businesses and banks because of cronyism and good ole boy networks, we have tyranny of the most pernicious kind. The ability to tax is the ability to enslave, and this is precisely the message we sent to King George III when Parliament began to levy excise taxes and other taxes without our direct representation. Okay, so I submit to you WillyD that our current Congress is beginning to go in the same direction as Parliament did in the 18th century. It is burdening the people with an ever increasing tax yoke because of utterly irresponsible spending practices due to the ever increasing size of government and the ever growing costs of being a global superpower. Finally, our taxes are collected by a bureaucracy that has little to no oversight by the people themselves, and this too is a vile form of tyranny. Once this form of tyranny is established, it is not easily removed, and I daresay it cannot be reformed without a serious contest of wills, which may ultimately end in bloodshed, or even worse, the destruction of this nation altogether.
What extensions do you have installed? That hasn't happened to me (yet).
I do have a few. I have SmarterFox, Java Quickstarter, Microsoft.net Framework Assistant, TV Fox, FireShot, Download Helper, Capture Fox, Anycolor, Yahoo Toolbar, and Java Console.
In an unrelated manner, I have noticed that when I'm posting on SMF forums (here, WoH, and CL), Firefox has a tendency every now and then to crash on me….well not crash, but shut down arbitrarily. I recently upgraded to the latest version, but it appears to be somewhat unstable when textareas are loaded up. Perhaps this is the root for the time out issue. I don't know.
I might also add that the Iliad and Odyssey were integral to the core of the Greek mythology. They were a part of the cosmogony actually as the time of the heroes and legends. Achilles and Odysseus were contemporaries with Heracles, therefore, they were mythological figures themselves in the same aspect as the Olympian gods. These tales could have been Dorian or even older, and probably were.
