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Offline Zarax

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Reply #60 on: July 24, 2005, 05:40:05 pm
I'd say Athens, that's where the modern thought born and the bases of our current civilization have been set.
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Reply #61 on: July 24, 2005, 05:43:22 pm
Modern western thought, surely?
 

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Reply #62 on: July 24, 2005, 05:52:22 pm
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Modern western thought, surely?


Err, yes... I forgot to specify, my brain cells looses efficency after midnight it seems...
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Reply #63 on: July 24, 2005, 06:02:31 pm
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Originally posted by Sandwich


*snicker*



That was fair I suppose, at least from an Israeli perspective since we've never enforced the resolutions against you guys.

I mean, God help you if we ever do because there's enough to justify a tactical nuclear strike, but we're busy right now with the dictators we installed 20 years ago. :p
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Offline Mr. Vega

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Reply #64 on: July 24, 2005, 06:37:59 pm
Just to be different, how about Amsterdam?
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Reply #65 on: July 24, 2005, 06:39:31 pm
They'd never get any governing done, with all the hookers......

actually, that'd be perfect.
 

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Reply #66 on: July 24, 2005, 07:35:00 pm
I can't think exactly where but it would have to be in the States or they wouldn't go along with. Torontonians already think their city is the centre of the universe so they wouldn't embrace a world capital either, unless it was in the States in which case they'd play lemming.
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Reply #67 on: July 24, 2005, 07:39:30 pm
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I can't think exactly where but it would have to be in the States or they wouldn't go along with. Torontonians already think their city is the centre of the universe so they wouldn't embrace a world capital either, unless it was in the States in which case they'd play lemming.


Why? They have 1/20th of the world's population and while the power and prestige held by the US is indeed disproportionate, this is likely to decrease from current levels.

I'm a Torontonian and I hardly consider it the capital of the world. it's a nice city, and I like living in it, but not nearly the biggest or greatest.
 

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Reply #68 on: July 25, 2005, 01:55:31 am
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That was fair I suppose, at least from an Israeli perspective since we've never enforced the resolutions against you guys.

I mean, God help you if we ever do because there's enough to justify a tactical nuclear strike, but we're busy right now with the dictators we installed 20 years ago. :p


I'm not going to start a debate in this thread about how Israel's hardly the only country not particularly paying attention to the pathetic little squeaks the UN makes from time to time. ;)
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Reply #69 on: July 25, 2005, 02:09:27 am
Having been watching humanity for about twenty-one years now, I can say the declaration of a capitol city will have to involve something stupendously inane and self-destructive...  I'd say that we'll probably hollow out Earth's core for a wonderful, 'centralized location' sentiment, all the while failing to even consider the effects this would have on the planet.  Ironically, I think the capitol city would, in its construction, become the only habitable city on the planet.

You know what?  I'm going to buy up development rights to the core, so that if someone is silly enough to suggest a city down there, I'll get to play the role of the surly, old squatter.  Is it bad that I generate ambitions based strictly on what will piss people off later on?
 

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Reply #70 on: July 25, 2005, 02:12:10 am
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Having been watching humanity for about twenty-one years now, I can say the declaration of a capitol city will have to involve something stupendously inane and self-destructive...  I'd say that we'll probably hollow out Earth's core for a wonderful, 'centralized location' sentiment, all the while failing to even consider the effects this would have on the planet.  Ironically, I think the capitol city would, in its construction, become the only habitable city on the planet.

You know what?  I'm going to buy up development rights to the core, so that if someone is silly enough to suggest a city down there, I'll get to play the role of the surly, old squatter.  Is it bad that I generate ambitions based strictly on what will piss people off later on?


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Reply #71 on: July 25, 2005, 02:59:24 am
The UN is a weak organization at the moment. I think that eventually it will either be dissolved in favor of a strong, "world state" style government (like the Earth Alliance from B5) or be strengthend. Either way the end result is that same.

I believe that the UN is just a stop-gap measure for something much grander.
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Reply #72 on: July 25, 2005, 03:05:40 am
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The UN is a weak organization at the moment. I think that eventually it will either be dissolved in favor of a strong, "world state" style government (like the Earth Alliance from B5) or be strengthend. Either way the end result is that same.

I believe that the UN is just a stop-gap measure for something much grander.


Hmm, how was it?

Ah, yes... Austrasia, Eurasia and Estasia... Though the names might vary a little*





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Reply #73 on: July 25, 2005, 04:20:12 am
I have heard of Eurasia, but not about the other two.
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Reply #74 on: July 25, 2005, 04:21:34 am
Hull.
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Reply #75 on: July 25, 2005, 04:26:28 am
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I have heard of Eurasia, but not about the other two.


Rictor should be able to recognize and eventually correctly name them...
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Reply #76 on: July 25, 2005, 05:14:47 am
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I have heard of Eurasia, but not about the other two.


Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia - the three fictional super-power blocs in 1984.

Though I would hardly consider something along those lines to be likely. The UN, for all it's problems, still provides a unique and very necessary service. I don't see them going away any time soon; no one, not even the US, is seriously contemplating pulling out.
 

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Reply #77 on: July 25, 2005, 05:19:33 am
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Hull.


Not Milton Keynes?
 

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Reply #78 on: July 25, 2005, 07:25:40 am
Stoke-on-Trent..... :shaking:
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Reply #79 on: July 25, 2005, 11:10:12 am
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Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia - the three fictional super-power blocs in 1984.

Though I would hardly consider something along those lines to be likely. The UN, for all it's problems, still provides a unique and very necessary service. I don't see them going away any time soon; no one, not even the US, is seriously contemplating pulling out.


Oh, so these are names from 1984. Great, clear now.
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