[CP5670]

It is called §uÞª® |_€3t $re£k and is far superior to 1337 5p33k!! Actually it only takes me about a minute to write one of these things since I copy/paste a lot of the stuff.

[delta_7890]

Originally posted by CP5670
It is called §uÞª® |_€3t $re£k and is far superior to 1337 5p33k!! Actually it only takes me about a minute to write one of these things since I copy/paste a lot of the stuff.

...I never got a reply as to how you do that...  Someone said it was magic, and all went down hill into lockage from there...  Granted I had a helping hand, but was doomed for lockage anyways.

Oh crap...I'm probably endangering this thread too...  *runs*

[CP5670]

Sorry, I don't think I saw any post from you about this before. Anyway, there are basically two kinds of special characters I use here: nonstandard Arial characters, and Symbol characters. The Arial ones are contained in the normal Arial font but cannot be accessed through the keyboard directly. To use these, go to Start->run and type charmap; this will open a small program that comes with Windows and that allows you to copy/paste the special characters into the forum window. The rest of the unusual characters are Greek letters and are part of the Symbol font, so you can follow the same procedure with charmap but you have to also use the font tags when pasting it into the forum textbox. Quote one of my posts to see an example.

Now start writing all your posts using this procedure.

[Styxx]

Originally posted by CP5670
...which is even greater than The Plan™.

Nothing is greater than The Plan™, says the guy with admin powers.

[Styxx]

Originally posted by CP5670
Actually it only takes me about a minute to write one of these things since I copy/paste a lot of the stuff.

Pfft. It would take me a few minutes to code a program that does the translation automatically.

[TheVirtu]

I think CP has been looking at a certain campaign website

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[Bobboau]

thank you for derailing this discusion

[TheVirtu]

Originally posted by Bobboau
thank you for derailing this discusion

Dont look at me, CP5670 started it

[Bobboau]

there was a bus bombing today wasn't there?

[Knight Templar]

i'm just going ot take a wild guess that this thread has gone horribly off topic

[Bobboau]

not untill someone started talking about leet speak,
there are people dieing, getting riped apart, and this is the best we can do

[Kellan]

Originally posted by Bobboau
not untill someone started talking about leet speak,
there are people dieing, getting riped apart, and this is the best we can do

Face it, people get ripped apart in innumerable mindless conflicts every single day. It's hard enough for the acerage person to keep up with what's actually happening in every place, let alone how, why, etc. After all, we're ignoring the suffering of a great number more Muslims in Kashmir by focusing on Israel so much; ignoring the plight of Sri Lanka by focusing on those two and the situation in the Philippines, Chechnya (which is probably the worst modern example, IMO) and so on.

Add to that all the suffering from famine, disease, homelessness and immigration (ie. Afghanistani asylum seekers) and there's just an information overload of suffering about which we know only the most rudimentary amount. How can we be so cruel as to focus on one conflict?

Basically, all this talk of intractable slaughter makes one jaded to the point where you couldn't give a damn, eventually.

[icespeed]

okay, so im going to try to underail the topic.

israel and palestine- its gone beyond stupidity. (sorry sandwich, you can contradict me if you like) someone said that a million murders is just a statistic... people get bored with the same news every day, even if every single bit of it is a tragedy. people forget. its impossible for a human mind to consciously remember all the horrific occurances it hears about all the time. we'd go mad if we did.
having said that, id like to add that i feel bad. it probably doesnt count to anyone, but- why would grief concern anyone except the one grieving? what would i know of grief? so yeah, since it has no effect on anyone except me...
i dont think they're fighting over land. they're just fighting, now. its like its in their blood, except... its a fatal disease.

CP, you're just damn depressing. im not going to bother trying to refute your arguments. im not even online often enough.

there is nothing to be done to give peace. the way of the world is to war.

sorry everyone, im depressed. for whatever its worth, im sorry.

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by Bobboau
there was a bus bombing today wasn't there?

Yeah, or, yesterday, by now. Four terrorist attacks, actually, the largest of which was the bus bombing, occurred yesterday, with another shooting right after midnight this morning. 13 dead, all total. The attack this morning resulted in the deaths of a husband and wife, who was pregnant, in their car. Their 3-yr old son was moderately wounded, while the 9-month old was unharmed.

Here's a page with the updates from yesterday.

Originally posted by icespeed
okay, so im going to try to underail the topic.

israel and palestine- its gone beyond stupidity. (sorry sandwich, you can contradict me if you like) someone said that a million murders is just a statistic... people get bored with the same news every day, even if every single bit of it is a tragedy. people forget. its impossible for a human mind to consciously remember all the horrific occurances it hears about all the time. we'd go mad if we did.
having said that, id like to add that i feel bad. it probably doesnt count to anyone, but- why would grief concern anyone except the one grieving? what would i know of grief? so yeah, since it has no effect on anyone except me...
i dont think they're fighting over land. they're just fighting, now. its like its in their blood, except... its a fatal disease.

CP, you're just damn depressing. im not going to bother trying to refute your arguments. im not even online often enough.

there is nothing to be done to give peace. the way of the world is to war.

sorry everyone, im depressed. for whatever its worth, im sorry.

Couple of things to respond to. First off, yeah, I've become numbed in a way. I fully realize that it will be quite a shock, to say the least, when eventually someone I know gets injured or killed. Thank God that hasn't happened yet.

And this conflict is not about the "Occupied Territories". It's about the very existance of the Jews here.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=27632

[Kellan]

Originally posted by sandwich
And this conflict is not about the "Occupied Territories". It's about the very existance of the Jews here.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=27632

That's somewhat disingenuous, but I can't be bothered to argue the point right now. Whilst I'm not as depressed at the hopelessness of world situations as icespeed, I'm beginning to question why I should really give a **** about Israel over Kashmir or Chechnya that I'm ignoring otherwise.

[CP5670]

Nothing is greater than The Plan™, says the guy with admin powers.

we shall see...

Pfft. It would take me a few minutes to code a program that does the translation automatically.

Okay, but that is a few minutes as compared to a single minute.

I think CP has been looking at a certain campaign website

eh?

CP, you're just damn depressing. im not going to bother trying to refute your arguments. im not even online often enough.

Depressing or not, the arguments make sense, and that actually makes them enlivening. The mathematician Hardy once told a friend of his, "If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die, but my sorrow would be very much mitigated by pleasure in the proof."

I'm beginning to question why I should really give a **** about Israel over Kashmir or Chechnya that I'm ignoring otherwise

It is interesting to speculate on the situations anyway though, since the man lives to think.

[Kellan]

Originally posted by CP5670
It is interesting to speculate on the situations anyway though, since the man lives to think.

Interesting but depressing and ultimately futile. We can speculate all we want but it doesn't do one bit of immediate difference on the ground. Unless you believe in some kind of ridiculous trickle-up effect whereby Colin Powell and Ariel Sharon are secret FS2 fanboys and read every post here.

*imagines this solving a lot of the world's problems*

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by Kellan
Unless you believe in some kind of ridiculous trickle-up effect whereby Colin Powell and Ariel Sharon are secret FS2 fanboys and read every post here.

*imagines this solving a lot of the world's problems*

We should be so lucky! *sigh*

[Bobboau]

Originally posted by Kellan

I'm beginning to question why I should really give a **** about Israel over Kashmir or Chechnya that I'm ignoring otherwise.

1) becase it's fun to argue about things we have absolutly no controle over

2) we have no Kashmiries in the forum, and I don't know about Chechans, but I don't remember any. but we do have at least two Israelies.

3) would you like to talk about some other hopeless blood fued between two relitively small number of people killing each other for generations simply becase the other side is still alive.

Kashmir is a good one, it seems fairly simple, it needs to be ether a seperate contry or given to Pakistan being the only muslim majority teritory in India,
why does India want it so badly?

[CP5670]

1) becase it's fun to argue about things we have absolutly no controle over

Exactly.

why does India want it so badly?

The strategic location mainly; the mountaneous terrain there is right at the national border and thus makes for a very good artillery emplacement position in wartime.