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[Truean]

Because some people like beating a dead horse? (figuratively *and* literally apparently)

That was so horrible and applicable. Triple points, at least. We're horrible.... You have no idea how close you were to being sigged....

[ChairmanPoo]

Conservatives won with absolute majority. Go figures. Turns out the whole Occupy thing ended in nothing.

[SalmonGod]

Conservatives won with absolute majority. Go figures. Turns out the whole Occupy thing ended in nothing.

Elaborate?

[ChairmanPoo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_general_election,_2011

[nenjin]

A website I've been part of for....man, over a decade now, is probably going to be forced to close, or at least migrate to a 100% free crap board, and the community will pretty much bite it. It's been in decline for years now, but it's always been a place for us all to hang out. It sucks no one has the money or the drive to manage the $300 a month hosting fees, but I guess that's life.

[SirAaronIII]

So I went camping. And it was all cold and wet. Not really cold but the wet made it feel colder.

On the bright side my superiors are all tired and sick and stuff while I'm doing fine. HAHAHA!

[Jopax]

Watched Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind again, don't know why I did it really, all I know is that i feel rather crap now and I don't like feeling more crap than I need to :I

[Heron TSG]

Conservatives won with absolute majority. Go figures. Turns out the whole Occupy thing ended in nothing.

It's over? Why not keep going, to win another day?

[Dutchling]

According to my uncle's Facebook status we are ruled by 'people who are ferry sick in their head'

[Virex]

Ferry sick? Is that a nautical variant of car sick?

[JoshuaFH]

They just need their sea legs is all.

[Cthulhu]

Man this essay question sucks.  It's half of my final exam.  "How may the United States' actions affect world events?"

On one hand there's a lot to write, on the other hand it's so vague I'm having trouble putting anything together.  So far I have:  The US economy is huge and intertwined with everybody else's economy and if it hurts so does everyone else.  Hollywood and US corporations cause American culture to spread to the rest of the world.  The US can, to some extent, play kingmaker with new technologies.  If the US outlaws or simply rejects a consumer innovation, chances are that innovation won't take off at all.  The US is in a position to give lots of advice and if they aren't respected the advice will be snubbed (See: Germany telling Obama to mind his own business).  Either way, America has a lot of influence on the way other nations behave and how events roll out.

I feel like there should be more though :/

[Bauglir]

Grandpa has liver cancer, and is almost certainly going to die of it. It's inoperable, and while they are going to be starting chemotherapy, the liver is pretty much the one thing you want functioning during that if you have to choose one thing, which is probably going to limit the size of the possible doses. Between that and the size of the tumor, I'm not real hopeful, but I can't actually say this to anybody in my family because they're already depressed enough about this. He's a good guy, and I'm gonna miss him.

Good thing I have plentiful days off this week, I should be able to drive over and see him a couple times if I can scrape together the gas money. I do wish I could be there for my immediate family right now, though. Bluh bluh, I guess.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Man this essay question sucks.  It's half of my final exam.  "How may the United States' actions affect world events?"

On one hand there's a lot to write, on the other hand it's so vague I'm having trouble putting anything together.  So far I have:  The US economy is huge and intertwined with everybody else's economy and if it hurts so does everyone else.  Hollywood and US corporations cause American culture to spread to the rest of the world.  The US can, to some extent, play kingmaker with new technologies.  If the US outlaws or simply rejects a consumer innovation, chances are that innovation won't take off at all.  The US is in a position to give lots of advice and if they aren't respected the advice will be snubbed (See: Germany telling Obama to mind his own business).  Either way, America has a lot of influence on the way other nations behave and how events roll out.

I feel like there should be more though :/

Mention how certain US polices tend to be adopted in most of the modern, industrialized world. Like the War on Drugs, the vast majority of European, North American, and South American nations have similar laws on drugs because of US pressure.

Write about the US's international electricity and oil consumption, especially how Canada's oil exports to the US keep the two nations close, historical allyship aside. Explain how a disturbingly similar situation is set up with Saudi Arabia right now, and how Saudi Arabian influence affects the world because US business has made the nation rich.

Write about the US's actions on the UN Security Counsel, and how being a member of the Nuclear Club changes things.

There is plenty more for you to mention, yes.

[Aqizzar]

Man this essay question sucks.  It's half of my final exam.  "How may the United States' actions affect world events?"

Oh that's just a dick move.  What's the context of the course?  Your best bet is trying to mouthpiece the professor.