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This is taken from a puppet-show on the 4th french channel that broadcasts its review of the news-that is a caricature-from Monday to Friday at 8:00pm;it lasts 5 minutes. Yesterday,there was a caricature of the SE. In that emission,capitalism and the US are represented by a puppet that...

Many right-wingers talk about socialism as a fairy tale and often crank out a whole bunch of arguments. Many burghers in the 18th century held democracy for an utopia,even our so-called "democracies".The states we live in were utopias 250 years ago. Most modern democracies aren't true...

Life experienced by hunter-gatherers is often described as paradise. It is said that everyone had an equal share,that everyone was equal,that everyone had enough to eat and drink and that there was no notion of property. You can read about it on...

In the 1960's,there was an amendment preventing taxes from being levied on votes,which means that the practise existed. But there was another thing that I found even more disgusting. Until the 60's,in the S US,blacks had to sit an exam and answer to impossible questions such as"How many...

I read it on www.tsr.ch(World Column) Sorry,but once again,I browsed cnn and bbc news(updated every minute of the day,my arse) and could find no english-speaking link.

Right-wingers here are mostly american(which is normal since they're educated with an american pov and most posters here are american). They value the idea of individual liberties,the one defended by the Founding Fathers(who were for slavery may I recall) who led a bourgeois...

It's often said that the 3rd World will develop and get to our lever,it's just a question of time. I don't think so.Western countries didn't have their economy directed by companies coming from more developped countries and dictatorships backed by govts of more developped countries. During...

Today,there were many ballots in Switzerland: Federal ones:The redistribution of the yearly interests made by the sale of the surplus of gold of the National Bank. The SVP(very conservative),wanted to redistribute it to the age insurance and the federal council wanted to redistribute 1/3 for...

I read on www.tsr.ch (in the "World" column),that ,after a hurricane,new mayan hieroglyphs were discovered in Guatemala and that they form the longest mayan text. The text deals with 2 mayan powerful cities fighting each other. That war may be the reason of the fall of the mayan civ...

It's said on TV that he wasn't kicked because he was no islamic fundamentalist but only a dictator. What do you think the real reason is?I smell oil in that. What about the "you give us oil,we give you food"policy?

I'm in the french equivalent of the upper 6th form(the year before university), in literary section. Here's my planning: Monday:from 8 to 10:french literature, from 10 to 12: philosophy, 2-3:German, 3-4:history/geography, 4-6: personal researches that you must present at the end...

That thread is designed to talk about socialist experiments and the reasons of their failure/success. Most modern collectivizations(sovkhozes,kolkhozes,owenist and fabian companies) failed but kibboutzim and moshavim still exist in Israel and Incas and Iroquois owned everything communaly and...

I read on www.tsr.ch that the european peace plan has been accepted by the palestinian authority.It foresees a temporary state for summer 2003 and a definitive one for 2005.Palestinians also call for an international force to stop the israeli occupation policy.

That's the new treaty between France and Romania. If a romanian illegal immigrant is caught in France,the romanian state will take the property(car,house,etc) that he left in Romania. The french police will also "help" (understand take over)the romanian police near the borders between...

I've asked it many times in many threads but got no answer. I wrote Art/Flics/Te_A01.flc etc in the "animation" part of the civ editor page. Now what must i do? Please explain it deeply.I don't understand the "and then alter some files somewhere"replies. How do I make a .pcx file...

People care about what politicians do in their country but don't when it's about foreign policy. And therefore politicians do in other countries what would be unacceptable in theirs. The CIA trained Bin Laden and installed many dictatorships in many countries,protects american interests...

Is there a way to delete saves?

How do you see others'accent? French believe that they got no accent,or a flat one. Do you agree? Here's how other accents are seen here: Americans:it's as if they were chewing chewing gum all the time. Brits:aristocratic-like. Swiss:slow. Germans:ugly accent,achtung,ja wohl...

Dan said that civ3 and PTW will have different .exe Does that mean that custom civs will have to be reinstalled on PTW? What if i already installed 16 customs civs in civ3,therefore having reached the 32-civ-limit? Can someone explain me why PTW shouldn't work without CIV3 if they have...

Have you ever noticed that when you type debt , tobacco and other words,links appear? What's the reason for it?