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Well, It's also clear there are so many "ridiculous and completely unnecessary" laws out there
But traffic violations.. should be taken seriously.. and other minor crimes. xD

Good thing I'm not from USA.

And, Germany singing an agreement means nothing. They were notorious for braking promises and agreements.

Thought france was notorious for breaking agreements xD

Because Germany surrendered the war ended, penfold are you serious?

Where to even start with Penfold... It's bad enough when the thread is just asking for opinions, but now he's trying his hand at providing factual information... It's sad.

For Penfold: The nukes weren't designed to make Germany or Italy surrender. Being as Hilter and Mussolini were dead, and Italy had surrendered a little more than a year before the nukes, and Germany a couple months before the nukes were dropped. They were dropped on Japan to save lives. If you don't understand, Japan at the time worshiped the Emperor and anything short of the sky falling, they would have never surrendered. They didn't even surrender after the first nuke... I'm really trying to help you out brah... But your stupidity is showing no bounds.



Why should traffic violations be taken seriously? or other minor crimes? So I should have a felony for doing a very controllable 80mph in a 60mph zone. I should be locked up for a period of time and have to sign up as a sex offender for the rest of my life because I urinated near a public area, or had sex with my soon to be wife that just happened to be 16 while I'm 18?(True story, I know a guy that is a sex offender and is still married to the person he "raped".He's in his 40s now) Also a little weed constitutes having my life ruined worse than any drug could do?.. Or if I fail to pay every single bullshit tax out there, the IRS should have the right to take my business, home, cars, furniture, and fine me, then throw me in prison? Because the federal government believes they are entitled to plunder their citizens worse than the British did to their colonist.. At what point does this pseudo freedom just become living for the ppl in power? Is it when they declare they're over reaching their bounds? Cause the writing is on the wall.

yeah... its wasn't a world war at that point, it was america and japan. everyone else was licking their wounds from a 7 year war.

and seriously fiction i really don't give a shit about what you say, its only because i don't think america is the greatest thing ever in the universe ever with no exceptions and everything america is or was or has been is the divine gift of perfection that you decide to call me out on every single post. I never said the nukes are supposed to make germany or italy surrender but i did say that the single act of bombing japan was not the only reason that world war 2 stopped.

also, you cant say the bombs were dropped to save lives, even if you are american you still cant look into what would or might have happened if they didn't drop the bombs or if it would have saved more lives or not. just like they america didn't know the extent of the scars that bomb still have on today.

you wanted to say that the bombs were dropped in an attempt to prevent further deaths or something of that effect but you didn't so Mr perfect doesn't get his point across properly either.

It's called a tyranny for a reason. Except they have it to an extreme. This is what the United States could become if we keep going down the road we are.

GG... I call your post out because they are stupid. I'm sure the majority of the forum would be comfortable with that statement. Yes I can say that us dropping the bombs on Japan saved lives... Everyone already knew that.. The Japaneses know it, and everyone else with a brain knows. Japan would not have given up until every last one of them died fighting for the Emperor.

Why the hell do you even get involved in these discussions with such a lacking understanding of anything to do with these matters? I can really see why your social life revolves around Skype... Anyways I digress, at some point I'm just being a bully, so I'm not gonna make it personal.



Yup, but it's kinda like the old adage about turning the heat up slowly to boil the frog. At what point do we say, enough is enough. The government isn't going to just decide not to try and control our lives. As each year goes by, we are subjected to more and more tyrannical laws and made out to be criminals. At the same time "We the People" are saying we want less government out one side of our mouth, and demanding for more laws out the other. (That's left wingers, right wingers, liberals, conservatives)

You can't be certain Hitler was actually dead then.



It's not saving lives, but exchanging Japanese lives for American ones.

Unless Hilter had a stunt double that not only his own men knew about, then I guess we couldn't be certain, but as long as Germany believe him to be dead, what does it matter? You can command an army from the dead. Germany was done.

It was not exchanging American lives for Japanese. It was showing Japan that we did not need to invade their island and fight a ground war. We could simply wipe them off the face of this earth with power never seen before. Thus saving millions of Japanese that would have eventually fought to their deaths for the emperor. If we wanted to kill more Japanese than we did, we'd have dropped the bombs on more populated cities.

Thankfully.. situations like this are extremely rare. Well, rape is a very serious crime.
Those who rape.. should be put in prison, where they can happily rot in hell!
And yes.. traffic violations should be taken seriously, as they should be.
Well, maybe "you" don't need to be told that.. the speed limit is for a reason, eh?
Etc.. in a school zone. You see, a motor vehicle can cause death and/or serious bodily harm
If you driving at a very high speed in an extremely reckless and dangerous manner.

Yeah, so extremely rare, cases like this happen everyday. I said "rape" because it wasn't actually rape... It was the state's making moral decisions about what constitutes rape.

And traffic violations... Are you really that brainwashed? Anything but doing the speed limit is dangerous? C'mon... There are more ppl that killed by ppl doing the speed limit or under than ppl that are speeding. That's texters and drunks for example. Neither has to be speeding and yet more dangerous than someone driving 100MPH with full attention on driving. (Idk too many ppl that speed that don't act fully aware, like I know ppl that do the speed limit that act like they're sitting on the couch at home)

Anyways.. Point is, more laws only takes away freedoms that 99% of the population never abused.

But in that case, the Japanese who would have died would have all been soldiers, but the bomb took more civilian lives.

Why in this world... would any woman or man marry a sex offender? Isn't that rare?

Anyway.. No I'm not brainwashed.. It's Just common sense! lulz
Of course, there's more dangerous "traffic violation" than that. But speeding is still a
serious offense.

You think I'm stupid and you post this bullshit? Texting and drinking whilst driving is also illegal because they kill people too. Of course more people will be killed by people doing the speed limit because more people are obeying the speed limit rather then speeding... if everyone was doing over 100mph many more people would be dead.

and no its not a fact that the nukes saved more lives, its your opinion. You dont know what could of or would of happened because it didnt happen. The fact is that it did replace the cost of american's lives for japanese lives if you think it is the case. Sacrificing japanese lives in order to save peoples lives is not a solution at all. Also do you include all japanese that have felt the effects of the bombs as well, im not sure america had too much thought about it when the bombs were dropped in order to save lives.

I also know for a fact that if we had let Saddam Hussein live he would have turned good and donated his wealth to all his people and it would have spurred the next generation of fantastic human accomplishments which eventually would have led to the iraqi's perfecting nuclear fusion and saving the worlds planet from global warming!

[quote=Fiction]I can really see why your social life revolves around Skype... Anyways I digress, at some point I'm just being a bully, so I'm not gonna make it personal.[/quote]

says a personal attack then says he wont make a personal attack. I dont use skype much at all but nice try.

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And traffic violations... Are you really that brainwashed? Anything but doing the speed limit is dangerous? C'mon... There are more ppl that killed by ppl doing the speed limit or under than ppl that are speeding. That's texters and drunks for example.

Fiction has a point penfold, but it looks like your going over the top here with your posts.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/01/world/asi ... ?hpt=wo_c1

Shits about to pop off


*initiate canadian escape route*

@Pen, its either you or the enemy who's life do you want to save, yours or his because he isn't going to hold back. The U.S. could have waited it out and tried for a peaceful end but it would have costed many american lives that we weren't willing to sacrifice, our nation said no more to the american deaths japan could have done the same but they didn't. It could have been a peaceful end but they didn't want that, so we nuked them they still wouldn't surrender so we did it again. They had their chance to back down. Don't blame the U.S. for saving its own people we gave them a chance and they turned it down.

Oh my... At what point do your dumb rants, and splitting hairs in my statements, make these ignorant post of yours remotely intelligent.

You can look back in past events and say what Japan would have done. They've stated it in their own words. Yes fighting them in a ground war would have killed many civilian as well, just like the other wars.

As far as personal attacks go.. I only reinforced what you had already stated about yourself.

I just hid all the posts by penfold in this thread. The avg IQ of this thread just shot up by 50 points.

im not saying it was a bad decision to nuke japan, im just saying you cant say they saved lives for a fact. you can assume they saved lives but you cant say it for a fact. thats like gamblers saying "i know ill win next round", they can guess but its never a certainty.

and no you dont have a point with people dieing more to people following the law then people breaking it... its so ignorant to think that if there was no speed limit we would have less deaths.

and again, i dont use skype much, its about the only thing i do use... when im not at work, with my girlfriend and I have someone to talk to which is rare but again, you know me better then i do!

it appears i have to go over the top in my posts to get into the arrogant minds of the american "we are better then everything" mentality.

its either your april's fools joke or you just dont realize how stupid it sounds to read your posts.

Okay I think it's become increasingly obvious he's trolling.

^Which one?

speed limit laws are done by the states and speed limit violations are not felonies. Theres obviously over regulation in some areas but having a speed limit is kinda the lowest one to aim for..

Complaining about speed limits is like complaining about traffic lights
There comes a point where it stops being about liberty and turns into anarchy

I hadn't realized I said half the shit penfold says I have...

1:Events through history aren't the same as a card game. Just like in most any other historical situation we can pretty well guess how life might have turned out. I'm sorry I didn't add a disclaimer for the idiots that don't know that something that never happened cannot be a fact of history.

2: I never said anything about there not being a speed limit, or that people not breaking the law kill more people(Reckless driving and driving under the influence are both illegal)My point was that speeding should not become a felony.

3:Stop making everyone sad with your lacking social life.

4:The only one with the superiority complex, if anyone, is yourself.(Go back and read your post..UK#1) I'm rather humble when it comes to my own country.. But yeah I guess questioning my own government and the stupidity of some of the majority of my own country does make me come off as one of those arrogant nationalist.

5:Very funny. I can project onto other ppl too.

I hope this forum gets archived and in 10 years, once(if) you've graduated high school, you can go back and read how dumb you were... lol-GG Congratz Penfold, you've won the TROLLATHLON!

You've really brought the meaning back to April 1st



I've already mentioned this.. and my argument was against how serious something like speeding should be taken(blackfox believe it to be very serious). On a side note... The central government doesn't have a monopoly on tyrannical laws, and again, I mention speeding wasn't even on the list when it comes to invasive laws.

I can understand how my point might have got misconstrued with penfold putting words in everyone's mouth.

can see into other situations that never occured and accurately predict an outcome?
speed limits increasing death rates?
texting whilst doing 20 is more dangerous then doing 100?
thinking that the 2 bombs were the only thing that ended world war 2?
dictating others behavior claiming to know them better then even they do themselves?
personally attacking people and then saying you wont?
calling oneself "humble" rather then "arrogant"?

you decide.

I can see the difference here, what penfold means, in the uk driving at speed is a serious crime and can end up in prison. But needs to relise that every county has it own laws and how serious there are, otherwords you cannot judge that in other country as you dont know there laws, nearly every state has different ways.

@Penfold

You compared a gambler's hunch to an 'assumption' based on facts.
Also, absolute numbers mean nothing when you're talking about speed in this context. However, when you're talking about the idea of slow vs fast, going slightly slower than the speed limit while texting (or of course, being drunk) is indeed way more dangerous than speeding. I'm a courier myself, controlled speeding truly isn't dangerous at all. There are enough roads where i could safely do 120 km/h, where the limit is 60 or 80... Going 80 or 90 on such roads won't hurt anybody.

It's quite ridiculous how you twist what people said. For example: 'texting while driving/drunk driving being more dangerous than controlled speeding' is NOT the same as 'driving at the speed limit/following the law is more dangerous than speeding is'.

Hence people thinking you're the one trolling, probably.

But i digress, this thread got quite derailed really

F-22's send to South koreea :

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/201 ... outh-korea


Us navy brings its sea x - band radar closer

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/01/world ... ?hpt=hp_t1

no major military movements in north koreea

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world ... 277525.htm

North koreea vows to restart nuclear reactor

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2013 ... ayinmil.nl

What's the Next Threat?... Cookies?

Oh my.

Penfold, you just made my night.