Fuck drones. Gundams are coming!

This is the first I've heard of it. Unfortunately, I think I should leave it that way.

I just don't think I can take the risk of that kind of heartbreak right now...

Maybe it's nicotine withdrawal, but that just made me think "Juffo-Wup fills in my fibers and I grow turgid. Violent action ensues."

Might want to go easy on the self-righteousness there, MS Security Engineer AC. Just because the FUD is bullshit doesn't mean that the whole idea isn't a massive "painstakingly designed" misfeature that should never have seen the light of day.

What? I... wait...

Are you fucking with us?

Until I started chatting regularly with some gamer buddies in the UK, yes, it sounded rather odd. I dealt with it the same way you do. :)

fopen() -> fjopen() but fclose()->jfclose()?

Rasmus, is that you?

Might be because these things are only comparable if you've got the intellectual capacity of a moth.

One of Napolitano's claims, in a segment that aired on Fox Business Channel:

“At the time that [Lincoln] was the president of the United States, slavery was dying a natural death all over the Western world,” Napolitano said." http://www.salon.com/2014/02/2...

Meanwhile, more slaves were alive in the United States than ever before. The international slave trade may have ended, but it was alive and well here, and slavery was expanding in the South, not contracting. Like I said, lies combined with half-truths designed to make the point that the war wasn't about slavery. And why, exactly? What's your motivation for perpetuating revisionist history? Do you even know?

This little tidbit of horseshit is a direct quote from Fox News's Judge Andrew Napolitano, containing tons of lies and half-truths built to support the revisionist myth that "slavery was about to go extinct of its own accord." There's far too many holes in his tripe to list them all here, but if you're interested, Jon Stewart ripped apart Napolitano's lies right to his face, with some help from three history professors: http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

It's highly informative.

"Main or only cause/reason"?

Those are two different things.

Slavery was the main reason, as laid out in each state's declaration of secession at the time. They spelled it out plainly - "You are trying to abridge our right to own slaves and that's why we're leaving." Slavery was NOT the only reason.

You conflating the two is an effective yardstick for measuring how much you like to use rhetoric to attempt to make your point of view seem more factually based than it actually is. Nice try.

Your circular logic is ridiculous revisionist bullshit. You start with a false premise - "The South didn't have any money" - what? Slaves were worth $400 each (in 1850) but plantation owners with hundreds of slaves didn't have any assets? Guess what, worldwide demand for cotton skyrocketed from 1843 onward, and that made a lot of cotton producers very, very, rich in the 18 years leading up to the Civil War. Of course, those same people knew that if they suddenly lost their free labor, they'd be less rich, and if there's one thing a rich person hates, it's the prospect of becoming less rich. They hated the idea so much that they were willing to go to war over it, and only then did they need help from a "friend across the ocean," because wars cost money. They certainly didn't need help BEFORE they decided to secede and start a civil war.

It's true that England saw an opportunity in this to weaken the the United States, but you're attempting to put the cart before the horse in a desperate attempt to keep alive this myth of "oh it wasn't about slavery, it was about .... something else!" How you were modded informative is beyond me.