I had a ridiculous game once as the Romans... half the world, way ahead in production and a modest lead in tech. Several cities with over 200 hammers/turn, repeat-building ICBMs, and many of the other large cities repeat-building Tac Nukes for my subs and Missile Cruisers. Babylon, the other major power, decided it would be a good time to declare war. Three hundred mushroom clouds later, they had no cities larger than size 1. Zooming all the way out and seeing one side of the planet glowing yellow was pretty cathartic.

Reminds me of my favourite way to play Battlefield 2: Special Forces:

• play as the non-Western team
• choose the Spec Ops class
• cover a pickup truck or ATV with expacks
• have accomplice drive vehicle while I wield the detonator from a crew position
• start screaming slogans and push the button. Hilarity ensues.

That Hitler guy always struck me as a phony. No-one actually has a moustache like that.

As a Canadian, I haven't been paying too much attention to the fine details of the health insurance reforms. Reading the Wikipedia article, I can't find any mention of jail time, and the 'fines' are $95 or 1% of income, and can be waived in cases of financial hardship. Underwhelming. Anyway, 'the government taking over an industry' is what Bush did with GM to bail it out, or what Truman tried to do to the steel industry. Regulations != takeover.

Reading bills would be work. If they wanted to do work, they would have picked a career with job security, not the prospect of termination rolling around every couple of years, tied largely to the performance of superiors upon whom you have no influence.

For really high bitrates, sneak some data into your collection of memorable TV static.

Parent is insightful, not funny.

Or they could have realized that access to a market with over fifteen percent of the world's population would let them rake in more cash than the additional sales from demonstrating security. Most people with Blackberries want a smartphone, not Fort Knox.

What if the reason the Internet is full of porn is actually that all the images are carrying encoded transmissions?

I'm pretty sure there was a huge public outcry; the only things I really remember from Bush's first term were 9/11 and the ensuing invasions, and Scootergate (I was in grade school at the time, hence the not-remembering-much)

I interpreted your post as rhetorical questions for which the answer to both would be 'No'. Apparently that's the opposite of what you meant, though, so I'm sorry for my mistake.

Capital punishment is execution following the due process of law, or at least something resembling due process.
The insurgency will just pop a cap in yo ass.

Found in fifteen minutes of browsing:
Names of surrendered Taliban
More surrendered
More
More
Names a suspected double agent

More could probably be found with a bit more looking.

But he is an Australian, and Australia has troops in Afghanistan too.

How did this get modded up? Its logical connection is tenuous and it basically strawmans the parent post without addressing it at all.

One side in this war is intentionally murdering civilians, so that side is objectively the Bad Guys.