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Comment Re:How far should social responsibility reach? (Score 1) 144

One RPG would get Sea Sheperd a quick mark as a terrorist organisation and would totally destroy the organisation and the legitimacy of the organisation and by extension anti-whaling operations.

It would also give whalers the argument that anti-whalers are terrorists and would only help them.

Comment Re:Yeah, right (Score 3, Informative) 243

That's hardly a strange name. Not if you know that the Dutch have a seperate "vowel" which is i and j combined (ij) and sounds almost the same as "y" in "why". Do the Dutch word dijk becomes the English word "dyke". The word "afsluit" is equivalent to the English words "close down". In essence it means "a dyke that closes down" and it's a reference to the sea inlet called the Zuidersea (or South Sea) and turned into a lake. Yes, the South Sea was originally the other connected to the "North Sea" until we pacified its rough waters. It's a source of engineering pride for us.

Comment Re:There was a TED talk on this (Score 1) 181

Well, there is no fixed start date of World War II only fixed dates of the smaller wars inside the total conflict. It's true that France and the UK declared war on Germany when they invaded Poland but by the media of the time it was referred to as a ghost war or a phony war(the french called it a joke of a war). Ofcourse that all changed when Germany initiated "Fall Gelb" and attacked the Benelux in order to properly invade France.

The war activity went full force from that moment on. When the US bombed pearl harbour you could say that the glocal fighting activity had reached its peak. Most of WWII was over when Germany declared an (forced) unconditional surrender. The conflict then was between Japan and the US, the UK(India and other colonies), the Netherlands(Indonesia) and later on Russia(which made a deal to attack Japan 3 months after the surrender of Germany). War ended 3 days after the invasion by Russia I believe when Japan surrendered after the atomic bomb on Nagasaki.

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