Quote Originally Posted by -thc-(cZ) View Post
If all the stupid governments stopped developing TANKS and put all the war money into a, telescope that can see VERY FAR very good and b, a propulsion system to get us there EVERYONE WOULD BENEFIT

Yea, I noticed too.. 3 of his 4 posts in this thread are pretty mean.. the dudes needs to start / stop drinking

But he gets points for quoting our president (who studied economy, not the Earth.. but he has a point about the politics of it)
C'mon. I see b.s. like "Water=life" and I call people on it. If the situation gets esclated, I can't just back down.

Naivety like "wouldn't it be nice to have no tanks" does not help anyone. Someone is going to have to have tanks and take control of other people. If you don't want to be taken advantage of, you have to defend yourself. It's really very simple. It won't ever be like in star trek with the federation and everyone being a happy little earth utopia.

"mean" is different than 'brutally honest.'

This is why I stay out of speak freely.

Ryan