19-03-2005 07:46									#31
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quote: Originally posted by Atahualpa The real deal? like 2 sticks for 14.75?

what the hell does that mean?

	19-03-2005 07:50									#32
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This is a boring map.

Show us the places that have the death penalty for masturbation and then a lot of Polytubbies will be frightened.

	19-03-2005 08:00									#34
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I'm surprised at New Guinea.

	19-03-2005 08:36									#35
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quote: Originally posted by Heresson Barcelona is in Catalonia, perhaps that's what it's about?

Catalonia is part of Spain. Spain is one nation. Unified.

	19-03-2005 08:53									#36
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New Guinea is predominantly catholic/christian.

	19-03-2005 09:09									#37
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So's Italy. And they're Italian!

	19-03-2005 09:17									#38
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quote: Originally posted by Giancarlo Catalonia is part of Spain. Spain is one nation. Unified.

Do You distinguish between country, state and nation?

quote: Originally posted by Alexander's Horse New Guinea is predominantly catholic/christian.

I've heard stories of a missionary working there.
They are faaaar from Christianity, even if they nominally are Christian.

	19-03-2005 17:47									#39
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quote: Originally posted by Giancarlo Catalonia is part of Spain. Spain is one nation. Unified.

* sigh *
That's why I said, according to them (Barcelona).

	19-03-2005 17:52									#40
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We need to see more dark blue (although it looks more like a muddy dark green to me!)

	19-03-2005 18:01									#41
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where is the dot for the bay area?

	19-03-2005 18:14									#42
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What the hell is wrong with Guyana?

	19-03-2005 20:12									#43
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I'm shocked that the penalty in India is life in prison! Wonder if it's enforced?

	19-03-2005 20:17									#44
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quote: Originally posted by Giancarlo Spain is one nation. Unified.

	19-03-2005 21:47									#45
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Somehow I doubt that the color for India is representative for the whole nation, just like I tend to believe that the penalty given for Nigeria is solely based on the laws in the northern part, though I'm sure they don't love gays in the south either...

	19-03-2005 21:49									#46
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I'm also surprised about Cuba...

	19-03-2005 22:12									#47
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quote: Originally posted by Giancarlo Virginia is still prosecuting against those who commit gay sex.. even though the supreme court told them not to.

Well thats the Southern redneck barbarians for ya.

BTW, Gian, I suggest you NOT piss off the Catalonians.

	19-03-2005 22:23									#48
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quote: Originally posted by Wernazuma III I'm also surprised about Cuba...

Cuba has had a bad reputation since the 1970s, but it's not apparent that it is deserved. Castro has publicly declared that Cuba needs to do better on bringing equality to gays, but there are reports (dating from the 70s) that homosexuals were imprisoned.

Given that homosexuality has been outlawed in communist countries since Stalin consolidated power, it shouldn't be surprising. Most Stalinists (and the Cuban regime, like all Communist governments, is Stalinist) refer to homosexuality as bourgeois decadence, at best a psychological sickness which can be cured.

	19-03-2005 22:29									#49
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damn commie bastards!

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Legal in Indonesia... quite unexpected.

	20-03-2005 07:20									#51
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Its not uncommon to see men dressed as women in Indonesia. At the village level if a man wants to live as a woman its no big deal.

	21-03-2005 01:48									#52
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quote: Originally posted by Wernazuma III Somehow I doubt that the color for India is representative for the whole nation, just like I tend to believe that the penalty given for Nigeria is solely based on the laws in the northern part, though I'm sure they don't love gays in the south either...

Yes, I guess so. But they do distinguish between SOME states of USA, Canada and Australia (homosexuality is illegal in Virginia, though, and it is not showed)

quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger Legal in Indonesia... quite unexpected.

I thought some prime minister was put to jail there severa years ago because of alleged homosexual acs with his brother. I guess it was another state.

	21-03-2005 01:52									#53
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quote: Originally posted by chegitz guevara ...refer to homosexuality as bourgeois decadence...

Hmmm, it is alarming how a taboo that hangs over from Christianity and it's earlier days can still crop up in supposedly 'communist' nations...rather alarming...

	21-03-2005 03:00									#54
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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison Hmmm, it is alarming how a taboo that hangs over from Christianity and it's earlier days can still crop up in supposedly 'communist' nations...rather alarming...

Uh, the problem with those nations is that they put a stop to social progress by eliminating dissent. The Soviet Union was ahead of the game in women's rights in the 1920s. It was way behind in the 1970s.

USSR was behind on environmentalism for the same reason. No one protests bad industrial practices if doing so gets you disappeared.

This is exactly why Castro's imprisonment of those two hundred prisoners of consciousness is ahorrent. They were punished for speaking out, thus dooming Cuba to perpetual stasis.

	21-03-2005 06:24									#55
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Everyone knows once Castro dies... the communist state in Cuba will fall. What do you think? Castro's brother, Raul (or whatever his name is) will take over? He's a drunk.

	21-03-2005 07:16									#56
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quote: Originally posted by Heresson I thought some prime minister was put to jail there severa years ago because of alleged homosexual acs with his brother. I guess it was another state.

Malaysia, IIRC.

	21-03-2005 07:18									#57
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quote: Originally posted by St Leo quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison Hmmm, it is alarming how a taboo that hangs over from Christianity and it's earlier days can still crop up in supposedly 'communist' nations...rather alarming... Uh, the problem with those nations is that they put a stop to social progress by eliminating dissent.

Not necessarily, unless you somehow equate dissent with progress.

	21-03-2005 07:31									#58
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Dissent is essential in a healthy Democracy.

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is homosexual leaning a form of dissent?

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quote: Originally posted by Ecthelion is homosexual leaning a form of dissent?

Practising or advocating anything different from the status quo is a form of dissent.

I generally support anti-hate speech laws because they encourage more of positive dissent at the expensive of negative dissent, but more generally any curtailment of dissent is harmful in the long run because it discourages innovation.