Good news for some, and maybe others . . . .

well, looks as if this guy didn’t play by the rules

https://www.chess.com/news/view/igors-rausis-58-under-investigation-of-cheating

My buddy and I whom I play tons of A&A with are both huge Matthew Good fans, we went to see a great show by him last night at the Danforth Music Hall in Toronto and I put some footage up on YouTube… Check it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR9WZJShwvk

The Spongebob Squarepants Movie  :-D

Congrats, when I get home from Iraq, my 10 year old is ready to graduate from Risk to A&A, It happens fast.

Wait…. Anna Smith is… DEAD?  when did this happen? i watch TV and they never nentioned it. Im watching the E! channel right now and still no word.

You would think the news would report this after all she was so talented as an actress. :roll:

Take the period off the end of the link, works just fine then.

Also, reading the story, it sounds a lot like 1998, before the Tech Bubble burst.  Super economy, wage and job creation growth, high investment yields…

If past trends are any indication, 2006 will see a serious “bust” in the economy.  I am betting on a collapse of specific areas for the real estate bubble that will trickle into other areas of the economy, combined with a repeat rise in liquid fuels prices after a winter of extremely elevated consumer expense on heating fuels that will slow consumer spending in 2006.

Increasing instability in the Middle East will further strain fuel prices and guarantees of supplies, further slowing the economy.

Anyone care to lay odds?

As long as FOX News doesn’t get “liberalized” it’s all kosher… :wink:

@yourbuttocks:

In the Soviet Union, did the class system disapear? NO! It became much more Ironclad than in Capitalist countries.

This is your counter argument to my post? How utterly disappointing.

@yanny:

A communism must be democratic to work.

As said by myself before, there is no other system inherently democratic as communism.

@eyeless:

true communism – the theory stated by Karl Marx – sounds like a wonderful idea to me but this is the real world. that is why the capatialist system is more effiecnt.

The problem is that you are studying too much of the theories under Marx and Engles. There is just as much to gain from reading from the theories of the new era of influential communist. However brilliant The Manifesto may be, it is similarly outdated for the 21st century (read the coming of the information war) and should only be used as a template for the new communist movement.

@yanny:

Due to the post WWII and present day envirment, it is currently impossible for a democratic communism to exist. The United States will involve itself in everything, and will always be sure to have a capitalism put in place. Therefore, the first Communism will be the US itself.

This is true. Look at the economic peril South America is currently in from adopting US capitalist modes. South America is on the verge of initializing groundbreaking, leftist reforms, though the United States Government gone through great pains to try and prevent that from happening.

@guest:

Impossible, america is too individualistic and too capitalistic

I would not count out the Americans. If anything, a smoothly operating communist government would be more successful in America, Europe, or Japan due to their vast, modernized infostructure.

@yanny:

Emu, I agree with you entirely. The kibbutz is a great example. Its the only working communist system in the world. Israel is all bad!

I wouldn’t say the only “communist” system in the world, but I do respect the Kibbutz system as a model for future communes.