Quote (Vastet @ Feb 26 2022 06:15pm)

I'd be for it but there's no foundation for an international court system respected by all parties. Nor is there any way to build one when 200 countries can't even agree what a genocide is.

Quote (Ghot @ 26 Feb 2022 18:17)

Just because there isn't one now... doesn't mean we can't make one. :)

Quote (Crunkt @ Feb 26 2022 11:53am)

this is why you make the place look bad.

Quote (KrWWW @ 26 Feb 2022 18:21)

coming from you :lol:

Quote (Ghot @ Feb 26 2022 04:33pm)

Now, let's do the Ukraine.

Is it legal for Russia to take over the Ukraine?
Well that depends.
Is the Ukraine a part of Russia that's trying to secede? If so, then it's legal for Russia to "take it back".
If the Ukraine was never a legal part of Russia, then no, it's not legal for Russia to take over the Ukraine.


Pretty much the same for the Uyghurs, btw. It depends.
If the Uyghurs are not "from China" and are trying to grab some land and make a Uyghurs 2.0, then China has the right to deal with that.
If the Uyghurs were a separate country that China took over (which they had no right to), then they should leave them alone.



I think the problem is... the "way" we make rules.
1. We make a rule
2. Countries A and B don't fit the rule.
3. So then we make sub-rules for those grey areas. (when what we should do is re-write the 1st rule)
4. Oh noes... there are these other countries that don't fit the 1st rule with sub-rules A and B
5. So now we make new sub-rules C and D.

After a while... the original rule and it's intention are lost in the BS.

Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Feb 26 2022 02:05pm)

I think we have an obligation to intercede in genocides of all kinds.

Quote (Ghot @ Feb 26 2022 04:59pm)

Maybe you've heard of a little place called... Norfolk? :D



Proposed, big fat railway... with train cars the size of oil tankers. :-)
We don't "need" the St. Lawrence anymore.
Oops. Montreal goes out of business.



https://i.imgur.com/tiL5Kxr.png

Quote (Surfpunk @ Feb 26 2022 07:53pm)

The biggest port on the Great Lakes is Duluth MN. It moves 80% of the iron ore mined in the United States, as well as a million tons of grain a year. A lot of that goes overseas. Your "fat train" would have all that cargo offloaded in Detroit, put on trains to the coast, then put on other ships to continue the journey. That's excessive cost.

Quote (Surfpunk @ Feb 26 2022 08:53pm)

The biggest port on the Great Lakes is Duluth MN. It moves 80% of the iron ore mined in the United States, as well as a million tons of grain a year. A lot of that goes overseas. Your "fat train" would have all that cargo offloaded in Detroit, put on trains to the coast, then put on other ships to continue the journey. That's excessive cost.