I don’t take any satisfaction on 9/11 you ****ing *******.

And where have you been in the last two or three decades or so? The US wllingly supported countries with dictatorships (Marcos, Park Dae Jung, Suharto, Pinochet, Noriega) as a front against communist and leftist rebels. Remember Allende?

I guess the forum can see why the fate of the world should not be entrusted given the opinions of ****ing jingoist *******s like you.

Vortex,

Sales of American goods in Moslem countries have been in a decline since 9/11. This has been pointed out by American companies selling goods to these countries. You might find that includes Moslem countries outside of the Mid East, including Indonesia.

As for French connections with Iraq, why don’t you clean up your own backyard first, and find out how much the US was involved with Iraq, especially when the US sided Iraq as Iraq fought Iran. The CIA was involved in throwing out the previous regime and helped placed the Baathists in power, thinking they could put another pro-West Arab strongman in power in the region.

I keep seeing how you live in your own little world of what should be this and that, without seeing the feelings of other people in the rest of world. The gravity of opinions in articles in the media, the press from Tokyo to Jakarta has been very anti-US lately.

Communism does not counter laziness. In fact, it tends to promulgate it. For example, back in the eighties, we had Chinese contract workers to do various construction work for an American company outside of China. First we did was to LECTURE them. No more EASY EASY. This is Capitalism. You are not in China any longer. You work to SWIM, or you SINK. And we made sure that everyone heard it, including their CCCP party officer, since usually, there is one hiding in every group in disguise. And they got full of bad work habits, like intentionally doing stuff to postpone or delay the work, or make longer than it is, often pretending or making the motions of working, when they actually are not. It can be very frustrating experience. Not to mention they have to siesta between 1 PM to 3 PM, after their lunch break. Fortunately they are willing to work till 7 or 8PM to compensate.

This was very different from the experience in Hong Kong or Taiwan. When you want something done, it’s “CAN DO!” And within the day, its DONE!

Now today even in China, the work habits of the mainlanders are truly transformed, and they can hip and hop as fast as their HK and Taiwanese counterparts.

As for greed, well, greed makes them work harder, but it won’t make a better state. Has this guy Vortex ever seen an election in a third world country? Ever seen vote buying before?

Been to many countries, especially in Asia, and my god, how often you can hear stories and rumors of corruption, politicians being bought out by rich businessmen. No one would put such in print, but everyone talks about it like an inevitable fact of life. No one really believes that the government is working for the common good, but rather the interests of moneyed groups. In some countries, like the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia, there is considerable hatred towards the Chinese minorities, some of whom tends to be exceedingly rich, and in some cases, these groups control the national economies disproportionately compared to the main population. The main population often points to these elite group of people as the ones often bribing and corrupting the politicians to do the bidding of these elite groups, forming policies that greatly benefit conglomerates and financial empires.

The result: The rich gets richer and the poor gets poorer. And the gap is so huge, it just wrecks your gut to see naked children with swollen bellies begging at the glass windows of cars like the latest models of Mercedes Benz waiting for the green light in heavy trafficed intersection.

So Vortex, have you really understood why the people supported the Communists? Have you really understood the massive disparity of rich and poor that existed in China and which exists in so many third world countries today? Have you really seen truly sickening, depressing poverty in the FACE?

Historically, China’s government had been monarchists/imperialists, a caste of nobles, the rich and the powerful. Under the Kuomingtang, replaced that with the warlords. Heck, Chiang Kai Sek could have taught even Saddam Hussein a lesson or two. CKS withheld food shipments against famine struck northern China so he can feed his own elite troops. The result, millions of northern Chinese starved, and when Mao came around, they backed him. That’s how Mao developed an important power base in northern China.

The Chinese were just too sick and tired of being invaded and starving to death. They just wanted a government that could at least put rice in their bowl, clothes to wear and roof over their head.

Today, compared to many third world countries, especially in the Asian region, poverty has yet to be eliminated, but China has done a much better job of fixing it more than any other country in that area. To be able to feed a billion is quite a feat, and I don’t think it could be done by a corrupt capitalist government on the whim of a few super tycoons.

Frankly, there is no Arab boycotting of French goods. In fact, Arabs in Saudi Arabia has been boycotting US goods. Please read up with the rest of the world, will you?

It should be your graphics card. I have a GF 2 MX, and after IL2, I had to change it to something better.

I got XP1700 (the new small chip), 512mb of DDR memory and a GF 4 MX440. Runs quite smooth with IL2 FB.

FB has the ME 262 flyable. In fact, just about every plane is flyable, right to the FW 190D9s, the Mustang, the P47s, the Hurricanes and P40s, the ME109K4s, G-10s and G-14s.

Heck even the Stukas and the Heinkel HE-111s are flyable.

If anything, FB may be the first game to show there is such a thing as too much flyables.

The ME 262 has a historically accurate flight model. However, don’t expect to play much of it online, since many servers have banned it and are prop only servers. This is because of players “vulching” other players; the ME-262 players often attack other planes while on the ground, and get away with it quickly. They also snipe using hit and run attacks at opportunity against dogfighting players.

Historically accurate tactics, but this kind of hellish play empties servers quickly.