Why do Americans like Bobby Fischer?

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batgirl wrote:

What's a DEFCON3 ?

Defense Condition 3 : one step below "Imminent Threat of Nuclear War" (which is DefCon 4).

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Thanks.

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Not to be confused with deaf corn, which has ears but cannot hear.

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Why do Americans call maize corn?

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kenible5 wrote:

amazingly corny

Um, corn is a copyrighted trademark of Monsanto Corporation. You should really be more careful before they take action against you for abuse of their product.

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what's a monsanto?

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rooperi wrote:

what's a monsanto?

It's a horrible corporation which uses food for exploitation and monopoly, and basically enslave the farmer and their fields of crops by selling them genetically modified seeds which do not grow crops which will reproduce naturally, but instead makes the farmer have to buy more seeds from Monsanto to grow a new crop.

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trysts wrote:

It's a horrible corporation which uses food for exploitation and monopoly, and basically enslave the farmer and their fields of crops by selling them genetically modified seeds which do not grow crops which will reproduce naturally, but instead makes the farmer have to buy more seeds from Monsanto to grow a new crop.

You'll hear from their lawyers soon.

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rooperi wrote:

Why do Americans call maize corn?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maize#Words_for_maize

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Even worse for Monsanto: when pollen from their "Roundup Ready" (Roundup is a herbicide that their corn seeds are immune from) corn fields blows into and contaminates another farmer's corn, they sue the other farmer for infringing on their "intellectual property" by selling their corn without paying them for their seed/pollen. The DNA from their genetically modified plants has made the idea of non-genetically modified corn impossible in the US & Canada.

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Don't even get me started on aspartame.

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These revelations are amaizing.

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trysts wrote:
linuxblue1 wrote:

"Why Do Americans like Lance Armstrong?"

He won a lot of things, made a lot of money, lied to everyone, cheated, and was selfish. Americans like Ayn Rand as well

And Allen Greenspan too.  He likes Anny.  She was a cutie.

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SPARTANEMESIS wrote:

The greatest warlord in history (in my opinion of course) believed war should always be the last resort.  I think Fischer is one of the greatest chess players in history and in that regard I respect him; but I have no respect for his racist views.  

I believe Genghis Khan is right up there on the hit parade too.

Just ask the Turks.

Sun Tzu was a lot earlier, and perhaps a bit more "local" in his purview.

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AdamRinkleff wrote:
kenible5 wrote:

amazingly corny

Um, corn is a copyrighted trademark of Monsanto Corporation. You should really be more careful before they take action against you for abuse of their product.

Monsanto knows how to KICK BUTT, much like Bobby Fischer did in his salad years.

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TheGrobe wrote:

Don't even get me started on aspartame.

Laughing  This tread just keeps coming back for more!

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let me pose a question to you: why do russians like keres, botvinnik, alekhine, smyslov, tal, petrosian, spassky, karpov, and kasparov???

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Beats me.

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because they are winners.

fischer was a crazy winner, but still a winner nonetheless.

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aw, you gave away the answer :-(

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