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Apostle... isn't english your native language..?

The Dark Apostle wrote:
I'd like to ask guys 3 things
1. What should my next article be?
2. English isn't my first language, I'm going to use microsoft word grammar check, I've used it in the past and it seems to work decently well, is this good?
3. Has no one seen the bit at the end where I explain where I got my information?

Id like people to answer my 1st question as im pretty stuck on what to do, I was thinking of doing the whole death from the skies scandal and the info with that

and I helped

Facepalm, I meant first, I was going to say that I speak my originally my native language and only started learning English properly a few years ago. Sorry

The facepalm at the bottom of the previous page was due to your quote of, "there was children over there." It should have said, "there were (or are) children over there."

The Dark Apostle wrote:
I'd like to ask guys 3 things
1. What should my next article be?
2. English isn't my first language, I'm going to use microsoft word grammar check, I've used it in the past and it seems to work decently well, is this good?
3. Has no one seen the bit at the end where I explain where I got my information?

Id like people to answer my 1st question as im pretty stuck on what to do, I was thinking of doing the whole death from the skies scandal and the info with that

I guess it depends on why you're writing articles; for practice writing articles or practice writing in English?

You might find it best to start a blog on the state of the hobby, and do a bit of further research on any news items you come across, writing an article on them. There are presumably writing forums you can show articles to for feedback.

The Dark Apostle wrote:
wether you like it or now GW is a business, there objective is to make money.

This would be my first point of disagreement (coincidently the first point you make). Who says the objective of a business should be to make money, and then more money? There are plenty of companies that operate successfully on a 'not for profit' basis. Many people start businesses to do something they love, or to provide a service to their community, or to simply make 'a living' (as opposed to a killing).

I'm not suggesting a business should lose money. But this whole idea of 'maximising profits' is a sickness, and one of the great evils of our time. How many poisons and carcinogens are we exposed to each day, so that corporations can shave a few pennies off their costs per unit? Look at the recent horse meat scandal. Hell, you can't buy a bottle of orange juice that hasn't got half a chemistry set added to it (and if you're lucky maybe 30% orange from concentrate). They will cut corners any way they can in the name of 'profits'. Compromising quality, health, safety, the environment, customer satisfaction, employment standards, even the law. To the point where the government has to step in and regulate what should already be regulated by basic human decency (Though governments are increasingly compromised too).

How dare you compare my going to work, in order to live, to what GW and other corporations do. I am not so consumed by greed, and I should be deeply ashamed if I were. What kind of person would fleece a child of all their Christmas money? Or use a child to leverage more money out of a poor parent struggling to make ends meet? Or screw over an old friend who has stuck by them and supported them for years, just to make a quick buck now. I would call such a person despicable, ugly, and dishonest. Yet when GW pull stuff resembling this: You try to pass it off as "just good business". Well I don't consider it 'good' anything. It is just detestable. And detest is all they will get from me.