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I'm SO glad you're still working on this game. I've been waiting for it since you started talking about it
Keep up the good work!
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Ugh, we got smashed by the Czech Republic.
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And yet, it's a beautiful film. Shows what a difference that kind of outpouring of creative effort can do, I guess. I loved the featurette on the second DVD that showed the history of the Tronman logo, that was good.
Man. It really gives a whole new layer of appreciation for the film to know how much work it took.
EDIT: I'm not sure how to phrase that last sentence more clearly, but damn is it a bad sentence. Sorry, it's late.
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Tron is one of my favorite movies of all time... some of the matte shots of the cubicles at Encom are incredible, and though my tiny TV doesn't really show it in all it's glory, I don't think I'd be able to watch a 70mm print of it without wetting myself in amazement.
It's a brilliant movie in just about every aspect. And a lot of the cool stuff isn't even computer animated, right? Isn't a lot of it traditionally done?
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I think we (the US) might actually have a pretty good run in this World Cup. I don't think we'll win, but I do think we'll perform much better than people expect.
It should be interesting...
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We'll probably be out pretty early, as usual. Not that most American citizens know what the World Cup is...
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I still hold that the real troublemaker here is Israel, determined to blow away anyone who threatens them and expectant of our support.But if you don't let Israel do whatever they want, you must hate Jews. (Disclaimer: that was sarcasm.)
I've had that argument used against me before. I have several very close friends who are Jewish who were present when someone else accused me of anti-Semitism. Watching said accuser attempt to backpedal was quite amusing
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The other thing we're forgetting here is that Iran is, well, a normal country in that their citizens will rally around their flag the minute they're attacked. They did it to Saddam in 1980 when he tried to invade--he figured they'd give up on their revolution and welcome him as a conqueror but instead, they rallied around their government.
They also have millions of men signed up as a sort of National Guard made up of martyr brigades. (citation)
They've also said repeatedly that their nuclear program is intended for civilian uses, like electricity.
I still hold that the real troublemaker here is Israel, determined to blow away anyone who threatens them and expectant of our support.
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Back on the topic of Iran, is the reason we don't want them to have nuclear weapons so they won't attack Israel? If so, I think that's pretty ridiculous. Iran has signed and adheres to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Israel does not--we say we want a nuclear-free Middle East and then pour money and support into Israel, the only nation in the region that actually has nukes.
Plus, having spent most of my formative years with 30,000 Soviet warheads aimed at me, I think I can handle six or seven more Iranian ones.
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During the cold war, nothing improved over a long period, but still we knew that nothing good would come from a war and everybody would loose. In Iraq we have the same result, just on a lower level. Or do you think the world has become a better place and its more safe than 3 years ago? IMO the opposite is true and the Iraq war and the massive incompetence of handling the post-war situation are very responsible for that development.
I think this is a pretty good analogy. That the war itself occurred was unnecessary in my opinion, but even if I agreed that the war was a good thing, that it was needed, there's certainly no way you can argue that the situation is now being correctly handled. No one is any safer because of this war--instead of killing 1,000 people in an attack by Saddam Hussein, we've sacrificed 2,599 coalition deaths (2,390 Americans, two Australians, 104 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, three Danes, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Fijian, one Hungarian, 26 Italians, one Kazakh, one Latvian, 17 Poles, two Salvadoran, three Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians) for no reason. This isn't just an American screw-up. The whole world is suffering and many nations are losing lives for what looks to be a lost cause.
PS: TJ, I'll split the rent with you
though my dollars won't go as far as euros... just kidding. I've always wanted to move to the village in Sicily from which my great-grandparents emigrated in 1924, take in the rural Sicilian life for a while. -
If we nuke Iran, I'm moving to Europe.
You're welcome.
Mind if I stay with you?
Also, on the war-as-zero-sum topic, I'd like to quote Wargames:
The only winning move is not to play. -
Those who beat their swords to ploughshares, plow for those who don't.
To have peace, be prepared for war.
But we're not at war with Iran and you can't say they caused 9/11... how many of the hijackers were Saudi? If all of this is really about terrorism at its core, we'd be "setting up a democracy" in Saudi Arabia right now.
...oh yeah. They have all the oil. Sorry if I'm trolling, but i still dont understand why Iran's sovreignty and ours aren't equivalent in that they can't have nukes and we can.
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Here's another Ike quote:
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."If we nuke Iran, I'm moving to Europe. Being the only country to use nuclear weapons in anger is bad enough. Being the first country to be wiped off the map for nuking another country unjustifiably would be horrible.
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I've got a 40Gbyte 4G iPod (monochrome screen, weighs about half a pound
) and I've put Linux on it a couple of times... but as the 4G is unsupported so far (the port is still under development), even though other people have had great success with it, mine freezes every time i try to play music on it.It's pretty fun to play Tetris with, though
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What about F-14 Tomcat with the 2600 label on it? Now there's a great game... just kidding.
What about Robotron? You kind of have to have real hardware to really enjoy it though. That would make seven
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Further proof of this point today in Tom DeLay's resignation. He didn't say he was resigning because of any of the myriad illegal acts he's pretty much been caught red-handed in doing, no, he left so "liberal Democrats couldn't steal his seat in a negative personal campaign."
I don't see how this is proof of that.
How is he artificially dividing any population with an trumped-up issue? Who is he conquering?
He decided not to run for reelection because he doesn't think he can win. His timing in announcing this, his office, and his legal issues all make this more interesting than otherwise but, still, 1000s of Americans decide not to run for reelection for that reason every year.
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He didn't just say he wasn't running again, now he's resigned his seat. But in any case, why not say that he didn't think he could win, rather than blaming it on "liberal Democrats" who are going to "steal his seat"? Winning a seat in an election isn't stealing, its... well... winning a seat. It's another example of one party blaming things that aren't in any way the other party's fault on said party in an attempt to widen the "red state/blue state" gap. I understand that there are real ideological differences in liberals and conservatives, but that's not valid grounds for the hatred that exists in some places between the two.
Now, as to "Who is he conquering," I think it's possible that he's setting up whatever Republican candidate is running in his district, since he's not, to have the support of a large number of voters angry at the Democrats for trying to "steal" their district. It's nowhere near as deep as the WMD issue in it's implications, but I still feel it's a pretty valid example.
Also, I'm not saying that Republicans are the only ones guilty of pushing apart conservatives and liberals by what they do--Democrats are just as guilty. They're just not quite as visible because they don't have the White House or either of the houses of Congress.
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It's called divide and conquer and it's working well for the people in power.
Further proof of this point today in Tom DeLay's resignation. He didn't say he was resigning because of any of the myriad illegal acts he's pretty much been caught red-handed in doing, no, he left so "liberal Democrats couldn't steal his seat in a negative personal campaign."
Pardon the language, but what a fuckwad.
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But what do we dumb 'mericans know?
Not dumb, just quite a lot right of (world wide) center.
Not all of us, though
... I'm personally hoping that if the Democrats regain control of the Congress in this years elections (which may or may not happen, depending on how the Diebold--who support Republican campaigns with their corporate money--electronic voting machines with no paper trails are told to behave) there will be real investigations into exactly what the Bush administration has been up to. As it is, nothing sticks to them. Nobody really seriously did anything after they failed to turn up WMD's. There's a video of the National Hurricane Center director telling the President that "the levees may be an issue" three days before he publicly stated "no one knew the levees would be an issue." The Dubai Ports incident. The Valerie Plame incident. The list goes on.My main problem with America is that no one seriously questions politicians on the issues, it's all about whether they butter their bread butter-side up or butter-side down and nothing more (yes, that's a Dr. Seuss reference) and until we start electing people because they're the best people for the job--regardless of which party they're a member of; I'd have no problem voting Republican if I thought the Republican candidate would do a better job--we're going to have people in power that abuse their power because that's all they want to be elected for--power. The UN, Iraq, they're all just symptoms of a much larger problem with American politics, the way I see it.
The system is broken, and there really aren't any processes in place that would allow for a change that would actually happen. People forget that the founding fathers didn't mean for the Constitution to be an immutable stone tablet. We're able to amend it for a reason--to fix things that are wrong with it. When we don't fix things that have proven not to be the best course of action (say, a power-grabbing executive branch and a weak-kneed Congress that won't enforce it's checks and balances) it's our own damn fault when everything is FUBAR.
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As supercat has pointed out, at least in the Schiavo case, there was a lot going on besides the PVS debate. I wouldn't want to be kept alive in that state either, but... I don't know.
Flame on, I guess
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...same company...
Yeah, that too
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I was under impression that her family together with some willing parts of media made him look so.
That could be just as possible. I doubt we'll ever hear the truth about the case; it'll always be slanted at least slightly in one way or the other.
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UMD's remind me a whole lot of MiniDiscs. Same idea, same fate.
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Yes, and in any other case that probably would have mattered, but it looks like Michael Schiavo just wanted to get rid of his wife so he wouldn't be married anymore and could marry his mistress. Basically, the fact that she was in a persistent vegetative state (whether she was or not) was just his excuse for getting rid of her...
at least, that's how it looked to me. Had he not had a mistress or any of those other things, and "remembered" his conversations with Terri immediately rather than seven years down the line, the situation would have been different.
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I've always thought wtc7.net had a good argument. The Pentagon "crash" is a lot more troubling though... interviews with military personnel from inside who thought they heard the hiss of a missile, not a jet engine, etc.
It's pretty scary stuff, but I haven't really looked into it that much.
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We were terrible. Ghana is better than they were expected to be, apparently, but... damn. We were awful.