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Nintendo's Mystery DS Portable Revealed
Thanks to GameSpy for its story revealing the first information on the dual-screened, portable Nintendo DS, the previously rumored 'mystery console' that's been lacking any concrete details up to now. According to the piece, the DS "features two separate 3" TFT LCD display panels, separate processors, and semiconductor memory of up to 1 Gigabit. It's scheduled to launch worldwide before the end of 2004." The article further explains: "Players can look forward to being able to simultaneously manage their game progress from two different perspectives, enhancing both the speed and strategy of the challenge. For example, players will no longer be forced to interrupt game play to shift perspective, such as moving from a wide shot to a close up, or alternating between a character's ongoing battle and a map of their environment." A concurrently released official Nintendo press release confirms this information.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Howard Dean campaign when recent polls confirmed that Howard Dean accounts for less than a fraction of 15 percent of all voters. Coming on the heels of the latest Iowa caucus which plainly states that the Howard Dean campaign has lost more vote share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. The Howard Dean campaign is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead third in the recent Iowa caucus.
You don't need to be a Bill Schneider to predict the Howard Dean campaign's future. The hand writing is on the wall: the Howard Dean campaign faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for the Howard Dean campaign because the Howard Dean campaign is dying. Things are looking very bad for the Howard Dean campaign. As many of us are already aware, the Howard Dean campaign continues to lose vote share. Angry, lunatic rants flow like a river. Howard Dean's voice is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its volume due to his apish shreiks. The sudden and unpleasant departure of long time campaign contributor George Soros only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: the Howard Dean campaign is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Polling leader Zogby states that 38% of democrats support John Kerry. How many supporters of John Edwards are there? Let's see. The number of John Kerry versus John Edwards posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 19 to 16. Therefore about 32% of democrats support John Edwards. John Edwards posts on Usenet are about twice the volume of Wesley Clark posts. Therefore about 16% of democrats support Wesley Clark. A recent caucus put Dick Gephardt at about 11% of democrat voters. Therefore about 1.00 - (.38 + .32 + .16 + .11) =
3% of democrats support Howard Dean. This is consistent with the number of
Howard Dean votes in Iowa.
Due to the troubles of Howard Dean, temper tantrums and so on, Howard Dean's voters went to other candidates and were taken over by Dick Gephardt who sells another failed tax-and-spend philosophy. Now the Dick Gephardt campaign is also dead, its voters turned over to even less desirable candidates.
All major surveys show that the Howard Dean campaign has steadily declined in vote share. The Howard Dean campaign is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If the Howard Dean campaign is to survive at all it will be among far left peaceniks. The Howard Dean campaign continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, the Howard Dean campaign is dead.
Fact: The Howard Dean campaign is dead
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In sacred jihad,
jihadi_31337
Because vertically oriented screens are fucking stupid (see also: Ngage).
Don't worry, it's ok to make mistakes. My wife says I'm still not pronouncing "nuclear" right, but all those people sure applauded for me tonight anyway. They even applauded after I said "the patriot act will expire next year" even though the TelePrompTer didn't say anyone was supposed to clap right then. So don't worry about being wrong; I get stuff wrong all the time and look where I am.
sincerely,
george w bush
The piss is'n house, yo! ...
The piss is'n da toilet, yo!
yo yo yo!
ARE YOU A DUMB FUCKER
If they're going to get my $$$ they're going to need to offer games for adults.
my karma will be here long after I'm gone