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Beijing 2008 In Lego
jedie noted an impressive rendering of the Beijing Olympics in Lego. Featuring 300,000 bricks, and 4,500 Lego people, it was built by the
Hong Kong Lego User Group. Yes that exists. Amazing. I'm pretty sure that the lighting inside the water cube was not made using stock legos. At least, none in my giant cardboard box.
Is it just me or does it seem that the Lego Corp has lost their way? When I was a kid, we used the generic Lego bricks to build a million different things--all based on our imaginations. Now the little brats do nothing but assemble kids with of all things directions. What happened to make up your own ideas? I've now seen so many kids who are unwilling to build anything that strays outside of the confines of "the kit". The creative building childhoods that had been the last remaining birthright of an American is now fading fast. Kids will not grow up creative in the states and we will drift along and invent nothing new.
> Last time I checked, and "imperialist" government generally tended to take over smaller countries for the purpose of extracting wealth and resources. America does none
> of the above.
Check again. Look at US support for Saddam Hussein, when he was killing (his own) civilians with chemical weapons. They also encouraged the Kurds and others to rise up and fight the Iraqi army, only to stand back and watch them get slaughtered. Makes the line about "helping people remove vile and murderous dictatorships" ring a little hollow, doesn't it. This isn't propoganda - it's fact, admitted as such by some of the people responsible.
> In fact, when we take over a country, we tend to SEND and SPEND large amounts of our wealth, manpower, and lives to build that country up into a functioning democracy,
> leaving the people there better off than before. This is the exact OPPOSITE of imperialistic behavior.
Every single poll in Iraq since it was invaded and occupied by the US has shown that the people of Iraq are not thankful, and want them to leave immediately.