Kaze no Tani no Naushika or Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind: created by the same man (Hiyao Miazaki [sp?]) a Lupin III -- it is a very bueatifull film; the animation is stunning, the music hypnotic and the story interesting and relevant. It is a fantasy/SF set 1,000 years after the fall of our future civilization. The world is being consumed by forests of fungus that produce deadly vapors. Amidst this decay, the last human survivors try to eek out a living...
Kare Kano: this is mentioned below, but it definitly needs to be included. Made by the same people who brought you Evangelion, it is amazingly fun to watch. It is just like EVA, but cute and fuzzy and set in a high school. Yay for Pero Pero, the super-deformed dog!
Trigun: I have only seen the first three or four episodes of this, but it is great. Set in the old west, but on a distant planet with lots 'o future tech (kinda like Dune) it is the story of Vash the Stampede, the best gunman alive. He manages to always win without ever shooting at anyone, even with a huge bounty on his head. "Love and Peace! Love and Peace!"
Ranma 1/2: I hate to include this, but one or two episodes at a time can be fun. This one isn't even all that bad dubbed. Just remember, don't watch more than one or two episodes at a time or your teeth will rot and you will go insane.
Lain: its been mentioned before. Total mind fsck. Think the Matrix, but oh so much more. Also, notice that all of the computers in the show are Macs or Mac clones. Even the title of each episode is announced by a slightly modified Mac text-to-speech voice. They even seem to be aware of the legendary Copland OS.
There are tons more I could mention, but I have gone on long enough already. Most all of these are good for "anime newbies," though you might want to wait a bit on Lain.
It's Studio Gainex, the folks who brought us EVA. I am convinced that Kare Kano and EVA are the same, only Kare Kano is cute and fuzzy. Anyway, Kare Kano, I must agree, is great, thought the episode and a half of recap was not really needed. Oh, how did you like the paper cut-out episode? Better than stick figure week, no?
The other day, a bunch of us were thinking how cool it would be to have a 3D fighter (a la Armored Core II on the PS2) with Mechs from the various animes:
The EVAs would be about the best in the game, but damn hard to use -- because of their AT fields, they are virtually impossible to kill, BUT they need power and their only weapons are fists and that little knife; maybe a machine gun with limited ammo...
A couple of the Gundams ought to be included -- I'm fond of Deathsyth, so maybe the five Gundams from Gundam Wing? or maybe some others... I don't know. At any rate, these would be the cheese mechs. Very good for players who have never played before (fast, powerful mechs), but lacking the style and finesse of other mechs.
Definitly the Valkeries from Robotech/Macross, and maybe the YF-19 or -21 (or both). These have no armor (seriously, unless it is pioleted by Rick Hunter, one shot and its dust), but they have the Macross Missles (tm) -- you know, thousands of missles from every possible opening on the vessle that go in random directions but never miss...
For style, Escaflowne needs to be there, and perhaps one of the Zaibach mechs with a cloak. Good at melee combat, but no ranged attackes (i.e. a sword and that's about it).
I'm sure I'm leaving a bunch out, but it is a start, no?
Yes, it did, but I have a minor qualm: Minmay. I don't like her. She may have been better before the American bastardization (not the bad form of the word bastardize, just stating a fact), but she really gets on my nerves. She can't hit a single note and she is a bubble headed ditz. Lisa Hayes is so much better than her.
The movie Do You Remember Love has a much better Minmay character. Perhaps I only say this because I have seen this subbed and not dubbed, but Minmay can sing, and she is not quite so vaporous. Rick is also a bit more decided about Lisa, so perhaps that helps as well.
At any rate, my thoughts on Robotech are "Die Minmay, Die!"
--Its German, it means "the Minmay, the".
--Oh, well, anyone who speaks German can't be bad.
Most mutations are "inferior" to the original species, in that they remove or surpress a capability.
Actually, most mutations are totally irrelevent. There is an average of one mutation in every one billion base pairs (according to my bio. anth. prof. -- this could be more or less) between the parent and offspring. With the huge numbers of base pairs in human DNA, just about every person in the world could be considered a mutant.
The thing is, changes in the genome (genetic information) do not mean changes in the physical appearance or abilities of the mutated individual. In fact, many of the proteins that DNA codes for can be created with multiple sequences of DNA. Thus, one change from A to T in the DNA of an individual may have no effect at all.
This doesn't mean that there are not mutations that have morphological or functional differences, just that most mutations have no effect at all. Thus, they are neither good nor bad -- just there.
Bush up 6-5; 2 outs: runner on third; 1 strike, 2 balls. Bush winds up and pitches. Gore swings and misses.
Folks, I haven't seen such a close game in all my years. Absolutly amazing!! We all thought it was over when the Dems scored that grand slam in the bottom of the 6th, but The Pubs rallied in the 8th and 9th, bringing this game to a dead heat. Then, in the top of the 11th, Bush scored an amazing run, and it looked as if the games was over, and it looked as though the Dems would be forced to concede, but they managed to score a single run and stay in the game--
Bush winds up... and the pitch -- low and outside, ball 3.
Then, nothing happened for several innings, until the top of the 16th when the Pubs managed to score off of a Dem error and once again take a one run lead--
Just a moment folks, the umpires are getting together... It looks as though the game has been delayed on acount of time...
Well, we hope you all tune in tommarrow for the conclusion of one of the most amazing games in the history of the sport.
As of 2:30 am PST (what is that, 5:30 EST?), Bush leads in FL by only 224 votes. This is the vote with 100% of the presincts in the state reporting. There is going to be at least one mandatory recount.
A couple of things are going to influence the vote:
(1) There are still something like 2,000-3,000 absentee ballots that have yet to be counted -- perhaps they have not even made it to the US yet (i.e. they are from offshore military bases.
(2) In Palm Beach, there was a mix up with the ballots, and many people who thought they were voting for Gore were acctually voting for Buchanan. This may help Bush just as much as Gore, I don't know the state well enough.
I state all of this in order to point out how very much the above comment hit the nail on the head;
I just hope the 67,503 Nader voters feel smug about voting their concience while they're riding in this hand basket come January 20th"
If Bush wins this, it will come down to the "Nader Factor." If Nader had not run, many polls indicate that about 60% of Nader votes would have gone to Gore, 20% to Bush and the other 20% to other candidates. With only 224 votes on line, this makes an extremely great deal of difference.
Also, if Bush wins, it will be only in the electoral college. As of 2:30 am PST, Gore was ahead in the electoral vote by over 200,000 votes. This is a small margin compated to almost 100 million votes, but it is still 200,000 votes more than Bush.
Is there anyone else that thinks that this calls for a change in the electoral system in the US????
Okay, I am sorry to rant, esspeccially as I am sure that I am completely offtopic by now. Forgive me my sins; I am going to bed now. G'night.
P.S. Good morning to all of you that went to bed thinking Bush had won hands down. You'll be happy to know that you don't have to move to Canada yet.
The body doesn't really adapt, it just atrophies. The same thing happens to people who are bedridden for long periods of time... their muscles and bone begin to decay through lack of use.
Acctually, I tend to agree with you in large part. Socialism is an ideaology, just like communism or true (I don't know how to spell this, but) laise faire capitalism. Ideaologies tend not to work because they tend to assume that people fit into some perfect mold.
Still, I would personally prefer rule by an elected group to rule by corporate leaders. (Socialism vs. Libritarianism)
Because socialiasm is very similar to communism, and we spent most of our time after World War II in a "war" against the Soviet Union -- a communist state. I terms of why the government fears communism, that is also fairly easy to explain.
(1) Communism is, by definition (well, Marxist communism, anyway) a REVOLUTION. If you are in charge, you don't want to get thrown out.
(2) Communism is bad for a capitalist economy. Socialism suffers from the same problem. If you are willing to ditch capitalism and capitalist theory, communism or socialism could be feasible, but first you have to get out of the mindset "What is good for the economy is good for everyone."
and try spelling out the word 'brat' in cursive (in Russian). 6pam. it looks a lot like spam. therefore, my brother is spam. no wonder he annoys me so much:)
Actually, in Russian, the word is borchsh. The "chsh" is my my best attempt to transliterate a soft "sh" sound -- it is about the same sound you would use when telling a child to be quite. There is not t at the end.
This, I'm sure, is not what you were thinking of, but R. A. Heinlein wrote a book called Have Space Suit, Will Travel. It is really a book for adolecence, lacking any deep characters or plot or anything, but it is about a guy who wins a space suit in a contest, then is kidnapped by aliens. It is a fun read.
I acctuall bought Kiki for myself. I took it home to show to my siblings. Of the four brothers and sisters (all younger), the 17 and 13 year olds could have cared less. The other two -- one 5 and the other 10 w/ downs -- both loved it, even though neither could read the subtittles. So, I gave it to them.
I have seen both Ghost in the Shell and Akira. I was not terribly impressed with either. By no means am I saying that they are bad and I think that they both demonstrate many of the things that make anime great, i.e. amazing visual style and -- heaven forbid this happens in a cartoon -- plot.
In terms of series, I have seen very little of DBZ or any of the other series on American telivision. What I have seen is what our club can get its hands on in a subbed state of being (no dubs for us). I have seen Ecaflowne and Gundam Wing, both fansubbed, via the anime club. I regard these both as being superior to the common American fare (i.e. DBZ and Pokemon.
My favorite bits of anime are (for anyone who cares) generally movies. I am very fond of Hayao MIYAZAKI, the man that brought forth such things as Mononoke Hime and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (my favorite movie after 2001 and the Russian film Solaris). I also enjoyed Evangelion quite a bit. It doesn't make a great deal of sense and is rather confusing the first time through, but the style of animation is fantastic.
I hope that goes some distance in answering your question ^_^
I agree whole heartedly. While I am an atheist and beleive in the theory of evolution, the big bang, dinosaurs and all the rest, I still beleive only in that they seem to be the best theories around. For those that are interested, have a look at T. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions for some really interesting material that applies to the acceptance of theory as law. Neat stuff. ----- Vikhozhu odin ya na darogu; Skvoz' tuman kremnisti put' blectit; Noch' tikha. Pystinya vnemlet bogu,
Neat:) It sounds very good, and thank you for all the feedback... scrolling through some of the more rescent posts, I see that you have answered a lot of questions. It is nice to see someone doing that. Thank you. ----- Vikhozhu odin ya na darogu; Skvoz' tuman kremnisti put' blectit; Noch' tikha. Pystinya vnemlet bogu,
Sorry to rant like this, but I hate Outlook. This semester, my school decided to move their entire email system over from some very old VMS boxes (they needed to go) to a bunch of Windoze boxes and Outlook. They had this great idea that they would synchronize our email passwords with our Novell passwords (thus allowing us to maintain webpages and print and use email w/ one password). This silly synchronizeation thingy (I have no idea what they are useing) is refusing to work and most people over here are finding a need to change their passwords several times in a day.
Given that I am the only person I my hall w/o an iMac (I am really begining to hate those things; and I have always supported Apple), I am the one that is called upon to get their accounts working again (like I can do that -- I generally end up calling OIT and telling them to get their heads srewed on straight). I hate it!!
I asked them the other day why we switched to Outlook and not Linux. OIT said they wanted to use a *nix, but the administrators would not stand for it: "They like the calander feature, and webmail looked neat."
Again, sorry to rant like that.
/RANT
----- Vikhozhu odin ya na darogu; Skvoz' tuman kremnisti put' blectit; Noch' tikha. Pystinya vnemlet bogu,
...but I am getting really sick of this move to more and more graphical interfaces for everything. There are times when pretty pictures are nice, they make things more intuative, i.e. having Mozilla or Netscape around is often easier than using lynx.
Mutt has always worked rather well for me. It handles pgp well, and works nicely with my school's new LDAP database. How does Evolution handle this? What do we gain from the interface?
To me, it just adds a level of abstraction to a realativly simply procedure and makes it seem less solid and real.
Perhaps I should not complain so much. This is the kind of thing that might make my grandmother go out and get a Linux box instead of Windoze, but I will still continue to use mutt. ----- Vikhozhu odin ya na darogu; Skvoz' tuman kremnisti put' blectit; Noch' tikha. Pystinya vnemlet bogu,
I personally got something like 47 copies of the virus. Good thing I run Linux... ----- Vikhozhu odin ya na darogu; Skvoz' tuman kremnisti put' blectit; Noch' tikha. Pystinya vnemlet bogu,
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There are tons more I could mention, but I have gone on long enough already. Most all of these are good for "anime newbies," though you might want to wait a bit on Lain.
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Hello, Navi.
Hello, Lain.
Navi, connecto wiredo.
Wow, 13 episodes of insanity. Thank the maker.
Can we all say "mind f_ck"
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It's Studio Gainex, the folks who brought us EVA. I am convinced that Kare Kano and EVA are the same, only Kare Kano is cute and fuzzy. Anyway, Kare Kano, I must agree, is great, thought the episode and a half of recap was not really needed. Oh, how did you like the paper cut-out episode? Better than stick figure week, no?
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I'm sure I'm leaving a bunch out, but it is a start, no?
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Yes, it did, but I have a minor qualm: Minmay. I don't like her. She may have been better before the American bastardization (not the bad form of the word bastardize, just stating a fact), but she really gets on my nerves. She can't hit a single note and she is a bubble headed ditz. Lisa Hayes is so much better than her.
The movie Do You Remember Love has a much better Minmay character. Perhaps I only say this because I have seen this subbed and not dubbed, but Minmay can sing, and she is not quite so vaporous. Rick is also a bit more decided about Lisa, so perhaps that helps as well.
At any rate, my thoughts on Robotech are "Die Minmay, Die!"
--Its German, it means "the Minmay, the".
--Oh, well, anyone who speaks German can't be bad.
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Most mutations are "inferior" to the original species, in that they remove or surpress a capability.
Actually, most mutations are totally irrelevent. There is an average of one mutation in every one billion base pairs (according to my bio. anth. prof. -- this could be more or less) between the parent and offspring. With the huge numbers of base pairs in human DNA, just about every person in the world could be considered a mutant.
The thing is, changes in the genome (genetic information) do not mean changes in the physical appearance or abilities of the mutated individual. In fact, many of the proteins that DNA codes for can be created with multiple sequences of DNA. Thus, one change from A to T in the DNA of an individual may have no effect at all.
This doesn't mean that there are not mutations that have morphological or functional differences, just that most mutations have no effect at all. Thus, they are neither good nor bad -- just there.
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Bush up 6-5; 2 outs: runner on third; 1 strike, 2 balls. Bush winds up and pitches. Gore swings and misses.
Folks, I haven't seen such a close game in all my years. Absolutly amazing!! We all thought it was over when the Dems scored that grand slam in the bottom of the 6th, but The Pubs rallied in the 8th and 9th, bringing this game to a dead heat. Then, in the top of the 11th, Bush scored an amazing run, and it looked as if the games was over, and it looked as though the Dems would be forced to concede, but they managed to score a single run and stay in the game--
Bush winds up... and the pitch -- low and outside, ball 3.
Then, nothing happened for several innings, until the top of the 16th when the Pubs managed to score off of a Dem error and once again take a one run lead--
Just a moment folks, the umpires are getting together... It looks as though the game has been delayed on acount of time...
Well, we hope you all tune in tommarrow for the conclusion of one of the most amazing games in the history of the sport.
This is the phantom, signing off. G'night.
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Later in the evening:
Something to the effect of "Florida is has been like one of those pendelum things"
Funny, funny man.
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As of 2:30 am PST (what is that, 5:30 EST?), Bush leads in FL by only 224 votes. This is the vote with 100% of the presincts in the state reporting. There is going to be at least one mandatory recount.
A couple of things are going to influence the vote:
(1) There are still something like 2,000-3,000 absentee ballots that have yet to be counted -- perhaps they have not even made it to the US yet (i.e. they are from offshore military bases.
(2) In Palm Beach, there was a mix up with the ballots, and many people who thought they were voting for Gore were acctually voting for Buchanan. This may help Bush just as much as Gore, I don't know the state well enough.
I state all of this in order to point out how very much the above comment hit the nail on the head;
I just hope the 67,503 Nader voters feel smug about voting their concience while they're riding in this hand basket come January 20th"
If Bush wins this, it will come down to the "Nader Factor." If Nader had not run, many polls indicate that about 60% of Nader votes would have gone to Gore, 20% to Bush and the other 20% to other candidates. With only 224 votes on line, this makes an extremely great deal of difference.
Also, if Bush wins, it will be only in the electoral college. As of 2:30 am PST, Gore was ahead in the electoral vote by over 200,000 votes. This is a small margin compated to almost 100 million votes, but it is still 200,000 votes more than Bush.
Is there anyone else that thinks that this calls for a change in the electoral system in the US????
Okay, I am sorry to rant, esspeccially as I am sure that I am completely offtopic by now. Forgive me my sins; I am going to bed now. G'night.
P.S. Good morning to all of you that went to bed thinking Bush had won hands down. You'll be happy to know that you don't have to move to Canada yet.
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The body doesn't really adapt, it just atrophies. The same thing happens to people who are bedridden for long periods of time... their muscles and bone begin to decay through lack of use.
I don't really have much to add, just thought I would share my little world with y'all:
While reading the above comment, I happened to be listening too "Just Communication", the opening theme from Gundam Wing.
Yay for the randomness of life.
Righto, forgot about that one, and its so obvious too!
True enough.
Acctually, I tend to agree with you in large part. Socialism is an ideaology, just like communism or true (I don't know how to spell this, but) laise faire capitalism. Ideaologies tend not to work because they tend to assume that people fit into some perfect mold.
Still, I would personally prefer rule by an elected group to rule by corporate leaders. (Socialism vs. Libritarianism)
I believe he asked why people were brainwashed, not for an example of said brainwashing.
Because socialiasm is very similar to communism, and we spent most of our time after World War II in a "war" against the Soviet Union -- a communist state. I terms of why the government fears communism, that is also fairly easy to explain.
(1) Communism is, by definition (well, Marxist communism, anyway) a REVOLUTION. If you are in charge, you don't want to get thrown out.
(2) Communism is bad for a capitalist economy. Socialism suffers from the same problem. If you are willing to ditch capitalism and capitalist theory, communism or socialism could be feasible, but first you have to get out of the mindset "What is good for the economy is good for everyone."
what is IANARC? I Am Not A Russian ???
:)
and try spelling out the word 'brat' in cursive (in Russian). 6pam. it looks a lot like spam. therefore, my brother is spam. no wonder he annoys me so much
Actually, in Russian, the word is borchsh. The "chsh" is my my best attempt to transliterate a soft "sh" sound -- it is about the same sound you would use when telling a child to be quite. There is not t at the end.
This, I'm sure, is not what you were thinking of, but R. A. Heinlein wrote a book called Have Space Suit, Will Travel. It is really a book for adolecence, lacking any deep characters or plot or anything, but it is about a guy who wins a space suit in a contest, then is kidnapped by aliens. It is a fun read.
I acctuall bought Kiki for myself. I took it home to show to my siblings. Of the four brothers and sisters (all younger), the 17 and 13 year olds could have cared less. The other two -- one 5 and the other 10 w/ downs -- both loved it, even though neither could read the subtittles. So, I gave it to them.
I have seen both Ghost in the Shell and Akira. I was not terribly impressed with either. By no means am I saying that they are bad and I think that they both demonstrate many of the things that make anime great, i.e. amazing visual style and -- heaven forbid this happens in a cartoon -- plot.
In terms of series, I have seen very little of DBZ or any of the other series on American telivision. What I have seen is what our club can get its hands on in a subbed state of being (no dubs for us). I have seen Ecaflowne and Gundam Wing, both fansubbed, via the anime club. I regard these both as being superior to the common American fare (i.e. DBZ and Pokemon.
My favorite bits of anime are (for anyone who cares) generally movies. I am very fond of Hayao MIYAZAKI, the man that brought forth such things as Mononoke Hime and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (my favorite movie after 2001 and the Russian film Solaris). I also enjoyed Evangelion quite a bit. It doesn't make a great deal of sense and is rather confusing the first time through, but the style of animation is fantastic.
I hope that goes some distance in answering your question ^_^
I agree whole heartedly. While I am an atheist and beleive in the theory of evolution, the big bang, dinosaurs and all the rest, I still beleive only in that they seem to be the best theories around. For those that are interested, have a look at T. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions for some really interesting material that applies to the acceptance of theory as law. Neat stuff.
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Vikhozhu odin ya na darogu;
Skvoz' tuman kremnisti put' blectit;
Noch' tikha. Pystinya vnemlet bogu,
Neat :)
It sounds very good, and thank you for all the feedback... scrolling through some of the more rescent posts, I see that you have answered a lot of questions. It is nice to see someone doing that. Thank you.
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Vikhozhu odin ya na darogu;
Skvoz' tuman kremnisti put' blectit;
Noch' tikha. Pystinya vnemlet bogu,
RANT
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Sorry to rant like this, but I hate Outlook. This semester, my school decided to move their entire email system over from some very old VMS boxes (they needed to go) to a bunch of Windoze boxes and Outlook. They had this great idea that they would synchronize our email passwords with our Novell passwords (thus allowing us to maintain webpages and print and use email w/ one password). This silly synchronizeation thingy (I have no idea what they are useing) is refusing to work and most people over here are finding a need to change their passwords several times in a day.
Given that I am the only person I my hall w/o an iMac (I am really begining to hate those things; and I have always supported Apple), I am the one that is called upon to get their accounts working again (like I can do that -- I generally end up calling OIT and telling them to get their heads srewed on straight). I hate it!!
I asked them the other day why we switched to Outlook and not Linux. OIT said they wanted to use a *nix, but the administrators would not stand for it:
"They like the calander feature, and webmail looked neat."
Again, sorry to rant like that.
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Vikhozhu odin ya na darogu;
Skvoz' tuman kremnisti put' blectit;
Noch' tikha. Pystinya vnemlet bogu,
...but I am getting really sick of this move to more and more graphical interfaces for everything. There are times when pretty pictures are nice, they make things more intuative, i.e. having Mozilla or Netscape around is often easier than using lynx.
Mutt has always worked rather well for me. It handles pgp well, and works nicely with my school's new LDAP database. How does Evolution handle this? What do we gain from the interface?
To me, it just adds a level of abstraction to a realativly simply procedure and makes it seem less solid and real.
Perhaps I should not complain so much. This is the kind of thing that might make my grandmother go out and get a Linux box instead of Windoze, but I will still continue to use mutt.
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Vikhozhu odin ya na darogu;
Skvoz' tuman kremnisti put' blectit;
Noch' tikha. Pystinya vnemlet bogu,
I personally got something like 47 copies of the virus. Good thing I run Linux...
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Vikhozhu odin ya na darogu;
Skvoz' tuman kremnisti put' blectit;
Noch' tikha. Pystinya vnemlet bogu,