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I agree. But the point 5 is a blurry subject, the abortion may have short, middle or long term consequences to the mother, but for the fetus it's permanent. Is easy to us to talk about the convenience or not of abortion, since we didn't get aborted. Of course, the "religious idiotic viewpoint on sexuality" doesn't help.
What's wrong with contraception? If they don't want kids to be aborted, then they should encourage the use of contraceptives to begin with, no unwanted pregnancy == no abortions.
People listen, give power to religious leaders, they should use that power with responsibility, not with self-complacency. If they want maturity, then they must provide an array of options, so their followers can make a mature decision, instead of driving them of their intelligence. It's about what they can do to improve the situation, not about what it should be.
IIRC, is because Streamline Pictures got out off business. They got very good franchises, but with the exception OF Akira, the company was famous for cutting the movies to make them more politically correct.
Well, it was Carl Macek's company, so it isn't estrange, he was the one who made Robotech, from 3 different TV series, and cut the Macross movie in to "Class of the Bionoids" ouch!!
Maybe he look the Dead or alive,. It's far better on Dreamcast than on PlayStation 2. Of course the PSX 2 has better hardware, but many of today games are crap, while the Dreamcast has a lot of old and new good games.
It looks like a conspiracy. But who could be beind the wires? Sony isn't the only suspect, MS or Nintendo could get some benefit from this. In Latin America, piracy helped (and is helping) the PSX1. Now that you can get pirate games for Dreamcast, a lot of people started to buy the sistem, now is not uncommon to see people owning a PSX1 and a Dreamcast. Of course, game piracy is helping the console sales, but hurting developers,.. those warez kids never learn.
Personally, I like Sega systems over any of their competitors. Every new generation of game consoles since the master system come from Sega, they are the only ones to dared to take the risks, while the other companies just watched and waited until the new road get built. We owe a lot of the digital revolution to Sega, it's sad to see that the most innovative company in the game industry could go.
I don't care about rumors, in my next birthday I will buy a Dreamcast, I waited too much time for it =) It's the best and cheaper system out there
IIRC, the termal efficiency of coil/oil power plants rise to 37% (electric energy vs. energy of fuel), while C.C. (combined cicle, use steam and combustion gases to move the turbine) plants have an eficiency of 60 - 70%. I don't know how efficient is a car's engine,but I think is much lower.
That was indeed a sad part in history, but unfortunately that is the price people have to pay for freedom. Do you think shit like this happens for no reason? Do you think the US or any other country with a decent government goes around starting shit with other countries? No, it's all started by people (ie 1 ruler) with too much power who thinks he can push a smaller guy than him around.. BTW, those bombs didn't go off without warnings, and the leaders of the countries knew. I by no means advocate mass destruction on an innocent populous, but a certain country's govt. knew what was going to happen, but chose not to give in.
No this happens for economical and political reasons, morals just come in has a lame excuse, but the US citizens are too worried about their freedom of speech, that can not care enough about the freedom of information, to have enough info to question properly the acts of their own government. All the US presidents with the sole exception of Carter, fits in your example of a too powerful ruler, at least to a non-US viewer. The apathy and complacency of US citizens is turning back against them, if the US government can ignore the rights of people outside is country, how hard is to think that they can't do it too to their own citizens? All those treats against civil rights in US shouldn't come has a surprise, that's what US people were asking for.
That magical number "Six Million" includes *everyone* who was killed in "non-combat acts" in Germany and all its occupied territories during WW2 (excluding those killed by the Allies), and it's a figure presented right after the war by the US military as a part of their propaganda campaign aimed at the German civilian population. The number of people who died (regardless of cause) in concentration-, labour- and extermination camps and prisons is nowadays estimated at somewhere between 2 and 4 million. -------- BTW, I suppose most if not all of the supposedly "Nazi" items for sale at Yahoo actually are memorabilia from the regular Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS (i.e. non-political militaria). To say that the WW2 German armed forces were "nazi" and fought for Hitler and National Socialism is as absurd as saying that I have fought for the Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson (internationally known as That Fat Mongoloid) and that I'm a Socialist because I did my compulsory military service here in Sweden.
Alongside the US propaganda, the heads of concentration camps inflated the numbers to appeal Hitler and Himmler. So the US propaganda machine exaggerated those numbers -again- to make the point to the world that they were the good guys, and vilify (as if the concentration camps weren't badly enough ) the nazi regime, since they had their own fascist regime at home. The bad point of this is it makes for many people the Holocaust more of a joke than a true history.
Sadly, not many people in the US remember the forced sterilization of poor people by their own government in the 20's and 30's in the name of eugenics (breed a better race, same has Hitler), the concentration camps for japanese-american, the bombing of Tokio 100000-120000 deaths in a single day, burned, but without that fancy nuclear mushroom... so good for the people of USA, that enjoys a beautiful country, but not care about the homeland of others. It's OK to have freedom of speech, as long that it is for USA citizens, and that's all.
Dreamcast can -also- run Windows CE. IIRC only 4 or 6 games for Dreamcast use Win CE, and they are ports of PC games of the Tokimemo/Sentimental Graffity style, 2D games that don't really need to be optimized to use the Dreamcast at full power, so the easiest and faster way to make the port was Win CE. In this case you're right, Microsoft is giving people what they want -a solution, and in this time a real solution, for a change- now.
(Before you start to flame me, I'm not a MS-drone, but I think that we must stay objetive, and recongnize when the stuff from MS works.)
On a side note, no one here has made any mention about the reliablility of the hardware, and Sega's hardware is the best, I own a PSX (2nd. revision, jan 1996)and replaced the mecanism 1 time, and I will replace the "new" mecanism soon, because it works only when it wants to. A friend have a Saturn older than my PSX and it stills works perfectly, the mecanism is more robust than the one in PSX, and a Saturn doesn't have any heat problems (this apply to a Dreamcast, too) I expect that Sony solve this in the PSX2, I don't want to stop playing because someone didn't cared about quality just to make the thing a little bit more cheaper.
No, it isn't uncool to be pro-american, the thing that is uncool is the behavior of the american goverment towards the rest of the world. You only need to take a look to the list of countries that the US army have attacked: all the way from Mexico to Serbia, including in the tour Morocco, Cuba, Vietnam and Afganistan, among many other places that I don't remember right now. So it isn't come as a surprise that too many people around the world like to bash the U.S., specially when the Dept. of State keeps feeding them with new material to work...
"They cite foreign news sites which contradict US news as proof the US media is lying." Personally, I didn't find-yet- a US news service lying, but, no matter if it is the Discovery Channel or NBC, the US media is very prolific at the time of spread half-truths and overreact about anything. This stuff couldn't be a big deal, if the US media only reached US, but they cover the entire world, and, in the places that they didn't reached, you will find a lazy producer that will make a copycat, with all the innacuracies of the original, and some new ones.
"People die from bombs, or they die from small arms fire (ground troops poindexter...) Either way they die. I'd prefer they die from bombs, as that means less of my fellow citizens would lose their lives for this cut-rate region who's inability to act civilized has caused much more trouble then it could ever be worth."
Where is the need for your "fellow citizens" to go there and lose their lives in that country in the first place? This war isn't about human rights, Kosovo or the evil Milosevic. It's just a lesson to the world to teach about NATO's and US goverment's power, and how the only way to be safe for a country is building nukes like Russia, China, India and Pakistan, whose goverments can kill at pleasure and still get loans, weapons, and privileges from the western democracies, but, if in some country without nukes appens to have a leader that doesn't share the "democratic principles", it's OK to bring him down, even if him was elected democratically (for example, Francisco I Madero in Mexico, or Salvador Allende in Chile; two civilian goverments crushed by the militia, with the back up of -surprise!!- the US goverment).
Anyway, you have a good reason to be upset for all those people that keeps talking about "all those evil americans" and doesn't stop to think that maybe, maybe all the americans, serbs, albanians or mexicans are people like them, and have more things in common than they can even wonder.
No, it isn't uncool to be pro-american, the thing that is uncool is the behavior of the american goverment towards the rest of the world. You only need to take a look to the list of countries that the US army have attacked: all the way from Mexico to Serbia, including in the tour Morocco, Cuba, Vietnam and Afganistan, among many other places that I don't remember right now. So it isn't come as a surprise that too many people around the world like to bash the U.S., specially when the Dept. of State keeps feeding them with new material to work...
"They cite foreign news sites which contradict US news as proof the US media is lying." Personally, I didn't find-yet- a US news service lying, but, no matter if it is the Discovery Channel or NBC, the US media is very prolific at the time of spread half-truths and overreact about anything. This stuff couldn't be a big deal, if the US media only reached US, but they cover the entire world, and, in the places that they didn't reached, you will find a lazy producer that will make a copycat, with all the innacuracies of the original, and some new ones.
"People die from bombs, or they die from small arms fire (ground troops poindexter...) Either way they die. I'd prefer they die from bombs, as that means less of my fellow citizens would lose their lives for this cut-rate region who's inability to act civilized has caused much more trouble then it could ever be worth." Where is the need for your "fellow citizens" to go there and lose their lives in that country in the first place? This war isn't about human rights, Kosovo or the evil Milosevic. It's just a lesson to the world to teach about NATO's and US goverment's power, and how the only way to be safe for a country is building nukes like Russia, China, India and Pakistan, whose goverments can kill at pleasure and still get loans, weapons, and privileges from the western democracies, but, if in some country without nukes appens to have a leader that doesn't share the "democratic principles", it's OK to bring him down, even if him was elected democratically (for example, Francisco I Madero in Mexico, or Salvador Allende in Chile; two civilian goverments crushed by the militia, with the back up of -surprise!!- the US goverment).
Anyway, you have a good reason to be upset for all those people that keeps talking about "all those evil americans" and doesn't stop to think that maybe, maybe all the americans, serbs, albanians or mexicans are people like them, and have more things in common than they can even wonder.
It isn't just a WinCE machine, and AFAIK almost all the games use Sega's API's, so you souldn't worry about MS software in your console, unless you load WinCE from CD (maybe this little puppy could run linux if you find people with too much spare time in their hands to make a linux port =) http://sega.com/spotlight/features/dre amcast
Your post is a joke or satire, something like that... Is unbelievable that anyone could think of Stanley Kubrick has a massive brainwasher, a brainwash don't let you think, and Stan's films really put the watcher to think, he was too busy creating really good films to take care about that lousy objective of brainwash people. After all, that's the work of the mainstream media, to suppress the reasoning of people, so I think if you want to find a brainwasher is more easy to find it in Spielberg, Dreamworks, WSJ or in The New York Times than in Stanley Kubrick... And about "Clockwork Orange", the message was quite the contrary.
I agree. Cool, good and useful industrial design can help a lot.
``There will be a rush to design things that look a little bit cool, but that raises the question can you reach really low prices with offbeat designs and do you have the volume to justify the expense of the industrial design?'' Kunstler said.
Even if I like how look the iMac, the best thing that the designer put in the little pet was the handle. I hate the boxes that are heavy, bulky and ugly (Ex. Compaq servers) that lacks this handy case improvement. On the other hand, I liked the design of the old Acer Altos that got a handle, white case and an excellent design, making easy and safe to carry the server (if needed) from one room to another, so I don't understand what this guy is trying to say, if he is implying that industrial design doesn't matter, maybe he never opened a box, so he doesn't know how can industrial design make easier the service of the equipment. From a consumer's viewpoint it's OK that the designers put more attention to the looks of the machines, and a IS guy would care more about how easy is to upgrade memory, change processor card, swap hard drives, cooling, etc. so he can gave a god service to his customers, and this depends of the job (mostly) of the industrial designers. And, if you are paying hundreds of dollars for that boxes, at least they could make them look good.
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I agree. But the point 5 is a blurry subject, the abortion may have short, middle or long term consequences to the mother, but for the fetus it's permanent. Is easy to us to talk about the convenience or not of abortion, since we didn't get aborted. Of course, the "religious idiotic viewpoint on sexuality" doesn't help.
What's wrong with contraception? If they don't want kids to be aborted, then they should encourage the use of contraceptives to begin with, no unwanted pregnancy == no abortions. People listen, give power to religious leaders, they should use that power with responsibility, not with self-complacency. If they want maturity, then they must provide an array of options, so their followers can make a mature decision, instead of driving them of their intelligence. It's about what they can do to improve the situation, not about what it should be.
IIRC, is because Streamline Pictures got out off business. They got very good franchises, but with the exception OF Akira, the company was famous for cutting the movies to make them more politically correct.
Well, it was Carl Macek's company, so it isn't estrange, he was the one who made Robotech, from 3 different TV series, and cut the Macross movie in to "Class of the Bionoids" ouch!!
Maybe he look the Dead or alive,. It's far better on Dreamcast than on PlayStation 2. Of course the PSX 2 has better hardware, but many of today games are crap, while the Dreamcast has a lot of old and new good games.
It looks like a conspiracy. But who could be beind the wires? Sony isn't the only suspect, MS or Nintendo could get some benefit from this. In Latin America, piracy helped (and is helping) the PSX1. Now that you can get pirate games for Dreamcast, a lot of people started to buy the sistem, now is not uncommon to see people owning a PSX1 and a Dreamcast. Of course, game piracy is helping the console sales, but hurting developers,.. those warez kids never learn.
Personally, I like Sega systems over any of their competitors. Every new generation of game consoles since the master system come from Sega, they are the only ones to dared to take the risks, while the other companies just watched and waited until the new road get built. We owe a lot of the digital revolution to Sega, it's sad to see that the most innovative company in the game industry could go.
I don't care about rumors, in my next birthday I will buy a Dreamcast, I waited too much time for it =) It's the best and cheaper system out there
IIRC, the termal efficiency of coil/oil power plants rise to 37% (electric energy vs. energy of fuel), while C.C. (combined cicle, use steam and combustion gases to move the turbine) plants have an eficiency of 60 - 70%. I don't know how efficient is a car's engine,but I think is much lower.
That was indeed a sad part in history, but unfortunately that is the price people have to pay for freedom.
Do you think shit like this happens for no reason? Do you think the US or any other country with a decent government goes around starting shit with other countries? No, it's all started by people (ie 1 ruler) with too much power who thinks he can push a smaller guy than him around.. BTW, those bombs didn't go off without warnings, and the leaders of the countries knew. I by no means advocate mass destruction on an innocent populous, but a certain country's govt. knew what was going to happen, but chose not to give in.
No this happens for economical and political reasons, morals just come in has a lame excuse, but the US citizens are too worried about their freedom of speech, that can not care enough about the freedom of information, to have enough info to question properly the acts of their own government. All the US presidents with the sole exception of Carter, fits in your example of a too powerful ruler, at least to a non-US viewer. The apathy and complacency of US citizens is turning back against them, if the US government can ignore the rights of people outside is country, how hard is to think that they can't do it too to their own citizens? All those treats against civil rights in US shouldn't come has a surprise, that's what US people were asking for.
Reposting an anonymous coward (worth a read ) :
That magical number "Six Million" includes *everyone* who was killed in "non-combat acts" in Germany and all its occupied territories during WW2 (excluding those killed by the Allies), and it's a figure presented right after the war by the US military as a part of their propaganda campaign aimed at the German civilian population.
The number of people who died (regardless of cause) in concentration-, labour- and extermination camps and prisons is nowadays estimated at somewhere between 2 and 4 million.
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BTW, I suppose most if not all of the supposedly "Nazi" items for sale at Yahoo actually are memorabilia from the regular Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS (i.e. non-political militaria).
To say that the WW2 German armed forces were "nazi" and fought for Hitler and National Socialism is as absurd as saying that I have fought for the Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson (internationally known as That Fat Mongoloid) and that I'm a Socialist because I did my compulsory military service here in Sweden.
Alongside the US propaganda, the heads of concentration camps inflated the numbers to appeal Hitler and Himmler. So the US propaganda machine exaggerated those numbers -again- to make the point to the world that they were the good guys, and vilify (as if the concentration camps weren't badly enough ) the nazi regime, since they had their own fascist regime at home. The bad point of this is it makes for many people the Holocaust more of a joke than a true history.
Sadly, not many people in the US remember the forced sterilization of poor people by their own government in the 20's and 30's in the name of eugenics (breed a better race, same has Hitler), the concentration camps for japanese-american, the bombing of Tokio 100000-120000 deaths in a single day, burned, but without that fancy nuclear mushroom... so good for the people of USA, that enjoys a beautiful country, but not care about the homeland of others. It's OK to have freedom of speech, as long that it is for USA citizens, and that's all.
Dreamcast can -also- run Windows CE. IIRC only 4 or 6 games for Dreamcast use Win CE, and they are ports of PC games of the Tokimemo/Sentimental Graffity style, 2D games that don't really need to be optimized to use the Dreamcast at full power, so the easiest and faster way to make the port was Win CE. In this case you're right, Microsoft is giving people what they want -a solution, and in this time a real solution, for a change- now.
(Before you start to flame me, I'm not a MS-drone, but I think that we must stay objetive, and recongnize when the stuff from MS works.)
On a side note, no one here has made any mention about the reliablility of the hardware, and Sega's hardware is the best, I own a PSX (2nd. revision, jan 1996)and replaced the mecanism 1 time, and I will replace the "new" mecanism soon, because it works only when it wants to. A friend have a Saturn older than my PSX and it stills works perfectly, the mecanism is more robust than the one in PSX, and a Saturn doesn't have any heat problems (this apply to a Dreamcast, too) I expect that Sony solve this in the PSX2, I don't want to stop playing because someone didn't cared about quality just to make the thing a little bit more cheaper.
No, it isn't uncool to be pro-american, the thing that is uncool is the behavior of the american goverment towards the rest of the world. You only need to take a look to the list of countries that the US army have attacked: all the way from Mexico to Serbia, including in the tour Morocco, Cuba, Vietnam and Afganistan, among many other places that I don't remember right now. So it isn't come as a surprise that too many people around the world like to bash the U.S., specially when the Dept. of State keeps feeding them with new material to work...
"They cite foreign news sites which contradict US news as proof the US media is lying." Personally, I didn't find-yet- a US news service lying, but, no matter if it is the Discovery Channel or NBC, the US media is very prolific at the time of spread half-truths and overreact about anything. This stuff couldn't be a big deal, if the US media only reached US, but they cover the entire world, and, in the places that they didn't reached, you will find a lazy producer that will make a copycat, with all the innacuracies of the original, and some new ones.
"People die from bombs, or they die from small arms fire (ground troops poindexter...) Either way they die. I'd prefer they die from bombs, as that means less of my fellow citizens would lose their lives for this cut-rate region who's inability to act civilized has caused much more trouble then it could ever be worth."
Where is the need for your "fellow citizens" to go there and lose their lives in that country in the first place? This war isn't about human rights, Kosovo or the evil Milosevic. It's just a lesson to the world to teach about NATO's and US goverment's power, and how the only way to be safe for a country is building nukes like Russia, China, India and Pakistan, whose goverments can kill at pleasure and still get loans, weapons, and privileges from the western democracies, but, if in some country without nukes appens to have a leader that doesn't share the "democratic principles", it's OK to bring him down, even if him was elected democratically (for example, Francisco I Madero in Mexico, or Salvador Allende in Chile; two civilian goverments crushed by the militia, with the back up of -surprise!!- the US goverment).
Anyway, you have a good reason to be upset for all those people that keeps talking about "all those evil americans" and doesn't stop to think that maybe, maybe all the americans, serbs, albanians or mexicans are people like them, and have more things in common than they can even wonder.
No, it isn't uncool to be pro-american, the thing that is uncool is the behavior of the american goverment towards the rest of the world. You only need to take a look to the list of countries that the US army have attacked: all the way from Mexico to Serbia, including in the tour Morocco, Cuba, Vietnam and Afganistan, among many other places that I don't remember right now. So it isn't come as a surprise that too many people around the world like to bash the U.S., specially when the Dept. of State keeps feeding them with new material to work...
"They cite foreign news sites which contradict US news as proof the US media is lying." Personally, I didn't find-yet- a US news service lying, but, no matter if it is the Discovery Channel or NBC, the US media is very prolific at the time of spread half-truths and overreact about anything. This stuff couldn't be a big deal, if the US media only reached US, but they cover the entire world, and, in the places that they didn't reached, you will find a lazy producer that will make a copycat, with all the innacuracies of the original, and some new ones.
"People die from bombs, or they die from small arms fire (ground troops poindexter...) Either way they die. I'd prefer they die from bombs, as that means less of my fellow citizens would lose their lives for this cut-rate region who's inability to act civilized has caused much more trouble then it could ever be worth."
Where is the need for your "fellow citizens" to go there and lose their lives in that country in the first place? This war isn't about human rights, Kosovo or the evil Milosevic. It's just a lesson to the world to teach about NATO's and US goverment's power, and how the only way to be safe for a country is building nukes like Russia, China, India and Pakistan, whose goverments can kill at pleasure and still get loans, weapons, and privileges from the western democracies, but, if in some country without nukes appens to have a leader that doesn't share the "democratic principles", it's OK to bring him down, even if him was elected democratically (for example, Francisco I Madero in Mexico, or Salvador Allende in Chile; two civilian goverments crushed by the militia, with the back up of -surprise!!- the US goverment).
Anyway, you have a good reason to be upset for all those people that keeps talking about "all those evil americans" and doesn't stop to think that maybe, maybe all the americans, serbs, albanians or mexicans are people like them, and have more things in common than they can even wonder.
It isn't just a WinCE machine, and AFAIK almost all the games use Sega's API's, so you souldn't worry about MS software in your console, unless you load WinCE from CD (maybe this little puppy could run linux if you find people with too much spare time in their hands to make a linux port =)
http://sega.com/spotlight/features/dre amcast
Your post is a joke or satire, something like that... Is unbelievable that anyone could think of Stanley Kubrick has a massive brainwasher, a brainwash don't let you think, and Stan's films really put the watcher to think, he was too busy creating really good films to take care about that lousy objective of brainwash people. After all, that's the work of the mainstream media, to suppress the reasoning of people, so I think if you want to find a brainwasher is more easy to find it in Spielberg, Dreamworks, WSJ or in The New York Times than in Stanley Kubrick... And about "Clockwork Orange", the message was quite the contrary.
I agree. Cool, good and useful industrial design can help a lot.
``There will be a rush to design things that look a little bit cool, but that raises the question can you reach really low prices with offbeat designs and do you have the volume to justify the expense of the industrial design?'' Kunstler said.
Even if I like how look the iMac, the best thing that the designer put in the little pet was the handle. I hate the boxes that are heavy, bulky and ugly (Ex. Compaq servers) that lacks this handy case improvement. On the other hand, I liked the design of the old Acer Altos that got a handle, white case and an excellent design, making easy and safe to carry the server (if needed) from one room to another, so I don't understand what this guy is trying to say, if he is implying that industrial design doesn't matter, maybe he never opened a box, so he doesn't know how can industrial design make easier the service of the equipment.
From a consumer's viewpoint it's OK that the designers put more attention to the looks of the machines, and a IS guy would care more about how easy is to upgrade memory, change processor card, swap hard drives, cooling, etc. so he can gave a god service to his customers, and this depends of the job (mostly) of the industrial designers.
And, if you are paying hundreds of dollars for that boxes, at least they could make them look good.