It has nothing to do with the United States. The current administration was correct in labelling the N. Korean government as EVIL. The current administration is also correct in saying (as Powell has said multiple times) we have no reason to attack N. Korea, so we won't.
The administration has not said that they won't attack North Korea. North Korea is directly the fault of the US involvement after World War 2... go read some history books. North Korea is fucked over because of what the US did.
American foreign policy is too hypocritical. We sanction Pakistan and India, yet we don't sanction Israel or North Korea? Just because Israel/North Korea are willing to be belligerent---Pakistan's response to sanctions? Nothing. North Korea's response to sanctions? Invade South Korea. Israel's response to any sort of criticism? "You must be an anti-semite!"
You know what the difference is? Sanctions wouldn't destroy India, or Pakistan. Sanctions would destroy N. Korea. Therefor, it is an act of destruction with hostile intent. Otherwise, a war.
I don't think that the current North Korean policy is a reaction to American beliigerence. I think that they seek concessions and appeasment, all the while never living up to any obligations under any treaties.
They had a lack of power, with mostly completely nuclear reactors. The US said, "No, don't use those, we'll give you light water reactors." N. Korea agrees. Light water reactors never show up. The current policy is directly a result of American beligerence.
"Let those bastards starve." "I hate those bastards."
Yeah, I guess I am misunderstanding you.
The 'bastards' I refer to are the dirty scoundrals ruling the regime.
Oh, ok. Clarify that so you don't look like a racist asshole.
Yes, the government is fucked. Yes, the government is very powerful. North Korea is the fault of the US, though. If Russia and the US didn't fight a proxy war through the Koreas, life would be a lot easier now.
I'm sick of you people who act like the UN or the Security Council are blessed by God. It's just an organization. It's no different than the local bridge club. You can ask to be a member, they can accept you as a member, they can revoke your membership, but at no time can they tell you what to do.
For the record, and you can go back through my other threads, I think the UN/UNSEC need to be reformed drastically. They are proven ineffective, much like the Leage of Nations. I'm just saying that Bush invaded Iraq without UN approval, and that is unsettling for someone Bush publicly denounces.
The person suing was suing because Ebay wouldn't remove the comment, not because the comment got put there in the first place. Still, Ebay shouldn't be liable, and their EULA probably sees to that.
Exactly, and if Ebay decided to remove it than they would be moderating the boards and be liable for what gets posted. Hence, they lose immunity. Ebay should tell Mr. Grace to stick his 7 legal newspapers straight up his ass.
It would be analogous to Slashdot deleting comments, and thus losing it's immunity... oh wait, Slashdot has removed comments before. Oops.
how 'bout people who argue over trivia to avoid the point shut up?
I'm merely correcting someone who was stupid, nothing more. It does contribute to the point, as false information leads to false conclusions. Correct information leads to better philosophical and rational debates.
I also thank you for providing factual data, instead of comparing sizes of places that are not only wrong, but a lot of people don't recognize.
There's a ton of absurd rhetoric coming from leaders in all nations, not just from Bush. You don't see everyone else running out to get nukes, do you? North Korea's leaders are irrational, thus their actions cannot be explained, let alone justified.
The difference is Bush just destroyed an existing government and invaded another country without UNSEC approval. That would make anybody nervous who is listed on Bush's Axis of Evil list.
The US, South Korea, and Japan have been providing large amounts of food aid to North Korea for years now.
Yes they have.
They signed the so-called 'Sunshine' agreement (The official name was the 'agreeded' protocal, or something like that), guaranteeing oil, and light water reactors in exchange for shelving their nuclear weapons program.
And the US dragged their feet on the light water reactors for a long enough time period that N. Korea decided to kill two birds with one stone. Bring their reactors back online, and defend themselves after being listed in the Axis of Evil.
They haven't said if you attack us, we will use them. They said if you stopped subsidizing our failing, stalinist economy, we will consider that a decleration of war. When India and Pakistan tested nuclear devices, they got sanctioned. Why? Because we have worldwide treaties to prevent nuclearization of signatories to the NPT. The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea is a signatory to the NPT.
They said that they would consider sanctions to be an act of agression and war. China wouldn't agree to sanctions against N. Korea because of the flood of refugees, and other issues related to it. The only way this is going to resolve itself is military power or diplomacy. Military power will result in hundreds of thousands of lives life. Diplomacy will cost some bucks, and may possibly resolve it. The third option is a coup, which is what I would personally love to see.
We have NO reason to invade North Korea, except so much as we perceive them to be a threat to South Korea. Nuclearization makes them more of a threat, not less---They are attempting blackmail.
You seem to forget the US administration labeling them as an Axis of Evil, then invading Iraq, and then saying, "Apparently the N. Korean government didn't learn the appropriate lessons from Iraq." Yeah, I can understand why they're a little bit jumpy.
And at this point in time, China probably is more interested in good relations with South Korea (for economic trade relations), then North Korea.
The flood from N. Korea into China mainland would completely destroy Chinas urbanization efforts. They have to be nice to N. Korea because of this.
Screw them. Let those bastards starve. They threaten to kill 6 million South Koreans to prop up their disgusting regime?
I guess that you also think that every Iraqi should have been killed by Saddam because they had a crazy dictator. News flash: Some Iraqi people are decent, intelligent, good people. Just like Koreans. I'm friends with a few N. Koreans who managed to escape, and they are all sharing the same sentiment about it.
I hate those bastards.
Yay for racism and bigotry! You are the whole reason why N. Korea resorted to this tactic.
If the US fully complied with the agreement they made, than N. Korea would have had "safe" nuclear power generators going by 1998. The US lagged really hard on the nuclear power issue, which was probably the most important aspect of the agreement (from a Korean point of view.) I'm not advocating in any way N. Korea's actions, but the US was not an altar-boy (molested or no) in the exchange.
Most of the process of getting nukes is gaining the technical expertise to build them. They can sell this without losing it. Also, they can keep some plutonium and sell some. How many nuclear weapons does one terrorist or rogue nation need to cause trouble? Exactly, one.
The technical expertise to build a nuclear weapon has been pretty openly available since the 1970's though. Now that the internet is available, it's exceedingly easy to get the information you need. When I was in college, we did a lab assignment finding out the formulas for a thermonuclear device giving a certain design. It's not hard, as the knowledge is out there.
Plutonium is hard to get, that is true. They can sell some of the plutonium, but if they did, that would cause action against N. Korea. N. Korea knows that everybody knows what they sell and don't sell. While I've been proven wrong before, I don't think this will be a case of it. I think this is a bluff, purely to try to secure aid. Yes, I do think they are building bombs, but it's for the reason of protection. Can you blame them? They got listed as an axis of evil before this whole nuclear issue came about.
There is a huge difference between Iraq and N. Korea, and the current administration just clumped them together. Apparently they didn't realize that they just made the 5th largest army in the world a little bit jumpy by doing that. If the US, in the 1970's listed the USSR as an Axis-of-Evil nation, and then attacked a country in the same grouping, you can bet they would be up in arms (literally.) It's a predictable response, and I don't blame them for making the response they did. I just believe it was misguided... but N. Korea is a heavily militarized nation.
Kinda have to be when most of the money that comes into your country comes from illegal means because you can't make anything people want...
Your link shows 7417 square miles, so you converted to miles to km. But you didn't know how to do it right and forgot to square the conversion. 7417 square miles is about 19210 sq km.
I already posted the correction, but thanks for pointing it out again. I also do know, I just did it wrong initially and after I posted realized that I did it wrong, so I do know I just made a mistake.
Shut your own trap!
Coming from an AC.. and I posted my correction before you posted, so... what's your point here?
Mistakes are ok, idiocy is not. You are proving the latter case well.
Actually, North Korea started their nuke buildup in the 1990's.
In response to the USSR falling.
They signed agreement with the US essentially not to do so in exchanges for food,energy equipment, and other stuff. Then they took their program underground.
After the US didn't do shit to help them.
It has only now come out, now that they may have 2 nuclear devices. Now they are threatning overtly to use them against The US or Japan.
They are saying, "If you attack us, we will use them." They aren't saying, "We will use them."
Unspoken, is that North Korea would be willing to sell them to anyone. They already sell missile and other military tech to anybody.
They won't. The only guarantee they have to safety is their nuclear arsenal. Why sell the thing that keeps you safe? You may think, "Oh, but they can sell them secretely and still claim they have it." The world intelligence is pretty good, and that ruse wouldn't last long.
It is pretty funny that you would suggest Bush is a fanatic and not suggest that of the North Korean dictator.
They're both fanatics. At least Bush is productive in his cleansing, or whatever...
I know the solution...strip all the comments out of the code. I know many places that do this already as a regular coding practice. Actually, I don't think that they put them in there to begin with. They must be pretty smart in order to proactively dodge lawsuits like this.
The search is over... I now have the perfect excuse.
I thank you from the bottom of my heart, but my boss will probably hate you.
Trust me. Once these things become popular, it will be a social norm to guess, he's talking to someone via a device, not into random space. I hate it myself.. fookin' confusin'.
Back in the Bay Area, right after the Jabra in-ear hands free mic was released, the San Jose police were called because there was a "well dressed man, in the parking lot, screaming frantically and very angry... to himself."
When the police got there, he sure enough was screaming his head off still. They form the traditional circle and he is completely oblivious to it, until one of them gets close enough and says, "Sir, I'm going to need to ask you to come with us." He then looks over, and says, "Hold on a sec."
The cops at that point just started laughing at the guy, and told him not to yell at himself in public anymore:)
Here's why I think they released a demo of it. It's evidently already out, and since it sucks (according to posts i've read) it hasn't been a good seller. Maybe they think releasing a free demo to people will encourage them to buy the full version. Just a thought.
Well, they could have made a demo that didn't suck nuts. I spent about an hour and a half grabbing it. Well, an hour waiting in life, and a half hour downloading it. It was shit. It was one very unimaginative level with bad guys that resemble something out of Everquest or some fantasy book. Along with your good ol' buddy in the control room telling you annoying lines that aren't at all funny.
What the hell happened to games actually being funny. "That's one doomed space marine." That shit was classic. The only thing this demo showed me is that there is a good reason why I don't play FPS much, their stories suck and it's all about who can twitch faster than the other guy in a controlled fashion to shoot them.
I fully plan on buying a Mac for my next system. I now can safely say I have no reason to stick to Linux, because I can still operate just as well using the BSD tools. I'm not a desktop programmer, so I don't care about that.
This is just one more perk to owning a Mac, and I'm fully ready to start becoming a full-fledged, card carrying Mac whore.
The only issue I have with Macs is their cost, but I think I can cope by having a pretty damn cool, commercially supported, end-user Unix system.
when I capture and edit from my XL1 camera a 15 minute long project has about 1 hour of footage. this takes up 10 GIG on my media raid drive.
Isn't that the great part about filming. We spent 4 hours one night and got about 3 minutes worth of usable footage.
For a consumer product, this thing is good. They don't need high-quality images. Solid-state digital cameras with MPEG or QuickTime encoding also do the job, just 15 seconds at a time. The price is what is going to keep this out of the American market.
No I don't like what you're saying because you're a pretentious, namedropping fuckwit.
Is that really the best you can come up with? You say that someone who has been to Tokyo, in a conversation about Japan, is a namedropping fuckwit because they say that they have experience in Tokyo. Riiight.
So, if someone used to own a specific car, and someone says that this car makes popcorn, and that person says, "No, I used to own that car, and it doesn't make popcorn." then they are a name dropping fuckwit as well?
Ooh, how elite are we? Nice drop of the "I've been in Tokyo and you haven't" part.
Ah, so now you just don't like what I'm saying because I'm right and have experience. So you argue with this point.. er, I think it's a point. Could you help with this.
Aren't we discussing anime? Comic books have fuck all to do with cartoons.
No, apparently you didn't see the post I originally responded to. Go back and look in the thread, I'll wait here.
Have you actually ever been to a Japanese convenience store? There are a few mangas that don't involve women being raped, but you have to look to find them. And fight your way through the crowd that's standing around reading.
Yes, I have. They have the mangas separated into sections. My guess is you just don't know the kanji for "Rape and Sex"
As for the crowds... yeah, but I don't read manga. What pisses me off is that a magazine that is 600Y in the US costs about $10. It's cheaper to have a friend buy 5 and mail them.
Go to one in america, the magazine rack will be all stacked with "Teen Beat" or "WWE Magazine" or "Heavy Metal Weekly" and other adolescent drivel. Your point from some essay written by some anime fan means nothing.
The original guy was saying that manga sales are common amongst adults. In Japan. He was right. You've obviously never been on a commuter train at 5 o'clock leaving Tokyo.
A full grown Japanese man may be reading manga on the subway. He gets the same reaction as a businessman reading a "Spiderman" comic, Japanese society is just more polite when it comes to pointing and laughing.
Uh, no. You're just being a retard.
Don't kid yourself. Japanese cartoons are still cartoons in every sense.
Just like Heavy Metal isn't a kids cartoon, Japanese cartoons are sometimes made for adults.
The shows that air here seem adult. But they are written for children. We have a different definition of adult, we consider Cowboy Bebop adult because they're shooting guns and killing people. That's acceptible for a childrens show in Japan.
The ages are about the same. Did you forget GI Joe? Little kids watch drivel like An Pan Man. Pre-teen watch the romantic shows, or Kenshin style shows. The teenagers watch the equivalents to South Park, Beavis and Butthead and stuff like that. Then there are adult stories, which are plenty acceptable to watch and read, because almost everybody in Japan does it.
It's like reading a freaking book, not Spider-Man.
Typical slashdot. Just make up some facts to support your case. I read that 0.01% of manga sales are to people over the age of 17.
You have a point about Slashdot, but you are wrong. An essay on manga, that states "One Manga magazine typically sells 5 million to 6 million copies every week." There are also over 200 popular manga issues. Don't believe me? Go to a Seven Eleven or Circle K in Japan. All under the magazine rack is just stacks of manga. "How can the Japanese achieve such high sales, because the young to the middle-aged, male and female often purchase Manga magazines."
It's actually well known for people to read manga, and you will see it a lot. 0.01% of one manga sales may be to people over the age of 17. Just like I don't think any people without children watch An Pan Man.
The typical manga issue is about $4 in Japan (I think about 500 yen) and is freaking thick. It's usually rough art, with little detail just to tell the story.
I know too much about manga.. and I don't even read it. Although I did get a porn magazine for a friend that had an utterly bizarre mini-manga story in it... one that I really wish I never had read...
Just imagine how scornful we would be if supposedly hip Japanese men in their 20s and 30s started falling head over heels for Disney animation and Tex Avery. We'd laugh and call them morons, and rightfully so.
The thing that is laughable is that Americans go for the kids shows. At least it isn't An-Pan Man, but Kenshin is a kids show, and so is Yu Yu Hokusho. They were made for children in mind. There are a plethora of adult-geared, or young-adult specifically manga/anime tales. It is the way comic books are, from a Frank Miller perspective.
The shows that Americans get all gung-ho about are the ones that are for the kids, and commercialized. The ones for young adults are usually listed down towards the bottom that nobody sees. Just like US Comics/Cartoons have some of adult nature (The Maxx, Aeon Flux) there is the equivalent in Japan. Except there are a lot of them.
We all laugh at the Simpsons, South Park, and Futurama -- but it's not ok to laugh at the Japanese equivalent? (If only Americans watched most of it)
I personally would love to see a true Japanese channel. There are some freaking awesome comedy shows, but sub-title it! The people who dub Yu Yu Hakusho should be shot.
I was the most computer-oriented kid at my school. No one threatened to beat me up. And we were a "high school exists for football" school, too.
Mine was the same way. Me and another guy were the computer-geeks, neither of us looked it. The real geeks were the D&D players who didn't know shit about computers. The other guy some how managed to be in the cool crowd. Me, I trained in martial arts... nothing quite surprises a jock as a geek that can fight.
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Idiot.
Coming from someone who can't make a point...
It has nothing to do with the United States. The current administration was correct in labelling the N. Korean government as EVIL. The current administration is also correct in saying (as Powell has said multiple times) we have no reason to attack N. Korea, so we won't.
The administration has not said that they won't attack North Korea. North Korea is directly the fault of the US involvement after World War 2... go read some history books. North Korea is fucked over because of what the US did.
American foreign policy is too hypocritical. We sanction Pakistan and India, yet we don't sanction Israel or North Korea? Just because Israel/North Korea are willing to be belligerent---Pakistan's response to sanctions? Nothing. North Korea's response to sanctions? Invade South Korea. Israel's response to any sort of criticism? "You must be an anti-semite!"
You know what the difference is? Sanctions wouldn't destroy India, or Pakistan. Sanctions would destroy N. Korea. Therefor, it is an act of destruction with hostile intent. Otherwise, a war.
I don't think that the current North Korean policy is a reaction to American beliigerence. I think that they seek concessions and appeasment, all the while never living up to any obligations under any treaties.
They had a lack of power, with mostly completely nuclear reactors. The US said, "No, don't use those, we'll give you light water reactors." N. Korea agrees. Light water reactors never show up. The current policy is directly a result of American beligerence.
You probably are misunderstanding me slightly.
"Let those bastards starve."
"I hate those bastards."
Yeah, I guess I am misunderstanding you.
The 'bastards' I refer to are the dirty scoundrals ruling the regime.
Oh, ok. Clarify that so you don't look like a racist asshole.
Yes, the government is fucked. Yes, the government is very powerful. North Korea is the fault of the US, though. If Russia and the US didn't fight a proxy war through the Koreas, life would be a lot easier now.
I'm sick of you people who act like the UN or the Security Council are blessed by God. It's just an organization. It's no different than the local bridge club. You can ask to be a member, they can accept you as a member, they can revoke your membership, but at no time can they tell you what to do.
For the record, and you can go back through my other threads, I think the UN/UNSEC need to be reformed drastically. They are proven ineffective, much like the Leage of Nations. I'm just saying that Bush invaded Iraq without UN approval, and that is unsettling for someone Bush publicly denounces.
The person suing was suing because Ebay wouldn't remove the comment, not because the comment got put there in the first place. Still, Ebay shouldn't be liable, and their EULA probably sees to that.
Exactly, and if Ebay decided to remove it than they would be moderating the boards and be liable for what gets posted. Hence, they lose immunity. Ebay should tell Mr. Grace to stick his 7 legal newspapers straight up his ass.
It would be analogous to Slashdot deleting comments, and thus losing it's immunity... oh wait, Slashdot has removed comments before. Oops.
how 'bout people who argue over trivia to avoid the point shut up?
I'm merely correcting someone who was stupid, nothing more. It does contribute to the point, as false information leads to false conclusions. Correct information leads to better philosophical and rational debates.
I also thank you for providing factual data, instead of comparing sizes of places that are not only wrong, but a lot of people don't recognize.
There's a ton of absurd rhetoric coming from leaders in all nations, not just from Bush. You don't see everyone else running out to get nukes, do you? North Korea's leaders are irrational, thus their actions cannot be explained, let alone justified.
The difference is Bush just destroyed an existing government and invaded another country without UNSEC approval. That would make anybody nervous who is listed on Bush's Axis of Evil list.
The US, South Korea, and Japan have been providing large amounts of food aid to North Korea for years now.
Yes they have.
They signed the so-called 'Sunshine' agreement (The official name was the 'agreeded' protocal, or something like that), guaranteeing oil, and light water reactors in exchange for shelving their nuclear weapons program.
And the US dragged their feet on the light water reactors for a long enough time period that N. Korea decided to kill two birds with one stone. Bring their reactors back online, and defend themselves after being listed in the Axis of Evil.
They haven't said if you attack us, we will use them. They said if you stopped subsidizing our failing, stalinist economy, we will consider that a decleration of war. When India and Pakistan tested nuclear devices, they got sanctioned. Why? Because we have worldwide treaties to prevent nuclearization of signatories to the NPT. The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea is a signatory to the NPT.
They said that they would consider sanctions to be an act of agression and war. China wouldn't agree to sanctions against N. Korea because of the flood of refugees, and other issues related to it. The only way this is going to resolve itself is military power or diplomacy. Military power will result in hundreds of thousands of lives life. Diplomacy will cost some bucks, and may possibly resolve it. The third option is a coup, which is what I would personally love to see.
We have NO reason to invade North Korea, except so much as we perceive them to be a threat to South Korea. Nuclearization makes them more of a threat, not less---They are attempting blackmail.
You seem to forget the US administration labeling them as an Axis of Evil, then invading Iraq, and then saying, "Apparently the N. Korean government didn't learn the appropriate lessons from Iraq." Yeah, I can understand why they're a little bit jumpy.
And at this point in time, China probably is more interested in good relations with South Korea (for economic trade relations), then North Korea.
The flood from N. Korea into China mainland would completely destroy Chinas urbanization efforts. They have to be nice to N. Korea because of this.
Screw them. Let those bastards starve. They threaten to kill 6 million South Koreans to prop up their disgusting regime?
I guess that you also think that every Iraqi should have been killed by Saddam because they had a crazy dictator. News flash: Some Iraqi people are decent, intelligent, good people. Just like Koreans. I'm friends with a few N. Koreans who managed to escape, and they are all sharing the same sentiment about it.
I hate those bastards.
Yay for racism and bigotry! You are the whole reason why N. Korea resorted to this tactic.
The US fully complied with the agreement.
If the US fully complied with the agreement they made, than N. Korea would have had "safe" nuclear power generators going by 1998. The US lagged really hard on the nuclear power issue, which was probably the most important aspect of the agreement (from a Korean point of view.) I'm not advocating in any way N. Korea's actions, but the US was not an altar-boy (molested or no) in the exchange.
Most of the process of getting nukes is gaining the technical expertise to build them. They can sell this without losing it. Also, they can keep some plutonium and sell some. How many nuclear weapons does one terrorist or rogue nation need to cause trouble? Exactly, one.
The technical expertise to build a nuclear weapon has been pretty openly available since the 1970's though. Now that the internet is available, it's exceedingly easy to get the information you need. When I was in college, we did a lab assignment finding out the formulas for a thermonuclear device giving a certain design. It's not hard, as the knowledge is out there.
Plutonium is hard to get, that is true. They can sell some of the plutonium, but if they did, that would cause action against N. Korea. N. Korea knows that everybody knows what they sell and don't sell. While I've been proven wrong before, I don't think this will be a case of it. I think this is a bluff, purely to try to secure aid. Yes, I do think they are building bombs, but it's for the reason of protection. Can you blame them? They got listed as an axis of evil before this whole nuclear issue came about.
There is a huge difference between Iraq and N. Korea, and the current administration just clumped them together. Apparently they didn't realize that they just made the 5th largest army in the world a little bit jumpy by doing that. If the US, in the 1970's listed the USSR as an Axis-of-Evil nation, and then attacked a country in the same grouping, you can bet they would be up in arms (literally.) It's a predictable response, and I don't blame them for making the response they did. I just believe it was misguided... but N. Korea is a heavily militarized nation.
Kinda have to be when most of the money that comes into your country comes from illegal means because you can't make anything people want...
Your link shows 7417 square miles, so you converted to miles to km. But you didn't know how to do it right and forgot to square the conversion. 7417 square miles is about 19210 sq km.
I already posted the correction, but thanks for pointing it out again. I also do know, I just did it wrong initially and after I posted realized that I did it wrong, so I do know I just made a mistake.
Shut your own trap!
Coming from an AC.. and I posted my correction before you posted, so... what's your point here?
Mistakes are ok, idiocy is not. You are proving the latter case well.
New Jersey is 19,210 sq km, my math is in dumb mode.
7,417 square miles, at any rate.
Actually, North Korea started their nuke buildup in the 1990's.
In response to the USSR falling.
They signed agreement with the US essentially not to do so in exchanges for food,energy equipment, and other stuff. Then they took their program underground.
After the US didn't do shit to help them.
It has only now come out, now that they may have 2 nuclear devices. Now they are threatning overtly to use them against The US or Japan.
They are saying, "If you attack us, we will use them." They aren't saying, "We will use them."
Unspoken, is that North Korea would be willing to sell them to anyone. They already sell missile and other military tech to anybody.
They won't. The only guarantee they have to safety is their nuclear arsenal. Why sell the thing that keeps you safe? You may think, "Oh, but they can sell them secretely and still claim they have it." The world intelligence is pretty good, and that ruse wouldn't last long.
It is pretty funny that you would suggest Bush is a fanatic and not suggest that of the North Korean dictator.
They're both fanatics. At least Bush is productive in his cleansing, or whatever...
North Korea: 120,540 sq km
South Korea: 98,480 sq km
New Jersey: 11,936 sq km
Will you people, who don't know what you are talking about, kindly shut the hell up.
I know the solution...strip all the comments out of the code. I know many places that do this already as a regular coding practice. Actually, I don't think that they put them in there to begin with. They must be pretty smart in order to proactively dodge lawsuits like this.
The search is over... I now have the perfect excuse.
I thank you from the bottom of my heart, but my boss will probably hate you.
Trust me. Once these things become popular, it will be a social norm to guess, he's talking to someone via a device, not into random space. I hate it myself.. fookin' confusin'.
:)
Back in the Bay Area, right after the Jabra in-ear hands free mic was released, the San Jose police were called because there was a "well dressed man, in the parking lot, screaming frantically and very angry... to himself."
When the police got there, he sure enough was screaming his head off still. They form the traditional circle and he is completely oblivious to it, until one of them gets close enough and says, "Sir, I'm going to need to ask you to come with us." He then looks over, and says, "Hold on a sec."
The cops at that point just started laughing at the guy, and told him not to yell at himself in public anymore
Here's why I think they released a demo of it. It's evidently already out, and since it sucks (according to posts i've read) it hasn't been a good seller. Maybe they think releasing a free demo to people will encourage them to buy the full version. Just a thought.
Well, they could have made a demo that didn't suck nuts. I spent about an hour and a half grabbing it. Well, an hour waiting in life, and a half hour downloading it. It was shit. It was one very unimaginative level with bad guys that resemble something out of Everquest or some fantasy book. Along with your good ol' buddy in the control room telling you annoying lines that aren't at all funny.
What the hell happened to games actually being funny. "That's one doomed space marine." That shit was classic. The only thing this demo showed me is that there is a good reason why I don't play FPS much, their stories suck and it's all about who can twitch faster than the other guy in a controlled fashion to shoot them.
Glad they released the demo, they saved me $40.
79% of all percentages are made up on the spot.
I think you need to back that up with some facts!
(joke, for those lacking common sense and social skills)
Wonder how many people will actually do this.
I fully plan on buying a Mac for my next system. I now can safely say I have no reason to stick to Linux, because I can still operate just as well using the BSD tools. I'm not a desktop programmer, so I don't care about that.
This is just one more perk to owning a Mac, and I'm fully ready to start becoming a full-fledged, card carrying Mac whore.
The only issue I have with Macs is their cost, but I think I can cope by having a pretty damn cool, commercially supported, end-user Unix system.
when I capture and edit from my XL1 camera a 15 minute long project has about 1 hour of footage. this takes up 10 GIG on my media raid drive.
Isn't that the great part about filming. We spent 4 hours one night and got about 3 minutes worth of usable footage.
For a consumer product, this thing is good. They don't need high-quality images. Solid-state digital cameras with MPEG or QuickTime encoding also do the job, just 15 seconds at a time. The price is what is going to keep this out of the American market.
No I don't like what you're saying because you're a pretentious, namedropping fuckwit.
Is that really the best you can come up with? You say that someone who has been to Tokyo, in a conversation about Japan, is a namedropping fuckwit because they say that they have experience in Tokyo. Riiight.
So, if someone used to own a specific car, and someone says that this car makes popcorn, and that person says, "No, I used to own that car, and it doesn't make popcorn." then they are a name dropping fuckwit as well?
Your logic is astounding!
Ooh, how elite are we? Nice drop of the "I've been in Tokyo and you haven't" part.
Ah, so now you just don't like what I'm saying because I'm right and have experience. So you argue with this point.. er, I think it's a point. Could you help with this.
Aren't we discussing anime? Comic books have fuck all to do with cartoons.
No, apparently you didn't see the post I originally responded to. Go back and look in the thread, I'll wait here.
Have you actually ever been to a Japanese convenience store? There are a few mangas that don't involve women being raped, but you have to look to find them. And fight your way through the crowd that's standing around reading.
Yes, I have. They have the mangas separated into sections. My guess is you just don't know the kanji for "Rape and Sex"
As for the crowds... yeah, but I don't read manga. What pisses me off is that a magazine that is 600Y in the US costs about $10. It's cheaper to have a friend buy 5 and mail them.
Go to one in america, the magazine rack will be all stacked with "Teen Beat" or "WWE Magazine" or "Heavy Metal Weekly" and other adolescent drivel. Your point from some essay written by some anime fan means nothing.
The original guy was saying that manga sales are common amongst adults. In Japan. He was right. You've obviously never been on a commuter train at 5 o'clock leaving Tokyo.
A full grown Japanese man may be reading manga on the subway. He gets the same reaction as a businessman reading a "Spiderman" comic, Japanese society is just more polite when it comes to pointing and laughing.
Uh, no. You're just being a retard.
Don't kid yourself. Japanese cartoons are still cartoons in every sense.
Just like Heavy Metal isn't a kids cartoon, Japanese cartoons are sometimes made for adults.
The shows that air here seem adult. But they are written for children. We have a different definition of adult, we consider Cowboy Bebop adult because they're shooting guns and killing people. That's acceptible for a childrens show in Japan.
The ages are about the same. Did you forget GI Joe? Little kids watch drivel like An Pan Man. Pre-teen watch the romantic shows, or Kenshin style shows. The teenagers watch the equivalents to South Park, Beavis and Butthead and stuff like that. Then there are adult stories, which are plenty acceptable to watch and read, because almost everybody in Japan does it.
It's like reading a freaking book, not Spider-Man.
Typical slashdot. Just make up some facts to support your case. I read that 0.01% of manga sales are to people over the age of 17.
You have a point about Slashdot, but you are wrong. An essay on manga, that states "One Manga magazine typically sells 5 million to 6 million copies every week." There are also over 200 popular manga issues. Don't believe me? Go to a Seven Eleven or Circle K in Japan. All under the magazine rack is just stacks of manga. "How can the Japanese achieve such high sales, because the young to the middle-aged, male and female often purchase Manga magazines."
It's actually well known for people to read manga, and you will see it a lot. 0.01% of one manga sales may be to people over the age of 17. Just like I don't think any people without children watch An Pan Man.
The typical manga issue is about $4 in Japan (I think about 500 yen) and is freaking thick. It's usually rough art, with little detail just to tell the story.
I know too much about manga.. and I don't even read it. Although I did get a porn magazine for a friend that had an utterly bizarre mini-manga story in it... one that I really wish I never had read...
Just imagine how scornful we would be if supposedly hip Japanese men in their 20s and 30s started falling head over heels for Disney animation and Tex Avery. We'd laugh and call them morons, and rightfully so.
The thing that is laughable is that Americans go for the kids shows. At least it isn't An-Pan Man, but Kenshin is a kids show, and so is Yu Yu Hokusho. They were made for children in mind. There are a plethora of adult-geared, or young-adult specifically manga/anime tales. It is the way comic books are, from a Frank Miller perspective.
The shows that Americans get all gung-ho about are the ones that are for the kids, and commercialized. The ones for young adults are usually listed down towards the bottom that nobody sees. Just like US Comics/Cartoons have some of adult nature (The Maxx, Aeon Flux) there is the equivalent in Japan. Except there are a lot of them.
We all laugh at the Simpsons, South Park, and Futurama -- but it's not ok to laugh at the Japanese equivalent? (If only Americans watched most of it)
I personally would love to see a true Japanese channel. There are some freaking awesome comedy shows, but sub-title it! The people who dub Yu Yu Hakusho should be shot.
I was the most computer-oriented kid at my school. No one threatened to beat me up. And we were a "high school exists for football" school, too.
Mine was the same way. Me and another guy were the computer-geeks, neither of us looked it. The real geeks were the D&D players who didn't know shit about computers. The other guy some how managed to be in the cool crowd. Me, I trained in martial arts... nothing quite surprises a jock as a geek that can fight.