...but UFO's exist. Turns out they've mostly been (in theory, since in order to be a UFO they can't have been positively identified) classified aircraft.
As to aliens, I believe in them with metaphysical certainty. As an atheist, I feel the probability that life hasn't formed on other planets to be so remote as to be impossible. (Remember, blind, mindless cavefish on another planet are just as much aliens as little, green men.)
I also believe faster than light travel is impossible, so none have ever, or will ever, visit Earth.
Also since supernatural beliefs are by their nature not scientifically falsifiable, positing the idea that the natural world is part of a universe that also has a "supernatural" part that is not governed by natural law, I'm not sure that you can say someone is a poor scientist just for having them. Certainly a lot of good scientific work has been done by religious folk, such as Gregor Mendel. I don't think it makes sense to believe in something you can't measure, but as long as it doesn't affect your approach to the things you can measure, I don't care about it.
Christianity requires astrology to be true (according to the Book). To wit:
2:1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of
Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to
Jerusalem, 2:2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for
we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
-- King James Bible
Conversely, astrology does not require Christianity to be true.
With his hands replaced by twin gas powered chainsaws and a face that would make Leatherface vomit, the Microsoft Marketing Maniac is an expert of sowing the seeds of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt amongst Microsoft's competitors. Like Michael Myers, he is known for doing his best work on Halloween, but this blood gorged monster will do his gruesome work year round.
Of course, I expect the Chinese government probably doesn't like people thinking about the questions raised by Death Note, such as "do the ends ever justify the means?" and "does the death penalty turn humans into monsters?" considering that their government is a super corrupt and incompetent version of Light Yagami. (Their "Utopia" is built on the corpses of the innocent... and it isn't much of a utopia, after all.)
I imagine Watchmen will get the same treatment if it ever becomes popular over there...
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Just like what happened to Iran after the Ayatollah Khomeini died. Sad.
As I heard it, Moses was an Egyptian prince who ran afoul of the Egyptian priest class. I mean, if you think about it, that makes a lot more sense than that ridiculous "Hebrew baby found among the reeds" story. From what little I know about ancient Egypt, the priest class was very powerful, and their favor could make or break even a prince.
Hence, the whole raising a slave army and leaving the country as their king thing he did.
Of course, this is pure conjecture, like Bulgakov having Jesus say, "I do not remember my parents. I have been told that my father was a Syrian," to Pilate in The Master and Margerita.
Lew Rockwell and the Mises institute ARE NOT FRIENDS of Paul. You will find that they have been attacking Paul almost non-stop. Lew Rockwell was fired I believe. It was Lew and pals who orchestrated The New Republic release. Not exactly something you do to someone you support.
Danny exacerbates a small electrical fire, altering an experimental crystalline semiconductor material Dr. Bullfinch was evaluating. Dr. Bullfinch is able to use this altered material to create ISIT (the Invisibility Simulator with Intromittent Transmission), a dragonfly-like probe which could be piloted with a virtual reality helmet and gauntlet gloves.
Here's what I don't understand. You're Uwe Boll. You've gotten fabulously rich with a simple formula, buying the names of somewhat popular video games, and then slapping them on whatever vaguely connected movie you feel like making. Ok, so far, so good eh?
But for this movie, you don't even use the title of the videogame for the title of the movie, you just put it in the subtitle. So the movie isn't even called "Dungeon Seige" it's called "In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale." I mean, partly I think he's hoping that someone's Mom, on hearing her son wants "Return of the King" for Christmas, will accidentally buy "In the Name of the King" instead. In that case, though, why bother with paying for a Dungeon Seige license?
Clinton and her team exude a divine right to the Oval Office, a sense of entitlement, and that damn youngster Obama didn't "wait his turn." These latest foibles follow last summer's string of Clintonian hits against Obama's supposed "naïve" and "inexperienced" qualities, and her top staffers' condescending complaint in November about Obama's young supporters, that, "They look like Facebook."
But the money point is how the Clinton hostility toward younger generations has now reached the extreme of corrupting her policy positions, with Clinton and her staff openly seeking to suppress and demonize young voter turnout in Iowa. (That's also strategically stupid: the best way to get young people to do something is to tell them they shouldn't or can't do it. And Obama responded by touring five major Iowa universities on December 4 and 5, reminding the standing-room-only crowds that Clinton seeks to discourage them from participating in the caucuses.)
-- Hillary Clinton and the Politics of Character Assassination By AL GIORDANO
Look, this is simple, Hillary Clinton hates young people. I'm not sure how this will translate into policy, or whether she will have time to pursue this once in office. However, a young voter should probably not vote for Clinton.
More from Clinton:
Hillary Rodham Clinton recently gave a speech about how "a lot of kids don't know what work is" and young people "think work is a four-letter word." These were not renegade words, but rather an expression of the prevailing attitude among her fellow baby boomers. The boomers mistake a rejection of their American dream as a rejection of reality. But here's some news: Young people know that work is a reality for everyone. It's just that everyone needs to work toward something, so young people have a new American dream.
-- Boston Globe: Crafting the new American dream
As with many things...
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In honor of Ms. Rodham's choice to make an attack on video gaming, I thought it might be fun to point out some articles that might not normally get a wide exposure:
Basically, she's a pro-war, corporate, conservative Democrat who has managed to hijack her party's nomination. It looks like another voting day is coming out where I can just sit home and relax.
After all, it's hard to vote for the lesser of two evils when you have two equally evil candidates.
And Aussies, don't forget the Aussies. For Armistice Day, how about a rousing game of Gallipoli: The Game:
Gallipoli: The Game -- "Gameplay is similar to the hit PC game, Lemmings, except, instead of trying to save your soldiers, your mission, as an authentic WWI commander, is to wipe out as many diggers as possible... the more gruesomely, the better!"
"all green of skin... 800 centuries ago.. their bodily fluids include the birth of half-breeds... for the fundamental truth is self-determination of the cosmos... for dark is the suede... that mows like a harvest..."
Modern fascist states don't even bother to kill those people, and pretending they're going to show up in some stormtrooper outfit and start a gun battle with you is insane.
They might, we call those S.W.A.T. Teams. Of course, even if you have machine guns with armor piercing bullets, you are probably still out of luck if you try to fight them.
That's incredibly insulting. All the "3-D" Metroid games I've played have been boring (I got 1 and 2 as gifts). B-o-r-i-n-g. However, unlike you, I don't begrudge other gamers their enjoyment of the spinoff Metroid series "Metroid Prime." Live and let live, I'd normally say. (After all, I enjoy Metroid Prime Pinball, a spinoff of a spinoff.)
Unfortunately, the Metroid Prime series is killing off the good Metroid games, from my perspective. You never liked Metroid, but you like the spinoff so you don't care, and you feel that it makes you right. Well, bully for you (pun intended).
I wouldn't care if they were still making decent Metroid games. After all, if I want to play a First Person Shooter, I'd rather play something good (i.e. for me, not Metroid Prime). I could care less about "financial success" of Metroid Prime, considering that Gamecube trailed far behind Playstation 2 shows that it wasn't exactly a system selling game if you want to get into arguments about it.
Which I don't. Why tell me I have to like something that I don't like? Oh, right, because you don't like platformers.
But it's stupid to call fans of the Metroid platformer series "conservative," they just like platformers. Heck, I even like non-boring First Person Adventure games like System Shock II. (However, I'd be irritated if that's all there was.) You can't force your taste on me, try as you might, any more than Jack Thompson (your idol?) can.
Oh, I assume you are not getting Phantom Hourglass which is more like Wind Waker, eh? After all, there's no novelty there.
Weimar was really nice. Extremely liberal, extremely cutting edge in the arts for the time. It didn't take very long for it to turn into Hell.
Any signs of authoritarian government anywhere trouble me, but in Germany it has that extra-special tinge of evil. They don't seem to be working very hard to prevent history from repeating itself.
The ESRB does not exist to regulate games. The ESRB exists in order to protect video game companies from legislation sponsored by their critics. In theory it is therefore in the best interests of all game companies to cooperate with the ESRB. They are supposed to be on the same side.
The method used to rate games is perfect in this regard, because when video game critics attack games, they use video game footage of "objectionable" scenes taken out of context to do so.
Of course, this is why the "Hot Cofee" scandal was such a public relations nightmare, and I blame the ESRB for mishandling it. This is perhaps because the ESRB thinks that it really does exist to pass judgments on games. The goal should have been damage control, to the ESRB and to the game industry in general. Instead they caved into their worst critics and gave them new ammunition, based on some incomplete code that couldn't be reached through normal gameplay.
"I'd vouch on firing people from the society whose parents or schools didn't teach them something as simple as properly forming plural's^Wplurals."
You seem to be unfamiliar with the concept of grammar, or is English not your first language?
Maybe you meant "I'd vouch for," but that doesn't do much for your horrible run on sentence. The prepositional phrase "from the society" is a tad vague. Do you mean people from American Society, or from the Susquahanna Bad Plural Forming Society?
Still, good catch on "Mom's." Though obviously it shouldn't have been capitalized, "moms" would have been correct. I'll be sure to carefully spellcheck my next random, haphazardly dashed off Slashdot post so I don't get flamed by a Slashdot spelling troll.
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The GP2X fulfills most of your requirements. Though it was created by a corporation rather than the community.
As to aliens, I believe in them with metaphysical certainty. As an atheist, I feel the probability that life hasn't formed on other planets to be so remote as to be impossible. (Remember, blind, mindless cavefish on another planet are just as much aliens as little, green men.)
I also believe faster than light travel is impossible, so none have ever, or will ever, visit Earth.
Also since supernatural beliefs are by their nature not scientifically falsifiable, positing the idea that the natural world is part of a universe that also has a "supernatural" part that is not governed by natural law, I'm not sure that you can say someone is a poor scientist just for having them. Certainly a lot of good scientific work has been done by religious folk, such as Gregor Mendel. I don't think it makes sense to believe in something you can't measure, but as long as it doesn't affect your approach to the things you can measure, I don't care about it.
Christianity requires astrology to be true (according to the Book). To wit:
Conversely, astrology does not require Christianity to be true.
With his hands replaced by twin gas powered chainsaws and a face that would make Leatherface vomit, the Microsoft Marketing Maniac is an expert of sowing the seeds of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt amongst Microsoft's competitors. Like Michael Myers, he is known for doing his best work on Halloween, but this blood gorged monster will do his gruesome work year round.
Look out! There he is behind you.... aiieeee!
Concept art stolen from the game Splatterhouse
Of course, I expect the Chinese government probably doesn't like people thinking about the questions raised by Death Note, such as "do the ends ever justify the means?" and "does the death penalty turn humans into monsters?" considering that their government is a super corrupt and incompetent version of Light Yagami. (Their "Utopia" is built on the corpses of the innocent... and it isn't much of a utopia, after all.)
I imagine Watchmen will get the same treatment if it ever becomes popular over there...
Just like what happened to Iran after the Ayatollah Khomeini died. Sad.
- C. Montgomery Burns, [2F16]
Lord Haiku Executioner
Hence, the whole raising a slave army and leaving the country as their king thing he did.
Of course, this is pure conjecture, like Bulgakov having Jesus say, "I do not remember my parents. I have been told that my father was a Syrian," to Pilate in The Master and Margerita.
Some links:
Lew Rockwell Blog
LewRockwell.com Ron Paul News
Past articles by Congressman Ron Paul on LewRockwell.com
Hmm... these don't seem like things that are critical of Paul, do they? in fact, they seem like the work of an ardent supporter.
But for this movie, you don't even use the title of the videogame for the title of the movie, you just put it in the subtitle. So the movie isn't even called "Dungeon Seige" it's called "In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale." I mean, partly I think he's hoping that someone's Mom, on hearing her son wants "Return of the King" for Christmas, will accidentally buy "In the Name of the King" instead. In that case, though, why bother with paying for a Dungeon Seige license?
It's a puzzle that must be solved!
More from Clinton:
The goblin word for "flying" is more accurately translated as "falling slowly."
From Nixon Girl to Watergate: The Making of Hillary Clinton
The Seeds of Corruption: Hillary Clinton in Arkansas
Secrecy, Intransigence and War: The Vices of Hillary Clinton
Basically, she's a pro-war, corporate, conservative Democrat who has managed to hijack her party's nomination. It looks like another voting day is coming out where I can just sit home and relax.
After all, it's hard to vote for the lesser of two evils when you have two equally evil candidates.
Gallipoli: The Game -- "Gameplay is similar to the hit PC game, Lemmings, except, instead of trying to save your soldiers, your mission, as an authentic WWI commander, is to wipe out as many diggers as possible ... the more gruesomely, the better!"
Japanese XBox Division Not Happy with the way Layoffs were handled
Apparently it was quite the culture shock for XBox Japan employees to deal with an Amercian style perp walk layoff.
"all green of skin... 800 centuries ago.. their bodily fluids include the birth of half-breeds... for the fundamental truth is self-determination of the cosmos... for dark is the suede... that mows like a harvest..."
With civilian weapons? Forget about it.
That's incredibly insulting. All the "3-D" Metroid games I've played have been boring (I got 1 and 2 as gifts). B-o-r-i-n-g. However, unlike you, I don't begrudge other gamers their enjoyment of the spinoff Metroid series "Metroid Prime." Live and let live, I'd normally say. (After all, I enjoy Metroid Prime Pinball, a spinoff of a spinoff.)
Unfortunately, the Metroid Prime series is killing off the good Metroid games, from my perspective. You never liked Metroid, but you like the spinoff so you don't care, and you feel that it makes you right. Well, bully for you (pun intended).
I wouldn't care if they were still making decent Metroid games. After all, if I want to play a First Person Shooter, I'd rather play something good (i.e. for me, not Metroid Prime). I could care less about "financial success" of Metroid Prime, considering that Gamecube trailed far behind Playstation 2 shows that it wasn't exactly a system selling game if you want to get into arguments about it.
Which I don't. Why tell me I have to like something that I don't like? Oh, right, because you don't like platformers.
But it's stupid to call fans of the Metroid platformer series "conservative," they just like platformers. Heck, I even like non-boring First Person Adventure games like System Shock II. (However, I'd be irritated if that's all there was.) You can't force your taste on me, try as you might, any more than Jack Thompson (your idol?) can.
Oh, I assume you are not getting Phantom Hourglass which is more like Wind Waker, eh? After all, there's no novelty there.
Steve Ballmer: It's just a tiny little town.
Bill Gates: Balmerberg?!?!
Steve Ballmer: But Melinda has her own place... fine, fine I'll erase it....
Any signs of authoritarian government anywhere trouble me, but in Germany it has that extra-special tinge of evil. They don't seem to be working very hard to prevent history from repeating itself.
The method used to rate games is perfect in this regard, because when video game critics attack games, they use video game footage of "objectionable" scenes taken out of context to do so.
Of course, this is why the "Hot Cofee" scandal was such a public relations nightmare, and I blame the ESRB for mishandling it. This is perhaps because the ESRB thinks that it really does exist to pass judgments on games. The goal should have been damage control, to the ESRB and to the game industry in general. Instead they caved into their worst critics and gave them new ammunition, based on some incomplete code that couldn't be reached through normal gameplay.
"I'd vouch on firing people from the society whose parents or schools didn't teach them something as simple as properly forming plural's^Wplurals."
You seem to be unfamiliar with the concept of grammar, or is English not your first language?
Maybe you meant "I'd vouch for," but that doesn't do much for your horrible run on sentence. The prepositional phrase "from the society" is a tad vague. Do you mean people from American Society, or from the Susquahanna Bad Plural Forming Society?
Still, good catch on "Mom's." Though obviously it shouldn't have been capitalized, "moms" would have been correct. I'll be sure to carefully spellcheck my next random, haphazardly dashed off Slashdot post so I don't get flamed by a Slashdot spelling troll.