No kidding. You go to Arkansas or something and you can get a 10 bedroom mansion with a guest house and free horses for the price of a shack behind the airport up here.
Actually, it should be beaureucracy = !politics. At least that's what it's supposed to be.
Polititians want to do something flashy to get reelected, beaureucrats want to keep the machine running. Ideally they cancel each other out and everybody gets back to work.
In ForbesAmerica, everyone's taxes are just $1! Nuhuheehehee! Ponies!
And how come Dick Armey gets to abuse.gov like this? I mean, a line graph comparing numbers of lobbyists to numbers of words in the tax code? Jesus. I always kinda thought that.gov was for official government stuff or something, but I guess not. I checked nic.gov and there's really nothing stopping random congressmen from registering steveshomepageLOL111.gov and blogging. For that matter, there's nothing stopping them from making.gov porn sites.
Heh. Some intern has got to get somebody to sign for goatse.gov. The hilarity...
That sounds like you bough a Hong Kong bootleg off eBay. Crappy quality, still pirated. The Japanese release isn't going to have subtitles (unless you get lucky like with FLCL). That's why you have fansubs. If you want a legit translated version, you have to wait for it to show up at Suncoast. May your consience be re-soiled.
Intelligent? Onizuka? You must have been watching the other GTO. The one that didn't have... Onizuka in it. Fucking hilarious, yes. Intelligent, no.
By the way, find some of the live action Onizuka stuff some time. It's a live cartoon. Like Jim Carrey, only adorable instead of infuriating. The movie has a Canada-themed ammusement park.
You can still use the tone, emotional cues don't change that much. Also, the subtitles are a closer-to-direct translation while the dub script is designed to get the gist across while fitting into the timing of the Japanese lines. Personally, I just had too many bad experiences with crappy English voice acting and got used to dealing with subtitles. Shinji should not scream like Homer Simpson. Ug.
Well, technically, it's probably closer to 30% of the country voted for somebody other than Bush. Which puts Bush's supporters at maybe 25%. Clearly, the majority here is the lazy bastards, or, charitably, those of us that felt the lot were a bunch of assclowns. Either way, over 70% of the country didn't vote for Bush. Mmmm. Delicious, delicious popular mandate.
The commentary disk on Metropolis was pretty good in that respect. Most of what the top guys talk about is how Ozuma's going to rise from the grave and haunt them for what they did to his story.
Anyway, you kind of missed the point. Yes, manga-anime adaptations have just as many comprimises as book-movie ones. (actually, specifically here, CB was an anime originally, so there was no mangaka to get screwed) He was talking about technical limitations, though. It's why George Lucas wet his panties over CGI, becuase it opens up the kind of freedom you get in animation for live action directors.
Not exactly very ontopic. I guess it's barely topical, but it's like posting "the ring made me invisible!!1LOL!" whenever there's a LotR story. He's just doing a stupid, hey, look at me, I'm geeky enough to know what the hell you're talking about!
You mean you're not going to smoke MARIJUANA? Why aren't you going to smoke MARIJUANA? MARIJUANA makes a lot of things seem unusually funny. You might want to try smoking some MARIJUANA to get that effect.
Obviously the parent is mistaken, since Vader isn't even in this episode. It was Darth Maul who had his mask cut off and turned out to be Frodo. Get this stuff right or you'll confuse people who might not have understood the story!
Also, it doesn't matter if Frodo's an Agent, the highlight of this movie is how the talking horse turned out to be a missile in disguise! It's too bad Hollywood can't make movies with this kind of interesting story!
I don't know about Green and Blue. Red Mars was fantastic, but the series just got worse as it went on. I admit I've never been particularly hot on sci-fi authors trying to pull of political intrigue, but by the middle of Blue, I was just dragging through waiting for it to end.
Also, I'm pretty sure Kennedy didn't get to pick the mission plan. "Well, sir, we've designed a..." "No, that's ugly. Just make me a big penisey-looking thing instead." "But sir..." "Do it!"
After all, many countries are choosing not to clone humans.
And those countries are stupid. Why the hell do you ban cloning?
Because it's unnatural? Then artifical insemmination is gone too, at the very least.
Because it's cruel to create all the fertilized eggs necessary to produce a functional clone? There goes a.insem. again, and maybe fucking off-cycle while you're at it.
Because the clones might age too fast? Perhaps, but it makes a precedent for the rightiousness of eugenics as a side-effect.
Because it'll cause overpopulation? Then better outlaw Catholics and mothers that keep asking you for more grandchildren too.
Any of the stupid horror stories about armies of identical Hitlers and crap depend on magic baby-growing tubes, and a mindset that outlawed cloning isn't going to do anything to help. All a cloning ban does is create a godawful swamp of moral ambiguity and assurance that whatever clones do start to pop up will be treated as subhuman in the eyes of the law.
Uh huh. What part of this treaty thing says "private enterprice" can't do whatever the fuck it damn well wants? Ah, right, none of it. Oh, and what has NASA done to keep Boeing from building a moon colony? Nothing? Really? Wow, it's almost like there's no easy profit-making opportunities in outer space within the spending power of any private company!
If only we had some sort of non-profit-motivated organization that could preform research and lower the cost of space travel until corporations can see it as a viable business opportunity. Then we could handle space exploration like, say, the way every other disproportionately expensive and risky science project has been carried out since the dawn of civilization.
Mmmm. Sounds great. Driving around, trying to hijack a car from another player who won't stop or slow to below 40 for the entire game, streets littered with burned-out shells of taxis, hundreds of tanks rolling around chasing everyone in the game... Yep. I bet you could play for as long as 30 seconds between deaths if you hide out real good!
Seriously though, something that lets maybe a dozen players act as rival gangs would be great. Cruising around in a pickup with a friend manning the rocket launcher in the back... sweet.
Good lord yes. You have to look somewhere where the war actually happened, not Iowa, but hell yeah there's a spike in crime. Admittedly, I think your parent's still wrong, in that war just provides an opportunity for violence, not so much desensitization, but what do you think, the war just ends, all the guns vaporize and everything goes back to normal? Go look at Germany after WWI, Japan after WWII, and anywhere around Korea or Vietnam/Laos/Cambodia after the other two. (Cambodia might be in a bit out of the leage of the rest, but I guess a spike in human skull-mountain construction still supports my point)
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No thank ya! I like to get away with my violent crimes.
No kidding. You go to Arkansas or something and you can get a 10 bedroom mansion with a guest house and free horses for the price of a shack behind the airport up here.
That's a great page.
"Giants Citizen Kabuto: Another game I don't play because the female character refuses to wear clothes."
Best. Review. Ever.
beaureucracy != politics
Actually, it should be beaureucracy = !politics. At least that's what it's supposed to be.
Polititians want to do something flashy to get reelected, beaureucrats want to keep the machine running. Ideally they cancel each other out and everybody gets back to work.
In ForbesAmerica, everyone's taxes are just $1! Nuhuheehehee! Ponies!
.gov like this? I mean, a line graph comparing numbers of lobbyists to numbers of words in the tax code? Jesus. I always kinda thought that .gov was for official government stuff or something, but I guess not. I checked nic.gov and there's really nothing stopping random congressmen from registering steveshomepageLOL111.gov and blogging. For that matter, there's nothing stopping them from making .gov porn sites.
And how come Dick Armey gets to abuse
Heh. Some intern has got to get somebody to sign for goatse.gov. The hilarity...
That sounds like you bough a Hong Kong bootleg off eBay. Crappy quality, still pirated. The Japanese release isn't going to have subtitles (unless you get lucky like with FLCL). That's why you have fansubs. If you want a legit translated version, you have to wait for it to show up at Suncoast. May your consience be re-soiled.
Intelligent? Onizuka? You must have been watching the other GTO. The one that didn't have... Onizuka in it. Fucking hilarious, yes. Intelligent, no.
By the way, find some of the live action Onizuka stuff some time. It's a live cartoon. Like Jim Carrey, only adorable instead of infuriating. The movie has a Canada-themed ammusement park.
You can still use the tone, emotional cues don't change that much. Also, the subtitles are a closer-to-direct translation while the dub script is designed to get the gist across while fitting into the timing of the Japanese lines. Personally, I just had too many bad experiences with crappy English voice acting and got used to dealing with subtitles. Shinji should not scream like Homer Simpson. Ug.
Well, technically, it's probably closer to 30% of the country voted for somebody other than Bush. Which puts Bush's supporters at maybe 25%. Clearly, the majority here is the lazy bastards, or, charitably, those of us that felt the lot were a bunch of assclowns. Either way, over 70% of the country didn't vote for Bush. Mmmm. Delicious, delicious popular mandate.
The commentary disk on Metropolis was pretty good in that respect. Most of what the top guys talk about is how Ozuma's going to rise from the grave and haunt them for what they did to his story.
Anyway, you kind of missed the point. Yes, manga-anime adaptations have just as many comprimises as book-movie ones. (actually, specifically here, CB was an anime originally, so there was no mangaka to get screwed) He was talking about technical limitations, though. It's why George Lucas wet his panties over CGI, becuase it opens up the kind of freedom you get in animation for live action directors.
Not exactly very ontopic. I guess it's barely topical, but it's like posting "the ring made me invisible!!1LOL!" whenever there's a LotR story. He's just doing a stupid, hey, look at me, I'm geeky enough to know what the hell you're talking about!
Don't mod him up.
You mean you're not going to smoke MARIJUANA? Why aren't you going to smoke MARIJUANA? MARIJUANA makes a lot of things seem unusually funny. You might want to try smoking some MARIJUANA to get that effect.
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Obviously the parent is mistaken, since Vader isn't even in this episode. It was Darth Maul who had his mask cut off and turned out to be Frodo. Get this stuff right or you'll confuse people who might not have understood the story!
Also, it doesn't matter if Frodo's an Agent, the highlight of this movie is how the talking horse turned out to be a missile in disguise! It's too bad Hollywood can't make movies with this kind of interesting story!
WEND SPOLER!
I think Johnny Depp would be great for Lupin. Don't ask me why, but I bet he could pull it off.
Yeah, but would you rather have it peppered with references to 60s Japanese soaps?
I don't know about Green and Blue. Red Mars was fantastic, but the series just got worse as it went on. I admit I've never been particularly hot on sci-fi authors trying to pull of political intrigue, but by the middle of Blue, I was just dragging through waiting for it to end.
Also, I'm pretty sure Kennedy didn't get to pick the mission plan. "Well, sir, we've designed a..." "No, that's ugly. Just make me a big penisey-looking thing instead." "But sir..." "Do it!"
After all, many countries are choosing not to clone humans.
And those countries are stupid. Why the hell do you ban cloning?
Because it's unnatural? Then artifical insemmination is gone too, at the very least.
Because it's cruel to create all the fertilized eggs necessary to produce a functional clone? There goes a.insem. again, and maybe fucking off-cycle while you're at it.
Because the clones might age too fast? Perhaps, but it makes a precedent for the rightiousness of eugenics as a side-effect.
Because it'll cause overpopulation? Then better outlaw Catholics and mothers that keep asking you for more grandchildren too.
Any of the stupid horror stories about armies of identical Hitlers and crap depend on magic baby-growing tubes, and a mindset that outlawed cloning isn't going to do anything to help. All a cloning ban does is create a godawful swamp of moral ambiguity and assurance that whatever clones do start to pop up will be treated as subhuman in the eyes of the law.
Uh huh. What part of this treaty thing says "private enterprice" can't do whatever the fuck it damn well wants? Ah, right, none of it. Oh, and what has NASA done to keep Boeing from building a moon colony? Nothing? Really? Wow, it's almost like there's no easy profit-making opportunities in outer space within the spending power of any private company!
If only we had some sort of non-profit-motivated organization that could preform research and lower the cost of space travel until corporations can see it as a viable business opportunity. Then we could handle space exploration like, say, the way every other disproportionately expensive and risky science project has been carried out since the dawn of civilization.
First time I've heard someone recommend Taco Bell as a way not to get strange objects stuck in your mouth.
I think he just wants to know if the conservationalists being having a misunderestimated opinion of whether or not our children is learning.
Mmmm. Sounds great. Driving around, trying to hijack a car from another player who won't stop or slow to below 40 for the entire game, streets littered with burned-out shells of taxis, hundreds of tanks rolling around chasing everyone in the game... Yep. I bet you could play for as long as 30 seconds between deaths if you hide out real good!
Seriously though, something that lets maybe a dozen players act as rival gangs would be great. Cruising around in a pickup with a friend manning the rocket launcher in the back... sweet.
Good lord yes. You have to look somewhere where the war actually happened, not Iowa, but hell yeah there's a spike in crime. Admittedly, I think your parent's still wrong, in that war just provides an opportunity for violence, not so much desensitization, but what do you think, the war just ends, all the guns vaporize and everything goes back to normal? Go look at Germany after WWI, Japan after WWII, and anywhere around Korea or Vietnam/Laos/Cambodia after the other two. (Cambodia might be in a bit out of the leage of the rest, but I guess a spike in human skull-mountain construction still supports my point)
"Say it!"
"Nena is civilization!"
I'm pretty sure they will, I mean, they did for III, so I'd think they'd do the same for VC.