Because Canada is part of the British Commonwealth. While they are an independant nation, they still recognize Queen Elizabeth as their monarch and she is the formal (though not in any way practical) head of the Church of England.
Therefore there is not a completely true seperation of church and state when you are dealing with the UK or the Commonwealth.
Of course Kerry is going to replace the commanders in Iraq! Rumsfeld won't be the Secretary of Defense under Kerry, will he (though I wonder if McCain will be)? As soon as a new cabinet is in place, yes there will be new military leaders put in place.
You're new to this whole democracy thing, aren't you? Different administrations mean different military leaders. Wake up, boy.
And I am dismayed to say that I voted using a punch card (Presinct 6 of Harper Woods, MI)! I'm especially dismayed after having voted here using the "draw a line" optical voting method in which you draw a line between the two parts of an arrow pointing at your candidate of choice. It looks sorta like this:
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Needless to say, I examined the punch card ballot very carefully for any hanging chads, but I'm unsure the 100 people ahead of me did the same...
I wonder if we'll have to recount in Michigan:
"This is Wolf Blitzer reporting from Detroit, where the 2004 presidential election still hangs in the balance after massive voting problems two weeks ago. Coming up next wil be a debate between Robert Novak and James Carville over how best to tar and feather Jon Stewart. Tucker Carlson will be flogging Stewart with his bowtie."
Oh, God, please finish this election by the end of the week!;)
#4 won't happen... not with Islamic terrorists. However, I seem to remember this small act or terrorism that happened in Oklahoma City.
But, hell, let's not dwell on that! We have a colored fella to make fun of and blame for all out problems!
#3, unfortunately, could happen. The Writ of Habeus Corpus has been suspended only once (by Lincoln, during the Civil War). However, yes, George Bush could easily be the second one to do so...
The people of Afghanistan had a free election? Voter intimedation at the polls? Husbands COMMANDING THEIR WIVES TO VOTE FOR SPECIFIC CANDIDATES? 10 million voter registrations that are actually closer to 4 million actual voters?
How fucking ignorant are you? You actually bought that bullshit the Bush campaign has been spouting? You know that Cheney said Iraq was a success, yes? Clearly 200,000 innocent (not soldiers, not insurgents) Iraqis dead between March 2003 and now must mean that we are a success! Clearly, opening IAEA sealed bunkers and walking away from 380 tons of unsecured explosives is a success!
When the Green Zone in Baghdad is nothing but rubble, because someone decides to "return" those missing explosives to us, clearly that will mean we have truly "turned the corner" in Iraq!
Here, I've got some Kool-Aid from Dubya which he asked me to give to you. Take a great big gulp and go lay down somewhere...
Now here I thought we were going to have a serious discussion... but, clearly, your head is so buried in your ass you can't talk anything but shit.
Keep this in mind, Nimrod: "Partial-Birth Abortions" existed for only one reason and one reason only - to save the life of the mother. Anyone who tell you that they were used to terminate unwanted pregnancies is playing with your mind... but, clearly, that isn't so hard to do with you, is it?
And I don't game on them. I don't game on my PC, either (unless you count that it is hosting a dedicated PS2 server for Star Wars Battlefront). I'm a console gamer and have been for close to 10 years.
Yes, every now and then there is something compelling enough to bring me to the computer to play it (The Sims, WarCraft, StarCraft, Civilization), but it is rare that it happens. Frankly, at this point, being able to buy more games for the Mac might make many Mac users very happy, but I'm not one of them. The last full game I bought for the Mac was WarCraft III. I still have yet to buy the expansion pack, but I have bought expansion packs for my wife and her Sims addiction. However, if I spend $200 on games in a year for my computers, I would be shocked.
So, yes, I would buy a Mac, but not for the games.
I think what's important to note is that it was Nintendo's lawyers who contacted SG, not Nintendo. My guess is that someone from Nintendo of America has chewed out someone at the lawfirm royally by now...
So, my question is: if you don't use Firefox, if you don't use Mozilla, why are you trolling? Why do you even care? Slow day at work? Not enough porn to fill your day?
Considering that they had a virtual placard maker on the website and it was being used to create things like "Bush/Halliburton '04" (which prompted them to take that tool offline), I can see that they would be concerned about forum abuse.
Trust me: I think W is a fraud and a poor president. However, I can understand why the campaign would want to secure the website... but it still strikes me as akin to the loyalty oath that Bush rally attendees need to sign to get in. Bush really needs to get a thicker skin and address his critics instead of surrounding himself with yes-men. That might increase the respect people in the US have for him...
Speaking as someone who owns both a GameCube and a PS2, and isn't really interested in buying a DS or PSP, I think I can state that both companies innovate at roughly the same rate. At least from where I'm standing.
The Eye Toy is innovative, though most of the games that support it are gimmicky at best. I bought Dance Dance Revolution Extreme for my wife's birthday this past weekend because of the Eye Toy support. However, it doesn't handle two players on screen at the same time. Most of the party games in DDR-E are pretty basic Play and Groove rehashes. So, yes, the Eye Toy is innovative. The implementation, unfortunately, is not.
That goes the same for the GC-GBA connectivity. It is a great idea, but most of the games supporting it have been gimmicky at best (the two notable exceptions are Pac-Man Vs. and Legend of Zelda: Four Swords). Again, innovative hardware idea, non-innovative implementation.
I think what you're seeing, rather than Nintendo fanboyism, is cheering for the underdog. If the roles were reversed, I suspect that you would see more Sony cheerleading and less for Nintendo.
Always funny how it's people like you who don't have the balls to post under their handle.
Or the eyes to actually read the text as written.
The adults are speaking right now. Go back to playing with your toys and don't worry your pretty little head about things that are too complex for you to grasp.
As has been clarified in the past few years, there could easily be a Godzilla vs. Godzilla fight. The first Godzilla did die at the end of the first movie - these are not all the same monster (and the premise of "more Godzillas" in the future is presented at the end of the first movie). Also, numerous versions have had the "son" of Godzilla (Minilla, Godzilla Jr., Godzookie from the 70s cartoon), but the "son" usually takes the mantle of Godzilla when the "father" dies. Technically, though, if the "father" survived long enough for the "son" to fully mature, you would have the potential of a Godzilla vs. Godzilla fight.
Therefore, Godzilla could fight (God)Zilla without a name change... it would just get very confusing. But, then again, Godzilla has fought Mechagodzilla and Space Godzilla...
Speaking as a fan of the Godzilla franchise: I'm cool with the Zilla name. The continuity is so shaky over the past 50 years that doing this really doesn't bother me one bit. And, frankly it sounds like Final Wars will be what Destroy All Monsters (the movie, not the videogame) was supposed to be...
Or is it because it isn't "true" Science Fiction (even though the argument can easily be made that it is)?
I would argue that Snow Crash was a very conventional post-cyberpunk SF novel. If you had said Neuromancer was an original, I would have to completely agree. But Snow Crash? I have to heartily disagree with that.
Methinks someone needs to read a bit more. Have you actually read all of the books, or does their size scare you?
Just because a book is long, Jethro, doesn't mean it's not good.
Personally, and speaking as someone who has edited magazines and a few short books: Snow Crash was in dire need of better editing. Like I said: strong book if you're 21. Not so strong once you've grown up.
The PSP? You are comparing the iPod to the PSP? You're comparing a 40GB hard drive music player to a piece of equipment that is disc-based, has poor power management, keeps getting pushed back and doesn't have the games to launch before Christmas?
Using your logic: I can pick up a shareware app to rip DVDs to a 128MB Memory Stick and watch movies on my Sony Ericsson P900, which would allow me to "play mp3s, watch movies and play games" and use it as a planner, a Bluetooth remote, a cell phone and a digital camera. Doesn't mean that it's replacing my iPod at any point. The iPod goes more places with me than the P900 does...
So my question to you is: What the hell are you smoking, where did you get it and will you share? Because you are smoking some SERIOUS shit...
A lot of us would disagree. I personally find that Stephenson grows as a writer with each book. Snow Crash was a good story, yes, but Cryptonomicon and the Baroque cycle are examples of strong writing.
I lovedSnow Crash when I was 21. I like it now that I'm 31, but my respect for Stephenson as an author comes from his past four novels, not SC.
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Therefore there is not a completely true seperation of church and state when you are dealing with the UK or the Commonwealth.
Or didn't you see the South Park movie?
You're new to this whole democracy thing, aren't you? Different administrations mean different military leaders. Wake up, boy.
Be a man and state your opinions under your user name, dipshit.
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Needless to say, I examined the punch card ballot very carefully for any hanging chads, but I'm unsure the 100 people ahead of me did the same...
I wonder if we'll have to recount in Michigan:
"This is Wolf Blitzer reporting from Detroit, where the 2004 presidential election still hangs in the balance after massive voting problems two weeks ago. Coming up next wil be a debate between Robert Novak and James Carville over how best to tar and feather Jon Stewart. Tucker Carlson will be flogging Stewart with his bowtie."
Oh, God, please finish this election by the end of the week! ;)
But, hell, let's not dwell on that! We have a colored fella to make fun of and blame for all out problems!
#3, unfortunately, could happen. The Writ of Habeus Corpus has been suspended only once (by Lincoln, during the Civil War). However, yes, George Bush could easily be the second one to do so...
How fucking ignorant are you? You actually bought that bullshit the Bush campaign has been spouting? You know that Cheney said Iraq was a success, yes? Clearly 200,000 innocent (not soldiers, not insurgents) Iraqis dead between March 2003 and now must mean that we are a success! Clearly, opening IAEA sealed bunkers and walking away from 380 tons of unsecured explosives is a success!
When the Green Zone in Baghdad is nothing but rubble, because someone decides to "return" those missing explosives to us, clearly that will mean we have truly "turned the corner" in Iraq!
Here, I've got some Kool-Aid from Dubya which he asked me to give to you. Take a great big gulp and go lay down somewhere...
Keep this in mind, Nimrod: "Partial-Birth Abortions" existed for only one reason and one reason only - to save the life of the mother. Anyone who tell you that they were used to terminate unwanted pregnancies is playing with your mind... but, clearly, that isn't so hard to do with you, is it?
Yes, every now and then there is something compelling enough to bring me to the computer to play it (The Sims, WarCraft, StarCraft, Civilization), but it is rare that it happens. Frankly, at this point, being able to buy more games for the Mac might make many Mac users very happy, but I'm not one of them. The last full game I bought for the Mac was WarCraft III. I still have yet to buy the expansion pack, but I have bought expansion packs for my wife and her Sims addiction. However, if I spend $200 on games in a year for my computers, I would be shocked.
So, yes, I would buy a Mac, but not for the games.
I have yet to see Cave Dwellers, though.
I think what's important to note is that it was Nintendo's lawyers who contacted SG, not Nintendo. My guess is that someone from Nintendo of America has chewed out someone at the lawfirm royally by now...
That is true. "Worst filmmaker" should go to things like Manos: Hands of Fate. That is not a watchable movie, even in MST3K form...
So, my question is: if you don't use Firefox, if you don't use Mozilla, why are you trolling? Why do you even care? Slow day at work? Not enough porn to fill your day?
Too bad I'm out of mod points. "+1 Befuddling" would really be useful about now...
Oh, and learn to use verbs and their proper tenses, man. They're what you do.
Trust me: I think W is a fraud and a poor president. However, I can understand why the campaign would want to secure the website... but it still strikes me as akin to the loyalty oath that Bush rally attendees need to sign to get in. Bush really needs to get a thicker skin and address his critics instead of surrounding himself with yes-men. That might increase the respect people in the US have for him...
The Eye Toy is innovative, though most of the games that support it are gimmicky at best. I bought Dance Dance Revolution Extreme for my wife's birthday this past weekend because of the Eye Toy support. However, it doesn't handle two players on screen at the same time. Most of the party games in DDR-E are pretty basic Play and Groove rehashes. So, yes, the Eye Toy is innovative. The implementation, unfortunately, is not.
That goes the same for the GC-GBA connectivity. It is a great idea, but most of the games supporting it have been gimmicky at best (the two notable exceptions are Pac-Man Vs. and Legend of Zelda: Four Swords). Again, innovative hardware idea, non-innovative implementation.
I think what you're seeing, rather than Nintendo fanboyism, is cheering for the underdog. If the roles were reversed, I suspect that you would see more Sony cheerleading and less for Nintendo.
But, as we all know, Sony is the perfect example of a company where the right hand is completely kept in the dark about what the left is doing...
I present to you the Region 2 Godzilla Final Box, due in April of 2005 for the low price of $989.00.
Or the eyes to actually read the text as written.
The adults are speaking right now. Go back to playing with your toys and don't worry your pretty little head about things that are too complex for you to grasp.
Therefore, Godzilla could fight (God)Zilla without a name change... it would just get very confusing. But, then again, Godzilla has fought Mechagodzilla and Space Godzilla...
Speaking as a fan of the Godzilla franchise: I'm cool with the Zilla name. The continuity is so shaky over the past 50 years that doing this really doesn't bother me one bit. And, frankly it sounds like Final Wars will be what Destroy All Monsters (the movie, not the videogame) was supposed to be...
Or is it because it isn't "true" Science Fiction (even though the argument can easily be made that it is)?
I would argue that Snow Crash was a very conventional post-cyberpunk SF novel. If you had said Neuromancer was an original, I would have to completely agree. But Snow Crash? I have to heartily disagree with that.
Just because a book is long, Jethro, doesn't mean it's not good.
Personally, and speaking as someone who has edited magazines and a few short books: Snow Crash was in dire need of better editing. Like I said: strong book if you're 21. Not so strong once you've grown up.
Using your logic: I can pick up a shareware app to rip DVDs to a 128MB Memory Stick and watch movies on my Sony Ericsson P900, which would allow me to "play mp3s, watch movies and play games" and use it as a planner, a Bluetooth remote, a cell phone and a digital camera. Doesn't mean that it's replacing my iPod at any point. The iPod goes more places with me than the P900 does...
So my question to you is: What the hell are you smoking, where did you get it and will you share? Because you are smoking some SERIOUS shit...
I loved Snow Crash when I was 21. I like it now that I'm 31, but my respect for Stephenson as an author comes from his past four novels, not SC.
Yes, one does tend to waddle when pushing a wheelbarrow...