Four weeks later, the scientist sends me an email saying that he has completed the DNA analysis and found no evidence of modification. He tested specifically for the presence of CP4 - a telltale indicator of the Roundup Ready modification - as well as for the cauliflower mosaic virus, the gene most commonly used to insert foreign DNA into a plant. It is still possible that the plant has been genetically modified using other genes, but not likely. Discovering new methods of engineering glyphosate resistance would require the best scientific minds and years of organized research. And given that there is already a published methodology, there would be little reason to duplicate the effort.
Which points back to selective breeding. The implication is that the farmers' decentralized system of disseminating coca cuttings has been amazingly effective - more so than genetic engineering could hope to be. When one plant somewhere in the country demonstrated tolerance to glyphosate, cuttings were made and passed on to dealers and farmers, who could sell them quickly to farmers hoping to withstand the spraying. The best of the next generation was once again used for cuttings and distributed.
This technique - applied over four years - is now the most likely explanation for the arrival of Boliviana negra. By spraying so much territory, the US significantly increased the odds of generating beneficial mutations. There are numerous species of coca, further increasing the diversity of possible mutations. And in the Amazonian region, nature is particularly adaptive and resilient.
"I thought it was unlikely," says Gressel, the plant scientist at the Weizmann Institute. "But farmers aren't dumb. They obviously spotted a lucky mutation and propagated the hell out of it."
-- The Mystery of the Coca Plant That Wouldn't Die
Evolution in action, with a real, detached reason for proving whether or not it was ID.
I think it's safe to say that it will be, simply by virtue of it being so difficult to be more malicious. What would that even be? They send somebody to your house to personally demolish your computer with a sledgehammer to ensure it isn't running pirated (or any other) programs?
[me] hurries off to the patent office before it closes....
My cousin's company built me my first one (well, technically my first one was an Atari 800, but I digress...). I wanted to support them because they were family (small outfit in Northern VA). The next one I built myself, because part of the fun was building it myself. (Oh and in between I bought an Apple Powerbook laptop.)
1. The free market inevitably leads to the greatest good.
2. Wal-Mart's success is because it is the leader in the free market.
3. Therefore, Wal-Mart's success will lead to the greatest good.
Here's my response:
1. Wal-Mart is not succeeding in a free market but in a market regulated and subsidized in its favor and at the expense of its smaller competitors.
Your response, "How is it Wal-Mart's fault?" misses the point.
The point is that Wal-Mart's succeeding currently has nothing to do with a free market. All of this legalized graft stifles Wal-Mart's competition and contributes to a major part of its bottom line. It is also irrelevent if way back when Sam Walton was alive and it was a smaller concern it built itself up without relying on government handouts, because we aren't talking about its former success we are talking about its continuing success.
Now, it is true that Wal-Mart's big league competitors can get some of the same kind of graft, not as much because Wal-Mart is the biggest dog currently in retail. Even that is irrelevant to a free market discussion however, because that kind of competition has more to do with who can better woo government bureaucrats than who can serve the market better.
As to the "will of the people" argument you made at the end, all you are doing there is advocating socialism in Wal-Mart's favor. I don't really care about the "will of the people" in this case, because I believe property rights trump the "will of the people" despite the Supreme Court's Kelo decision (much as I believe a person's inalienable right to Liberty trumped the Dredd Scott decision and the "will of the people" at the time).
In closing, I leave you with an old saying about how the government takes care of business and makes the market inefficient:
"If it's moving, tax it
If it keeps moving, regulate it
If it stops moving, subsidize it"
Wal-Mart has apparently reached the "subsidize it" phase...
Ooh, Gold Toe! I just bought a pack of those at Macy's... My God do they feel good on my feet! I have so many crummy pairs of socks that I've recieved as gifts, that it was a revelation to try these.... (yes, that's right, I've rarely bought socks over the years because my Mom gives me socks for Christmas every year.)
Did you know that the Comics Code Authority was single handedly resurrected by Wal-Mart?
It was almost dead... very close to death. It was so ridiculous that they tried to prevent Spider-Man from doing an anti-drug comic proposed by D.A.R.E. or some such thing because it would've had, well, drugs in it! (Note, I'm no fan of D.A.R.E. I just think it's ironic.)
I'm reminded of the following quote...
"They are lean and athirst!" he shrieked... "All the evil in the universe was concentrated in their lean, hungry bodies. Or had they bodies? I saw them only for a moment, I cannot be certain."
--Frank Belknap Long, "The Hounds of Tindalos"
Most of Alameda Square's businesses are profitable. Together they generate about $125,000 a year in sales tax revenue. But if the city of Denver has its way, these small businesses will be evicted to make way for a Wal-Mart super-center. The city's Urban Renewal Authority has threatened condemnation if the property owners refuse to sell and has offered Wal-Mart $10 million in public subsidies. That's right: Tax dollars would go to one of the country's most profitable and powerful corporations.
That free market sounds like a pretty sweet deal where you can buy your own city government...
Wal-Mart leads the pack in attracting subsidies, this year collecting $10 million in Denver; $500,000 in Dallas; $36.7 million in Scottsdale, Ariz., (as part of a shopping center that includes Lowe's); $9 million in Bartlesville, Okla.; and $17 million in Lewiston, Maine.
Those parents who bother keeping track of what their kids do were concerned by the demon-lord undertones and splatterfest violence in the game. Despite the lack of human characters, so much blood is spilled in Sacrifice that Wal-Mart released a "friendly" version of the title with entire levels stripped out.
This is one of the reasons I'll never understand why so many of my fellow libertarians suck up to Wal-Mart at every opportunity. I guess they think the outfit is run by Hank Rearden or John Galt, or something.
Well, the actual purpose of this law is to stop stores from carrying 'M' rated games, much as they do not carry 'AO' rated games currently. They don't carry 'AO' games because if they do, they open themselves up to legal problems, and if this law sticks, retail stores in Illinois will stop carrying 'M' rated games.
Now, if this law goes into effect in Illinois and also in California, and sticks in both, then most publishers will send their games off to the ESRB and if the ESRB comes back with a 'M' or an 'AO' rating, the game publishers will edit the game until they get a 'T' rating. It's possible that two versions will be published, the 'M' rated version for more permissive states and the 'T' rated version for California and Chicago. More likely, considering that if this law is successful, other states will put in "think of the children" laws, they'll just give up and make sure everything is rated 'T.'
At which point the 'M' rating will be pretty much retired, since if you are going to be in the same boat with a 'M' or an 'AO' why bother releasing such a game, and video game content will be considerably tamer than what we see today.
Parents won't be going into stores to buy games for their kids that aren't in stock or that weren't ever published in the first place. Kids won't be able to pirate games that don't exist, and are less likely to pirate games they've never heard of.
Then, years from now, when people could care less about video games since the next big thing will likely have come along, publishers will start pushing the boundaries of the 'T' rating. But you and I may not be alive to see it.
The reason why states make laws like this, is so that they can technically pass constitutional muster while acting as a defacto ban on 'M' rated games. It is not given that this law will fail, I haven't read it but I'm sure that they looked at the previous law that failed in Indiana before writing it.
It is a fun novelty but not a killer app, nor even a game really.
Well, a few points:
1. It is a killer app in Japan, so Nintendo has to say mission accomplished even if it isn't successful in the US. Sure, they may still need to find their American killer app, but it's still important to the DS's success anyway.
2. I don't see how you can say, "it's not a game." Is the Sims not a game? Is Creatures not a game? It's a game, it's not your cup of tea is all.
"So, in short, yes, I think 100,000 lives were worth it. I happen to like Japan, and am glad that we dropped the bombs on them"
spoken like a true american. the ends justify the means and i guess you can sort of rationalize the horror out of your past. in retrospect its far easier to say with certainty what COULD HAVE happened, because anything *could* have happened. thats the beauty of the word "could". what actually did happen was the murder of hundreds of thousands of civilians. then of course the next step is to jump up and down shouting, see see we actually *saved* lives by killing thousands! they should thank us!
and i now recall the following words
Myrick: "If you could cure cancer by killing one person, wouldn't you have to do that?" "Those men are heroes."
Luthan: "But you chose for them." and "You're a doctor, not God."
-extreme measures
I am become death destroyer of worlds.
and deep down you _know_ it, and in some sense it makes you proud. the sickness of the republic of the united states of america.
Hmm... while I'll admit that it is written in an inflammatory style, I agree with the point about the word "could" used in this context. You can use "could" to support any argument. i.e. "I shouldn't shower, ever, because I could fall and kill myself."
So why is it that "could's" are always used to support the incineration of children in Japan?
I think it was modded down not because it was inflammatory but because our Gung-Ho "patriot" moderators were made uncomfortable by the argument.
If I were a major game retailer in the state of Illinois, this is what I would do.
1. Change my store, if I sold things other than games, so that the games were in one section seperated from the rest of the store.
2. Institute an enforced "no kids" policy for that part of the store.
3. When parents complain, and they will, explain that the Illinois legislature had tied my hands, and this was the only way I could be sure I was complying with the new law.
4. Sit back and wait for the law to change.
Since I like irony, I would probably make sure to put all the violent R rated movies near, but outside that section, very prominently displayed. (I noticed that they sell Guinea Pig in Best Buy... )
If any parents asked why I was OK with kids being allowed in the R-Rated movie section, I'd say, "Well, because according to the Illinois legislature, violent R-Rated videos won't turn your kids into zombie killbots, but video games will."
Of course, this would only work if all the other major retailers in the state did something similar.
To me, the essense of this issue can be summed up by the fact that I have to tediously enter my age in order to enter the website of Relic's Dawn of War but I have to do no such tedious thing to enter the website of House of Wax. House of Wax is rated R which is supposed to be the equivalent of an M rated game, like Dawn of War.
When a teenager goes to buy Saw, he doesn't have to worry that the 'Walmart' version is changed as the Walmart version of the computer game Sacrifice was so it would get a "Teen" rating. (Maybe they prevent him from buying Saw, I can't be 100% sure.) So, goofy RTS from Shiny with red pixels, required to be censored by Walmart, gruesome story about the depths of human depravity, sold unaltered.
The truth is video games have been hammered ever since Nintendo decided to draw Senator Joseph Lieberman's attention to violent games produced by rival SEGA. They are not treated the same as any other media, and I have no doubt that "concerned parents" have inflated the ratings so people now see 'M' as equivalent of video 'X.'
I can remember all sorts of depraved things happening on TV series The Sopranos including a stripper being beaten to death by one of Tony's crew. Apparently, cartoony, unrealistic violence in games like GTA is considered far more serious.
If these laws pass, prediction, a new rating will eventually be created to cover 'M' rated games (maybe not for many years, but eventually). Either way the 'M' rating will be retired and Rockstar will put some boneheaded censorship in the next GTA so it gets a 'T' rating. The survival horror genre will disappear in the US except for imports (until society calms down enough that video games get treated like movies.).
What's the difference between Apple (who originated the slogan) and Microsoft (who nicked it)?
Apple is a hardware company that provides software to their own line of computers and other electronic devices exclusively, Microsoft is a software company that supplies software to everyone.
What does this mean?
Apple controls their hardware line. They don't have to worry about someone buying an off brand powerbook and having their software not work on it.
Microsoft has to support all different kinds of hardware, from ancient legacy systems to bleeding edge stuff. It is extremely unlikely that it will "just work," all the time.
They would have been better off stealing the Linux slogan, "Does it run Linux?" which seems to be applied to any random piece of hardware that comes out that might be capable of running an operating system.
When I was a kid I would occaisionally play paper box games based on real wars or conflicts. I remember one based on German tribes versus Romans, based on the historical sacking of Rome. Now, I guess if teachers were using this as an educational game, and the Roman player was outplaying the German player, teacher would say, "ok, you are doing to well, you have to let the German's win."
1. Jesus Castillo managed a comic book store which had an "Adults Only" section.
2. Some concerned citizens in the area decided to make an example out of him. They sent a Vice Squad cop in to buy a copy of the Legend of the Overfiend manga.
3. Jesus Castillo was arrested for obscenity. His case wended it's way through the courts. The Supreme Court denied his last appeal.
4. As of August 5th, 2003 Castillo was still on probation for his conviction on an obscenity charge.
No retailer wants this kind of heat unless they are in the adult services industry and are used to it. (Even then they don't want it.)
People have gotten used to the movie rating system. They know what G, PG, and R mean. (I know PG-13 and NC-17 are in there too, but I think those are both more ambiguous.).
G - Kid's cartoon
PG - Action movie without much violence
R - Movie with enough violence and/or sex to be a concern for children
Do people know what E, T, M mean? Well, I was reading a review of The Incredibles for Gamecube on Amazon. The angry dad reviewer said he wanted to get the game for his kid, but he was upset that it was "Teen" rated. He thought it was inappropriate for a game based on a G Rated movie (of course, The Incredibles was PG, but never mind.).
It's clear that T, in this case, was meant to indicate a PG rated game. Instead, T means an age group. It is more like the "reccomended for kids 8 and up" notes on toys than a movie rating.
Some parents see the system as:
E = games for kids
T = games for thuggy teenagers
M = X-Rated games that should be banned.
So, of course the ERSB gets no respect. They've failed to create a coherent rating system.
As a libertarian, I think libertarians need to be more careful about which fights they get involved in and even on which side they get involved in. To a careless person this may look like a case of corporations versus government. However, we are talking about Telcos here, which have historically used their clout with the government to up their profits at the expense of free markets. (I give you the Cato Institutes: UNNATURAL MONOPOLY: CRITICAL MOMENTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BELL SYSTEM MONOPOLY).
In reality Cable and Telephone companies have been in bed with the government for so long I expect they have many children running around, monstrous, flesh-eating children.
What is this really about? Increased centralization of government authority. In other words, this is the state government usurping the authority of city governments. As a libertarian, I see this as a bad thing. Unfortunately, many libertarians seem to be wandering in the wilderness lately, seeing themselves not as proponents of increased liberty, which necessitates weakened government, but rather as knee-jerk pro-business.
If you are a libertarian and you support this law, you should ask yourself, which is better for liberty a strong, centralized government that looks out for its cronies in business or a weak, decentralized government.
This is best explained in a Counterpunch review of the book The Murdoch Archipelago:
This brings me back to Page's book, whose core thesis is that Murdoch offers his target governments a privatized version of a state propaganda service, manipulated without scruple and with no regard for truth. His price takes the form of vast government favors such as tax breaks, regulatory relief (as with the recent FCC ruling on the acquisition of Direct TV) monopoly markets and so forth. The propaganda is undertaken with the utmost cynicism, whether it's the stentorian fake populism and soft porn in the UK's Sun and News of the World, or shameless bootlicking of the butchers of Tiananmen Square.
--- "I Am Thy Father's Ghost": A Journey into Rupert Murdoch's Soul
It is the prophets of Ayn Randish unrestricted capitalism that is creating such economic wonderlands as Iraq who are in the wrong on this one.
Hmm... well, see the problem with Iraq was the 10 years of trade sanctions that prevented them from rebuilding their country and more importantly their military. If they had been allowed to freely trade their oil with the rest of the world, they wouldn't have been as tempting a target for the criminal gang in the White House. So, in the specific case of Iraq, I wouldn't say that "unrestricted capitalism" was the problem.
The problem is the American version of unrestricted capitalism, which is that politically connected American companies get to do whatever they want and have the US military back them up if they decide they want to pay less for oil or labor.
Has anyone here played any of the Gunslinger Girl series?
I think it is kind of, well, loony that it is on the list. It is only available in Japan, and the reason why I got so disgusted with Sony and stopped buying their systems in the first place is because they take their region coding very, very seriously. Not only do they region code their games, but they actively try to defend against anything that would break their region blocking like mod chips.
The review of the anime series seems to indicate that it is one of these nightmare dystopian anime series like Jin Roh. (See review.) So, if it was available in the US I wouldn't be surprised by its being on this list. (It also doesn't seem like it would appeal to me, actually... too depressing.)
I mean, am I wrong, was there a local release? A Google search does not turn up an American release for any of these games.
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It's not really a very funny joke though...
But how then are you going to reunite Joshua with Professor Falken?
My cousin's company built me my first one (well, technically my first one was an Atari 800, but I digress...). I wanted to support them because they were family (small outfit in Northern VA). The next one I built myself, because part of the fun was building it myself. (Oh and in between I bought an Apple Powerbook laptop.)
1. Wal-Mart is not succeeding in a free market but in a market regulated and subsidized in its favor and at the expense of its smaller competitors.
Your response, "How is it Wal-Mart's fault?" misses the point.
The point is that Wal-Mart's succeeding currently has nothing to do with a free market. All of this legalized graft stifles Wal-Mart's competition and contributes to a major part of its bottom line. It is also irrelevent if way back when Sam Walton was alive and it was a smaller concern it built itself up without relying on government handouts, because we aren't talking about its former success we are talking about its continuing success.
Now, it is true that Wal-Mart's big league competitors can get some of the same kind of graft, not as much because Wal-Mart is the biggest dog currently in retail. Even that is irrelevant to a free market discussion however, because that kind of competition has more to do with who can better woo government bureaucrats than who can serve the market better.
As to the "will of the people" argument you made at the end, all you are doing there is advocating socialism in Wal-Mart's favor. I don't really care about the "will of the people" in this case, because I believe property rights trump the "will of the people" despite the Supreme Court's Kelo decision (much as I believe a person's inalienable right to Liberty trumped the Dredd Scott decision and the "will of the people" at the time).
In closing, I leave you with an old saying about how the government takes care of business and makes the market inefficient:
"If it's moving, tax it
If it keeps moving, regulate it
If it stops moving, subsidize it"
Wal-Mart has apparently reached the "subsidize it" phase...
Did you know that the Comics Code Authority was single handedly resurrected by Wal-Mart?
It was almost dead... very close to death. It was so ridiculous that they tried to prevent Spider-Man from doing an anti-drug comic proposed by D.A.R.E. or some such thing because it would've had, well, drugs in it! (Note, I'm no fan of D.A.R.E. I just think it's ironic.)
I'm reminded of the following quote...
Sacrifice
To quote the link:
This is one of the reasons I'll never understand why so many of my fellow libertarians suck up to Wal-Mart at every opportunity. I guess they think the outfit is run by Hank Rearden or John Galt, or something.Perhaps you read it here?
My House of the Dead gun doesn't work with my VGA monitor, so caveat emptor...
Now, if this law goes into effect in Illinois and also in California, and sticks in both, then most publishers will send their games off to the ESRB and if the ESRB comes back with a 'M' or an 'AO' rating, the game publishers will edit the game until they get a 'T' rating. It's possible that two versions will be published, the 'M' rated version for more permissive states and the 'T' rated version for California and Chicago. More likely, considering that if this law is successful, other states will put in "think of the children" laws, they'll just give up and make sure everything is rated 'T.'
At which point the 'M' rating will be pretty much retired, since if you are going to be in the same boat with a 'M' or an 'AO' why bother releasing such a game, and video game content will be considerably tamer than what we see today.
Parents won't be going into stores to buy games for their kids that aren't in stock or that weren't ever published in the first place. Kids won't be able to pirate games that don't exist, and are less likely to pirate games they've never heard of.
Then, years from now, when people could care less about video games since the next big thing will likely have come along, publishers will start pushing the boundaries of the 'T' rating. But you and I may not be alive to see it.
The reason why states make laws like this, is so that they can technically pass constitutional muster while acting as a defacto ban on 'M' rated games. It is not given that this law will fail, I haven't read it but I'm sure that they looked at the previous law that failed in Indiana before writing it.
Well, a few points:
1. It is a killer app in Japan, so Nintendo has to say mission accomplished even if it isn't successful in the US. Sure, they may still need to find their American killer app, but it's still important to the DS's success anyway.
2. I don't see how you can say, "it's not a game." Is the Sims not a game? Is Creatures not a game? It's a game, it's not your cup of tea is all.
So why is it that "could's" are always used to support the incineration of children in Japan?
I think it was modded down not because it was inflammatory but because our Gung-Ho "patriot" moderators were made uncomfortable by the argument.
1. Change my store, if I sold things other than games, so that the games were in one section seperated from the rest of the store.
2. Institute an enforced "no kids" policy for that part of the store.
3. When parents complain, and they will, explain that the Illinois legislature had tied my hands, and this was the only way I could be sure I was complying with the new law.
4. Sit back and wait for the law to change.
Since I like irony, I would probably make sure to put all the violent R rated movies near, but outside that section, very prominently displayed. (I noticed that they sell Guinea Pig in Best Buy... )
If any parents asked why I was OK with kids being allowed in the R-Rated movie section, I'd say, "Well, because according to the Illinois legislature, violent R-Rated videos won't turn your kids into zombie killbots, but video games will."
Of course, this would only work if all the other major retailers in the state did something similar.
When a teenager goes to buy Saw, he doesn't have to worry that the 'Walmart' version is changed as the Walmart version of the computer game Sacrifice was so it would get a "Teen" rating. (Maybe they prevent him from buying Saw, I can't be 100% sure.) So, goofy RTS from Shiny with red pixels, required to be censored by Walmart, gruesome story about the depths of human depravity, sold unaltered.
The truth is video games have been hammered ever since Nintendo decided to draw Senator Joseph Lieberman's attention to violent games produced by rival SEGA. They are not treated the same as any other media, and I have no doubt that "concerned parents" have inflated the ratings so people now see 'M' as equivalent of video 'X.'
I can remember all sorts of depraved things happening on TV series The Sopranos including a stripper being beaten to death by one of Tony's crew. Apparently, cartoony, unrealistic violence in games like GTA is considered far more serious.
If these laws pass, prediction, a new rating will eventually be created to cover 'M' rated games (maybe not for many years, but eventually). Either way the 'M' rating will be retired and Rockstar will put some boneheaded censorship in the next GTA so it gets a 'T' rating. The survival horror genre will disappear in the US except for imports (until society calms down enough that video games get treated like movies.).
Apple is a hardware company that provides software to their own line of computers and other electronic devices exclusively, Microsoft is a software company that supplies software to everyone.
What does this mean?
Apple controls their hardware line. They don't have to worry about someone buying an off brand powerbook and having their software not work on it.
Microsoft has to support all different kinds of hardware, from ancient legacy systems to bleeding edge stuff. It is extremely unlikely that it will "just work," all the time.
They would have been better off stealing the Linux slogan, "Does it run Linux?" which seems to be applied to any random piece of hardware that comes out that might be capable of running an operating system.
When I was a kid I would occaisionally play paper box games based on real wars or conflicts. I remember one based on German tribes versus Romans, based on the historical sacking of Rome. Now, I guess if teachers were using this as an educational game, and the Roman player was outplaying the German player, teacher would say, "ok, you are doing to well, you have to let the German's win."
Ask Jesus Castillo...
The details of the case:
1. Jesus Castillo managed a comic book store which had an "Adults Only" section.
2. Some concerned citizens in the area decided to make an example out of him. They sent a Vice Squad cop in to buy a copy of the Legend of the Overfiend manga.
3. Jesus Castillo was arrested for obscenity. His case wended it's way through the courts. The Supreme Court denied his last appeal.
4. As of August 5th, 2003 Castillo was still on probation for his conviction on an obscenity charge.
No retailer wants this kind of heat unless they are in the adult services industry and are used to it. (Even then they don't want it.)
More references...
Dirty Pictures
a bad precedent: Texas v. Castillo
G - Kid's cartoon
PG - Action movie without much violence
R - Movie with enough violence and/or sex to be a concern for children
Do people know what E, T, M mean? Well, I was reading a review of The Incredibles for Gamecube on Amazon. The angry dad reviewer said he wanted to get the game for his kid, but he was upset that it was "Teen" rated. He thought it was inappropriate for a game based on a G Rated movie (of course, The Incredibles was PG, but never mind.).
It's clear that T, in this case, was meant to indicate a PG rated game. Instead, T means an age group. It is more like the "reccomended for kids 8 and up" notes on toys than a movie rating.
Some parents see the system as:
E = games for kids
T = games for thuggy teenagers
M = X-Rated games that should be banned.
So, of course the ERSB gets no respect. They've failed to create a coherent rating system.
In reality Cable and Telephone companies have been in bed with the government for so long I expect they have many children running around, monstrous, flesh-eating children.
What is this really about? Increased centralization of government authority. In other words, this is the state government usurping the authority of city governments. As a libertarian, I see this as a bad thing. Unfortunately, many libertarians seem to be wandering in the wilderness lately, seeing themselves not as proponents of increased liberty, which necessitates weakened government, but rather as knee-jerk pro-business.
If you are a libertarian and you support this law, you should ask yourself, which is better for liberty a strong, centralized government that looks out for its cronies in business or a weak, decentralized government.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=136105&cid=114 00292
Seems Murdoch is involved in selling propaganda in China as well...
The problem is the American version of unrestricted capitalism, which is that politically connected American companies get to do whatever they want and have the US military back them up if they decide they want to pay less for oil or labor.
I think it is kind of, well, loony that it is on the list. It is only available in Japan, and the reason why I got so disgusted with Sony and stopped buying their systems in the first place is because they take their region coding very, very seriously. Not only do they region code their games, but they actively try to defend against anything that would break their region blocking like mod chips.
The review of the anime series seems to indicate that it is one of these nightmare dystopian anime series like Jin Roh. (See review.) So, if it was available in the US I wouldn't be surprised by its being on this list. (It also doesn't seem like it would appeal to me, actually... too depressing.)
I mean, am I wrong, was there a local release? A Google search does not turn up an American release for any of these games.