Hmm, you know I intended not to see the movie, but my Mom, Dad, Brother and Sister kidnapped me and dragged me to the theater to see it. My Mom took me aside and said, "Look, your brother has been looking forward to seeing this movie for a long time, you'd better not say anything bad about." When I left the movie I was completely silent about it.
My brother loves movies, DVDs and the original trilogy. However, while he might get it as part of a set, I doubt The Phantom Menace is something he will ever buy before the first three movies. (Which he already owns on tape 3 times over.)
The Phantom Menace, perfect choice for a first Star Wars DVD? I think not. Well, on the other hand it is Episode One... but I still think Lucas should come out with them in chronological order.
Now here's a really serious question, if/when Lucas comes out with the original trilogy on DVD, should he release the digitally enhanced versions or the original versions as they were shown in theaters? I go for the "as they were shown in theaters originally" versions, but that's because of personal nostalgia. what does everyone else think?
Oh, come on, if she got on the cover of Time I'd finally get to see her and I'm curious about the woman the virus was named after. All I know about her is that she's a topless dancer here in sunny Florida and the Melissa virogen appaently thought she was hot. Heck, it could be the first ever issue of time with a centerfold...
Heh, actually, this whole thing is a news article we should send to Henry Hyde, Orrin Hatch, Joseph Lieberman and others, just to see what they make of it. Of course, I doubt they are capable of understanding what it really means...
Question: Is OpenSource Quake, freely distributable over the whole world, now immune to attempted government censorship in places like the US and Brazil? (Well, I guess not if they impose jail time on anyone found with a copy, but short of draconian measures...)
Hey, it'll be worth it to me if they pick New Tales of the Cthuhlu Mythos by H.P. Lovecraft and Diverse hands for the Book in the time capsule, Dr. Stangelove for the movie, Dungeon! for the boardgame or something interesting and thoughtful for a change instead of the same old same old... Imagine if the poll gets Slashdotted and the MTV execs say, "Eh? Book choice is Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxay by Douglas Adams, what the Hell is that?"
Doctor, you mentioned the ration of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
Strangelove:
Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
Music begins strumming on a guitar, the song is "Journey of the Sorceror" by the Eagles, though more people may recognize it as the theme song to the BBC radio presentation of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
After all it makes sense when you consider that the human race was founded by management account executives, telephone sanitizers etc. in Hitchhiker's Guide. It seems that if the majority of the human race were going to be wiped out on December 31, 1999 we'd want the new human race to be founded by the same types of people...
Of course, I didn't realize MTV execs were big fans of Hitchhiker's Guide
I does occur to me that the news media seems to pick stories based on their "sexiness" rather than their relevance. I mean I read somewhere online that a group of crackers in Thailand used the fact that a guy was paying for things on Amazon.com with his ATM card to empty the guys account. I don't know how they did it, but it seems to me that this would be a lot more useful information to the general public, and is a lot more dangerous crime, than a group of crackers who put grafitti up on the White House web site. (Oooh, scary!) I mean it would even contain a useful bit of information for semi-computer literate people out there, "don't use your ATM card to buy things online."
Of course, I hate the way they do these types of stories anyway, and that FBI guy was the stiffest, most humorless and least charming guy I've seen on TV in a long time.
I'm thinking about ways it could be done, didn't Melissa do a lot of damage? It occurs to me that the big problem with Melissa was that it propagated so quickly that it tied up a lot of servers. Now, if the Melissa virogen had written it with the intent of taking down the Internet, could he have figured out a way to make it propagate even more quickly? I know Melissa wasn't a very sophisticated virus (it just took advantage of one of the many security holes in Micros~1 product line) but it seems to me that if someone really knew what they were doing they could create a worm or virus that was much more devestating.
I'm just saying, it isn't that farfetched, considering the software a lot of people using the Internet use. Remember, the fact that the Internet can (theoretically) survive a nuclear attack doesn't mean that this kind of sabotage won't work, remember the Morris Worm? This kind of sabotage operates on a completely different principal than physical damage.
Of course, it may be that things aren't as prone to this kind of sabotage as we may think, but I think that just as the Schlieffen Plan would've insured Germany's victory in WWI if it had played out the way they expected (i.e. Britain and the US stayed out of the war) it is possible to have a plan that could take out the Internet, whether it would work in real life or not.
Hmm, let's see, I think you can send an Email to them at this address:
2020@abc.com which I got out of this feedback form, which is of course how they want you to send the Email;-)
Good luck though, trying to explain to TV news magazine shows the difference between hacker and cracker is like telling them AD&D isn't a form of devil worship. They'll smile, nod and say, "So, how long have you been a Satan worshiper anyway?" Whether it's because of true stupidity or because they know the truth won't garner ratings, I don't know.
Hmm, you've obviously never lived in a state that was mostly rural. Mail order business is big in such states, because it is often the only way to get an item. It's one of the reasons why Florida was trying to tax out of state sales. (Yes that's right if you physically go to North Carolina to buy a chair, you are supposed to pay taxes on it in Florida if you are a resident of Florida.) See, if these were purely Federal Taxes, then collection would be no problem. Every store would be required to collect the tax and mail it in to the government at the end of the year. If it's an individual state tax, however, it must be:
1. Calculated at the rate which will be different for each state.
2. Mailed off to each state government individually.
That's why, for now, these responsibility to collect these taxes rest on the consumer. It's a mess, and, frankly, I've become more and more disenchanted with shopping online for things which I can just buy at the mall anyway. Returning things is a much more complicated process, you can't look at the thing before you buy it, etc. Basically, if a state government stuck this kind of tax on me, the only things I would by on-line would be things which were either so much cheaper online that I'd be crazy not to by them that way or things that were unavailable where I live.
Well, I envy you if you are in Rio right now, sigh.. (one day I'll get there.)
I wouldn't want to live in Brazil if their government is as arbitrary as it seems to be, but I used to know a Brazilian girl named Paloma who was really great. I also have a semi-family member living their, (my God-father's sister) and she seems happy.
Still, I guess unless I could switch hobbies from gaming to sex, I wouldn't be happy in Brazil;-) As far as I know, there just aren't that many good games that are mainly about sex from a gamers perspective. For example, Japanese "girl games" in my experience have a really crude interface that makes the original King's Quest look state of the art. Of course, I suppose that the latest games of that type have a hard time making it out over here. I admit Three Sisters Story is ok... but it's not the kind of thing I could see anyone basing a lifestyle around like Quake, Doom, or a lot of other types of games.
On the other hand, I can legally buy Three Sisters Story in the US, just as long as I don't expect to pick it up at the local Babbages, but I won't pretend that American attitudes about sex don't cause a lot of misery and idiotic laws. Still, it would seems that seen through the narrow lens of gaming, the US is preferable to Brazil.
Hmm, GTA seems to have a certain popularity in Brazil, for example, I found GTA Brazil Page, here is the translation from the Portugese:
Attention, reads com.cuidado!!!!!!!!
This page is exclusively for the GTA players.
Then if you do not have the full GTA(demo or), not if she worries that here she has everything. But if you want to give download of GTA you are better you to have the GETRIGHT and the WINZIP.
If you do not have if she gave mal(Brincadeirinha) is alone to pull beauty here?
What it is GTA
Grand Auto Theft (more known as GTA) is a game of carriages, where you work for the Mafia and, to fulfill the missions that are passed to it by its head, he is obliged to steal carriages, to run away from the policy, to run over people and other crimes! E to each crime as these you accumulate points, until she reaches a white punctuation that allows it to pass to the next period of training.
Everything depends on its objective. Everything with much action, persecutions in high speed, explicit violence, beyond many palavrões! If you like action, you go to vitiate to the GTA!
If he does not forget
This game is forbidden
Any thing that to happen I do not make responsible.
Me
Please don't inform the Brazil cops on this guy, ok? I only picked his page as one example, maybe Duke and Doom will have similar pages?
Grand Theft Auto, Banned In Brazil. Perhaps they are just trying to be more like the Terry Gilliam movie? As to this, well, Brazil is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there (unless their government becomes more sane).
The trouble is that like many other things, mental illness has now become part of a political agenda. (I know someone who also suffers from clinical depression.) My Dad loves to point out that a lot of the homeless people on the street right now are people who were formerly institutionalized. When it was decided that budgets needed to be cut, their mental illness magically went away. Not to mention the large numbers of people who want to ban things that they claim cause mental illness. If mental illness were caused by physical problems in the brain or endocrine system, as I believe most are, then mental illness ceases to be politically useful.
Of course, it may be that not all mental illnesses result from physical problems with the body. But some do, to argue against that is like arguing that my allergy to pollen is just all in my head and I only give into it because I'm weak.
Be mean to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes/He only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases/-- The Duchess, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
If a drug is perscribed to someone by a competant, medically educated doctor for a cold, no one questions it. If a competant, medically educated doctor perscribes a drug for violent mood swings, people question it. I'll never really understand why this is. (I fear the use of drugs as a method of social control as much as anyone. But again, this is but another problem of the politicization of mental illness.)
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..occur when human beings begin thinking of themselves as equal to God (see any totalitarian state for details). This can come in many forms, but in this case I refer to scientific hubris. Jon Katz has a problem with religion, obviously, and that makes me matter where he believes higher morality comes from? I. e. he's talking about how amoral scientists with god-like powers are going to ruin the world, and invokes Frankenstein. However, the problem with Victor Frankenstein was his hubris, he thought of himself as a god.
In the movie Frakenstein Unbound which I admit I liked (though strays far from the novel, which I have read), there is a single line applicable here voiced by Raul Julia's Victor Frankenstein when he says to another character, "The soul is a crutch for weaker men than you and I." That's why he's evil, because he's mister-know-it-all, he doesn't worry about things like morality because he believes "man is the measure of all things."
I believe there is a moral order to the universe, that good and evil exist outside the will of the human race. I even think Jon Katz must believe this on some level, else why shouldn't it be "Do what thou wilt be the whole of the law?" Why bother with morality if it does not exist in nature? If we can make better humans, as Jon suggests, and there is no morality save that which humans impose on the universe, then why not do it? I think history has proven the answer to this, no human being, however bright he/she thinks he/she is, can see the whole picture or the whole truth. People make decisions based on frailty, image and weakness, unfortunately, which is why we need morality to guide us.
Of course, the reason why Jon is able to make these claims is because the banner or religion has been taken by people who treat scientific knowledge as the enemy of God and a tool of the Adversary. This is sad and unfortunate, and something which religious people who also have scientific educations ought to take up.
Grossmans discussion of sportsmanship also suffers from a very one-sided use of information. If hed been bothered to do any real research (and use it responsibly as academic practice would dictate) he would have found out that the first military group to use Doom for training were using it primarily for its team building capabilities - these Marines already knew how to shoot, Doom was brought in to teach group skills. Doom Goes to War Wired 5.04, 1997, 114+ http://www.wired.com/5.04/marinedoom/).-- Quote from Stomped's follow-up to Grossman interview
Actually, it wasn't particularly intelligent of you to link me to an article which disproves your point, I quote:
Barnett looks like he's explained this one before. "Marine Doom, as you saw, is not just a twitch game. The way you get through a Marine Doom scenario and survive is through teamwork and listening to your fire team leader and doing what you're supposed to...." "It's about repetitive decision making," Snyder swiftly interjects. Snyder's habitual deference - even off-duty, he calls his friends sir - doesn't always extend to allowing Barnett to finish his sentences. "We're trying to get these things ingrained by doing them over and over, with variations. A real firefight is not a good time to explore new ideas." -- quote from Wired article
Nothing in the article about desensitation or brainwashing. You might want to try actually reading articles before using them to prove your points. (Or the points of a wacko like Grossman.) But then, if you are a follower of Grossman, then you probably see reason as your enemy, as he does.
I don't believe it's true, if that is true then it would mean our military is run by amoral morons:
a). 'Desensitation' has been equated with brainwashing and 'removing consciences' by the media (and Lt.Col. Grossman). You can't have it both ways, if it's wrong for to brainwash kids, it is wrong to brainwash soldiers.
b). I do not think training on Doom is useful for being 'desensitized' for combat. However, it does teach quick thinking which may be a good thing. I still don't like the idea that our tax dolars are being used to allow Marines to play Doom. Oh, and what video games did the Marines play before the Normandy invasion? I can't think of anything worse they've had to face since that single war time event. They got mowed down on that beach and they kept coming. Something that used to be called 'courage' before people like Grossman decided to treat American soldiers as murderers in print (see On Killing).
c). How is shooting unrealistic human like figures who neither speak nor react like humans more 'desensitizing' than shooting bears or deer? Give me a choice I'd rather face someone who was intent on killing me who had only played Doom than someone who had hunted real live animals.
I'm guessing that this is playing into his self-esteem, which is probably pretty low. By that logic, I'm guessing something similar would happen if he was playing Ping-Pong or Air Hockey. (I.e. any form of competition where he gets frustrated.) Oh, and frankly he sounds like a jerk who I'd drop from my group of friends if I were you. (I believe his rotten behaviour is his choice.) I'lll admit, if he acts this way while playing video games, I think he is mentally ill, but then I've met his kind before (not playing video games, but on MUCKs and playing AD&D.) However, the people I knew also displayed other anti-social behaviour (such as... ugh, stealing library books.)
Suggest he gets help, before he hurts someone. (Or even better get far away from him.)
Just a guess, but I believe that it is probably still percieved as better to commit suicide in Japan than to live without honor (this philosophy is similar to that of the Ancient Romans). Hence, there isn't the same cultural stigma attached to the act, and also there is no concept for most Japanese of it leading to Eternal Damnation(tm) as there is in Christian society.
Incidentally, if you've ever seen Otaku No Video you'll see that pop-culture which is mostly consumed by teenagers has the same bad reputation there as it has here. To paraphrase the some of the video's subtitles:
People who play tennis are just fine and dandy, but people who watch animation are no good? Why? -- An otaku's cry to the Heavens
So, it seems "No matter where you go, there you are."
I read about a college study a while ago, in which some people played Mortal Kombat and some played Lemmings. The people who played Lemmings were more angry than the ones who played Mortal Kombat. Why? Frustration! Mortal Kombat is easy, but in Lemmings one mistake can send all those little green haired freaks into an abyss.:-[
Now, I don't consider this study to have been particularly scientific. But it does give one a new perspective on video games.
... I don't want to improve it's sales. The book itself is inconsequential, it's all the testifying and politicking this lunatic does in the media that matters. So, I'll admit I'm not judging the book, I'm judging Lt. Col. David Grossman based on his testimony before Congress and his comments to the media. If he wanted me to look at his book with an open mind, he shouldn't have been such a demagogue.
Incidentally, I haven't read Mein Kamph, either, and yet I still feel justified in concluding Hitler was a bad man.
I will continue to fight people like the Lt. Col. until my bones are slotted in the cold earth (and even after that if need be.) People like you don't intimidate me, I don't care about his book. The man who wrote it is a slimy example of American political evil, that's all that matters.
Incidentally, I'm guessing that both weapon accuracy and weapon training have improved since the Civil War, so I don't think much of On Killing either. You may not realize this, but we have laser sites on firearms now, we didn't even have those in Vietnam. I cannot help you if you choose to be the lapdog of a dangerous authoritarian fanatic.
Well, actually this isn't so much an "again" as a continuation of what's been going on since Columbine. You see, immediately following Columbine, the anti-video game people seized on it as a chance to get their agenda passed. However, the machinery of state moves very slowly, and Columbine's impact eventually faded. Well, now all these wonderfully intrusive and useless regulations have been drafted, and the lawmakers who drafted them need support. So a staged media event when parents are again thinking of video games (Christmas Season) is just what they want to push through their laws. It won't have the resonance it did then, but maybe they can manage to revive the politically useful specters of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold enough to make these new regulations seem like something other than a futile waste of time for stopping violence and an intrusive attack on American Liberty otherwise.
If I lived in New York, I'd be writing my state representative about now... paper letters are best, especially if you can get people to send a "Miracle on 34th Street" amount.
Oh, and as long as Kohl and Lieberman are in the Senate, this issue is never going away (I hope the voters of Wisconsin and Conneticut will change that, ASAP, but I'm not holding my breath.)
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My brother loves movies, DVDs and the original trilogy. However, while he might get it as part of a set, I doubt The Phantom Menace is something he will ever buy before the first three movies. (Which he already owns on tape 3 times over.)
The Phantom Menace, perfect choice for a first Star Wars DVD? I think not. Well, on the other hand it is Episode One... but I still think Lucas should come out with them in chronological order.
Now here's a really serious question, if/when Lucas comes out with the original trilogy on DVD, should he release the digitally enhanced versions or the original versions as they were shown in theaters? I go for the "as they were shown in theaters originally" versions, but that's because of personal nostalgia. what does everyone else think?
Oh, come on, if she got on the cover of Time I'd finally get to see her and I'm curious about the woman the virus was named after. All I know about her is that she's a topless dancer here in sunny Florida and the Melissa virogen appaently thought she was hot. Heck, it could be the first ever issue of time with a centerfold...
Question: Is OpenSource Quake, freely distributable over the whole world, now immune to attempted government censorship in places like the US and Brazil? (Well, I guess not if they impose jail time on anyone found with a copy, but short of draconian measures...)
Hey, it'll be worth it to me if they pick New Tales of the Cthuhlu Mythos by H.P. Lovecraft and Diverse hands for the Book in the time capsule, Dr. Stangelove for the movie, Dungeon! for the boardgame or something interesting and thoughtful for a change instead of the same old same old... Imagine if the poll gets Slashdotted and the MTV execs say, "Eh? Book choice is Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxay by Douglas Adams, what the Hell is that?"
After all it makes sense when you consider that the human race was founded by management account executives, telephone sanitizers etc. in Hitchhiker's Guide. It seems that if the majority of the human race were going to be wiped out on December 31, 1999 we'd want the new human race to be founded by the same types of people...
Of course, I didn't realize MTV execs were big fans of Hitchhiker's Guide
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Of course, I hate the way they do these types of stories anyway, and that FBI guy was the stiffest, most humorless and least charming guy I've seen on TV in a long time.
I'm just saying, it isn't that farfetched, considering the software a lot of people using the Internet use. Remember, the fact that the Internet can (theoretically) survive a nuclear attack doesn't mean that this kind of sabotage won't work, remember the Morris Worm? This kind of sabotage operates on a completely different principal than physical damage.
Of course, it may be that things aren't as prone to this kind of sabotage as we may think, but I think that just as the Schlieffen Plan would've insured Germany's victory in WWI if it had played out the way they expected (i.e. Britain and the US stayed out of the war) it is possible to have a plan that could take out the Internet, whether it would work in real life or not.
2020@abc.com which I got out of this feedback form, which is of course how they want you to send the Email ;-)
Good luck though, trying to explain to TV news magazine shows the difference between hacker and cracker is like telling them AD&D isn't a form of devil worship. They'll smile, nod and say, "So, how long have you been a Satan worshiper anyway?" Whether it's because of true stupidity or because they know the truth won't garner ratings, I don't know.
1. Calculated at the rate which will be different for each state.
2. Mailed off to each state government individually.
That's why, for now, these responsibility to collect these taxes rest on the consumer. It's a mess, and, frankly, I've become more and more disenchanted with shopping online for things which I can just buy at the mall anyway. Returning things is a much more complicated process, you can't look at the thing before you buy it, etc. Basically, if a state government stuck this kind of tax on me, the only things I would by on-line would be things which were either so much cheaper online that I'd be crazy not to by them that way or things that were unavailable where I live.
I wouldn't want to live in Brazil if their government is as arbitrary as it seems to be, but I used to know a Brazilian girl named Paloma who was really great. I also have a semi-family member living their, (my God-father's sister) and she seems happy.
Still, I guess unless I could switch hobbies from gaming to sex, I wouldn't be happy in Brazil ;-) As far as I know, there just aren't that many good games that are mainly about sex from a gamers perspective. For example, Japanese "girl games" in my experience have a really crude interface that makes the original King's Quest look state of the art. Of course, I suppose that the latest games of that type have a hard time making it out over here. I admit Three Sisters Story is ok... but it's not the kind of thing I could see anyone basing a lifestyle around like Quake, Doom, or a lot of other types of games.
On the other hand, I can legally buy Three Sisters Story in the US, just as long as I don't expect to pick it up at the local Babbages, but I won't pretend that American attitudes about sex don't cause a lot of misery and idiotic laws. Still, it would seems that seen through the narrow lens of gaming, the US is preferable to Brazil.
Grand Theft Auto, Banned In Brazil. Perhaps they are just trying to be more like the Terry Gilliam movie? As to this, well, Brazil is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there (unless their government becomes more sane).
Of course, it may be that not all mental illnesses result from physical problems with the body. But some do, to argue against that is like arguing that my allergy to pollen is just all in my head and I only give into it because I'm weak.
Be mean to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes/He only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases/-- The Duchess, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
If a drug is perscribed to someone by a competant, medically educated doctor for a cold, no one questions it. If a competant, medically educated doctor perscribes a drug for violent mood swings, people question it. I'll never really understand why this is. (I fear the use of drugs as a method of social control as much as anyone. But again, this is but another problem of the politicization of mental illness.)
In the movie Frakenstein Unbound which I admit I liked (though strays far from the novel, which I have read), there is a single line applicable here voiced by Raul Julia's Victor Frankenstein when he says to another character, "The soul is a crutch for weaker men than you and I." That's why he's evil, because he's mister-know-it-all, he doesn't worry about things like morality because he believes "man is the measure of all things."
I believe there is a moral order to the universe, that good and evil exist outside the will of the human race. I even think Jon Katz must believe this on some level, else why shouldn't it be "Do what thou wilt be the whole of the law?" Why bother with morality if it does not exist in nature? If we can make better humans, as Jon suggests, and there is no morality save that which humans impose on the universe, then why not do it? I think history has proven the answer to this, no human being, however bright he/she thinks he/she is, can see the whole picture or the whole truth. People make decisions based on frailty, image and weakness, unfortunately, which is why we need morality to guide us.
Of course, the reason why Jon is able to make these claims is because the banner or religion has been taken by people who treat scientific knowledge as the enemy of God and a tool of the Adversary. This is sad and unfortunate, and something which religious people who also have scientific educations ought to take up.
I don't believe it's true, if that is true then it would mean our military is run by amoral morons:
a). 'Desensitation' has been equated with brainwashing and 'removing consciences' by the media (and Lt.Col. Grossman). You can't have it both ways, if it's wrong for to brainwash kids, it is wrong to brainwash soldiers.
b). I do not think training on Doom is useful for being 'desensitized' for combat. However, it does teach quick thinking which may be a good thing. I still don't like the idea that our tax dolars are being used to allow Marines to play Doom. Oh, and what video games did the Marines play before the Normandy invasion? I can't think of anything worse they've had to face since that single war time event. They got mowed down on that beach and they kept coming. Something that used to be called 'courage' before people like Grossman decided to treat American soldiers as murderers in print (see On Killing).
c). How is shooting unrealistic human like figures who neither speak nor react like humans more 'desensitizing' than shooting bears or deer? Give me a choice I'd rather face someone who was intent on killing me who had only played Doom than someone who had hunted real live animals.
I'm guessing that this is playing into his self-esteem, which is probably pretty low. By that logic, I'm guessing something similar would happen if he was playing Ping-Pong or Air Hockey. (I.e. any form of competition where he gets frustrated.) Oh, and frankly he sounds like a jerk who I'd drop from my group of friends if I were you. (I believe his rotten behaviour is his choice.) I'lll admit, if he acts this way while playing video games, I think he is mentally ill, but then I've met his kind before (not playing video games, but on MUCKs and playing AD&D.) However, the people I knew also displayed other anti-social behaviour (such as ... ugh, stealing library books.)
Suggest he gets help, before he hurts someone. (Or even better get far away from him.)
Incidentally, if you've ever seen Otaku No Video you'll see that pop-culture which is mostly consumed by teenagers has the same bad reputation there as it has here. To paraphrase the some of the video's subtitles:
So, it seems "No matter where you go, there you are."Now, I don't consider this study to have been particularly scientific. But it does give one a new perspective on video games.
Incidentally, I haven't read Mein Kamph, either, and yet I still feel justified in concluding Hitler was a bad man.
I will continue to fight people like the Lt. Col. until my bones are slotted in the cold earth (and even after that if need be.) People like you don't intimidate me, I don't care about his book. The man who wrote it is a slimy example of American political evil, that's all that matters.
Incidentally, I'm guessing that both weapon accuracy and weapon training have improved since the Civil War, so I don't think much of On Killing either. You may not realize this, but we have laser sites on firearms now, we didn't even have those in Vietnam. I cannot help you if you choose to be the lapdog of a dangerous authoritarian fanatic.
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If I lived in New York, I'd be writing my state representative about now... paper letters are best, especially if you can get people to send a "Miracle on 34th Street" amount.
Oh, and as long as Kohl and Lieberman are in the Senate, this issue is never going away (I hope the voters of Wisconsin and Conneticut will change that, ASAP, but I'm not holding my breath.)
Wouldn't the WTO prevent that? ;-)