The Maori (sorry but I can't be buggered to copy and paste all the macrons
Just use doubled vowels. Thats how it should have been transliterated in the first place. Its not as if its a sound that doesn't occur in English, its just lengthened.
There was a similar problem for the Sydney Olympics.
It turned out that there was a man, a Mr Games (Mr Sydney *Olympic* Games to be precise) who had actually taken the trouble to make his name his registered trademark.
Of course the IOC was caught with its pants down on this one and had to refrain from referring to this particular Olympiad as the "Sydney Olympic Games".
I saw this on the excellent documentary series "The Games".
personally, i'm not one of those wackjobs that thinks one global government is bad, i actually view nationalism to be the real evil in this world. fuck sovereignty, its so much tribal posturing and it excuses crimes and war making. far better that the world someday be a federalist conglomerate, like the united states and its states
I'd go so far as to say that 'the nation state' is the worst thing to ever happen to the human race.
Pitting human beings against one another on the mere basis of some fraudulent, fictional 'difference', carving the globe up into blocks that have no relevance outside the fictional nation-states, has been a shameful phase of the development of civilisation.
Personally, I am opposed to ALL nations and would like to work toward the downfall of ALL of them. And at the same time... I am not an 'Anarchist'.
Its an amazing scene. The one where he is complaining about them laughing at his mule, then he kills them all.
If you watch Clint you can almost see what he is doing while he is talking with them and making the joke; he is rehearsing his shots in his mind while keeping them occupied and laughing at him, going through the motions he will need to execute to draw and pull off a shot at each one. One-two-three, one-two-three then *bang* he executes the action in a single perfect moment.
He doesn't just draw and shoot; its immaculately practiced internally before being put into action. Thats how you draw first and win.
There are other incoherences with original novel - but you can find those in almost every novel-based movie (see LOTR for example).
I tend to feel that the Lynch Dune movie was just another David Lynch movie, whereas the Peter Jackson LoTR movie was a massive improvement over the books; but I still found the movie very boring. Just not as boring as the books.
I'm no fan of Lynch at the best of times, I tend to feel that he doesn't make movies for other people to enjoy or understand; rather to have fun making movies. I can respect that, but it doesn't mean I like his movies. Nor understand them...
The only thing I could say to someone like you would be 'Get a grip on yourself, man'.
Your personality is NOT an 'innate trait' that you have no control over. I discovered this when I was eleven years old and wrought deliberate change in myself, my personality. And have done so several times since then. If Aspergers had been trendy back then, I'd probably have been diagnosed with it and encouraged to believe that it was out of my hands and all I could do was seek therapy, maybe some medication or something rather than take myself in hand and *change*.
Your use of the term 'Thelemite' indicates that you have some idea what I am talking about. Sure it is hard; its one of the hardest things that you can possibly do, but also the most rewarding. Indeed I would have to say that it is a *duty*.
Don't think yourself powerless; you are the most powerful entity in existence.
No doubt there's an illness for people like me, too
Yeah same here.
I suffer from an illness that makes me want to tell people to take responsibility for themselves and their behavior and not blame it on some 'genetic' condition or whatever.
What, so suddenly Asperger's isn't an autism spectrum disorder, ie one that's genetically determined? It's all just social conditioning?
I believe that Asperger's is *self* conditioning.
People just don't want to take responsibility for anything, not even their own personalities. As if their personality problem is something beyond their control and dictated by 'genetic' disorders.
You decide how you act, your personality is yours to control.
If you behave like that then its your responsibility.
Deal with it.
Just because your doctors or specialists have told you that you 'have asperger's syndrome' doesn't mean that you are 'out of control'. Ultimately YOU decide how you behave. And if YOU decide to continue behaving in that way, thats your *responsibility*.
You are not your personality, nor your mind nor even your body; YOU are the 'self that dwells within', YOU are the 'first cause'.
You can wrest control of yourself, your mind your body your personality.
Thats your right, your privilege and... your responsibility.
Take charge of yourself, treat your personality as a subordinate. If you find it producing behaviors that you don't like then *change* it.
Personality isn't something you are stuck with. Asperger's is, like so many other things, a choice.
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The Maori (sorry but I can't be buggered to copy and paste all the macrons
Just use doubled vowels. Thats how it should have been transliterated in the first place. Its not as if its a sound that doesn't occur in English, its just lengthened.
There was a similar problem for the Sydney Olympics.
It turned out that there was a man, a Mr Games (Mr Sydney *Olympic* Games to be precise) who had actually taken the trouble to make his name his registered trademark.
Of course the IOC was caught with its pants down on this one and had to refrain from referring to this particular Olympiad as the "Sydney Olympic Games".
I saw this on the excellent documentary series "The Games".
you are espousing anarchy, no matter at your dislike of the word
I don't dislike the word, whatever gave you that idea?
I'm not advocating absence of government...
You sure seem to have leaped off of the wrong end of the stick or something! LOL
personally, i'm not one of those wackjobs that thinks one global government is bad, i actually view nationalism to be the real evil in this world. fuck sovereignty, its so much tribal posturing and it excuses crimes and war making. far better that the world someday be a federalist conglomerate, like the united states and its states
I'd go so far as to say that 'the nation state' is the worst thing to ever happen to the human race.
Pitting human beings against one another on the mere basis of some fraudulent, fictional 'difference', carving the globe up into blocks that have no relevance outside the fictional nation-states, has been a shameful phase of the development of civilisation.
Personally, I am opposed to ALL nations and would like to work toward the downfall of ALL of them. And at the same time... I am not an 'Anarchist'.
To properly cater and market to faceless corporations, you have to become one.
And Apple are NOT a 'faceless corporation'!!!
Apple have a face and it is the face of GOD!!!
Yeah, right.
Oh come on now, how can you ever hate anything of Apple? At least I can't..
Only a monster like Hitler could hate the iPad! Its so cute!
If you hate the iPad then you are just like Hitler! :P
I'm also tired of the iPad thrashing.
Only a monster like Hitler could hate the iPad!
Oh wait, he does!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lui0-4IW64
The first trilogy appealed to "Children of all ages." The prequels just appealed to children.
Yeah I am sure kids are *really* interested in space taxes and political maneuvering.
I think I saw most of Kurosawas movies, I dont recall a scene exactly like that in Yojimbo. Seven Samurai had a good duel scene tho.
Have to watch Yojimbo again now...
Fistfull of Dollars.
Its an amazing scene. The one where he is complaining about them laughing at his mule, then he kills them all.
If you watch Clint you can almost see what he is doing while he is talking with them and making the joke; he is rehearsing his shots in his mind while keeping them occupied and laughing at him, going through the motions he will need to execute to draw and pull off a shot at each one. One-two-three, one-two-three then *bang* he executes the action in a single perfect moment.
He doesn't just draw and shoot; its immaculately practiced internally before being put into action. Thats how you draw first and win.
Of course, in my Kendo class the one who tried to strike first was usually the one that lost.
Theres a truly poignant scene displaying this in Akira Kurosawa "Seven Samurai". Its well worth watching. The duel scene.
There are other incoherences with original novel - but you can find those in almost every novel-based movie (see LOTR for example).
I tend to feel that the Lynch Dune movie was just another David Lynch movie, whereas the Peter Jackson LoTR movie was a massive improvement over the books; but I still found the movie very boring. Just not as boring as the books.
I'm no fan of Lynch at the best of times, I tend to feel that he doesn't make movies for other people to enjoy or understand; rather to have fun making movies. I can respect that, but it doesn't mean I like his movies. Nor understand them...
Change is easy -- when you are physically capable of doing so
I once had a friend describe me as 'an advanced occultist'. I nearly slapped him.
I said "I still get hayfever. When I no longer get hayfever then you can call me 'an advanced occultist'. Until then, I'm just a beginner."
Aspergers is in no way equivalent to being blind. Except in cases of 'hysterical blindness'.
And I hate to break it to you (well, no I don't) but a lot of "ancient" cultures took great care to record genealogies.
Yes, I know they do. I studied anthropology among many other things.
But IT DOESN'T MAKE A GOOD NOVEL!!!!!
Gonna start a nerd holy war on that one. :) Lord of the Rings, both the movie and the book, was about more than just battles and imagery.
The LoTR books were about, if anything, genealogy.
How much more boring could they have possibly been??
The movies were not much better even though they cut out (almost) all of the boring monologues about who begat whom etc ad nauseum.
You realise that the sonic weapons are NOTHING to do with Dune, right? Just checking.
Odin gave me a hard heart.
The only thing I could say to someone like you would be 'Get a grip on yourself, man'.
Your personality is NOT an 'innate trait' that you have no control over. I discovered this when I was eleven years old and wrought deliberate change in myself, my personality. And have done so several times since then. If Aspergers had been trendy back then, I'd probably have been diagnosed with it and encouraged to believe that it was out of my hands and all I could do was seek therapy, maybe some medication or something rather than take myself in hand and *change*.
Your use of the term 'Thelemite' indicates that you have some idea what I am talking about. Sure it is hard; its one of the hardest things that you can possibly do, but also the most rewarding. Indeed I would have to say that it is a *duty*.
Don't think yourself powerless; you are the most powerful entity in existence.
No doubt there's an illness for people like me, too
Yeah same here.
I suffer from an illness that makes me want to tell people to take responsibility for themselves and their behavior and not blame it on some 'genetic' condition or whatever.
What, so suddenly Asperger's isn't an autism spectrum disorder, ie one that's genetically determined? It's all just social conditioning?
I believe that Asperger's is *self* conditioning.
People just don't want to take responsibility for anything, not even their own personalities. As if their personality problem is something beyond their control and dictated by 'genetic' disorders.
I call shenanigans.
You decide how you act, your personality is yours to control.
If you behave like that then its your responsibility.
Deal with it.
Just because your doctors or specialists have told you that you 'have asperger's syndrome' doesn't mean that you are 'out of control'. Ultimately YOU decide how you behave. And if YOU decide to continue behaving in that way, thats your *responsibility*.
You are not your personality, nor your mind nor even your body; YOU are the 'self that dwells within', YOU are the 'first cause'.
You can wrest control of yourself, your mind your body your personality.
Thats your right, your privilege and... your responsibility.
Take charge of yourself, treat your personality as a subordinate. If you find it producing behaviors that you don't like then *change* it.
Personality isn't something you are stuck with. Asperger's is, like so many other things, a choice.
That'll be why it's called "Asperger's Syndrome" then.
Yeah thats funny isn't it!
Helps people think that the 'poor aspie' can't control themselves. That they just *have* to be a total cunt to those around them.
No I mean to say that Asperger's is an *affectation* not a 'syndrome'.
So... they've identified Asperger's as a factor in being bullied.
As an Aspie, may I say how wonderful it is that someone seems to have noticed.
Its wonderful, isn't it?
Yet another thing that you can use Asperger's as an excuse for!
How many of you reading this are thinking about picking up Japanese so you don't have to wait for the subbed version of your favorite anime/manga?
I once saw an un-subbed version of a Dragonball Z episode.
The sound of Gokus voice made my ears bleed. He sounded like a squeaky little kid.
I'll stick to the English language voiceover versions... the adult male characters actually sound like... adult males.