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  1. Re:Amputated Hand: it's the strategy, stupid! on Review: Star Wars Episode III · · Score: 1

    That would be assuming that George Lucas is more focused on creating an authentic fictional fighting style than he is on creating a powerful and mythic storyline. Since he's a moviemaker, I would doubt that this is the case. He cuts off a lot of arms partly because of the symbolic significance and partly because it's the only type of consequence of a light-saber duel that he's willing to portray in his movies, other than a major character dying. That's why they're always fighting droids with those things, so he doesn't have to worry about showing a bunch of hacked up corposes.

  2. Re:Dilema with my Young Kids on Review: Star Wars Episode III · · Score: 1

    Who's got mod points?? Come on!

  3. Re:Luke is "The One" on Review: Star Wars Episode III · · Score: 1

    Yet consider the prophecies do not necessarily come true. My favorite take on this issue is that Anakin was indeed the chosen one, who was destined to topple the Sith menace, and he failed in that. He had the power potentially to face Darth Sidious, yet through a series of events failed to live up to that potential. Without the chosen one, a new series of events eventually dealt with the Sith menace.

  4. Re:How does Eps I-III Alter the Viewing of Eps IV- on Review: Star Wars Episode III · · Score: 1

    Actually, the poster is right. Lucas himself had not decided that Luke and Leia were twins when he made the original Star Wars. As anyone who has followed the production of this last trilogy closely knows, Lucas doesn't have much down in concrete when he starts making a movie.

  5. Re:He's absolutely right on MPAA Blames BitTorrent for Star Wars Distribution · · Score: 1

    Do you mean to say people are borrowing their friend's DVDs and watching them???!!! Someone call the **AAs, they need to get on this!

  6. Re:Let's please get our heads on straight... on MPAA Blames BitTorrent for Star Wars Distribution · · Score: 1
    Any what if I do use Nintendo's actual artwork? That would be copyright infringement, which is drastically different than using the term "copyright infringement" to denote the act of the unauthorized copying and distribution of an entire piece of work.

    Yes, you're right. It would be crazy to use the term "copyright infringement" to denote the act of copying a work that you don't have the legal rights to copy.

  7. Re:Demo it? on OpenOffice vs. MS Office for Education? · · Score: 1

    Have you, or anyone else had problems with OO's spell check feature? I switched to OO for my work, and I found that I have to keep Microsoft Office on the system if I want to use the spell check feature. OO just misses way too many words. I do transcription for work, and prefer to type fast and catch the typos afterwards, so having a spell check that actually finds them is very useful. I've found OO impossible to recommend to people who need spell check because the dictionary is so bad. Are there sources for alternative dictionaries out there, or other solutions?

  8. Re:Now that's a first.. on Popcorn-Popper -> Coffee Roaster Mod · · Score: 1

    The problem is you can't use the same size cups for lattes and cappucinos, unless you're going to change espresso shot size. A small latte should be about the size of a large cappucino.

  9. Re:Atoms on Random Number Generator That Sees Into the Future · · Score: 1

    I would hope you don't remember ever thinking that. The atom was split before you were born.

  10. Re:RTFA on Vaccinated Against Vices? · · Score: 1

    Like many immunizations, the reason they are targetting children is most likely not for any medical reasons. Children are put on an intense immunization schedule partly because it is the only time of life in which the doctors can be fairly sure of having the patients actually come into a clinic and get medical attention. So even if an illness, or in this case an addiction, is an adult problem, the only way social workers and doctors have found to ensure vaccination coverage is to catch them while they're infants.

  11. Re:Tough shit on Linking Dangerously · · Score: 1

    Amen.

  12. Re:Probably Good and Bad on Pinnacle, Online Grades, Skipping School and More · · Score: 1

    Well I sense that we have an alarmingly different view on the importance of grades or high school education if you place it in the same category as those other items. For me, the fact that there are some parents who would put grades in that category proves my point, since I consider that an erroneous position. And the fact that people disagree on what positions are erroneous also proves my point that people need to make their own way even if it means they get hurt sometimes, or else have a society that stifles free thinking. HOwever I don't expect that you will agree, so don't consider this as attempting to convince you.

  13. Re:Probably Good and Bad on Pinnacle, Online Grades, Skipping School and More · · Score: 1
    And, thus, the child's experience might be limited to the parent's own experience.

    Come on now, are you trying to tell us that you got more experience in life than your father can posibly have? You can probably show your father a lot of things, but you will never show him how to make babies.

    It's not a question of more experience, it's a question of different experience. If the parent directs the child through the obstacles of life too much, there's no chance for the child to make different choices, discover different things, make new mistakes or new successes. Parents are necessary guides, but they don't have to be the child's model for how to live life.