Fahrenheit 9/11 has a 50/50 chance of winning Oscar for Best Picture, and has re-definied the documentary genre.
It already won best picture at Cannes.
Forget that... it criticises someone you support.
Well... it appears that you are the one who has forgotten that "Free Speech" is protected in the Constitution. Unfortunately, some conservatives think the only "free speech" should be speech they agree with.
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Commodities trader looses his gift of "Profit!"
Becomes bicycle messenger.
Becomes bicycle messenger Rambo
Regains confidence through beating on evil with various bicycle parts and accessories.
Regains gift of "Profit!"
Chile, Iran (under the Shah), Guatamala, Laos, Haiti (several times), Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Zaire, Brazil, Indonesia, Greece, Bolivia, Uraguay, Cambodia (which led to Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge), Angola, El Salvador, Honduras... all had dictators installed by the CIA... all of which has been proven with US Government documents gotten through the Freedom Of Information act.
You didn't do too well in history class, huh?
One foolproof way to prove you never get laid
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Bitch and whine constantly about other people having sex.
The US put most of those dictators into power
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We can't complain about dictators when it was the CIA that put most of those dictators into power in the first place.
There will be no saving of paper with e-voting. They will have to print vast quantities of voter guides to instruct people on how to use e-voting machines. Paper ballots are much simpler and intuitive. Far less printed instructions will be needed for paper ballots.
Use some of the advanced printing technology used in all these new dollar bills on printing paper ballots that cannot be duplicated in bulk on a copy machine.
Canada uses paper ballots and has no problems.
People LOVE my "pull my finger" bit!
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Ayn Rand books are nothing but rants (and long, poorly written rants at that) justifying greed for greed's sake. For obvious reasons, the greedy people (particularly right wingers)latched onto these rants as justification for their greedy behavior.
If the corporate televised media is so popular, and provides the viewer with the information the audience wants, why did Micheal Moore just make $100 million dollars with a documentary?
I don't think it's because Hollywood missed some huge documentary audience segment for the last 90 years of motion picture releases.
That segment of the 7 minutes Bush sat in the Florida classroom after he was told of the WTC attacks has been on the net in downloadable form since the end of September 1991. The reason nobody knew about video is because the major media refused to run that video and ask why the President did nothing while the WTC towers burned.
The Corporate TV Networks want Bush to win. They want Michael Powell to continue on a FCC Chair to allow further corporate media consolidation.
The decision of the FLA Supreme Court was to recount the entire state of FLA. It did not support "cherry-picked" anything. The US Supreme Ct. ordered the recount of the entire state of FLA stopped. A complete recount of the entire state was never done. THAT is the essense of the issue that the US Supreme Court stopped, and why so many people are still so angry about the decision.
The Complete Wargames Handbook
2nd Edition.
by James F Dunnigan
Copyright (C), 1997, James F Dunnigan.
Dunnigan's the alpha and omega for the old paper map and counter wargame grognard crowd. He founded SPI and headed it until TSR bought them out. SPI published hundreds of titles including the infamous "War in Pacific" (single ship, company level, week-by-week turns for the entire Pacific Theater in WW2. Over 5000 paper counter and a map that would cover the living rooms of most houses.)
Anyway, here's Dunnigan's tome on designing wargames. A third eition is out, but the 2nd edition is here linked free.
http://www.strategypage.com/search.asp?target=d:\i netpub\strategypageroot\prowg\wargameshandbook\con tents.htm&search=James%20Dunnigan
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Wrong.
Jeffrey Dean and John Elder are still working for Diebold. Dean was given 24/7 access to the King Co. elections office and compter room in order to program the Diebold software. Diebold presently has Elder managing a division of the company working in elections, too.
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/bbv/1216presskit.pdf
I don't see SciFi celebrating the overnight ratings on the show web page. The Sunday full replay won't get them because of part 2 of Angels in America. Was putting Part 1 of BG up against Monday Night Football a bad idea?
Any word on what the ratings were?
At first I just thought it was problems in the color controls of my TV, but I adjusted them and there was no change. I'm now pretty sure that Mary McDonnell's doesn't exist in the color spectrum. It leave the impression of "black hole with reddish-brown highlights." But no human being has ever been born with reddish-black hair
Is that the real color of dark matter or something? Or maybe Mary McDonnell is one of the 12 cylon models... an early one where they didn't quite have the concept of natural hair tones down right.
B5 characters were fine... it was the actors that stunk. When Bruce Boxleitner is an "upgrade" regarding acting ability, you're in trouble. The first captain of B5 (who's name has been mercifully driven from my mind) may have been the worst lead actor in series television... ever. Matter of fact, almost every member of the B5 cast that didn't wear alien makeup sucked. From that horrible retread evil Checkov to the Taxi cast refugee the B5 casting director save saved from a decent into staring in porn flicks, they were just hideous.
He had some disease that was supposed to kill him. Cancer if I remember right. He was told at some point he only had a few weeks to live. It was supposedly a real close call.
Now Benedict is into "new age" stuff. Pops up in off-the-wall infomercials now and then for juicers and stuff.
In the current atmosphere of political correctness, the character of "Starbuck" as it had been would have had to have been made to be bland as vanilla. In the 70's you could get away with having male characters screwing everything that moved without problems. Kirk's Enterprise was the cathouse of the skies.
Now, the only way they could make a "mainstream" TV character hero in the same mold as the original Starbuck without gting hit with protesys of outrage from one or another interest groups was to either make the character female or gay.
I prefer this new Starbuck to the other possibility. I'd much rather see a cigar-chomping woman than see Starbuck ranting at Col. Tigh about the BG interior design scheme.
The Prez ordered Adama to turn around. Adama ignored her. Within moments, Colonial One would have been vaporized if Apollo hadn't pulled the fake nuke effect wave.
Her first action after waking up from the wave was thanking Apollo for "saving their ass."
That seemed like a reasonable treatment of the cause and effect relationship of politicians overriding military experts in a tactical situation. However, the politician turned out right about "war being over" and not having BC head back to the fight around the colonies.
The moral seemed reasonable... elected leaders can be excellent grand strategic leaders, but can screw up bad when they micromanage. Leave the tactical decisions to the military.
Raph is SUCH a genious that he admitted on a thread that krayt dragons were, in his opinion, supposed to be the "big Nasty" of the SWG universe. Yet he included the krayt dragon in the inital release and watched helplessly as creature handlers mauled them with graulers with ease. He then said on that thread that he can't think fo any greater challenges in the SW universe. Because Raph can't think of anything further to challenge players in combat with, he wants across the board character nerfs.
The entire game industry thought SWG would be a cash-cow for SOE for years to come. Now, SWG is already being found in discount bins. SWG could be the most spectacular failure in computer game history. They ought to name the next SWG expansion, SWG: Return of Ishtar.
Jane's editor is better, but still incorrect. He also doesn't say a nuclear armed Harpoon is impossible. He just said he thought it would reduce it's range.
Anyway, all you have to do is rearrange the stabilizers a little. Move them forward and increase the lift a little.
Basic aerodynamics.
Also... we don't know about other modification that have been made to the engine, the onboard fuel supply, etc. There is no reason a nuke has to be in the nose... maybe they moved the nuke back in the body and have part of the fuel supply up front and pipe it back to the engine.
The technology has been around since the Carter Administration. I'm sure there lots of little fixes that could have happened in over 2 decades.
Assassination is ALWAYS wrong. If Arafat is responsible for recent terrorist acts, go to the World Court and seek justice the way responsible members of the community of nations have agreed to do so.
That you would accept the murder of one human being, yet flail about screaming about other violence only proves your hypocricy, and the hypocracy of the Israeli Likud Party position.
Islamic and Jewish peoples have been killing each other on those lands for millenia. All of the killing is wrong. The only way to move forward is for all parties to stop killing. That means the Likud has to stop ordering killings, too.
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Fahrenheit 9/11 has a 50/50 chance of winning Oscar for Best Picture, and has re-definied the documentary genre. It already won best picture at Cannes. Forget that... it criticises someone you support. Well... it appears that you are the one who has forgotten that "Free Speech" is protected in the Constitution. Unfortunately, some conservatives think the only "free speech" should be speech they agree with.
Quicksilver Commodities trader looses his gift of "Profit!" Becomes bicycle messenger. Becomes bicycle messenger Rambo Regains confidence through beating on evil with various bicycle parts and accessories. Regains gift of "Profit!"
"Old School" was the flick I saw with no redeeming value whatsoever. Not even to watch as a "bad" movie.
Chile, Iran (under the Shah), Guatamala, Laos, Haiti (several times), Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Zaire, Brazil, Indonesia, Greece, Bolivia, Uraguay, Cambodia (which led to Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge), Angola, El Salvador, Honduras... all had dictators installed by the CIA... all of which has been proven with US Government documents gotten through the Freedom Of Information act. You didn't do too well in history class, huh?
Bitch and whine constantly about other people having sex.
We can't complain about dictators when it was the CIA that put most of those dictators into power in the first place.
There will be no saving of paper with e-voting. They will have to print vast quantities of voter guides to instruct people on how to use e-voting machines. Paper ballots are much simpler and intuitive. Far less printed instructions will be needed for paper ballots.
Use some of the advanced printing technology used in all these new dollar bills on printing paper ballots that cannot be duplicated in bulk on a copy machine. Canada uses paper ballots and has no problems.
It's a beloved tradition.
Ayn Rand books are nothing but rants (and long, poorly written rants at that) justifying greed for greed's sake. For obvious reasons, the greedy people (particularly right wingers)latched onto these rants as justification for their greedy behavior.
If the corporate televised media is so popular, and provides the viewer with the information the audience wants, why did Micheal Moore just make $100 million dollars with a documentary? I don't think it's because Hollywood missed some huge documentary audience segment for the last 90 years of motion picture releases. That segment of the 7 minutes Bush sat in the Florida classroom after he was told of the WTC attacks has been on the net in downloadable form since the end of September 1991. The reason nobody knew about video is because the major media refused to run that video and ask why the President did nothing while the WTC towers burned. The Corporate TV Networks want Bush to win. They want Michael Powell to continue on a FCC Chair to allow further corporate media consolidation.
The decision of the FLA Supreme Court was to recount the entire state of FLA. It did not support "cherry-picked" anything. The US Supreme Ct. ordered the recount of the entire state of FLA stopped. A complete recount of the entire state was never done. THAT is the essense of the issue that the US Supreme Court stopped, and why so many people are still so angry about the decision.
Don't suck.
The Complete Wargames Handbook 2nd Edition. by James F Dunnigan Copyright (C), 1997, James F Dunnigan. Dunnigan's the alpha and omega for the old paper map and counter wargame grognard crowd. He founded SPI and headed it until TSR bought them out. SPI published hundreds of titles including the infamous "War in Pacific" (single ship, company level, week-by-week turns for the entire Pacific Theater in WW2. Over 5000 paper counter and a map that would cover the living rooms of most houses.) Anyway, here's Dunnigan's tome on designing wargames. A third eition is out, but the 2nd edition is here linked free. http://www.strategypage.com/search.asp?target=d:\i netpub\strategypageroot\prowg\wargameshandbook\con tents.htm&search=James%20Dunnigan
Wrong. Jeffrey Dean and John Elder are still working for Diebold. Dean was given 24/7 access to the King Co. elections office and compter room in order to program the Diebold software. Diebold presently has Elder managing a division of the company working in elections, too. http://www.blackboxvoting.com/bbv/1216presskit.pdf
I don't see SciFi celebrating the overnight ratings on the show web page. The Sunday full replay won't get them because of part 2 of Angels in America. Was putting Part 1 of BG up against Monday Night Football a bad idea? Any word on what the ratings were?
At first I just thought it was problems in the color controls of my TV, but I adjusted them and there was no change. I'm now pretty sure that Mary McDonnell's doesn't exist in the color spectrum. It leave the impression of "black hole with reddish-brown highlights." But no human being has ever been born with reddish-black hair Is that the real color of dark matter or something? Or maybe Mary McDonnell is one of the 12 cylon models... an early one where they didn't quite have the concept of natural hair tones down right.
B5 characters were fine... it was the actors that stunk. When Bruce Boxleitner is an "upgrade" regarding acting ability, you're in trouble. The first captain of B5 (who's name has been mercifully driven from my mind) may have been the worst lead actor in series television... ever. Matter of fact, almost every member of the B5 cast that didn't wear alien makeup sucked. From that horrible retread evil Checkov to the Taxi cast refugee the B5 casting director save saved from a decent into staring in porn flicks, they were just hideous.
He had some disease that was supposed to kill him. Cancer if I remember right. He was told at some point he only had a few weeks to live. It was supposedly a real close call. Now Benedict is into "new age" stuff. Pops up in off-the-wall infomercials now and then for juicers and stuff.
In the current atmosphere of political correctness, the character of "Starbuck" as it had been would have had to have been made to be bland as vanilla. In the 70's you could get away with having male characters screwing everything that moved without problems. Kirk's Enterprise was the cathouse of the skies. Now, the only way they could make a "mainstream" TV character hero in the same mold as the original Starbuck without gting hit with protesys of outrage from one or another interest groups was to either make the character female or gay. I prefer this new Starbuck to the other possibility. I'd much rather see a cigar-chomping woman than see Starbuck ranting at Col. Tigh about the BG interior design scheme.
The Prez ordered Adama to turn around. Adama ignored her. Within moments, Colonial One would have been vaporized if Apollo hadn't pulled the fake nuke effect wave. Her first action after waking up from the wave was thanking Apollo for "saving their ass." That seemed like a reasonable treatment of the cause and effect relationship of politicians overriding military experts in a tactical situation. However, the politician turned out right about "war being over" and not having BC head back to the fight around the colonies. The moral seemed reasonable... elected leaders can be excellent grand strategic leaders, but can screw up bad when they micromanage. Leave the tactical decisions to the military.
"...Release your anger. Feel the power of the dark side..."
Raph is SUCH a genious that he admitted on a thread that krayt dragons were, in his opinion, supposed to be the "big Nasty" of the SWG universe. Yet he included the krayt dragon in the inital release and watched helplessly as creature handlers mauled them with graulers with ease. He then said on that thread that he can't think fo any greater challenges in the SW universe. Because Raph can't think of anything further to challenge players in combat with, he wants across the board character nerfs. The entire game industry thought SWG would be a cash-cow for SOE for years to come. Now, SWG is already being found in discount bins. SWG could be the most spectacular failure in computer game history. They ought to name the next SWG expansion, SWG: Return of Ishtar.
Jane's editor is better, but still incorrect. He also doesn't say a nuclear armed Harpoon is impossible. He just said he thought it would reduce it's range. Anyway, all you have to do is rearrange the stabilizers a little. Move them forward and increase the lift a little. Basic aerodynamics. Also... we don't know about other modification that have been made to the engine, the onboard fuel supply, etc. There is no reason a nuke has to be in the nose... maybe they moved the nuke back in the body and have part of the fuel supply up front and pipe it back to the engine. The technology has been around since the Carter Administration. I'm sure there lots of little fixes that could have happened in over 2 decades.
Assassination is ALWAYS wrong. If Arafat is responsible for recent terrorist acts, go to the World Court and seek justice the way responsible members of the community of nations have agreed to do so. That you would accept the murder of one human being, yet flail about screaming about other violence only proves your hypocricy, and the hypocracy of the Israeli Likud Party position. Islamic and Jewish peoples have been killing each other on those lands for millenia. All of the killing is wrong. The only way to move forward is for all parties to stop killing. That means the Likud has to stop ordering killings, too.