What do you mean, I always thought it was the Americans who loved cheese with everything....cheeseburgers being the prime example. Skip the US cinemas, studios, and anything else that produces crap, mass produced, souless dross. If you want originality, try the Italian Job, Get Carter, Nikita, etc.
I wonder what the American reaction would be if the Europeans did a remake of the Sands of Iwo Jima, but with the British army capturing the island and all the Japanese speaking in American accents?
As the Czechs, Poles, Rumanians, Bulgarians, etc, don't speak Russian and those countries were under the influence of the Soviet Communist Party, it is unlikely that the rest of Europe would also be speaking Russian.
It's possible we could be in a European Superstate that is run by unelected Commissioners with an unelected President, and have a constitution forced upon us by a political class....
I'd argue that quite a lot of people make better bad guys than nazi's. In my top three bad guys ever, they'd have to be: 1) Darth Vader 2) Goldfinger 3) The Joker Nazi's are easy to caricature as bad guys, they're too stereotypical. It's almost a sign of lazy scripting..."bad guys needed, english? nazi's? commies"
It doesn't matter how many cetaceans are being killed by fishermen, it's whether the current population can absorb the losses. Say you have a 100 animals, of which in a year, 10% will die from natural causes, this means the population has to reproduce 10 more animals to be sustainable. Say another 10% of animals were then killed each year, the population would then need to reproduce a further 10 animals (total of 20) to be sustainable. When there are more animals being removed from the population than the population can replace is when the trouble starts.
Of course, knowing what the sustainable rate is for each species is one of population biology's big goals - until that happens there will always be lots of assumptions in any of the statistics.
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What do you mean, I always thought it was the Americans who loved cheese with everything....cheeseburgers being the prime example. Skip the US cinemas, studios, and anything else that produces crap, mass produced, souless dross. If you want originality, try the Italian Job, Get Carter, Nikita, etc. I wonder what the American reaction would be if the Europeans did a remake of the Sands of Iwo Jima, but with the British army capturing the island and all the Japanese speaking in American accents?
As the Czechs, Poles, Rumanians, Bulgarians, etc, don't speak Russian and those countries were under the influence of the Soviet Communist Party, it is unlikely that the rest of Europe would also be speaking Russian. It's possible we could be in a European Superstate that is run by unelected Commissioners with an unelected President, and have a constitution forced upon us by a political class....
I'd argue that quite a lot of people make better bad guys than nazi's. In my top three bad guys ever, they'd have to be:
1) Darth Vader
2) Goldfinger
3) The Joker
Nazi's are easy to caricature as bad guys, they're too stereotypical. It's almost a sign of lazy scripting..."bad guys needed, english? nazi's? commies"
It doesn't matter how many cetaceans are being killed by fishermen, it's whether the current population can absorb the losses. Say you have a 100 animals, of which in a year, 10% will die from natural causes, this means the population has to reproduce 10 more animals to be sustainable. Say another 10% of animals were then killed each year, the population would then need to reproduce a further 10 animals (total of 20) to be sustainable. When there are more animals being removed from the population than the population can replace is when the trouble starts. Of course, knowing what the sustainable rate is for each species is one of population biology's big goals - until that happens there will always be lots of assumptions in any of the statistics.