Did you see Casino Royale? And all the blatant Sony adverts? All the security recordings were on Blu-ray discs, the big, obvious Blu-ray icon on the player when Bond viewed the recordings, and my fav, how Sony Ericson was clearly visible every time he checked his cell phone. Even Daniel Craig's eyes, they were this abnormal electric blue color in some of the close ups. His eyes even made me think Blu-ray (and the movie was released on the same day as the PS3 *cough*)
Awesome post, totally agree. Even if for just the deer population control--there's going to be tons of them next year starving, this year had a HUGE acorn crop in the forests in WV that will almost certainly not happen again next year. Starving deer are the ones that stand in the middle of the highway and pick at any fruit trees you have planted in your yard as well as your gardens (oh, you don't grow your own food, what kind of organic food eater are you!?).
Yet PC sales are quickly falling to the wayside in favor of console gaming.
I'm not seeing that, the PC is still much more popular, partially because console games are just fucking expensive in comparison (1/3 to 1/2 more expensive) and drop in price slowly or even never.
I have to look no further than my local Babbage's to refute this. When it opened at my mall in 1992, about 2/3 of the store was stocked with PC games (and even applications like MS Word and OSes like OS/2 and Windows 3.1). Now, 2/3 of the store is devoted to used Xbox/PS2 games with the PC games occupying one half of a small bookcase thing in the middle of the floor space. It still has original copies of GTA 3 for the PC on that shelf that have never been bought, and even a couple NWN copies (the original black boxes, not the Diamond or Gold releases that include the expansions).
Don't get me wrong, I love my PC for games. Before this September when I bought a PS2 for Guitar Hero, I hadn't owned a console since the NES. Now I have the aforementioned PS2, a Wii, and seriously considering an Xbox 360 when I get my money from unused vacation time in January. And I know that in 2-3 years when I buy a Wii game, it *will* work on my Wii no questions asked. Medieval 2 runs like shit on my Geforce 6800 card I bought last year--that is some serious crap.
Actually, I find the whole scenario you are worried about so remote that I fail to see why people worry about it. Random burglars will run when they are spotted, regardless of whether you have a gun or not. Only real enemies will stay to mutilate you and your family. Most people know whether they have real enemies who are likely to do that. (And besides, if someone plans to mutilate you and your family, a gun probably isn't going to stop them)
That isn't necessarily true. While most petty thieves will flee if you just shout that you're calling the cops, people hopped up on meth or crack or whatever couldn't give a shit. Farmers in West Virginia have this problem often in their barns and storage sheds--meth addicts stealing ammonium nitrate for their cooking facilities (a lot of the ammonium compounds used for fertilizers are stored in gas tanks, it's not uncommon to discover a dead body nearby who accidentally inhaled too much of the stuff). While I would recommend just staying out of the way and letting these guys take the stuff and leave, invariably some farmer somewhere will be encountered as a junkie tries to make a move. These guys are *nuts*, you cannot image the lengths they will go to get ingredients for the stuff. If diplomacy or fleeing aren't options, I personally would recommend a.45 ACP or 10mm handgun, or better yet, a 12 gauge shotgun with 00 buckshot (9mm Parabellum and.38s won't cut it on these guys).
For a home in the 'burbs, I mostly agree with the parent, but as always, there are exceptions to the norm.
Kimber TLE 2 here. Exactly 950 rounds through it so far (owned it for 4 months now). Absolute perfection. Now it just needs a new mainspring and maybe a seer job to lighten the trigger pull;)
Actually I was referring to deer, thanks for sarcasm though.
Farm areas in places with high deer population see them as nothing more than another destructive organism like a they would a weed or disease in their crop. So instead of having more deer than what there are acorns, clover, fungus, etc. and having them starve and/or eating farmers' crops, control the population with hunting.
And while humans are consumers like everything else, I think the difference is we aren't going to run out of food anytime soon, at least not in NA. See Africa, specifically Somalia in the 90's for reference to starvation.
If you have halfway decent aim, a.22 is fine for deer. I kill them all the time with a.22 on my grandfather's farm. The deer population in WV has gotten so out of control they run amok everywhere eating farmer's crops up. They also just hang along roadsides eating the various plants growing along the roadway, instant car collision waiting to happen that's possibly fatal for the drivers/passengers.
I'm a hunter and outdoors-ie type of person, but I don't agree with mindless slaughter. However, I agree even less with letting a consumer organism grow out of control until they consume their entire food supply in the region (which is currently happening). So, shoot them (responsibly , not to extinction) and get it over with, or let them breed themselves out of a food supply and starve to death, destroying crops and becoming a very costly nuiscence?
7mm magnum is what my father and I have both used to kill deer with while hunting. With a hollow point and a magnum load of gunpowder, all you pretty much need to do is hit the front half of the deer;) It might not kill it instantly but it's not going anywhere.
I'm from WV and voted for Bush myself (23 male, recent college grad)--I did really give Kerry serious consideration. I'm not a sheep like some would believe 99% of American citizens are.
To be honest I didn't really understand the Democratic campaign strategy. Going to Bible Belt areas and talking soft on gay marriage and abortion? Is Kerry on crack or something? Going to WV or the South and talking about gun control? Hello? My God you're professional liars, at least do what you do best at the best moment!
The reason people don't give a damn about international affairs is because it doesn't affect us on a daily basis. The war in Iraq doesn't change the fact that I drive to work every morning, do my job, go home, watch TV and play some ET before going to bed. If nothing else, it creates more defense contracts and gives me more job opportunities. (Outsourcing obviously, by my attitude, has little effect on me at the moment.)
Now I do care about gun control. You're not taking my.45 away from me. If my girlfriend were pregnant and her unborn child was killed in the act of some other felony, I would want that perp's ass fried. I don't believe in abortion. I don't like how Democrats would have immigrants feeling more at home in the US than what natural born citizens feel (having to watch every step so I don't offend another nationality). I don't like having to call Christmas trees "Holiday Trees" at work because the ONE (1) person not from the area is offended. Just get over it and tolerate everyone, I have to deal with him expressing his Taoist stuff.
There's more to the election than wars or PATRIOT Acts or defense from terror. Some of us actually care about our personal morals and which candidate most closely reflects them. Damn me to hell for my beliefs!
That was an excellent essay on popular opinion about Beowulf at the time. Just goes to show how Tolkien was already thinking outside of the literary box before he wrote LoTR. Was very cleverly written also, to give the critics a round-about "up your's asshole."
Two Towers had a lot of allusions to Beowulf, from the Old English-style names of Eowyn and Theoden to the society of Rohan. Makes you think about Beowulf again and that it maybe isn't go gimp and lame of a read after all.
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Did you see Casino Royale? And all the blatant Sony adverts? All the security recordings were on Blu-ray discs, the big, obvious Blu-ray icon on the player when Bond viewed the recordings, and my fav, how Sony Ericson was clearly visible every time he checked his cell phone. Even Daniel Craig's eyes, they were this abnormal electric blue color in some of the close ups. His eyes even made me think Blu-ray (and the movie was released on the same day as the PS3 *cough*)
What's stopping the sniper from using a silencer, or Steven Seagal'ing it by taping a 2 liter soda bottle onto the end of his gun? :P
Awesome post, totally agree. Even if for just the deer population control--there's going to be tons of them next year starving, this year had a HUGE acorn crop in the forests in WV that will almost certainly not happen again next year. Starving deer are the ones that stand in the middle of the highway and pick at any fruit trees you have planted in your yard as well as your gardens (oh, you don't grow your own food, what kind of organic food eater are you!?).
I have to look no further than my local Babbage's to refute this. When it opened at my mall in 1992, about 2/3 of the store was stocked with PC games (and even applications like MS Word and OSes like OS/2 and Windows 3.1). Now, 2/3 of the store is devoted to used Xbox/PS2 games with the PC games occupying one half of a small bookcase thing in the middle of the floor space. It still has original copies of GTA 3 for the PC on that shelf that have never been bought, and even a couple NWN copies (the original black boxes, not the Diamond or Gold releases that include the expansions).
Don't get me wrong, I love my PC for games. Before this September when I bought a PS2 for Guitar Hero, I hadn't owned a console since the NES. Now I have the aforementioned PS2, a Wii, and seriously considering an Xbox 360 when I get my money from unused vacation time in January. And I know that in 2-3 years when I buy a Wii game, it *will* work on my Wii no questions asked. Medieval 2 runs like shit on my Geforce 6800 card I bought last year--that is some serious crap.
That isn't necessarily true. While most petty thieves will flee if you just shout that you're calling the cops, people hopped up on meth or crack or whatever couldn't give a shit. Farmers in West Virginia have this problem often in their barns and storage sheds--meth addicts stealing ammonium nitrate for their cooking facilities (a lot of the ammonium compounds used for fertilizers are stored in gas tanks, it's not uncommon to discover a dead body nearby who accidentally inhaled too much of the stuff). While I would recommend just staying out of the way and letting these guys take the stuff and leave, invariably some farmer somewhere will be encountered as a junkie tries to make a move. These guys are *nuts*, you cannot image the lengths they will go to get ingredients for the stuff. If diplomacy or fleeing aren't options, I personally would recommend a
For a home in the 'burbs, I mostly agree with the parent, but as always, there are exceptions to the norm.
Reference: http://www.bae.umn.edu/ennotes/S/S101-2004-08.htm
Kimber TLE 2 here. Exactly 950 rounds through it so far (owned it for 4 months now). Absolute perfection. Now it just needs a new mainspring and maybe a seer job to lighten the trigger pull ;)
Actually I was referring to deer, thanks for sarcasm though. Farm areas in places with high deer population see them as nothing more than another destructive organism like a they would a weed or disease in their crop. So instead of having more deer than what there are acorns, clover, fungus, etc. and having them starve and/or eating farmers' crops, control the population with hunting. And while humans are consumers like everything else, I think the difference is we aren't going to run out of food anytime soon, at least not in NA. See Africa, specifically Somalia in the 90's for reference to starvation.
If you have halfway decent aim, a .22 is fine for deer. I kill them all the time with a .22 on my grandfather's farm. The deer population in WV has gotten so out of control they run amok everywhere eating farmer's crops up. They also just hang along roadsides eating the various plants growing along the roadway, instant car collision waiting to happen that's possibly fatal for the drivers/passengers.
;) It might not kill it instantly but it's not going anywhere.
I'm a hunter and outdoors-ie type of person, but I don't agree with mindless slaughter. However, I agree even less with letting a consumer organism grow out of control until they consume their entire food supply in the region (which is currently happening). So, shoot them (responsibly , not to extinction) and get it over with, or let them breed themselves out of a food supply and starve to death, destroying crops and becoming a very costly nuiscence?
7mm magnum is what my father and I have both used to kill deer with while hunting. With a hollow point and a magnum load of gunpowder, all you pretty much need to do is hit the front half of the deer
I'm from WV and voted for Bush myself (23 male, recent college grad)--I did really give Kerry serious consideration. I'm not a sheep like some would believe 99% of American citizens are.
.45 away from me. If my girlfriend were pregnant and her unborn child was killed in the act of some other felony, I would want that perp's ass fried. I don't believe in abortion. I don't like how Democrats would have immigrants feeling more at home in the US than what natural born citizens feel (having to watch every step so I don't offend another nationality). I don't like having to call Christmas trees "Holiday Trees" at work because the ONE (1) person not from the area is offended. Just get over it and tolerate everyone, I have to deal with him expressing his Taoist stuff.
To be honest I didn't really understand the Democratic campaign strategy. Going to Bible Belt areas and talking soft on gay marriage and abortion? Is Kerry on crack or something? Going to WV or the South and talking about gun control? Hello? My God you're professional liars, at least do what you do best at the best moment!
The reason people don't give a damn about international affairs is because it doesn't affect us on a daily basis. The war in Iraq doesn't change the fact that I drive to work every morning, do my job, go home, watch TV and play some ET before going to bed. If nothing else, it creates more defense contracts and gives me more job opportunities. (Outsourcing obviously, by my attitude, has little effect on me at the moment.)
Now I do care about gun control. You're not taking my
There's more to the election than wars or PATRIOT Acts or defense from terror. Some of us actually care about our personal morals and which candidate most closely reflects them. Damn me to hell for my beliefs!
That was an excellent essay on popular opinion about Beowulf at the time. Just goes to show how Tolkien was already thinking outside of the literary box before he wrote LoTR. Was very cleverly written also, to give the critics a round-about "up your's asshole." Two Towers had a lot of allusions to Beowulf, from the Old English-style names of Eowyn and Theoden to the society of Rohan. Makes you think about Beowulf again and that it maybe isn't go gimp and lame of a read after all.