Don't ask me such tough questions! You're distracting me from making out with my Marylin Monrobot!
But to be serious, I doubt serverely that if you were allowed to marry ANYTHING that a vast majority of people would suddenly decide the marry the animal/appliance/cousin of his or her choosing. In fact, maybe I'm not informed enough, but I can't see more than 10% of people doing that, and that's ONLY if you count gays. Don't include gays and I think that number would drop even further. And really, when is the idea of less people procreating a bad thing?
Don't think I'm supporting polygamy/incest/beastality or anything here. The only thing I support is homosexual marriages. I believe marriage should be between two CONSENTING individuals. You can train a dog to say "I do" in some way, after all, but that doesn't mean s/he's consenting, it means you've traine him/her. And monogamy/incest, well, there's genetic and social problems that can form from that which I don't feel like discussing here...
Technically, does the person have to verbally say it or just give some kind of consent?
"Do you, Mr. Paralyzed-from-the-mouth-down, take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife?...Uh, if you do blink once for 'I do' and twice for 'I don't.'"
Are video games for nerds alone, either? A huge portion of the population plays games that are not nerds. It is often considered nerdy, however, to be borderline obsessive with it. I think the same goes with anime.
"We're sorry, Mr. Frog, Mr. Toad, you're both laid off. We're outsourcing your jobs. This new guy catches more flies per minute than you, and he monitors toxic environment,but he does it for free while we pay for your lillypad."
I live in New York, and when I got my Driver's PERMIT alone they signed me up to vote (though, sadly, I turn 18 a week or two AFTER the elections. Talk about poor timing.)
Thus, yeah, if Philadelphia has a similar law, it's not surprising they'd have such a high voter registration percent.
Well, if you ask me, Venture Brothers is action-comedy. I don't mean it's a show that has action AND comedy, though it does contain both, because almost any anime on [AS] could be called an action-comedy then. But Venture Brothers is like an action show... where the action is comedic...
Bah, I don't even know what I'm saying. Bottom line, Venture Brothers has comedy, but it wouldn't be too wrong to call it an action show, either, so I say it's well at home on what should be an all action night.
I prefer to say it's "Like ATHF! Only with more action and actual comedy!"
My only problems with Wolf's Rain and Witch Hunter Robin are the fact that they're too much mental stimulation, too late at night (Not that they're exactly the most complicated series on Earth, but they do require thought to process). I love the shows, but at 1:30am, my brain tends to be fried. I should really just be sane one day and tape them and watch them when my brain isn't already three-quarters asleep.
And FLCL... well, FLCL is FLCL. It's just a show that drips with coolness. It's amazing that they can take so many random (yet undeniably cool) scenes and threw them together with such animation and music and in 6 episodes managed to make it all turn into a symbolic story about growing up.
As for The William Stret Hour (all the 15-minute shows...) They're all pretty... well, hit-or-miss. In my opinion: Aqua Teen Hunger Force is by far the dumbest show I've ever seen. No, I mean it literally. I think my brain cells pop when I see it. It's just not funny... Sealab 2021 has its fair share of decent jokes, but overall, not a show I'm too fond of. Harvey Birdman has some episodes I'd call brilliant (like the Godfather spoof and the episode that mocks the Terror Alert system) and some episodes that put me to sleep in a heartbeat. Other shows like Brak, Space Ghost... well, most of them aren't on enough for me to even know.
Kenshin was never on [AS], but the creator of Toonami did say in an interview that he regrets that, because it would have done so much better on [AS] than Toonami. (Not too mention it would have had few, if any, edits. Even on Toonami, though, Sanosuske let a few "dammit!"s slip by)
You're also forgetting Reign, but, really, no one likes that show, so no one really even cares.
And here's the thing: In the beginning, all of [AS] was on Sundays. Comedy and anime. Then, they split it. Comedy Sunday and Action Saturdays. Then they went to a Sunday through Thursday schedule, once again combining the two. Now, they've gotten back Saturday, which would have made Sunday all comedy, Saturday all action, and the middle of the week a combination of the two. However, [AS] in an attempt to raise Saturday ratings have put comedy shows like Futurama (not that Futurama is a bad show by any means. It rocks.) on before the action on Saturdays.
Am I the only one who thinks Saturday nights might have gotten bad ratings because... It's Saturday night? Few people are up watching TV? It's not like it wasn't still clobbering all other late night shows.
This isn't the only case where this happened. Often, anime series get cancelled or change directions when they reach the same point as the manga. Kenshin is the epitome of this, where the anime folks essentially decide to make their own season/arc and go with whatever they want. I believe Trigun (but I could be wrong) did something similar, but in the end came out similar (with a few exceptions, including a major one I won't spoil for those who haven't seen the series).
Now Inuyasha in Japan has reached that point. Some people said that this would be the end of the series at episode 167, but it seems more likely that the animation company is going to let Ms. Takahashi finish the manga before going ahead with the rest of the series. (A smart idea, in my mind)
So, when the anime manages to outrun the manga, a series can do a number of things. Personally, my favorite is what Inuyasha will must likely do, rather than risk getting two entirely different stories.
Princess Mononoke (or Mononoke Hime to those out there who attempt to kill anything that is *gasp* actually translated into English) is by far the best anime film I've ever seen, if not one of the best movies I've seen ever.
Though I still cringe everytime I see the mother wolf get the blood sucked from her wound and the flesh being eaten of the boar by demons. But, you know, what Disney flick doesn't feature that these days, huh?
Hmmm... Sounds like we need someone with some common sense and is likable but NOT a politician.
Think maybe we could get Jon Stewart? Sure, he tends to be left-leaning (hey, every man has the right to an opinion), but he tends to be fair, none-the-less, has charisma, and, most importantly, has made a career on mocking politicians.
Well, it's happened every year, practically, where I used to live (I haven't lived in this current house for it to happen here). We used to get signs put in our front lawn reading "Vote ____ for Town Sheriff" or "Vote Dole for President" or the like. However, I was not aware of what some others have said about the city owning part of the property. All the same, I don't like the idea any less and I still believe that's a far greater annoyance than some small writing on the sidewalk in chalk.
Well, regardless, I was unaware that the city/town/whatever can own, or possibly just have rights to such things as you've listed, that property. While I do believe there are times when these signs have been put FAR too far from the road to be in that zone, that would be a case by case thing. In any case, though, thank you for pointing that out.
Actually, as said many times above, the chalk will bio-degrade ITSELF within two weeks. If you take a hose, sponge, or anything similar, it will be gone in seconds to minutes.
Personally, I feel this guy was in the right here. Perhaps writing with chalk on property here wasn't the most POLITE thing to do, but legal? No permanent (or even slightly long term) damage was done. He was just using his first ammendment rights.
However, think of it this way: At election time, how many men have stuck signs in YOUR yard, asking you to vote for _____? You may or may not agree with the sign, but regardless, someone went onto YOUR property and stuck a sign there. I see this all the time, but rare do I hear of anyone being stopped. I think that is far worse.
Personally, that's why I loved my English teacher and my Health teacher last year. We read books with some topics that... let's just say I doubt the school board would have approved of. (And my Health teacher said and did some things I doubt they'd approve of, either) So, my teacher often made a simple request: Don't tell the superintendent what we talk about in class, and we can pretty much get away with anything. No books are banned.
Well, who ever really denied that revenge felt good? Only someone in self-delusion. We've all wanted to beat the snot out of someone whom we felt deserved it.
But, by the same token, for some people, sleeping with everything that moves (or doesn't) would also feel good. These are indulgences. These are things that we know will not have beneficial long term results.
This is why people who resist these temptations are so well respected. Despite the urge to act on some of these base instincts, they hold back and do what is right, not what they want to. Any idiot can punch someone back in the face. It takes someone with a strong will to simply take a blow and to still stand firm. This is why leaders like Gandhi deserve so much praise.
1. Flaming. Very nice. But I digress... I didn't say that burning and ripping are the same thing. Don't put words in my mouth.
2. It's just plain lunacy to sue a few random people by luck of the draw. Don't tell me you believe that the RIAA is doing this for the artists, like they claim.
3. I said that CD sales are down because popular music is becomming less... popular. It's no surprise. Boy bands and other rip offs can only go so far. Wouldn't you expect people would grow TIRED of them after a while? Maybe people aren't even downloading them. Maybe some people just plain are sick of all these flash-in-the-pan groups.
But they ARE customers. Well, okay, a vast majority of them, anyway. There are some people out there who download an entire CD simply because they don't want to pay $15 for it. But that's not all people. Some people download a few songs then, if they like it, they buy the CD. That's how I discovered Weird Al. Once I downloaded a few songs, I went out and bought his CDs. The problem is that: 1. The RIAA assumes every download is a lost dollar. Not true. Some people OWN the CD then download the songs into MP3 format (because, I don't know, too lazy to burn it, can't find it, CD-ROM doesn't have burning properties...). Some people download to sample a song. And many... are just from overseas. 2. Suing customers doesn't make any sense at all. I've seen nothing but OUTRAGE at this "tactic." (And I use that term loosely. Generally, a tactic is a semi-possible attempt at helping yourself or others. This is just plain lunacy.) 3. The RIAA seems to blame the loss of sales SOLELY on downloading. Gee, it might not be the fact that CDs are so common now? Or that there's no originality anymore? Or that not everyone is rushing out to buy every CD of every flash-in-the-pan pre-teen boy band.
::The Simpson's Pork roast gets thrown through the sky::
Homer: It's only a little airborne! It's still good!
Mr. Burns: You know, I think I'll give a million dollars to an orphanage. Mr. Smithers: Really? When? Mr. Burns: When pigs fly!::They laugh and the roast flies in front of the plant's window:: Mr. Smithers:...So, should, I go write that check? Mr. Burns: No, I'd still rather not.
While I'm not married. Or, hell, old enough to be... or even have had a girlfriend or anything close to it (has spent the last 17 years in front of computers and consoles).
What was I saying? Oh right.
To me, it seems marriage should always be a co-op thing. It's not that YOU need to ask for permission and she doesn't or vice versa, it's that you discuss everything together. You don't just run off and do whatever you want, but you ALLOW each other certain freedoms (You can play computer games when you feel like it and s/he can go do... whatever it is s/he wants to do). You communicate openly and understand that no one is the boss.
I guess a marriage is sorta a socialist thing. You both own the means of production. No one is the so called boss.
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I suppose I had that coming. Words is not me friends.
Note to self: Remember to not say stupid things.
So, the only matrimonial rights I'm currently fighting for are the ones for homosexuals.
Better?
But to be serious, I doubt serverely that if you were allowed to marry ANYTHING that a vast majority of people would suddenly decide the marry the animal/appliance/cousin of his or her choosing. In fact, maybe I'm not informed enough, but I can't see more than 10% of people doing that, and that's ONLY if you count gays. Don't include gays and I think that number would drop even further. And really, when is the idea of less people procreating a bad thing?
Don't think I'm supporting polygamy/incest/beastality or anything here. The only thing I support is homosexual marriages. I believe marriage should be between two CONSENTING individuals. You can train a dog to say "I do" in some way, after all, but that doesn't mean s/he's consenting, it means you've traine him/her. And monogamy/incest, well, there's genetic and social problems that can form from that which I don't feel like discussing here...
"Do you, Mr. Paralyzed-from-the-mouth-down, take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife? ...Uh, if you do blink once for 'I do' and twice for 'I don't.'"
Are video games for nerds alone, either? A huge portion of the population plays games that are not nerds. It is often considered nerdy, however, to be borderline obsessive with it. I think the same goes with anime.
Nature starts outsourcing.
"We're sorry, Mr. Frog, Mr. Toad, you're both laid off. We're outsourcing your jobs. This new guy catches more flies per minute than you, and he monitors toxic environment,but he does it for free while we pay for your lillypad."
I don't have a cell phone, but it would help if I knew what "log out of the Internet" meant. Is that some sort of new website?
I live in New York, and when I got my Driver's PERMIT alone they signed me up to vote (though, sadly, I turn 18 a week or two AFTER the elections. Talk about poor timing.)
Thus, yeah, if Philadelphia has a similar law, it's not surprising they'd have such a high voter registration percent.
Well, if you ask me, Venture Brothers is action-comedy. I don't mean it's a show that has action AND comedy, though it does contain both, because almost any anime on [AS] could be called an action-comedy then. But Venture Brothers is like an action show... where the action is comedic...
Bah, I don't even know what I'm saying. Bottom line, Venture Brothers has comedy, but it wouldn't be too wrong to call it an action show, either, so I say it's well at home on what should be an all action night.
I prefer to say it's "Like ATHF! Only with more action and actual comedy!"
My only problems with Wolf's Rain and Witch Hunter Robin are the fact that they're too much mental stimulation, too late at night (Not that they're exactly the most complicated series on Earth, but they do require thought to process). I love the shows, but at 1:30am, my brain tends to be fried. I should really just be sane one day and tape them and watch them when my brain isn't already three-quarters asleep.
And FLCL... well, FLCL is FLCL. It's just a show that drips with coolness. It's amazing that they can take so many random (yet undeniably cool) scenes and threw them together with such animation and music and in 6 episodes managed to make it all turn into a symbolic story about growing up.
As for The William Stret Hour (all the 15-minute shows...) They're all pretty... well, hit-or-miss. In my opinion:
Aqua Teen Hunger Force is by far the dumbest show I've ever seen. No, I mean it literally. I think my brain cells pop when I see it. It's just not funny...
Sealab 2021 has its fair share of decent jokes, but overall, not a show I'm too fond of.
Harvey Birdman has some episodes I'd call brilliant (like the Godfather spoof and the episode that mocks the Terror Alert system) and some episodes that put me to sleep in a heartbeat.
Other shows like Brak, Space Ghost... well, most of them aren't on enough for me to even know.
Kenshin was never on [AS], but the creator of Toonami did say in an interview that he regrets that, because it would have done so much better on [AS] than Toonami.
(Not too mention it would have had few, if any, edits. Even on Toonami, though, Sanosuske let a few "dammit!"s slip by)
You're also forgetting Reign, but, really, no one likes that show, so no one really even cares.
And here's the thing: In the beginning, all of [AS] was on Sundays. Comedy and anime. Then, they split it. Comedy Sunday and Action Saturdays. Then they went to a Sunday through Thursday schedule, once again combining the two. Now, they've gotten back Saturday, which would have made Sunday all comedy, Saturday all action, and the middle of the week a combination of the two. However, [AS] in an attempt to raise Saturday ratings have put comedy shows like Futurama (not that Futurama is a bad show by any means. It rocks.) on before the action on Saturdays.
Am I the only one who thinks Saturday nights might have gotten bad ratings because... It's Saturday night? Few people are up watching TV? It's not like it wasn't still clobbering all other late night shows.
This isn't the only case where this happened. Often, anime series get cancelled or change directions when they reach the same point as the manga. Kenshin is the epitome of this, where the anime folks essentially decide to make their own season/arc and go with whatever they want. I believe Trigun (but I could be wrong) did something similar, but in the end came out similar (with a few exceptions, including a major one I won't spoil for those who haven't seen the series).
Now Inuyasha in Japan has reached that point. Some people said that this would be the end of the series at episode 167, but it seems more likely that the animation company is going to let Ms. Takahashi finish the manga before going ahead with the rest of the series. (A smart idea, in my mind)
So, when the anime manages to outrun the manga, a series can do a number of things. Personally, my favorite is what Inuyasha will must likely do, rather than risk getting two entirely different stories.
Princess Mononoke (or Mononoke Hime to those out there who attempt to kill anything that is *gasp* actually translated into English) is by far the best anime film I've ever seen, if not one of the best movies I've seen ever.
Though I still cringe everytime I see the mother wolf get the blood sucked from her wound and the flesh being eaten of the boar by demons. But, you know, what Disney flick doesn't feature that these days, huh?
Hmmm... Sounds like we need someone with some common sense and is likable but NOT a politician.
Think maybe we could get Jon Stewart? Sure, he tends to be left-leaning (hey, every man has the right to an opinion), but he tends to be fair, none-the-less, has charisma, and, most importantly, has made a career on mocking politicians.
Well, it's happened every year, practically, where I used to live (I haven't lived in this current house for it to happen here). We used to get signs put in our front lawn reading "Vote ____ for Town Sheriff" or "Vote Dole for President" or the like. However, I was not aware of what some others have said about the city owning part of the property. All the same, I don't like the idea any less and I still believe that's a far greater annoyance than some small writing on the sidewalk in chalk.
Well, regardless, I was unaware that the city/town/whatever can own, or possibly just have rights to such things as you've listed, that property. While I do believe there are times when these signs have been put FAR too far from the road to be in that zone, that would be a case by case thing. In any case, though, thank you for pointing that out.
Actually, as said many times above, the chalk will bio-degrade ITSELF within two weeks. If you take a hose, sponge, or anything similar, it will be gone in seconds to minutes.
Personally, I feel this guy was in the right here. Perhaps writing with chalk on property here wasn't the most POLITE thing to do, but legal? No permanent (or even slightly long term) damage was done. He was just using his first ammendment rights.
However, think of it this way: At election time, how many men have stuck signs in YOUR yard, asking you to vote for _____? You may or may not agree with the sign, but regardless, someone went onto YOUR property and stuck a sign there. I see this all the time, but rare do I hear of anyone being stopped. I think that is far worse.
Could these connections possibly be used for dating?
Personally, that's why I loved my English teacher and my Health teacher last year. We read books with some topics that... let's just say I doubt the school board would have approved of. (And my Health teacher said and did some things I doubt they'd approve of, either) So, my teacher often made a simple request: Don't tell the superintendent what we talk about in class, and we can pretty much get away with anything. No books are banned.
Well, who ever really denied that revenge felt good? Only someone in self-delusion. We've all wanted to beat the snot out of someone whom we felt deserved it.
But, by the same token, for some people, sleeping with everything that moves (or doesn't) would also feel good. These are indulgences. These are things that we know will not have beneficial long term results.
This is why people who resist these temptations are so well respected. Despite the urge to act on some of these base instincts, they hold back and do what is right, not what they want to. Any idiot can punch someone back in the face. It takes someone with a strong will to simply take a blow and to still stand firm. This is why leaders like Gandhi deserve so much praise.
1. Flaming. Very nice. But I digress... I didn't say that burning and ripping are the same thing. Don't put words in my mouth.
2. It's just plain lunacy to sue a few random people by luck of the draw. Don't tell me you believe that the RIAA is doing this for the artists, like they claim.
3. I said that CD sales are down because popular music is becomming less... popular. It's no surprise. Boy bands and other rip offs can only go so far. Wouldn't you expect people would grow TIRED of them after a while? Maybe people aren't even downloading them. Maybe some people just plain are sick of all these flash-in-the-pan groups.
So, we have people growing their own bones now. How fare are we, then from someone growing, say, another kidney?
But they ARE customers. Well, okay, a vast majority of them, anyway. There are some people out there who download an entire CD simply because they don't want to pay $15 for it. But that's not all people. Some people download a few songs then, if they like it, they buy the CD. That's how I discovered Weird Al. Once I downloaded a few songs, I went out and bought his CDs. The problem is that:
1. The RIAA assumes every download is a lost dollar. Not true. Some people OWN the CD then download the songs into MP3 format (because, I don't know, too lazy to burn it, can't find it, CD-ROM doesn't have burning properties...). Some people download to sample a song. And many... are just from overseas.
2. Suing customers doesn't make any sense at all. I've seen nothing but OUTRAGE at this "tactic." (And I use that term loosely. Generally, a tactic is a semi-possible attempt at helping yourself or others. This is just plain lunacy.)
3. The RIAA seems to blame the loss of sales SOLELY on downloading. Gee, it might not be the fact that CDs are so common now? Or that there's no originality anymore? Or that not everyone is rushing out to buy every CD of every flash-in-the-pan pre-teen boy band.
::The Simpson's Pork roast gets thrown through the sky::
::They laugh and the roast flies in front of the plant's window:: ...So, should, I go write that check?
Homer: It's only a little airborne! It's still good!
Mr. Burns: You know, I think I'll give a million dollars to an orphanage.
Mr. Smithers: Really? When?
Mr. Burns: When pigs fly!
Mr. Smithers:
Mr. Burns: No, I'd still rather not.
While I'm not married. Or, hell, old enough to be... or even have had a girlfriend or anything close to it (has spent the last 17 years in front of computers and consoles).
What was I saying? Oh right.
To me, it seems marriage should always be a co-op thing. It's not that YOU need to ask for permission and she doesn't or vice versa, it's that you discuss everything together. You don't just run off and do whatever you want, but you ALLOW each other certain freedoms (You can play computer games when you feel like it and s/he can go do... whatever it is s/he wants to do). You communicate openly and understand that no one is the boss.
I guess a marriage is sorta a socialist thing. You both own the means of production. No one is the so called boss.
It's like the pet rock for the 21st century!