No, "anti-gun" people have NOT been making a direct attempt to change the constitution. They've been busy making taxes, licensing, background checks, waiting periods, and having whole cities sue gun makers for what criminals do with their products. These indirect, insidious tactics have been in use by the left for decades if not longer... GP post had it exactly right.
FTFA: "Left Behind Games' president, Jeffrey Frichner, says the game actually is pacifist because players lose "spirit points" every time they gun down nonbelievers rather than convert them. They can earn spirit points again by having their character pray."
True nobility is stepping up to the responsibility of obtaining and using power beneficently. A noble act would be to effectively market a movie within the parameters of our society and use the proceeds (power) to support programs that have the potential for positive change (beneficence).
I thought the message of the film is that each of us needs to have concern for the environment. This knowledge, when each of us acts on it, creates the 'beneficence'. The way you tell it, Gore could have made Mission Impossible 4, and used the enormous proceeds to lobby for beneficent environmental policies. While this would jive with your idea of 'true nobility' it has the ironic effect of not only failing to educate, but also using the force of power to institute programs the environmentally uneducated don't support.
Nice personal attacks, BTW.
You make excellent points about a TV release. I'll rephrase: whats the downside to a free release, other than cutting into profits? I'm sure Gore knows enough about the internet to know what a torrent is. And YouTube.
LOL, there's a lot of tortured logic in this thread on why Gore might be shunning PBS to avoid the most obvious conclusion. Look, he could put the movie on YouTube, and none of the anti-PBS arguments apply there. You know what is on YouTube? The movie trailer! An AD for his movie!
1) Make a movie about saving the earth 2) Control distribution, 3) PROFIT!!!
It seems he could reach more people by making the movie free on TV. If, as you suggest, he's interested in targeting a theater-going, dvd-buying, and money-paying demographic, he could STILL reach more people by making the movie free on TV as well as all the other stuff. Is there ANY downside to making the movie free on TV, other than cutting into profits?
Good point, and thanks for the link. Something I read recently, I think in Sagan's last book, said planting trees is useless unless you commit to burying the trees. If they are harvested and burned (forest fire, firewood, or even after being made into furniture), there's no offset. Sounds like we need to be growing trees now (and burying them in the future) as fast as the oil is coming up, right?
Well, then it would have been aired on a different channel, right? Surely Gore didn't say "PBS turned us down, oh well, let's change the whole game plan and do a theatrical release followed by DVDs instead."
A week ago slashdot had a story about the inconvenient truth DVD was out, and to go buy it, and about how noble Gore is. I realized, the movie was in theaters first, then the DVD came out, and it hasn't been on tv yet. Isn't that how you maximize profits from a movie? If I was all noble and I made a movie I genuinely felt people needed to see to save the earth, wouldn't I just give it to PBS on day 1?
No, the richest buyers exceed the $1 million mortgage cap on interest deduction, and are most likely to have to pay the Alternative Minimum Tax anyway.
You make an interesting point about how subsidies (to make housing affordable) can make housing expensive (by pushing up demand). Not sure what to make of it... if that was your point.
Wealth = nest egg for retirement. This plan creates a disincentive to save, and taxes my ability to retire. Furthermore, it taxes the wealth I conscientiously saved out of my previous AFTER-TAX dollars.
Your wages are roughly a measure of how valuable the rest of us find your work, with some averages and guesses of future output thrown in. Housing costs big money because PEOPLE build them (for wages... gasp!), and the best land gets sold by its property owner to the highest bidder (the nerve!!). If housing were priced below market value (i.e. if I were stealing land from landowners and labor from laborers), then, yeah, I'd be freed from necessary drudgery to pursue my dream job... in my case, undercover margarita tester.
What's with the "food or other necessity" exception to free market ideology? If my neighbor is a farmer or doctor, and I make PS3s, I infer you would advocate that HE has to buy MY product on the free market, yet somehow I'm entitled to HIS labor at less-than-market prices. Do I understand you correctly?
Some talking heads on TV just wistfully longed for the days of paper ballots. Only 6 years ago these same people were complaining about hanging chads, and chads falling out of boxes of ballots to be recounted, and election officials examining "pregnant" chads under jeweler's loupes and debating the "intent" of the voter.
How did this get tagged lol? Is there some large faction of terrorists on slashdot? Comments denouncing the bombing are the ones being modded up, indicating otherwise. Does the tagging methodology need tweaking?
I also can't imagine what could be more fun than (I hope they make this game) using the nunchuck to force-pull a blaster from a stormtrooper's hands, then using the wiimote to saber him.
Oh wait... using the nunchuck to force-choke his thrashing body would be more fun. Maybe doing all three to the same trooper would be the most fun... yeah, that's it.
If you buy a game without reading a review you are setting yourself up for disappointment. Futhermore, if you think games today are worse than games of years ago... try playing the old ones again... you will notice they aren't nearly as good as you remember, because the bar has been raised. Now is the best time to be a gamer.
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No, "anti-gun" people have NOT been making a direct attempt to change the constitution. They've been busy making taxes, licensing, background checks, waiting periods, and having whole cities sue gun makers for what criminals do with their products. These indirect, insidious tactics have been in use by the left for decades if not longer... GP post had it exactly right.
Awesome reply. If you're serious.
1. Lawn Darts
2. Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab
3. Mini-Hammocks from EZ Sales
4. Snacktime Cabbage Patch Dolls
5. Sky Dancers
6. Bat Masterson Derringer Belt Gun
7. Creepy Crawlers
8. Johnny Reb Cannon
9. Battlestar Galactica Missile Launcher
10. Fisher-Price Power Wheels Motorcycle
Honorable Mention: Manley Toys Disco Light
FTFA: "Left Behind Games' president, Jeffrey Frichner, says the game actually is pacifist because players lose "spirit points" every time they gun down nonbelievers rather than convert them. They can earn spirit points again by having their character pray."
My god, that would be awesome. Left hand motions execute force powers, right hand swings the saber. Or dual sabers.
http://www.mirrordot.com/stories/c50bd8a291fca13bf 800b6e9d05087a4/index.html
True nobility is stepping up to the responsibility of obtaining and using power beneficently. A noble act would be to effectively market a movie within the parameters of our society and use the proceeds (power) to support programs that have the potential for positive change (beneficence).
I thought the message of the film is that each of us needs to have concern for the environment. This knowledge, when each of us acts on it, creates the 'beneficence'. The way you tell it, Gore could have made Mission Impossible 4, and used the enormous proceeds to lobby for beneficent environmental policies. While this would jive with your idea of 'true nobility' it has the ironic effect of not only failing to educate, but also using the force of power to institute programs the environmentally uneducated don't support. Nice personal attacks, BTW.You make excellent points about a TV release. I'll rephrase: whats the downside to a free release, other than cutting into profits? I'm sure Gore knows enough about the internet to know what a torrent is. And YouTube.
LOL, there's a lot of tortured logic in this thread on why Gore might be shunning PBS to avoid the most obvious conclusion. Look, he could put the movie on YouTube, and none of the anti-PBS arguments apply there. You know what is on YouTube? The movie trailer! An AD for his movie!
1) Make a movie about saving the earth
2) Control distribution,
3) PROFIT!!!
It seems he could reach more people by making the movie free on TV. If, as you suggest, he's interested in targeting a theater-going, dvd-buying, and money-paying demographic, he could STILL reach more people by making the movie free on TV as well as all the other stuff. Is there ANY downside to making the movie free on TV, other than cutting into profits?
Good point, and thanks for the link. Something I read recently, I think in Sagan's last book, said planting trees is useless unless you commit to burying the trees. If they are harvested and burned (forest fire, firewood, or even after being made into furniture), there's no offset. Sounds like we need to be growing trees now (and burying them in the future) as fast as the oil is coming up, right?
Well, then it would have been aired on a different channel, right? Surely Gore didn't say "PBS turned us down, oh well, let's change the whole game plan and do a theatrical release followed by DVDs instead."
A week ago slashdot had a story about the inconvenient truth DVD was out, and to go buy it, and about how noble Gore is. I realized, the movie was in theaters first, then the DVD came out, and it hasn't been on tv yet. Isn't that how you maximize profits from a movie? If I was all noble and I made a movie I genuinely felt people needed to see to save the earth, wouldn't I just give it to PBS on day 1?
No, the richest buyers exceed the $1 million mortgage cap on interest deduction, and are most likely to have to pay the Alternative Minimum Tax anyway.
You make an interesting point about how subsidies (to make housing affordable) can make housing expensive (by pushing up demand). Not sure what to make of it... if that was your point.
Wealth = nest egg for retirement. This plan creates a disincentive to save, and taxes my ability to retire. Furthermore, it taxes the wealth I conscientiously saved out of my previous AFTER-TAX dollars.
Your wages are roughly a measure of how valuable the rest of us find your work, with some averages and guesses of future output thrown in. Housing costs big money because PEOPLE build them (for wages... gasp!), and the best land gets sold by its property owner to the highest bidder (the nerve!!). If housing were priced below market value (i.e. if I were stealing land from landowners and labor from laborers), then, yeah, I'd be freed from necessary drudgery to pursue my dream job... in my case, undercover margarita tester.
What's with the "food or other necessity" exception to free market ideology? If my neighbor is a farmer or doctor, and I make PS3s, I infer you would advocate that HE has to buy MY product on the free market, yet somehow I'm entitled to HIS labor at less-than-market prices. Do I understand you correctly?
You ever try to circumcise one of those things!?!
They like alcohol. And gambling.
Some talking heads on TV just wistfully longed for the days of paper ballots. Only 6 years ago these same people were complaining about hanging chads, and chads falling out of boxes of ballots to be recounted, and election officials examining "pregnant" chads under jeweler's loupes and debating the "intent" of the voter.
How did this get tagged lol? Is there some large faction of terrorists on slashdot? Comments denouncing the bombing are the ones being modded up, indicating otherwise. Does the tagging methodology need tweaking?
I understand they can waterboard you for your password now.
I also can't imagine what could be more fun than (I hope they make this game) using the nunchuck to force-pull a blaster from a stormtrooper's hands, then using the wiimote to saber him.
Oh wait... using the nunchuck to force-choke his thrashing body would be more fun. Maybe doing all three to the same trooper would be the most fun... yeah, that's it.
People don't run with their legs vertical. A steep downward angle is possible on a running target. Do you have a link for this story?
If you buy a game without reading a review you are setting yourself up for disappointment. Futhermore, if you think games today are worse than games of years ago... try playing the old ones again... you will notice they aren't nearly as good as you remember, because the bar has been raised. Now is the best time to be a gamer.