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I hadn't seen this topic come up yet, so I thought I'd put it out there.
If you have one, what is your favorite Star Wars parody?
I would have to say that mine is probably the original: Hardware Wars. You can choose your download HERE.
I first saw it around 1978. My uncle had recently gotten cable, HBO was fledgling, and this came on before a movie we were going to watch. We were rofl.
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I agree with your view of Bush/Cheney, phosphor. I would add, though, that Bush/Cheney are far more likely to "screw up" by telling the people exactly what they are doing, in hopes that we are all too stupid to understand. Remember, they are in charge, so they must be the smartest, right?
The Johns, I believe, would be better at refraining from such public displays of idiocy. That does not mean things would not come out in the end, but they certainly wouldn't front-load us about their activities.
There is a saying in the south, at least here in GA, that all of the locals seem to know and take to heart: "In the south, we'll smile to your face, but stab you in the back the minute you turn around." Having been raised in the north, I can't say I'd ever experienced that type of behavior (that I took notice of), but Edwards gives me the impression that he functions exactly in that manner. It really is a creepy feeling.
My take on this election is that it is a wash. Whichever party wins in November, the country will lose. Now we'll just have to suffer through until 2008.
As for the world stage issue, I have covered my thoughts more extensively on previous threads. In summary: every "superpower" that has existed had been hated by those "smaller" (or less powerfulr/influential) nations and territories. The US is currently the dominant nation in the world. Therefore, the world hates the US.
Keep in mind, those of you who are not from the U.S., like you, we know no difference. This is where most of us were born, just like you were born/raised in Germany, France, Poland, where ever, and that is what you know. Some folks want to lump all Americans into one group, a group that truly only identifies our questionably corrupt government's activities and doings. I say, do you have any more control over your public leaders than we do?
I am digressing from the OT. Sorry about that.
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PotC, Phosphor,
This has been a great thread and I enjoy the debate. But I gotta run. My civil rights are being violated because I have to drive 5 hours tonight to get back to my duty station. I have to be back on watch in the morning.
So, I have to run, but will check back tomorrow (it's an operations center watch where I have access to the internet) to see where this all went.
Till later...
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I don't agree. Civil rights IMO are one of the most important things to human existance. And more flagrant things VS civil rights=more people up in arms naturally.
Be careful how you interperet.
Civil rights. Yes everyone in the US (and Canada...
)deserves to respect and to left unmolested so long as they remain with REASONABLE laws and governance. (Your interperetation may more Kantian than mine..or maybe more Hobbesian. It doesn't really matter, so long as the governance is fair and equitable).However, too often, people use it as a shield when the situation is far from a violation of actual civil rights. Take, for example, the situation wherein the flight attendant used an old nursery rhyme ("eenie meenie meinie mo find a seat we got to go"...) as a humorous way to tell the passengers to sit down, the plane was about to take off. There sit two "auto-victims". Those people who are automatically victims of every circumstance and will look for victim status if it is not readily apparent. They claimed that the version they knew was racists. And you know what...it may very well be the case that is the ONLY version they ever heard. However, the flight attendant said she didn't even know there WAS a racist version, that the one she knew was the "tiger" version. And you know what...THAT may have very well been the case. BUT, there was no consoling the two "victims". Their civil rights had been violated and they were meant to look the fool in front of a plane-load of people. When it went to court, it was summarily rejected by all concerned...except the two victims. 10 years ago, the trial may have gone to conclusion in favor of the "victims", but any more, people are so quick to be the victim, and so quick to see the potential for libel, and the resulting "ka-ching" of the monetary damage awards, that "civil rights" has taken on a negative conotation. Political correctness run-amok is another fine example of civil rights to the extreme.
People, and I mean ALL colors/creeds/genders/etc, have so convoluted the term "civil rights" that it has lost it's original meaning.
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PotC I have to agree with you.
The ignorant American is like cattle. They are noble most the time, good workers. Deserve to be treated well.. But are ****ing clueless standing there doing nuthing farting in the wind. lolI personally think that Bush will win again, by a slim margin. However, neither victory will be a plus for the US. Both are equally incompitant leaders.
The question American need to ask themselves as they ponder who to vote for is:
Do you want the in-your-face style of Bush/Cheney, or the subversive, sneaky backstabbing that is bound to come with the Johns?
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It's not that they didn't want to, or were lazy, but the Florida system did not allow them to vote.
You misinterpereted what I said, phosphor. I did not mean that they were lazy in voting, I meant they were lazy at making sure all of their ducks were in a row prior to voting. The problem, especially in the communities which rely heavily in getting the word out through community groups is that when the leaders of that community get it back-asswards, so do all of the lemmings listening to them.
So, instead of admitting that they failed to take responsibility for failing to properly take care of business for themselves, the people run to point the finger at someone else. When you look for it, you can find a government conspiracy, whether it is there or not.
I don't know how the people in Canada are (pretty hot women though
) but more and more people in the US are jumping on the civil rights train than need be there. Many of these people find conspiracy at every turn, whether it exists or not. These same people take every word you and I say and make every attempt to twist and contort it into something it never was. HOWEVER! Since we have a system in place that allows for people to make these types of allegations, I can't deny them their constitutional right to **** and moan. It is only when that bitching and moaning begins to trample on MY constitutional rights does it become a problem. If I have to pay extra out in taxes so Leroy and Jimmy, Lakeesha and Jill can have special, golden invitations to the thing which we all call "life", that is when I start to get ticked off about their whining. Now is one of those times.
Again. Morons can't figure out how to register to vote, or forget that their felony convictions preclude them from national elections: Not a Conspiracy.
Government gathers up elderly elections volunteers and orders them to not count votes or deny votes of people otherwise legally allowed to vote: Conspiracy.
There is no gray area.
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Why, oh why, is it always someone else's fault? Did the state of Florida gather all of it's volunteers together (most election volunteers happen to be retired, elderly folk) and order them NOT to count the votes of the old...or minorities?
I refuse to buy the conspiracy theory. I will buy that FL stretched it's antique voting methods one election too far, and the results came up and bit the in the @ss. Too many things on one sheet of paper lead to cramming of the choices together, making it difficult for the elderly (poor eye sight, no fault of their own) and the less educated (black/white/hispanic, all were affected, and many of those were, by their own statements, not well educated) to be able to make sense of what they were seeing.
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I agree with most of what you said grandpa..
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I'd really like to hear someone explain how the Bush administration is any different than any previous administration.
Politicians are all:
A. Cheats
B. Liars
C. "Company Boys"
D. Opportunists
E. Egotists
F. Narcissists
I defy anyone to find one in US History who wasn't. Some just happen to be less inclined to hide it than others (Ted Kennedy, **** Cheney).
As for votes counting or not counting. The latest race-baiting going on in FL, and now other places, is a bunch of crap. If you are too ignorant to understand how register to vote properly, or too incoherent to vote properly when the time comes, should the state then be required to provide you with a tutor? Would not the same race-baiting groups (NAACP) then cry foul at the supposed attempt to make those minorities appear inferior or stupid?
Heres one for you, those same men and women who are running around the globe getting shot at and killed, or fighting mother nature to rescue you when you get yourself in a life threatening situation, have thir votes shelved until long after the election has finished and the winner declared. That is, unless, the election is so close that the military absentee ballots NEED to be counted in order to declare a winner. THAT is a bunch of crap, if you ask me.
The elctoral college needs to go away if elections are to ever be fair and truly "off the people".
The federal income tax needs to go away as well. It should be replaced with a national sales tax. The IRS can be reduced to less than half (there still needs to be people there to process the sales tax revenue). This would place all people on a level playing field. The rich, who claim to pay most of the taxes, but actually don't, though deferments and shelters, would end up actually paying their fair share. Buy a boat...pay taxes, period. Provisions would be made for the poor to reduce the amount they pay in sales taxes based on the yearly income vice family size. (Another reason to keep some of the IRS around).
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No...in fact Starship Troopers was very little like the book.
The reason I picked it is, despite the B-movie sci-fi cliche' of it all, it was actually pretty darn good (shower scene or no). OK, I'd still like to know how they can zoom around space at warp speeds and such yet still be using ball ammo in their weapons. And how in the world is it that those weapons never seem to run out of ammo...
On a lot of CG ships, there is a tradition that you watch a particular movie the last night before returning home. Call it superstition. For about a year and a half, Starship Troopers was it. So, to me, it has a sort of nostaligic feel as well.
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So do you guys get your own free copy?
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Starship Troopers....
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i personally prefer xbox as who would wanna be hunched up at your desk playing with a keyboard and mouse (if that what you do) or would you prefer lying down on a comfy sofa with a nice controller watchin the game on a big screen :D
The notion of everyone's pc must be on some sort of big, uncomfortable desk is almost as wrong as the assumption that everyone with an Xbox has it hooked up to a 42" plasma or HDTV with full THX theater sound.
I've got a nice comfotable chair and a quite easy to move 19" crt that fits nicely on a small, tall table. I use a trckball, so I don't need a mouse pad or solid surface, and the keyboard lays naturally on my lap. (I still have a desk, but when I'm playing for a while, I like to get comfortable) Plus, I think a keyboard and mouse gives you better control and more control options than a game pad. I've played many of the consoles, starting with Pong in 1974-ish and I can say from my own experience that the keyboard and mouse (trackball in my case) are better for gaming. But, that is IMO, and your mileage may differ...
And as a side note, did you hear about the kid who sat cross-legged on the floor playing his console (I don't remember which one the article mentioned) who had to have reconstructive surgery on the major nerves in his legs? He sat there for like 13 hours and didn't realize that he had cut off circulation and essentially killed his legs. See...so desks can be a goooood thing....
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For under $300.00 you can get a new case (nothing fancy), a mobo and proc combo and a new ps. And it will still outrun, outpace, out perform the $1000.00 beige boxes from HP, Sony, et-al.
(example: Soyo - KT600 Dragon Plus - Socket A ATX Motherboard Bundle with AMD Athlon XP 2800+ Processor $139.99
I have had great luck with the KT600 (Via Chipset) line of mobos from the various brands...Asus, Soyo, Chaintech)
Some people here prefer NewEgg, but I've always gotten better prices and faster service from TigerDirect.
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How the heck did this thread go from a bogus UN survey to indigenous American peoples?
Gromnir said:
numbers is funny things.Numbers lie, and liars use numbers. That is a worldwide standard.
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And even if you can't stand the WASD control on the keyboard, go out and buy an Xbox controller to USB adapter for your PC so you can play the PC version with an Xbox controller.
Why do that? There are plenty of quality game pads for the pc that are completely customizable. If you just have to have a controller, that is.
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Sunry's trial was a very good moral dilema (Is it your duty to defend Sunry or see justice done?) Hopefully KOTOR2 will have things like it.
Err.. Sunry was innocent.
He was? But you find that tape of him murdering her. And there's nothing in the sith base or embassy to help you defend him.
I couldn't find anything to refute the video evidence.
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And beauty is in the eye of the beholder as well.
I guess that's how people can stomach supporting Bush.
Exactly.
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Thats Scion, silly.
Yes...they DO look silly...don't they...
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Which Sion is it?
or
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AHHH! He's here! RUN!!!
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Reason why Nader gives Democrats a D+ and the republicans a D-. Not to mention, why Howard Dean was so popular. Lastly why the ABB is so popular.
Howard Dean, popular? And beauty is in the eye of the beholder as well.
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Revan
DS Mashing puppies and kittens with a hammer somewhere holed up in the star forge.
LS Manager of a quiki-mart. Given up life of a Jedi to settle down.
Bastila
DS Selling crack after divorcing DS Revan.
LS Dead, after hold up at Revan-owned quiki-mart goes south.
Carth
DS Dead (First thing DS Revan did after credits rolled in KoTOR I was to go back and finish that whiney s.o.b. off.)
LS Dead (First thing Revan did after credits rolled in KoTOR I was to "accidently" energize his lightsaber while waving at the crowd. Carth = wrong place + wrong time.)
Canderous
DS Scavenging the Republic dumps looking for his basilisk droid (Think Linus looking for his blanket).
LS Professor emeritus, political science, Telos Community College.
Mission
DS Turning tricks around the outer rim (Oh.come on...it's just a silly poll-type thing...)
LS Travelling with the circus hoping to find her brother. Making money with clever contortion-girl scam.
Zaalbar
DS Neutered
LS Neutered
HK
DS Programming went crazy, now roaming the galaxy in search of things to sit on.
LS Sold for scrap. Parts turn up 4,000 years later on Dantooine. Becomes the deadliest vaporator ever built.
T3
DS Scrapped. No sissy droids allowed.
LS Made into a cute lunch cart.
Jolee
DS Suffering from alzheimer's, wanders the galaxy in search of...in search of...uhhh....that..thing.....
LS Writing letters to his Senator about the state of Social Security.
Juhani
DS Converted into a true dark side character: Now starring in super villain movies.
LS Spayed, put on display at the Coruscant county zoo.
That guy who walks around the academy, aimlessly, whose only response to you ever is "I don't have time to talk to you...."
DS: Your new character in KoTOR II
LS: Your new character in KoTOR II
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For those having problems, even with the newer ATI cards, what speed is the AGP slot you're plugged in to? A friend was complaining about the same thing, said KoTOR would crash even with his 9800. Turned out his mobo was only 4x. He recently replaced the mobo and can run the game fine now. (He isn't exactly computer saavy, so to him he thought just getting a bigger, badder card was going to make everything better.)
Thousands Refusing to pay taxes
in Way Off-Topic
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I told my wife I was going about this thing we call life all wrong. I told her that I should just get into politics. I wouldn't have to worry about ethics or morals any longer. And heck...serve one term in the House and you get paid for life! And free haircuts! Sweeeeeeet.