Valsuelm

I've always thought that Hayden Christensen and Jake Lloyd got a bad rap for their acting skills. It wasn't their fault their dialogue was crap and the directing was abysmal. The 'love' scenes especially always made me cringe. Wasn't hard to wonder how Lucas ended up divorced after seeing those. There's no way a man or woman who was ever truly in love wrote those. You have very good established actors that all look like they are horrible actors in the prequels, not because they suck, but because the dialogue and directing is so abysmal. Don't get me wrong, Hayden may be a bad actor, but how would we really know from the prequel trilogy? If we only knew Portman, Neeson, McGregor, Lee, et al from the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy we'd generally think they were all bad actors too.

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/how-is-jj-abrams-going-to-ruin-star-wars-let-me-count-the-ways

Thank you Oby. I never would have made the connection between Gygax's Greyhawk and bad racial propaganda to dehumanize the Germans from WW1/2 had you not posted this.

Why you'd want to leave AV off most of the time I don't know, but if that's what you want to do, you can just set NOD32 up that way. It has a very robust set of options, allowing one to enable or disable just about every aspect of it individually. Like all AVs though, it will need to load up when you start up your computer as like all AVs it needs to load before just about everything else does in order to work properly. As I mentioned before, it's really unintrusive. I haven't had a false alarm or reason to disable it temporarily in months, and I go down dark interweb alleys fairly frequently. It sounds to me like your experiences with AV are limited to bloatware like Norton or many of the free AVs, for which I can see why you'd want to turn it off most of the time. Like most of the better AVs, there's a free trial at their website if you ever wanted to check it out.

In your case, certainly. Lacking any concept of mathematics, or expected value. WTB coherence.

Indeed. It would be a much better use of your time than asking strangers on the internet about it. Go forth!

And in typical Val's style he blames anything and anyone but himself for misinformation. Well at least you didn't say it was a conspiracy theory...so that's progress in my books When have I posted misinformation? When I have said something was a 'conspiracy theory'? And scroll up Brucie. I was indeed quoting you on the 'NKKK', and I did blame myself. You even quoted it. I guess this is another stellar example of your failure at reading comprehension? A conspiracy theory is misinformation, well almost all of them are. And you operate in a world of conspiracy theories. Sorry that my post may sound nasty but I'm just being honest And once again you are not accepting reality, part of your justification for not getting NKKKK name right is that I also got it wrong. The fact that I didn't use his name correctly shouldn't be any part of your reason Here. I bolded some misinformation for you.

".... things that are owned by other things.' Now there's a paradox....

And in typical Val's style he blames anything and anyone but himself for misinformation. Well at least you didn't say it was a conspiracy theory...so that's progress in my books When have I posted misinformation? When I have said something was a 'conspiracy theory'? And scroll up Brucie. I was indeed quoting you on the 'NKKK', and I did blame myself. You even quoted it. I guess this is another stellar example of your failure at reading comprehension?

I've never really been a fan of comic books, and I'm not really a fan of comic book movies (there are some exceptions but none of them are the modern marvel movies). That said. I really wouldn't consider the Marvel movies to be Disney movies as they are not produced by Disney Studios. Star Wars VII will be produced under the Disney Studios flag as well as the flag of Lucasfilm, and Abrams company. As for what have they done that hasn't been fantastic? A lot. It'd be much easier to list what they've done right the last few years. 'Frozen', 'The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe', and 'Tron: Legacy' are all I'm coming up with that they've produced in the last ten years that I'd say were very good to fantastic movies. Granted, I have yet to see Wall-E or Tangled, which I have been meaning to see as they've been highly recommended to me. But the point is, there's a lot of mediocre and bad in Disney's vault the last few decades. And that said, Star Wars is something special, and something way above mediocre and bad (at least the original trilogy was), Disney does not have a good recent history of putting out films on par with them, nor does Lucasfilm itself, and Abrams studio is the weakest of them all. Do their films make money? Sure. But that doesn't make them amazing films. The Original Trilogy were amazing films that set the bar very high. I'm very doubtful that those behind this film can reach that bar, in fact, there's really very little reason to believe that they will at this point. Kasdan being the only one I've seen associated with the production. Perhaps there will be some more good news in the coming months. Abrams is a giant chunk of bad news though that isn't going away. As I said, maybe Disney will surprise me, but I'm not holding out much hope that they will.

Ayup. I have about near zero hopes Disney is going to give us something worthy of the original Trilogy, or even better than the poop we've been treated to the last 15 or so years. I may tune in if the original cast members have a part, but I also may not... I'll wait and see what the previews look like and for other news. Kasden and the possibility of the original cast members being a part of this is about the only good news I've seen. Everything else about Disney and the Star Wars franchise looks to be poop imo. I'm of the camp (and it's no small camp) that Lucas all sorts of effed up his own creation, then put a poop cherry on top of that effed up cake when he sold it all to Disney. Disney owning the rights to all things Lucasfilm is near as bad as them owning the rights to almost everything Jim Henson. Who knows though, Disney may surprise me, but it's hard to be optimistic with Abrams attached to it.

As I've already stated. NOD32 is also quite customizable in what it does and doesn't do, and easily temporarily turned off all together if one so wishes for whatever reason.

I can recommend going to Austin and take a dip into Barton Springs. Very refreshing when it is 104 degrees. I can also recommend spending a few days in Galveston. Dallas seemed nice. Avoid Houston though, it has to be the most soulless place in the US that i have visited. Austin and Galveston are awesome. Austin is one of my favorite places in the U.S.., many great restaurants, an awesome music scene, and generally good fun loving people, despite it being the center of politics in Texas. Modern Dallas and Houston are generally the opposite of what most folks consider Texas to be, they've largely become a Mecca of sorts for socialists, have a great many dependents on the state living in them while at the same time have some extremely wealthy and powerful entities there, and the modern culture there by and large sucks, I'm not really a fan of either of them, but there is some good history to be found in both cities. Both cities would really be more at home in a state like Illinois or Massachusetts, they are islands and anomalies in the State of Texas. San Antonio is better, but it's slowly going in the direction of Dallas/Houston. El Paso isn't much to look at, but I do recommend a visit there at some point. And yes, Amarillo has some exceptionally great Steakhouses in a land where great Steakhouses are fairly common. I'd say Hollywood is the most soulless place the U.S. I've been, by far.

No apology warranted. Next time post the links with your accusation. Come on Vals, you called his bluff and he proved you wrong. You need to have the maturity to apologize or at least say " I am wrong, you were right" I have said this before but there is a serious problem on these forums with some people not being able to accept they are wrong on any point or concede that someone may be right about something that they dispute There was no bluff called. He came here initially trolling and I called him on it. To his credit he came back and took off his troll outfit. Wow, you are now on my ****ing **** list. Lower your ego and learn how to be a better person. It's four goddamn K's. My apologies. I accepted BruceVC's 'NKKK' and didn't look closer for myself. I should have known better than to take what BruceVC ever writes as being something from reality.

Isn't it wonderful when folks call people racist and don't substantiate? Take your trolling elsewhere please. Are you kidding? It's all over the news. The guy is nuts, but if you've spent much time in Nevada, that should not surprise anyone. It doesn't really change the whole case though. It just makes it clear that everybody involved is terrible. I lived in Vegas for a year a little more than a decade ago, and have been through Nevada innumerable times for work and play. I currently still have family living there, and will likely visit them later this year. I've also made the drive up/down interstate 15 between Vegas and Utah (it's a nice drive), which goes right by Bunkerville a great many times. No doubt you think I'm nuts. Are you really implying that the people of Nevada are by and large nuts while simultaneously claiming one of it's residents is racist for some remarks that aren't necessarily racist? If so, look in the mirror for the bigotry you think others suffer. You've spent that much time in Nevada and you haven't noticed there are a lot of crazies there? I don't dismiss groups of people in the millions as crazies as you do. The majority of what I'd say is crazy that I saw in Nevada was perpetrated by tourists, of which there are a great many. This, from someone who has admitted they haven't actually been to most of the places in the U.S.. Having been to all of these places, repeatedly, even having lived in two of them for some time, you have an incredibly skewed and bigoted view of the people in these places. I hope during your vacation this summer you take the opportunity to get to know some of the locals and it enlightens you a bit.

Western logic. If victim of crime is racist this is mean everything is ok. You can rob, rape or kill him. As we known in South Africa such behaviour considered as normal ( massacres of farmers blah-blah, nobody worrying). It's not surprising when people of ex-USSR don't want such "democracy" at home. It's not 'western logic'. There's no logic to it. It's also not unique to westerners to have such thoughts. Emotional stupidity and shallow depth of thought can be found throughout all cultures and societies in humanland, it's sadly quite common.

More truths in 8 minutes here than you'll find in any 8 minute segment of any mainstream media claiming to be a news source, and Mel Gibson.

Honestly can you explain how he was trolling? I don't understand how you guys can throw this term around when it comes to some people...NKKK said Bundy was racist. Why is this trolling? 'Trolling' is a subjective term to a large degree. I'll admit that it is not the best of terms to describe what he was doing, because of it's subjectivity. What one person may view as trolling another may not. If it pleases you I'll redefine my view of what he did with his initial post, as in light of his later post it's easier to do this. NKKK initially just came into a thread discussing the problems, trials, and tribulations of the Bundy Stand-off in Nevada and what all has lead to it, and where it might be going, etc, to make a statement that Bundy was racist (something that even if he is has zero bearing on the issues discussed), and because of this he lost of sympathy for Bundy (so it's ok for racists (real or perceived) to have their rights run over and be subject to what's basically military action within the U.S. borders? And someone thinking this thinks others have hate issues?). This added zero to the discussion being had, and was initially unsubstantiated (which adds nothing good to the conversation), hence me using the term 'troll', as it is part of the m.o. of a forum troll to make posts that add nothing good to the conversation and attempt to derail it. An aside. It's mildly ironic that a guy going by the moniker NKKK, is accusing other folks of being racist. New Ku Klux Klan? I don't think so, but he's wide open for that misinterpretation.

No apology warranted. Next time post the links with your accusation. Come on Vals, you called his bluff and he proved you wrong. You need to have the maturity to apologize or at least say " I am wrong, you were right" I have said this before but there is a serious problem on these forums with some people not being able to accept they are wrong on any point or concede that someone may be right about something that they dispute There was no bluff called. He came here initially trolling and I called him on it. To his credit he came back and took off his troll outfit.

Isn't it wonderful when folks call people racist and don't substantiate? Take your trolling elsewhere please. Are you kidding? It's all over the news. The guy is nuts, but if you've spent much time in Nevada, that should not surprise anyone. It doesn't really change the whole case though. It just makes it clear that everybody involved is terrible. I lived in Vegas for a year a little more than a decade ago, and have been through Nevada innumerable times for work and play. I currently still have family living there, and will likely visit them later this year. I've also made the drive up/down interstate 15 between Vegas and Utah (it's a nice drive), which goes right by Bunkerville a great many times. No doubt you think I'm nuts. Are you really implying that the people of Nevada are by and large nuts while simultaneously claiming one of it's residents is racist for some remarks that aren't necessarily racist? If so, look in the mirror for the bigotry you think others suffer. You're right about one thing: whether or not Bundy is racist has zero bearing on his dispute with the Federal government. Public opinion might be swayed a little by his remarks, but his arguments concerning Federal power overreach are sound, and he's not remotely alone in making them. And in regards to his remarks. At least the ones I've seen (I hadn't yet tuned into the propaganda machine to see what's coming out of it before I came to the forum today, but have since done some research), his remarks do not indicate he is a racist. Is he? I don't know. I'd wager not, especially since listening to him discuss and clarify his comments, in which he says a number of things a racist person likely would not say, as well as says he's not racist. But whether Bundy is or isn't racist really doesn't matter in the context of his dispute other than to serve as to marginalize him in the eyes of the unthinking or overly sensitive to vernacular. What I've seen that he's said: These are not racist remarks, and he's making an observation that a great many people, both black and white, have made about the plight of many people in the black community, who are indeed in many situations very arguably modern slaves of a different sort. Here's one recent example of a black person, who isn't a moron and shows the ability to discern between racist and non-racist comments, addressing Bundy's remarks.

No apology warranted. Next time post the links with your accusation.

Isn't it wonderful when folks call people racist and don't substantiate? Take your trolling elsewhere please.

WTB 'Thread ignore' feature on these forums.

Nice.... haven't listened to early Crüe in too long. First three albums were the best, and the second is my favorite. Used to rock out to this a lot. http://youtu.be/PLBfMmDS8q4 Crank it!