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Yeah, I'm probably a decade behind, as I haven't touched MM since my thesis in '94, though I have done some Six Sigma during my work experience. Just thought it might qualify as "foreign custom" adopted into US.

More than likely. It wasn't until the twentieth anniversary that Lucas digitized them.

Kaizen was originally a Japanese discipline, but it has been adopted by manufacturing management all over the world. "Continual Improvement", it refers to improving the production process, rather than the product (as in the US). To illustrate: the US car manufacturers made larger and larger fins on their 1950s cars (improving the product: linked to the current market trend, etc), whereas the Japanese car manufacturers improved the factories, so that it was easier to make the cars in the factories: so their cars started to have round edges (which were obviously more conducive to the manufacture process).

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No. What you are proposing (supporting? deriding? I can't tell anymore) is replacing the society of the USA with something like that of modern Russia. Without a civic duty: without citizens contributing to the upkeep of the society, the society will die. All relationships require an investment, lest they die. You are advocating, with your denial of civic duty, a dictatorship of some description. Because without a strong, robust and fair society to protect the little guy, you will let the biggest gorilla make the rules. Without the US liberal (small "L") government, the break-up of the Standard Oil monopoly, for only one example, would never have occurred. Look at Putin and GasProm. Anarchy would only work if there was a lot of equipotent groups, like the city states of Ancient Greece, for example. As soon as one gained a hegemony, like Athens did with her navy in this illustration, then they had supremacy.

I had the original theatrical edition of Star Wars on VHS, and it was in letterbox format.

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Yes, the bots seem quiet today... almost as if they have become mute. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That's just the mods jumping quicker than the forumites. But, yeah, it'll be moo, soon.

I am disqualified.

I saw Ice Age 2 on the plane (couldn't watch anything with drama and dialogue: no noise-cutting earphones) and it wasn't that bad. Arrested Development was much better, though. (Mr Tudyk isn't in Arrested Development, though: that was just on the Virgin Atlantic flight as well.)

Yeah, the war will just be the background upon which the rich tapestry of the individual stories are drawn. Besides, Mel was one of many who started smuggling after the war, but there would have been plenty during, as well. he was Sonny in I, Robot I picked his voice first, then checked it. I am *so* proud.

I could have written that myself.

Checkmate!

But I never submitted an application. There must be a bug in the system ... or you are a bot.

Is that like being almost but not quite completely unpredictable?

You'd never see that in a Hasbro game!

What about Jaime? :'(

So ... meta is true? No, someone is an idiot ... I wonder who that could be ...

I just watched The Sum of All Fears, because it was on tv and I have the dvd (and I hate advert breaks), and then I watched Mission Impossible, because it's in the same triple pack. I won't be watching The Core again, though. Ever.

67% of statistics are made up on the spot.

Really? I like that bit because it's near-enough to total modification time!

... Or never see the light of day.