Hiro Protagonist

I like this comment from Richard Branson from this news article.

Eight scenes - some new and some extended worth about 3 extra minutes

Don't come to Australia. We have more censorship here than nearly any country in the world. Internet is already censored with .com.au sites having to be approved. If you have an 'offensive' .com.au site they can take it away. A lot of Books, Movies and Games are banned. And if the Game isn't banned, then it's modified to the point where it doesn't resemble anything like what the original game is. I think we're the only Western OECD country without a R rating for games. And now the Government wants to introduce an internet filter that is similar to China's internet filter, so you won't be able to veiw most of those sites you mentioned. Even links at wikileaks and Youtube will be banned in the internet filter.

Really depends on your personal situation. I think it's better with things like Travelling. It's cheaper now in releative to your income to travel to another country than it was 40 years ago. The technology is fantastic. Games are like worlds instead of a couple of pixels on the screen. I still have my Atari 2600 and C64 though. Information is at your fingertips instead of going to a library. How I wished I had the internet when I was at school instead of looking in an outdated school encyclopaedia to do my assignments. On the other hand, no one I know play board games which I miss. And I wouldn't mind going to a circus. I mean a real circus with Lions and Tigers and Elephants, etc.

Despite this, humans breed faster than the virus can kill. Perhaps it could be a final solution for Africa, when the virus kills everyone, the West can go in and fix the place up and run it properly.

2012. Special Effects was amazing. It looked like they put every disaster movie that's been made in the last 20 years and put it all into one movie. (Dante's Peak, the Tsunami tidal waves from Deep Impact/Armageddon only BIGGER, Day After Tomorrow, etc). It wasn't like previous disaster movies where you sit through 90 minutes of dialogue to see 5 minutes of special effects at the end... This was special effects all the way through! With my chinese girlfriend and her neice, they loved the chinese angle to the movie as well.

Talking about religious discrimination, how about Muslims having seperate toilets from non-muslims at an Australian University? I know the website itself is bias but the article itself is a bit of a worry. Reminds me of the Black and White toilets that happened in America. I've been trying to find another source to this to substantiate this story but all the mainstream media seem to not be reporting this.

True. Which is why i would regard sharia law as incompatible with liberal democracy. BUt being a muslim does not necessarily mean you expect shria law to be applied any more than being a christian means you expect all that guff in Deuteronomy about stoning people to be carried out. Muslims living in western countries practise their cultures according to the cultural traditions of their individual countries and in some cases according to different ethnic traditions within these national cultural traditions. Assimilation is seen as a racist model that expressed the supremacy of the host society in cultural rather than racial terms. The replacement of assimilation is multiculturalism as the dominant theme in immigration and settlement policy. Muslim integration or lack thereof, has a lot to do with the levels of racism and discrimination that still exist in that society [i.e. the blame goes to the host country's residents racism and not the muslims lack of integration]*. This is taken from the Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship website. * My interpretation in brackets of this statement.

Oh and the hybrid cars I find laughable when it comes to cost. A brand new Toyota Prius here in Australia costs $44,000.00 but I can buy a Brand new $20,000.00 car and spend around 3 years supply (~ $24,000.00) in petrol and still will probably be cheaper to run before I even drive the Prius out the door.

I agree with Wals. Especially with point 2. Reducing pollution is incredibly expensive. Here in Australia, if you want to put solar panels on your roof, you're looking at around AU$10,000 plus extra costs to put these on your roof and you'll get about $3500.00 in a one off rebate from the Government on installation. You'll still be out of pocket around $6500.00 and it's been suggested here that it will take about 7 years for the money saved by getting energy from the sun plus yearly rebates to equal the amount of money you would have spent from the electricity grid. So after 7 years, you'll be saving money. The average home owner probably won't do that. To suggest that businesses and consumers will have a choice to reduce thier carbon output is laughable. In many cases both business and consumers don

Other groups were persecuted by the nazi's. My mum was a Jehovah's Witness, my Uncle was a homosexual, my grandfather was a political dissident, my aunt had a Physical and Mental Disability, my father's next door neighbour was jewish and they lived in a gypsy community. Tough time was had by all. So MY opinion means more than anyone else on this board because I have more experience than anyone else.

I'm a hero. Worship me you sycophants!

No I checked to be sure because I thought it did too. When they didn't continue with the storyline in the next episode, I assumed the next group would find the kino on the planet and worked it out. Didn't know about the webisode with the solution. Are people so dumb they need a solution to be told to them. I thought it was pretty obvious.

There's so much retconning going on at the moment it's a wonder the whole Heroes universe doesn't blow up.

The Blue hand stuff reminded me of Firefly.

Latest episode seemed like a waste of time.

Yes, I've seen sweatshops first hand in China. I doubt you have.

I know you(ve) work in a call centre Volo. Being a bit defensive?

Personally, I think call centres are modern day sweatshops.

It seems to be something shows are doing now and I don't know why. I noticed it with the later seasons of CSI and now Sanctuary.

Huh? What has this got to do with V for Vendetta?

I'm still going to watch this though. Due to there being not much else on TV that's better. I need to watch more than one or two goods shows a week and this is about the best out of a bad lot.

I've got the entire season of Harpers Island but haven't watched it yet. I've been meaning to though, but now I'm having second thoughts after your post.

Amazing watching it in High Definition.