SOCL

While grading some papers (most of the class is doing okay), I was flipping through channels and came across it. I saw the whole of episode 8 [or 7...hell, whatever episode happened to air today (13 November) here in the USA] and, I must say, I dislike it. The animation is just like that of Samauri Jack and the new Dexter's Lab! I knew it was going to be like that, but I must say now that I've seen it I despise it even more!!! I think I'll do as Jahled did and take some of my anger out on those fools who live in Vice City on my PS2....

Yes...but no emperor!

Sadly...yes.... AND Come again? WOO! Only about sixty more posts!

Congratulations, Mask!!! Now...FULL SPEED TO 2000 POSTS!!!

And you'll never believe this! Begun this Price War has....

"More airplanes crash into the ocean than submarines crash into the sky." I have another OK joke, but it's lengthy (like the last one)...I'll post it next time....

That'd be just like him! He is the Master of all Spam after all. Perhaps...but I thought we had given Antilliles that particular title....

hmmm... what did you mean? I think you know what I mean... Jeez, why does everything say that?

You may be correct about the shooting. I don't know much about it, I just thought I should inform everyone so that way the people who don't know of its existance would...and then get more info.

So instead we'll all have tea and laugh about it....

I didn't want to yet divulge it, but as it turns out, my Native American (since the BEAK Imperium is usually politically correct) agent has found our feline friend--I mean fiend.

In that case...can you make anything out of this?

What is unsettling about it? The way "movie magic" moves these days, a good movie can be turned out in an unorthodox small amount of time.

Did I say typical Vong response? Oops, I meant to say typical Vegetable Vong response.

Yikes, that doesn't sound like too much fun. Well, that's me, but...do I have to?...

Typical Vong response.

Ah, yes, now I recognize the top three. The others...

This topic seemed to get us to one point, enlightenment. We all now have a greater understanding of each other and each other's opinions, whether we agree to them or not. One way of another, one general conclusion to all of this can be made and that is that no matter how we look at it, freedom has been attacked and freedom must be defended. We all have our opinions on how this must be done and who must lead it...and how it mustn't be done and who should not/mustn't lead it. One way or another, it's terrible to see war once again in our world...a war that seems to have no clear end. We can all agree that freedom must be defended for the common good of mankind, no matter if it's through war or not, for we all have our own individual opinions and that, my friends, is what makes us free.

Well, Sctah, after thinking it through (and some after getting some help) I figured it out. As it turns out 3x$9 is $27, but the tab was only $26...that is where the extra dollar came from. I have a joke today: "A guy goes into a bar and orders some things to drink. At the end of the night he $10. The bartender tells him to pay up, but he tells the bartender, "I bet you the ten that I can bite my right eye." The bartender laughs and agrees. So the guy takes out his false right eye, puts it in his mouth, and lightly bites it...the bartender pays the $10 and the guy leaves. The next evening, the guy returns and has some more to drink. At the end of the night he owes $15. The bartender tells him to pay up, but once again the guy has a different idea. He tells the bartender, "I bet you the fifteen that I can bite my other eye." The bartender thinks about it for a moment, then snaps in the guy's face. The guy flinches, so the bartender is sure the guy isn't blind. The bartender nods in agreement, so the guy takes out his false teeth and bites his left eye...the bartender pays the $15 and the guy leaves. The next evening, the gu once again returns and has some more to drink. At the end of the night he once again owes $15. The bartender approaches the guy and says, "Okay, no games this time, pay up." The guy responds, "Whoa, hold on a sec, bud, I've got a a better idea." The bartender rolls his eyes, but listens. The guy looks at a few shotglasses and says, "You slide those pretty quick across the bar, right?" The bartender looks at the shotglasses, then back at the guy. "Yeah." "Well, I bet you my the fifteen, plus the $10 and $15 from the other two nights that I can piss in one of those shotglasses as you slide it down the bar at full speed." The bartender tries not laugh, but agrees. So the guy gets up on bar, unzips. The bartender flings the shotglass across the bar and, of course, the guy ends up pissing all over the bar. The bartender laughs and cleans the bar up, while the guy pays him the $40. Before the guy leaves, though, the bartender asks him, "Hey, you knew you were going to lose that. Why did you try it?" The guy grins and points to a group of less-than-happy looking guys sitting a table in the back. "You see those guys back there? I bet them $200 that I could piss all over your bar and you would laugh about it."

Yes, lets not hope it follows the Jurassic Park 3 path.... ...cringe...

Exotic locations attract tourists, tourism attracts companies/corporations, corporations attract more tourists, more tourists attract settlers, settlers...well, you know. The point is, space colonies would probably start off as tourist locations and slowly, but surely attract more and more people, until finally people don't want to leave and start living there. I can see space colonies as being one the first steps toward "living among the stars" because of both the awe and fun of it, and the economic gain there it would possess. Mars I do not exclude, though, because humans are, by nature, curious and what wouldn't quench our thirst for exploration into the unknown than to set off and land on a planet that is not Earth....

I find it interesting that no one mentioned the idea of "space colonies". Yeah, go ahead, laugh all you want, but the idea has been around for as long as man has looked at the stars and said, "Ooo, pretty; I wish I could go up there." I mean, space colonies could be set up on the Moon, but then you can make "free-floating" ones to be in the LaGrange points around the Earth (there exist a total of 5 LaGrange points). Here's a good site about it all of the space colony (don't laugh, I know it is related to an anime series or two, but it has A LOT of fact about space colonies in it). But as mentioned before, as much as I would love to see us going into space more and more, I can't honestly see it happening. Humans are greedy and without a reason that invloves gain, why would we? I mean, what politician is going to say: "Alright, you can have 5 billion more to go into space"? None, sadly. The only reason NASA exists here in the U.S. is probably because of image. I'm sure that if it wasn't because the American public would get angry at not having men in space, the U.S. government would take away the space program and use the money for other matters, and probably allow it to fall into the hands of politically active private corporations. It wouldn't be the first time it's happened (not specifically with the space program). One way or another, it will happen. Mankind will stop wanting to be contained on Earth and will break free more and more until finally...well...we'll see. Well, if any of you are interested in owning land in space, I once found a website where they said they were legally (through the UN) selling land on the Moon, Mars, the moons of Mars, and one of the moons of Jupiter.

I was watching Alien: The Director's Cut in an I-MAX theater in a mall in Nashville with my friend, and of course, here came the previews. ARGH! Forty minutes of previews (I could gripe about that, so use this thread for that too)!!! But then...there it was! The final preview was a quick one, showing a few scales, a bit of flashy this and that, and then a quick black exoskeleton...then the earth from space. Across the screen were the following: "AVP: Alien VS Predator" Me and my friend, on the verge of committing suicide from the endless babble of the previews, practically leapt out of our seats in excitment! ALIEN VS PREDATOR, AT LAST!!! It's scheduled to come out some time in August of next year!!! I just thought some of you might be interested in knowing about that! We also saw a pretty cool preview for Timeline a movie based on the AWESOME novel by Michael Cricthon (writer of Jurassic Park, Sphere, and The Andromeda Strain).

Can't say I've heard of any of the ones you listed for the United States, but I can tell you a few things about what's going on here. The big name, retail stores are at all-out war with each other and it seems that Wal-Mart imperium will end up prospering. In the tiny city outside the base (I mean, itty-bitty) K-Mart and Wal-Mart were at odds for a while, along with another one called Winn Dixie. First Winn Dixie fell and they closed the two they had here. Now K-Mart, with three centers, is closing all of them. Additionally, when I moved here three years ago, there were only two Wal-Marts...currently there are 5, and that's not counting the 3 others they're opening. Guys, it's a monopoly! These people are insane! And to make matters worse, they're not regular, smaller Wal-Marts, I'm talking about the enormous, double-size, one acre supercenters (plus, they're adding a ~twelve acre warehouse and district headquarters outside the city)! Before I leave this place, there will be 8! That's about the size of the entire town-city, for goodness sake ...well, maybe not, but still, good god!!! Clarksville, Tennessee, USA: Land of the Wal-Marts