Matchoo

quote:Originally posted by Terran Marine: Jaguar I have a question for you. If Saddam had all those WMDs why didn't he use them when we invaded Iraq. Hmm? Maybe he figured that since he had no chance of beating the U.S., instead of using them and showing to the world that the U.S was correct, he hid them, moved them to other countries, or both. That way when the U.S. did invade, we wouldn't find anything and we would look foolish and uncredible to the rest of the world.

I'm not asking you to upload the "45 gigabyte high quality 2 hour demonstration video". What I'm saying is you don't have the right to go around saying it's 'TRUTH' until it has been proven true, just as Takvah really doesn't have the right to call you a liar until it has been proven false. Until one or the other has been proven, it's your word against his. I agree though, this whole subject probably should be dropped.

I don't agree with a lot of Takvah's ideas, but I have to agree with him some on this video. If you claim that you've tested it and seen that it was dubbed over then it is your responsibility to prove to us that it's true, not us having to prove for ourselfves that it's true or false. It's like President Bush finding the WMD's and then telling the rest of the world that we found them, but we're not going to show them to you because you have to find them yourself. I'm not saying that the video was or wasn't dubbed over. I'm just saying that if you want Takvah to believe you, then you need to show some proof.

Maybe the battery is really an artifact that has yet to be found, and once we find it then we can use the SR to charge it. I say we each take a different solar system and do a search of every planet and moon to make sure we're not missing anything...

I'm not sure if Africa will be much safer. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5652141/ Maybe Antarctica would be safer...As long as you don't stumble upon any strange pyramids.

quote:Originally posted by Gol_Stoan: Wow, my aging rig can actually handle this game. I am getting pretty decent framerates (in my opinion at least, it stutters a bit in some places but overall it is pretty smooth running), 1024x768, Medium detail. Amazingly enough, I get better frame rates in Doom 3 than Deus Ex: Invisible War. At 1024x768, Deus Ex is a complete slideshow, I have to drop it to 800x600 just to make the game playable. What frame rate are you getting in DXIW? I'm running DXIW at 1024x768 on a AMD 650 with 256meg of ram and a Radeon 9800XT 128meg and getting 15-20fps, which isn't great but it's playable. If you're getting a better framerate in Doom3 then DXIW, I'm wondering if I would be able to play it.

I beamed resnig into a enemy base one time so they could kill him while I watched from above, and the moron actually killed all of them instead. I don't know what he had for breakfast that morning, but I want my entire crew to start eating the same thing.....

By giving the movie a PG-13 rating, not only will they open up their audience, but they may also be able to tantalize people who normally wouldn't watch the Alien or Predator movies because of their ratings enough that they'll decide to watch them. Same reason you get samples at a grocery store, or demos for a video game.

quote:Originally posted by Takvah: Did anyone catch Bush yesterday as he was announcing the new military budget? He said that, "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we," Bush said on Thursday. What did he just say?! You have got to watch the determination on Bush's face there is a link to the video on the right. This is the best freudian slip EVER. OH MY GOD THIS GUY IS A MORON! I haven't seen it widely reported either, I had to be watching Democracy Now! to hear it. Some media bias. This is found on Yahoo! UK lol. Oh and nice work George... ya CHIMP. God justice will be served if Kerry uses this in an ad campaign... NO TRUER WORDS HAVE EVER BEEN UTTERED BY THIS MAN. Maybe the reason it wasn't widely reported is because most everybody who heard it realized that 'and neither do we' means that we are trying to think like the terrorists so that we can anticipate possible attacks and therefore prevent them easier.

I got it......The it is the number of hours the cleaning bots wait before they go out and clean the solar panels again.

quote:Originally posted by Cc: quote:What's your excuse for NOT understanding?Maybe my excuse is in how the information is presented. If someone apparently does not know the difference between 'there', 'their', or 'they're', how can I believe what they say is credible? There - generally used when pointing to a place. e.g. Put the groceries THERE. Their - shows posession. e.g. They are going to THEIR cabin for the weekend. They're - short for 'they are'. e.g. They're going boating this afternoon. Now that I've proven that I can use they're, there, and their properly, does that make everything I say, including the following sentence, true? "Earth is flat and if we sail too far we'll fall off the edge." No? Then quit with the grammer = credibility nonsense. (p.s. Notice how in the sentence above I used TOO instead of TO or TWO and WE'LL instead of WELL or WILL. I guess that's all the more reason to believe every word I say, right?)

It probably doesn't do anything yet. As soon as one of us comes up with a reasonable idea about what it does that SC likes, he will program it in and that is what it will do.....j/k SC.

quote:Originally posted by El Che: quote:Originally posted by Jaguar: Kerry is NOT capable of understanding and dealing with the danger, he will run,, just as Gore would have run, just as Clinton ran before him. Democrats run, therefore INVITING more terrorist attacks. A preemptive policy and an attack after the fact, keeps us safer. You don't grin and bear it, you take the fight to them But didn't the terrorist attacks take place several MONTHS after bush was in office? So WHO was "inviting" the terrorist attack at that time? Was it Bill Clinton, former president? Was it Al Gore, former vice president? Who was it Jaguar? WHO was in OFFICE when this tragedy took place? I think it's time to take the blinders off, Jaguar. Good point El Che. I guess there is NO possible way that the terrorists could have been planning it while Clinton was in office and just didn't get to implementing it until Bush was in office, is there. Maybe all the other attack on the U.S. in the last 20 years have been invited by Bush also. I can see him sending out a form letter to all the terrorists years ago telling them that he is going to be president someday so they had better get their attacks while there was a president who wouldn't do anything to retaliate.

quote:Originally posted by El Che: quote:Originally posted by Jaguar: Kerry is NOT capable of understanding and dealing with the danger, he will run,, just as Gore would have run, just as Clinton ran before him. Democrats run, therefore INVITING more terrorist attacks. A preemptive policy and an attack after the fact, keeps us safer. You don't grin and bear it, you take the fight to them But didn't the terrorist attacks take place several MONTHS after bush was in office? So WHO was "inviting" the terrorist attack at that time? Was it Bill Clinton, former president? Was it Al Gore, former vice president? Who was it Jaguar? WHO was in OFFICE when this tragedy took place? I think it's time to take the blinders off, Jaguar. Good point El Che. I guess there is NO possible way that the terrorists could have been planning it while Clinton was in office and just didn't get to implementing it until Bush was in office, is there. Maybe all the other attack on the U.S. in the last 20 years have been invited by Bush also. I can see him sending out a form letter to all the terrorists years ago telling them that he is going to be president someday so they had better get their attacks while there was a president who wouldn't do anything to retaliate.

I feel that as long as I don't distribute it or try to make a profit off of it, any editing I do in the confines of my home is fair. I've actually been contemplating making a device myself that I could use to filter out my DVD's. Wouldn't be too hard or expensive to make. This is just how I feel on the subject, and you're not going to change my opinion, just like I'm not going to change yours. But that's the nice thing about America. We are each entitled to our own opinion.

quote:Originally posted by Kartoffel: If this is supposed to be a joke, maybe it should be in the other forum? The information's not a joke, Kerry is...

quote:Originally posted by Kartoffel: If this is supposed to be a joke, maybe it should be in the other forum? The information's not a joke, Kerry is...

Hey SC, do you think you can get the rights to make a Stargate video game? It seems that you already have a lot of the engine in the UC engine. All you would need to do is add stargates to get between planets, a few new ships, enemies on the planets, etc. It would probably be mostly first-person an ground based, but it would sure be an awesome game. (hopefully this doesn't take this forum off topic. If so, feel free to move or delete this post)

This same type issue came up when Titanic was released on video. People would take their VHS copies into a store that would then splice out the questionable parts for a price. I can see how making a profit off doing that would be wrong. If I buy a movie, I have every right to fast-forward through it, mute it, splice into or out of a VHS, use a DVD as a coaster, frisbee, etc. What I can't do is modify it then show it to others for a profit or distribute it. So I guess what really needs to happen is the makers of the DVD filtering need to make the machine that can filter the DVD, then sell it along with some tools that allow the user to select what gets filtered from DVD themselves.

I admit that in some cases, the violence and language play an important part in the movies, but not always. Have you seen The Whole Nine Yards? There's one nudity scene in there that if they had left out, they probably could have received a 'PG13' rating instead of a 'R' rating. It is a great movie, and by leaving that scene out they could have opened it up to a much broader audience. But they put it in, it received a 'R' rating, and now a lot of people who would probably enjoy it won't watch it.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5479484/ The movie studios just don't get it. By allowing the consumer to remove material they find offensive, they will be able to sell more of their movies to people who normally wouldn't buy them. More sales = more $$$. I understand that they feel that their 'artistics works' are being modified, but really it is no different than me skipping to the next chapter in the movie, fast-forwarding it, or pressing my mute button. Next thing you know they will be demanding that DVD players only allow you to start a movie from the beginning, and once you do you can't fast-forward, rewind, or stop it until the movie and end-credits are over. That way there is no modification to their 'artistic work' and how they meant it to be watched. Also the fear that the technology would eventually allow the consumer to skip past commercials is stupid. A DVD player allows me to go forward or backward at will, but you don't get that luxury with broadcast television. If you want to get a drink, change the channel, or take a nap during a commercial you can, but you still have to wait until the show starts back up again. (unless you have a TIVO-like device that records the program for you and lets you re-play it later.)

It's amazing how Kerry can get together with celebrities and call President Bush all sorts of nasty names, but when the roles are reversed and a Republican calls a bunch of Democrats 'girlie men', there's demands for an apology.

It's amazing how Kerry can get together with celebrities and call President Bush all sorts of nasty names, but when the roles are reversed and a Republican calls a bunch of Democrats 'girlie men', there's demands for an apology.

Kerry reminds me of Frank Burns on M*A*S*H when he received a purple heart because he got a shell fragment in his eye (we won't mention that it was a EGG SHELL fragment he got from a hard boiled egg...Ooops, I've said too much) quote:Originally posted by Jaguar: Kerry's Fellow veterans speak out.... Yeah, like I want this guy in the White House, yeah, right, sure thing..... The response you are going to get back from Kerry's supporters is that those are just people who did terrible things and are all working together to cover their backs. It is a huge conspiracy (organized by President Bush) against Kerry, who is the only one with the integrity to come clean about what everyone around him (but not him) did during Vietnam......Yeah right. [ 07-20-2004, 01:56 PM: Message edited by: Matchoo ]

Kerry reminds me of Frank Burns on M*A*S*H when he received a purple heart because he got a shell fragment in his eye (we won't mention that it was a EGG SHELL fragment he got from a hard boiled egg...Ooops, I've said too much) quote:Originally posted by Jaguar: Kerry's Fellow veterans speak out.... Yeah, like I want this guy in the White House, yeah, right, sure thing..... The response you are going to get back from Kerry's supporters is that those are just people who did terrible things and are all working together to cover their backs. It is a huge conspiracy (organized by President Bush) against Kerry, who is the only one with the integrity to come clean about what everyone around him (but not him) did during Vietnam......Yeah right. [ 07-20-2004, 01:56 PM: Message edited by: Matchoo ]