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#284046
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Colony Collapse - Why are the bees dying and what is the impact?
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If it were the cellphones (I'm not saying it is, I'm too new to the issue, as are most people, but it is one viable theory) would we be willing to part with them? After all, not many people had them ten years ago and we were just fine. What would the ripple effect be through the economy? The concrete loss of the entire wireless industry would be one major blow that would undoubtedly lead to a recession, but also cell phones have allowed business to operate at a faster pace. Would this have an effect on general productivity? My guess is that the economic effect would be massive. But would we be willing to take the hit given the choice between the food chain and wireless communication? What would we deem as more important? Survival of the food chain or economic pressure?

Makes me want to rent Soylent Green.
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#283958
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Colony Collapse - Why are the bees dying and what is the impact?
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This problem, largely scientific, deserves its own thread. For the uninitiated, the honeybee population is suddenly and precipitously dropping off in North America, Europe and the UK and there is a major concern for the effect this will have on the food supply. The cause is currently unknown, but it's hypothesized to be something environmental, chemical, or possibly even technological. It could be mites, it could be a virus, it could be the genetically altered crops, it could be pesticides ... There is even a German study suggesting widespread cellphone usage may be screwing up bees' internal navigation systems.

Herald Tribunehas a good introductory article.
Google's roundup on news coverage
An Article in Science Daily yesterday talks briefly about a viral possibility.
An article at ZDNet about the Cell phone study.

Food for thought. Thought for food.
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#282888
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Info: Your work is being sold
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/282888/action/topic#282888
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If anybody at Lucasfilm is reading this board, please understand the main difference between the Fans-for-Fans editors/preservationists vs. the opportunist dickholes who capitalize on the hard work of those who intended for the work to be free.

Go after assholes like this first. We're the ones purchasing your products (over and over). Those are the pirates.

As for the rest of us, put a world of hurtin' on anybody caught profiting off these projects. The profits belong to the copyright holders, official distributors and nobody else. Whatever we do is intended for small scale and for those who have actually bought the titles off the shelf.
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#282885
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Virginia Tech shooting
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/282885/action/topic#282885
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Students who were in Norris noted the speed and skill with which he reloaded. He wasn't a newcomer to handguns, that is for certain. It will be interesting to see who sold them to him. After all, he was a resident alien, NOT a citizen, despite having lived here since he was a child. So he did NOT have a right to bear these arms. The serial numbers were filed of but I hope like hell ATF can identify its lineage. I'm optimistic they will.

On a totally irrelevant bit of "character development," his parents owned a dry cleaning store in Fairfax County. How is that for reinforcing a stereotype?
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#282840
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Virginia Tech shooting
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/282840/action/topic#282840
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Let's not make a mockery of this thing. The only thing worthy of ridicule right now is the press, who is trying to make this somehow the fault of the administration, as if anything could be done to lock down an emergency situation that nobody knew wasn't over yet. Fucking jackals at CNN and NBC especially need to be run out of Blacksburg on a rail for their damned insinuations. Armchair quarterbacks indeed.
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#282654
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Indiana Jones IV
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/282654/action/topic#282654
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Originally posted by: TheCassidy
This is a completely unsubstantiated claim, espcially the part about going with a "younger cast." How does Cate Blanchett fit into that?

Simple math.

Harrison Ford = 64
John Rhys-Davies = 62
Sean Connery = 76
Denholm Elliot = Rest In Peace
William Hootkins = Rest In Peace
Karen Allen = 55
Kate Capshaw = 53
Allison Doody = 40
Jonathan Ke Quan = 35

Cate Blanchett = 37
Shia LaBeouf = 20

Of the "Original Indiana Jones Trilogy" cast, only Short Round is younger than Cate ... by only 2 years.