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#96060
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guys need help
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/96060/action/topic#96060
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I think Future Shop is a Canadian equivalent of Best Buy. Actually, I think Best Buy owns Future Shop but hasn't changed over the name.

Yep, here's a history from the Future Shop website...

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In some 20 years, Future Shop has grown from a "one store operation" located in Burnaby, British Columbia, to Canada's largest, fastest-growing national retailer and e-tailer of consumer electronic products for the digital age with more than 100 stores from coast to coast and still growing.

Established in 1982, Future Shop's first store was located in Vancouver, British Columbia and showcased 4,000 square feet of the latest consumer electronic products. During the late 1980s, Future Shop followed an aggressive growth strategy, quickly expanding operations into the provinces of Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario.

By 1990, Future Shop had become Canada's largest electronics retailer. Throughout the 1990s Future Shop continued to expand into the remaining provinces in Canada and by fiscal 2001 annual sales had surpassed $2 billion.

Today, Future Shop and its more than 8,500 associates are committed to helping Canadians get MORE out of the technology they buy and offer the latest digital products along with a wide selection of brand-named televisions, computers, audio, entertainment software and hardware and appliances.

Future Shop stores are a division of Burnaby-based Best Buy Canada Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY)
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#96046
Topic
New ROTS Trailer
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/96046/action/topic#96046
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But, technically, you'll be seeing it the same time as the rest of the world. You'll just be a boatload more tired than the rest of us here in the States.

Actually, I get to see the trailer at about 8 p.m. CST. If the west coast doesn't see it until 9 p.m., then I'm technically seeing it three hours ahead of them. If I see it then, you should be able to find a download at around 2 a.m. your time. Still Friday, but a bit earlier on.
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#96039
Topic
Ep3 Theatrical poster
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/96039/action/topic#96039
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It still would have bothered me. They did such a great job with the Jake Lloyd teaser poster with Vader's shadow cast on the Tatooine hut and they've been trying to top that. And failing miserably. Even if it was a photo-perfect vision of Vader's helmet, I still wouldn't have like it. The concept was just corny as hell.
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#95916
Topic
Ep3 Theatrical poster
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/95916/action/topic#95916
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Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones
The fan made teaser poster that depicted an effeminate, pouting Anakin standing in a hallway with the image of Darth Vader reflected in the floor was better than the official teaser poster. Surprising? Not really.


Any chance you've got a link to that one? I haven't seen it.
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#95901
Topic
Firefox browser
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/95901/action/topic#95901
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They'll still target Firefox. Not everyone is in it to bring down Microschlock. Some just want a big audience and the growing legions of Firefox users will soon be the perfect target audience. They difference is that Firefox has a tendency to come up with patches and fixes much more readily. Or so I've been told.

And, yes, Hotmail does look a bit weird in Firefox. But you get used to it.
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#95899
Topic
guys need help
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/95899/action/topic#95899
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I really am of the opinion that Eminem is not creating this new level of hate in people at all. Ignorance, hatred, bigotry, etc., all already exist in people to some degree. However, while most try to suppress it, Em just lets it out. It's his way of dealing with his past. Let it all out in the open. Let people see you are vulnerable and have problems. And that's how you deal with it. It's no different than a person whaling on a punching bag. Just more public.

But it's not causing more hatred. No more than already existed out there anyway. Hatred exists in this world. Ignorance exists in this world. Bigotry exists in this world. And they would exist with or without Eminem and rap music. Rap is not to blame.

Any violence that has occurred in the world since Em's music has come out is not because of him or any rapper for that matter. It would still have happened. Music, movies, and video games just become scapegoats because people don't know who else to blame. Look at Columbine. They tried to blame it on Marilyn Manson and his music. And the media did so very effectively. Only months later, when it was out of the spotlight, did it come to light that these two kids hated Manson's music. But does that matter? Nope. It's out there. Manson is indirectly responsible for Columbine. Didn't you know that?

How do you deal with pain and frustration? How do you let it all out so it doesn't get bottled up inside you and make you explode?