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#266666
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Avian Flu
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266666/action/topic#266666
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CONSPIRACY THEORIST MODE

Any one ever think about the possibility of these Asian flus that are always poping up could be created in a labratory? The is a massive over population problem there, enough to support regulations for the number of chilrden you can have and to "justify" infantacide. Typically it is the elderly who fall victim to these thing, as well as the weak. If you were to want to purge your nation of some excess baggage, this way gets rid of the old pensionists who, once dead, will no longer require pension checks. It also gets rid of the sickly types and some forms of handicaped people. With a good portion of the elderly and weak out of the way, you are left with the fitest of the nation, and a lot less wasted resources.

Just a thought. Not saying I believe this is what is happening. It is more of a "what if" sort of thing to think about. Worse things have happened in our history than this.

Conspiracy theory mode off.
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#266662
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Superman 2 The Donner Cut
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266662/action/topic#266662
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Originally posted by: HotRod
But it didn't make any sense!

He spun the world back -again- to the point of the baddies being back in the Phantom thing. So basically all of 2 never happened!

It just didn't have a good ending. Parts were better than the original, granted, but I felt for the most that this felt like a TV edit and not Lesters!



HA! Then how would you explain Superman's son in the new third Superman movie? Oh... you don't explain it? Yeah, that sounds about right. Never mind.
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#266661
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To those who bought the Limited Edition Lord of the Rings DVDs...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266661/action/topic#266661
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"For instance, in Fellowship there's a car in the background of one shot in the field. For the extended, they took it out,"

That is ashame. Mistakes like that in movies are always fun. You know it is just a movie anyway, I really don't think the car took away from anybodies enjoyment of the movie, if they even managed to see it in the first place. Well, at least they didn't go the Lucas way and magnify the the car twenty times so you couldn't help but notice it (like the stormtrooper hitting his head had an exagerated sound effect placed for the special editions. Making what was once something cool to look for, something annoyingly silly.)
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#266616
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Doomsday Clock changed - 5 minutes to midnight
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266616/action/topic#266616
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"The same kind of people that go against every single thing science has proven about the obvious effects of such weapons are the same kind of people that deny global warming to be caused by polution and blame it to be a liberal commie invention to end freedom or something (might as well deny the Holocaust, as some of these people are the ones who happily sang with Borat to "throw the Jew down the well")."

Uh... What? From my experience it is the same people who dislike Nuclear weapons that try to argue the holocaust never happened.

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#266501
Topic
To those who bought the Limited Edition Lord of the Rings DVDs...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266501/action/topic#266501
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The new releases (as far as I understand) are just the extended edition AND the theatrical edition on a ONE two sided DVD (I am assuming this would mean the quality is lower since the EE is on one side and the theatrical on the other. The initial release of the extended edition was on two dual layer discs, while with this release it seems the EE is squished onto one dual layer side of the DVD 18 with the theatrical on the other).

All the bonus feature are completely different from the original DVD release and the extended edition release.
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#266496
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Doomsday Clock changed - 5 minutes to midnight
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266496/action/topic#266496
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Exactly, it is a bunch of scare-mongers.

ricarleite said: "So we're back to the "Threads"/"Day After" early 80s nuclear era. India and Pakistan, the United States, whose GW Bush backed out of the Missle Treaty and thrown away what Kennedy and Reagan worked, Iran and North Korea performing nuclear tests and developments under the UN incompetent and abrasive sight..."

Kennedy and Reagan's work is not lost at all. We are in a different game now. America and much of the western world have a hard time understanding this, but it is all a matter of religion. They have a hard time understanding it because they like to think religion is outdated and ignorant, and it can be in some cases. The soviets were atheist, when you are an atheist you want to preserve you life as long as you can, because once that is spent, you belief system tells you there is nothing else. The Muslims believe in an afterlife, therefore their death means nothing. This is why they have no trouble blowing themselves up on demand. Because their doctrine teaches that they will reach the ultimate level in the afterlife if they sacrifice themselves in a holy war. Japan was this same way. It is why the kamikaze pilots had no problem slamming their selves into enemy ships. People in the western world can't seem to comprehend this, they seem to think that you can reason with Muslim terrorist and talk them out of it. No matter what rewards you can offer them on earth, they will never compare to the rewards they believe they will receive in the afterlife.
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#266489
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Doomsday Clock changed - 5 minutes to midnight
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266489/action/topic#266489
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Originally posted by: Nanner Split
Doomsday Clock? What kind of bullshit is that?!


The finest in all the lands! You can search the world through and never find better quality bullshits.


Johnboy said: "The Soviets were at least willing to play ball with us. They knew that if they let up on their threats, we'd let up on ours. They knew that if they attacked us, we'd take them down as well. The Soviets were different because they thought it best to practice self-preservation. But those psychos running Iran and North Korea don't seem to realize (or care) that attacking the States or Israel would be the suicide of them and their entire countries. That's what makes them more dangerous."

Nail... hammer... BAM! Right on the head!
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#266440
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Nanner Split's Super Fun Time Land
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266440/action/topic#266440
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Originally posted by: sbpplr
really? so i suppose just reading forums and not making posts isnt enough to be considered not a troll....oh well


Nanner is a cool guy, and you are a friend of his so I was expecting great things. You said you hoped to be around for a long time, I was disappointed because I thought you decided this place wasn't worth messing with after all. It is a little dead around here these days. Glad to see you are still around. Oh, and about the troll comment I made after your first post, you came here at the moment when some git kept registering and making stupid posts under different names, by the nature of your first post, I thought you were him.

Anyway, good to see you are still here, whether you post or just read.
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#266439
Topic
The Go-Mer-Tonic™ Thread - Today's Topic: Whose your favorite author and why?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266439/action/topic#266439
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
There's no doubt it has, which is why I only support the death penalty in cases where it's obvious beyond all doubt that the victim is guilty as sin. (IE the OJ Simpson case)

It's best to err on the side of caution than to excecute an innocent person.


Instead of applying the death penalty, why not have the person locked forever on some place, working as a slave planting something or producing something? Wouldn't that be more productive?


That is an alternative I suggested. But quite honestly, I am not sure how well it would work, and it is very unlikely they would be able to support themselves fully. So very likely they would still be sucking up tax dollars. Even if you had them working a 8 hour work day, you can bet people are going to be crying out foul for making them preform slave labor, or at the very least might say that the prisoner should get his money sent to his own family or transfered into a private bank account rather than going to the prison system.

If we could lock them away in some obscure location where they could work in something like "sweat shops" producing cheap labor for companies to profit from, then this could be a very interesting alternative. But you know there will be constant protests against the use of prisoner labor, even if it is only reserved for extreme death penalty level cases.
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#266336
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The Go-Mer-Tonic™ Thread - Today's Topic: Whose your favorite author and why?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266336/action/topic#266336
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Originally posted by: Go-Mer-Tonic
I think that there are some cases where a death penalty makes sense. I just worry about the error rate in applying it.

That's a very serious thing to mess up. Maybe the benefit of ridding the world of the worst of the worst makes the occasioanal mis application justified. There have been cases for example where the wrong man got the death penalty and it only came out after the execution.

I would not want to be the jury or executioner in those cases.

Sure someone who runs around killing other people (not in self defense) probably deserve to be killed themselves.

It's just as I have said before, I don't hold myself in high enough esteem to make that kind of call myself.

Ferris, you made some great points, and I generally agree with what you are saying.

As far as the stupid stuff I said on TFN back in the day, I just basically maintained that the prequels were awesome, and I flamed people who dissed them.

Since I have realized how close minded and self centered that approach was, and while I do still think the prequels kicked ass, I don't think there is something fundamentally wrong with people who don't.

It's just a matter of opinion.



Good post Gomer (never thought I'd see the day! j/k)

You are right, it is no small matter. The error rate you mentioned would be something very rare. Look how many years it took before they killed McVeigh. It isn't something that rushed, there is a long wait to ensure that these errors don't happen. You said it has happened before that somebody was wrongly given the death penalty. Can you name a specific case? I am not doubting that it is possible, I just don't remember ever hearing about any cases like this. In recent history at least.

If you keep as level headed as your last post Gomer, I think you will find that your popularity as a poster will increase greatly. There is nothing wrong with disagreeing with other members, but there are times to let an opinion be an opinion, and plenty of people here are guilty of holding opinions against others. At the moment we are talking about a very controversial topic, and so far some have stated their disagreement with what has been said and it has still remained a peacful and enjoyable conversation. You don't have to take the oposite side just to hear what somebody might think about something (as you have admited to doing). I completely agreed with ferris that McVeigh deserved the death penalty, but I wanted to know his opinion on the subject, so I just asked him.
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#266317
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The Go-Mer-Tonic™ Thread - Today's Topic: Whose your favorite author and why?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266317/action/topic#266317
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Originally posted by: ferris209
Originally posted by: Cable-X1
ferris209...

It might not seem like much, man....but THANK YOU for all that you do. I know it's not easy. Cops deal with far too much shit and they barely get a pot to piss in. You've got your belly full and you're still going out there and making a difference. Sometimes it doesn't seem like it you are, but just by being there you are. There are lots of idiots out there who cry and moan about every little thing a cop does.

Don't think that what you do goes unnoticed!!! Thanks for holding the line!!!


I sure appreciate it, I really do appreciate it. But I ain't looking for a pat on the back by any means, I know I chose what I do and was not forced, rather compelled, to do it. I'm sure I'll always do it and in the end, I'm sure it will have all been worth it.



Yes ferris, I too am thankful we have men like you out there. That fact you choose to do this because you want to make a difference, it is great. If we didn't have people like you, we would be in for a lot of trouble. Since the incident that happened to my friend's PD, I have really begun to see what kinds of crap we all put you through. It is really sad. It is great to hear your perspective!


Cable said: "About that McVeigh thing though...didn't he have some gripe with the government and that's why he did it? I can't remember exactly..."

I read somewhere that he was a bit of an SW fan, and liked to consider the government the "Evil Empire" and felt himself like Luke and the rebellion with a duty to bring down the Empire. I am not sure how true the Star Wars thing is, but he was anti-government.