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#1111854
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Return of the Pug (ROTP) - webpage and screenshots (Released)
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My only question is then where should the “dot” be on the accompanying diagram. The single dot in the top center would seem to indicate single channel, center only encoding. So, would the appropriate diagram say “16mm mono”, then with TWO dots (upper left and right), in the diagram? That might seem at first to be contradictory, but it would more accurately reflect the encoding.

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#1111622
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Return of the Pug (ROTP) - webpage and screenshots (Released)
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The only thing about the 16mm mono, is that it is implemented on both L and R channels. That is, I have the same track in the left and right channels (as opposed to pure mono, which some 5.1 players playback in the center channel only). I honestly don’t know the best way to indicate that on the back of the cover. All of my 16mm editions are encoded that way.

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#1111374
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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CatBus said:

America’s pledges of allegiance and various showings of national spirit are pretty extreme on a world scale as far as I can tell – several Germans I know were visibly shaken and alarmed at what they saw going on in grade-school American classrooms.

I took some Italian relatives to a drum and bugle corps show about 20 years ago, and they had a similar reaction. All the saluting and overt patriotism reminded them of bad times in Europe. While they were impressed with the performances, they found all the saluting slightly scary.

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#1111241
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Are The Prequels That Bad?
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There are TWO problems: (1) what we see, and (2) what we hear.

Seriously, the two trilogies can’t be compared. The AFI top 100 list has Star Wars at #15, and #1 for science fiction movies. Films101 has a top-1000 list, using a formula based on critics and filmmakers’ reviews - Star Wars is #22 and ESB is #357. That’s for films from all over the world, not just the USA. It is highly unlikely that any of the prequels would ever crack any modestly reasoned top 10,000 list.

That said, I do sometimes enjoy watching them.

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#1109945
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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I’m actually worried by the shear number of wild North Korea stories appearing lately. While I realize that North Korea is a horrible oppressive regime that does ghastly things, it is also true that military strikes are often preceded by a propaganda blitz so that people won’t oppose the action. It’s starting to have that feel… lots of wild, unsubstantiated stories attributed to defectors. It seems like suddenly half of the stories trending are North Korea sensational stories.