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#296044
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The Go-Mer-Tonic™ Thread - Today's Topic: Whose your favorite author and why?
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Originally posted by: sean wookie
You know if it's true or not you'd still deny it if it was.

But you got to admit all Atheists are not bad people. We are not trying to put you in prison either. I don't know if you believe that's is just what I've heard on Christian websites. We are not Satanists, we don't want you to have abortions. We just want to be accepted.


What the hell websites are you reading? And what do you mean "we just want to be accepted"? You sound like a black person from before the Civil War.

You're generally not accepted around here because you post the stupidest things I've ever seen. If you just, for once in your life, formed an opinion based on all the facts and not just a stupid headline, we might be able to have a real debate and then you'd be accepted. Unfortunately, you make these ignorant posts that only show how little knowledge you really have.

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
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#295989
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The Go-Mer-Tonic™ Thread - Today's Topic: Whose your favorite author and why?
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Originally posted by: sean wookie
New topic please?

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/08/22/vick/index.html

I think the Naacp has lost credibility by trying to play the race card in this. This man is the lowest form of scum there is. I'm sick of this whole cop's hate rich black people. If you have pride in your race your stupid.


You had me until the last line. What, exactly, is stupid about having pride in ones race? Black people should be proud to be black. I'm proud to be a white American of Scottish, Irish, and Italian descent. My wife is proud to be Chinese. What's wrong with pride in ones race? Everything else you said makes sense except that.

And by the way, sean, yeah, if your dad had half a clue about the Bible, he could've blown that document to smithereens. Hell, I've found flaws in every single item on that page so far. Shall I list them for you? Here's the first one: Adam and Eve didn't have to understand all the ins and outs of right and wrong in order to understand that they were being told "No". Think of God as a parent and Adam and Eve as his first two children. They really know nothing about the world other than what they see and are told. So, think of it from the point of view of an earthly parent. When you tell your child "No" and they do it anyway, does that mean that they didn't really disobey you and therefore didn't sin? Of course not! Just because they may not understand the immediate implications does not absolve them of the wrong doing.

That's just one item on that whole page. I could probably go on all night. I can't believe you had a Bible argument and used that to win. Some of the other items are even more laughable then that. Most every Christian with even a little knowledge knows that December 25th isn't the real birthday of Christ. What your document doesn't say is that it use to be celebrated in February or March (can't remember which) BEFORE it was moved to December 25th in an effort to get Pagans to convert. The Church makes no secret of that. I've even heard Priests outright say this in Church. It's simply used as a day to celebrate his birth, not the actual day of the birth.

That document is truly lame.
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#295918
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Blu-ray Disc or HD-DVD?
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Originally posted by: Fang Zei
Actually, my whole point was that it has become a joke and I think the reason this format race is happening is that the studios on either side realize just how much they have to lose by not winning. Whoever wins will control the format that will be around for far longer than ten years because please tell me, what exactly is going to step in to sweep away 1080p?


I have no idea. But do you think people even considered that when DVD was introduced? Do you think people stopped and thought "It can't possibly get better than this" or "This looks terrific, there's no way we'll ever need anything better". I'm betting the average consumer might have thought that, but the average techie knew that eventually, something else would pop up.

If I was a betting man, I'd say that downloadable content is going to sweep away physical media. People will have DVRs hooked up to home networks and they'll be able to access their content from anywhere in the world. Going to your in-laws for Christmas? No problem, you can access all your movies from anywhere.

Who really knows though. 50 years ago, a 13" tv set was probably considered huge. 50 years from now that could be up to a wall sized display (it wouldn't surprise me if that happened within the next 20 years though).

This format war really has less to do with long term profit and more to do with short term profit. If it really had to do with the long term, Paramount and DreamWorks would've thumbed their noses at Microsoft. Instead, they took the quick, short term payment with an 18 month contract, which is just enough time to kill both formats. The studios would do nothing but gain if they chose a single format. They're losing everything right now by being split.
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#295886
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Blu-ray Disc or HD-DVD?
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Originally posted by: skyjedi2005
no one in my family makes close to even 40k per year and the last crt i bought for under a couple hundred.


Not even your parents? Of course no one in high school or college or even just starting their career will be able to afford it. Anyone in an established career should have no problem with saving that much money in a few months though. That's like the down payment on a new car.

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#295879
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Starwars.com survey
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Absolutely! That's what I asked for in the last comment section. "I want the original Star Wars trilogy without the special edition add-ons in an anamorphic video DVD". Everybody needs to do something to that effect. I didn't mention audio because I don't care which audio mix we get, though we'd probably get them all if they ever did release it.
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#295877
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Blu-ray Disc or HD-DVD?
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Originally posted by: skyjedi2005
they really have to lower the players prices, and the cost of the movies as well as the costs of HDTV sets or it will end up being a niche market like laserdisc was, while vhs was the mainstream. instead of vhs dvd will be mainstream for instance when put up against the HD stuff.

i think HD is the wave of the future but the companies greed and lack of intelligence may kill both formats.

Plus a lot of people are happy with quality that is not even up to par with dvd, people who download shit quality avi or whatever formats to there ipod or psp.

to get the most out of the picture and sound of HD-DVD or Blu-Ray you have to be xtremeley wealthy and have a setup that displays six times the resolution of dvd and 5.1, 6.1 or 7.1 audio home audio setup.

once they come out with cheap recordable blu ray or HD-DVD drives and afforbable 1080P computer monitors i'll go HD, until then i can live with what i have.


HDTVs are extremely affordable these days. You can get a 40" LCD HDTV for well under $2000 and a lot of them are under $1500. The cost of Blu-Ray players are also under $500. The problem isn't the price of the sets or the players. The problem is the multiple formats.

HDTVs sold extremely well this past Christmas season. If there were a single hi-def format, it would have easily sold just as well. Since there wasn't, people snatched up HDTVs, but didn't get the hi-def players and movies because of the competing formats. People didn't know which one to get, so they got neither and stuck with DVD.

You do not have to be extremely wealthy these days to get a good experience. You can have a perfectly good experience for about $2500. That's about a months pay for your average consumer (unless you're talking about consumers making less than $40k per year, which aren't average when you're talking about buying HD sets and players).

In a nutshell, HDTVs are pretty cheap these days. 5.1, 6.1, and 7.1 setups are also pretty cheap (I'm not talking about a $2000 or a $5000 setup, a $500 setup is more than sufficient for most people). HD-DVD and Blu-Ray players are pretty cheap too. The movies aren't cheap themselves, but you'd need two players to play both formats. People don't want that. They don't want two players in their entertainment center. They don't want to have to switch the input on their TV just to watch a different format.

I'll go HD as soon as there's 1) a dual format player that is completely compatible with both formats or 2) there's one format to choose from. I may not even have a 5.1 audio system, but the clarity of hi-def has me hooked (I have a 50" HDTV CRT that does 1080i, it cost me less than $1000 and that was a year ago).
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#295871
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Video Games - a general discussion thread
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Originally posted by: sean wookie
Whats is the big deal about Bioshock? I keep hearing about it. Well I have been having fun playing Garry's Mod lately a Half Life 2 mod.


It's a fantastic looking game with a compelling storyline. I've only played the demo so far, but it looks really amazing.

For right now, there's a big stink going on because it has SecuROM built into it. A lot of people that pre-purchased through Steam are now cancelling their orders before the game gets released (it's not released in Europe yet). Apparently the game only lets you install it on two different computers. If you want to put it on a third computer, you have to uninstall it from one. This completely defeats the purpose of Steam, which is to let you install it at whatever computer you want, but only let you play it on one computer at a time. So if you have 3 different computers in your house or at 3 different locations, you'd normally be able to play it at any of them just by logging into your Steam account. With this new SecuROM on Bioshock, that's not possible.
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#295869
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Blu-ray Disc or HD-DVD?
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Originally posted by: Fang Zei
The interesting thing about this format race is that if one of them wins then that will be all we'll ever need, and yet neither of them might end up winning. And before you start saying "but what about regular ol' dvd?", well, that's what I used to say until I found out about how dvd's compatibility with the existing NTSC and PAL analog systems introduces issues like speedup and jitters.

Oh please. DVD is an established format. The average consumer hasn't stopped buying DVDs while waiting for the format war to end. Nope, they're buying regular DVDs and either putting them into an upconverting DVD player or just dealing with the way it looks (which isn't all that bad, but it's not great either).

Originally posted by: Fang Zei
Since we're never going to be able to just que up a 35mm reel or install a 2k system in our rooms (ok, I won't say never .... and I won't speak for everyone here), either of these new formats are the next best thing. If I knew for sure that one of them was going to eventually win, I'd stop buying dvd's now and just wait until I can pick up that five-disc Blade Runner set in high def. I think the studios just realize that high def is the future and - to paraphrase that WIRED magazine guy from the GOUT attack of the show interview - now that we're finally at the point where we can have all we'll ever need, they're not giving it to us.


This has got to be a joke. "We've got all we'll ever need" has been said about every new format and every single new format that has come after has proven that they just keep getting better. 8 track was the best for its time until the cassette tape came along. That was great until CDs came along. SACD and DVD-Audio were even better, but they were competing formats so neither one took off (oh, look at that, just like HD-DVD and Blu-Ray).

If one format takes off and wins, that'll be the format we'll have for the next 5 to 10 years until something even better comes along. Then we'll all want that. It's a never ending cycle, so let's not pretend that this will be the last thing we'll ever need.
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#295863
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Blu-ray Disc or HD-DVD?
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Originally posted by: skyjedi2005
because paramount exclusively promotes HD-DVD does that mean indiana jones we be on that format?


Not likely. It's a Spielberg movie so he makes all the decisions on which format those come out on.

Do any of you guys read thedigitalbits? They've been absolutely spot on on this whole thing. Right now, we're at a tipping point. If Warner decides to go exclusive to HD-DVD, the studios will be evenly split. Unless a dual format player hits the market this Christmas at $500 or lower (that's about the sweet spot for consumer adoption) or next Christmas at the absolute latest, the format war will end with BOTH formats becoming a niche market. People, by that time, will have moved on to HD movies via download, where the "format" war will just depend on installing a new codec on the media center PC or standalone desktop.

Of course, the bits doesn't think a dual format player is the way to go at all. I don't necessarily either, but I see it as the only way for consumers to stop caring which movie comes out on which format and just buy whichever one because they'll have a player that can do both.
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#295862
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Originally posted by: dumb_kid
Originally posted by: lordjediMicrosoft has ever put such nasty software on computers that was so bad that it took a reformat to get it off.



Apparently you've never used windows



Yeah, like I didn't see that one coming. Have you bought a Sony music CD in the past year? Have you put it in your computer and had the nasty ass rootkit that requires a REFORMAT of your system to get rid of? That's what I mean by evil. Windows, for all the complaining people do about it, is actually quite stable. You probably posted your message from a Windows computer.

I'm fully aware of Microsoft's monopolistic practices, which is why they're watched like a hawk by almost everybody these days.

Originally posted by: dumb_kid
All I'm saying is once a business gets to a certain size, sooner or later they'll screw the consumer... no exceptions... even Google with their "Do no evil" mantra... I guess from their point of view aiding the Chinese government's internal censorship agenda is A-OK... apparently the Tiananmen Square massacre never happened if you use google in China.
Do no evil?


Aiding? Oh please. Let's see, they either follow the Chinese governments rules on Internet access or they don't get in the Chinese market. And it's not just if you use Google that the Tiananmen (sic) Square massacre never happened, that's government propaganda and brainwashing. Some of their people really don't believe it ever happened. Just like some Americans will tell you the moon landings were filmed on a sound stage.

Originally posted by: dumb_kid
Also on side note the real reason Microsoft joined up with Toshiba is prolong the format war so there is no unified disc based HD... so low consumer adoption. Think about it, Microsoft is not a movie studio nor major AV hardware manufacturer. Microsoft is a software developer who just so happen to want direct movie downloads instead of disc-based media... guess who they want be delivering those movies to your living room... tadah... Microsoft


Ahh, so you chose to ignore the end of my post where I mentioned iTunes and Netflix.
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#295861
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Originally posted by: Knightmessenger
Uncompressed (with lossless HuffyUV) captures make a difference, even if the source is only from Hi8 which has roughly the same resolution as s-vhs or laserdisc.
http://www.originaltrilogy.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=12&threadid=7640&STARTPAGE=3

And burning to dvd uncompressed (or at least far less compressed with a higher quality codec) would be possible with a blu-ray disc Maintaining the most quality is something that's very important to me. Sure, Hi8 video obviously won't use as much space as HD video but it still loses quality with lossy compression.

If the extra's on the Blade Runner dvd will be in 480p (wouldn't it be 720p since that's what regular dvd has anyways), then it might be interesting to compare the blu-ray and dvd versions to see if the less compressed blu-ray looks any clearer. Was Empire of Dreams on the '04 bonus disc 480p or 720p?


Regular DVD is 480p. HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are 720p and higher, with most movies, that I've seen, being in 1080p.

Would you even be able to play the Blu-Ray disc with uncompressed video though? Sure, you'd be able to play it on a media center PC or a regular computer, but you wouldn't be able to put it in a Blu-Ray player and watch it. You'd have to at least compress the video with mpeg2 or VC-1 in order for the player to recognize it. Even if you could play it, you're still not gaining anything in resolution. All you're gaining is file size. It would also be a lot more CPU intensive to watch the video uncompressed (I've seen that first hand with my own MiniDV tapes which have an even higher resolution than Hi8).

Yes, an uncompressed capture is the way to go, but it's not really good for anything other than archiving. Once you've got it captured, storing it somewhere permanent is great if you'll ever need it again. Of course, even for those purposes, a hard drive is far better than optical media. Optical media tends to degrade over time unless it's treated properly. With a hard drive all you have to do is make sure you have at least two copies on two different disks. As long as you can keep that redundancy in place, you won't have any problems.
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#295860
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The Go-Mer-Tonic™ Thread - Today's Topic: Whose your favorite author and why?
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It looks like the SU-3x series are much more comparable to the F-22 and F-35 than anything from the SU-2x series. They've got some cool capabilities, but it looks like they're more comparable to the F-15, F-16, and F-18 (at least according to Wikipedia). That's probably due to many factors, including the stealth capabilities of the F-22 and F-35.
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#295824
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Blu-ray Disc or HD-DVD?
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Unless you have an HD camcorder, then it doesn't really matter if you capture and then burn uncompressed. The video is still only going to be 480i (possibly 480p).

And again, the extras on the Blade Runner set are all 480p, so they're not taking up any more room then they would be if they were on regular DVDs. The only thing taking up all the space is the main feature, which is 1080p if I'm not mistaken.
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#295817
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Blu-ray Disc or HD-DVD?
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Originally posted by: Tiptup
The primary thing that's evil about the HD-DVD versus BD war is the copy protection nonsense and BD is worse on that end. Still, it's the superior format and should win. Hopefully it will.

I can't wait to see Microsoft get a powerful punch in the gut. The way they pretend to know so much is laughable to me.


They are the same on the copy protection nonsense. Look up the specs. They both have the same capabilities on that.

The primary thing that's evil about the war is that the formats are completely incompatible.

HD-DVD could lose and it wouldn't really bother Microsoft any. $150 million is nothing to a company with NO DEBT and BILLIONS in the bank. By having the studios split, it delays consumer adoption which in turn pushes consumers to use online capabilities instead. NetFlix and iTunes can both deliver HD content over the Internet. If those really catch on then the hi-def formats will be relegated to a niche market.
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Originally posted by: dumb_kid
Because supposedly Sony is "evil"... unlike toshiba or microsoft who are perfect corporate citizens

Me ... I already know that all large corporations do shady things all the time...so I don't get into the whole company "x" is evil, fanboy crap.


Sony is evil. Neither Toshiba nor Microsoft has ever put such nasty software on computers that was so bad that it took a reformat to get it off.

Sony can burn in hell.
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#295814
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The Go-Mer-Tonic™ Thread - Today's Topic: Whose your favorite author and why?
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Ack! Sorry, my bad. I made an assumption based on the pictures of the F-35 that it was the same JSF as the F-22 (thought maybe they renumbered it or something). I was actually referring to the F-22.

I'm betting the F-22 and F-35 are pretty even in a fight, though I haven't looked into the details. The F-22 may have more power since it has two engines instead of one.

Which Sukhois are you referring to? From a quick Wikipedia search, the only thing that looks like it would come close to either the F-22 or F-35 is the PAK-FA. As far as I can tell, that's still in development. Any of their other ones look more like F-15s and F-18s than anything else. I'd imagine that if they're anything like those, they don't stand a chance.
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#295799
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The Go-Mer-Tonic™ Thread - Today's Topic: Whose your favorite author and why?
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Originally posted by: vbangle
LordJedi, the point I was trying to make was there is a nuclear deterrent in place. I don't necessarily agree with sean's position of not supporting Israel anymore but your premise of "If we stopped giving them money and stopped supporting them, the other countries would attack in the blink of an eye, much like they did the day after Israel was recreated way back in 1947." is flawed. Isreal's enemies would not attack in the blink of an eye....plus I'll let you on a little secret...you've seen the new F-35? The VSTOL marine model was supposed to be shared with Europe, its not. But Israel is going to get some....
The VSTOL F-35 makes any MIG shit its pants....I wouldn't worry too much about Israel if I were you, they will be fine.


And the point I was trying to make is that there's no way to deter crazy fuckwits like Iran. They're crazy nutjobs that don't care if Israel retaliates with nukes because they'll just spin it to make Israel look bad.

I'm not worried about Israel at all. I'm worried about the rest of the crazy ass nutjobs in that region that are willing to stop at nothing to ensure Israel is wiped off the face of the planet. You can't negotiate with those guys.

And FYI, the F-35 makes everything shit its pants. They had a special on it on the History channel just a few months ago. One F-35 downed everything, in a training exercise, that we threw at it. We're talking F-15s, F-14s, F-18s. Everything. The F-35 is THE modern equivalent of the F-15. Nothing stands a chance against it.
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#295788
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Blu-ray Disc or HD-DVD?
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Originally posted by: Knightmessenger
I know about the increased quality with Blade Runner but still. There are three dvd's that have the different cuts. Final, all previously released and workprint. That could take 3 discs just like the dvd but why do we need the extras (besides the deleted scenes) in high definition? I don't care about seeing people talking in 1080p. Wouldn't 720p less compressed with a better codec/higher bitrate and more space already look much better than if it was squeezed onto a dvd.
And I thought there already was a player that could play both HD and blu-ray. Is it not that good or too expensive, why hasn't it caught on more?


Because that earlier player doesn't fully support the HD-DVD spec. The new one that's coming out will have full support for all HD-DVD features.

I don't think the extras in the Blade Runner set are in hi-def. I'm pretty sure they're 480p only.

So wait, you'd rather have a hi-def movie in 720p than 1080p? What kind of hi-def set do you have? My set will do up to 1080i. Personally, I'd rather have the 1080p than the 720p. The higher the resolution the better.

The link I posted previously wasn't quite what I was looking for. LG is releasing another player that is fully compatible later this year, but I can't find a news story on it right now.
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#295787
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The Go-Mer-Tonic™ Thread - Today's Topic: Whose your favorite author and why?
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Originally posted by: vbangle
Originally posted by: lordjedi
If we stopped giving them money and stopped supporting them, the other countries would attack in the blink of an eye, much like they did the day after Israel was recreated way back in 1947.


Are you forgetting that Israel has one of the worlds largest nuclear ICBM programs next to the USA, Russia and China.....?


Nope. I'm fully aware of Israel's nuclear capabilities. I just looked up some items on their space program as well. They don't necessarily have full ICBMs, but it's not a huge jump to go from a space program to ICBM capabilities.

Are you forgetting that no one wins a nuclear war? Israel isn't going to launch first. They do have a very powerful military, but they won't be the first ones to launch. If anything, Iran will attempt to detonate a nuclear bomb in Israel. If they really want to see the middle east disappear in the blink of an eye, they'll do it. They'll likely be able to detonate one nuke on Israeli soil before Israel strikes back with a vengeance.

Remember what happened when Israel was recently attacked by Lebanon? Israel struck back hard, hitting far more targets and killing far more people than Lebanon did. They weren't messing around and they weren't going to sit back and just be attacked. Yeah, world opinion got pissed off at Israel, but apparently everybody forgot that Hezbollah attacked first and that Israel was fighting back, trying to take out the targets. It really isn't their fault that Hezbollah, and any other terrorist nation, puts missile launchers in civilian structures.

Israel has no problem defending themselves, but there's no reason we shouldn't sell them weapons and provide some aid to help them out.
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#295774
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The Go-Mer-Tonic™ Thread - Today's Topic: Whose your favorite author and why?
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Originally posted by: sean wookie
I'm not trolling this is really my opinion. I'm not allowed to have a opinion?


Oh, you can have an opinion. It helps if it's an intelligent one though.

Have you read any of the history on the conflict over there? The Palestinians don't just want some land. They want the Jews gone. Just about every country surrounding Israel wants them gone. If we stopped giving them money and stopped supporting them, the other countries would attack in the blink of an eye, much like they did the day after Israel was recreated way back in 1947.

Seriously dude, it's got a lot less to do with us giving Israel funds and a lot more to do with blind hatred. Take a look at this flash presentation for a brief summary of what's been going on. And if you dig a little bit deeper, you'll find out its been going on for even longer than that.

It's not about reparations. It's about giving them a place to live. Historically and Biblically, they're right back where they started.
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#295772
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Originally posted by: Knightmessenger
And hang on. The Blade Runner dvd will have 5 discs in the most elaborate set. Why will the HD releases also require 5 discs for the same stuff? Surely it could all fit on 3 blu-rays at the most.


Because they're taking advantage of the space on Blu-Ray to give you a higher bitrate movie with a better codec. Yeah, they could squeeze a couple versions on one disc in the old mpeg2 codec (or use a lower bitrate), but Blu-Ray has already taken a ton of flack on their early releases for doing that (they used a higher bitrate, but it was still the old crappy mpeg2 codec).

If I had a Blu-Ray or HD-DVD player, I would most certainly rather have the movie in a much higher bitrate with a modern codec than to have the same movie in a lower quality older codec.

The point of Blu-Ray and HD-DVD is not necessarily to squeeze more content on the disc. The point is to give you higher quality. You simply cannot get the same level of quality out of standard DVD. Most of the time there's plenty of space left for more content (commentary, cut scenes, bonus material), but that's not the purpose of the extra space or the new codec.

Probably the main reason you're not seeing a lot of TV shows or anime series on Blu-Ray or HD-DVD (Heroes is the only one I can think of) is because of the lack of penetration of the players. Let's be honest. Even with the high selling rates of Blu-Ray players and discs, it's still nothing compared to the level of penetration of standard DVDs. When these players become available and are a little more affordable, you'll see the penetration increase and then TV shows will start showing up more.
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#295727
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The Go-Mer-Tonic™ Thread - Today's Topic: Whose your favorite author and why?
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Originally posted by: sean wookie
It's really all the trouble they start. I like Jew's and all. But we gave 30 Billion in the last year? We didn't even give that much to the countries that were involved in the 2004 Tsunami, which could of used it a hell of a lot more than them. I hate to say it but we deserve to have the Palestinians hating us going in their world and changing their cultures. Face it. Don't give me the Jew's got it for reparations from the Holocaust bullshit there are many people's who have gone through longer and bigger genocides I don't see America giving back land to the Indians (Besides a few little specks of land). But if the Jew's where in the Palestinians place I'd bet they would be doing the same thing.

*Prepares for flaming*


Stop trolling.