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anime series question |
Posted by: Mantis421 - 10-23-2005, 08:49 AM - Forum: Anime Discussion
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Looking for the name of a series real quick, here is the details I can give to see if you guys and gals know the name. There is an individual who reads an individual rosary bead prayer at the begaining and end of each episode and each episode has a very dark view of reality. anybody got any ideas
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Naruto part 5 |
Posted by: Homeless Joe - 10-23-2005, 05:41 AM - Forum: Anime Discussion
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has anyone gotten this yet??? i want to get it, i mean i have it all already on bittorent but i have parts 1-4 already....but is it a gatefold like the others and is it any good? i got shafted by this companies bleach part 1 so i'm hesitant to buy.
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Endings: shadow of the colossus SPOILERS! |
Posted by: babyeater0 - 10-22-2005, 08:56 PM - Forum: Video Gaming
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I really don't want to beat the 16th boss again so i made this thread so people could share the endings they got (theirs five)
Mine was the 5 people sealed the temple, destroying the bridge, the chick came back to life and was rejoined by the horse, the warrior got sucked in and was turned into a baby with horns *cough* ico *cough* and the chick picks him up and they climb to the top of a tower and pet a dear (ohh yes and the demon was killed)
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Can a higher quality DVD player show faults in a HK that lesser ones can't? |
Posted by: Mot_Soldats - 10-22-2005, 02:58 PM - Forum: Anime Discussion
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I thought I read about this in a thread here but I can't find it in search.
So anyway, I have been watching MI PC 4 disc Gungrave on my stand alone Coby DVD player and a few times grean squares have flashed on screen but when I tried it on my PS2 the squares did not show up.
I'm pretty sure my Coby player is better then my PS2 because it played the Banner of the Stars collection glitchy disc 2 better then my PS2 did not perfect but still better.
So what does it all mean?
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Posted by: geo85 - 10-21-2005, 08:22 PM - Forum: General Babble
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I just got back into comics. I had been collecting since from I was 9-18 and I kind of droped out of it, I stopped in my local comic shop and grabbed the latest Justice issue man thats one great book definitly a recommend and I also caught up on the ultimate spiderman. I had only had the vol 1 book and was flawed to see it up to issue 84 so I grabbed 79-84, man back issues get expensive especially for the ultimates. Now I have to pick up book vol 2-6 to catch up. Anyone else collecting or have any recommends?
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Eminent Domain |
Posted by: Blight - 10-21-2005, 09:52 AM - Forum: General Babble
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I have been working on a cause and effect paper for a little while. It is about how eminent domain causes people to lose their homes business, and lives, and what it will cause in the future for our nation. It is very opinionated, cynical but it is also the way I feel about the current stance of my country. Feel free to make any suggestions or just talk about what you think about Eminent Domain. I would like to here what some other people think of the issue.
Suit and Tie Bandits
On June 23rd of this year, the Supreme Court made a decision that will allow the
rich to become richer, at the expense of the shrinking middle class. Eminent domain has always been with us, it is in the Bill of Rights as our Fifth Amendment, but the court ruling allows local governments to seize land to sell to private contractors, for the increased generation of tax revenue. That is not part of the Fifth Amendment. The amendment states that server of private property can only be accomplished for public use, and yanking it out of the hands of one private owner just to place it in the hands of another is simply theft.
While supporters state that this could alleviate some current economic problems by creating construction jobs, they are really the people who have something (i.e. other peoples land) to gain from it. There is so much that can be lost, material and morally, that this has become one of the most threatening issues to the rights of the American people I can recall in my life time. It is a greater threat to our way of life than any foreign terrorist, because the thieves are the government itself, and they can raid without fear of prosecution. This is quite possibly the degeneration of our society we are staring in the face right now. Eminent domain will cost people their homes, businesses, and heritage while taking us closer to a new age in which this country becomes U.S.A. Incorporated, with big business as our shadow rulers.
Of course this statement may seem a bit radical, but considering it is already happening all over the country, it really isn?t so far-fetched. Many cities have been waiting for opportunities like this, and have already taken measures toward securing property that will make prime real-estate opportunities for investors. Take the story of Jim and Joanne Saleet of Lakewood, Ohio. They have been fighting their city for right to live in the home they have been together in for 38 years. The city wants to tear down 56 homes, 4 apartment buildings and more than a dozen businesses, so that they can then resell to developers that will build high priced condos. The city will then be able to tax them at higher property tax rates, bringing in more revenue for the city. Take what isn?t theirs to make more money- they might as well just dress up in masks and rob a train like old west bandits or go to the local jewelry store and do a smash and grab.
Supporters of this corrupted interpretation of eminent domain just don?t see having your home yanked out from underneath you as a problem because they pay you the ?fair market value? for your property. That doesn?t take in to account the fact that you now have to abandon the place where you lay you head at night, because someone else wants to make money off your property. It just sounds so dirty when you examine the process involved.
And even the compensation system is wrong. People that fall victim to the new ruling on eminent domain may not have the money to relocate. The business owners in particular will be hurt by this the most. Most of your clientele are associated with where you are located. If you are forced to move, then you can lose many customers, because you might be too far out of the way to provide them local services. Also, the money they pay you for your property, won?t include the cost of relocating. Moving all of your stuff to another location can be expensive for just a home owner, but if you have equipment or merchandise that has to be moved as well it can cost thousands of dollars to relocate. This in many cases will be an expense that businesses can?t absorb and they will be forced to close up shop.
The worst part of having your estate stolen is that if that is the land your family has lived for generations, you have not only lost your current home, but your ancestral one as well. So instead of going back to the house your great granddad was raised in, some slob is now parking their gas hogging SUV where it used to be. And if you can?t relocate locally (because chances are a lot of people just lost their homes as well, and there will be housing shortages) you may have to move away from the town your family has lived in for as long as there are records. So basically people get run out of town because someone wants what they have, and just takes it.
All of these situations are not only possible or probable, but realities in some parts of the U.S. This isn?t an opinion of what could happen; this larceny is happening now. Like in New York City where the New York Times wants to build a new house on a corner that Stratford Wallace and his family had owned for over a hundred years. They didn?t even try to negotiate over his property. The world most prestigious news paper just double teamed him with real-estate developers and the city of New York to have his land considered blighted, and his butt kicked to the corner. But these transgressions are just a prelude; the things that could happen though are far more frightening.
If someone were to take into account in how much major corporations already have their hand in politics today and combine it with the current transgressions against property laws, they would begin to turn pale. If they can take a neighborhood, like they are trying in Ohio, why can?t they take a district? And after taking neighborhood after neighborhood, district after district, they could own the whole city. This wouldn?t happen over night, but we are looking at the infantile stages of such a corporate take over right now.
And of course the politicians won?t be left holding out their hands. Only now instead of getting their campaign money from certain corporate organizations and lobbyists, all politicians are big business puppets. Corporate agenda and political agenda merge closer every day, becoming a closer form of mutualistic symbiosis, with each other every year, while the people are being are being drained and robbed by the parasites. With all the lobbyists on capital hill, this is almost true right now, but with the new ?theft amendment,? it will become a perfected example of political corruption.
With this verdict on the Fifth Amendment, everyone but the financial elite loses. The continually disenfranchised middle class could be completely eradicated. The people who have the money get more at the expense of everyone else. There is no ?good for the community? when you make the people of a community suffer such a hardship as this new interpretation of amendment number five now offers. The way it stands now, we will not only lose our physical belongings, but our sense of right and wrong as well. Eminent domain is no longer a tool to clean up slums, or a threat to force owners of disgusting, unhealthy private property to clean up their property, or even a solution to build new school or highway; it is a license to rip people off if you got the cash.
CBS News. Mike Wallace ?Eminent Domain: Being Abused?? July 4, 2004. October 21, 2005.<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/09/26/60minutes/main575343.shtml>.
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**Trade list of Mot_Soldats** |
Posted by: Mot_Soldats - 10-20-2005, 03:18 PM - Forum: DVD Trading
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Trade List:
READ FIRST*
*Make sure to read item descriptions carefully.
*NO PAYPAL anything with money will have to be done with Check/money order.
*All items are used but in good shape unless stated otherwise.
*All items here are made for the US/Western market unless stated otherwise.
*When I say "book" I mean instructions.
HK DVD:
*All HKs have English dub and include box/case they came in.
$3 -Perfect Blue- MI version, has a audio delay like the MAC version see the review of the MAC Perfect Blue Perfect Collection for details.
$3 -Evangelion Movie Collection- Has both End of Eva and Death And Rebirth, is marked with an "SE" on the case not sure what brand that is. Good video guality Etc.
Nintendo 8-Bit (NES):
*NES games don't have box or book unless stated otherwise.
$7 -Mega Man 1- Includes box and book.
$5 -Mega Man 2-
$5 -Mega Man 5-
$7 -Mega Man 6- Includes box and book.
$6 -Zelda 1- Gold cart, includes book.
$4 -Zelda 2- Gold cart, at the bottom of the cart on the left front side where the metal contackts are there is a piece of platic broken off.
Game Boy Advance:
$3 -Super Street Fighter X 2 revival- Includes box and book, this is the version from Japan plays on all GBA systems.
$2 -Guilty Gear X- No box or book, this is the version from Japan plays on all GBA systems.
Game Boy:
$3 -Game Boy Pocket system- Includes the plastic case it came in and a worm light. The serial number on the back of the system is torn.
Super Nintendo:
$2 -Ken Griffey Jr's Winning Run- No box or book.
Playstation 2:
$4 -Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow- Includes none PS2 DVD case with official cover art and book. Label on game disc is torn but game plays fine.
$1 -ATV Offroad Fury 2- Includes none PS2 DVD case has official cover art and book.
Gamecube:
$4 -Viewtiful Joe- Includes Case and book, this is the version from Japan if you have a Cube made in the US then I will include a Free Loader version 1.0 so it will work. The Free Loader (at least the version I have) does not work for PAL Cubes.
Dreamcast:
*A Pin hole is what it sounds like also they can't be fixed. what the pin holes hurt about the games is listed.
$3 for all 4 DC games below:
-Guilty Gear X- The DC version of GGX only came out in Japan this is a copy e.i. rip that played fine in my US Dreamcast, it comes in CD case with printed cover art.
-Street Fighter Alpha 3- Comes in CD case with printed out cover art, has 1 pin hole in it. It will freeze on some characters endings but all the game play parts are fine.
-Soul Calibur- Comes in in CD case with printed cover art, has 4+ pin holes in it often won't start up at all but plays okay maybe when it does.
-Resident Evil CODE: Veronica- Comes with both discs, offical CD case, [case is not in that great a shape] and book. has a few pin holes in it, freezes after a save is made, you will have to reset and start from the save you just made to keep playing. might freeze at other times also but not much.
*************Wanted list************
*Can PM me prices if you want $ for for stuff on my wanted list.
HK sets:
*NO EZDVDs
*NO sets that don't include English dub.
-Twelve Kingdoms-
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