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[OscarWilde]

Lets bomb San Fransisco!.

Quite amusing actually. I don't see how denying the military to recruit on school campus is enough to warrant such a rant, but I do know that at least it's funny to hear stupid talk sometimes. Reminds me of Madan with a job at the radio station. Did San Fran outright deny complete military recruitment in the city? Or is it only on school campus? Actually, it shouldn't be happening the first place, period, but I don't know what it means 'to use the campus grounds to recruit.'

None the less, it's funny, and I had a good chuckle. 'We won't give you a nickle!!!' California is one of the four richest states in the US, and not only that is the major blood line for distribution of merchandise to the rest of the US. That to me sounds like it's a state that can do well on it's own if it were Annexed from the US.
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[OscarWilde]

Having studied and lived in LA, and travelled around California, I (jokingly) support the idea of California being an independent country*. California Love! And I mean it, I have strong sentiment for California, and consider it home away from home. All the times I arrived in LA I always feel like I'm back home.



*Don't know if you guys remember or know this, but there was/is a group in California that I believe actively pursued the notion of making California an independent country.
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'An urban myth. Like the dyslexic devil worshipper who sold his soul to Santa.' - Robert Rankin (Raiders of the Lost Car Park)

'Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.' - Milan Kundera (Immortality)

[lewis]

Speaking of SF, watch this: http://www.beam.tv/beamreels/reel_player.php?reel=xqYdjhtgMY&reel_file=rFXGpwNCSZ&fs=1
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[Magus]

[OscarWilde]

[OscarWilde]

[lewis]

I think it's shit. I mean I'm sure it was fun and all, but they should have done it with CG - they could have had camera moves inside the cloud of balls and following shots and bullet time and all sorts of fun shit.

The result looks CG anyway, what with the neon colours and high framerate slowmo bits and lack of sound, so your average viewer isn't going to get the whole "we actually did this, we're that cool" thing.

And what the hell kind of bastard word is "Bravia" anyway? Yuck.
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"I don't think that's where their brains are." - Paul Hill

[OscarWilde]

[OscarWilde]

Lewis, you mentioned how you read 'Thud!' (I forget the thread it's in) and I myself finished the book a while back. I was on a Terry Pratchett run myself. Re-read 'Monstrous Regiment' and 'Going Postal' again. All of which are hard back since I re-read them a lot. Might as well get them to last.

I finally got the paperback of 'State of Fear' by Michael Crichton because I rarely ever re-read his books. Except for 'Jurassic Park' and 'The Lost World' but that's only because I sorta like dinosaurs. I re-read 'Andromeda Strain' and remembered why I didn't like the book the first time I read it.
Going back to 'State of Fear': it's basically a mouth piece for Crichton's views on global warming. I agree with the views since I already knew that global warming was a headline buzz word used by the media and not really understood by the general public. However, the story seems to be very thin. Character development is sometimes forced but better then a lot of the trash novels available out there. I have read quite a few Clive Cussler books, so I'm pretty tolerant of crappy and formulaic writing.
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'An urban myth. Like the dyslexic devil worshipper who sold his soul to Santa.' - Robert Rankin (Raiders of the Lost Car Park)

'Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.' - Milan Kundera (Immortality)

[Jeremy Reimer]

[lewis]

You have a point OW, but I suspect that most people who are likely to buy Bravias don't give a flying fuck how the ad was made and see it as just another piece of computerised eye candy if they think about it at all.

And people who are interested in how it was made are going to know about the line anyway if they're into that kind of thing.

Freakily enough the last three books I bought were Thud!, Going Postal and Monstrous Regiment. And Equal Rites which I haven't read since I was about twelve. He's got a lot cleverer.

Have you read any of the recent Robert Rankins? I got put off a bit when he started churning out random books at high speed with no connecting theme. I might try Witches Of Chiswick or The Hollow Chocoloate Bunnies Of Death or whatever that one's actually called. Except I think I want to read some Neil Gaiman and Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon too... a library would be a good idea, I must look into that
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[AllYorBaseRBelong2Us]

AYB gives a big to ideas against on-campus military recruitment because. The root of these people's angst is the current administration. Like GwB or hate him, the military is an honorable profession.
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Man, I need to get out more. You know smam is getting to you when you go to a canadian restaurant and start wondering about moose cock. -OscarWilde

[AllYorBaseRBelong2Us]

[Magus]

[Jay]

Heh.

Bill O'Reilly is a hypocritical tool. News at 11. Or not.

On campus military recruiting - can't say I care for it though I kind of feel the same way about anybody else recruiting people on campus. It's amazing how many college kids I've seen that can't manage to write their own resume... or even know the basics of applying for a job.

Still when it comes to military recruiting nowadays only two people are signing up as I see it: 1) People who really want to get into the thick of it and 2) People who are very very very very very stupid and actually believe that they'll just train on one weekend of the month with the Reserve unit that they've joined. I've seen people complain about shit tactics like stop loss and all of that but at the end of the day they volunteered knowing 100% what was going on in the world. I mean really whose fault is that?

As far as O'Reilly goes - he can stick it. The fact so many people still watch him proves that once again Americans would rather be duped by yet another talking head rather than thinking through the issues themselves.

[OscarWilde]

[OscarWilde]

[Riso]

[MasterOfTheHat]

[lewis]

[gisboth]

[Jeremy Reimer]

Yeah, if they brought back the draft it would probably mean the end of the government. There' s no way they could sell it to the public now. I think they may have always known this.

I'm reading a fascinating book now about the Vietnam war (entitled Perils of Dominance), which presents a compelling and well-documented argument that the whole "Domino Theory" line that we have all been fed for all these years was complete bullshit, and that US intervention was actually based on the fact that US intelligence told them that they had overwhelming military superiority over the Soviet Union (albeit the gap was slowly diminishing) The USSR actually had very little influence over other countries and was constantly bargaining from a diplomatically weak position. In summary, the US intervened because they could, not because they had to.

It's a fascinating book and the parallels to the story in Iraq today are somewhat disquieting.
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-- Carl Sagan

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[Jay]

[DuffMan]

I think O'Reilly is a smart guy, even though I disagree with him a lot. I stopped paying attention to him because he turns towards sensationalism and bullying constantly, which ruins any point he is trying to make. It's a shame really.

The general public seems to like the sensationalist, sound-bite driven approach. O'Reillys ratings remain high even though his show has turned pretty crappy.
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Roight.

[Jeremy Reimer]