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Temjin wrote:

Nicholas Stipanovich wrote:These are good points, but I think that it makes more sense for the Canadians to join the U.S. for a couple of reasons. First, the United States Constitution is already set up to expand by adding more states. Therefore, there would not be significant difficulties in actually making the change. Second, due to the decentralized nature of the United States government, new Canadian states would not have to change their operations much either. For example, the Canadians could keep their metric measures and the 50 states could keep their imperial measures just as they do now. In fact, I think that each Canadian state could probably keep their parliamentary governments if they so chose. All in all, it would be a smoother transition than trying to make a whole new country.

By the way, if most Canadians dislike President Bush so much, it would actually be better for them to be a part of the U.S. As citizens of the United States, Canadians would have a say in who becomes the President; a decision which undoubtedly affects their lives quite a bit.

You've lived your entire life in the U.S., haven't you?

Temjin wrote:

Azeron wrote:Only way you can be a government officer in teh UK is by havign the right political connection and most likely being born to priviliage.

<SARCASM> Oh, it's never been like that in the states</SARCASM>

It is exactly like that in the U.S.. In the past 100 years, has there been a president that wasn't rich before he got to office?

I don't think there has been one.

Nowadays, it's the person who has more money for advertising who usually wins. That means if you're not rich or have corporate backing, you don't have a hope. It's gotten so far, candidates now try to pass themselves as a common person.

And if it's not that, it because it was a family tradition. A few years before Dubya got to office, his father was president.

And lately, in my opinion, the ones who do win don't take it all too seriously. Anybody remember Clinton? Ah hell, Reagen made it a part time job.

Forum: Star Wars vs Star Trek Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 12:07 pm Subject: Four Tie Defenders vs Six Enterprise E's
Meh Said: E-Es win. They could launch lotsa shuttles to intercept the tie/ds.

Innocent Noob, that I was wrote:Couldn't the ring be a result of the super laser? The laser penitraits the planet, and the beam explodes into a ring destroying the it. Just a thought. Oh by the way, I'm new, and would like to introduce myself. Howdy.

What novel or novels was the Chimaera damaged and abandoned in, and then recaptured by Pellaeon?

Cyborg Stan wrote:It could be because I'm tired, but I don't see the problem. Write out all the terms on both sides of the equations, and you should get a .5gt² on both sides that would cancel out. Solving for t should be a snap then.

GrandMasterTerwynn wrote:My first post will come in a minute. This is just a place-holder because I'm too lazy to spawn a new SD.net window:

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And here it is:

GrandMasterTerwynn, as a newbie.

By inspecting this post, you can clearly see that I have not changed in the many months I've been here.

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In [url=http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?t=17]this[/url] topic, I wrote:Well, I just thought I'd christen this board with its first blatantly trollish post, so here goes. Bear in mind that I'm not quite the expert at slandering Mike Wong that the SB.com Versus inhabitants are, but I'll do my damnedest.

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OMFG!!11 wong thnx he cna setal evry1 from sbc.om adn get thm 2cum2 his web bored thsi is so fooooooking rediclous mike wogn is a ginat poohead his site is so biasd its not even funy hes such a lira he dosnt haev a dgree in eng...whatver i cant spell that neway yah mike wong liks goat testicals nad evlushun is suhc a plie of crap u cant add gntic stuff into smethig cuz it vliotaes the law of entropy or sumthng mike wong SuXoRS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I trust this was adequate.

Durandal wrote:

GrandMasterTerwynn wrote:My first post will come in a minute. This is just a place-holder because I'm too lazy to spawn a new SD.net window:

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And here it is:

GrandMasterTerwynn, as a newbie.

By inspecting this post, you can clearly see that I have not changed in the many months I've been here.

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It's called tabbed browsing. Download Mozilla or Firebird and cast away the tyranny of Internet Explorer!

kojikun wrote:Maybe the SW galaxy is supposed to be descended from the RwR story! O_OO_0Oo_o_0

Illuminatus Primus wrote:I'd say Ylesia or Kessel would be more likely to be seen as the "smuggler" capital, or Nar Shaddaa. Tattooine is a useless dustball from what we're told in the movies, and most of the criminal stuff in the EU is associated with Jabba or with the fact that Tattooine lied along several major hyperlanes across the galaxy. It's just a gas station for criminals and other then that, a dust ball. The Moff was almost certainly being bribed to look the other way. I completely disagree that the other SDs (other then the Devestator, that is) were there for anything but helping secure the planet for retrieval of the Death Star I plans. All of the galaxy was ruled by the Empire (with the exception of the galactic halo which is the Unknown Regions in Mr. Saxton's excellent interpretations) and Nal Hutta and Nar Shaddaa were permitted to exist (nix one abortive attempt to bring it to heel under the command of Baron Fel) by the Imperial administration, so I doubt that SD complement of 5 ships at Tattoine was anything but to hold down the planet for securing the Death Star plans. According to the X-Wing game, the Rebels already had capital ships by this time, and they knew how valuable those plans would be to the Alliance. The Imperials under the efficient operational control of the Lord Darth Vader could've thought it was possible the distress signal Vader ordered transmitted as part of the rouse would've been detected and that the Alliance could launch an all-out assault to capture those plans. The presence of 5 Star Destroyers under that possibility is completely reasonable. I doubt that Imperial ships with the exception of the occasional corvette or system patrol craft ever crossed Tattooine.

Hi guys. Newbie here

I think the people at Decipher had a brilliant game which was unfairly taken away, it was one of the bast games there is.

Alex the noobie wrote:I read A Hymn Before Battle online, and wasn't too terribly impressed. Anywho, I was wondering what other people thought of his Posleen books. Does the series get any better?

Coyote as a mere n00b weenie wrote:

Darth Wong wrote:
Evil is a lack of sympathy; it is a callous disregard for the suffering of other human beings. It's that simple....

By that definition, nearly every German citizen during WWII was evil. I find that difficult to swallow. I think evil should be reserved for people who go out of their ways to make other people suffer.

Hannah Arendt: "The Banality of Evil" (and to a lesser extent, "Hitler's Willing Executioners").

How ordinary, workaday German citizens of the Reich quietly went to work and closed their eyes and ears to the tyranny around them-- the empty houses, the boxcars of people, the chimney smoke, the screams in the night, the Aktions... and did nothing bcause it didn't affect them directly. That is a societal, pervasive, head-in-the-sand passive evil that has no excuse. It is purely selfish.

The Reich backed down from public pressure-- the Wives Riot (when the Jewish husbands of 'Aryan' women were rounded up), the exposure of the Reich policy to euthanize people with cerebral palsy. But where were the riots and demonstrations when it came time for the Jews to go?

Nada.

So then-- try this one: If you see a group of armed men burst into the house of your neighbor... and you hear the screams, the body-'gainst-the-wall thump, the terrified shouts and the gunshots... and you stand there and let it happen because it doesn't affect you... is that not callous, selfish disregard? Especially if you've seen that government back down from social pressure before?

Yes, a society can be guilty.

Sh'ma Yisrael...

"ha'Ze'ev-Ereva b'Tseva Aretzot-ha'Brit (miluim)" which is another way to say:
Coyote, USAR

me, in response to Dalton's offer of a cookie for identification of his then avatar wrote: Bill the Cat from "Bloom County".
I'd like a chocolate one

Oh boy-my first post, and it's off topic even in the Off topic forum...

Batman

generator_g1 wrote: Can SW EU ships be added here? Anyway...

SW : Hapan battleships. They look like mobiles that you would hang in the window to catch the wind.

ST: Those first shuttlecraft from TNG. They really do look like shoeboxes with warp nacelles.

Me wrote:There doesn't seem to be any real difference in the observed manifestations of 'light' and 'dark' Force powers...it seems likely, to me, that the Force is one...er, force. The differences between 'light' and 'dark' are merely philosophical ones.
Notice that most of the observed abilities are shared by Jedi and Sith alike...telekinesis, precognition, telepathy, etc....the only canonical side-specific ability is the 'Force lightning' employed by the Emperor and Darth Tyrannus. And even with that, notice that Yoda is able to interact with, and even absorb this manifestation of the Force. It seems likely that light-side users could employ this lightning as well, if only their moral standing swayed in another direction. Certainly, the major difference between the light and dark seems to be the method and philosophy of application...the dark for attack, the light for offense. And even that can be muddled...Luke chokes Jabba's henchmen just as Vader chokes his own henchmen, Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon, Anakin, Kit Fisto, and others push battle droids in the same manner that Mr. Maul pushes Obi-Wan.
Additionally, the ability of Jedi to 'delve into the Dark Side' in moments of weakness during a battle, the ability of Yoda to 'probe the Dark Side,' and Luke and Anakin's journeys in and out of the two sides very strongly suggests that the light side and the dark side are simply two philosophies concerning the same Force.
This has long been my interpretation of the Force. Robert Brown goes into a little more detail about this and similar ideas on this page: http://www.synicon.com.au/sw/myth/tragedy.htm. It's unfinished as of now, but already excellent.

Lord of the Farce wrote:

Straha wrote: In starwars monopoly they had the alphabet on the back of the instruction manual. Memorised the thing for quite awhile, but now I've forgotten.

That would be WEG's "Aurebesh", very loosely based on the characters from that readout screen in ROTJ. If you actually tried to use aurebesh to translate what was seen from ROTJ, all you'll get is incomprehensible junk.

Vympel wrote:Hmm first post. Tharkun, I definitely sit on the SW kicks ST ass side of the debate, I've read a few of your posts since I've been been lurking, and I must say they're good posts, totally unlike some of the other rubbish I've seen posted. If you've got some interesting new stuff that would actually be exciting to read rather than eye-rolling rubbish like some idiots post, by all means post away and I'll read it. If anything, I'd like some more evidence in favor of ST so I could write an interesting fan-fic.

The attacks on Darth Wong's analysis are borne out of absolute desperation. There is simply no disputing the fact that

a- the Empire is bigger in every way: total military size, industrial capacity, population, economy, sheer territory than anything either the Federation or every known ST race has to offer
b- Imperial vessels are many times faster, with both weapons and shields, and armor many times more effective than anything in the ST galaxy has to offer
c- the Imperial ground forces hopelessly outclass the Federation; there is simply no contest.
d- Imperial technology is many thousands of years ahead- as everyone knows the Death Star is the ultimate evidence of this, but other examples abound, and its bloody obvious looking at the ships, the weapons, the shields (planetary shields able to withstand bombardment from an SSD and its ISD escorts!!!)

So die-hard Trekkies are reduced to

a- nit-picking Mr Wong. Pointless.
b- thinking up idiotic tactics (usually involving transporters) that even if they would work PERFECTLY, would still not win a conflict.
c- thinking up idiotic scenarios- "The Q will save us!" (Yes I've actually heard this one, though I don't know if its been put up on the boards) or "all the ST races will band together and beat the Empire"- the best part of this one is that they'd STILL get totally squished.
d- thinking within the Treknobabble paradigm