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[Exodus]

Show us what you have pasted, atm. Reveal those porno links you've tried to hide!

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[The Man]

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[Exodus]

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[Bloodcrest]

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[The Man]

It sucks. The characters are shallow and one-dimensional, and Goodkind's politics are atrocious. Not only does Goodkind derive his philosophy from Ayn Rand, who substantially misrepresented the positions of important philosophers such as Immanuel Kant and made several egregious errors in logic which underlie the entire fabric of what she misguidedly calls her "philosophy," but he doesn't even represent Rand's philosophy entirely correctly. Goodkind is pretty much a laughing stock on most every fantasy message board I've read, and I've found myself unable to finish up a single novel in the series despite starting several of them, due to the subpar characterisation and the atrocious quality of the writing (at times Goodkind appears to have trouble stringing together a coherent sentence, and it doesn't seem like a stylistic choice either). Rand's, and therefore Goodkind's, Objectivism strikes me as little more than a thinly veiled form of racism: The successful man is successful because he has qualities that cause him to be successful, Q.E.D. (These qualities, of course, are naturally possessed, in other words genetic). Apparently there is no problem with the state of society if some people are left to starve in third world countries, because they don't possess the Rugged Individualism of the protagonists; it's their fault for being self-loathing communists (that's another straw man Goodkind throws around that I find absolutely hilarious). Oh, or else they're just lazy. (Which is bull****, if you've ever actually met any poor working people in this country let alone the Third World they do more work than the people Rand and Goodkind writes about can even conceive of doing, and if their government rips them off it's because they don't do enough to represent the interests of working people, not because they do too much).

In short: Exactly the kind of science-fiction Norman Spinrad was satirising when he wrote The Iron Dream. If I wanted to read Ayn Rand novels (Faith of the Fallen is directly plagiarised from The Fountainhead, right down to the skyscrapers in the final scene), I'd just read the originals.

[Exodus]

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[Bloodcrest]

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.

There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.

If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; But if you really make them think, they’ll hate you.

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand.

[Exodus]

Exodus says:
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Antikhrist says:
Did Rob tell you to tell me that?
Antikhrist says:
He's bugging me also.
Exodus says:
no, i told you to do that
Antikhrist says:
I will later.

[Blitzballer]

Walt Disney Studios and Stan Lee, famed comics creator of Spider-Man, have entered into a multiyear agreement in which Disney will receive a "first look" at Lee's upcoming projects. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the "first look" rights give Disney the first shot at developing the projects into all types of media, including videogames.

"The big thing is we're trying to do projects that are high concept, stories that will lend themselves to franchises," said Lee.

"It's like the realization of a dream," Lee told the AP. "Ever since I was a young boy, Disney represented the best and most exciting film fare to me. And now, many decades later, with movies such as their incredible Pirates of the Caribbean spectaculars, Disney is still at the forefront of family entertainment, excelling in live action, animation, TV, theme parks -- whatever it takes to bring fun and fantasy to audiences everywhere. I look forward with indescribable enthusiasm to being a part of that world and contributing whatever I can to keep the legend alive and growing."

[The Man]

Just because their parents may have owned factories doesn't mean they themselves ever did, which was the original claim being contested. It's not as if one can reasonably control the actions of one's ancestors, even if they are still alive.

I believe Walker's central point is that what Marx termed Communism has never been implemented or even tried. You yourself concede that the attempts at creating ostensibly Communist states by Lenin, Mao and others were not performed after what Marx termed the necessary preconditions for the establishment of a communist society had been met, so it looks to me that apart from a semantic disagreement over what constitutes communism (which, it's worth pointing out, is all the "civil war" debate consists of as well) you completely agree with him.

I would however contest your claim that the overthrow of the moneyed class cannot occur without violence. Above I have outlined one scenario which feasibly would be able to enact exactly that feat without a drop of bloodshed on the part of those enacting the revolution, and all it would require is substantial organisation on the part of the proletariat and a strict adherence to the principles of nonviolent resistance as outlined by Thoreau, Tolstoy, Gandhi, King, and others. (Of course, it is entirely predictable that there will be violence on the part of those being rebelled against, but a careful study of history demonstrates that if the aforementioned principles of nonviolence are adhered to, it will be almost entirely ineffective).

It is of course worth pointing out that the overthrow of government is the final outcome of the scenario outlined by Marx, so I'm not quite sure what your purpose is in pointing out that the enactment of true Marxian communism would require a revolution.

[Exodus]

Once upon a time there was a woman who lived with cheerleaders and was a whore or so people thought. She was actually a door to door saleswoman that sold prosthetic legs. Her goal in life was to die wealthy and solve the mystery

[The Man]

Our point is that, if you want this section to function properly, all discussion about the promotions issue, Lisa's idea, inquiries on reps, talk about leaks, rep and staff behaviour threads, the reputation system, thread titles, and other such issues should be out in public, where member representatives or better yet all members can reply to it directly. There are countless arguments being made in the staff forum right now that we can't respond to because we don't have access to see them, and when staff have the final say based on arguments members don't even know are being made, that renders this entire section of this forum as nothing more than a meaningless gesture.

Furthermore, many of those issues (most flagrantly, the matter of the promotion) are being discussed in here now only because member reps brought them up. They were discussed first in the staff forum. We shouldn't have had to bring these matters up; if this section were implemented the way it was proposed, staff would bring them up here without any prodding from member representatives, and they would be discussed here and here only.

I agree that it sucks that there are private discussions about ACF on other forums as well, but it's evolved to this because of what's been happening on ACF. If stuff didn't magically disappear from the forums when it contained material certain people didn't like, and staff didn't have to put their positions on the line to reveal information perfectly relevant to the membership of the forum that the membership of the forum should have access to see in the first place, I doubt there'd be any discussion outside of the forum.

The reason the creation of this section hasn't accomplished the end of heated arguments on ACF is because it has never been implemented properly. Until all staff start paying more than lip service to the idea of cooperation between members and staff, there's really nothing more that members can do to speed things along.

[Blitzballer]

Remember when Nintendo and Sony were holding hands, and doing even more behind the scenes concerning a joint console that never saw the light of day? Well if you somehow forgot, allow me to refresh your memory a bit. The year was 1989, and it was the day that Hiroshi Yamauchi was to announce to the world that Sony and Nintendo would be working together on a project to bring a CD-ROM add-on to the Super NES.

Unfortunately for Sony, Yamauchi had just read over the previous legal agreement and was stunned to see that it basically called for Nintendo to relinquish all control over any titles written on the SNESCD-ROM format. It wasn't long after this that the contract with Sony was canceled, and it was the surprise of the century -- even to Sony -- when it was announced at CES that it was now Phillips Electronics that would be working with Nintendo.

Fast forward a few years later to 1995, and it is obvious that Sony is the clear winner on the failed deal when it releases the original PlayStation to much applause. The PlayStation brand would secure two generations of gaming consoles as the clear cut winner, while the Phillips CD-i (with a few Nintendo spin-offs of its own) was but a distant memory.

Nintendo managed to survive (they are experts at remaining profitable), but found itself in the unfamiliar position of not being the market leader any more. It could be argued that they never truly recovered until recently, thanks to the DS and Wii. The rest, as they say, is water under the bridge. However, take another look at the picture and think about what could have been if Nintendo had not backed out of the deal on that fateful day.

Would Sony and Nintendo have ruled the console market together, or would the relationship have self-destructed over time regardless, considering how starkly different the two companies view the videogame market? One thing is certain ... the videogame landscape might very well be a lot different than it is now.

[Exodus]

Exodus

[Roger Mexico]

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[The Man]

Critical Essay - Terry Goodkind - Wizard's First Rule - Sword of Truth - A rebuttal of Goodkind

[Bloodcrest]

[Exodus]

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[The Man]

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[Blitzballer]

Thierry Henry has moved a step closer to leaving Arsenal after describing news of Milan's interest in him as "great to hear".

It will increase fears among Gunners fans that the club is on the brink of disintegrating, with manager Arsene Wenger and midfielder Cesc Fabregas also believed to be considering their futures.

The Frenchman's season has been disrupted by injury, and he has often cut a disconsolate figure with the Gunners finishing just fourth in the Premiership. He was also upset by the resignation of vice-chairman David Dein.

On Milan's reported interest, he said: "That is great to hear. How can it be anything else?