^ Neither is objectively preferable. They' re conventions. I was just saying I don' t personally see the need for new words in that case, but if you feel like searching neologisms by all means knock yourself out. Speaking of conventions, in my mother tongue (and that of Styx I think) words have genders. What makes a chair feminine or a cheese masculine ? Nothing, it' s just an arbitrary convention. In my country vaginas are masculine and dicks are feminine, how about that ? ^^
In case this stems from what I told you in that other thread : first, you can be both atheist and religious. Some budhists are, for instance. I was asking you whether you were a theist or an atheist. In other words are you a theist, yes or no. If you don' t know whether you are or aren' t a theist that' s fine, but surely you can see how non-sensical an answer "neither" would look to me in that case. As far as I know you can' believe and not believe in a god at the same time, not unless you' re coocoo for cocoa puffs. And second, no, merely asking that question doesn' t begin to assume the guise of any battle in and of itself, you did. Incidentally, reading this thread brought that little exchange we' ve had to my mind, I guess my position on this "issue" would be a mix between that of Hatok and Styx. Political correctness at large annoys me, getting hellbent on it seems pretty shallow indeed. I don' t really differenciate between sex and gender, nor do I feel we' re severely lacking more precise words in that area. I can juggle with gender behavior stereotypes just fine in a conversation, but if it was starting to require a little more finesse then I would just define what I' m talking about precisely (or ask my interlocutor to do so) rather than waste my time using such a hazy (i.e. useless) concept as gender. On a side-note, when you answered that you were very spiritual I had a vague idea of what you meant by that, but had it become relevant in the conversation I would have asked you to define spiritual : it seems as hazy a concept to me as gender.
^ I did notice the OP was poorly worded, but I think the idea she was going for is that all the fields of science are interdependant. Thinking outside the box is easier when you don' t investigate just the one box. As for budget, as far as I know we' re pretty much stuck at searching ideas. I think the status quo for investors right now when it comes to ideas that would (significantly) decrease pollution, at least in the US, is "prove me your idea would save money and/or create jobs, or GTFO of my office". Environmental concerns step on an awful lot of big toes, space exploration doesn' t.
So ... that theater toilets are safer than any school ? Spoiler I just looked it up myself, not in the last 50 years, nope. One more urban legend flushed from my mind.
I remember reading an article about Thor 2 around the time Avengers was released in theaters. At that point they couldn' t reveal much more than a very concise outline, which was precisely the outline this trailer is drawing : this movie is Loki' s shot at redemption (or is it ?)
I was having lunch with my mum and granny when that story hit the news, and that was my first reaction too when they mentioned the school. I get that not everyone can afford a shelter (or better yet, to go live elsewhere) and that Americans aren' t big on having requirements thrown at them, but tax money is supposed to be used for the common good. I mean they thought of using that money to installl alarms but ... they haven' t built a single shelter ? Not even in the freaking school ? It can' t be that pricey, pardon my French but qu' est-ce qu' ils foutent ces trous du cul ? On a side-note, a tornado hit Monaco recently. Nothing big, it just scattered sand everywhere, but still, this is the first time I ever hear of a tornado hitting anywhere near France. Tornadoes have become increasingly more frequent in the US, correct ? I' m starting to worry it might become a thing here too.
There is this thread, though it' s more specific : http://kh-vids.net/threads/its-just-a-movie-its-just-a-movie.138349/ As for the good or bad impact medias can have at large, well, I' d say they can be cathartic (at least they can be cathartic for me) and/or informative. Can they give us bad ideas or make us aware of parts of our psyche that were latent up until now (and might have been better off left unexplored) ? Sure, but then so can life in general. I look at it this way : medias just give us sensory inputs, but what really matters is what we do with that information, how we decode it. Can the medias impact the way we analyze informations, or our behavior at large ? Yes, just as any other sensory input can, and the younger you are the more influenceable you are. However, although it makes sense to filter what you do or don' t want your kids to see to some degree, once they' re late teenagers it' s useless if you ask me. Whatever it is you don' t want them to see chances are they' ll see it anyway, if they haven' t already that is. You' d better make sure they' ve aquired all the rational tools they need to analyze what life can throw at them by now, last time I checked the ostrich policy didn' t exactly qualify as a stellar one.
Incidentally, the French version of that old proverb literally translates as : one should never say "fountain, I' ll never drink your water".
Well, whether Bieberus himself grasped all the implications of that sentence is still up to debate among scholars.
As the great philosopher Justinus Bieberus put it once, thou shalt never say never.
It' s far from being my favorite, but I liked it. My favorite FF are those that allow me to customize my team with lots of hidden tricks and combinations to find out and, although I didn' t figure it out through my first run, FF VIII belongs in that category. I did realize immediately that the game gives us ton of optional things to do right from starters, which is always a plus in my book. Lots of guide dang it, but I like it and VIII is hardly the first FF "guilty" of that. The story ... meh, didn' t find it any better or worse than any other FF. Sure, I can see how Ultimecia being angry for being persecuted by Seeds from the moment she was born, which makes her screw with the past and actually create Seeds herself, which leads her to be persecuted from the moment she was born, which leads her to *bricked* ... would look utterly inconsistent to some people, but hey, every other FF stretched my suspension of disbelief to biblical proportions sooner or later. Believe it or not, the French translation is even goofier, especially Laguna' s lines.
And here I thought Machina loved Rem.
It' s worth a Chang. So far I' ve only watched season 1&2, it' s junk TV at its finest : very nerdy, quite funny, self-aware, and sometimes surprisingly ingenious. Not all episodes are great but it' s never boring.
Just curious, have you played Skyward Sword ? I' ve set my disgut for the Wii-mote aside for a while and played it, every now and then it asks the player to choose between three possible lines for Link to say. Granted, not often and still without a voice, but it looks like they' re testing waters on that front. But yeah, someone mentionned Other M earlier, but what ruined Samus Aran wasn' t her voice in and of itself, it was her lines. She went from being a one-woman army taking orders from no one to being her daddy' s obediant doormat. I' m not sure it' d be that risky when it comes to Link since he' s almost always a character we' ve never actually met before (he just happens to have the same name and outfit as the other Links), but suddenly filling in the origins of a long established character who didn' t need to have them spelled out loud to be awesome up until now is pretty much a guaranteed way to upset 50% of the fanbase minimum. Who said Darth Vader ?
Yeah, I figured there was probably a catch somewhere. Or four. Never heard of egg rolls before. Judging from the logo it' s suposedly asian, some sort of chicken-filled tortilla ?
Well ... that looks ... hey is that a free movie ticket for Iron Man 3 ? O_o
Err ... are you sure you have the right number ? Not only do they give money, but a lot of them drop objects than can be piled and sold fairly quickly. FF XIII was the stingy one : monsters didn' t give any money and what they dropped was mostly better off kept and used than sold. Anyhow, I didn' t mind the change of tone that happened in XII, when the usual director and composer have both kissed you goodbye that is to be expected. I didn' t mind the slight shift towards real-time action and micro-management either because they were optional, I could jump in and play manually at any time and the game paused itself whenever I was combing through a menu. XIII on the other hand shifted the focus of combats completely, discarding the option to have game-pausing menus or to tell the IA to go screw itself elsewhere. Does it makes it a bad game ? Not fundamentally (though it didn' t really seduce me), but that' s just not what I expected from a FF. It felt as if the waiter had my order mixed up with someone else' s. From what I' ve seen so far Bravely Default looks much closer to what I' d expect from a FF. As for the linearity I didn' t mind it too much in X : the game regularly offered a few options to get side-tracked for a while, and it was their first full 3D game so I was leniant. The previous FF were also fairly linear if you think about it, "I found an airship" moments aside. It was much more prominent in XIII though, there are zero options to get side-tracked before you reach 2/3 of the game (and even then there' s not much to do), and worst of all even the crystariums are tying our hands on several levels. I didn' t think the story had more plot holes than usual or that the characters were blander, the FF shonen stories might have been part of what hooked me in when I was a teen, but that sure isn' t what I play them for anymore.
Oh he' s my health insurer, the need for them hasn' t vanished. Well I just can' t take anyone who says he doesn' t care about his well being seriously. If he didn' t he wouldn' t be here to talk about it. If you managed to see how universal healthcare would be advantageous then surely there' s a way around the cultural brainwash you mentionned. I mean look, some americans liked my previous posts ! Maybe, just maybe, not all americans are as stereotipically moronic as they somehow enjoy to claim it. I' m not blind mind you, I can see from here that Obamacare isn' t spectacularly popular, but it doesn' t look like a lost cause either. But then I guess you' d know how popular it is or isn' t better than me, I don' t particularly pay attention to that and I obviously don' t live there. Now whether it would save more money to start it now or to wait for a better economic landscape ... I honnestly can' t tell. You' d have to know when and how much better things will get to do the math.
Better to pay a tiny affordable tax every month than being utterly unable to pay any doctor' s fee. The money that goes to insurance companies now (or doesn' t, apparently) would go to doctors instead, it wouldn' t go poof. Last time I checked we still had insurance companies here. My uncle is an insurer, his house and cars are fantastic, thanks for asking. To put it shortly, it saves money in the long run. Unless you' re a libertarian who doesn' t care about cost/benefits analysis as long as the tiniest amount of coercion is involved I don' t know where you could be coming from (granted I' m no economy expert). Besides, good luck fixing the economy with sick employees.
Or universal healthcare. Your country needs it. Like, 20 years ago. -_-
