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Ginsu Victim:
How about those Olympics?  :P

(Let's get this back on topic...)

polaris:
some welsh chick won the first gold in the olympics  :applaud:   
hasnt some american dude just reached 11 golds, that an awesome acheivement.

Hoopz:

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--- Quote from: GinsuVictim on August 13, 2008, 04:56:20 pm ---How about those Olympics?  :P

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Most events, I think, "wow, that person has spent most of their life and countless amounts of money honing a completely worthless skill".

However, curling is totally worth the cost.



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Let's bump that comment to the Winter Olympics thread.   ;)

SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on August 13, 2008, 01:25:13 pm ---
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on August 13, 2008, 01:19:39 pm ---It's a country that makes no bones about supressing their citizens by controlling access to ISP's. The two are not always mutually exclusive.


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How is that indicative of the culture?  It is a direct action of the gov't without mandate of the people.  The cultural effect of that is that everyone has a net enabled phone.  News doesn't go through web pages.  It gets spread via personal networking from peer to peer.  The gov't is still trying to control media but in this age of instant contact the culture is circumventing the gov't's actions.  What I'm told by friends who are from there is that the result is often a population that actually knows more than average about world affairs because information is condensed and targeted as it makes its way around by hand.


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OK, you have a country whose citizens are fighting for ways to gain additional freedoms, ie everyone with net enabled phones sharing information. But wait, is that really representative of the majority of citizens there? Is it really everyone? Or is it more that it's almost everyone that that person(s) knows which is unlikely representative of everyone in the country?

In the U.S. I can easily say that everyone owns (posesses is probably a more accurate term) a car or motorcycle. Is that true? In my circle of friends, that is true. In the entire country, that's obviously not true. Does everyone in the U.S. own a PC? In the last five years I haven't encountered anyone who doesn't own or use a PC manufacturered in the past ten years, but I can't be convinced that everyone in the country owns or uses a PC.

You have a country with over 1.3 billion. Pretty good bet there's a pretty big silent majority there. A silent group is just as powerful as one or two loud voices.

I have no doubt the general population is more aware of world affairs than elsewhere. This is one of the stages of uprising (or significant change). Oddly enough, China's been stuck in this particular stage for quite some time. Just like the U.S. has been stuck in its apathetic stage for the past twenty years or so.

Oh well. Whatever. This kind of debate can go back and forth for days on end.


--- Quote from: ChadTower on August 13, 2008, 04:46:51 pm ---Dammit dammit dammit.  I wanted to find a WAV of the AAHHH YESSSSSS sound from Fathom but can't find it anywhere.  That's exactly how I heard your post in my head.

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All I know is Fathom the comic book. What is Fathom?

SavannahLion:
I see. I wouldn't call mermaids homoerotic but hey, to each their own I guess.  ???


--- Quote from: ChadTower on August 13, 2008, 04:46:51 pm ---
--- Quote from: shardian on August 13, 2008, 04:42:45 pm ---Ahh yes, he has. And you were doing so good Jim! Better get your Doc to check your med levels again.

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Dammit dammit dammit.  I wanted to find a WAV of the AAHHH YESSSSSS sound from Fathom but can't find it anywhere.  That's exactly how I heard your post in my head.

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http://www.pinball.yoo-design.com/pages/sounds.html

OK... yeah, no... I don't get it. :dunno

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