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Eric, Darth Mandarb, Lore and me will rendez-vous in Charles de Gaulle the 14th, at 1300, to go to the Chateau by car, dunno if with my car, if I drive to Paris, or with a rented one, if we fly to Beavois (sp?... Paris's third airport) the afternoon of the 13th. If you want to come, you are invited, but tell to me asap to get/rent a bigger car (Darth is giantic)

pics please

Re-please?

I agree with Cameron that Rockstar hasn' t said that their goal is to make the games as funnier as possible.

When did they say their goal is to make the games as realistic as possible?

I just finished it... The last mission is a bit "Vin Disel", again, which makes me feel weird, since all the action has been "mildly realistic", like in "The Score" movie, or something like that... Well... I prefered GTA:SA as a game, but Liberty City is ultra cool.

Hey Retro... No worries, man, I was not being serious about the capitals thingie

I was not able to see what was going on in the fights between alien and Predator (Predator in CAPITALS, please, best moster ever...), but that is becoming common, happened to me also with Spider-man vs. Venom in SM3.

Annoying.

I am not going to be able to enter, since I have an important exam soon, and I have some personal things to worry about (Lorena graduates, weeeh!), but congratulations about the topic! It' s amazing when a host takes this so seriously and makes this didactic.

PP, you should try to "re-ask" your question.

Simpsons... Original?

Sitcoms about an average american family have been made for decades, Growing pains, family ties, Married.. with children, Bill Cosby' s show... All of them follow the same pattern, wife, husband and 2 or 3 kids, at least one per gender. Simpsons are 0 originall.

Lost is original. House is original. Dexter is original. Prison break is original... What is original in the Simpsons?

Maybe you meant... funnier? Monthy Python' s flying circus, Futurama, Aló Aló, Not the Nine o'clock news, Jeeves and Wooster, The black Adder, The red Dwarf, Parker Lewis... And that in the "not that bad" days of the Simpsons. With nowaday' s episodes, I laugh with them as much as if I was seeing a documentary of the reproductive costumes of the Japanese blue jay way. I could even say that it' s almost as boring as family guy... But at least with the Simpsons there were goof times, while FG has been crap from the pilot episode.

Bad example. The US did not FORCE the rest of the World not to commerce with Cuba...

Cuba had all the communist world (which was half of the world, in that period) to commerce with. Why Cuba is now poor? Because of the embargo? Partially. Mostly because communism does not work and because Castro is a corrupt.

Still, that American measures "promoted to struggle Castro' s regime", are not very succesfully, since lots of Countries invest in Cuba.  "Clinton warning 3 foreign companies over investments in Cuba" is not the complete ban I mentioned, and apparently, and according to SSH is what "has something to see" in how the Third World is now.

Me neither... And, whereas I replied your questions one by one, you are still moving sticks not to reply to the first one I made 20 posts above.

Hi to all,
it's been a great thread so far, baby killing, Bush is the Devil, Globalization, America 1420, wow!
Well I have to say that I agree on most of Nacho conclusions.
Here is my opinion on the last post:

A- yes, it is called an embargo;
B- no, there was a Spanish king back then, and he was a mean dude;

Embargo... a word that has never been quoted by SSH, but will probably be adopted by him because of the weakness of his arguments.

Now, can you quote an example of one (or severall) countries of the First World forcing all the countries in the rest of the world not to buy a certain good produced in a country of the Third World? (For example, America forcing ALL THE REST OF THE WORLD not to buy a certain item or commerce with Cuba)

Was the weight of that good so important in the overal economy of the third world so important that this economy has been struggled till poverty?

Thanks.

Curiously, no one of those had something to see Cortés and the Aztecs, which was what you mentioned on first place...

Some of them are "only a few centuries" away of the facts, some others "only a few thousand of miles" away of the facts.

You do what in Spanish is called "move sticks"... Basically replying with something that has nothing to see with the original debate in an attempt to divert the attention. I say that protectionism in "A" countries can' t affect the whole economy of a "C" country because protectorism is just a pack of measures to avoid foreign competence inside of the "A" contry and it' s not overall price determinant for the rest of the world, and you change and say that "Goods produced in A countries are chaper, so products produced in C countries can' t compeate with them"... which has nothing to see with protectionism.

I say "Catalans and Basques had nothing to see with Spanish policies in the New World"

And you told me that "Basques made boats"

After some hours, you realise how "weak" that argument is, and google for some catalans and basques that, effectivelly, were, fought of lived there... It' s impossible to discuss with you.

So, I am going to try to make a short brief, and reply:

A) Can protectionist measures from an A country avoid the products of a C country to be sold in the rest of the world?
B) Had Catalonia or the Basque Country as nations had something to see in the conquest of America?

Probably, but you were talking about gold stealing (And probably tried to introduce to the reader the genocide concept as well, which is quite serious thing to garnish it with a wink emoticon)

Apparently you fix it all with that... I don' t know if if works with everybody, personally, I think it' s quite tiring.



Gold stealing, conquest, genocide and anything related with any aspect of management in the new world did not involve Basques or Catalans at any level.

Unless you think that the lumberjack wich cuts wood which finally works for making the butts of a Kalashnikov is guilty of the deaths caused by that weapon (Basques made boats, the ones Pizarro used to cross the Atlantic, ergo Basques killed the Incas!!!) That's a, let' s say it softly, "dubious" argument.

I would like to help, but, even understandig your will of "not revealing it all" and be discreet, I don't think we can really help if you don' t get a bit more info. Who is not good for you, and why? Wife? Friends? Work buddies?

Anyway, you have all my support and my msn adress if you need something I can do.

I don' t really agree 100% with what I posted,  but fearing that, AGAIN in this forums, the "we suck" opinion was going to be the only one to be told I had to show the other side of the coin (That the Third World had something to see with where they are now)

I think my opinion is quite clear, and I will allow this thread back to topic, Tuomas.

Oh, a joke about a the history of a Country that I don' t feel as mine and the wink emoticon, I was missing it.

Again, for 100th time... Spanish american conquest was made by Castileans, Andalucians and Extremenians. My origins are Basque and Catalan which were not Spain in that period.

And I was born in a city that was Islamic in that time...

So, go on making jokes about Spain, those bullets will miss if I am the target.

About the "baker"... Do you have data about a massive ban from ALL the countries of the Fist world to a certain product? I think you are not going to find them, since it does not exist. Tariffs and subsides make the A product of the First world county to be "protected" from the B product of the "third world" country, so the first world country population consumes A product in spite of "B", but the protective procedures do not affect the "B" product towards third countries, since the protectionism is made into deficitary products that wouldn' t surive without the protectionism. "I won' t allow the neighbourhood ' s baker to sell bread in my home, because my bread is shit and his is awesome, and if my children taste it they won' t ever eat mine".  What does those actions affect to the possibility of that baker to sell that bread in OTHER homes? In nothing, except if those other houses make a common league not to buy bread to the neighbourhood' s baker.

You are not putting examples of an "A" product that is better and cheaper than "B" product, not of protectionism.

Better to how they treated themselves, that' s for sure...

Oh, one thing... What is the contrary to "reasonable well" in your oppinion? Do you agree with me that an option could be "irrationally bad"? Do you really think that live in colonies was "irrationally bad". I don' t think so, sorry. We can' t really see a clear example, because colonies were over lot of decades before, but the situation in colonies was not like in the "Uncle Tom' s cabin" panorama you want to paint, but more of a Hong Kong compared to London. A

Ouch... yeah, thanks. I was looking for the article, and quoted by memory.

I agree that the brits are the worst de-colonialists ever... But I mean, it was not like one day they awoke and said "Man, I feel cool today, I think I am going to de-coloniate this country".

No.

Some of those countries took the colonialistic countries to their limits to gain that independence. As you know a bit of history there' s no need of me to quote what the independists made in the middle orient, Africa and Orient to become "free". You must be aware of that.

As you are a sensible person, you' ll agree with that it was logical that those colonists countries didn' t want to know anything about those "new countries" that showed such levels of hate to them. Again, that doesn't explain why they are still poor... They still have the rest of the world to commerce with.

To put it in a simply (and excessive simplist) example: You are in your parents home, and if they treat you reasonbly well. You decide that you want to be independent, and you start to behave as a complete dickhead, so some day, they, tired of your attitude, they give you what you want. Independence.

What you claim those parents should have done, Becky, is them to go on visiting their rebel kid house, clean it, make the beds, pay the butane, buy the food, cook, pay the electricity, pay the contibution to the building owners, buy the food and look for a job in his place.

No... Sorry. Independence is Independence, with full letters.

And Tuomas, you just gotta take a look to the map of communist/socialist/countries of lower economy freedom of the world and you' ll easilly detect that they are also corrupted and/or dictadures. Because Socialism is not the cool "Money is not a factor" sentence that you said, but "directing every aspect of the Country from the government".

I guess your best bet is to resize them chaning the size of the pixels and then use some kind of anti aliasing system, otherwise than that, I don' t think you are going to get some program that "magically refills that gaps between pixels" with new, "sensible placed" ones...

Even with that, I still think that the result will be quite crappy. Pixels are pixels, and if you make them bigger, you are not going to discover a new world of information, like happens in CSI when they zoom a shitty security cam image.