Durakken
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That's right...if you have netflix and a PS3 and watch netflix on PS3 or it's been a thing that has held you back from doing so...No more. There is now a PS3 app you can DL from PSN and stream without the craptastic disc that is made out of cheap failing material ^.^ Yay!
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Quote:You missed the point.Originally Posted by Innovator
I think he's got it! By George! He's got it! Now once again, where does it rain? And where's that soggy plane?
There are several timelines that are possible that they could be writing to line up with. They say they are trying to line it up with cannon last I heard so I will continue to believe that...however what cannon is a different story, because as I point out there are several timelines they could be lining up with. With DCU their official history length shortens with every crisis to the point where the only thing we can be certain of is if it fits barely in 30 they'll try to fit it in 5. We've yet to see the revisions for Final Crisis as far as I have heard and so it is completely possible, given the track record of DCU that the timeline is now condense even more so >.> -
And looking at a DCU history... this is clearly going off a different time line than DCU's timeline, official and cobbled together by fans... So consider that let's just saying the Smallville has no chance of matching with continuity cuz if did...
The scene for this episode would have take place after 2019(23) as Lois is proposed to after Crisis on Infinite Earth and he reveals his identity after that and that takes place 9 years after this year of smallville and considering that she said that Clark holds the anniversary over her it must have been a few years after that, at least 2 which places the future at no earlier than 2021 according to "Guide to the DC Universe 2000 Secret Files" and later for "Zero Hour" so they are either working from their own timeline or DCU has a new-new timeline that has not been revealed to us yet. -
Sorry if I don't know much about Black Adam but the only Isis I know of in DCU is from 52 who gained her power and died and it implies that there wasn't an Isis for several thousand years.
Of course there is like 7 official DCU timelines...
Golden, Silver, Bronze, Modern, post-Zero Hour, New Earth, post-Final Crisis
Most everything I know comes from the Modern-New Earth ages
However most people's knowledge comes the now defunct Silver Age..
While the Bronze age almost noone remembers
and the Golden Age we only know the key facts about and not much more as most people have never read golden age comics or at least not significantly...
So... for things to line up you have to define what you mean by line up. Do you mean with the Silver Age or do you mean the Modern age+? Because half the audience cares about the Silver Age and knows nothing about the Modern Age while the other half wants it to be current with the Modern Age and not the DCU that is out dated...
Then again if you look at it as time shifts happen after the fact and while the history of the universe change the history of the character on the medium doesn't then we are talknig about Golden Age Clark Kent anyways >.> cuz all the history changing events happen to him in his 30s-50s which are at least 7 years off...which by the way gives us a time line to work off of... -
Adrianna shouldn't appear unless she time travels from the future during the year she had powers at all...
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the only thing that really could have been improved about the speech by Ollie is for him to add another line to the effect "to protect my planet" as it would fit with what we know he knows, the story arc, and his character.
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I hate getting any title that can beaten in 10 hours. 30 to 60 hours is generally the number hours i like to aim for when I buy game... and I'd like to think that there are still games out there that approach the 100+ hour mark, but it seems as time goes on there are less and less games that are even over 10... and it only makes it worse that prices have climbed over the last few years....
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Quote:You're advocating something wrong just because you think it's immoral v.vOriginally Posted by Veritech
government's paid for with taxes, and it's going to get them somehow, may as well get some use out of the folks who would end up paying for this garbage.
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Quote:How is taxing something right in the first place. it's a ******** way to try to control a population and that is not something government should be doing.Originally Posted by Crim_the_Cold
You know Durraken had you read that you would have seen that the only thing I had the government do was place a tax on the product like the do other drugs and also gasoline. The government in my scenario no longer placed any legal ramifications in what a person does to themself with drugs.
You dismissed my scenario because you assumed that I was taking an opposition viewpoint and you assumed I was wrong without reading.
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Quote:You are missing the point automatically without me reading that Crim (i'll read it later) The government should have no say in what a person does to themself. You can not say you are for freedom while maintaining that censorship is the right thing to do.Originally Posted by Crim_the_Cold
Okay here's a scenario of what could happen if the drug laws were changed to make drug use legal.
Drug use is made legal:
The Cons:
The government then puts the same vice tax on them as it has on alcohol and tobacco. Gotta make back the money spent on the bailouts. Employers may still require random drug testing as a condition of employment(most will). Its their business after all. The government also puts random drug testing as a requirement to keep getting unemployment payments. The driving under the influence laws are expanded to include the now legal drugs with the same penalties. Anyone who is in prison on just a drug charge can go home. So unemployment is going to go up. Most of those people will have a hard time finding employment since they will not have any recent work experience. The gap between the rich and the poor will become larger since drug use will only be tolerated in minimum wage jobs.
The Pros:
Drug use is no longer a felony. Far less people will be in prison, less tax dollars spent there YAY! Smart entrepenuers will be quick to take advantage of a business that generates its own demand. Many new businesses will pop up. Those former prisoners mentioned up there will be competing for a place in this industry where their knowledge of those drugs will be useful. Random drug testing requirements in those businesses will vary but as they grow larger it will become more common. Corporations value efficiency and drugs impair efficiency. Farmers will be able to grow new crops if they want to.
The end result: A semi-permanent lower class made up of addicted drug users(We may have this now so not sure if this is a change). A new multibillion dollar industry to sell to those users. Billions in new tax revenue for local, state, and federal governments. Fewer tax dollars spent on prisons due to a significant drop in population.
So Durakken better than it is now? Or worse? Or do you have your own idea of what would happen?
On a funny note(from unfortunate personal experience-very dumb classmate that decided he would experiment with speed before school during my junior year) I predict a record number of light switches will be sold as the increase in the number of people who can use speed results in more than a few becoming fascinated with light switches while high and flicking them on and off as fast as they can, breaking them.
Off, on, off, on, off, on, off, on, off, on, off, on, off, on, off, on, off, on, off, on, off, on, off, on, off, on, off, on, WOULD YOU @#$%ING STOP THAT!!!
Edit: Sorry QuietAmerican I couldn't resist.
Edit2:Fixed a verb tense. Grr should've proofread before posting.
I am for freedom above most other things.
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Quote:There is only one argument for every drug I have ever heard and thus it is either a yes or no and since it applies to all of them it is a yes or no with all of them.Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake
no, but you being wrong does. all or nothing solutions show a lack of capacity to understand the differences between tolerable risks and ones that go to far, it really very basic.
In a country that values freedom prohibition is wrong so >.> -
Quote:You may not agree but that doesn't mean you are right ^.^Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Sorry don't agree with this. It's not all or none. Some are a lot more dangerous than others.
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Quote:All drugs should be legal or illegal... not some one way and some the other.Originally Posted by ketch
Approximately 1/4 of the prison population is imprisoned on drug related charges. How many of those do you think are marijuana, a substance that has had a far smaller destructive influence on our society than alcohol?
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should make a program >.>
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Quote:Lies! The road to hell is paved with the blood and guts of my enemies.Originally Posted by Nericus
"the road to Hell is paved with good intentions"
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Quote:If I had the power I'd blow up Mount Rushmore... it's a monument to racism and shouldn't exist >.>Originally Posted by QuietAmerican
So, I think if you add super powers to the mix, hopefully there will be some, some few, who will resist the urge to carve their faces into Mount Rushmore, and will take responsibility over them selves and their abilities.
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Theoretically, all you need to do is make $500k to $1mil and you no longer need to work. I view those people that make like 600k a year and obsess over work as idiots... same with sports stars. They make millions of dollars and spend it all idiotically.
That's not to say that working is bad or that someone who makes 600k a year is absolutely an idiot. I just don't see how people can be so obsessed at that point and really, anyone with a brain should be able to realize that once you make x amount of money you no longer need to work and in fact you can build up a surplus if you live cheaply enough.
Personally i plan on trying to make a million and then living off that the rest of my life and then using excess amount on charities, fun projects, starting businesses, or giving to things i support. Working for money beyond $1mil is shows how stupid you are in my opinion. But working beyond $1mil for other reasons is understandable, because having a job is about more than making money. -
Quote:Pretty sure I can't in the forums...Not sure if it qualifies as political or not.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Sorry GG err Durakken, you'll have to be more specific than that.
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Quote:We're on a planet Orbiting a star.Originally Posted by starphoenix
And there will be people that still doubt that we are on a planet orbiting a sun which orbits around a galactic center. Orbiting around the galactic center is easier to doubt since it takes too long to complete a revolution.
A star that orbits around the center of a galaxy.
A Galaxy that is gravitationally locked within a local cluster of galaxies.
A Local cluster that is gravitationally locked within a Super cluster of galaxies.
All possibly in an infinite universe.
An infinite universe that could be a black hole.
A black hole that could by just a particle in another universe ^.^
There is a decent chunk of people that can't comprehend the first part let alone the second... and when we get into the third part...well we've just about lost everyone so >.> -
Quote:The second part is easy to fix... stop imprisoning people for things that shouldn't be illegal. No killing needed.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Solve? No.
Cut down on prison overcrowding and the amount of money spent taking care of them for years? Yes. -
Quote:be put in jail or whatever is not the only consequence out there.Originally Posted by Zombie Man
Sociologist has shown over and over again that when presented with a situation to do bad things with the belief there will be no consequences (e.g., they think no one will ever know they did it), the majority of people chose to to bad things.
Super Powers enables people to do bad things mitigating the consequences (especially if you have powers like Invisibility).
Lesson: Yes, you register super beings who have abilities to ignore consequences.
If you had the ability to put out fires with a single thought and you didn't you'd face just as bad a consequence as having started the fire itself...even with fires you knew nothing about. -
I bet Jim Butcher is the guy always trying to get people to read the Dresden Files >.>
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addendum... of course if you can sell me actual time as in time to my life or something then there would be some sort of paradox and i think the universe would explode.
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Time is not worth more than money...
It's just my time does not equal your time all the time
This is why a programmer can spend 10 hours and make $600
While someone at McDonalds spends 40 hours making $200
skill + experience + Network = $ per hour
How much in time is a game worth?
Final fantasy 7 = 100+ hours to complete and at released cost $60
the above programmer buying that is saying that his 1 hour of work is worth nearly 100x as much entertainment
The above McDonalds employee who makes $5/hr is saying 12 hours of work is worth about 10x as much entertainment
on the other hand 1 large pizza at $10 equal 1/6 an hour of work for a programmer but 2 hours of work for the mcdonalds employee.
2 hours of preparing food is only worth 3 prepared meals (2 of which would be cold)
Money simply a trade of time for services or resources and inverse.
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#1. flawed conclusion...
"power corrupts" but not always! No sir, it never corrupts. If you can remove something from the equation and get the same result then it has nothing to do with the results. Power enhances ones ability to enact their already corrupt ways.
#2. Stupid study. According to most theists if it weren't for a god telling them killing is bad they'd go kill someone, but most theists that become atheists become more moral according to all studies I've seen so...
if we combine the two it's actually inverse. If you gave powers to most people they'd generally be "heroes" but most people would also take advantage of their powers in ways that we would find illegal but not huge crimes... like if a guy had x-ray vision he's likely use his powers for police work, but he'd also use it to look at women through their clothes... Telepathy would likely result in the person helping the police with info, but they'd also likely use it for getting brownie points with people and manipulating them