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Reply to The case for the Empire in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

One thing the article didn''t point up is the Republic''s highly questionable record on the ethical treatment of animals, as revealed in Episode 2. Not only do we see Anakin abusing a grazing animal during his courtship of Amidala, but another example of this animal can be seen floating in the asteroid belt around the gas giant, and a third is seen running across the screen , ON FIRE, during the epic battle scene. Given that this takes place before the Sith succeed in conquering the republic, it

Reply to 10 Tech products you couldn't do without... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Anything that actually empowers the user - For me, MP3's became meaningful only when a player that could hold a Mahler symphony while still being small enough to wear hiking came along. I don't use a cell phone because I go to places that are outside the range of the towers too often. I'm waiting to by a new lap top until battery life gets a bit longer for the weight I want. I didn't switch to e-mail until I could protect it against at least most of the spam out there, and so on.

Reply to America prepares for war... in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

We have not turned the Japanese into us, Thank God!. They've assimilated a great deal of our best ideas, but they have also preserved and developed a great deal we could learn more from. We don't have to compel anyone else to drink Coke (caffine does that for us, until they move up to Jolt and Caffinated Mints). If a culture doesn't want to learn to speak English, fine, we'll gladly borrow five hundred or so of their best words and add them to ours. What the civilized world has to compel is simp