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Yes, how are the sales? Numbers please! OTB

That was exactly the point: to give the less populous states a bigger voice in the higher of the two houses. For all of the prattle we hear about democracy here in the US I don't think that people here realize just how anti-democratic some of its institutions and practices are. The...

This is definitely a tough one. After long deliberation (read "30 seconds") I'd have to say that breasts are the deciding factor. They've both got a lot going for them, so Famke is the winner, since I'm not turned on by udders. I think if we factored interests and age into it Jennifer...

In all fairness, Kazan was damned if he did, and damned if he didn't. On one hand he would have been grilled by HUAC who had the law on their side and could have locked him away -- since he had no real way of knowing how flimsy McCarthy's case was -- or on the other hand he could risk public...

Well mohrg, I guess it's come time to forgive you for suggesting that I "make freaky babies" with Dove. :lol: If you happen to get classed as a tank crewman...well, all I can say is have fun slogging around in the red clay of Ft. Knox, only a stone's throw away from where the extras from...

Okay, I see where you're coming from. Sorry, I was getting tired and it seemed you were of the mind that Hollywood was in fact riddled w/communists. That's why I pointed out that the people who ended up on the chopping block were mostly nothing of the sort. Too bad movie-going audiences...

Yes, but you used lots of synonyms like "take over"...er...okay, I admit I took some poetic license w/your post. :oops: I thought that was a pre-requisite for becoming a super-power. OTB

Of course! However, I must not forget the hot dogs. :shock: OTB

Well, if you'd said, "Second rate hack and lapdog of imperialist stooges, brought to justice by the the vanguard of those who pine for the bygone days of the illustrious Comrade Stalins regime," I'd have agreed. ;) (j/k. Kazan was many things, a second rate hack wasn't one of them. Can't...

Good call, Wooz. Good call! I think I'll spin Bedtime for Democracy, just for that. :lol: OTB

Odin, you have a broken link to fix. ;) Edit: NM, I see you got it already. No shit! Talk about grade inflation... OTB

I'd pick the Duchy of Grand Fenwick. During my month in power I would declare war on the US in order to reap the "fruits of defeat"... OTB

Long range trade is a thing of the past in FO, so that would knock a lot of the competition between faiths out. This would also limit a faith's growth and would keep them from establishing a powerful and widespread bureaucracy. However, I think it would be -- like Welsh said -- a case of...

The US will very likely give in, just not in public. Just like Reagan stood in front of the US public and blathered on about not negotiating w/terrorist while he had cronies off selling arms to Iran in exchange for information. The problem for the US is that -- quite frankly -- it's full...

The issue between NTSC and PAL isn't one of ratios, but rather the lines of resolution, frame rate and I think also the color coding. NTSC delivers 525 lines of resolution at 60 half-frames per second, while PAL delivers 625 lines of resolution at 50 half-frames per second. (Courtesy of...

It's a forumula for determining the range to something that has either a known height or width. A "mil-dot" reticle is one that has dots placed on it one milliradian apart (1/6400th of a circle or 17.777 degrees). You look through the sight, see how wide/tall something is, then extrapolate...

This argument is flawed. Arguments rely on facts, this one is an example of an abusive argumentum ad hominem, but in the positive sense, rather than the more usual negative sense. The argument can be re-stated as "these people believe it, ergo it must be true!" I will grant you that some...

Bah! Real men use mil-dot reticles and the WORM formula! :lol: OTB

To paraphrase something my grandmother used to tell me: "Believe in one hand, shit in the other; see which one gets full faster." Faith and ignorance may not be the same things, but faith is a lot close to ignorance than it is to knowledge. Perhaps one day you'll realize that and then...

Fairness had nothing to do w/my post, CC. I was simply describing the world as I know it. :lol: If you're looking for an area in which you've "one-upped" me, it's in Russian/Soviet film. All I've seen over the years is bits and pieces of some Eisenstein films and I have a copy of Ballad of...