I've known the whole "Kellogg was a puritanical nutjob" origin for a long time now.

It's probably why I find the whole thing so distasteful.

Sorry, but it is intentionally cutting off part of a human for no good reason. Just because people were misinformed previously or they thought the invisible sky father said they should doesn't justify it. As far as I'm concerned, it's equivalent to bound feet (although obviously nowhere near as painful).

It is barbaric, especially the orthodox Judaic version, which adds unsanitary and frankly kinda creepy to the mix too.

Try this thought experiment.
We have discovered a new island in the middle of the pacific. Miraculously, they have had no contact with the outside world since humans arrived there. When we arrive we find all the women are missing their left nipple. It turns out this is ritualistically cut off at birth. "It's not a big deal" they say. "the baby gets over it quickly and it doesn't affect them in later life".
Ok with this?

I'd love to see the same techniques used around Pacific Place, BOC, Hopewell, Star Ferry---all the usual suspects...

Hmm... must remember to bring a Capercaillie pacification device with me if I'm ever in their territory.

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Why not? I almost did it, but ran out out of time with the first beta because I thought it was based on pacific time zone instead of eastern time zone. I only got to the character creation DOH! The game is HUGE!

UPDATE: As of February 2014 ALL coastline of California now reads CPM's as high as the exposure at 40,000 ft while flying in a commercial jet from cosmic radiation....Check incidences of cancer in commercial airline pilots vs. folks on the ground, and move inland if you are taken to windy walks on the beachfront in Cali, peeps...Cali coast and the fishes therein from that side of the Pacific are already fucked for centuries.

Ah, I can see you have a FORT in mind. There is no FORT, really. The whole area is the Fort, the land itself. The "blocking fort" ARE the bunkers -- on top of the bluffs and at water level. There are two other forts in a triangular shape -- one on Whidbey Island and one on Marrowstone Island. The idea was if any boat came into the waters of Admiralty Inlet, one of the forts bunkers' big guns could take them out.

The bunkers are all still there. They were going to jackhammer them away, but they were made from imported Belgian concrete and they just would NOT break up.

So you can go crawling around in all sorts of bunkers. Some of the rooms have had their doors welded shut, for safety reasons. But there are plenty to explore.

These three forts aren't on an estuary, however. It is ocean water, but not the ocean. The Pacific Ocean stops about where the Northwest corner of the Olympic Peninsula is kind of south of Vancouver Island, in Canada. Things get narrow there, and the ocean waves can't reach. Or something. So there are bodies of water that ships and boats follow going east, then they turn south to Seattle, which is on the coast of Puget Sound.

It's all very confusing. I can never figure out which way is north. Port Townsend has water on three sides, fer pitys sake!

Oh, and they did remove the big guns, even as they left the bunkers. You can see where they were and get a good sense of how big those guns were.

None of the three forts ever shot in anger. Just practice.

Exactly! "Shop fronts" only.

So when are you coming to America? It is beautiful in my part of the country, albeit very young by European or even East Coast standards. We are very proud of our oldest building. I think it was built in 1875 or something. Maybe even later. Ha.

It is snowing right now here in Pacific NW. Our first real snowfall.

Time to shovel the driveway. When the sun comes up.

All that snow? That precipitation? It is the other side of the California drought -- climate crisis indeed.

We're in trouble, my friend.

Psst.... narration.

It is true that native Americans are as diverse as white Americans in their opinions. There are many many reservations here in the Pacific Northwest. One of the reasons it took so long to finally abandon "Redskins" in our high school is that there were local tribe members who didn't have a problem with it.

If the native tribes weren't monolithic in their response, why should the white people abandon their "heritage"?

I do wonder if we can hear the final sentence of this differently. It may be that some natives are fine with their local high school mascot, for the same reason our local high was -- it is tradition.

But what the vid says is -- we don't call OURSELVES that. And that may be a monolithic truth.

Probably not, though. Humans can be pesky to paint as black or white ... or red.

Enough native Americans are pissed about it. We don't need 100% agreement.

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The irony of you as an American trash talking the Japanese for irradiating the Pacific is hilarious - and sad.

But seriously - racist comments like this get you an official warning. Please consult the guidelines if you need guidance.

Yeah, the Japanese are for the most part some some piece-a-work dysfunctional, throw-backs to empire & isolation fucking savages oh and, Thanks Japan, for ass-raping the Pacific with radiation...Brilliant move, dumbassess!

Do love a lot of their whack-ass psycho shit though, but they treat their women like dogshit, so fuck em.

Candlestick. Loma Prieta. 1989.
2014 Pacific rim pops, All teams lose....

Doritos™/ADM brand corn chips and martial law for everyone.

Pacific Rim - Chicks Dig Giant Robots has been added as a related post - related requested by Grimm on that post.

*videogames

Very nicely done.

The Japanese intro:

The year is 2013...
Suddenly, from the depths of the Pacific, unknown lifeforms known as <KAI-JU> appear and attack major cities.
In order to stop their attacks, Earth's greatest minds come together...
and the giant humanoid weapons known as <Jaeger> are born.
Now the final battle for humanity's future has begun.

OK, so everyone can comment all they want about camera cuts, who did what in the commercial, whatever the f#ck you want to say tear this apart, deconstruct it or knock it down. But I'm a sixteen year veteran of the toy industry, and I see potential. I see something here that moves past the crap that Mattel and Hasbro, Jakks Pacific, Spinmaster, New Bright, Jada, MGA and others cram down the throats of kids at places like Wal-Mart, Target and Toys R Us. I'm guilty of being a part of that machine, I admit it. But I'm not necessarily happy about it, and seeing things like this makes me even less happy about it. Especially that I now have a 4 year old daughter. So I truly hope that this thing takes off. I wish them the absolute best of luck, I'm going to be voting regularly for them to get the spot, and I look forward to buying their product.

TPP is primarily a way of strengthening ties with counties that might otherwise be economically (and later otherwise) reliant on a stronger and more aggressive China. If these particulars are true, that's a shame because the treaty will not pass the Senate, nor should it. However, the Russian state is hardly a neutral party in this. They border the Pacific too, and you'll notice they weren't highlighted in red.