I almost saw Submarine at TIFF -- can't remember what I picked instead. It does look good, too. Oh well.

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Just for you, you lover of films.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8CaC4RMwsM&feature=player_embedded

This looks good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CAntLzsQ74&feature=player_embedded

By far, the greatest submarine movie of them all.

I remember reading a few articles a couple years ago about how in the past decade we've been minutes from annihilation. The reason is because Russia has a lot of missiles on ready alert but the computers are out of date and they have been reacting and almost firing missiles and our missile systems detect this and get antsy as well. Imagine destroying all of human civilization because of a computer error.

Also I hope they go into the Cuban Missile Crisis story, when we were literally one word away from total nuclear wasteland. We'd basically have no northern hemisphere after that. The story is roughly a Russian nuclear submarine was off Cuba and having depth chargers dropped on it from above. The captain said fire the missiles because it's probably already WW3 up there. Another person the Officer of the whatever stopped him and calmed him down from making this mistake. This one man is responsible for probably billions of peoples lives, he should've received dozens of Peace Medals or Peace hookers or something.

Also Russia is now investing more heavily in it's nuclear program which is states unequivocally is a response to the United States and it's militarism. Also a direct response to the missile defense shield placed in Europe which Russia correctly sees as a first strike weapon.

>> ^xxovercastxx:

I played Red Dead Revolver for a couple hours when it was new and I'm not sure why. It's definitely up there as one of the worst games I've ever played, and that was obvious within the first 10 minutes, but I think I was hoping for it to suddenly improve.
Of course Green Spleen Submarine could still be a good game despite it's terribad heritage and, as someone said, it's getting great reviews, but Revolver got pretty good reviews too so I don't really put any faith in that.


Perhaps you and I played completely different games, but I loved the original red dead. The storyline mechanics of actual "Draw" fights made that game fun as hell, and the dead eye meter was fun, too.

One of the reasons I was stupidly excited for RDR was because they brought those back, and I was not disappointed.

I played Red Dead Revolver for a couple hours when it was new and I'm not sure why. It's definitely up there as one of the worst games I've ever played, and that was obvious within the first 10 minutes, but I think I was hoping for it to suddenly improve.

Of course Green Spleen Submarine could still be a good game despite it's terribad heritage and, as someone said, it's getting great reviews, but Revolver got pretty good reviews too so I don't really put any faith in that.

ZOMG WE'RE LIMITED TO 700 ICBMs, submarine-based nuclear launchers, and nuclear-equipped bombers. Instead of being able to wipe out 99.9% of the world's population, we'll only be able to wipe out 99.8%. Stop the presses!

Your video, Video of Submarine Lava Eruption, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Dueling Banjo's?? Awesome Christmas music . I would LOVE to see it done with Yellow Submarine or, perhaps, also sprach Zarathustra !! Incredible light show!!!

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Russian missile launched from a submarine.

I've not spent much time north of Yonge & Finch, but a few pauses revealed...

NY Centre (near my HS Alma Mater)
401 Underpass
Hoggs Hollow
Belly Buster Submarine (my picture may still be up on the wall...)
Sporting Life
Rose & Crown
Summerhill LCBO
Yonge & Bloor (future/never home of 2 Bloor E)
College Park
Dundas Square
Lake

>> ^Drax:
[.Submarine.]
[.....Mode.....]
[..Activated..]


You would think that for $1.7 mil it should be able to do that, but no...

[.Submarine.]
[.....Mode.....]
[..Activated..]

I drop the n-bomb in context whenever I use it black man, an elementary school student could figure out how to operate a nuclear submarine given enough time and stimulus. The racist card is a tired one.

QM, as a conservative, wouldn't you agree that too much is being spent on foreign wars?

Even with all the inevitable Dept. of Defense waste? No. The first priority of any nation is to defend itself from invaders. If you took all the money we spend on defense, redirected it for "social services" and scrap the military, China would quickly move in. I think liberals have a tendency to forget that it's our nuke-carrying submarines circling the globe that keep monsters like China in check and everyone honest.

Unfortunately, America has no choice but to be the world's policeman, we've been cast in that role, and a Ron Paul-style return of all our Armed Forces around the world would mean absolute chaos. Think of how many rogue nations there are now, still acting like dicks WITH our military everywhere.

You won't believe this, but "spending (on national security) as a share of the national economy has actually decreased sharply in recent decades and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan brought only relatively minor increases. In 1951, with overall government spending less than half what it is today, the defense budget was nearly twice its 2009 level. (9% to 4.7%). In other words, military spending as a percentage of all governmental spending is today only one-fourth what it was sixty years ago.

"In 1968, due to Vietnam, military spending rose to 9.8%. That number (of defense spending as a percentage of GDP) came down after the conclusion of the war in Southeast Asia, and sank to a modern low of 3% under Bill Clinton, a level criticized by many military planners as irresponsibly low. Defense spending has increased steadily since then (to an estimated 4.7% this year) under the pressures of the War on Terror. The defense budget nevertheless remains historically low far below its levels under Eisenhower, say, or Kennedy, or Reagan (6%). In explaining the outrageous increase in federal, state and local spending, its obvious that defense and international entanglements had nothing to do with it."

Wood Chipper and Friends are complaining that "no one is doing anything" to help "the poor."

"A book "The Complete Idiots Guide to Economics" written in 2003 cites the U.S. Government budget as reporting that entitlements make up approximately 65 percent of our budget, distributed as follows:
Social Security: 23%
Medicare: 12%
Medicaid: 7%
Other Means-tested entitlements: 6%
Mandatory payments (pensions, etc.): 6%
Net interest on debt: 11%

In 2005, Senator Judd Gregg, then Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee stated that "Mandatory entitlement spending now represents a whopping 55 percent of all federal spending. If left on its current path, that could jump to more than 60 percent in 10 years. That will force us to cut out other necessary expenditures or raise taxes and weaken our economy." Source: The Hill newspaper, Washington DC."

Believe what you like, but there are the facts. Defense spending is a drop in the bucket compared to entitlements aka health, education, welfare. And while military tech has much improved, you don't see a doubling of quality in our govt. schools and you SURE as hell aren't going to see quantum leaps of innovation and efficiency in health care by letting the government run it.

For Kucinich & Friends we could spend 99% of the annual budget on entitlements and they would, and STILL never be happy. It's straight up fking bullsht that so many people have to have their hard-earned sht stolen by a thugverment and handed to people that don't give a sht, don't try and don't care. Yes, some of them need help, but what about the guy that can do the same as you, only he chooses to fk off? Why should you have to pay for his indolence? Do you really think it's just "the rich' getting soaked? Take a look at your paystub. The feds take a nice chuck out of your ass every week or two weeks, even if you're flipping burgers.

mootie writes At least some of that goes towards HELPING people instead of KILLING them.

We spent massive treasure and blood removing a tyrant from Iraq and giving 30 million Iraqis a chance to govern themselves. Doesn't that HELP them?

Liberalism starts with a negative premise, then gets even angrier that the impossible can't be solved with huge sums of money. It's like jumping down a hole and hanging from the bar of weights you're trying to lift while dangling.

The first game my 10 year old daughter made with Kodu was a riot.

Turtles vs Submarines vs Fish

It was a totally autonomous game where the different sides searched each other out and got points for shooting each other...the kids would jump around and cheer for their teams. Lots of fun for kids and it was amazing to see how quickly she picked up the basics of creating rules. She gets stuck once in a while on tough interactions but the ideas and the creation is all within her ability.