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I like the idea anyway: it's 'cute'

Shouldn't the link into your sig point to this new thread instead of the old one? Oh, and thanks for all your efforts, d00d': muchly appreciated!

No: Gubaba rulez !

I saw this one a while back because it was into french cinemas at the beginning of december IIRC... Was technically impressive but looked like lacking of 'thoughts' contrarily to Akira which presented both: Steamboy could almost have been a Walt Disney... Still, a very nice enjoyment IMO: I recommend everyone to check out

!!! Actually, Beethoven was a real compositor, and a very good one btw, Britney just sings compositions of other people, and not very good ones otherwise they wouldn't have as much succes in front of ignorant masses... On the emotional side, it's a different story of course (a.k.a. you like it or you don't like it...), but it's true that masses have this astounding ability to find anything anywhere

My girlfriend had the same reaction when I showed her DYRL Yeah, they're all bitches... But think about it: if meltrans really wanted to destroy zentrans, all they had to do from the beginning was to go to battles entirely naked -with transparent power armors or something- to distract their enemies beyond their imagination

Both models are very cool-looking IMO

Voice of a Distant Star is definitely one of the best anime ever IMHO You can't call yourself an anime fan if you haven't at least seen it...

Very cool!

I found this rather funny But just once...

Arion

It's not just you...

And the movie adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's manga Metropolis...

Here are some recommendations (in addition to the ones already suggested...): - Gattaca - THX1138 - Metropolis - Cube - Dark City - The Thing - Mad Max - Solaris Anime-wise: - Gall Force - Gasaraki - Gunbuster - Voices of a Distant Star - Beyond the Clouds, the Promised Place - AD Police (the series as well as the OAV) - Armitage III - Blue Gender - Now and Then, Here and There - Grey - Iria Zeiram - Jin Roh - Patlabor 1 & 2 - Princess Mononoke - Sol Bianca - The Wind of Amnesia - Megazone23 - Robot Carnival - Serial Experiments Lain - Silent Möbius That should be enough for today...

Hardly... "higher price != higher quality" means "higher price NOT EQUAL TO higher quality". The "!=" is a conditional operator that comes from the C/C++ computer programing language. Obviously means "NOT EQUAL TO"...sorry for the confusion, I forget sometimes that not everyone is familure with computer programing languages, or the shorthand use of them. L.O.L.!!!

Every experienced internaut knows that Google is my friend until a certain point: for infos about Ferrari, I check the official Ferrari website... which gives no infos as the ones you stated in your post (except one: the number of cars produced in 2004, which is 1350 and represents a production increase of about 12%...) The warranty thing doesn't even precise what sort of models these numbers apply to And the robot you talked about simply serves to 'checks the dimensions of the body at 893 points' (pic #10) to take the exact word of this document. The same document which says for pictures #6 that 'The Ferrari Enzo has a special production line, behind which is the area where seats and pedals are custom-fit to owner's specifications' and for #9 that 'The dimensions of the doors are hand-checked' Don't get your point with the shop manuals link: all manufacturers sell separate components... But whatever, I've more important things to do than discussing about irrelevant details concerning Ferrari cars when they're obviously not the main point of this thread, this was just an example to support my opinion and it seems you perfectly illustrated this last one by yourself with this: Interesting conclusion: you say the Corvette is cheaper than most Ferrari but has better performances, then you still affirm that 'higer price != higher quality' Contradiction?

Sources?

I saw only a bunch of episodes a while back and it didn't give me any Macross-like feeling personnally, rather something Mospeada-like though more sophisticated IMO

Indeed, and their product is costly because it deserves it No, that very much is an opinion...a fully hand restored antique car is often worth less then a same condition original...value is subjective, period. Yes, but quality is not It'll still be a lowest quality than the average Ferrari, for obvious reasons Its called a warranty...Everybody else has them too. Not for life Edit: bastardized quoting...

Someone knows if they'll come back one of these days? 'Cause I'd really like to download ZZ Gundam: I tried their .torrent several times since last week and it always failed...

This one is like a precious gem: you aways hear of it but you can't find it...

Like Stamen0083 said, Ferrari is prestige but you don't get prestige in making cheap products. Ferrari cars are of better quaklity than the average mass-produced cars because of all the reasons Stamen said and some others (one of them is that Ferraris are built in something like 3 to 4 years for one unit instead of 5... minutes for the average industrial car). Also the hand-crafted product is always of better quality than the industrial one, for the simple and good reason that there's actually no machines into any industry which can pretend to the same proficiency than the human hand: it's a fact, not an opinion... This prestige drives into some obligations though. For example, the 'normal' Ferrari color is red: if you want your car of another color (such as yellow, black or white, there's not a lot of options...) you have to pay several hundreds of thousands bucks more. On the another hand, and because it is of very high quality, the slightest defective thing into your Ferrari will be replaced for free, even if it's the one which costs the most. Finally, because it is hand-crafted, the response of the machine to the inputs of its pilot are far better than any other mass-produced car, considerably reducing the risks of accidents Ferrari cars are how all cars should be but aren't because of profits concerns instead of health and social progress: basically the main reasons why we get sh!tty music and movies, because they're cheaper to produce and therefore allow to make more money because they'll still be sold at the same price than other, better products which will not benefit of a comparable exposure and then will not sell as much... It's all a matter of marketing, advertising, manipulation and mass credulity exploitation. Quality costs far too much to interest majors, otherwise their boss will not be able to finance their new giant pool into their Xth secondary residence in Hawaï...

Why not?...People have been buying $100,000+ Ferraris and Lambos for decades now...its not like those cars cost that much to make...hell you could duplicate the performance with a modded Mustang or Camaro, and still spend less then $30k...but no one has been bitching that Ferrari has been inflateing prices... That's because a Ferrari is the product of a craftsman and not an industry, therefore it is of higher quality than the usual average serially-produced car, hence its price

I actually happen to agree with Eugimon.... I also agree with him I meant 'nice' btw, and not 'nive': not that it means something anyway, just a typo thing...

Very cool indeed, but these designs look slightly to much modern to really fit a contemporary settng IMO, especially the cockpit part Also, the 'robot-thing-which-wants-to-kill-all-of-us-poor-humans-for-God-only-knows-reasons' looks a bit... well, cliché? I don't think I'llpay the ticket for this movie but the effects are nicely done