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I thought that was a global trait. That's been my experience, at least.

If he hadnt said no this coulda lead to a whole new series and change everything about Robotech and Macross Yup. Killing all the main characters in one shot would've changed the entire series. And by extension changed the bastardized hackjob. If that was how they felt, they never would've inserted it. Macross is fairly well put-together. Everything except Global Report serves a purpose. The event added a bit of depth to the universe, pointed out that even if you weren't looking for trouble, trouble had a way of happening. There were people out there fighting a war of mind-boggling proportions, and it was all too easy for neutral parties to get caught in the crossfire. Also reminded the viewers of exactly how humanity got the Macross. Remember, this was the 3rd season. The finer points of the first season may have been lost at that point. What? I said nothing of the sort. And that's kinda stupid, given the ship was in the middle of nowhere. If it'd folded into an asteroid belt there'd be... asteroids around it. I said it was likely a supervision army boobytrap, particularly given it was gone when they went back to investigate it after retrieving the factory satellite(which took priority over a maybe-derilect ship). And if it has power, and a computer program uploaded to make it play dead until a zentradi vessel comes in range of it's cannon, it's a boobytrap. No evidence that it did. It folded, we know that. We don't know when, where, or under what circumstances.

They SHOULD go beyond HG sending cease & desist letters and refusing to prove their claims. Particularly when including statements such as all infringing merchandise needs to be delivered to HG's main office, which has no basis in US law. They can stop the sale of imports, with restrictions. They can get law enforcement to seize merchandise that is suitabley offensive. They CANNOT seize the merchandise themselves. And everyone HG has used their license against. I wouldn't just take someone's word that they owned the product I'd just imported. As an analogy... let's say you just bought a car from a used-car lot. And I walk up to you one day and say that that's my car, the guy at the used-car lot stole it from me, and you need to give me your keys. Are you going to take my word for it? No, you won't. You'll call the cops. They'll likely ask to see my title. If I can't present that as proof of ownership, I've got nothing. The license they refuse to show anyone? The license that only covered the original TV series until nostalgia kicked in? (note that HG made no attempts to stop importations of DYRL, Macross 2, or Macross Plus). Except HG's cease and desist letters cited their distribution rights, not their trademark. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=1953 A sample. There's a thread somewhere in the forums regarding what happens when you challenge a HG C&D.

And the latest in tasteless newscasting... CNN is advertizing a link where you can "Watch: Bodies bobbing in the water" Screenshot provided to prove I can't make this stuff up.

Of course, it's to be expected tha thte vast majority are black. Not because "them blackies are all crooked", but because NO's population is/was 80% black to start with. Backpack. But only the black guy was the AP. There's nothing to explain. AP policy is if they're taking stuff from a store and no one's there, you caption them as looters. So the black guy's a looter. They can't control what other syndicates put under their pictures.

He was referring specifically to a set of pictures of looters that were released a few days ago by the AP. Two pictures were of black looters, and the caption specifically referred to them as looters. The third picture was of white looters, and the caption said that they "found" their food. The picture has long since been pulled, but you can still find screen captures of it: http://x7.putfile.com/8/24210141023.gif 326110[/snapback] Of course, the black guy's hauling a bag as big as he is. That tends to look bad. Other hand, "finding food" sounds retarded. It's quite possible they were just looking for a diffrent caption. Either way, I find that aniGIF more offensive than any racism present.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's just too funny to ignore.

I can't confirm it, but I've heard they requested he stay away because they couldn't supply proper security. Gross incompetence, near as I can tell.

Actually, it should be ASS-4-million-and-somethign after the Zentradi war. Remember, ASS stands for Alien SpaceShip. Anyways... It's just another abandoned Supervision Army vessel. Probably a gunboat, like the Macross. And probably booby-trapped, like the Macross. And probably folded out to a diffrent location after it was found and ignored, since if I recall they went back to look for it later, but it wasn't there. 325975[/snapback] I know that info I want to know how it would actualy look like and what the hell is it if my info is correct damm Bretai told the crew to ignore it since it will delay the mission damm moron . I just want to know the designs and how did it "booby-trap" thier... 325979[/snapback] Yes... Damn Britai. Damn Britai and his not wanting to die.

Actually, it should be ASS-4-million-and-somethign after the Zentradi war. Remember, ASS stands for Alien SpaceShip. Anyways... It's just another abandoned Supervision Army vessel. Probably a gunboat, like the Macross. And probably booby-trapped, like the Macross. And probably folded out to a diffrent location after it was found and ignored, since if I recall they went back to look for it later, but it wasn't there.

Damn right. If you aren't making them 2/1, you aren't trying. And yes, I DID mean twice life-size.

Yea, I laugh at this too. Like we really need to see that same damn picture a hundred times in the same thread. It appears that I'm not alone with my thoughts... 325919[/snapback] My POV on picture quotes is A. don't quote large pics, and B. keep all the pic quoting to a single page(if it's on the same page, it doesn't take anyone's bandwidth for the extra images). Sidenote: I saw the title and thought this was a complaint about my board-breaking omniquotes.

Remember, Animeigo sublicensed it from HG. No one knows. HG refuses to show anyone their license. It's POSSIBLE that it already has, but we don't know. Just a quick question here, I'm sure there is an answer but I don't know exactly...but if HG cannot show a license, even if they claim they got one, how can they stop Macross merchanising in other states and countries? 325843[/snapback] Well, the thing is that it's never made it through the courts. The only case I know of that even came close was the Battletech suit. They settled out of court, with one of the conditions of the settlement being that they not talk about the case or settlement. So the guys from Fasa are the only people that MIGHT have ever seen the license, and they're legally bound to not speak about it. No one else has ever made it TO the courts. They usually cave when they recieve the first threats, because they can't afford to fight it.

Rising coastlines had nothing to do with New Orleans. NO has been sinking because they've been pumping groundwater out.Also it's debatable whether global warming was relevant at all. It's usually cited because of the extreme # of hurricanes last year, but... there weren't more than usual at that point in the cycle, it was just coinicidence that more than normal landed, and that the prior years had had a freakishly small # of landings. And remember, if the New York Times is taking the conservative side of the argument, then you KNOW it has merit. It IS arguable that global warming is what pushed Katrina up to a Cat5, though. Not provable, but arguable.

Odd. It was on the page for me, just easy to overlook because of how it was sandwiched.

Yah. Their geographical situation leaves them with no natural drainage whatsoever. The pumps were IT. And since they burned out after being run far longer than they were designed for, there's NO water leaving the bowl except for what evaporates out. The only way the city's getting drained at all is if they bring in new pumps and start pumping the water out from dry land. And the sheer amount of water they need to move makes for slow going. Personally, I just don't think it's sane to deal with it. I say just build "New New Orleans" somewhere safe. ... Of course, the entire state of Louisiana has problems long-term(the "taming" of hte Mississippi has left the state totally lacking a way to replenish the massive amount of soil it loses to the ocean each year), but they can at least rebuild somewhere with drainage. But my opinion is moot. They're gonna drain and rebuild on the exact same spot because there's history there, or because they're not going to let a disaster get them down, or because they're stubborn idiots that can't see they're going to be inviting the exact same thing to happen to their great-grandkids by setting the exact same problem situation back up. It happened in 1927(less than 20 years after the basin was initially drained), it happened in 2005, and it WILL happen again. Another large hurricane will come ashore at the right angle, another wet season will flood the Mississippi, the water WILL rise over the levees again, the levees WILL fail again, New Orleans WILL flood again.

Remember, Animeigo sublicensed it from HG. No one knows. HG refuses to show anyone their license. It's POSSIBLE that it already has, but we don't know. Don't worry. Macross Plus made it through unbutchered, and it's commonly regarded as quite good. It will continue to lead people to the one true anime.

I was looking stuff up earlier, and found something no one's mentioning about the drainage pumps that burned out because they were only meant to handle heavy rain. They pumped the water up into Lake Pontchartrain. The same lake that was draining into the city through the levee. New Orleans had NO MECHANISM WHATSOEVER to deal with a failed levee. Their entire disaster management strategy for such an incident consisted of sticking their heads in the sand and pretending it couldn't happen.

I just want to know what they needed the flood equipment for in Iraq. That's all. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers flow pretty much the length of the country. Huge historical flood plain. Iraq Map Reading in the Geography section it says "Natural hazards: dust storms, sandstorms, floods". 325706[/snapback] Shows what I get for not paying attention in geography... Strange, really, seeing gloods listed alongside sandstorms as a natural hazard.

It's there. I'm looking right at it.

They've actually been predicting something exactly like this for several decades. I think people got complacent. "Well, they've been predicting it since the sixties, and it hasn't happened yet... I think they're just crazy."

Those first 2 pics are of ARMDs, not the Macross.

Short version: HG licensed Macross from Tatsunoko, who recieved international distribution rights from Big West as partial payment for their help in the production of the original TV series. HG claims this license gives them exclusive rights to all Macross products ever, and throws cease&desist letters and/or lawsuits at anyone that dares import a product without their authorization. Excepting Macross 2 and MacPlus, because these were imported before they claimed to have exclusive rights to the entire franchise. And DYRL, which had something like 3 companies do US releases back in the day, and lacks a DVD release because no one's sure who, if anyone, actually still has a license. Big West thinks otherwise, and has yanked one license(for a US release of the Macross 7 Trash manga) because they agreed to pay HG royalties.

I just want to know what they needed the flood equipment for in Iraq. That's all. Made my day, right here.

And from Insert Credit, some meat... "We know everything about the Lindbergh through some evil Famitsu scans, with some of the games referenced in a post below. As Sega told this summer, their new arcade system is not based on any of the next-gen consoles. It's more in the same vein as Taito's Type-X board - it's a PC-based arcade board with a 3GHz Pentium 4 processor, a NVidia GPU, 1024MB of memory, games on protected DVD-ROMs, USB controllers and a big effort put on its LAN capacities. Whereas rumors presented the Lindbergh as a successor to the Chihiro (which had an XBox-based architecture), Sega's new board is a quite "neutral" system - its NVidia environment perhaps giving the PS3 a slight potential edge for future ports. A new project by Yu Suzuki is also joining Afterburner, Power Smash 3, The House of the Dead 4 and Virtua Fighter 5 in the Lindbergh's line-up. The game, Psy-Phi (pronounced like 'Sci-Fi'), is described as a "versus action-shooting game" apparently using a tactile screen."