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| ID | Thread | Description | Posted By | Posted On | |
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| 4215 | Halloween Nostalgia & More! | I was thinking about Halloween pop-up stores. Around what year did those start coming around? I think I first remember seeing them in 1994. When did you first start to see them? | pikachulover | Oct 12, 2013 |  |
| 4214 | Excitebike | I never played 64 or World Rally. Wanna check em both out sometime. I do really like Excite Truck, Excite Bots, and Motocross Maniacs for the first Game Boy. MM has great music! | shakin steak | Oct 12, 2013 | |
| 4213 | Excitebike | <blockquote rel="blueluigi"><b>blueluigi wrote :</b><br> It's definitely one of the best motocrossing games I ever played. I still find it to be better than the N64 sequel, Excitebike 64.<br> <br> By the way, anybody here played the Wiiware revamp, Excitebike World Rally? I feel that was an underrated, yet, good addition to the Excitebike series that I had a lot of fun playing.<br> <br> <img src="http://www.wiisworld.com/images/screenshots/wiiware/excitebike-world-rally-1.jpg"> </blockquote> I haven't, but I like what I saw from the pics. | Mr Magic | Oct 11, 2013 | |
| 4212 | Excitebike | It's definitely one of the best motocrossing games I ever played. I still find it to be better than the N64 sequel, Excitebike 64. By the way, anybody here played the Wiiware revamp, Excitebike World Rally? I feel that was an underrated, yet, good addition to the Excitebike series that I had a lot of fun playing. <img src = "http://www.wiisworld.com/images/screenshots/wiiware/excitebike-world-rally-1.jpg"> | blueluigi | Oct 11, 2013 | |
| 4211 | Things you don't like about this era. | <blockquote rel="Vaporman87"><b>Vaporman87 wrote :</b><br> This is the American dream, is it not? To rise from nothing to become great? To overcome adversity, hardship, struggle? </blockquote> It is. I see that line as being about working class people who are not disgusted by the salaries that some execs pull in. Who would prefer that they continue to pay 20+% income tax and have no problem with the ultra-rich being taxed at 10% or less because "they earned it". I think the Jefferson line sounds good, but did not anticipate the hunger for constant growth that drives a lot of board rooms today. We presently try to restrain men from injuring each other physically, but long-running financial injury to whole classes of people and to the country itself is perfectly acceptable, even a participatory sport for some govt officials (such as the mayor of Chicago). Leading to lack of restraint on physical attack, such as when the police force gets budget cuts while $55 million of public money is allocated to buying taxable land, exempting it, and building a stadium on it for a private university with a mediocre team. | shakin steak | Oct 11, 2013 | |
| 4210 | Things you don't like about this era. | <blockquote rel="shakin steak"><b>shakin steak wrote :</b> 1. CONSTRUCTIVE CAPITALISM IS WHERE YOU SHARE THE PROFIT WITH THE WORKERS AND THE EARTH FROM WHICH YOU MADE IT! <--- I cannot praise this view enough.</blockquote> Agreed. The salaries that some execs pull in on the backs of their laborers and office help is, at times, disgusting. It's nice to know that not all of them simply overlook it, but take action to make it better. With regard to your quote from 1776: This is the American dream, is it not? To rise from nothing to become great? To overcome adversity, hardship, struggle? It would be a different world if every citizen in our history simply accepted the cards they were dealt and just hoped a benevolent government would take away a few more crumbs to give to them? To accept the reality of being poor is fine, but what a person does with that (or votes for others to do for them), can determine the fate of nations... for better or worse. Speaking of quotes, this reminded me of a quote I had once heard from Thomas Jefferson, but could not recall in detail. I found it online though: "A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities." | Vaporman87 | Oct 11, 2013 | |
| 4209 | Things you don't like about this era. | <blockquote rel="Vaporman87"><b>Vaporman87 wrote :</b><br> I could never ask anyone, EVER, to pay our government any more than 35% of their income. And to me, 35% (or 37%) is too much. Our government was never founded to get it's financial support from an income tax. </blockquote> I'm reminded of a quote. It doesn't apply to you per se but I really like it. The main reason I bring it up is you should watch the movie because it's awesome. "Don't forget that most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor." Donald Madden as John Dickinson, <a href="www.imdb.com/title/tt0068156">1776</a> Anyway. It costs money to run a country no matter how you slice it. I think we have to have taxes. I like the fair tax idea, although it feels problematic to me within our current system. I wrote a lot more about fees, privatization, and investment as options to replace taxes (and the inherent problems of such), but I'll leave it at that for now. As for taxing over 35%, I will definitely not say at this point that it's impossible to make things good without doing that. Some real economic modeling and analysis is required to figure out what could really happen. Eminent domain, I am also against which I did touch on above. The only problem is with the end of the existing residents passing away; they would need some support but I'm sure something can be worked out. In any case we should start farming on land that is truly vacant first. Oh, and inspections/rules against heinous methods practiced by some of our current big factory farmers. To touch on something else, I don't know if this is something that could (should) be regulated, but it makes me very happy. The Dr. Bronner's soap company has structured its wages such that "total compensation of executives is capped at five times that of [the] lowest-paid position." Excess money goes to social and environmental causes and charities. How nice life would be in this country if every company operated that way. More from Bronner: 1. CONSTRUCTIVE CAPITALISM IS WHERE YOU SHARE THE PROFIT WITH THE WORKERS AND THE EARTH FROM WHICH YOU MADE IT! <--- I cannot praise this view enough. 2. WE ARE ALL BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND WE SHOULD TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER AND SPACESHIP EARTH! <--- Sounds pretty hippie-dippie, but I'll take it. | shakin steak | Oct 11, 2013 | |
| 4208 | RetroDaze Halloween Special | <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hey Halloween Special attendees!</span></span><br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">You too can have your very own<span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"> Dutch</span> & <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Hamato</span> action figures!</span><br><br><img src="/images/postImages/DutchandHamato.jpg"><br><br>After the Special has completed, a code word will be given for you to write in a PM to me, Vaporman87, along with your shipping information.<br><br>If you have 25 Points to spare, they will be deducted from your account and your figures will be shipped directly to you! <br><br>Dutch & Hamato will happily arrive, ready to chow down on your Fearless Photog cereal and sit on your couch watching hours of television.<br></div><br><br> | Vaporman87 | Oct 11, 2013 | |
| 4207 | Excitebike | Look how he cruises through the tracks like they're nothing. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/543dG0EWcYM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> | Mr Magic | Oct 11, 2013 | |
| 4206 | Excitebike | <blockquote rel="shakin steak"><b>shakin steak wrote :</b> beep, beep, beep, BOOOP! VVvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvrrr rrrrrrrrrgggh, vvvvvvvvvvvvv vrrrrrrrrrgggggghhhh VEEEEEEEEEEEE *chooka choosh* fip fip fip fip fip fip VVVvvvvvvrrrrrrr din, dun-dun-dun, din, dun, dunnn! </blockquote> I can hear it now. :lol: | Vaporman87 | Oct 11, 2013 | |
