Bripus Klmunus

Add another Atheist to the list right here. I don't care what you believe in - but the whole organized religion thing just is not for me.

QFT, NN. QFT. I saw it last night and left the theatre feeling like I got a shot of testosterone that lasted a couple of hours. Awesome stuff.

I've had no problems whatsoever with my own FF 2 install, though I've heard scads of others saying that they have indeed suffered enough that they've switched to another browser, which is a real shame. What's more of a shame is that noone seems to be offering a real solution to the problem, which just makes the development team look bad.

This is a theory that waaaaaaaay back in primary school (25+ years ago) I heard from my science teacher. He even set up a brief demonstration of how it could be achieved in this matter - from what I recall, it just made darn good sense. From that point on, I've always held to that theory as the most likely, having seen it demonstrated on a small scale as a lad. It sorta stuck with me. I'm glad to see that others actually agree - and that 3D plugin was phenomenal to see in action.

I'm frustrated that we didn't get them here in Denmark - apparently the "Discovery Channel Europe" is a very seperate monster than the UK version. I'll have to keep checking the TV guide to see when and if they'll be showing them here.

I went over to IMDB, and it didn't say anything about a theatrical release at all - they have it listed as a TV series which is set to begin airing in May in the UK (scroll down to the last entry at this link for a list of countries that will be showing it). From The Guardian:

Fark turned this one into one of their infamous Photoshop contests. Enjoy!

I'm curious if anyone has seen these or is a collector. Both Papo (note to link - Roman figures begin on page 2) and bbi produce some top-notch Roman hand-painted figures which I have recently begun to collect. They are 3" tall and are fantastically detailed. Papo also has Roman tents, horses, chariots, and towers in scale with the figures, and I also recommend their other historical figures such as the Scandinavians and Celts. They are a little pricey, but a fun addition to a collection if you're into this sort of thing. It's going to take a while before I'm able to finish an entire legion, but I'm working on it.

The movie is finally hitting theaters here in Denmark on the 30th of this month. I've been really looking forward to seeing it after reading the rave reviews and enjoying the comic - so you can rest assured that I'll be there to see it.

Well said, caldrail. I really don't agree either that it was dumb luck - Octavian was, like Caesar, a master of propaganda. After Caesar was named one of the gods of the Roman State, Octavian was quick to point out that he was a son of a god. As mentioned, he was surrounded by some of the best philosophical and military advisors in Rome, and was in all accounts a "take no prisoners" type of leader. While Caesar would more often than not be very forgiving and show clemancy towards his enemies, Octavian had apparently learned from that mistake. Someone as powerful as Octavian was cannot be said to be merely accidentally so. I don't believe at all that he hid his power. He was simply underestimated time and again by those who saw the great-nephew of Julius Caesar to be nothing more than an 18-year old boy.

They are definately models - you can see the paper and paint in some areas that indicates it. That's really impressive stuff - as a modeller myself (albeit on a larger scale), I really appreciate the detail given to these. Wow.

Thanks to the early switching of the US for the timechange, I've seen this more than a few times on forums. If you want to switch your time manually, go into your control panes ("My Controls"), go down the left side under the Options section and select "Board Settings". The base time zone selection is right there at the top of the page. Hope that helps.

Nephele Carnalis - lol - that made my morning. After seeing the show, it didn't do much more than convince me it was a publicity stunt. I'm by no means a Christian (I am in fact athiest), so I went into this as analytical as I could be. I've never questioned that the J-Man was a real, live person who was by all historical accounts, a pretty cool guy who fought the power and married a hot redhead. Finding his body - or that of his family - would be an incredible historical find. That alone should outweigh any other concerns. But no. The whole thing seemed little more than a way to stir up trouble and force people to shower forty times and whip themselves with a wet reed in guilt. I nearly expected Cameron to announce that they had discovered one of them wearing a wristband that read, "What Would I Do" - and that would have been far more convincing than anything else I saw in the entire documentary.

I've often wondered if it was possible to just get one made, instead of buying a prop replica that you'd be required to treat like a museum piece (like my Master Replica collection). If one could locate a reasonably skilled blacksmith or other type of metal worker, it could be well within reason that you wouldn't need to be out an arm and a leg in paying for it.

I've never personally accepted it any other way. I can't see how these two land masses that were once basically a whole did not contain the same peoples. It is interesting, and perhaps a little far fetched in my opinion (I am a teacher and mathematician, not a historian) to claim that the original inhabitants were from Spain (to me it always seemed more likely that they were from France or the Netherlands). Ironically and sadly enough; should this actually be proven to be true, I doubt that it will have any effect on relations between the two peoples.