Off on a complete tangent.... Since I am still shooting even when I can see myself doing it, is it really a 3rd person shooter? I mean I suppose if it was you instead of I shooting, or even if'n you join me in shooting, we could get it up to a 2nd person shooter. But one would kind of require some random dude on ur screenz to honestly go wit 3rd person. Or perhaps I need to drink a beer and kill a mob of mobbed up mobs.

You need to watch a little CK http://www.maniacworld.com/we-have-white-people-problems.html

yes, but mining the vodka is a sticking point

As I hope would I, but are you honestly saying that most people would as well? or would they take offense at being lectured too?

As much as we all want to believe we'd be ever so enlightened in viewing such an event with an honest introspection, it's human nature to take offense when someone outside the tribe bitchslaps you.

Just consider how you would react if a group of Chinese "hacktavists" defaced a bunch of local sites in order to bring our attention to the issues in our system. What a wonderful benefit that would be right?

Wrong

This is doing exactly zero good as far as I can see, and probably is doing some damage to the very cause they appear to be championing.

Yeah but most of them "remember" only what the party line was. I dated a gal from China a few years back who was a quite intelligent and reasonable individual living in the west, and she was quite perplexed by the western "portrayal" of that incident. ...remember that they aren't seeing what you and I are seeing, even when it's inside their own country.

ftfy Let's give credit where it's due. That's quite a picture as is. I found it quite entertaining my self. Would be nice to have a share-able coordinate system though. perhaps you would put that together then?

I'm torn between "Gonna Fly Now" (theme from rocky) or "Imperial March" (Darth Vader's Theme) music.... either way, looking stern and purposeful while appearing oblivious to the fact that there is a band following me through the door would be essential.

One assumes a theme song when you enter a room?

I agree with your point that this is a bad idea, but would take it much farther by saying we get in plenty of fatal accidents on the ground. From drunk driving to other mischief to just plain bad luck. 2D is plenty dangerous. Adding a 3rd D to this mess would be a colossal #$&^ up, and not just on the road. Sitting at home having a nice lunch, when all of a sudden.....

... a wingman joke in here somehwere.....

and at what % of people who are not actually entering the country does this stop being a rationally acceptable excuse?

BILLyuns upon BILLyuns

FTFY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan#Billions_and_billions

LOL...the more things change....

Marketing assumes that the marketer has a vested interest in molding the marketees perception to their own. The actual facts are somewhat to completely academic.

Education starts with the facts and in a perfect world avoids bias.

Marketing reps for drug manufacturers are educators only what their product actually factually beneficial. When that becomes tenuous, their bread is still buttered on the side of their employers. the same goes for TV advertising.

In short, Education is incidental in marketing.