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Only a few thousand years separate Freedon Nadd from Palpatine of Naboo. The Republic, on the other hand, is in excess of twenty five thousand years old. It strains credulity that a significant fraction of the Republic's inhabited worlds would be discovered and then settled in the last fifth of its...

Pretty much all of your rebuttals can be clumped under unjustified assumptions, begging the question, and arguments from ignorance. The existing evidence shows Palpatine of Naboo to be a much more powerful magus than Freedon Nadd. To appeal to evidence which does not exist is not logical debate. Re...

Freedon Nadd's knowledge of the Force is not substantially greater than that of any properly-trained Jedi Knight, except in that he had obtained some additional training in Sithian magic (your stated examples of Korriban, Ashas Ree, and Yavin IV do not represent several different traditions, but ra...

Nadd's knowledge base was limited to a single galactic backwater, and he ruled only a single planet. I'm going to assume here that you are unaware that Freedon Nadd had knowledge of the Force from many worlds, including Ossus (he was a Jedi, once), Korriban (he knew the tombs well enough to guide E...

Yes, I do see the humor in it. However, combining two ship designs into something new is at least better than simply coming up with a different Star Destroyer design.

The only thing I am really down on are the BORING ASS ship designs. Aside from the Mynock , and I think one other, they just have no imagination and are just "OOOO!!! It sorta looks lie a TIE or a Star Destroyer!!". Those are the Empire's ships. They're entitled to be boring. The GA's Scy...

One of the few times that any close number has been given for the number of Jedi comes from KOTOR II, when Jedi Master Zez Kai-Ell mentions that by the time the Jedi Civil War (the whole conflict from KOTOR I) ended, barely 100 Jedi were left. Five years later, in 3951 BBY, only the following 7 Jedi...

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the only one that I can think of is the Star Tours Disney ride.

more info:
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Tou ... l-world%29

for a while, I used Arctic torrent because it was very simple (almost minimalistic) but now use uTorrent.

That could work, assuming one could be hooked up to the new sets. Still, there's an entire year to find out...

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/01/03/wirelesshigh.def.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview Flat-panel TVs look lovely on a wall -- the cords hanging from them, less so. Several companies are revealing products that will beam HD signals from DVD payers and set-top boxes to TVs. After a few years of false sta...

The Constitution does not give the President the right suspend Habeas Corpus under any circumstances. That power is given to Congress, and limited to cases of rebellion and invasion. Did Lincoln suspend Habeas Corpus during the Civil War on his own authority, or did he have Congress do it? If it's ...

The article didn't mention that Abraham Lincoln also suspended Habeas Corpus during the Civil War and most certainly did have suspicious persons detained and jailed indefinitely. Anyways, it's good that Hoover actually wasn't allowed to detain the 12000 he wanted to.

The reason that Palpatine's face was disfigured by the lightning (and those of Windu, Luke, and Vader weren't) is because the 'Mask' power would be dispelled by another Dark Side power, which would cause horrible scarring. Again, the explanation is here: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=starwars...

I think the theory that Palps' appearance is due to both his fight with Windu and his own Dark Side energies is what explains this the best. The interesting thing about his appearance is that when his spirit enters his clone bodies in the Dark Empire series, you can see what he looked like young wit...

my OCD: I always set my clocks five minutes fast so that I'm never late for anything (clock, electronics, alarms, car, phone, computer, ect).

ANH novelization - the Death Star's "distortion field" generators reduce maneuverability in the vicinity (as well as fucking with scopes and instruments). The counter-argument used by some is that the distortion field's effect on Rebel instruments affects maneuverability, rather than any ...

It might be both. Palpatine does seem to be immensely strong in the Dark Side, which may mean that he was able to use the Force more intensely than say, Dooku or Maul (neither of whom showed the corruption that Palpatine did). Palpatine seems to have been disfigured for quite some time by the Dark S...

Duke Nukem Forever trailer??? Snowboarding in Hell??? Seriously, if the King of Vaporware does get released, I am gonna have to pay off some bets I made against it....

DC should not be a state. It was created as the nations capital specifically to avoid rivalry and tension amongst the various states back in the 1790s. Being home to the seat of government is a greater honor than statehood, at least as far as I'm concerned. This was realized by the founders of this...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140623-c,games/article.html The simExchange reports that neither Crysis or UT3 managed to sell more than 100,000 units in their debut last month. Crysis, which requires an unprecedented US$1500-$2500 in PC upgrades to play, sold 86,633 copies in the U.S., while Unre...

Don't forget that Jeb Bush is out there as former governor of Florida, and can conceivably run for president too. I'm more worried about his son, George P Bush. He's half hispanic, and I think he could be put forward as a Republican nominee in the not too distant future. Jeb has way too much baggag...

DC should not be a state. It was created as the nations capital specifically to avoid rivalry and tension amongst the various states back in the 1790s. Being home to the seat of government is a greater honor than statehood, at least as far as I'm concerned. This was realized by the founders of this ...