nintendofan

"Tell me what you think God's opinion of abortion would be."

Abortion is not mentioned in the Bible.
For the vast majority of Christian theological history and the various denominations the position was that abortion was perfectly fine. Most countries only outlawed it in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Guess it outlawing it didn't reduce the numbers at all especially when there are valid reasons number 1. flushing out a failed natural abortion i.e. miscarriage (yes sometimes the miscarried fetus doesn't expel causing health issues it can stay in the body for decades)

2. the fetus is dead due to various reasons such as accident, disease, other natural occurances.

3. the fetus would be dead upon birth and cause harm to the mother even death. Pregnancy is the number one killer of woman with several million women dieing as a result of complications during pregnancy or during birth and a good portion of these deaths are prevented using abortion.

4. ecotopic pregnancy if untreated it can kill a woman or cause sterlitiy and a host of medical complications. The fetus is dead anyway. Know what the treatment for an ecotopic pregnancy is? It's to give the woman the chemicals that cause abortions in the first trimester. Funny how these chemicals were used for decades prior to roe v. wade since treating an ecotopic pregnancy was not considered abortion by the medical community.

5. Rape. Certain studies tackling the issue have revealed that contray to so called common wisdom a rape is far more likely to get a woman pregnant then a one night stand. Those children created by rape also tend to commit rapes and other crimes such as serial killings. The rapist spreads his genes and those genes increase the chance someone will be a rapist and or murderer.

Oh btw if a woman wanted an abortion in the 19th and earlier centuries all she had to do was go to her church and inquire about the services of a midwife.

"Did you see this video on the amount of oil we have in Alaska? We could have enough to last 200 years."

Of course you neglect the part where it would take ten years for it to get out for use and only reduce gas prices by a single cent at most. In a decade gas could easily be ten dollars. A cent won't matter at all.

If you want not to pay such high prices for gas demand auto makers put in higher gas mileage now and put in proven tech that gets cars hundreds of miles per galleon such tech exists it's not that expensive if the automakers want to keep in business. Not wait till 2030 to have 30 miles per galleon as a standard. Reason why other countries such as Europe and Japan aren't hurting so much is their cars have been doing 30 miles a galleon for decades. Lots of countries ban the importation of cars that get less then 30 miles per galleon and guess what American automobiles are banned in most countries because they get less then 30 miles per galleon.

They should post the ps3 and xbox 360 Japanese game sales.

Not even the top three ps3 titles combined reach a million.

Xbox 360 is worse with the top three getting less then 400,000 units.

Wii is actually sellling games better then the ps2 was at 52 weeks after launch in Japan.

God lord a horde of barbarians has descended upon circuit city online. All those games are now out of stock. Managed to get Flash Focus and Guilty Gear Dust Strickers for 24 bucks total.

Both PS3s and Xbox 360s can be had on ebay often for less then retail prices. This time of year especially.

The US sells about 400,000 wiis each month on average. November they sold over 900,000. This December some analysts expect 1.5 million wiis. They may have stockpiled an odd ten thousand of so units each week but nowhere near the amount they would in ordinary conditions. Nintendo commented they couldn't have stockpiled since their inventory is constantly depleted of wiis.

The UK in one week it was revealed sold over 200,000 Wiis. Sony was hyping their 200,000 a month figure for all of Europe. One country outdid the whole contintent for Sony.

There is no shortage conspiracy. Nintendo just sells every wii they make and retailers cannot keep units on the shelves. PS3s and Xbox 360s you see them all the time on store shelves.

Now I don't mind bundles that aren't forced meaning you can buy the console sepeartly if they have it with only bundles being online or just say 10% of each wii shipment. Usually I only saw bundles being offered online and a few weren't actually that bad compared to last year. Even last year there were a few good bundle offers.

The ones that allowed you to pick an accessorcy from a list (classic controller for instance) six games from a list of 20 titles. Only thing you didn't have a choice was Mario Party 8, extra wiimote, nunchuck. Most people wouldn't complain about that bundle offer. I would pick up if I didn't get a wii last year since I could have gotten Fire Emblem:Radiant Dawn, Metroid Prime 3, Resident Evil:Umbrella Chronicles, Zack and Wiki, Wii play, frack forget what the six title I would have gotten was. Now that wasn't bad bundle for 700 bucks.

Launch unit I take it?

You have a defective gpu heatsink contact Nintendo and do a replacement. If you have any vc purchases, points, save games, miis you want to keep etc tell them that so they transfer it to a replacement wii.

The wii doesn't get hot at all unless I have the freaking sun blasting on which warms up the house by 30 degrees if the curtains are open. Seriously the couch coushins are like a car seat in the hot sun and they aren't even leather.

Uh the entire game spoken dialog is done in English. Just like Killer 7 although in the Japanese version the ghosties spoke a sort of Engrish.

Ahem patches existed long before the internet did. I remember patch floppy disks for example. A disc exchange is a permenant patch fix since the patched version is now the one being manufactored and a lot of bugged copies would be removed from circulation. Patching also occurs at the manufactorer's end.

Also there are loads more bugged ps3 and xbox 360 games. Quite a few psp games had to be exchanged as well.

Get a case mod or decals. Decalgirl.com has both for sale. Look for ign review of the case mod scence for links to more sites selling wii replacment cases.

As for the npd numbers guess what npd only gets data from 60% of retailers. 40% of video game sales in NA are not recorded by them they have to estimate and well that can have huge margins of error especially if one retailer they don't count accounts for the majority of game sales or has a huge percantage of game hardware and software sales.

Also remember the wii is worldwide and a number of those 1.8 million wiis are demo units, promotional freebies, giving to charities, replacements. Also it takes six weeks to ship by sea.

A lot of the Euro game sales data isn't accurate either or not reported on. Japan is the only terriroity with accurate sales since there are three reporting agencies covering the majority of retailers.

Most regions we have no idea how well a system sells.