Yes, Castle in the Sky does have a very good English voice cast. In fact many Studio Ghibli films have been released in English. My favorite so far is Spirited Away. The music in Spirited Away was beautiful. I am still waiting to see Ponyo. It wasn't yet available in English the last time I checked. Of course, I don't mind reading subtitles as long as they are well written.
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Laputa - Castle in the sky (Joe Hisaishi)
by possible-san inlaputa - castle in the sky (joe hisaishi).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfrecbwwins.
legend of laputa (piano).
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Laputa - Castle in the sky (Joe Hisaishi)
by possible-san inlaputa - castle in the sky (joe hisaishi).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfrecbwwins.
legend of laputa (piano).
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PrimateDave
One of my favorite Studio Ghibli films.
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Evidence! How did you come to know reality?
by zannahdoll inis it possible that when we (as a people) make an advancement in science and learn new facts that they sometimes disprove what was once considered fact?
unless you test something for yourself you are taking the word of someone else.
or do you trust that things are certain?
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"You don't feel the earth spinning but it is."
Reminded me of a song...
Day after day,
Alone on a hill,
The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still
But nobody wants to know him,
They can see that he's just a fool,
And he never gives an answer,
But the fool on the hill,
Sees the sun going down,
And the eyes in his head,
See the world spinning 'round.
Well on the way,
Head in a cloud,
The man of a thousand voices talking perfectly loud
But nobody ever hears him,
or the sound he appears to make,
and he never seems to notice,
But the fool on the hill,
Sees the sun going down,
And the eyes in his head,
See the world spinning 'round.
And nobody seems to like him,
they can tell what he wants to do,
and he never shows his feelings,
But the fool on the hill,
Sees the sun going down,
And the eyes in his head,
See the world spinning 'round.
Ooh, ooh,
Round and round and round.
And he never listens to them,
He knows that they're the fools
They don't like him,
The fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down,
And the eyes in his head,
See the world spinning 'round.
Ooh,
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Where do you get your economic news from?
by bohm ini have recently become interested in macro economics, particular in the current crisis.
i wonder if you guys have some links to informative and educational blogs, columns or other resources?.
i am personally reading paul krugmans blog on nyt: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/.
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PrimateDave
Just a quick note on my previous post. My comments about the importance of petroleum to our industrial civilization in no way mean that I like the oil industry. I would so very much prefer that the United States had built a wide ranging high quality public transportation network than the current automobile dominated system. Of course, given the environment in which this country evolved politically and economically, it is easy to understand the current state of affairs.
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Where do you get your economic news from?
by bohm ini have recently become interested in macro economics, particular in the current crisis.
i wonder if you guys have some links to informative and educational blogs, columns or other resources?.
i am personally reading paul krugmans blog on nyt: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/.
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PrimateDave
Sorry, no I haven't read much by Krugman. However, after a quick look on Google, I think I understand where you're coming from. There is a bit of debate on the subject of inflation and deflation on some blogs that I read. It can get a bit convoluted with different sides claiming to know things that the other side does not. The argument invariably gets political and ends in liberal/conservative bashing. Should Keynesian policies be followed? I don't know. Should the "markets" be allowed to decide? I don't know. To me, it's almost like discussing the Trinity in a religious debate forum. If god doesn't exist, why should it really matter? Likewise, perhaps the fundamental arguments behind government stimulus and "free" markets are also flawed.
If the currently deflating market bubble was comparable to a global ponzi scheme involving opaque derivatives traded on manipulated markets supported by a criminal financial elite and complicit political system, then how does one "fix" that? By blowing another bubble? By preventing the current one from deflating too fast? By withdrawing all support and letting the pieces fall where they may? I don't know.
The bubble could only grow so long as the actors in it could afford to keep investing surplus. However, what if the "surplus" invested was itself borrowed into existence? What if the risk was underestimated? What if the investment instruments were overrated? What if investment "products" were even designed to fail? What if all the financial rot in the system is still there turning into gangrene?
Global net energy plateaued in the past decade. Increases in efficiency are subject to Jevon's paradox. Crude oil production peaked in 2005. Total liquids (all liquid fuels including crude oil) peaked in 2008. The Export-Land Model predicts that oil available for import will decline faster that total production. While there is no conclusive proof that declining per capita net energy is to blame for the current market collapse, it is a fact that our civilization runs on petroleum. Broadly speaking, the total net energy available that human activity can economically use is defined by real limits that can be measured by scientific methods. How many economic models talk about Energy Return on Energy Invested (ERoEI)? Or thermodynamics? Entropy? Is there an alternative to petroleum that can provide the same high ERoEI, portability, and availability? Can civilization as it exists today run on any combination of alternatives? Do mainstream economists even talk openly about any of this?
Where this gets messy is that net energy is predicted to decline. Is there an economic model that allows for economies to shrink? Will loans be made by lenders knowing that fewer people will be able to repay them? Without new loans, what happens to the overall money supply? Can inflation take hold until the power of the bond market is broken? So many questions.....
It is very difficult to summarize the depth of human activity on this planet. Instead of economics, perhaps you should study ecology. The main article of faith in mainstream economic theory is Growth. Growth Is Good. The belief that economic growth will continue is politically and socially unquestionable. What do scientific models have to say about that? You've probably heard of the Limits to Growth study. In brief, it attempted to use models to measure and estimate the effects of human activity on planet Earth over a 100 year period starting in the 1970s.
See: http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3551 "Cassandra's curse: how 'The Limits to Growth' was demonized"
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Where do you get your economic news from?
by bohm ini have recently become interested in macro economics, particular in the current crisis.
i wonder if you guys have some links to informative and educational blogs, columns or other resources?.
i am personally reading paul krugmans blog on nyt: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/.
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I don't trust most mainstream Economists. Economics is not a science! According to writer Jay Hanson, on the theory and practice of Economics...
FIVE FUNDAMENTAL ERRORS
The Short Version, by Jay Hanson
( The Long Version is archived at http://dieoff.com/page241.htm )
(Permission to reprint explicitly granted.)
Any ONE fundamental error in neoclassical theory should be sufficient reason to reject conclusions based upon that theory. Here are five fundamental errors in the theory:
#1. A fundamentally incorrect "method": the economist uses "correlation" and "post hoc, ergo propter hoc" (after-the-fact) reasoning, rather than the "scientific method".
#2. A fundamentally inverted worldview: the economist sees the environment as a subsystem of the economy, rather than the other way around. In other words, economists are trained to believe that natural resources come from "markets" rather than the "environment". The corollary is that "man-made capital" can substitute for "natural capital". But the First Law of thermodynamics tells us there is no "creation" -- there is no such thing as "man-made capital". Thus, ALL capital is "natural capital", and the economy is 100% dependent on the "environment" for everything.
#3. A fundamentally incorrect view of "money": the economist sees "money" as nothing more than a medium of exchange, rather than as social power -- or "political power". But even the casual observer can see that money is social power because it "empowers" people to buy and do the things they want -- including buying and doing other people: politics.
If employers have the freedom to pay workers less "political power", then they will retain more political power for themselves. Money is, in a word, "coercion", and "economic efficiency" is correctly seen as a political concept designed to conserve social power for those who have it -- to make the politically powerful, even more powerful, and the politically weak, even weaker.
#4. A fundamentally incorrect view of his raison d'etre: the economist sees "Homo economicus" as a "Bayesian utility maximizer", rather than "Homo sapiens" as a "primate". In other words, contemporary economics and econometrics is WRONG from the bottom up -- and economists know it. The entire discipline of economics is based on a lie -- and economists know it. Moreover, if human behavior is not the result of mathematical calculation -- and it isn't -- then in principle, economists will NEVER get it right.
#5. A fundamentally incorrect view of economic élan vital: the economist sees economic activity as a function of infinite "money creation", rather than a function of finite "energy stocks" and finite "energy flows". In fact, the economy is 100% dependent on available energy -- it always has been, and it always will be. See a synopsis of the current energy situation at http://dieoff.com/synopsis.htm .
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Where do you get your economic news from?
by bohm ini have recently become interested in macro economics, particular in the current crisis.
i wonder if you guys have some links to informative and educational blogs, columns or other resources?.
i am personally reading paul krugmans blog on nyt: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/.
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PrimateDave
I like The Automatic Earth, Energy Bulletin, and Financial Armageddon.
So, yes, I'm kinda into doomer "porn." It's more intellectually stimulating to me that the typical left-right/liberal-conservative rhetoric of the mass media outlets.
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Evidence! How did you come to know reality?
by zannahdoll inis it possible that when we (as a people) make an advancement in science and learn new facts that they sometimes disprove what was once considered fact?
unless you test something for yourself you are taking the word of someone else.
or do you trust that things are certain?
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Zannah, your whole argument is a strawman. There may be other fallacies present, but I'm not too inclined to look for them at the moment. While I find your premise intriguing, the conclusion does not fit.
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My Lord spoke and told me to post
by watersprout inmy lord spoke to me for the first time yesterday and this morning he told me to post my experience.. i know there are going to be ones who will call me names and thats ok. i will accept whatever you feel you need to say.. here goes.
i heard a voice calling ''my child'', this happened while at the zoo so i was taken off guard!
i replied ''who is this?
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I was at the zoo the other day, and I heard a voice. I looked around, but didn't see anyone. The voice, sounding bemused, spoke once again and told me that he was Charles Darwin. Wow, I thought. So, ol' Chuck is in heaven after all, and God wanted him to speak with me.
Right away, the voice of Charles Darwin said, "No, Dave, you're just having a delusional moment."
So, I replied, "Thanks Chuck! For a moment there, I though there might actually be a god. What a relief!"
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Do you smoke anything?
by asilentone ini was very disappointed in one of my friends near here.
he is df'd.
he started smoking cigs.
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PrimateDave
I smoke pipe tobacco. It is not addictive like cigarettes. I can live without it, but I do enjoy an occasional smoke.
