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Im on my way home one afternoon on the Metro Blue Line when the train suddenly slides and jerks to a halt, throwing several passengers out of their seats. Watch out! yells the operator. Oh shit! No, no! A couple of minutes later, he comes on the intercom, obviously shaken, to say we will hold until authorities arrive to explain the situation to us. Time passes. Passengers discuss theories among themselves. Silence. Finally, someone from the Sheriffs Department shows to tell us that a man had been running across the track in front of the train, and on his way across he dropped a bag of marijuana. Not thinking, the man tried to retrieve his weed, and the train grazed his head, nearly decapitating him. He survived and was arrested.
Must have been some good chronic, one of the passengers shouts.
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Its rush hour at the Seventh Street/Metro Center station. Passengers scurry through a maze of stairs, escalators and elevators like worker ants in an ant farm; commuters waiting for the train bound for Long Beach spill over the platform and onto the white textured warning strip. The overhead electronic message board begins to spit out bright-red letters: ATTENTION PASSENGERS DUE TO AN ACCIDENT, THERE WILL BE A DELAY IN THE SCHEDULE . . . WE ARE SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE AND WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE . . . The frustration is mounting; the pressure is about to blow.
This is the Ghetto Blue the busiest light-rail line in the nation, and the deadliest.
The 22-mile Metro Blue Line the cars were originally white with horizontal stripes in various shades of blue (now their stripes are orangish) starts underground but journeys above to the street-level Transit Mall station in downtown Long Beach. Thirty-five thousand people board its Japanese-built three-car trains going both directions each day. Many of them are poor: The MTAs demographic profiling shows that the median household income on the Blue Line is $17,000. Most are also brown or black: African-Americans, Filipinos, Chinese, Mexicans, Guatemalan Mayas, and Salvatruchas.
The train is their primary means of transportation, carrying seamstresses, janitors and restaurant workers to their various places of business scattered along the rail lines route. During the MTA strike in the fall, workers who couldnt bike, walk or hitch a ride to work lost their jobs, and almost everyone who rides the train was denied a daily tribal gathering because the Ghetto Blue is more than just a train. It is a culture, a near-sovereign civilization-within-the-city that is ruled by its own customs and, in some cases, even its own laws.
The Ghetto Blue is a county-hospital waiting room: Wheelchair users with disabilities rely on strangers for assistance; homeless people lie across seats displaying untreated scabs and cuts on their legs; alcoholics with the shakes brown-bag it in public; and mentally ill passengers play out delusions.
At the San Pedro station one morning, I watch a Mexican-looking homeboy, around 30 and wearing a black-and-white Pendleton shirt, baggy black Dickies pants and black Stacy Adams shoes. He stands under a sign on the operator cab door that reads, No unnecessary conversation with the operator, and begins talking not to the operator, but to an imaginary person. A woman, I assume.
Tu esposo anda pasiando, he says, Your husband is going around hanging out. Yo soy un pachuco guapo, he boasts, Im a handsome pachuco. Sí, yo era tu esposo te sacaba para una cerveza. He sticks out his pinky finger and thumb like a vertical Hawaiian aloha hand sign and pretends to take a swig of a beer. In Spanish, he continues: Id walk you along the beach, la Vida de Verdad. He then puts his head down, sulking. Tanto he pinche sufrido, tanto he sufrido, as he makes a tight fist as if hes going to punch it through the glass on the exit door.
At the Firestone station on a cool late afternoon, an older black man wearing a faded Mike Tyson T-shirt, a worn-out Members Only jacket, black shorts and house slippers goes around hitting up people for change. He approaches me, holding one hand on his stomach, and puts his other hand out: Hey, man, kick me down a dollar. Im hungrier than a mutha fuck. He looks at me, saddened. Come on, Ill take your change. You know it could be you who needs help one day.
Thats right, brother, I say. I reach into my pockets and give him all the coin I have.
The Ghetto Blue is also a moving swap meet, where passengers hustle to sell watches, pairs of white cotton socks, incense, Kool cigarettes, lotions, batteries, tapes, CDs and chocolates. What you want? What you need? Bus tokens, which come in bags of 10 for $11, become a form of currency here, like food stamps. People peddle them for a small cash profit. Tokens? one woman asks anyone on the train within earshot. A couple of Mexican youths rush over and pull out bags of them. The transaction goes down like a drug deal, both participants looking over their shoulders for authorities as they quickly exchange the goods. Its a scene reminiscent of Alvarado and Wilshire near MacArthur Park, where Salvadoran homeboys issue fake IDs, birth certificates and micas (green cards) to drive-by customers.
You want to buy some cologne, big dog? A veterano with a teardrop tattoo near his eye shows me his suitcase full of knock-off colognes and perfumes. He extends his hand with an old bottle of Drakkar. I notice a three dots tattoo forming a triangle on his hand: Mi Vida Loca, it means.
Nah, man, Im straight, I tell him. But he sprays me anyhow. Im bothered at first, but then thankful: The fragrance almost cancels out the train-car smell. Just then, a black homeless woman wearing a too-tight black top, a bedsheet-looking thing around her waist, with no socks and shoes, passes us; she probably hasnt bathed in weeks. She leaves a trail of stench, the smell of old urine, as people cover their noses, get up from their seats and move to the opposite side of the train.
Me patío, me dejó toda morada, I overhear from a Mexican woman, carrying her handbag in one hand and a clutch of plastic bags in the other. He kicked me and left me all bruised. She shows her rib where her son kicked her. Lo quiero castigar, pero no sé cómo, she says, I want to punish him, but I dont know how. Another woman fiddles with her rosary and shakes her head in disbelief: ¡Cuidado, eh! The conversation quickly shifts to working on sewing machines in sweatshop conditions: They have me like a dog, says the first woman, in Spanish, then proceeds to pant like a dog. Como una pinche perra, she continues. Y todavía me roban todo el dinero.
Está cabrón este país This country is fucked up, says the other.
My own mother is one of these women, a hard-working 20-plus-year seamstress who came from Mexico and single-handedly supported six children. Being transit-dependent hasnt been easy. While walking to the bus stop at 5 oclock one morning, she was rolled up on by a group of men who robbed her at gunpoint. Shes almost been run over countless times on her way from Southeast L.A. to Boyle Heights. But she doesnt have to worry anymore: Last year her employer informed her that the company is relocating to Kentucky for cheaper taxes and cheaper labor, forcing her into a much-needed but financially crippling retirement.
At the Washington stop, the Ghetto Blue veers south, rumbling down like a roller coaster through the heavy industrial and residential water-tower towns of Vernon, Huntington Park, South Gate, Lynwood and Watts. Rusted old barbed-wired warehouses and factory lots filled with pallets alternate with the blowing palm trees of lively residential neighborhoods. Rising on elevated concrete platforms to the treetops, passengers can look down onto the roofs and glimpse local life: carne asada, clothes hanging out to dry, and old Chuck Taylor shoes dangling from power lines; men working on cars, playing basketball, fighting their dogs, urinating in public, flying their pigeons, slapping bones and watering their lawns among the tons of trash and old tires.
At one of the stops among the palms, an older black man boards the train carrying a long makeshift walking stick. He bangs it around the car until someone helps him to a seat. A white businessman in a suit peers up over his glasses and back down into his paper again. The black man waits a few minutes, and then goes to the front of the car: Im sorry, he announces, but can anyone spare some change? I havent eaten in days and I need help. Im blind. To prove it, he lifts his eyelids and shows his eyes. No tengo ojos. No miro, he says in broken Spanish. Then, like an usher at a church, he goes down the aisle of the train car gathering change. Que Díos los acompañe, he offers, then breaks into a passage from Ephesians with passion. Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might!
It is a speech tailored to its audience: The most commonly read book on the Ghetto Blue is the Bible.
And the most familiar institution along this post-industrial heartland stretch is the church. Along these routes, churches are second in number only to liquor stores adorned with murals depicting the Virgén de Guadalupe. If you have no hope for your future, you have two choices: 40 ounces of malt liquor or 40 years in the desert.
If you do have hope for a future, you can opt for a street life. The gangs in the area are known to have a respect for the rail line and recognize that the trains are not part of their turf, reads the MTAs official literature. Still, along with spray-painted bombs and tags, placas grace the walls along the corridor, serving notice that you have now entered tatted tribe territory. Thirty-eighth Street (of Sleepy Lagoon murder and trial fame) and rival Florencia, two of the bigger Mexican gangs, dominate the area. Along with bald-headed cholos, Bloods and Crips, including the Family Swan Bloods near the Firestone Station and the Grape Street Crips at the Watts Towers on 103rd, lay claim to sections of this territory as well.
In the Blue Lines third year of service, the MTA sank $15.2 million into security, saturating the line with Sheriffs Department deputies, security guards and closed-circuit camera monitoring nearly $2 million more than it spent on the entire Los Angeles County bus fleet. In February 2003, the Pueblo Bloods from El Pueblo del Rio Housing Projects barricaded the Ghetto Blue and shut down the whole system for a few hours. The Sheriffs report states, Several gang-types, estimated at 75-plus, placed large roll-type garbage bins on the tracks and stood upright a large piece (15x15) of wrought-iron gate. They became more unruly and chanted vulgarities about the LAPD. The protest had been organized the day before, when one of their homeboys was shot to death by the LAPD.
Gangs, however, are less of a threat on these tracks than the trains themselves: Of the 66 railway fatalities on the MTA system since transit service began in 1990, 62 have occurred on the Ghetto Blue. Its death toll exceeds by far that of any other light-rail line or system in the United States, accounting for more than 38 percent of all U.S. light-rail fatalities. By contrast, 23 deaths occurred on San Diegos entire light-rail system in the same time, and it has twice as many track miles as Los Angeles does. Among the 19 rail lines nationwide, an average of 8.7 deaths occurred over that same 11 years. Most of the Blue Line deaths have involved pedestrians or automobiles at one of the 101 grade crossings and especially at intersections along a 16-mile stretch where the Ghetto Blue rumbles at 55 mph through several densely populated neighborhoods.
On the night of May 6, 1998, Donald White, a 41-year-old mechanic driving his newly bought used tow truck with two passengers, was struck by the Ghetto Blue at the grade crossing at Wilmington Avenue and 115th Street in Watts. White was killed; the two passengers were injured. A total of 30 city firefighters were sent to the scene. One of them described the tow truck as mangled.
I was watching the 10 oclock news, and around 10:30 they broke in with a special report, says Whites widow, Cynthia. They said the Blue Line collided with a tow truck. It looked like his tow truck, so then I woke up my daughter Shawnte and said, A tow truck collided with the MTA . . . almost looked like your daddys truck, but it was clean. So I prayed that night it wasnt him. When he hadnt come home by the next morning, she drove to his work. The man at his work ran to me, and I said, Wheres Don? He asked if I watched the news. I said yes. Well, that was Don.
I used his phone and called Dons relatives. Then I went to King/Drew Hospital and went to the security office. They asked who I was. I said, Im his wife. They told me to describe him. Then they told me to sit down and a social worker would come out. And right there I knew it was him. I knew he was dead.
That same morning, a woman was struck and killed by a Blue Line commuter train in South Los Angeles, just 12 hours after a tow truck and another MTA train collided in the area, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Shawnte White says that it made her fathers death harder that the MTA never notified her; never reached out. Not a letter, not a phone call, not Im sorry, what can we do to help? Nothing. So Whites family decided to take the MTA to court.
The first round of Cynthia White v. City of Los Angeles ended in a mistrial, because, as Cynthia White put it, The operator faked his breakdown in court. According to attorney Renée L. Campbell, who represented train passenger Melvin Favors in a related suit against the MTA, train operator Carter Norwood started screaming, I didnt mean to do it, while being questioned by his defense attorney. The judge, in sympathy with the operator and without polling the jury, surprised everyone by declaring a mistrial. Word got back to the Whites that Norwood was seen back on the job the next day. In the second trial, the jury found that the MTA was not negligent. But the trial did, nevertheless, reveal some telling evidence: According to court documents, the MTA failed to train its operators to use and apply the emergency braking system. We dont go out there and teach [emergency brakes] because it costs a lot of money, testified Blue Line director Duane Martin.
What would people think about that? asks Cynthia White. Would they get on the train knowing that the operators dont know how to use the emergency brakes? In my opinion, [the MTA] just dont care who they kill.
MTA spokesman Ed Scannell says that all Blue Line operators are trained to use the emergency brakes. The system offers the operators two emergency braking options. First is a control stand, a left-hand lever that controls the speed of the train. If the operator pulls back, the train speeds up; if the lever is pushed forward, the train slows. Pushing the lever all the way forward will cause the train to stop. The other option is for the operator to push a red mushroom button on the control board. Both options release air pressure and drop bags of sand, creating sufficient friction to stop the train. But according to Scannell, the emergency brake is used only when you require the train to be stopped more quickly than your standard braking procedure.
Court papers also show that the MTA failed to inspect and maintain its traffic crossing gates, which did not operate simultaneously as required by the California Public Utilities Commission, the states regulatory agency. Last year, a 111-page audit completed by the Public Utilities Commissions rail-safety division found that the MTAs railways failed to meet safety standards in 29 categories, and concluded that not enough was being done to protect the public. The same agency delayed the July opening of the 13.7-mile Gold Line connecting Union Station to Pasadena because of safety concerns. (The ads for the Gold Line read, No Traffic Stress, No Parking Hassles. We should also hope for No Deaths!)
Scannell blames all incidents on the drivers and pedestrians negligent behavior and on cases of suicide. But Tom Rubin, former controller-treasurer for the RTD/MTA and a transit expert, says its a rail-safety joke that accident inspectors and PR people carry suicide notes with them. Rubin worked for the RTD from 1989 until the 1993 merger that formed the MTA, but after realizing that safety was not a major concern at the MTA, he quit. After the Blue Line began operations and the fatalities began mounting up, I tried on several occasions to get changes made for safety reasons, says Rubin, whose recommendations included installing four quad gates, something that MTA finally got around to doing years later. I got just about nowhere. People who designed the line were not willing to admit there was a safety problem.
My point was very simple, Rubin says. Were killing a whole lot of people, and we need to do something about it. Right now.
The MTAs official tally of accidents (involving automobiles and pedestrians) and fatalities over the six years since White was killed are as follows: 49 accidents and 10 deaths in 1998; 57 accidents and five deaths in 1999. In 2000, 67 accidents and 10 deaths; in 2001, 44 accidents and two deaths; in 2002, 47 accidents and four deaths. As of 2003, 39 accidents and two deaths had occurred on the Blue Line. (It should be noted that accident is not a term that is used by safety professionals. It implies that whatever happened, it was no ones fault, and could not be prevented. The National Transit Database by the Federal Transit Administration calls such incidents collisions.) On the evening of Saturday, January 17, the Blue Line added another accident to its record when a man made a left turn into the path of a train. As of press time, the driver had not been identified. Scannell reports that he was in critical condition but is expected to survive. Three train passengers were hospitalized with minor injuries.
Rubin describes the Ghetto Blue as an attractive nuisance and compares it to an unprotected swimming pool: If you have a swimming pool on private property but do not take the proper precautions, like putting up a fence or anything to keep people out, and a kid drowns in it, he says, then youre negligent.
As a 19th-century technology, rail enabled Europe, and Great Britain in particular, to colonize Africa, India and China. Abraham Lincoln continued that tradition in the United States when he hooked up with the railroad lobby and used Chinese and Irish labor to create the transcontinental railway. Locally, Henry Huntingtons Pacific Electric empire, the Big Red Cars (part of which ran down the same corridor as the Blue Line), were built by Mexican immigrants for land speculation.
Twenty-first-century rail continues in that tradition, only in reverse: Instead of exploiting the working-class-immigrant communities for their cheap labor, it conquers and imposes on them by reducing their mobility. Many transit-dependent riders were forced onto the Blue Line after their usual bus service, including express lines from downtown Los Angeles to South Bay and to Long Beach, was canceled.
Light rail in Los Angeles was supposed to relieve traffic congestion and transport people faster and more cheaply. But because electric trains lack the allure of SUVs, rail has had little effect on traffic, and it has cost a lot: The MTA has spent $3.2 billion (much of it local taxpayer money) to build and operate the Gold, Green and Blue lines. The trains are so expensive to run that Tom Rubin estimates that the MTA actually saved money on last falls 35-day strike about $4 million to $5 million a week ($25 million to $30 million total) by not paying for salaries, employee benefits, fuel, electricity and other expenses for rail lines.
At its midpoint, the Ghetto Blue comes to the Imperial/Wilmington/ Rosa Parks Station in Willowbrook, a major transfer point to the Green Line, which gets close to LAX (a shuttle goes to the airports doorstep). Cessnas and 747s blast over the loud and windy platform; ghetto birds (LAPD and Sheriffs helicopters) hover as if in a war zone. The Sheriffs substation is located here, and authorities routinely check passengers for their $52 monthly passes, $3 day passes or $1.25 tickets. There are no barriers to entry on the MTA train system, no turnstiles to enter the stations. Passengers ride on an honor system, and failure to produce fare on demand carries a $250 fine. The MTAs Transit Policing Partnership Monthly Activities Report shows that in September 2003, 807 fare-evasion citations were issued on the Blue Line. The Imperial Station ranks second in the system for overall citations; second is the Seventh and Metro Station in downtown Los Angeles. Get caught here, and youll end up in the Compton Courthouse, where every day youll find a room full of Mexicans and blacks before the judge, trying to straighten out their fare-evasion citations.
I myself made an appearance at the Compton Court twice. Once a Sheriff deemed my hand motion too fast as I tried to show him my pass while running for the 121 bus line on Imperial Highway. When I refused to sign the ticket, he handcuffed me in front of the passing passengers and detained me for a while, but eventually let me go with a citation for fare evasion. Another time I was cited for expectorating. Yes, thats right: I got a ticket for spitting. I was sick with the flu and had to expel some phlegm not on anyone or even on the platform; I aimed for the distant tracks. Penal code 640(b)(5) reads: Expectorating upon any system facility or vehicle is unlawful. But when I went before the judge in Compton, he suppressed a laugh. In the spirit of justice, he said, this case is dismissed. When I tried to use the opportunity to explain how unjust the citation system was, he had the Sheriffs bailiff whisk me off.
Compton has five freeways: 105, 110, 710, 405, 91 and the six-lane commercial highway rail system known as Alameda Corridor slicing through the Hub City. A demographic change is under way along these routes; Mexicans now account for half of Comptons residents. As you roll through, youll see Mexican flags waving from homes and nopales (cactus) along walls tagged up with CVTF Compton Varrio Tortilla Flats. As the Mexicans threaten to displace the black community, Compton remains one of the poorest suburbs in the United States. The rundown, boarded-up houses and empty lots still resemble South African shantytowns. Stray dogs and homeboys who feed their huge iguanas hippie lettuce become the wildlife. Here, tribal warfare comes not from Zulus with machetes but Pirus with MAC-10s.
And just like Johannesburg, Compton is a city trying to recover from economic apartheid, from manufacturing jobs lost with white flight, and competition between blacks and other ethnic minorities for a few poorly paid jobs. As the Ghetto Blue rumbles through Compton, a black homeboy named Charles wearing a Farrakhan T-shirt breaks it down. See, they want us to compete for the crumbs, he shouts, but blacks and Mexicans need to hook up and collaborate! Fuck the bullets and bullet trains!
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The train journeys on through the industrial areas of Rancho Dominguez and Carson between Los Angeles and Long Beach, passing by the main arterial cargo route, the 710 Long Beach Freeway, and the Ghetto Blue maintenance yard. From Artesia and the Willow Station, the scenery begins to change with the population, which now includes Filipinos and Samoans. The east bank of the Los Angeles River runs strong, and this little patch of green nature is like an island a Pacific island, perhaps. The train fills with sounds of the lovely Tagalog tongue, spoken into cell phones and between men and women, and Samoan aigas, mothers and their children in strollers. In the children playing in the parks and the open spaces along the way, you get a rare flash of natural beauty along the route of the Ghetto Blue.
Most of the time, though, the Blue Lines human cargo is like a herd of guinea pigs enlisted in a mass-transit experiment gone bad. There is no other light-rail line in the United States that has 47-ton trains traveling at high speeds through a corridor with numerous rail crossings. Similar safety issues contributed to shutting down the original Long Beach light-rail line, the Red Car, in 1961. The 20-foot-long Evergreen metal containers and oceangoing cargo on the 20-mile Alameda Corridor have a better chance of making it to their destinations without killing anyone.
This will be the end of the line, the train operator says over the intercom after the 59-minute ride. Were a little late, but at least we made it. Thank you once again for riding the Metro Blue Line.
A young, black-clad Irish lad sitting next to me listening to Slayers Angel of Death turns to me and sums up his train experience like a stoned theology student. You see, Christianity and Satanism, its the same religion. Youve all been tricked! Then a long pause. People need to smoke more pot. Call it the blasphemy of the self-medicating, but he does have a point: With its electric wires crisscrossing the horizon looking like stitches across a deep cut, the Ghetto Blue is a microcosm of the city a huge scar running through L.A. that needs to be healed.


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If you're looking for some good cheeses to start off your Turkey Day, here are some I've been enjoying lately:
Toreggio (also known as Roccolo). No, not Taleggio but from the same region of Italy, Toreggio is a cow milk cheese with a consistency more similar to a goat, a bit chalky in the middle, smooth and creamy closer to the rind. It's a washed rind cheese with a subtle, nutty flavor which would go well with any of the traditional cheese plate accompaniments, including nuts and dried fruit.
Caveman Blue. Rogue Creamery in Oregon is probably my favorite maker of domestic blue cheese. Caveman Blue is a creamy, raw cow cheese with a sweet disposition. It plays well with fruit, so slather it on tart apple or pear slices, and I bet it would go down well with either a Riesling or a Beaujolais, if that's how you roll on Turkey Day.
Harbison is a soft, bloomy rind cow cheese from Jasper Hill Farm in Vermont. Wrapped in bark, the cheese oozes at room temperature. It starts off with a nice nutty character, then you get just a glimpse of some ripe, aged Camembert type flavors; tasty but not the highest of stink.
So happy Thanksgiving and cheese it up!
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- SteveBM said...
Agreed on Rogue Creamery and their Caveman Blue. A great cheese. I'd also suggest a Robiola
- November 21, 2011 at 8:45 AM
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Definitions of terms in section 103 [1] of title 41 shall apply to similar terms used in this section. For purposes of applying such definitions in this section, the term "war" includes a specific authorization for the use of the Armed Forces, as described in section 5(b) of the War Powers Resolution (50 U.S.C. 1544(b)).
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Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 590a (Aug. 24, 1942, ch. 555, § 1, 56 Stat. 747; July 1, 1944, ch. 358, § 19(b), 58 Stat. 667; Oct. 3, 1944, ch. 479, § 28, 58 Stat. 781).
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|2008-10-07, 13:22
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Internet Cafe
It's like whether or not Lulu lived or died, they clearly set it up so that you can use the fight as evidence of either one of them being the superior pilot.
One idea I never heard anybody else put out yet is that rather than the live geass empowering Suzaku it's possible that it wound up failing him in that in the last moments it might have forced him to throw the fight in such a way that he would make it out alive rather than let him go all out (which probably would have ended in them killing each other.)
Regardless, it's kinda like shipping, people who can't look at it subjectively will say that the character they like more is better.
|2008-10-08, 00:51
|Link #2062
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
either way, all Geass have their ability but nothing was shown that it makes someone a more skilled pilot or make his mecha more advanced.
yes i can state that Live Geass helps bring someone fight at his peak but not go beyond. you have provide no evidence whatsoever and tried to post your opinion as fact. Live Geass helped Suzaku work harder to what he is capable off anyway, however not surpassing it or going beyond.
His fight with Bismark was nothing special. He used his Live Geass to work harder and he speed up his mecha to a fast speed against Bismark, the move was a head on attack that even Bismark knew about but couldnt stop. He decided to face him straight on with a inferior mecha and he paid the price.
Suzaku didnt gain no skills or his Albion was made stronger in the fight, he just used Live Geass to help him go faster (but not faster than what the Albion is capable off) and did a move that Bismark thought he could counter but failed.
as for the Live Geass failing him, he needed to fake his death since he couldn't live as Suzaku no more. so it could be a possibility but he had control over it and that is why i believe he made the fight a draw and not Live Geass forcing him too. the way Albion exploded it was just to fool everyone Kallen, Gino and the audiance that Suzaku got killed and lost but he didnt.
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|2008-10-08, 01:06
|Link #2063
Spinning Lotus
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|2008-10-08, 01:33
|Link #2064
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
you said it help push him to the limit. nothing about going beyond that is foolish and you are contradicting yourself.
and did you watch episode 25 again and realize your error of saying Suzaku used his Live Geass from the get go against Kallen?
its funny how you say Kallen would of won against Bismark because her mech is superior and not Suzaku, yeah great logic there buddy.
|2008-10-08, 01:44
|Link #2065
Spinning Lotus
Join Date: Jul 2008
What's this? Live Geass activates at the start of the fight? When you ask people to review the episode, be sure that you're right.
|2008-10-08, 09:45
|Link #2066
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
let me prove my case. here is a face of Suzaku when were shown again him and Kallen battling for the second time.
as you can see his face is not lit up with Live Geass. Live Geass is off. So before this pic was shown Suzaku had to be battling Kallen with out the Live Geass for a while. Now after this pic, Suzaku and Kallen exchanged blows and we are once again shown Suzaku's face.
He has no Live Geass. Live Geass is still off. So he is still battling Kallen without the assistance of Live Geass.
next scene we are shown Kallen and Suzaku fighting in mere dots and then up in the sky fighting and hitting each other. Suzaku lands a hit to Kallen with one of the swords and then Kallen lands a kick to Suzaku. keep in mind that the last time we saw Suzaku he had no Live Geass on and once again we are are shown his face.
No Live Geass! and later on we see he still has the two blades. So he was fighting Kallen with no Live Geass still to this point.
next time we are taken to the battle were Kallen and Suzaku are engaging because we see a red blast that was aimed at Suzaku.
when were are shown Suzaku's face immidiately after,
No LIVE GEASS being used even at this point in the battle. So sometime before the first pick of Suzaku that I posted the Live Geass was off and up to this point. NOT ONCE were we shown Suzaku having the LIVE GEASS on. He was fighting Kallen without it. That is a big chunk of the fight.
It is only when he tried to end the fight that we were again shown that Suzaku using Live Geass which he managed to do and fake his death.
do you understand now? he didnt use it 100% and for the majority of the fight, Suzaku didnt use Live Geass against Kallen.
also Code Geass R2 made it a habit that when a new mecha is introduce or given some sort of an upgrade that it wins for some reason or another. so sooner or later Suzaku would of won. I am not desperately trying downgrade the Live Geass, it does what it does but Suzaku can do the samething but just a little longer.
again, this series in R2 made it a habit of showing more advanced mechas or newly introduced or ones that recieved an upgrade win. only a 9th generation frame can defeat a 9th generation. there are just too many weapons and variables. so no, Bismark would lose in the end. if he had a equal mecha then his skills would defeat anyone put in front of him along with the aid of his future geass.
they would of made the new mecha win for whatever reason they can come up with.
|2008-10-08, 09:58
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Uh, the reason why Suzaku's Geass wasn't active was because a blast like the one Kallen did with the last of her energy could have easily been blocked. That shield was big. When they went close-up, the Live Geass activated again, and THEN, later on, WHILST IT WAS ACTIVE, he said:
"I can't lay down a blow decisively, even with the Live Geass...Kallen, what strength...!"
And he used the Geass in critical moments of the fight. The beginning, because he needed to get the upper hand, and the end because he sought to kill her. Pretty freakin' pertinent moments if you ask me.
|2008-10-08, 12:36
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The Dark Knight
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: From the deepest abyss in the world, where you think?
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It's an on and off thing. When Suzaku needs that little edge to get through an obstacle it turns on. He doesn't need it on all the time. If Kallen pulls a manuever that catches him off guard or something that's really hard to counter, it turns on.
It was only when he was brought down to just hands and legs that he had to go all out with his live geass on all the time.
Besides, it was a tie.
Both suits were totalled. Kallen didn't die because Gino saved her. Suzaku didn't die because he jumped out of the suit in time.
|2008-10-08, 18:40
|Link #2069
Spinning Lotus
Join Date: Jul 2008
And yes, he would have failed against Bismarck, because he was failing against Bismarck. He couldn't touch the man, and he knew it, which is why he needed the help.
|2008-10-08, 18:45
|Link #2070
Tenshi's Defense Squadron
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Location: Fighting against those who oppress the system
|2008-10-09, 01:14
|Link #2071
I Want GN Flag II
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: A-LAWLS Base (orly?)
Suzaku's live geass kicks in basically serves as an override when he is in a situation where he would die if it wasnt for it. He would do actions which basically prevent his death, such as a ceasefire with the FLIEJA being fired. He CANT use the Geass intentionally. Thats all there is.
The reason why Bismark died was because the Live Geass made suzaku move "unnaturally", he was deviating off what Bismark's geass was telling him, travelling right instead of left. Well in his case, Suzaku charged straight as Bismark, instead of flying away like the geass told him. It didn't make him go faster at all.
Now in the final battle, basically the same story. If it wasnt for the live geass suzaku would have died. His geass basically controlled him in situations where he would have been overwhelmed indefinately, so therefore he could only barely match the Guren, example he'd only be able to defend the Guren's attack. The live geass pretty much commands you to live; lets say if a flieja bomb was launched, Suzaku would have escaped the vicinity of the area ASAP to ensure his survival, like as if he was brainwave hacking.
The Guren was disabled to some extent, it meant the whole shutdown cause the OS crashed (or something like that... snapped power cables anyone?). However, Suzaku's KMF was impaled, by the "useless" arm which the Guren rarely ever uses, in the yddragsil drive/power filler location. (Proven when C.C.'s lancelot gets decimated; you see a pink glow in that region). Technically the lancelot would be completely disabled by that and I'd assume that without any power, since the Yddragsil drive would have been destroyed. We won't know if it was a deliberate loss, since sunrise left it as an open ending; its purely subjective. Just stop arguing over it okay?
|2008-10-09, 06:39
|Link #2072
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
the whole time from then on when we are shown Suzaku he had no Live Geass until he tried again to get a decisive hit. he mentioned about not being able to end it using LIVE GEASS, so thats even more proof that he wasnt using it. So He had it OFF UNTIL THAT TIME.
the writers dont need to show you his blasted face every single time they are battleling to tell you that live geass is not being used. you cannot say he had it on since everytime we are shown it is blasted off in that time frame. IT IS OFF. use your blasted common sense on that one.
throughout they both got their hits on each other and they were even after they ran out of energy to fly with their wings.
the writers dont need to show you his face everytime he is battling to tell and make the point accross that Live Geass was off and he was able to hit her without it.
oh dear, they Broadcast the battle on TV for Suzaku and Bismark. Lelouch then told Suzaku that he could not lose since this is broacast around the world. So it was a broadcast live event and a battle LOL. Earth to Morobo!!! they needed to make a statement and wasted no time. there was just too much at stake..
Suzaku was about to try something else because he said "however" before he got interuptted by Lelouch. when you have a newly advanced mecha in your hands, you can win more than one way when your opponent has an inferior machine.
you have nothing backing up that claim. time and time again in R2 that a newly introduced mecha was introduced or given an enhancement, it came out the victor. they would of made Suzaku win some other way. Kallen then even mentioned that only the Guren can match up against that Albion. that helps point that only a 9th generation frame can defeat another 9th generation frame.
yeah, and you are trying to downgrade Suzaku. you are trying to make it seem that someone who is Superhuman cannot do something so simple as to make his machine faster. there is no advantage other than reaching his peak of performance quicker.
and looks who is making things up. you come and say Sticking Rolo in the 5th generation Sutherland and also have him kill him in an instant???????????????????????????????? yeah, another attempt to downgrade Suzaku as some joe.
|2008-10-09, 07:11
|Link #2074
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
this has nothing to do with a person winning against a person who is in a more advanced mecha. they didnt make it happend so it is pointless to bring something like that up. they made the opposite happend over and over again in one on one situations.
|2008-10-09, 07:49
|Link #2076
Join Date: Jun 2007
What he said was:
and looks who is making things up. you come and say Sticking Rolo in the 5th generation Sutherland and also have him kill him in an instant???????????????????????????????? yeah, another attempt to downgrade Suzaku as some joe.
Having an instant kill ability does not make Suzaku 'some joe'. Any pilot, no matter how skilled, can be killed by Rolo, or could have been, and he indeed would have owned Suzaku given a Sutherland and a few seconds of time stoppage.
|2008-10-09, 09:11
|Link #2079
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
i dont want to get into a discussion about Rolo with his Geass in a 5th generation frame beating a 9th Generation frame with the pilot being an ace in a INSTANT, since that is Morobo's arguement. i would only say that it wont be instant by any means since certainly they would not come unprepare against him with that Geass.
the more times Rolo uses his Geass his heart takes a pounding and certainly with a 9th generation mecha and the pilot being an ace and knowing about his Geass, will make Rolo use the Geass to a good degree and work for the win. win or lose i dont see the battle being decided in an instant. that is all i am going to say about that subject.
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(1) We concluded 2010 by celebrating I Vespers
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Justin's conference to us in the Chapter Room.
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for a while from his assignment in Rome, preached.
+++ Our "Monastic Observance" program, which began the day after
Christmas, officially concluded, although two of the five men who
participated in this opportunity to experience monastic life are
staying with us for another day or two. Several monks were involved
in working with or presenting conferences to our observers; Br.
John Mark oversaw the almost week-long program.
(2) The Solemnity of the Epiphany of our Lord.
An O.A., with Father Archabbot Justin presiding. Father Cyprian
preached. We again enjoyed colloquium at our noonday meal.
(3) Father Tobias began his week as our Mass
+++ At a meeting of the Monastery Chapter this evening, our two
novices, Michael Luckett and Timothy Wymore, were approved to
profess their temporary vows, which they will do on January 20,
during I Vespers of the Solemnity of St. Meinrad.
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us. They are directed by the Most Rev. Carl Mengeling, the former
bishop of Lansing, and an alumnus of our seminary.
(4) The January Interterm session begins in our
seminary tomorrow, and so the seminarians, like students around the
country, are beginning their "slow-but-willing" return to their
school. Most of them, anyway: about 15 are enjoying the special
travel-study session in England and Italy, accompanied by Fathers
Denis and Thomas.
(5) We received an e-mail from Father Harry in
Korea: the ordinations of our two former seminarians, Pan and John,
were beautiful!
(6) A quiet day on the hill, all things
considered. Our housekeepers are getting ready for a lot of
retreatants (see below), and we're keeping an eye out for the
winter storm that's supposed to hit us sometime this evening.
(7) The retreatants are definitely coming!
Arriving today and staying the weekend are 13 guests of the
"Maker's Dozen" retreat from Carmel, Indiana. Father Sean is their
+++ Also, the "Epiphany Retreat" begins this evening and goes
into Sunday morning. This is a discernment retreat in which 28
young men from the dioceses of Louisville, Lexington and Evansville
are participating. The "Epiphany Retreat" is hosted by our Seminary
with Father Brendan as the coordinator; he is assisted by
Louisville Vocation Director Father Jeff Shooner and Lexington
Vocation Director Father Steve Roberts.
+++ Our confrere, Father Raymond, on the staff of The Catholic
University of America in Washington, D.C., celebrates his feastday
today. We offer him our prayers!
(8) Fifty-one guests arrived from St. Charles
Borromeo Parish in Bloomington, Indiana, today, to begin their
Confirmation Retreat. Carl Wertin, a first-year theology seminarian
from the Diocese of Pueblo, is their director. The retreat, which
concludes tomorrow, is organized and facilitated by Mrs. Janis
Dopp, an alumna (class of '98) and friend of the Archabbey.
+++ Brother Matthew is directing about 15 Boy Scouts from the
Diocese of Evansville, who are on the hill making a one-day
vocation retreat.
+++ And we welcome 30 young parishioners from St. Mary's
Catholic Church in Huntingburg, who are making their confirmation
retreat. Michelle Fisher is the facilitator and organizer, and the
retreat is led by Alan Carter, a second-year theology seminarian
from the Diocese of Lexington.
(9) Feast of the Baptism of our Lord-the
"official end" of the Christmas season, according to some
calendars. Father Sean began his week as our Mass Heb by presiding
and preaching at our Conventual Mass, which began with the monastic
community gathering at the west doors around the holy water font
for the blessing of the water. We then processed into choir and
continued Mass as usual.
+++ We've been getting snow flurries on and off this weekend; so
far it's been, at worst, a minor annoyance for travelers and, at
best, some winter beauty for our many guests.
+++ Father Adrian, celebrating the feast of his holy patron
today, was our "coped presider" at Second Vespers.
(10) After thousands of miles, dozens of time
zones, and even a trip across the International Date Line, Father
Harry has returned from his Korean travels. He landed in Louisville
yesterday evening and is fine-tuning his recovery from jetlag by
spending a few days with his mother in Bardstown, Kentucky.
(11) The snow began overnight and continued
throughout the day-steady, if not always heavy. It is beautiful,
but it-and the weather throughout the Midwest-has also stranded
some of our traveling confreres in places such as Wyoming, St.
Louis and even Louisville.
(12) The snow continued to fall and blow
around, but our physical facility crews are doing an excellent job
keeping the on-the-hill roads clear, and the state and county seem
to be doing pretty well at cleaning off the main routes around us.
Our juniors and novices were not about to be overcome by such a
thing as weather: they left for Evansville shortly before noon
today for a brief outing, planning to take in lunch and a
+++ We offer special prayers for Father Aelred today, who
celebrates the feast of his holy patron.
(13) We received word today that our Father
Gregory is one of eight pastors in the country who will be honored
by receiving the National Catholic Education Association's
Distinguished Pastor Award! The awards will be given in April when
the NCEA meets in New Orleans during Easter week. Congratulations
to Father Gregory! Many of our alumni will remember Father Gregory
from his many years in our College (1965-1991), when he taught
French and served as Dean of Students. Father's first parish
assignment was in August 1989, as administrator of St. Henry
Parish, St. Henry, IN. He became pastor of St. Benedict's Parish,
Evansville, and, subsequently, St. Benedict's Cathedral, in August
of 1991.
(14) It was announced this morning that Pope
Benedict XVI has appointed Father Christopher J. Coyne as the
auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. Bishop-elect
Coyne is a priest of the Archdiocese of Boston. The date for his
episcopal ordination is scheduled for March 2.
(15) Today we celebrated the patronal feast
days of Brother Maurus and Father Micheas.
+++ Delta Chi "A"s' Academy, from Iowa City, IA, are with us
again for their annual retreat. We're happy to greet all 155 of the
participants and their leaders.
(16) Father Eugene is our Mass Hebdomadarian
this week. There were almost as many guests in the Archabbey Church
as there were monks. Today is one of the major "Saint Meinrad
Sundays," and so about a dozen of our priest-monks were spread
throughout the state presiding at a parish's Saturday evening and
Sunday morning Masses, giving the parishioners a brief report on
the works of Saint Meinrad, and asking for their continued
assistance prayerfully and financially. We do a lot at Saint
Meinrad, thanks to a lot of generosity and support offered by our
many friends!
+++ Father Harry celebrated today the feast of his holy
(17) Today we celebrated the feast day of Saint
Anthony, Father Anthony's patron. Known by many of our guests for
his work in our apiary, Father Anthony serves as the administrator
for the parishes of St. Meinrad and Fulda's St. Boniface.
(18) A gray and drizzly day, all day. The
weather people tell us a lot of snow is on the way.
+++ We are preparing for the temporary profession of Novice
Michael this Thursday, the 20th. His classmate, Novice Timothy, has
decided to extend his period of novitiate for six months. We
continue our prayers for both of these men. As we conclude our main
meal each day, we add the following to our grace after meals: "May
the example of our fraternal charity and our good zeal draw many
others to join us in the monastic way of life." May all those
discerning our way of life know God's guidance and peace!
(19) A quiet Wednesday-it seems everyone is
getting ready for the coming snow.
(20) Novice Michael professed his temporary
vows at I Vespers of the Solemnity of St. Meinrad this evening,
taking the name Brother Elijah. His guests joined us for the
evening meal, and then for a reception in Jack's in the Commons
after Compline.
(21) Solemnity of our patron, and the sixth
anniversary of the blessing of Father Archabbot Justin. We monks
enjoyed a rare "social half-hour" following Midday Prayer, after
which we were treated to a fine meal in our refectory. After II
Vespers, we joined our seminary community for burgers 'n stuff in
the Newman Dining Room.
+++ And, a happy feast day to Father Meinrad!
(22) We joined the Universal Church in
observing the "Day of Prayer and Penance for Violations Committed
against the Dignity of Life." Father Eugene, our Mass presider for
the week, put things into context nicely in both his introductory
remarks and his homily. The Mass prayers were taken from the "Mass
for Justice."
+++ Father Vincent, the manager of our Guest House and Retreat
Center, celebrated the feastday of his holy patron today. As we are
fond of saying on these and similar occasions, "Ad multos
(23) Third Sunday of Ordinary Time. Father
Joseph is our Mass Hebdomadarian.
+++ About 105 of our seminarians are in Washington, D.C.,
preparing to take part in the annual Right to Life March tomorrow.
They left the hill early yesterday morning in 10 vans; while in the
Washington area, they will stay with families of Our Lady of Mercy
Parish in Potomac, Maryland-all this carefully organized and
arranged by Linda Budney, a member of our Board of Overseers.
+++ Closer to home, Brother John Mark is wrapping up his
offerings on "Human Development and Christian Maturity" for the
first of this semester's weekend courses. Other resident faculty
who are teaching over the weekend are Dr. Keith Lemna, Dr. James
Helmer and Dr. Robert Alvis.
(24) As referred to in yesterday's entry, most
of our seminary community participated in the annual Right to Life
March this afternoon. They'll start working their way back to the
hill tomorrow. The official "Opening Day" of the semester is
tomorrow, and second semester classes begin Thursday the 26th.
+++ Here on the hill the guests of Brother Francis have begun to
arrive for his profession of solemn vows tomorrow. Until then, he
is celebrating the feast of his patron-St. Francis de
(25) Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul, and
the Solemn Profession of Vows by Brother Francis de Sales Wagner.
Formerly of the Diocese of Toledo, Brother Francis professed a life
of obedience, stability and conversion during our morning
Eucharist, at which Father Archabbot Justin presided. We
congratulate Brother Francis and welcome him as our newest
full-fledged member of the house!
+++ Today is Father Paul's feast day; he's celebrating in Rome,
where he continues his studies leading toward a doctorate in sacred
(26) The Seminary had its "Opening Day" for the
second formation term, marked especially by the annual Bishop's
Dinner in the evening. The Most Rev. Leonard Blair, Bishop of the
Diocese of Toledo-in-America, was the guest and speaker. He spoke
on the forthcoming new translation of the Roman Missal.
(27) We celebrated the feast day of Father
Timothy, who presided at our Eucharist this morning.
+++ Tomorrow the "World Priest Workshop," which began this past
Monday the 24th, draws to a close. Five international participants
were here for this five-day workshop, organized by our Institute
for Priests and Presbyterates.
(28) This afternoon we welcomed about 45 fourth
graders from New Hope Academy of Franklin, Tennessee, for a 24-hour
retreat. They are certainly making the best of their short time
with us: it was nice, and rather unusual, to have so many guests
join us for Compline!
+++ In the evening, Brother Zachary gave the first of his
conferences to 43 participants from Good Shepherd Parish in
Evansville. His theme is "Praying the Bible."
(29) About 35 monks feasted on 14 large pizzas
at The UnStable-the first of three such "monk lunches" over these
next few months. The pizza-makers were Fathers Prior Kurt and
Patrick, Brian Lederer (a third-year theology seminarian for the
Diocese of Duluth) and Tim Wyciskalla (a first-year theology
seminarian studying for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis).
+++ Today and tomorrow Father Timothy is giving a retreat to 29
members of the St. Xavier (Louisville) Alumni Reunion.
+++ This evening at Vespers, our newly-professed Brother Francis
assumed for the first time his duties as our Office
(30) Father Harry is our Mass Hebdomadarian for
the week. His homily included some relevant descriptions and
comments about his recent trip to the ordinations in Korea.
+++ A southern Indiana delicacy-squirrel-appeared on the serving
line in our refectory this evening. The treat was obtained,
prepared and delivered by Rich Niehaus, a co-worker in our Physical
Facilities Department.
(31) We received the oblation of Robert and
Tina Searcy of Fisherville, Kentucky, after Noonday Prayer. May
God's blessings be upon all our oblates, friends and
+++ After Compline this evening, the monastic community
proceeded to the Chapter Room, where we had the Aperitio
Oris for our new solemnly professed Brother Francis. This
"opening of the mouth" ceremony, consisting of prayers and a brief
commentary on the role and responsibility of a capitular (monk in
solemn vows), is the official welcome of the monk to the Chapter,
the deliberative body of the monastery.
Our Question of the Month comes from Carney Strange, a High
School class of '65, College class of '69, alumnus:
So, what is a "Mass Heb." that you refer to in your monastic
log entries? That's a new phrase for me.
I received this question from Carney just a few days ago. It's
great timing since, as I look over this month's "About the House,"
I see that I refer to "Heb" directly or indirectly in the entries
for each of the last three days (and, as usual, here and there
throughout the month).
Hebdomadarian comes from the Greek hebdomas,
which means "week."
A lot of our life in the monastery is structured according to
"the week." Our praying of the psalter, for example, is based upon
a four-week cycle. Also, many of the housekeeping and serving
assignments in the monastery are scheduled on a weekly basis. We
take turns by the week waiting tables, setting out and cleaning up
after breakfast and lunch, reading at Mass, Office, and during the
main meal, and the like. These weekly services are assigned by the
Traditionally, the monk who leads the Divine Office for the week
(or presides at that week's Eucharist) is called the Office (or
Mass) Hebdomadarian. At Office, the Heb intones the introduction,
regulates the praying of the psalms, and prays the intercessions
and the concluding prayer.
The Mass Heb, as mentioned, presides at the Eucharist and,
according to our custom, preaches on Sunday and at least one other
day during the week. Sometimes, but not always, a monk who is
ordained will be both Office and Mass Heb the same week. The
service of Hebdomadarian is reserved to those monks who have
professed solemn vows-hence, my mention on the entry for January
29th of Br. Francis' first time as our Office Heb.
We conclude this month's log with a section from the Rule of
St. Benedict:
You should become a stranger to the world's way of acting.
Prefer nothing to the love of Christ.
Chapter 4, "The Tools of Good Works,"
vv. 20-21
Translation by Fr. Terence Kardong, OSB, monk of Assumption
Each day the monks of Saint Meinrad Archabbey write another page
in the long history of Benedictine monks throughout the world. Here
are recent events chronicled at Saint Meinrad.
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After a proper teardown, iFixit concludes that the new MacBook Pro has no user-serviceable parts at all, which some think is a really bad thing. I honestly don't know - I mean, my ZenBook isn't particularly user-serviceable either, and my smartphones, tablets, and whatnot are pretty much entirely soldered together as well. What do you guys make of this?
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RE: Non-Replaceable Batteries Are BAD
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RE[2]: Non-Replaceable Batteries Are BAD
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With my Asus I can buy a battery on ebay for $20 and slap it in without having to go to the creepy pastel cult store. I'm guessing their price will be more than $20 given how much my SO had to pay for an iPhone wall adapter.
I can also easily replace the hard drive if it fails.
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