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Re:Whoaa
It's always better than "Darl Does Dallas".
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Re:Region 0?NTSC and PAL are meaningless with DVDs.
Incorrect.
DVDs are digital
Correct.
and it's your DVD player which is PAL or NTSC, not the disc.
Sort of, but not exactly correct.
When 'NTSC' is used on DVDs this usually means it is Region 1, and I can still play it on my region free player which is connected to a PAL TV.
Incorrect.
I've never seen a DVD labelled 'PAL'.
That may be, but I highly doubt that you've seen every DVD. I own a few DVDs that say PAL on them. Here are links to the NTSC version and the PAL version of the same film.
PAL DVDs are 720x576 resolution, 25 frames per second; NTSC DVDs are 720x480, 30 frames per second.
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Re:Region 0?NTSC and PAL are meaningless with DVDs.
Incorrect.
DVDs are digital
Correct.
and it's your DVD player which is PAL or NTSC, not the disc.
Sort of, but not exactly correct.
When 'NTSC' is used on DVDs this usually means it is Region 1, and I can still play it on my region free player which is connected to a PAL TV.
Incorrect.
I've never seen a DVD labelled 'PAL'.
That may be, but I highly doubt that you've seen every DVD. I own a few DVDs that say PAL on them. Here are links to the NTSC version and the PAL version of the same film.
PAL DVDs are 720x576 resolution, 25 frames per second; NTSC DVDs are 720x480, 30 frames per second.
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Re:old episodes
Still available new!
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You chould buy it
You could buy it on VHS (come to that, I think i have it in the attic) - but its sold out, but some chains like Blackstar will try and locate a copy for you if you ask them:
http://www.blackstar.co.uk/video/item/700000002299 4 -
No, region 8
Yes, but what region is space ? I would think it would be region 0 - aka region-free.
Special international venues such as air and space are region 8.
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Re:*cough*
the Lord of the Rings DVD is coming out on tuesday (or monday midnight for some stores)
Or Saturday for some internet DVD shops! The postman just dropped my copy thru the letterbox! Now that's service
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Re:Chop my hand off for Warez? This is insane!
As someone who left Islam, I know from experience that I am not dead
I talk to people, watch the BBC and then use Google to provide supporting documentation. If you listen to the BBC world service in the US you'll get the most uncesnored newsfeed in the world, heck they even called the Queen Mother racist on the same day she died.If you were in Afghanistan then you *would* be dead for converting away from Islam. Last time I checked the United States didn't have Sharia law, it has weak beauracratic Christian law imposed by heavy-handed oppressive cops (why the heck were tanks used against WTO protestors I mean *tanks* if Tianneman square happens in the United States it's OK but not in China, hypocrites). The US is far from perfect, but still it's far closer than a *lot* of countries, like China massacring Tibetan monks, jailing Falun Gong Tai Chi practitioners (WTF??) and Brazil torturing and killing poor people for being well, poor, and you thought medicaid was bad. Do you believe the women on rawa who get shot for walking without their husband beside them => were whores could have said, "But I'm not muslim" as a defense. The countries that implement Osama binLaden-type Islam and need to be nuked: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, UAE. Read this
People converting from Islam were warned they will face the death penalty in an edict issued by the Mullah in January.
Now bear in mind that here in the UK the muslims of Bradford (where the Oldham riots took place) are calling for Sharia law. These are BAD arab-supported people and my gut tells me suicide bombing and sabotage of British military installations to be imminent, it's not that I know anything, it's damn common sense, just look at their website for God's sake, even the KKK isn't this ouvert, I'm ashamed that these people are in the UK. Have a *good* read of their entire website, listen to their audio, see their video, and read the fatwahs of this Sharia Court of the UK. Yes you heard me, these people have a Sharia Court in the UK. I've heard these people lecturing when they came to Ilford mosque, and their rhetoric is worse than Hitler's speeches. Muslims are free to enter churches and hindu temples, but when a non-muslim walks into a mosque especially on Friday I feel like someone's gonna kill me, I don't think even James Bond could infiltrate. Oh why why why does Islam always become like this when the propogation of the religion >80%?
Non-Muslims have no right to worship in open areas, and can only do so in places assigned to them, AFP quoted Wali as saying.
An order to Hindus to wear yellow colors was introduced a few years ago in Kandahar, the center of the Taliban's main power base in the south of the country, though it was only partially implemented, Wali said.
The dress code is aimed at non-Muslims, particularly Hindus and Sikhs, being spared when religious police squads order shops to close and herd people to mosques at prayer times, AFP cited local press reports as sayingWhich reminds me my neighbour from across teh street lived in Egypt 30 years ago. There was a crisis involving the Americans, I couldn't make out what it was because she broke down crying. All Americans and British were warned to leave the country, but the warning came too late. After Friday prayers, after a furious speech by the Imam, hundreds of muslims poured out of the mosque looking real pissed, a British man was in the wrong place at the wrong time, several muslims grabbed his right arm and leg, several more his left arm and leg. They pulled and tore him apart, severing his limbs. He died. She broke down crying again so it was difficult to make out, but it was something like because the mobs started looking for all the Brits and Americans so they broke into her flat with machettees looking for non-muslims to kill, but fortunately she had anticipated this and had sought refuge in her neighbour's flat. The next day she and her British husband left and claimed asylum in the UK.
More recently my friend whom I've known since I was 5 was supposed to go to India and Pakistan with his good good friend who was so nice to him called "Sheikh Omar" - yes that one, I know 2 people that went to the same school as Sheikh Omar. In India they were supposed to meet with my friend's Uncle, a Brigadier in the Indian army. There was a last minute cancellation and my friend couldn't make the flight. If he made that flight he'd be dead, and would be on the Daniel Pearl decapitation video (available for download on Kazaa). He's already informed the FBI and given a full report so this is on the up and up.
So the next time you suggest that I'm "just quoting from Google" you might want to think again. After all you have to know what you're looking for to find what you're looking for unless you try the "Are you feeling lucky?" button.
Many people on
As for who created these problems and the history of the Taliban, Mujihadeen, native American Indians, British, French and Spanish(wipe out the entire Mayan race WTF???) colonisation, yes it's an unfortunate truth that every colonial nation has committed heinous crimes against many others, except for Tibet, Hinduism and Buddhism, the three most dissed religions. Immigration has worked because the immigrants' religions were malleable, Hindus would go screw it and eat American beef steaks, Scottish immirants would forget haggis and eat Pizza Hut, multiculturalism was working so well... until Islam came along. In my office canteen a woman wearing a bhurka was sitting there saying I shouldn't eat pork, one of our managers replied, "If you don't like pork, the airport is that way". I'm glad to see the native culture is adapting to resist Islam in this way, the same way Picard treats a Klingon completely different than anyone else. Before the British divide and conquor techniques were used these types of militant muslims didn't exist. Ultimately Britain is to blame for WTC by segregating Hindus and Muslims in India by creating a feedback loop especially in the muslims by telling them they were "outnumbered and repressed". But then without Britain's colonistaion would America exist at all?
You speak about corporate rule, and yet the SEC knows that if it doesn't regulate them these corporates will destroy themselves, just look at Enron. Better the devil you know.
In WW2 Winston Churchill knew that the Japanese were going to attack Pearl harbour, but they didn't tell the US because they knew that the average US citizen doesn't know or care about anything unless NY gets nuked or something, so that's exactly what you got. This is why bad stuff keeps happening to the US, maybe you should have a complaints box at the white house which actually makes a difference, but then that's not possible because it'll never get more ratings than WWF. Don't believe me? Well OK where's the USS Nimitz right now? Where's the USS Kennedy? Where's the S. S. Essess? Which one's the odd one out? Heck I don't even know, the only time I'd notice a big international event is when somebody gets nuked or the world trade centre falls down, even now. This is why I'm pretty sure a lot more peope knew about WTC before it happened than are owning up now.
Do you know how many innocent afghani citizens were killed while "radicals" were purged? I'll bet you can give me exact figures for the number of Americans who were killed
About 150,000 Afghanis, a handful of Americans (I don't remember exactly). Although the Afghanis do remember the B-52s NOT bombing I think Gardez city (I can't remember - the one before the Taliban fell back to Kandahar). 150,000 people is nothing, 2,500,000 Hindus were massacred in Pakistan, DO YOU HEAR THAT IN THE NEWS??? Because muslims speak out due to their religion being strong like Scientology, whereas hindus and buddhists are quiet and shy and just want to make money. Look at the actual poor people in Cambodia in the profoundly tragic Discovery channel filmreal documentary The Land of the Wandering Souls. What the heck happened to protecting the weak?Well Islam is strong and that's why people don't want to hurt it. Loads of Hindus die, who cares? CNN is blaming the Indian government for the dead people in Gujurat. How did this start? 2000 muslims surrounded a train and burnt everybody alive. How dare the international media tries to blame the hindus? That's like the (RI|MP)AA making computers illegal and then being surprised when there's a civil war. Oh yeah geeks are sissies like hindus so if computers are made illegal geeks'll just rant on
Just leave Google alone and actually go talk to people, and maybe you will learn that Google doesn't have all the answers. Live a little, and you might discover that even you are not capable of being perfect, even though everyone tries (Americans, Canadians, and Muslims included).
I've proved my point, read the middle of this post. Heh maybe when this post is indexed by Google people will use *this* post as a reference. I'm not perfect, heck maybe if everything was perfect there would be stagnation like in the Japanese economy, 0% growth is nothing to be ashamed of in my book, but, well.... Maybe conflict and oppression is necessary otherwise we'd have unrealistic isolationism and decadence as in the movie Demolition Man. -
Re:Where should I begin?
You have a few options. There are a few decent primers out there for newbies like yourself. Here's One. Go, read, enjoy. If you have a bit of cash sitting around, almost all of the first season has been released on DVD in the States, but they're a bit of a rip off. My personal recommendation is Blackstar.co.uk Kult T.V., the U.K. distributor has done a FANTASTIC job of putting out the episodes, and they're FAST, the first boxed set of Season THREE is already out, where in the U.S. they haven't even started season TWO yet. Grrrrr. Very frustrating. So.. If you have a DVD player capable enough, go to the other side of the pond. Much better value, and hey, even much prettier packaging.
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Re:Longitude DVD
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Then why make a DVD??
If it's so unpopular then why are they making a DVD box set for season 1, which appears to be already available in Europe And also info from the FOX Germany site I guess I need to get a Region 2 DVD player
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Re:Region codes cut both ways...
Sorry, but we get it as well on March 4th.
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Geek gifts that make us wet
1.-a wall of 61" plasma displays (at least US$20.000 each)
2.- All Farscape DVDs (at Amazon NTSC or Blackstar UK PAL) (US$ 20 each)
3.- A 500GB Ultra2 SCSI array of solid-state drives with the proper Ultra2 controller
(no idea about the cost, probably US$500.000)
4.- An ever available sex partner (whatever your preference no matter how kinky >:]) (priceless) -
Re:Farscape Newbie
Can anyone tell me what they're up to in the 'real' ones? I want to start watching those but I don't know where exactly they're at (Season 3 somewhere?)
Latest ep shown is 3.18 "Fractures". Final four episodes of the season coming in 2002.
Cheapest Farscape DVD's are to my knowledge at Black Star.
For the monetarilly challenged, eps can most easily be DL-ed via eDonkey2000 or IRC - channel #farscape-central on DALnet.
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Stargate SG-1 on DVD
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Re:Farscape!Yup.
Blackstar has seven Farscape DVDs for sale, 1.1-1.5 and 2.1, 2.2. Region 2, approx. £25 including p&p.