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Superbowl XXXVII
So, if you're a good, patriotic American, you're certainly watching the Superbowl right about now. The dot-com ads should be pretty much absent this year, but perhaps there will be something more interesting than ads for recycled movies. Maybe even the game will be worth watching. :) Update: 01/27 17:02 GMT by T : Chardish writes "If you didn't catch the trailer for The Matrix: Reloaded on the Superbowl last night, it's now available for download."
Cos I hate football! (thus I'm not busy watching the game)
ObDup
Matrix Revisited just played on TV. I assume it will be appearing here soon...
...since when does watching the Super Bowl count as a patriotic activity? I thought it was just a game, a football game. I didn't hear Bush tell me to watch the game, I didn't see the U.N. pass a resolution, and I didn't hear an "Axis of Evil" tag attached to it.
...just a game, folks.
Tone down the crazyness, things that have been a part of American culture do not necessarily mean they are thru-and-thru patriotic.
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Patriotic Americans are hopefully in the Gulf region, getting ready to fight for what they believe in and hopefully die there as well, leaving America up to run by less violent, more rational Americans who aren't so keen on playing "world cop" by bombing third world countries and overthrowing various democratic goverments.
This counts for you couch-patriots as well.
Needed to vent for a bit, the phrase "patriotic Americans" equals "nazi Germans" to me and allot of other people I know. The people aren't wrong, the idea is.
Hate me!
But i've got a long time ahead of me tonight writing stuff in php and drinking beer!
Since there's nothing much to discuss right now, who wants to be the first to place a bet?
just a bunch of low lives running after a stupid "egg shaped" object.
How is that thing classified as a ball? When its not round?
the whole idea behind the game is just lame.
could care less who wins or loses.
"So, if you're a good, patriotic American, you're certainly watching the Superbowl right about now."
Thank God, I'm not an American. I don't know anyone willing to sit through 4 hours of "Pre-Game", 3 hours of the game, then another 2 hours of "Post-Game Wrap-up".
Is all that really necessary?
Putting the romance back into necromancer.
But what in the world is this doing on Slashdot? This is "News for Nerds," folks. I see more than enough Super Bowl coverage on CNN, MSNBC, and all the other commercial news sites.
The coolest voice ever.
That is all.
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I believe I would need to own a "tele-vision" in order to watch this "super bowl", yes? Or can I get it on a web page?
Ahh, well, being a loser like me has its advantages: you don't feel compelled to watch sweaty black men feel each other's asses trying to get their hands on a funny little ball.
On the other other hand, we don't get a lot of pussy. So there's a trade-off here...
it doesn't fall under the "stuff that matters" category, either.
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Incite and flee.
I really need to be reading a bunch of stuff for a college class, no time for the Superbowl.
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Yes, I have the game on.
However, it's just background noise. The gf and I are currently sitting on the couch and studying conversational Brazilian Portuguese.
It will be so nice to live in a country that plays real football.
Tchau.
...according to Pacino:
Super Bowl! Superior Bowl! Suuuuuperfluous Bowl! Whoo-Hah!
As usual, I'm just watching for the commercials. I must say, they haven't been very good so far, with one exception: The Matrix teaser. Recycled or not, I almost crapped my pants when I saw it. Just because a movie is a sequel doesn't mean it will suck. And even if the movie DOES suck, the trailer was still really cool.
Newsflash: Slashdot is a commercial site.
;)
It's run by VA Software corporation for profit.
That is perhaps the greatest irony of all...
The coolest voice ever.
Doesn't seem to be anything too high tech in this year's Superbowl, unlike the Video Insertion System 2 or the spiffy replay rotation thingy EyeVision 2 we've had in previous years.
I am waiting to see Agent Smith and Neo break out into a twenty-five-on-one, Shaolin-style gang fight.
Does it automatically make me a 'bad american'?
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Whatever
They posted the new Matrix Reloaded trailer a couple of minutes ago.
http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/
The what? (you insensitive clod)
Washington, DC: It's like Hollywood for ugly people.
Nah, I'm avoiding that. I'd sooner watch flies fornicate.
Football is just grown men playing a boys game. Nothing better than grabass over an oblate sphere.
One good thing: I've caught up on my USENET reading and some much missed sleep this weekend.
There will be plenty of beer drinking, gun toting, ass scratching americans watching the game. I am an american and I am not proud of it in the slightest. I will not accept it by going near this stupid tradition. Especially living just soulth of Oakland (S.F.). God Damn Raiders fans are bastards.
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When instead you can be at work doing tech support for non-football lovers...don't seem to be many of those tonite as its pretty damn quiet in here.
If religous zealots don't believe in Evolution, then why are they so worried about bird flu?
My K-12 experience was dampened considerably by the teasings of jocks. Y'know, calling me a nerd and a dork, etc? So I hate sports now, and everything it stands for.
The top of the screen says "News for Nerds", but all I see is "News for The Masses"
Download the new trailer here.
Watching it in the Netherlands and it looks like the commercials here (at least the once so far, half-time might be different although I doubt we'll get the American ads) are the worst ever. People explicitely put effort into making them look like cheap Powerpoint presentations.
Game itself is not so exciting yet, had more fun during the World Series.
so how does watching the super bowl make me a "good american"? and why make some little snide remark like that? is there any point?
and for our european friends who think that advertising and all the pomp is just ridiculous in american football, for christ's sake, the advertising on soccer (read: european football) is just as bad! christ, their uniforms are walking billboards!
i just fail to see the point of this post. to rip on an american sport, just because you maybe don't like it? or rip on the state of the american pshyche(sp)?
and now i've been turned into a troll...
Oh well, monster.com decided to show a commercial (pretty bad too).
Apperantly monster.com is doing okay (or is gambling on spending $$$ on advertising), since we were just graced with their superbowl commercial.
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If you don't believe me, check how much 10 seconds of superbowl publicity cost.
The Raven
I realized a long time ago that Americans are expected to watch the superbowl just as much as we expect Mexicans to eat beans. Not being offensive or anything here but this is the sterotype. I hate football even though I possess a y chromosome. It may be because I am short or it may be because the game is just stupid. But that is besides the point... because I don't want to watch the game I am not a true American Male. I must be either gay or a terrorist (I am neither).
This is one year that I don't mind being unpatriotic. When we start associating patriotism with supporting war -- count me out. But this is not the only reason I don't care about how people think of guys who don't watch sports. The main reason is that I have better things to do with my life than worry about what other people think. Besides that, it would be more painful to watch the freaking game than to deal with explaining why I don't watch it. And lastly... the type of people I would watch it with don't really make-up the type of people I like to hang out with.
Three hours talking trash with trailer-trash; no thanks.
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Right now I think it's a tie between FedEx and the matrix trailer, but who knows what will happen. It's wide open.
And why oh why can't they just get John Madden stuffed. No one wants to hear what he has to sais. It's his face and his fat ass that he gets paid for.
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I didn't watch the superbowl :(
And I run viral software.
Why the hell is the season in the fall and winter? I would think that an outdoor sport would be best played during the late spring through early fall.
Since when is the great game of football of any interest to us computer fags? Last I checked that doesn't fit into the grand social picture of American culture...
What does the Super Bowl have to do with patriotism? Aren't the two teams just two competing entertainment businesses? This isn't the first time Michael has let a snide comment slip in regards to America or American government. I'd much rather read about News for Nerds, Stuff That Matters but maybe I have ridiculously high expectations of Slashdot and its editors.
In all fairness, the other editors seem apolitical. Perhaps Michael should follow their example.
This guy is way out there
Remember when this was "news for nerds, stuff that matters"? When we had an interesting and even compelling mix of science and technology news that we might not see elsewhere?
Recently we've had "SOHO", "Crop circles", and now this. All "posted by Michael", BTW. What next? "What happened on the last episode of 'Friends'"? "Crossing over, with Michael"? "Psychic hotlines - how they've helped me"? "Methods for selecting lottery numbers"? "Best use for that old washing machine in the back yard and the car up on blocks"? "Naming my 6th child - Lerleen, Billy-bob, Sue-anne or Scout"?
Anyway, it's lucky Michael told me about the Superbowl, I might not have heard about it otherwise. Sigh.
Who the hell said it's Un-American not to watch the superbowl? Does the poster have something against America, the superbowl (or football in general) or both? This should never have been accedpted as a post!
It has already been leaked.
Download it in QT format here.
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I never watch it. I did tune in for that XXX rated one they advertised about seven years ago, but I didn't find anything even mildly erotic about it.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
"if you're a good, patriotic American"
Wait, wasn't that last year?
Trolled by an editor, too.
Anyone got an audio stream that's not realmedia?!
How about a recycled story instead, then?
2 articles around superbowl (at least for me is not for nerds nor matters neither), and not focused exactly in what will happens there, but in the advertising that will be shown.
Now, if the article was about new movie trailers that can be watched/downloaded from whatever internet place, well, will look a bit more like traditional slashdot.
I'm watching it on 27" normal TV. Any of you out there got Plasma's and or HD TV's? How is it?
Sorry I do have a lot of respect for the Us. but Not your way of promoting free elections
Nor the fact that you might be the only country in the world to clams to host
A world cup, with only team's from one country, ohh did I miss something ?
Do it just reflect the general view of the rest of world by the citizens of the Us ?, Is it true that 80% of citizens is the us never have passed the state line ?
I just hate bit SPAM, (www.netnoise.com.kh)
If viewers get bored, they can always drink more beer ....
-kgj
Football sucks. Why is this even on here?
I am hosting a small Superbowl gathering at my residence. However, I have come upon a true crisis:
We've run out of Nacho Cheese Dip.
Now, let me explain the situation a little further. I am posting from my kitchen, and outside are two pregnant ladies, three 250+ pound men, and an eight year old child, with his paintball gun that his oh-so-intelligent father was so quick to buy him.
If I don't come back with something, there will be a "conflict". And by "conflict" I mean it in the same way the Israeli-Palestinian situation is a "conflict".
This is where you come in: Send Nacho Cheese.
My girlfriend and I are armed only with a few cans of Keystone Light. Please. We don't want to die.
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what is on madden's shirt?
http://state800.tripod.com/madden.gif
was he doing some pregaming with Rich "No Canon" Gannon?
It's just more of the same...
In Soviet Rush, today's Tom Sawyer gets high on you.
Was played on January 3rd! Who needs to watch a bunch of overpaid whiners play what's supposed to be a game?
The Ohio State Buckeyes are the national champions and any other game doesn't matter. And just because I went there (B.Sc. '78 and M.Sc. '80 both in Math) and I'm just a little bit prejudiced when it comes to this subject doesn't matter!
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.
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Only reason I watch the superbowl (with my wife, no less) is for the ads. The game is just like any other game.
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im a total geek, i hate sports (most) and i certainly dont like watching it on tv. the "big game" is on and im on my pc!
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese!
"various democratic goverments", I think Iraq isn't considered what most people consider democratic. Yes supposedly 100% of people voted for Saddam, but if you believe that is true then you have some serious issues to consider. Or you are typing from the propaganda office in Baghdad. I don't think war is an answer to world issues, but remember what happened in the middle of the 1900s when America resisted entering other people's problems? While I don't believe Saddam has the power or population to blitzkrieg the middle east he probably is capable of killing a lot of people. Whether he would is left to conjecture or time to tell us. Saying any choice of action he would make would be a democratic decision is just being ignorant.
ABC's high definition feed rates about a 7. It's not as good as CBS, probably because they are using 720p and not 1080i. It's just not as crisp and clear.
The good news is that the movie previews are in HD with 5.1 sound. That's a nice addition.
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It sure is getting a lot of attention here on /.
And what's the problem? I thought you guys looooved the Matrix.
And drop the crazy-ass attitude. Football fans come in every different flavor and political idealogy. It's a friggin game. Rather than dividing people, it often has united them (witness Richard Nixon and Hunter S. Thompson).
Like a good american, I'm watching the game. Really. I'm only here because it's a break in the commercials. But when it starts again, I'll be right there, watching.. it's a mall box in the upper right corner of my screen, so I can't miss it.
I'm watching.. really I am.. gotta be prepared for the commercials.
-DrkShadow
I'd be surprised if the third part (Matrix Revolutions) is going to make it before 2004.. The Matrix was in what, 1999, and weren't the second and third suppose to be here in 2002? Then it was March 2003, from this latest trailer it's May 2003.
The Matrix kicks ass though, I hope Reloaded and Revolutions aren't going to flop.
What time is it/will be over there? Check with my iPhone app!
A True American would either be reading, constructing something useful, or enlightening others some way. Instead of sitting in front of the propaganda tube, do something constructive. I mean if we are actually getting jollies from commercials something has to be wrong with the state of the Joe 6 pack society. I mean have some psychedelics, and create, rather than absorb. The world would be better off.
Seeing as /. is a global forum... I'm hoping they give some coverage to the world's second most watched sporting event later in the year. The number of television viewers it draws around the world will be far larger than the 800 million that watch the Super Bowl. No, it's the football world cup (the biggest television sporting event and not to be seen for another three years), but the Cricket World Cup! Something un-Americans to counter this very American story, yet a sport that some feel plays their games for far too long, just like American football ;)
Actually they filmed two and three together, and they will both release this year. My bet is that they are already 'in the can' and ready for release other than minor tweaks.
...and in ever other country, playing the nation's sports IS patriotic, and stands to uphold the nation's solidarity. only in america have sports become 100% about money and 0% about the country. country stop wars when their football team reaches round of 8, they make national holidays out of the finals, etc. america, however, has devolved into consumerist bullshit, where the polititians are aiming to be SO patriotic there is no room for patriotism among its citizens.
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Its now online at http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/rl_cmp/reloa ded_trailer2_640.html :-)
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence you ever tried.
2 hours of "Making of Lord of the Rings", then 3 hours "Lord of the Rings" followed by an hour of "Behind the Scenes of LOTR" on cable.
I just spent two valuable minutes looking for this on TV, you insensitive clod!
The best I could find was FOTR on Starz.
Dammit.
Worst. Commercial. Ever.
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Real nerds are watching Star Trek V on TNN and surfing /. not watching the superbowl... why watch guys that would have just given us wedgies in school had we known them?
-CMK
Bad spellers of the world untie!
does that counter-act the original troll making your post not a troll? honestly, that was pretty blatant trolling on michael's part. from now on, i think i'll start my posts with something baseless and inflammatory to grab attention.
I have absolutely no interest in sports, especially "football". I'll be writing assembly code tonight, not watching TV. I guess I hail from the old days when "guru programmers" were called "computer nerds", and the group was more homogenous and unified.
:-}
Today the term is "geeks", which encompasses a much broader group including poser programmers, web stoolies, misfit girls, overclocking machomen, obsessive-compulsive gamers, "IT" grunts, and even the fratboy network administrator. Ironically, many of these are the same people who pummeled the real nerds back in the old days.
We should have a poll to see how many Slashdot readers are really watching the sports event tonight. TV is for losers! Whoo!
-Gonz
Someone needs a fucking hug.
And yes, they are really stupid. Hehe. :-)
In the one I saw, this trucker is sitting in some road side greasy spoon cafe while his truck is terrorizing the roads without a driver (death truck, anyone?).
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
Those of us who aren't very fond of Bush's push to war with Iraq will be happy to know that moveon.org will be putting out an ad in the Washington DC area. The ad is inspired by Lyndon Johnson's "Daisy" ad from 1964, and makes the (similar) point that catastrophic things can happen when war is prosecuted irresponsibly. The hope is that it will inspire Congress and the Bush administration to think twice before blustering into this planned wholly unnecessary bloodshed. The press release is here.
Aren't you dead?
I'm playing chess with my 11yo daughter, hunting a bug in an evolutionary algorithm involving fuzzy state machines, and surfing the web (obviously) for interesting conversations.
All-in-all, a very comfortable evening.
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Is it just me or does Shania Twain look like she's wearing a Star Wars costume? Is she Darth Slut?
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You really don't get it do you? You, by invoking a defense of the term "patriotic", and then saying
I didn't hear Bush tell me to watch the game, I didn't see the U.N. pass a resolution, and I didn't hear an "Axis of Evil" tag attached to it.
imply you believe that if Bush told you the superbowl were patriotic you'd agree. What about Bush's dictum would make it patriotic? Can't you, as a free thinking individual, determine what's patriotic yourself? Is it possible that Bush could do something that's un-patriotic or are presidents the ultimate arbiter of patriotism?
Patriotic things are "feeling, expressing, or inspired by love for one's country. A patriot would, as Bush -swore- to do when inaugurated:
"preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Bush, however he has been spending his time on his -perceived- number one duty "to protect the homeland from the enemy." link
In doing his "duty" he and his legislature have assaulted the Constitution more savagely than at any time since the great depression.
Don't try to defend patriotism and pimp the current president's policies, true patriots won't be fooled.
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What the hell?
Hail to the king, baby!
I checked. This 'Superbowl' place that you speak of does not seem to exist. Certainly, it isn't in the CIA World Factbook.
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God forbid someone like football AND computers. Oh wait, I use linux therefore I must comply to all of the geek stereotypes. I guess I had better apologize for showering, knowing how to dress myself, not giggling like a retard if a female looks in my direction, and not eating a constant stream of pizza and doritos.
Geeks like to think they are so open minded and forward thinking. The reality is you will be hard pressed to find a more closed-minded group of people if you tried.
- Toby
Shouldn't this be under the 'America' topic so us non-Yanks can skip this sort of thing?
Accidentally, there's the World champion ship in handball running right now in Portugal. American football isn't all that uninteresting, but still, if you get the chance, check out handball. It compares a little to basketball. It's a_very_fast game and we Europeans (including, taditionally the strong East European countries and recently South-East Asia) are really excited about it.
Where do you get the beer+php package?
lol... jsp+mountain dew works for me.
This was a plot by /. editors to see who the big losers are that are on their nerdy computers rather than getting drunk, eating nacho cheese and hanging with girls
Ha ha! You all failed by posting and reading comments here! Ha Ha.. err.. ha.. err... *cough* err..
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I wished up in Canada we could see the real commercials. The CRTC and the thought police don't feel Canadians are capable of seeing American commercials!! I guess along with the other Canadians I won't get to view those commercials until post game at http://www.superbowl-ads.com
True...but I like cricket.
Anyone else get that impression?
I only watched the half-time stuff, then turned back to Fear Factor.
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
Is it just me, or is she looking really fine right now? How about a new poll for best sideline reporter?
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I am out travelling. While I could not care less about the game, I do appreciate the commercials. I found them all online
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For those that think football is a boring or stupid sport, go check out Joe Theisman's Idiot's Guide to Football. It's a great book that covers the game and will show you how deep the game is. It'll turn it from two teams running in to each other in to an offensive strategy going against a defensive strategy. More like a good fight.
:)
Well worth checking out. It'll also help your Madden 2K3 or NFL2K3 game against your friends.
Take the red pill to get/see it now or the blue pill. :)
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It isn't Baseball that's the American sport?
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This superbowl has been incredibly boring so far. The Raiders (right now) are losing their asses off (3 - 20). The Halftime sucked royally. The pregame special was better than the halftime! The Commercials I've seen this whole week and aren't new (No .com commercials in sight) except for the Pepsi Twist one (leave those damn Osbournes alone!!) and a few Movie trailers.
Oh well, Alias comes on after the game.
It's just a holiday for morons.
is here.
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Anybody else notice how badly Shania Twain lip synced during the halftime show? It's fucking pathetic. If you don't have the balls to sing, at least practice faking it in front of a mirror or something.
I'm glad No Doubt and Sting had the curtesy to actually perform. I think lip syncing is totally cheating the audience. Then again, I suppose people that listen to crap like Brittany Spears, NSync, and Shania Twain probably deserve to be taken advantage of to a certain degree.
Interesting that Shania Twain ( Queen Autotune ) lip sync'd her performance but No Doubt / Sting actually played live. Nice to see some musicians still actully know how to perform.
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And you are the last person who should complain about the "dumbification of /."
Why? Where have I been substantively technically incorrect?
Oh, was it was because I proved a "Javascript in 21 days, Windows XP for Dummies" "eye tee professional" to be wrong, poorly educated, of low breeding, and a loud-mouthed fool to boot?
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I am attempting to write an essay on rhetorical theory. I've been attempting this for quite awhile, but I haven't gotten very far at all. Fortunately my girlfriend is in the same class and also writing her essay, so I'm not missing out on much. And it's not like a team I care about is playing (unlike last year, go Patriots.. ;) ).. however I'm disappointed I'm missing the commercials, I'll have to download them later I guess.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
No need to watch reruns.
I'd rather watch 9 hours of CNN than The Super Bowl. I'd rather be coding in PHP,which is what I'm doing now.
Check out the Reebok ad when it's available online later...there's an impressive Office Space reference from a football player of all people!
Sittin' back, cleaning my new assault rifle, havin' a couple of beers and keeping and eye on the game.
Now, what's more American than that? I got a gun, my beer, and a football game.
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Classic. Worth watching the whole game just for that commercial.
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I want a function to skip the football game so I can watch the commercials.
-Fuzz
I'd sure like to have a time line for the best ads, best plays, and other memorable moments. I always tape the superbowl, but only want to watch the best parts!
Such a log would allow for chapter markers and section markets and would make a TIVO type capability so much more valuable. It isn't just which program, but which part of each program that is worth watching. Would make "ad skip" look primitive--besides, I'm watching for the ads!
That the Partnership for a Drug Free America hired?
Are tax dollars paying for this garbage?
This is the organization that last year told us bald-faced that buying any illicit substance is tantamount to buying plane tickets and box cutters for terrorists.
Recently, their ads have shown that 1/3 of all marijuana use results in shooting a friend in the face, running over kids on bikes, rape, or (slightly more realistically) arrest. Replace weed with alcohol and the commercials make a lot more sense.
This time, for the Superbowl, 'Drugs pay for Terrible Things'- a man on a subway is confronted by murdered innocents that died indirectly because of his casual drug use. I guess I shouldn't give the pizza boy a tip, or any money to anybody ever- because somewhere down the line it might be used for buying drugs and cause the deaths of untold people and it'll be COMPLETELY MY FAULT. It would be great to live in a world were I could know for certain that my spent money will never be used for something disagreeable to me, or unlawful, but it's not going to happen- the best thing is not to pay suspect organizations and individuals directly, but I can't guarantee everyone who meets my criteria will share my good judgement in their own purchases.
Cluelessness is not an anti-drug...
The Internet doesn't exist outside of Canada and the United States therefore Slashdot should only post stories that are interesting to citizens of these aforementioned countries. I don't understand what you're babbling about this Cricket World Cup for. No one on the Internet is interested in that nonsense. Let the heathens hear about it on their radios.
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According to a spot for the NFL that i just saw not only is telecasts or the like illegal of the superbowl, so are "accounts" so stop talking now or i'll whip out my ABC lawyers (powered by Disney)
Just because you don't like/can't understand something, doesn't make it stupid.
I do love the stereotypes, feel free to paint everyone with the same brush.
Just wondering, in high school, did you get beat up by the foot ball team?
Bands change over time, especially when they get big. That's a given. Indie rock poseurs bitch about such things. Maybe I'm one of them.
For a few moments, it looked like things were going to rock. The first few notes were all that was necessary for the audience to recognize "Just a Girl" and get jumping. An "aww yeah," drifted over the dorm. Then things turned sour.
It was just saddening to watch and listen as Gwen and the guys performed "Just a Girl" totally lacking the punk energy that made the group so intoxicating. The song's climaxes were sung down an interval, and the band, already paired down to a backup power-trio, just couldn't make up for it. The goth-punk clad cheerleaders that took the stage just made the scene more depressing.
When I think of No Doubt, I like to remember their SoCal ska-punk sound uniting audiences in a skanking, moshing frenzy. I like to remember a brass line wailing out the choice licks, accompanying a rhythm section of musicians all flexing their stylistic muscles in different directions.
Still, let's hear it for a band who's been around the block and back, and has made a lot of good music in the process. And here's hoping they never use cheerleaders again.
for about 20 minutes. then the Bucs flew away with it.
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Do you like being called Mike, Mikee? What Mikee doesn't like the fact that people are saying, no posting "It doesn't make you un-american if you're not watching football?"
So let me guess dude, you're sitting at malda's house, watching the big screen, modding comments on your Dell Inspiron loaded up with mame roms over 802.11 on the couch. Probably sucking coronas and having little side conversations laughing about things like "I wonder how weird this user is IRL?" Why the fuck should I be downmodded because I don't fit your definition of a "nerd" Fuck you, I am by definition, what I percieve myself to be. I think therefore I am.
I've got my threshhold set at -1, and i'm seeing many comments similiar to mine being downmodded. Look, we KNOW there isn't enough mod points in the user base to distribute the amount of mod's i've seen today.
Anyways, keep it up and pretty soon those MS visual studio ads are going to be useless, because the only people that will read your site will be retarded ignorant dumbasses that want to put THEIR definition of what they think the scene is all about.
And I can say this with much authority, outside of the computers that do motion capture for NFL gameday, and the sports medicine, there isn't much nerd stuff I can apply to football. It's all a game of who's linebackers took the most steroids and whos running backs snorted the most coke.
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Hemos is like...sci-fi fans;he thinks technology is cool, but he hasn't bothered to understand the science it's based on
A total geek? One can be a "geek" and still enjoy football. The two are not mutually exclusive you fucking loser. I am smarter than you. The only thing you are is a total virgin you acne-riddled faggot. Watch out - I'm going to steal your lunch money asshat.
I hate liberals. If you are a liberal, do not reply.
On a side note, is there any place on the net to download Super Bowl commercials?
Why is it ok to stereotype southerners?
;)
I had a think about my intentions when typing this. Actually, I only had credulous, easily amused, anti-intellectual, anti-science people in mind in my, admittedly flamish, post.
I guess those names, in my mind, are associated with poor, uneducated people without the will to do anything about it. Not actually Southerners per se.
So, I hereby amend my post to say, "Naming my 6th child and 10th dog".
And yes, there is a direct correlation between an increase in the number of children and poverty and lack of education. The "owning lots of dogs" thing is just an outright slur on my part, though
BTW, "racist" is wrong, unless Southerners became a separate race somehow. "Bigotted" would be more accurate.
Super Bowl Commercials.
Super Bowl commercials with animals.
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Now I also read that the Stanely Cup finals will be in HDTV this, now I will certainly have a party then.
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When we start associating patriotism with supporting war
This is not a new at all. I don't think this had ever been new. It's just you'd expect we'd grow out of it sometimes.
Normally I can't stand kattan, but I thought that skit was pretty good.
I downloaded this off kazaa like 2 weeks ago, duh.
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Move Over Shaq.
Best ad of the lot. Yao and Yogi, Yo!
Almost worth watching in the early part of the 4th quarter...but went downhill fast.
I saw a political cartoon in my local paper a couple days ago. It was the 'Ex-Viking Quarterback East versus Ex-Viking Quarterback West Bowl'.
I thought it was funny. Vikings management both got rid of two superbowl quarterbacks...I hate my team sometimes.
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Call it a "stupid game" or whatever you want, but god help me, I hope that Oakland doesn't burn down tonight. With a homocide rate of 113 last year, losing the Superbowl could prove to be disastrous!
:)
Oh.. wait.. Tampa Bay:41, Oakland:21.
If you'll excuse me, I'll be somewhere safer..like Wyoming.
Maybe even the game will be worth watching. I guess not, this has been the most boring superbowl I have ever watched. Can I order the condensed version? Nothing but beer commercials please. Man, even the half time show sucked this year.
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Tampa Bay Buckaneers just won the superbowl.
You're complaining about the dumbing down of slashdot, while trying to pass dumbification off as a word?
How ironicalific is that?
But did you see the bud light commercials? Damn those were funny.
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There are two in every game..
Bob is at home in the Northeast Kingdom.
Didn't you guys see the NFL ad informing its 'licensees' (viewers) that the Superbowl is licensed for their own private use, and any descriptions, analysis, excerpts, pictures, etc. are stictly prohibited?
Seriously though, isn't there a law against providing inaccurate legal advice? I mean, they can't wish away Fair Use (in analog anyhow, but I digress) but they sure represent that it's illegal.
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Yahoo and Monster.
Monster will be gone this year, I mean where did they get 2.2 million dollars? And just to say that they now can find jobs for BLUE collar workers. Give me a break. They're nothing but a spamhaus.
Yahoo, well, certainly they think that all the unemployed will want to find a job, but hotjobs is also a waste. I mean I vist the site from time to time and all I ever see is Robert Half postings.
Monster.com is still kicking around, and apparently they're expanding to include all types of jobs. ad link
Yeah, that has to be the best Super Bowl commercial this year. What's even better is that Reebock has a 4-minute version of the commmercial on their website. From the looks of it, they're starting a whole ad campaign with him...
A friend of my My brother-in-law just lost 5,000 plat in Everquest on a Superbowl bet.
At least it wasn't REAL money...
I don't care who won or lost, but weren't those trailers awesome?
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forgive the gloating and the flaming here (Thank god its only karma)......but al davis and the raiders can bite my shiny metal ass. I am sick of the scum bag raider fans (i live in LA) and al davis's never ending lawsuits against the NFL. 48-21 just makes my day : )
Lawyers, MBA's, RIAA? A jedi fears not these things!
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Karma: Bad (mostly affected by being such an asshole)
felcher & sons? they did get clued into this before it aired, right?
hope terry tate did. hate to have him pissed off for real.
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that the Bucs win
score 48-21
I'll go a long shot with the mvp won by Dexter Jackson.
Having not watched the game (wo gives a shit about football?) I can't comment on how they all appreared, but I can say this: it's not that Shania did and Sting didn't lip synced, it's just that they were better at it than Shania was.
Almost every time you have a performance at a live event like that it's lip synched, just to be sure that nothing goes wrong. Now, they do have to make a special recording of it for the Super Bowl (ie. they can't use an old recording), but you didn't see one live music performance this evening. And some people are simply more practiced at lip synching than others.
Cue The Sun...
What happened to the ball? I thought it was supposed to be a black and white sphere? And what are the helmets for?
I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
All I wanted, 'cause I've seen your posts and it'd be a stretch to think you're racist. I'm just fed up with the idead that poor southerners can be offered up as the ass-end of intellect and for some reason it's ok because they're fair game.
:).
;)
I can understand that. I was probably thinking of Cleetus from "The Simpsons" more then anything else, and no, I don't see him as a Southerner particularly (unless the state Springfield is in is also in the "south", of course
Yep, but "racist" made the point much more clearly, even if it was overkill.
Just be aware that if you misuse a term, it can become diluted to the point where it doesn't have any impact, or even worse, have the opposite effect if it becomes a badge of dissent from perceived or actual thought-policing.
"Bigotted against southerners" would have had much the same effect, as "some of my best friends are [southerners]"
I had the same feeling a few years earlier watching the Brits go after Argentina when the military junta took the Falklands. Seemed kinda like a harmless game of capture the flag. Gooooo UK!
And then Argentina scored big against a British destroyer and people died who probably didn't need to, good cause or not.
If you are that gung-ho about another Iraqi war, then get your ass down to a recruiting station right the fuck now. With 8 weeks Basic + 8 weeks 11B training you might just finish in time to see this war up close and personal.
As for me, I've done time in Uncle Sam's Army. I've got friends in theater. Trust me, it ain't no national football game.
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Yeah!!! I have been a fan since 89' and this is about as good as it gets!
--Joey
Moderators come on!!! This WAS funny! Don't moderate down if you don't like something, make yourself useful and reply! I think this was damn funny.
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Although the MPEG-1 version is re-encoded from the Quicktime version, it's significantly better because the Quicktime version is encoded at 30 fps whereas the original is 24 fps. Every fifth frame is a duplicate, resulting in jerky motion in the Quicktime version. The MPEG-1 version does not suffer from this defect.Mirrors for the MPEG-1 version are needed urgently.
So, if you're a good, patriotic American,
or else.
The Superbowl is wierd. Celine Dion sang "God Bless America", and she's Canadian. If an American started singing "God Save The Queen" he'd probably be shot and then called a terrorist.
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Thanks for the link! This was a funny commercial. Talk about a work motivator! :)
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I was not at all impressed by that trailer. The new series of Star Wars trailers were much better than that, but then again the whole SW1-2 films were pretty much flops, according to popular ./ opinion.
Hopefully, bad trailer != bad film for this sequel.
On another note, is AB (Anheiser-Busch) the M$ of the beer companies? Especially the amout of money they spent to throw up a Bud Lite commercial which seemed to appear at least every commercial break. Although, my bet for best advertisement is that damn Jackass viewing replay that after further review is still indecisive; It's a First down dude!
No, "America" is short for "United States of America" just as "Mexico" is short for "United States of Mexico."
If you want to refer to a continent you may refer to either North America or South America. There is no continent called "America", although the two continents together are often called "The Americas."
Someone please mod this down to offtopic or troll.
boy, was gannon robbed for superbowl mvp or what? i mean, by throwing 5 interceptions (new superbowl record) the only way he could have helped the bucs any more would be running the ball to the in-zone himself before turning it over!
also, i think the refs deserve honorable mention...heh
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I will not cower to your anoymous posting, but could you please tell me who won?
I was rooting for TB, but even I thought the game was stupid. As far as game quality goes, Super Bowls are a mismatch 4/5 times. This is definitely one of them. Last week, both games were much better.
don't like a game if one team scores too much.
;)
Look at the 1st half vs 2nd half ratings of any Super Bowl (admitidly the most watched football game of the year) in games where one team is leading by 20 points or more.
The best football games are often low scoring and/or go into overtime.
I've often thought the reason soccer isn't as popular in the U.S. (except when we are children) is because of two things:
1) We aren't that good at it (yet?)
2) The camera angles.
When you show the entire pitch, all you see are little dots moving around...rather slowly. When you zoom in on two players fighting for the ball it's as action packed as any NBA basketball game or NFL football game. Unfortunately, most soccer (futball) broadcasts seem to show the wide angle.
On the other hand, there have been much fewer deaths and injuries of spectators at US sporting events than in SOME parts of the world.
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You apparently have more fans than I, considering the moderation. Are you trying to say my predication is a hoax?
The overall winner is Bud-Light with the many, various and hilarious commercials.
...and yes Shania Twain (can you say boobs?!?!?) did lip synch.
Honorable mention goes to Jimmy Kimmel's pregame spot by saying good by to Cable. (Two Soprano's Cast members throwing him into the East river was hilarious).
Individually, it's a toss up for me between the following:
1) Bud Light Ad where the Clown looked like he was drinking beer out of his ass. (After grossing everyone in the bar out, then asked for a hotdog at the end of the commercial).
2) Reebok's - Terry Tate - Office Linebacker ("You didn't put a coverpage on those TPS reports!!!")
2) New Matrix Reloaded Trailer
3) New Hulk Teaser
4) Bud-Light 'Strongman' Ad.
5) Fed-Ex 'Castaway' Ad.
6) H&R Block Ad with Willie Nelson
7) ESPN Commercial where ESPN 'Chef' Joe Montana looses his Super Bowl Ring and ends up in an ESPN broadcasters lunch.
Worst Ads?
1) The Government's anti-drug and smoking ads.
2) The Sierra Mist/Pepsi Soft Drink Ads. All of them.
3) The new Cadillac Commercials
4) The Chrisler/Celine Dion Commercial
5) Anheuser-Busch ad with the Zebra reviewing a play.
6) Terminator 3 - Face it. This movie will suck ass.
7) Dodge Ad where a truck is used to dislodge a piece of Beef Jerkey in his passengers mouth.
Stay away from Adcritic.com for Superbowl ads...unless you want to pay $70 to view them.
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I post diaries over at Kuro5hin. They cover football basics and include play analysis after games. I was too drunk during this game, so there will be no Superbowl analysis.
Here are a couple (they used to go on my website, and they will go back up there next season):
An Analysis of 2 Raiders Plays That Beat the Titans
Zone Blitz
The Cover 2 Shell
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Gwen wasn't because she sounded like crap, unless she was lip syncing crap. I think even Sting was having trouble harmonizing with Gwen.
I would think that an outdoor sport would be best played during the late spring through early fall.
Unfortunately, that's not when people are inside watching TV. The football teams themselves make quite a pretty penny off of the TV telecasts. Lounging on a Sunday watching football wouldn't be as popular (or profitable) during the summer since people would be more apt to be outside doing something else.
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I'll be doing it again next year...you get football, and educated folks (sure beats the woman whining about this "pee ehhch pee thingie-ma-bobbie" that I keep on working on) talking about football, to Gwen's "Almost B-Cup."
Maybe I just need to get out mroe often.
I disable sigs...do you?
On what I'm not going to be buying this year. Sadly, it's mostly stuff I wouldn't buy anyway. Budweiser and Pepsi. Oh, and I guess I'll just sneak into the Matrix reloaded...
Mix the failings of Usenet with the shortcomings of the World Wide Web and the result is slashdot.
Superbowl? Oops..... Who the hell was playing anyway? XD
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For some odd reason, you can watch the superbowl on tv here in Germany - live.
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I don't think even a 1000 people here care to see it, and I'm pretty sure nobody wants to see the ads German TV puts in the breaks either. It's sort of a mistery to me why people are so darn fascinated with ads anyway...must be an american thing
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I bet my roommate that Madden would come apart in the THIRD quarter and start giving colour commentary for a completely different game. My roommate insisted it would be the FOURTH quarter.
Sadly we were let down and not treated to a spectacle like the one Al Michaels and Pat Somerall put on last year.
I don't like soccer as much as other sports, and I helped coach a YASO team this year, too.
Some differences beteen soccer and hockey that make hockey much better:
substitutions are plentify in hockey and a rarity in soccer. This allows for specializations and better quality play since everybody isn't dead tired.
40-60 shots on goal per game with a lower chance of scoring. Soccer is the flip, 4-8 shot on goal per game with most of them going in.
In hockey a penalty shot (or any player v. goalie break away) is a slight edge to the goalie. With soccer there is a huge edge towards the player. These last two things reduce random chance. If you rarely get a shot on goal and it almost always goes in and both teams get roughly equal shots on goal, then it is who ever has the bad luck for an instant. With more attempts but fewer successes this balances out more.
Half of the time in soccer is wasted around midfield, too, kicking the ball back and forth. Really boring. In hockey most of the action occurs around the net in some fashion.
Soccer also has the added negative that diving is tolerated and expected. A bunch of whiney babies if you ask me.
I was going to make a list of all the stupdi thing said during the game, however, it would be a complete trans-script.
here is a few:
"The key to being a good Quarterback is knowing how to throw"
"If you can't run, you won't win"
"To be a good reciever, you got to know how to catch"
"The defence needs to hold the offence at bay"
I can not see how people dislike base ball because it is slow, but then watch a 1 hour game stretched out into 3-4 hours.
The good new is, the raiders lost! woot!
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Did anyone notice that Shania Twain lip-sync'ed her songs but Gwyn (sp?) Stefani and Sting sang their songs live?
And good lord, did Shania not have the most annoying group of band members? That guy with the cheezy keyboard-that-looks-like-a-guitar really annoyed me.
It seemed to me that the commercials this year were below par. At least half of them were previously-aired commercials, and with few exceptions, none really seemed "superbowl quality".
Ones I noted:
"Monster" - nice 18-wheeler scene, but my friends were like, "What's monster?" I guess they're now avoiding the "dot com" association so now anybody unfamiliar with them has no clue what the company does. What a huge waste of money. Promote yourself to people who are already familiar with you and aware of the fact that your service isn't all that helpful..
"Honda ads" - I don't even remember the name of that goofy SUV-wannabe with the uber high center of gravity (makes a Suzuki Samari look like a Pantera though), but obviously if you buy one of them you seem to have fun with your friends.
This seemed to be the recurring theme of the Superbowl commercials... I'm not sure what they were actually selling but I saw lots of people having good times with better looking people than I usually hang out with, so I guess I need to purchase something.. not sure exactly what tho.
"Anti Drug" - This commercial *really* pisses me off. Every time I see the "drug money supports terrorism" commercial I want to slash the tires of every H2, Navigator, and other bloated gas-guzzling pieces of crap that more-directly cause our dependency upon middle-eastern oil which, unlike the drug-money-terrorism claim, is much more likely to support terrorism. This commercial also seems to indicate that a lot of the slots for the superbowl were not filled because there's no way they paid big bucks to air that piece of crap.
"Jordan vs Jordan" - Cute the first time I saw it but it ran again. I only needed to see it once. No biggie.
"Jordan and Chan" - Puleeeze... What ad team thought that these two were ideal candidates to sell underwear?
"Zebra instant replay" - This was to me the funniest and best commercial.
I was listening to the radio and they said that the Navy ships overseas carry satellite receivers. In this particular ship the signal was in the opposite position of the destination. So the trick was that when the game started they would turn around and head in the signals direction as slow as possible. When half time arrived they would turn the ship around towards their destination at maximum speed to make up for lost time. When the second half begins they again turn towards the signal and finally at the end of the game they straighten up the ship and head full speed towards the destination. :)
If it keeps up the crew morale I say it's worth it
-Now I don't really mind that much that the Buccaneers won, but the Raiders could've shown a little bit more competition. That intersection on the last seconds of the game was funny.
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I hope the author was being tongue-in-cheek, because I have to disagree with his statement. There is nothing in any document, either past or present, that defines being a "good, patriotic American" by glueing oneself to the "idiot box" (my father's term for the TV) every year to watch 22 thugs showing how stupid they really are. If you want to be entertained by blood sports, maybe we should take the gloves away from boxers and give them sharp, pointey objects...
I can be just as much a "good, patriotic American" when I watch baseball, or the Olympics... Besides, any red-blooded, American male should be watching women in skimpy outfits (gymnasts, track-and-field athletes, etc.) instead of men in tight pants! (Tongue in cheek, maybe.)
This is the first time i've ever seen commercials in high definition. The Matrix trailer was so amazing that it might have looked better than watching it on film! They also had all the other movie trailers in high-def.
For all those that were fortunate enough to have seen this in high-def, is this a great thing or what??
Freedom? Have you noticed how many of these "freedoms" are being taken from you now?
I'd rather go to hell than be "defended" by the US Armed Forces.
Why did they not send up the fireworks as the planes went over the Superbowl today? Because the speed addicted pilots (FACT: The US Govt. gives it's pilots amphetamines) would probably think it was an attack and wipe out a couple of thousand football fans.
What's so great about a game with only one ball and no flying?
I thought that the point of Super Bowl commercials was boobies, skin, and horrible american beer. Is the RIAA taking over even that?
oh and here is the Terry Tate Office linebacker ad. Good stuff!
Why? Because she's getting ready to kick off a ten year stint in Vegas, and this provided eyeballs from the prime demographic.
yea we got to watch it on imax at the chabot observatory, and from the beggining there would be these slight glitches and pops with the sound stopping for a bit. but after about a half an hour, the sound totally stopped, and several minutes later (i really wonder what they were doing) the screen flashes and you see a 60 foot picture of windows nt with wintv running . . .
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so he had to close the program and run it again. program works fine for a while . . . then the distortion comes back, eventually he had to restart it again (but thankfully, for them, not the computer).
looks like wintv has a memory leak somewhere. or maybe windows. who knows . .
the funny part though is that someone from the back yelled several times 'use a mac!'. the unfortunate part is that i didnt know that freebsd 5.0 had been released, or i would have shouted him out with joy . . .
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The above is quoting a particularly laughable piece of American 1940's WWW2 propaganda.
The ______ Agenda
No, no. He's good as both. He's handsome-yet-unsettlingly-plasticy. Good for an elf or a computer. Something like that anyway.
BUT WHY DOES SMITH CRUSH A CAR!?! Why!? Did he let himself go and gain a couple tons? Does being able to split into a hundred of himself mean he has to weigh as much as all of them? Or do they just not have inertia in the Matrix? Aw, well, I can't stay mad at such a cute little physics error.
The one for AOL broadband. It was so lame. They didn't even hire enough extras to run from one room to another, and reimposed them digitaly.
And then they spend 2.1 million dollars just to show it!
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Wow. Did the three of you just dive for Slashdot right after that commercial?
canadians, brits, 'tis all the same to you, innit?
I think this is the appropriate sentiment here.
Kidding. I lust after the sexy HD goodness too. Even if only to play Soldier of Fortune 2 like never before.
Is that the one from red oktober?
that's a movie made up version.
they'd join in with "My country tis of thee..." (same tune, different lyrics. In the beginning all national anthems were the same :-) but then the americans got a new tune with their anthem about rockets and bombs, allegedly for the 1896 olympics(?)
btw, the canadian anthem is not "God Save the Queen"...
Well, the American anthem isn't "God Bless America" either, and considering the Queen is still Canada's official Head of State (powerless of course) "God Save the Queen" is just as important to some Canadians as GBA is to some Americans. The parent post is still makes valid comparison between the 2 songs (and a pretty funny observation).
British, you insensitive clod.
If you don't believe me, check how much 10 seconds of superbowl publicity cost.
Well, the ads aren't that bad, and there's a pretty good reason they cost so much (average of $2,100,000 for 30s); last year's game was the 5th most watched program in TV history.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. - Aldous Huxley
I'm a good, patriotic geek, and I spent Sunday watching Star Trek on the New TNN. I think it's better than watching a bunch of primitive people grunting as they run into eachother, but I'm probably just missing something... ;)
"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." -Stephen Hawking
I have served in the armed forces. I fly a flag for July 4th. I love Mom's apple pie. My children are scouts.
I do not enjoy football. I think your statement about patriotism is misplaced.
Patriotism is voting not only on big election days, but on primarys as well.
Patriotism is not littering.
Patriotism is volunteering for Habitat for Humanity.
Lots of things are patriotic, football is just a professional sport, like many other professional sports, It does not show Love of country; devotion to the welfare of one's country; the virtues and actions of a patriot; the passion which inspires one to serve one's country.
Get a free ipod.
Ok, I get sick and tired of people giving this "It's not America, America is a continent" and other complaints from other countries because they find us calling the USA, America. I was in the Republic of South Africa, and was talking with a few college students. One of them asked me where I lived, I responded "America", he said "There is no such country," and proceeded to lecture me on that fact and how arrogant it was of us to say that was where we were from.
I then asked him where he was from, and he said "South Africa," so I proceeded to give him the same talk right back, as it is the RSA, and there are many countries in South Africa.
The fact is, this sort of abbreviation is common for countries who have their continient in their nations name. I am sure people of the Central African Republic refer to their country as Central Africa, or some such, just as we Americans and South Africans refer to our countries by a continents name.
Regardless of whether or not this is common practice, I am still from "The Americas" whether or not I am from the USA, and that is a fact of which I am proud, so the statement "I am an American" is no more false than a Frenchman or German stating that her or she is a "European".
Leave off it, yeah our country's foriegn policy sucks, but please take it out on our "elected" officials, and not our citizens.
It actually had me thinking they weren't going to sing the National Anthem. I watched the Superbowl at the Enlisted Club on my base, and made the comment, "When did 'God Bless America' become our national anthem?"
One of the folks attending the senior NCO academy answered that it was in-style now, ever since the knuckleheads in Congress all got up and sang it together. I don't think I could have said it better.
It's not enough to be loyal to one's nation anymore, apparently; now, you have to be loyal to the Christian God as well. Feh, count me out.
!#@%*)anks for hanging up the phone, dear.
The TV show "The Incredible Hulk" was fantastic, not because of all kinds of crazy special effects, of the Hulk throwing TANKS around like discarded toys -- the trailer I just saw makes me not want to bother seeing this film at all.
They should definitely have found a new Lou Ferigno instead.
In other news, anyone catch any of Lou's cameo's on "King of Queens" lately?
MORTAR COMBAT!
I find there are too many stoppages in play, which are all too long. How about a new rule, like the new rushed faceoff rule introduced to hockey this season, that requires the teams to scrimmage and resume play within a 15 second period, instead of thumping chests, jumping around like baboons, and taking their time chatting their strategy after the whistle?
1 - They say great D's win big games and it looks like they were right.
2 - We should have a good Grey Cup this year. invite my American friends to watch the 3-down football championship this year. Since they alternate good/bad games with the Super Bowl, it should be a great game this year.
It's Christmas everyday with BitTorrent.
Of coures, the good news with a cricket match is that you'll have a few days to hack the server. :-D
--- I wish I could hear the soundtrack to my life. That way I'd know when to duck.
I remember when the Seven Nations Rugby tournament was rolling. They were showing some of the games from Australia and they timed out to around noon in Switzerland.
So, loooooooooong lunch with a few pints. Yell at the screen a whole lot and then go back and "work". It's a lot better dealing with an afternoon buzz than a Monday morning hangover.
--- I wish I could hear the soundtrack to my life. That way I'd know when to duck.
Seeing how the average nerd is treated in the corporate world it is probably good to occasionally provide talking points for them to use in the office. This may avoid them getting beaten up at the water cooler and having their lunch money stolen. :-D
To this point I offer the following.
Sports survival phrases for the average nerd:
1) So, did you see the game last night? (This one is almost always safe there is usually at least some game playing. Change to "last weekend" and you're doubly covered.)
2) Man, I can't believe how bad the ref blew that call. (Again, safe. Just let them start talking about "the call" and nod and look wise.)
And if all else fails...
3) I just watch to see the cheerleaders.
--- I wish I could hear the soundtrack to my life. That way I'd know when to duck.
I'm sorry, I'm going to have to call you on that one.
:-D
You used day and cricket in the same sentence. May I sugest a rewrite with the word week substituted?
(It took me so long to realize that all those "foul balls" that they were hitting in cricket were actually scoring runs.)
--- I wish I could hear the soundtrack to my life. That way I'd know when to duck.
Go back to school
Sorry for the lag in posting this. I was going to post this last night. You'll have to excuse this because I was in too much pain and my fingers are only now starting to work enough to type. But if I could have posted to slashdot during the game, it might've gone something like this:
HELP!!!! I'M BEING BEATEN UP BY A COUPLE OF PATRIOTIC AMERICANS BECAUSE I CALLED THE SUPERBOWL "THE MILIONAIRE BOY'S CLUB ANNUAL RACE WAR!!!"
Quod scripsi, scripsi.
..then how come the two women headline singers were Canuckians? (Shania and Celine....and yes, Celine is a Canadian).
;-)
Would have been a more interesting game if Oakland had actually attended.
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I am Canadian, and what many Americans may not know is that in Canada WE DON'T GET THE COOL COMMERCIALS (yes it is the one time I am jealous of Americans) at the Super Bowl. In Canada, our TV stations simul-cast American TV, inserting _Canadian_ commericals where the American ones would be, so instead of the Matrix we usually get Tim Horton's, and thus it has been my whole life.
:D
:D
Until now.
I watched the game at my friend's house who has an HDTV. While watching the game in glorious HD, the ABC HD signal was NOT simul-cast so we got all the good commericals. Not only that but most of them were in HD - the Matrix trailer in HD was the sweetest thing I have ever seen.
I think I am ruined for life.
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I'd like to know how the winners of the Superbowl can be classed as World Champions? World Champions in a sport where there are no national teams (as far as I know!)?!??!?! It's just another example of the great American ego. *gasp* I just admitted some anti-American resentment! Lock me up and throw away the key!
I realized a long time ago that Americans are expected to watch the superbowl just as much as we expect Mexicans to eat beans.
Funny, I thought Mexicans were Americans too. Did I miss something?
What?
The reason that they have a Canadian sing "God Bless America" is because then then have a bunch of Americans singing along to "Star Spangled Banner" whose music happens to be an old British drinking song, "To Anacreon in Heaven,".
So having foreigners sing other peoples songs is just a new tradition. Next Superbowl...a Russian trying to sing and dance the macarena.
Can't spell slaughter without laughter!
when they've killed newborn kids who didn't look like physically perfect, or Nazi Germany, or Soviet Union. Apparently, your notion of 'perfect society' is totalitarian society. Enough said.
FYI an american Tenor did sing "Rule Brittania" some years ago at the Royal Opera House in London, during the "Last Night of the Proms" He was dressed in tux with a star spangled banner and union jack combined as that small jacket with no sleeves..... dunno the english term in Dutch it is "gilet".
He got a great reaction from the audience
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...but that does explain my nausea and water retention since I smoked up with some friends a few weeks ago!
I wonder what my wife will say when I tell her...
HAAZ: Honey... [snif, snif] that joint... I'm... [snif!] PREGNANT!
(WIFE gives HAAZ a very baffled look as she holds their 4-month-old daughter.)
WIFE: My gosh, if only we'd seen that really stupid ad during the Super Bowl! Jason, my Jason, what will we do?
yeah...
-- haaz.