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Digital Movies, Analog Oscars
Kappelmeister writes "The idea of giving Andy Serkis a nomination for The Two Towers is gone, but not forgotten. This New York Times article (FRRBBB) examines the many fine lines that the Academy must draw in the coming years: how physical must the set design, the cinematography, the acting and -- as in the case of Donald Kaufman -- the writer be before a film is shunted into a specialty category like "Best Animated Film?" I think that they will continue to fork with the times; there used to be separate Oscars given out for "one reel" vs. "two reel" shorts, color vs. B/W cinematography, and even director vs. assistant director."
Moderators, I'll give you Assistant Director credits in my new movie if you mod this post up!
-- If no truths are spoken then no lies can hide --
I'm really excited by George Bush's latest reason for bombing Iraq: he's running out of patience. And so am I!
For some time now I've been really pissed off with Mr Johnson, who lives a couple of doors down the street. Well, him and Mr Patel, who runs the health food shop. They both give me queer looks, and I'm sure Mr Johnson is planning something nasty for me, but so far I haven't been able to discover what. I've been round to his place a few times to see what he's up to, but he's got everything well hidden. That's how devious he is.
As for Mr Patel, don't ask me how I know, I just know - from very good sources - that he is, in reality, a Mass Murderer. I have leafleted the street telling them that if we don't act first, he'll pick us off one by one.
Some of my neighbours say, if I've got proof, why don't I go to the police? But that's simply ridiculous. The police will say that they need evidence of a crime with which to charge my neighbours.
They'll come up with endless red tape and quibbling about the rights and wrongs of a pre-emptive strike and all the while Mr Johnson will be finalising his plans to do terrible things to me, while Mr Patel will be secretly murdering people. Since I'm the only one in the street with a decent range of automatic firearms, I reckon it's up to me to keep the peace. But until recently that's been a little difficult. Now, however, George W. Bush has made it clear that all I need to do is run out of patience, and then I can wade in and do whatever I want!
And let's face it, Mr Bush's carefully thought-out policy towards Iraq is the only way to bring about international peace and security. The one certain way to stop Muslim fundamentalist suicide bombers targeting the US or the UK is to bomb a few Muslim countries that have never threatened us.
That's why I want to blow up Mr Johnson's garage and kill his wife and children. Strike first! That'll teach him a lesson. Then he'll leave us in peace and stop peering at me in that totally unacceptable way.
Mr Bush makes it clear that all he needs to know before bombing Iraq is that Saddam is a really nasty man and that he has weapons of mass destruction - even if no one can find them. I'm certain I've just as much justification for killing Mr Johnson's wife and children as Mr Bush has for bombing Iraq.
Mr Bush's long-term aim is to make the world a safer place by eliminating 'rogue states' and 'terrorism'. It's such a clever long-term aim because how can you ever know when you've achieved it? How will Mr Bush know when he's wiped out all terrorists? When every single terrorist is dead? But then a terrorist is only a terrorist once he's committed an act of terror. What about would-be terrorists? These are the ones you really want to eliminate, since most of the known terrorists, being suicide bombers, have already eliminated themselves.
Perhaps Mr Bush needs to wipe out everyone who could possibly be a future terrorist? Maybe he can't be sure he's achieved his objective until every Muslim fundamentalist is dead? But then some moderate Muslims might convert to fundamentalism. Maybe the only really safe thing to do would be for Mr Bush to eliminate all Muslims?
It's the same in my street. Mr Johnson and Mr Patel are just the tip of the iceberg. There are dozens of other people in the street who I don't like and who - quite frankly - look at me in odd ways. No one will be really safe until I've wiped them all out.
My wife says I might be going too far but I tell her I'm simply using the same logic as the President of the United States. That shuts her up.
Like Mr Bush, I've run out of patience, and if that's a good enough reason for the President, it's good enough for me. I'm going to give the whole street two weeks - no, 10 days - to come out in the open and hand over all aliens and interplanetary hijackers, galactic outlaws and interstellar terrorist masterminds, and if they don't hand them over nicely and say 'Thank you', I'm going to bomb the entire street to kingdom come.
It's just as sane as what George W. Bush is proposing - and, in contrast to what he's intending, my policy will destroy only one street.
What the heck is FRRBBB? Free Registration Required, Bitch, Bitch, Bitch?
This topic is so lame I can scarely understand why it was voted in!
WatchMeDance has everything I am looking for in a short film. The film made me laugh, cry and want to shoot myself. It has walked away with many awards this season and should take home at least 1 Oscar(tm). ra!
In Soviet Russia, digital Oscars analogs Movies!
(please, what should I do with my life?)
Microsoft's temporary closure of Neowin Neowin over a Windows XP Peer to Peer SDK leak has taken on an Alice in Wonderland quality. First, the hole the Microsoft take-down notice was intended to plug is still, as far as we can see, open, and second, one Andrew G Tereschenko has been emailing the world's press claiming responsibility.
People do tip off software companies over the posting warez software, NDA breaches and the like, but telling the world afterwards is a new one on us. First though, the hole itself.
The Register was contacted on Friday by someone claiming to be responsible for the publication on Neowin of the item Microsoft didn't like. He says he found the information via Google, and that he was "a little surprised that MSDN posted the Beta ID to use." Indeed, and who wouldn't be? He passed us a link and the guest ID he'd found on MSDN, and the only other thing we needed to download happily was a Microsoft Passport.
In an uncharacteristic reputable attack The Register used a real one that Microsoft could easily track back to us if it wanted to. But we didn't want the code anyway, we've now deleted it, we were just proving the technology, right? We downloaded using the compromised ID on Friday evening, and we did it again today prior to posting this story. Microsoft has taken out a whole web site (which it now protests it didn't intend to do), yet has apparently done nothing else to stop the code leak that prompted its action.
It all kind of suggests that Microsoft still has quite a lot to learn about joined up security. We'd threaten to post details if Redmond hadn't sorted itself out by, say, tomorrow night, but what's the point? As far as we can make out, if you want to know how to get the code it shouldn't turn out to be wildly difficult.
This was, a Microsoft rep told Joe, "just a mistake." It is however perfectly legal. So, Neowin was blacked out and lost its live SQL database along the way without any kind of due process, without being informed of the alleged offence, and without any right of appeal. As we say, in the wonderful world we now live in this is now perfectly legal, and could happen to just about any site. And that, we submit, is the point. ®
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