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MGM's DVD Class Action Settlement
MrFreak writes "Apparently all of MGM's 'theatrical wide screen' DVD releases for the last few years have been the pan-scanned versions with the top and bottoms cut off. I checked this against my copy of CQ, and it's true. The list (PDF) of butchered movies includes almost every Woody Allen film, Silence of the Lambs, and Ghost World, just to name a few. If you own any of the eligible movies, you have until March 31 to either opt to exchange your copy for $7.10, or a new DVD from MGM, presumably in its proper aspect ratio." Update: 01/28 19:44 GMT by M : The above is not correct. A comment does a reasonable job of explaining; see the Aspect Ratio FAQ for background. The movies themselves have not been cut twice; they've been cut once, because they were originally formatted for television.
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AKA a nazi fanatic loser.
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1. You rejuvenate and dance when you hear a windows flaw exposed, but you conveniently ignore the thousands of security flaws exposed in linux.
2. You yell loudly TROLL! at any person's post or at any person you see posting facts that you do not want to hear about your oh so cool linux.
3. You know it's a classic case of penis envy, you don't have all the support, software and hardware available for linux and you have to let that anger out somewhere, but you don't have the brains to admit it.
4. You hate windows, hate Microsoft, but race to emulate windows, have programs to run office from within linux, and spend a $300 on a Windows emulator, only Windows fools.
5. You cannot admit that you don't have professional usage of Linux outside server markets.
6. You cannot admit that most of the joe user out there when told that there is linux will respond, what is that?
7. You cannot admit that there is no professional printing capabilities in linux.
8. You cannot admit that you are a masochist (otherwise why would someone spend hours playing with scripts,
and recompiling programs that are available for Windows?)
9. You cannot admit that there is no professional desktop publishing done on Linux.
10. You cannot admit that no one in their right mind would do professional video editing in Linux.
11. You cannot admit that linux sucks when it comes for gaming/home entertainment or education.
12. You have problems in understanding Windows, and you will blame your own incompetence on Microsoft.
13. You have problems in pointing a clicking, but have no problems in wading through cryptic scripts written by lunatics.
14. Nothing will get past that shit that fills your head, you will not admit to any facts.
15. You can't admit that naming of linux components, packages, and others are weird and fits profiles of troubled teenagers. gentoo, lgx, rpm
16. You feel angered because you were left out by microsoft's Media technologies, they support Mac, Sun sparc, but not linux.
17. You feel inferior deep inside but unable to admit it, you don't have a database as easy and powerful as Access.
18. You cannot tell that not a single office package outside Microsoft's is worth looking at or bothering with.
19. You don't know that your CD recorder software sucks.
20. You don't have DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-RW support in your pathetic OS.
21. While the rest of the world moves on, you're stuck in a stone age technology that needs third party software to boot into GUI.
22. You act out of prejudice, you kill file domains and users of specific news readers while you ignore the bullshit that your fellow linux losers post.
23. You don't know commercial support in Linux is almost non existent.
24. You miss the fact that companies are leaving linux because of the chaos, and the cheap linux losers who are unwilling to pay and support hard work, Corel, gaming companies,...etc.
25. You are unaware that linux has no terminal services (there is a lame one that no one uses), and commercial support for it is not happening.
26. You are unaware that setting up servers on Windows takes couple of minutes while on linux, good luck playing with configuration scripts.
27. You cannot admit that support for USB on linux is laughable at best.
28. You think that Linux is better because slashdot told you so.
29. You spend countless hours flaming people because they post their opinions about your oh so cool linux and your attitude, instead of researching things for yourself and understanding fact in order not to look this stupid.
30. You think that anyone who uses linux has a clue.
31. You think that linux cannot crash.
32. You think that everyone is interested in your conspiracy theories about Microsoft (or should i say M$ in order for you, teenagers to understand?), and how they destroyed linux,
33. You keep ignoring the fact that thousands of linux servers get hacked every year, but it takes one Windows server hacked to get you and your fellow linux idiots to dance and celebrate.
1. You like doing things the hard way for the fun of it.
2. You think of a computer as a toy.
3. You dont buy penis enlargement pills, because you really dont need it.
2. You feed the trolls.
The system had the verbosity of HTML combined with all the readability of compiled assembly viewed as bitmap images
Some trolls deserve to be force fed. I'll even burn karma to do it....
Play the 80's aerobics music... Oooohh.. Feel the karma burn
1. You rejuvenate and dance when you hear a windows flaw exposed, but you conveniently ignore the thousands of security flaws exposed in linux.
Most of the script kiddies ignore Linux security flaws. It comes down to the amount of risk. It's riskier to put an unpatched windows machine on the net than an unpatched Linux box
2. You yell loudly TROLL! at any person's post or at any person you see posting facts that you do not want to hear about your oh so cool linux.
OK. A half point for you, but I'm also doing something about it.
3. You know it's a classic case of penis envy, you don't have all the support, software and hardware available for linux and you have to let that anger out somewhere, but you don't have the brains to admit it.
No, penis envy is more for case modding. Linux has all the windows hardware available for it. As for software, you can't count windows viruses and trojan screen savers as part of the software base. Those who choose to move to Linux understand what software base is available to them. The same software argument can applied to a Mac. Mac addicts will fight tooth and nail for their platform not caring a bit about the software base for windows.
4. You hate windows, hate Microsoft, but race to emulate windows, have programs to run office from within linux, and spend a $300 on a Windows emulator, only Windows fools.
I happily run OpenOffice. I haven't found a need to touch a windows emulator for anything. Plus, I don't hate windows. I'm actually a VB.NET programmer by trade. I'd just rather not use the stuff at home. If I were a 'sanitation engineer' for a living, I wouldn't bring home bags of garbage to play with.
5. You cannot admit that you don't have professional usage of Linux outside server markets.
Moot point. 21st century. It's all going client/server. Even microsoft stuff. Unix/Linux was just there first.
6. You cannot admit that most of the joe user out there when told that there is linux will respond, what is that?
Most of the 'Joe Users' out there that would respond that way also don't even know what a trojan or virus is and couldn't care less. Worry about your clueless windows users first.
7. You cannot admit that there is no professional printing capabilities in linux.
If I were running a professional print house, I'd probably be using a Mac.
8. You cannot admit that you are a masochist (otherwise why would someone spend hours playing with scripts,
and recompiling programs that are available for Windows?)
Classic uninformed troll. What's was the last Linux distribution you even looked at? RedHat 3.0? Installations have grown up a lot since then.
9. You cannot admit that there is no professional desktop publishing done on Linux.
See my Mac reference
10. You cannot admit that no one in their right mind would do professional video editing in Linux.
Make sure you understand that you typed 'professional' video editing. I would use Linux. Have you seen Cinelerra? Even Pixar and ILM use Linux for their render farms. A clueless newbie wanting home video editing would probably do better with iMovie on a Mac. Pinnacle and ULead products crash and hang too often in windows.
12. You have problems in understanding Windows, and you will blame your own incompetence on Microsoft.
If windows is so easy, why are there people switching to an OS that's harder to use, as you imply. Linux users have courage and are self-confident.
13. You have problems in pointing a clicking, but have no problems in wading through cryptic scripts written by lunatics.
Even Einstein couldn't tie his shoes. So I'll take this statement as a compliment to my intelligence.