It really got strange in England. For a while, it was like it had just skipped to spring: birds nesting and hatching chicks, plants flowering, etc.
And then, after that, a thick, freezing fog shut down Heathrow Airport.
Come to think of it, I-10 itself got nailed during Katrina. You think that if the ocean rises enough, they'll have to route it further inland? We don't want underwater interstates...
Two can play this game.
Yes, Florida will always have a coastline unless it is completely submerged. There may come a point where its coastline is shorter, but as long as it exists, it will have a coastline.
There are important settlements built on the current Florida coastline, however: fine places like Miami and Fort Lauderdale and Tampa Bay and Daytona Beach and Pensacola. If the ocean level rises sufficiently, all these fine cities will be underwater. People who are literally building houses on beachfront will soon have to take boats to their property....
The prices in the record sections of bookstores get more outrageous than that. I've never seen $9.99 albums at any of them, and that would be where I've seen most of the $35 albums.
The price of a 2-disc set is partly dependent on the packaging. If the case of the 2-disc set is no thicker than a normal jewel case, or is cardboard, then it rarely costs much more than $20. But some 2-disc sets come in cases that are as thick as two normal jewel cases (or thicker), and the RIAA seems to think that those can sell for twice as much as single-CD sets.
First, the higher the percentage of ice that is already melted, the lower the percentage of ice that is still there to study why it's melting.
Second, the higher the percentage of ice that is already melted, the less time we have to do anything about the cause of melting if we do learn it.
Alaska had better start tapping that market before their ice shelves go the way of Canada's. I mean, Montana is in danger of losing its chance to sell ice cubes made from glaciers in Glacier National Park!
The penguin population in Antarctica doesn't need polar bears to keep it down. They have seals. The seals in the Antarctic aren't like those cute white fuzzy baby seals in Canada (or at least I hope they aren't); they are like Jaws.
The penguins in Antarctica also got knocked down a few years back when a loose ice shelf somehow wedged itself into one of their normal passages to the sea...
How cheap CDs are at Best Buy, or most other mass-market stores, depends on which CD you're trying to get. They have CDs for $9.99. They have CDs for $13.99. They have CDs for $17.99. And if you are trying to get a set with two CDs, you will often have to pay $29.99 or more, esp. if they use the double-thick jewel cases. (That last sort of pricing makes "piracy" tempting.)
If all normal albums at iTunes are $9.99, then people will get albums there simply because they know how much it'll cost without leaving the house...
I used to find the CD selection at Best Buy decent: not as good as the specialized record stores that tended to get priced out of the market or the multimedia bookstores, but better than Wal*Mart or Target.
That was a few years ago, though. The selection (at least for the sort of music I like) isn't what it used to be, though, or wasn't last time I was there. And the problem with shopping at Best Buy is that it involves shopping at Best Buy. I hate stores that look and feel like warehouses, and I used to get headaches from their background music.
"..requiring verified emails..."
If Yahoo! requires verified e-mails for use of its new&improved message boards, will they count ones ending in "@yahoo.com"?
They're working on the ID problem. Any given Yahoo! ID can be used almost anywhere in their maze of services. (For instance, if you use Yahoo! Messenger, you can get an email account with Yahoo! using the same username almost automatically.)
I was thinking of the minor earthquakes, actually. I have seen multiple "Happy Cows Come from California" ads, and one of them actually has cows enjoying an earthquake: "Foot massage!" We viewers actually get to see the earth split. Then the earthquake stops, and a cow says that they never last long enough...
I am imagining that giant tube from near the summit of Everest to that advanced base camp.
I am imagining the base camp buried in a snow-drift because of snow going through the tube during the previous winter.
Happy cows come from Wisconsin.
Cows so blissfully dumb they like earthquakes come from California.
Obese cows that live to eat come from Kansas. Kansans don't need happy cows. Kansans don't sell milk--they sell beef.
If they make porn vending machines, they will have to make them without windows. The product ID buttons would have to be cryptic, and the products wrapped in brown paper. I wouldn't object to wrapping the machine in brown paper.
Then again, I wish Cosmopolitan was wrapped in brown paper and not sitting openly at supermarket checkouts.
DVRs remain perfectly legal. Skipping commercials on DVRs is legal.
Surely you catch a small snatch of commercial when you're skipping them via DVR? If not, how do you know you haven't missed actual programming?
Advertisers hope that when you run a commercial and leave the room, you still hear or even see enough for there to be an effect on your consumer-mind. Surely there's a slight lag between your returning to the room with drink and your resuming commercial-skipping?
Advertising has always been a gamble. Apocryphal quote from the head of a cigarette co. long ago: "Fifty cents of every dollar I spend in advertisting is wasted. But I don't know which fifty."
Exactly.;) The only radio stations left are those whose audiences don't get their music by other means, either from lack of knowledge (you still find boy-band channels and channels that play rap "music") or from abundance of ethics (you still find Christian channels and NPR).
Of course, if there were more stations, some sections of the market would be less inclined to use p2p to get songs they want. There ought to be a station for modern techno&synth.
I wouldn't infringe on a purse's copyright, but I am certain some people have. If you see a large Gucci purse or Prada purse for $20 in some small store, odds are it was made without the knowledge of the corp. whose name is on it.
Believe it or not, on occas. the police go after people who sell counterfeit purses.
Am I the only person on/. obtaining legit DVDs without the "You wouldn't steal a car" ad? I've never seen anything worse than FBI and Interpol warnings on DVDs, at least on the copyright front. (I've had to sit through forced trailers on occas., but those tended to be for product, not against copyright-infringing.)
All material newer than from '67 is copyrighted. That is American law since 1988. (Download any silent films lately?)
Only some material is copyrighted to people who put FBI and Interpol warnings on the legit copies.
We do censor the late-night phone sex-line ads--or rather, the TV stations do. That's why you only see them late at night.
Some communities try to censor their porno shops. They set up rules mandating that XX% of all the content in there can't be any racier than in normal shops. They try to zone their city so that those shops can't be "in the middle of town." Of course, current law in Kansas is that you can't write zoning laws whose sole purpose is to prevent porn shops from setting up shop...
They don't put all explicit 'zines on lockdown, but the ones with the most dirty pix--or is that the dirtiest dirty pix?--can only be sold in porn shops.
Which channel was "Top Killing Machines" on? If it's Animal Planet...
I've a feeling some school boards would just as soon leave out the pix of mass graves in the history books, even. How many of those pix are in color?
I see that I answered the wrong question. Sorry...
The relative lack of blood and gore in shows like The A-Team was to make the show suitable for a large family-oriented audience. (This is not the same as "appeals to": if it were, TV would not be as bloody as it is.)
Back in the '70s through much of the '80s, there was a convention of "family hour"--from 8 pm eastern/7 pm central to 9 pm eastern/8 pm central. There was also a strong push to minimze violence on TV, or at least the explicitness of that violence, because it was believed that watching violence made kids violent. In fact, I think it was an FCC mandate. For these reasons, and to allow room for schedule shifts, there was relatively little blood & gore on TV from those eras.
Family hour ceased to be mandated some time ago--probably some free-speech-related thing. If it had been continued, I doubt the FOX network would have been successful as it is. When the networks no longer had to worry about protecting the values of their younger viewers, they could focus on the apparent attractions of their primary demographix. This included graphic violence: the FCC wouldn't have needed to ban violence if there wasn't a demand for it, right? The rest is natural escalation.
It's a pity, really. I hate seeing gore on TV; I prefer that it happen offscreen...
I'll trust you there. But that was 20 years ago! Have you seen a CSI? House? Grey's Anatomy? (Which is a nice soap until you get to the OR...) Or that trailer for Heroes that includes a shot of one lead sitting on an autopsy table--after her chest was cut open? That trailer wasn't as disgusting as it could've been, but it kinda shocked me...
Of the seven films in that linked article, I had heard of and remembered four.
Also, most of those films were all but restricted to inner-city theaters when they came out. Trust me, I heard the controversies about Boyz in the Hood and Menace II Society. The only one that I don't think got ghettoized in its time was Casino, and that is because it was by Scorcese.
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It really got strange in England. For a while, it was like it had just skipped to spring: birds nesting and hatching chicks, plants flowering, etc.
And then, after that, a thick, freezing fog shut down Heathrow Airport.
Come to think of it, I-10 itself got nailed during Katrina. You think that if the ocean rises enough, they'll have to route it further inland? We don't want underwater interstates...
Two can play this game.
Yes, Florida will always have a coastline unless it is completely submerged. There may come a point where its coastline is shorter, but as long as it exists, it will have a coastline.
There are important settlements built on the current Florida coastline, however: fine places like Miami and Fort Lauderdale and Tampa Bay and Daytona Beach and Pensacola. If the ocean level rises sufficiently, all these fine cities will be underwater. People who are literally building houses on beachfront will soon have to take boats to their property....
The prices in the record sections of bookstores get more outrageous than that. I've never seen $9.99 albums at any of them, and that would be where I've seen most of the $35 albums.
The price of a 2-disc set is partly dependent on the packaging. If the case of the 2-disc set is no thicker than a normal jewel case, or is cardboard, then it rarely costs much more than $20. But some 2-disc sets come in cases that are as thick as two normal jewel cases (or thicker), and the RIAA seems to think that those can sell for twice as much as single-CD sets.
First, the higher the percentage of ice that is already melted, the lower the percentage of ice that is still there to study why it's melting.
Second, the higher the percentage of ice that is already melted, the less time we have to do anything about the cause of melting if we do learn it.
I thought we closed that hole in the ozone layer a decade ago!
Alaska had better start tapping that market before their ice shelves go the way of Canada's. I mean, Montana is in danger of losing its chance to sell ice cubes made from glaciers in Glacier National Park!
The penguin population in Antarctica doesn't need polar bears to keep it down. They have seals. The seals in the Antarctic aren't like those cute white fuzzy baby seals in Canada (or at least I hope they aren't); they are like Jaws.
The penguins in Antarctica also got knocked down a few years back when a loose ice shelf somehow wedged itself into one of their normal passages to the sea...
How cheap CDs are at Best Buy, or most other mass-market stores, depends on which CD you're trying to get. They have CDs for $9.99. They have CDs for $13.99. They have CDs for $17.99. And if you are trying to get a set with two CDs, you will often have to pay $29.99 or more, esp. if they use the double-thick jewel cases. (That last sort of pricing makes "piracy" tempting.)
If all normal albums at iTunes are $9.99, then people will get albums there simply because they know how much it'll cost without leaving the house...
I used to find the CD selection at Best Buy decent: not as good as the specialized record stores that tended to get priced out of the market or the multimedia bookstores, but better than Wal*Mart or Target.
That was a few years ago, though. The selection (at least for the sort of music I like) isn't what it used to be, though, or wasn't last time I was there. And the problem with shopping at Best Buy is that it involves shopping at Best Buy. I hate stores that look and feel like warehouses, and I used to get headaches from their background music.
"..requiring verified emails..."
If Yahoo! requires verified e-mails for use of its new&improved message boards, will they count ones ending in "@yahoo.com"?
They're working on the ID problem. Any given Yahoo! ID can be used almost anywhere in their maze of services. (For instance, if you use Yahoo! Messenger, you can get an email account with Yahoo! using the same username almost automatically.)
I was thinking of the minor earthquakes, actually. I have seen multiple "Happy Cows Come from California" ads, and one of them actually has cows enjoying an earthquake: "Foot massage!" We viewers actually get to see the earth split. Then the earthquake stops, and a cow says that they never last long enough...
I am imagining that giant tube from near the summit of Everest to that advanced base camp.
I am imagining the base camp buried in a snow-drift because of snow going through the tube during the previous winter.
Happy cows come from Wisconsin.
Cows so blissfully dumb they like earthquakes come from California.
Obese cows that live to eat come from Kansas. Kansans don't need happy cows. Kansans don't sell milk--they sell beef.
If they make porn vending machines, they will have to make them without windows. The product ID buttons would have to be cryptic, and the products wrapped in brown paper. I wouldn't object to wrapping the machine in brown paper.
Then again, I wish Cosmopolitan was wrapped in brown paper and not sitting openly at supermarket checkouts.
DVRs remain perfectly legal. Skipping commercials on DVRs is legal.
Surely you catch a small snatch of commercial when you're skipping them via DVR? If not, how do you know you haven't missed actual programming?
Advertisers hope that when you run a commercial and leave the room, you still hear or even see enough for there to be an effect on your consumer-mind. Surely there's a slight lag between your returning to the room with drink and your resuming commercial-skipping?
Advertising has always been a gamble. Apocryphal quote from the head of a cigarette co. long ago: "Fifty cents of every dollar I spend in advertisting is wasted. But I don't know which fifty."
Exactly. ;) The only radio stations left are those whose audiences don't get their music by other means, either from lack of knowledge (you still find boy-band channels and channels that play rap "music") or from abundance of ethics (you still find Christian channels and NPR).
Of course, if there were more stations, some sections of the market would be less inclined to use p2p to get songs they want. There ought to be a station for modern techno&synth.
I wouldn't infringe on a purse's copyright, but I am certain some people have. If you see a large Gucci purse or Prada purse for $20 in some small store, odds are it was made without the knowledge of the corp. whose name is on it.
Believe it or not, on occas. the police go after people who sell counterfeit purses.
Am I the only person on /. obtaining legit DVDs without the "You wouldn't steal a car" ad? I've never seen anything worse than FBI and Interpol warnings on DVDs, at least on the copyright front. (I've had to sit through forced trailers on occas., but those tended to be for product, not against copyright-infringing.)
I think parent means "view the content."
All material newer than from '67 is copyrighted. That is American law since 1988. (Download any silent films lately?)
Only some material is copyrighted to people who put FBI and Interpol warnings on the legit copies.
We do censor the late-night phone sex-line ads--or rather, the TV stations do. That's why you only see them late at night.
Some communities try to censor their porno shops. They set up rules mandating that XX% of all the content in there can't be any racier than in normal shops. They try to zone their city so that those shops can't be "in the middle of town." Of course, current law in Kansas is that you can't write zoning laws whose sole purpose is to prevent porn shops from setting up shop...
They don't put all explicit 'zines on lockdown, but the ones with the most dirty pix--or is that the dirtiest dirty pix?--can only be sold in porn shops.
Which channel was "Top Killing Machines" on? If it's Animal Planet...
I've a feeling some school boards would just as soon leave out the pix of mass graves in the history books, even. How many of those pix are in color?
I see that I answered the wrong question. Sorry...
The relative lack of blood and gore in shows like The A-Team was to make the show suitable for a large family-oriented audience. (This is not the same as "appeals to": if it were, TV would not be as bloody as it is.)
Back in the '70s through much of the '80s, there was a convention of "family hour"--from 8 pm eastern/7 pm central to 9 pm eastern/8 pm central. There was also a strong push to minimze violence on TV, or at least the explicitness of that violence, because it was believed that watching violence made kids violent. In fact, I think it was an FCC mandate. For these reasons, and to allow room for schedule shifts, there was relatively little blood & gore on TV from those eras.
Family hour ceased to be mandated some time ago--probably some free-speech-related thing. If it had been continued, I doubt the FOX network would have been successful as it is. When the networks no longer had to worry about protecting the values of their younger viewers, they could focus on the apparent attractions of their primary demographix. This included graphic violence: the FCC wouldn't have needed to ban violence if there wasn't a demand for it, right? The rest is natural escalation.
It's a pity, really. I hate seeing gore on TV; I prefer that it happen offscreen...
I'll trust you there. But that was 20 years ago! Have you seen a CSI? House? Grey's Anatomy? (Which is a nice soap until you get to the OR...) Or that trailer for Heroes that includes a shot of one lead sitting on an autopsy table--after her chest was cut open? That trailer wasn't as disgusting as it could've been, but it kinda shocked me...
Of the seven films in that linked article, I had heard of and remembered four.
Also, most of those films were all but restricted to inner-city theaters when they came out. Trust me, I heard the controversies about Boyz in the Hood and Menace II Society. The only one that I don't think got ghettoized in its time was Casino, and that is because it was by Scorcese.