Al Pacino is quickly turning into one of those non-human humans (rather like John Travolta and Bill Clinton.) But he's good at it, at least.
The movie looks interesting but potentially lame. I'll probably see it in the hopes that it's an effective jibe at the film industry. But it probably won't be.
Well, of course, but it's inevitable that even the most careful driver will every so often find himself in a sticky situation.
Instead, how about a "Thank you" for the driver who lets you into his lane during busy traffic? I have to do that more frequently than I have to apologize.
My greatest fear for a system like that is the potential to fuel road rage with messages like "eat my exhaust, jerk" and others that aren't directly out of a 1950s movie about car racing. I can't figure out how to stop such abuse, though.
I, personally, am all in favor of Transit Area Networks, which would be ad hoc wireless networks set up between cars. They could communicate GPS information, and if the driver wanted to, voice data. In case of a crash, the cars would each have a record of what all of the other cars in the area, etc. did.
There are horrible security problems that would need to be worked out, but I've often wanted to be able to beam an "I'm sorry" onto the HUD of the driver I just cut off, or something like that.
I don't know why people haven't gone apeshit on Ticketmaster yet. They're obviously a miserable, vicious monopoly. I've bought tickets from them twice and will do almost anything possible to not do so again.
Also, don't forget that there's a lot more to making a cd than an artist singing into a microphone then sending the results to be duplicated. There are tremendous recording and production expenses involved in making a modern album. These costs I do not begrudge the labels -- they're real expenses that they incur. I'd just like to know how much of the $18 CD price goes to the artist, how much is actual costs (including advertising, etc.) and how much of it goes to laying new marble in the executive washroom.
Or you can just listen to your high-quality public radio station and enjoy thoughtful content from intelligent people who only want your money every few months. (And you should feel guilty for not giving it to them.)
"You know, Mr. Roosevelt, if we let Hitler have his way in the East, eventually the Nazis and the Communists will kill each other, then we can have a free hand in Europe."
"Good idear, Mr. Churchill. So I should delay that invasion of Europe until the war's almost over?"
"Yes Mr. President."
"And there's no chance the Russians will win and overrun Eastern Europe and set up Communist satellites for fifty years?"
"No, Franklin."
"Excellent, Winston."
Something about learning, history, mistakes, doomed, etc. I don't remember the quote =)
Were you thinking of CMU? If so, then you made the right decision in not coming. Hell on earth. Misery. People climbing over each other to get out. Like a scene from the Bible, really.
When I first came here about three years ago, there was a billboard that read "Will the last person to leave please turn out the lights." Good introduction to Pittsburgh.
Argh. I'd happily deal with a beer tax if I could buy it in the G'Eagle like in a sensible city. Or, heavens forbid, be able to buy wine in the same place. Is that that radical an idea?
Point Park is pretty nice. Not nature, per say, but nice, nonetheless. Rivers everywhere!
My roommate just suggested we go downtown and use our computers at point park. I yelled at him. We use our computers wirelessly in the apartment, and in the park, he'd complain about sunlight making the screen hard to see.
Good idea, though. I can't wait until it's fully implemented.
To open up Pittsburgh to the idea, you'd need a website, a parade, a commission, a mascot to wander around Downtown dressed as a PCMCIA card, and some sort of perogie festival. That might not do it, though, in which case, you'd have to pretend that it wasn't there and go to bed at 6:00 like usual.
What I want to know is why an alien civilization that is so well-organized that it can know that it will be invading Earth in 2012 over a thousand years ago hasn't invaded in the meantime. The biggest outstanding question for me is what were they doing in the interim that took 1000 years, but was sufficiently planned and specific that they knew the day they would be ready to wrap it up and invade.
Remember the First One (Lorien) came and took his body away. I suspect that he's about as dead as Kosh was after Interludes and Examinations. Sheridan is happily drinking hot jala beyond the veil and drawing pictures of dead Shadows.
Well...when they look aside and coal companies dig under the mountains and cause the disasters. Or the oil companies spray black stuff all over the otters and moose. It sure isn't the Republicans' fault. Just the counterculture lefties. And the naieve students.
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Al Pacino is quickly turning into one of those non-human humans (rather like John Travolta and Bill Clinton.) But he's good at it, at least.
The movie looks interesting but potentially lame. I'll probably see it in the hopes that it's an effective jibe at the film industry. But it probably won't be.
Maybe I'm overly nice (depends on whom you ask, I guess) but I've always wanted some way of saying "I'm sorry" or "thank you."
Well, of course, but it's inevitable that even the most careful driver will every so often find himself in a sticky situation.
Instead, how about a "Thank you" for the driver who lets you into his lane during busy traffic? I have to do that more frequently than I have to apologize.
My greatest fear for a system like that is the potential to fuel road rage with messages like "eat my exhaust, jerk" and others that aren't directly out of a 1950s movie about car racing. I can't figure out how to stop such abuse, though.
I, personally, am all in favor of Transit Area Networks, which would be ad hoc wireless networks set up between cars. They could communicate GPS information, and if the driver wanted to, voice data. In case of a crash, the cars would each have a record of what all of the other cars in the area, etc. did.
There are horrible security problems that would need to be worked out, but I've often wanted to be able to beam an "I'm sorry" onto the HUD of the driver I just cut off, or something like that.
If you do it right, the dangling preposition can be a proposition. Baby.
Lazer: The Top 40. =)
I don't know why people haven't gone apeshit on Ticketmaster yet. They're obviously a miserable, vicious monopoly. I've bought tickets from them twice and will do almost anything possible to not do so again.
Also, don't forget that there's a lot more to making a cd than an artist singing into a microphone then sending the results to be duplicated. There are tremendous recording and production expenses involved in making a modern album. These costs I do not begrudge the labels -- they're real expenses that they incur. I'd just like to know how much of the $18 CD price goes to the artist, how much is actual costs (including advertising, etc.) and how much of it goes to laying new marble in the executive washroom.
Or you can just listen to your high-quality public radio station and enjoy thoughtful content from intelligent people who only want your money every few months. (And you should feel guilty for not giving it to them.)
"You know, Mr. Roosevelt, if we let Hitler have his way in the East, eventually the Nazis and the Communists will kill each other, then we can have a free hand in Europe."
"Good idear, Mr. Churchill. So I should delay that invasion of Europe until the war's almost over?"
"Yes Mr. President."
"And there's no chance the Russians will win and overrun Eastern Europe and set up Communist satellites for fifty years?"
"No, Franklin."
"Excellent, Winston."
Something about learning, history, mistakes, doomed, etc. I don't remember the quote =)
I don't know, but gee-whiz, that sounds like the Messiah for me! Where do I sign up? I've gone un-marked for too long!
Were you thinking of CMU? If so, then you made the right decision in not coming. Hell on earth. Misery. People climbing over each other to get out. Like a scene from the Bible, really.
When I first came here about three years ago, there was a billboard that read "Will the last person to leave please turn out the lights." Good introduction to Pittsburgh.
Argh. I'd happily deal with a beer tax if I could buy it in the G'Eagle like in a sensible city. Or, heavens forbid, be able to buy wine in the same place. Is that that radical an idea?
Point Park is pretty nice. Not nature, per say, but nice, nonetheless. Rivers everywhere!
My roommate just suggested we go downtown and use our computers at point park. I yelled at him. We use our computers wirelessly in the apartment, and in the park, he'd complain about sunlight making the screen hard to see.
Good idea, though. I can't wait until it's fully implemented.
Go up to Homestead/Braddock. There is still plenty of blue collar work to be had. Go steelworkers!
Because viruses are transmitted over networks? I'm not sure I get your point.
To open up Pittsburgh to the idea, you'd need a website, a parade, a commission, a mascot to wander around Downtown dressed as a PCMCIA card, and some sort of perogie festival. That might not do it, though, in which case, you'd have to pretend that it wasn't there and go to bed at 6:00 like usual.
What I want to know is why an alien civilization that is so well-organized that it can know that it will be invading Earth in 2012 over a thousand years ago hasn't invaded in the meantime. The biggest outstanding question for me is what were they doing in the interim that took 1000 years, but was sufficiently planned and specific that they knew the day they would be ready to wrap it up and invade.
Don't be a wanker. For conversational purposes 'died 50 years ago' is no sufficiently far from 'died ... 48 years ago' to elicit a complaint.
Well, duh. When they say 'Allies,' they mean the various allied states, right?
Remember the First One (Lorien) came and took his body away. I suspect that he's about as dead as Kosh was after Interludes and Examinations. Sheridan is happily drinking hot jala beyond the veil and drawing pictures of dead Shadows.
How is it a spoiler? Anything on the official site can't be that big a secret, IMO.
That is one of the most ass-ugly websites I've ever seen.
Well...when they look aside and coal companies dig under the mountains and cause the disasters. Or the oil companies spray black stuff all over the otters and moose. It sure isn't the Republicans' fault. Just the counterculture lefties. And the naieve students.