I don't know if this has been said yet, but I think BE may be the basis for a good drinking game.
* "Leverage" = one drink * Every time Travolta laughs maniacly = one drink * Whenever "Man-animals!" is heard, the last person to echo with "Rat-brain!" must drink twice.
I'm sure you can come up with more...
By the way, I should warn you that drinking while watching this movie may result in nausea. Then again, watching the movie without drinking will result in even more nausea.
I also have to agree with the post that the movie wasn't entirely bad. The air conditioning was pretty good.
I had poor expectations based on the first film (which made ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE to me).
This film was fine. Basically a totally retarded way to spend two hours, but a fine distraction for a summer film. It only made slightly more sense then the first one, but I guess this time I was more prepared.
If I were in a bad mood, I probably woulda hated it it. It's the kind of thing I'll be completely forgetting in about a day or so, much like its predecessor.
Redefined hip-hop TWICE-- first with NWA in the 80s and then with The Chronic in the 90s. He basically invented Gansta rap and the whole West Coast sound.
Discovered Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Warren G, nate dogg, etc etc... & produced most of their stuff.
Many consider "Nuthin' But A G-Thang" the best hip-hop song ever. (a local radio station anyway had it #1 out of 500 songs for their millenium countdown). And Dre's site says Spin Magazine voted it the #1 single of the 90s. (http://www.dre2001.com/)
Not that I agree with him on the Napster issue, but I'm just saying he's not an "unknown artist" looking for visibility.
English spoken out loud generally reads like that. Most interviews you read in magazines have all the "uhs" and little rambles cut out. It was pretty refreshing to see a totally unfiltered unedited transcript.
If you don't believe me, try this-- grab a tape recorder and go somewhere public (a restaurant or whatever) and record a conversation. Then take the tape home and transcribe it word for word.
You'll notice---
1. People don't listen to each other at all 2. People contradict themselves constantly 3. People very frequently make little sense 4. Conversation is usually aimless, fractured, and repetative.
In light of that, I think Lars did pretty well. W
PS-- actually doing the exercise above in your area may/may not be legal. Don't get caught. (Alternately, you might go read some trial transcripts where a non-professional witness describes some event.) -------------------
Another neat trick would be to go into a crowded theater with little slips of paper with my phone number... andwhen people called it, the answering machine said, "FIRE!!!"
That's pretty damn insightful.
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They can't actually delete the files, but they could remove the LISTINGS from the database. I think that's what he means.
I don't know how he could prove that any file, say with "dre" in the title IS an actual dre song. It could after all be commentary about the song or something.
I know that mpeg standards are created by some kind of coellition (sp) of engineers-- but it's my understanding that there's still some kind of closed-aspect to the standards.
My question is-- what uh, "license" is the mpeg4 standard released under, if that's the right term to use. Will anyone be able to write an mpeg4 encoder/decoder on any platform? With there be royalties that have to be paid, etc.?
If I remember correctly, mpeg4 has all kinds of cool standards for somehow tying vrml into audio sources so that you can have an unlimited # of sources coming from any virtual location. I also seem to recall something about "structured audio" whatever that is... is this all still there?
Sorry for the uninformed questions.. I guess I'll go check out an mpeg 4 site....
On April 25, attorneys for the movie association filed a motion to disqualify Garbus from the case. Garbus's firm, it turns out, represents Scholastic in an unrelated case. Time Warner, a member of the association, owns Scholastic, and you're not supposed to defend and attack the same client at the same time.
Yet another reason why megagiant supercorporations such as AOL/Time-Warner suck.
I saw it in grade school. I guess I was 10 when it came out. It was fantastic. I wonder if you can get it on video or something. You can read about it here.
Their motto was "STRENGTH THROUGH DISCIPLINE! STRENGTH THROUGH COMMUNITY, STRENGTH THROUGH ACTION!"
Terribly ironic that this group calls itself the WAVE, and they're using similar concepts.
I really can't recommend it enough-- it's so perfectly appropriate for this discussion.
SGML/XML + Docbook seem to be the markup languages & DTD of choice for writing and maintaining documentation in different formats (GNOME uses it, for example). However, there's a pretty steep learning curve for creating documents with Docbook, and figuring out how to convert SGML to a readable format (HTML, text, RTF, whatever) can be a bitch. Jade ain't exactly simple and intuitive.
What would you recommend as the best-of-the-best open source tools currently existing for creating portable, modern documentation? And what tools are needed that don't exist?
Please be specific. What would you tell a complete newbie to set up on their machine in order to start writing portable, extensible docs?
Myself, I'm very skeptical of scandals which bubble to the surface during elections...just as I'm skeptical of the fact that NASA announces a new major "discovery" about Mars on the same day a Mars-related movie (for which NASA was a consultant) is making its premiere.
Ok, all obvious jokes aside, it seems that "cold-spamming" (the equivalent of "cold-calling" numbers out of a phone book) will be pretty easy when your address is assigned according to a named rule like first.last@hamburg.de.
I mean, yeah, for all the chaos resulting in the domain/accountname grab, it does make it harder for spammers to plain guess your address. (Though I do get a lot of crap to admin@, webmaster@, postmaster@.mydomain etc.)
...the main paying customers for Office are big corporations (or what the high-tech world calls LORGs, for "large-size organizations"),
Gee, if they're so "big" I wonder why they're not called "big-size organizations" then? Could it be they've seen the slashdot icon for Microsoft?
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Hey moderators... that was a good point there.
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By using "fake-dcss" you're making it hard for the MPAA to find the real file. At the same time, you'e making it hard for the general public to find the file-- so you're doing the MPAA's work for them.
is called the RAITE AVPhile 715. His GF bought it for about $150 from Frys Electronics. Not only does it play DVDs, but also CDs, VCDs, and MP3s (ISO formatted). I think it's manufactured somewhere in Europe.
*AND* we learned on the net that you can shut off region codes & Macrovision with certain sequences on the remote control.
I found this too while looking for something else: http://www2.datatestlab.com/regionhacks/ - it seems to have info for circumventing regions on multiple players.
thought someone might be interested, W -------------------
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between the water on mars, the sugar in space...
You thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?
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If you bothered to check, you would see that many of these were created by Battlefield Earth, not just used by it.
Yeah right.
Name ONE.
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I don't know if this has been said yet, but I think BE may be the basis for a good drinking game.
* "Leverage" = one drink
* Every time Travolta laughs maniacly = one drink
* Whenever "Man-animals!" is heard, the last person to echo with "Rat-brain!" must drink twice.
I'm sure you can come up with more...
By the way, I should warn you that drinking while watching this movie may result in nausea. Then again, watching the movie without drinking will result in even more nausea.
I also have to agree with the post that the movie wasn't entirely bad. The air conditioning was pretty good.
W
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I had poor expectations based on the first film (which made ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE to me).
This film was fine. Basically a totally retarded way to spend two hours, but a fine distraction for a summer film. It only made slightly more sense then the first one, but I guess this time I was more prepared.
If I were in a bad mood, I probably woulda hated it it. It's the kind of thing I'll be completely forgetting in about a day or so, much like its predecessor.
W
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Uh...Let's see...
Redefined hip-hop TWICE-- first with NWA in the 80s and then with The Chronic in the 90s. He basically invented Gansta rap and the whole West Coast sound.
Discovered Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Warren G, nate dogg, etc etc... & produced most of their stuff.
Many consider "Nuthin' But A G-Thang" the best hip-hop song ever. (a local radio station anyway had it #1 out of 500 songs for their millenium countdown). And Dre's site says Spin Magazine voted it the #1 single of the 90s. (http://www.dre2001.com/)
Not that I agree with him on the Napster issue, but I'm just saying he's not an "unknown artist" looking for visibility.
W
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English spoken out loud generally reads like that. Most interviews you read in magazines have all the "uhs" and little rambles cut out. It was pretty refreshing to see a totally unfiltered unedited transcript.
If you don't believe me, try this-- grab a tape recorder and go somewhere public (a restaurant or whatever) and record a conversation. Then take the tape home and transcribe it word for word.
You'll notice---
1. People don't listen to each other at all
2. People contradict themselves constantly
3. People very frequently make little sense
4. Conversation is usually aimless, fractured, and repetative.
In light of that, I think Lars did pretty well.
W
PS-- actually doing the exercise above in your area may/may not be legal. Don't get caught. (Alternately, you might go read some trial transcripts where a non-professional witness describes some event.)
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That's pretty damn insightful.
W
The weird thing is, there really is a crowdedtheater.com... sigh.
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Holy cow. I guess I'm just getting hooked by the troll, but how many inaccuracies can you count in that rant?!
W
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They can't actually delete the files, but they could remove the LISTINGS from the database. I think that's what he means.
I don't know how he could prove that any file, say with "dre" in the title IS an actual dre song. It could after all be commentary about the song or something.
W
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I know that mpeg standards are created by some kind of coellition (sp) of engineers-- but it's my understanding that there's still some kind of closed-aspect to the standards.
My question is-- what uh, "license" is the mpeg4 standard released under, if that's the right term to use. Will anyone be able to write an mpeg4 encoder/decoder on any platform? With there be royalties that have to be paid, etc.?
If I remember correctly, mpeg4 has all kinds of cool standards for somehow tying vrml into audio sources so that you can have an unlimited # of sources coming from any virtual location. I also seem to recall something about "structured audio" whatever that is... is this all still there?
Sorry for the uninformed questions.. I guess I'll go check out an mpeg 4 site....
W
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Yet another reason why megagiant supercorporations such as AOL/Time-Warner suck.
W
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Thanks.
W
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The "Wave" i just learned was a reference to the "third wave", or the third reich.
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Their motto was "STRENGTH THROUGH DISCIPLINE! STRENGTH THROUGH COMMUNITY, STRENGTH THROUGH ACTION!"
Terribly ironic that this group calls itself the WAVE, and they're using similar concepts.
I really can't recommend it enough-- it's so perfectly appropriate for this discussion.
W
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What would you recommend as the best-of-the-best open source tools currently existing for creating portable, modern documentation? And what tools are needed that don't exist?
Please be specific. What would you tell a complete newbie to set up on their machine in order to start writing portable, extensible docs?
Thanks!
W
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Myself, I'm very skeptical of scandals which bubble to the surface during elections...just as I'm skeptical of the fact that NASA announces a new major "discovery" about Mars on the same day a Mars-related movie (for which NASA was a consultant) is making its premiere.
Timing, timing.
W
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There's a much longer article on this here.
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Ok, all obvious jokes aside, it seems that "cold-spamming" (the equivalent of "cold-calling" numbers out of a phone book) will be pretty easy when your address is assigned according to a named rule like first.last@hamburg.de.
I mean, yeah, for all the chaos resulting in the domain/accountname grab, it does make it harder for spammers to plain guess your address. (Though I do get a lot of crap to admin@, webmaster@, postmaster@.mydomain etc.)
Food for thought (Doh!),
W
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it's bug #22687
Vote early (and as the old joke goes, vote often)
W
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Gee, if they're so "big" I wonder why they're not called "big-size organizations" then? Could it be they've seen the slashdot icon for Microsoft?
W
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By using "fake-dcss" you're making it hard for the MPAA to find the real file. At the same time, you'e making it hard for the general public to find the file-- so you're doing the MPAA's work for them.
W
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is called the RAITE AVPhile 715. His GF bought it for about $150 from Frys Electronics. Not only does it play DVDs, but also CDs, VCDs, and MP3s (ISO formatted). I think it's manufactured somewhere in Europe.
*AND* we learned on the net that you can shut off region codes & Macrovision with certain sequences on the remote control.
I found this too while looking for something else: http://www2.datatestlab.com/regionhacks/ - it seems to have info for circumventing regions on multiple players.
thought someone might be interested,
W
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Millhouse Town
Shut Yer Fuckin' Face, Ned Flanders
Blame Springfield
Doh!, Mmkay...
What Would Troy McClure Do?
Up There (at the Kwiki-Mart)
I'm Krusty! Thanks For Asking
Bart's Mom's a Big Fat Bitch
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http://www.historyplace.com/kennedy/jfkpix/swear thp.jpg
W
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Anyone know the lattitude and longitude of any of them private nudist colonies?
:)
How about Pamela Anderson's backyard?
Environmental research my ass
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