Or maybe the person was not being a dick and instead players built a game-within-a-game, where they choose they rather sit around and chat in PvP areas instead of actually roleplay.
It is like when the nerd gets harassed on school because he studies instead of going to school to know people.
If you want freedom, I wouldn't choose Switzerland. As far as I know, people are very uptight there, you will have trouble if you make noises (or even take a shower) after 20pm and all sort of bullshit like that, straight from a country that has little real problems so they make up their own.
My neighbor is Swiss, and he always speaks about how he hated the fact that people in Switzerland speak a lot about freedom but in practice there is too little freedom since you are over-regulated by your neighbors. He prefers Argentina, where he lives in a small town, with nobody telling him what to do.
I think Argentina is a great place to live if you aren't planing to do business here and you have an external source of income. But I agree Argentina is not the most stable country in the world, and we Argentineans (in average) are not to be trusted so much when doing business. But you can mostly do whatever you want here in Argentina, not because there aren't laws but because laws are seldom enforced. When I think about Argentina I think about chaos, thus the freedom to go unregulated. When I think about Switzerland I think about the opposite. Argentina is a de-facto Anarchy.
Yes, and all major video game consoles can be bought with that "security" overdriven. After that, you just use any copy in a regular dvd.
Here in Argentina, the least sold console is the PS3, because its games can only be copied in blueray (I don't know why it can't be done like an xbox 360 where you can just copy in dual layer), so people just avoid buying the PS3.
I have a funny anecdote, a family was considering buying a Wii or a PS3, they were checking both at a local store. So they asked the seller "What is the difference between the wii and the ps3?". "Well," he answered " ps3 games can't be copied, wii games can". End of story. The family obviously pass the PS3 and focused on the wii.
I think the reason is because "we" (and I'm doing a generalization here, that may not be necessarily true) are in this together. It is not that being gay is the same as being a lesbian, or that being transvestite is the same as being bisexual. It is that we have similar concerns, and thus we join to fight a cause.
While there are gays who have problems with transgendered people, there are also gay people who think bisexuality is wrong... You know, people will be people, gay or not, we are all guilty of intolerance. But the ones who are out there, fighting the fight, are more enlightened about this issues, and understood that we are all human, and we are all fighting for similar rights.
Maybe you seem "cutting off their genitalia" as extreme because of the very same wording you are using. You should try using a more clinical phrase like "corrective procedure".:) It sounds like a joke, but it is different. Cutting off your genitalia sounds like a very violent and desperate thing to do, while a clinical operation is something different. Transgenedered people go through extensive preparation before doing the 'chop'. This people feels like they have the wrong gender, and that's why in a way it is not "their genitalia".
If it was for me, I would like to be associated with any person who is victim of hatred and needs to make a stand for his human and civil rights. But I don't think other people would allow themselves to be lumped together with a fag like me:)
Which means they had 3.8 votes per member. I think that's gives us a better indication of how many votes they will have on the next election. Being that they now have 30896 members, we can estimate they can be closer to 118,000 votes, ranking much lower on the chart the parent posted.
Would they get any seats with about 120k votes? (I hope so)
They are not censoring just sex, but all kind of gay related books also, fiction and non-fiction. Check site After Elton for this week's article about this problem.
I think you were being sarcastic, which is why they should have tagged you Funny. I mean... there is no way that you (a slashdot user) expect point 1 to stop piracy?
I like your argument about musicians not doing it for the money, I think that myself. However, there is a part I don't understand exactly... even if it is not aiding you, how is exactly copyright hindering you to distribute your work for free using means like p2p?
>Yeah, I guess the guy who did such classics as "300" and "Dawn of the Dead" knows more about his genre than a guy who authored a great number of classics in his genre.
He did some movies, period. That makes him more experienced on film making than the author of the comic. Also, I think Tim Burton did some classics, and every time he uses another person's material as source he disassembles it and creates something completely different. That's what an artist does. So you are lucky this material was taken by a run of the mill director.
The director greatly respected the source material indeed. But he didn't completely followed it. I think the action scenes and new ending improved the original material, since the original material was already style over substance (as most comics are), but now at least it is fun and less convoluted.
Somehow you interpreted that I was saying the director is a film genius or something like that. I actually think the director is a good enough director for the source material. I know comic fanboys like to think their precious comic books are masterpieces that will trascend time. You even go so far as calling certain comic books "graphic novels". But at the end of the day graphic novels are just pretty pictures with captions.
The reason comic books as a medium are weak can be found by analyzing the graphic and the textual parts.
On the graphic side, comic books haven't matured beyond the modern phase. You won't find an abstract comic for example.
On the narrative side, comic books are guilty of one of the worst crimes, that is exposition. Most comics tell, and tell and tell (this includes Watchmen). Again, text in comic books never went pass the more basic techniques.
I liked the idea behind watchmen, and I like the story, I really do. But I don't see the harm done in altering it to make it fit better in the new context. Refusing going to see the movie like Alan Moore did is just prima donna attitude. It is not as if somebody had drawn a penis over the Mona Lisa. The original material is still there, on the comic book store. So even if Watchmen was a study of human nature in the lines of Sartre's novels, making a movie about it won't hurt the comic at all. And making the movie a more faithful replica won't make the movie better either.
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>Movie buffs may disagree with me, but I think it stands to reason that no film of any reasonable length has the time and opportunity to engage with the viewer in the same way that a novel consistently engages with its reader.
Except that watchmen is a "*graphic* novel", "graphic novel" being an euphemism for "comic book with high pretensions".
I would agree adapting Joyce's Ulysses to a film is an Herculean task (pun intended). But 'graphic novels' are very explicit and linear mediums, that means they are perfectly suited to adaptation. I say it is an euphemism because graphic novels only get to play with visual imagery, on the other hand, real novels use words to recreate the full span of human experience. Try making a pretty picture about "The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea." and then you can start giving the name of "novel" to comic books.
>If anything, good works should not be subjected to this kind of crass spectacle.
But on the other hand, you feel compelled to make a stand on the alleged superiority of comic books as if the quality of the comic book the movie was based on depended on it.
The problem with the movie is that the superheroes seem too powerfull. Fight scenes look like terminator fighting. And I wouldn't say Ozimadias catching a bullet is very "human".
Also, I was under the impression from the comic and doing some research online that Nixon was still in office because The Comedian had assassinated Woodward and Bernstein (the journalists who uncovered the Watergate).
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What do you mean with lock-in?
I can export all the information I have on Google Docs to be read with excel and Office.
Also, the OS will be open source, so what is less "lock in" than being able to fork like they are doing with Chromium already?
Think about Wave, another "evil scheme to take over the world" from google. Same thing, they will be offering it as an open platform.
Google doesn't need lock ins, since their business is in publicity, not in selling software.
Privacy concerns? maybe... but again, you can use the open source counterpart if you don't like being watched by the evil corporation.
And btw, 1984 is about fascism.
Don't you understand it... Google developers are counting on the parent to use this OS, without their support they are doomed... doomed!
Or maybe the person was not being a dick and instead players built a game-within-a-game, where they choose they rather sit around and chat in PvP areas instead of actually roleplay.
It is like when the nerd gets harassed on school because he studies instead of going to school to know people.
So, the other characters are so lame that they even loose to the cheapest tactic possible?
I understand what you mean, but you are wrong. When you play a game, you are allowed to do everything that is not cheating.
If you want freedom, I wouldn't choose Switzerland. As far as I know, people are very uptight there, you will have trouble if you make noises (or even take a shower) after 20pm and all sort of bullshit like that, straight from a country that has little real problems so they make up their own.
My neighbor is Swiss, and he always speaks about how he hated the fact that people in Switzerland speak a lot about freedom but in practice there is too little freedom since you are over-regulated by your neighbors. He prefers Argentina, where he lives in a small town, with nobody telling him what to do.
I think Argentina is a great place to live if you aren't planing to do business here and you have an external source of income. But I agree Argentina is not the most stable country in the world, and we Argentineans (in average) are not to be trusted so much when doing business. But you can mostly do whatever you want here in Argentina, not because there aren't laws but because laws are seldom enforced. When I think about Argentina I think about chaos, thus the freedom to go unregulated. When I think about Switzerland I think about the opposite. Argentina is a de-facto Anarchy.
Could they make you sign an EULA?
Yes, and all major video game consoles can be bought with that "security" overdriven. After that, you just use any copy in a regular dvd.
Here in Argentina, the least sold console is the PS3, because its games can only be copied in blueray (I don't know why it can't be done like an xbox 360 where you can just copy in dual layer), so people just avoid buying the PS3.
I have a funny anecdote, a family was considering buying a Wii or a PS3, they were checking both at a local store. So they asked the seller "What is the difference between the wii and the ps3?". "Well," he answered " ps3 games can't be copied, wii games can". End of story. The family obviously pass the PS3 and focused on the wii.
I think the reason is because "we" (and I'm doing a generalization here, that may not be necessarily true) are in this together. It is not that being gay is the same as being a lesbian, or that being transvestite is the same as being bisexual. It is that we have similar concerns, and thus we join to fight a cause.
While there are gays who have problems with transgendered people, there are also gay people who think bisexuality is wrong... You know, people will be people, gay or not, we are all guilty of intolerance. But the ones who are out there, fighting the fight, are more enlightened about this issues, and understood that we are all human, and we are all fighting for similar rights.
Maybe you seem "cutting off their genitalia" as extreme because of the very same wording you are using. You should try using a more clinical phrase like "corrective procedure". :) It sounds like a joke, but it is different. Cutting off your genitalia sounds like a very violent and desperate thing to do, while a clinical operation is something different. Transgenedered people go through extensive preparation before doing the 'chop'. This people feels like they have the wrong gender, and that's why in a way it is not "their genitalia".
If it was for me, I would like to be associated with any person who is victim of hatred and needs to make a stand for his human and civil rights. But I don't think other people would allow themselves to be lumped together with a fag like me :)
Which means they had 3.8 votes per member. I think that's gives us a better indication of how many votes they will have on the next election. Being that they now have 30896 members, we can estimate they can be closer to 118,000 votes, ranking much lower on the chart the parent posted.
Would they get any seats with about 120k votes? (I hope so)
Not to say we also have... you know... libraries?
I would be interested to see the number of votes in 2006 vs number of members in the same year.
Also, it would be interesting to see the same stats you are showing but also for other parties that don't have seats.
Actually, that's a concept I don't understand.
Why should anybody be paid for work he did years ago?
It is like having to pay a construction worker a cannon for your house.
They are not censoring just sex, but all kind of gay related books also, fiction and non-fiction. Check site After Elton for this week's article about this problem.
Well, if the movie is something like Wolverine: Origins the comic, then the review is at the same level.
I think you were being sarcastic, which is why they should have tagged you Funny. I mean... there is no way that you (a slashdot user) expect point 1 to stop piracy?
I like your argument about musicians not doing it for the money, I think that myself. However, there is a part I don't understand exactly... even if it is not aiding you, how is exactly copyright hindering you to distribute your work for free using means like p2p?
I'm never sure when to put a sarcasm tag. In this case however, I was being completely serious...
My dvd burning program is quite slow, it could really use multiple threads...
>I have a donkey and a midget waiting for me on the bondage rack.
Which one is your girlfriend?
I was actually wondering the same thing. I always wondered why some people said mp3 didn't sound as good as CDs.
Maybe it is that we have some auditive deficiency?
Yes, also imagine the akward moment when you meet your boss and a tag cloud with "S&M" on it comes up.
But definitely great as a proof of concept.
>Yeah, I guess the guy who did such classics as "300" and "Dawn of the Dead" knows more about his genre than a guy who authored a great number of classics in his genre.
He did some movies, period. That makes him more experienced on film making than the author of the comic. Also, I think Tim Burton did some classics, and every time he uses another person's material as source he disassembles it and creates something completely different. That's what an artist does. So you are lucky this material was taken by a run of the mill director.
The director greatly respected the source material indeed. But he didn't completely followed it. I think the action scenes and new ending improved the original material, since the original material was already style over substance (as most comics are), but now at least it is fun and less convoluted.
Somehow you interpreted that I was saying the director is a film genius or something like that. I actually think the director is a good enough director for the source material. I know comic fanboys like to think their precious comic books are masterpieces that will trascend time. You even go so far as calling certain comic books "graphic novels". But at the end of the day graphic novels are just pretty pictures with captions.
The reason comic books as a medium are weak can be found by analyzing the graphic and the textual parts.
On the graphic side, comic books haven't matured beyond the modern phase. You won't find an abstract comic for example.
On the narrative side, comic books are guilty of one of the worst crimes, that is exposition. Most comics tell, and tell and tell (this includes Watchmen). Again, text in comic books never went pass the more basic techniques.
I liked the idea behind watchmen, and I like the story, I really do. But I don't see the harm done in altering it to make it fit better in the new context. Refusing going to see the movie like Alan Moore did is just prima donna attitude. It is not as if somebody had drawn a penis over the Mona Lisa. The original material is still there, on the comic book store. So even if Watchmen was a study of human nature in the lines of Sartre's novels, making a movie about it won't hurt the comic at all. And making the movie a more faithful replica won't make the movie better either.
>Movie buffs may disagree with me, but I think it stands to reason that no film of any reasonable length has the time and opportunity to engage with the viewer in the same way that a novel consistently engages with its reader.
Except that watchmen is a "*graphic* novel", "graphic novel" being an euphemism for "comic book with high pretensions".
I would agree adapting Joyce's Ulysses to a film is an Herculean task (pun intended). But 'graphic novels' are very explicit and linear mediums, that means they are perfectly suited to adaptation. I say it is an euphemism because graphic novels only get to play with visual imagery, on the other hand, real novels use words to recreate the full span of human experience. Try making a pretty picture about "The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea." and then you can start giving the name of "novel" to comic books.
>If anything, good works should not be subjected to this kind of crass spectacle.
But on the other hand, you feel compelled to make a stand on the alleged superiority of comic books as if the quality of the comic book the movie was based on depended on it.
>what could the *original author* know about the *story*?
Well... I'd say it is more in the lines of "what could the *original author* know about film making?"
The problem with the movie is that the superheroes seem too powerfull. Fight scenes look like terminator fighting. And I wouldn't say Ozimadias catching a bullet is very "human".
Also, I was under the impression from the comic and doing some research online that Nixon was still in office because The Comedian had assassinated Woodward and Bernstein (the journalists who uncovered the Watergate).