Where's the 5000$ you promised ? The 5000$ that bought so many idiot votes, let's see it.
Again: The only American politician who has ever sent everyone a check in an attempt to buy idiots' votes was George W. Bush. Also, just in case you're curious, everything else you posted is wrong and stupid.
"Olame-a "I'll give everyone 5000$"....
Hey moron:
The only politician who has ever, ever mailed a check to everyone in the damn country was George W. Bush.
And he did it more than once. You know it, and we all know it. Now shut the fuck up.
The press didn't favor Obama, fucking REALITY fucking favored Obama.
Is it his fault he was more interesting than the other guy? Is it the media's fault? This article makes me very angry.
If a volcano erupts in the middle of the Atlantic, is it legally required to get the same media coverage as a volcano that erupts in the middle of Tokyo? MORE INTERESTING THINGS DESERVE, AND GET, MORE NEWS COVERAGE. Obama was interesting. McCain was not. Is every newspaper obligated to split their front page down the middle and print mirror image articles about how great and wonderful every action of each of the twin candidates is? Does the fucking Washington Post even realize that it's not their obligation to print the exact same number of articles about everyone who runs for president? ARGH. Stupidity.
Just FYI, most of the white people you know probably have "clan" names that are precisely as "sacred" as yours. For example "Garfield" means "spear-field" and signifies a SACRED BATTLE GROUND for the GERMANIC PEOPLES. "Herbert" means "ARMY-BRIGHT". And so on.
Yep. There's a certain segment of the population (magazine writers and the less imaginative teenage boys, maybe?) that is convinced that the ideal video game would be an exact simulation of the real world, except that you are holding a weapon, car or football.
But it's clear from these comments that aside from that small segment, people understand that photorealism is not the only goal. So how do we beat it into magazine writers' heads that video games don't have to be photographic life simulators for people who are so unimaginative that they only fantasize about driving cars or shooting people?
Just give them a bunch of Nintendo DSs with the internet browser cartridge. There's no possible way to mess that up.
And the living dead are perhaps the only beings on the planet who would be patient enough to put up with how slow that browser is.
I realize the screens are small, but that's what they all have those magnifying glasses on lanyards around their necks for!
Er... I hate to get personal here, but what the heck is wrong with you?
They used a few dozen packets of post-its. A single copy of the Sunday New York Times probably has five times as much paper in it.
And it's art. Your opinion of how much material they used for their art project, compared with your recollections of how much paper you used to get your oh-so-valuable degree, means precisely bubkis. Are you livid with rage that Shakespeare messed up all of that parchment? Carrying a grudge against van Gogh for wasting all of that canvas? Does the thought of those cavemen in France destroying their environment by blackening the roofs of their cave fill you with rage?
I like what you did there... unless it was unintentional of course.
and retarded things like "for all intensive purposes" and misuse of "it's" are in pretty much every other comment I've been looking at lately. i'm not perfect myself, but when I see something like "windows looses it's credibility" to me it looks like animals have been flailing at the keyboard with their paws.
And furthermore, saying neat squashes creativity is the true slobs excuse for not trying. If your creative process is so fragile that it requires things to be cluttered all over the place, you're creative value is NILL.
dude you meant slob's
your
and NIL.
your desk might be neat but unless you're a non-native speaker, your communication skills are pathetic. I'm an utter slob but I've risen to the top because I can use the English language correctly. Interesting, huh?
There are over 1,000 titles in print in the Penguin Classics series alone. 750 pounds of books. 80 linear feet. The Penguin Classics Complete The Movies Unlimited catalog runs to 800 pages. Conservation costs money. Restoration costs money. That is why your $2 commercial DVD rip of a movie from a public domain source and not a studio master looks and sounds like crap. There is nothing significant missing from the Disney studio achieves. Its archieves are self-financing. That can be said of almost no other film and television studio in the world.
1) I don't understand why you wrote any of that. What is your point? That the Penguin Classics series is a large and thick series? That some other book is large and thick? That the Disney studio "achieves" are large and admirable and probably many feet thick? So what?
2) My $2 commercial DVD rips look and sound SPECTACULAR. But thanks for trying.
It's slightly off-topic, but my question is: Why are all students expected to buy graphing calculators starting in like 7th grade? I'm a teacher at a school where it's MANDATORY for all middle school students to purchase a graphing calculator. The most complex thing these students do with these arcane hunks of plastic is play some sort of tetris game and painstakingly spell out obscene messages to each other. It's been going on for like 15-20 years now and I don't get it. Maybe twice a year someone does the extra credit problems and graphs a couple of parabolas. They're utterly useless for almost everything that school students do. I did quite well on the AP Calc test without ever touching one. Why should every parent toss $100 in the toilet (or send it to Texas, which is worse) on a baffling, never-used brick of never-touched buttons?
Note: I'm not a technophobe. I'm fully in favor of every student having a laptop now or in the near future. But I've been really perplexed by the whole graphing calculator thing for years now. It just seems like a huge waste of money for a tool no one uses. Why not force all students to buy defibrillators and bone saws for health class while we're at it?
aristotle-dude (626586) on Sunday March 04, @06:52PM (#18231362)
Here we have a perfect example of an atheist who thinks they are God. Atheists do not want to believe in a personal god because they are suffering from the delusion that they are in fact god themselves. Why else would this man choose a name of God as his slashdot username? Obviously, this illustrates how all atheists are suffering from a serious mental illness and why they feel so uncomfortable at the very mention of god. It is an affront to their ego that a supernatural being outside themselves would have ultimate control over the passage of events in our universe or that they could be held accountable to God for their actions.
I rest my case.
I damn you to UltraHell for violating My Seventeenth Commandment: 17) Thou Shalt Neither Weave nor Bend nor Bundle Stalks of Straw into the Likeness of Men, to Advance Thy Own Crappy Arguments Therewith. He who fashions such a Man of Straw shall be Anathema, and his Testicles shall be Crushed as in a Vice by the Wrath of the Lord, and his Car Keys shall be Cast into Outer Darkness.
Some of my favorite RPG-playing memories are of when you first start out and are nearly powerless.
There's something really cool about knowing that there is a whole pretend world of weapons, powers and monsters out there that my guy is only seeing like 1% of. You imagine all the neat things you'll be able to see and explore once you finally get out of the sewers under the tavern or whatever. Then when you actually get powerful, a lot of times it's like eh, is that all there is?
My personal favorite: clearing out the slums next to New Phlan in the old Pool of Radiance. Compared to the sheer anxiety of trying to survive with a party that could get wiped out by 4 kobolds, the next few games when your characters are high-level were boring.
Am I the only one who has trouble reading all of these learned, cerebral, impassioned opinions on the future of human knowledge from all of this site's Mensa candidates that are written like "wikipedia has it's probblmes but their's no ads so I wil continew too edit they're biochemistry articls as I have a Doctoratt."
If you people are so smart why the f*ck can't you spell? Especially when you're weighing in with your oh so educated opinions on how to run an encyclopedia. I'd say easily half the posts in this thread are written so poorly that I want to ignore the writer's opinion. Am I alone in this?
Non-native speakers are excepted from my scorn.
Judging from a lot of the comments so far... are people really incapable of seeing what the author was trying to do here?
Read the thing. Do you really still need it spelled out for you? Then read on.
It's an essay about the universal practice of taking uncredited quotes from previous artists... MADE UP LARGELY of quotes from previous artists. It's a literary game. An attempt to prove a point. A clever idea imperfectly executed. He is trying to literally show the reader that almost anything you see or hear, Disney or not, probably contains many echoes of previous works by great artists.
Get it?
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Where's the 5000$ you promised ? The 5000$ that bought so many idiot votes, let's see it.
Again: The only American politician who has ever sent everyone a check in an attempt to buy idiots' votes was George W. Bush. Also, just in case you're curious, everything else you posted is wrong and stupid.
"Olame-a "I'll give everyone 5000$" ....
Hey moron:
The only politician who has ever, ever mailed a check to everyone in the damn country was George W. Bush.
And he did it more than once. You know it, and we all know it. Now shut the fuck up.
The press didn't favor Obama, fucking REALITY fucking favored Obama. Is it his fault he was more interesting than the other guy? Is it the media's fault? This article makes me very angry. If a volcano erupts in the middle of the Atlantic, is it legally required to get the same media coverage as a volcano that erupts in the middle of Tokyo? MORE INTERESTING THINGS DESERVE, AND GET, MORE NEWS COVERAGE. Obama was interesting. McCain was not. Is every newspaper obligated to split their front page down the middle and print mirror image articles about how great and wonderful every action of each of the twin candidates is? Does the fucking Washington Post even realize that it's not their obligation to print the exact same number of articles about everyone who runs for president? ARGH. Stupidity.
Just FYI, most of the white people you know probably have "clan" names that are precisely as "sacred" as yours. For example "Garfield" means "spear-field" and signifies a SACRED BATTLE GROUND for the GERMANIC PEOPLES. "Herbert" means "ARMY-BRIGHT". And so on.
Yep. There's a certain segment of the population (magazine writers and the less imaginative teenage boys, maybe?) that is convinced that the ideal video game would be an exact simulation of the real world, except that you are holding a weapon, car or football. But it's clear from these comments that aside from that small segment, people understand that photorealism is not the only goal. So how do we beat it into magazine writers' heads that video games don't have to be photographic life simulators for people who are so unimaginative that they only fantasize about driving cars or shooting people?
Just give them a bunch of Nintendo DSs with the internet browser cartridge. There's no possible way to mess that up. And the living dead are perhaps the only beings on the planet who would be patient enough to put up with how slow that browser is. I realize the screens are small, but that's what they all have those magnifying glasses on lanyards around their necks for!
You meant, of course, "...than they."
They used a few dozen packets of post-its. A single copy of the Sunday New York Times probably has five times as much paper in it.
And it's art. Your opinion of how much material they used for their art project, compared with your recollections of how much paper you used to get your oh-so-valuable degree, means precisely bubkis. Are you livid with rage that Shakespeare messed up all of that parchment? Carrying a grudge against van Gogh for wasting all of that canvas? Does the thought of those cavemen in France destroying their environment by blackening the roofs of their cave fill you with rage?
I could care less about those grammar errors...
I like what you did there... unless it was unintentional of course.
and retarded things like "for all intensive purposes" and misuse of "it's" are in pretty much every other comment I've been looking at lately. i'm not perfect myself, but when I see something like "windows looses it's credibility" to me it looks like animals have been flailing at the keyboard with their paws.
And furthermore, saying neat squashes creativity is the true slobs excuse for not trying. If your creative process is so fragile that it requires things to be cluttered all over the place, you're creative value is NILL.
dude you meant
slob's
your
and NIL.
your desk might be neat but unless you're a non-native speaker, your communication skills are pathetic. I'm an utter slob but I've risen to the top because I can use the English language correctly. Interesting, huh?
There are over 1,000 titles in print in the Penguin Classics series alone. 750 pounds of books. 80 linear feet. The Penguin Classics Complete
The Movies Unlimited catalog runs to 800 pages.
Conservation costs money. Restoration costs money. That is why your $2 commercial DVD rip of a movie from a public domain source and not a studio master looks and sounds like crap.
There is nothing significant missing from the Disney studio achieves. Its archieves are self-financing.
That can be said of almost no other film and television studio in the world.
1) I don't understand why you wrote any of that. What is your point? That the Penguin Classics series is a large and thick series? That some other book is large and thick? That the Disney studio "achieves" are large and admirable and probably many feet thick? So what?
2) My $2 commercial DVD rips look and sound SPECTACULAR. But thanks for trying.
It's slightly off-topic, but my question is: Why are all students expected to buy graphing calculators starting in like 7th grade? I'm a teacher at a school where it's MANDATORY for all middle school students to purchase a graphing calculator. The most complex thing these students do with these arcane hunks of plastic is play some sort of tetris game and painstakingly spell out obscene messages to each other. It's been going on for like 15-20 years now and I don't get it. Maybe twice a year someone does the extra credit problems and graphs a couple of parabolas. They're utterly useless for almost everything that school students do. I did quite well on the AP Calc test without ever touching one. Why should every parent toss $100 in the toilet (or send it to Texas, which is worse) on a baffling, never-used brick of never-touched buttons?
Note: I'm not a technophobe. I'm fully in favor of every student having a laptop now or in the near future. But I've been really perplexed by the whole graphing calculator thing for years now. It just seems like a huge waste of money for a tool no one uses. Why not force all students to buy defibrillators and bone saws for health class while we're at it?
Here we have a perfect example of an atheist who thinks they are God. Atheists do not want to believe in a personal god because they are suffering from the delusion that they are in fact god themselves. Why else would this man choose a name of God as his slashdot username? Obviously, this illustrates how all atheists are suffering from a serious mental illness and why they feel so uncomfortable at the very mention of god. It is an affront to their ego that a supernatural being outside themselves would have ultimate control over the passage of events in our universe or that they could be held accountable to God for their actions. I rest my case.
I damn you to UltraHell for violating My Seventeenth Commandment: 17) Thou Shalt Neither Weave nor Bend nor Bundle Stalks of Straw into the Likeness of Men, to Advance Thy Own Crappy Arguments Therewith. He who fashions such a Man of Straw shall be Anathema, and his Testicles shall be Crushed as in a Vice by the Wrath of the Lord, and his Car Keys shall be Cast into Outer Darkness.
Eternally Yours,
JHVH
Some of my favorite RPG-playing memories are of when you first start out and are nearly powerless.
There's something really cool about knowing that there is a whole pretend world of weapons, powers and monsters out there that my guy is only seeing like 1% of. You imagine all the neat things you'll be able to see and explore once you finally get out of the sewers under the tavern or whatever. Then when you actually get powerful, a lot of times it's like eh, is that all there is?
My personal favorite: clearing out the slums next to New Phlan in the old Pool of Radiance. Compared to the sheer anxiety of trying to survive with a party that could get wiped out by 4 kobolds, the next few games when your characters are high-level were boring.
Am I the only one who has trouble reading all of these learned, cerebral, impassioned opinions on the future of human knowledge from all of this site's Mensa candidates that are written like "wikipedia has it's probblmes but their's no ads so I wil continew too edit they're biochemistry articls as I have a Doctoratt." If you people are so smart why the f*ck can't you spell? Especially when you're weighing in with your oh so educated opinions on how to run an encyclopedia. I'd say easily half the posts in this thread are written so poorly that I want to ignore the writer's opinion. Am I alone in this? Non-native speakers are excepted from my scorn.
Judging from a lot of the comments so far... are people really incapable of seeing what the author was trying to do here? Read the thing. Do you really still need it spelled out for you? Then read on. It's an essay about the universal practice of taking uncredited quotes from previous artists... MADE UP LARGELY of quotes from previous artists. It's a literary game. An attempt to prove a point. A clever idea imperfectly executed. He is trying to literally show the reader that almost anything you see or hear, Disney or not, probably contains many echoes of previous works by great artists. Get it?