i dont know about anyone else, but this I_RELEASE_A_NEW ver. of my distro. every few months is getting kinda out of control. i mean, how can anyone stay current? IMHO, if redhat is to keep on it is going to find some way of offering a simple - powerful way of keeping everyone together.
Then again I can really tell when the local high schools have the day off...a netstat -M shows quite a few interesting web sites...never figured out the people who browse pokemon pages and pr0n at the same time...then again who am I to ask. *laugh*
Okay, thank you for that horrible, horrible mental image. *shudder*
Jay (= (Who will admit to actually having seen a Pokemon-themed porn comic -- will wonders never cease...)
I hope in all this that the/. community has not begun to take itself so seriously as to think it now must conduct itself with the utmost journalistic integrity. I don't think the point of Slashdot has ever been objectivity...because it's entirely about "stuff that matters" to us, objectivity is inherently out the window.
I agree. In fact, I first came to Slashdot after I read one of many articles that talked about the fact that Slashdot put its biases up front where everyone can see them; anyone whose Microsoft logo is a picture of Gates-as-Borg can't really claim "objectivity", right?
But this isn't a flame -- I came to Slashdot because I wanted to find information that was distinct from the mainstream-media-lockstep of "Microsoft is the biggest because they're the best". Because of Slashdot (and its links to Linux-related sites), I eventually bought a copy of LinuxPPC to try on my Mac, then went out and spent $850 to build my own PC to run Linux. (Well, it dual-boots Win95; my fiancee and I still like our games...)
I know that "journalistic integrity" isn't directly related to "editorial independence", but some of the reaction to this merger is to treat Slashdot as if the New York Times had been bought. Yes, we all expect that stories of interest to us on all sides of things continue to be published. That's a serious implication. But to hear "journalism" tossed about in this discussion is looking at things the wrong way.
I like the fact that 90% of what is posted to Slashdot consists of links to stories in other media outlets. That makes it more of a media filter for me than a media outlet. I tend to stay away from the features and the "Your Rights Online" section, although informative, has a tone that seems more hysterical and/or reactionary than I like.
But, hold! I click on my "Your Rights Online" box in my preferences, and the stories go away! I don't like JonKatz's articles (me and the rest of humanity it appears)? One click of a mouse button and I don't have to read his stuff anymore! (People who are complaining about stories about Katz still showing up just need to chill out. Sure, we have two in one day, but how many have there been in the past few months? Maybe two or three times that?)
Again: I look at Slashdot as more of a media filter than a media outlet of its own. I would hope that Tacoboy and Hemos will take, and have taken, the steps necessary to ensure Slashdot's unique voice doesn't get stifled -- if not, well, it's just a website. There are plenty of fish in the sea...
You *have* one.. It's called browsing at Score:1. With hard thresholds. Then even the logged in Trolls with low-low Karma are filtered for you. And on the off chance that an AC has something important to say, it'll be scored up.
My personal settings are: browse at 1, show full comment at 2, no hard thresholds -- that way, if I find a reparented comment at 2, I can figure out why it's there.
Not all AC's suck. The ones that *DO* suck just happen to be exceptionally vocal.
And show no signs of stopping, sadly.
And as for IP banning, god no. I'm behind a transparent caching proxy, and if it's IP gets banned, I'm hosed. Despite me not being a Troll. And what about Dynamic IP's? Gonna ban an ISP for one Troll? Lets not go getting facist now.
I agree. The moderation and meta-moderation are supposed to be the community's way of policing itself. If you have a problem with a post, keep your "willing to moderate" option checked and maybe it'll come up. If you think a post was scored unfairly, make a habit of meta-moderating.
Anyway.. Just browse at 1. Then again, most logged in users don't have anything to say either.. And browsing at 2 just gives you Karma Whores.. So the solution?
I'm not a karma whore, and I suspect there are a lot fewer than the trolls might think. I just post what I post, and occasionally my stuff gets moderated. I've been moderated up, I've been moderated down; unlike the trolls, I don't waste a lot of time figuring out what to say to please / piss off "the Slashdot community".
Don't worry so much about/. comments. Who cares?
Best bet for trolls; if you're not a moderator, ignore them. They're not going anywhere, especially if people keep lavishing attention on them.
You mean, you think that you can play a completly encrypted video file, with no keys whatsoever? Windows players use the keys on the Key tracks to decrypt the video. no key tracks, no video. I cant' belive this got marked as informative.
That's because you completely mis-read his post.
"As I understand it, you can watch that illegally copied DVD with a licensed Windows player which has its own CSS authentication method. Thus, you have successfully pirated a DVD which is perfectly playable, without decrypting anything (until final playback, using DVD Forum approved software)."
He's not saying you can read it without the keys, he's saying you can copy them without the keys.
Maybe it's just me, but I think game designers are starting to ask a bit much. That's a hell of a long download time for people who are still largely on modem connections (and not very fast ones -- I haven't found anyone in my area who can get me better than a 28.8 speed, and I'm waiting until I move before I look at DSL).
Maybe it's just hitting me because last night I did a full install of Freespace 2 and had that top out at 1.2 GB of disk space -- and here I thought I'd be set for a long time when I got a 13 GB drive for my PC...
TipOfTheDay: Use tags like <br/> instead of <br/> when writing "tight" HTML, otherwise older browsers choke on it.
I never thought of that. I thought it wasn't well-formed XML if there was a space before the backslash. Is that an intentional feature of XHTML/XML, or just a workaround to make XHTML display well on older browsers? Am I breaking my XML by doing so?
I think the real problem related to this is that, none of the distros (at least the ones I've used), requere any user account to be set up besides the root account at installation time - nor is the user suggested by the install program to do that later on.
Well, although it's not required (I think-- haven't tried installing without one) the Red Hat 6.1 installer does allow you to create user accounts at installation time.
I'm re-installing it now; I should try it and find out...
It would be neat to watch the lil lawyers try to track all the emails etc. I get the picture of lil boys running around trying to plug the crumbling dike with thier fingers.
You know, child pornography is illegal in countries other than the US...
...Oh, my mistake. I got a totally different picture in my head...
I swear, the only thing keeping me from throwing Netscape 4.x out the window and using iCab exclusively is the fact that there is no -- ZERO -- style sheet support.
Even then I stil use iCab; it's fast, light, has some basic ad-blocking functionality, doesn't break too many sites (yes, I know it's the site's fault, not iCab's) and I still use it to test my CSS-styled sites -- what better way to find out what a site will look like without stylesheets enabled?
I wish I had something like this when I was in school. I might have stuck with computer science classes...
And the best part is, there are no hidden traps, a la Microsoft. Red Hat may want to change or yank their support entirely in ten years or so, but the product is still viable. Schools could hook up with anyone who met their price (and as the article said, they could hire or grow their own Linux guru.)
Because copyright lawyers want you to believe it is...
Someone had to create it, and at one time owned each part of it by virtue of sole unique possession (i.e. they thunk it).
Oh, sure. They just "thunk" it up. The idea for, say, Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" or Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" or U2's "The Streets Have No Name" just came out of nowhere.
I hate to break it to you, but no idea is 100% original. Everyone uses ideas "thunk up" by others -- they change them, improve them, alter them to fit a particular need and (every once in a while) replace them with something new.
(Which rather sounds like a particular software development model, come of think of it...)
Without trying to sound like one of the snickering "so is the NSA going to GPL their changes?" crowd, I'd like to point out that I think it's actually a really good question.
Now, obviously if the changes made for security purposes were going to be made for their own in-house use, there's not necessarily going to be a GPL conflict. (You aren't required to distribute source changes to people who aren't using the product, are you?)
If they're talking about marketing a "secure Linux" product while chanting the "security through obscurity" mantra and refusing to release the source for their changes (assuming they don't simply slap a pile of closed-source packages on top of the kernel), then one of two things is going to happen in a court battle:
* The verdict is that any changes to the Linux kernel and any included GPLed programs have to be made available. Best-case scenario for free software advocates (and everyone else, in my opinion).
* For some yet-to-be-known reason, the courts declare the relevant provisions of the GPL to be invalid. I personally can't think of a reason why they would do this, though I would suspect they'll try to invoke "reasons of national security" or intellectual-property rights.
So I guess my question is:
If, for some reason a court would declare the GPL invalid, in whole or in part, what would this mean to Linux and the rest of the free software community?
*doh* I checked, and we're both right; I forgot that Aircel was an imprint under Malibu. That explains how Marvel got the book, then -- they purchased Malibu back in the early 90's (and then proceeded to evicerate the company, but that's even more off-topic...).
BTW, does Men [in] Black count as a sucessfull movie of a marvel character?
No, since the original comic came out from Aircel Comics and is creator-owned. The only "MIB" comic Marvel put out was a half-baked "prequel"; it followed the comic continuity (which had MIB chasing down the supernatural, not just aliens) more than the movie continuity.
When looking for info on Campbell's new show Jack of All Trades, I stumbled accross this piece at The Daily Buzz, a comic and entertainment site I frequent.
Raimi Directs Spider-Man?
Columbia/Sony Pictures apparently wants Sam (Evil Dead, Darkman) Raimi to direct its big-budget Spider-Man feature. Raimi, a professed Spidey fanatic, appears very interested in the job. Everything should be set, right?
Wrong.
Raimi will begin principal photography on The Gift within the next few weeks. In order for Spider-Man to make its summer 2001 release date (like Columbia/Sony wants), filming would have to begin late this spring or early this summer. That means that an accomodation has to be hammered out between Columbia/Sony and Paramount and The Gift's production company Tom Rosenberg's Lakeshore Entertainment, before Raimi can sign-on as the director for Spider-Man.
Sam Raimi also is one of the producers of "Hercules: the Legendary Journeys" (the Kevin Sorbo show) as well as the vastly more popular spinoff "Xena: Warrior Princess" (both of which, as any good Bruce Campbell fans know, regularly features Campbell as "Autolycus, the King of Thieves").
He's also exec-producing Campbell's new show Jack of All Trades. In Campbell's own words: "The show centers on my character, Jack Stiles, an American spy, adventurer, and rogue dispatched to an island in the East Indies by President Jefferson to thwart Napoleon's advances in the region. Jack isn't at all happy about the remote assignment, especially since he's supposed to serve as personal attaché to a wealthy British widow and secret agent for the Crown named Emilia Rothschild (Angela Dotchin). Disguised as the Daring Dragoon, Jack teams with Emilia on numerous covert missions to stop Napoleon's imperialism in the East Indies." Yeah, sounds cheesy, but that's never stopped me from watching Army of Darkness over and over again...
I think Raimi might be able to do a good Spider-Man film (though I have to wonder about the potential chesse factor) but Campbell should NOT, NOT, NOT be allowed to play Peter Parker! That would be a casting error on par with Nicholas Cage as Superman.
Let him play Flash Thompson (jock who harassed Peter in high school) as an adult, or maybe let him play Eddie Brock before he becomes Venom (or even as Venom -- Campbell can act pretty crazed when he wants to).
But Morpheus is the greek god of dreams, and the symbolism there is very obvious you don't need to stretch his name into one that makes him a figurehead for all black oppresion.
I couldn't figure out why the author was trying to stretch the movie to fit some kind of "black power" message until I saw that the article was from TheAfrican.com.
There were other little factual errors in his summary and analysis of the movie; maybe he should have been watching the story that was actually there.
<nitpick> * Nebuchadnezzar was not a "space-ship"; they were on Earth the entire time. It might be some kind of genre blind-spot ("flying ship" = "spaceship").
* Zion was not "the real world", it was the last remaining city for humanity, deep below the surface. He claims that "their real selves in Zion also die [if they are killed in the Matrix]" yet we never actually see the city in the movie.
* The author tries to make "Tank" into some kind of metaphor for "life" (by pointing out that "ankh" is included "phonetically" -- the same sloppy reasoning that gets us "Moor + Orpheus = Morpheus") I took "Tank" and "Dozer" to be solid characters, grounded in the real world (as opposed to the unplugged ones, who tend to have technological or mythological names). </nitpick>
Jay (=
Yeah, but the sparkler thing is new I think
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Definately cool, but somehow it seemed that I've seem them a long time ago. Could it be that they've been posted at slashdot before?
I remember seeing the BFPG 9000 part before, but I think the sparkler bomb link is a new one.
jeez to read this article you would think they kicked in this guy's door and yanked him out of bed!
No kidding; I mean, all they did was surround his business with federal agents, pushed him and his employees around in said place of business, and basically threatened to ruin his business if he didn't just bend over and take what they were doing to him. The nerve of this guy to get so worked up!
OK, the cops were armed. That means they wrote me a ticket "at gunpoint" or gave me directions to the bathroom "at gunpoint"
Out of curiosity, why are you claiming that Mr. Ramsey says they raided his store "at gunpoint"? There's a reference to it at 2600.com, but the first-person account above from Mr. Ramsey says nothing about them using guns on him.
If we look at this as any other crime (ignoring for the moment the asinine drug laws
Wait, wait wait! Why do we get to ignore the "asinine drug laws"? You yourself assert later that:
"I agree these laws are stupid, but the police have to enforce them all, reguardless[sic]."
So why do the drug laws get written off as "asinine" yet similar legislation which gets used to harass otherwise law-abiding citizens get taken so seriously? What if they were "asinine gun-control laws"?
the cops walked in, seized a bunch of stuff they thought applied to the case
And tried to leave with at least two items that were not that Mr. Ramsey caught. I wonder how many more are in those boxes? I wonder how likely the USCS is to return those items?
(I'll bet the one's issueing the warrent didn't have too much technical knowledge)
Hey, Mr. Ramsey! Quit complaining about irrelevant stuff being seized! Turns out the people issuing the warrants have no clue what they're doing! Don't you feel better now?
Personal liberties are crucial, but if Mr. Ramsey was breaking the law (he was selling concealed listening devices) than he is asking for trouble.
But how are you so sure that he was? The two agents who came in earlier who apparently tried baiting one of the techs at the store into saying something to justify such a raid, and failed.
try selling kits instead of the finished product. Seems to work for the assault rifle crowd!
But apparently not for Ramsey Electronics, since many of the items seized were apparently parts and kits. Which is odd, considering Mr. Violanti's comment that "we're not necessarily looking for kits or components". So is it a case of "right hand not knowing what the left is doing", or some creative reinterpretation of existing law? (Especially given the quote at 2600 about a DOJ official supposedly telling one of the business owners that the raids were politically motivated; gosh, what a great feeling to find out that one's life and livelihood exist at the sufferance of someone's political agenda or approval ratings.)
Jay (=
"You want to know about voting. I'm here to tell you about voting. Imagine you're locked in a huge underground nightclub filled with sinners, whores, freaks and unnameable things that rape pit bulls for fun. And you ain't allowed out until you all vote on what you're going to do tonight. You like to put your feet up and watch 'Republican Party Reservation.' They like to have sex with normal people using knives, guns, and brand-new sexual organs that you did not know existed. So you vote for television, and everyone else, as far as the eye can see, votes to fuck you with switchblades. That's voting."
--Spider Jerusalem from Warren Ellis's comic TRANSMETROPOLITAN
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i dont know about anyone else, but this I_RELEASE_A_NEW ver. of my distro. every few months is getting kinda out of control. i mean, how can anyone stay current? IMHO, if redhat is to keep on it is going to find some way of offering a simple - powerful way of keeping everyone together.
"apt-get update"? *ducking*
Jay (=
Then again I can really tell when the local high schools have the day off...a netstat -M shows quite a few interesting web sites...never figured out the people who browse pokemon pages and pr0n at the same time...then again who am I to ask. *laugh*
Okay, thank you for that horrible, horrible mental image. *shudder*
Jay (=
(Who will admit to actually having seen a Pokemon-themed porn comic -- will wonders never cease...)
I hope in all this that the /. community has not begun to take itself so seriously as to think it now must conduct itself with the utmost journalistic integrity. I don't think the point of Slashdot has ever been objectivity...because it's entirely about "stuff that matters" to us, objectivity is inherently out the window.
I agree. In fact, I first came to Slashdot after I read one of many articles that talked about the fact that Slashdot put its biases up front where everyone can see them; anyone whose Microsoft logo is a picture of Gates-as-Borg can't really claim "objectivity", right?
But this isn't a flame -- I came to Slashdot because I wanted to find information that was distinct from the mainstream-media-lockstep of "Microsoft is the biggest because they're the best". Because of Slashdot (and its links to Linux-related sites), I eventually bought a copy of LinuxPPC to try on my Mac, then went out and spent $850 to build my own PC to run Linux. (Well, it dual-boots Win95; my fiancee and I still like our games...)
I know that "journalistic integrity" isn't directly related to "editorial independence", but some of the reaction to this merger is to treat Slashdot as if the New York Times had been bought. Yes, we all expect that stories of interest to us on all sides of things continue to be published. That's a serious implication. But to hear "journalism" tossed about in this discussion is looking at things the wrong way.
I like the fact that 90% of what is posted to Slashdot consists of links to stories in other media outlets. That makes it more of a media filter for me than a media outlet. I tend to stay away from the features and the "Your Rights Online" section, although informative, has a tone that seems more hysterical and/or reactionary than I like.
But, hold! I click on my "Your Rights Online" box in my preferences, and the stories go away! I don't like JonKatz's articles (me and the rest of humanity it appears)? One click of a mouse button and I don't have to read his stuff anymore! (People who are complaining about stories about Katz still showing up just need to chill out. Sure, we have two in one day, but how many have there been in the past few months? Maybe two or three times that?)
Again: I look at Slashdot as more of a media filter than a media outlet of its own. I would hope that Tacoboy and Hemos will take, and have taken, the steps necessary to ensure Slashdot's unique voice doesn't get stifled -- if not, well, it's just a website. There are plenty of fish in the sea...
Jay (=
You *have* one.. It's called browsing at Score:1. With hard thresholds. Then even the logged in Trolls with low-low Karma are filtered for you. And on the off chance that an AC has something important to say, it'll be scored up.
/. comments. Who cares?
My personal settings are: browse at 1, show full comment at 2, no hard thresholds -- that way, if I find a reparented comment at 2, I can figure out why it's there.
Not all AC's suck. The ones that *DO* suck just happen to be exceptionally vocal.
And show no signs of stopping, sadly.
And as for IP banning, god no. I'm behind a transparent caching proxy, and if it's IP gets banned, I'm hosed. Despite me not being a Troll. And what about Dynamic IP's? Gonna ban an ISP for one Troll? Lets not go getting facist now.
I agree. The moderation and meta-moderation are supposed to be the community's way of policing itself. If you have a problem with a post, keep your "willing to moderate" option checked and maybe it'll come up. If you think a post was scored unfairly, make a habit of meta-moderating.
Anyway.. Just browse at 1. Then again, most logged in users don't have anything to say either.. And browsing at 2 just gives you Karma Whores.. So the solution?
I'm not a karma whore, and I suspect there are a lot fewer than the trolls might think. I just post what I post, and occasionally my stuff gets moderated. I've been moderated up, I've been moderated down; unlike the trolls, I don't waste a lot of time figuring out what to say to please / piss off "the Slashdot community".
Don't worry so much about
Best bet for trolls; if you're not a moderator, ignore them. They're not going anywhere, especially if people keep lavishing attention on them.
Jay (=
You mean, you think that you can play a completly encrypted video file, with no keys whatsoever? Windows players use the keys on the Key tracks to decrypt the video. no key tracks, no video. I cant' belive this got marked as informative.
That's because you completely mis-read his post.
"As I understand it, you can watch that illegally copied DVD with a licensed Windows player which has its own CSS authentication method. Thus, you have successfully pirated a DVD which is perfectly playable, without decrypting anything (until final playback, using DVD Forum approved software)."
He's not saying you can read it without the keys, he's saying you can copy them without the keys.
Jay (=
Maybe it's just me, but I think game designers are starting to ask a bit much. That's a hell of a long download time for people who are still largely on modem connections (and not very fast ones -- I haven't found anyone in my area who can get me better than a 28.8 speed, and I'm waiting until I move before I look at DSL).
Maybe it's just hitting me because last night I did a full install of Freespace 2 and had that top out at 1.2 GB of disk space -- and here I thought I'd be set for a long time when I got a 13 GB drive for my PC...
Jay (=
TipOfTheDay: Use tags like <br /> instead of <br/> when writing "tight" HTML, otherwise older browsers choke on it.
I never thought of that. I thought it wasn't well-formed XML if there was a space before the backslash. Is that an intentional feature of XHTML/XML, or just a workaround to make XHTML display well on older browsers? Am I breaking my XML by doing so?
Jay (=
I think the real problem related to this is that, none of the distros (at least the ones I've used), requere any user account to be set up besides the root account at installation time - nor is the user suggested by the install program to do that later on.
Well, although it's not required (I think-- haven't tried installing without one) the Red Hat 6.1 installer does allow you to create user accounts at installation time.
I'm re-installing it now; I should try it and find out...
Jay (=
It would be neat to watch the lil lawyers try to track all the emails etc. I get the picture of lil boys running around trying to plug the crumbling dike with thier fingers.
You know, child pornography is illegal in countries other than the US...
...Oh, my mistake. I got a totally different picture in my head...
Jay (=
I swear, the only thing keeping me from throwing Netscape 4.x out the window and using iCab exclusively is the fact that there is no -- ZERO -- style sheet support.
Even then I stil use iCab; it's fast, light, has some basic ad-blocking functionality, doesn't break too many sites (yes, I know it's the site's fault, not iCab's) and I still use it to test my CSS-styled sites -- what better way to find out what a site will look like without stylesheets enabled?
Jay (=
I wish I had something like this when I was in school. I might have stuck with computer science classes...
And the best part is, there are no hidden traps, a la Microsoft. Red Hat may want to change or yank their support entirely in ten years or so, but the product is still viable. Schools could hook up with anyone who met their price (and as the article said, they could hire or grow their own Linux guru.)
Jay (=
Sure, intellectual property is property.
Because copyright lawyers want you to believe it is...
Someone had to create it, and at one time owned each part of it by virtue of sole unique possession (i.e. they thunk it).
Oh, sure. They just "thunk" it up. The idea for, say, Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" or Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" or U2's "The Streets Have No Name" just came out of nowhere.
I hate to break it to you, but no idea is 100% original. Everyone uses ideas "thunk up" by others -- they change them, improve them, alter them to fit a particular need and (every once in a while) replace them with something new.
(Which rather sounds like a particular software development model, come of think of it...)
Jay (=
Without trying to sound like one of the snickering "so is the NSA going to GPL their changes?" crowd, I'd like to point out that I think it's actually a really good question.
Now, obviously if the changes made for security purposes were going to be made for their own in-house use, there's not necessarily going to be a GPL conflict. (You aren't required to distribute source changes to people who aren't using the product, are you?)
If they're talking about marketing a "secure Linux" product while chanting the "security through obscurity" mantra and refusing to release the source for their changes (assuming they don't simply slap a pile of closed-source packages on top of the kernel), then one of two things is going to happen in a court battle:
* The verdict is that any changes to the Linux kernel and any included GPLed programs have to be made available. Best-case scenario for free software advocates (and everyone else, in my opinion).
* For some yet-to-be-known reason, the courts declare the relevant provisions of the GPL to be invalid. I personally can't think of a reason why they would do this, though I would suspect they'll try to invoke "reasons of national security" or intellectual-property rights.
So I guess my question is:
If, for some reason a court would declare the GPL invalid, in whole or in part, what would this mean to Linux and the rest of the free software community?
Jay (=
Wasn't MIB a Malibu Comic before Marvel got it?
*doh* I checked, and we're both right; I forgot that Aircel was an imprint under Malibu. That explains how Marvel got the book, then -- they purchased Malibu back in the early 90's (and then proceeded to evicerate the company, but that's even more off-topic...).
Jay (=
What is that strange symbol used as the "O" in the LinuxOne logo? According to our panel of experts, it's:
Jay (=
Ooops. Who can keep these villains straight?
:)
(Yeah, yeah: YOU can.)
Yes, well, it's my job; I run a comic and gaming store.
I could probably rattle off most all 150 Pokemon, if you get me drunk enough...
Jay (=
BTW, does Men [in] Black count as a sucessfull movie of a marvel character?
No, since the original comic came out from Aircel Comics and is creator-owned. The only "MIB" comic Marvel put out was a half-baked "prequel"; it followed the comic continuity (which had MIB chasing down the supernatural, not just aliens) more than the movie continuity.
Jay (=
That sure as heck got my attention. Made my eyes cross.
Mine too, since Sir Ian McKellan is playing Magneto in the X-Men movie, not Spider-Man.
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Sam Raimi also is one of the producers of "Hercules: the Legendary Journeys" (the Kevin Sorbo show) as well as the vastly more popular spinoff "Xena: Warrior Princess" (both of which, as any good Bruce Campbell fans know, regularly features Campbell as "Autolycus, the King of Thieves").
He's also exec-producing Campbell's new show Jack of All Trades. In Campbell's own words: "The show centers on my character, Jack Stiles, an American spy, adventurer, and rogue dispatched to an island in the East Indies by President Jefferson to thwart Napoleon's advances in the region. Jack isn't at all happy about the remote assignment, especially since he's supposed to serve as personal attaché to a wealthy British widow and secret agent for the Crown named Emilia Rothschild (Angela Dotchin). Disguised as the Daring Dragoon, Jack teams with Emilia on numerous covert missions to stop Napoleon's imperialism in the East Indies." Yeah, sounds cheesy, but that's never stopped me from watching Army of Darkness over and over again...
I think Raimi might be able to do a good Spider-Man film (though I have to wonder about the potential chesse factor) but Campbell should NOT, NOT, NOT be allowed to play Peter Parker! That would be a casting error on par with Nicholas Cage as Superman.
Let him play Flash Thompson (jock who harassed Peter in high school) as an adult, or maybe let him play Eddie Brock before he becomes Venom (or even as Venom -- Campbell can act pretty crazed when he wants to).
Jay (=
Not to mention that on page 9 one of the monitors is displaying the frontpage of Slashdot.
You know, I could've sworn that wasn't there before. Anyone else agree?
How sure are you that it wasn't there before?
<grabs cell phone>
"Tank, this is TrentC. We need an exit out of here, and fast. I think there are agents in the vicinity..."
Jay (=
(who shoulda eaten the red pill)
But Morpheus is the greek god of dreams, and the symbolism there is very obvious you don't need to stretch his name into one that makes him a figurehead for all black oppresion.
I couldn't figure out why the author was trying to stretch the movie to fit some kind of "black power" message until I saw that the article was from TheAfrican.com.
There were other little factual errors in his summary and analysis of the movie; maybe he should have been watching the story that was actually there.
<nitpick>
* Nebuchadnezzar was not a "space-ship"; they were on Earth the entire time. It might be some kind of genre blind-spot ("flying ship" = "spaceship").
* Zion was not "the real world", it was the last remaining city for humanity, deep below the surface. He claims that "their real selves in Zion also die [if they are killed in the Matrix]" yet we never actually see the city in the movie.
* The author tries to make "Tank" into some kind of metaphor for "life" (by pointing out that "ankh" is included "phonetically" -- the same sloppy reasoning that gets us "Moor + Orpheus = Morpheus") I took "Tank" and "Dozer" to be solid characters, grounded in the real world (as opposed to the unplugged ones, who tend to have technological or mythological names).
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Definately cool, but somehow it seemed that I've seem them a long time ago. Could it be that they've been posted at slashdot before?
I remember seeing the BFPG 9000 part before, but I think the sparkler bomb link is a new one.
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No kidding; I mean, all they did was surround his business with federal agents, pushed him and his employees around in said place of business, and basically threatened to ruin his business if he didn't just bend over and take what they were doing to him. The nerve of this guy to get so worked up!
OK, the cops were armed. That means they wrote me a ticket "at gunpoint" or gave me directions to the bathroom "at gunpoint"
Out of curiosity, why are you claiming that Mr. Ramsey says they raided his store "at gunpoint"? There's a reference to it at 2600.com, but the first-person account above from Mr. Ramsey says nothing about them using guns on him.
If we look at this as any other crime (ignoring for the moment the asinine drug laws
Wait, wait wait! Why do we get to ignore the "asinine drug laws"? You yourself assert later that:
"I agree these laws are stupid, but the police have to enforce them all, reguardless[sic]."
So why do the drug laws get written off as "asinine" yet similar legislation which gets used to harass otherwise law-abiding citizens get taken so seriously? What if they were "asinine gun-control laws"?
the cops walked in, seized a bunch of stuff they thought applied to the case
And tried to leave with at least two items that were not that Mr. Ramsey caught. I wonder how many more are in those boxes? I wonder how likely the USCS is to return those items?
(I'll bet the one's issueing the warrent didn't have too much technical knowledge)
Hey, Mr. Ramsey! Quit complaining about irrelevant stuff being seized! Turns out the people issuing the warrants have no clue what they're doing! Don't you feel better now?
Personal liberties are crucial, but if Mr. Ramsey was breaking the law (he was selling concealed listening devices) than he is asking for trouble.
But how are you so sure that he was? The two agents who came in earlier who apparently tried baiting one of the techs at the store into saying something to justify such a raid, and failed.
try selling kits instead of the finished product. Seems to work for the assault rifle crowd!
But apparently not for Ramsey Electronics, since many of the items seized were apparently parts and kits. Which is odd, considering Mr. Violanti's comment that "we're not necessarily looking for kits or components". So is it a case of "right hand not knowing what the left is doing", or some creative reinterpretation of existing law? (Especially given the quote at 2600 about a DOJ official supposedly telling one of the business owners that the raids were politically motivated; gosh, what a great feeling to find out that one's life and livelihood exist at the sufferance of someone's political agenda or approval ratings.)
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I only know about pokemon because I have a four year old!
I own a comic and gaming store that sells the stuff (when I can get it) so I call it "market research"...
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