Myself, I felt the same way you did at one time --- morally opposed to the concept of the state and the bosses ruling me. But eventually I realized that in an established system like the US has, it's far more effective to enact change by working within the established rules than it is to give it all a middle finger and write it off as broken.
No, I said nothing about giving up. I said that none of the candidates are acceptable. If I were the voting sort (it's rather silly for an anarchist to vote, don't you think?), I'd suggest doing a write-in ballot and writing "NONE OF THE ABOVE" instead of settling for the lesser evil.
I realize that as an anarchist, you'd prefer nobody in a position of power, but given the fact that we have a system in place that's giving us the choice of several candidates, isn't it kind of a waste of time... much less very silly and pointless... to reject them all out of hand?
Essentially: who WOULD be a worthwhile presidential candidate? Seems like of any election in memory, we have the possibility to enact real change with our vote. As opposed to apathetically not voting.
So you'd prefer NO president at all? Well, that's constructive.
Here's a thought. What if we had a candidate for president who was charismatic, intelligent, inspiring, and truly progressive.. a candidate who actually understood the current issues and held promise to fix things that've been broken for years? Someone like Obama, perhaps?
If you don't want that in a candidate, what else could you ask for?
The bottom line is, nearly all consumer products -- whether a video game, a sound recording, a box of cookies, a bottle of window cleaner, or a dustmop -- are engineered, tested, and marketed specifically for sale at Wal-Mart. Most large consumer brands have two product lines: the mass-market version and the 'special' version that is only sold at Wal-Mart (ie, a special colored handle on the dustmop). Wal-Mart controls the American marketplace in a very real way.
I agree that it's a little odd to think of him directing puppets, but if you watch Clone Wars, you can see why he was chosen. He's an admitted Dark Crystal fan, and if he can channel the same geeky sense of wonder and admiration for the source material that he put into Clone Wars, he's ideal.
Lots of odd comments here about how "Genndy will screw it up 'cuz I hate his style of animation" or even "The original had crappy animation."
Quick and simple: the original was an entirely live-action, puppeteered film. It's the only movie like it ever made, actually: the only all-puppet feature film with no humans or live animals present at all. The sequel will be, as well, although they're using CG sets to cut costs.
As for the story, keep in mind that the first movie didn't have a story either. Jim Henson literally brought Brian Froud in, said "make me a world", and then wrote a story around the creatures and world he'd created. With Froud on board again, combined with the fanboy geeky brilliance that Genndy showed with Clone Wars, I have high hopes for this.
Since the number of guns in Canada is a topic covered in "Bowling for Columbine", it's obvious that you haven't actually seen the film. Maybe you should do 'the actual research' before dismissing the movie.
....that's how many spam emails I get each day. We're forced to use Mac Outlook here at work, which has no HTML support and extremely poor filters; I can't unsubscribe, I can't weed them out, so I delete, delete, delete. An average weekend generates 300-400 spam emails.
And they're getting nastier. I went from tons of FTD.com and Perfumania emails to 50+ emails a day for rape porn, zoo porn, kiddie porn, and videos of people being bludgeoned. Jesus Christ, people. Leave me the fuck alone.
I had a behavioral optometrist looking after my eyesight when I was in elementary school. His brilliant theory was for his patients to use prescription eyedrops to dilate one of their pupils for a week at a time, then switch to the other, ad infinitum. His theory was that by forcing my iris to remain open, I would be passively exercising my eye muscles and improving my sight.
Looking like a tiny David Bowie, I followed this regimen for two years before the doctor was sued for malpractice by a group of his patients using the same regimen, whose eyesight had deteriorated. So had mine. The doc vanished, and I'm wearing thick glasses.
Secondly, I work at an ad agency, and this kind of stuff is proposed WAY more than you'd expect, but hardly ever actually occurs, due to the astounding costs. I was working on a national rum campaign recently, and the client proposed a shill campaign: fat guys in loud Hawaiian shirts sitting in bars all over the country with hidden cameras, ordering rum drinks for cute girls. The resulting videos would become TV commercials. The idea was dropped when they saw the pricetag.
Firewire is the iPod's killer feature. On purchasing my iPod, I transferred 3.5 gig of mp3s to it in the space of less than three minutes. Moving songs on and off of it is so fast that I don't even think about it; it's nearly instantaneous.
My iPod has replaced my old Zip drive, as well; I use it for all file transfers between work and home. It's tiny, convenient, incredibly simple to use, and blazingly fast.
If I have a chip implanted when I'm 5 years old, my address and medical history is most likely going to change half a dozen times by the time I'm an adult.
How will information on the chip be changed or added to? Can they zap the info to it wirelessly, or will they have to dig the bugger out of my body when they want to change my phone number or add a medication to it?
I was fortunate to be part of the creative team behind the Nagano Olympics website, and while it was a lot of fun working on such a high-profile site, the combination of the IOC and the sponsors (IBM, in our case) as clients was grueling. The IOC had to approve every element on the site, the content was often cobbled from badly-translated Japanese tourist brochures, and the sheer number of regulations was a task. I pity the design firm who had to put this years' site together. Oh, and in my opinion, it's a pretty poor piece of work.
I had Blue for awhile, dumped it...worthless...and looked into the new Visa Smart Cards...also worthless. None of them have any support for non-Windows systems, so their cardreaders are useless to me. Standards in the USA? Bah. I want European standards NOW.
The Sims is a ton of fun, but honestly, if you've ever played it, you'd know that torturing your Sims is the best part of the game.
I enjoyed creating a lazy unemployed bachelor Sim who did nothing but sleep on the couch and watch TV all day...and then joyfully watched him freak out when I sold his TV and set his couch on fire.
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Myself, I felt the same way you did at one time --- morally opposed to the concept of the state and the bosses ruling me. But eventually I realized that in an established system like the US has, it's far more effective to enact change by working within the established rules than it is to give it all a middle finger and write it off as broken.
No, I said nothing about giving up. I said that none of the candidates are acceptable. If I were the voting sort (it's rather silly for an anarchist to vote, don't you think?), I'd suggest doing a write-in ballot and writing "NONE OF THE ABOVE" instead of settling for the lesser evil.
I realize that as an anarchist, you'd prefer nobody in a position of power, but given the fact that we have a system in place that's giving us the choice of several candidates, isn't it kind of a waste of time... much less very silly and pointless... to reject them all out of hand?
Essentially: who WOULD be a worthwhile presidential candidate? Seems like of any election in memory, we have the possibility to enact real change with our vote. As opposed to apathetically not voting.
So you'd prefer NO president at all? Well, that's constructive.
Here's a thought. What if we had a candidate for president who was charismatic, intelligent, inspiring, and truly progressive.. a candidate who actually understood the current issues and held promise to fix things that've been broken for years? Someone like Obama, perhaps?
If you don't want that in a candidate, what else could you ask for?
The bottom line is, nearly all consumer products -- whether a video game, a sound recording, a box of cookies, a bottle of window cleaner, or a dustmop -- are engineered, tested, and marketed specifically for sale at Wal-Mart. Most large consumer brands have two product lines: the mass-market version and the 'special' version that is only sold at Wal-Mart (ie, a special colored handle on the dustmop). Wal-Mart controls the American marketplace in a very real way.
I agree that it's a little odd to think of him directing puppets, but if you watch Clone Wars, you can see why he was chosen. He's an admitted Dark Crystal fan, and if he can channel the same geeky sense of wonder and admiration for the source material that he put into Clone Wars, he's ideal.
Lots of odd comments here about how "Genndy will screw it up 'cuz I hate his style of animation" or even "The original had crappy animation."
Quick and simple: the original was an entirely live-action, puppeteered film. It's the only movie like it ever made, actually: the only all-puppet feature film with no humans or live animals present at all. The sequel will be, as well, although they're using CG sets to cut costs.
As for the story, keep in mind that the first movie didn't have a story either. Jim Henson literally brought Brian Froud in, said "make me a world", and then wrote a story around the creatures and world he'd created. With Froud on board again, combined with the fanboy geeky brilliance that Genndy showed with Clone Wars, I have high hopes for this.
There wasn't any animation in The Dark Crystal. It was a live-action puppeteered movie.
Since the number of guns in Canada is a topic covered in "Bowling for Columbine", it's obvious that you haven't actually seen the film. Maybe you should do 'the actual research' before dismissing the movie.
....that's how many spam emails I get each day. We're forced to use Mac Outlook here at work, which has no HTML support and extremely poor filters; I can't unsubscribe, I can't weed them out, so I delete, delete, delete. An average weekend generates 300-400 spam emails.
And they're getting nastier. I went from tons of FTD.com and Perfumania emails to 50+ emails a day for rape porn, zoo porn, kiddie porn, and videos of people being bludgeoned. Jesus Christ, people. Leave me the fuck alone.
I had a behavioral optometrist looking after my eyesight when I was in elementary school. His brilliant theory was for his patients to use prescription eyedrops to dilate one of their pupils for a week at a time, then switch to the other, ad infinitum. His theory was that by forcing my iris to remain open, I would be passively exercising my eye muscles and improving my sight.
Looking like a tiny David Bowie, I followed this regimen for two years before the doctor was sued for malpractice by a group of his patients using the same regimen, whose eyesight had deteriorated. So had mine. The doc vanished, and I'm wearing thick glasses.
Folks: it's not "it's". That means "it is". Good christ folks, learn the basics of grammar.
First off, it's "its". Not "it's". Please, folks.
Secondly, I work at an ad agency, and this kind of stuff is proposed WAY more than you'd expect, but hardly ever actually occurs, due to the astounding costs. I was working on a national rum campaign recently, and the client proposed a shill campaign: fat guys in loud Hawaiian shirts sitting in bars all over the country with hidden cameras, ordering rum drinks for cute girls. The resulting videos would become TV commercials. The idea was dropped when they saw the pricetag.
One word: FIREWIRE.
Firewire is the iPod's killer feature. On purchasing my iPod, I transferred 3.5 gig of mp3s to it in the space of less than three minutes. Moving songs on and off of it is so fast that I don't even think about it; it's nearly instantaneous.
My iPod has replaced my old Zip drive, as well; I use it for all file transfers between work and home. It's tiny, convenient, incredibly simple to use, and blazingly fast.
The USB-based Archos is archaic.
If I have a chip implanted when I'm 5 years old, my address and medical history is most likely going to change half a dozen times by the time I'm an adult.
How will information on the chip be changed or added to? Can they zap the info to it wirelessly, or will they have to dig the bugger out of my body when they want to change my phone number or add a medication to it?
I was fortunate to be part of the creative team behind the Nagano Olympics website, and while it was a lot of fun working on such a high-profile site, the combination of the IOC and the sponsors (IBM, in our case) as clients was grueling. The IOC had to approve every element on the site, the content was often cobbled from badly-translated Japanese tourist brochures, and the sheer number of regulations was a task. I pity the design firm who had to put this years' site together. Oh, and in my opinion, it's a pretty poor piece of work.
Drat. I clicked this hoping for some tasteful and intelligent bestiality, and all I got was a lame supremacist rant.
I had Blue for awhile, dumped it...worthless...and looked into the new Visa Smart Cards...also worthless. None of them have any support for non-Windows systems, so their cardreaders are useless to me. Standards in the USA? Bah. I want European standards NOW.
The Sims is a ton of fun, but honestly, if you've ever played it, you'd know that torturing your Sims is the best part of the game. I enjoyed creating a lazy unemployed bachelor Sim who did nothing but sleep on the couch and watch TV all day...and then joyfully watched him freak out when I sold his TV and set his couch on fire.