Times are changing dude, a bunch of people in suits, silk ties, and $500 shoes expecting you to listen and respect them just because they are wearing that clothes are starting to lose out to the bunch of people that can actually prove what they are talking about and not just look like it.
Yes, I heard a lot of that sort of thing around the time of the dot-com bubble. It wasn't true after the crash either.
So my grand father was a fire and brimstone southern baptist preacher. Most of his sermons were intended to frighten people of going to hell. So in this day and age he would have been breaking the law.
The movie Reefer Madness was intended to scare people of the evils of marijuana.
etc.... etc.....
Hell, I'm sure every day in the Tennessee Congress a legislator makes a speech intending to frighten people into action. Wouldn't shooting/posting "horror movies" in Tennessee be illegal? It's hard to argue that Wes Craven's movies -aren't- intended to frighten viewers.
There is no reason why a break clause allowing one party to unilaterally cancel a contract on grounds of unreasonable behaviour by the other should allow the cancelling party out of their obligations whilst requiring the other party to fulfill theirs. Let's have another thought experiement: Imagine if it were possible to just withdraw a payment you've made. You call up your bank, ask them to withdraw it and whoosh, the money is back in your account. You get thrown out - you call your bank and get your money back. Why would that be wrong? Everyone is now back where they started - you haven't seen the movie, the theater hasn't got your money.
But it isn't where they started -- the theater is out a seat (the movie has already started), it required a confrontation on the part of the staff, and it greatly degrades the experience of those around her, an experience they paid for.
If she were to go to a department store, grab a vase and smash it against the ground, would they be remiss in charging her for it? Or would we have to escort her out, tell her not to come back, and the cost of that vase is simply "the cost of doing business." A physical item shouldn't need to be involved, the business loses money whether it's refunding a ticket or replacing an item, both because of the customer's intentional action.
yes, there are times when it is necessary to check any messages you may receive. For example, about six months after my wife and I had our first child, we finally got a break to go see a movie. Every time our phone vibrated, we had to check it to make sure our kid wasn't in the hospital or something.
Yes, we were paranoid.
Why was your phone vibrating that much? I'm just curious. I don't give people my sms contact unless it's very important, people don't call, etc. I don't see why people feel that everyone in the world has to be able to reach them at all times. I would go crazy if people were sending my -phone- texts all the damn time, or just dialing me up just to chat. That's fine when I get home. But if I want to go out and be social, I want it to be with the person I'm going out with, doing the activities we left the house to do.
I understand having an emergency phone/emergency contact, but it's never worth making your anytime casual contact the same thing.
We chose Alamo Draft House, enjoyed a burger and a few beers, sat on the very back row, kept our phones on silent mode and in my wife's purse so we could check by looking into the purse without actually taking the phones out.
Hey, if you can actually do it so that no one can notice, then no one needs to complain.
My mother was actually in the telco business back in the 90s and early 2000s, working for Verizon selling T3s, OC-3s, OC-12s, etc. She was forced to compete against other companies reselling Verizon's own hardware/infrastructure cheaper than Verizon could because Verizon had more overhead as a larger company.
No offense intended, but I question your mother's evaluation of the situation. One of the perks of being a larger business is that their overhead is often less (per person, not overall) partially due to the economies of scale that they can leverage. If their costs per unit go up the more units they process, then that's not a sign of a well-managed business.
I also know that punishment for DUIs are pretty lax, so if they want to stop them, make it tougher.
So King Solomon, what punishment would you recommend for a DUI?
I am actually serious and curious.
I would say that if someone loses his/her license and is caught driving drunk again with a suspended license, the car gets impounded. I'm amazed how often that situation happens.
Every time they offer something for X$, there's someone who comes along and says "If only it was available for X/2$ I'd buy it. But if you actually lowered it, most of them would now say X/4$. Or X/8$. Reality is that we know the truth, those who really liked it already bought it at the high price and those who don't will find some other excuse not to buy it.
I used to buy a lot more movies when they were $15-$20 on DVD. Recently though it's been ranging at $25-$35 and it has to be a -really- good movie for me to want to spring for it. I thought the early-2000s pricing model was a pretty good trade-off.
Well, according to heise.de (german), about 250 policemen were involved. On my scale that is massive, even if the number of people arrested is not that high.
19 policemen per person seems like a bit of overkill.
she signaled to change lanes in front of me, so I quickly flashed my highs twice; this historically means "go ahead you're clear."
I have never heard another person who made this association. Normally flashing your highs is a warning, such as if another driver forgot to turn their headlights on. I certainly wouldn't have known flashing would mean "go ahead, you're clear," and I don't know of a single other person who would.
Funny that Lower Merion is about 30 minutes from where I grew up and my former high school was violating privacy as well through technology. According to reports I am hearing from my family and friend who live in the area there school employees making fake Facebook accounts to befriend students to look for incriminating photos. It seems that many schools forgot that they are there to teach the students and think it is there job to police and discipline them for their activities outside of the classroom. As technology grows so will the number of those who abuse it.
And here I thought school districts were strapped for cash. It sounds like this district had some employees with too much time.
Read an apple fanboi's distorted view of the world. Period.
I don't know, this quote from the article doesn't sound very fanboish: "Moreover, the choice to have strict control over the App Store was driven more by profit considerations than by security foresight, says. "They did not set out to create a supersecure device," Accuvant's Miller says. "They just wanted total control over the apps because they are control freaks, not because they wanted to prevent malware.""
Oh, I love that! Can I use it? As in Transforrretchhh. Geeze (wipes eyes) I can't even say it.
Feel free! I made it up on the spot, but I'm sure it's been used before.
I think Michael Bay is the most extreme example. He said the reason for designing the Transformers with so many little things and spikes and crap on them was just so more things would break off and fly about out of frame when they got hit.
... but disliked the John Saxon (and the guy from Roswell/Bones) on the ship. Saxon was fine in Starship Troopers but out of place here. An anonymous actor would have been better here.
Odd choice. Quick correction as well, it's not John Saxon but Michael Ironside (Starship Troopers, Total Recall, Scanners).
Ah, but I do have an appreciation for history! The problem is that the original X-Men started strong, but the title ended up not being very good and got canceled. It was only published through reprints for awhile until Giant-Sized #1 and X-Men #94 relaunched the franchise. Writer Claremont and artist Cockrum quickly turned it around into a world-class publication, and then Canadian John Byrne took a liking to fellow canuck Wolverine and turned him from "angry little nobody" to "series' most interesting character."
Rogue was fun, the series' first real heel-turn-to-hero character they'd gotten before, and her reasons for switching sides were pretty neat, back in the #160 - #180 days or so. The early 80s were a fantastic time to be an X-Men. 90s and beyond? I just couldn't get into it anymore. I just keep losing interesting after Inferno.
I haven't seen the movie, but from what I remember of Sebastian Shaw from the comics was that his body worked as an energy battery -- absorbing kinetic energy, which he could then turn into super-strength and durability. So I guess he's saving it up. Didn't think he could absorb that much, but I'm not sure if they ever established what his limits were.
I think Kevin Bacon would have looked rockin' with Shaw's mutton chop sideburns, though.
The first X-men movie seemed to be stiff and self-conscious. This is often the case in the first film of a franchise. What was unusual was that the second and third films were *more* stiff and self-conscious. Although there were enjoyable bits, overall the first film sorta worked as a "first film", the second mostly didn't work, and the third didn't work at all. I personally think this was due to an inexcusable overuse of Wolverine in what was supposed to be an ensemble cast. Feel free to disagree.
I didn't find the second X-Men film to be that stiff and self-conscious. Well, maybe some of the stuff with Jean and Cyclops, but I think Cyclops's casting was bad from the start. There was a lot of good stuff in the second movie with Nightcrawler talking with Storm, Wolverine and his past, Magneto as a victim (temporarily). I consider the second movie to be the best of the series, and that's because it had a single, clear narrative. In contrast, the third movie looked like they had three scripts, couldn't decide which one to chose, and just mashed them all together.
I get that for X3, but X2? That's about as good of a movie as could ever be made out of X-Men as a source material.
I had really high hopes for The Wolverine, the upcoming Hugh Jackman film directed by Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream, the Wrestler, Black Swan) and written by Christopher McQuarrie (the Usual Suspects). The story of Wolverine in Japan, one of the character's most interesting/high points in the comics.
Sadly, production was delayed, and Aronofsky dropped out because he didn't want to spend that long of a time on location in Japan. As far as I can tell, a replacement director has not been found.
But I was left imagining what could have been.;-)
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>>>this movie proved to me that, above all else, Kevin Bacon is really good at playing assholes
That was proved to me when I saw Kevin Bacon in the Invisible Man. Dark personality. Very dark. (Also fun to watch him play with that one chick's nipple. There's just not enough breast foddling in 2010 movies.);-)
Sounds like Verhoeven needs to direct a few more!
I was disappointed in Hollow Man though. Started off so well, yet ended up so poorly.
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Hey, asshole: she's an academy award winner. Meaning: she's a pretty face, plus a lot more. If you place her mentally in the same category as Pam Anderson, you're the idiot.
I await your lecture as to why her academy award for best actress has no meaning.
So sayeth an anonymous coward on the Internet, signifying nothing.
Unfortunately for Halle, the current opinion going around, given her body of work since Monster's Ball, is the latter film was an aberration, not the rule.
She was terrible in the X-Men films, but George Lucas got some bad acting out of good actors from the prequels, so I try not to give one work/franchise too much credence these days.
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Times are changing dude, a bunch of people in suits, silk ties, and $500 shoes expecting you to listen and respect them just because they are wearing that clothes are starting to lose out to the bunch of people that can actually prove what they are talking about and not just look like it.
Yes, I heard a lot of that sort of thing around the time of the dot-com bubble. It wasn't true after the crash either.
So my grand father was a fire and brimstone southern baptist preacher. Most of his sermons were intended to frighten people of going to hell. So in this day and age he would have been breaking the law.
The movie Reefer Madness was intended to scare people of the evils of marijuana.
etc.... etc.....
Hell, I'm sure every day in the Tennessee Congress a legislator makes a speech intending to frighten people into action.
Wouldn't shooting/posting "horror movies" in Tennessee be illegal? It's hard to argue that Wes Craven's movies -aren't- intended to frighten viewers.
There is no reason why a break clause allowing one party to unilaterally cancel a contract on grounds of unreasonable behaviour by the other should allow the cancelling party out of their obligations whilst requiring the other party to fulfill theirs.
Let's have another thought experiement: Imagine if it were possible to just withdraw a payment you've made. You call up your bank, ask them to withdraw it and whoosh, the money is back in your account. You get thrown out - you call your bank and get your money back. Why would that be wrong? Everyone is now back where they started - you haven't seen the movie, the theater hasn't got your money.
But it isn't where they started -- the theater is out a seat (the movie has already started), it required a confrontation on the part of the staff, and it greatly degrades the experience of those around her, an experience they paid for.
If she were to go to a department store, grab a vase and smash it against the ground, would they be remiss in charging her for it? Or would we have to escort her out, tell her not to come back, and the cost of that vase is simply "the cost of doing business." A physical item shouldn't need to be involved, the business loses money whether it's refunding a ticket or replacing an item, both because of the customer's intentional action.
yes, there are times when it is necessary to check any messages you may receive. For example, about six months after my wife and I had our first child, we finally got a break to go see a movie. Every time our phone vibrated, we had to check it to make sure our kid wasn't in the hospital or something.
Yes, we were paranoid.
Why was your phone vibrating that much? I'm just curious. I don't give people my sms contact unless it's very important, people don't call, etc. I don't see why people feel that everyone in the world has to be able to reach them at all times. I would go crazy if people were sending my -phone- texts all the damn time, or just dialing me up just to chat. That's fine when I get home. But if I want to go out and be social, I want it to be with the person I'm going out with, doing the activities we left the house to do.
I understand having an emergency phone/emergency contact, but it's never worth making your anytime casual contact the same thing.
We chose Alamo Draft House, enjoyed a burger and a few beers, sat on the very back row, kept our phones on silent mode and in my wife's purse so we could check by looking into the purse without actually taking the phones out.
Hey, if you can actually do it so that no one can notice, then no one needs to complain.
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I'm referring to cable television, not internet.
These days it's getting more difficult to separate the two.
My mother was actually in the telco business back in the 90s and early 2000s, working for Verizon selling T3s, OC-3s, OC-12s, etc. She was forced to compete against other companies reselling Verizon's own hardware/infrastructure cheaper than Verizon could because Verizon had more overhead as a larger company.
No offense intended, but I question your mother's evaluation of the situation. One of the perks of being a larger business is that their overhead is often less (per person, not overall) partially due to the economies of scale that they can leverage. If their costs per unit go up the more units they process, then that's not a sign of a well-managed business.
I also know that punishment for DUIs are pretty lax, so if they want to stop them, make it tougher.
So King Solomon, what punishment would you recommend for a DUI?
I am actually serious and curious.
I would say that if someone loses his/her license and is caught driving drunk again with a suspended license, the car gets impounded.
I'm amazed how often that situation happens.
Commercial TV and movies is entertainment, not culture... seriously.
How is it not both?
I used to buy a lot more movies when they were $15-$20 on DVD. Recently though it's been ranging at $25-$35 and it has to be a -really- good movie for me to want to spring for it. I thought the early-2000s pricing model was a pretty good trade-off.
Well, according to heise.de (german), about 250 policemen were involved. On my scale that is massive, even if the number of people arrested is not that high.
19 policemen per person seems like a bit of overkill.
she signaled to change lanes in front of me, so I quickly flashed my highs twice; this historically means "go ahead you're clear."
I have never heard another person who made this association. Normally flashing your highs is a warning, such as if another driver forgot to turn their headlights on. I certainly wouldn't have known flashing would mean "go ahead, you're clear," and I don't know of a single other person who would.
Funny that Lower Merion is about 30 minutes from where I grew up and my former high school was violating privacy as well through technology. According to reports I am hearing from my family and friend who live in the area there school employees making fake Facebook accounts to befriend students to look for incriminating photos. It seems that many schools forgot that they are there to teach the students and think it is there job to police and discipline them for their activities outside of the classroom. As technology grows so will the number of those who abuse it.
And here I thought school districts were strapped for cash. It sounds like this district had some employees with too much time.
How do they use keyboards given the size of their fingers?
Maybe it's all voice activated. They probably use Dragon Naturally Speaking.
Read an apple fanboi's distorted view of the world. Period.
I don't know, this quote from the article doesn't sound very fanboish:
"Moreover, the choice to have strict control over the App Store was driven more by profit considerations than by security foresight, says. "They did not set out to create a supersecure device," Accuvant's Miller says. "They just wanted total control over the apps because they are control freaks, not because they wanted to prevent malware.""
> Is that related to "Baying it up?"
Oh, I love that! Can I use it? As in Transforrretchhh. Geeze (wipes eyes) I can't even say it.
Feel free! I made it up on the spot, but I'm sure it's been used before.
I think Michael Bay is the most extreme example. He said the reason for designing the Transformers with so many little things and spikes and crap on them was just so more things would break off and fly about out of frame when they got hit.
... but disliked the John Saxon (and the guy from Roswell/Bones) on the ship. Saxon was fine in Starship Troopers but out of place here. An anonymous actor would have been better here.
Odd choice. Quick correction as well, it's not John Saxon but Michael Ironside (Starship Troopers, Total Recall, Scanners).
Ah, but I do have an appreciation for history! The problem is that the original X-Men started strong, but the title ended up not being very good and got canceled. It was only published through reprints for awhile until Giant-Sized #1 and X-Men #94 relaunched the franchise. Writer Claremont and artist Cockrum quickly turned it around into a world-class publication, and then Canadian John Byrne took a liking to fellow canuck Wolverine and turned him from "angry little nobody" to "series' most interesting character."
Rogue was fun, the series' first real heel-turn-to-hero character they'd gotten before, and her reasons for switching sides were pretty neat, back in the #160 - #180 days or so. The early 80s were a fantastic time to be an X-Men. 90s and beyond? I just couldn't get into it anymore. I just keep losing interesting after Inferno.
I haven't seen the movie, but from what I remember of Sebastian Shaw from the comics was that his body worked as an energy battery -- absorbing kinetic energy, which he could then turn into super-strength and durability. So I guess he's saving it up. Didn't think he could absorb that much, but I'm not sure if they ever established what his limits were.
I think Kevin Bacon would have looked rockin' with Shaw's mutton chop sideburns, though.
The first X-men movie seemed to be stiff and self-conscious. This is often the case in the first film of a franchise. What was unusual was that the second and third films were *more* stiff and self-conscious. Although there were enjoyable bits, overall the first film sorta worked as a "first film", the second mostly didn't work, and the third didn't work at all. I personally think this was due to an inexcusable overuse of Wolverine in what was supposed to be an ensemble cast. Feel free to disagree.
I didn't find the second X-Men film to be that stiff and self-conscious. Well, maybe some of the stuff with Jean and Cyclops, but I think Cyclops's casting was bad from the start. There was a lot of good stuff in the second movie with Nightcrawler talking with Storm, Wolverine and his past, Magneto as a victim (temporarily). I consider the second movie to be the best of the series, and that's because it had a single, clear narrative. In contrast, the third movie looked like they had three scripts, couldn't decide which one to chose, and just mashed them all together.
In X-Men Origins: Wolverine, it shows a non-handicapped, bald, older Xavier greeting the mutant children.
Was he supposed to be old? My recollection of Xavier was that, like Montgomery Burns, he lost his hair in high school.
George Lucas (Verb) Lucasing, Lucased (a) The act of committing graphics overkill.
Is that related to "Baying it up?"
I get that for X3, but X2? That's about as good of a movie as could ever be made out of X-Men as a source material.
I had really high hopes for The Wolverine, the upcoming Hugh Jackman film directed by Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream, the Wrestler, Black Swan) and written by Christopher McQuarrie (the Usual Suspects). The story of Wolverine in Japan, one of the character's most interesting/high points in the comics.
Sadly, production was delayed, and Aronofsky dropped out because he didn't want to spend that long of a time on location in Japan. As far as I can tell, a replacement director has not been found.
But I was left imagining what could have been. ;-)
>>>this movie proved to me that, above all else, Kevin Bacon is really good at playing assholes
That was proved to me when I saw Kevin Bacon in the Invisible Man. Dark personality. Very dark. (Also fun to watch him play with that one chick's nipple. There's just not enough breast foddling in 2010 movies.) ;-)
Sounds like Verhoeven needs to direct a few more!
I was disappointed in Hollow Man though. Started off so well, yet ended up so poorly.
Hey, asshole: she's an academy award winner. Meaning: she's a pretty face, plus a lot more. If you place her mentally in the same category as Pam Anderson, you're the idiot.
I await your lecture as to why her academy award for best actress has no meaning.
So sayeth an anonymous coward on the Internet, signifying nothing.
Unfortunately for Halle, the current opinion going around, given her body of work since Monster's Ball, is the latter film was an aberration, not the rule.
She was terrible in the X-Men films, but George Lucas got some bad acting out of good actors from the prequels, so I try not to give one work/franchise too much credence these days.