On another note, how come html tags in here no longer let me put a space between my first and second paragraphs? This has happened the last few times I've posted and it really annoys me. I have identical html between the first and second and the second and third paragraphs, yet only one has a space between them. Grr.
I don't know why, but I usually have to put two paragraph tabs instead of one between the first and second paragraph in order for it to actually separate them.
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He gave two completely conflicting stories of his origin. I'd say that counts as a lie.
There's a big difference between a silent movie and a movie with little dialog. In the movie without dialog, you still have plenty of sound. Many silent movies still had dialog, just not voices.
I thought he used Eve's arm-cannon to bust out. In fact, he didn't know which way to hold it, which is why when he tried to shoot the repair robot, it fired backwards and blew out the power instead.
Actually one thing I really liked about Wall-E was how all the humans were shown as fundamentally decent people willing to give up ultimate comfort once an alternative was offered to them.
I agree. The humans weren't willfully destructive or lazy, they simply had developed to have every care or whim taken care of for them. Basically, living on a cruise vacation for 700 years.
The line from the kid, "when everyone's special then nobody is" I found to be a pretty horrible statement, the implication being that he can't really shine unless everyone else is inferior in every way.
Completely disagree here.:) It's a disparagement of our modern focus on claiming that everyone is equal. Everyone isn't equal though -- some people are clearly better than others at certain things. Dash is obviously much better than any of the other kids at running, but he's being held back because excelling goes against what they've been taught to believe, that we're all equal. He knows he's capable of doing better, and he wants to be "special." The phrase "everyone's special" is insulting. The point of the final race is that Dash now has another outlet -- hero work with his family. He doesn't need to show off anymore, and he doesn't need to flout his powers. Now that he can run elsewhere, he doesn't need to "win" the race. He can, but doesn't have to.
Five minutes into Cars you know everything that's going to happen in the rest of the movie.
Yeah, Cars is more about the characters (including the town as a character) than the plotline.
My home router uses NAT. And sometimes I use my own DNS server to serve the home network and give that network a private TLD. Are those sorts of setups impacted now?
The "kill the tooth fairies one at a time" thing was pretty stupid.
But with "And Prince Nuala had just asked if anybody wanted to challenge his right to rule" I always interpreted that as part of the magical rites required to activate the army since his father gave the same speech.
Danny Elfman has been coasting for years. I didn't even realize it was him til the end.
Sadly, I have to agree with this one. I didn't realize until the end that it was Elfman, but I remember thinking earlier in the film "you know, this music is pretty inappropriate." His "chorus of voices" as a music instrument thing was so much better as well as more appropriate in Edward Scissorhands.
The songs from Corpse Bride were pretty good. Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2 were excellent. Other than that I can't even remember an Elfman score from the last decade.
Coal plant efficiency: 33% your oil powered car's efficiency: ~20% shifting the source of power from a less efficient source to one nearly twice as efficient? priceless.
You have to factor in how much pollution per unit of energy is released, and what type of pollution it is as well. Burning coal is far more hazardous to the local population than, say, burning natural gas.
I think the first steps need to come from the top. First, the US's energy grid needs modernization and capacity greatly increased. The coal plants in the east (especially there) and natural gas plants in the west need to be replaced. And this will, of course, require a tremendous infusion of capital. Good thing our economy is going strong and we're not blowing all our money in the middle east or with trade surpluses to China.
I think the first step in the right direction would be to get over our stupid hysteria over nuclear power. Even the greens are starting to buckle on this point. Only the most hard-liners think wind and solar power are panaceas now.
Yup, every since I upgraded to Fedora 9, neither pidgin nor licq can connect to the ICQ network anymore. Pidgin can sign on using the AIM protocol though, and if I send a message to an ICQ number, it will go through and I can chat.
The networks are merged, but the recent clients can't chat using the new protocol. licq 1.3.5 says "Unknown signon error: 0x1c" and pidgin 2.4.2 says "The client version you are using is too old. Please upgrade at http://pidgin.im/"
Uhh, ok. So if he votes FOR a bill as a senator, why do you have any confidence that he would -not- vote for a bill as President? Really, there is one and only one reason why he's willing to vote for the bill -- he wants the support of the telcos when he goes against McCain. At very least, he doesn't want to seriously piss them off.
A good example -- OJ. Hey, I think he did it as well, but a jury in a criminal court found him not guilt. Somehow.. somehow trying him for the exact same crime in a civil court is not considered Double Jeopardy, so he still ends up paying everything he owned.
I am sorry but.. what in IonHand's post could have been considered flamebait? Her(?) post was clear that she wasn't offering legal advice and was asking an on-topic question of a legal issue that's entirely related to the discussion. Did someone have a personal grudge?
This is what I save the "Underrated" tag for -- to mod up posts that were unfairly modded down out of the blue.
The Internet also allows you to operate places that concentrate a certain mindset and excludes others. It's easier to bring people together, certainly, but it's also just as easy to set up a completely polarized environment there.
I'm not sure I'd trust Spamhaus's spam statistics. They tend to be pretty hardcore about what they consider spam. They blocked Youtube, for example, simply because someone send out spam that advertised a video on Youtube.
4: put it on the moon, where it will generate 'magnetic radiation' and blow the moon out of earth's orbit. If it leads us into contact with a race of hot, shape-changing aliens with fuzzy eyebrows, perhaps it's worth it.
I told her that I'm a programmer and I don't understand what it means to free up programming space, From the various snippets the customer service people have given out... if you read between the lines it sounds like Netflix's profile system was poorly written, doesn't scale, and takes up a lot of resources (all due to that "poorly written" thing again), and Netflix either doesn't have the man hours or the programming talent to rewrite the feature to make it work properly. They did a cost/benefit analysis of how much they thought it would cost versus the people who used the feature and figured out junking profiles was the best option.
I need to receive paper statements since my employer reimbursed me for DSL costs (I'm on call and expected to log in from home to fix things). They don't accept emailed transactions, only original bills (no photocopies).
Leaving a bad taste in the mouths of your current customers is not good advertising. "Netflix is removing a useful feature" is not going to gain them a single new customer, and it will cause some customers who were already on the edge to cancel.
Don't touch my tomatoes, though. I don't care what they're infected with, I'm eating them. I like it, I like it. I just wish my tomato-hating boyfriend agreed with you.:(
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On another note, how come html tags in here no longer let me put a space between my first and second paragraphs? This has happened the last few times I've posted and it really annoys me. I have identical html between the first and second and the second and third paragraphs, yet only one has a space between them. Grr.
I don't know why, but I usually have to put two paragraph tabs instead of one between the first and second paragraph in order for it to actually separate them.
He gave two completely conflicting stories of his origin. I'd say that counts as a lie.
There's a big difference between a silent movie and a movie with little dialog. In the movie without dialog, you still have plenty of sound. Many silent movies still had dialog, just not voices.
I thought he used Eve's arm-cannon to bust out. In fact, he didn't know which way to hold it, which is why when he tried to shoot the repair robot, it fired backwards and blew out the power instead.
There's a frickin' laser beam on his head!
Strangely, never used as a weapon. He cuts trash apart to compact it. Johnny-5, however, was designed as a weapon.
Actually one thing I really liked about Wall-E was how all the humans were shown as fundamentally decent people willing to give up ultimate comfort once an alternative was offered to them.
I agree. The humans weren't willfully destructive or lazy, they simply had developed to have every care or whim taken care of for them. Basically, living on a cruise vacation for 700 years.
The line from the kid, "when everyone's special then nobody is" I found to be a pretty horrible statement, the implication being that he can't really shine unless everyone else is inferior in every way.
Completely disagree here. :) It's a disparagement of our modern focus on claiming that everyone is equal. Everyone isn't equal though -- some people are clearly better than others at certain things. Dash is obviously much better than any of the other kids at running, but he's being held back because excelling goes against what they've been taught to believe, that we're all equal. He knows he's capable of doing better, and he wants to be "special." The phrase "everyone's special" is insulting. The point of the final race is that Dash now has another outlet -- hero work with his family. He doesn't need to show off anymore, and he doesn't need to flout his powers. Now that he can run elsewhere, he doesn't need to "win" the race. He can, but doesn't have to.
Five minutes into Cars you know everything that's going to happen in the rest of the movie.
Yeah, Cars is more about the characters (including the town as a character) than the plotline.
My home router uses NAT. And sometimes I use my own DNS server to serve the home network and give that network a private TLD. Are those sorts of setups impacted now?
The "kill the tooth fairies one at a time" thing was pretty stupid.
But with "And Prince Nuala had just asked if anybody wanted to challenge his right to rule" I always interpreted that as part of the magical rites required to activate the army since his father gave the same speech.
Danny Elfman has been coasting for years. I didn't even realize it was him til the end.
Sadly, I have to agree with this one. I didn't realize until the end that it was Elfman, but I remember thinking earlier in the film "you know, this music is pretty inappropriate." His "chorus of voices" as a music instrument thing was so much better as well as more appropriate in Edward Scissorhands.
The songs from Corpse Bride were pretty good. Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2 were excellent. Other than that I can't even remember an Elfman score from the last decade.
Coal plant efficiency: 33% your oil powered car's efficiency: ~20% shifting the source of power from a less efficient source to one nearly twice as efficient? priceless.
You have to factor in how much pollution per unit of energy is released, and what type of pollution it is as well. Burning coal is far more hazardous to the local population than, say, burning natural gas.
I really don't think I'd like to swap my nice new $5000 battery pack for whatever the last guy left at the station.
Not a problem if the batteries are all the same. I think enforced battery standards are the only way such a scheme could work.
I think the first steps need to come from the top. First, the US's energy grid needs modernization and capacity greatly increased. The coal plants in the east (especially there) and natural gas plants in the west need to be replaced. And this will, of course, require a tremendous infusion of capital. Good thing our economy is going strong and we're not blowing all our money in the middle east or with trade surpluses to China.
I think the first step in the right direction would be to get over our stupid hysteria over nuclear power. Even the greens are starting to buckle on this point. Only the most hard-liners think wind and solar power are panaceas now.
Yup, every since I upgraded to Fedora 9, neither pidgin nor licq can connect to the ICQ network anymore. Pidgin can sign on using the AIM protocol though, and if I send a message to an ICQ number, it will go through and I can chat.
The networks are merged, but the recent clients can't chat using the new protocol. licq 1.3.5 says "Unknown signon error: 0x1c" and pidgin 2.4.2 says "The client version you are using is too old. Please upgrade at http://pidgin.im/"
Uhh, ok. So if he votes FOR a bill as a senator, why do you have any confidence that he would -not- vote for a bill as President? Really, there is one and only one reason why he's willing to vote for the bill -- he wants the support of the telcos when he goes against McCain. At very least, he doesn't want to seriously piss them off.
He's selling out to get elected.
A good example -- OJ. Hey, I think he did it as well, but a jury in a criminal court found him not guilt. Somehow.. somehow trying him for the exact same crime in a civil court is not considered Double Jeopardy, so he still ends up paying everything he owned.
I am sorry but.. what in IonHand's post could have been considered flamebait? Her(?) post was clear that she wasn't offering legal advice and was asking an on-topic question of a legal issue that's entirely related to the discussion. Did someone have a personal grudge?
This is what I save the "Underrated" tag for -- to mod up posts that were unfairly modded down out of the blue.
The Internet also allows you to operate places that concentrate a certain mindset and excludes others. It's easier to bring people together, certainly, but it's also just as easy to set up a completely polarized environment there.
I'm not sure I'd trust Spamhaus's spam statistics. They tend to be pretty hardcore about what they consider spam. They blocked Youtube, for example, simply because someone send out spam that advertised a video on Youtube.
That's kind of ironic since most of them aren't even republicans!
Both the far left and the far right have about the same amount of contempt for science. The issues and focus change, that's all.I need to receive paper statements since my employer reimbursed me for DSL costs (I'm on call and expected to log in from home to fix things). They don't accept emailed transactions, only original bills (no photocopies).
Leaving a bad taste in the mouths of your current customers is not good advertising. "Netflix is removing a useful feature" is not going to gain them a single new customer, and it will cause some customers who were already on the edge to cancel.
>Here victims have very little rights really
That's "few", not "little".
No, he was correct. Here, legally, you're allowed to demand Warwick Davis for a judge.