Why would you need to? This is America and Canada, everyone speaks English (or Spanish, or French) here. W-wait a minute, you wouldn't want to play your region 1 DVD in a different region, would you? Sacriledge!
I have the sinking feeling that's one of the reasons why DVDs come with so few language tracks. Another notion is that possibly the same movie in different regions might be a different cut of the film (some countries have different editing needs..) It might be possible that a different language track won't exactly match the cut of the movie on your R1 disc.
For example, why not pass a law that allows a parent to kill any adult who looks at their child.
I stopped taking public transit around here after I had to sit next to (more than once) a woman who wanted to argue loudly with me (or anyone else, or just the air in front of her if no one was listening) that the law gave her a legal right to do exactly that.
Then she went into a tirade about how the jews stole all her money.
Hell, those commercials make me want to smoke out of spite! In fact, I think I'll buy a pack on my way home from work.
Sounds like the commercials are having their intended effect. "The Truth" commercials are a product of Philip Morris USA. I'm not 100% sure, but I believe they were part of a tobacco lawsuit settlement.
My suspicion is that they made them as annoying as they could intentionally to make non-smoking advocates look bad. Granted, there are crazies and radicals in the anti-smoking movement, but these commercials are certainly reputation-damaging.
That atheism had anything to do with the horrors in China and Russia is a nonsense taught during the McCarthy era. McCarthy used that rhetoric to promote distrust of China and Russia by implying they were "godless heathens" and that godlessness led to evil acts. It's not true. China was Buddhist during the 1900s, now tending towards Christianity. Russia was and is Orthodox.
In McCarthy's "defense," a number of religious conservatives lump anyone who isn't in their particular religion (and sometimes even in their particular sect) along in the "godless heathen" camp. One of my teachers once claimed that any non-Catholic denomination could be classified as a cult out to get me.
It doesn't matter that the Chinese were Buddhists. They weren't Christians. Or, better yet, they weren't Protestants.
Yes, but when you apply a word to an action or condition not normally associated with it (in this case DRM), people will naturally use the most common definition of that word, and a viral infection isn't very accurate. I prefer to use "contaminated" to describe DRM-wrapped files. Its meaning is clear and emphasizes the negative connotations of DRM in the same way that "infection" does.
Well, he's only a producer on one of them (Halo), which means someone else would get to direct. Producer is a title that can mean almost anything, encompassing folks who are incredibly invested and active in a production (IE, Spielburg on Poltergeist. He was rumored to direct some of it), or people who have almost nothing to do with the production at all (IE, the Weinsteins on the Lord of the Rings films).
A network administrator being allowed to gather his belongings and report himself to an exit interview?
The first time most admins get a whiff that their there trouble is when the security guards show up to guarentee he'll not touch a company item till he leaves the building.
Maybe they could write their own DRM, but they cannot write DRM that will work on Apple iPods.. at least not without breaking the iPod's software so it won't work with Apples. And they're not legally allowed to write DRM that will work with iPods as-is. Apple is fiercely protective of the iTunes iPod DRM tie-in.
Mmmm, I thought it had something to do also with the publishing industry, specifically William Randolph Hearst's objections over hemp products replacing wood-pulp products. His Paper Manufacturing Division owned quite a number of acres of timber and the US Department of Agriculture has refined a process to convert the wood stalks of hemp into reams of high-grade paper and cardboard.
DuPont also led the charge, as hemp textiles competed with their dreams of clothing the world in polyester.
In addition, most stores I've been in take the exact same input signal and broadcast it to every set regardless of the aspect ratio or quality of the signal. I've seen some beautiful HDTV displays in stores that generally involved hooking the HDTV tuner directly into the TV and switching it to Discovery HD or something similar. The store media channel usually looks terrible on such TVs. Often they aren't calibrated well, and also a better TV can sometimes more easily show flaws in the source signal.
The same people who think LCD and plasma displays look great don't notice the annoying artifacts in satellite tv broadcasts either.
A few years back my grandmother had digital cable, and I watched an episode of the X-Files. It was one of those episodes that had a number of night/dark scenes (ie, any of them), and the compression blocks/artifacts were very very noticable. I kept thinking.. "Ok. Why would I want to get digital cable when the image quality is so much worse than analog cable?" At least DirecTV tried. AT&T/Comcast were way too greedy with their bandwidth.
I can't speak for the original poster, but I run my Sony Trinitron GDM-FW900 (I believe, off the top of my head, that they are no longer manufactured) at 1920x1200, though it's perfectly capable of 1920x1080 as well.
which TV tuner are you using that will output in 1080p?
It's a sad fact in A/V that you're rarely going to get a 1-to-1 pixel mapping from the source to the display. So often you'll need to upscale or downsample.. I have a 720p LCD projector that looks great for 720p HD, and that's as close as it comes.
Not that that really had much to do with the original arguement, I just figured I'd throw it out there.;)
I could say that the Executive and Legislative branches are co-equal in authority to the Judiciary branch, and that therefore the Administration's claim--absent arbitration by the Supreme Court--carries just as much authority as the claim of a circuit court judge, but that formulation doesn't carry quite the same pep.
Not quite, it's really the court system's job to rule on the constitutionality of the executive and legislative branches' decisions. That they can strike down those decisions doesn't give them more power than the other branches, it means that they have more power in the others in that particular area. The other branches have more power than the court system in different areas (the power to make and enforce laws..). It doesn't require the Supreme Court to rule on a policy either, a lower court has the authority to do so, unless the Supreme Court decides it wants to hear the case.
'Course, this never works when you're being attacked by a fucker and his cronies. The only way to deal with that group is to jam the angry end of a pencil into the thigh of the loudest fucker there. Sure, you get suspended, maybe even a psych eval, but you get the rep for being 'crazy', and you can always make up your grades.
That's also their excuse to put you on personality-altering drugs.
A Horde Paladin? Paladins are against everything evil, bad, unholy, etc. Half the horde is considered evil bad and/or unholy. What's next? Undead paladins? Gnome shamans?
The light is not what you think it is.
Do you have similar objections to Holy-specced undead priests?
The problem is.. how would you have fixed the shaman? The design for the shaman was broken at the core, and only an entirely new design would have been able to fix it, that is, taking away totems completely and replacing them with something else. Even "raid wide totems" would have been a crappy solution. As long as the shaman stood opposite the paladin, they had to be given the same utility or else one faction or the other would have a major advantage in that area that the utility serves. In the case of paladins with their blessings, their utility completely blew the shaman out of the water when it came to raid utility. Shaman are excellent in small-group pvp and 5-man and 10-man instances, but the endgame is centered around 20 and 40-man dungeons, allowing the Alliance to pull ahead. And, as more and more realms have found out over time, the faction that comes to dominate PvE eventually comes to take over PvP, shamans or no.
Now shaman are no longer broken because they no longer need to do what the paladins do. Instead they can offer minor buffs and heals and pump out some good dps. Until the expansion the shaman in a 40-man raid had to be limited to paladin-duties, pidgeon-holing the class beyond its original intent.
I'm excited about the expansion, but I don't want to unsubscribe and lose my alts...
Check out the rules on Blizzard's website, but I'm pretty sure that unsubscribing does not delete your characters. Blizzard wants to make it easy to come back, and one of the ways to do that is to have all your old characters available.. all you have to do is resubscribe...
So, because they had three different ads, that makes it "not racist"? Alright. Here's an idea - A company releases an ad campaign with three different images. In one, a member of the Ku Klux Klan is shoving down a black.
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Why would you need to? This is America and Canada, everyone speaks English (or Spanish, or French) here. W-wait a minute, you wouldn't want to play your region 1 DVD in a different region, would you? Sacriledge!
I have the sinking feeling that's one of the reasons why DVDs come with so few language tracks. Another notion is that possibly the same movie in different regions might be a different cut of the film (some countries have different editing needs..) It might be possible that a different language track won't exactly match the cut of the movie on your R1 disc.
I stopped taking public transit around here after I had to sit next to (more than once) a woman who wanted to argue loudly with me (or anyone else, or just the air in front of her if no one was listening) that the law gave her a legal right to do exactly that.
Then she went into a tirade about how the jews stole all her money.
Yeah, no more AC Transit for me.
Don't forget: no obnoxious/strong perfumes or colognes.
Sounds like the commercials are having their intended effect. "The Truth" commercials are a product of Philip Morris USA. I'm not 100% sure, but I believe they were part of a tobacco lawsuit settlement.
My suspicion is that they made them as annoying as they could intentionally to make non-smoking advocates look bad. Granted, there are crazies and radicals in the anti-smoking movement, but these commercials are certainly reputation-damaging.
In McCarthy's "defense," a number of religious conservatives lump anyone who isn't in their particular religion (and sometimes even in their particular sect) along in the "godless heathen" camp. One of my teachers once claimed that any non-Catholic denomination could be classified as a cult out to get me.
It doesn't matter that the Chinese were Buddhists. They weren't Christians. Or, better yet, they weren't Protestants.
Yes, but when you apply a word to an action or condition not normally associated with it (in this case DRM), people will naturally use the most common definition of that word, and a viral infection isn't very accurate. I prefer to use "contaminated" to describe DRM-wrapped files. Its meaning is clear and emphasizes the negative connotations of DRM in the same way that "infection" does.
Well, he's only a producer on one of them (Halo), which means someone else would get to direct. Producer is a title that can mean almost anything, encompassing folks who are incredibly invested and active in a production (IE, Spielburg on Poltergeist. He was rumored to direct some of it), or people who have almost nothing to do with the production at all (IE, the Weinsteins on the Lord of the Rings films).
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A network administrator being allowed to gather his belongings and report himself to an exit interview?
The first time most admins get a whiff that their there trouble is when the security guards show up to guarentee he'll not touch a company item till he leaves the building.
One of Thrall's more famous lines..
Steve Jobs hates Linux. That's all the answer you need.
He has some respect for some "open-source" projects, but not Linux, or more specifically, not GNU/Linux.
Maybe they could write their own DRM, but they cannot write DRM that will work on Apple iPods.. at least not without breaking the iPod's software so it won't work with Apples. And they're not legally allowed to write DRM that will work with iPods as-is. Apple is fiercely protective of the iTunes iPod DRM tie-in.
Mmmm, I thought it had something to do also with the publishing industry, specifically William Randolph Hearst's objections over hemp products replacing wood-pulp products. His Paper Manufacturing Division owned quite a number of acres of timber and the US Department of Agriculture has refined a process to convert the wood stalks of hemp into reams of high-grade paper and cardboard.
DuPont also led the charge, as hemp textiles competed with their dreams of clothing the world in polyester.
Don't pretend that by doing nothing you are not influencing the outcome.
Perhaps he's just fine with that?
Not everyone's lives revolve around their computers and their relationships with the software on it.
In addition, most stores I've been in take the exact same input signal and broadcast it to every set regardless of the aspect ratio or quality of the signal. I've seen some beautiful HDTV displays in stores that generally involved hooking the HDTV tuner directly into the TV and switching it to Discovery HD or something similar. The store media channel usually looks terrible on such TVs. Often they aren't calibrated well, and also a better TV can sometimes more easily show flaws in the source signal.
A few years back my grandmother had digital cable, and I watched an episode of the X-Files. It was one of those episodes that had a number of night/dark scenes (ie, any of them), and the compression blocks/artifacts were very very noticable. I kept thinking.. "Ok. Why would I want to get digital cable when the image quality is so much worse than analog cable?" At least DirecTV tried. AT&T/Comcast were way too greedy with their bandwidth.
which TV tuner are you using that will output in 1080p?
It's a sad fact in A/V that you're rarely going to get a 1-to-1 pixel mapping from the source to the display. So often you'll need to upscale or downsample.. I have a 720p LCD projector that looks great for 720p HD, and that's as close as it comes. Not that that really had much to do with the original arguement, I just figured I'd throw it out there. ;)
Not quite, it's really the court system's job to rule on the constitutionality of the executive and legislative branches' decisions. That they can strike down those decisions doesn't give them more power than the other branches, it means that they have more power in the others in that particular area. The other branches have more power than the court system in different areas (the power to make and enforce laws..). It doesn't require the Supreme Court to rule on a policy either, a lower court has the authority to do so, unless the Supreme Court decides it wants to hear the case.
No, you're not misremembering things.
In addition, when the parents found the body, they did not call the police.
They called their lawyer instead.
That's also their excuse to put you on personality-altering drugs.
Actually Java was quite good at killing itself.
The light is not what you think it is. Do you have similar objections to Holy-specced undead priests?
The problem is.. how would you have fixed the shaman? The design for the shaman was broken at the core, and only an entirely new design would have been able to fix it, that is, taking away totems completely and replacing them with something else. Even "raid wide totems" would have been a crappy solution. As long as the shaman stood opposite the paladin, they had to be given the same utility or else one faction or the other would have a major advantage in that area that the utility serves. In the case of paladins with their blessings, their utility completely blew the shaman out of the water when it came to raid utility. Shaman are excellent in small-group pvp and 5-man and 10-man instances, but the endgame is centered around 20 and 40-man dungeons, allowing the Alliance to pull ahead. And, as more and more realms have found out over time, the faction that comes to dominate PvE eventually comes to take over PvP, shamans or no. Now shaman are no longer broken because they no longer need to do what the paladins do. Instead they can offer minor buffs and heals and pump out some good dps. Until the expansion the shaman in a 40-man raid had to be limited to paladin-duties, pidgeon-holing the class beyond its original intent.
Check out the rules on Blizzard's website, but I'm pretty sure that unsubscribing does not delete your characters. Blizzard wants to make it easy to come back, and one of the ways to do that is to have all your old characters available.. all you have to do is resubscribe...
Elitist Jerks is a roll model for those horde guilds (like mine) struggling at the end of BWL. In a world of paladins, anything is still possible. ;)
Aha. So white women are by default racist?