Batman v. Superman is the worst movie in the DC universe.
I guess you didn't see the Green Lantern then. I didn't think it was as bad as a lot of people did, Batman v. Superman was certainly better.
Everyone involved was awful. The script, the screenplay, the line delivery.
I'm old enough that I never thought that anyone could be a better superman than Christopher Reeves. After Batman v. Superman, I think that Henry Cavil has the potential to be at least as good as, and probably better. I think the directors decision to have him play the role a little flatter than he should is at least some of the issue. But overall I thought he played to role well. I didn't care for Ben Afflack as Batman, and Jeremy Irons as Alfred seemed an odd choice to me.
Gal Gadot did nothing but furrow her brow for two hours.
I can't say I ever really cared for WonderWoman, but frankly I though she was the highlight of the movie. Which surprised me. I was actually looking forward to the Wonder Woman movie after watching that movie.
Either we didn't see the same movie, or that's one hell of an exaggeration.
DC films and TV are pretty garbage.
Ahh. I get it now. You're a teenage Marvel fan. I have to agree, Marvel characters are a bit easier to bring to the screen and make entertaining than DC. But I still thought this was a pretty good movie.
My teenage daughter has been wanting to see this for a while now, so I'm pretty sure I'll be going at some point soon. The previews looked pretty good to me, to I'm fine with going. I have a feeling this will be one of those movies that the critics are going to blast, but the public will like. I just looked at IMDB and did check a couple of the reviews. They're were at least a couple (all the ones I read)) that it appears have seen the film and rated it fairly high. So the 8.3 seems reasonable. It certainly wouldn't be the first time the critics got it wrong, if that's the case.
and stopping them from doing so would raise broadband rates.
It doesn't matter what they claim, being a customer of Comcast will cause them to raise rates. I've lived in the same area for well over a decade. Originally I had Adelphia until they fell apart and were absorbed by Comcast. I paid $35/ month for my internet. It has been creeping up over the years since Comcast took over and my last couple of bills have been $95/ month. Up from $85/ month until recently.
Weren't some of the events broadcast in 3D for the last summer games? I guess that's not cool anymore.
While I appreciate Bluray, I just don't see the point of 4K and now 8K. Isn't DVD still outselling Bluray? It used to be VHS vs. DVD. The difference was noticeable on damn near any display size. From a normal distance DVD still looks good on a modest sized TV. I notice the difference on my 50 inch TV in my living room, but DVD is still very watchable. On my projector in my theater room, DVD can be a bit annoying in comparison. But Bluray still looks pretty good to me. I'm sure I would see the difference between 2K and 4K. But do we really need to have DVD, Bluray, 4K and 8K all competing at once? Is there any difference between the last three on a 40 inch television at 10 to 15 feet viewing distance? The sound on a Bluray is certainly a big improvement. But as far as I know, there's no difference sound wise between Bluray and 4K.
Yeah, just the one. But I didn't want to end up in the situation you did and bought some insane set of drivers that had just about every size and type you could ever want. I didn't mention the 4 and 6 fluted drivers or the pentalobe, 5 and 7 node, clutch, etc. and so on. I'm pretty sure I've used them all at one point or another over the years. Granted several have only been needed once, but I didn't want to be running all over town looking for one that I didn't have. Especially if I discovered it at 1:00 in the morning.
So someones flat-head screw bit became a fillips-head screw bit and immediately the owner said "The answer is switching everything to torx-screw bit!"... yeah, that's likely!... not to mention logical.
Hell yeah it is. Torx screws don't strip nearly as easily as Phillips. Besides, I don't want screws that morph into other types. I have several sets of flat, phillips, allen, and torx drivers, but only one set of security torx, tri-wing, snake-eye, and pin-head drivers. I sure don't have any "fillips-head[sic]" drivers.
But the plan didn't cover internal wiring, so exactly what did it cover?
I was kind of wondering that too. I would assume they are responsible for everything to the pole at least. As far as I know, they are responsible for everything to the box on the outside of the house. Just like the phone company. Even so, $5 per month for the cable from the pole to the outside connection is ridiculous.
I mean the only time you would need a tech to come is due to either a wiring problem from the pole to the house or due to an internal wiring problem.
You'd think, but no. At my last house the line from the pole to their location was old and needed to be replaced. After a dozen service calls I finally got a tech who told me the truth. Rather than actually fixing it they ended up sending a tech with a much more expensive modem that could deal with the bad line. It mostly worked until I moved. If I would have had a choice of any other ISP I would have taken it. But even with bad lines it was better than dial-up.
How pure does the feedwater have to be to avoid poisoning the catalyst or the membrane? Maybe subtract the energy required to purify it.
What energy? Reverse osmosis and dionization resins can do it physically and chemically. No energy needed, aside from the pressure needed for RO to work. If you use a fiber/carbon/DI system then gravity is enough. You'll have to recharge the DI resins chemically more often though.
Biggs was only 44 when he died of an aortic dissection. The others all died at only 59 to 60 years old. Far too young, from cancer, heart disease, and a drug overdose.
I read JMS still holds the rights to any B5 movies. He stated he was hoping to make one that included some of the original cast. But at this rate it won't be possible for much longer. Very sad.
Meanwhile, in the real world, the USA is the first country which has developed and deployed a first-strike cyber-weapon.
That is known of by the masses. And it failed in the fact that the creators relied on the date setting of the computer to delete itself. Had they done a better job, no one would have ever heard of Stuxnet. Who knows what else preceeded it.
Didn't they remove Bob a while back because virtually everyone hated it? I guess Redmond's take was that people would like it if only it was more intrusive.
...or maybe Presidents & presidential candidates shouldn't go anywhere near a joke like that.
What about referring to their bowling skills being on par with the special Olympics? Or threatening a drone strike to protect their daughter from a boy? Or chastising the police before knowing the facts?
While I agree with you, the last couple of presidents have said things that I find very inappropriate for that position. So it's certainly nothing new. At the rate we seem to be going, I think we'll be seeing president Camacho within the next couple of decades.
The DNC needs to remove Hilary as candidate for POTUS; she just demonstrated that she's in no way, shape, or form suitable to be POTUS, she in fact is a TRAITOR to this country, setting up an unsecured email server with classified information that foreign powers could access-- or at the very, very least, inviting foreign CRIMINALS to cyber-attack the secretary of state. This is not the mindset or behavior of someone who is qualified or suited to be President of the United States, or of any other country! Even the most rabid, least intelligent Hillary supporters have to come to a Full Stop on this one, she has invited Russians to come screw with our political system!
I'm not a Trump supporter either. They are both awful choices. I'm still undecided, but unless something changes I'll be voting for one of the 3rd party candidates, or my dog if I can't find one that is better.
They are comparing the return rate on the performance of the stock in the company. How many decades has it been since the perceived value of a company has mattered to how well a company is really doing? Companies often times spin off the only/most profitable divisions to make the short term stock price soar only to cause long term failure for the company. I've lost count of how many times I've seen a company's shares tank because they increased profits, but not by as much as projected. The stock price is a fairly meaningless way to rate a company's actual performance in the current system of high frequency trading and short term gain, long term loss market.
And yes, I am an amateur pilot, mostly gliders. Keeping good lookout is essential and normal. I have also been attacked by an eagle, which was concerning but in my glider I am much bigger than it.
I'm not a pilot, but I would imagine flying a glider for pleasure is a bit different than what fire fighting pilots are doing. How many birds would be flying over wild fires? Plus visibility could be diminished if there's smoke in the air. It seems to be a stupid risk just so someone can post a video on YouTube.
Agreed. But it's become pretty complicated. I don't think China has protectionist tariffs in place. What they have is artificially depressed currency. So effectively it's a high tariff on any imported goods. Plus the government also controls the value of certain items to try to gain a monopoly in that market. Look at rare earth minerals and solar panels. They driven the prices so low that it's not economical to mine most rare earths outside of China currently. Solar panels from China have put a lot of companies out of business.
So maybe in Trump's bloviating buffoon mind he thinks he can raise the import duty / tariffs sky high as protectionism to force jobs to come back.
The US has import tariffs on around 12,000 items already, many of which are there to keep companies in the US in business. Paperclips have a 127% import tax. Which is why nearly all of them sold in the US are made in the US. Peanuts are taxed between 130% and 160% Tobacco has a 350% import tax. Those are products that tariffs have successfully kept producers in the US in business.
The president, in 2011, tried to keep tire manufacturing in the US by raising the tariff on Chinese made tires to 35%. But all it managed to do was to move manufacturing to countries other than China.
Of course for worst case we can go back to the tariff wars caused by the Fordney-McCumber Tariff. Once European countries also raised their import tariffs from the US we got the great depression.
There's certainly something to be said for using tariffs to keep companies in business. Japan has used tariffs and insane regulations to protect their own automotive industry. Obviously if import taxes are pressed too hard it can have a huge backlash too.
As for Trump, like most politicians and businessmen, I'm sure his private persona is much different from his public one. Not that I can see myself voting for him or Hillary.
Yes, Dick Cheney outed Valerie Plame who was an undercover CIA agent at the time. We know this because Libby's own notes state Cheney told Libby about Plame.
Your link if from 2007. It's now 2016. Back in 20011 Bob Novak stated that it was Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage who was his source. Federal Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald knew this all along and instructed both Richard Armitage and Colin Powell to withhold this information from Bush and Cheney.
Lewis "Scooter" Libby had nothing to do with it. Which is the supposed link to Cheney. Cheney may have told Libby. But that's irrelevant since Libby was never Novack's source.
Lots of things are inevitable. Distant future predictions about the technological advances by humans are not.
You already see a slowing of the rate of innovation and speed in digital computers.
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We will hit the wall on current technology, but it won't be the first time. Just as transistors replaced vacuum tubes, something else will likely replace current chips. It's not what I would call inevitable, but that's what I would expect. Who knows, the sun could fire off a giant CME and fry us all before then.
Well, you can vote with your feet, you just need to use those feet to move to a location which has the ISP you want. Everyone makes choices. It is not uncommon to choose a location with the "best schools", or the "shortest commute", or the "best baseball team", why not the ISP you want?
You can vote with your feet, but there's more than just ISP choices to think about. People also have to consider the cost of having a roof over their head, schools, utility prices and taxes. Multiple choices of ISPs doesn't do you much good if you have to live in a "van down by the river".
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skip the movie, I'll give your teenage daughter 90 minutes of entertainment free
I'm pretty sure it won't take 90 minutes to ass rape you with a chainsaw and feed the bits to our dogs. . But we can find out.
Batman v. Superman is the worst movie in the DC universe.
I guess you didn't see the Green Lantern then. I didn't think it was as bad as a lot of people did, Batman v. Superman was certainly better.
Everyone involved was awful. The script, the screenplay, the line delivery.
I'm old enough that I never thought that anyone could be a better superman than Christopher Reeves. After Batman v. Superman, I think that Henry Cavil has the potential to be at least as good as, and probably better. I think the directors decision to have him play the role a little flatter than he should is at least some of the issue. But overall I thought he played to role well. I didn't care for Ben Afflack as Batman, and Jeremy Irons as Alfred seemed an odd choice to me.
Gal Gadot did nothing but furrow her brow for two hours.
I can't say I ever really cared for WonderWoman, but frankly I though she was the highlight of the movie. Which surprised me. I was actually looking forward to the Wonder Woman movie after watching that movie.
Eisenberg spent 10 minutes saying ding-ding-ding-ding-ding.
Either we didn't see the same movie, or that's one hell of an exaggeration.
DC films and TV are pretty garbage.
Ahh. I get it now. You're a teenage Marvel fan. I have to agree, Marvel characters are a bit easier to bring to the screen and make entertaining than DC. But I still thought this was a pretty good movie.
My teenage daughter has been wanting to see this for a while now, so I'm pretty sure I'll be going at some point soon. The previews looked pretty good to me, to I'm fine with going. I have a feeling this will be one of those movies that the critics are going to blast, but the public will like. I just looked at IMDB and did check a couple of the reviews. They're were at least a couple (all the ones I read)) that it appears have seen the film and rated it fairly high. So the 8.3 seems reasonable. It certainly wouldn't be the first time the critics got it wrong, if that's the case.
Too much lynch mob sh*t floating around, it all started with the Tea Party and has now poisoned half of the nation...
You must be very young, or just recently started paying attention.
and stopping them from doing so would raise broadband rates.
It doesn't matter what they claim, being a customer of Comcast will cause them to raise rates. I've lived in the same area for well over a decade. Originally I had Adelphia until they fell apart and were absorbed by Comcast. I paid $35/ month for my internet. It has been creeping up over the years since Comcast took over and my last couple of bills have been $95/ month. Up from $85/ month until recently.
Weren't some of the events broadcast in 3D for the last summer games? I guess that's not cool anymore.
While I appreciate Bluray, I just don't see the point of 4K and now 8K. Isn't DVD still outselling Bluray? It used to be VHS vs. DVD. The difference was noticeable on damn near any display size. From a normal distance DVD still looks good on a modest sized TV. I notice the difference on my 50 inch TV in my living room, but DVD is still very watchable. On my projector in my theater room, DVD can be a bit annoying in comparison. But Bluray still looks pretty good to me. I'm sure I would see the difference between 2K and 4K. But do we really need to have DVD, Bluray, 4K and 8K all competing at once? Is there any difference between the last three on a 40 inch television at 10 to 15 feet viewing distance? The sound on a Bluray is certainly a big improvement. But as far as I know, there's no difference sound wise between Bluray and 4K.
Yeah, just the one. But I didn't want to end up in the situation you did and bought some insane set of drivers that had just about every size and type you could ever want. I didn't mention the 4 and 6 fluted drivers or the pentalobe, 5 and 7 node, clutch, etc. and so on. I'm pretty sure I've used them all at one point or another over the years. Granted several have only been needed once, but I didn't want to be running all over town looking for one that I didn't have. Especially if I discovered it at 1:00 in the morning.
So someones flat-head screw bit became a fillips-head screw bit and immediately the owner said "The answer is switching everything to torx-screw bit!" ... yeah, that's likely! ... not to mention logical.
Hell yeah it is. Torx screws don't strip nearly as easily as Phillips. Besides, I don't want screws that morph into other types. I have several sets of flat, phillips, allen, and torx drivers, but only one set of security torx, tri-wing, snake-eye, and pin-head drivers. I sure don't have any "fillips-head[sic]" drivers.
But the plan didn't cover internal wiring, so exactly what did it cover?
I was kind of wondering that too. I would assume they are responsible for everything to the pole at least. As far as I know, they are responsible for everything to the box on the outside of the house. Just like the phone company. Even so, $5 per month for the cable from the pole to the outside connection is ridiculous.
I mean the only time you would need a tech to come is due to either a wiring problem from the pole to the house or due to an internal wiring problem.
You'd think, but no. At my last house the line from the pole to their location was old and needed to be replaced. After a dozen service calls I finally got a tech who told me the truth. Rather than actually fixing it they ended up sending a tech with a much more expensive modem that could deal with the bad line. It mostly worked until I moved. If I would have had a choice of any other ISP I would have taken it. But even with bad lines it was better than dial-up.
How pure does the feedwater have to be to avoid poisoning the catalyst or the membrane? Maybe subtract the energy required to purify it.
What energy? Reverse osmosis and dionization resins can do it physically and chemically. No energy needed, aside from the pressure needed for RO to work. If you use a fiber/carbon/DI system then gravity is enough. You'll have to recharge the DI resins chemically more often though.
It wasn't the day I originally submitted it and was declined.
Biggs was only 44 when he died of an aortic dissection. The others all died at only 59 to 60 years old. Far too young, from cancer, heart disease, and a drug overdose.
I read JMS still holds the rights to any B5 movies. He stated he was hoping to make one that included some of the original cast. But at this rate it won't be possible for much longer. Very sad.
Meanwhile, in the real world, the USA is the first country which has developed and deployed a first-strike cyber-weapon.
That is known of by the masses. And it failed in the fact that the creators relied on the date setting of the computer to delete itself. Had they done a better job, no one would have ever heard of Stuxnet. Who knows what else preceeded it.
Didn't they remove Bob a while back because virtually everyone hated it? I guess Redmond's take was that people would like it if only it was more intrusive.
...or maybe Presidents & presidential candidates shouldn't go anywhere near a joke like that.
What about referring to their bowling skills being on par with the special Olympics? Or threatening a drone strike to protect their daughter from a boy? Or chastising the police before knowing the facts?
While I agree with you, the last couple of presidents have said things that I find very inappropriate for that position. So it's certainly nothing new. At the rate we seem to be going, I think we'll be seeing president Camacho within the next couple of decades.
I'm not a Trump supporter either. They are both awful choices. I'm still undecided, but unless something changes I'll be voting for one of the 3rd party candidates, or my dog if I can't find one that is better.
Except that Musk is a South African, and those assholes are shadier than a giant oak tree at midnight.
Considering you need light to cast a shadow, wouldn't an oak tree create less shade at night?
They are comparing the return rate on the performance of the stock in the company. How many decades has it been since the perceived value of a company has mattered to how well a company is really doing? Companies often times spin off the only/most profitable divisions to make the short term stock price soar only to cause long term failure for the company. I've lost count of how many times I've seen a company's shares tank because they increased profits, but not by as much as projected. The stock price is a fairly meaningless way to rate a company's actual performance in the current system of high frequency trading and short term gain, long term loss market.
And yes, I am an amateur pilot, mostly gliders. Keeping good lookout is essential and normal. I have also been attacked by an eagle, which was concerning but in my glider I am much bigger than it.
I'm not a pilot, but I would imagine flying a glider for pleasure is a bit different than what fire fighting pilots are doing. How many birds would be flying over wild fires? Plus visibility could be diminished if there's smoke in the air. It seems to be a stupid risk just so someone can post a video on YouTube.
Agreed. But it's become pretty complicated. I don't think China has protectionist tariffs in place. What they have is artificially depressed currency. So effectively it's a high tariff on any imported goods. Plus the government also controls the value of certain items to try to gain a monopoly in that market. Look at rare earth minerals and solar panels. They driven the prices so low that it's not economical to mine most rare earths outside of China currently. Solar panels from China have put a lot of companies out of business.
So maybe in Trump's bloviating buffoon mind he thinks he can raise the import duty / tariffs sky high as protectionism to force jobs to come back.
The US has import tariffs on around 12,000 items already, many of which are there to keep companies in the US in business. Paperclips have a 127% import tax. Which is why nearly all of them sold in the US are made in the US. Peanuts are taxed between 130% and 160% Tobacco has a 350% import tax. Those are products that tariffs have successfully kept producers in the US in business.
The president, in 2011, tried to keep tire manufacturing in the US by raising the tariff on Chinese made tires to 35%. But all it managed to do was to move manufacturing to countries other than China.
Of course for worst case we can go back to the tariff wars caused by the Fordney-McCumber Tariff. Once European countries also raised their import tariffs from the US we got the great depression.
There's certainly something to be said for using tariffs to keep companies in business. Japan has used tariffs and insane regulations to protect their own automotive industry. Obviously if import taxes are pressed too hard it can have a huge backlash too.
As for Trump, like most politicians and businessmen, I'm sure his private persona is much different from his public one. Not that I can see myself voting for him or Hillary.
Yes, Dick Cheney outed Valerie Plame who was an undercover CIA agent at the time. We know this because Libby's own notes state Cheney told Libby about Plame.
Your link if from 2007. It's now 2016. Back in 20011 Bob Novak stated that it was Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage who was his source. Federal Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald knew this all along and instructed both Richard Armitage and Colin Powell to withhold this information from Bush and Cheney.
Lewis "Scooter" Libby had nothing to do with it. Which is the supposed link to Cheney. Cheney may have told Libby. But that's irrelevant since Libby was never Novack's source.
Nothing is inevitable.
Lots of things are inevitable. Distant future predictions about the technological advances by humans are not.
You already see a slowing of the rate of innovation and speed in digital computers. Reply to This Share
We will hit the wall on current technology, but it won't be the first time. Just as transistors replaced vacuum tubes, something else will likely replace current chips. It's not what I would call inevitable, but that's what I would expect. Who knows, the sun could fire off a giant CME and fry us all before then.
No voting with your feet ...
Well, you can vote with your feet, you just need to use those feet to move to a location which has the ISP you want. Everyone makes choices. It is not uncommon to choose a location with the "best schools", or the "shortest commute", or the "best baseball team", why not the ISP you want?
You can vote with your feet, but there's more than just ISP choices to think about. People also have to consider the cost of having a roof over their head, schools, utility prices and taxes. Multiple choices of ISPs doesn't do you much good if you have to live in a "van down by the river".
Wife worked for Verizon for years doing Verizon support (she was sold to frontier earlier this year)
You sold your wife? How much did you get for her?