I did only say 'plausible', and I did repeat a mention of Russia, but I hadn't thought of other actors, or false-flag or general-chaos motivations +1 Interesting to you.
Iran actually would have plausible reasons for blaming *this* on the Jews.:P Russia maybe not, but Israel definitely (duh!), and the US maybe (Logically, Americans who feel an affinity towards Israel would have that extra reason to be concerned about, and want to do something about, Iran's nuclear behavior)
This action of buying time, whoever did it, could come in very handy.
Likewise, mediocre musicians can salvage themselves with high energy/attitude/stagecraft/etc. (ah, but the fun really comes when really good music has those same qualities; that's a major reason why I like Zeppelin and Skynyrd so much.:P)
I actually liked Gump, though.
Yes, the Oscars (and other critical opinion) can lean towards more-artistic but less-entertaining works. This is the annoying flipside of "less-artistic but more entertaining"; I tend to actually prefer the latter if I had to choose, though it's more of a dual continuum instead of a simple 2x2 matrix.
As in my above music example, the very best stuff has both (for example, that's one reason why I was so impressed with my introduction to Kurosawa)
I recall some MAD article pointing out that Moor and Limbaugh are both big fat partisan gasbags (in the context of saying that each side theirs is better thna the others)
Good for him to be publicly putting some of his money where his mouth is, rather than just talking about it. Granted, celebrity activism can often devolve into imperfect PR stunts.
The intersection of great story and great effects is a holy grail of sorts. Each side by itself misses something An analogous observation in music: Musicianship itself, and/or the attitude/energy/showmanship of the musicians themselves
special effects as well as camera angles, plot devices, and other cinematic techniques - looking at those old films, such aspects of the film seem mundane now, but were pioneering when they came out. Hmm, I'd suppose that if done well they'd blend seamlessly with the rest of the movie anyway.
In your 50s range, thinking of Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai", which was a simply amazing film anyways. (I suppose any 'special effects' there would have mainly been choreography of the chaos of the final battle scene)
To go further back, D.W. Griffith, "Birth Of A Nation" - even though it glorified the KKK, it was a landmark of cinematic technique for the time.
I wonder if it costs the merchants much more (if any?) to take PayPal instead of the card directly. (I generally fund PayPal payments with one of my cards - in large part for my small handful of cashback)
If the retailer offers the choice of PayPal or using the card directly, I generally just use the card directly.
As far as I understand the relevant US banking rule (is it a new regulation?), you don't get overdraft protection unless you specifically opt into it. The couple accounts I've opened recently (Chase and Citizens), the bankers seemed to explain this clearly, and I was also under the clear impression that, not enabling overdraft protection, the card would be denied.
Shit hasn't *actually* hit the fan [yet?:(], but eh...
Furthermore, some accounts/cards could offer more protection than the legal minimum.
Noticed that security-software scans became rather less necessary once I discovered the wonders of AdBlockPlus. I think I started using it for reduction of garden-variety annoyance, but talk about a side benefit!
Seems like it would help the likes of SETI even without those details; we could aim/to from plausible planets rather than aiming randomly through the universe. And we could narrow our aim with more information even if we don't have full information.
I don't exactly get it...musicians outside of the RIAA are more Earthlike or something?:P Yes, it's encouraging that indies these days can accomplish as much as they do, even if I still find some RIAA stuff to like as well. Indeed, advancing (audio and distribution) technology is intertwined with what progress there is.
Even if the initial seeder isn't trying to be malicious - torrenters make mistakes too, and TPB comments once let me know about some technical issues with a particular file, which I did get fixed.
Would distributing the.torrent's in usual person-to-person manners fall under "on a friend-to-friend basis" as you phrase it? Sure, a server might technically be involved (from the email site or whatever), but I don't think that's what Tribler meant, as you would agree with your example of Google as the server. And not necessarily (put only the.torrent in a sneakernet, etc)
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I did only say 'plausible', and I did repeat a mention of Russia, but I hadn't thought of other actors, or false-flag or general-chaos motivations
+1 Interesting to you.
http://slashdot.org/journal/201888/In-Soviet-xkcd, Journal entry by a /.'er who met Randall Munroe IRL, which leads to this picture: http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/1855/01721azf4.jpg
Iran actually would have plausible reasons for blaming *this* on the Jews. :P
Russia maybe not, but Israel definitely (duh!), and the US maybe (Logically, Americans who feel an affinity towards Israel would have that extra reason to be concerned about, and want to do something about, Iran's nuclear behavior)
This action of buying time, whoever did it, could come in very handy.
Military jargon like this seem sot be a very weird combination of abbreviation and acronym, in ALL CAPS to boot.
Likewise, mediocre musicians can salvage themselves with high energy/attitude/stagecraft/etc. (ah, but the fun really comes when really good music has those same qualities; that's a major reason why I like Zeppelin and Skynyrd so much. :P)
I actually liked Gump, though.
Yes, the Oscars (and other critical opinion) can lean towards more-artistic but less-entertaining works. This is the annoying flipside of "less-artistic but more entertaining"; I tend to actually prefer the latter if I had to choose, though it's more of a dual continuum instead of a simple 2x2 matrix.
As in my above music example, the very best stuff has both (for example, that's one reason why I was so impressed with my introduction to Kurosawa)
His Canadian Bacon film had noticeable political undertones, but was in large part an enjoyable comedy rather than a rant.
I recall some MAD article pointing out that Moor and Limbaugh are both big fat partisan gasbags (in the context of saying that each side theirs is better thna the others)
Good for him to be publicly putting some of his money where his mouth is, rather than just talking about it. Granted, celebrity activism can often devolve into imperfect PR stunts.
The intersection of great story and great effects is a holy grail of sorts. Each side by itself misses something
An analogous observation in music: Musicianship itself, and/or the attitude/energy/showmanship of the musicians themselves
More of a dual continuum than a 2x2 matrix
Han shooting first seems like it would have been a quite legitimate pre-emptive strike.
Also, it's as much the awkward way they edited as the fact that they edited.
I'm surprised it took this long for a comment about the Star Wars special effects to come up. :P
special effects as well as camera angles, plot devices, and other cinematic techniques - looking at those old films, such aspects of the film seem mundane now, but were pioneering when they came out. Hmm, I'd suppose that if done well they'd blend seamlessly with the rest of the movie anyway.
In your 50s range, thinking of Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai", which was a simply amazing film anyways. (I suppose any 'special effects' there would have mainly been choreography of the chaos of the final battle scene)
To go further back, D.W. Griffith, "Birth Of A Nation" - even though it glorified the KKK, it was a landmark of cinematic technique for the time.
All the work editing Forrest into various bits of historical footage; that too.
I wonder if it costs the merchants much more (if any?) to take PayPal instead of the card directly. (I generally fund PayPal payments with one of my cards - in large part for my small handful of cashback)
If the retailer offers the choice of PayPal or using the card directly, I generally just use the card directly.
As far as I understand the relevant US banking rule (is it a new regulation?), you don't get overdraft protection unless you specifically opt into it. The couple accounts I've opened recently (Chase and Citizens), the bankers seemed to explain this clearly, and I was also under the clear impression that, not enabling overdraft protection, the card would be denied.
Shit hasn't *actually* hit the fan [yet? :(], but eh...
Furthermore, some accounts/cards could offer more protection than the legal minimum.
Noticed that security-software scans became rather less necessary once I discovered the wonders of AdBlockPlus.
I think I started using it for reduction of garden-variety annoyance, but talk about a side benefit!
Seems like it would help the likes of SETI even without those details; we could aim/to from plausible planets rather than aiming randomly through the universe. And we could narrow our aim with more information even if we don't have full information.
He might just be an evolutionist using a metaphor. :)
I don't exactly get it...musicians outside of the RIAA are more Earthlike or something? :P
Yes, it's encouraging that indies these days can accomplish as much as they do, even if I still find some RIAA stuff to like as well.
Indeed, advancing (audio and distribution) technology is intertwined with what progress there is.
Once the tech process gets better, we can find more Earthlike planets instead of just these big ones. Still, encouraging.
It's the most popular cheese in the world - this world, and other worlds. ;)
pharmaceutical company .... greed reduction pill.
That seems ironic. Talk about not eating your own dogfood. :P
interesting; looking for those things isn't my level of knowledge/interest. :)
Even if the initial seeder isn't trying to be malicious - torrenters make mistakes too, and TPB comments once let me know about some technical issues with a particular file, which I did get fixed.
Would distributing the .torrent's in usual person-to-person manners fall under "on a friend-to-friend basis" as you phrase it? Sure, a server might technically be involved (from the email site or whatever), but I don't think that's what Tribler meant, as you would agree with your example of Google as the server. And not necessarily (put only the .torrent in a sneakernet, etc)