Last week Rob shortened the limit of handles from 30 to 20 characters. If you had a handle that was larger than 20 characters it has now been trunccated to 20. Try logging in using the first 20 characters of your handls (spaces included) and your old password.
I went from being "Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love" to "Lord Kano-The Gangst", I had him shorten it even further this weekend.
Actually nobody has the right to happiness. We have the right to the pursuit of happiness. If my ideaof happiness is getting rich and I pursue that end by playing the lottery then that is my right.
>Many states specifically deny criminals the right to collect proceeds from "how/why-I-did-it"types of stories.
I do not know if any of those states deny the ability to profit to relatives. IE, Kevin's grandmother should be able to rake in a fair bit of cash with her "I helped raise a Hacker" story. With Kevin taking a fair bit of the profits for helping her write the screenplay.
>He can't use computers or cellular phones "without the permission of his probation officer."
His PO does not HAVE to give him permission.
>The "can't drive a car" comment, and its ilk, are just BS.
If they REALLY want to make an example of him, driving a car that has a computer in it, or using a radio with a digital tuner could constitute a violation of his parole and get him put back in the pokey.
That kind of storage coupled with high speed internet access will hurt their feelings. Imagine having MP3s of all the music in your local Camelot and NRM in your pocket.
Partially OT, but at the end I think you'll see why I had to use this example.
Global War, THE final combat game you will ever play.
I'm thinking of a massive distributed game server with dynamic on the fly level creation foot soldier level FPS with a Big bad-ass flight sim while the generals direct your actions from a strategy type console. Imagine you and your squad of F/A 18 hornets are escorts to B52s on an early morning bombing run over enemy territory. You're out in front with 5 wingmen to the left and 5 more to the right. All of a sudden on the ground 6 shoulder fired SAMs launch. Even though you've done your best to evade them you lose 3 wingmen to them.
Then all of a sudden AA guns light up the sky. Before you can launch an AARAM and take out their radar you lose 2 more wingmen.
Just when you think that the worst is over, you fly into MiG soup. You and the 5 wingmen you have left confront 10 MiG 29s.
Somehow at the end you and your one surviving wingman finish off the last of the MiGs and get the bombers safely to the target. They let loose and the once modern industrial city below you becomes a 10 mile wide open sore of fire and rubble.
Meanwhile somewhere else, you're on guard duty just inside the coast line of your country. The sirens sound and you know that an air raid is coming. You sit down at your station and check your radar display and you see a few dozen aircraft moving in towards you who don't respond properly to the IFF query that you just sent them. You begin to lock on and prepare to fire your radar guided SAMs and all of a sudden you see that one of the escort fighters has fired an anti-radar missile. You have two choices. Shut off your radar and let them pass or eat the missle.
You kill the radar and let the missle crash into a hillside safely away from you. You get on the horn and let the airbase 250 miles to the northwest know of the incoming enemy bombers...
Elsewhere, you're a marine. You're finishing up a combat sweep inside the borders of the enemy nation. You were just a corporal until a Dragonuv sniper rifle was used to ventillate the chest of your Sarge. You and your unit let loose with the hot stuff. M60's and M16's riddle the side of a crumbling blown in half building while you call in for an artillery strike. The boys with the BIG guns keep firing until the've turned 4 city blocks into a sandbox. The sniper has to be dead, the building he was in and even the whole damned block aren't there any more. You're safe, for the time being.
Now you've got 20 scared pissed off fresh-out-of-paris-island marines looking to YOU for leadership.
The generals & admirals pick and choose strategic targets that will best assist them in the war effort. At the top of each food chain is the soverign of each nation who not only decides on what rules shall be adhered to but negotioates to end the fighting (of course all demands made shall be unreasonable just to keep the fighting going)
I'm thinking about a game where 200 people in at a time would be lame. I'm thinking about a game where 500 people is a minimum to play a decent game. I'm thinking about a game where just the comunication between the distributed servers would saturate a T3. This is the type of thing that could capture the imagination of the ordinary moe so that distributed computing will be understood and supported by the masses.
If it's done through modules that can be plugged in and unplugged again, you can change everything from the type of airplanes to the ammo the tanks can fire.
Something like this would need to be done of hecka fast distributed machines of perhaps quantum computers because of the amount of data involvd and the number of variables which must be calculated. In a situation like that you'd be happy to take all of the computing horsepower you can get and heterogenous interoperation is the best way to get it.
I'm thinking about a game that nobody would ever write because it would be too expensive to code because they'd never get their investment back.
There is ONE group in the population who consistantly turn out in large numbers. The Senior Citizens are ALWAYS the group with the highest turn out.
It's because of their vote that the President and the Congressional Republicans are posturing over Social Security and Medicare. It's because of apathetic baby boomers and "Gen-X"ers that the old people get anything that they want from politicians.
The internet is not going to have any significant influence over these people because they get all of their information at night from Dan Rather. The up-to-the-second nature of the internet is not interesting to the most powerful voters that we have. In 30 years when those people are no longer around and the Internet is a part of the daily lives of more voters, it may be too late. By then they can demonize and regulate the hell out of the internet so that it'll be a toothless tiger. We have a "supposedly" free press in the US, but whenever someone prints something that is unpopular, or politically incorrect there is such a cry to shut them down that nobody with two brain cells to rub together would even think of it.
I mean, 3 weeks out ever every month my wife to be (in 43 days, woohoo) have sex at least once per day. Sometimes I want more, but she's tired. Sometimes she wants more, but I'm tired. Sometimes we're just too exhausted to even think about having more sex.
If you show me someone who is 100% happy with their sex life I'll show you a liar, prude, or someone who's just plain nuts.
He may have planned to re-sell the jet. Imagine an auction with a Harrier starting at $1,000,000US.
There'd be people from all over the globe trying to jump in on that one.
Also, who says that he wasn't planning to rent it out? "Pay me $10,000US per day and you buy your own fuel, and provide your own pilot and you get to use a Harrier in your move like in 'True lies'."
Pepsi advertised it without any Caveats. No little *"Harrier not actually offered."
Those clearinghouse joints that offer prizes of 10 MILLION dollars would be in deep doodoo if they were to sand someone a notice saying "You have just won 1 QUADRILLION DOLLARS, but it will be paid in $10 per year increments for the next 100 trillion years.
This is bullshit, if there is no disclaimer, they should have to pay!
M$ can pull on AOL, what AOL did to to M$ with the IM protocol. In Windows M$ could release a service pack that disables the AOL Adapter for dial up. In Win2k they could eliminate support for the AOL adapter completely.
2-3 years ago Netscape had the lions share of the browser market. IE now has it because of M$ optimizing windows to work better with it.
LK
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>Armies kill people NOW by BLOWING THEM TO BITS.
I'm a smoker, and I know that every drag I take off a cigarette shortens my life ( I remember hearing a figure of 30 seconds per puff, but I'm not sure where).
Just as surely the men who invade other countries know that their actions can shorten their lives when someone retaliates.
>To make your cigarette company connection, you lessen the shame of killing people.
There is no shame in killing when it's necessary.
If some animal were raping your wife/mother/sister and you had a gun, would it be shameful to kill him?
>By what you say you actually say yes to the killing of people if your Big Brother tells you that's ethical.
I make my own decisions, some people need killing. Or are you going to tell me that men like Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and John Wayne Gacey should still be around stealing our air?
>Burn the fucking japs with the A-Bomb you're home,right?
I think that the Germans would have been a better target for the first A-Bomb, but I didn't get to make that choice.
>Kill the yugoslavs you can watch it on CNN like you watch a football game.
Actually I think football is a stupid game and I don't watch it.
>.For you are the true sheep but others are slaughtered by your sheppard.
Let me tell you something about the REAL WORLD. Not every stranger good. Some people like to hurt other people. Military forces should be used for purposes of repelling attacks from aggressors and protecting the helpless.
Or should we all just sit around driving manure powered cars, wearing hemp cloth clothes, and singing songs around the campfire while the lunatics of the world murder people without the possibility of military reprisal?
The 60's are over, grow up and join the real world.
As the net admin, I have a VERY good idea about what goes on on MY side of the firewall.
Even though I'm not eternally vigilant, I've taken necessary steps to prevent all except a DoS attack, in that case I just get a new IP on the firewall, 45 seconds tops.
Re:Should GPL prohibit use of code to KILL people?
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>I'd hate to know that code I submitted (now incorporated into the Linux kernel) was used to kill people.
How would you feel if you found out that the code that your submitted was used to save people's lives?
The military does kill people, but it's (usually) to prevent even larger numbers of people from dying if our enemy wins.
What do you think the Japanese would have done to Asia and the pacific islands if they hadn't been beaten back?
What do you think woud have happened in Nazi occupied europe if the Allies hadn't beaten them back? Weren't 12 million murders enough for you?
If some code that you submit improves memory management so that a howitzer can zero in on an enemy tank 0.423758 seconds faster, I'd say that you just did your part in saving lives.
>I think the GPL should be modified to disallow use of code in weapons.
Does this mean no GPLed code can be used for the atomic disruptor in Quake XXII?
>While this won't stop 3rd parties from using GPL code this way, it should head off any major gov't and private sector projects.
You're mistaken. According to the US Constitution they can take property if just compensation is awarded. Grandted GPL isn't a US only thing, but where does US weapons development occur? In the US! While on American soil the US constitution is supreme.
It would be legal for them to TAKE GPLed software and pay for it, but since the software in question is free, they amount of compensation necessary would be nill.
>Check out the other reply, I mean; can't people express themeselves without juvenile vulgarity? The again he's probably a pubescent 21 year old who thinks every f*ur letter word is a great way to make a point.
Sometimes a good expletive is exactly what fits, to borrow a bit from Buddy Hacket, if you were working in your garage and dropped an anvil on your foot, what would you scream "Speing is here!"? No, what would fit is something along the lines of "F*CK, my foot! I think I F*CKING broke it! OWWW, F*CK!"
I'm sick of pointy heads pretending that they're too evolved to use profanity.
>My reply...easy; I like being safe; and while it's shame that happened to you, ask yourself if she was your sister or wife; if that wouldn't make you feel better.
If it was my sister or wife (I'm not married yet, 45 days and counting) I'd be happy that someone was nice enough to try to keep her from breaking down in the in middle of nowhere where some REAL sick could rape/murder her.
>I have friends in Law Enforcement, and the trick is.. they are all fine people, who think of the greater good. Not Hitler types who want to infringe rights at every turn.
I too have friends and relatives in law enforcement. MOST of them are great people, but some cops (the minority, but still far too many) get into the field because they have a power fetish and are too into the "I'm a cop" thing.
There are two types of people who become LEOs, one is the honest caring person who wants to help society, the other is an asshole who wants to abuse power and push people around.
>Why woud they go to all these lengths to gather info on everybody just to sell it to corporations?
Why do you think that several states are selling Driver's License info (along with digital pictures) to a company to make a HUGE "check fraud" database?
We've been sold out, most of us aren't able to realize it though.
What truth? That you're a moron who's talking out of his ass?
> Quote some old meaningless fart who was too lazy to ever endeavor to be president...
Ben Franklin was 81 at the time of the Constitutional Convention, he was in his mid 80's when the Constitution was ratified. If you are lucky enough to live to nearly double the current average let's see how much you feel like holding office.
>Ok if it makes your scared ass sleep better at night, there are no evil witches.
I'm not afraid of anything. There no doubt are "evil witches" however they have no more supernatural powers than "evil christians", "evil buddhists" and "evil jews".
>I take it your a flaky wiccan who thinks there's no such thing as an evil, powerful witch.
Actually, I'm not a wiccan. Your characterization of some "Powerful Evil Witch Lurking in the Graveyard" is preposterous beyond explaination.
>Get a grip and don't fuck with the darkside you fool.
Who are you, Yoda? You're the one who needs to get a grip. Of all of the religious zealots who have ever lived, I'd be willing to bet that very few of the ones who actually hurt anyone else were witches.
>'m sure I'm bound to offend some people here but I truly believe that if you didn't like "The Blair Witch Project" and/or get scared.. especially from the closing moments... then you have lost the ability to fully use your imagination.
Too bad I couldn't imagine that the movie didn't suck.
I was too annoyed by how whiny and bitchy Heather was to enjoy anything. The two guys were just freaking stupid.
/Spoiler
"He he, i kicked the thing in the river, ha ha ha ha!" Sheer idiocy. OK, you're out in the woods unarmed and virtually alone. You head wierd noises all around your tent and you do what?
1. Shut the hell up and be still. 2. Shut the hell up and look around real stealthy like. 3. Make a bunch of f*cking noise, and shine BIG BRIGHT lights out into the total darkness which draw bright lines across the darkness to your exact position.
Most thinking people would do either 1 or 2.
Can you IMAGINE why some morons wouldn't?
WTF were you sooooo scared about? You never saw the witch. You never saw any evidence of her being there. All you saw were some sticks tied together and three piles of rocks. Oooooh, scary!
Watching BWP was like watching a porno on Cable. Everything except the money shot.
The movie sucked, don't be mad at those kids for pointing it out.
>A movie isn't scary anymore if you know what the monster looks like..horror movies now-a-days spend 10 minutes building up to the scary part so when it does happen, it isn't scary anymore.
A movie can be scarry once you know what the monster looks like, it stops being scarry when you know that the monster can be beaten or at least escaped.
Alien was a prime example of this. Ripley knew what the creature looked like, yet it was still scarry until she survived.
>In closing, to all those aol warez-trading, 2600.com reading, rap-listening, windows 2000-awaiting, gory horror movie-liking punks, get a clue..the nothing in blair witch is 10000 times as scary as the something in your favorite horror movies...
Now it gets personal you espresso drinking little bitch. I concede, my head is not as pointy as yours. I'm not as Gen-X Chic as you, I don't sit around in coffee shops drinking cappuccino and pondering why and how the short haired metallica differs from the long haired metallica.
>in my opinion, the 3 greatest horror movies are: 1. blair witch 2. event horizon 3. the exorcists
The Exorcist was an excellent piece of work. As was The Omen, and Night of the living dead. those first two on your list scarcely deserve shelf space at BlockBuster.
>Your point is well taken, but do you really want to live in a world dominated by the military?
No, in fact I'd like to see fewer stateside military forces. Since it's illegal for them to be involved with domestic law enforcement they should be used primarily as an offshore (or coastal only) defense force.
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Last week Rob shortened the limit of handles from 30 to 20 characters. If you had a handle that was larger than 20 characters it has now been trunccated to 20. Try logging in using the first 20 characters of your handls (spaces included) and your old password.
I went from being "Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love" to "Lord Kano-The Gangst", I had him shorten it even further this weekend.
LK
Where the fuck do you think he's been these past 4 years? Hiding out with DB Cooper? No, he was in jail with no trial and no bail.
LK
Actually nobody has the right to happiness. We have the right to the pursuit of happiness. If my ideaof happiness is getting rich and I pursue that end by playing the lottery then that is my right.
LK
>Many states specifically deny criminals the right to collect proceeds from "how/why-I-did-it"types of stories.
I do not know if any of those states deny the ability to profit to relatives. IE, Kevin's grandmother should be able to rake in a fair bit of cash with her "I helped raise a Hacker" story. With Kevin taking a fair bit of the profits for helping her write the screenplay.
LK
>He can't use computers or cellular phones "without the permission of his probation officer."
His PO does not HAVE to give him permission.
>The "can't drive a car" comment, and its ilk, are just BS.
If they REALLY want to make an example of him, driving a car that has a computer in it, or using a radio with a digital tuner could constitute a violation of his parole and get him put back in the pokey.
Never underestimate the power of an asshole cop.
LK
That kind of storage coupled with high speed internet access will hurt their feelings. Imagine having MP3s of all the music in your local Camelot and NRM in your pocket.
LK
Partially OT, but at the end I think you'll see why I had to use this example.
Global War, THE final combat game you will ever play.
I'm thinking of a massive distributed game server with dynamic on the fly level creation foot soldier level FPS with a Big bad-ass flight sim while the generals direct your actions from a strategy type console. Imagine you and your squad of F/A 18 hornets are escorts to B52s on an early morning bombing run over enemy territory. You're out in front with 5 wingmen to the left and 5 more to the right. All of a sudden on the ground 6 shoulder fired SAMs launch. Even though you've done your best to evade them you lose 3 wingmen to them.
Then all of a sudden AA guns light up the sky. Before you can launch an AARAM and take out their radar you lose 2 more wingmen.
Just when you think that the worst is over, you fly into MiG soup. You and the 5 wingmen you have left confront 10 MiG 29s.
Somehow at the end you and your one surviving wingman finish off the last of the MiGs and get the bombers safely to the target. They let loose and the once modern industrial city below you becomes a 10 mile wide open sore of fire and rubble.
Meanwhile somewhere else, you're on guard duty just inside the coast line of your country. The sirens sound and you know that an air raid is coming. You sit down at your station and check your radar display and you see a few dozen aircraft moving in towards you who don't respond properly to the IFF query that you just sent them. You begin to lock on and prepare to fire your radar guided SAMs and all of a sudden you see that one of the escort fighters has fired an anti-radar missile. You have two choices. Shut off your radar and let them pass or eat the missle.
You kill the radar and let the missle crash into a hillside safely away from you. You get on the horn and let the airbase 250 miles to the northwest know of the incoming enemy bombers...
Elsewhere, you're a marine. You're finishing up a combat sweep inside the borders of the enemy nation. You were just a corporal until a Dragonuv sniper rifle was used to ventillate the chest of your Sarge. You and your unit let loose with the hot stuff. M60's and M16's riddle the side of a crumbling blown in half building while you call in for an artillery strike. The boys with the BIG guns keep firing until the've turned 4 city blocks into a sandbox. The sniper has to be dead, the building he was in and even the whole damned block aren't there any more. You're safe, for the time being.
Now you've got 20 scared pissed off fresh-out-of-paris-island marines looking to YOU for leadership.
The generals & admirals pick and choose strategic targets that will best assist them in the war effort. At the top of each food chain is the soverign of each nation who not only decides on what rules shall be adhered to but negotioates to end the fighting (of course all demands made shall be unreasonable just to keep the fighting going)
I'm thinking about a game where 200 people in at a time would be lame. I'm thinking about a game where 500 people is a minimum to play a decent game. I'm thinking about a game where just the comunication between the distributed servers would saturate a T3. This is the type of thing that could capture the imagination of the ordinary moe so that distributed computing will be understood and supported by the masses.
If it's done through modules that can be plugged in and unplugged again, you can change everything from the type of airplanes to the ammo the tanks can fire.
Something like this would need to be done of hecka fast distributed machines of perhaps quantum computers because of the amount of data involvd and the number of variables which must be calculated. In a situation like that you'd be happy to take all of the computing horsepower you can get and heterogenous interoperation is the best way to get it.
I'm thinking about a game that nobody would ever write because it would be too expensive to code because they'd never get their investment back.
LK
There is ONE group in the population who consistantly turn out in large numbers. The Senior Citizens are ALWAYS the group with the highest turn out.
It's because of their vote that the President and the Congressional Republicans are posturing over Social Security and Medicare. It's because of apathetic baby boomers and "Gen-X"ers that the old people get anything that they want from politicians.
The internet is not going to have any significant influence over these people because they get all of their information at night from Dan Rather. The up-to-the-second nature of the internet is not interesting to the most powerful voters that we have. In 30 years when those people are no longer around and the Internet is a part of the daily lives of more voters, it may be too late. By then they can demonize and regulate the hell out of the internet so that it'll be a toothless tiger. We have a "supposedly" free press in the US, but whenever someone prints something that is unpopular, or politically incorrect there is such a cry to shut them down that nobody with two brain cells to rub together would even think of it.
LK
Except for porn stars who does?
I mean, 3 weeks out ever every month my wife to be (in 43 days, woohoo) have sex at least once per day. Sometimes I want more, but she's tired. Sometimes she wants more, but I'm tired. Sometimes we're just too exhausted to even think about having more sex.
If you show me someone who is 100% happy with their sex life I'll show you a liar, prude, or someone who's just plain nuts.
LK
He may have planned to re-sell the jet. Imagine an auction with a Harrier starting at $1,000,000US.
There'd be people from all over the globe trying to jump in on that one.
Also, who says that he wasn't planning to rent it out? "Pay me $10,000US per day and you buy your own fuel, and provide your own pilot and you get to use a Harrier in your move like in 'True lies'."
Pepsi advertised it without any Caveats. No little *"Harrier not actually offered."
Those clearinghouse joints that offer prizes of 10 MILLION dollars would be in deep doodoo if they were to sand someone a notice saying "You have just won 1 QUADRILLION DOLLARS, but it will be paid in $10 per year increments for the next 100 trillion years.
This is bullshit, if there is no disclaimer, they should have to pay!
LK
M$ can pull on AOL, what AOL did to to M$ with the IM protocol. In Windows M$ could release a service pack that disables the AOL Adapter for dial up. In Win2k they could eliminate support for the AOL adapter completely.
2-3 years ago Netscape had the lions share of the browser market. IE now has it because of M$ optimizing windows to work better with it.
LK
>Armies kill people NOW by BLOWING THEM TO BITS.
I'm a smoker, and I know that every drag I take off a cigarette shortens my life ( I remember hearing a figure of 30 seconds per puff, but I'm not sure where).
Just as surely the men who invade other countries know that their actions can shorten their lives when someone retaliates.
>To make your cigarette company connection, you lessen the shame of killing people.
There is no shame in killing when it's necessary.
If some animal were raping your wife/mother/sister and you had a gun, would it be shameful to kill him?
LK
>By what you say you actually say yes to the killing of people if your Big Brother tells you that's ethical.
,right?
I make my own decisions, some people need killing. Or are you going to tell me that men like Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and John Wayne Gacey should still be around stealing our air?
>Burn the fucking japs with the A-Bomb you're home
I think that the Germans would have been a better target for the first A-Bomb, but I didn't get to make that choice.
>Kill the yugoslavs you can watch it on CNN like you watch a football game.
Actually I think football is a stupid game and I don't watch it.
>.For you are the true sheep but others are slaughtered by your sheppard.
Let me tell you something about the REAL WORLD. Not every stranger good. Some people like to hurt other people. Military forces should be used for purposes of repelling attacks from aggressors and protecting the helpless.
Or should we all just sit around driving manure powered cars, wearing hemp cloth clothes, and singing songs around the campfire while the lunatics of the world murder people without the possibility of military reprisal?
The 60's are over, grow up and join the real world.
LK
As the net admin, I have a VERY good idea about what goes on on MY side of the firewall.
Even though I'm not eternally vigilant, I've taken necessary steps to prevent all except a DoS attack, in that case I just get a new IP on the firewall, 45 seconds tops.
LK
This is just like the "happy hacker" project. The idea is good, but it's nothing new.
LK
I'm behind a firewall. Woohoo! 4 ME
LK
>I'd hate to know that code I submitted (now incorporated into the Linux kernel) was used to kill people.
How would you feel if you found out that the code that your submitted was used to save people's lives?
The military does kill people, but it's (usually) to prevent even larger numbers of people from dying if our enemy wins.
What do you think the Japanese would have done to Asia and the pacific islands if they hadn't been beaten back?
What do you think woud have happened in Nazi occupied europe if the Allies hadn't beaten them back? Weren't 12 million murders enough for you?
If some code that you submit improves memory management so that a howitzer can zero in on an enemy tank 0.423758 seconds faster, I'd say that you just did your part in saving lives.
>I think the GPL should be modified to disallow use of code in weapons.
Does this mean no GPLed code can be used for the atomic disruptor in Quake XXII?
>While this won't stop 3rd parties from using GPL code this way, it should head off any major gov't and private sector projects.
You're mistaken. According to the US Constitution they can take property if just compensation is awarded. Grandted GPL isn't a US only thing, but where does US weapons development occur? In the US! While on American soil the US constitution is supreme.
It would be legal for them to TAKE GPLed software and pay for it, but since the software in question is free, they amount of compensation necessary would be nill.
LK
>Check out the other reply, I mean; can't people express themeselves without juvenile vulgarity? The again he's probably a pubescent 21 year old who thinks every f*ur letter word is a great way to make a point.
Sometimes a good expletive is exactly what fits, to borrow a bit from Buddy Hacket, if you were working in your garage and dropped an anvil on your foot, what would you scream "Speing is here!"? No, what would fit is something along the lines of "F*CK, my foot! I think I F*CKING broke it! OWWW, F*CK!"
I'm sick of pointy heads pretending that they're too evolved to use profanity.
>My reply...easy; I like being safe; and while it's shame that happened to you, ask yourself if she was your sister or wife; if that wouldn't make you feel better.
If it was my sister or wife (I'm not married yet, 45 days and counting) I'd be happy that someone was nice enough to try to keep her from breaking down in the in middle of nowhere where some REAL sick could rape/murder her.
>I have friends in Law Enforcement, and the trick is.. they are all fine people, who think of the greater good. Not Hitler types who want to infringe rights at every turn.
I too have friends and relatives in law enforcement. MOST of them are great people, but some cops (the minority, but still far too many) get into the field because they have a power fetish and are too into the "I'm a cop" thing.
There are two types of people who become LEOs, one is the honest caring person who wants to help society, the other is an asshole who wants to abuse power and push people around.
LK
>Why woud they go to all these lengths to gather info on everybody just to sell it to corporations?
Why do you think that several states are selling Driver's License info (along with digital pictures) to a company to make a HUGE "check fraud" database?
We've been sold out, most of us aren't able to realize it though.
LK
Ooooooh, that was almost as scarry as the Blair Witch Project.
ha ha ha ha
LK
>Does the truth hurt that much?
What truth? That you're a moron who's talking out of his ass?
> Quote some old meaningless fart who was too lazy to ever endeavor to be president...
Ben Franklin was 81 at the time of the Constitutional Convention, he was in his mid 80's when the Constitution was ratified. If you are lucky enough to live to nearly double the current average let's see how much you feel like holding office.
>Ok if it makes your scared ass sleep better at night, there are no evil witches.
I'm not afraid of anything. There no doubt are "evil witches" however they have no more supernatural powers than "evil christians", "evil buddhists" and "evil jews".
>I take it your a flaky wiccan who thinks there's no such thing as an evil, powerful witch.
Actually, I'm not a wiccan. Your characterization of some "Powerful Evil Witch Lurking in the Graveyard" is preposterous beyond explaination.
>Get a grip and don't fuck with the darkside you fool.
Who are you, Yoda? You're the one who needs to get a grip. Of all of the religious zealots who have ever lived, I'd be willing to bet that very few of the ones who actually hurt anyone else were witches.
LK
>'m sure I'm bound to offend some people here but I truly believe that if you didn't like "The Blair Witch Project" and/or get scared .. especially from the closing moments ... then you have lost the ability to fully use your imagination.
Too bad I couldn't imagine that the movie didn't suck.
I was too annoyed by how whiny and bitchy Heather was to enjoy anything. The two guys were just freaking stupid.
/Spoiler
"He he, i kicked the thing in the river, ha ha ha ha!" Sheer idiocy. OK, you're out in the woods unarmed and virtually alone. You head wierd noises all around your tent and you do what?
1. Shut the hell up and be still.
2. Shut the hell up and look around real stealthy like.
3. Make a bunch of f*cking noise, and shine BIG BRIGHT lights out into the total darkness which draw bright lines across the darkness to your exact position.
Most thinking people would do either 1 or 2.
Can you IMAGINE why some morons wouldn't?
WTF were you sooooo scared about? You never saw the witch. You never saw any evidence of her being there. All you saw were some sticks tied together and three piles of rocks. Oooooh, scary!
Watching BWP was like watching a porno on Cable. Everything except the money shot.
I want my $8.00 back
LK
>3fold? Why not twofold, or fourfold? Sounds a bit arbitrary to me.
I don't make the rules. It's what they believe.
You may as well ask "why is a triangle not called a quare?
>And if a witch turns me into a newt, how can that witch be turned into a newt three times?
If such a thing were within a witch's power (which it's obviously not) they would have to worry about a fate 3 times worse. Before oyu ask,,,
What is the cube root of pi?
Can you define it in decimal terms?
How then can you solve this? What is the cube root of pi cubed?
LK
>I felt like hitting them..
The movie sucked, don't be mad at those kids for pointing it out.
>A movie isn't scary anymore if you know what the monster looks like..horror movies now-a-days spend 10 minutes building up to the scary part so when it does happen, it isn't scary anymore.
A movie can be scarry once you know what the monster looks like, it stops being scarry when you know that the monster can be beaten or at least escaped.
Alien was a prime example of this. Ripley knew what the creature looked like, yet it was still scarry until she survived.
>In closing, to all those aol warez-trading, 2600.com reading, rap-listening, windows 2000-awaiting, gory horror movie-liking punks, get a clue..the nothing in blair witch is 10000 times as scary as the something in your favorite horror movies...
Now it gets personal you espresso drinking little bitch. I concede, my head is not as pointy as yours. I'm not as Gen-X Chic as you, I don't sit around in coffee shops drinking cappuccino and pondering why and how the short haired metallica differs from the long haired metallica.
>in my opinion, the 3 greatest horror movies are:
1. blair witch
2. event horizon
3. the exorcists
The Exorcist was an excellent piece of work. As was The Omen, and Night of the living dead. those first two on your list scarcely deserve shelf space at BlockBuster.
LK
>Your point is well taken, but do you really want to live in a world dominated by the military?
No, in fact I'd like to see fewer stateside military forces. Since it's illegal for them to be involved with domestic law enforcement they should be used primarily as an offshore (or coastal only) defense force.
LK