I read reviews that said this is not broccoli, it's dog shit with green food coloring. Therefore, unless you have some proof it is actual broccoli, I am not eating this shit.
Okay, if you're (mostly) through being a dick, I'm through being a dick. If you remember, I actually encouraged you about your film.
Don't take other people's negative opinions as some kind of projection. People do have actual negative opinions, even of popular things, for legitimate reasons that have more to do with their own aesthetic than with their insecurities.
This man's success does not offend me. I don't feel his films merit critical acclaim, but he makes a product that people enjoy spending money on.
The fact that something is popular does not make it high quality. There is a very old term for that mistake, it's called "sophistry."
So, has anyone reviewed your movie yet? Is it popular? Yeah, thought not. Bitter much? I'm just saying, being a failed artist is probably why you hate critics. Successful and talented artists welcome criticism, because they want to be better artists. People like you, on the other hand, just want the kind of blind adoration you will never, ever get.
I don't have to see it. All the reviews I read, from reviewer's whose opinion's I trust, said it was a crappy film. As if "Directed by James Cameron" wasn't enough of a clue. Seriously, are you actually denying it is Pocahantas in space? Cameron makes focus group tested, mass produced schlock designed for the "mass market," i.e. your average idiot with no taste.
I read reviews, what do you think? Unless the reviewers I read suddenly started lying through their teeth, it's the most puerile tripe I've ever read about. Why would I watch shit like that? I mean, was this the first James Cameron film you've been too? Did you not know what a crap director he is? You were never forced to see Titanic by a girlfriend?
Wrong, sounds like a kid who won't eat mac and cheese, but rather, wants a nicoise salad, a fillet mignon, and some truffle stuffed lobster. Except that I actually like mac and cheese, too, I just don't call it haute cuisine or the best food ever cooked by anyone, anywhere, for ever and ever amen. I mean, some people actually cried over how awesome the movie was, how pathetic is that?
I don't need to see trash to know that it sucks, I can smell that shit. Please, are you really claiming anything Cameron has done is art? You know, I sometimes enjoy bad things, too. I occasionally eat at McDonalds, for instance. But I don't go around telling people it's a fucking fillet mignon.
I love quality and the excellent people who produce items of quality. I hate amateurish populists who mass produce schlock focus group tested to be palatable to idiots.
Speaking of which, how's your movie coming? Scary Philipino bodyless vampires! OOOhhh! Spoooooooky!
I lost my left eye in a mugging. 3d does nothing for me, so that's no plus. And I already got dragged to see Dances with Wolves, do I really need to see the remake just because it has awesome graphics and special effects? I don't go to movies for awesome graphics and special effects. I understand that many people do enjoy pretty pictures, but when I want pretty pictures I go to an art gallery.
I'm honestly not trying to be a condescending snob and claim my tastes are more refined than other people's. And I'm certainly not saying that people who appreciate anything James Cameron has ever done are infantile subhumans who probably consider smearing their feces on a wall high art. And James Cameron is a wealthy and popular director of major motion pictures, far be it from me to call the man the worst director since Ed Wood. But I don't want to feel left out when everyone is sharing their opinions about a popular phenomenon, and I don't want to lie.
Sorry, buddy, but I have not seen James Cameraschlock's Space Smurf Pocahantas and I never will. There are plenty of us who actually, really and truly do not like crap Science Fiction, will not see it, will not buy the Blue-Ray and won't mention it until some idiot tries to defend it or imply that, actually, I really really like it but I'm too much of a snob to admit it.
Well thank you for the reasoned debate. If you ever find me insulting towards you for your beliefs, please remind me not to be an ass. I'm really trying to have reasonable discussions with people of differing views, but sometimes I can be, well, rude to those whose ideas are very different from mine, and I don't want to be that guy.
Sure Slashdot has changed. Back then, people wondered when Slashdot would publish some news for nerds and stuff that matters. Now people wonder when Slashdot stopped publishing news for nerds and stuff that matters. Totally different.
I don't have much sympathy for those in the top one percent (over $250,000) who can't afford to buy a house in the more expensive parts of SoCal, but have the resources to leave and start over somewhere else. There are plenty of people living on less than $20k/year in SoCal. They will never be able to afford a house, anywhere. It is not the fault of government that real estate in SoCal is expensive. I feel that your admission that your friends left primarily due to real estate prices directly contradicts your earlier implication that they left due to California's "socialism."
While I agree with you that neither the Democrats nor the Republicans are doing much to motivate their respective bases, I think that third parties do not have a snowball's chance in hell of making gains this election. In any case, corporate money will ensure that any party able to get significant votes will be prepaid for by our corporatocracy.
Revolution is not in the air. The only people talking about revolution are the same people who have been talking revolution forever, and they are wild eyed crazies. Things would have to get far worse than they are now before revolution became even a remote possibility.
Revolution is not something to be wished for lightly. Looking at history, revolutions have a poor track record and usually end up replicating the worst practices of the regime they replace. We barely managed ours, and times were different then. Mass media and the concentration of wealth would ensure that any revolution we have today would end up installing a corporate run feudal state.
The only thing that would truly force compromise and coalition would be to do away with our first past the post, winner takes all voting system with one that is a Condorcet method.
While I believe you may be correct, I did have one previous girlfriend who loved nothing more than delivering the dreaded Dutch Oven upon my unsuspecting self. She had only brothers though, that might have had something to do with it.
Why no drones for ground attack? I'm thinking maybe ground attack require a greater weight of ordnance?
You know why Arizona got Californicated? Because Reagan won the cold war, haha! Base closures, my friend, base closures. All the conservative military industrial complex types fled Southern California when the military left. Next time you talk to one of those escapees, ask if they are from the north or the south.
Germany has a social safety net. The rich in Germany support social programs. I'm sure they are well managed, and German rich are happy with said management. In America though, when people say they are unhappy with how our Federal government spends money, they mean one of two things. They might mean "We spend far too much on the military industrial complex, incentives for the rich, the drug war, prisons, and agricultural subsidies." or they might mean, "We spend far too much on social services for those kind of people." which oddly enough should include the war on drugs, but doesn't. After all, what is the war on drugs but socialism for addicts, saving them from themselves? Oh yeah, it is also socialism for cops.
Clinton did more to cut actual government waste and balance the budget than any conservative in the last fifty years. If you really are a fiscal conservative, don't vote Republican, they are anything but. They are social conservatives and are only after a cheap, desperate labor pool for the rich to exploit.
Gah! Really?!? You mean to tell me you actually read the article? My God, what has Slashdot come to? We do not read articles here. Here, we make uninformed and inflammatory comments about the poorly written and factually incorrect summary, mister.
Seriously though, thanks for pointing that out. Ownership of the generic trade name "Unix" and copyright is something different from ownership of SCO Unix. But still, if the judge enjoined them from selling anything, I don't see how they can legally do this.
As fun as it is to be snarky and cynical regarding how stupid the average human is, all it really is, is ego stroking masturbation. "Look at me! I am so smart! Not like those dunderheads over there!"
Read the Darwin Awards for some interesting and amusing ways in which stupid people continue to remove themselves from the gene pool. I know people with severe learning disabilities. There is some kind of a program where they sell popcorn in our lobby. Nice people, salt of the earth, and not a one of them has children, nor will they ever.
Nah, California is suffering from their citizen initiatives and a campaign by big corporate interests. Rich fat cats sponsored a citizen initiative to make it next to impossible to raise taxes, and schizophrenic Californians want their socialist services, they just don't want to pay for them. You can't have your socialism and eat it, too.
Plenty of rich people in semi-socialist countries like paying taxes, because they feel they are getting a bargain for their dollar. A group of German billionaires just denounced the whole 'billionaire charity' drive that started recently, saying social services should not be left up to charity, and the rich should be paying more taxes instead.
California may be having some troubles, but nothing like the many staunchly anti-socialist states, they are just falling from a greater height because California was and is far, far richer than any non-socialist state. California's economy is still bigger than most countries'.
They didn't say they own Unix, this time. They said they own Unix technologies and "certain UNIX system V software products and related services." Meaning, SCO Unix. Anyway, the news here is that they are officially not any sort of software or technology company anymore, they are now officially nothing more than a shambling, undead lawsuit factory. I suppose the one guy who still licenses anything SCO related will be happy they are selling his support contract to someone else.
I recommend Prudhon's essay "Property is Theft!" wherein he discusses the paradox of individual property rights. Though the name of the essay is "Property is Theft" he also explains how property is freedom. And by property I (and he) are referring to real property, not personal property. I'm all for ownership of personal property. I worry over the implications of absolute and unfettered personal rights to natural resources, though.
Some economic disparity is not only inevitable, it is a good thing that most reasonable people support. Most people enjoy seeing excellence and hard work rewarded, even if they are not the recipient, because it satisfies their sense of fairness. When that economic disparity rises to the point that there is no longer just one class of citizen, but rather a separate class of elites who do not have to play by the same rules, that is a problem.
Some minor points. Human nature is not one monolithic thing. It is malleable. It has at least two stable modes, feast mode and famine mode. Humans operating in feast mode are cooperative, non-hierarchical, empathic, generous, accepting and loving towards others, even strangers. Humans in famine mode are violent, hierarchical, have little empathy, are selfish, and reject differences in others, especially strangers. This makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint, when times are good, develop allies and trade relations, when times are bad, look after yourself and your own. We just got locked into famine mode, probably due to early climatic shifts occurring around 4500BC when the Sahara dried up for the last time. Before that as hunter/gatherers we had simply moved on when times got tight, possibly leading to some population pressure and low level endemic warfare (which is really more of an extreme sport designed not to kill but to render some men unfit mates) but not to what we now know of as warfare. However, we had developed agriculture and a specialized society, and moving on was no longer an option.
Another item: one main reason I want a smaller Fed is so that we may have a free market of governance. Want socialism? Move to California. Want a libertopian lassez faire free market? There would be a place for that as well. States that screwed up would lose population and importance. I don't want failed states borrowing from prosperous ones, as happens now. Many states, most of them staunchly Republican, receive far more money from the Federal government than they pay in taxes. Other states, mostly wealthy liberal coastal states, pay far more in taxes than they receive from the Fed. If you are really a conservative, you will of course work to end such unfairness, even if it impacts you, because principles are more important than profits, right?
Where does your state fit into the picture? Do you live in a producer state or a leach state? Personally, I am from New Mexico, the biggest leach state around, but that is mostly due to the Federal research labs like Los Alamos that are here, rather than any kind of social programs.
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I read reviews that said this is not broccoli, it's dog shit with green food coloring. Therefore, unless you have some proof it is actual broccoli, I am not eating this shit.
Okay, if you're (mostly) through being a dick, I'm through being a dick. If you remember, I actually encouraged you about your film.
Don't take other people's negative opinions as some kind of projection. People do have actual negative opinions, even of popular things, for legitimate reasons that have more to do with their own aesthetic than with their insecurities.
This man's success does not offend me. I don't feel his films merit critical acclaim, but he makes a product that people enjoy spending money on.
The fact that something is popular does not make it high quality. There is a very old term for that mistake, it's called "sophistry."
So, has anyone reviewed your movie yet? Is it popular? Yeah, thought not. Bitter much? I'm just saying, being a failed artist is probably why you hate critics. Successful and talented artists welcome criticism, because they want to be better artists. People like you, on the other hand, just want the kind of blind adoration you will never, ever get.
I don't have to see it. All the reviews I read, from reviewer's whose opinion's I trust, said it was a crappy film. As if "Directed by James Cameron" wasn't enough of a clue. Seriously, are you actually denying it is Pocahantas in space? Cameron makes focus group tested, mass produced schlock designed for the "mass market," i.e. your average idiot with no taste.
I'm glad you liked it though.
I read reviews, what do you think? Unless the reviewers I read suddenly started lying through their teeth, it's the most puerile tripe I've ever read about. Why would I watch shit like that? I mean, was this the first James Cameron film you've been too? Did you not know what a crap director he is? You were never forced to see Titanic by a girlfriend?
Wrong, sounds like a kid who won't eat mac and cheese, but rather, wants a nicoise salad, a fillet mignon, and some truffle stuffed lobster. Except that I actually like mac and cheese, too, I just don't call it haute cuisine or the best food ever cooked by anyone, anywhere, for ever and ever amen. I mean, some people actually cried over how awesome the movie was, how pathetic is that?
I don't need to see trash to know that it sucks, I can smell that shit. Please, are you really claiming anything Cameron has done is art? You know, I sometimes enjoy bad things, too. I occasionally eat at McDonalds, for instance. But I don't go around telling people it's a fucking fillet mignon.
I love quality and the excellent people who produce items of quality. I hate amateurish populists who mass produce schlock focus group tested to be palatable to idiots.
Speaking of which, how's your movie coming? Scary Philipino bodyless vampires! OOOhhh! Spoooooooky!
I lost my left eye in a mugging. 3d does nothing for me, so that's no plus. And I already got dragged to see Dances with Wolves, do I really need to see the remake just because it has awesome graphics and special effects? I don't go to movies for awesome graphics and special effects. I understand that many people do enjoy pretty pictures, but when I want pretty pictures I go to an art gallery.
I'm honestly not trying to be a condescending snob and claim my tastes are more refined than other people's. And I'm certainly not saying that people who appreciate anything James Cameron has ever done are infantile subhumans who probably consider smearing their feces on a wall high art. And James Cameron is a wealthy and popular director of major motion pictures, far be it from me to call the man the worst director since Ed Wood. But I don't want to feel left out when everyone is sharing their opinions about a popular phenomenon, and I don't want to lie.
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Why, thank you. And they said the Internet had killed civility and manners.
Sorry, buddy, but I have not seen James Cameraschlock's Space Smurf Pocahantas and I never will. There are plenty of us who actually, really and truly do not like crap Science Fiction, will not see it, will not buy the Blue-Ray and won't mention it until some idiot tries to defend it or imply that, actually, I really really like it but I'm too much of a snob to admit it.
If these robots are going to be caring for old people, what will prevent them from stealing old people's medicine?
You mean, digital passwords you can never change? Sounds secure...
Well thank you for the reasoned debate. If you ever find me insulting towards you for your beliefs, please remind me not to be an ass. I'm really trying to have reasonable discussions with people of differing views, but sometimes I can be, well, rude to those whose ideas are very different from mine, and I don't want to be that guy.
Sure Slashdot has changed. Back then, people wondered when Slashdot would publish some news for nerds and stuff that matters. Now people wonder when Slashdot stopped publishing news for nerds and stuff that matters. Totally different.
I don't have much sympathy for those in the top one percent (over $250,000) who can't afford to buy a house in the more expensive parts of SoCal, but have the resources to leave and start over somewhere else. There are plenty of people living on less than $20k/year in SoCal. They will never be able to afford a house, anywhere. It is not the fault of government that real estate in SoCal is expensive. I feel that your admission that your friends left primarily due to real estate prices directly contradicts your earlier implication that they left due to California's "socialism."
While I agree with you that neither the Democrats nor the Republicans are doing much to motivate their respective bases, I think that third parties do not have a snowball's chance in hell of making gains this election. In any case, corporate money will ensure that any party able to get significant votes will be prepaid for by our corporatocracy.
Revolution is not in the air. The only people talking about revolution are the same people who have been talking revolution forever, and they are wild eyed crazies. Things would have to get far worse than they are now before revolution became even a remote possibility.
Revolution is not something to be wished for lightly. Looking at history, revolutions have a poor track record and usually end up replicating the worst practices of the regime they replace. We barely managed ours, and times were different then. Mass media and the concentration of wealth would ensure that any revolution we have today would end up installing a corporate run feudal state.
The only thing that would truly force compromise and coalition would be to do away with our first past the post, winner takes all voting system with one that is a Condorcet method.
Sure thing, six digits. :)
While I believe you may be correct, I did have one previous girlfriend who loved nothing more than delivering the dreaded Dutch Oven upon my unsuspecting self. She had only brothers though, that might have had something to do with it.
Why no drones for ground attack? I'm thinking maybe ground attack require a greater weight of ordnance?
You know why Arizona got Californicated? Because Reagan won the cold war, haha! Base closures, my friend, base closures. All the conservative military industrial complex types fled Southern California when the military left. Next time you talk to one of those escapees, ask if they are from the north or the south.
Germany has a social safety net. The rich in Germany support social programs. I'm sure they are well managed, and German rich are happy with said management. In America though, when people say they are unhappy with how our Federal government spends money, they mean one of two things. They might mean "We spend far too much on the military industrial complex, incentives for the rich, the drug war, prisons, and agricultural subsidies." or they might mean, "We spend far too much on social services for those kind of people." which oddly enough should include the war on drugs, but doesn't. After all, what is the war on drugs but socialism for addicts, saving them from themselves? Oh yeah, it is also socialism for cops.
Clinton did more to cut actual government waste and balance the budget than any conservative in the last fifty years. If you really are a fiscal conservative, don't vote Republican, they are anything but. They are social conservatives and are only after a cheap, desperate labor pool for the rich to exploit.
Gah! Really?!? You mean to tell me you actually read the article? My God, what has Slashdot come to? We do not read articles here. Here, we make uninformed and inflammatory comments about the poorly written and factually incorrect summary, mister.
Seriously though, thanks for pointing that out. Ownership of the generic trade name "Unix" and copyright is something different from ownership of SCO Unix. But still, if the judge enjoined them from selling anything, I don't see how they can legally do this.
As fun as it is to be snarky and cynical regarding how stupid the average human is, all it really is, is ego stroking masturbation. "Look at me! I am so smart! Not like those dunderheads over there!"
Read the Darwin Awards for some interesting and amusing ways in which stupid people continue to remove themselves from the gene pool. I know people with severe learning disabilities. There is some kind of a program where they sell popcorn in our lobby. Nice people, salt of the earth, and not a one of them has children, nor will they ever.
Nah, California is suffering from their citizen initiatives and a campaign by big corporate interests. Rich fat cats sponsored a citizen initiative to make it next to impossible to raise taxes, and schizophrenic Californians want their socialist services, they just don't want to pay for them. You can't have your socialism and eat it, too.
Plenty of rich people in semi-socialist countries like paying taxes, because they feel they are getting a bargain for their dollar. A group of German billionaires just denounced the whole 'billionaire charity' drive that started recently, saying social services should not be left up to charity, and the rich should be paying more taxes instead.
California may be having some troubles, but nothing like the many staunchly anti-socialist states, they are just falling from a greater height because California was and is far, far richer than any non-socialist state. California's economy is still bigger than most countries'.
The Taxed Enough Already Party is vehemently against the paying of fees of any sort for services rendered, especially cocksmoking.
They didn't say they own Unix, this time. They said they own Unix technologies and "certain UNIX system V software products and related services." Meaning, SCO Unix. Anyway, the news here is that they are officially not any sort of software or technology company anymore, they are now officially nothing more than a shambling, undead lawsuit factory. I suppose the one guy who still licenses anything SCO related will be happy they are selling his support contract to someone else.
I recommend Prudhon's essay "Property is Theft!" wherein he discusses the paradox of individual property rights. Though the name of the essay is "Property is Theft" he also explains how property is freedom. And by property I (and he) are referring to real property, not personal property. I'm all for ownership of personal property. I worry over the implications of absolute and unfettered personal rights to natural resources, though.
Some economic disparity is not only inevitable, it is a good thing that most reasonable people support. Most people enjoy seeing excellence and hard work rewarded, even if they are not the recipient, because it satisfies their sense of fairness. When that economic disparity rises to the point that there is no longer just one class of citizen, but rather a separate class of elites who do not have to play by the same rules, that is a problem.
Some minor points. Human nature is not one monolithic thing. It is malleable. It has at least two stable modes, feast mode and famine mode. Humans operating in feast mode are cooperative, non-hierarchical, empathic, generous, accepting and loving towards others, even strangers. Humans in famine mode are violent, hierarchical, have little empathy, are selfish, and reject differences in others, especially strangers. This makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint, when times are good, develop allies and trade relations, when times are bad, look after yourself and your own. We just got locked into famine mode, probably due to early climatic shifts occurring around 4500BC when the Sahara dried up for the last time. Before that as hunter/gatherers we had simply moved on when times got tight, possibly leading to some population pressure and low level endemic warfare (which is really more of an extreme sport designed not to kill but to render some men unfit mates) but not to what we now know of as warfare. However, we had developed agriculture and a specialized society, and moving on was no longer an option.
Another item: one main reason I want a smaller Fed is so that we may have a free market of governance. Want socialism? Move to California. Want a libertopian lassez faire free market? There would be a place for that as well. States that screwed up would lose population and importance. I don't want failed states borrowing from prosperous ones, as happens now. Many states, most of them staunchly Republican, receive far more money from the Federal government than they pay in taxes. Other states, mostly wealthy liberal coastal states, pay far more in taxes than they receive from the Fed. If you are really a conservative, you will of course work to end such unfairness, even if it impacts you, because principles are more important than profits, right?
Where does your state fit into the picture? Do you live in a producer state or a leach state? Personally, I am from New Mexico, the biggest leach state around, but that is mostly due to the Federal research labs like Los Alamos that are here, rather than any kind of social programs.