C'mon, I'm picturing it now: Abruptly alternating between doing funny slackwristed crap with his hands and staring off miles away while monologuing nonsensically. TOTALLY sounds like Roland of Gilead to me. Plus that one song Danny Elfman wrote would make a GREAT soundtrack!
Not that responding to ACs is a worthwhile endeavour, but see http://www.zeropaid.com/news/89494/ascap-declares-war-on-free-culture/.
Specifically note the group that ASCAP is considering their enemies. Note, among others, Creative Commons. How will you feel when you no longer have the right to distribute stuff you make under the conditions and license you choose?
I meant moreso willing to tackle the movie in the same way as him. This forces my next question: Would a award given for a film directed by a zombie have to be given posthumously, or would the zombie have to die first?
“Hello, slashdotters, look at your troll, now back to me, now back at your troll, now back to me. Sadly, your troll isn’t me, but if he stopped using copypasta and old memes and switched to creative shit, he could get modded like he’s me. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re in a basement with the troll your troll could sound like. What’s in your hand, back at me. I have it, it’s an key to your own place and a girlfriend. Look again, the girlfriend is now a Beowulf cluster. Anything is possible when your troll is creative and not a lady. I’m on a Android.”
I'd rather Dark Tower not get "Burtoned". The biggest problem with a Tim Burton film is that if you've ever seen 5 minutes of one, you can immediately identify any other movie he does in an equal amount of time. I'm not saying they're bad (except Nine), I'm just saying that his penchant for the surreal is 1-dimensional. Kubrick, Scorsese or Lynch would be interesting though.
I'm excited. This sounds like it will be the first thing on TV I'll have cared about in a long time. Hopefully. I'm trying not to get my hopes up yet, but I guess we'll see.
Unfortunately, most of us who would have were a little young to properly understand or care about morality on a international level at that time. I, for one, was learning to read and write. What's your excuse?
Frankly, advertisers don't care. They've gotten reaction out of you such that you remember the names of those companies, and will for the rest of your life. It doesn't matter if you're swearing off their products, so long as you can't forget their brand. This is the ape-shit bananas mentality that goes into advertisement. That's why you don't see effective advertising, but just "fire and forget" advertising that focuses on getting the name out there as much as possible.
Hey, I don't agree with it either, it feels clunky and doesn't flow well. However, it's from a little place called Oxford. I'm not qualified to tell Oxford they're doing it wrong. Are you?
In the past, people tended to use the pronouns he, his, him, or himself in situations like this:
If your child is thinking about a gap year, he can get good advice from this website.
A researcher has to be completely objective in his findings.
Today, this approach is seen as outdated and sexist. There are other options which allow you to arrive at a ‘gender-neutral’ solution, as follows:
* You can use the wording ‘he or she’, ‘his or her’, etc.:
If your child is thinking about a gap year, he or she can get good advice from this website.
A researcher has to be completely objective in his or her findings.
This can work well, as long as you don’t have to keep repeating ‘he or she’, ‘his or her’, etc. throughout a piece of writing.
Interesting read. To what I'm sure is no major surprise, I've never actually heard of these. This kind of "sweeping under the rug" is chilling. My free speech is useless if no one is capable of hearing it.
Actually, interesting story. A-B's beer is specially formulated to ferment inside the bodies of those damn Clydesdales they used to have on the commercials. After it's run it's course through the digestive system of the horse, it's then pissed out into the storage vats that they use pre-bottling it. That's how you get Budweiser. True story.
Of course, you'll always hear myths about it. For example, one of my friends is adamant it was actually a failed recipe for a douching fluid.
Well, I never said it was a GOOD means of dealing with it. Personally, I'd love to just see the country name changed. Perhaps the Moral Corporations of Oligarchia.
The country is the United States of America, so I would assume that the reason why America==US is because they drop it down to the last word. Personally I prefer to be referred to as "Coincidental Inhabitant of the United States of America", and neither American, nor USian, or even USAian.
And that's a problem. Shit like that is the reason why I had to help a friend in college understand what the fuck "x" was in relation to numbers, and why she should care. How she even got to that point without figuring it out was anyone's guess, and probably another sign of educational fuckup, because no one noticed and did anything about it. If you're going to teach people the concepts of algebra, then teach them the concepts. Don't give them some watered down bullshit that half-introduces the theory.
That's what I'm saying. Part of the reason why these kids are so fucked is the fact that we hand out sugar coated concepts that are ingrained in their minds and then switch them out for the "real" ones later, and wonder why they can't hack it. Case in point. I was homeschooled in 3rd grade due to my parents planning on moving and not wanting to transition me between two school districts. I came back to 4th grade knowing how to do multiplication, division, understanding variables, and negative numbers. At that point, I was completely fucked up by the fact that I was back to learning subtraction and was repeatedly told in class that it is impossible to subtract a larger number from a smaller number. I feel that the fact that I never actually had to try again in math class until I was in high school pretty well destroyed any chance I'd ever develop a work ethic.
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My heart about leap through my mouth when I read this. I can only hope this gets appealed and shot down.
C'mon, I'm picturing it now: Abruptly alternating between doing funny slackwristed crap with his hands and staring off miles away while monologuing nonsensically. TOTALLY sounds like Roland of Gilead to me. Plus that one song Danny Elfman wrote would make a GREAT soundtrack!
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Not that responding to ACs is a worthwhile endeavour, but see http://www.zeropaid.com/news/89494/ascap-declares-war-on-free-culture/.
Specifically note the group that ASCAP is considering their enemies. Note, among others, Creative Commons. How will you feel when you no longer have the right to distribute stuff you make under the conditions and license you choose?
I meant moreso willing to tackle the movie in the same way as him. This forces my next question: Would a award given for a film directed by a zombie have to be given posthumously, or would the zombie have to die first?
“Hello, slashdotters, look at your troll, now back to me, now back at your troll, now back to me. Sadly, your troll isn’t me, but if he stopped using copypasta and old memes and switched to creative shit, he could get modded like he’s me. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re in a basement with the troll your troll could sound like. What’s in your hand, back at me. I have it, it’s an key to your own place and a girlfriend. Look again, the girlfriend is now a Beowulf cluster. Anything is possible when your troll is creative and not a lady. I’m on a Android.”
I'd rather Dark Tower not get "Burtoned". The biggest problem with a Tim Burton film is that if you've ever seen 5 minutes of one, you can immediately identify any other movie he does in an equal amount of time. I'm not saying they're bad (except Nine), I'm just saying that his penchant for the surreal is 1-dimensional. Kubrick, Scorsese or Lynch would be interesting though.
I'm excited. This sounds like it will be the first thing on TV I'll have cared about in a long time. Hopefully. I'm trying not to get my hopes up yet, but I guess we'll see.
Unfortunately, most of us who would have were a little young to properly understand or care about morality on a international level at that time. I, for one, was learning to read and write. What's your excuse?
I shot a man in Reno, but couldn't tell you why.
Yeah, needless to say, she did "holy shit I'm fucking nuts" well enough to both be memorable herself AND do well in advertising.
Frankly, advertisers don't care. They've gotten reaction out of you such that you remember the names of those companies, and will for the rest of your life. It doesn't matter if you're swearing off their products, so long as you can't forget their brand. This is the ape-shit bananas mentality that goes into advertisement. That's why you don't see effective advertising, but just "fire and forget" advertising that focuses on getting the name out there as much as possible.
Source: Marketing Ex-girlfriend.
Genuine question: Do you ever get ads for a new shift key? Yours seems broken. :)
Hey, I don't agree with it either, it feels clunky and doesn't flow well. However, it's from a little place called Oxford. I'm not qualified to tell Oxford they're doing it wrong. Are you?
Actually....
In the past, people tended to use the pronouns he, his, him, or himself in situations like this:
If your child is thinking about a gap year, he can get good advice from this website. A researcher has to be completely objective in his findings.
Today, this approach is seen as outdated and sexist. There are other options which allow you to arrive at a ‘gender-neutral’ solution, as follows:
* You can use the wording ‘he or she’, ‘his or her’, etc.:
If your child is thinking about a gap year, he or she can get good advice from this website. A researcher has to be completely objective in his or her findings.
This can work well, as long as you don’t have to keep repeating ‘he or she’, ‘his or her’, etc. throughout a piece of writing.
Source: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/page/heshethey/he-or-she-versus-they;jsessionid=082070F581446958B284847E7564A28E
At this point, the only question left to ask is whether yours was made out of an attempt at feeling smugly elitist, or out of general curiosity. Judging from the fact that GPs post was actually quite well written, I'd say the latter of the two.
Interesting read. To what I'm sure is no major surprise, I've never actually heard of these. This kind of "sweeping under the rug" is chilling. My free speech is useless if no one is capable of hearing it.
There's not much else I prefer in all honesty, but you guys got freedom of speech down cold.
Well, long as it's not more than four words from a lyric out of a RIAA owned song.
According to an old Geocities page, they are things that fly around in the sky.
I am to understand that they occasionally flip out and kill people.
Nah, those are Ninjas, not UFOs
Oh come on, they're a MAFIA! You only have so many stereotypically Italian names to pick from!
Actually, interesting story. A-B's beer is specially formulated to ferment inside the bodies of those damn Clydesdales they used to have on the commercials. After it's run it's course through the digestive system of the horse, it's then pissed out into the storage vats that they use pre-bottling it. That's how you get Budweiser. True story.
Of course, you'll always hear myths about it. For example, one of my friends is adamant it was actually a failed recipe for a douching fluid.
Thanks Dogbert, that made me chuckle.
Well, I never said it was a GOOD means of dealing with it. Personally, I'd love to just see the country name changed. Perhaps the Moral Corporations of Oligarchia.
They do in the south.
The country is the United States of America, so I would assume that the reason why America==US is because they drop it down to the last word. Personally I prefer to be referred to as "Coincidental Inhabitant of the United States of America", and neither American, nor USian, or even USAian.
And that's a problem. Shit like that is the reason why I had to help a friend in college understand what the fuck "x" was in relation to numbers, and why she should care. How she even got to that point without figuring it out was anyone's guess, and probably another sign of educational fuckup, because no one noticed and did anything about it. If you're going to teach people the concepts of algebra, then teach them the concepts. Don't give them some watered down bullshit that half-introduces the theory.
So why the hell wouldn't you use x or something?
That's what I'm saying. Part of the reason why these kids are so fucked is the fact that we hand out sugar coated concepts that are ingrained in their minds and then switch them out for the "real" ones later, and wonder why they can't hack it.
Case in point. I was homeschooled in 3rd grade due to my parents planning on moving and not wanting to transition me between two school districts. I came back to 4th grade knowing how to do multiplication, division, understanding variables, and negative numbers. At that point, I was completely fucked up by the fact that I was back to learning subtraction and was repeatedly told in class that it is impossible to subtract a larger number from a smaller number. I feel that the fact that I never actually had to try again in math class until I was in high school pretty well destroyed any chance I'd ever develop a work ethic.