Uh, yeah. I never celebrated Halloween when I was a kid. Whenever our class had their party, I went to the library or something. We didn't think it was right to get dressed up like witches, etc, so we didn't. Didn't bring a federal case, just didn't participate. End of discussion.
Genuine, yes. Spontaneous, not always. Inspiring, definitely. Every time I say it, I think about every word, and I thank God (in whom I happen to believe, though you're welcome to thank one of the laws of thermodynamics or the mitochondria in your cells) that I live in a country where I, a random kid, can find a large amount of liberty and justice.
And what exactly is so offensive about this thing (sans "under God") anyway? Is liberty offensive? All we're saying is that we've got a really good thing going here, and we're willing to put out some effort to keep it going. Yikes.
"a modern society cannot operate without laws and a way to enforce them."
I would agree with this. However, the question still remains, how do we know this is a good thing? Why do we even want a modern society to operate? Simply because it's fun? Because we feel good about it?
And where do we get our laws from? Simply what works? What happens, then, when what works in someone's favor works to the detriment of another? How do we ajudicate the conflict?
Yeah, I do. I defended my position as <asbestos on> a creationist in front of my teacher and my whole biology class in high school. They were teaching evolution, I thought it was wrong, so I put my evidence together, and we had a debate. And I think it was a good learning experience for everybody.
Heaven forbid anybody have to stand up and defend what they believe. In a controlled, safe environment, it can be very healthy. And even if it's not, she's going to have to stand up for herself at some point.
How arrogant can you Europeans get? The pledge is "political s***?" For the sake of argument, let's take out the "under God." What we're left with is basically the statement, "we like the US because everybody has a fair shot here" (at least in theory, of course. I know there are cases of injustice, and we don't claim to be perfect, but we have a system that improves itself as injustice is recognized, etc.) Why on earth would you not want your kid to learn that? "Liberty and justice for all?" Wow, that's dangerous, folks. Wouldn't want too much Liberty and Justice going on out there! The only other meaningful thing in there says that we're a united republic. All that's saying is that we have a good thing going here, and it would probably be good if we could all stick together on it.
Heaven forbid anybody like their country, or teach their kids to like their country.
You make the parent's point very well. You say that OBL should die, but the only reasons you manage to muster are "simply because he deserves it" and "killing people is unacceptable." I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you have some stronger reasoning than that. So I'll ask: Where is your basis for morality? How do you know that killing people is a deed that should be punished?
My guess is they're concerned first about people seeing the sequence, and possibly filming it, before it hits the theaters.
Also, flying a helicopter between buildings is not the safest thing in the world to do. They'll probably be fine, but I wouldn't want to be in one of the buildings when they crashed into it...
Or were you just looking for the chance to make the joke?
I love the idea, but I see that it's church funded. Do you have to be religious to be helped? Do you try to "convert" non-believers? I would sincerely hope not for both questions.
In answer to the first question, I don't think so. I can't say for certain, as I've never been there, but I'm almost positive that it's open to anyone.
In answer to the second question, it is impossible for a human to truly convert someone to Christianity. It's possible to "convert" someone at the end of a sword, as many of the "great religions" throughout history have done. However, this doesn't result in the true change of heart that knowing Jesus brings. I don't think that Highlands puts pressure on anybody, but I'm quite sure that they'll share what the Bible has to say, and give people opportunity to respond. In reality, it would be foolish not to, as it's God's love that compels us to take care of people. God loves us, and demonstrates it, and now that we are recipients of that love, we pass that love on. Included in that is the belief that <donning triple-thick asbestos> there is only one God, and that the only way to be brought into right relationship with God is by accepting the fact that Jesus made the ultimate sacrifice to pay for the things we've done that have broken our relationship with God. Do we hate people of other religions? Absolutlely not. At the same time, we believe that the universe is not self-existent, and that multiple sets of contradictory truth claims cannot all be true. It's not a terribly popular belief these days, but then again, the majority has been known to be wrong before.
There are tons of kids sitting in foster homes across the country even as we speak. Nobody's willing to adopt them. How do you think dumping another ~1million kids per year into the system will affect things?
I don't know, it's a good question. BTW, your stat on the number of abortions sounds right. 1M kids works out to about 1 per 280 people. I would almost tend to think that out of a random group of 280 people, you'd find one person who'd be willing to take in another child; on the other hand, we've got a pretty selfish society.
The question, though, at least for me, is a moral one. I believe it's wrong to take another person's life (except perhaps for self-defense, and a few cases like that). So it doesn't matter how much of a strain 1M children/year would place on the system; we need to suck it up and do whatever is necessary to take care of those people. When we start evaluating whether someone should live based solely on the ability of the system to handle them, we put billions of people at risk. It's not too large of a leap to say that we should remove old people from nursing homes, or why don't we just clear out the streets of Calcutta, India? They're full of incredibly poor people that the system obviously isn't capable of handling.
That we have ~1M "extra" children/year that we don't know what to do with is, IMO, a function of the fact that our society has some terribly misplaced priorities and misguided standards. To put it bluntly, <asbestos on>if you're not prepared to have and support a child, you shouldn't be having sex. Sex and pregnancy have a definite cause-effect relationship, and it's a risk that people take. I fly small airplanes, and I know that I have an elevated risk of dying in an accident. I do my best to avoid that risk, but at the same time I'm prepared to face it. In the same way, people must be willing to support whatever children they create. If teenagers would control their hormones (and yes, it is possible) and adults wouldn't be so hellbent on climbing to the top of their careers, we might finally get back to kids being born to married parents who are committed to providing a good home. Again, though, I'm probably too optimistic here.
The pro-life side needs to deal with scenarios like this. My church, the Assemblies of God, has set up Highlands Child Placement Service and Maternity Home. They take care of the girls who are in that position. Somebody who gets raped is going to have some serious issues to deal with anyway, and aborting the baby isn't going to help any more than having it will. In fact, it will most likely be better, as a girl who goes to Highlands will know that her child has been placed in a good, loving home. So she brings a new life into the world, and she brings joy to parents who may not have otherwise been able to have a child. She sees something genuinely good come out of what would have otherwise been a senseless tragedy.
I completely agree with you that pro-life advocates must not hide behind the phrase "except in cases of rape or incest." At the same time, the other side needs to concede that those are quite rare. IIRC, it's only about three percent of abortions that fall under those circumstances. (Please correct me if someone has the stats on this.) Most abortions are performed for sheer convenience, a fact which is not frequently promulgated by those who support abortion.
I'm glad you acknowledge the hideousness of abortion. Thankfully, less hideous alternatives exist.
I would definitely agree that there are two sides, and Real has engaged in its own deceptive/evil/annoying practices. Frankly, I dread installing RealPlayer (or whatever they call it now) because of the junk that it will install and that stupid program it loads on startup all the time. I go through and manually delete its file-monitoring thing so it doesn't keep trying to update itself, etc. I actually do prefer the MS media player for some things, though it's annoying for others.
I think a lot of people are missing the point, which isn't so much that IE is integrated, but that MS has control of what companies can put on desktops, and also the onerous OEM agreements, etc. Frankly, an integrated browser is nice in some situations, and if MS wants to integrate HTML into the OS, more power to them. Making it mandatory that IE be placed prominently, however, is going too far.
Just my $.02
PS - Somebody should give the parent a few karma points so he can rejoin us in the real world.
This I will grant you, and I'm not accusing M$ of being intelligent regarding security or anything, it just looks like the might finally maybe starting to get a little bit of a clue about not making stuff run automatically.
Ok, I know that many worms have been propagated through MS LookOut, etc, through the years, and I've been on the sysadmin end of shutting them down and cleaning them up. But, you can't blame MS quite so much for this one. For one thing, the vulnerability has been patched for an entire year, so anybody who is still vulnerable isn't really trying at all to stop it. For another thing, the security settings in Outlook XP (and I think 2K, IIRC) are much stricter by default. I've actually opened these klez emails, but Outlook won't display them. It says something about having HTML that it won't display, or something to that effect. It also won't do.exes,.mdbs, etc without a registry modification, which has annoyed me on occasion, but is doubtless much safer than the previous way of doing things.
No Mulder? Oh, man, you gotta have Mulder whenever you have the Lone Gunmen. Mulder was their only real connection to the FBI, X-Files, etc. Mulder was the one guy who bothered to listen to them. Mulder should've been there with them, and either saved them or died alongside them. Nuts. You just gotta have Mulder with the LG, especially on their last episode.
First, I hadn't watched it yet. I taped it tonight, as I won't actually have time to watch it until tomorrow. So, the spoilage, well, at least lessens the sting, though I was shocked to see the headline on/.
I loved Byars. We had a group at college that got together and watched the Files on a semi-regular basis (our peak was the summer of '99 - everybody would come back from work, we were living in a dorm, and we'd all go down to the tv room and pop in an x-files tape, and watch classic episodes), and each of us was labeled with the person that he most resembled. (actually, we did have one girl who was kind of in the group, and she had red hair, so she became Scully.) I was Byars. I could really identify with him - had pretty much the same personality. Mulder was flamboyant, Langley was a hippie freak, Frohike was a dirty old man, but Byars was just a nice, calm guy.
Stinks that they're dead. At least, I presume, they went out in something of a blaze of glory and died for a good cause. It's not like they'll be making more X-Files without them For that matter, it's a good thing they won't be making any more X-Files. I personally think they should have cut the show off after season 7, and permanently left everybody wondering what exactly Scully was pregnant with (and by whom, and all that).
(IIRC, and I'm really digging out of my mind here, and I don't feel like doing the research right now) Yamaha or Kenwood made a drive a couple years ago that had 8 or 9 read heads and gave the drive an effective throughput of 72X. A buddy of mine has one of those drives, and he loves it. Neither he nor I understands why the technology hasn't taken off; perhaps it's just more expensive than most people want a cd-rom drive to be; after all, it's just a cd-rom.
I probably should have said something about ATI cards. Yes, they work really weird (or not at all) under Snapstream. I had a TV Wonder VE on this box, tried to run Snapstream, and it was really weird. Thankfully, I was able to swap it out for the Hauppauge, which works wonders. I've seen statements on snapstream's web page that it's supposed to work with ATI cards now, but I have no idea how true that is.
I ran into showshifter a couple months ago. I almost installed it, but didn't for some reason. I don't remember what that was.
I'm running XP Pro. I ran it for several months under Win2K Pro for a few months, and it seemed to work fine. The Hauppauge card seems to work fine under 2K/XP, and under XP it'll even play on my second monitor. It's a WinTV, I think it might actually be a WinTV Go or something like that. It was $50 at Best Buy a couple summers ago. As far as I can tell, the Hauppauge is fairly standard, and they've done a decent job making drivers for it.
I've said it before, I'll say it again: Snapstream rocks. I've been using it for about six months now, and it's a wonderful piece of software. It's not perfect, but it's great, at least for the way I use it. It lets you tape shows using a standard TV tuner (Hauppauge WinTV PCI in my case) and has a great scheduler. I just set stuff and don't worry about it. You can use any bitrate you want. The only bummer is it exports to.wmvs, so you're locked into Media Player, but I'm sure somebody somewhere has a converter out there that will make it a different format if you like. Oh, yeah, it's Windows software, so <asbsetos on> 95% of you should be able to use it.</asbestos>
It's great software. Check it out.
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Unfortunately, the page is slashdotted, so I can only comment on what the writeup said. This looks like what Snapstream did, and I'm thrilled to see this. I've been at the mercy of windoze box, and the only format snapstream outputs is.wmv, which really stinks in that I'm tied to MS media player. So, if this thing will put out good.mpgs or something like that (whatever is the best, open video format), I'll gladly embrace it. I'm currently recording about six hours of stuff per day and burning it onto CD (can't watch nearly that much, and no, I have not yet been diagnosed as obsessive-compulsive). I'd particularly like it if I could burn the output files as VCDs, so they weren't tied to my computer (though my computer is my TV at the moment).
<asbestos on>Yeesh! How many moronic moderators does this board have now? Flamebait? What kind of retarded two-year olds are they giving mod points to these days? This is an insightful comment, people. Listen up, not everybody wants to expose their kids to bloody murders and naked women at age five. And you know what? That's a GOOD thing. Little kids shouldn't have to deal with all the bad stuff in the world. They're kids, for pete's sake. Let them have a childhood that's fun and has some security to it.
What ever happened to all the freedom of revision that/.ers love? Open-source code so that you can make the program do whatever you want? That's exactly what this is for a movie. C'mon, people, the guy just wants to shield his kids eyes a little bit.
I'll admit it, too, I'm a 22 year old male, programmer by trade, and I enjoy Celine. Especially on a good system, (like my friend's 5Kbuck setup), and her SACD sounds incredible. Say what you want about the lyrics, she has an awesome voice, and good engineers. My musical tastes vary widely, and she creates genuinely good music.
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Uh, yeah. I never celebrated Halloween when I was a kid. Whenever our class had their party, I went to the library or something. We didn't think it was right to get dressed up like witches, etc, so we didn't. Didn't bring a federal case, just didn't participate. End of discussion.
Genuine, yes. Spontaneous, not always. Inspiring, definitely. Every time I say it, I think about every word, and I thank God (in whom I happen to believe, though you're welcome to thank one of the laws of thermodynamics or the mitochondria in your cells) that I live in a country where I, a random kid, can find a large amount of liberty and justice.
And what exactly is so offensive about this thing (sans "under God") anyway? Is liberty offensive? All we're saying is that we've got a really good thing going here, and we're willing to put out some effort to keep it going. Yikes.
"a modern society cannot operate without laws and a way to enforce them."
I would agree with this. However, the question still remains, how do we know this is a good thing? Why do we even want a modern society to operate? Simply because it's fun? Because we feel good about it?
And where do we get our laws from? Simply what works? What happens, then, when what works in someone's favor works to the detriment of another? How do we ajudicate the conflict?
"Freedom OF religion" also means "freedom FROM religion"
How do you figure?
Yeah, I do. I defended my position as <asbestos on> a creationist in front of my teacher and my whole biology class in high school. They were teaching evolution, I thought it was wrong, so I put my evidence together, and we had a debate. And I think it was a good learning experience for everybody.
Heaven forbid anybody have to stand up and defend what they believe. In a controlled, safe environment, it can be very healthy. And even if it's not, she's going to have to stand up for herself at some point.
Wow.
How arrogant can you Europeans get? The pledge is "political s***?" For the sake of argument, let's take out the "under God." What we're left with is basically the statement, "we like the US because everybody has a fair shot here" (at least in theory, of course. I know there are cases of injustice, and we don't claim to be perfect, but we have a system that improves itself as injustice is recognized, etc.) Why on earth would you not want your kid to learn that? "Liberty and justice for all?" Wow, that's dangerous, folks. Wouldn't want too much Liberty and Justice going on out there! The only other meaningful thing in there says that we're a united republic. All that's saying is that we have a good thing going here, and it would probably be good if we could all stick together on it.
Heaven forbid anybody like their country, or teach their kids to like their country.
You make the parent's point very well. You say that OBL should die, but the only reasons you manage to muster are "simply because he deserves it" and "killing people is unacceptable." I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you have some stronger reasoning than that. So I'll ask: Where is your basis for morality? How do you know that killing people is a deed that should be punished?
My guess is they're concerned first about people seeing the sequence, and possibly filming it, before it hits the theaters.
Also, flying a helicopter between buildings is not the safest thing in the world to do. They'll probably be fine, but I wouldn't want to be in one of the buildings when they crashed into it...
Or were you just looking for the chance to make the joke?
I love the idea, but I see that it's church funded. Do you have to be religious to be helped? Do you try to "convert" non-believers? I would sincerely hope not for both questions.
In answer to the first question, I don't think so. I can't say for certain, as I've never been there, but I'm almost positive that it's open to anyone.
In answer to the second question, it is impossible for a human to truly convert someone to Christianity. It's possible to "convert" someone at the end of a sword, as many of the "great religions" throughout history have done. However, this doesn't result in the true change of heart that knowing Jesus brings. I don't think that Highlands puts pressure on anybody, but I'm quite sure that they'll share what the Bible has to say, and give people opportunity to respond. In reality, it would be foolish not to, as it's God's love that compels us to take care of people. God loves us, and demonstrates it, and now that we are recipients of that love, we pass that love on. Included in that is the belief that <donning triple-thick asbestos> there is only one God, and that the only way to be brought into right relationship with God is by accepting the fact that Jesus made the ultimate sacrifice to pay for the things we've done that have broken our relationship with God. Do we hate people of other religions? Absolutlely not. At the same time, we believe that the universe is not self-existent, and that multiple sets of contradictory truth claims cannot all be true. It's not a terribly popular belief these days, but then again, the majority has been known to be wrong before.
There are tons of kids sitting in foster homes across the country even as we speak. Nobody's willing to adopt them. How do you think dumping another ~1million kids per year into the system will affect things?
I don't know, it's a good question. BTW, your stat on the number of abortions sounds right. 1M kids works out to about 1 per 280 people. I would almost tend to think that out of a random group of 280 people, you'd find one person who'd be willing to take in another child; on the other hand, we've got a pretty selfish society.
The question, though, at least for me, is a moral one. I believe it's wrong to take another person's life (except perhaps for self-defense, and a few cases like that). So it doesn't matter how much of a strain 1M children/year would place on the system; we need to suck it up and do whatever is necessary to take care of those people. When we start evaluating whether someone should live based solely on the ability of the system to handle them, we put billions of people at risk. It's not too large of a leap to say that we should remove old people from nursing homes, or why don't we just clear out the streets of Calcutta, India? They're full of incredibly poor people that the system obviously isn't capable of handling.
That we have ~1M "extra" children/year that we don't know what to do with is, IMO, a function of the fact that our society has some terribly misplaced priorities and misguided standards. To put it bluntly, <asbestos on>if you're not prepared to have and support a child, you shouldn't be having sex. Sex and pregnancy have a definite cause-effect relationship, and it's a risk that people take. I fly small airplanes, and I know that I have an elevated risk of dying in an accident. I do my best to avoid that risk, but at the same time I'm prepared to face it. In the same way, people must be willing to support whatever children they create. If teenagers would control their hormones (and yes, it is possible) and adults wouldn't be so hellbent on climbing to the top of their careers, we might finally get back to kids being born to married parents who are committed to providing a good home. Again, though, I'm probably too optimistic here.
Yes.
The pro-life side needs to deal with scenarios like this. My church, the Assemblies of God, has set up Highlands Child Placement Service and Maternity Home. They take care of the girls who are in that position. Somebody who gets raped is going to have some serious issues to deal with anyway, and aborting the baby isn't going to help any more than having it will. In fact, it will most likely be better, as a girl who goes to Highlands will know that her child has been placed in a good, loving home. So she brings a new life into the world, and she brings joy to parents who may not have otherwise been able to have a child. She sees something genuinely good come out of what would have otherwise been a senseless tragedy.
I completely agree with you that pro-life advocates must not hide behind the phrase "except in cases of rape or incest." At the same time, the other side needs to concede that those are quite rare. IIRC, it's only about three percent of abortions that fall under those circumstances. (Please correct me if someone has the stats on this.) Most abortions are performed for sheer convenience, a fact which is not frequently promulgated by those who support abortion.
I'm glad you acknowledge the hideousness of abortion. Thankfully, less hideous alternatives exist.
I would definitely agree that there are two sides, and Real has engaged in its own deceptive/evil/annoying practices. Frankly, I dread installing RealPlayer (or whatever they call it now) because of the junk that it will install and that stupid program it loads on startup all the time. I go through and manually delete its file-monitoring thing so it doesn't keep trying to update itself, etc. I actually do prefer the MS media player for some things, though it's annoying for others.
I think a lot of people are missing the point, which isn't so much that IE is integrated, but that MS has control of what companies can put on desktops, and also the onerous OEM agreements, etc. Frankly, an integrated browser is nice in some situations, and if MS wants to integrate HTML into the OS, more power to them. Making it mandatory that IE be placed prominently, however, is going too far.
Just my $.02
PS - Somebody should give the parent a few karma points so he can rejoin us in the real world.
This I will grant you, and I'm not accusing M$ of being intelligent regarding security or anything, it just looks like the might finally maybe starting to get a little bit of a clue about not making stuff run automatically.
Ok, I know that many worms have been propagated through MS LookOut, etc, through the years, and I've been on the sysadmin end of shutting them down and cleaning them up. But, you can't blame MS quite so much for this one. For one thing, the vulnerability has been patched for an entire year, so anybody who is still vulnerable isn't really trying at all to stop it. For another thing, the security settings in Outlook XP (and I think 2K, IIRC) are much stricter by default. I've actually opened these klez emails, but Outlook won't display them. It says something about having HTML that it won't display, or something to that effect. It also won't do .exes, .mdbs, etc without a registry modification, which has annoyed me on occasion, but is doubtless much safer than the previous way of doing things.
Let the flames begin.
No Mulder? Oh, man, you gotta have Mulder whenever you have the Lone Gunmen. Mulder was their only real connection to the FBI, X-Files, etc. Mulder was the one guy who bothered to listen to them. Mulder should've been there with them, and either saved them or died alongside them. Nuts. You just gotta have Mulder with the LG, especially on their last episode.
What in the world?!?!?!
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First, I hadn't watched it yet. I taped it tonight, as I won't actually have time to watch it until tomorrow. So, the spoilage, well, at least lessens the sting, though I was shocked to see the headline on
I loved Byars. We had a group at college that got together and watched the Files on a semi-regular basis (our peak was the summer of '99 - everybody would come back from work, we were living in a dorm, and we'd all go down to the tv room and pop in an x-files tape, and watch classic episodes), and each of us was labeled with the person that he most resembled. (actually, we did have one girl who was kind of in the group, and she had red hair, so she became Scully.) I was Byars. I could really identify with him - had pretty much the same personality. Mulder was flamboyant, Langley was a hippie freak, Frohike was a dirty old man, but Byars was just a nice, calm guy.
Stinks that they're dead. At least, I presume, they went out in something of a blaze of glory and died for a good cause. It's not like they'll be making more X-Files without them For that matter, it's a good thing they won't be making any more X-Files. I personally think they should have cut the show off after season 7, and permanently left everybody wondering what exactly Scully was pregnant with (and by whom, and all that).
(IIRC, and I'm really digging out of my mind here, and I don't feel like doing the research right now) Yamaha or Kenwood made a drive a couple years ago that had 8 or 9 read heads and gave the drive an effective throughput of 72X. A buddy of mine has one of those drives, and he loves it. Neither he nor I understands why the technology hasn't taken off; perhaps it's just more expensive than most people want a cd-rom drive to be; after all, it's just a cd-rom.
I probably should have said something about ATI cards. Yes, they work really weird (or not at all) under Snapstream. I had a TV Wonder VE on this box, tried to run Snapstream, and it was really weird. Thankfully, I was able to swap it out for the Hauppauge, which works wonders. I've seen statements on snapstream's web page that it's supposed to work with ATI cards now, but I have no idea how true that is.
I ran into showshifter a couple months ago. I almost installed it, but didn't for some reason. I don't remember what that was.
I'm running XP Pro. I ran it for several months under Win2K Pro for a few months, and it seemed to work fine. The Hauppauge card seems to work fine under 2K/XP, and under XP it'll even play on my second monitor. It's a WinTV, I think it might actually be a WinTV Go or something like that. It was $50 at Best Buy a couple summers ago. As far as I can tell, the Hauppauge is fairly standard, and they've done a decent job making drivers for it.
HTH
I've said it before, I'll say it again: Snapstream rocks. I've been using it for about six months now, and it's a wonderful piece of software. It's not perfect, but it's great, at least for the way I use it. It lets you tape shows using a standard TV tuner (Hauppauge WinTV PCI in my case) and has a great scheduler. I just set stuff and don't worry about it. You can use any bitrate you want. The only bummer is it exports to .wmvs, so you're locked into Media Player, but I'm sure somebody somewhere has a converter out there that will make it a different format if you like. Oh, yeah, it's Windows software, so <asbsetos on> 95% of you should be able to use it.</asbestos>
It's great software. Check it out.
Unfortunately, the page is slashdotted, so I can only comment on what the writeup said. This looks like what Snapstream did, and I'm thrilled to see this. I've been at the mercy of windoze box, and the only format snapstream outputs is .wmv, which really stinks in that I'm tied to MS media player. So, if this thing will put out good .mpgs or something like that (whatever is the best, open video format), I'll gladly embrace it. I'm currently recording about six hours of stuff per day and burning it onto CD (can't watch nearly that much, and no, I have not yet been diagnosed as obsessive-compulsive). I'd particularly like it if I could burn the output files as VCDs, so they weren't tied to my computer (though my computer is my TV at the moment).
Now if only their web server would recover...
Yeah, but where's my little spaceship?
<asbestos on>Yeesh! How many moronic moderators does this board have now? Flamebait? What kind of retarded two-year olds are they giving mod points to these days? This is an insightful comment, people. Listen up, not everybody wants to expose their kids to bloody murders and naked women at age five. And you know what? That's a GOOD thing. Little kids shouldn't have to deal with all the bad stuff in the world. They're kids, for pete's sake. Let them have a childhood that's fun and has some security to it.
/.ers love? Open-source code so that you can make the program do whatever you want? That's exactly what this is for a movie. C'mon, people, the guy just wants to shield his kids eyes a little bit.
What ever happened to all the freedom of revision that
Well, there goes my karma.
I'll admit it, too, I'm a 22 year old male, programmer by trade, and I enjoy Celine. Especially on a good system, (like my friend's 5Kbuck setup), and her SACD sounds incredible. Say what you want about the lyrics, she has an awesome voice, and good engineers. My musical tastes vary widely, and she creates genuinely good music.
Sorry.
Thanks, Flex.
Actually, in Wisconsin, people go out to talk to the cows.