I'm probably going to get lynched by this crowd, but those pranks he boasts about...Half of them I don't really get as being especially clever or even coherent.
Apparently, using real cars as models presented some interesting problems for the folks at Industrial Light and Magic, who had to figure out how a recognizable chunk of steel can fold into robot
Believe it or not, I think they used some sort of "computer" at some point to actually do the special effects.
Their list of the hundred best games ever is top-heavy with Nintendo titles
Of course it is, the fact that for so many people Nintendo was their first console clouds their judgment. Nintendo's made some damn good games, but I don't think any of them should make the top 5. Maybe 1 or 2 in the top 10, but even that's debatable.
The rest of them are amongst the world's most superstitious, if official church attendance figures are to be believed.
US church attendance figures aren't especially high; there are a half-dozen European countries with higher ones.
If popular culture is anything to go by they certainly do `biggest is best` but I think I'll be sticking to art (music, films, literature) from outside the States if you don't mind.
Then you'll be missing out. You really think the US doesn't produce worthy music, films, or literature? Every country has popular entertainment, and the mere existence of it doesn't mean it's the only thing you can find.
Riiiiight. That's why no technical innovation has ever come out of America. We're just a simple folk, boss, we'er happy with our horse-driven carriages and superstitious peasantfolk.
Oh, the Haditha comment? Which turned out to be an accurate statement? And in which Murtha explicitly said the troops did what they did because of the intense strain they were under?
Sorry but as an non-US citizen I really don't understand why he would not go to gaol immediately once he is found guilty and has been sentenced. Is it normal practice for the convict to bring out his appointment book and arrange with the judge the best time for his sentence to start?
That's a bit of an odd statement, "as a non-US citizen"; the practice you described above is a lot more common in other countries than it is in the US. I've heard that at least one Scandinavian country has a several month waiting period for a jail cell.
Not necessarily, it allows a walk away statement ie. he can walk away from any distortions.
Well that's my point, if he was so sure of what he was saying, he could have sworn to it. I'm not sure why the defendant's motion didn't attack it on that basis.
The people who have been doing those things, and giving every possible aid and comfort to the enemy are principly the opponents of the war, including some former white house officials, such as the one who actually leaked the information.
Really? Richard Armitage is an opponent of the war? That's a really interesting assertion.
And of course the greatest aid and comfort is given to the enemy by the likes of Joe Wilson with his false public article about how he discovered that Iraq wasn't trying to by Uranium from Niger (when it turned out that it was)
That's fascinating. Where exactly is your proof? I hope not the forged documents Italian intelligence somehow got their hands on? You think those were real?
and half of the Congressional Democrats who slander the troops fighting the war
You're a goddamn liar. Name a single "Congressional Democrat" who's slandered the troops.
O'RLY?
You mean like Bill Clinton pardoning Marc Rich after his wife donated thousands of dollars to the Democratic party and his on legal defense fund?
Yah, he 'served a lot of time' in Switzerland right next to those sky bunnies...
Wow, someone who doesn't know what the word "generally" means. Here, let me help you:
I used to love this game, just swimming around and doing those flips out of the water as Ecco was pretty calming. Then you tried to actually play the game and found out just how excruciatingly difficult it could be. While the Dreamcast update lost some of the magic, the original Ecco is still a neat twist on 2D games.
WTH? The Dreamcast version was incredible. The graphics were amazing, the controls were fantastic, and the only thing that keeps it off my top 10 list is the fact that it was so damn hard that it got in the way of the enjoyment. But if they put it on the Wii I'd definitely get the Wii just for that game.
I will never stop at wondering why little people (surely you're not a zillionaire) will keep at protecting the filthy rich... The bourgeois mind control rays seem to be very potent down there...
The brilliant way they've done it is convince people they're already rich. Like 20% of the country think they're in the top 1% income bracket. There are countless people on slashdot who are convinced they've made it to the top, like their $100,000 or $120,000 or $150,000 a year is somehow an indicator of wealth, instead of a joke in the eyes of people who really have money.
Health insurance is a perfect example of how you separate the wealthy from the merely comfortable. Making $150k a year, have $500,000 in home equity, and another $500,000 in the bank? It can be wiped out in a month if you need lifesaving medical care that your insurer decides not to cover.
Throw in a third layer of gatekeepers, the lawyers that sue out of business every doctor that doesn't have absurd amounts of insurance coverage and you have a system that can't be fixed. I have often wondered if the lawyers were in collusion with the insurers to keep this broken system in place.
Lawyers don't focus on doctors who don't have insurance; it would be counter-productive. And believe me, insurers are definitely not fans of plaintiff's lawyers, in fact the health insurance company is a huge backer of tort reform.
illegal: prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules; "an illegal chess move"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
...and it's not prohibited by law, or official or accepted rules. There is absolutely nothing inherently illegal about breaching a contract. Black's Law Dictionary lists the definition of illegal as "illegal, adj. Forbidden by law; unlawful ".
We'll live. The U.S. Supreme Court has done a lot of good, especially in reigning in the worst excesses of the legislature, and one result of an independent judiciary is sometimes they're going to do things you don't like.
I feel sorrier for the people in those countries where the courts simply apply the law, and are never allowed to challenge it.
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thats rubbish. america wasn't anything like russia or somalia 50 years ago and it didn't have so much insane litigation either.
Do you have any facts to base this on? Or is this one of those "everyone says it so it must be true" kinds of things?
I'm probably going to get lynched by this crowd, but those pranks he boasts about...Half of them I don't really get as being especially clever or even coherent.
Apparently, using real cars as models presented some interesting problems for the folks at Industrial Light and Magic, who had to figure out how a recognizable chunk of steel can fold into robot
Believe it or not, I think they used some sort of "computer" at some point to actually do the special effects.
Their list of the hundred best games ever is top-heavy with Nintendo titles
Of course it is, the fact that for so many people Nintendo was their first console clouds their judgment. Nintendo's made some damn good games, but I don't think any of them should make the top 5. Maybe 1 or 2 in the top 10, but even that's debatable.
:D Feels glad to be mexican.... *sigh* :)
Why? Are you sharing in his success?
The rest of them are amongst the world's most superstitious, if official church attendance figures are to be believed.
US church attendance figures aren't especially high; there are a half-dozen European countries with higher ones.
If popular culture is anything to go by they certainly do `biggest is best` but I think I'll be sticking to art (music, films, literature) from outside the States if you don't mind.
Then you'll be missing out. You really think the US doesn't produce worthy music, films, or literature? Every country has popular entertainment, and the mere existence of it doesn't mean it's the only thing you can find.
America, as always, straggles behind the times.
Riiiiight. That's why no technical innovation has ever come out of America. We're just a simple folk, boss, we'er happy with our horse-driven carriages and superstitious peasantfolk.
Murtha
Oh, the Haditha comment? Which turned out to be an accurate statement? And in which Murtha explicitly said the troops did what they did because of the intense strain they were under?
Sorry but as an non-US citizen I really don't understand why he would not go to gaol immediately once he is found guilty and has been sentenced. Is it normal practice for the convict to bring out his appointment book and arrange with the judge the best time for his sentence to start?
That's a bit of an odd statement, "as a non-US citizen"; the practice you described above is a lot more common in other countries than it is in the US. I've heard that at least one Scandinavian country has a several month waiting period for a jail cell.
Not necessarily, it allows a walk away statement ie. he can walk away from any distortions.
Well that's my point, if he was so sure of what he was saying, he could have sworn to it. I'm not sure why the defendant's motion didn't attack it on that basis.
I think the RIAA is really bad. Do I get my mod points now?
It's not a sworn statement, so it doesn't count as an affidavit. If Linares was really behind this document, it would be a sworn statement.
The people who have been doing those things, and giving every possible aid and comfort to the enemy are principly the opponents of the war, including some former white house officials, such as the one who actually leaked the information.
Really? Richard Armitage is an opponent of the war? That's a really interesting assertion.
And of course the greatest aid and comfort is given to the enemy by the likes of Joe Wilson with his false public article about how he discovered that Iraq wasn't trying to by Uranium from Niger (when it turned out that it was)
That's fascinating. Where exactly is your proof? I hope not the forged documents Italian intelligence somehow got their hands on? You think those were real?
and half of the Congressional Democrats who slander the troops fighting the war
You're a goddamn liar. Name a single "Congressional Democrat" who's slandered the troops.
1. usually; commonly; ordinarily: He generally comes home at noon.
O'RLY? You mean like Bill Clinton pardoning Marc Rich after his wife donated thousands of dollars to the Democratic party and his on legal defense fund? Yah, he 'served a lot of time' in Switzerland right next to those sky bunnies...
Wow, someone who doesn't know what the word "generally" means. Here, let me help you:
generally
I used to love this game, just swimming around and doing those flips out of the water as Ecco was pretty calming. Then you tried to actually play the game and found out just how excruciatingly difficult it could be. While the Dreamcast update lost some of the magic, the original Ecco is still a neat twist on 2D games.
WTH? The Dreamcast version was incredible. The graphics were amazing, the controls were fantastic, and the only thing that keeps it off my top 10 list is the fact that it was so damn hard that it got in the way of the enjoyment. But if they put it on the Wii I'd definitely get the Wii just for that game.
Is Yoda writing slashdot article summaries now?
The OSI coined the term
No they didn't. It was used before OSI; Caldera used it back in 1997.
by then, we'll be dead, which seems like the bigger problem.
Well, let's narrow it down; the bigger problem is -I'll- be dead. That I think is something we all can agree is the biggest problem.
I will never stop at wondering why little people (surely you're not a zillionaire) will keep at protecting the filthy rich... The bourgeois mind control rays seem to be very potent down there...
The brilliant way they've done it is convince people they're already rich. Like 20% of the country think they're in the top 1% income bracket. There are countless people on slashdot who are convinced they've made it to the top, like their $100,000 or $120,000 or $150,000 a year is somehow an indicator of wealth, instead of a joke in the eyes of people who really have money. Health insurance is a perfect example of how you separate the wealthy from the merely comfortable. Making $150k a year, have $500,000 in home equity, and another $500,000 in the bank? It can be wiped out in a month if you need lifesaving medical care that your insurer decides not to cover.
Throw in a third layer of gatekeepers, the lawyers that sue out of business every doctor that doesn't have absurd amounts of insurance coverage and you have a system that can't be fixed. I have often wondered if the lawyers were in collusion with the insurers to keep this broken system in place.
Lawyers don't focus on doctors who don't have insurance; it would be counter-productive. And believe me, insurers are definitely not fans of plaintiff's lawyers, in fact the health insurance company is a huge backer of tort reform.
The music industry disagrees. Executives are practically going insane over the idea and are threatening to 'retaliate'.
Well "the music retail industry" isn't exactly "the music industry". Or is this just a convoluted slashdot attempt to somehow blame the RIAA?
illegal: prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules; "an illegal chess move" wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
...and it's not prohibited by law, or official or accepted rules. There is absolutely nothing inherently illegal about breaching a contract. Black's Law Dictionary lists the definition of illegal as "illegal, adj. Forbidden by law; unlawful ".
Americans: I feel sorry for you.
We'll live. The U.S. Supreme Court has done a lot of good, especially in reigning in the worst excesses of the legislature, and one result of an independent judiciary is sometimes they're going to do things you don't like.
I feel sorrier for the people in those countries where the courts simply apply the law, and are never allowed to challenge it.
Cuba will be a nice place to visit when Castro dies - after private citizens can own property, build businesses and such.
I think Cuba is probably a more interesting place to visit now than it will be if they become capitalist.