. ..a programmer should know to say 'this wont work'. ..
Programers, at least the good ones, know how to say this, and say it loud and often. Likewise, the true professional salesmen who have actually studied their craft know how to say "This promotional technique of yours has actually been proven in study after study to be a pointless waste of time." The cabinet builder knows how to say, "That joint will fail." The day laborer knows how to say "If you really insist I do it that way you'll get less real work per day out of me and I'll be out on comp in six months."
Managment knows how to say, "I'm sorry, but our policy is. . . "
They're often very good at saying it, because they get a lot of practice saying it, instead of practicing how to listen to the people they've hired because they possess certain special skills and knowledge.
Engineers know how to say, "The Space Shuttle will blow up if you launch below a certain temperature."
It turns out they were right, but managment followed policy.
Managment's solution? Fire the engineers for speaking out.
So long as you work for managment that views its role as telling you what to do, and your role to just shut up and do it, actually doing your job the way you percieve it as an expert is simply a short walk to the unemployment line.
Once upon a time my mother was the manager of vehcile registration renewal for the NYS DMV. Her superior walked into her division one day and found her cleaning a microwave oven.
"Do you think we pay people at your grade level to clean ovens?" he asked her.
"Everyone of my people is working on production, in the only profit making division of the state government. Do you want me to stop one of my people from making money for the state just to clean an oven when I've really got nothing better to do right now myself?"
Fortunately for her, after a moment of reflection, he actually got it and replied, "You know, I never thought of it that way before. I guess sometimes we do pay people at your grade level to clean ovens."
Both he and my mom are fairly rare examples of managment. Managment serves the purpose of making sure the secretary has paper clips when he needs them, the assembly line workers have bolts when they need them, and to gently nudge people back on course if they should happen to stray a bit from the path, not "tell them what to do."
But somebody has negelected to tell most of the managers that.
And because of Gordo I know exactly where I was and what I was doing on that day, watching the greatest pilot anyone had ever seen on television. I'll always remember.
Goodbye Gordo, just remember to keep the blue stuff up, the green stuff down and the wind under your wings.
can't they just get some big nets and laso all of the garbage together for a day or two and then give it a push towards Earth?
Please bear in mind that the stuff is already traveling at orbital velocity. If you want it to fall first you have to knock about 4 miles per second off its velocity vector along the tangent to the orbital curve.
It's not like dropping a ball off the top of a ladder because it's moving 'sideways' at nearly 5 mps.
Because of the vast amount of energy required to create antimatter. The sun is an energy source because it's there and only needs to be harnessed. Likewise sun created energies such as wind, wood and petroleum. The energy has already been created and stored.
Any energy you have to 'make' invokes the Second Law. This doesn't mean you shouldn't bother, because we still need ways to store and transfer energy, which is what we do with hydrogen, antimatter or storage batteries. The fact they are total energy negative isn't the point, it's that they put the energy where we want it in an extractable form.
And extracting energy where you want it is what weapons technology is all about.
Lots of energy. It doesn't matter what that energy cost you in energy.
Remember not to neglect soups. They naturally become stews over time as they lose moisture and you add ingredients, becoming distinctly different dishes even though relying on the same base. A bean soup becomes a bean and rice entree in a flash, reduce the moisture a bit more and you've got a base for loafs and cassaroles; and cooking gallons of soup takes only a few minutes more of preperation time than cooking a few bowls full.
Potatoes are certainly the staple of changing a soup into a stew, but there is also squash, turnips, cauliflower, etc. and every permutation makes up a different dish. Adding chicken cubes makes up a different dish than adding pork cubes. Learn to love Bok Choy. It's the queen of the stalky/leafy vegetables. It can replace anything from celery to lettuce and be had in flavors ranging from sweet to peppery. The variety acheivable on a single base is quite remarkable, and if you learn just three or four base soups becomes effectively infinite. Go crazy and just make stuff up as you go along. You can feed a family for years without their ever feeling that they're eating the same thing all the time, especially if you're often using it as an appetizer to slake hunger to give you the time to prepare the main meal at your leisure.
And that's before you even get into herbs and spices. If you keep your base fairly mild it allows you to turn in nearly any direction as you 'develop' your stew during the week.
Here's an example, I start out with a fairly straightforward Italian style lentil soup (substituting Bok choy for both the celery and spinach. Did I mention that I love Bok Choy?) mildly seasoned. In a day or two I'll add some cubed potatoes/squash/whatever making it into a stew. In another day or two I'll add tomato paste and spice it up a bit converting it into a thick and hearty style stew. In another day or two I'll add some honey and a lemon juice and simmer it down a bit.
At the beginning of the week we had a standard lentil soup. At the end of the week we have my famous Thaitalian lentil/vegetable entree (Thai and Italian style cooking blend very well together. Indian and Italian is not so successful. Chinese can go to/come from just about anywhere); and because I'm not following recipes it comes out a bit different every time, even without varying the ingredients noticably.
Move over Heloise, there's a new hintmeister in the house.
Do you know that as a songwriter you can get sued for posting your own lyrics to the web? Or that you can owe someone money for performing your own works?
The First Amendment and copyright are inextricably linked, since copyright is an overt Constitutional restriction of First Amenedment rights. That's what it's there for.
If the labels are actually interested in protecting the First Amendment rights of artists to free expression in their lyrics, why do they force artists to create bowdlerized versions of their songs to be sold (unlabeled as bowdlerized versions) in Wal-Mart? Or, if the artist refuses to cooperate, simply have an engineer punch in bowdlerization against the artist's wishes?
The anwer is because they don't give a fuck about the artist's First Amendment rights. They care about their own ability to sell things without getting sued or otherwise restricted by law. The label owns the recording and is liable, not the artist.
As a street performer of 20 years I'm well aware of what the First Amendment covers, my very freedom is occasionally dependent upon such knowledge, but as a songwriter and recording artist I'm also aware of how copyright issues effect those First Amendment rights and when you make a recording for Sony you assign those rights, by contract and by law, to Sony.
And the RIAA represents Sony, not the artist, and the marketers, lobbiests and lawyers who work for the RIAA know exactly who their client is.
There's a word for artists who believe in and rely on the RIAA to represent their interests:
Yes, and many, many rock 'artists' are only in it for the lifestyle as well, the fame -- and money of course.
Because money buys things, like Ferraris -- or control. Like I said before you can't really seperate the money and control, they're two sides of the same coin to these people.
Perhaps the extent to which we seem to disagree is simply due to our mutual perspectives, looking at different sides of the same coin.
You're right that a good many people just plain get off on domination and control and to these people money is the means, not the end, and if you just sent them money for nothing they'd use it to buy power.
As for fighting a losing battle, you have to remember that these people aren't really very creative and are already entrenched in their positions. They don't want, and can't really concieve of, change. They've built their fort, now they're defending it. Once one gets into an impossible defensive position the mind does funny things. One can completely forget to do something intelligent, like run away to fight another day from a better position. It's too easy to get caught up in the fight and go berserker. They've put a lot of time, energy and money into that fort and they don't want to abandon that just because it's now an obsolete relic. They may have been to Harvard business school, but they haven't been to West Point and don't know their Patton.
Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man
We've already launched our Blitzkrieg around the end of their Maginot Line. They've certainly figured out that they're under serious attack, hence the brutality of their counter-attack, but I'm not sure they've fully realized just how many of us are already sipping esspresso in Paris and taking pot shots at them from the rear.
They don't 'help find' boy bands. They extrude them as plastic action figures.
But trust me, it's the $16 that they're really concerned about. If you just mailed them the money for nothing they'd be happier. They don't give a shit about music or 'information'.
They just want the lolly. The control is simply what they have to do to get it.
You are quoting a trade association marketing brochure. Not a fact.
In point of fact one of the functions of the RIAA is to insure that the artist's First Amendment rights get assigned to the record labels.
This is now done automatically, by law (since a sound recording has now been defined as a work for hire by the label).
The artist is left with no more First Amendment rights to his own works than any random bum on the street.
What that phrase really means is that they work to protect the record labels from actions against the content of the recordings they own, since this would cost the label money, not the artist.
As the blurb notes there are associations to protect the rights of songwriters, but none to protect the rights of recording artists ( and usually to get a first record deal you have to sign away your songwriter's rights to the music publishing company owned by the record label).
Where on earth did you ever get that idea? The RIAA is the trade association of the record labels.
Can they do anything without the RIAA's blessings?
If 'their' recordings are the 'intellectual property' of an RIAA member, no.
What they can do, in future, is not allow themselves to be bought into the system. The system, however, has created a very powerful, but false, impression that it is a necessary componant to record, release and sell music.
It may still be a necessary componant to achieve fame in the music business, but I might also argue that those in the business for fame aren't people I would call artists.
Go it alone. Raise your own money, take your own risks and make your own art. Own yourself. It gets cheaper and easier every day. Be happy with this whatever it brings in terms of money and fame.It's what the RIAA fears most.
Fuck the 'industry' and the horse it rode in on. Music is about people.
I understand the individual words, but the sentence seems to have no meaning.
And while I'm here I might as well point out that my previous post is commutative. Money has become about control. It's a feedback cycle. Watch the video of the bridge if don't know what that can lead to.
. ..exquisitely sensitive to even trace amount of the problematic glutens; thus, dietary restriction fails due to trace contamination of products with wheat proteins.
McGreaseBurger isn't the only place that serves burgers, and contrary to popular opinion steak doesn't become less healthy because you grind it up before you cook it.
And cake really is a healthier breakfast food than Count Chocula. People get hung up on labels and ideas instead of reading the ingredients and figuring out that cake is eggs, milk and flour, with maybe a bit of sugar.
In any case, truth be told, I'd rather open a restaraunt for Kosher Buddhist vegetarians with Celiac Disease. I call it "My Kitchen," but I'm not sure there's much need for that in my small city, beyond my kitchen at least.
. ..even though programmers contribute to the greater good of the world. ..
And that is one of the often overlooked benefits of Open Source(tm) software, people actually will pay you to write it if it contributes to the greater good of the world.
What they won't often do is pay you to write piece of uneeded and ill conceived piece of dreck just because the company needs something new to sell.
YMMV, of course, but I don't enjoy tossing rocks over a wall then tossing them back again simply as an excuse to earn wages. I'd rather flip burgers than write that kind of software, because at least I'd be contributing the greater good. People have to eat. They don't have to have software that they only bought because some salesman who thinks he has to do it to eat convinces them they need it.
There are better ways to run an economy than filching money from each other's pockets.
And sometimes, here and there, people don't get to do what they want, but rather what is needed. Good people actually like it that way.
WTF would I want to run ANY version of Windows at home, if I'm running Linux?
Well, I run Windows to. . . yes, play games. I like my games. They run under Windows, they either don't run or run like crap under Linux. So sue me. No, WineX is not the answer -- yet.
Of course I have a bought and paid for my copy of Windows. Then I 'modified' (interesting choice of word, eh? Notice how 'modified' is being used to project a negative connotation? Notice that 'modify' now carries a negative connotation?) my computer to run Linux.
I don't live in one of the 'lite' countries, but this version of 'modifiying' is certainly the norm in my part of the woods where we have pay extra to a third party to trim Windows down to a 'lite' version. Kind of an extra, third party recipient Windows tax, only different.
The MicroSCO thugs are really starting to bug me a bit with all this "Linux is piracy" crap.
I'm guessing you've never held (or been to) a "rent party"
Actually, I give good rent party.
. ..and those capable of long-term thinking factor in the loss of their security deposit at the end of the school term.
My college payed my rent for me. I'm afraid I was a full scholarship bum. I didn't have to throw a rent party until until after school and had to actually pay my own damned rent for a change.
Loss of security deposit was never an issue. I always leave a place in better shape than I found it, and my friends aren't drunken assholes, even when they're drunk.
Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind. --Leviticus 11:22
God sends manna from heaven to starving millions and everybody bitches. What up wit dat?
I'm rather fond of Silent Movie, if only for the wheelchair race with Paul Newman, plus I have a fondness for Morgans.
That and giving a Marcel Marceau the only spoken word in the movie was at least a clever gag, if not exactly fall down laughing. I can appreciate cleverness, something that I'm afraid Mr. Brooks has been lacking of late.
He definately hit his peak with Young Frankstein though. He suffers from the disease that all artists who do their best work early do, all of the later works get compared against their previous to their detriment. Even if they're actually OK they come off looking worse than they are because of the expectations.
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Oh sure, sounds like a good idea at first, but do you have any idea how hard it is to keep a beer lit?
KFG
. . .a programmer should know to say 'this wont work'. . .
Programers, at least the good ones, know how to say this, and say it loud and often. Likewise, the true professional salesmen who have actually studied their craft know how to say "This promotional technique of yours has actually been proven in study after study to be a pointless waste of time." The cabinet builder knows how to say, "That joint will fail." The day laborer knows how to say "If you really insist I do it that way you'll get less real work per day out of me and I'll be out on comp in six months."
Managment knows how to say, "I'm sorry, but our policy is. . . "
They're often very good at saying it, because they get a lot of practice saying it, instead of practicing how to listen to the people they've hired because they possess certain special skills and knowledge.
Engineers know how to say, "The Space Shuttle will blow up if you launch below a certain temperature."
It turns out they were right, but managment followed policy.
Managment's solution? Fire the engineers for speaking out.
So long as you work for managment that views its role as telling you what to do, and your role to just shut up and do it, actually doing your job the way you percieve it as an expert is simply a short walk to the unemployment line.
Once upon a time my mother was the manager of vehcile registration renewal for the NYS DMV. Her superior walked into her division one day and found her cleaning a microwave oven.
"Do you think we pay people at your grade level to clean ovens?" he asked her.
"Everyone of my people is working on production, in the only profit making division of the state government. Do you want me to stop one of my people from making money for the state just to clean an oven when I've really got nothing better to do right now myself?"
Fortunately for her, after a moment of reflection, he actually got it and replied, "You know, I never thought of it that way before. I guess sometimes we do pay people at your grade level to clean ovens."
Both he and my mom are fairly rare examples of managment. Managment serves the purpose of making sure the secretary has paper clips when he needs them, the assembly line workers have bolts when they need them, and to gently nudge people back on course if they should happen to stray a bit from the path, not "tell them what to do."
But somebody has negelected to tell most of the managers that.
KFG
And because of Gordo I know exactly where I was and what I was doing on that day, watching the greatest pilot anyone had ever seen on television. I'll always remember.
Goodbye Gordo, just remember to keep the blue stuff up, the green stuff down and the wind under your wings.
KFG
can't they just get some big nets and laso all of the garbage together for a day or two and then give it a push towards Earth?
Please bear in mind that the stuff is already traveling at orbital velocity. If you want it to fall first you have to knock about 4 miles per second off its velocity vector along the tangent to the orbital curve.
It's not like dropping a ball off the top of a ladder because it's moving 'sideways' at nearly 5 mps.
KFG
Because of the vast amount of energy required to create antimatter. The sun is an energy source because it's there and only needs to be harnessed. Likewise sun created energies such as wind, wood and petroleum. The energy has already been created and stored.
Any energy you have to 'make' invokes the Second Law. This doesn't mean you shouldn't bother, because we still need ways to store and transfer energy, which is what we do with hydrogen, antimatter or storage batteries. The fact they are total energy negative isn't the point, it's that they put the energy where we want it in an extractable form.
And extracting energy where you want it is what weapons technology is all about.
Lots of energy. It doesn't matter what that energy cost you in energy.
KFG
What does a penguin taste like, anyhow?
Fat chicken.
KFG
Is this the same government that instituted the Patriot Act?
Yes, but more to the point it's the same government that holds itself exempt from the Do-Not-Call list.
KFG
Oh, hey, glad that was of use to you.
Remember not to neglect soups. They naturally become stews over time as they lose moisture and you add ingredients, becoming distinctly different dishes even though relying on the same base. A bean soup becomes a bean and rice entree in a flash, reduce the moisture a bit more and you've got a base for loafs and cassaroles; and cooking gallons of soup takes only a few minutes more of preperation time than cooking a few bowls full.
Potatoes are certainly the staple of changing a soup into a stew, but there is also squash, turnips, cauliflower, etc. and every permutation makes up a different dish. Adding chicken cubes makes up a different dish than adding pork cubes. Learn to love Bok Choy. It's the queen of the stalky/leafy vegetables. It can replace anything from celery to lettuce and be had in flavors ranging from sweet to peppery. The variety acheivable on a single base is quite remarkable, and if you learn just three or four base soups becomes effectively infinite. Go crazy and just make stuff up as you go along. You can feed a family for years without their ever feeling that they're eating the same thing all the time, especially if you're often using it as an appetizer to slake hunger to give you the time to prepare the main meal at your leisure.
And that's before you even get into herbs and spices. If you keep your base fairly mild it allows you to turn in nearly any direction as you 'develop' your stew during the week.
Here's an example, I start out with a fairly straightforward Italian style lentil soup (substituting Bok choy for both the celery and spinach. Did I mention that I love Bok Choy?) mildly seasoned. In a day or two I'll add some cubed potatoes/squash/whatever making it into a stew. In another day or two I'll add tomato paste and spice it up a bit converting it into a thick and hearty style stew. In another day or two I'll add some honey and a lemon juice and simmer it down a bit.
At the beginning of the week we had a standard lentil soup. At the end of the week we have my famous Thaitalian lentil/vegetable entree (Thai and Italian style cooking blend very well together. Indian and Italian is not so successful. Chinese can go to/come from just about anywhere); and because I'm not following recipes it comes out a bit different every time, even without varying the ingredients noticably.
Move over Heloise, there's a new hintmeister in the house.
KFG
Do you know that as a songwriter you can get sued for posting your own lyrics to the web? Or that you can owe someone money for performing your own works?
The First Amendment and copyright are inextricably linked, since copyright is an overt Constitutional restriction of First Amenedment rights. That's what it's there for.
If the labels are actually interested in protecting the First Amendment rights of artists to free expression in their lyrics, why do they force artists to create bowdlerized versions of their songs to be sold (unlabeled as bowdlerized versions) in Wal-Mart? Or, if the artist refuses to cooperate, simply have an engineer punch in bowdlerization against the artist's wishes?
The anwer is because they don't give a fuck about the artist's First Amendment rights. They care about their own ability to sell things without getting sued or otherwise restricted by law. The label owns the recording and is liable, not the artist.
As a street performer of 20 years I'm well aware of what the First Amendment covers, my very freedom is occasionally dependent upon such knowledge, but as a songwriter and recording artist I'm also aware of how copyright issues effect those First Amendment rights and when you make a recording for Sony you assign those rights, by contract and by law, to Sony.
And the RIAA represents Sony, not the artist, and the marketers, lobbiests and lawyers who work for the RIAA know exactly who their client is.
There's a word for artists who believe in and rely on the RIAA to represent their interests:
Fucked.
KFG
Yes, and many, many rock 'artists' are only in it
for the lifestyle as well, the fame -- and money of course.
Because money buys things, like Ferraris -- or control. Like I said before you can't really seperate the money and control, they're two sides of the same coin to these people.
Perhaps the extent to which we seem to disagree is simply due to our mutual perspectives, looking at different sides of the same coin.
You're right that a good many people just plain get off on domination and control and to these people money is the means, not the end, and if you just sent them money for nothing they'd use it to buy power.
As for fighting a losing battle, you have to remember that these people aren't really very creative and are already entrenched in their positions. They don't want, and can't really concieve of, change. They've built their fort, now they're defending it. Once one gets into an impossible defensive position the mind does funny things. One can completely forget to do something intelligent, like run away to fight another day from a better position. It's too easy to get caught up in the fight and go berserker. They've put a lot of time, energy and money into that fort and they don't want to abandon that just because it's now an obsolete relic. They may have been to Harvard business school, but they haven't been to West Point and don't know their Patton.
Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man
We've already launched our Blitzkrieg around the end of their Maginot Line. They've certainly figured out that they're under serious attack, hence the brutality of their counter-attack, but I'm not sure they've fully realized just how many of us are already sipping esspresso in Paris and taking pot shots at them from the rear.
KFG
. . .a boy band that they helped find.
They don't 'help find' boy bands. They extrude them as plastic action figures.
But trust me, it's the $16 that they're really concerned about. If you just mailed them the money for nothing they'd be happier. They don't give a shit about music or 'information'.
They just want the lolly. The control is simply what they have to do to get it.
KFG
You are quoting a trade association marketing brochure. Not a fact.
In point of fact one of the functions of the RIAA is to insure that the artist's First Amendment rights get assigned to the record labels.
This is now done automatically, by law (since a sound recording has now been defined as a work for hire by the label).
The artist is left with no more First Amendment rights to his own works than any random bum on the street.
What that phrase really means is that they work to protect the record labels from actions against the content of the recordings they own, since this would cost the label money, not the artist.
As the blurb notes there are associations to protect the rights of songwriters, but none to protect the rights of recording artists ( and usually to get a first record deal you have to sign away your songwriter's rights to the music publishing company owned by the record label).
KFG
The RIAA exists to serve the artists. . .
Where on earth did you ever get that idea? The RIAA is the trade association of the record labels.
Can they do anything without the RIAA's blessings?
If 'their' recordings are the 'intellectual property' of an RIAA member, no.
What they can do, in future, is not allow themselves to be bought into the system. The system, however, has created a very powerful, but false, impression that it is a necessary componant to record, release and sell music.
It may still be a necessary componant to achieve fame in the music business, but I might also argue that those in the business for fame aren't people I would call artists.
Go it alone. Raise your own money, take your own risks and make your own art. Own yourself. It gets cheaper and easier every day. Be happy with this whatever it brings in terms of money and fame.It's what the RIAA fears most.
Fuck the 'industry' and the horse it rode in on. Music is about people.
KFG
They're making enough money. . .
I understand the individual words, but the sentence seems to have no meaning.
And while I'm here I might as well point out that my previous post is commutative. Money has become about control. It's a feedback cycle. Watch the video of the bridge if don't know what that can lead to.
KFG
Because then the RIAA would not have control. Since when was this all about money?
Since the purpose of control became the ability to extract money.
KFG
Tur tl
KFG
. . .exquisitely sensitive to even trace amount of the problematic glutens; thus, dietary restriction fails due to trace contamination of products with wheat proteins.
Yeah, that's pretty much me all over.
Sounds rough.
Nah, so long as I never eat I'll be ok.
KFG
McGreaseBurger isn't the only place that serves burgers, and contrary to popular opinion steak doesn't become less healthy because you grind it up before you cook it.
And cake really is a healthier breakfast food than Count Chocula. People get hung up on labels and ideas instead of reading the ingredients and figuring out that cake is eggs, milk and flour, with maybe a bit of sugar.
In any case, truth be told, I'd rather open a restaraunt for Kosher Buddhist vegetarians with Celiac Disease. I call it "My Kitchen," but I'm not sure there's much need for that in my small city, beyond my kitchen at least.
KFG
. . .even though programmers contribute to the greater good of the world. . .
And that is one of the often overlooked benefits of Open Source(tm) software, people actually will pay you to write it if it contributes to the greater good of the world.
What they won't often do is pay you to write piece of uneeded and ill conceived piece of dreck just because the company needs something new to sell.
YMMV, of course, but I don't enjoy tossing rocks over a wall then tossing them back again simply as an excuse to earn wages. I'd rather flip burgers than write that kind of software, because at least I'd be contributing the greater good. People have to eat. They don't have to have software that they only bought because some salesman who thinks he has to do it to eat convinces them they need it.
There are better ways to run an economy than filching money from each other's pockets.
And sometimes, here and there, people don't get to do what they want, but rather what is needed. Good people actually like it that way.
KFG
WTF would I want to run ANY version of Windows at home, if I'm running Linux?
Well, I run Windows to. . . yes, play games. I like my games. They run under Windows, they either don't run or run like crap under Linux. So sue me. No, WineX is not the answer -- yet.
Of course I have a bought and paid for my copy of Windows. Then I 'modified' (interesting choice of word, eh? Notice how 'modified' is being used to project a negative connotation? Notice that 'modify' now carries a negative connotation?) my computer to run Linux.
I don't live in one of the 'lite' countries, but this version of 'modifiying' is certainly the norm in my part of the woods where we have pay extra to a third party to trim Windows down to a 'lite' version. Kind of an extra, third party recipient Windows tax, only different.
The MicroSCO thugs are really starting to bug me a bit with all this "Linux is piracy" crap.
KFG
I'm guessing you've never held (or been to) a "rent party"
.and those capable of long-term thinking factor in the loss of their security deposit at the end of the school term.
Actually, I give good rent party.
. .
My college payed my rent for me. I'm afraid I was a full scholarship bum. I didn't have to throw a rent party until until after school and had to actually pay my own damned rent for a change.
Loss of security deposit was never an issue. I always leave a place in better shape than I found it, and my friends aren't drunken assholes, even when they're drunk.
KFG
Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind. --Leviticus 11:22
God sends manna from heaven to starving millions and everybody bitches. What up wit dat?
KFG
Indeed. I always thought that idea was implicit in the word "party," but what do I know?
KFG
Do they do this on purpose to foil attempts at recording/reproduction?
Yes.
KFG
I'm rather fond of Silent Movie, if only for the wheelchair race with Paul Newman, plus I have a fondness for Morgans.
That and giving a Marcel Marceau the only spoken word in the movie was at least a clever gag, if not exactly fall down laughing. I can appreciate cleverness, something that I'm afraid Mr. Brooks has been lacking of late.
He definately hit his peak with Young Frankstein though. He suffers from the disease that all artists who do their best work early do, all of the later works get compared against their previous to their detriment. Even if they're actually OK they come off looking worse than they are because of the expectations.
If only Lucas had that excuse.
KFG