Many feel that the original intent of this amendment was to maintain personal defense by way of individual gun ownership, and that the right to bear arms implies the right to take your personal gun and defend yourself when threatened. Threatening or harming those who are not threatening you isn't part of this amendment. There have been several instances of attempting to clarify and bring to terms with modern situations the meaning of this amendment over the centuries.
Fuck you, asshole. Like a snot-nosed student in junior high these days could properly use "you're", let alone arrange their thoughts into coherent paragraphs.
Obviously the characters and broad themes in Star Wars are based on ancient tropes. But the way they were used was novel and very well done. Star Wars is to be admired for its excellent technique in the use of tools, even if the tools themselves are quite old and even boring on their own.
Yes, there are nods to previous symphonic works. Not just Holst and _The Planets_ (I just listened to Gardiner conduct it with the London Philharmonic on my iPod at work yesterday), but also Stravinksy, Strauss, and other Romantic composers and earlier film scores. Even more important than those, however, are Prokofiev's _Romeo and Juliet_ and Wagner's Ring-cycle. The use of character- and place-based motifs throughout the Star Wars score give it much of its power. But ultimately, Star Wars is it's own work even if John Williams stood on the shoulders of giants in creating it.
To say the score to Star Wars isn't a classic is simply wrong. If there is a more familiar work of symphonic music from the past 30-years I can't think of it.
The "first" film was the best because you were 12 years old at the time.
I am so fucking sick of this patronizing line being trotted out and modded up on every single fucking Star Wars thread.
I probably saw the first film when I was three- or four-years old. I was too young to remember, but my dad told me he picked up the laserdisc shortly after it came out in 1982 and let me watch with him. Honestly, I loved the toys more than the movie.
But now, almost thirty years older, I still like the first film the best.
The are so many fucking legitimate reasons for that, you ignorant tool:
* It is a story told cleanly and effectively. It isn't cluttered with too many plot-lines, a major failing of the prequels. ESB, good as it is, begins the slow descent into plot-line hell with Luke separated from Han and Leia. RotJ cleans things up a little, but the prequels are absolutely, mindnumbingly confused about what story they are trying to tell.
* The characterization is fantastic and the acting is good. ESB and RotJ simply manage to not completely fuck up the characters introduced in Star Wars. Who can deny Han Solo and Darth Vadar are two of the greatest characters of all time? Harrison Ford's portrayal of Han is rightfully legendary. And Vadar wouldn't have been nearly as fearsome without David Prowse's physicality and James Earl Jones voice. Mark Hamill's acting throughout the original trilogy is underrated, btw. He's winy and annoying in the "first" one because Luke is a fucking brat. Carrie Fisher's Princess Leia is no Disney princess: yeah, she's hot, but she takes no shit and can use a gun. Again, ESB just continues the character development begun in Star Wars and none of the other films introduce a character worth remembering or feature performances worth watching again.
* The sound. Holy shit the sound. Blasters, light sabers, even ships in space. "There's no sound in space," you say. I say fuck you these are the greatest space sounds ever. Do any of the other films introduce any better sounds? Do any use the sounds introduced in Star Wars better?
* The score is a modern classic. The later films introduced new themes and variations on the themes introduced in Star Wars, but none could do better than the first.
* The cinematography is some of the best ever. From the opening shot of the star destroyer filling the screen, to the landscape shots on Tatooine, to the claustrophobic interiors of the ships and Death Star, to the trench run at the end, it is some of the best ever. Yes, many of the shots are homages to earlier works, but the elevate and often exceed the originals.
* Do I have to even mention the production: set design, costumes, aliens, etc? Fucking fuck.
In conclusion, fuck you. Star Wars is a fucking classic film and a great work of art. Fuck you, you ignorant cunt. You think Firefly would ever have existed without Star Wars? You think 30-year-olds "meh" reaction to Star Wars might be because they're your friends and you've self-selected people as dense as you are? Or that they've been exposed to thirty-plus years of films that have been hugely influenced by the original film?
If you can't watch Star Wars as an adult, appreciate it as a masterpiece of film-making, and understand why someone could love it as their favorite film of all time, let alone their favorite "Star Wars" movie, you are a pitiful, pathetic person. Fuck.
I've used other mobile browsers on other platforms, including the Droid, Droid Eris, Pre, Storm, Tour, and a number of "feature phones." Mobile Safari is the best I've used.
Yeah, because Flash is more of a gateway to a mass of free content from across the world than the Web.
And Apple would be sure to not include the best mobile web browser available in their mobile products.
Or supply an SDK for web content tailored to their mobile devices. Forget about providing a means to install such a web app so that it appears as a first-class citizen to the apps available from their officially-blessed store.
It would be ludicrous to even contemplate them providing a mechanism for these hypothetical web apps to persistently store data on the mobile device and even allow them to work without an Internet connnection!
Ha! Imagine if they actually followed web standards and pushed the start of the art forward!
Damn these evil corporate bastards for locking down what should be the greatest mobile tool for accessing the world's knowledge.
Have you seen what those idiots post on web communities? You'd be depressed about the state of humanity too.
And no matter how much time I spend correcting these idiots, they keep posting more stupidity. As a result, **of course** I spend a lot of time online.
I almost completely disagree with you. Pay $100 for the iPhone developer program and you can do whatever you want to your own iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad.
The only thing Apple is controlling is what you can do to other people's devices. Frankly, from my point of view having to try and defend an enterprise and friends' and families' computer from malicious software, I'm very happy about this. With the developer program you can share your work with up to 100 other people anyway, so I really don't think Mr. Pilgrim has made his point.
Gotta disagree that the Air and iPad target different markets.
The market for the Air is executives and frequent travelers who need something small to take notes on, edit spreadsheets, power projectors, and kill plane time, all while looking cool.
Now that same group will be able to do the same thing, except for $1000 less, plus the new thing plays games and is a much better ebook reader.
You sound like the perfect Netflix customer. But then I see you are in Australia, so, that sucks. You don't have anything like Netflix there?
And why would you rent a DVD before buying if you have already seen it in the theater?
I wouldn't ever upgrade your entire collection to Blue Ray. My upscaling player (a Playstation 3) looks great--often indistinguishable from Blue Ray and never less than almost as good.
North Dakota's senators (Dorgan-D, and Conrad-D) and representative (Pomeroy-D) are protectionist and populist. North Dakota's primary industry is agriculture. Sugar beets are the major crop of the Red River Valley of the North. All of our reps are on the record as opposing CAFTA and NAFTA. Dorgan has written two well-reviewed books that discuss "free trade" deals and the harm they can cause. (_Reckless!_ and _Take This Job and Ship It_) They are also on the record as supporting strong protection of American IP.
If you were happy with Sprint before you still will be. Your hardest decision will be choosing between Web OS (Palm) and Android (Google/HTC) phones.
For the record, I chose the Pre and am very, very happy. Especially after having all but stolen my brothers Verizon Motorola Droid and Mom's Verizon HTC Droid Eris.
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Many feel that the original intent of this amendment was to maintain personal defense by way of individual gun ownership, and that the right to bear arms implies the right to take your personal gun and defend yourself when threatened. Threatening or harming those who are not threatening you isn't part of this amendment. There have been several instances of attempting to clarify and bring to terms with modern situations the meaning of this amendment over the centuries.
Thanks. I try.
Lighten up, cunt. We're talking about Star Wars here, not nuclear proliferation or health care reform or crop rotation strategies. What the fuck?
Fuck you, asshole. Like a snot-nosed student in junior high these days could properly use "you're", let alone arrange their thoughts into coherent paragraphs.
Umm... Lando?
Ah, yes. How could I forget Uncle Tom?
Well said.
Thank you very much.
Fuck you too.
Obviously the characters and broad themes in Star Wars are based on ancient tropes. But the way they were used was novel and very well done. Star Wars is to be admired for its excellent technique in the use of tools, even if the tools themselves are quite old and even boring on their own.
I almost totally disagree with you.
Yes, there are nods to previous symphonic works. Not just Holst and _The Planets_ (I just listened to Gardiner conduct it with the London Philharmonic on my iPod at work yesterday), but also Stravinksy, Strauss, and other Romantic composers and earlier film scores. Even more important than those, however, are Prokofiev's _Romeo and Juliet_ and Wagner's Ring-cycle. The use of character- and place-based motifs throughout the Star Wars score give it much of its power. But ultimately, Star Wars is it's own work even if John Williams stood on the shoulders of giants in creating it.
To say the score to Star Wars isn't a classic is simply wrong. If there is a more familiar work of symphonic music from the past 30-years I can't think of it.
The "first" film was the best because you were 12 years old at the time.
I am so fucking sick of this patronizing line being trotted out and modded up on every single fucking Star Wars thread.
I probably saw the first film when I was three- or four-years old. I was too young to remember, but my dad told me he picked up the laserdisc shortly after it came out in 1982 and let me watch with him. Honestly, I loved the toys more than the movie.
But now, almost thirty years older, I still like the first film the best.
The are so many fucking legitimate reasons for that, you ignorant tool:
* It is a story told cleanly and effectively. It isn't cluttered with too many plot-lines, a major failing of the prequels. ESB, good as it is, begins the slow descent into plot-line hell with Luke separated from Han and Leia. RotJ cleans things up a little, but the prequels are absolutely, mindnumbingly confused about what story they are trying to tell.
* The characterization is fantastic and the acting is good. ESB and RotJ simply manage to not completely fuck up the characters introduced in Star Wars. Who can deny Han Solo and Darth Vadar are two of the greatest characters of all time? Harrison Ford's portrayal of Han is rightfully legendary. And Vadar wouldn't have been nearly as fearsome without David Prowse's physicality and James Earl Jones voice. Mark Hamill's acting throughout the original trilogy is underrated, btw. He's winy and annoying in the "first" one because Luke is a fucking brat. Carrie Fisher's Princess Leia is no Disney princess: yeah, she's hot, but she takes no shit and can use a gun. Again, ESB just continues the character development begun in Star Wars and none of the other films introduce a character worth remembering or feature performances worth watching again.
* The sound. Holy shit the sound. Blasters, light sabers, even ships in space. "There's no sound in space," you say. I say fuck you these are the greatest space sounds ever. Do any of the other films introduce any better sounds? Do any use the sounds introduced in Star Wars better?
* The score is a modern classic. The later films introduced new themes and variations on the themes introduced in Star Wars, but none could do better than the first.
* The cinematography is some of the best ever. From the opening shot of the star destroyer filling the screen, to the landscape shots on Tatooine, to the claustrophobic interiors of the ships and Death Star, to the trench run at the end, it is some of the best ever. Yes, many of the shots are homages to earlier works, but the elevate and often exceed the originals.
* Do I have to even mention the production: set design, costumes, aliens, etc? Fucking fuck.
In conclusion, fuck you. Star Wars is a fucking classic film and a great work of art. Fuck you, you ignorant cunt. You think Firefly would ever have existed without Star Wars? You think 30-year-olds "meh" reaction to Star Wars might be because they're your friends and you've self-selected people as dense as you are? Or that they've been exposed to thirty-plus years of films that have been hugely influenced by the original film?
If you can't watch Star Wars as an adult, appreciate it as a masterpiece of film-making, and understand why someone could love it as their favorite film of all time, let alone their favorite "Star Wars" movie, you are a pitiful, pathetic person. Fuck.
I've used other mobile browsers on other platforms, including the Droid, Droid Eris, Pre, Storm, Tour, and a number of "feature phones." Mobile Safari is the best I've used.
Yeah, because Flash is more of a gateway to a mass of free content from across the world than the Web.
And Apple would be sure to not include the best mobile web browser available in their mobile products.
Or supply an SDK for web content tailored to their mobile devices. Forget about providing a means to install such a web app so that it appears as a first-class citizen to the apps available from their officially-blessed store.
It would be ludicrous to even contemplate them providing a mechanism for these hypothetical web apps to persistently store data on the mobile device and even allow them to work without an Internet connnection!
Ha! Imagine if they actually followed web standards and pushed the start of the art forward!
Damn these evil corporate bastards for locking down what should be the greatest mobile tool for accessing the world's knowledge.
Oh, wait...
Have you seen what those idiots post on web communities? You'd be depressed about the state of humanity too.
And no matter how much time I spend correcting these idiots, they keep posting more stupidity. As a result, **of course** I spend a lot of time online.
"Why do these dinosaur publishing businesses still manage to thrive despite the Internet?"
Because development, editing, and marketing--and even distribution--have value and take skill to do well.
Less than the publishers believe or would like, perhaps, but more than the /. crowd gives them credit.
I almost completely disagree with you. Pay $100 for the iPhone developer program and you can do whatever you want to your own iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad.
The only thing Apple is controlling is what you can do to other people's devices. Frankly, from my point of view having to try and defend an enterprise and friends' and families' computer from malicious software, I'm very happy about this. With the developer program you can share your work with up to 100 other people anyway, so I really don't think Mr. Pilgrim has made his point.
Pay $100 for a developer's license and you can do whatever you want to you iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad.
XCode and Applescript come with every "real" Mac for no additional charge.
What is the problem here? That you can't program the iPad on the iPad? Sorry, but that is hardy worth the energy of his rant.
Yes, I read the article. Well, I tried. It's a poorly written, confusing rant.
Gotta disagree that the Air and iPad target different markets.
The market for the Air is executives and frequent travelers who need something small to take notes on, edit spreadsheets, power projectors, and kill plane time, all while looking cool.
Now that same group will be able to do the same thing, except for $1000 less, plus the new thing plays games and is a much better ebook reader.
This thing kills the MacBook Air.
On the other hand, I guess we now know Apple's premium for running an unlocked operating system. (iPad: $500, MacBook Air: $1500; you do the math)
Doesn't this create a perverse incentive to create software that is complicated and requires lots of expensive support?
You sound like the perfect Netflix customer. But then I see you are in Australia, so, that sucks. You don't have anything like Netflix there?
And why would you rent a DVD before buying if you have already seen it in the theater?
I wouldn't ever upgrade your entire collection to Blue Ray. My upscaling player (a Playstation 3) looks great--often indistinguishable from Blue Ray and never less than almost as good.
I did read the article. They certainly didn't make their point with this game.
It maybe didn't make money if they count the cost of the Shiny acquisition ($50 Million or so) against the revenues. But that's Hollywood accounting.
The last sentence you quoted is just weasel words.
I stand by my assertion that EtM should not have been on this list. (And EtM was not a MMORPG, it was a stand alone game for PC and PS2.)
What was wrong with Enter the Matrix? It killed a company?
You got to jump off walls, shoot agents, and look at women in fetish gear. There was bullet time. It was full of Matrix-universe fluff.
It sold something like 5 million copies. Shiny (EtM's developer) was rewarded for this success by being purchased by Atari (nee Infogrames).
I think this games should not have been included on the list of games that killed companies.
Modern Warfare 2 does not have dedicated servers. It will never have dedicated servers.
Modern Warfare 2 does not have official mod tools. It will never have official mod tools.
Modern Warfare 2 has made, so far, over $1 Billion in revenue. That is roughly $800 Million over it's production budget.
Please, kindly, STFU and GTFO. This debate is over.
You haven't added anything interesting to the discussion by noting FPSs have added leveling up to the multiplayer experience.
North Dakota's senators (Dorgan-D, and Conrad-D) and representative (Pomeroy-D) are protectionist and populist. North Dakota's primary industry is agriculture. Sugar beets are the major crop of the Red River Valley of the North. All of our reps are on the record as opposing CAFTA and NAFTA. Dorgan has written two well-reviewed books that discuss "free trade" deals and the harm they can cause. (_Reckless!_ and _Take This Job and Ship It_) They are also on the record as supporting strong protection of American IP.
Refer to my "living in an influential congress critter's disctrict" comment.
Sprint. Seriously.
If you were happy with Sprint before you still will be. Your hardest decision will be choosing between Web OS (Palm) and Android (Google/HTC) phones.
For the record, I chose the Pre and am very, very happy. Especially after having all but stolen my brothers Verizon Motorola Droid and Mom's Verizon HTC Droid Eris.