Fernandes is pretty good. They have something like 70% market share in japan(Its the japanese guitar with the spanish name) so they must be pretty good. http://www.fernandesguitars.com/
I own both a fernandes bass and and a strat like electric. Pricing on them is pretty good and the sound is real nice. As the above ac said, some guitar models come with something called a sustainer. I believe its an electromagnet that allows for a note to be held without the guitarist continiously hitting the string(you could buy a pedal to do this). http://www.fernandesguitars.com/sustainer/
Fernandes isn't all that well known in the US, but if you look at their page they do list a number of artists who use them.
Well, basically the result is that only the "best" movies (wether that is mass market appeal or truely inventive) would benefit and the "crap" would go away.
Sounds like a good idea to me, perhaps better quality movies would result. However, people would be less likely to take chances on risky films or sub genres.
One idea the RIAA should consider is releasing individual songs on those 2" CD's.
already done in japan, just each single costs around 10 bucks new! I do remember about 10 years ago a machine at same goody which would burn a custom cd for you in the store with whatever tracks you wanted.
just like republicans seem to be all for selfdetermination and choice with one execption Which one exception is that? I can think of so many issues on which they are all for government restriction of private decision-making I don't know where to begin. I'm not saying the Dems are better. I'm not a partisan. I'm just asking...
"I also find it interesting that the senator promoting this heinous piece of legislation is a Democrat. Aren't the Democrats supposed be the party that sticks up for the common people as opposed to big media interests like Disney and the MPAA? "
No they usually seem to go against "big business" but the stereotype is that they are more inline with hollywood, since "hollywood" supposedly has a bent to the left. Kind of doesn't make sense, just like republicans seem to be all for selfdetermination and choice with one execption.
you are right on. Warcraft I and II basically had sides that were clones of one another. C&C was far more "balanced" i.e. you could build tons of mammoth tanks which could destroy almost any unit or building in the game, but yet regular troops could take them out.
Then again with the original C&C (Tiberian Dawn) rushing didint really work as there were so many defensive units. I liked the fact that to really win you had to use your engineers or commandos. That and the whole lack of C&C's power element(and the unit limit) of blizzards rts games would frustrate me to no end.
I'd argue in some ways blizzards games were definitley far more primitive to westwoods earlier efforts although they have more or less caught up.
The real problem, no smaller HDTV's offered
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What the real problem is is that I have yet to see in the stores an HDTV which is either 19" or 25" or 27". Of course when all of the TV's are large screened the prices are going to be much higher.
Not everyone has the space for a large screen TV or is willing to bear the cost of one. A smaller tv would bring down the price and perhaps incentivize including a built in HDTV tuner. I believe once these smaller tv's are built then we will see more widespread adoption. Until that point only videophiles will be the ones to purchase them.
Don't most college stations play independent music anyways?
where i went they played a lot of international programing, techno and heavy heavy metal. not exactly mass market stuff. I doubt too many college stations do the whole top 40 thing so i'm not to worried about them paying the licenses.
Record Labels' Answer to Napster Still Has Artists Feeling Bypassed By NEIL STRAUSS
Record Companies on the Defensive (January 31, 2002)
In their bitter battles against Napster and other free music downloading services, record company executives have wielded one moral argument that has placed their position beyond self-interest: the fans take the music without proper permission and don't pay the artists a dime.
Last December, the major record labels responded with two Internet services of their own where fans pay monthly fees to download songs. Under this arrangement, however, the performers still don't get a dime: for each song downloaded, they stand to get only a fraction of a cent, according to the calculations of disgruntled managers and lawyers.
And, artists and their managers say, the labels, like Napster, aren't putting the music online with proper permission either.
"I'm not an opponent of artists' music being included in these services," said Gary Stiffelman, who represents Eminem, Aerosmith and TLC. "I'm just an opponent of their revenue not being shared."
Because the sites are new, no payments have been made yet, but the payment plan has so infuriated scores of best-selling pop acts, including No Doubt, the Dixie Chicks and Dr. Dre, that their lawyers have demanded their clients' music be removed from the sites, with some even sending cease-and-desist orders. Only in some cases have the major record companies complied.
Since Napster was born on college campuses in the late 1990's, peer-to- peer file sharing services have become the bane of the established music business, with, at their peak, some 60 million Napster users sharing nearly 40 million songs illicitly. Even after a federal district court shut Napster down, other free services proliferated, with Kazaa and Morpheus attracting an ever-growing base of users sharing not just music but movies and software as well.
In December, the music business responded with Pressplay and MusicNet, both pay-to-use subscription services where users can listen to or download a specified number of songs each month. Pressplay is a joint venture between Universal and Sony Music, and MusicNet teams BMG, EMI and AOL Time Warner (news/quote) with Real Networks.
"All of my clients had their attorneys advise the labels that if they did use my clients' music on Pressplay or MusicNet, they would be in breach of contract," said Simon Renshaw, who manages the Dixie Chicks, Mary J. Blige and others. "Some artists they took off, but some they didn't. It's becoming very obvious to me and my peers that we're becoming victims of what is a huge conspiracy."
Representatives of the five major record labels would not talk on the record about the payment system or their rights to use the music. But in comments not for attribution, several executives at labels and their subscription services did not dispute the accusations regarding the payment plan. They said their first priority was to make the services attractive to consumers and that the details of compensation could be worked out afterward.
In a letter responding to a lawyer who is trying to remove an artist from Pressplay, the head of business affairs for several Universal labels, Rand Hoffman, set out a company position. It is a view shared by other record executives, who say they are investing heavily to fight piracy and develop a fair compensation system for artists who are ungrateful.
"We are now spending tens of millions of dollars to help launch Pressplay in the hope that a legitimate response to the illegitimate services will provide an attractive alternative to consumers," Mr. Hoffman wrote in the letter. "Pressplay is committed to making music available on the Internet in a manner that is legal and that ensures that artists and publishers will be paid. This is truly a time for artists and record companies to be working together."
He added that it was "beyond logic" that artists would choose to leave their music off Pressplay and "effectively encourage the use of illegal services."
Though the two new services don't appear to be widely used, what worries artists and managers is that a precedent is being set, so that if the labels finally come up with a viable online music subscription service, they won't have to share a significant portion of the proceeds with artists and can claim that this is the way business has always been done.
The crux of the debate over artists' compensation involves whether they should get a licensing fee or a royalty payment.
When their music is used in movies, in commercials and on Internet sites, artists are paid a licensing fee, which, after payments to the producer and the publisher, is split 50-50 between artist and label. Although Pressplay and MusicNet license the music, the bands are not paid a licensing fee. Instead, the labels pay their artists a standard royalty for each song accessed by a fan, as they would for a CD sold.
This means that the artist gets on average less than 15 percent instead of 50 percent. But, out of that, 35 to 45 percent is deducted for standard CD expenses like packaging and promotional copies -- expenses that obviously don't exist in the online world.
As one rock manager computes it, if a consumer buys the standard Gold Plan on Pressplay, paying $19.95 for 75 songs downloaded to a hard drive and 750 streamed so that they can be heard only once, an artist, after these deductions, gets $.0023 per song downloaded. To earn a penny, more than four songs must be downloaded.
"I did the math with several other managers and lawyers, and the labels and Pressplay get just under 91 percent after they've paid all the artists for all the downloads," said Jim Guerinot, who manages No Doubt, Offspring, Beck and Chris Cornell. Other managers come up with other figures that they say are even worse for the artists.
The artists' managers and lawyers say the record companies have not committed their payment system to writing.
Representatives for Pressplay and MusicNet said that the payment schedule was a decision made by the labels. "Pressplay licenses its content from record labels and in turn packages the music on our service," said Seth Oster, a spokesman for the company. "The compensation of artists takes place at the label level."
"Pressplay was developed as a legitimate service to make sure artists' rights were respected and artists were compensated," he added.
A spokeswoman for MusicNet said, "We are deeply committed to artists' rights and to ensuring that copyright holders are compensated."
Another irritant for the artists, several lawyers and managers say, is the distribution of the $170 million settlement from MP3.com, an Internet company that offered a music storage service in violation of copyright law.
The labels were to share that money with artists whose music was put online without authorization, but several artists' representatives said nothing had been distributed.
Spokesmen for Sony (news/quote) and BMG said those companies were arranging to distribute the money. According to Warner Brothers and Universal Music, the money has been distributed, although it may not have been spelled out exactly in the accounting statements artists received. EMI did not call with a comment.
For many acts, suddenly there appears to be little difference between the illicit file-sharing system and record-label services.
The arguments the labels are using, said Jill Berliner, a leading music lawyer, are exactly the ones Napster made. "And, from our perspective, if the technology is going to be out there and the artist isn't really going to make money, we'd prefer that our fans just get it for free," she said.
Another complaint is that the labels are licensing music to the subscription services without seeking permission from the musicians.
"All of a sudden this thing launches," Mr. Guerinot said, "and myself and a lot of other managers and lawyers had never even been asked about it. We have coupling rights in our contract, which means they can't just take our music and put it wherever they please. When I try to talk to them, they say that they don't have to discuss this."
Mr. Guerinot said he sent cease- and-desist letters on behalf of Offspring, Beck and No Doubt. As a result, he said, music from No Doubt and Offspring was removed from Pressplay, but not the music of Beck.
One manager of million-selling acts, speaking on condition of anonymity, said: "We've written them letters and put them on notice up front, as did most managers and lawyers, saying, `Don't put our artists' music up.' But they'll do it anyway. They're so arrogant. They're taking the position of: `We don't care. Let's just do it without asking.' They're ignoring their contracts. It's ridiculous. Obviously it will be litigated."
Some managers, however, said that they felt bullied into including their music on the services and were powerless to do anything about it. "Of course we're upset about it," said the manager of one male artist. "But he hasn't even turned in his record yet, so what leg do we really have to stand on?"
To try to avoid future protests, most major labels have added a clause to their standard recording contracts allowing the label to sell an act's songs on the Internet, including all subscription and pay-per-use services. It is very difficult, said Mr. Stiffelman, for a new band to have enough leverage to remove this clause from its contract.
In the US, the large electronics chain, "best buy" had a special in which they were selling players by mintek for 60 bucks back around thanksgiving/christmas. i'm not sure if they were eating part of the cost or not, but if best buy wasn't that 28 dollar licensing fee is half the retail cost of the player!
"Jon's article is wrong for many reasons, but the above is true. What Jon totally and utterly neglects is the fact that in most European countries except the UK there isn't this seperation. Engineers and Scientists are revered in France and Germany and when you say "I've got an Engineering Degree" people are impressed as they know its hard, if you say "I've got a degree in Marketing" they know you are a fool.
So Jon missed out the historical background (nice one) and presented an English speaking only view."
Maybe that is what he has in store for us tomorrow?
all kidding aside, Slashdot is US centric. I don't think in the general public's mind that engineers(like me!) and scientists rate that highly as compared to other countries. Look at what most people study in college, it certainly isn't "hard" as compared to the sciences.
Now back to the topic, in school can one really "learn" art? In my field, there is definatly an art to designing circuits, but I don't believe you can "teach" design. Yes you can show theories and give examples to emulate, but there are very few designers and most engineers work in some sort of support function(test engineers, app engineers etc).
Will studying compostion make you a better designer? Probably not, but i could understand how someone who is succesfull in the "art" of engineering would still have that creative spark which could carry over in to traditional arts (painting, sculpture etc).
What the grocery stores did down here near DC(and up near albany) was raise prices on a number of items 10-15% at the same time as instituting the "savings cards". I did get a card but provided a phony address and phone number.
It was a pretty shallow ploy on Giant Supermarkets, but i guess thats what everyone does now.
People may not be aware that they may opt out of a number of company lists and such, but that every time they buy something with their credit cards they are put back on them.
i went to see it on saturday, the majority of the audience was around the age of 9-12. They laughed non stop throughout the movie.
now why do i bring up the age of the majority of the viewers? most of the previews shown before the film were for R rated movies. I guess the target audience for this film was much higher, but most of the people in the movie were not.
I personally felt it was the second worst movie i ever saw(spy hard was the first). the gags were not funny(the tongue thing was totally annoying). the only part of the movie where i laughed out loud was when the women picked up the baby and rolled it back down the hill.
my friend who went with me was quite drunk when he saw it and it didn't help one bit.
The director did look like he had a good time making it. the most enjoyable part of the movie was when it ended and they showed how they mapped him onto the movie.
"You missed the point. The anime icon merely indicates the movie is anime. It does not indicate anything about the content of the anime movie 'Metropolis.' The point of confusion is that this is not an anime-version of Metropolis, it is a completely different movie in its own right. "
well there are plenty of movies with the same title, that doesnt mean its a remake of a prior movie. The IMDB has a number of movies like that.
well if you don't look at the anime icon, i could see how you might be confused. The topic icon generally accompanies the type of story which is being linked to.
the whole thing was screwy since the CNN version of the article says the people stabbed were 20 and 21, both are are not considered minors except with respect to drinking.
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Fernandes is pretty good. They have something like 70% market share in japan(Its the japanese guitar with the spanish name) so they must be pretty good.
http://www.fernandesguitars.com/
I own both a fernandes bass and and a strat like electric. Pricing on them is pretty good and the sound is real nice. As the above ac said, some guitar models come with something called a sustainer. I believe its an electromagnet that allows for a note to be held without the guitarist continiously hitting the string(you could buy a pedal to do this).
http://www.fernandesguitars.com/sustainer/
Fernandes isn't all that well known in the US, but if you look at their page they do list a number of artists who use them.
Well, basically the result is that only the "best" movies (wether that is mass market appeal or truely inventive) would benefit and the "crap" would go away.
Sounds like a good idea to me, perhaps better quality movies would result. However, people would be less likely to take chances on risky films or sub genres.
One idea the RIAA should consider is releasing individual songs on those 2" CD's.
already done in japan, just each single costs around 10 bucks new! I do remember about 10 years ago a machine at same goody which would burn a custom cd for you in the store with whatever tracks you wanted.
just like republicans seem to be all for selfdetermination and choice with one execption Which one exception is that? I can think of so many issues on which they are all for government restriction of private decision-making I don't know where to begin. I'm not saying the Dems are better. I'm not a partisan. I'm just asking...
The one acception is abortion.
do forget to include cars, cars are starting to get ESP onboard which detects when a car might start to slip and applys brakes before it happens.
its standard on vw's in germany and the first vw to have it here is the turbo s.
"I also find it interesting that the senator promoting this heinous piece of legislation is a Democrat. Aren't the Democrats supposed be the party that sticks up for the common people as opposed to big media interests like Disney and the MPAA? "
No they usually seem to go against "big business" but the stereotype is that they are more inline with hollywood, since "hollywood" supposedly has a bent to the left. Kind of doesn't make sense, just like republicans seem to be all for selfdetermination and choice with one execption.
there was a recent slashdot article on this within the last two weeks.
you are right on. Warcraft I and II basically had sides that were clones of one another. C&C was far more "balanced" i.e. you could build tons of mammoth tanks which could destroy almost any unit or building in the game, but yet regular troops could take them out.
Then again with the original C&C (Tiberian Dawn) rushing didint really work as there were so many defensive units. I liked the fact that to really win you had to use your engineers or commandos. That and the whole lack of C&C's power element(and the unit limit) of blizzards rts games would frustrate me to no end.
I'd argue in some ways blizzards games were definitley far more primitive to westwoods earlier efforts although they have more or less caught up.
What the real problem is is that I have yet to see in the stores an HDTV which is either 19" or 25" or 27". Of course when all of the TV's are large screened the prices are going to be much higher.
Not everyone has the space for a large screen TV or is willing to bear the cost of one. A smaller tv would bring down the price and perhaps incentivize including a built in HDTV tuner. I believe once these smaller tv's are built then we will see more widespread adoption. Until that point only videophiles will be the ones to purchase them.
Don't most college stations play independent music anyways?
where i went they played a lot of international programing, techno and heavy heavy metal. not exactly mass market stuff. I doubt too many college stations do the whole top 40 thing so i'm not to worried about them paying the licenses.
what i would do is try to write the best article summary as possible and be sure to make it concise and very articulate.
of course sensationalizing it helps too.
has em both ways! You can ride for free though if you ride back from dulles airport to 495.
then again it was/is a privat road
Record Labels' Answer to Napster Still Has Artists Feeling Bypassed
By NEIL STRAUSS
Record Companies on the Defensive (January 31, 2002)
In their bitter battles against Napster and other free music downloading services, record company executives have wielded one moral argument that has placed their position beyond self-interest: the fans take the music without proper permission and don't pay the artists a dime.
Last December, the major record labels responded with two Internet services of their own where fans pay monthly fees to download songs. Under this arrangement, however, the performers still don't get a dime: for each song downloaded, they stand to get only a fraction of a cent, according to the calculations of disgruntled managers and lawyers.
And, artists and their managers say, the labels, like Napster, aren't putting the music online with proper permission either.
"I'm not an opponent of artists' music being included in these services," said Gary Stiffelman, who represents Eminem, Aerosmith and TLC. "I'm just an opponent of their revenue not being shared."
Because the sites are new, no payments have been made yet, but the payment plan has so infuriated scores of best-selling pop acts, including No Doubt, the Dixie Chicks and Dr. Dre, that their lawyers have demanded their clients' music be removed from the sites, with some even sending cease-and-desist orders. Only in some cases have the major record companies complied.
Since Napster was born on college campuses in the late 1990's, peer-to- peer file sharing services have become the bane of the established music business, with, at their peak, some 60 million Napster users sharing nearly 40 million songs illicitly. Even after a federal district court shut Napster down, other free services proliferated, with Kazaa and Morpheus attracting an ever-growing base of users sharing not just music but movies and software as well.
In December, the music business responded with Pressplay and MusicNet, both pay-to-use subscription services where users can listen to or download a specified number of songs each month. Pressplay is a joint venture between Universal and Sony Music, and MusicNet teams BMG, EMI and AOL Time Warner (news/quote) with Real Networks.
"All of my clients had their attorneys advise the labels that if they did use my clients' music on Pressplay or MusicNet, they would be in breach of contract," said Simon Renshaw, who manages the Dixie Chicks, Mary J. Blige and others. "Some artists they took off, but some they didn't. It's becoming very obvious to me and my peers that we're becoming victims of what is a huge conspiracy."
Representatives of the five major record labels would not talk on the record about the payment system or their rights to use the music. But in comments not for attribution, several executives at labels and their subscription services did not dispute the accusations regarding the payment plan. They said their first priority was to make the services attractive to consumers and that the details of compensation could be worked out afterward.
In a letter responding to a lawyer who is trying to remove an artist from Pressplay, the head of business affairs for several Universal labels, Rand Hoffman, set out a company position. It is a view shared by other record executives, who say they are investing heavily to fight piracy and develop a fair compensation system for artists who are ungrateful.
"We are now spending tens of millions of dollars to help launch Pressplay in the hope that a legitimate response to the illegitimate services will provide an attractive alternative to consumers," Mr. Hoffman wrote in the letter. "Pressplay is committed to making music available on the Internet in a manner that is legal and that ensures that artists and publishers will be paid. This is truly a time for artists and record companies to be working together."
He added that it was "beyond logic" that artists would choose to leave their music off Pressplay and "effectively encourage the use of illegal services."
Though the two new services don't appear to be widely used, what worries artists and managers is that a precedent is being set, so that if the labels finally come up with a viable online music subscription service, they won't have to share a significant portion of the proceeds with artists and can claim that this is the way business has always been done.
The crux of the debate over artists' compensation involves whether they should get a licensing fee or a royalty payment.
When their music is used in movies, in commercials and on Internet sites, artists are paid a licensing fee, which, after payments to the producer and the publisher, is split 50-50 between artist and label. Although Pressplay and MusicNet license the music, the bands are not paid a licensing fee. Instead, the labels pay their artists a standard royalty for each song accessed by a fan, as they would for a CD sold.
This means that the artist gets on average less than 15 percent instead of 50 percent. But, out of that, 35 to 45 percent is deducted for standard CD expenses like packaging and promotional copies -- expenses that obviously don't exist in the online world.
As one rock manager computes it, if a consumer buys the standard Gold Plan on Pressplay, paying $19.95 for 75 songs downloaded to a hard drive and 750 streamed so that they can be heard only once, an artist, after these deductions, gets $.0023 per song downloaded. To earn a penny, more than four songs must be downloaded.
"I did the math with several other managers and lawyers, and the labels and Pressplay get just under 91 percent after they've paid all the artists for all the downloads," said Jim Guerinot, who manages No Doubt, Offspring, Beck and Chris Cornell. Other managers come up with other figures that they say are even worse for the artists.
The artists' managers and lawyers say the record companies have not committed their payment system to writing.
Representatives for Pressplay and MusicNet said that the payment schedule was a decision made by the labels. "Pressplay licenses its content from record labels and in turn packages the music on our service," said Seth Oster, a spokesman for the company. "The compensation of artists takes place at the label level."
"Pressplay was developed as a legitimate service to make sure artists' rights were respected and artists were compensated," he added.
A spokeswoman for MusicNet said, "We are deeply committed to artists' rights and to ensuring that copyright holders are compensated."
Another irritant for the artists, several lawyers and managers say, is the distribution of the $170 million settlement from MP3.com, an Internet company that offered a music storage service in violation of copyright law.
The labels were to share that money with artists whose music was put online without authorization, but several artists' representatives said nothing had been distributed.
Spokesmen for Sony (news/quote) and BMG said those companies were arranging to distribute the money. According to Warner Brothers and Universal Music, the money has been distributed, although it may not have been spelled out exactly in the accounting statements artists received. EMI did not call with a comment.
For many acts, suddenly there appears to be little difference between the illicit file-sharing system and record-label services.
The arguments the labels are using, said Jill Berliner, a leading music lawyer, are exactly the ones Napster made. "And, from our perspective, if the technology is going to be out there and the artist isn't really going to make money, we'd prefer that our fans just get it for free," she said.
Another complaint is that the labels are licensing music to the subscription services without seeking permission from the musicians.
"All of a sudden this thing launches," Mr. Guerinot said, "and myself and a lot of other managers and lawyers had never even been asked about it. We have coupling rights in our contract, which means they can't just take our music and put it wherever they please. When I try to talk to them, they say that they don't have to discuss this."
Mr. Guerinot said he sent cease- and-desist letters on behalf of Offspring, Beck and No Doubt. As a result, he said, music from No Doubt and Offspring was removed from Pressplay, but not the music of Beck.
One manager of million-selling acts, speaking on condition of anonymity, said: "We've written them letters and put them on notice up front, as did most managers and lawyers, saying, `Don't put our artists' music up.' But they'll do it anyway. They're so arrogant. They're taking the position of: `We don't care. Let's just do it without asking.' They're ignoring their contracts. It's ridiculous. Obviously it will be litigated."
Some managers, however, said that they felt bullied into including their music on the services and were powerless to do anything about it. "Of course we're upset about it," said the manager of one male artist. "But he hasn't even turned in his record yet, so what leg do we really have to stand on?"
To try to avoid future protests, most major labels have added a clause to their standard recording contracts allowing the label to sell an act's songs on the Internet, including all subscription and pay-per-use services. It is very difficult, said Mr. Stiffelman, for a new band to have enough leverage to remove this clause from its contract.
I checked the faq and unless i'm missing something, i did not see any mention of effects on battery life.
Any idea how long it a pack of batterys would last? I believe the GBA runs for around 15 hours without any backlight.
In the US, the large electronics chain, "best buy" had a special in which they were selling players by mintek for 60 bucks back around thanksgiving/christmas. i'm not sure if they were eating part of the cost or not, but if best buy wasn't that 28 dollar licensing fee is half the retail cost of the player!
well considering Taco was constantly promoting animefu for a while, i'd say its pretty safe to say he is an anime junkie.
that and the fact he is usually the one who posts the anime stories to the mainpage
"Jon's article is wrong for many reasons, but the above is true. What Jon totally and utterly neglects is the fact that in most European countries except the UK there isn't this seperation. Engineers and Scientists are revered in France and Germany and when you say "I've got an Engineering Degree" people are impressed as they know its hard, if you say "I've got a degree in Marketing" they know you are a fool.
So Jon missed out the historical background (nice one) and presented an English speaking only view."
Maybe that is what he has in store for us tomorrow?
all kidding aside, Slashdot is US centric. I don't think in the general public's mind that engineers(like me!) and scientists rate that highly as compared to other countries. Look at what most people study in college, it certainly isn't "hard" as compared to the sciences.
Now back to the topic, in school can one really "learn" art? In my field, there is definatly an art to designing circuits, but I don't believe you can "teach" design. Yes you can show theories and give examples to emulate, but there are very few designers and most engineers work in some sort of support function(test engineers, app engineers etc).
Will studying compostion make you a better designer? Probably not, but i could understand how someone who is succesfull in the "art" of engineering would still have that creative spark which could carry over in to traditional arts (painting, sculpture etc).
What the grocery stores did down here near DC(and up near albany) was raise prices on a number of items 10-15% at the same time as instituting the "savings cards". I did get a card but provided a phony address and phone number.
It was a pretty shallow ploy on Giant Supermarkets, but i guess thats what everyone does now.
People may not be aware that they may opt out of a number of company lists and such, but that every time they buy something with their credit cards they are put back on them.
the poster forgot VAT(value added taxes)!
european taxes do account for a large price difference!
I think the last dragon did a better job than kung pow.
first our hero "bruce leroy"
he is looking for his master (turns out to be a fortune cookie machine)
the villian is sho'nuff the shogun of harlem
Leroy masters kung fu and gets the glow which he uses to defeat sho'nuff.
it was a lot more funny than Kung pow, it was much more along the lines of i'm going to get ya sucka though.
i went to see it on saturday, the majority of the audience was around the age of 9-12. They laughed non stop throughout the movie.
now why do i bring up the age of the majority of the viewers? most of the previews shown before the film were for R rated movies. I guess the target audience for this film was much higher, but most of the people in the movie were not.
I personally felt it was the second worst movie i ever saw(spy hard was the first). the gags were not funny(the tongue thing was totally annoying). the only part of the movie where i laughed out loud was when the women picked up the baby and rolled it back down the hill.
my friend who went with me was quite drunk when he saw it and it didn't help one bit.
The director did look like he had a good time making it. the most enjoyable part of the movie was when it ended and they showed how they mapped him onto the movie.
"You missed the point. The anime icon merely indicates the movie is anime. It does not indicate anything about the content of the anime movie 'Metropolis.' The point of confusion is that this is not an anime-version of Metropolis, it is a completely different movie in its own right. "
well there are plenty of movies with the same title, that doesnt mean its a remake of a prior movie. The IMDB has a number of movies like that.
well if you don't look at the anime icon, i could see how you might be confused. The topic icon generally accompanies the type of story which is being linked to.
the whole thing was screwy since the CNN version of the article says the people stabbed were 20 and 21, both are are not considered minors except with respect to drinking.
yep, if an suv crashes into a wall its toast because of the design, it also destroys any car it hits much to the detriment of its occupants.
you are probably safer in a smaller more manuverable car which can avoid accidents rather than try to plow through them.
http://poseur.4x4.org/
http://home.attbi.com/~eliot_www/suvsuck.html