Fellow Americans - vote this fall. I don't care who you vote for, but if you don't vote you aren't allowed to complain.
I could not disagree more strongly. Please, if you are so inclined, feel free to execute your right to not vote. Especially if you are one of those people who got all their information for TV attack ads and Daily Show comedy skits, and think you are expected to choose between "the lesser of two evils" in this election. Stay home and relax. An uninformed vote does far more damage to the country than an apathetic citizen ever could.
No other show tried melding these two conecepts, so you cant possibly sit there and say its cliche'.
I love Firefly, but it was far from the first to combine Westerns and Sci-Fi.
What made Firefly great was that it combined themes from good westerns (ie., John Ford's "The Searchers") with well-thought-out Sci-Fi. I especially enjoys a lot of the physics elements (no sound in space, ships keep moving on momentum alone once they have their speed and trajectory set correctly, the Firefly has one propulsion system for space, another for atmospheric travel, etc.) The one thing I wish they would have explained was how they went about simulating gravity. It appears to be an active system which is part of the life support systems, but it's never really explained.
Great. Now compare it with Boy, War or the unforgettable fire.
Clever of you to leave out October from that list, which even fans of early U2 are forced to admit is total shit.
Pop is the worst album of their newer sound, yet I would still rather listen to it than War. Tracks like "Staring at the Sun" and "If God Would Send His Angels" invoke every bit as much passion as Sunday, Bloody Fucking Sunday, and were recorded after the band had learned how to play their instruments, rather than before.
They are not inviting you to think differently. They are inviting you to ponder the concept of being different. Hence, "think different." It might not be pure grammar, but it's outstanding ad copy.
I'm with you. I've found the service at most Apple resellers to be even worse than what you get at a typical PC "screwdriver shop," while the staff at the Apple store has always fallen all over themselves to help me with every nit-picky little problem or question I have. Apple resellers taking it in the shorts? There might be a few good ones out there, but for most of them I call that karma.
There is nothing more challenging than playing vs another human being
Correction: There are few things less challenging than playing an MMORPG dual against another human being. There is no skill involved in the combat system of these games, apart from the group tactics of fighting large armies of NPC mobs. If you win a PVP match-up in Everquest, AC, or whatever, you have accomplished pretty much nothing. You won because you went into the fight with the more powerful PVP character.
If you want be "challenged" by other people, go outside and play golf, tennis, basketball, or at the very least play an FPS game on your computer. MMORPG PvP is a joke.
All the network games that really matter, whether MMORPG or FPS, are on the PC, not consoles. Love them or hate them, the MMORPG is the cash cow of the gaming industry right now. What does the X-Box have in that arena? Phantasy Star Online!? Please. If EverQuest2 comes to the PlayStation on the same day it's release for Windows, then maybe it's time to talk about consoles taking over. For now, it's two separate markets, just like it has been for over 10 years.
1. Disney hasn't had a significant hit movie since The Lion King.
Correction: Disney has not had a big hit animated movie since The Lion King.
They keep cranking out live action films which turn profits. Remember "Freaky Friday"? That crappy remake was not on the radar of the typical/.er, but it was a $26M movie which has so far already grossed $110M in the US alone.
Fair enough, but it was a PG-13 movie, and certainly not the sort of thing you would put in as a double-feature they typical Disney family cartoon, such as Tarzan or The Lion King.
Also, you conveniently skipped over "Millennium Actress", which you can't really even fully appreciate until you've been exposed to your fair share of Japanese arthouse cinema, which is not true of many teens.
If the bumper's outer cover is meant to be so easily disposable, it shouldn't cost more than a hundred bucks or so to replace. Painting bumpers to match the body raises the cost of every collision, and by extension the cost of everybody's insurance.
Yes, but you can make a car that crumples at 40 MPH to protect passengers, but doesn't have a bumper that shatters to bits and caused thousands of dollars worth of damage at 5 MPH. No people need to be fixed in minor 5-15 MPH parking-lot collisions, and that's what the vast majority of accidents are.
Parts that wear out don't impact insurance, just the usable life of the car. Besides, cars already last a lot longer (with a lot less maintenance) than they used to. Just about any new car you buy today, unless it's a total lemon, you can expect to drive 100k before replacing anything beyond fluids, an air filter and maybe your break pads and tires. With a little extra maintenance, most of them will last well beyond 200k.
So, if you drive 20,000 miles a year, you can expect a 2004 car to get you to 2014 and beyond, by which time the cars coming out then will be so vastly superior you will want another new one anyway, especially since you will be 10 years older and probably in a higher income bracket.
Car bodies are now designed to give themselves up in high-speed collisions to save the lives of the drivers. I know, because a drunk driver hit my 2003 Nissan pick-up truck head on (off-set front collision... the classic horror story safety testers like to focus on), shattering the entire engine compartment to little pieced. When my ears stopped ringing from the air bag deployment, I noticed that I was not only unharmed, but listening to the music of my CD player, which continued to play through the entire accident!
True, but is this even scaling really so important? Did somebody really say, "I need to be able to cut an A2 document in quarters and get four A4 sheets. It's so important, that I will tweak the default shape of all paper everywhere so that it conforms to this behavior."
I'll stick with eight and a half by eleven, thanks.
Want to lower insurance rates? It's easy: Make fragile painted bumpers illegal.
The outer shell of my rear bumper is made of brittle plastic and painted to match the rest of the car body. If some poor bastard accidently rear-ends my car at 5 MPH, the bumber will have to be replaced ($400), and then a body-shop worker will have to carefully match the faded paint on the rest of the car when painting the new one ($350) and that's not even counting the lights and stuff. Also, if he hits me at anything over 15 MPH, the bumper will fail to absorb all the shock, causing damage to the body and running the repair bill into the thousands. All of our rates are higher because of cars like mine.
On the other hand, if all cars had an ugly pig-iron rear bumper which is not considered "damaged" if scratched and has a good system of hyrdolic shocks going through the length of the car which allows it to recoil against a 30 MPH collision without impacting the body or frame, "fender bender" accidents would start costing about $0, and probably involve fewer whiplash incidents. Rates would go down for everybody.
But that would be too practical. People prefer pretty-looking safety equipment over stuff that works as it should. No politician could ever pass such a law and hope to be re-elected.
Most of the supposed "adult" anime really is aimed at teens.
Of the three adult anime features I listed in my reply to the parent post, only one ("Metropolis") is really intended for a teen audience. The other two would probably be perceived as rather dull by most pre-college teens.
Don't confuse anime from the "adult" section of the video store with anime made for adults.
It's a wasteland of stuff that isn't everybody's taste. Stop pretending that you are the cultural be-all. People like different stuff.
He didn't say it was "not his taste." He said it was "juvenille" sensatinoalism of sexuality and violence. I indicated three animated films from Japan which were intended for adults yet are serious films which do not pander to pre-teen desires for gore and/or T&A. My argument does not hang on whether or not he enjoys them.
Two Mini Coopers side by side == One Audi A4 Two Audis == One BAM ("Big Assed Mercedes") Two Mercedes == One average European house.
Wow, those Europeans can apply simple metric system math to everything!
Meanwhile, in America: Two Mini Coopers side by side == One speed bump for a Hummer H2. Two Audis in the driveway == A good house to break into. Two Mercedes == Really, really tacky. Two Hummers == The energy consumption of a typical third-world country Two thrid world countries == A re-unified Germany. (I keed!)
Wow. That will really come in handy when I want to expand my thesis to poster size.
Oh wait. That will never happen.
Standard sizes are built around the real-world needs of the printing business. "Gutter" space is very helpful to book binding shops. It sounds like the metric choice is built around an obsessive-compulsive person's mad desire to make everything "match up" just right, so the same irregular number is used for the ratio of all paper (as if that somehow makes things easier... wouldn't it have been much nicer to make the ratio a nice, round 1.5?) regardless of how the paper size in question is going to be commonly used. No surprise there, though. The entire metric system is built around careful and pedantic synchronization of all quantities with an incorrect measurement of the Earth done by a couple of sloppy Frenchmen working for Napoleon.
Then come back and tell us what a wasteland of juvenile titilation the Japanese anime landscape is. Until then, pipe down and recognize that you have no idea what you are talking about.
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I could not disagree more strongly. Please, if you are so inclined, feel free to execute your right to not vote. Especially if you are one of those people who got all their information for TV attack ads and Daily Show comedy skits, and think you are expected to choose between "the lesser of two evils" in this election. Stay home and relax. An uninformed vote does far more damage to the country than an apathetic citizen ever could.
I love Firefly, but it was far from the first to combine Westerns and Sci-Fi.
What made Firefly great was that it combined themes from good westerns (ie., John Ford's "The Searchers") with well-thought-out Sci-Fi. I especially enjoys a lot of the physics elements (no sound in space, ships keep moving on momentum alone once they have their speed and trajectory set correctly, the Firefly has one propulsion system for space, another for atmospheric travel, etc.) The one thing I wish they would have explained was how they went about simulating gravity. It appears to be an active system which is part of the life support systems, but it's never really explained.
Clever of you to leave out October from that list, which even fans of early U2 are forced to admit is total shit.
Pop is the worst album of their newer sound, yet I would still rather listen to it than War. Tracks like "Staring at the Sun" and "If God Would Send His Angels" invoke every bit as much passion as Sunday, Bloody Fucking Sunday, and were recorded after the band had learned how to play their instruments, rather than before.
They are not inviting you to think differently. They are inviting you to ponder the concept of being different. Hence, "think different." It might not be pure grammar, but it's outstanding ad copy.
I'm with you. I've found the service at most Apple resellers to be even worse than what you get at a typical PC "screwdriver shop," while the staff at the Apple store has always fallen all over themselves to help me with every nit-picky little problem or question I have. Apple resellers taking it in the shorts? There might be a few good ones out there, but for most of them I call that karma.
Correction: There are few things less challenging than playing an MMORPG dual against another human being. There is no skill involved in the combat system of these games, apart from the group tactics of fighting large armies of NPC mobs. If you win a PVP match-up in Everquest, AC, or whatever, you have accomplished pretty much nothing. You won because you went into the fight with the more powerful PVP character.
If you want be "challenged" by other people, go outside and play golf, tennis, basketball, or at the very least play an FPS game on your computer. MMORPG PvP is a joke.
All the network games that really matter, whether MMORPG or FPS, are on the PC, not consoles. Love them or hate them, the MMORPG is the cash cow of the gaming industry right now. What does the X-Box have in that arena? Phantasy Star Online!? Please. If EverQuest2 comes to the PlayStation on the same day it's release for Windows, then maybe it's time to talk about consoles taking over. For now, it's two separate markets, just like it has been for over 10 years.
Correction: Disney has not had a big hit animated movie since The Lion King.
They keep cranking out live action films which turn profits. Remember "Freaky Friday"? That crappy remake was not on the radar of the typical /.er, but it was a $26M movie which has so far already grossed $110M in the US alone.
Let us not forget that Disney also owns Miramax.
His best movie was probably "The Killer", followed closely by "Hard Boiled."
All of his Hong Kong movies pwn, All of his Hollywood movies are t3h suck.
dumbass, pointless markup.
Some people really like using HTML, and everybody should respect that.
Those who read this hoseshit from the command line can just suck it up and deal with it.
Also, you conveniently skipped over "Millennium Actress", which you can't really even fully appreciate until you've been exposed to your fair share of Japanese arthouse cinema, which is not true of many teens.
If the bumper's outer cover is meant to be so easily disposable, it shouldn't cost more than a hundred bucks or so to replace. Painting bumpers to match the body raises the cost of every collision, and by extension the cost of everybody's insurance.
Yes, but you can make a car that crumples at 40 MPH to protect passengers, but doesn't have a bumper that shatters to bits and caused thousands of dollars worth of damage at 5 MPH. No people need to be fixed in minor 5-15 MPH parking-lot collisions, and that's what the vast majority of accidents are.
The music doesn't bring back the memory nearly as much as similar smells do. When an airbag deploys, it smells like your car must be on fire.
So, if you drive 20,000 miles a year, you can expect a 2004 car to get you to 2014 and beyond, by which time the cars coming out then will be so vastly superior you will want another new one anyway, especially since you will be 10 years older and probably in a higher income bracket.
Car bodies are now designed to give themselves up in high-speed collisions to save the lives of the drivers. I know, because a drunk driver hit my 2003 Nissan pick-up truck head on (off-set front collision... the classic horror story safety testers like to focus on), shattering the entire engine compartment to little pieced. When my ears stopped ringing from the air bag deployment, I noticed that I was not only unharmed, but listening to the music of my CD player, which continued to play through the entire accident!
I'll stick with eight and a half by eleven, thanks.
The outer shell of my rear bumper is made of brittle plastic and painted to match the rest of the car body. If some poor bastard accidently rear-ends my car at 5 MPH, the bumber will have to be replaced ($400), and then a body-shop worker will have to carefully match the faded paint on the rest of the car when painting the new one ($350) and that's not even counting the lights and stuff. Also, if he hits me at anything over 15 MPH, the bumper will fail to absorb all the shock, causing damage to the body and running the repair bill into the thousands. All of our rates are higher because of cars like mine.
On the other hand, if all cars had an ugly pig-iron rear bumper which is not considered "damaged" if scratched and has a good system of hyrdolic shocks going through the length of the car which allows it to recoil against a 30 MPH collision without impacting the body or frame, "fender bender" accidents would start costing about $0, and probably involve fewer whiplash incidents. Rates would go down for everybody.
But that would be too practical. People prefer pretty-looking safety equipment over stuff that works as it should. No politician could ever pass such a law and hope to be re-elected.
Of the three adult anime features I listed in my reply to the parent post, only one ("Metropolis") is really intended for a teen audience. The other two would probably be perceived as rather dull by most pre-college teens.
Don't confuse anime from the "adult" section of the video store with anime made for adults.
He didn't say it was "not his taste." He said it was "juvenille" sensatinoalism of sexuality and violence. I indicated three animated films from Japan which were intended for adults yet are serious films which do not pander to pre-teen desires for gore and/or T&A. My argument does not hang on whether or not he enjoys them.
Mea Culpa. The last math class I took was over 15 years ago. My point is still valid even if my vocabulary was flawed.
Two Audis == One BAM ("Big Assed Mercedes")
Two Mercedes == One average European house.
Wow, those Europeans can apply simple metric system math to everything!
Meanwhile, in America:
Two Mini Coopers side by side == One speed bump for a Hummer H2.
Two Audis in the driveway == A good house to break into.
Two Mercedes == Really, really tacky.
Two Hummers == The energy consumption of a typical third-world country
Two thrid world countries == A re-unified Germany. (I keed!)
Oh wait. That will never happen.
Standard sizes are built around the real-world needs of the printing business. "Gutter" space is very helpful to book binding shops. It sounds like the metric choice is built around an obsessive-compulsive person's mad desire to make everything "match up" just right, so the same irregular number is used for the ratio of all paper (as if that somehow makes things easier... wouldn't it have been much nicer to make the ratio a nice, round 1.5?) regardless of how the paper size in question is going to be commonly used. No surprise there, though. The entire metric system is built around careful and pedantic synchronization of all quantities with an incorrect measurement of the Earth done by a couple of sloppy Frenchmen working for Napoleon.
Stop renting "Hentai" anime from the pr0n section of your local video store, and watch "Millennium Actress" Follow that up with Grave of the Fireflies and maybe even Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis.
Then come back and tell us what a wasteland of juvenile titilation the Japanese anime landscape is. Until then, pipe down and recognize that you have no idea what you are talking about.
Heavy Metal 2000
This totally fails to capture the essense of the original, which was as dull as Salt Lake City after hours.