Looks like a good movie... I'll watch it when it comes out on DVD. But the name... ick.. sounds so cheezy. I realize its an actual comic book, but it just seems... dumb.
I can honestly say that I bought into the government hype surrounding your case, although I have never thought of your crime coming close to justifying your sentance and treatment.
Not now.. Its nice to hear most of the points against you explained by you and not some news anchor. I find my self much more inclined to believe you simply because I know what can happen when someone sensationalizes a story for money.
Good luck Kevin, I don't think you will need it though!:)
...Star Trek movies have been progressively getting worse and worse as they come out. Personally... I like them all. They are great 'entertainment'. However.. the bulk of their fan base are fanatics. They search for incontinuity of plot, question the real life physics of it all and much much more. That is what seperates the Fans from the Creators. It seems as though the Creators look at is entertainment designed to attract viewers. Fine by me.. not so good if Star Trek is your life or at least a slight passion. This.. is why it didn't do well. I have no doubt it will at least pay for itself once it hits video stores but thats also a product of cost. Nobody wants to pay $10 for admission and another $10 for popcorn and a pop to see a sci fi movie series that is getting constantly bad reviews by people who live for Star Trek. Hollywood is going to need to realize this if they expect to survive in theatres in the future.
I've got me a nice glass piece coming myself... plus a little slap and tickle with the boss... granted.. she's my wife and I'm also the boss. Isn't working for yourself wonderful at times?:)
Clerk: Phone number please... Me: You don't need my phone number Clerk: I don't need your phone number... Me: You will thank me and wish me a nice day. Clerk: Thank you, have a nice day!
My local stationary store has started asking for my phone number as well... I tried the above tactic but they just ignored me... must be Toydarian.
"3. Like it or not, this is not going to kill MP3, because most MP3 players are commercial, licensed products, and there are a ton of them out there, and they don't support Vorbis. So you don't have to do anything to keep using your MP3s, but if you want to use Vorbis in protest, it's going to be very difficult."
Actually, WinAMP supports vorbis now. Other decoders usually allow for at least a plugin, so vorbis in theory shouldn't be hard to get running on most decoders.
1. Dump all commercials. 2. TV stations start charging cable providers for content. 3. Cable providers charge us for the service.
I think a model like this would only work for satellite providers, not land based cable. The costs to lay/maintain coax is probably significantly more then it would be to plunk a bird in the sky.
Number one problem with this? Money. People will only pay so much for cable. Therefore the cable companies will only pay so much for content, and the stations will only pay so much for shows. Therefor the whole industry needs to live with a smaller profit margin. And this leaves us pretty much back where we are since we live on a very capitolistic continent.
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OY! What did Mickey Mouse ever do to you! Erm.. wait... Euro Disney... sorry.:)
Dude... you are so mindbogglingly right it hurts. Its too bad that the bulk of fans out there aren't like you... and me for that matter... I loved Ep 1 and I loved Ep 2. They entertained me. Therefore I got my moneys worth.
In this day and age of obesity and general unfitness of north america's children I think we need to spend more time getting our kids out to the park or into a sports league of some sort to keep them healthy. Our kids are getting fat spending their time staring blankly at the computer screens all day.. I know.. I'm one of those kids! I spent hours as a kid watching TV, playing video games and futzing on the computer. It was great.. I came home at 3:30.. watched after school cartoons until mom made dinner at 5:30. Went back to it after... maybe did a little homework then hopped on the computer for the rest of the night... EVERY DAY. I'm not saying my parents where bad parents, far from it, but had they spent more time forcing me into trying better things for me I think I would lead less of a seditary lifestyle today. Something that I am deasperately trying to get away from these days.
If your child is spending 7 hours a day in front of a console I really think you need to work on your parenting skills. A TV isn't a baby sitter. Let them spend hours and hours staring blankly at a screen when they become old enough to know better.
Not to mention the friction marks on your willy after masterbating 7 hours a day.
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One might argue that if Loki had of put a little more risk into the business from the start and actually got in with games being built at the time, they wouldn't have had half the problems they are in. Ya ya.. capitol = success.. it was the dot com revolution.. the money was there.
For example, Loki hears that Blizzard is in the middle of working on World of Warcraft. They approach Blizzard and say 'hey, we will port the game to linux if you let us develop along side of you. You give us ??% of the sales on the linux port and we will call it even." I'd even go as far as saying a very small percentage of the windows version as well as I'm sure Loki would have been able to help on that as well in small ways.
Their business model was flawed. No word about it. I own one game of theirs (Kohan) and loved it. Very unfortunate:(
I rented one over new years.. I liked it.. of course, the last console I played on was an Atari, but I thought the graphics where cool.. the menuing system was kinda neat too within just the xbox itself. The controlers where nice although kinda big.
I should say that it kills me to admit I like anything MS, but.. well.. it just shows that I am open minded I guess..:)
Another BBS that runs LoRD online is Clockwork Orange BBS. FidoNet is still around as well as many other nets. Why not try a bbs again! Don't forget TRADEWARS!! We have that too.. some new games will be banged within the week!
I've just gotten into this game. I ordered it back when Loki was in bankruptsy and it got tucked under my newly purchased copy of Diablo II. After sorta getting bored of diablo (DAMMIT!, why are all the good weapons hard to find??) I've rediscovered it. And I remember now why I bought it! Wonderful graphics.. stable as hell.. my only beef... listening to "praise the kohan" or whatever every time I move someone.. chreeerist!
That was a toy... the old fashioned kinda toy where you used a screwdriver and if you chewed on the pieces you would either choke up screws or lacerate yourself. Those where the days....
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In this day and age sifting through the bullshit online has become increasingly harder and harder as every day passes. I hit Slashdot almost as much as I hit CNN for news in the past 4 days and while CNN had up to date information that was over all quite good, it as usual is filtered to fit their format only (you can gather much more from other sources). You guys had the links to mirrors, donation pages, real people stories, original thoughts on everything on how all this may have happened to why it was possible that the towers collapsed. All this before the mainstream media thought it important to report on. I swear I must have seen the crash from every angle possible about a hundred times without any new news.
Why does this irk me? It has a tone of distain about it.. like their saying.. 'that crappy business model that nobody can make any money from, but just won't die'
I can see it now. They would simply just set up a program that would start at 00000000000 and count up to 99999999999. That would make life SO much easier. I'm gonna start writing the software now. I'll sell it for $100 a pop and commerce will flow...
Slashdot Mirror
Looks like a good movie... I'll watch it when it comes out on DVD. But the name... ick.. sounds so cheezy. I realize its an actual comic book, but it just seems... dumb.
I can honestly say that I bought into the government hype surrounding your case, although I have never thought of your crime coming close to justifying your sentance and treatment.
:)
Not now.. Its nice to hear most of the points against you explained by you and not some news anchor. I find my self much more inclined to believe you simply because I know what can happen when someone sensationalizes a story for money.
Good luck Kevin, I don't think you will need it though!
...Star Trek movies have been progressively getting worse and worse as they come out. Personally... I like them all. They are great 'entertainment'. However.. the bulk of their fan base are fanatics. They search for incontinuity of plot, question the real life physics of it all and much much more. That is what seperates the Fans from the Creators. It seems as though the Creators look at is entertainment designed to attract viewers. Fine by me.. not so good if Star Trek is your life or at least a slight passion. This.. is why it didn't do well. I have no doubt it will at least pay for itself once it hits video stores but thats also a product of cost. Nobody wants to pay $10 for admission and another $10 for popcorn and a pop to see a sci fi movie series that is getting constantly bad reviews by people who live for Star Trek. Hollywood is going to need to realize this if they expect to survive in theatres in the future.
I've got me a nice glass piece coming myself... plus a little slap and tickle with the boss... granted.. she's my wife and I'm also the boss. Isn't working for yourself wonderful at times? :)
Must suck to be you... I've read much worse today.
Well there goes my weekly Jedi mind trick.
Clerk: Phone number please...
Me: You don't need my phone number
Clerk: I don't need your phone number...
Me: You will thank me and wish me a nice day.
Clerk: Thank you, have a nice day!
My local stationary store has started asking for my phone number as well... I tried the above tactic but they just ignored me... must be Toydarian.
"3. Like it or not, this is not going to kill MP3, because most MP3 players are commercial, licensed products, and there are a ton of them out there, and they don't support Vorbis. So you don't have to do anything to keep using your MP3s, but if you want to use Vorbis in protest, it's going to be very difficult."
Actually, WinAMP supports vorbis now. Other decoders usually allow for at least a plugin, so vorbis in theory shouldn't be hard to get running on most decoders.
1. Dump all commercials.
2. TV stations start charging cable providers for content.
3. Cable providers charge us for the service.
I think a model like this would only work for satellite providers, not land based cable. The costs to lay/maintain coax is probably significantly more then it would be to plunk a bird in the sky.
Number one problem with this? Money. People will only pay so much for cable. Therefore the cable companies will only pay so much for content, and the stations will only pay so much for shows. Therefor the whole industry needs to live with a smaller profit margin. And this leaves us pretty much back where we are since we live on a very capitolistic continent.
OY! What did Mickey Mouse ever do to you! Erm.. wait... Euro Disney... sorry. :)
:)
Dude... you are so mindbogglingly right it hurts. Its too bad that the bulk of fans out there aren't like you... and me for that matter... I loved Ep 1 and I loved Ep 2. They entertained me. Therefore I got my moneys worth.
I give ya a week before the legal lackies at apple send you a cease & decist on the slashdot aqua theme.. ;)
In this day and age of obesity and general unfitness of north america's children I think we need to spend more time getting our kids out to the park or into a sports league of some sort to keep them healthy. Our kids are getting fat spending their time staring blankly at the computer screens all day.. I know.. I'm one of those kids! I spent hours as a kid watching TV, playing video games and futzing on the computer. It was great.. I came home at 3:30.. watched after school cartoons until mom made dinner at 5:30. Went back to it after... maybe did a little homework then hopped on the computer for the rest of the night... EVERY DAY. I'm not saying my parents where bad parents, far from it, but had they spent more time forcing me into trying better things for me I think I would lead less of a seditary lifestyle today. Something that I am deasperately trying to get away from these days.
Jim
If your child is spending 7 hours a day in front of a console I really think you need to work on your parenting skills. A TV isn't a baby sitter. Let them spend hours and hours staring blankly at a screen when they become old enough to know better.
Not to mention the friction marks on your willy after masterbating 7 hours a day.
One might argue that if Loki had of put a little more risk into the business from the start and actually got in with games being built at the time, they wouldn't have had half the problems they are in. Ya ya.. capitol = success.. it was the dot com revolution.. the money was there.
:(
For example, Loki hears that Blizzard is in the middle of working on World of Warcraft. They approach Blizzard and say 'hey, we will port the game to linux if you let us develop along side of you. You give us ??% of the sales on the linux port and we will call it even." I'd even go as far as saying a very small percentage of the windows version as well as I'm sure Loki would have been able to help on that as well in small ways.
Their business model was flawed. No word about it. I own one game of theirs (Kohan) and loved it. Very unfortunate
Sorry.. has to be done.. must.. keep.. scene... alive....
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I rented one over new years.. I liked it.. of course, the last console I played on was an Atari, but I thought the graphics where cool.. the menuing system was kinda neat too within just the xbox itself. The controlers where nice although kinda big.
:)
I should say that it kills me to admit I like anything MS, but.. well.. it just shows that I am open minded I guess..
Another BBS that runs LoRD online is Clockwork Orange BBS. FidoNet is still around as well as many other nets. Why not try a bbs again! Don't forget TRADEWARS!! We have that too.. some new games will be banged within the week!
telnet://clockworkorangebbs.org
http://www.clockworkorangebbs.org
I've just gotten into this game. I ordered it back when Loki was in bankruptsy and it got tucked under my newly purchased copy of Diablo II. After sorta getting bored of diablo (DAMMIT!, why are all the good weapons hard to find??) I've rediscovered it. And I remember now why I bought it! Wonderful graphics.. stable as hell.. my only beef... listening to "praise the kohan" or whatever every time I move someone.. chreeerist!
Great.. does this mean I'm gonna have to bring my cell in for pollution testing every year too?
That was a toy... the old fashioned kinda toy where you used a screwdriver and if you chewed on the pieces you would either choke up screws or lacerate yourself. Those where the days....
Thank you.
Am I strange for letting that bother me?
I can see it now. They would simply just set up a program that would start at 00000000000 and count up to 99999999999. That would make life SO much easier. I'm gonna start writing the software now. I'll sell it for $100 a pop and commerce will flow...