I'm not a religious bigot - whatever gets you through the night, great. I am not, however, a believer.. and I do insult religious zealots once they start imposing their belief systems onto mine. So, in response to your assessment of me, best to go with 'a little from column A, a little from column B'.
Tru dat, but if logic entered into this topic anywhere, then SA would have done their 4/1 piece on a perpetual motion machine or some such, instead of a sarcastic nod to the flat-earthers who are trying to redefine what constitutes science... and therefore, truth.
Ya think? Our oldest daughter was just yesterday telling me about intelligent design, which she learned about from her SCIENCE teacher. It's insidious, this faith-based truth, and is popping up in far too many places where it doesn't belong.
...but look at our current political and social climate in regards to theology - this may be tongue in cheek, but it's not unthinkable. That should keep you up at night - it does for me, anyway.
I have no truck with people believing there's some grey-haired grandfather in the sky that remembers everyone's birthday, but please, keep it out of our schools, and off of our laws.
Um... the producer, director, filming locations, and several of the primary actors are British. It can hardly be called a definitively American production.
The reason that the characters are "spot on" is because that is how you first saw them.
To paraphrase the Guide, you couldn't have been more wrong.
Me, I read first 2 books, Guide and Restaurant, then got the LP of the radio show, then read the third book, then saw the BBCTV series. The TV show was spot on, although Marvin was taller than I'd imagined.
Simple fact is, Americans have a rich history of fuckering up British humor with remakes. This will be no differed, DA's stamp of approval or not. I'll wait till it's on cable.
Dont just boycott, pirate the games! Remember every time you pirate a game you cost their company millions in lost cash.
Nuh uh - there's still (and never will be) a correlation between pirated titles and lost revenue - you can't put a tangible value on whether or not someone would have actually purchased the game if it was the only avenue available. There's no such thing as a guaranteed sale.
Based upon the current economical trends, I'd say a solid career with staggering growth will be in the field of bankruptcy law... and then, ultimately, weapons manufacturing.
Yes, but there's a lot more teenagers than you - now that your palm crystal has turned red or whatever, you're only a consumer for a finite amount of time... but there's an endless supply of teenagers coming up, so the demographic remains fixed. It's safer for them that way.
The whole thing was a carefully orchestrated dupe. Coke was losing money hand over fist by using raw cane sugar in their original product, and knew that their rabid legions of consumers would be up in arms about switching to the cheaper (and not as good tasting) corn syrup... so they nixed real coke, and came out with 'new' coke, a cheap ripoff of their biggest competitor, pepsi.
When the public predictably poopoo'd new coke, coke 'acquiesced' and 'begrudgingly' released coke classic, with the new money-saving ingredients. The public happily swallowed the hook, line, sinker, pole, and boat.
Having bowled a few games in my day, I think I can safely say that if a new ball added 30 pins to your game, your old one must have been shit.
Ain't it the truth, brutha. My old ball was a 12lb white dot straight roller, the Spirit is a 16lb reactive. Made a HUGE difference in my game, and to my amazement, there wasn't much of a learning curve - took me about 5 frames to find the pocket and start hitting it with consistancy. Now, of course, I'm plagued by taps, but I'm still hands down a significantly better bowler because of the new ball.
And, to keep on topic, all it took was 10 minutes of graphic work and 20 bucks to get drilled and tipped. chCHING!
Dude, it's a ball. Round. Glossy. Heavy. Most bowling balls are...
Not a bowler, huh? There's MUCH more to a ball than just round and heavy - special coverstocks that react better with certain lane conditions, off-center weights and cores that increase the revs and collect energy as it skids and releases that energy when it grabs. The technology behind bowling is actually quite fascinating.
There's a reason you don't see pros playing with a clear Scooby Doo ball.
I did some REAL minor graphic work (changing 3 buttons for their website) for a firm a few months back... one of the provisions of my day job's contract is that I'm forbidden from doing any outside work, so I asked my boss if I could do a little one-off on the side as long as no money changed hands, and he agreed... so I got the side folks to give me a new bowling ball instead of cash - everyone happy all around!
By the way, the new ball added almost 30 pins to my average right out of the gate. If you can lay your hands on an original Spirit, they're awesome!
So I left neutral feedback explaining this caveat emptor situation -- and the seller went back and changed his positive feedback (i had paid the same day) to a negative feedback along with a series of lies claiming I begged for a refund and made unreasonable demands.
You're on crack. Feedback, once left, cannot be changed. There's a new (last year or so) system in place where you can respond to feedbacks, but that doesn't alter the original comment or its rating. The only way to change feedback is to withdraw it, and that must be with a mutual agreement between buyer and seller.
Well it will sooner or later come around that your buying records will become a public Police Record (As with the books you buy under the patriot act).
Already been done - I don't have the time to track down examples, but you can google them up if you're really interested. A grocery chain, Safeway, I think, used a guy's purchasing history based on his loyalty card to defend themselves against a personal injury claim when he slipped on a wet floor in the store. They claimed since he regularly bought beer and wine with the card, that he was a drunkard and didn't fall down because of their wet floors - it was his alcoholic equilibrium at fault. Dunno how it turned out, but it made it into court.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm not a religious bigot - whatever gets you through the night, great. I am not, however, a believer.. and I do insult religious zealots once they start imposing their belief systems onto mine. So, in response to your assessment of me, best to go with 'a little from column A, a little from column B'.
Tru dat, but if logic entered into this topic anywhere, then SA would have done their 4/1 piece on a perpetual motion machine or some such, instead of a sarcastic nod to the flat-earthers who are trying to redefine what constitutes science... and therefore, truth.
Modded as flamebait? Really?
Well, if I'm gonna do the time, I'm gonna do the crime.
George Lucas is a creative genius! Bill Gates has excellent ethics! Mankind was created by a higher being! Oh, wait...
Ya think? Our oldest daughter was just yesterday telling me about intelligent design, which she learned about from her SCIENCE teacher. It's insidious, this faith-based truth, and is popping up in far too many places where it doesn't belong.
...but look at our current political and social climate in regards to theology - this may be tongue in cheek, but it's not unthinkable. That should keep you up at night - it does for me, anyway.
I have no truck with people believing there's some grey-haired grandfather in the sky that remembers everyone's birthday, but please, keep it out of our schools, and off of our laws.
Hear, Hear!
Um... the producer, director, filming locations, and several of the primary actors are British. It can hardly be called a definitively American production.
True... but... Disney. 'Nuff said.
The reason that the characters are "spot on" is because that is how you first saw them.
To paraphrase the Guide, you couldn't have been more wrong.
Me, I read first 2 books, Guide and Restaurant, then got the LP of the radio show, then read the third book, then saw the BBCTV series. The TV show was spot on, although Marvin was taller than I'd imagined.
Simple fact is, Americans have a rich history of fuckering up British humor with remakes. This will be no differed, DA's stamp of approval or not. I'll wait till it's on cable.
Please, feel free to keep her.
Ok, but you have to take Bryan Adams back.
I don't really know which i'd rather see come out next year, CFL 2006 or XFL 2002.
XFL? That baby died years ago. What this means is maybe we'll finally get some decent Arena Football League games being made.
there's still (and never will be) a correlation
Dammit. That should be "there's still NO (and never will be) a correlation".
Damn you, bourbon! Damn you straight to hell!
Not right away, though. (glug)
Dont just boycott, pirate the games! Remember every time you pirate a game you cost their company millions in lost cash.
Nuh uh - there's still (and never will be) a correlation between pirated titles and lost revenue - you can't put a tangible value on whether or not someone would have actually purchased the game if it was the only avenue available. There's no such thing as a guaranteed sale.
Based upon the current economical trends, I'd say a solid career with staggering growth will be in the field of bankruptcy law... and then, ultimately, weapons manufacturing.
But will it have JarJar?
Yes, and it'll be shooting a walkie-talkie.
Just in case you're interested on what the aforementioned sheriff is up to THESE days, take a look at the latest New Times.
-72
I've got a lot more money than most teenagers.
Yes, but there's a lot more teenagers than you - now that your palm crystal has turned red or whatever, you're only a consumer for a finite amount of time... but there's an endless supply of teenagers coming up, so the demographic remains fixed. It's safer for them that way.
-72
Oh, who are you gonna trust, snopes, who owns 11 percent of coke's public offerings, or me, some nobody on a geek discussion board?
-72
The whole thing was a carefully orchestrated dupe. Coke was losing money hand over fist by using raw cane sugar in their original product, and knew that their rabid legions of consumers would be up in arms about switching to the cheaper (and not as good tasting) corn syrup... so they nixed real coke, and came out with 'new' coke, a cheap ripoff of their biggest competitor, pepsi.
When the public predictably poopoo'd new coke, coke 'acquiesced' and 'begrudgingly' released coke classic, with the new money-saving ingredients. The public happily swallowed the hook, line, sinker, pole, and boat.
I should know. I was one of 'em.
-72
Having bowled a few games in my day, I think I can safely say that if a new ball added 30 pins to your game, your old one must have been shit.
Ain't it the truth, brutha. My old ball was a 12lb white dot straight roller, the Spirit is a 16lb reactive. Made a HUGE difference in my game, and to my amazement, there wasn't much of a learning curve - took me about 5 frames to find the pocket and start hitting it with consistancy. Now, of course, I'm plagued by taps, but I'm still hands down a significantly better bowler because of the new ball.
And, to keep on topic, all it took was 10 minutes of graphic work and 20 bucks to get drilled and tipped. chCHING!
Dude, it's a ball. Round. Glossy. Heavy. Most bowling balls are...
Not a bowler, huh? There's MUCH more to a ball than just round and heavy - special coverstocks that react better with certain lane conditions, off-center weights and cores that increase the revs and collect energy as it skids and releases that energy when it grabs. The technology behind bowling is actually quite fascinating.
There's a reason you don't see pros playing with a clear Scooby Doo ball.
I did some REAL minor graphic work (changing 3 buttons for their website) for a firm a few months back... one of the provisions of my day job's contract is that I'm forbidden from doing any outside work, so I asked my boss if I could do a little one-off on the side as long as no money changed hands, and he agreed... so I got the side folks to give me a new bowling ball instead of cash - everyone happy all around!
By the way, the new ball added almost 30 pins to my average right out of the gate. If you can lay your hands on an original Spirit, they're awesome!
So I left neutral feedback explaining this caveat emptor situation -- and the seller went back and changed his positive feedback (i had paid the same day) to a negative feedback along with a series of lies claiming I begged for a refund and made unreasonable demands.
You're on crack. Feedback, once left, cannot be changed. There's a new (last year or so) system in place where you can respond to feedbacks, but that doesn't alter the original comment or its rating. The only way to change feedback is to withdraw it, and that must be with a mutual agreement between buyer and seller.
-72
FYI - It's actually because the studio can then fudge an extra day into it's 'opening weekend' reciept totals.
Well it will sooner or later come around that your buying records will become a public Police Record (As with the books you buy under the patriot act).
Already been done - I don't have the time to track down examples, but you can google them up if you're really interested. A grocery chain, Safeway, I think, used a guy's purchasing history based on his loyalty card to defend themselves against a personal injury claim when he slipped on a wet floor in the store. They claimed since he regularly bought beer and wine with the card, that he was a drunkard and didn't fall down because of their wet floors - it was his alcoholic equilibrium at fault. Dunno how it turned out, but it made it into court.
-72
Troll? ME?
Well, if I gotta do the time, I may as well commit the crime. Here.
-72