Blue of course! The night sky is the same color as the day
Well, then why not say "red" since sunset is during the day?
The night sky is black because there is almost no light striking it; the daytime sky is blue most of the time because light is striking it at a particular range of angles and at sunset/rise it is red because the light is striking it at a different range of angles.
It doesn't make much sense to say that the sky is a particular colour independant of the light passing through it. Or, at least, whatever colour it has is not likely to be the ones we see when the sun is up, it's probably much subtler.
I only saw the first of the LOTR movies. It was great. No need to see it again, but it left an impression of craftsman ship and caring about a bunch of books he really loved.
You must have slept through it then; the first film was rancid garbage by someone that clearly hadn't read the book beyond skimming it for the fight scenes.
Bush will be gone in 5 years max. He'll get some votes and a footnote in history for starting this project while some unknown president down the line will carry the can for closing it down when it becomes obvious that the whole thing is a half-baked sound-bite instead of a real plan.
Laws must be made to benefit the smallest group of people of all: the individual.
Perhaps but "the individual" does not mean "an individual".
Taxation without representation = benefits derived from a minority (aristocracy) for no reason (no, or few benefits to the minority).
When money buys new laws and decides which old laws are enforced then you are right back to exactly this situation.
Capitalism, the philosophical root of the American system requires that every individual have the same rights as every other individual or group of individuals.
In theory. In practice no society has ever achieved that. The reality is that money talks and always will.
C'mon, you know you want to. Everyone's doing it. C'mon, give in to the temptation. It's good.
That's basically the process I went through from my girlfriend to get me to watch the second one; it won't work a second time!
I could (and have) fill pages with what's wrong with them as movies and more pages with what's wrong with them as adaptations (which is a less valid issue given the way Hollywood treats adaptations). But, I've given up. Go and watch them and maybe one day when someone does it right you'll understand what Jackson has done wrong. I'll just sit here an moan...
Paid to watch it in the movie theatre and didn't get a discount because half the continuity was left on the editing room floor until the DVD came out.
You want a reason: the direction was awful. Everyone that worked on these films deserves an Oscar for their field except Jackson who should be taken out and shot through the lungs. There's not a single well directed scene in the first movie and the second is only slightly better. What I've heard of the third indicates that it's the worst of the three.
Corporations and small businesses are entitled to the same legal protection as any individual.
Why? And why do you treat both equally?
Also, your idea of "leftist" is incorrect. Wanting the law to maximise the well-being of the people is not "left" or "right", it's "fantasy"; the rich never allow such a situation to arise whether the government is communist, fascist or anything in between. As
Cornelius Vanderbilt said "What do I care about the law? Ain't I got the power?"
Why is everybody (well, too many people, anyway) bitching and moaning about these movies?
Because they were shit? I only saw the first two but they sucked big time (my girlfriend talked me into seeing the second one; I wouldn't even have waited until the end of FotR if I'd been on my own).
I hope someday someone with some talent will direct an adaptation of LotR.
The Return Of The King - The entire trilogy is a masterpiece of modern cinema
I'd hate to see what you think is a bad movie then. Jackson couldn't direct traffic in a ghosttown. These were bad, bad, bad movies. So much for your idea that a movie needs more than eye-candy.
In a country ruled "by the people, for the people" all laws should theoretically be to benefit the community (ie, the people). If a law only aids a small number of people while disadvantaging most then it is exactly the sort of tyranny the founders of America said they were trying to escape.
The aristocracy of the modern day US have managed to turn this on its head to the point where most Americans now believe that laws disadvantaging any of that same aristocracy are "communist" and bad.
George the Third would have been astonded at the power wielded by Bush, Gates, Murdoch, Turner, to say nothing of the much more faceless 1% of America that have the money to buy their own laws, senators or even presidencies.
I want a totally silent, small box that costs less than 200 UK pounds with just RAM and I/O ports for keyboard, mouse, and screen that will work as a thin client to a Linux server. Sound is optional.
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"Insightful" was the mod you really wanted.
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Well, then why not say "red" since sunset is during the day?
The night sky is black because there is almost no light striking it; the daytime sky is blue most of the time because light is striking it at a particular range of angles and at sunset/rise it is red because the light is striking it at a different range of angles.
It doesn't make much sense to say that the sky is a particular colour independant of the light passing through it. Or, at least, whatever colour it has is not likely to be the ones we see when the sun is up, it's probably much subtler.
TWW
Yeah, right. Tell that to Frodo.
TWW
You must have slept through it then; the first film was rancid garbage by someone that clearly hadn't read the book beyond skimming it for the fight scenes.
TWW
Okay: you're crazy. Jackson's LotR was half-arsed hack work. Look at the pictures, ignore the characters.
Not that that makes Jar-Jar any better.
TWW
Bush doesn't give a damn about going to Mars.
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Or one gallon weighing 10 pounds.
TWW
Because there isn't any.
TWW
It was probably the check-out itself!
Off-topic philosophical point: could it be that all rights are fundimental and humans decide which to take away (ultimately by force)?
TWW
Er, apart from that one SCO distributed after it "realised" (ie invented) there was an infringement.
What a bunck of fuckwits.
TWW
No, you're right: you don't like it much. Glad to help.
TWW
Perhaps but "the individual" does not mean "an individual".
Taxation without representation = benefits derived from a minority (aristocracy) for no reason (no, or few benefits to the minority).
When money buys new laws and decides which old laws are enforced then you are right back to exactly this situation.
Capitalism, the philosophical root of the American system requires that every individual have the same rights as every other individual or group of individuals.
In theory. In practice no society has ever achieved that. The reality is that money talks and always will.
That's basically the process I went through from my girlfriend to get me to watch the second one; it won't work a second time!
I could (and have) fill pages with what's wrong with them as movies and more pages with what's wrong with them as adaptations (which is a less valid issue given the way Hollywood treats adaptations). But, I've given up. Go and watch them and maybe one day when someone does it right you'll understand what Jackson has done wrong. I'll just sit here an moan...
TWW
Paid to watch it in the movie theatre and didn't get a discount because half the continuity was left on the editing room floor until the DVD came out.
You want a reason: the direction was awful. Everyone that worked on these films deserves an Oscar for their field except Jackson who should be taken out and shot through the lungs. There's not a single well directed scene in the first movie and the second is only slightly better. What I've heard of the third indicates that it's the worst of the three.
TWW
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Why? And why do you treat both equally?
Also, your idea of "leftist" is incorrect. Wanting the law to maximise the well-being of the people is not "left" or "right", it's "fantasy"; the rich never allow such a situation to arise whether the government is communist, fascist or anything in between. As Cornelius Vanderbilt said "What do I care about the law? Ain't I got the power?"
TWW
The whole, awful, stupid fight is a blooper. Why pick on the staff?
Because they were shit? I only saw the first two but they sucked big time (my girlfriend talked me into seeing the second one; I wouldn't even have waited until the end of FotR if I'd been on my own).
I hope someday someone with some talent will direct an adaptation of LotR.
TWW
I'd hate to see what you think is a bad movie then. Jackson couldn't direct traffic in a ghosttown. These were bad, bad, bad movies. So much for your idea that a movie needs more than eye-candy.
TWW
Yes, it was a bizarre mistake although I don't know what the reasoning for it was.
TWW
The aristocracy of the modern day US have managed to turn this on its head to the point where most Americans now believe that laws disadvantaging any of that same aristocracy are "communist" and bad.
George the Third would have been astonded at the power wielded by Bush, Gates, Murdoch, Turner, to say nothing of the much more faceless 1% of America that have the money to buy their own laws, senators or even presidencies.
TWW
Maybe we should all just go down the pub and discuss whatever it was the presentation was about.
TWW
Does such a thing exist?
TWW
I bet Rumsfeld is working damn hard to prevent this going to an open court.