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but the difference with child predatory pornography (which is what we're talking about here) is that it is basely wrong because it isn't truly consenual. Say what you will about porn in general, but child pornography IS wrong for many good reasons.
The internet ISN'T taking care of this problem by itself. And people are making money off of the rape of children. This is wrong. and if you think this is acceptable (i don't care what Ginsburg did) then YOU are wrong.
this isn't a "but what about the CHILDREN" sort of thing. We don't let children drive because given the time of development for the human mind, it's a crapshoot risk. we don't allow children to make sexual decisions with adults for the same reason. Yes, in the roman period, women and men were often married in their teens. guess what, this isn't the roman period. deal.
go to andrew vachss site for more info about predatory pedophiles.
but it's not on Regis or the Today show or Howard Stern or Peter Jennings or Tom Brokaw. You see, only Internet savvy people read news online. The average person, who we would need to change the mind of the government, doesn't know and won't know until the MAJOR media really does a story on it.
If madonna was caught, though, then it would make the major press. hmmmmmmmmmmm....
"As far as I'm concerned I pay $40/month for internet (@home cable). That entitles me to be able to view all the content that I want (or at least that's how it was sold to me). So why should I pay more? "
because you don't get ALL of the content. maybe all YOU want, but certainly not all *I* want. I like "sex and the city" (WHY? don't ask..). I pay $10 month EXTRA for my cable so i can watch Sex and the City. I get to watch other things, too, but i pay an extra premium to get PREMIUM content on a PREMIUM channel. You get so/so content for your $40/month connection. You get BETTER content for $50.
So the general complaints I've seen so far is that
people won't pay for something if they don't trust the source.
They won't buy a subscription without a preview.
They want low hassle payment.
they want something they can't get for free somewhere else.
so let's take Vivid Video and wickedpictures.com. These two companies are arguably some of the more successful adult film companies in the world and exclusively contract "stars" like Serenity, Asia Carrera (the geek porn star lady, if you don't know) and Jenna Jameson. Thse websites offer nearly their entire film library online for, i think, $30 a month. now, that seems like quite a bit, but remember, it's their ENTIRE film library of thousands of films. now people don't pay for it because they're desperate for porn. they can get crappy porn for free off of usenet and the like. people pay for this one because they are guaranteed good content featuring the people of their choice doing the things they want.
subscription sites work, clearly. you just have to make sure your stuff is reputable, different, interesting and that people get the most (HEEEHEE HEEE) bang for their buck.
if salon had exclusive footage of the congressman and chandra levy hanging out, hell, i'd get a subscription for a whole year right there. because they are the only ones to provide that service to me. if they have an exclusive story or something interesting and different, i'll go to that service. That's why every news source in the country wants "EXCLUSIVE" footage and will pay for it.
That's why people are buying HBO subscriptions in DROVES. because only THEY can do "sex and the city" and "sopranos". they have exclusive and interesting content and only THEY can show it, so they get killer subscriptions. People have no problem shelling out $15 a month for HBO.
and likewise, only Wicked Pictures can give me Serenity in a double penetration scene streamed at very good quality and high speed, and so i might...um..get a subscription. yup.
in the 1930s when lots of newspapers were circulated in lots of cities, those papers had to provide tons of different content and big headlines and interesting articles to get subscribers. the ones that did it the most got the most subscriptions because of repuation of quality of content. online organizations have to do the same thing.
in other words, start getting exclusive stories and start being unique, interesting and worth paying for.
HEY! i got laid last night. does that make ME bad, too? i like freedom of speech and all that. just because i can get a little pokey now and again, doesn't make me bad.
There is another small Boston based company called Angstrom Microsystems that's starting to get bigger now. We own about 100 machines from them (1RU) VERY reasonably priced, much better than VA. They do mass produced, but custom mass produced. They don't really have a "product line" but they build large amounts of custom designed machines. They do their own chassis with custom cooling and then burn them in 100 degree heat for 3 days straight before they sell...at least that's their policy. They've never, to this date at least, had a DOA product.
They pack alot into those servers, too. 1/2 rack 1U sysems (2 systems per 1U) are what we have for our cluster. Takes up half the space of a regular 1U, so we can have more.
Their website isn't much to look at but those servers keep chugging and chugging along beautifully.
There is another small Boston based company called Angstrom Microsystems that's starting to get bigger now. We own about 100 machines from them (1RU) VERY reasonably priced, much better than VA. They do their own chassis with custom cooling and then burn them in 100 degree heat for 3 days straight before they sell...at least that's their policy. They've never, to this date at least, had a DOA product.
They pack alot into those servers, too. 1/2 rack 1U sysems (2 systems per 1U) are what we have for our cluster. Takes up half the space of a regular 1U, so we can have more.
Their website isn't much to look at but those servers keep chugging and chugging along beautifully.
yes. free speech as a John Locke kind of concept is a universal right. Free Speech as defined in a LEGAL concept is NOT. Free Speech in this country, as defined in FEDERAL contexts is for criticising only.
I agree that people should have all the darn tooting rights they want, however law is law and it is enforced by men with guns, so i shrug and go against it in my own way. cheers!
I'm not a lawyer, so i could be very wrong, but i've always been told that "free speech" isn't so cut and dry and the Supreme Court has always upheld that concept.
if you need to do this, considering limiting your users (if you can) to an IE browser and using activeX components. they render faster natively and more cleanly than an HTML page and work well within other Microsoft applications.
I'm a *nix man myself, but we live in an MS world. Sometimes you just have to deal. and if this person is in an office where the clients are ActiveX machines, then that's what they should use.
if it has to be more cross-platform, the Java isn't abad idea as swing renders relatively quickly, though the applet might be a bit slow to load INITIALLY...
I attended Film School about 5 years ago. I earned a BS in Animation there, so I didn't just take Film I or something. I mean I spent a good solid year WATCHING FILM.
A big part of sitting in film school is watching movies. We prefer to watch them in the purest form we can because color, framing and grain of the film matter a great deal for the expression of the work. Most films we watched on FILM CELLULOID in classes or theaters. We weren't expected to bring them home and watch the celluloid.
We WERE expected, though, to watch the film on our own for private analysis to extract techniques (especially for learning Stop Motion Animation) and to really figure out what's going on. We had a film library with videos and Laser Disks (about 5 years ago, remember) that had to be checked out and watched in the library in these little porno-like booths. At the time, that's fine, but waiting in line to watch a film plain old stinks.
I also worked for the School's IT dept and at the time, Yahoo rated us the #1 Wired Liberal arts school in the country for our kick ass network and great intranet and internet access. We had this great technology (students could do their editing from their rooms calling up X windows from the avid machines in multi user mode, among other things).
I didn't realize it THEN, but i realize it now, that a digitized library of films from DVD clips in their pure form would be a great solution to the film library problem. the students can watch the film in the second best form (celluloid still rocks) which is FAR better than VHS copies or LaserDisks watched in little booths. Multiple students could watch HIGH QUALITY motion pictures for educational purposes if the DVDs could LEGALLY be decoded.
Dan Bricklin is super important to computing in general and anything he does should be watched, and usually praised.
Visicalc, trellix and his general writings and his opinions are important as software history and his other general writings all have interesting things in them that everyone can learn from.
plus he's a cool guy./. should think about him as the next interview.
of course i'm biased because he went to my high school and his mom taught me 6th grade science and didn't punish me when i punched that 7th grader out...but that's another thing.
Today VA provides fully scalable systems that literally smoke the best Sun and SGI systems.
if something literally "smoked" something else, it'd roll it up and puff away at it or put it on some sort of mesquite grill, right?
check out what literally really means.
yes. this is slashdot, so no nitpicking grammar, but this just sucks sucks sucks. it's sloppy.
literally (ltr--l)
adv.
1.In a literal manner; word for word: translated the Greek passage literally.
2.Abbr. lit. In a literal or strict sense: Don't take my remarks literally.
3.Usage Problem.
a.Really; actually: "There are people in the world who literally do not know how to boil water" (Craig Claiborne).
b.Used as an intensive before a figurative expression.
Usage Note: For more than a hundred years, critics have remarked on the incoherency of using literally in a way that suggests the exact opposite of its
primary sense of "in a manner that accords with the literal sense of the words." In 1926, for example, H.W. Fowler cited the example "The 300,000
Unionists . . . will be literally thrown to the wolves." The practice does not stem from a change in the meaning of literally itselfif it did, the word would
long since have come to mean "virtually" or "figuratively"but from a natural tendency to use the word as a general intensive meaning "without
exaggeration," as in They had literally no help from the government on the project, where no contrast with the figurative sense of the words is intended.
This looser use of the word literally does not usually create problems, but it can lead to an inadvertently comic effect when the word is used together
with an idiomatic expression that has its source in a frozen figure of speech, such as in I literally died laughing.
I've used both on G3 Lombard Laptops. both have initial configuration and setup problems. no ppc based linux distro is as clean as their x86 counterparts. then again, the alpha ports aren't so clean either. x86 clearly has the advantage here.
it has taken me awhile to get my g3 powerbook w/yellowdog to where i wanted it. i found it almost identical to linuxppc, just with some different packages and, if i might say so, a cooler xdm screen.
http://www.loomer.com/linuxppc has some good tips for setting it up with a lombard.
the pismo laptop, when last i checked, still had some problems with linux, including the dvd drive. this might be fixed by now.
i have yellowdog champion 1.2 running 2.2.18 with gnome with helixcode. it works well with little or no flakiness. i'm a big fan and i like the way it runs. but here's the caveat, you'll get your hands dirtier figuring it out. more than youwould with an x86..and less than youwould with an alpha.
once again,
java is not a front end language only, ESPECIALLY servlets. as the name implies, it runs on the server. you, as the end user, cannot disable the server's use of a language without breaking a number of laws.
Java, while not the fastest, easiest, or smallest language around, is a decent, universal language for coding web applications. NOT APPLETS, but server-side things. just like perl or c.
MicroProse was one of the most highly regarded computer companies in the
Flight Simulator market. they made computer games that were used by the
military because of their realistic physics model and complexity. F15 and
F16 simulators were their main thing...
Falcon4 was microprose's last big project. it was a HUGE undertaking
and very well might be the most sophisticated computer game (certainly the
most complex flight sim) ever made. Beautiful AI, war engine and VERY
realistic radar and physics make it incredibly ambitious. the source code,
of course, was heavily guarded.
The game was well recieved, but the major criticism was that there were
some bugs and some other little problems that made it hard for the super
observant flight sim users to use properly. Some AI bugs, some missles
fired outside their parameters, etc. little things, but important things.
It took months for patches to come out and when they did, they weren't
great. here was a KICK ASS game that simply didn't reach it's full
potential because it was in a dying company. It had a strong fan base that
couldn't do more than wait and do a few Hex edits to make it all better.
BUT when microprose was bought by hasbro and hasbro dumped the flight sim
division, an angry programmer posted the entire f4 source code WITH the
patches online.
what it's done that's great was spawn a whole series of really good 3rd
party (OS) patches for this incredible game. Real open source gaming? not
on purpose, but the effect is wonderful.
it's an interesting kind of Open Source development. it didn't happen on
purpose, but it proves something: you can have a successful commercial
product that's open source. quite frankly, compiling such a huge thing
(about 600 megs) is too big except for the REALLY advanced users and most
people would buy the binary anyhow. but it makes things like patches and
addons happen much faster. I waited 3 months for the first patch to come
out of the dying MicroProse website, as opposed to 1 week for the latest
patch to come from 3rd party people. You still have to buy the game, but
all of the latest great stuff is added on because of the "open source"
nature of the program.
I wonder if this could be used to help promote open sourcing of games and
large, killer apps. Clearly open sourcing hasn't hurt falcon4..in fact, it's
increased the fan base. the hardcore game site, combatsim.com gave falcon4
an initial review that was decent, but after the open source patches came
out, they said it was like playing a masterpiece. hm.
an explanation of what happened
HERE and
HERE.
an explaination of hex editing and source editing
http HERE
i wonder if this might be the next big push in software...companies working with mod/patch developers..it seems to work well with games whether intentionally or not...
there is no villian, per se. batman year one is about his origins and his self doubt and his fear of being batman. his enemies are the organized crime racket/corrupt gotham officials.
batman is first and foremost a detective. that's what this is about.
catwoman DOES make an appearance, as does a pre-twoface harvey dent.
there's this film from 1979 that everyone in the world should see. It's Called ZOMBIE and it was made by Italian filmmakers during the Spaghetti Horror movie movement that apparently consumed american cinema in the late 70s. i had no idea.
Anyhow, the tagphrase was: "A Zombie and a shark fight....and guess who wins?"
damn, how could i NOT rent that right then and there? i mean, who wins? well I know. If a shark and a zombie get into a fit, the shark wins. just so you know.
more about his film here and here.
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The internet ISN'T taking care of this problem by itself. And people are making money off of the rape of children. This is wrong. and if you think this is acceptable (i don't care what Ginsburg did) then YOU are wrong.
this isn't a "but what about the CHILDREN" sort of thing. We don't let children drive because given the time of development for the human mind, it's a crapshoot risk. we don't allow children to make sexual decisions with adults for the same reason. Yes, in the roman period, women and men were often married in their teens. guess what, this isn't the roman period. deal.
go to andrew vachss site for more info about predatory pedophiles.
OSDN itself IS profitable. it is the whole of VA that is not.
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If madonna was caught, though, then it would make the major press. hmmmmmmmmmmm....
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because you don't get ALL of the content. maybe all YOU want, but certainly not all *I* want. I like "sex and the city" (WHY? don't ask..). I pay $10 month EXTRA for my cable so i can watch Sex and the City. I get to watch other things, too, but i pay an extra premium to get PREMIUM content on a PREMIUM channel. You get so/so content for your $40/month connection. You get BETTER content for $50.
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so let's take Vivid Video and wickedpictures.com. These two companies are arguably some of the more successful adult film companies in the world and exclusively contract "stars" like Serenity, Asia Carrera (the geek porn star lady, if you don't know) and Jenna Jameson. Thse websites offer nearly their entire film library online for, i think, $30 a month. now, that seems like quite a bit, but remember, it's their ENTIRE film library of thousands of films. now people don't pay for it because they're desperate for porn. they can get crappy porn for free off of usenet and the like. people pay for this one because they are guaranteed good content featuring the people of their choice doing the things they want.
subscription sites work, clearly. you just have to make sure your stuff is reputable, different, interesting and that people get the most (HEEEHEE HEEE) bang for their buck.
if salon had exclusive footage of the congressman and chandra levy hanging out, hell, i'd get a subscription for a whole year right there. because they are the only ones to provide that service to me. if they have an exclusive story or something interesting and different, i'll go to that service. That's why every news source in the country wants "EXCLUSIVE" footage and will pay for it.
That's why people are buying HBO subscriptions in DROVES. because only THEY can do "sex and the city" and "sopranos". they have exclusive and interesting content and only THEY can show it, so they get killer subscriptions. People have no problem shelling out $15 a month for HBO.
and likewise, only Wicked Pictures can give me Serenity in a double penetration scene streamed at very good quality and high speed, and so i might...um..get a subscription. yup.
in the 1930s when lots of newspapers were circulated in lots of cities, those papers had to provide tons of different content and big headlines and interesting articles to get subscribers. the ones that did it the most got the most subscriptions because of repuation of quality of content. online organizations have to do the same thing.
in other words, start getting exclusive stories and start being unique, interesting and worth paying for.
porn did it right...as always.
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Layers.
HEY! i got laid last night. does that make ME bad, too? i like freedom of speech and all that. just because i can get a little pokey now and again, doesn't make me bad.
i think you computer nerds are jealous.
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From a slew of other companies that use CTCS for things..and add cool features like email alerts and ethernet testing...
which i should give back to the project, eh?
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They pack alot into those servers, too. 1/2 rack 1U sysems (2 systems per 1U) are what we have for our cluster. Takes up half the space of a regular 1U, so we can have more.
Their website isn't much to look at but those servers keep chugging and chugging along beautifully.
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They pack alot into those servers, too. 1/2 rack 1U sysems (2 systems per 1U) are what we have for our cluster. Takes up half the space of a regular 1U, so we can have more.
Their website isn't much to look at but those servers keep chugging and chugging along beautifully.
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I agree that people should have all the darn tooting rights they want, however law is law and it is enforced by men with guns, so i shrug and go against it in my own way. cheers!
I'm not a lawyer, so i could be very wrong, but i've always been told that "free speech" isn't so cut and dry and the Supreme Court has always upheld that concept.
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I'm a *nix man myself, but we live in an MS world. Sometimes you just have to deal. and if this person is in an office where the clients are ActiveX machines, then that's what they should use.
if it has to be more cross-platform, the Java isn't abad idea as swing renders relatively quickly, though the applet might be a bit slow to load INITIALLY...
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A big part of sitting in film school is watching movies. We prefer to watch them in the purest form we can because color, framing and grain of the film matter a great deal for the expression of the work. Most films we watched on FILM CELLULOID in classes or theaters. We weren't expected to bring them home and watch the celluloid.
We WERE expected, though, to watch the film on our own for private analysis to extract techniques (especially for learning Stop Motion Animation) and to really figure out what's going on. We had a film library with videos and Laser Disks (about 5 years ago, remember) that had to be checked out and watched in the library in these little porno-like booths. At the time, that's fine, but waiting in line to watch a film plain old stinks.
I also worked for the School's IT dept and at the time, Yahoo rated us the #1 Wired Liberal arts school in the country for our kick ass network and great intranet and internet access. We had this great technology (students could do their editing from their rooms calling up X windows from the avid machines in multi user mode, among other things).
I didn't realize it THEN, but i realize it now, that a digitized library of films from DVD clips in their pure form would be a great solution to the film library problem. the students can watch the film in the second best form (celluloid still rocks) which is FAR better than VHS copies or LaserDisks watched in little booths. Multiple students could watch HIGH QUALITY motion pictures for educational purposes if the DVDs could LEGALLY be decoded.
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Visicalc, trellix and his general writings and his opinions are important as software history and his other general writings all have interesting things in them that everyone can learn from.
plus he's a cool guy. /. should think about him as the next interview.
of course i'm biased because he went to my high school and his mom taught me 6th grade science and didn't punish me when i punched that 7th grader out...but that's another thing.
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maybe he'd be better off doing a HYPERPOO interview...
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yes. this is slashdot, so no nitpicking grammar, but this just sucks sucks sucks. it's sloppy.
literally (ltr--l) adv.
1.In a literal manner; word for word: translated the Greek passage literally.
2.Abbr. lit. In a literal or strict sense: Don't take my remarks literally.
3.Usage Problem.
a.Really; actually: "There are people in the world who literally do not know how to boil water" (Craig Claiborne).
b.Used as an intensive before a figurative expression.
Usage Note: For more than a hundred years, critics have remarked on the incoherency of using literally in a way that suggests the exact opposite of its primary sense of "in a manner that accords with the literal sense of the words." In 1926, for example, H.W. Fowler cited the example "The 300,000 Unionists . . . will be literally thrown to the wolves." The practice does not stem from a change in the meaning of literally itselfif it did, the word would long since have come to mean "virtually" or "figuratively"but from a natural tendency to use the word as a general intensive meaning "without exaggeration," as in They had literally no help from the government on the project, where no contrast with the figurative sense of the words is intended.
This looser use of the word literally does not usually create problems, but it can lead to an inadvertently comic effect when the word is used together with an idiomatic expression that has its source in a frozen figure of speech, such as in I literally died laughing.
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check out Andrew Vachss' site.
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it has taken me awhile to get my g3 powerbook w/yellowdog to where i wanted it. i found it almost identical to linuxppc, just with some different packages and, if i might say so, a cooler xdm screen.
http://www.loomer.com/linuxppc has some good tips for setting it up with a lombard.
the pismo laptop, when last i checked, still had some problems with linux, including the dvd drive. this might be fixed by now.
i have yellowdog champion 1.2 running 2.2.18 with gnome with helixcode. it works well with little or no flakiness. i'm a big fan and i like the way it runs. but here's the caveat, you'll get your hands dirtier figuring it out. more than youwould with an x86..and less than youwould with an alpha.
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yes...but small bands of techies do not run the world. so for right now, deal with flash because 80% of the browsers in the world do.
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right. um. how about system shock? that game was amazing...
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Java, while not the fastest, easiest, or smallest language around, is a decent, universal language for coding web applications. NOT APPLETS, but server-side things. just like perl or c.
that is all.
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Hamlet has a Ghost, not Witches. Macbeth has the witches.
Witches ain't shit but ho's and tricks.
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You could always use a service like QuestionExchange.com. You can hire out their experts. They can provide support and culpability.
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MicroProse was one of the most highly regarded computer companies in the Flight Simulator market. they made computer games that were used by the military because of their realistic physics model and complexity. F15 and F16 simulators were their main thing...
Falcon4 was microprose's last big project. it was a HUGE undertaking and very well might be the most sophisticated computer game (certainly the most complex flight sim) ever made. Beautiful AI, war engine and VERY realistic radar and physics make it incredibly ambitious. the source code, of course, was heavily guarded.
The game was well recieved, but the major criticism was that there were some bugs and some other little problems that made it hard for the super observant flight sim users to use properly. Some AI bugs, some missles fired outside their parameters, etc. little things, but important things. It took months for patches to come out and when they did, they weren't great. here was a KICK ASS game that simply didn't reach it's full potential because it was in a dying company. It had a strong fan base that couldn't do more than wait and do a few Hex edits to make it all better.
BUT when microprose was bought by hasbro and hasbro dumped the flight sim division, an angry programmer posted the entire f4 source code WITH the patches online.
what it's done that's great was spawn a whole series of really good 3rd party (OS) patches for this incredible game. Real open source gaming? not on purpose, but the effect is wonderful.
it's an interesting kind of Open Source development. it didn't happen on purpose, but it proves something: you can have a successful commercial product that's open source. quite frankly, compiling such a huge thing (about 600 megs) is too big except for the REALLY advanced users and most people would buy the binary anyhow. but it makes things like patches and addons happen much faster. I waited 3 months for the first patch to come out of the dying MicroProse website, as opposed to 1 week for the latest patch to come from 3rd party people. You still have to buy the game, but all of the latest great stuff is added on because of the "open source" nature of the program.
I wonder if this could be used to help promote open sourcing of games and large, killer apps. Clearly open sourcing hasn't hurt falcon4..in fact, it's increased the fan base. the hardcore game site, combatsim.com gave falcon4 an initial review that was decent, but after the open source patches came out, they said it was like playing a masterpiece. hm.
an explanation of what happened HERE and HERE.
an explaination of hex editing and source editing http HERE
i wonder if this might be the next big push in software...companies working with mod/patch developers..it seems to work well with games whether intentionally or not...
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there is no villian, per se. batman year one is about his origins and his self doubt and his fear of being batman. his enemies are the organized crime racket/corrupt gotham officials. batman is first and foremost a detective. that's what this is about. catwoman DOES make an appearance, as does a pre-twoface harvey dent.
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Anyhow, the tagphrase was:
"A Zombie and a shark fight....and guess who wins?"
damn, how could i NOT rent that right then and there? i mean, who wins? well I know. If a shark and a zombie get into a fit, the shark wins. just so you know.
more about his film here and here.
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