Does a US Citizen's Arrest differ from a UK one? You see, in the UK a Citizen can only arrest if they know for a fact that a crime has been commited. That's the extra power of the Police, they only need a suspicion.
I very rarely play PC games, mainly due to the fact that it requires me to sit at my desk, which feels too much like being at work.
To me. games should be played either sitting cross-legged on the floor or sitting on the sofa, with beer very close to hand. I know I could do this with a PC, but using an IR keyboard sitting on a sofa is no joke.
There is also the display factor. Even if it does offer lower resolution, I prefer the size of my 25" TV to the clarity of my much smaller monitor.
You have your opinion (John Cusack taking the project under his wing...) and I have mine (Hollywood time and again bastardising European film and literature. Note that this is a criticism of Hollywood and not Americans, as my previous post hopefully communicated). I guess we're not going to agree there.
However, I have to disagree that all quality literature can survive translocation. Many novels capture a mood, a feeling, a time and place. For example, could you ever see "On the Road" being set anywhere but America? I certainly can't - but if it did it would have to significantly change the subject matter.
Another example is the yet to be made "Bridget Jones' Diary". OK, the idea of a single woman in the nineties looking for direction is not exactly original. What made the book was her outlook as a British woman. So many of her thoughts and actions were based on those that are integral to British society. It is another book that I believe will not stand up to being translocated - and I hope to God they don't.
Maybe you would understand this "whine" (as you so politely put it) if more of your nation's art was butchered in the way that us Europeans have had to suffer for years now.
"High Fidelity" may have a pretty universal theme, but the way that theme is protrayed, where they are and what they do is not so universal. They are set in a definite place and time.
Finally, whether Shakespeare has survived greater mangling is questionable. Many novels and films based on the works of Shakespeare (who, let's face it, may not have been as original as we like to think anyway) have been chopped and changed so much they are barely recognisible. Is that "surviving"?
You're missing the point totally. It may well "translate well to an American city" but why do they have to bother doing that? Its become fairly common for Hollywood to either take quality European literature and "Americanise" it and to take quality European films and remake them, magically suddenly set in America.
I would like to think that the American public is not so dim that they can't accept a film set in another country. So why do it?
I haven't seen "High Fidelity" - and living in Sweden I'll probably get to see it next year or so - but I hope to God it's not as bad as "The Beach". That film was "The Beach" in name and the fact that some people find a beach, the rest was something completely different.
Books are set in certain places for a reason. If Nick Hornby thought that the book should have been set in Chicago then he would have set it there. If Alex Garland thought Richard should be an American and have a relationship with Francoise, then he would have written it. They are both good writers with imagination - they don't have to write about what they see about themselves, they can dream and write about that.
And of course they have both said that they agree with the changes made in the film. What do you expect them to do? Publically criticise the film, thus meaning (a) it does worse at the box office and they lose book sales and (b) they have less chance of selling the movie rights to another of their books?
I'm sorry. Maybe I'm being a bit thick, but what is so bad about the United Kingdom not having a Constitution? The problem with a Constitution is that it has to be VERY carefully worded, as otherwise when the Constitution becomes open to abuse.
I'm sorry to use it, but the American "Right to bear arms" (I forget what part of the Constitution it is) is a classic example. Forgive me, I don't know the exact wording, but from what I recall all Americans have the right to bear arms and form reasonable militia so they can defend themselves if the Government rises against them.
At first sight this seems all well and good. But enter the National Rifle Association. They argue that as the military and the police have bodyarmour, the American public should have the right to own armour piercing bullets. This I think is a very bad thing, but I have to agree with them. I fully support the NRA on this matter, much as though it scares me.
On the other hand, I grew up in a civilisation that predates the US by several centuries (through its various guises as Britannia, England, Great Britain, the United Kingdom - note that I am not saying that England==Britain there, just the society I GREW UP in has at various points been those)has never had the need for a constitution, although we have charters all over the place that could be seen as very similar, has never had the need to make it law that we can arm ourselves and hence have never had the need to routinely arm our policemen. The NRA's views could be seen as an abuse of the American public's constitutional rights. Or is it?
Who has the better deal? You may have your opinion, but I also have mine.
Another example is free speech. We do not have that right written in a constitution. I also do not believe that right has any place in that constitution. Did the American Constitution anticipate the black slave trade or the rise of militant Christianity in the United States? I doubt it, otherwise the Constitution may have had clauses defending Black Americans and those persecuted by Christians in the United States (eg. Homosexuals). Unfortunately the American Constitution does nothing to defend those attacked under the banner of "free speech", hence people like the guy who runs God Hates Fags being able to do what he and his followers do.
I'm sorry. A Constitution, like Communism, works in theory. IMHO practice is an entirely different matter.
If you want to know about the history of Nintendo, along with the history of the videogames industry in general, then I doubt you can do better than the book "Game Over". The author's name escapes me at the moment, but is far and away the most interesting and informative account of the growth of the industry I have read.
Sales taxes hover around 20%, income taxes are over 50%, and forget about anything like a Bill of Rights or due process. It's no wonder Europe is still in an economic recession.
For God's sake, Jgotts, grow up. Whenever there is a story on/. involving Europe it always, without fail, ends up with someone claiming that this would never happen in the US blah blah blah aren't we brilliant.
Its not just the US. Europeans often do it back.
Why? What's the point? We're not discussing the DeCSS situation by doing this. Its pointless and, frankly, flamebait - which is how someone should have moderated Jgotts' post.
I just get annoyed every time I see this happen. There are far more important (and more interesting) things to discuss than long past it's sell-by date nationalism.
(For the record, I'm a British Citizen now living in Sweden)
Just remember, if you live in a reasonably free country, you're not going to lose anything by keeping your mouth shut, but you have a lot to lose by talking.
And remember to thank God (or whatever) that you don't live in my beloved UK, where the right to silence has been removed.
I'm sorry, but this is the second story I've read this morning. Both have been infiltrated by offensive bigots. I don't really want it, but perhaps now is the time to remove the concept of "Anonymous Coward".
This brings back harsh memories. I was supposed to work there in the summer of '93 (I live in the UK). Except 2 days before my summer uni exams I fell through a garage roof. Broke my ankle and f***ed up my digestive system and ended up with a 6 month colostomy bag (don't ask). So, I never made it. You bastards - I thought I was over the experience.....
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One minor details that you pretty much glossed over (you don't happen to work for Sky do you?).
Sky Digital requires a satelite dish, On Digital does not, all you need is a TV aerial. What that means to Joe Public is that if you do not own your property (which I don't, like one helluvalot of people in London, I rent) you almost certainly will not be able to put up a dish to get Sky Digital.
Hence, people who rent will probably go for On Digital. Like I have.
Too right. I was going to fly out to the US (from the UK) to see it, but then I realised that I reall ywanted to see it with all my mates. We'll make a massive day of it, relive so many times from our youth and just have an amazing day.
That walks all over flying out to some city I've never seen before and sitting alone in a cinema.
I had the same problem with NT4. Pile a poo it is. I suggest going to www.countingdown.com and downloading one of the MPEG encrypted versions. That way there's a million and one different players you can use.
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Does a US Citizen's Arrest differ from a UK one? You see, in the UK a Citizen can only arrest if they know for a fact that a crime has been commited. That's the extra power of the Police, they only need a suspicion.
Now that this comes up, I've totally forgotten where I saw this. It was a film or TV show where someone got a telemarketing call and answered with,
... I thought not. Bye.".
:o)
"I'm sorry, I'm a bit busy right now. Tell you what, can I have your home phone number and I'll call you later to discuss it
I've been willing a telemarketer to call me ever since so I could try it
I very rarely play PC games, mainly due to the fact that it requires me to sit at my desk, which feels too much like being at work.
To me. games should be played either sitting cross-legged on the floor or sitting on the sofa, with beer very close to hand. I know I could do this with a PC, but using an IR keyboard sitting on a sofa is no joke.
There is also the display factor. Even if it does offer lower resolution, I prefer the size of my 25" TV to the clarity of my much smaller monitor.
You have your opinion (John Cusack taking the project under his wing ...) and I have mine (Hollywood time and again bastardising European film and literature. Note that this is a criticism of Hollywood and not Americans, as my previous post hopefully communicated). I guess we're not going to agree there.
However, I have to disagree that all quality literature can survive translocation. Many novels capture a mood, a feeling, a time and place. For example, could you ever see "On the Road" being set anywhere but America? I certainly can't - but if it did it would have to significantly change the subject matter.
Another example is the yet to be made "Bridget Jones' Diary". OK, the idea of a single woman in the nineties looking for direction is not exactly original. What made the book was her outlook as a British woman. So many of her thoughts and actions were based on those that are integral to British society. It is another book that I believe will not stand up to being translocated - and I hope to God they don't.
Maybe you would understand this "whine" (as you so politely put it) if more of your nation's art was butchered in the way that us Europeans have had to suffer for years now.
"High Fidelity" may have a pretty universal theme, but the way that theme is protrayed, where they are and what they do is not so universal. They are set in a definite place and time.
Finally, whether Shakespeare has survived greater mangling is questionable. Many novels and films based on the works of Shakespeare (who, let's face it, may not have been as original as we like to think anyway) have been chopped and changed so much they are barely recognisible. Is that "surviving"?
You're missing the point totally. It may well "translate well to an American city" but why do they have to bother doing that? Its become fairly common for Hollywood to either take quality European literature and "Americanise" it and to take quality European films and remake them, magically suddenly set in America.
....
I would like to think that the American public is not so dim that they can't accept a film set in another country. So why do it?
I haven't seen "High Fidelity" - and living in Sweden I'll probably get to see it next year or so - but I hope to God it's not as bad as "The Beach". That film was "The Beach" in name and the fact that some people find a beach, the rest was something completely different.
Books are set in certain places for a reason. If Nick Hornby thought that the book should have been set in Chicago then he would have set it there. If Alex Garland thought Richard should be an American and have a relationship with Francoise, then he would have written it. They are both good writers with imagination - they don't have to write about what they see about themselves, they can dream and write about that.
And of course they have both said that they agree with the changes made in the film. What do you expect them to do? Publically criticise the film, thus meaning (a) it does worse at the box office and they lose book sales and (b) they have less chance of selling the movie rights to another of their books?
I mean, come on. Wake up
I thought we were boycotting Amazon? :oP
I'm sorry. Maybe I'm being a bit thick, but what is so bad about the United Kingdom not having a Constitution? The problem with a Constitution is that it has to be VERY carefully worded, as otherwise when the Constitution becomes open to abuse.
I'm sorry to use it, but the American "Right to bear arms" (I forget what part of the Constitution it is) is a classic example. Forgive me, I don't know the exact wording, but from what I recall all Americans have the right to bear arms and form reasonable militia so they can defend themselves if the Government rises against them.
At first sight this seems all well and good. But enter the National Rifle Association. They argue that as the military and the police have bodyarmour, the American public should have the right to own armour piercing bullets. This I think is a very bad thing, but I have to agree with them. I fully support the NRA on this matter, much as though it scares me.
On the other hand, I grew up in a civilisation that predates the US by several centuries (through its various guises as Britannia, England, Great Britain, the United Kingdom - note that I am not saying that England==Britain there, just the society I GREW UP in has at various points been those)has never had the need for a constitution, although we have charters all over the place that could be seen as very similar, has never had the need to make it law that we can arm ourselves and hence have never had the need to routinely arm our policemen. The NRA's views could be seen as an abuse of the American public's constitutional rights. Or is it?
Who has the better deal? You may have your opinion, but I also have mine.
Another example is free speech. We do not have that right written in a constitution. I also do not believe that right has any place in that constitution. Did the American Constitution anticipate the black slave trade or the rise of militant Christianity in the United States? I doubt it, otherwise the Constitution may have had clauses defending Black Americans and those persecuted by Christians in the United States (eg. Homosexuals). Unfortunately the American Constitution does nothing to defend those attacked under the banner of "free speech", hence people like the guy who runs God Hates Fags being able to do what he and his followers do.
I'm sorry. A Constitution, like Communism, works in theory. IMHO practice is an entirely different matter.
This small, chilly country on Europe's Northern fringe has the greatest concentration of mobile phone users and internet connections in the world.
And no, I'm not a Finn, I'm a Brit living in Sweden so there's no national pride involved here. Its just the facts. Sorry.
If you want to know about the history of Nintendo, along with the history of the videogames industry in general, then I doubt you can do better than the book "Game Over". The author's name escapes me at the moment, but is far and away the most interesting and informative account of the growth of the industry I have read.
Sales taxes hover around 20%, income taxes are over 50%, and forget about anything like a Bill of Rights or due process. It's no wonder Europe is still in an economic recession.
/. involving Europe it always, without fail, ends up with someone claiming that this would never happen in the US blah blah blah aren't we brilliant.
For God's sake, Jgotts, grow up. Whenever there is a story on
Its not just the US. Europeans often do it back.
Why? What's the point? We're not discussing the DeCSS situation by doing this. Its pointless and, frankly, flamebait - which is how someone should have moderated Jgotts' post.
I just get annoyed every time I see this happen. There are far more important (and more interesting) things to discuss than long past it's sell-by date nationalism.
(For the record, I'm a British Citizen now living in Sweden)
Just remember, if you live in a reasonably free country, you're not going to lose anything by keeping your mouth shut, but you have a lot to lose by talking.
And remember to thank God (or whatever) that you don't live in my beloved UK, where the right to silence has been removed.
Um .. since when was 30-16 a "creaming"?
Surely to "cream" you need a difference of at least 30 points.
Perhaps the UN can give us some kind of global definition of "creaming".
Hiding from a problem doesn't usually cure it.
I'm sorry, but this is the second story I've read this morning. Both have been infiltrated by offensive bigots. I don't really want it, but perhaps now is the time to remove the concept of "Anonymous Coward".
This brings back harsh memories. I was supposed to work there in the summer of '93 (I live in the UK). Except 2 days before my summer uni exams I fell through a garage roof. Broke my ankle and f***ed up my digestive system and ended up with a 6 month colostomy bag (don't ask). So, I never made it. You bastards - I thought I was over the experience .....
One minor details that you pretty much glossed over (you don't happen to work for Sky do you?).
Sky Digital requires a satelite dish, On Digital does not, all you need is a TV aerial. What that means to Joe Public is that if you do not own your property (which I don't, like one helluvalot of people in London, I rent) you almost certainly will not be able to put up a dish to get Sky Digital.
Hence, people who rent will probably go for On Digital. Like I have.
Too right.
I was going to fly out to the US (from the UK) to see it, but then I realised that I reall ywanted to see it with all my mates. We'll make a massive day of it, relive so many times from our youth and just have an amazing day.
That walks all over flying out to some city I've never seen before and sitting alone in a cinema.
I had the same problem with NT4. Pile a poo it is. I suggest going to www.countingdown.com and downloading one of the MPEG encrypted versions. That way there's a million and one different players you can use.