They actually had very little to do with Baseketball. (I know - I agree the movie sucked). They wound up being in it accidentally, they were trying to make ends meet while they saw if South Park would make it. Naturally, when South Park did big, before the movie came out, they re-labeled it as a Matt & Trey movie to make the most of their new celebrity stars.
And personally, I think this movie will be a hoot. The original premise was "a shot for shot remake of The Day After Tomorrow, but with puppets", because puppets talking about homeland security are funny. And there's something to be said about making fun of Hollywood celebrities sharing their views with the world.
Waaaaah. I haven't seen anything other than swimming, gymnastics, or beach volleyball. Then you're not just a troll, but one without a television. Let's see what's been shown today that ISN'T one of your hated sports...
Volleyball
High Jump
Hurdles
Hammer Throw
Triple Jump
10000m run
20k walk
Softball
Soccer
Cycling - Track
Boxing
Basketball
Tennis
Sailing
Judo
Ping-pong (miserable lameness filter)
Equestrian Dressage
Badminton Singles and Doubles
Rifle Shooting & Weightlifting.
I believe NBC said they would cover something like 3 hours in EVERY SPORT. From what I've been taping this week, I have to agree. I've seen rafting, some sort of weird round-ball-with-hands, fencing, five more listed above, and all the other "hated" sports. Just because you're too lazy to look doesn't mean it's not there.
specific Olympian and the media's quest to make the rest of us idolize him Ready? People like heroes. It's cool to see. Even if he didn't medal, the fact that he's racing 18 times is pretty darn impressive. The fact that he's winning... what, does it piss you off that someone's doing well? If it annoys you that much, hit mute and just watch and enjoy the games. Even if you hate him, guess what? You're getting more swimming, which more people are watching. Wah.
I saw his cocky little smile showing that he wanted MONEY. And? What's wrong with that? More power to him. What is with the communist screed on slashdot over certain things?
why not make rules banning professionals from competing I'll agree with you there. That was the whole point of bringing the Dream Team over the first time - you want pro, we'll bring pro. I'll agree with what Costas said... "Unfortunately, marketing won."
Re:Never trust these glossy magazine articles...
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*ROFL* And who modded this up as Insightful? They get +5, funny, too!
Where do you live? Here in the US, at least among IT professionals (PHBs need not apply), it's regarded as a waste of time/money/paper. I've actually seen it count against someone.
Not much... the only difference between the three is, potentially one test, and an MCSE can take 1 extra test and get the D/DBA as well.
MCDBA might gain a little more respect because it's got more letters, but MCSEs are useless. When an 8-year-old can pass it, it becomes meaningless. What did my old boss call it? "Paper experience"
Well, their software just cost them a sale. I had been curious about Prince of Persia - Sands of Time. I played in on the Xbox and enjoyed it, but wanted the PC version. Nevermind.
LOL. A friend of mine watched it. It was followed by a marbles championship. 40-year-olds with cat's eyes and the like. Fortunately, they were beat out by a kid (IIRC, he was about 10 or so). But yes, it is scary.
No, the point is that environmentalists don't want alternative fuels or alternative practices. They want less technology. Less tech = less electric used. I'll probably get modded as troll or funny, but I'm serious. Wind energy is touted - until someone wants to use it (New England wind-farm fight).
What's the alternative here? Apparently there is none, so we better just not cool those homes.
Also remember, with the American litigious climate, people have to cover their asses, and I'm sure that's the major driving force here.
Quite a bit of it, from the airline's point of view, is ticket-swapping. Remember how you used to be able to buy someone else's ticket? Unfortunately for the airlines, they didn't get the (minimum) $75, and potentially lost ticket sales. There were a few people who were _amazing_ at working the system. I forget the details, but there was one guy who flew around with something like $20k worth of tickets... he could almost fly free, the way he was working their system.
Obviously, that couldn't be allowed to happen, and going along with PATRIOT was an easy way to rid them of people who (gasp) might not ever pay full price.
Lessee... my former boss & I would go deliberately see bad films and make fun of them. Our own personal MST3K. Next time we do one, I'm bringing a tape recorder and posting it as commentary to one of those web sites.
The two most memorable movies we did were "Batman and Robin" and "The Musketeer". The Musketeer was almost too easy. "Okay, we need one person with a French accent in each group."
Oddly enough, we weren't able to mock Steven Seagal's "Half Past Dead". We just sat there in stunned silence, it was that bad. And we giggled during the death scene in D&D. We still use that line.... "snaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaails!!!"
Didn't the poster bother to read the article?
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This is getting silly. We typically have lots of people responding who don't RTFA, but this time the submitter obviously didn't.
video games instead of brochures and pamphlets
but the article says:
Because so many young adults played such games as kids[...]The program is being distributed to employees in Michigan's extension offices who teach food aid recipients how to be efficient shoppers. So far, they seem to like it better than the usual brochures and charts
Never used one set up properly, eh? My condolences. There were two modes of handwriting recognition. While the cursive was better, and could learn, I preferred the print mode, as I could write down some 1337 words and it would put them in properly.
The Reeves-Stevens' are writing Trek crap instead of writing the fourth Galen Sword novel... but maybe it's just paying the bills so they can afford to write another Galen Sword book.
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They actually had very little to do with Baseketball. (I know - I agree the movie sucked). They wound up being in it accidentally, they were trying to make ends meet while they saw if South Park would make it. Naturally, when South Park did big, before the movie came out, they re-labeled it as a Matt & Trey movie to make the most of their new celebrity stars.
A term I heard a year or so ago, it seemed to be an update of the Republican Party Reptile The term: South Park Republicans.
And personally, I think this movie will be a hoot. The original premise was "a shot for shot remake of The Day After Tomorrow, but with puppets", because puppets talking about homeland security are funny. And there's something to be said about making fun of Hollywood celebrities sharing their views with the world.
I haven't seen anything other than swimming, gymnastics, or beach volleyball.
Then you're not just a troll, but one without a television. Let's see what's been shown today that ISN'T one of your hated sports...
I believe NBC said they would cover something like 3 hours in EVERY SPORT. From what I've been taping this week, I have to agree. I've seen rafting, some sort of weird round-ball-with-hands, fencing, five more listed above, and all the other "hated" sports. Just because you're too lazy to look doesn't mean it's not there.
specific Olympian and the media's quest to make the rest of us idolize him
Ready? People like heroes. It's cool to see. Even if he didn't medal, the fact that he's racing 18 times is pretty darn impressive. The fact that he's winning... what, does it piss you off that someone's doing well? If it annoys you that much, hit mute and just watch and enjoy the games. Even if you hate him, guess what? You're getting more swimming, which more people are watching.
Wah.
I saw his cocky little smile showing that he wanted MONEY.
And? What's wrong with that? More power to him. What is with the communist screed on slashdot over certain things?
why not make rules banning professionals from competing
I'll agree with you there. That was the whole point of bringing the Dream Team over the first time - you want pro, we'll bring pro. I'll agree with what Costas said... "Unfortunately, marketing won."
*ROFL* And who modded this up as Insightful? They get +5, funny, too!
Where do you live? Here in the US, at least among IT professionals (PHBs need not apply), it's regarded as a waste of time/money/paper. I've actually seen it count against someone.
Not much... the only difference between the three is, potentially one test, and an MCSE can take 1 extra test and get the D/DBA as well.
MCDBA might gain a little more respect because it's got more letters, but MCSEs are useless. When an 8-year-old can pass it, it becomes meaningless. What did my old boss call it? "Paper experience"
That couldn't have been it... they just would've given him a hose to breath into and use the fumes to power the plane.
Well, their software just cost them a sale. I had been curious about Prince of Persia - Sands of Time. I played in on the Xbox and enjoyed it, but wanted the PC version. Nevermind.
Wow - copy protection does work. Oh, wait.
LOL. A friend of mine watched it. It was followed by a marbles championship. 40-year-olds with cat's eyes and the like. Fortunately, they were beat out by a kid (IIRC, he was about 10 or so). But yes, it is scary.
Couple links about the wind-farm fight, though a bit, um, "biased".
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http://boston.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/20
http://www.humaneventsonline.c
http://millennium-debate.org/tel2se
One night on ESPN we saw a Magic: The Gathering. With stats, whiteboard and two commentators
Seriously... does anyone know if any of the ICQ apps have been posted to either this or the WRT54G?
No, the point is that environmentalists don't want alternative fuels or alternative practices. They want less technology. Less tech = less electric used. I'll probably get modded as troll or funny, but I'm serious. Wind energy is touted - until someone wants to use it (New England wind-farm fight).
What's the alternative here? Apparently there is none, so we better just not cool those homes.
As a test last week, we put a machine with a firewall on a dial-up account. Roughly 30 seconds after it connected was the first hit from Sasser.
Also remember, with the American litigious climate, people have to cover their asses, and I'm sure that's the major driving force here.
Quite a bit of it, from the airline's point of view, is ticket-swapping. Remember how you used to be able to buy someone else's ticket? Unfortunately for the airlines, they didn't get the (minimum) $75, and potentially lost ticket sales. There were a few people who were _amazing_ at working the system. I forget the details, but there was one guy who flew around with something like $20k worth of tickets... he could almost fly free, the way he was working their system.
Obviously, that couldn't be allowed to happen, and going along with PATRIOT was an easy way to rid them of people who (gasp) might not ever pay full price.
Lessee... my former boss & I would go deliberately see bad films and make fun of them. Our own personal MST3K. Next time we do one, I'm bringing a tape recorder and posting it as commentary to one of those web sites.
The two most memorable movies we did were "Batman and Robin" and "The Musketeer". The Musketeer was almost too easy. "Okay, we need one person with a French accent in each group."
Oddly enough, we weren't able to mock Steven Seagal's "Half Past Dead". We just sat there in stunned silence, it was that bad. And we giggled during the death scene in D&D. We still use that line.... "snaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaails!!!"
but the article says:
Really? I had always heard that the print version didn't learn, but Rosetta (the cursive) did. Cool.
(oh, and then there was the whole "guest mode" thing, where it didn't use what it had learned, nor did it learn in that mode)
Fewer? Fewer?! Fewer??!?!?!
Hell, pretty soon I'll be working on more titles than they are. And I don't.
Never used one set up properly, eh? My condolences. There were two modes of handwriting recognition. While the cursive was better, and could learn, I preferred the print mode, as I could write down some 1337 words and it would put them in properly.
I suppose, the same way Goldeneye started as a game and ended up as the boot disk for Xbox Linux...
Actually, it was Mechwarrior , though 007:Agent Under Fire can be used as well.
(an aside: anyone know if Robertson ever paid up on the whole "run linux on physically untouched xbox"?)
I think it says something that Slashdot, ostensibly the Target Audience for this movie, can only come up with 8 comments.
What, wasn't Jeremy Irons available?
Is that the proverbial 30 foot pole you wouldn't touch Windows with?
The Reeves-Stevens' are writing Trek crap instead of writing the fourth Galen Sword novel... but maybe it's just paying the bills so they can afford to write another Galen Sword book.