Well, if you just go to opensecrets.org and look it up, you could see who they were donating to while Clinton was president. Three Republican senate campaigns (Voinovich, Faricloth, Dewine) and the RNC. That's all, at least since '97 when they got involved in Deibold. None of the three he speaks of ever donated to Clinton.
That attitude starts to border on religious fanaticism, you know.
Yeah, but it's fun. To hate Clinton or somebody you have to pretend to hate good things, like blow jobs and naked college students. To hate Bush I just have to hate anal-retentive recovering alcoholics with crappy willpower. I hardly even have to sit up, and it takes up time that I would otherwise have to spend seeing another Matrix or one of those ones where the dog plays shuffleboard.
Does anybody else think "leftist" really sounds like a property for a quark or something? Up, down, charmed, and leftist? It's probably just sticking it next to spin like that.
Liberals are the ones who pushed for Motor-Voter legislation and now want to give driver's licenses to illegals. Who's up to their eyeballs in corruption?
True. I mean, if illegal immigrants are all rich enough to bribe all the liberals in the country with millions of dollars in donations, you'd think they could get some fake IDs on their own.
Don't even try. Nobody has a fucking clue copyright infringement even includes anymore. It's a completely subjective concept anyway. Just get sucking on some rich guy's cock until he lets you borrow his lawyers. Then you're free to pirate, rape and pillage all you want.
Well, if it's unbiased news, then obviously conservatives are going to think it's liberal and liberals are going to think it's conservative. What's the problem?
brave (adj): 1. Possessing or displaying courage. Able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching. 2. Invulnerable to fear or intimidation. 3. Brightly colored and showy.
Clearly strapping a bomb to yourself requires some ability to face and deal with danger, and it's kinda tough to feel intimidated when you explode if someone hits you, as evidenced by many a Tom & Jerry cartoon, and I think we can all agree mushroom clouds of fire and flaming baby heads are inherently rather showy.
Oh, wait, you work for ABC, don't you? Damn yous! Jimmy Kimmel to replace Bill Maher? What the hell were you people thinking? And even that might've been good if you'd just let him liquor up and run around like an idiot instead of making crappy jokes. But no, you had to give up the angry clever sexist bastard for the unfunny fatass sexist bastard. Fortunately for you I steal HBO. Otherwise I might've had to pry my ass out of the sofa and start something.
I never really liked the whole breaking the fourth wall thing the Scouring does. Tolkien does a pretty good job at hiding his personal views through most of the story, for a college professor anyway, but then he goes and drops right off the map into straight anti-industrial propaganda in the last 50 pages. Maybe this is just one of those situations where it's better not to know anything about the author so you don't read these things, but I always felt it would've made me a lot happier if he just left it with the creepiness of the Shire Sarumanized rather than beating me over the head with those terrible, terrible smokestacks!!! It's not that I even really disagree with his sentiment. It's not an Ayn Rand moment where I suddenly realize he's a fucking asshole over this, it's just way too grandpa-breaking-into-a-lecture-in-the-middle-of-a -cool-story for me.
They cut that ending too, like Prancy-Dancy McGodlypants, whatever his name was. What the hell is that guy's name? Too long since I've read any of these. Anyway, it was a good choice. That kind of big, extended, afterclimax is kinda stupid in a movie. It works in the book, but it'd just be annoying in the movie.
Haha, holy shit! Is that you in your sig? I was actually at that thing, didn't have a sign though. I was thinking that was a dadaist or a discordian kinda art deal, too bad it was just a porno guy doing "Protesters Gone Wild." Would've been funny if there was a point.
Yeah, but what the hell does the human rights council do?
Don't know? That's OK, that's because they DON'T DO ANYTHING. They print pamphlets! Oh my fucking God! What can't Libya do with those nerfarious pamphlets of theirs!? And... and... and... they do statistical analyses of data!!! God help us! Sometimes they even write opinion essays! They're like the Wall Street Journal, only with a smaller audience and less influence! I hear your call, sir, the UN Security Council must sieze control of all these pamphlet-printing, analysis-writing terrorist groups before THE VERY WORLD AS WE KNOW IT COMES TO AN END!
The general council can veto a budget, veto a veto of one of the security council members, issue recomendations, and vote someone into the rotating SC slot. That's it. They write magical fairy decrees and get to veto something every 20 years when Mars is aligned with Betelgeuse. They're about as in control of the UN as this dead squirrel caught in the drainage ditch at the bottom of my driveway is in control of the Republican party.
Oh, great, now we have ecofundamentalists too? What the fuck is this? I just go out to shoot up the ecofacists down the block, and now I come back and all of a sudden everything's crawling with ecofundamentalists? I can't deal with much more of this shit. I can't even pronounce ecofunawhatsis. Hell, I oughta just barricade myself in and wait for the ecotheocrats and the ecoimperialists and the ecolibertarians to show up and take 'em all out at once.
And quit bragging about your IQ, you're upsetting my carrots.
"Casted by big names" is a problem all on it's own. Being a movie star doesn't qualify you to be a good voice actor any more than it qualifies you to star in a Broadway musical. Some people can pull it off, Billy Bob Thornton can't.
Well, that's probably is the quickest way, if not the best way. Computer generated animation doesn't need to be cell-shaded 3D. A good example would be the anime version of Metropolis. Admittedly they did a lot of cell-shaded 3D for the city backgrounds, but the characters were hand-drawn. However, they were digitally painted and partially inbetweened, and the motion was heavily smoothed out in the computer. It sharpens up the characters so they look better overlaid on the 3D backgrounds, and it saves a lot of time and money.
Most large-scale animation (film and TV) has been at least partially digital for years. Even if you're not drawing it directly to a tablet or something, it's kinda ridiculous to run around doing overcomplicated camera tricks when you can have it done in 1/8th the time with a $200 computer and a scanner.
I admit I'm somewhat interested to see if Disney can do something new with 3D. Right now, the creativity is basically Pixar coming up with a water effect and working it into a movie. It's worked pretty well, but I think if Disney tries to rip off that strategy it's not going to work. Disney needs something to differentiate itself from Pixar, and I don't know what that would be.
See, that makes sense, but they already did that with Lilo & Stich, I believe. All the DVD special features stuff was all them on the Macs and tablets, anyway.
I'd like a article from competent people rather than USA Today, who clearly don't have a clue what the hell they're talking about. Are they abandoning 2D or hand-drawing? USA Today makes it sound like 2D in general is getting thrown out, which is idiotic any way you slice it.
3D animation is a great medium, but unless Disney can develop some kind of style for it, they're screwed. They're throwing out their 2D style, which is absolutely unique, and jumping into 3D which they're not going to be able to brand anywhere near as easily.
Not that using computers is a problem, but doing things in 2D gives you stylistic options you don't get doing 3D. You have to make an actual 3D model when you're doing CG, with 2D you can bend space-time and make it look good. With CG you're stuck with basically a puppet show, albeit a much more elaborate puppet show, but you have to go at it like a physical place or else it looks ridiculous.
Well, if you believe Gore Vidal, the better spoiler would be "It's Marion Davies' clit, and I just saved you two hours of mindfucking that was only designed for one specific person in such a way that he couldn't sue them without embarassing himself."
It's not fucking unconstitutional because there's a fucking ammendment to the fucking constitution that fucking says that the fucking Congress shall have fucking power to lay and collect fucking taxes on fucking incomes, from whatever fucking source derived, without fucking apportionment among the several fucking states, and without regard to any fucking census or fucking enumeration. Fuck you.
They abolished inheritence taxes and a number of specific stock-related taxes. Got chunks of the IRS scrambling for a transfer before the backlog of paperwork dries up and they all get laid off. I know an inheritence tax lawyer there. She's pretty well fucked.
I don't think any of the actual abolishments would affect anybody here, since you had to die with 675k in cash before you paid anything on inheritence, and most of the stock stuff was still pretty negligable even on ludicrous transactions, but they're still abolished.
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I'm sure he will, but in the intervening fucking year why not shut the fuck up and let him bitch about his fucking employee's incompetence.
Well, Boromir's been dead recently. Don't get a lot of news at the bottom of that waterfall.
Well, if you just go to opensecrets.org and look it up, you could see who they were donating to while Clinton was president. Three Republican senate campaigns (Voinovich, Faricloth, Dewine) and the RNC. That's all, at least since '97 when they got involved in Deibold. None of the three he speaks of ever donated to Clinton.
That attitude starts to border on religious fanaticism, you know.
Yeah, but it's fun. To hate Clinton or somebody you have to pretend to hate good things, like blow jobs and naked college students. To hate Bush I just have to hate anal-retentive recovering alcoholics with crappy willpower. I hardly even have to sit up, and it takes up time that I would otherwise have to spend seeing another Matrix or one of those ones where the dog plays shuffleboard.
Does anybody else think "leftist" really sounds like a property for a quark or something? Up, down, charmed, and leftist? It's probably just sticking it next to spin like that.
Liberals are the ones who pushed for Motor-Voter legislation and now want to give driver's licenses to illegals. Who's up to their eyeballs in corruption?
True. I mean, if illegal immigrants are all rich enough to bribe all the liberals in the country with millions of dollars in donations, you'd think they could get some fake IDs on their own.
What do you think he would've done? Just wondering.
Don't even try. Nobody has a fucking clue copyright infringement even includes anymore. It's a completely subjective concept anyway. Just get sucking on some rich guy's cock until he lets you borrow his lawyers. Then you're free to pirate, rape and pillage all you want.
Well, if it's unbiased news, then obviously conservatives are going to think it's liberal and liberals are going to think it's conservative. What's the problem?
brave (adj):
1. Possessing or displaying courage. Able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching.
2. Invulnerable to fear or intimidation.
3. Brightly colored and showy.
Clearly strapping a bomb to yourself requires some ability to face and deal with danger, and it's kinda tough to feel intimidated when you explode if someone hits you, as evidenced by many a Tom & Jerry cartoon, and I think we can all agree mushroom clouds of fire and flaming baby heads are inherently rather showy.
Oh, wait, you work for ABC, don't you? Damn yous! Jimmy Kimmel to replace Bill Maher? What the hell were you people thinking? And even that might've been good if you'd just let him liquor up and run around like an idiot instead of making crappy jokes. But no, you had to give up the angry clever sexist bastard for the unfunny fatass sexist bastard. Fortunately for you I steal HBO. Otherwise I might've had to pry my ass out of the sofa and start something.
I never really liked the whole breaking the fourth wall thing the Scouring does. Tolkien does a pretty good job at hiding his personal views through most of the story, for a college professor anyway, but then he goes and drops right off the map into straight anti-industrial propaganda in the last 50 pages. Maybe this is just one of those situations where it's better not to know anything about the author so you don't read these things, but I always felt it would've made me a lot happier if he just left it with the creepiness of the Shire Sarumanized rather than beating me over the head with those terrible, terrible smokestacks!!! It's not that I even really disagree with his sentiment. It's not an Ayn Rand moment where I suddenly realize he's a fucking asshole over this, it's just way too grandpa-breaking-into-a-lecture-in-the-middle-of-a -cool-story for me.
No.
They cut that ending too, like Prancy-Dancy McGodlypants, whatever his name was. What the hell is that guy's name? Too long since I've read any of these. Anyway, it was a good choice. That kind of big, extended, afterclimax is kinda stupid in a movie. It works in the book, but it'd just be annoying in the movie.
Haha, holy shit! Is that you in your sig? I was actually at that thing, didn't have a sign though. I was thinking that was a dadaist or a discordian kinda art deal, too bad it was just a porno guy doing "Protesters Gone Wild." Would've been funny if there was a point.
It doesn't? Goddamnit, doesn't anyone even consider backwards compatibility anymore?
Yeah, but what the hell does the human rights council do?
Don't know? That's OK, that's because they DON'T DO ANYTHING. They print pamphlets! Oh my fucking God! What can't Libya do with those nerfarious pamphlets of theirs!? And... and... and... they do statistical analyses of data!!! God help us! Sometimes they even write opinion essays! They're like the Wall Street Journal, only with a smaller audience and less influence! I hear your call, sir, the UN Security Council must sieze control of all these pamphlet-printing, analysis-writing terrorist groups before THE VERY WORLD AS WE KNOW IT COMES TO AN END!
The general council can veto a budget, veto a veto of one of the security council members, issue recomendations, and vote someone into the rotating SC slot. That's it. They write magical fairy decrees and get to veto something every 20 years when Mars is aligned with Betelgeuse. They're about as in control of the UN as this dead squirrel caught in the drainage ditch at the bottom of my driveway is in control of the Republican party.
Oh, great, now we have ecofundamentalists too? What the fuck is this? I just go out to shoot up the ecofacists down the block, and now I come back and all of a sudden everything's crawling with ecofundamentalists? I can't deal with much more of this shit. I can't even pronounce ecofunawhatsis. Hell, I oughta just barricade myself in and wait for the ecotheocrats and the ecoimperialists and the ecolibertarians to show up and take 'em all out at once.
And quit bragging about your IQ, you're upsetting my carrots.
"Casted by big names" is a problem all on it's own. Being a movie star doesn't qualify you to be a good voice actor any more than it qualifies you to star in a Broadway musical. Some people can pull it off, Billy Bob Thornton can't.
Well, that's probably is the quickest way, if not the best way. Computer generated animation doesn't need to be cell-shaded 3D. A good example would be the anime version of Metropolis. Admittedly they did a lot of cell-shaded 3D for the city backgrounds, but the characters were hand-drawn. However, they were digitally painted and partially inbetweened, and the motion was heavily smoothed out in the computer. It sharpens up the characters so they look better overlaid on the 3D backgrounds, and it saves a lot of time and money.
Most large-scale animation (film and TV) has been at least partially digital for years. Even if you're not drawing it directly to a tablet or something, it's kinda ridiculous to run around doing overcomplicated camera tricks when you can have it done in 1/8th the time with a $200 computer and a scanner.
I admit I'm somewhat interested to see if Disney can do something new with 3D. Right now, the creativity is basically Pixar coming up with a water effect and working it into a movie. It's worked pretty well, but I think if Disney tries to rip off that strategy it's not going to work. Disney needs something to differentiate itself from Pixar, and I don't know what that would be.
See, that makes sense, but they already did that with Lilo & Stich, I believe. All the DVD special features stuff was all them on the Macs and tablets, anyway.
I'd like a article from competent people rather than USA Today, who clearly don't have a clue what the hell they're talking about. Are they abandoning 2D or hand-drawing? USA Today makes it sound like 2D in general is getting thrown out, which is idiotic any way you slice it.
3D animation is a great medium, but unless Disney can develop some kind of style for it, they're screwed. They're throwing out their 2D style, which is absolutely unique, and jumping into 3D which they're not going to be able to brand anywhere near as easily.
Not that using computers is a problem, but doing things in 2D gives you stylistic options you don't get doing 3D. You have to make an actual 3D model when you're doing CG, with 2D you can bend space-time and make it look good. With CG you're stuck with basically a puppet show, albeit a much more elaborate puppet show, but you have to go at it like a physical place or else it looks ridiculous.
Well, if you believe Gore Vidal, the better spoiler would be "It's Marion Davies' clit, and I just saved you two hours of mindfucking that was only designed for one specific person in such a way that he couldn't sue them without embarassing himself."
It's not fucking unconstitutional because there's a fucking ammendment to the fucking constitution that fucking says that the fucking Congress shall have fucking power to lay and collect fucking taxes on fucking incomes, from whatever fucking source derived, without fucking apportionment among the several fucking states, and without regard to any fucking census or fucking enumeration. Fuck you.
They abolished inheritence taxes and a number of specific stock-related taxes. Got chunks of the IRS scrambling for a transfer before the backlog of paperwork dries up and they all get laid off. I know an inheritence tax lawyer there. She's pretty well fucked.
I don't think any of the actual abolishments would affect anybody here, since you had to die with 675k in cash before you paid anything on inheritence, and most of the stock stuff was still pretty negligable even on ludicrous transactions, but they're still abolished.