Not to mention Sandy Frank. He's the primary reason there aren't any Gamera, Time of the Apes, Fugitive Alien I&II, Fugitive Woman, or Mighty Jack DVDs released.
I bought a cheap Magnavox DVD-R/+R/RW and immediately decided to return it. First I had to go through the hassle of dismissing its "safeplay" (or whatever their DVD-censoring scheme was) 5 times, powering off and on each time, secondly, I had to "format" a blank DVD-R for several minutes before I could even record on it.
If I wanted to record anything OTA on a whim (such as live events or unexpected goofs) with a VHS recorder, I just popped the tape in and hit record, and lost a few seconds in time taken to load the tape. But by the time I had a DVD-R ready, it'd already have passed.
Of course you're getting what you pay for, a DVD recorder with built in hard drive storage would take care of that, at around twice the retail price of the "cheap" models. But otherwise, has this improved at all?
Valentine's day is just a month away, get started now and you could have one Hell of a Valentines day gift. Especially if you make it to pump chocolate syrup.
Dang, and I forgot to mention, ironic you mentioned D.B. Cooper; Apparently the FBI has decided that hunting down Al Qaeda is too darned hard to pull off, and have resumed searching for D.B. Cooper.
The part about PCP was meant to be facetious (sp?), however, we're all being medicated the Hell out of with other handy dandy drugs, and for at least some time, the idea of "gassing passengers in the event of a hijacking" has been reviewed.
Well now, isn't that the most delicious irony of all? Thanks to the DMCA, instead of merely being a potential pirate or criminal for ripping a DVD for your HTPC, you're now a potential terrorist for knowing how to copy a Real ID, and get an all expenses paid vacation at Gitmo (or any of those new detention centers being built by Halliburton)! Hell, just knowing how to plug in a modem without a government licensed snitch doing it for you would be grounds alone for requiring a 27b-6.
Except at current postal prices, that'd be something like 3... 4... Some kind of weird number I can't ever hope to imagine! Quick, someone fund a think tank to figure it out!
Simply put? Put security checks back where they were before 9/11. Everyone, not just Americans, but people everywhere, have learned from history in the most basic sense; that when someone whips out a knife or a gun, jump them and beat the shit out of them. Pilots, in the meanwhile, have sturdier doors, and at least in the US, Air Marshalls are flying on random flights (which isn't really much more than they did before). So in essense, we don't NEED those checks anymore.
Hell, someone could walk into the lobby area with a bomb vest and kill far more than could board a plane by simply being there, without aircraft ever being involved.
Or crap, just get everyone in the US hooked on PCP, that does away with natural senses of fear altogether, and when there's no fear, there's no terror, let alone terrorism.
Sorry, but for years now, my hypothesis was that dinosaurs were wiped out by what is considered as a relatively (at least to their carriers) innocuous bacteria, specifically salmonella. Almost every so called descendant of the dinosaur to date carries salmonella. And even to this day, said bacteria is fatal to pretty much every non reptilian and poultry based form of life. Consider too that most of these critters migrate on a regular basis, and you may even be able to explain a lot of mass die offs over time.
So even as the plates began to drift, regardless of asteroids or changes in climate, if a gut bacteria such as salmonella kicked in for any species that relied on bacteria for digestion (like 100% of herbivorous dinosaurs), then it could hypothetically override their respective digestive bugs, preventing them from absorbing much needed nutrients. As they in turn died off from the inevitable starvation, then the meat eaters found themselves short on food. In essense, this could explain the mass extinctions occuring overnight on a geological scale.
Unfortunately, there is little way to make what should be the simplest explanation in turn becomes a dead end. Yet since they found a fossilized raptor with feather anchors on its bones, the link between dinosaurs and fowl isn't as farfetched as it seems.
Okay, assuming it keeps to the price offered, how much better is it than the so called "lowly" scooters already used, the motorized pedicabs, and the scooters used as well. And secondly, is is possible to sell such a car here, considering how the Corbin (sp?) fared in the past?
Sure, lets just have entire economies shut down at night so that nobody would need those lights, burglars can invade peoples' homes at night with impunity, raping and pillaging and no worries about witnesses. In fact, lets all move underground into caves, then there'd be plenty of reason to run the lights because there'd be no sky to defile. Brilliant! Now where's my goddamned night vision goggles?
Even Joe Lieberman is on the pro game censorship bandwagon, which, I'm sure combined with Al "My Wife Started the PMRC" Gore's association, to form a deadly combination that resulted in, you know, that *other* guy getting the presidency.
Didn't they learn anything from Team Knight Rider?
And secondly:
"Designer Harald Belker, who has created the Batmobile for Batman and Robin and a next-gen space shuttle for Armageddon, came onboard to give the new KITT. a unique look."
To start selling tinfoil hats. What with the conspiracy nuts claiming the new broadcast standard are for mind control purposes, and those who didn't know about the digital switchover collecting canned foods and firearms, convinced that Al Qaeda knocked out that bastion of American culture, the almighty teevee.
One of my biggest complaints about that scene was that: (1) Deckard shot her 3 times, but it appeared that she got shot 4 times, and (2) In the scene when she stumbles, you clearly see the fake skin/squib packet flip away from her chest.
Where's the cries of anger against similar (such as Lik Sang) retailers selling knockoff SNES consoles and N64 CD-ROM readers so they could pile a ton of roms into a CD and play their N-64s for free, just because they thought the variety available weren't worth paying for?
Only someone whose head has been caved in with a crowbar cannot tell the difference between the display on an LCD and the actual console and an actual video display.
When I was born, it was back during the summer of love, so to speak. The guy who chose to side with my mom was a Catholic, and vis a vis he changed my name to his own. Except, because of Social Security's recent revisions, I cannot even live by the name I grew up with. Yet because of this, I cannot chose a job or what have you, because I'm essentially forced to live by the name I was born with.
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It's more likely than you think!
That'll be tricky, I mean, he probably thinks Pong is too violent.
Yeah, except now it's "Download faster! FASTER!"
Have you checked out www.mst3k.com lately? They've got cartoons starring the bots there, AFAIK.
Not to mention Sandy Frank. He's the primary reason there aren't any Gamera, Time of the Apes, Fugitive Alien I&II, Fugitive Woman, or Mighty Jack DVDs released.
I bought a cheap Magnavox DVD-R/+R/RW and immediately decided to return it. First I had to go through the hassle of dismissing its "safeplay" (or whatever their DVD-censoring scheme was) 5 times, powering off and on each time, secondly, I had to "format" a blank DVD-R for several minutes before I could even record on it.
If I wanted to record anything OTA on a whim (such as live events or unexpected goofs) with a VHS recorder, I just popped the tape in and hit record, and lost a few seconds in time taken to load the tape. But by the time I had a DVD-R ready, it'd already have passed.
Of course you're getting what you pay for, a DVD recorder with built in hard drive storage would take care of that, at around twice the retail price of the "cheap" models. But otherwise, has this improved at all?
Valentine's day is just a month away, get started now and you could have one Hell of a Valentines day gift. Especially if you make it to pump chocolate syrup.
Dang, and I forgot to mention, ironic you mentioned D.B. Cooper; Apparently the FBI has decided that hunting down Al Qaeda is too darned hard to pull off, and have resumed searching for D.B. Cooper.
The part about PCP was meant to be facetious (sp?), however, we're all being medicated the Hell out of with other handy dandy drugs, and for at least some time, the idea of "gassing passengers in the event of a hijacking" has been reviewed.
Well now, isn't that the most delicious irony of all? Thanks to the DMCA, instead of merely being a potential pirate or criminal for ripping a DVD for your HTPC, you're now a potential terrorist for knowing how to copy a Real ID, and get an all expenses paid vacation at Gitmo (or any of those new detention centers being built by Halliburton)! Hell, just knowing how to plug in a modem without a government licensed snitch doing it for you would be grounds alone for requiring a 27b-6.
Except at current postal prices, that'd be something like 3... 4... Some kind of weird number I can't ever hope to imagine! Quick, someone fund a think tank to figure it out!
Simply put? Put security checks back where they were before 9/11. Everyone, not just Americans, but people everywhere, have learned from history in the most basic sense; that when someone whips out a knife or a gun, jump them and beat the shit out of them. Pilots, in the meanwhile, have sturdier doors, and at least in the US, Air Marshalls are flying on random flights (which isn't really much more than they did before). So in essense, we don't NEED those checks anymore.
Hell, someone could walk into the lobby area with a bomb vest and kill far more than could board a plane by simply being there, without aircraft ever being involved.
Or crap, just get everyone in the US hooked on PCP, that does away with natural senses of fear altogether, and when there's no fear, there's no terror, let alone terrorism.
I'm not sure if I saw it here or not, but an interesting direct impact from the RIAA's behavior as of late has been record industry stocks slipping. More here: http://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2007/12/17/5-stocks-under-10-for-2008.aspx
Sorry, but for years now, my hypothesis was that dinosaurs were wiped out by what is considered as a relatively (at least to their carriers) innocuous bacteria, specifically salmonella. Almost every so called descendant of the dinosaur to date carries salmonella. And even to this day, said bacteria is fatal to pretty much every non reptilian and poultry based form of life. Consider too that most of these critters migrate on a regular basis, and you may even be able to explain a lot of mass die offs over time.
So even as the plates began to drift, regardless of asteroids or changes in climate, if a gut bacteria such as salmonella kicked in for any species that relied on bacteria for digestion (like 100% of herbivorous dinosaurs), then it could hypothetically override their respective digestive bugs, preventing them from absorbing much needed nutrients. As they in turn died off from the inevitable starvation, then the meat eaters found themselves short on food. In essense, this could explain the mass extinctions occuring overnight on a geological scale.
Unfortunately, there is little way to make what should be the simplest explanation in turn becomes a dead end. Yet since they found a fossilized raptor with feather anchors on its bones, the link between dinosaurs and fowl isn't as farfetched as it seems.
Okay, assuming it keeps to the price offered, how much better is it than the so called "lowly" scooters already used, the motorized pedicabs, and the scooters used as well. And secondly, is is possible to sell such a car here, considering how the Corbin (sp?) fared in the past?
And forget to tell him it was fiction again?
Sure, lets just have entire economies shut down at night so that nobody would need those lights, burglars can invade peoples' homes at night with impunity, raping and pillaging and no worries about witnesses. In fact, lets all move underground into caves, then there'd be plenty of reason to run the lights because there'd be no sky to defile. Brilliant! Now where's my goddamned night vision goggles?
Only so long as she's half Betazoid.
That anyone's surprised by this.
Even Joe Lieberman is on the pro game censorship bandwagon, which, I'm sure combined with Al "My Wife Started the PMRC" Gore's association, to form a deadly combination that resulted in, you know, that *other* guy getting the presidency.
Didn't they learn anything from Team Knight Rider?
And secondly:
"Designer Harald Belker, who has created the Batmobile for Batman and Robin and a next-gen space shuttle for Armageddon, came onboard to give the new KITT. a unique look."
Say no more. It'll suck.
To start selling tinfoil hats. What with the conspiracy nuts claiming the new broadcast standard are for mind control purposes, and those who didn't know about the digital switchover collecting canned foods and firearms, convinced that Al Qaeda knocked out that bastion of American culture, the almighty teevee.
One of my biggest complaints about that scene was that: (1) Deckard shot her 3 times, but it appeared that she got shot 4 times, and (2) In the scene when she stumbles, you clearly see the fake skin/squib packet flip away from her chest.
Where's the cries of anger against similar (such as Lik Sang) retailers selling knockoff SNES consoles and N64 CD-ROM readers so they could pile a ton of roms into a CD and play their N-64s for free, just because they thought the variety available weren't worth paying for?
Only someone whose head has been caved in with a crowbar cannot tell the difference between the display on an LCD and the actual console and an actual video display.
Gawd you all disgust me with your stupidity.
When I was born, it was back during the summer of love, so to speak. The guy who chose to side with my mom was a Catholic, and vis a vis he changed my name to his own. Except, because of Social Security's recent revisions, I cannot even live by the name I grew up with. Yet because of this, I cannot chose a job or what have you, because I'm essentially forced to live by the name I was born with.