The FTA had nothing to do with import and export levels, that was peripheral. It was about selling us BS "intellectual property" in return for limiting the US farming subsidies so our economy that's still based so heavily in primary induustry doesn't fall over.
I agree in a lot of cases it's lame, but you'll find a lot of comedians make good VO actors because they've come up doing skits that involve impressions, and they've put just as much work into "funny" voices as the voice actors have.
On the whole, we seem to be slowly moving from a "govern thyself" to a "If no-ones watching, why not?" frame of mind.
I think the main reason for that is the vast array of laws that are simply to serve corporations, not the people. Nobody's going to argue that it shouldn't be illegal to kill somebody, or break into his house, rape his wife and walk out with his TV. But with laws like the DMCA and various other corporate welfare schemes, people going to jail for weed, how can any man have respect for what's law, rather than simply live by their own ideas of what's right, and simply try to avoid being caught when those two systems aren't in harmony?
Here's a free tip. Buy a non-secure, no-dna, no-password, no-magic gun, and spend the difference on a FUCKING LOCKABLE CABINET and teach your children gun saftey. Strangely enough, if little Johnny can get into "daddy's forbidden closet of mystery" you're shortly going to be missing some children.
rather 100 children be molested than one innocent man go to jail
I would. Not because I want children molested, don't be an idiot. But you know what? Bad people molest kids. That's no reason to put some innocent bloke in prison, no matter what "can't people think of the children" BS spin you put on it. We need to protect children, but by punishing people who hurt them, not punishing a whole bunch of people and who cares if a few friendly old guys who work for candy stores get sent to FPMITA prison by the wayside.
Oh lord. I nobody's really going to spend $10,000 putting that garbage in a major newspaper are they? You couldn't sell free money with that ad! It looks like something spit up by a 15 year old "web designer" that does the first incarnation of most small business' websites beccause "my nephew's a computer wiz".
Above the law? Above the law? Son, it's 2006. The US government is even above the secret laws! Let alone the regular old "subject to constitutional challenge" laws you get to read about.
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Why do people keep bringing this up like it's going to make playing a game on Wii suck? Nintendo never claimed it's going to be like swining a real sword. It's just meant to be a fuckload better than mashing buttons and wiggling a little control stick.
Look, when will you pansies learn? Just admit to the damned porn! If you like it, you won't be able to live a porn-free life for very long, nor should you. And if you're watching it on the down-low, she will find it. I assure you, she will find it eventually. And then not only are you a porn-guy(tm), but you're a lying bastard as well. Just man up and tell her "I like porn. I don't care if you agree with it." if she's a normal (anti porn) woman, she'll say, "Aren't I enough for you?", to which you respond "Yes you are, which is why I'm not sleeping with anybody else. But I like to watch people fuck". If she's a manipulative bitch she'll say, "If you loved me you'd quit". The answer to that is of course, "If you loved me you're accept my porn habits".
The short of it is this: you can't hide the porn, and you can't give it up for long. Seriously. She will find it. Be honest. Perhaps your girl needs to look within herself to see why she's threatened by a Jenna Jameson DVD.
Then you're a fringe user, most likely a bearded unix nut, and unless they're selling unix stuff, most web sites don't give a shit if they lose your business.
EXACTLY! If you don't know enough about VB to come up with a list of valid reasons it's the wrong tool for the job, then you don't know enough about it to make that call, let alone convince the man who signs the cheques he's an idiot and you know better. Since he's obviously experienced at it (if he wrote an application that is supporting >2 10 employees), why don't you take his word for it and shut the fuck up? Or quit. Either way is good. If you don't know shit, why do you think it's your place to decide the best tool for the job?
Ah, the angst of the teenager who knows all. Guess what? Till you're 18, there's no such thing as free speech. Guess what else? Unless it's a state school, even when you're 18 they can do what they please to you based on what you say. Free speech only means the government can't hassle you about what you say (within certains limits, ymmv, etc) it doesn't apply to private enterprises at all.
We're not "evil and cruel". We've simply spent hundreds of millions of years evolving to care only about our tribe of 10-50 people. Even the knowledge of the existance of people on the other side of the world is only around 10 thousand years old. We may be able to rationally see the benefits of feeding hungry kids in africa, but our gut instincts, our driving forces, and the kind of things that we abhor, have had millions of years being fine tuned to ensure the survival of a small group of our kin.
I agree the demo probably wasn't a complete phony like the original blog insists, but why a burned copy? Could it be they used a re-compressed (via dvdshrink etc) dvd to make the blu-ray content look better than it is?
Huh? People start dying all over europe if you get a "heatwave" and it's over 35 degrees for a weeek. Pussies.
2. Deadly spiders and snakes in your house
Don't forget the world's most venomous fish, snake, shellfish, octopus, jellyfish, and dropbears. And that's how we likes it. Pussies.
3. Long travel times to get across the country
It's ok so long as you're not driving anything british or american. Pussies.
4. Inconvenient timezone
No, YOU GUYS are in the inconvenient timezone.
5. No decent sports leagues
Oh boo-hoo, poor old england, has to pretend they're only interested in soccer, because it's the only sport at which they can beat the aussies.
6. John Howard
Bah! What difference does it make who the figurehead is? Politicians are all the same, they're just serving different special interests. Some big business, some the farmers, some the corrupt unions. Nobody's interested in the common man, save his vote.
Devices that show NTSC and Pal are super-common, just outside of the US. The rest of the world isn't quite as afraid of interopability. And DVDs are differnt when they're encoded to ntsc vs pal. It's not as different as it used to be in the days of VHS, but there's a difference. I've got region 0 discs in ntsc (pr0n of course) that come out in black and white on some local (pal) player/tv combinations.
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The FTA had nothing to do with import and export levels, that was peripheral. It was about selling us BS "intellectual property" in return for limiting the US farming subsidies so our economy that's still based so heavily in primary induustry doesn't fall over.
I agree in a lot of cases it's lame, but you'll find a lot of comedians make good VO actors because they've come up doing skits that involve impressions, and they've put just as much work into "funny" voices as the voice actors have.
I think the main reason for that is the vast array of laws that are simply to serve corporations, not the people. Nobody's going to argue that it shouldn't be illegal to kill somebody, or break into his house, rape his wife and walk out with his TV. But with laws like the DMCA and various other corporate welfare schemes, people going to jail for weed, how can any man have respect for what's law, rather than simply live by their own ideas of what's right, and simply try to avoid being caught when those two systems aren't in harmony?
You're right. And while we're at it, since the umbrella works so well, we should stop doing research into the automobile.
Here's a free tip. Buy a non-secure, no-dna, no-password, no-magic gun, and spend the difference on a FUCKING LOCKABLE CABINET and teach your children gun saftey. Strangely enough, if little Johnny can get into "daddy's forbidden closet of mystery" you're shortly going to be missing some children.
Well it's no longer 1985 :)
rather 100 children be molested than one innocent man go to jail
I would. Not because I want children molested, don't be an idiot. But you know what? Bad people molest kids. That's no reason to put some innocent bloke in prison, no matter what "can't people think of the children" BS spin you put on it. We need to protect children, but by punishing people who hurt them, not punishing a whole bunch of people and who cares if a few friendly old guys who work for candy stores get sent to FPMITA prison by the wayside.
Oh lord. I nobody's really going to spend $10,000 putting that garbage in a major newspaper are they? You couldn't sell free money with that ad! It looks like something spit up by a 15 year old "web designer" that does the first incarnation of most small business' websites beccause "my nephew's a computer wiz".
That's wool, Ziva. Pull the _wool_ over our eyes.
Above the law? Above the law? Son, it's 2006. The US government is even above the secret laws! Let alone the regular old "subject to constitutional challenge" laws you get to read about.
Why do people keep bringing this up like it's going to make playing a game on Wii suck? Nintendo never claimed it's going to be like swining a real sword. It's just meant to be a fuckload better than mashing buttons and wiggling a little control stick.
Look, when will you pansies learn? Just admit to the damned porn! If you like it, you won't be able to live a porn-free life for very long, nor should you. And if you're watching it on the down-low, she will find it. I assure you, she will find it eventually. And then not only are you a porn-guy(tm), but you're a lying bastard as well. Just man up and tell her "I like porn. I don't care if you agree with it." if she's a normal (anti porn) woman, she'll say, "Aren't I enough for you?", to which you respond "Yes you are, which is why I'm not sleeping with anybody else. But I like to watch people fuck". If she's a manipulative bitch she'll say, "If you loved me you'd quit". The answer to that is of course, "If you loved me you're accept my porn habits".
The short of it is this: you can't hide the porn, and you can't give it up for long. Seriously. She will find it. Be honest. Perhaps your girl needs to look within herself to see why she's threatened by a Jenna Jameson DVD.
So, you don't drive a car then?
So, Nintendo was charging too much, it didn't work out, now they've dropped the price. THE MONSTERS!
Sony would have said, "See! Emulation has caused our lackluster sales! Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of law!"
Xbox 360 is your friend.
Quit. It's not 1997, but it's not 2001 either.
The "population" argument would be good if 60% of American engineering graduates and 30% of American CS graduates weren't foreigners.
Then you're a fringe user, most likely a bearded unix nut, and unless they're selling unix stuff, most web sites don't give a shit if they lose your business.
EXACTLY! If you don't know enough about VB to come up with a list of valid reasons it's the wrong tool for the job, then you don't know enough about it to make that call, let alone convince the man who signs the cheques he's an idiot and you know better. Since he's obviously experienced at it (if he wrote an application that is supporting >2 10 employees), why don't you take his word for it and shut the fuck up? Or quit. Either way is good. If you don't know shit, why do you think it's your place to decide the best tool for the job?
Ah, the angst of the teenager who knows all. Guess what? Till you're 18, there's no such thing as free speech. Guess what else? Unless it's a state school, even when you're 18 they can do what they please to you based on what you say. Free speech only means the government can't hassle you about what you say (within certains limits, ymmv, etc) it doesn't apply to private enterprises at all.
We're not "evil and cruel". We've simply spent hundreds of millions of years evolving to care only about our tribe of 10-50 people. Even the knowledge of the existance of people on the other side of the world is only around 10 thousand years old. We may be able to rationally see the benefits of feeding hungry kids in africa, but our gut instincts, our driving forces, and the kind of things that we abhor, have had millions of years being fine tuned to ensure the survival of a small group of our kin.
I agree the demo probably wasn't a complete phony like the original blog insists, but why a burned copy? Could it be they used a re-compressed (via dvdshrink etc) dvd to make the blu-ray content look better than it is?
1. Skin cancer
Huh? People start dying all over europe if you get a "heatwave" and it's over 35 degrees for a weeek. Pussies.
2. Deadly spiders and snakes in your house
Don't forget the world's most venomous fish, snake, shellfish, octopus, jellyfish, and dropbears. And that's how we likes it. Pussies.
3. Long travel times to get across the country
It's ok so long as you're not driving anything british or american. Pussies.
4. Inconvenient timezone
No, YOU GUYS are in the inconvenient timezone.
5. No decent sports leagues
Oh boo-hoo, poor old england, has to pretend they're only interested in soccer, because it's the only sport at which they can beat the aussies.
6. John Howard
Bah! What difference does it make who the figurehead is? Politicians are all the same, they're just serving different special interests. Some big business, some the farmers, some the corrupt unions. Nobody's interested in the common man, save his vote.
Devices that show NTSC and Pal are super-common, just outside of the US. The rest of the world isn't quite as afraid of interopability. And DVDs are differnt when they're encoded to ntsc vs pal. It's not as different as it used to be in the days of VHS, but there's a difference. I've got region 0 discs in ntsc (pr0n of course) that come out in black and white on some local (pal) player/tv combinations.
It comes with a free 50-12 thrashing by the roos?