How is that NOT identical to how Jar-Jar manages to take down huge enemies on a couple of occasions in Phantom Menace? There's a distinct difference between Jar-Jar bumbling all by himself and winning due to his own clumsiness and Indiana Jones and a Nazi fighting over a rocket launcher. The latter is classic cliffhanger fare. The former is just idiotic.
I'm sorry but i have a hard time respecting Rotten Tomatoes for the simple reason it rated Dragon wars above Wild Wild West Rotten Tomatoes doesn't rate anything, man. They're an aggregator of other people's reviews. You can't compare aggregate ratings between 2 different movies directly. Aggregate data sets won't contain the same reviewers for each movie. Some movies--- like Dragon Wars--- are so obviously bad that many reviewers won't even bother to see it. A blockbuster like WWW, on the other hand, will actually score lower because more people saw it and wrote scathing reviews. The ratings are only useful to show whether a movie is likely to be "good" or "bad", not whether one movie is "better" or "worse" than another.
go watch Dirty Harry again and tell me what's good about it. I'll tell you what's good about it: Clint Eastwood and the character that he creates. I think some credit is due to Andrew Robinson. His portrayal of the Scorpio Killer is just balls-out great. He totally nails the character as a creepy, despicable worm!
That's right, Indy and Belloq used to be fellow travelers, then after the events of Temple, they developed a "difference of opinion". Belloq is Indy five years before. Where did you get that idea? The only (semi)canon on their past relationship is from the novelization of Raiders. Rene Belloq and Indy were arch-enemies from grad school. Nowhere does it indicate that they were ever "fellow travelers". The entire point of the Belloq character was to present the polar opposite of Indy.
If you consider Temple of Doom to be the first movie, Indiana Jones is playing more of the mercenary lifestyle, digging up treasure for a Shanghai mobster. Doesn't work. That wouldn't fit with The Last Crusade, which establishes him as an "it belongs in a museum" archaeologist from the time he was a young man and looked like River Phoenix. He just can't plausibly "convert" from a mercenary treasure hunter without totally controverting the first 20 minutes of Crusade. No, Temple of Doom is (to me) just a weird bit of non-canon Indiana Jones storytelling, like some of the more awful Star Wars novels...
Here's how this is going to work.
You pick one of those quotes, any one of them, and I will shred your interpretation to shit. What's the point? If someone hands you a "kill the infidel" quote, you'll claim it's out of context and that it was referring to killing the oppressor, completely handwaving the fact that the writer chose the word "infidel" and not "oppressor". There's no point arguing with people who choose to get their morality from fanciful thousand year old bullshit mythology, be it Islam, Christianity, Judaism, or whatever. They've already demonstrated a clear unwillingness to listen to reason on the subject, choosing instead to blindly follow dogma.
It's still offensive and stupid, just offensive and stupid in a different way. NPR has on jackasses like that cracker fuck James Carville, who (last I heard him on NPR) was calling for a "Marshall Plan for home mortgages", in which idiots who couldn't figure out that a no money down loan is a bad deal get bailed out, while people like me who AREN'T idiots and are waiting till we have a reasonable down payment before we try to buy a house, we get jack shit. It can't get much more offensive and stupid than that.
So why do we have all the "forced openness"? Why make Linksys release the WRT54 code? Is this just a pissing match? Well, yeah, that's basically what it is. The GPL is just a way to bugger the system, to cause the proprietary software folks to be hoist by their own petard. If they will use law to restrict access to information, it's perfectly reasonable to turn that law against them, which is what the GPL does.
Adobe PDFs suck You said it! Where the fuck did anyone get the idea that an appropriate format for reading a book on a computer is a fat, unwieldy file format designed to reproduce the appearance of a paper document?
We have precedent to support my assertion: people buy fake Raybans and fake Oakleys and fake Prada and fake Gucci all the time. All the time. Yes, and it's shameful how all the fakes have driven RayBan, Oakley, Prada, and Gucci out of business.
Suppose you have an idea for a TV show. You hire writers. With your assertion, writers should be paid for writing the show once, and that's it. Now, for writers to live, they need, say, 10K an episode each. So for your (untested) show, you have to spend about 100K just for writers. What's funny is that you think that's not how it works already.... except for the $10K dollars part. They don't pay that much.
but it's also not fair to the copyright holder to pretend that someone who is now known to be willing to distribute material illegally to anyone who drops by isn't guilty of any more than sharing the one copy the copyright holder downloaded themselves. Look, you can't just assume. You have to prove damages. Simply saying "everyone knows he let a lot of people copy it" is not adequate. You have to document those infringements if you want to reasonably claim damages. The fact that doing so is becoming more and more difficult doesn't earn you a free pass in collecting evidence.
If you follow their philosophy it should be pretty easy to find proof. I can't even imagine how much I owe in licensing fees for my derivative works using: for(int i=0;i<count;i++)
Seriously -- try to merge on this (source) ramp with a 53 hp motor. Yes, that's 65-miles-per-hour freeway traffic on the left, a stop sign on the right, and maybe 20 feet of merge between the two. It's 100% real and not atypical on the 110. Indeed, over the years I've had the dubious honor of attempting just that, at that very on-ramp (and the similar "hairpin turn into the right lane" at Ave 43), in my '68 Beetle (53hp), my '78 Bus (70hp), and most recently my '90 Vanagon (95hp). Scary as hell, man. Scary as hell.
Lets look at one of the most successful cars of all time. The 1967 VW Beetle weighed 1850lbs and had 53hp, and they worked just fine. Poor example. I owned one of those, and "worked just fine" depends very heavily on context. So long as heat, AC, handling, reliability*, and ability to accelerate or climb hills are not on your list of necessities, yeah, you could say it "worked just fine".
* as a friend of mine once said "they only SEEM reliable; in reality, they're just easy to fix"
But seemoral rights. Feh. "Moral Rights" is an intentionally loaded phrase that has little to do with morals, and nothing to do with rights. It's an attempt to give undue gravity to what is a purely pragmatic bargain struck between the public (through its proxy, government) and content creators in order to maximize the enrichment of the public domain.
I would be much more impressed with ICANN if they actually started punishing the registrars that are so blatantly making profit from internet crime. There is a long list of registrars that sell.com domains to spam kings like Kuvayev for him to sell drugs and pirated software. Asking ICANN to police the legality of online vendors is like asking the Social Security Administration to police credit card fraud because, after all, you can't get a credit card without presenting a social security number, right?
In other words: get a clue, ICANN is neither empowered nor equipped to act in any sort of law enforcement capacity. They're a corporation (that's what the 'C' in ICANN stands for) not a government agency.
Henry Lee Lucas confessed to ~100 murders and it's doubtful he committed any of them. Most of those 100+ confessed murders were false confessions, but there are about a dozen that even the most skeptical are convinced HLL perpetrated.
The one pretty incriminating example of evidence cited in the article is the fact that he removed the passenger seat of his car just after his wife's disappearance, then hosed down the interior and left an inch of standing water on the floor boards See, if it was ME doing that, I'd have said I left my passenger window rolled down overnight and someone's lawn sprinkler soaked my car. Then when I took the soggy passenger seat out to see if I could get it to dry faster, some ass stole it off my porch...
I swear, some people can't cook up a good story to save their life...
The R-73 (AA-11) air-to-air missile was at least a generation ahead of the equivalent NATO weapon (AIM-9L or AIM-9M) when it first came out. That's not an entirely fair comparison. The AIM-9 design is at least a generation older than the AA-11. Subsequent iterations of the AIM-9 have had to deal with the legacy of the 1950's airframe, which is a derivative of the 5-inch unguided rocket!
There are many similar stories about MiGs and SUs. Guess you can't read russian. I speak and read russian. Gimme a link. Searches for "lyetyel s odinim krilom"* (flew with one wing) get me nothing but idiomatic uses of the phrase. Put up or shut up.
spray and pray... indeed, pray if you're on the other end. Nah. More than once I've been on the receiving end of "spray and pray" technique with AK's, and really, it doesn't work at all. Blind luck isn't a suitable substitute for marksmanship, fortunately. Scares the crap out of you, but it doesn't work.
It is looking like the Russians are using NASA logic which is as follows:
#1 Something bad happened
#2 The backup system worked
#3 So the design is safe no need to fix what caused #1. No, they're just using classic Russian ne Soviet engineering theory:
"We cannot guarantee quality or precision, so instead we employ redundancy"
Soviet/Russian design theory is "Make it thicker, make it simpler, make three of it". It's classic belt, suspenders, AND holding on to your waistband with your hands thinking.
Makes you wonder what it would take to put the old Saturn V back in service/ Well, despite the rumors, the plans for the Saturn V have not been lost... but that's not the real issue anyway. All the tooling used to make the Saturn V is long gone. If you have to start from scratch building the manufacturing capacity, then you really might as well start from scratch on the design. Of course, there's nothing wrong with saying "we'll start with the same basic configuration as the Saturn V" and then re-creating the specifics with modern materials and techniques. The manned Mars mission craft is a derivative of the Apollo.
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It's still offensive and stupid, just offensive and stupid in a different way. NPR has on jackasses like that cracker fuck James Carville, who (last I heard him on NPR) was calling for a "Marshall Plan for home mortgages", in which idiots who couldn't figure out that a no money down loan is a bad deal get bailed out, while people like me who AREN'T idiots and are waiting till we have a reasonable down payment before we try to buy a house, we get jack shit. It can't get much more offensive and stupid than that.
You need to find a better "precedent".
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* as a friend of mine once said "they only SEEM reliable; in reality, they're just easy to fix"
In other words: get a clue, ICANN is neither empowered nor equipped to act in any sort of law enforcement capacity. They're a corporation (that's what the 'C' in ICANN stands for) not a government agency.
You're wrong. I don't see where he defended it in any way.
I swear, some people can't cook up a good story to save their life...
* slashdot won't let me use cyrillic
"We cannot guarantee quality or precision, so instead we employ redundancy"
Soviet/Russian design theory is "Make it thicker, make it simpler, make three of it". It's classic belt, suspenders, AND holding on to your waistband with your hands thinking.