Which is not much. Homosexuality is a Hobson's Choice. Also, it's a well known FACT that pedophilia is an incurable mental illness. They're just not the same.
The arrows work the same way. same service calls, same results (takes you to iTMS store information). They require user intervention, so does the ministore.
so, in this 'brave new world' you're so scared and uninformed about, is there any place for internet aware applications?
Entire library?! Not unless you let it play through your entire library. Yeah, you didn't RTFA. And the arrow is NOT irrelevant. The ministore AND the arrow make the SAME WEBSERVICE CALLS.
So, searching in iTMS and tracking search strings, is this spying? And, if you automated searches, would this be spying? iTunes has had the little "find on iTMS" arrows for several releases now, if I click on that, and it takes me to iTMS, and they store that data, is that spying, even though I clicked it? It is opt-out only.
I can't imagine how they could make this more apparent to users, short of adding a pop up that says, "look morons, we didn't go and install iTMS on your fucking computer, that's actually the power of the INTERNET bringing that information TO YOU."
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Intersting too, for many fans (of legitimately purchase music) this is a very convenient feature. I can spend hours surfing iTMS from band to band, discovering new music. It's not even an AD per se, for people like me. I see an album cover and I don't equate it to an advertisement for coke or other consumer product.
Let's see. YES. I know it is everytime I click on the little arrow to the right of the songs in my library that take me right to ITMS. And yes, this is all as obvious as it can be, any moron would realize apple didn't go including the ENTIRE ITMS LIBRARY in the newest iTunes release.
At least in the first one. It's why I put the controller down, calmly, and turned the player off. I'll be damned if I was going to be forced to suffer through anymore of that terrible dialog voiced by someone from an MT3K parody.
So? I live in Manhattan and think that all local radio, sucks. If not because of the selection, then because the stations I can stand aren't ever playing the songs I care to listen to.
Given that you can't walk down a single block in this city without being hammered with Ads, why the fuck would I allow one more media outlet to sell me their crap!? It's not bad enough that I get ads shoved in my face constantly, I should have to hear them to?
Listen, I realize that what you're proposing is a matter of personal choice, even if it had a radio, I don't have to use it, but i'm a fairly typical ipod user, and disagree that it's value added.
See, you're not following the money. The studio is banking on a MUCH more reliable bet than the fact that Kong is a remake.
Peter Jackson. the LOTR series brought in 3 billion dollars.
He could get cash out of Hollywood to make a movie showing him eating grits off a hobbit's bare feet. He may not be able to sell it, but there's no reason, NONE, to assume he won't.
There already was a Kong sequal, I'll remind you. It was crap. It also didn't sell.
You don't want to see more indie films made by major studios. There's enough quality indie flims coming out weekly. Enough to keep you sated for a life time. You get big money behind those movies and surprise! they're not the same movie anymore.
Yeah. You don't know what you're talking about. You've obviously never seen the brilliant and disturbing Heavenly Creatures, or have no appreciation of the fun/kitch of Dead Alive.
LOTR unbalanced? Too much fighting vs. plot points? Clearly you're unfamliar with LOTR as a body of work. Difficult, expansive, BORING. Not 'I have a short attention span' boring, honestly boring. Jackson took the best themes, plot points, characters, and made something completely entertaining out of it.
You're wrong. You're also a tool. Just because a story has been told ONCE, doesn't mean it can't be told well, or better, again.
Apparently King Kong's pedigree didn't strike you as intriguing. This is Peter Jackson we're talking about here. Any of his productions isn't going to have the same hackneyed, hamfisted problems that most Hollywood remakes suffer.
Besides, it's King fucking Kong. What do you have against a good monster movie? The themes of the silent original are captivating. A good director (and here we have an excellent one) can take even crap themes and explore them in new ways.
I realize and appreciate what you're trying to say, but it doesn't apply here.
C'mon, you guys are Hollywood. You are supposed to be better than this.
Between 'fantasy' and 'reality'. For most kids, 'reality' is the shitty, boring, crap part of life. 'Fantasy' is how you escape. ALL kids learn really quickly, and usually safely that the two don't mix: things keep on being shitty, despite what goes on in playtime.
Also, kids can get bored of new things quickly. This occurs when fantasy play time gets shittier, the more they realize that reality is only minutes away (bedtime).
Also, they might have been taking a lot of acid when they wrote it. Mushrooms maybe... something that induces hallucinations and the belief that you can make whole segments of an animation show without animators;)
How superficial.
Irritating and immature how some people seem to think it insightful and witty to disparage the artistic process by insisting it's the product of a drug binge.
Growup. It's not funny.
Also, NGE may have religious themes that aren't simply used for their aesthetics, but they do a crap job tying it all up, making sense of any of it, or drawing parallels that are actually clever.
That's just... so stupid. This is the kind mentality that passes itself off as 'funny' and 'insightful', when really, you have no evidence. You think you do, because you've put them in a little 'bad box' in your head. You can't see your way to understanding them, or their motivations, so you assume the worst.
Usually this is not the case. Many environmentalists, Greenpeace members included, do not think of Humans as 'cockroaches'. How asinine!
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Didn't say I wasn't slanted.
Here's an idea: Anything read/eaten/seen too often gets boring. If you don't read the Onion too often you're more likely to get a chuckle, and less likely to get your widdle feewings hurt.
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He super-moron! Noone's making you read every issue Onion! For someone like me who is too busy or often forgets to get his laughs there, the Onion is still plenty fresh and unrepetitive. In fact, if anything it's a guaranteed source for a laugh.
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Sure, it's humorous. But this doesn't disprove my point. Fox News has found a valuable ($) target for their ads: conservatives Americans. Why shouldn't they target them specifically with conservative rhetoric laced articles? They'd be stupid not to now that they have their nitch.
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I call bullshit. You find it to be un-funny because you just plain can't look past your own political bias. When Clinton was in office he provided plenty of material to lampoon. Bush just seems to provide even more, and it's not like they're not concious of what an easy target he is: "VP Cheney Bursts from Bush's Chest Cavity" for example. I mean, it's rediculous, funny, but biased? Eye of the beholder man... it's like all those conservatives that BS about 'liberal media', but are convinced Fox News is without bias. You're fooling yourself.
Of why home entertainment rocks. If the movie sucks, and you know it one hour in, you can just turn it off, instead of tripping over legs, feet and bags on a mad scurry to end the pain. I'm sure my friends and I pissed a few people off trying to get away from that crapfest.
It wasn't however, the best musical out this year. That award should have gone to 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels', the funniest and wittiest musical on the Great White Way at the moment. Spamalot, while fun, devolves 1/2-way through into a 'Follie's' format musical, all but jettisoning the Python feel for Broadway appeal. Unfortunately, 'Dirty', and other very excellent musicals are overshadowed by Python's hype. That's the business though. Think of how many excellent shows languished while the Webber musicals made bank.
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Which is not much. Homosexuality is a Hobson's Choice. Also, it's a well known FACT that pedophilia is an incurable mental illness. They're just not the same.
Wait, you think people are INFORMED because of BLOGS? You think fear isn't THE motivating factor driving support for the war machine?
Yeah, alright.
Since a good number of bombs are triggered by suicidal maniacs, maybe we should forbid... suicide... or maniacs.
The arrows work the same way. same service calls, same results (takes you to iTMS store information). They require user intervention, so does the ministore.
so, in this 'brave new world' you're so scared and uninformed about, is there any place for internet aware applications?
Entire library?! Not unless you let it play through your entire library. Yeah, you didn't RTFA. And the arrow is NOT irrelevant. The ministore AND the arrow make the SAME WEBSERVICE CALLS.
So, searching in iTMS and tracking search strings, is this spying? And, if you automated searches, would this be spying? iTunes has had the little "find on iTMS" arrows for several releases now, if I click on that, and it takes me to iTMS, and they store that data, is that spying, even though I clicked it? It is opt-out only.
I can't imagine how they could make this more apparent to users, short of adding a pop up that says, "look morons, we didn't go and install iTMS on your fucking computer, that's actually the power of the INTERNET bringing that information TO YOU."
Intersting too, for many fans (of legitimately purchase music) this is a very convenient feature. I can spend hours surfing iTMS from band to band, discovering new music. It's not even an AD per se, for people like me. I see an album cover and I don't equate it to an advertisement for coke or other consumer product.
Let's see. YES. I know it is everytime I click on the little arrow to the right of the songs in my library that take me right to ITMS. And yes, this is all as obvious as it can be, any moron would realize apple didn't go including the ENTIRE ITMS LIBRARY in the newest iTunes release.
At least in the first one. It's why I put the controller down, calmly, and turned the player off. I'll be damned if I was going to be forced to suffer through anymore of that terrible dialog voiced by someone from an MT3K parody.
So? I live in Manhattan and think that all local radio, sucks. If not because of the selection, then because the stations I can stand aren't ever playing the songs I care to listen to.
Given that you can't walk down a single block in this city without being hammered with Ads, why the fuck would I allow one more media outlet to sell me their crap!? It's not bad enough that I get ads shoved in my face constantly, I should have to hear them to?
Listen, I realize that what you're proposing is a matter of personal choice, even if it had a radio, I don't have to use it, but i'm a fairly typical ipod user, and disagree that it's value added.
Yeah, the villager's drums, beckoning Kong to the sacrifice, just don't have the same impact in the silent version ;)
See, you're not following the money. The studio is banking on a MUCH more reliable bet than the fact that Kong is a remake.
Peter Jackson. the LOTR series brought in 3 billion dollars.
He could get cash out of Hollywood to make a movie showing him eating grits off a hobbit's bare feet. He may not be able to sell it, but there's no reason, NONE, to assume he won't.
There already was a Kong sequal, I'll remind you. It was crap. It also didn't sell.
You don't want to see more indie films made by major studios. There's enough quality indie flims coming out weekly. Enough to keep you sated for a life time. You get big money behind those movies and surprise! they're not the same movie anymore.
Yeah. You don't know what you're talking about. You've obviously never seen the brilliant and disturbing Heavenly Creatures, or have no appreciation of the fun/kitch of Dead Alive.
LOTR unbalanced? Too much fighting vs. plot points? Clearly you're unfamliar with LOTR as a body of work. Difficult, expansive, BORING. Not 'I have a short attention span' boring, honestly boring. Jackson took the best themes, plot points, characters, and made something completely entertaining out of it.
You're right, of course. I dunno why I typed that.
Apparently King Kong's pedigree didn't strike you as intriguing. This is Peter Jackson we're talking about here. Any of his productions isn't going to have the same hackneyed, hamfisted problems that most Hollywood remakes suffer.
Besides, it's King fucking Kong. What do you have against a good monster movie? The themes of the silent original are captivating. A good director (and here we have an excellent one) can take even crap themes and explore them in new ways.
I realize and appreciate what you're trying to say, but it doesn't apply here.
Ok, now I know you're taking the piss.
Also, kids can get bored of new things quickly. This occurs when fantasy play time gets shittier, the more they realize that reality is only minutes away (bedtime).
Also, they might have been taking a lot of acid when they wrote it. Mushrooms maybe... something that induces hallucinations and the belief that you can make whole segments of an animation show without animators ;)
How superficial.
Irritating and immature how some people seem to think it insightful and witty to disparage the artistic process by insisting it's the product of a drug binge.
Growup. It's not funny.
Also, NGE may have religious themes that aren't simply used for their aesthetics, but they do a crap job tying it all up, making sense of any of it, or drawing parallels that are actually clever.
That was a really un-informed and un-informative response. I'm reeling.
That's just... so stupid. This is the kind mentality that passes itself off as 'funny' and 'insightful', when really, you have no evidence. You think you do, because you've put them in a little 'bad box' in your head. You can't see your way to understanding them, or their motivations, so you assume the worst.
Usually this is not the case. Many environmentalists, Greenpeace members included, do not think of Humans as 'cockroaches'. How asinine!
Didn't say I wasn't slanted.
Here's an idea: Anything read/eaten/seen too often gets boring. If you don't read the Onion too often you're more likely to get a chuckle, and less likely to get your widdle feewings hurt.
He super-moron! Noone's making you read every issue Onion! For someone like me who is too busy or often forgets to get his laughs there, the Onion is still plenty fresh and unrepetitive. In fact, if anything it's a guaranteed source for a laugh.
Sure, it's humorous. But this doesn't disprove my point. Fox News has found a valuable ($) target for their ads: conservatives Americans. Why shouldn't they target them specifically with conservative rhetoric laced articles? They'd be stupid not to now that they have their nitch.
I call bullshit. You find it to be un-funny because you just plain can't look past your own political bias. When Clinton was in office he provided plenty of material to lampoon. Bush just seems to provide even more, and it's not like they're not concious of what an easy target he is: "VP Cheney Bursts from Bush's Chest Cavity" for example. I mean, it's rediculous, funny, but biased? Eye of the beholder man... it's like all those conservatives that BS about 'liberal media', but are convinced Fox News is without bias. You're fooling yourself.
Of why home entertainment rocks. If the movie sucks, and you know it one hour in, you can just turn it off, instead of tripping over legs, feet and bags on a mad scurry to end the pain. I'm sure my friends and I pissed a few people off trying to get away from that crapfest.
It wasn't however, the best musical out this year. That award should have gone to 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels', the funniest and wittiest musical on the Great White Way at the moment. Spamalot, while fun, devolves 1/2-way through into a 'Follie's' format musical, all but jettisoning the Python feel for Broadway appeal. Unfortunately, 'Dirty', and other very excellent musicals are overshadowed by Python's hype. That's the business though. Think of how many excellent shows languished while the Webber musicals made bank.