maybe Pitch Black; though a lot of it smelled like warmed over Ridley Scott, it did have a good idea behind it and some very interesting performances
OK, here are some things I never understood, maybe you can answer them for me. What did the creatures eat/drink for seven years? Why did the eclipse take so long when the time leading to the eclipse didn't take that long at all? If it is a desert planet and there were no/zero/zip clouds in the sky up to and during the eclipse, then why did it start raining at the end?
Look don't get me wrong, I LOVE this movie. I own the movie, I have a poster of it in my room, but those questions bug me.
"The war on disease is being fought everyday by larger numbers of people than are in the military. Funny how you over look that fact to push your self righteous liberal agenda."
Yeah, the self-righteous right wing agenda is working soooo much better for us. Crime rates, unemployment and the national debt are all up. If we want to just focus on heart disease and cancer then maybe we should talk about the current "self-righteous right wing" administrations promotion of heart disease by scaring/stressing the population to the breaking point with a horrible economic situation and constant threats of terrorism that they seem unable or unwilling to stop. Add to that the promotion of cancer by repealing or rolling back nearly every clean air/water/land act in the EPA's books. Good job self-righteous right wing, you sure are doing a better job then us at the self-righteous left wing.
Quality isn't what always matters for the average consumer, it's ease of use/consumption & price. If quality was always the case We'd all drive American cars, have Betamax video players and everyone would use Linux as opposed to Windows.
This is one thing I am very proud of here in CA, the State Supreme court. We have a very liberal and open minded State Supreme court here. They usually side with the small guy and with individual rights over corporation rights. Too bad all their decisions usually get appealed to the US Supreme court and later overturned.
I mean of course Japan is going to free software. Who wants to look for Windows books with serial numbers on them after everytime Godizilla destroys your place? I mean that has to suck.
All I read was "blah blah blah. Blahblahblah. Blahbitty blah blah blah". By your reasoning we should shut down all FTP sites because a large majority of those (in the past 5 years) serve copyrighted material. Also, we should shut down IRC because of the large amount of users that trade files there. So, what after that? Close down the web? A percentage of web pages serve copyrighted material. How about e-mail? I'm sure a tiny percent of e-mails have copyrighted files attached to them. Why stop at "cyberspace"? Let's outlaw scanners because someone could scan a Microsoft logo for a class report, thus infringing on a copyright. Why stop at copyright infringements? I mean by your arbitrary definition of crime prevention why not extend the same logic to selling vehicles. I mean some could kill someone with a car so why may have to outlaw those too. I'm just curious where we stop or what percent of people using the service for copyright infringement constitutes the closing down of a service. I defer this question to you because obviously you have the correct answer to this.
ELiTE? nahhh i was 1337...lol. Yeah #ansi in efnet is still around, but I doubt anyone in that channel even knows what ANSI art is anymore, lol. Good to see an old schooler in the ANSI "scene" on here.
I mean in reality how many people REALLY go to a library anymore? Don't most people go to say Amazon.com, Barnes & Nobles/.com, Borders, etc., and buy thier books or in some cases read them there? Isn't it more realistic to think that they might request records from these establishments under this law and label them as something akin to libraries, or target these next if there isn't some kind of public outcry about this library monitoring? Just some things to ponder for the day, care on...;D
I was thinking the exact same thing. Maybe our law makers aren't watching TV, then again maybe they are and thought "Wow what a good idea". Either way it's scary.
I used to be in an ANSI artgroup that was BASED in Cali, right near 805...we were based in the 909 area code and got pretyy big and well known. The name was RiVaL (small letters like you said, lol). The good old days, how I miss them. *sigh*
I knew I wasn't losing my mind when I posted this basically when you were also typing your response. Thanks for proving to me (and others by default) that I'm not a loony (or at least the only one)
I'm in total agreement with you. Also has anyone thought that with Carnivore and our (remaining) rights here in America that maybe the CIA/FBI/NSA are just having the Aussies tap the American lines for them so as to prevent all those nasty civil rights violations we always hear in the media? Notice in the article it says "The data also reveals that the number of phone taps used *IN* Australia has increased threefold in four years, and ninefold in just over a decade" and "The Australian figures include *INTERCEPTIONS BY* the National Crime Authority, the Australian Federal Police and state policing agencies, but exclude ASIO." Nowhere does it say these are all domestic taps. I read somewhere thats how our government was getting around those pesky rights of ours, in regards (but not limited) to Carnivore, by having foreign governments do the tapping and keeping their hands clean of the matter. Seeing as how we are close allies with the Aussies it's not hard to believe that any information relavent to a case would be turned over to the American government. In the article it mentions how easy it is to get taps in the country so why go to a local judge when a tribunal half way around the world can get it done alot easier. I know this sounds all Men In Black, super spy, conspiracy theorist but I could have sworn I read about the skirting of our rights in regards to Carnivore on Slashdot a while back.
You know, the sinking kind. Try having your degree and a moderate amount of experience but can't get a job. I learned alot from my time at a university, and I wouldn't trade it for anything. If you HAVE a job which allows you to go back and get a degree DO IT. In this economy (and this is going to make me sound uneducated here), and just leaving high school, DO NOT go to college. Get some experience first, then go back. I went to college right after high school and now couldn't find a job to save my life because I don't have ENOUGH experience. It's a horrible catch-22 but you can always go back and get a degree, you can't go back and get experience.
"I agree completely.. Has anyone else seen the Anti-Drug commercials saying that by buying drugs we help terrorists. This angers me since every sack I ever bought has been straight from Mexico. I believe they are just doing this to make drug users feel responsible for 9/11 . There is no need to rehash these memories to make a point especially when they in no way relate to what happened."
You know whats even funnier about those commericals? Ok get this, if buying drugs helps finance terrorists then our last two presidents Clinton & Bush have help finance terrorism, Clinton with his weed, Bush with his coke. I dunno it just seems someone didn't think this through when making the commericals.
They don't bug me much...maybe it's a person to person thing. When I say scrolling ads i don't mean huge ones...just at the very bottom. Maybe even make TV the same widescreen format as movies and run ads in the black area.
Why not have ads scroll at the bottom of a show like MSNBC, CNN, Headline News, Fox News, CNBC, etc do with stocks and news? You'd be definately eyeballs because the person is WATCHING the show, you just have to make them pay attention to your ads instead of the show. This is in comparison with todays commericals during which most people get up for pee breaks, food, etc. As a plus to the viewing public the shows would be longer also since there would not be commerical breaks, you'd get the full 30 mins (of a 30 min show of couse)instead of the 20-23 you get now. Thats about 10% more show.
I too have the 6 gig model and have had it for a year and 1/2. This thing is awesome. I too drop it regularly but it has held up just fine. As an added bonus this thing doubles as a portable hard drive. So a 6 (or 10 and 20) gig mp3 player/hard drive, very reasonable price and small size, what can top that?
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OK, here are some things I never understood, maybe you can answer them for me. What did the creatures eat/drink for seven years? Why did the eclipse take so long when the time leading to the eclipse didn't take that long at all? If it is a desert planet and there were no/zero/zip clouds in the sky up to and during the eclipse, then why did it start raining at the end?
Look don't get me wrong, I LOVE this movie. I own the movie, I have a poster of it in my room, but those questions bug me.
Yeah, the self-righteous right wing agenda is working soooo much better for us. Crime rates, unemployment and the national debt are all up. If we want to just focus on heart disease and cancer then maybe we should talk about the current "self-righteous right wing" administrations promotion of heart disease by scaring/stressing the population to the breaking point with a horrible economic situation and constant threats of terrorism that they seem unable or unwilling to stop. Add to that the promotion of cancer by repealing or rolling back nearly every clean air/water/land act in the EPA's books. Good job self-righteous right wing, you sure are doing a better job then us at the self-righteous left wing.
I swear to you if this becomes the new obligitory South Park reference for /. I'll hunt you down and skin you alive. I've had enough of the:
;D
Step 1 blah blah
Step 2 blah blah blah
Step 3 ???
Step 4 profit!!!
Now If I see Rob Schneider in every other post I'll pull my hair out. I'll remember your name, be warned. LOL
Quality isn't what always matters for the average consumer, it's ease of use/consumption & price. If quality was always the case We'd all drive American cars, have Betamax video players and everyone would use Linux as opposed to Windows.
This is one thing I am very proud of here in CA, the State Supreme court. We have a very liberal and open minded State Supreme court here. They usually side with the small guy and with individual rights over corporation rights. Too bad all their decisions usually get appealed to the US Supreme court and later overturned.
This is modded as funny but wouldn't be be truely funny if this guy was serious? LOL.
I mean of course Japan is going to free software. Who wants to look for Windows books with serial numbers on them after everytime Godizilla destroys your place? I mean that has to suck.
All I read was "blah blah blah. Blahblahblah. Blahbitty blah blah blah". By your reasoning we should shut down all FTP sites because a large majority of those (in the past 5 years) serve copyrighted material. Also, we should shut down IRC because of the large amount of users that trade files there. So, what after that? Close down the web? A percentage of web pages serve copyrighted material. How about e-mail? I'm sure a tiny percent of e-mails have copyrighted files attached to them. Why stop at "cyberspace"? Let's outlaw scanners because someone could scan a Microsoft logo for a class report, thus infringing on a copyright. Why stop at copyright infringements? I mean by your arbitrary definition of crime prevention why not extend the same logic to selling vehicles. I mean some could kill someone with a car so why may have to outlaw those too. I'm just curious where we stop or what percent of people using the service for copyright infringement constitutes the closing down of a service. I defer this question to you because obviously you have the correct answer to this.
Slashdot is running slow for me this morning also, anyone have any info on why? As the user above said it's acting like it's being slashdotted itself.
HAH HAH!
God I wish I had some mod points, that post is VERY funny.
Here's the site for BZFlag: http://www.bzflag.org/
and the site for Tux Racer: http://www.tuxracer.com/
ELiTE? nahhh i was 1337...lol. Yeah #ansi in efnet is still around, but I doubt anyone in that channel even knows what ANSI art is anymore, lol. Good to see an old schooler in the ANSI "scene" on here.
I mean in reality how many people REALLY go to a library anymore? Don't most people go to say Amazon.com, Barnes & Nobles /.com, Borders, etc., and buy thier books or in some cases read them there? Isn't it more realistic to think that they might request records from these establishments under this law and label them as something akin to libraries, or target these next if there isn't some kind of public outcry about this library monitoring? Just some things to ponder for the day, care on...;D
I was thinking the exact same thing. Maybe our law makers aren't watching TV, then again maybe they are and thought "Wow what a good idea". Either way it's scary.
I used to be in an ANSI artgroup that was BASED in Cali, right near 805...we were based in the 909 area code and got pretyy big and well known. The name was RiVaL (small letters like you said, lol). The good old days, how I miss them. *sigh*
I knew I wasn't losing my mind when I posted this basically when you were also typing your response. Thanks for proving to me (and others by default) that I'm not a loony (or at least the only one)
I'm in total agreement with you. Also has anyone thought that with Carnivore and our (remaining) rights here in America that maybe the CIA/FBI/NSA are just having the Aussies tap the American lines for them so as to prevent all those nasty civil rights violations we always hear in the media? Notice in the article it says "The data also reveals that the number of phone taps used *IN* Australia has increased threefold in four years, and ninefold in just over a decade" and "The Australian figures include *INTERCEPTIONS BY* the National Crime Authority, the Australian Federal Police and state policing agencies, but exclude ASIO." Nowhere does it say these are all domestic taps. I read somewhere thats how our government was getting around those pesky rights of ours, in regards (but not limited) to Carnivore, by having foreign governments do the tapping and keeping their hands clean of the matter. Seeing as how we are close allies with the Aussies it's not hard to believe that any information relavent to a case would be turned over to the American government. In the article it mentions how easy it is to get taps in the country so why go to a local judge when a tribunal half way around the world can get it done alot easier. I know this sounds all Men In Black, super spy, conspiracy theorist but I could have sworn I read about the skirting of our rights in regards to Carnivore on Slashdot a while back.
You know, the sinking kind. Try having your degree and a moderate amount of experience but can't get a job. I learned alot from my time at a university, and I wouldn't trade it for anything. If you HAVE a job which allows you to go back and get a degree DO IT. In this economy (and this is going to make me sound uneducated here), and just leaving high school, DO NOT go to college. Get some experience first, then go back. I went to college right after high school and now couldn't find a job to save my life because I don't have ENOUGH experience. It's a horrible catch-22 but you can always go back and get a degree, you can't go back and get experience.
"I agree completely.. Has anyone else seen the Anti-Drug commercials saying that by buying drugs we help terrorists. This angers me since every sack I ever bought has been straight from Mexico. I believe they are just doing this to make drug users feel responsible for 9/11 . There is no need to rehash these memories to make a point especially when they in no way relate to what happened."
You know whats even funnier about those commericals? Ok get this, if buying drugs helps finance terrorists then our last two presidents Clinton & Bush have help finance terrorism, Clinton with his weed, Bush with his coke. I dunno it just seems someone didn't think this through when making the commericals.
They don't bug me much...maybe it's a person to person thing. When I say scrolling ads i don't mean huge ones...just at the very bottom. Maybe even make TV the same widescreen format as movies and run ads in the black area.
Why not have ads scroll at the bottom of a show like MSNBC, CNN, Headline News, Fox News, CNBC, etc do with stocks and news? You'd be definately eyeballs because the person is WATCHING the show, you just have to make them pay attention to your ads instead of the show. This is in comparison with todays commericals during which most people get up for pee breaks, food, etc. As a plus to the viewing public the shows would be longer also since there would not be commerical breaks, you'd get the full 30 mins (of a 30 min show of couse)instead of the 20-23 you get now. Thats about 10% more show.
RIAA busniess plan courtesy of the underwear knomes...LOL
Ummm can't ALOT of animals swim but can't speak? Like the entire fish family, amphibian and several reptile and mammal species?
I too have the 6 gig model and have had it for a year and 1/2. This thing is awesome. I too drop it regularly but it has held up just fine. As an added bonus this thing doubles as a portable hard drive. So a 6 (or 10 and 20) gig mp3 player/hard drive, very reasonable price and small size, what can top that?