I know that this will be modded down, but, seriously, I find it really ironic that just because MS has made something that./ers like, suddenly a majority of posters think they shouldn't be held accountable for outputting crap.
If this were any other Microsoft product, everyone would be supporting this guy/joining the suit/boycotting Microsoft.
2. The US is over twice the size of Europe so that does present some barriers to public transportation.
Uhm, I have a real issue with this statement which is continually made by my fellow Americans. I'd like to remind everyone that most US cities had *excellent* public transit systems, as well as an equally excellent long-distance rail service before a General Motors-funded company called National City Lines bought and gutted nearly every one of the systems. They ripped out the rail lines, knowing it would be nearly impossible to redeploy them and subsidized the demolition of old buildings for parking lots and freeways.
The info is out there. Check out the old streetcar/public transit maps for various cities; you can Google most of them.
LA for example, which is often cited as the classic example of "America is too big for mass transit" used to have one of the best public transit/streetcar systems in the country, the LARY system
"There will always violence and suffering in the world, and Michael Moore will always be there to make a buck off of it."
Ok, so, is it better to just forget about this kind of stuff? Out of site, out of mind? Do you think mainstream media works for free out of the good of humanity? Do you think that the mainstream press avoided reporting about this out of concern for "making a buck", or could it have been done for political reasons?
As far as "making a buck", I think that BushCo, Haliburton, Bechtel, and the other Neocons stand to make *far* more off the pain and suffering for years to come that Michael Moore will from F-9/11.
Actually, he does prove his point, and does it quite well.
His point is that McD does not properly inform consumers of the fat content in their food. He uses a number of examples in the different McD shops to show that the nutritional info isn't clearly displayed. Try it for yourself. Ask to see the nutritional info chart at McD.
You also assume that everyone knows that the food is bad for you. This is clearly not the case, as shown in the film (and backed up by a number of studies, which are also cited in Schlosser's Fast Food Nation)
Also, the "rules" that he establishes were not arbitrarily chosen, but were based on a court decision that stated that McD's food was perfectly fine to eat for every meal of every day.
So, let's say Fox makes $5 million per episode, gross. After they've paid everyone, there's say, $2 million left. Who does that go to? Usually as bonuses to the executives, who, in most cases, are already making more than the Simpsons voice talent group. So, if the money is there anyway, I'd rather see it go to the actual talent, rather than some souless suits in LA. Face it, the additional profit isn't going to feed the poor or build new schools..
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I think it's important to note that AlJazeera isn't whining or complaining about a DDoS attack as some posters have claimed. While it's pretty obvious that they're being attacked, they haven't admitted it, they're saying that it's due to 'heavy demand'.
The Toyota RAV4-EV is a pure electric SUV type car. It's currently available only in California however. Toyota has worked out a deal with the Caltrans (people who maintan the roads out here) and drivers of the RAV4-EV can use the carpool lanes, without having a full car, and do not have to pay bridge tolls.
Here's the link to their site
http://rav4ev.toyota.com/consumer/rav4ev_0_home/ ra v_home.htm
In all of the three previews, (including the one that's "for DVD owners only) there's no sign of Jar-Jar. Does this mean we're to be spared the tedium?
Aside, is this particular trailer the same on as is available to DVD owners?
While the number of online bargains has slipped, it might not be a bad thing. One economic trend that was first being noticed late last year (post Sept 11) was the fact that everything was on sale. The though being this: low prices would get people to spend more money. It can revive a sinking economy, but it can also lead to a phenomenon known as deflation, which is actually much worse than inflation. Prices fall, manufacturers take losses, fire employees, and most damaging, salaries generally get cut. The US last saw deflation on the heels of the great depression, and Japan has been seeing it, minimally since its real estate bubble burst.
Why is not having to lug yourselves around in 6000 pounds of metal so unappealing?
Why to you is it?
Woah.. Why to me is lugging myself around in an SUV so unappealing? For the reasons you've mentioned.
I completely agree with your reasoning. SUVs are crap. Even misnamed.. Think SAV. Suburban Assult Vehicles. That's what they really are.
Furthermore, I feel like I should be able to claim damages against SUV hogs^H^H^H^Hdrivers for ruining my planet, and putting me at risk.
Why do people want SAVs? Because the car corporations tell them to. Americans almost always do what corporations want them to..
Wow.. an intelligent response regarding public transportation. You must not be one of my fellow Americans. Go ahead and mod me down, but the American attitude towards public transportation is appaling. People feel so threatened if an alternative to their 3 ton gas-guzzling SUVs are offered.
Why is not having to lug yourselves around in 6000 pounds of metal so unappealing?
MiniDisc players may have copy protection, but it's been possible, for years to over-ride this. In Japan, they sell devices to do this, right next to the MD player/recorders.
There is some truth to what he's just said here. There were reasons other than "jealousy" or "religious fanatacism" at work here. America has pretty much been living in a vacuum, most of us are generally unaware of what our foreign policy actually is! But, that's, in part, due to the media.
An example of my point is, while I was living in Japan, there are numerous references to the horrors and devistation caused by the Atomic bombings. While we all know the horrors that Japan inflicted on the rest of the world, the text books and museums don't make any mention of *why* the bombs were dropped. Just that they were an attack against Japan by American. From reading the texts and exhibits, you'd almost think there wasn't a war at all! I really can't help seeing some parallels with this.
Americans! Our government is subsidising some pretty terrible stuff out there in the world. We're pouring millions of dollars into Isreal, so they can fight the Palestinians. And, what we don't see on TV is the nasty stuff that Isreal does to them.
So, while what happened in New York is unforgivable, and the attackers should be pounded, we *SHOULDN'T* forget that our foreign policy isn't always the wonderful beacon of freedom that it's portrayed to be.
Most American's don't have public transportation. That was eliminated in this country in the 1940's and 1950's by the car and oil companies. This is also why American cities are turning into the disgusting, homogenous sprawls of strip malls and chain stores.
I'm really stunned that the concept of a Data-MD never caught on. (Actually, I'm surprised that MD never really caught on in the US, a fight that the record companies won). As far as I know, no one has made one. It strikes me as a really useful data storage device, which, theoretically would hold in the 500MB range. The media is cheap, small and rewriteable.
Why hasn't anyone developed and marketed this?
Sure, companies like to see people with MBAs, but that's just because you're dealing generally with HR departments, initially, who know nothing, but do know what MBA means. Personally, I would think an MBA would be a good idea, just to get a better understanding of business and finances. This can help move you up in a career track, into more of a management role, which could be positive or negative depending on what you want. You could also use the knowledge to help you start/run your own business as a consultant.
Before you commit the time, think about what you really want in the future.
Hushmail works quite well. It's web-based, which is either a positive or a negative depending on what you want.
http://www.hushmail.com/about_hushmail/
If you look a little bit more closely at which games get bad reviews in PCGamer, you'll see that they're often the smaller companies, with little clout. Take a game like "Black and White" for instance, which got the PCGamer "greatest game ever" type of award. If a game with from a smaller publisher, with the same number of problems, irritations, and bugs (try to play your old characters after you reinstall windows, or B&W for that matter!) it would have received a 50-60% review. They even went as far as to say "We couldn't find any type of bugs or problems with this release." Ha.. They're just the same as everyone else, but they're just more clever about hiding it.
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You do realize that in a lot of smaller communities the fire department is local volunteers right? That's not socialism.
Really? So where does the money for the fire engines, equipment, training and the firehouse come from then?
I know that this will be modded down, but, seriously, I find it really ironic that just because MS has made something that ./ers like, suddenly a majority of posters think they shouldn't be held accountable for outputting crap.
If this were any other Microsoft product, everyone would be supporting this guy/joining the suit/boycotting Microsoft.
sigh..
Uhm, I have a real issue with this statement which is continually made by my fellow Americans. I'd like to remind everyone that most US cities had *excellent* public transit systems, as well as an equally excellent long-distance rail service before a General Motors-funded company called National City Lines bought and gutted nearly every one of the systems. They ripped out the rail lines, knowing it would be nearly impossible to redeploy them and subsidized the demolition of old buildings for parking lots and freeways.
The info is out there. Check out the old streetcar/public transit maps for various cities; you can Google most of them.
LA for example, which is often cited as the classic example of "America is too big for mass transit" used to have one of the best public transit/streetcar systems in the country, the LARY system
"There will always violence and suffering in the world, and Michael Moore will always be there to make a buck off of it."
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Ok, so, is it better to just forget about this kind of stuff? Out of site, out of mind? Do you think mainstream media works for free out of the good of humanity? Do you think that the mainstream press avoided reporting about this out of concern for "making a buck", or could it have been done for political reasons?
As far as "making a buck", I think that BushCo, Haliburton, Bechtel, and the other Neocons stand to make *far* more off the pain and suffering for years to come that Michael Moore will from F-9/11.
Jeez.. now, Penn is getting a letter!
Actually, he does prove his point, and does it quite well.
His point is that McD does not properly inform consumers of the fat content in their food. He uses a number of examples in the different McD shops to show that the nutritional info isn't clearly displayed.
Try it for yourself. Ask to see the nutritional info chart at McD.
You also assume that everyone knows that the food is bad for you. This is clearly not the case, as shown in the film (and backed up by a number of studies, which are also cited in Schlosser's Fast Food Nation)
Also, the "rules" that he establishes were not arbitrarily chosen, but were based on a court decision that stated that McD's food was perfectly fine to eat for every meal of every day.
Are you sure you saw the same film?
So, let's say Fox makes $5 million per episode, gross. After they've paid everyone, there's say, $2 million left. Who does that go to? Usually as bonuses to the executives, who, in most cases, are already making more than the Simpsons voice talent group. So, if the money is there anyway, I'd rather see it go to the actual talent, rather than some souless suits in LA. Face it, the additional profit isn't going to feed the poor or build new schools..
Of course, that itself could be a spin for them.
-sj
Actually, he didn't direct ROTJ. Richard Marquand did. The only one of the original films he directed was the first.
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0086190
-sj
The Toyota RAV4-EV is a pure electric SUV type car. It's currently available only in California however. Toyota has worked out a deal with the Caltrans (people who maintan the roads out here) and drivers of the RAV4-EV can use the carpool lanes, without having a full car, and do not have to pay bridge tolls.
/ ra v_home.htm
Here's the link to their site
http://rav4ev.toyota.com/consumer/rav4ev_0_home
-sj
In all of the three previews, (including the one that's "for DVD owners only) there's no sign of Jar-Jar. Does this mean we're to be spared the tedium?
Aside, is this particular trailer the same on as is available to DVD owners?
Internet for shopping? Surfing? C'mon.. They're all using it for pr0n!!
--sj
Yes, how about a MIDI rendition of Lou Bega's Mamba No. 5. Everyone loves that. :)
While the number of online bargains has slipped, it might not be a bad thing. One economic trend that was first being noticed late last year (post Sept 11) was the fact that everything was on sale. The though being this: low prices would get people to spend more money. It can revive a sinking economy, but it can also lead to a phenomenon known as deflation, which is actually much worse than inflation. Prices fall, manufacturers take losses, fire employees, and most damaging, salaries generally get cut. The US last saw deflation on the heels of the great depression, and Japan has been seeing it, minimally since its real estate bubble burst.
Why to you is it?
Woah.. Why to me is lugging myself around in an SUV so unappealing? For the reasons you've mentioned. I completely agree with your reasoning. SUVs are crap. Even misnamed.. Think SAV. Suburban Assult Vehicles. That's what they really are.
Furthermore, I feel like I should be able to claim damages against SUV hogs^H^H^H^Hdrivers for ruining my planet, and putting me at risk.
Why do people want SAVs? Because the car corporations tell them to. Americans almost always do what corporations want them to..
sigh..
Wow.. an intelligent response regarding public transportation. You must not be one of my fellow Americans. Go ahead and mod me down, but the American attitude towards public transportation is appaling. People feel so threatened if an alternative to their 3 ton gas-guzzling SUVs are offered.
Why is not having to lug yourselves around in 6000 pounds of metal so unappealing?
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things?
(ok, had to do it.. )
MiniDisc players may have copy protection, but it's been possible, for years to over-ride this. In Japan, they sell devices to do this, right next to the MD player/recorders.
Don't sweat the MD protection, it's worthless.
There is some truth to what he's just said here. There were reasons other than "jealousy" or "religious fanatacism" at work here. America has pretty much been living in a vacuum, most of us are generally unaware of what our foreign policy actually is! But, that's, in part, due to the media.
An example of my point is, while I was living in Japan, there are numerous references to the horrors and devistation caused by the Atomic bombings. While we all know the horrors that Japan inflicted on the rest of the world, the text books and museums don't make any mention of *why* the bombs were dropped. Just that they were an attack against Japan by American. From reading the texts and exhibits, you'd almost think there wasn't a war at all! I really can't help seeing some parallels with this.
Americans! Our government is subsidising some pretty terrible stuff out there in the world. We're pouring millions of dollars into Isreal, so they can fight the Palestinians. And, what we don't see on TV is the nasty stuff that Isreal does to them.
So, while what happened in New York is unforgivable, and the attackers should be pounded, we *SHOULDN'T* forget that our foreign policy isn't always the wonderful beacon of freedom that it's portrayed to be.
-sj
Most American's don't have public transportation. That was eliminated in this country in the 1940's and 1950's by the car and oil companies. This is also why American cities are turning into the disgusting, homogenous sprawls of strip malls and chain stores.
Other countries do it, why can't we?
I'm really stunned that the concept of a Data-MD never caught on. (Actually, I'm surprised that MD never really caught on in the US, a fight that the record companies won). As far as I know, no one has made one. It strikes me as a really useful data storage device, which, theoretically would hold in the 500MB range. The media is cheap, small and rewriteable. Why hasn't anyone developed and marketed this?
Sure, companies like to see people with MBAs, but that's just because you're dealing generally with HR departments, initially, who know nothing, but do know what MBA means. Personally, I would think an MBA would be a good idea, just to get a better understanding of business and finances. This can help move you up in a career track, into more of a management role, which could be positive or negative depending on what you want. You could also use the knowledge to help you start/run your own business as a consultant. Before you commit the time, think about what you really want in the future.
Hushmail works quite well. It's web-based, which is either a positive or a negative depending on what you want. http://www.hushmail.com/about_hushmail/
If you look a little bit more closely at which games get bad reviews in PCGamer, you'll see that they're often the smaller companies, with little clout. Take a game like "Black and White" for instance, which got the PCGamer "greatest game ever" type of award. If a game with from a smaller publisher, with the same number of problems, irritations, and bugs (try to play your old characters after you reinstall windows, or B&W for that matter!) it would have received a 50-60% review. They even went as far as to say "We couldn't find any type of bugs or problems with this release." Ha.. They're just the same as everyone else, but they're just more clever about hiding it.