A guy gets shot by a bullet, gets thrown backward 10 feet.
IIRC George Stevens started this 'technique' (or at least popularised it). Having returned from WW2 where he had seen the effect that real bullets have upon the human body he wanted to re-enact that on the screen.
Don't you get it? Free means free for me to do what I want, but it doesn't mean you're free to do what you want.
I wonder if the next stage will be a story about a homophobic coder being upset by gay people using his code. Or perhaps a rascist admin complaining about white people visiting her web site. Or maybe the Church of the Gavron the Great holding a nude protest because they've discovered that their sacred colour (white) is used on the/. homepage.
I think this story just proves that there are a lot of intolerant and stupid people in the world and some of them use linux.
Hitchcock never won because he was up against other 'greats': Billy Wilder (The Apartment & The Lost Weekend), John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath), Elia Kazan (On the Waterfront) and Leo McCarey (Going My Way).
Likewise Kubrick lost out to Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest); William Friedkin (French Connection); Carol Reed (Oliver); and George Cukor (My Fair Lady).
Kurosawa lost out primarily because he was Japanese, but also because his solitary directorial nomination was up against Sydney Pollack's Out of Africa.
Costner may have been up against supremely qualified directors (Scorsese and Coppola) but it was IMHO hardly their best work (Goodfellas and Godfather III respectively).
To summarise, Costner had a weaker field than either Kubrick or Hitchcock. As far as Kurosawa is concerned IIRC there's only ever been one non-english language winner of Best Director/Best Film (Vita e bella, La). It sucks but that's the way the cookie crumbles.
All the Disney films that were made earlier than 1952 (ie. all the good ones IMHO) are in the public domain in Australia. As far as copyright is concerned (as opposed to trademarks) Mickey Mouse (via Steamboat Willie) has been in the public domain for nearly 20 years. There hasn't exactly been a glut of 'unwholesome' Mickey films in that time.
In Australia's case it was superior technology. Firearms versus spears. Much easier to take over territory if the inhabitants can't hurt you. Same with much of Africa, although the Zulu put up a good show and forced the Brits to bring in the heavy artillery (literally). India wasn't so much won as much as it was traded, politicked and bribed. Much of it was acquired by the British East India Company through trade deals and stand-over tactics. IIRC India became part of the British Empire because the East India Company's Indian mercenary army had become a threat to British interests there.
There's a group in Perth, Western Australia that does something similar. They collect used computer equipment, repair and refurbish it, load linux and assorted applications and then donate it to people in the community who would be otherwise unable to afford a computer. A great idea.
The problem with some computer-in-traditional-appliances (like washing machines) is that they provide very little added functionality and cost a lot to repair. I spent $A500 to have the onboard computer in our 'just-out-of-warranty' washing machine repaired, only to have it break again within 6 months. We traded it in on a good old mechanical model, which cost less than the original repair.
I'm currently reading Patrick Moore's On Mars which includes a brief history of the scientific study of Mars. I was astounded to discover that up until 1965, when Mariner 4 flew by, scientists expected there to be vegetation on Mars. Even the existence of the canals was still being debated by the scientific community up until the 1940's and 50's. And yet in interstellar terms Mars and Earth are practically in the same place. So, I'm a little skeptical towards our finding of extra-solar planets. It could be that the way that we're interpreting the 'wobbliness' of stars today may be as incorrect as the way we misinterpreted areography before Mariner 4.
A wipe is a way of 'cutting' between two shots. The existing shot is wiped away and replaced by the new shot. It's used a lot in Star Wars. A star wipe is a wipe in a star shape. Usually starting in the middle of the existing shot. Inside the star is the new shot. The star expands outwards until the new shot replaces the existing shot. Quite common in late 70's-early 80's music videos.
Actually, Cook wasn't even the first European to discover Australia. Dutchmen Willem Janszoon, from the Duyfken, mapped the top end in 1606, and Dirk Hartog landed on an island (now named after him) off the coast of Western Australia (WA) in 1616. In fact several Dutch 'explorers' visited WA in the years before the English laid claim to it and recently there has been suggestions that a Dutch colony was established in the North-West about one-hundred years before the English colony on the east-coast at Botany Bay (now Sydney).
It may be possible to argue that the software company didn't take reasonable measures to ensure that their product was secure/bug free. What constitutes reasonable measures would be up to a court to decide.
Al Qaeda appear to have a more clearly defined idea of "enemy". Also the people who carried out the attacks in September would probably argue that these were "right", "just" even "striking back".
In a conflict all sides bend the truth...
Oh without a doubt. But then again, much of the German population in both WW1&2 believed they were 'right' as well. This is why legislation based on jingoistic posturing is so dangerous.
One of the reasons for people not liking the US is the the US trains terrorists, supports states which user terrorism and has itself enguaged in a lot ot terrorism.
For most of the third world's population I suggest that the hatred stems more from economics than terrorism. The IMF and the World Bank, while supposedly independent entities, are seen to be as much an agent of the United States as their military forces are. The sanctioning and support of despots and dictators, who instead of using the money loaned by the IMF to better the lives of the general populace steal it leaving the impoverished nation to pay off the billion dollar loans, is far more likely to incite anger than state sponsored violence is. At least in a campaign of violence there is an enemy that can be seen (and perhaps struck back at). But when the despot has been deposed, your children are dying because of a non-existent health system and you're under a constant threat of starving because taxes take most of what you earn to pay off the spiralling national debt (60% of GNP in the case of Pakistan I believe), who is your enemy? Who do you strike back at? Who do you hate? The most powerful and wealthiest nation on the planet.
It has been said before, apparently it needs to be said again: one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter. A war against an abstract concept is a war without end because you can just keep moving the goal posts as you see fit. Every time someone does something you don't like you just add them to the list. While a war against Al Qaeda is not only right but just, a war against terrorism is the sort of semantic stupidity you'd expect from the President that declared a War on Poverty.
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If not, why not? Of, for, by the people. Isn't that the mantra? Your founders gave you the second amendment for a reason. Use it or lose it.
And will continue to do so as long as good men do nothing.
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Fubared the imdb link to George Stevens.
IIRC George Stevens started this 'technique' (or at least popularised it). Having returned from WW2 where he had seen the effect that real bullets have upon the human body he wanted to re-enact that on the screen.
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I wonder if the next stage will be a story about a homophobic coder being upset by gay people using his code. Or perhaps a rascist admin complaining about white people visiting her web site. Or maybe the Church of the Gavron the Great holding a nude protest because they've discovered that their sacred colour (white) is used on the /. homepage.
I think this story just proves that there are a lot of intolerant and stupid people in the world and some of them use linux.
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Likewise Kubrick lost out to Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest); William Friedkin (French Connection); Carol Reed (Oliver); and George Cukor (My Fair Lady).
Kurosawa lost out primarily because he was Japanese, but also because his solitary directorial nomination was up against Sydney Pollack's Out of Africa.
Costner may have been up against supremely qualified directors (Scorsese and Coppola) but it was IMHO hardly their best work (Goodfellas and Godfather III respectively).
To summarise, Costner had a weaker field than either Kubrick or Hitchcock. As far as Kurosawa is concerned IIRC there's only ever been one non-english language winner of Best Director/Best Film (Vita e bella, La). It sucks but that's the way the cookie crumbles.
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All the Disney films that were made earlier than 1952 (ie. all the good ones IMHO) are in the public domain in Australia. As far as copyright is concerned (as opposed to trademarks) Mickey Mouse (via Steamboat Willie) has been in the public domain for nearly 20 years. There hasn't exactly been a glut of 'unwholesome' Mickey films in that time.
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Try listening to TripleJ. Brought to you by the tax payers of Australia.
In Australia's case it was superior technology. Firearms versus spears. Much easier to take over territory if the inhabitants can't hurt you. Same with much of Africa, although the Zulu put up a good show and forced the Brits to bring in the heavy artillery (literally). India wasn't so much won as much as it was traded, politicked and bribed. Much of it was acquired by the British East India Company through trade deals and stand-over tactics. IIRC India became part of the British Empire because the East India Company's Indian mercenary army had become a threat to British interests there.
Who?
an upgrade route available from SO5.2?
They're called Computer Angels
The problem with some computer-in-traditional-appliances (like washing machines) is that they provide very little added functionality and cost a lot to repair. I spent $A500 to have the onboard computer in our 'just-out-of-warranty' washing machine repaired, only to have it break again within 6 months. We traded it in on a good old mechanical model, which cost less than the original repair.
Translation: Thou shalt allow us to steal.
I'm currently reading Patrick Moore's On Mars which includes a brief history of the scientific study of Mars. I was astounded to discover that up until 1965, when Mariner 4 flew by, scientists expected there to be vegetation on Mars. Even the existence of the canals was still being debated by the scientific community up until the 1940's and 50's. And yet in interstellar terms Mars and Earth are practically in the same place. So, I'm a little skeptical towards our finding of extra-solar planets. It could be that the way that we're interpreting the 'wobbliness' of stars today may be as incorrect as the way we misinterpreted areography before Mariner 4.
A wipe is a way of 'cutting' between two shots. The existing shot is wiped away and replaced by the new shot. It's used a lot in Star Wars. A star wipe is a wipe in a star shape. Usually starting in the middle of the existing shot. Inside the star is the new shot. The star expands outwards until the new shot replaces the existing shot. Quite common in late 70's-early 80's music videos.
Broadcast 2000c (dated 15th May, 2001) is available from tucows.
Actually, Cook wasn't even the first European to discover Australia. Dutchmen Willem Janszoon, from the Duyfken, mapped the top end in 1606, and Dirk Hartog landed on an island (now named after him) off the coast of Western Australia (WA) in 1616. In fact several Dutch 'explorers' visited WA in the years before the English laid claim to it and recently there has been suggestions that a Dutch colony was established in the North-West about one-hundred years before the English colony on the east-coast at Botany Bay (now Sydney).
It may be possible to argue that the software company didn't take reasonable measures to ensure that their product was secure/bug free. What constitutes reasonable measures would be up to a court to decide.
skribe
In a conflict all sides bend the truth...
Oh without a doubt. But then again, much of the German population in both WW1&2 believed they were 'right' as well. This is why legislation based on jingoistic posturing is so dangerous.
For most of the third world's population I suggest that the hatred stems more from economics than terrorism. The IMF and the World Bank, while supposedly independent entities, are seen to be as much an agent of the United States as their military forces are. The sanctioning and support of despots and dictators, who instead of using the money loaned by the IMF to better the lives of the general populace steal it leaving the impoverished nation to pay off the billion dollar loans, is far more likely to incite anger than state sponsored violence is. At least in a campaign of violence there is an enemy that can be seen (and perhaps struck back at). But when the despot has been deposed, your children are dying because of a non-existent health system and you're under a constant threat of starving because taxes take most of what you earn to pay off the spiralling national debt (60% of GNP in the case of Pakistan I believe), who is your enemy? Who do you strike back at? Who do you hate? The most powerful and wealthiest nation on the planet.
It has been said before, apparently it needs to be said again: one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter. A war against an abstract concept is a war without end because you can just keep moving the goal posts as you see fit. Every time someone does something you don't like you just add them to the list. While a war against Al Qaeda is not only right but just, a war against terrorism is the sort of semantic stupidity you'd expect from the President that declared a War on Poverty.
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