I'm glad we have an authoritative opinion on this issue, otherwise I wouldn't know what to think about Wikipedia. Those reckless ne'er-do-wells should heed this criticism, because as we all know, British tabloids have never had their credibility called into question due to the publication of libelous or inaccurate information.
I attribute this scandal to the streak of rugged individualism present in American culture. When will you Yanks learn that the truth is decided by experts, and that expertise is determined by well-known and respected members of a field?
By this area, I'm guessing it isn't actually Atlanta. You can't afford to lure good people out to West Bumblefsck so you hire the surplus of EE majors and the CS majors who can't get a job where they want.
And Clemson? Geezus. Our art guy is from Clemson. His name is Cletus and he has most of his teeth.
Oh, wow, we've never seen this before. A bunch of right-wingers attempt to co-opt something "hip" and "cool" and totally out of context in the effort to help sell their message. I'm shocked, shocked, that they would do such a thing.
By turning "evil" corporations and governments into cartoons, they whitewash the real malfeasance that goes on everyday. Science fiction literature at least tries to maintain a sense of reality, as ironic as that sounds.
Ever try explaining to a non-geek why the RIAA is bad? "Well, they're just trying to make money." If it isn't an Enron-type scandal, most people don't understand or don't care, because they've been conditioned to accept it.
Starship Troopers is genius. He used the movie to critique the book, demonstrating the inevitible result of Heinlein's polity of "veterans" with a comic book teen drama. He turned a militeristic wet-dream for anti-social teenage boys into "90210", and did it with heavy sarcasm that goes right over the heads of the kind of people who enjoy dumb action movies and teen dramas. Brilliant!
The one which shows a little girl picking flowers and then cuts to a mushroom cloud. It was a brilliant work of propoganda, and justifiable too, as Goldwater was definately a person who had no business anywhere near The Button. Of course, that probably makes Moore's piece more an homage than a parody.
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Truth? It's kind of hard to fake actual recorded video. This film is pure propoganda, but that doesn't mean it is in any way untrue. The mother crying for her dead son is the realest thing I've ever seen in a theater.
Showing a child flying a kite, and then cutting to the military preparation for the "shock and awe" campaign, that is satire. It is an absurdity that underscores a deeper truth about the human costs of war. (It might also be a parody of that anti-Goldwater commercial).
His only falsifiable claims have to do with the fact that the Bush family has a cosy relationship with the Saud / Bin Laden family, and that the Bush family and their associates have profited or stand to profit from both wars. Where is the rebuttal to that? Why aren't they pointing out the lies?
By offering a bounty on their heads, they only serve to increase the status of worm and virus authors. What was once the loserdom of the script kiddie community is now glamorous.
Now consider what this means to their "secure computing" initiative, how the frustrations from dealing with this shit can make people more accepting of their draconian security measures. Consider the financial benefits of "digital rights management" that they can only realize after the hardware and software is locked down.
You can imagine the conversation that lead to this, like something out of "24" or the Bush administration: Lets allow, no, lets *encourage* a virus 911 so they'll let us lead them to safety!
Don't they know that adding human DNA to rabbit embryos is a crime against nature? They should abort babies for those stem cells, the way God intended.
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You have finally proven what God knew all along. Could a random process be self-optimizing? This is yet more proof of His infinite wisdom.
Is that like, $1.9 x 10^9 or $1.9 x 2^30?
LOL, country bumpkins with expensive wine and Cuban cigars!
I'm glad we have an authoritative opinion on this issue, otherwise I wouldn't know what to think about Wikipedia. Those reckless ne'er-do-wells should heed this criticism, because as we all know, British tabloids have never had their credibility called into question due to the publication of libelous or inaccurate information.
I attribute this scandal to the streak of rugged individualism present in American culture. When will you Yanks learn that the truth is decided by experts, and that expertise is determined by well-known and respected members of a field?
By this area, I'm guessing it isn't actually Atlanta. You can't afford to lure good people out to West Bumblefsck so you hire the surplus of EE majors and the CS majors who can't get a job where they want.
And Clemson? Geezus. Our art guy is from Clemson. His name is Cletus and he has most of his teeth.
Oh, wow, we've never seen this before. A bunch of right-wingers attempt to co-opt something "hip" and "cool" and totally out of context in the effort to help sell their message. I'm shocked, shocked, that they would do such a thing.
Huh, digg. kuro5hin.org did it first, and fark.com does it funnier. When will you begin cross-promoting with myspace?
Miyazaki makes the only stuff worth watching. The rest of it is infantile pseudo-philosphical crap.
Ooh, giant robots! Powered by steam!
By turning "evil" corporations and governments into cartoons, they whitewash the real malfeasance that goes on everyday. Science fiction literature at least tries to maintain a sense of reality, as ironic as that sounds.
Ever try explaining to a non-geek why the RIAA is bad? "Well, they're just trying to make money." If it isn't an Enron-type scandal, most people don't understand or don't care, because they've been conditioned to accept it.
Starship Troopers is genius. He used the movie to critique the book, demonstrating the inevitible result of Heinlein's polity of "veterans" with a comic book teen drama. He turned a militeristic wet-dream for anti-social teenage boys into "90210", and did it with heavy sarcasm that goes right over the heads of the kind of people who enjoy dumb action movies and teen dramas. Brilliant!
That's why I use Gentoo!
The one which shows a little girl picking flowers and then cuts to a mushroom cloud. It was a brilliant work of propoganda, and justifiable too, as Goldwater was definately a person who had no business anywhere near The Button. Of course, that probably makes Moore's piece more an homage than a parody.
Truth? It's kind of hard to fake actual recorded video. This film is pure propoganda, but that doesn't mean it is in any way untrue. The mother crying for her dead son is the realest thing I've ever seen in a theater.
Showing a child flying a kite, and then cutting to the military preparation for the "shock and awe" campaign, that is satire. It is an absurdity that underscores a deeper truth about the human costs of war. (It might also be a parody of that anti-Goldwater commercial).
His only falsifiable claims have to do with the fact that the Bush family has a cosy relationship with the Saud / Bin Laden family, and that the Bush family and their associates have profited or stand to profit from both wars. Where is the rebuttal to that? Why aren't they pointing out the lies?
By offering a bounty on their heads, they only serve to increase the status of worm and virus authors. What was once the loserdom of the script kiddie community is now glamorous.
Now consider what this means to their "secure computing" initiative, how the frustrations from dealing with this shit can make people more accepting of their draconian security measures. Consider the financial benefits of "digital rights management" that they can only realize after the hardware and software is locked down.
You can imagine the conversation that lead to this, like something out of "24" or the Bush administration: Lets allow, no, lets *encourage* a virus 911 so they'll let us lead them to safety!
Don't they know that adding human DNA to rabbit embryos is a crime against nature? They should abort babies for those stem cells, the way God intended.
For a mere £15 you can watch it on your region-free DVD player. Eat that, MPAA fascists!
It was innocuous to the Jews when they merely had to show their "papers" in late 30's.
You don't own your software. Pretty soon you won't own your hardware, either. Where does it end?
Man, they really wussied out on the sun. It's just a two-dimensional arch. I want to see a fifty-foot ball of fire, godammit!
Strangely enough, the world's largest rotating globe is also in Maine. It is far more impressive.
I think it's a beautiful idea... *teary-eyed*
You know, that's what the plantation owners said to the slaves.
Heheh, your mistake is believing that what you put in bold wasn't completely intentional. It is exactly the movie Verhoeven wanted it to be.
Die, Bugs, I mean, Dixie Chicks, die!
sucked it dry? Exposed that childish militaristic wet dream for the joke that it is?
I can't watch Fox News without hearing "Would you like to know more?" between every pause. That movie is brilliant.
Why is this rated 5? This is misinformation, a troll.
XML is not magic application pixie dust that makes all features transparently interoperable when you sprinkle it on.
But apparantly quoting a bunch of Postscript gibberish is pixie dust to get yourself modded up for misrepresenting both it and XML.
It's fair and balanced. They say so themselves. Why is everything a conspiracy with you liberals?
To make your son into a murderous Nazi tank commander for Halloween?
I mean, WTF? There aren't any saucer-eyed girls in school uniforms. You call that animation?