I can't imagine running out of stuff to see on Netflix
Agreed, every time I think I'm going to run out, I run into a new series or movie that I like. I'm watching that BBC series "Copper" right now. Would probably never have discovered it without Netflix.
Starz content on Netflix sucked anyway. None of their stuff was in HD, and the prints looked like 3rd generation VHS dubs. Good riddance. Tough luck for whoever gets stuck with their half-assed shit.
imagine Microsoft started going around to every business running Windows/Exchange, saying, "Hey, we deserve some of your profits. You're using our products to make money, and it's totally unfair that we don't get a cut."
You don't have to imagine it. Apple does it with iOS every day. You want to put your software on a iPad or iPhone, or make any money off of said app--Apple wants their 30% cut (or hit the road, Jack).
A lot of tech schools and community colleges offer 2-year computer programming associates degrees (and many other certificate programs). And they're usually pretty cheap and offer night classes too. I suggest you check those out.
And, no, never too old to change careers. I've done so several times and always ended up smoking my younger competition.
No kidding. Any idiot can walk into Home Depot and buy everything you need to make a zip gun in about 20 minutes. It's not like you need to weld and hand forge the damned thing. It's just a pipe and something to strike the primer with.
Are you seriously going to contend that thousands of Catholics in Northern Ireland weren't beaten, killed, imprisoned, etc. during that conflict? Oh yes, Britain certainly has NO blood on its hands. It's not like they've invaded 9 out of 10 countries in the world at some point, or anything. Only those brutish Yanks would do that!
Do you honestly think it would be cheaper and easier to remove real nukes from silos than to build cheap mockups? Even if NK was THAT poor (and they're not when it comes to their military, which is one part of NK that is well-financed) that would be a pretty stupid way to try to save money.
They have a well-trained modern military with over 1.2 million well-armed soldiers massed along the border (using pretty modern Chinese armour, vehicles, and weapons). On the other side, you have some 600,000 shitty South Korean soldiers who would probably drop their guns and run at the first sign of attack and about 30,000 U.S. soldiers who would probably be quickly evacuated out in the event of war. At best South Korea might be able to stall a Northern attack long enough to bring in some air support from the U.S. and MAYBE hold Seoul. But even that is unlikely.
Make no mistake about it, the North is a very real threat to South Korea. And don't think for a second that 30,000 U.S. soldiers in the DMZ are even going to try to fight 1.1 million North Koreans. When I was stationed there, they basically told us that we were toast is the North ever decided to attack. And that was back in the 80's, when we had even more soldiers there than we do now.
Agreed. It's juvenile literature. I think a lot of people read it in middle school and remember it being a lot better than it actually is. If you had read it as an adult, without having read it as a kid, it would come of as silly pulp. That's why Hollywood loves it, of course. Silly pulp is their bread and butter.
I hope the movie contains all the vitriol, brutality, and uncouth political/cultural conflict that's in the book
Are you kidding? This is a major Hollywood movie we're talking about. Unless it's got a director with *major* artistic integrity and clout (and it doesn't, its director is a cheap hack), you'll be lucky if any of that shit is even mentioned, much less explored. Expect an action movie with lots of 'plosions, nothing more.
EA is still pissed at Bioware for the TOR mess. Don't expect them to greenlight anything with "The Old Republic" in the title anytime soon, especially from Bioware.
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I can't imagine running out of stuff to see on Netflix
Agreed, every time I think I'm going to run out, I run into a new series or movie that I like. I'm watching that BBC series "Copper" right now. Would probably never have discovered it without Netflix.
Starz content on Netflix sucked anyway. None of their stuff was in HD, and the prints looked like 3rd generation VHS dubs. Good riddance. Tough luck for whoever gets stuck with their half-assed shit.
imagine Microsoft started going around to every business running Windows/Exchange, saying, "Hey, we deserve some of your profits. You're using our products to make money, and it's totally unfair that we don't get a cut."
You don't have to imagine it. Apple does it with iOS every day. You want to put your software on a iPad or iPhone, or make any money off of said app--Apple wants their 30% cut (or hit the road, Jack).
Florida has a Green Nazi party - complete with a green swastika logo. I can't even guess what their platform is.
More ecologically-friendly ovens.
That's because people actually feel like they have a real CHOICE when voting on American Idol.
A lot of tech schools and community colleges offer 2-year computer programming associates degrees (and many other certificate programs). And they're usually pretty cheap and offer night classes too. I suggest you check those out.
And, no, never too old to change careers. I've done so several times and always ended up smoking my younger competition.
They're not. But they ARE concerned with pirated movies, music, and software.
No kidding. Any idiot can walk into Home Depot and buy everything you need to make a zip gun in about 20 minutes. It's not like you need to weld and hand forge the damned thing. It's just a pipe and something to strike the primer with.
Yeah, but this is the *hip*, *new* way to create cheap-ass zip guns!
It's also a conveniently great excuse for the corporate slaves in Congress to decry those terrorist facilitators at Mega and The Pirate Bay.
I have high hopes for this one. But the more delays, the less confidence I have.
Hack!
No, it's about a Brit daring to lecture *anyone else* on the immorality of imperialism, as if you have some moral high ground on the matter.
Yeah, a hundred years ago, ancient history. Tell that to the Falkland Islands.
Send Phillip Fry. I'm getting sick of that guy and all his damned accomplishments.
Are you seriously going to contend that thousands of Catholics in Northern Ireland weren't beaten, killed, imprisoned, etc. during that conflict? Oh yes, Britain certainly has NO blood on its hands. It's not like they've invaded 9 out of 10 countries in the world at some point, or anything. Only those brutish Yanks would do that!
Do you honestly think it would be cheaper and easier to remove real nukes from silos than to build cheap mockups? Even if NK was THAT poor (and they're not when it comes to their military, which is one part of NK that is well-financed) that would be a pretty stupid way to try to save money.
Oh, they definitely have them. It's just a question of how well they work and what their range is.
They have a well-trained modern military with over 1.2 million well-armed soldiers massed along the border (using pretty modern Chinese armour, vehicles, and weapons). On the other side, you have some 600,000 shitty South Korean soldiers who would probably drop their guns and run at the first sign of attack and about 30,000 U.S. soldiers who would probably be quickly evacuated out in the event of war. At best South Korea might be able to stall a Northern attack long enough to bring in some air support from the U.S. and MAYBE hold Seoul. But even that is unlikely.
Make no mistake about it, the North is a very real threat to South Korea. And don't think for a second that 30,000 U.S. soldiers in the DMZ are even going to try to fight 1.1 million North Koreans. When I was stationed there, they basically told us that we were toast is the North ever decided to attack. And that was back in the 80's, when we had even more soldiers there than we do now.
Agreed. It's juvenile literature. I think a lot of people read it in middle school and remember it being a lot better than it actually is. If you had read it as an adult, without having read it as a kid, it would come of as silly pulp. That's why Hollywood loves it, of course. Silly pulp is their bread and butter.
I hope the movie contains all the vitriol, brutality, and uncouth political/cultural conflict that's in the book
Are you kidding? This is a major Hollywood movie we're talking about. Unless it's got a director with *major* artistic integrity and clout (and it doesn't, its director is a cheap hack), you'll be lucky if any of that shit is even mentioned, much less explored. Expect an action movie with lots of 'plosions, nothing more.
It only takes ONE to start a major war.
Anyone who sat through previous Facebook abuse will sit through this. They have a monopoly on your friends. That's a hell of a thing to overcome.
Yeah, people used to say the same thing about MySpace.
I'm introducing Adblocker and NoScript to my Facebook News Feed this summer!
All Disney needed to see was how many zeroes were on the check that EA wrote.
EA is still pissed at Bioware for the TOR mess. Don't expect them to greenlight anything with "The Old Republic" in the title anytime soon, especially from Bioware.