Again you seemed to have missed the point. I am going to level with you, I am from the UK so I am probably not very qualified to talk about gun ownership in the USA.
The issue is of what a gun is and how they are distributed.
In my view a gun is tool, one that is primarily designed to kill people. If you need a gun you should by it yourself specifically for a purpose.
A gun should not be used as an enticement, the idea behind the bank's scheme was that someone would see the free gun offer and be more likely to open an account. So they might not get the account if it wasn't for the gun.
While I don't neccesarily agree with the argument that guns should be publicy owned (in case the british invade again or whatever) I can respect it.
What I can't understand is the way americans treat guns as commercial properties. I recently finished reading Clintons autobiography and he talked about the opposition he faced from the NRA when trying to get assualt weapons banned from the public. The idea that anyone should need a machine gun in a civilised soceity is madness to me.
Problem is that people like you get hung up on the small points and on't address the broader issues that his films present.
So the advert that said free gun with a bank account was fiction ?. Fair enough I'll beleive you, but for many people giving out one free gun is one too many. The fact that the bank did it at all is the issue. Only in america could you get such a mix of capitalism and crypto facism.
To explain: F911 airs, someone else slams Kerry, another group comes back with slander about Bush, wash, rinse, repeat. All of this will be done by soft money (like Moore and Swift Boat Vets for Truth), all outside of normal controls or candidate influence/approval.
And that won't happen anyway ?, lets face it moores film is not going to influence anybody, you either agreed with him to begin with or not.
The best idea i heard was to disolve the waste into ceramic pebbles with a really low concentration then spread them over a wide area (like the ocean floor).
I like toxic too, though you can keep avril, that song you mentioned is awful.
Everything is contrived if you look at it the wrong way, my point wasn't about what is cool or not but that the uk download chart isn't a hell of a lot different from the uk normal chart.
The original poster was trying to say that you would find more diverse music on the download chart, but having looked at it i don't see much evidence of that.
I was a little too quick criticise, not all of it is bad, actually I rate Maroon 5 quite highly. Most of it however is crap.
As for goldie lookin chain, I'm still not sure whether they are a joke or not, it wouldn't surprise if in a few months time we find out that they are all ali g style comedians.
I don't what it is like with baseball but here in england our "soccer" stars are also payed large amounts, the average wage in the premiership is bout 400,000 pounds a i believe. While that may seem like a huge amount when you consider that many sports people burn out after about 10 years and then have ntohing to do it isn't that bad.
Yeah I definitely think that High Definition video won't really take off for at least ten years. It really is premature to talk of a hi def movie format when the vast majority of people don't have televisions capable of exploiting them to their full potential.
But this is what makes me think that blu ray will win, if sony include it with the PS3 then it will gain early acceptance amongst people who would not have otherwise been willing to buy a blu ray drive.
Assuming blu ray becomes the dominant hi def format (it's not clear but the ps3 supporting it gives it an edge IMO), the same thing will happen that happened with dvd's.
Someone will reverse engineer it, you will be able to play these movies on a linux system but it won't be legal.
BTW, an interesting alternative is to digitize analog from FM or digital cable, then rip to MP3. It's even legal (VCR law).;-) You won't notice a quality difference in most situations.
This is why digital radio could potentially be more of headache for the RIAA than p2p. It's not too hard to concieve of a digital radio tuner in you computer that could identify and rip tracks straight off the air.
Including the 744 from Wednesday, the RIAA has sued nearly 4,700 people since last September in its efforts to combat piracy, which the music industry has blamed for a multiyear decline in CD sales. Some music fans have countered that bad music, and not piracy, was to blame for the decline.
My maths might be wrong but 5000 people sued in year, 2.5 million kazaa users divided by 5000 = 500. So in 500 years time they will have sued everybody. Good luck to em.
I personally think that robotic missions are still the best value. What I would like to see is an atempt to establish earth plant life on mars.
Apparently around the equator of mars there are places that reach 0 degress celsius, and there is supposedly algae at the earths poles that can survive those kind of temperatures.
So why not send a robot that will heat a small basin of water to keep it liquid and try and grow something ?. The first small step towards terraforming.
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I really thought that those words were brave, it seemed like he didn't mind alienating the fanbase in favor of his own pursuit of money.
It wouldn't surprise me if we find that jar jar has been inserted into the background somewhere in the new dvd versions.
My money is on the celebration section at the end of ROTJ.
Can't remember who said it...
"The secret of great sci fi is that it isn't commenting on the future, its commenting on the present."
MS are lucky they didn't include win98 in the test though.
Again you seemed to have missed the point. I am going to level with you, I am from the UK so I am probably not very qualified to talk about gun ownership in the USA.
The issue is of what a gun is and how they are distributed.
In my view a gun is tool, one that is primarily designed to kill people. If you need a gun you should by it yourself specifically for a purpose.
A gun should not be used as an enticement, the idea behind the bank's scheme was that someone would see the free gun offer and be more likely to open an account. So they might not get the account if it wasn't for the gun.
While I don't neccesarily agree with the argument that guns should be publicy owned (in case the british invade again or whatever) I can respect it.
What I can't understand is the way americans treat guns as commercial properties. I recently finished reading Clintons autobiography and he talked about the opposition he faced from the NRA when trying to get assualt weapons banned from the public. The idea that anyone should need a machine gun in a civilised soceity is madness to me.
Problem is that people like you get hung up on the small points and on't address the broader issues that his films present.
So the advert that said free gun with a bank account was fiction ?. Fair enough I'll beleive you, but for many people giving out one free gun is one too many. The fact that the bank did it at all is the issue. Only in america could you get such a mix of capitalism and crypto facism.
To explain: F911 airs, someone else slams Kerry, another group comes back with slander about Bush, wash, rinse, repeat. All of this will be done by soft money (like Moore and Swift Boat Vets for Truth), all outside of normal controls or candidate influence/approval.
And that won't happen anyway ?, lets face it moores film is not going to influence anybody, you either agreed with him to begin with or not.
I waiting for the time when mozilla decide to integrate firefox, thunderbird and sun bird into one application.
Oh wait...
The best idea i heard was to disolve the waste into ceramic pebbles with a really low concentration then spread them over a wide area (like the ocean floor).
Well done for spotting those subtle clues sherlock.
I like toxic too, though you can keep avril, that song you mentioned is awful.
Everything is contrived if you look at it the wrong way, my point wasn't about what is cool or not but that the uk download chart isn't a hell of a lot different from the uk normal chart.
The original poster was trying to say that you would find more diverse music on the download chart, but having looked at it i don't see much evidence of that.
Well, Goldie Looking Chain's next song, allegedly, will be "You Mother Has A Penis".
And they're Welsh I believe, so I'm guessing parody is pretty likely.
You never know with the welsh though...
I have heard of all the list.
I was a little too quick criticise, not all of it is bad, actually I rate Maroon 5 quite highly. Most of it however is crap.
As for goldie lookin chain, I'm still not sure whether they are a joke or not, it wouldn't surprise if in a few months time we find out that they are all ali g style comedians.
Did you read the list ?
It's all manafactured stuff, some british some american but no real good music.#
I don't what it is like with baseball but here in england our "soccer" stars are also payed large amounts, the average wage in the premiership is bout 400,000 pounds a i believe. While that may seem like a huge amount when you consider that many sports people burn out after about 10 years and then have ntohing to do it isn't that bad.
Yeah I definitely think that High Definition video won't really take off for at least ten years. It really is premature to talk of a hi def movie format when the vast majority of people don't have televisions capable of exploiting them to their full potential.
But this is what makes me think that blu ray will win, if sony include it with the PS3 then it will gain early acceptance amongst people who would not have otherwise been willing to buy a blu ray drive.
Assuming blu ray becomes the dominant hi def format (it's not clear but the ps3 supporting it gives it an edge IMO), the same thing will happen that happened with dvd's.
Someone will reverse engineer it, you will be able to play these movies on a linux system but it won't be legal.
For those like me that aren't inimately familliar with the kelvin scale of temperature measurement...
10 Kelvin = -263.15 degrees Celsius
According to Google.
Longhorn almost certainly won't be the name, XP iirc was codnamed whistler, they use the names of places near redmond in seatle apparently.
3 set 20 years before SW, 2 more sequels and 3 set 20 years later.
So he could in fact use ford and hamil as they are now...
BTW, an interesting alternative is to digitize analog from FM or digital cable, then rip to MP3. It's even legal (VCR law). ;-) You won't notice a quality difference in most situations.
This is why digital radio could potentially be more of headache for the RIAA than p2p. It's not too hard to concieve of a digital radio tuner in you computer that could identify and rip tracks straight off the air.
Including the 744 from Wednesday, the RIAA has sued nearly 4,700 people since last September in its efforts to combat piracy, which the music industry has blamed for a multiyear decline in CD sales. Some music fans have countered that bad music, and not piracy, was to blame for the decline.
My maths might be wrong but 5000 people sued in year, 2.5 million kazaa users divided by 5000 = 500. So in 500 years time they will have sued everybody. Good luck to em.
I personally think that robotic missions are still the best value. What I would like to see is an atempt to establish earth plant life on mars.
Apparently around the equator of mars there are places that reach 0 degress celsius, and there is supposedly algae at the earths poles that can survive those kind of temperatures.
So why not send a robot that will heat a small basin of water to keep it liquid and try and grow something ?. The first small step towards terraforming.
And think about the latency as well, it's a 20 minute round trip.
More importantly, how do we get to them ?.