Well...I admit the text doesn't look real, but I've seen plenty of pir8 movies, and a few in the theatres with subtitles as bad as these. I don't think they're necessarily "complete morons" just in-a-hurry non-native speakers. How many mistakes do you think you'd make transcribing a Hong Kong movie dialogue in Cantonese? How 'bout Thai? Japanese?..didn't think so:-)
Hmmmm.... no-one here is willing to validate Amazon's dubious one-click patents, but now we're all happy with the monkier "President" for this puppet-clown? Interesting how quickly people forget....
Nothing redneck about it. I lived there for 10 years, and while many Japanese say Linux (as well as Lin-ooks and lineux etc.), many say Rinux (although, like everywhere most think pasucon = Windows kyujugo/kyujuhachi/emuii/ekusupi).
Let go the knee-jerk liberalism. Japanese speakers get Ls and Rs confused when speaking Engrish. They make fun of non-Japanese speakers' inability to read kanji (as well as have TV shows where tarento black up their faces, wear afro wigs, and run around doing b&w minstrel show stuff, which to my mind isn't very PC).
Is it non-PC to say many Scandinavians are blond(e)?
It's legalese, "fraudulent" being defined as anything that's demonstrably false -- get-rich-quick etc. This leaves all the "non-fraudulent" enter-now-to-win and marketing crap perfectly legal (but no less annoying). As long as people keep biting and buying stuff marketed through spam, it's not going to stop.
There's some useful info on the various legal resources to spam here. The definition differs continent to continent, country to country and state to state.
Looks like this is one more for the Linux Compete Team...
Like to see them try to get a win on this.
...do a walk-thru of their datacenters and take inventory of where you see Sun machines, IBM, 10-TFlop Computer Built from Standard PC Parts, etc and ask them what they running on those machines... tattoo it on your butt... something... something...
But it looks like this will be the last Leonid shower for quite a while.
As the comet Tempel-Tuttle approaches the Sun toward a May 2031 perihelion, it will pass within 1.5 a.u. of Jupiter in August 2029. This encounter will push the comet closer to the Sun and increase the distance between Earth's orbit and the comet's to 0.0162 a.u. -- their largest separation since 1733. Such a large gulf between the two orbits may preclude any substantial meteor activity for the year 2031, and for several years thereafter, when the next cycle of Leonid storms would normally be expected.
In examining this next Leonid cycle, McNaught has found three outlying dust trails that the Earth will approach in the years 2033 and 2034. "Unfortunately," he notes, "they are probably too distant for any reasonable chance of high activity."
There will be little improvement at the comet's subsequent return in 2065, for the separation between the orbits of the comet and the Earth will have diminished only slightly to 0.0146 a.u.
In 2098 the separation of the orbits shrinks to 0.0062 a.u. And in 2131, for the first time since 1633, the comet crosses our orbital plane slightly outside the Earth's orbit at a distance of 0.0089 a.u. Not until one, or both, of these remote years can our great grandchildren expect to witness a storm of Leonid meteors.
So get out there and see the damn thing. I'm in Northern Thailand, so not much hope for me:-(
Godzilla is a bad transliteration of the Japanese Gojira. The name seems to be inspired by other large creatures' names in Japanese; i.e. whale (which they kill for scientific purposes only, explaining why I can always go to my local supermarket and buy whale meat) is kujira in Japanese. This makes the case look like Kellog's trying to get an injunction against MGM's use of a lion logo for trademark infringement on Tony the tiger.
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Well...I admit the text doesn't look real, but I've seen plenty of pir8 movies, and a few in the theatres with subtitles as bad as these. I don't think they're necessarily "complete morons" just in-a-hurry non-native speakers. How many mistakes do you think you'd make transcribing a Hong Kong movie dialogue in Cantonese? How 'bout Thai? Japanese? ..didn't think so :-)
Actually the sound is simply the Japanese scientific whaliing fleet shouting "Oishii so da ne!"
Hmmmm.... no-one here is willing to validate Amazon's dubious one-click patents, but now we're all happy with the monkier "President" for this puppet-clown?
Interesting how quickly people forget....
Nothing redneck about it. I lived there for 10 years, and while many Japanese say Linux (as well as Lin-ooks and lineux etc.), many say Rinux (although, like everywhere most think pasucon = Windows kyujugo/kyujuhachi/emuii/ekusupi).
Let go the knee-jerk liberalism. Japanese speakers get Ls and Rs confused when speaking Engrish. They make fun of non-Japanese speakers' inability to read kanji (as well as have TV shows where tarento black up their faces, wear afro wigs, and run around doing b&w minstrel show stuff, which to my mind isn't very PC).
Is it non-PC to say many Scandinavians are blond(e)?
It's legalese, "fraudulent" being defined as anything that's demonstrably false -- get-rich-quick etc. This leaves all the "non-fraudulent" enter-now-to-win and marketing crap perfectly legal (but no less annoying). As long as people keep biting and buying stuff marketed through spam, it's not going to stop. There's some useful info on the various legal resources to spam here. The definition differs continent to continent, country to country and state to state.
Like to see them try to get a win on this.
As the comet Tempel-Tuttle approaches the Sun toward a May 2031 perihelion, it will pass within 1.5 a.u. of Jupiter in August 2029. This encounter will push the comet closer to the Sun and increase the distance between Earth's orbit and the comet's to 0.0162 a.u. -- their largest separation since 1733. Such a large gulf between the two orbits may preclude any substantial meteor activity for the year 2031, and for several years thereafter, when the next cycle of Leonid storms would normally be expected.
In examining this next Leonid cycle, McNaught has found three outlying dust trails that the Earth will approach in the years 2033 and 2034. "Unfortunately," he notes, "they are probably too distant for any reasonable chance of high activity."
There will be little improvement at the comet's subsequent return in 2065, for the separation between the orbits of the comet and the Earth will have diminished only slightly to 0.0146 a.u.
In 2098 the separation of the orbits shrinks to 0.0062 a.u. And in 2131, for the first time since 1633, the comet crosses our orbital plane slightly outside the Earth's orbit at a distance of 0.0089 a.u. Not until one, or both, of these remote years can our great grandchildren expect to witness a storm of Leonid meteors.
So get out there and see the damn thing. I'm in Northern Thailand, so not much hope for me :-(
I had a remote controlled toilet in Japan (most people do). You could flush it or activate the "multi-function" bidet with the remote...
Godzilla is a bad transliteration of the Japanese Gojira. The name seems to be inspired by other large creatures' names in Japanese; i.e. whale (which they kill for scientific purposes only, explaining why I can always go to my local supermarket and buy whale meat) is kujira in Japanese.
This makes the case look like Kellog's trying to get an injunction against MGM's use of a lion logo for trademark infringement on Tony the tiger.