Errr... Nah. That was his lame excuse for squeezing more money from the franchise when he was set to boot the prequels. The ORIGINAL Star Wars film was a one-off. Something, something something, Dark Side and It's A Trap! were sequels based on the success of the first movie, but since they were conceived in the same epoca the original film was, held some coherence.
The three bastard children not-even-worth-mentioning appear in comparison to be written by lawyers who don't even bothered to watch the original Saga.
I got tired of the subjective shots after two episodes. Please somebody tell the photography directors of all the low-to-medium budget space tv series it's an old trick, and it doesn't work anymore. FWIW, I believe they hire just rookie cameramen and pay them minimum wage. Then they try to disguise their not-so-steady-hand by shooting subjective.
Screw the expanded novels, and the Capitalist system who tries to squeeze every penny out of every simple story, by forking it ad infinitum. And screw the asshats who consume that poorly-written offspring.
There's no need to "expand" the three original movies, as there's no need to fill the holes in the Gruyère cheese.
Duh, the first half of the movie would involve some stupid philosophical diatribe by the captain of the flying-pizza-cutter about the right to invade Star Wars universe and make first contact with its inhabitants. Then they would engage in some low-speed battle, some lousy engineer would scream "we don't have enough powah!" at the engine room's intercom, the flying-pizza-cutter would take some bashing and thrashing, and we will see guilt in the captain's face as he's forced to blow the flying-pizza-cutter away to save the crew and defeat some stupid Jarwas.
Also, since this is a JJ Abrahms movie, the above summarized script would involve about 3425432543265 lens flare adorned shots, and would be 316 minutes long.
> it's more or less of a survival/moral/ethical manual
If that were so, I would have killed my disrespectful daughter and wife by now.
Less than 200 years ago, slavery was considered a good thing by the Western civilization. Moral isn't a static value, it changes. At the times the Bible was compiled, such acts were admissible.
So as a survival/moral/ethical manual, it's not really cutting it any more.
The conspiranoic in me senses this will enhance the NSA's capability to perform industrial espionage. Instead of hacking several different platforms, they will have just to tap into this. Or maybe they already did...
> it's more or less of a survival/moral/ethical manual
If that were so, I would have killed my disrespectful daughter and wife by now.
Less than 200 years ago, slavery was considered a good thing by the Western civilization. Moral isn't a static value, it changes. At the times the Bible was compiled, such acts were admissible.
Please mod parent up. The Bible isn't anything more than a way to uphold a certain view of the world, by a certain group interested in preserving their privileges.
^This. The Bible should be taken on its own context: If you read it in a non-passionate way, it's more or less of a survival/moral/ethical manual, carved into stone to the taste of its times. It makes its mandates rest on the shoulders of a said 'God' to render them unquestionable, and puts the words on his son's mouth to make them sound as 'the Truth'. We have schools and education to take care of those duties nowadays.
WRONG. There were Argentinian people living in the islands, and the Brits took them by force. As they usually do. Please go read some history books and come back a bit more educated before engaging in any further discussions.
Again, you have to understand NOBODY using the Celsius scale uses decimals on a daily basis, unless they are performing a task which requires such accuracy. We know somebody has high fever when they hit 37C, we set the oven to 180C and cook our meals, and when the thermometer reads around 23C we call it "a fair day".
Correction: "Stupid" in your own conception. You grew accustomed to a system which you claim "is closer to natural". Nobody in the rest of the world adjusts the room temperature by any fractions of a Celsius degree, unless they are making some highly accurate task. Regarding that nonsense of "65F=cold, 90F=hot", it's just a customary thing. Down here, 5 Celsius makes a cold (actually, a really cold) day, and 30 Celsius defines a hot day. In other parts of the world, that will surely vary. It doesn't have anything to do with "natural things". Every measuring scale is arbitrary. My point was why would you introduce two (or more, as in every other scale in the imperial system) arbitrarieties instead of one and then go dividing by ten, as in the metric system?
US Americans are so self-centered... Somewhere up in the comments someone pointed out "I just take a pound of meat to cook, it's a natural quantity" or something along that line of thought. Well, again, maybe 450 grams of meat seem a logical amount of meat to cook in the USA, but for instance here in Argentina we typically use more than that, and in India, 450 grams would make for a dinner for 5 to 8 people. Take McDonnald's Quarter Pound burger for instance. That's 112 grams of meat (or whatever McDoonald's uses to make its burgers). They present it as being big ("whoa, that's A QUARTER POUND!!!"). Down here we would just call it an appetizer. We have some alfajores (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfajor) weighting more than that.
"Human friendly"? More like abuse friendly... The only purpose of the myriad of units in the Imperial system was to give an edge when trading to those more educated over the poorer ones. Having to convert units when you jump scale is beyond stupid, and the fact that an imperialist such as Cameron enforces it proves that schizophrenic gathering of names and units serves the same mere purpose: spread confusion and set distance from a uniform system. It's all about "my wang is 1/8 of an inch longer than yours". Screw it, even the submultiples of each unit are beyond retard...
And let's not forget the Fahrenheit scale, the work of a known alcoholic... Who in its whole life would think of establishing a temperature scale using not one but TWO substances and 180 (WTF???) divisions between their respective freezing and boiling points??? Why won't you take just ONE well known material to define a scale, and make it dependent on just ONE arbitrariety? And yet the drunk fucker had a better reach into the Empire and convinced the Kingdom (another two abolished entities in most of the world) to accept HIS system instead of Lord Kelvin's one, which was built on a decimal scale.
Yet the main argument to enforce those systems both in UK and US is almost a Nazi one: "we do things this way, and it's our way or the highway"...
Just general purpose taxes. Now, regarding your question about why should rich people pay more taxes, I think it's self explanatory. A Tití Fernandez question as we call them here.
Argentinian here, the AFIP (our local IRS) has been doing this for a long time, but using satellite or aerial photographs. The drones were used this time because the area in question was small. A lot of country clubs (as they are called here) are emerging with wealthy people moving into them, building expensive houses, while the land is still declared as vacant.
In a related matter, we still lack a law regulating drones down here.
Let's not diminish the power of a good plate of lentils or beans!! That's turbo power if you can get it to go off the wetsuit through the leg openings!
Show me how it's any different nowadays. You've basically given your entire free will to a certain class or cast, the upper one. The whole justice system was meant to segregate the masses from the decision making part of the populace. That's because back in the day, when the Union was barely formed, any John Doe could run for a representative seat. They were folks you knew, and whom you could go talk if any of the moves the Government did affected you in any negative way to try to change his point of view. Then, the Justice branch of the Government was born, and with it the possibility to take the masses effectively out of the Government, simply because to pursuit a career in the Justice system you'd have to be rich, and pay your way through University.
It's no different today. Super PACs and all, the system is designed to allow just those in the oligarchy to gain access to positions with enough power to make any substantial change. And guess tho who's well being are those folks lean towards?
I wouldn't think so. Many of the richest people in 'muricaaaa are behind the companies from who the US Army buys infrastructure, services, and even paid mercenaries. If not in Ukraine, you must surely blame their bloody hands for the deaths in Afghanistan, Siria, Iran, Irak, etc. Let's make this clear: a war is a war when somebody can have a great profit out of it. Sometimes it's a country by gaining new territories, sometimes it's a private corporation by supplying one (or several) of the involved parties with services/goods/human assets.
Actual facts are better than Wikipedia. In fact, that page about the Singer scum looks edited and payed by Singer himself. It doesn't point out the gang move he took on Detroit after the 2008 financial crash or how he pushed many other countries with his sovereign debt buyouts. Go read a bit around and then come back and we could discuss this a bit further. Just another sample of the republican scum most of the fools like to adore in the US. They don't understand one simple fact: most of the Republican supporters aren't rich, and will never be rich. But they still think if they act like the rich guys, support the rich guys, and undermine those of their same kind, some day in the distant future the rich guys are going to let them into their private garden of Eden. Well, they won't. And you will still continue to get poorer and poorer in time, even when you can have two cars and a 60" 4KHDTV.
Every south-american country sent their military to the School of the Americas, where US military taught them how to torture and impose fear. After that, it was a matter of time before the US embassies started pushing for coups in the whole region... Those things were said to be necessary to combat Marxism and left-winged governments down here. Kissinger also was to blame for the assassination of Salvador Allende, the Chilean president. Here in Argentina that costed us over 30000 missing people. Many of them were talented scientists. But the military in charge during most of the '70s believed all knowledge is dangerous, so they wiped out a whole generation... Like I said above, in response to another comment: we suffered those things 30-40 years ago, not the same methods are being used in the developed countries. I'm talking about imprisonment without fair trial, torture, imposition of minimum wages, and general income transfer from the lower part of the populace to the top.
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Errr... Nah. That was his lame excuse for squeezing more money from the franchise when he was set to boot the prequels. The ORIGINAL Star Wars film was a one-off. Something, something something, Dark Side and It's A Trap! were sequels based on the success of the first movie, but since they were conceived in the same epoca the original film was, held some coherence.
The three bastard children not-even-worth-mentioning appear in comparison to be written by lawyers who don't even bothered to watch the original Saga.
I got tired of the subjective shots after two episodes. Please somebody tell the photography directors of all the low-to-medium budget space tv series it's an old trick, and it doesn't work anymore. FWIW, I believe they hire just rookie cameramen and pay them minimum wage. Then they try to disguise their not-so-steady-hand by shooting subjective.
Screw the expanded novels, and the Capitalist system who tries to squeeze every penny out of every simple story, by forking it ad infinitum. And screw the asshats who consume that poorly-written offspring.
There's no need to "expand" the three original movies, as there's no need to fill the holes in the Gruyère cheese.
Duh, the first half of the movie would involve some stupid philosophical diatribe by the captain of the flying-pizza-cutter about the right to invade Star Wars universe and make first contact with its inhabitants. Then they would engage in some low-speed battle, some lousy engineer would scream "we don't have enough powah!" at the engine room's intercom, the flying-pizza-cutter would take some bashing and thrashing, and we will see guilt in the captain's face as he's forced to blow the flying-pizza-cutter away to save the crew and defeat some stupid Jarwas.
Also, since this is a JJ Abrahms movie, the above summarized script would involve about 3425432543265 lens flare adorned shots, and would be 316 minutes long.
Arrgh, why am I lacking mod points today? Somebody please mod parent up!
> it's more or less of a survival/moral/ethical manual
If that were so, I would have killed my disrespectful daughter and wife by now.
Less than 200 years ago, slavery was considered a good thing by the Western civilization. Moral isn't a static value, it changes. At the times the Bible was compiled, such acts were admissible.
So as a survival/moral/ethical manual, it's not really cutting it any more.
My exact thoughts on the matter ;-)
The conspiranoic in me senses this will enhance the NSA's capability to perform industrial espionage. Instead of hacking several different platforms, they will have just to tap into this. Or maybe they already did...
> it's more or less of a survival/moral/ethical manual
If that were so, I would have killed my disrespectful daughter and wife by now.
Less than 200 years ago, slavery was considered a good thing by the Western civilization. Moral isn't a static value, it changes. At the times the Bible was compiled, such acts were admissible.
Please mod parent up. The Bible isn't anything more than a way to uphold a certain view of the world, by a certain group interested in preserving their privileges.
^This. The Bible should be taken on its own context: If you read it in a non-passionate way, it's more or less of a survival/moral/ethical manual, carved into stone to the taste of its times. It makes its mandates rest on the shoulders of a said 'God' to render them unquestionable, and puts the words on his son's mouth to make them sound as 'the Truth'. We have schools and education to take care of those duties nowadays.
So, it's a win-win situation for the pharma complex, right?
WRONG. There were Argentinian people living in the islands, and the Brits took them by force. As they usually do. Please go read some history books and come back a bit more educated before engaging in any further discussions.
Again, you have to understand NOBODY using the Celsius scale uses decimals on a daily basis, unless they are performing a task which requires such accuracy. We know somebody has high fever when they hit 37C, we set the oven to 180C and cook our meals, and when the thermometer reads around 23C we call it "a fair day".
Correction: "Stupid" in your own conception. You grew accustomed to a system which you claim "is closer to natural". Nobody in the rest of the world adjusts the room temperature by any fractions of a Celsius degree, unless they are making some highly accurate task. Regarding that nonsense of "65F=cold, 90F=hot", it's just a customary thing. Down here, 5 Celsius makes a cold (actually, a really cold) day, and 30 Celsius defines a hot day. In other parts of the world, that will surely vary. It doesn't have anything to do with "natural things". Every measuring scale is arbitrary. My point was why would you introduce two (or more, as in every other scale in the imperial system) arbitrarieties instead of one and then go dividing by ten, as in the metric system? US Americans are so self-centered... Somewhere up in the comments someone pointed out "I just take a pound of meat to cook, it's a natural quantity" or something along that line of thought. Well, again, maybe 450 grams of meat seem a logical amount of meat to cook in the USA, but for instance here in Argentina we typically use more than that, and in India, 450 grams would make for a dinner for 5 to 8 people. Take McDonnald's Quarter Pound burger for instance. That's 112 grams of meat (or whatever McDoonald's uses to make its burgers). They present it as being big ("whoa, that's A QUARTER POUND!!!"). Down here we would just call it an appetizer. We have some alfajores (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfajor) weighting more than that.
Are you announcing that the UK is giving BACK the Malvinas to Argentina?
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"Human friendly"? More like abuse friendly... The only purpose of the myriad of units in the Imperial system was to give an edge when trading to those more educated over the poorer ones. Having to convert units when you jump scale is beyond stupid, and the fact that an imperialist such as Cameron enforces it proves that schizophrenic gathering of names and units serves the same mere purpose: spread confusion and set distance from a uniform system. It's all about "my wang is 1/8 of an inch longer than yours". Screw it, even the submultiples of each unit are beyond retard... And let's not forget the Fahrenheit scale, the work of a known alcoholic... Who in its whole life would think of establishing a temperature scale using not one but TWO substances and 180 (WTF???) divisions between their respective freezing and boiling points??? Why won't you take just ONE well known material to define a scale, and make it dependent on just ONE arbitrariety? And yet the drunk fucker had a better reach into the Empire and convinced the Kingdom (another two abolished entities in most of the world) to accept HIS system instead of Lord Kelvin's one, which was built on a decimal scale. Yet the main argument to enforce those systems both in UK and US is almost a Nazi one: "we do things this way, and it's our way or the highway"...
Just general purpose taxes. Now, regarding your question about why should rich people pay more taxes, I think it's self explanatory. A Tití Fernandez question as we call them here.
Argentinian here, the AFIP (our local IRS) has been doing this for a long time, but using satellite or aerial photographs. The drones were used this time because the area in question was small. A lot of country clubs (as they are called here) are emerging with wealthy people moving into them, building expensive houses, while the land is still declared as vacant. In a related matter, we still lack a law regulating drones down here.
Let's not diminish the power of a good plate of lentils or beans!! That's turbo power if you can get it to go off the wetsuit through the leg openings!
Pfff... You should wait for the laser-sporting-nuclear-powered killer octopus drones.
And you are falling right into their hands.
Show me how it's any different nowadays. You've basically given your entire free will to a certain class or cast, the upper one. The whole justice system was meant to segregate the masses from the decision making part of the populace. That's because back in the day, when the Union was barely formed, any John Doe could run for a representative seat. They were folks you knew, and whom you could go talk if any of the moves the Government did affected you in any negative way to try to change his point of view. Then, the Justice branch of the Government was born, and with it the possibility to take the masses effectively out of the Government, simply because to pursuit a career in the Justice system you'd have to be rich, and pay your way through University.
It's no different today. Super PACs and all, the system is designed to allow just those in the oligarchy to gain access to positions with enough power to make any substantial change. And guess tho who's well being are those folks lean towards?
I see what you did there... Well played sir, well played...
I wouldn't think so. Many of the richest people in 'muricaaaa are behind the companies from who the US Army buys infrastructure, services, and even paid mercenaries. If not in Ukraine, you must surely blame their bloody hands for the deaths in Afghanistan, Siria, Iran, Irak, etc. Let's make this clear: a war is a war when somebody can have a great profit out of it. Sometimes it's a country by gaining new territories, sometimes it's a private corporation by supplying one (or several) of the involved parties with services/goods/human assets.
Actual facts are better than Wikipedia. In fact, that page about the Singer scum looks edited and payed by Singer himself. It doesn't point out the gang move he took on Detroit after the 2008 financial crash or how he pushed many other countries with his sovereign debt buyouts. Go read a bit around and then come back and we could discuss this a bit further. Just another sample of the republican scum most of the fools like to adore in the US. They don't understand one simple fact: most of the Republican supporters aren't rich, and will never be rich. But they still think if they act like the rich guys, support the rich guys, and undermine those of their same kind, some day in the distant future the rich guys are going to let them into their private garden of Eden. Well, they won't. And you will still continue to get poorer and poorer in time, even when you can have two cars and a 60" 4KHDTV.
Every south-american country sent their military to the School of the Americas, where US military taught them how to torture and impose fear. After that, it was a matter of time before the US embassies started pushing for coups in the whole region... Those things were said to be necessary to combat Marxism and left-winged governments down here. Kissinger also was to blame for the assassination of Salvador Allende, the Chilean president. Here in Argentina that costed us over 30000 missing people. Many of them were talented scientists. But the military in charge during most of the '70s believed all knowledge is dangerous, so they wiped out a whole generation... Like I said above, in response to another comment: we suffered those things 30-40 years ago, not the same methods are being used in the developed countries. I'm talking about imprisonment without fair trial, torture, imposition of minimum wages, and general income transfer from the lower part of the populace to the top.