the first time a customer is told that they can't record a program. All across the country, you'll hear "Didn't somebody tell me there's this thing called Tivo that doesn't block programs?"
Giving the public more control over content delivery is what makes a successful product. MP3, Tivo, internet, etc. Restricting content delivery is doomed to failure (Divx (not the codec, the DVD replacement)).
However, the individual urge is the side-effect of the species collective desire to procreate, which was selected for evolutionarily.
Or was the act of procreation intended by a (insert your God/belief/disbelief here) to be a side effect of an act which feels rather good. When the hormones are raging during human adolescence, your typical teenager is not thinking about the species-continuing need of procreation. They're thinking/dreaming/agonizing/obsessing about being near someone of the (insert sexual preference here), preferably somewhere secluded, naked, and horizontal.
All I know is that whoever designed it so that continuation of the species feels really good should be thanked. That's probably why we scream their name out during the act itself.
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Now this view might be slightly wrong but people all have a natural urge to procreate.
Procreation is not the natural urge. It's just the side-effect of the natural urge.
How about DVD set-top boxes that can play MP3 files off a CD-R? Is that any different than a DVD set-top box that can play DivX files off a CD-R?
And I've been taking MPEG files recorded off TV, converting them to DivX5 and storing them on CD-R. I can fit two hours broadcast quality on 1 CD-R, which takes up a lot less space than a VHS tape. I'm also starting to do the same with home videos of the kids.
Yes, I could use a DVD burner. But the cost of the burner is too high right now($200 for a cheap brand DVD burner, as opposed to $59 after rebate for a brand name CD burner), the cost of the media is too high ($.05 per 700MB brand name blank CD after rebate) and DivX files are easier to transfer via the internet.
I saw Joe vs. The Volcano about six times in the theatre, many many times on VHS and DVD. And every single time I see the scene with the two tribe members swinging in, hitting the huge gongs, then being carried off on stretchers, I have to stop the movie because I'm laughing so hard.
Democrats haven't even tried to do the equivalent with the NRA, which would be placing it near the anarchist and fascist ends of the political spectrum; perhaps they should, though.
You made my point for me.
As for the armed forces, Clinton was even more enamored with using the military than Bush is; Clinton just wasn't so dramatic about it as Bush (nor as incompetent when it came to the ensuing international diplomatic fallout).
Clinton wasn't enamored with the military. In fact, he despised the military (for example, massive defense cuts). He saw the military as a way to expand his social agenda (gays in the military, Somalia, Bosnia, firing Tomahawks at Iraq to cover his own indiscretions).
Well, if being a "card carrying member of the ACLU" is being thrown around as an insult by people like Bush, that's not too surprising. And with the current administration, you have to worry about whether being a member of the ACLU is going to get you on some list somewhere.
Kinda like being a card-carrying member of the NRA or of the Armed Forces during the previous administration, eh?
I don't know if I'd really put Steve Jobs into that group. He really didn't do much on his own, he just recognized what Woz and others were working on and saw the potential. I'm not discounting what's he's done, I just wouldn't classify him in the same category with Woz.
This monitor has been produced without using any pesticides.
Or, it's ch-ch-ch-CHIA!
Well, there goes my weekend of coding
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Used to play Myth2 hardcore. Haven't played in a long while. Guess I'll have to dig out my Myth Codex discs and play this weekend. I remember when WWII:Recon came out, it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. Can't wait to play some 6x6 KOTH again.
The Internet is full of opinions and sucky ones at that... No matter what, I cannot trust the views of others on the Internet to tell me which movies/books are good (especially MAJOR sites like Amazon and now this one).
Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one, and EVERYONE's stinks like shit.
So, essentially what you're trying to say is... I disagree with you, therefore you are wrong, you stink like shit, and all of your opinions are invalid.
That's a very mature position to take. Personally, I loved the Hitchhikers series and still re-read it occasionally, I enjoyed the Tolkien books, and maybe if our opinions are so drastically different, maybe our assholes are also. Which means, you must be the goatse.cx webmaster!
Opinions are like haircolor. I have mine, you have yours, and neither one is the perfect one.
1) Merchandising - If they sold a gold record, they're probably selling at least a few T-Shirts and posters.
2) Concerts - Depending on if they go on a small club tour or open for a bigger act (they only went gold, and it's their first album, so they're probably not ready to headline a major arena tour yet). If they do their own promotion and hit the club circuit, they're bound to make some money that way (and hit it with enough groupies to make the bus trips worthwhile).
3) Definite follow up deals - Since their first album went gold, they're definitely going to be making follow up albums. They can probably score a deal for two more albums, and as they've already had one hit album, they'll probably be able to get a better deal the next time.
Sure "fire" way to land on the front page of \.
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Set parts of your body on fire, then act out scenes from a pretty weak 2d fighter.
And setting the tires of my DeLorean on fire wasn't good enough?
What about setting children's balloons at the fair on fire and screaming "OH THE HUMANITY!"?
We laugh and ridicule the less intelligent members of society, then we reward them when their antics amuse us. Hell, works for me.
Actually, some of the stories in The Animatrix are created by the Wachowski Brothers. The rest are independantly created, but given approval by the brothers.
I believe that this one is created by the brothers, as it pretty much gives the origin of The Matrix.
Maybe that's why Disney is taking DVDs off the market for a number of years. Once your discs rot, you'll have to buy them again, right about the time they are re-released.
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Giving the public more control over content delivery is what makes a successful product. MP3, Tivo, internet, etc. Restricting content delivery is doomed to failure (Divx (not the codec, the DVD replacement)).
Or was the act of procreation intended by a (insert your God/belief/disbelief here) to be a side effect of an act which feels rather good. When the hormones are raging during human adolescence, your typical teenager is not thinking about the species-continuing need of procreation. They're thinking/dreaming/agonizing/obsessing about being near someone of the (insert sexual preference here), preferably somewhere secluded, naked, and horizontal.
All I know is that whoever designed it so that continuation of the species feels really good should be thanked. That's probably why we scream their name out during the act itself.
Procreation is not the natural urge. It's just the side-effect of the natural urge.
And I've been taking MPEG files recorded off TV, converting them to DivX5 and storing them on CD-R. I can fit two hours broadcast quality on 1 CD-R, which takes up a lot less space than a VHS tape. I'm also starting to do the same with home videos of the kids.
Yes, I could use a DVD burner. But the cost of the burner is too high right now($200 for a cheap brand DVD burner, as opposed to $59 after rebate for a brand name CD burner), the cost of the media is too high ($.05 per 700MB brand name blank CD after rebate) and DivX files are easier to transfer via the internet.
So is that MP3 player you use to play the downloaded music. What's your point?
I saw Joe vs. The Volcano about six times in the theatre, many many times on VHS and DVD. And every single time I see the scene with the two tribe members swinging in, hitting the huge gongs, then being carried off on stretchers, I have to stop the movie because I'm laughing so hard.
I love Mystery Men. I'm still waiting for a Flaming Carrot movie!
What Mr. Jackson was doing before he got interested in Feebles!
You made my point for me.
As for the armed forces, Clinton was even more enamored with using the military than Bush is; Clinton just wasn't so dramatic about it as Bush (nor as incompetent when it came to the ensuing international diplomatic fallout).
Clinton wasn't enamored with the military. In fact, he despised the military (for example, massive defense cuts). He saw the military as a way to expand his social agenda (gays in the military, Somalia, Bosnia, firing Tomahawks at Iraq to cover his own indiscretions).
Kinda like being a card-carrying member of the NRA or of the Armed Forces during the previous administration, eh?
I don't know if I'd really put Steve Jobs into that group. He really didn't do much on his own, he just recognized what Woz and others were working on and saw the potential. I'm not discounting what's he's done, I just wouldn't classify him in the same category with Woz.
Or, it's ch-ch-ch-CHIA!
Used to play Myth2 hardcore. Haven't played in a long while. Guess I'll have to dig out my Myth Codex discs and play this weekend. I remember when WWII:Recon came out, it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. Can't wait to play some 6x6 KOTH again.
Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one, and EVERYONE's stinks like shit. So, essentially what you're trying to say is... I disagree with you, therefore you are wrong, you stink like shit, and all of your opinions are invalid.
That's a very mature position to take. Personally, I loved the Hitchhikers series and still re-read it occasionally, I enjoyed the Tolkien books, and maybe if our opinions are so drastically different, maybe our assholes are also. Which means, you must be the goatse.cx webmaster!
Opinions are like haircolor. I have mine, you have yours, and neither one is the perfect one.
Who's more likely to be stoned? Somebody in Amsterdam, or somebody in the bay area?
2) Concerts - Depending on if they go on a small club tour or open for a bigger act (they only went gold, and it's their first album, so they're probably not ready to headline a major arena tour yet). If they do their own promotion and hit the club circuit, they're bound to make some money that way (and hit it with enough groupies to make the bus trips worthwhile).
3) Definite follow up deals - Since their first album went gold, they're definitely going to be making follow up albums. They can probably score a deal for two more albums, and as they've already had one hit album, they'll probably be able to get a better deal the next time.
And setting the tires of my DeLorean on fire wasn't good enough?
What about setting children's balloons at the fair on fire and screaming "OH THE HUMANITY!"?
We laugh and ridicule the less intelligent members of society, then we reward them when their antics amuse us. Hell, works for me.
Recursive Anime?? aaaaiiiieeee!!!!
I believe that this one is created by the brothers, as it pretty much gives the origin of The Matrix.
OSHA regulations, of course.
Considering she left me shortly after that, no. I didn't get away with it. And not being able to control it made it hurt that much more.
Which is exactly what I was asking myself when the Challenger exploded.
Going the trach route is something I just couldn't do. Hell, I'll deal with the problems, I just don't want to give up my jet ski and surfing.
Maybe that's why Disney is taking DVDs off the market for a number of years. Once your discs rot, you'll have to buy them again, right about the time they are re-released.