Done properly, where the viewer is in a remote location (unlike current X-Ray gates), I have no problem with this. Hit a button when you see paraphenelia. What's the big deal? The screener will have no idea who they're looking at. Look, I'm the last person who's going to walk around naked -- I'd like to maintain a bit of self respect/esteem -- but this isn't exactly prancing around in front of a crowd, or showing up at school and realizing you forgot to wear pants. The alternatives involve pat-downs, which they already do, and personally I'd much rather be felt up by RF than Rent-a-Cops.
If it weren't a form of sexual discrimination, I'd say just staff them with 100% women. Most women would feel less threatened, and most men won't care.
If you think it's OK as long as you don't charge for it, you'd be mistaken - the bar still benefits by attracting customers because of the movie.
Nonsense.. While you may be technically correct (I can't say for sure), it's certainly irrelevant. Bars show TV programming constantly - it's rare to find a bar without a TV - especially sporting events which specifically state that they're for personal use only. I don't see the NBA sending out C&Ds to sports bars. I remember bars charging a cover for the Hollyfield/Tyson fights, but I don't remember HBO complaining about that. For all intents and purposes, it's private until you start showing it in a theater and charging admission.
I use a wireless keyboard/mouse for my media PC. Works fine from across the room without the messy cord for people to trip over. So there are, in fact, useful purposes. I happened to have one sitting in my closet because a friend got tired of changing the batteries, and I previously had no desire to use it for my desktop.. but it's great for sitting on the couch.
That said, this article doesn't appeal to me, and I'm only reading the comments to see what the hell anyone could possibly have to say about a review of a fscking keyboard. Is there a huge desire for these kinds of stories? Are there keyboard activists who extoll the virtues of their preferred brand of keyboard, and argue the idiosyncratic details, and why an extra button that only works under Windows is of paramount importance? These are the questions I needed to have answered.
seriously though, i think it's refreshing to hear people in authority looking at the situation from this perspective instead of blindly following.
Unless it turns out that the French magistrates were just looking for an opportunity to turn their noses up at America, rather than voicing any real opinion on IP laws. And France is hardly a political trendsetter for US policy. It's not like Bush said, "Hey hold up guys.. France isn't going with us to Iraq. Maybe we should reconsider this whole thing."
If you are speeding to the point where you are actually a danger you are charged with reckless endangerment or reckless driving.
Speeding is one of the least likely causes of an accident; it's simply the only risk that's easily visable/measurable from the side of the road, and therefore the only risk that's enforcable without resorting to checkpoints.
I believe there are recorded cases of prisoners dying from nicotine withdrawal.
Well, yeah.. take cigarettes away from a prison population and that's what happens.. Have you ever been a smoker, or been around someone who's quitting? They'd kill a kitten if it looked at 'em funny.
Tylenol 3&4 (acetominaphine with codeine) are OTC in many countries, including Australia and Korea. They don't seem to have a huge problem with it there. Although since I was only a tourist, maybe someone else can comment further.
America needs more satire like that about domestic policy in popular media. Comedians have done a great deal to impact public perception since at least the time of Johnathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels." Comedy is one of the most effective ways to educate and entertain at the same time (when done right), but it seems like the only targets since 2001 have been celebrities and foreign policy.
"It's like condemning people for driving too fast after selling them cars that go 250 kmh."
Yeah, cause that never happ.. er, wait..
I need to move to France. Government officials that are confused by the concepts of capability and responsibility are just the thing I've been looking for. "But sir, you can't issue me a speeding ticket.. clearly if I was able to buy a car that goes 140MPH, I have every right to drive that fast. Don't blame me, blame the auto industry!"
Heat conducting pipes are usually made out of metal, which will corrode faster. A lot faster.
The specific gravity of PVC is 1.05; steel is 7.7 -- more stress and strain on the pipe, which will eventually pull itself to the bottom when it corrodes enough.
Unless you switch to insulating pipe at about 3000ft (The point at which the water starts becoming warmer), you're likely to have little or no net change in temperature, since the water will heat up as it ascends.
But filterless operation might prove to be worth the hassle.. It's not my project, but it seems like making the pipe anything other than a simple, single material insulated tube is just asking for an expensive problem.. it's not cheap to do underwater repairs.
The problem with constantly writing prequels is that they're not really interesting. You know what's going to happen, and some measure of whether or not a movie is good is how easily you can anticipate the ending. Most people don't enjoy knowing the ending in advance.
If anything, this series needs some sequels. It needs to go in an unforseen direction, not tell more backstory. People can fill in the beginning by themselves.. we're good at speculating what could have caused something.. we're not quite as good at seeing the result of our actions in advance. That's what's entertaining for most of us; not rehashing midichlorians.
My concern is, what if the pipe sucks up all these exotic bottom-dwelling fish?
I'm sure there will be a grate on the bottom of the pipe to prevent large animals from entering. Smaller animals will get caught in later filters, but it's a stationary pipe, and the ocean is a very big place. It's hardly likely to cause mass extinction, but there are other techniques to prevent unintentional damage to wildlife.. Holes placed at an angle could provide an escape route, etc.. Although I doubt they'd bother unless they found they were sucking up so much wildlife that it was clogging the filters fast enough to be of concern.
Also, the water isn't likely to be moving fast enough that a fish couldn't swim out of it. How often do you see a fish get sucked into a fishtank filter? Most fish actually hide behind the filter tube, and it doesn't seem to bother them at all. I'm sure some fish will get sucked up in the process, but certainly nothing on the scale of, for example, commercial fishing.
It's like the old trick where you put a glass under water, then turn it upside down and lift it out of the water. Until you provide a way for the air to displace the water, like lifting it far enough out of the body of water, it can't escape.
Instead of a glass, think of it as a U shaped pipe rising up out of the water. There's still no way for air to get in. It only takes a little bit of power to circulate the water, because you've negated the effects of gravity.. the weight of the water pulling down on one side is almost (aside from differences in density) exactly the same as the weight of the water on the other side. You're essentially just pumping water on a level plane, which doesn't take much power. The fact that one side of the pipe is 7000 feet below sea level is mostly irrelevant, because the pipe enters and exits the ocean at sea level.
Obviously they can't dunk the facility underwater to fill the pipe, so they have to provide enough power to pump a few thousand gallons into the pipe to get it going.. that requires a substantial amount of power. I imagine this would have to be done every so often after they shut down the system for cleaning and maintenance though.
Incidentally, ships generate their potable water through a very similar process. The (relatively) cool seawater is pumped through pipes in a unit containing warmer air. The water condenses on the pipes, drips into the reservoir, and then it's filtered and used for drinking, bathing, and steam. The filters on these things need to be cleaned pretty often since all kinds of biological and mineral deposits form on the filters after even 1 day of use.
I imagine there will be several paths for the water to flow through filters, so they can shut off one and clean it without needing to shut down the whole system.
The only immediate drawback I see (living on one of the Marianas Islands myself), is that we're sitting on the edge of the ring of fire, and there tend to be quakes pretty regularly. Actually almost constantly at small levels.. the seismographic charts here are never flat lines. It's annoying to lose water due to a ruptured water main, but if one of these huge pipes were to crack, it could be catastrophic.
You make interesting points, but it really comes down to one question:
Can they afford the legal battle?
Until the answer to this question is yes, all others will remain unanswered. As it stands, the mere threat of legal action is enough to send anyone with less than deep pockets scurrying.
This is ridiculous.. Nobody downloads crappy workprint or telesync copies of a movie as a substitute for going to the theater or buying the DVD.
That's what.xvid.dvdrip.proper's are for.
"Curse those BitTorrenters.. if it wasn't for them, we'd have the highest three day weekend grossing movie of all time instead of just the second-highest."
Besides the bad dialog, bad acting, and lack luster light saber fights, there is even a problem with the space battles. Just because you can put a million things on screen at once, doesn't mean you should. There are so many things wizzing around, which are way too colourful, and panning and 3d circle arounds etc. You need the grittiness, of the ships just looking grey. You need to subtract about 1000 ships. You need to lock the camera way more.
Couldn't agree more. What's with everything looking nice and colorful in these movies? It's not the Star Wars tone at all. I understand it was the fall of an empire of prosperity, but really.. faddish yellow hovercraft in 3, shiny silver ships in 2.. it seems too rooted in current trends and ideas of cool rather than the timeless utilitarian look of the original SWs. And I could buy that Chewbacca was a crossbow slingin' beast in the original trilogy, but a whole tribe of them in 3, who all wear the exact same holster (or whatever that strap is)? It's a perfect demonstration of the "more is more" philosophy in all three of the newest trilogy. More is NOT more, it's redundant, disbelievable, and it distracts from the important characters and issues. I mean why do we even use close-ups when we've got satellites in space? Why not just shoot all movies from up there? Then you're not limited to the main characters; you can see what everybody on the continent is doing!! Brilliant!
The whole CGI thing is overrated in my opinion. Skins don't stretch naturally, droids are too shiny, the lighting isn't quite right, the actors and CGI characters' eyes aren't quite looking at each other.. Honestly, Finding Nemo was more believable than most of the CGI in SW. Yoda did look better in the third installment, but ya know what? He looked fine as a puppet. His entire face was animated, the texture of his skin looked solid (as opposed to the strange translucent quality it seems to gain with CGI), and more importantly, it was what people were used to seeing. You already sold him once, why reinvent the wheel?
I also thought it was a little gandiose to use such ridiculous character names for EVERYONE in the new trilogy. We've got [M]anakin, Princess Omni domni, Darth [In]sideous (Where'd Lucas ever come up with the creative juices for that one? Probably right after thinking up Darth Maul), Dooku, Jar-Jar, blah blah, etc. etc. What happened to standard names like Luke, Hans, and Leah? They actually lent a realism to the characters. Fine, aliens should have weird names, and maybe some humans like Obi Wan, but not everyone.
The movies completely lacked a sense of any real conflict or risk, but not just because everyone knew that Yoda, Obi Wan, and Anakin wouldn't die.. It's pretty much a guarantee that the main characters of any movie aren't going to die (unless it's a "horror" flick), but there are still a plethera of methods to get the audience to concern themselves with what might happen.
And of course, there's the completely unbelievable personal interactions. Hayden's leering in Episode 2 is so over the top you think he's about to break out with, "It puts the lotion on its skin!" at any moment, and in the next breath they're making out like pre-teens under the bleachers. Right after he gets done whining about "It's not fair!" And then the ever tactful Princess Amnadawhatever crassly says, "Oh he's not a jedi; he's just a padiwan." Suddenly we turn around in Episode 3 and she's a doting housewife who can't do anything for herself.. a complete 180.
And then there's the plot, most of which is meaningless subtext. I agree completely with another poster who suggested cutting important bits from 1 and 2, cutting fluff from 3, and making THAT Episode 1. Episodes 2 and 3 should have developed the role of the rebellion and led more into 4.
Oh well.. in 100 years when the copyrights expire, someone will do a remake and get it right.
Who looks back on their deathbead and says, "You know, I really wish I'd spent more time at work"?
Workaholics.
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And why are you so afraid of death?
Most living things are afraid of death. Even an ant will quickly try to scurry away if your thumb misses it the first time. That's what keeps us alive. Sure, we can be trained not to fear death.. we have religion to give us a nice warm fuzzy about it, as one of the other posters noted indirectly by insinuating that the grandparent was afraid of hell rather than death. But it's a biological imperative that we fear death. We don't reproduce quite as fast as lemmings, so there's not much else keeping us alive as a species.
Some people accept old age and death gracefully. I have no problem with that; that's fine for them. Some of us enjoy the experience of life, and can think of things we'd like do with more time.
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Done properly, where the viewer is in a remote location (unlike current X-Ray gates), I have no problem with this. Hit a button when you see paraphenelia. What's the big deal? The screener will have no idea who they're looking at. Look, I'm the last person who's going to walk around naked -- I'd like to maintain a bit of self respect/esteem -- but this isn't exactly prancing around in front of a crowd, or showing up at school and realizing you forgot to wear pants. The alternatives involve pat-downs, which they already do, and personally I'd much rather be felt up by RF than Rent-a-Cops.
If it weren't a form of sexual discrimination, I'd say just staff them with 100% women. Most women would feel less threatened, and most men won't care.
If you think it's OK as long as you don't charge for it, you'd be mistaken - the bar still benefits by attracting customers because of the movie.
Nonsense.. While you may be technically correct (I can't say for sure), it's certainly irrelevant. Bars show TV programming constantly - it's rare to find a bar without a TV - especially sporting events which specifically state that they're for personal use only. I don't see the NBA sending out C&Ds to sports bars. I remember bars charging a cover for the Hollyfield/Tyson fights, but I don't remember HBO complaining about that. For all intents and purposes, it's private until you start showing it in a theater and charging admission.
I use a wireless keyboard/mouse for my media PC. Works fine from across the room without the messy cord for people to trip over. So there are, in fact, useful purposes. I happened to have one sitting in my closet because a friend got tired of changing the batteries, and I previously had no desire to use it for my desktop.. but it's great for sitting on the couch.
That said, this article doesn't appeal to me, and I'm only reading the comments to see what the hell anyone could possibly have to say about a review of a fscking keyboard. Is there a huge desire for these kinds of stories? Are there keyboard activists who extoll the virtues of their preferred brand of keyboard, and argue the idiosyncratic details, and why an extra button that only works under Windows is of paramount importance? These are the questions I needed to have answered.
And now I know.
Could you post the text to that? Some of us can't visit that particular website..
seriously though, i think it's refreshing to hear people in authority looking at the situation from this perspective instead of blindly following.
Unless it turns out that the French magistrates were just looking for an opportunity to turn their noses up at America, rather than voicing any real opinion on IP laws. And France is hardly a political trendsetter for US policy. It's not like Bush said, "Hey hold up guys.. France isn't going with us to Iraq. Maybe we should reconsider this whole thing."
If you are speeding to the point where you are actually a danger you are charged with reckless endangerment or reckless driving.
Speeding is one of the least likely causes of an accident; it's simply the only risk that's easily visable/measurable from the side of the road, and therefore the only risk that's enforcable without resorting to checkpoints.
I believe there are recorded cases of prisoners dying from nicotine withdrawal.
Well, yeah.. take cigarettes away from a prison population and that's what happens.. Have you ever been a smoker, or been around someone who's quitting? They'd kill a kitten if it looked at 'em funny.
Tylenol 3&4 (acetominaphine with codeine) are OTC in many countries, including Australia and Korea. They don't seem to have a huge problem with it there. Although since I was only a tourist, maybe someone else can comment further.
America needs more satire like that about domestic policy in popular media. Comedians have done a great deal to impact public perception since at least the time of Johnathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels." Comedy is one of the most effective ways to educate and entertain at the same time (when done right), but it seems like the only targets since 2001 have been celebrities and foreign policy.
"It's like condemning people for driving too fast after selling them cars that go 250 kmh."
Yeah, cause that never happ.. er, wait..
I need to move to France. Government officials that are confused by the concepts of capability and responsibility are just the thing I've been looking for. "But sir, you can't issue me a speeding ticket.. clearly if I was able to buy a car that goes 140MPH, I have every right to drive that fast. Don't blame me, blame the auto industry!"
- Unless you switch to insulating pipe at about 3000ft (The point at which the water starts becoming warmer), you're likely to have little or no net change in temperature, since the water will heat up as it ascends.
But filterless operation might prove to be worth the hassle.. It's not my project, but it seems like making the pipe anything other than a simple, single material insulated tube is just asking for an expensive problem.. it's not cheap to do underwater repairs.The problem with constantly writing prequels is that they're not really interesting. You know what's going to happen, and some measure of whether or not a movie is good is how easily you can anticipate the ending. Most people don't enjoy knowing the ending in advance.
If anything, this series needs some sequels. It needs to go in an unforseen direction, not tell more backstory. People can fill in the beginning by themselves.. we're good at speculating what could have caused something.. we're not quite as good at seeing the result of our actions in advance. That's what's entertaining for most of us; not rehashing midichlorians.
Ocean thermal energy poses no more hazard of disrupting ocean currents, than windmills do of stopping the wind.
Holy crap, windmills are stopping the wind!?!
My concern is, what if the pipe sucks up all these exotic bottom-dwelling fish?
I'm sure there will be a grate on the bottom of the pipe to prevent large animals from entering. Smaller animals will get caught in later filters, but it's a stationary pipe, and the ocean is a very big place. It's hardly likely to cause mass extinction, but there are other techniques to prevent unintentional damage to wildlife.. Holes placed at an angle could provide an escape route, etc.. Although I doubt they'd bother unless they found they were sucking up so much wildlife that it was clogging the filters fast enough to be of concern.
Also, the water isn't likely to be moving fast enough that a fish couldn't swim out of it. How often do you see a fish get sucked into a fishtank filter? Most fish actually hide behind the filter tube, and it doesn't seem to bother them at all. I'm sure some fish will get sucked up in the process, but certainly nothing on the scale of, for example, commercial fishing.
It's like the old trick where you put a glass under water, then turn it upside down and lift it out of the water. Until you provide a way for the air to displace the water, like lifting it far enough out of the body of water, it can't escape.
Instead of a glass, think of it as a U shaped pipe rising up out of the water. There's still no way for air to get in. It only takes a little bit of power to circulate the water, because you've negated the effects of gravity.. the weight of the water pulling down on one side is almost (aside from differences in density) exactly the same as the weight of the water on the other side. You're essentially just pumping water on a level plane, which doesn't take much power. The fact that one side of the pipe is 7000 feet below sea level is mostly irrelevant, because the pipe enters and exits the ocean at sea level.
Obviously they can't dunk the facility underwater to fill the pipe, so they have to provide enough power to pump a few thousand gallons into the pipe to get it going.. that requires a substantial amount of power. I imagine this would have to be done every so often after they shut down the system for cleaning and maintenance though.
Incidentally, ships generate their potable water through a very similar process. The (relatively) cool seawater is pumped through pipes in a unit containing warmer air. The water condenses on the pipes, drips into the reservoir, and then it's filtered and used for drinking, bathing, and steam. The filters on these things need to be cleaned pretty often since all kinds of biological and mineral deposits form on the filters after even 1 day of use.
I imagine there will be several paths for the water to flow through filters, so they can shut off one and clean it without needing to shut down the whole system.
The only immediate drawback I see (living on one of the Marianas Islands myself), is that we're sitting on the edge of the ring of fire, and there tend to be quakes pretty regularly. Actually almost constantly at small levels.. the seismographic charts here are never flat lines. It's annoying to lose water due to a ruptured water main, but if one of these huge pipes were to crack, it could be catastrophic.
You make interesting points, but it really comes down to one question:
Can they afford the legal battle?
Until the answer to this question is yes, all others will remain unanswered. As it stands, the mere threat of legal action is enough to send anyone with less than deep pockets scurrying.
I preferred Full Metal Jacket..
Joker: How can you shoot women and children?
Gunner: Easy... you just don't lead 'em so much.
Right.. I guess they hacked the customs website as well.
This is ridiculous.. Nobody downloads crappy workprint or telesync copies of a movie as a substitute for going to the theater or buying the DVD.
.xvid.dvdrip.proper's are for.
That's what
"Curse those BitTorrenters.. if it wasn't for them, we'd have the highest three day weekend grossing movie of all time instead of just the second-highest."
just call up and say "I have half a clue what I'm doing"
"I'm sorry sir, we don't support Linux."
It was a joke..
Hence the next line which reads, "Joking aside.."
Damage your prefrontal lobe lately?
As someone who has a family member with Lupus, I call absolute bullshit on this.
/. would someone make a(n arguably) rational argument against irrational behavior.
Only on
But thanks. I'm pretty sure there was someone on here who needed the absuridity of this article pointed out in no uncertain terms.
Besides the bad dialog, bad acting, and lack luster light saber fights, there is even a problem with the space battles. Just because you can put a million things on screen at once, doesn't mean you should. There are so many things wizzing around, which are way too colourful, and panning and 3d circle arounds etc. You need the grittiness, of the ships just looking grey. You need to subtract about 1000 ships. You need to lock the camera way more.
Couldn't agree more. What's with everything looking nice and colorful in these movies? It's not the Star Wars tone at all. I understand it was the fall of an empire of prosperity, but really.. faddish yellow hovercraft in 3, shiny silver ships in 2.. it seems too rooted in current trends and ideas of cool rather than the timeless utilitarian look of the original SWs. And I could buy that Chewbacca was a crossbow slingin' beast in the original trilogy, but a whole tribe of them in 3, who all wear the exact same holster (or whatever that strap is)? It's a perfect demonstration of the "more is more" philosophy in all three of the newest trilogy. More is NOT more, it's redundant, disbelievable, and it distracts from the important characters and issues. I mean why do we even use close-ups when we've got satellites in space? Why not just shoot all movies from up there? Then you're not limited to the main characters; you can see what everybody on the continent is doing!! Brilliant!
The whole CGI thing is overrated in my opinion. Skins don't stretch naturally, droids are too shiny, the lighting isn't quite right, the actors and CGI characters' eyes aren't quite looking at each other.. Honestly, Finding Nemo was more believable than most of the CGI in SW. Yoda did look better in the third installment, but ya know what? He looked fine as a puppet. His entire face was animated, the texture of his skin looked solid (as opposed to the strange translucent quality it seems to gain with CGI), and more importantly, it was what people were used to seeing. You already sold him once, why reinvent the wheel?
I also thought it was a little gandiose to use such ridiculous character names for EVERYONE in the new trilogy. We've got [M]anakin, Princess Omni domni, Darth [In]sideous (Where'd Lucas ever come up with the creative juices for that one? Probably right after thinking up Darth Maul), Dooku, Jar-Jar, blah blah, etc. etc. What happened to standard names like Luke, Hans, and Leah? They actually lent a realism to the characters. Fine, aliens should have weird names, and maybe some humans like Obi Wan, but not everyone.
The movies completely lacked a sense of any real conflict or risk, but not just because everyone knew that Yoda, Obi Wan, and Anakin wouldn't die.. It's pretty much a guarantee that the main characters of any movie aren't going to die (unless it's a "horror" flick), but there are still a plethera of methods to get the audience to concern themselves with what might happen.
And of course, there's the completely unbelievable personal interactions. Hayden's leering in Episode 2 is so over the top you think he's about to break out with, "It puts the lotion on its skin!" at any moment, and in the next breath they're making out like pre-teens under the bleachers. Right after he gets done whining about "It's not fair!" And then the ever tactful Princess Amnadawhatever crassly says, "Oh he's not a jedi; he's just a padiwan." Suddenly we turn around in Episode 3 and she's a doting housewife who can't do anything for herself.. a complete 180.
And then there's the plot, most of which is meaningless subtext. I agree completely with another poster who suggested cutting important bits from 1 and 2, cutting fluff from 3, and making THAT Episode 1. Episodes 2 and 3 should have developed the role of the rebellion and led more into 4.
Oh well.. in 100 years when the copyrights expire, someone will do a remake and get it right.
Who looks back on their deathbead and says, "You know, I really wish I'd spent more time at work"?
Workaholics.
And why are you so afraid of death?
Most living things are afraid of death. Even an ant will quickly try to scurry away if your thumb misses it the first time. That's what keeps us alive. Sure, we can be trained not to fear death.. we have religion to give us a nice warm fuzzy about it, as one of the other posters noted indirectly by insinuating that the grandparent was afraid of hell rather than death. But it's a biological imperative that we fear death. We don't reproduce quite as fast as lemmings, so there's not much else keeping us alive as a species.
Some people accept old age and death gracefully. I have no problem with that; that's fine for them. Some of us enjoy the experience of life, and can think of things we'd like do with more time.