I was going to mod you Informative, but I wanted to comment instead. Pretend it's marked informative.
I'm not sure the price tag on Spider-man 2 is... Box Office Mojo maintains a magnificent resource for how movies did in the box office. They have lots of top 10 lists and such.
Their Spider-Man 2 page claims $210M spent on production and $50M was estimated to be spent on advertising. It's already broken the record for best releases on a Wednesday and best one-day box office receipts.
Movies are expensive because people steal from them in the past. If there wasn't a multi-billion dollar deficit perceived by the MPAA (take that fact how you want), ticket prices wouldn't be going as high.
It's similar to the cost of Windows. People justify pirating copies of Windows because it costs too much. Microsoft sees their income slow down but the Windows Update usage goes up and must raise prices to get their target income from Windows. Then the whole process begins again, the price goes up and more people pirate.
Pirates are just doing it to themselves. I heard (a while ago mind you) that if there was no piracy in Windows, Windows would cost about $40 because that's the price that would set Microsoft to get how much money they want from the sale of Windows.
I was going to spread some mod points around this topic, but I'll respond.
Both Honda and Chrysler are doing tests. On TV, I also saw an engineering school equip a Silhouette minivan with a computer that could drive the minivan. They did a test from the east coast to the west coast, and the car drove itself about 97.5% of the way across the country. A couple guys rode along in case, say, they encountered freshly paved areas with no lines on the road.
The minivan was equipped with color cameras and image recognition to find lines in the road, other vehicles and such. The main one was behind the rear-view mirror. It's harder because you can't use ultrasonic. They had to come up with algorithims to detect lines in the road. You'd need some method of differentiating flat yellow lines from a black background.
it's the 90CS Quattro Sport, 5 speed. The car itself weights just shy of 3500 lbs, and then there's occupants. I'm still amazed at how agile it is with all that weight being pulled around by a 2.8L engine. The AudiWorld page for my particular car says 19mpg city, 24mpg highway but I can get closer to 30 in the city if I manage to not do craziness around town. I tend to shift at lower RPM's, I catch some flak for it but I go to the gas pump half as much as they do.
Everyone that's driven this car is very surprised because it doesn't look like much but it can handle the rice boys fine. If it's in anything except clear conditions, don't even try. You've never lived till you spin all 4 wheels on gravel or ice while it gets grip. I can't imagine what putting a supercharger on there will do. I've had the car for over 2 years and I still get goosebumps from the performance.
DOSBox really isn't meant to run things too far up the flagpole.
I'd recommend running Bochs for stuff between Windows 3.11 and Windows 98. It's more contained than DOSBox but it's nice and free and does a decent job. It works better in Linux than Windows too. Bochs rochs the sochs. (sorry, I just had to.)
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Down here in Richmond Virginia, there is a coffee shop owner that has a wall facing a major intersection in Richmond. Seeing as how art is rather popular here (VCU being *the* art school around, with art galleries and museums too), grafitti and art in general is all around. It's on buildings, box cars, people draw it on drawing pads, whatever. Anywho, the shop owner got in touch with some artists and got an agreement that the artists can write over the whole wall, preferably more at the top where it's more visible for free if they keep their personal tag visible but not obtrusive. It's good to find out about people embracing a part of the culture like that.
Have you actually seen the picture? If not, here it is. Does that look like the face of someone that is thinking it's not a big deal. Like other people have said, when you are the president of a world power, running out of the classroom with kids isn't the best course of action. I read somewhere that secret service agents didn't really see a need to rush the president to safety. They knew that planes have been flown into buildings and were poised to respond if a plane was on the way.
Plus, few people say this, but profiles of these terrorists say they strike non-moving targets. Al-Qaeda terrorists have been reported as taking as much time as they need to carry out a plan, plans that last years. They also target non-moving things like buildings that will be there indefinitely. The terrorists don't have the planning and strategy to bomb a school where the president will only be at for a short time during one day.
I'll let everyone else disect everything else you said.
The movie is breaking all-time theater records all over the United States.
Since when? Over at Box Office Mojo, they report Fahrenheit 9/11 best record is that it ranks 19th for this years best weekend openings (not counting the ratings on the site). What theater records are you talking about?
Next to my commentary...
Micheal Moore is not a documentarian, he's barely a director, save for the fact he produces footage arranged in movie form. He uses the pain of others (like the mother that Micheal Moore demanded read her letter to the camera and the entire world that her now-deceased marine husband wrote) to enact his own agenda. He edits pieces out so people only see what he wants them to see, aka, he's a director, not a documentarian.
This is nothing more than a 116 minute political ad a third party made. Kerry didn't sign off on it, he doesn't even want to be associated with such a character as Michael Moore. Moore might make some money because both sides want to see what all the fuss is about, but it will only sway some uncomitted voters.
I'm not pro-Bush, but I'm also not pro-Moore or Kerry. I'm someone that is still waiting for a good president.
That's the problem with the American job market and why jobs are being outsourced. Too many people expect to make the big bucks immediately. Even raising the minimum wage is helping price American workers out of the market.
If you're an employer and you have for example $50 to pay 7 workers on job X. If you put in the paper you have programming job X for $7/hr, a bunch of teenagers or college graduates might pass it over because they want the $10/hr or $12/hr jobs because fresh college graduates think they should earn enough money for a car, house, etc... If 4 people that are qualified enough apply, they can be paid the $7/hr and then the remaining 3 can be outsourced to India for a fraction, thus saving you money. Face it, we did it to ourselves. People need to realize that there's a ladder system. When you start working for a living, you have to understand you're place in the working world.
My mom told me how she met 2 Polish immigrants, 18 and 19, today applying for work at the gocery store she was shopping at. They currently work 4pm till 1am cleaning at a Best Western and such and wanted a second job 7am till 3pm (1hr to walk to the grocery store, and 6hr's to sleep). These immigrants are coming, willing to be hired at lower rates than the average American late teen of the same age.
My sister (20 year old natural US citizen) recently unofficially quit (just didn't ask for hours) after 2 weeks of working at PetSmart because it was too hard to clean bird poop for 2 hours then to "deal with customers". Her boss calls and asks when she is going to come back because my sister told him she's going on vacation, which is a lie. I can't begin to tell you how sickening this is, here a manager is practically begging for my sister to work a rather easy job (indoors, play with animals all day) and 2 Polish immigrants that work the graveyard shift at the local Best Western that clean rooms and take out the trash want a second job.
If this lesson isn't learned by the new working generation coming up, that you have to pay your dues early on and then get repaid back later, it's going to get worse.
I have a friend that works at a Regal theater (part of a chain of theaters) and he says (while giving me free movie tickets) that concessions (popcorn, candy, whatever) is what keeps the movie theater running. The ticket sales pay for the movie theater's bill to rent the cans of film, and to supplement the income, they also show ads here too because they get more greedy. It's all about the money.
I was shopping in to get my dad something at a Circuit City and I knew what I wanted. I walked fast and no less than 2 employees asked me if I had any questions. I stood there for 2 minutes comparing brands, prices and features, 2 different employees came by and asked me again and just stood there watching me chose.
At the same store, later that day... I went to that same store with this woman I was fixing her computer, she had to write a check. I was getting a copy of Windows XP (70 year old women don't have time enough to learn Linux) to upgrade her Windows 98 machine. I was holding the box in clear view, shaking it because it's an empty display box. No employee comes to ask if I have questions for several minutes, I had to go chase down an employee to fetch the item.
I've had GetMail forwarding my MSN email to my new gmail account I got yesterday, and last night it stopped working. I was wondering what was going on because I could log into MSN and see my emails kept getting bounced and gotten bigger because I was forwarding then erasing messages, but they'd bounce back with error info to enlarge the email.
Informative, my ass. He's saying of OS X and Windows switched places, there would be just as much malware, spyware, viruses and the like. Sure, they might not use Autorun, but they'd get in. Only a fool would think they are 100% secure. Just goes to add another one up to the mindless "Steve Jobs is God" zombie scoreboard. I agree with what the grandparent said, all OS's have problems, it's just Windows problems are magnified by the media (read: slashdot in this case).
I have a Hauppauge BT878 card I had in my desktop (got it before PVR-250/PVR-350). I got a laptop and a Pinnacle PCTV Deluxe, some people have bad experiences but I have had a pretty good time with it. I like the Pinnacle box because it records to MPEG-1 or 2 easily. Edit out commercials with Virtual Dub with MPEG-2 and you're all set to do what you need with it, encode to DivX, MPEG-x, whatever.
I always make jokes to friends that like NASCAR that NASCAR teams have extensive tests to make sure the steering wheel can turn left. They have guys for tires, guys for gas, and one guy to replace the non-left-turning steering wheel when there is one.
F1 is cool, the fact that the engines have pneumatic ignitions (aka use a compressor to start the car) because it idles at 9000 RPM's, and redlines at 18,000 RPM's. However, my favorite type of racing is Rally racing, with the BTCC coming in a close second.
Some of this has been said in pieces, but I'll throw my punch...
By default, devices don't have write-caching so you can simply unplug the device from a Windows computer. If you have a hard drive attached like me, you can turn on write-caching which speeds up data. In the corner, find the little icon, left-click it and up comes a device list, click what you want to disconnect. When it tells you to disconnect, do so.
Next time, don't exaggerate the facts to suit yourself, especially with some people that are used to Windows.
haha, you should have got me yesterday when I had some mod points to hand out. You're talking about a part of the Borg collective right? I hope so because that's what I'm thinking of.
I would be very interested in comparing the two side-by-side if they voiced the same episode. You can't blame Lacey on the writing and directing she was lending her voice to.
To me, the Lacey episodes (first production season), the crew was kind of feeling around the dark, finding what jokes work with the audience, how the people involved in production work together, et al. I have season 1 of The Simpsons on DVD, and they were just about the worst episodes only because they are starting up, the writers were getting comfortable with the material, characters, feeling out the series, and they didn't change any voices. Sure, the voices matured over the years but the voice actors stayed the same.
I can't help but wonder why they replaced Lacey with Mila, was it because the show was becoming more popular, that they wanted a more familiar voice on Meg? Did Lacey just not like filling that role, so they plucked Mila from That 70's Show? I'd like to know.
Yes, but the writers could have planned the two being linked before both episodes were written. Isn't it conceivable that they could have used the fact that Fry is his own grandfather earlier, then detailing how Fry became his own grandfather later?
yes, I've seen the episode. Maybe it was that way to setup the later episode where the Nibblers tapped Fry to save mankind from the Brains and needed some reason to seperate him out from everyone else. Remember the delta brain waves, humans and some plants have it but Fry doesn't, because he is his own grandfather? If anything, the fact that he did sleep with his grandmother is nothing more than a gross-out plot, it by no means undermines their writing.
That's Fox's fault. Futurama kept on being pre-empted by sports, moved around and basically becoming a programming ragdoll for Fox. The same thing happened to Family Guy, they had less episodes made (50, compared to Futurama's 75) and they are coming back on the air. Some buzz is going around that Futurama could share in the same fate, it's possible because Fox doesn't own the rights to Futurama like they do with Family Guy. Groening and Co. just made episodes and Fox paid them to show them on Fox.
I've watched extensive hours of The Simpsons, Futurama and Family Guy and I've come to this conclusion...
The Simpsons is the series with the biggest environment. Have you seen the picture with about 200 people from The Simpsons on it? They mix humor with a wide spectrum of different characters and get a great show.
Futurama has the best writing, hands down, no question about it. You listen to the commentary of why certain elements were in it, and you think to yourself "wow, that's pretty sneaky". Plus, the seamless blend of computer animation and hand-drawn animation by Rough Draft Korea makes it the best animated series.
Family Guy has the best jokes IMO. Family Guy doesn't hold punches when they lay down jokes. The Simpsons has their funny jokes, Futurama has smart jokes, but Family Guy has gut-busting jokes that go to new heights. The only thing I'd change is put Lacey Chabert back as the voice of Meg, when I hear Mila Kunis' whiny voice, I think of Jackie, not Meg.
I was going to expend some mod points on this discussion, but this deserves a reply instead.
You can use those relative titles ("niece", "uncle", "sisters-brother", etc...) and prove that you are your own grandfather. I don't know exactly the way to prove it, I can't seem to quickly find information through Google, but I know it's been done. It's a flaw in the whole relative title system. It just shows that him going back and becoming his own grandfather is another proof of Futurama's quality writing.
A friend of mine worked for Domino's Pizza and offered me one of their pizza delivery bags... for a price. He wanted me to give him like $20 or $30 for his trouble but I passed. I was going to sew a strap on it and use it as a backpack but I just wasn't all that into spending as much money as he wanted. Sure, looking like you're carrying a pizza vertically looks weird but it's a lot less conspicuous than me carrying around a bag with "Dell" written all over it.
This is true. Look at the intro when Bart is on his skateboard, he skates by Moe's Tavern, and the next store he pases is one that sells TV's, but everyone knows King Toot's Music Store is next to Moe's.
I always thought that they should re-animate the intro, keeping the same things going on, just updating how everything is drawn now that the animators have had 15 years to get drawing Homer's head just right.
I don't think I can ever surrender my all-combustion engine for hybrids or alternative fuel cars. I like the smell of gasoline (cleans engine oil off pretty well too), the turn of the key, seeing the engine twist as I press the gas, hearing the engine RPM's rise as I press the gas. Sure, I'll probably get a futuristic car, but I'll always have my all-combustion-powered car in the garage to never lose my roots. It's not like the government is going to switch from gasoline to Hydrogen fuel next year so I have plenty of time.
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I was going to mod you Informative, but I wanted to comment instead. Pretend it's marked informative.
I'm not sure the price tag on Spider-man 2 is...
Box Office Mojo maintains a magnificent resource for how movies did in the box office. They have lots of top 10 lists and such.
Their Spider-Man 2 page claims $210M spent on production and $50M was estimated to be spent on advertising. It's already broken the record for best releases on a Wednesday and best one-day box office receipts.
Movies are expensive because people steal from them in the past. If there wasn't a multi-billion dollar deficit perceived by the MPAA (take that fact how you want), ticket prices wouldn't be going as high.
It's similar to the cost of Windows. People justify pirating copies of Windows because it costs too much. Microsoft sees their income slow down but the Windows Update usage goes up and must raise prices to get their target income from Windows. Then the whole process begins again, the price goes up and more people pirate.
Pirates are just doing it to themselves. I heard (a while ago mind you) that if there was no piracy in Windows, Windows would cost about $40 because that's the price that would set Microsoft to get how much money they want from the sale of Windows.
I was going to spread some mod points around this topic, but I'll respond.
Both Honda and Chrysler are doing tests. On TV, I also saw an engineering school equip a Silhouette minivan with a computer that could drive the minivan. They did a test from the east coast to the west coast, and the car drove itself about 97.5% of the way across the country. A couple guys rode along in case, say, they encountered freshly paved areas with no lines on the road.
The minivan was equipped with color cameras and image recognition to find lines in the road, other vehicles and such. The main one was behind the rear-view mirror. It's harder because you can't use ultrasonic. They had to come up with algorithims to detect lines in the road. You'd need some method of differentiating flat yellow lines from a black background.
it's the 90CS Quattro Sport, 5 speed. The car itself weights just shy of 3500 lbs, and then there's occupants. I'm still amazed at how agile it is with all that weight being pulled around by a 2.8L engine. The AudiWorld page for my particular car says 19mpg city, 24mpg highway but I can get closer to 30 in the city if I manage to not do craziness around town. I tend to shift at lower RPM's, I catch some flak for it but I go to the gas pump half as much as they do.
Everyone that's driven this car is very surprised because it doesn't look like much but it can handle the rice boys fine. If it's in anything except clear conditions, don't even try. You've never lived till you spin all 4 wheels on gravel or ice while it gets grip. I can't imagine what putting a supercharger on there will do. I've had the car for over 2 years and I still get goosebumps from the performance.
DOSBox really isn't meant to run things too far up the flagpole.
I'd recommend running Bochs for stuff between Windows 3.11 and Windows 98. It's more contained than DOSBox but it's nice and free and does a decent job. It works better in Linux than Windows too. Bochs rochs the sochs. (sorry, I just had to.)
Down here in Richmond Virginia, there is a coffee shop owner that has a wall facing a major intersection in Richmond. Seeing as how art is rather popular here (VCU being *the* art school around, with art galleries and museums too), grafitti and art in general is all around. It's on buildings, box cars, people draw it on drawing pads, whatever. Anywho, the shop owner got in touch with some artists and got an agreement that the artists can write over the whole wall, preferably more at the top where it's more visible for free if they keep their personal tag visible but not obtrusive. It's good to find out about people embracing a part of the culture like that.
Have you actually seen the picture? If not, here it is. Does that look like the face of someone that is thinking it's not a big deal. Like other people have said, when you are the president of a world power, running out of the classroom with kids isn't the best course of action. I read somewhere that secret service agents didn't really see a need to rush the president to safety. They knew that planes have been flown into buildings and were poised to respond if a plane was on the way.
Plus, few people say this, but profiles of these terrorists say they strike non-moving targets. Al-Qaeda terrorists have been reported as taking as much time as they need to carry out a plan, plans that last years. They also target non-moving things like buildings that will be there indefinitely. The terrorists don't have the planning and strategy to bomb a school where the president will only be at for a short time during one day.
I'll let everyone else disect everything else you said.
The movie is breaking all-time theater records all over the United States.
Since when? Over at Box Office Mojo, they report Fahrenheit 9/11 best record is that it ranks 19th for this years best weekend openings (not counting the ratings on the site). What theater records are you talking about?
Next to my commentary...
Micheal Moore is not a documentarian, he's barely a director, save for the fact he produces footage arranged in movie form. He uses the pain of others (like the mother that Micheal Moore demanded read her letter to the camera and the entire world that her now-deceased marine husband wrote) to enact his own agenda. He edits pieces out so people only see what he wants them to see, aka, he's a director, not a documentarian.
This is nothing more than a 116 minute political ad a third party made. Kerry didn't sign off on it, he doesn't even want to be associated with such a character as Michael Moore. Moore might make some money because both sides want to see what all the fuss is about, but it will only sway some uncomitted voters.
I'm not pro-Bush, but I'm also not pro-Moore or Kerry. I'm someone that is still waiting for a good president.
That's the problem with the American job market and why jobs are being outsourced. Too many people expect to make the big bucks immediately. Even raising the minimum wage is helping price American workers out of the market.
If you're an employer and you have for example $50 to pay 7 workers on job X. If you put in the paper you have programming job X for $7/hr, a bunch of teenagers or college graduates might pass it over because they want the $10/hr or $12/hr jobs because fresh college graduates think they should earn enough money for a car, house, etc... If 4 people that are qualified enough apply, they can be paid the $7/hr and then the remaining 3 can be outsourced to India for a fraction, thus saving you money. Face it, we did it to ourselves. People need to realize that there's a ladder system. When you start working for a living, you have to understand you're place in the working world.
My mom told me how she met 2 Polish immigrants, 18 and 19, today applying for work at the gocery store she was shopping at. They currently work 4pm till 1am cleaning at a Best Western and such and wanted a second job 7am till 3pm (1hr to walk to the grocery store, and 6hr's to sleep). These immigrants are coming, willing to be hired at lower rates than the average American late teen of the same age.
My sister (20 year old natural US citizen) recently unofficially quit (just didn't ask for hours) after 2 weeks of working at PetSmart because it was too hard to clean bird poop for 2 hours then to "deal with customers". Her boss calls and asks when she is going to come back because my sister told him she's going on vacation, which is a lie. I can't begin to tell you how sickening this is, here a manager is practically begging for my sister to work a rather easy job (indoors, play with animals all day) and 2 Polish immigrants that work the graveyard shift at the local Best Western that clean rooms and take out the trash want a second job.
If this lesson isn't learned by the new working generation coming up, that you have to pay your dues early on and then get repaid back later, it's going to get worse.
I have a friend that works at a Regal theater (part of a chain of theaters) and he says (while giving me free movie tickets) that concessions (popcorn, candy, whatever) is what keeps the movie theater running. The ticket sales pay for the movie theater's bill to rent the cans of film, and to supplement the income, they also show ads here too because they get more greedy. It's all about the money.
I was shopping in to get my dad something at a Circuit City and I knew what I wanted. I walked fast and no less than 2 employees asked me if I had any questions. I stood there for 2 minutes comparing brands, prices and features, 2 different employees came by and asked me again and just stood there watching me chose.
At the same store, later that day... I went to that same store with this woman I was fixing her computer, she had to write a check. I was getting a copy of Windows XP (70 year old women don't have time enough to learn Linux) to upgrade her Windows 98 machine. I was holding the box in clear view, shaking it because it's an empty display box. No employee comes to ask if I have questions for several minutes, I had to go chase down an employee to fetch the item.
I've had GetMail forwarding my MSN email to my new gmail account I got yesterday, and last night it stopped working. I was wondering what was going on because I could log into MSN and see my emails kept getting bounced and gotten bigger because I was forwarding then erasing messages, but they'd bounce back with error info to enlarge the email.
Informative, my ass. He's saying of OS X and Windows switched places, there would be just as much malware, spyware, viruses and the like. Sure, they might not use Autorun, but they'd get in. Only a fool would think they are 100% secure. Just goes to add another one up to the mindless "Steve Jobs is God" zombie scoreboard. I agree with what the grandparent said, all OS's have problems, it's just Windows problems are magnified by the media (read: slashdot in this case).
I have a Hauppauge BT878 card I had in my desktop (got it before PVR-250/PVR-350). I got a laptop and a Pinnacle PCTV Deluxe, some people have bad experiences but I have had a pretty good time with it. I like the Pinnacle box because it records to MPEG-1 or 2 easily. Edit out commercials with Virtual Dub with MPEG-2 and you're all set to do what you need with it, encode to DivX, MPEG-x, whatever.
It just depends on what your needs are...
I always make jokes to friends that like NASCAR that NASCAR teams have extensive tests to make sure the steering wheel can turn left. They have guys for tires, guys for gas, and one guy to replace the non-left-turning steering wheel when there is one.
F1 is cool, the fact that the engines have pneumatic ignitions (aka use a compressor to start the car) because it idles at 9000 RPM's, and redlines at 18,000 RPM's. However, my favorite type of racing is Rally racing, with the BTCC coming in a close second.
Some of this has been said in pieces, but I'll throw my punch...
By default, devices don't have write-caching so you can simply unplug the device from a Windows computer. If you have a hard drive attached like me, you can turn on write-caching which speeds up data. In the corner, find the little icon, left-click it and up comes a device list, click what you want to disconnect. When it tells you to disconnect, do so.
Next time, don't exaggerate the facts to suit yourself, especially with some people that are used to Windows.
haha, you should have got me yesterday when I had some mod points to hand out. You're talking about a part of the Borg collective right? I hope so because that's what I'm thinking of.
I would be very interested in comparing the two side-by-side if they voiced the same episode. You can't blame Lacey on the writing and directing she was lending her voice to.
To me, the Lacey episodes (first production season), the crew was kind of feeling around the dark, finding what jokes work with the audience, how the people involved in production work together, et al. I have season 1 of The Simpsons on DVD, and they were just about the worst episodes only because they are starting up, the writers were getting comfortable with the material, characters, feeling out the series, and they didn't change any voices. Sure, the voices matured over the years but the voice actors stayed the same.
I can't help but wonder why they replaced Lacey with Mila, was it because the show was becoming more popular, that they wanted a more familiar voice on Meg? Did Lacey just not like filling that role, so they plucked Mila from That 70's Show? I'd like to know.
Yes, but the writers could have planned the two being linked before both episodes were written. Isn't it conceivable that they could have used the fact that Fry is his own grandfather earlier, then detailing how Fry became his own grandfather later?
yes, I've seen the episode. Maybe it was that way to setup the later episode where the Nibblers tapped Fry to save mankind from the Brains and needed some reason to seperate him out from everyone else. Remember the delta brain waves, humans and some plants have it but Fry doesn't, because he is his own grandfather? If anything, the fact that he did sleep with his grandmother is nothing more than a gross-out plot, it by no means undermines their writing.
That's Fox's fault. Futurama kept on being pre-empted by sports, moved around and basically becoming a programming ragdoll for Fox. The same thing happened to Family Guy, they had less episodes made (50, compared to Futurama's 75) and they are coming back on the air. Some buzz is going around that Futurama could share in the same fate, it's possible because Fox doesn't own the rights to Futurama like they do with Family Guy. Groening and Co. just made episodes and Fox paid them to show them on Fox.
I've watched extensive hours of The Simpsons, Futurama and Family Guy and I've come to this conclusion...
The Simpsons is the series with the biggest environment. Have you seen the picture with about 200 people from The Simpsons on it? They mix humor with a wide spectrum of different characters and get a great show.
Futurama has the best writing, hands down, no question about it. You listen to the commentary of why certain elements were in it, and you think to yourself "wow, that's pretty sneaky". Plus, the seamless blend of computer animation and hand-drawn animation by Rough Draft Korea makes it the best animated series.
Family Guy has the best jokes IMO. Family Guy doesn't hold punches when they lay down jokes. The Simpsons has their funny jokes, Futurama has smart jokes, but Family Guy has gut-busting jokes that go to new heights. The only thing I'd change is put Lacey Chabert back as the voice of Meg, when I hear Mila Kunis' whiny voice, I think of Jackie, not Meg.
I was going to expend some mod points on this discussion, but this deserves a reply instead.
You can use those relative titles ("niece", "uncle", "sisters-brother", etc...) and prove that you are your own grandfather. I don't know exactly the way to prove it, I can't seem to quickly find information through Google, but I know it's been done. It's a flaw in the whole relative title system. It just shows that him going back and becoming his own grandfather is another proof of Futurama's quality writing.
A friend of mine worked for Domino's Pizza and offered me one of their pizza delivery bags... for a price. He wanted me to give him like $20 or $30 for his trouble but I passed. I was going to sew a strap on it and use it as a backpack but I just wasn't all that into spending as much money as he wanted. Sure, looking like you're carrying a pizza vertically looks weird but it's a lot less conspicuous than me carrying around a bag with "Dell" written all over it.
This is true. Look at the intro when Bart is on his skateboard, he skates by Moe's Tavern, and the next store he pases is one that sells TV's, but everyone knows King Toot's Music Store is next to Moe's.
I always thought that they should re-animate the intro, keeping the same things going on, just updating how everything is drawn now that the animators have had 15 years to get drawing Homer's head just right.
I don't think I can ever surrender my all-combustion engine for hybrids or alternative fuel cars. I like the smell of gasoline (cleans engine oil off pretty well too), the turn of the key, seeing the engine twist as I press the gas, hearing the engine RPM's rise as I press the gas. Sure, I'll probably get a futuristic car, but I'll always have my all-combustion-powered car in the garage to never lose my roots. It's not like the government is going to switch from gasoline to Hydrogen fuel next year so I have plenty of time.