I'm actually in DC- I worked tech support in Texas for years and have stuck with this account. It's served for 7 years, it can go a while longer (though everythings currently down).
I got involved through a friend of mine who backed out at the last second because of work. I'm not actually making the competition film this time, but rather making a documentary about making the competition film. The first time I met up with them through craigslist. They needed someone to do audio, something I've been doing since I was 12.
Editors are the most prized commodity. There are thousands of aspiring actors, directors and producers, but nobody wants to edit. Check out http://www.filmchallenge.com/ for more info. The National Film Challenge is nation-wide. They also sponsor a similar challenge http://www.48hourfilm.com/ in individual cities. Austin is the only Texas one.
Fortunately, DC has an awesome film community, and it lets me play around a little.
While this is entirely acceptable for porn (lets face it, quality expectations aren't at the top of your list), the process of getting a video that someone would want to watch while fully clothed is signifigantly more difficult.
This weekend I will be participating in my second 48 hour film making challenge this year. While we are working under time constraints, it still gives a good idea of how hard it is to turn out something. To get an decent product you need a 3 chip DV cam, external mic and mixer, color balanced lighting, and at least 5 editing hours for every filming hour. And even having all that doesn't insure that it looks any better than a Mexican soap opera.
Perhaps its because the human body is tied essentially to them?
Spare me the vegan propoganda. No, really, just spare me. I have sharp pointy teeth for a reason. Our most closely related cousins, chimpanzees, regularly eat meat. They hunt small mammals, they steal eggs, they eat insects. Australopithicines are estimated to have needed around 35% animal protien in their diet.
And yes, it is possible to substitute in things like beans and legumes to get the same protiens, fats, lipids, and other nutrients that are found in meat. But please recognize that it is a substitution.
Only in western countries are we so priveleged that we can decide to exclude whole classes of food from our diets for reasons of weight managment or conscience. Being vegan makes no more biological sense than being atkin.
Oh, and to stave off the rebuke- yes, I know where my meat comes from. I've lived on a farm, I've seen the cows, I know how they're killed, processed and used. I can point to a living cow and show you where my steak comes from. Yes, hormones are put in cows. Your soybeans may just be GM. Even if they're "certified organic" (a term for which the FDA assigns no meaning whatsoever) the field directly beside them probably isn't.
Truthfully, the Zero-G of a X-Prize shot would be the exact same phenomenon as this, only writ large. The idea is go up really high, and fall down really fast. The vomit comet does it at 40k feet, SpaceShip One does it at 62 miles.
Until you acheive orbital flight (and the world is falling endlessly out from under you) its really just a sustained free-fall.
If Siemens phones were 20-30 db than all other phones on the market, and they had caused signifigant amounts of damage to a large number of people before Siemens acknowledged there MIGHT be a problem- then yes, YOU SHOULD FUCKING SUE.
People forget in the "frivilous" McDonalds case that MickeyDees was serving coffee at 200 degrees, or about 20-30 degrees above industry standard, for three years. They KNEW that it had severly injured people. They had settled out of court before. All this one lady wanted was enough money to cover THIRD DEGREE BURNS to her crotch. McDonalds offered her 500 dollars. She sued for a few thousand- just enough to cover the SKIN GRAFTS her hospital stay required.
The jury then awarded her a multimillion dollar settlement that a judge reduced, that lawyers took their cut out of, and that had to cover her medical bills.
Please, if you don't have the slightest fucking clue in the world what you're talking about- dont.
Yes, John Edwards was a trial lawyer. He represented a 5 year old girl who was disembowled by a faulty swimming pool valve. But he's a mean evil lawyer, isn't he?
Ahh yes, another victim of the neocon propaganda machine. Hey, just because something is the "accepted" view doesn't mean that its the "kooky liberal leftie pinko commie bastard" view.
We won every major "battle" of the Vietnam war. Of which there were relatively few for a conflict as lengthy as it was. We lost nearly every engagement. Just because a victory is phrryic doesn't make it less of a victory.
All war is decided on the battlefied. If we could have truly brought overwhelming force to bear we would have won it. While our tactics may have been superior, our strategy was far and away outmatched. The VC strategy was one of harrassment, supply disruption, and waiting for the United States to leave.
The worst thing is that your post espouses the typical sentiment seen by neocons- the "your either with us or against us" sentiment. Just because any person did not support a war they felt was unjustified does not make them a "Viet Cong irregular" Hey, I dont like vegetables- does that mean that I support deforestation, agent orange, and killing all vegitarians?
In short- tactics != strategy. Good tactics != winning a war. Opposing a war != treason.
Oh, and in the list of "Post-Communist Nihilists" I would include the neocons biggest flunky- Ahmed Chalabi.
As an EMT, I just want to make a clarification. We EMTs don't really *treat* anything. We manage conditions until a person is stable enough to get to a hospital for treatment. Belive me, you dont want an EMT to treat you for a broken neck. Put you in a cervical collar and then a full spinal package for transport? Yea, you want that.
And another good point was raised in that all EMTs have an educational certification, but that's not what allows them to practice. The certification to work is issued by either an organization called the National Registry or the states themselves. That certification is dependant on course completion, skills demostration, and a surprisingly rigorous test.
All that being said, emergency medical work takes a great degree of creative problem solving. You ever tried to get someone out of a compact car (thats become much more compact) without turning their head? Just try it next time in your own car. Now imagine doing that in on an interstate covered in blood, glass, metal, and with broken legs.
Of course, the CSS Hunley was turned by a hand cranked screw and took 9 men in a 35 foot submarine to sink a wooden warship. A commited hobbiest could probably build a ship with the same capability with a crew of 1, an electric motor, and clock it in at 8 or 10 feet.
That being said, I doubt that if we re-launched sputnik today it would require the same size rocket. Engine efficiencies have increased by several orders of magnitude.
There might very well be, if you had spent 2 years to develop the first car ever privately built. I would imagine there was quite a stir when the first car pulled up to the theater and had to park alongside the horses.
I'll take this a step further. A group of local producers/students/actors and I are getting together an improv festival in D.C. this year. We're looking at offering a DVD of the live shows immediatley after each set, and then a compilation "best of" by order after the festival is over. Make cover art, credits and title shot ahead of time- then film the entire thing with a prosumer miniDV camera. Import it to FCP after the concert, slap the title and credits on it, burn it.
Here's the relation- we're running the sound through the mixer, into the camera. But, its going to be a dedicated submix for recording only- I will be mixing sound for dvd, not for live reinforcement. The venue is small enough to preclude the need for live sound amplification, so thats all were doing. The amazing thing is the sound equipment necessary to drive such an endevor is less than a thousand dollars. Add a 3K cannon GL2, and a mac laptop, and its a surprisingly affordable solution. Granted, it wont make our investment back, but the hardware has been bought for other uses. It does let us recoup some of our initial outlay, and keep our budget slightly afloat.
How about you just buy a CD duplicator ? FOr about 2 grand you can get a tower of cd-rs that will burn 8 CDs at once. That's much cheaper than 8, 1000 dollar machines. And their faster (not having to go though something like nero) and less likely to burn coasters.
I have a parking meeter "obtained" from the storage room of my local municipality about 20 years ago. They had been out of service for 10 years, and installed 10 before that. Old enough that you could buy 8 minuites for a penny, anyway. Now, when I was playing with it as a kid- it still worked. Heavy as hell, was death on toes, but it still worked. In 40 years, where will these be? How will they be safely disposed of?
Just like touch screen voting, this seems like a "because we can" application of technology. Sometimes there's no reason to replace what works. The old steel parking meters are quite literally bulletproof. I simply cant imagine any reason that makes networked meters any better.
Of course, when I moved to DC I sold my car and bought a bus pass, so what do I know?
I know this is a 4/1 joke. But if this were to happen most likely they would just have the issue that I do- two completely legal spellings of their name.
My birth certificate says Brodie. My social security card says Brody.
Drivers licence says Brodie. Passport says Brody.
The only time that its taken more than a 30 second explination was when I applied for the US foreign service. I just had to produce basically everything that I had to show that it was used consistently within document branches, and that there was no fraud involved.
So Br4d would probably just bubble in "Brad" when he took his SAT.
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You need a *legal* solution. This is something you should be talking to a layer about, and not /.
Great- Now I'm going to have the theme song for blades of steel stuck in my head all day long. Along with anyone who ever played it.
I'm actually in DC- I worked tech support in Texas for years and have stuck with this account. It's served for 7 years, it can go a while longer (though everythings currently down).
I got involved through a friend of mine who backed out at the last second because of work. I'm not actually making the competition film this time, but rather making a documentary about making the competition film. The first time I met up with them through craigslist. They needed someone to do audio, something I've been doing since I was 12.
Editors are the most prized commodity. There are thousands of aspiring actors, directors and producers, but nobody wants to edit. Check out http://www.filmchallenge.com/ for more info. The National Film Challenge is nation-wide. They also sponsor a similar challenge http://www.48hourfilm.com/ in individual cities. Austin is the only Texas one.
Fortunately, DC has an awesome film community, and it lets me play around a little.
While this is entirely acceptable for porn (lets face it, quality expectations aren't at the top of your list), the process of getting a video that someone would want to watch while fully clothed is signifigantly more difficult.
This weekend I will be participating in my second 48 hour film making challenge this year. While we are working under time constraints, it still gives a good idea of how hard it is to turn out something. To get an decent product you need a 3 chip DV cam, external mic and mixer, color balanced lighting, and at least 5 editing hours for every filming hour. And even having all that doesn't insure that it looks any better than a Mexican soap opera.
I could also choose to substitute oxygenated perfluorocarbon for air. Does this mean that breathing is no longer "unavoidable?"
Simply because a replacement is technically possible does not make it an acceptable solution.
Perhaps its because the human body is tied essentially to them?
Spare me the vegan propoganda. No, really, just spare me. I have sharp pointy teeth for a reason. Our most closely related cousins, chimpanzees, regularly eat meat. They hunt small mammals, they steal eggs, they eat insects. Australopithicines are estimated to have needed around 35% animal protien in their diet.
And yes, it is possible to substitute in things like beans and legumes to get the same protiens, fats, lipids, and other nutrients that are found in meat. But please recognize that it is a substitution.
Only in western countries are we so priveleged that we can decide to exclude whole classes of food from our diets for reasons of weight managment or conscience. Being vegan makes no more biological sense than being atkin.
Oh, and to stave off the rebuke- yes, I know where my meat comes from. I've lived on a farm, I've seen the cows, I know how they're killed, processed and used. I can point to a living cow and show you where my steak comes from. Yes, hormones are put in cows. Your soybeans may just be GM. Even if they're "certified organic" (a term for which the FDA assigns no meaning whatsoever) the field directly beside them probably isn't.
Truthfully, the Zero-G of a X-Prize shot would be the exact same phenomenon as this, only writ large. The idea is go up really high, and fall down really fast. The vomit comet does it at 40k feet, SpaceShip One does it at 62 miles.
Until you acheive orbital flight (and the world is falling endlessly out from under you) its really just a sustained free-fall.
Nah- this is a troll. Go fuck yourself.
Oh really? So how much can the average Enron employee expect from Lay, Skilling, et al?
By your analogy-
If Siemens phones were 20-30 db than all other phones on the market, and they had caused signifigant amounts of damage to a large number of people before Siemens acknowledged there MIGHT be a problem- then yes, YOU SHOULD FUCKING SUE.
People forget in the "frivilous" McDonalds case that MickeyDees was serving coffee at 200 degrees, or about 20-30 degrees above industry standard, for three years. They KNEW that it had severly injured people. They had settled out of court before. All this one lady wanted was enough money to cover THIRD DEGREE BURNS to her crotch. McDonalds offered her 500 dollars. She sued for a few thousand- just enough to cover the SKIN GRAFTS her hospital stay required.
The jury then awarded her a multimillion dollar settlement that a judge reduced, that lawyers took their cut out of, and that had to cover her medical bills.
Please, if you don't have the slightest fucking clue in the world what you're talking about- dont.
Yes, John Edwards was a trial lawyer. He represented a 5 year old girl who was disembowled by a faulty swimming pool valve. But he's a mean evil lawyer, isn't he?
Ah- didn't see the two strokes. The lesson, as usual, is that I am an idiot.
I actually understand "some damn economics."
Someone needs their snarkiness detector realigned perhaps?
This post (and the previous) were longer before my boss walked in.
"Any investment analyst will tell you that it's far better to have numerous low-priced shared than a few high-priced ones."
Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway (last seen trading at $88,075)might care to disagree witn you on that.
Very interesting- this was not the post that I had first replied to. They removed the parent of my post and re-branched me...
Ahh yes, another victim of the neocon propaganda machine. Hey, just because something is the "accepted" view doesn't mean that its the "kooky liberal leftie pinko commie bastard" view.
We won every major "battle" of the Vietnam war. Of which there were relatively few for a conflict as lengthy as it was. We lost nearly every engagement. Just because a victory is phrryic doesn't make it less of a victory.
All war is decided on the battlefied. If we could have truly brought overwhelming force to bear we would have won it. While our tactics may have been superior, our strategy was far and away outmatched. The VC strategy was one of harrassment, supply disruption, and waiting for the United States to leave.
The worst thing is that your post espouses the typical sentiment seen by neocons- the "your either with us or against us" sentiment. Just because any person did not support a war they felt was unjustified does not make them a "Viet Cong irregular" Hey, I dont like vegetables- does that mean that I support deforestation, agent orange, and killing all vegitarians?
In short- tactics != strategy. Good tactics != winning a war. Opposing a war != treason.
Oh, and in the list of "Post-Communist Nihilists" I would include the neocons biggest flunky- Ahmed Chalabi.
As an EMT, I just want to make a clarification. We EMTs don't really *treat* anything. We manage conditions until a person is stable enough to get to a hospital for treatment. Belive me, you dont want an EMT to treat you for a broken neck. Put you in a cervical collar and then a full spinal package for transport? Yea, you want that.
And another good point was raised in that all EMTs have an educational certification, but that's not what allows them to practice. The certification to work is issued by either an organization called the National Registry or the states themselves. That certification is dependant on course completion, skills demostration, and a surprisingly rigorous test.
All that being said, emergency medical work takes a great degree of creative problem solving. You ever tried to get someone out of a compact car (thats become much more compact) without turning their head? Just try it next time in your own car. Now imagine doing that in on an interstate covered in blood, glass, metal, and with broken legs.
Of course, the CSS Hunley was turned by a hand cranked screw and took 9 men in a 35 foot submarine to sink a wooden warship. A commited hobbiest could probably build a ship with the same capability with a crew of 1, an electric motor, and clock it in at 8 or 10 feet.
That being said, I doubt that if we re-launched sputnik today it would require the same size rocket. Engine efficiencies have increased by several orders of magnitude.
There might very well be, if you had spent 2 years to develop the first car ever privately built. I would imagine there was quite a stir when the first car pulled up to the theater and had to park alongside the horses.
That submissions are often accepted based on the user account they're submitted from?
I'll take this a step further. A group of local producers/students/actors and I are getting together an improv festival in D.C. this year. We're looking at offering a DVD of the live shows immediatley after each set, and then a compilation "best of" by order after the festival is over. Make cover art, credits and title shot ahead of time- then film the entire thing with a prosumer miniDV camera. Import it to FCP after the concert, slap the title and credits on it, burn it.
Here's the relation- we're running the sound through the mixer, into the camera. But, its going to be a dedicated submix for recording only- I will be mixing sound for dvd, not for live reinforcement. The venue is small enough to preclude the need for live sound amplification, so thats all were doing. The amazing thing is the sound equipment necessary to drive such an endevor is less than a thousand dollars. Add a 3K cannon GL2, and a mac laptop, and its a surprisingly affordable solution. Granted, it wont make our investment back, but the hardware has been bought for other uses. It does let us recoup some of our initial outlay, and keep our budget slightly afloat.
How about you just buy a CD duplicator ? FOr about 2 grand you can get a tower of cd-rs that will burn 8 CDs at once. That's much cheaper than 8, 1000 dollar machines. And their faster (not having to go though something like nero) and less likely to burn coasters.
I have a parking meeter "obtained" from the storage room of my local municipality about 20 years ago. They had been out of service for 10 years, and installed 10 before that. Old enough that you could buy 8 minuites for a penny, anyway. Now, when I was playing with it as a kid- it still worked. Heavy as hell, was death on toes, but it still worked. In 40 years, where will these be? How will they be safely disposed of?
Just like touch screen voting, this seems like a "because we can" application of technology. Sometimes there's no reason to replace what works. The old steel parking meters are quite literally bulletproof. I simply cant imagine any reason that makes networked meters any better.
Of course, when I moved to DC I sold my car and bought a bus pass, so what do I know?
Strange- the American economy and international reputation has the same issue. Its that W. thats causing all the problems
I know this is a 4/1 joke. But if this were to happen most likely they would just have the issue that I do- two completely legal spellings of their name.
My birth certificate says Brodie.
My social security card says Brody.
Drivers licence says Brodie.
Passport says Brody.
The only time that its taken more than a 30 second explination was when I applied for the US foreign service. I just had to produce basically everything that I had to show that it was used consistently within document branches, and that there was no fraud involved.
So Br4d would probably just bubble in "Brad" when he took his SAT.
Ok, rather than call the town gossip, I'll call my friend the bailbondsman ;) Information is cheap in a town that small.