Yeah but Steve still gets credit for inventing movies (Pixar), music (iTunes), and Television (AppleTV). You can't deny that.
Plus he invented the word "Insanely" and even in death he advanced medical science's understanding of "Steve Jobs Disease".
We could make jerky!
They also burn (particularly if they're Canadian) so we could keep warm burning and eating dried human corpses.
Just a suggestion. Why are you looking at me like that?
I disagree. I thought it was outstanding and plan on seeing it again before it leaves theaters. It was basically the Captain America movie I've wanted to see since I was a kid.
Indeed. There's a Blue Ray disc out there. It's got a movie on it I want to see and it comes with a bunch of features I don't care about and it's in a format (on this funky disc) that I find troublesome. So someone rips that movie off of that disc and turns it into an mkv file. Now I can watch that anywhere I can make an mkv file play. I can feed it to XBMC because it's only a few gigabytes in size (but still looks great to me) or I can feed it to Handbrake and turn it into an mp4 that my iPod likes. Blue Ray discs are cool but I consider a good quality mkv file to be the superior product based on what I can do with it.
I don't respect copyright any more than I worry about sodomy laws when I sleep with my wife or think of the sabbath when I buy alcohol on Sunday. At the very beginning of this "era" of copyright holders versus consumers I started with a simple idea. I want files. I don't want to buy anymore tapes, records, discs, mini-discs, or anything else the content owners can think of. I want files.I want to buy things once and be able to use that one purchased piece of music, television show, movie, e-book, whatever on any device I please. To me that's the whole point of this excercise. I can certainly see how the content owners don't want to give up their model of selling you the same shit every few years when your copy wears out or the technology changes but once we get to "files" that shit comes to a screeching halt. The way the content owners have fought to control what people do with the content has in my opinion created the environment we live in today. Now consumers resent that control to the point where they'll ignore the law without reservation to get out from under them. Appeal to us on the basis of "but you're stealing this artists work" and we don't care. The people accusing us if stealing from the content creators are themselves epically famous for fucking those creators out of every penny they could. I think the record labels, movie studios, game companys, and publishing houses have made things the way they are and I think that it all must eventually change if anyone is to continue to make money in these businesses. You can copyright something if you like. That doesn't mean you're assured of being able to profit from it. You need a market for it and you have to find a price point that market will accept. The $5 games you see in the iTunes store, the $1.29-.99 songs that are no longer tied to an album of material, and the $1.00 movie rentals of today could have probably headed off a lot of this if they'd appeared on the scene back when this all seemed to start with (roughly) the arrival of napster. I guess the tipping point was on them before they knew it but even today they fight to hold on to the kinds of profits they've come to expect. I'm sorry, they just aren't going to be there anymore.
Christians in the US are insufferable when it comes to claiming that they're persecuted and being attacked from all sides. They're everywhere, you can't walk 100 yards in a straight line without running into a church, they have whole television networks dedicated to their cult, mega-churches seating thousands, and they wield their collective voting power like a giant gold-plated dildo ready to fuck brutally anybody who doesn't vote for what their "jeebus" wants but we're all supposed to believe that they're the constant victims of a world that's out to get them. They want everyone to think the rest of us are still feeding them to lions instead of trying to live our own lives and ignoring them.
Same here. I just didn't go into this (or Thor, or Iron Man, or Incredible Hulk, or any of them really) thinking I was going to get my Shakespear fix. Green Lantern was no worse than many of the superhero films of recent years and better than several. It just has enough flaws and to have arrived at the exact moment in time when the public has had enough and wants something more than what they're seeing on the screen. Marvel is about to deliver with Captain America and the upcoming Avengers tie-in picture. Nolan's film was very good and upped the expectation of quality where these kinds of films are concerned and Marvel is in the process of scaling up the stage. This Green Lantern film made 5 years ago makes $300 million and a couple of profitable sequels. Made today it runs face first into the growing backlash against comic book movies and the overindulged and cynical fanboys who would have creamed in their pants at it years ago. I can't understand the hate that's been poured on this film. I watched it in a full theater full of people who seemed to really like it. Walking out all I heard were positive comments. Nobody was running back to the box office to buy another ticket but nobody was bitching about it either.
I'm in Texas, Houston actually and I'm not happy. I think the one that's going to NYC should have come here. I don't see any point in worrying about politics or the opinions of trolls regarding Texas merit. I just keep thinking that if we'd been a little more careful and done a better job we'd have two more shuttles to disperse. It's unfortunate.
No, not really. Sometimes it's just enough already and you've got other things to do. I listen to less music today than I did years ago. On the other hand I read more. Music is wionderful but it's not the only thing to do with my time. It's not even in my top ten things to do with my time. Its value to me is not apparently what it is to you. I'm good with that.
I'm sure there is a lot of good music being made today but I'm approaching 50 and like the vast majority of folks before me I find that I'm listening to less music than I did in my youth. This isn't uncommon really.
At the same time (Thanks to your item #2) I've got access to all the music I did listen to when I was listening to a lot of music and an incredible amount of stuff I didn't pay attention to the first time around. At my least interested I have more than I could ever want.
I used to try and split hairs about whether or not copying something made me a thief. Now I don't bother. I used to buy new music and rationalized that if I'd owned something previously on LP, cassette, or 8-track then I had at one time paid for it. I originally set out to "get back" all the music I'd bought but no longer could access thanks to obsolete formats.
Today I just don't care anymore. I took what I wanted and thought "Fuck the artist and all the people who work in the recording industry. It was there so I took it". Granted the artist gets the shittiest end of the stick in this complex relationship between the three of us (artist, listener, label) but tell me honestly, what does it matter? They've had the labels collective dicks in their asses for most of the last century and never seemed to mind. At the same time I can't get remorseful about hurting the labels. Let me die. I'm curious to see what comes next even if it turns out to be nothing much at all.
I have been gorging on free music for more than a decade now. From day one I've been paritcularly picky about what I bothered to download and keep so I never wasted my time on 128kbps mp3's. Space wasn't an issue for me so I went straight to the 320's and then on to FLAC. In short I now own very good copies of every bit of music I could ever want to hear. The key word is "Discography". Sure new music is released all the time but I buy very little of it these days. I find most new music to be either shit or simply not appealing. Music services and/or labels have very little to sell me. I already have what I've wanted from the beginning. Files to do with as I please and backups of those files just in case. I have something like 36 straight days of music on my hard drive now. I don't want anymore music.
Really, I couldn't eat another bite but thanks for asking.
Why aren't we replacing this generation of shuttles with an updated and improved "Mk.II" version? This just seems like an enormous step back to me and I can't get excited about this process at all.
I bet you could buy a hell of a lot of landmines for what we had planned on spending on this thing. If we're going to be the bad guys (and lets face it, securing the southern US border in any way that will be even remotely effective is going to make us look like really bad people) then we might as well just crank this up to 11 and do about a quarter-mile wide strip of mine fields on the US side. Kill ten or fifteen thousand of them in the first three months and this will come to a screeching halt in no time.
Oh you're lucky wee man! We'll let you in because you're a refugee and you won't take up much space but just you get out of line one time and if we can find you then you're out of here!
I can only speak for myself (different needs as has been mentioned already) but I think of $500-600 video cards as fucking insane. A $400 video card is (again, just "in my eyes") plain ridiculous and buying a pair of them to connect for even "MORE EXTREME VIDEO!!!!!!" is functionally retarded.
Somewhere around my 40th birthday I decided this was all just a big scam and can no longer bring myself to pay more than $100 for a video card.
I live in Houston too and I do what I've done my entire life. I drive between 75-80 mph on I-10 unless I see a police officer. Then I slow down long for whatever amount of time I have to and go right back to driving between 75-80 mph. From what I can tell most of our fellow Houstonians do the same thing. As you said it's a lot closer to the natural and reasonable speed for that big, wide, flat expanse of concrete. I love I-10 since they finished rebuilding it.
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Somebody fixed The Phantom Menace? I'd like to see that.
Important points you should factor into your strange idea that this not feasible.
a.) The area doesn't matter if you're putting marines on the ships themselves.
b.) You don't have to put marines on all the ships. Just a majority of the ships.
c.) Contrary to what you appear to believe the United States is not he only country on earth that has "Marines".
d.) I don't know any other way to make this clear to you and you can't seem to get it through your head. Marines are getting paid whether they are on assignment or sitting around the barracks fucking your mother. Sure they get increased pay for the former (and maybe should for the latter) but this is not going to be an exceptionally expensive enterprise where salary and benefits are concerned. Add up the cost of operating "x" number of naval vessels in these waters and then compare it to the cost of Marine detachments from many nations boarding (and getting off of) these ships at points in the Red Sea, along the Arabian peninsula, and in Kenya. Then look at how many more ships can be covered and pirates engaged and permanently retired. Then try and work out how many years you're going to be doing either approach taking into account the rate we're shutting them down today.
You need to go back to programing and playing counterstrike or something and I need to quit arguing with a stupid nerd about something I understand and he clearly does not.
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There isn't a shred of evidence anywhere proving any "god" is real.
Yeah but Steve still gets credit for inventing movies (Pixar), music (iTunes), and Television (AppleTV). You can't deny that. Plus he invented the word "Insanely" and even in death he advanced medical science's understanding of "Steve Jobs Disease".
We could make jerky! They also burn (particularly if they're Canadian) so we could keep warm burning and eating dried human corpses. Just a suggestion. Why are you looking at me like that?
Of course they burn well. You've got to dry them out first. Like jerky!
Maybe someone should tell him. I'm sure he can make this right.
I disagree. I thought it was outstanding and plan on seeing it again before it leaves theaters. It was basically the Captain America movie I've wanted to see since I was a kid.
We needed something to wash the "Turd Burger" down with!
Indeed. There's a Blue Ray disc out there. It's got a movie on it I want to see and it comes with a bunch of features I don't care about and it's in a format (on this funky disc) that I find troublesome. So someone rips that movie off of that disc and turns it into an mkv file. Now I can watch that anywhere I can make an mkv file play. I can feed it to XBMC because it's only a few gigabytes in size (but still looks great to me) or I can feed it to Handbrake and turn it into an mp4 that my iPod likes. Blue Ray discs are cool but I consider a good quality mkv file to be the superior product based on what I can do with it.
I don't respect copyright any more than I worry about sodomy laws when I sleep with my wife or think of the sabbath when I buy alcohol on Sunday. At the very beginning of this "era" of copyright holders versus consumers I started with a simple idea. I want files. I don't want to buy anymore tapes, records, discs, mini-discs, or anything else the content owners can think of. I want files.I want to buy things once and be able to use that one purchased piece of music, television show, movie, e-book, whatever on any device I please. To me that's the whole point of this excercise. I can certainly see how the content owners don't want to give up their model of selling you the same shit every few years when your copy wears out or the technology changes but once we get to "files" that shit comes to a screeching halt. The way the content owners have fought to control what people do with the content has in my opinion created the environment we live in today. Now consumers resent that control to the point where they'll ignore the law without reservation to get out from under them. Appeal to us on the basis of "but you're stealing this artists work" and we don't care. The people accusing us if stealing from the content creators are themselves epically famous for fucking those creators out of every penny they could. I think the record labels, movie studios, game companys, and publishing houses have made things the way they are and I think that it all must eventually change if anyone is to continue to make money in these businesses. You can copyright something if you like. That doesn't mean you're assured of being able to profit from it. You need a market for it and you have to find a price point that market will accept. The $5 games you see in the iTunes store, the $1.29-.99 songs that are no longer tied to an album of material, and the $1.00 movie rentals of today could have probably headed off a lot of this if they'd appeared on the scene back when this all seemed to start with (roughly) the arrival of napster. I guess the tipping point was on them before they knew it but even today they fight to hold on to the kinds of profits they've come to expect. I'm sorry, they just aren't going to be there anymore.
Christians in the US are insufferable when it comes to claiming that they're persecuted and being attacked from all sides. They're everywhere, you can't walk 100 yards in a straight line without running into a church, they have whole television networks dedicated to their cult, mega-churches seating thousands, and they wield their collective voting power like a giant gold-plated dildo ready to fuck brutally anybody who doesn't vote for what their "jeebus" wants but we're all supposed to believe that they're the constant victims of a world that's out to get them. They want everyone to think the rest of us are still feeding them to lions instead of trying to live our own lives and ignoring them.
Same here. I just didn't go into this (or Thor, or Iron Man, or Incredible Hulk, or any of them really) thinking I was going to get my Shakespear fix. Green Lantern was no worse than many of the superhero films of recent years and better than several. It just has enough flaws and to have arrived at the exact moment in time when the public has had enough and wants something more than what they're seeing on the screen. Marvel is about to deliver with Captain America and the upcoming Avengers tie-in picture. Nolan's film was very good and upped the expectation of quality where these kinds of films are concerned and Marvel is in the process of scaling up the stage. This Green Lantern film made 5 years ago makes $300 million and a couple of profitable sequels. Made today it runs face first into the growing backlash against comic book movies and the overindulged and cynical fanboys who would have creamed in their pants at it years ago. I can't understand the hate that's been poured on this film. I watched it in a full theater full of people who seemed to really like it. Walking out all I heard were positive comments. Nobody was running back to the box office to buy another ticket but nobody was bitching about it either.
I'm in Texas, Houston actually and I'm not happy. I think the one that's going to NYC should have come here. I don't see any point in worrying about politics or the opinions of trolls regarding Texas merit. I just keep thinking that if we'd been a little more careful and done a better job we'd have two more shuttles to disperse. It's unfortunate.
This is a bought and paid for judge. Not a doubt in my mind. Music war is on I guess. Pirate everything, leave them nothing.
No, not really. Sometimes it's just enough already and you've got other things to do. I listen to less music today than I did years ago. On the other hand I read more. Music is wionderful but it's not the only thing to do with my time. It's not even in my top ten things to do with my time. Its value to me is not apparently what it is to you. I'm good with that.
That second to last line should read "Let them die." but go ahead and read what you like in that.
I'm sure there is a lot of good music being made today but I'm approaching 50 and like the vast majority of folks before me I find that I'm listening to less music than I did in my youth. This isn't uncommon really. At the same time (Thanks to your item #2) I've got access to all the music I did listen to when I was listening to a lot of music and an incredible amount of stuff I didn't pay attention to the first time around. At my least interested I have more than I could ever want. I used to try and split hairs about whether or not copying something made me a thief. Now I don't bother. I used to buy new music and rationalized that if I'd owned something previously on LP, cassette, or 8-track then I had at one time paid for it. I originally set out to "get back" all the music I'd bought but no longer could access thanks to obsolete formats. Today I just don't care anymore. I took what I wanted and thought "Fuck the artist and all the people who work in the recording industry. It was there so I took it". Granted the artist gets the shittiest end of the stick in this complex relationship between the three of us (artist, listener, label) but tell me honestly, what does it matter? They've had the labels collective dicks in their asses for most of the last century and never seemed to mind. At the same time I can't get remorseful about hurting the labels. Let me die. I'm curious to see what comes next even if it turns out to be nothing much at all.
I have been gorging on free music for more than a decade now. From day one I've been paritcularly picky about what I bothered to download and keep so I never wasted my time on 128kbps mp3's. Space wasn't an issue for me so I went straight to the 320's and then on to FLAC. In short I now own very good copies of every bit of music I could ever want to hear. The key word is "Discography". Sure new music is released all the time but I buy very little of it these days. I find most new music to be either shit or simply not appealing. Music services and/or labels have very little to sell me. I already have what I've wanted from the beginning. Files to do with as I please and backups of those files just in case. I have something like 36 straight days of music on my hard drive now. I don't want anymore music. Really, I couldn't eat another bite but thanks for asking.
Why aren't we replacing this generation of shuttles with an updated and improved "Mk.II" version? This just seems like an enormous step back to me and I can't get excited about this process at all.
I bet you could buy a hell of a lot of landmines for what we had planned on spending on this thing. If we're going to be the bad guys (and lets face it, securing the southern US border in any way that will be even remotely effective is going to make us look like really bad people) then we might as well just crank this up to 11 and do about a quarter-mile wide strip of mine fields on the US side. Kill ten or fifteen thousand of them in the first three months and this will come to a screeching halt in no time.
Oh you're lucky wee man! We'll let you in because you're a refugee and you won't take up much space but just you get out of line one time and if we can find you then you're out of here!
I can only speak for myself (different needs as has been mentioned already) but I think of $500-600 video cards as fucking insane. A $400 video card is (again, just "in my eyes") plain ridiculous and buying a pair of them to connect for even "MORE EXTREME VIDEO!!!!!!" is functionally retarded. Somewhere around my 40th birthday I decided this was all just a big scam and can no longer bring myself to pay more than $100 for a video card.
I live in Houston too and I do what I've done my entire life. I drive between 75-80 mph on I-10 unless I see a police officer. Then I slow down long for whatever amount of time I have to and go right back to driving between 75-80 mph. From what I can tell most of our fellow Houstonians do the same thing. As you said it's a lot closer to the natural and reasonable speed for that big, wide, flat expanse of concrete. I love I-10 since they finished rebuilding it.
Somebody fixed The Phantom Menace? I'd like to see that.
If that's the case then I guess we had it coming. We're just lucky they've chosen to overlook "7th Heaven".
Important points you should factor into your strange idea that this not feasible. a.) The area doesn't matter if you're putting marines on the ships themselves. b.) You don't have to put marines on all the ships. Just a majority of the ships. c.) Contrary to what you appear to believe the United States is not he only country on earth that has "Marines". d.) I don't know any other way to make this clear to you and you can't seem to get it through your head. Marines are getting paid whether they are on assignment or sitting around the barracks fucking your mother. Sure they get increased pay for the former (and maybe should for the latter) but this is not going to be an exceptionally expensive enterprise where salary and benefits are concerned. Add up the cost of operating "x" number of naval vessels in these waters and then compare it to the cost of Marine detachments from many nations boarding (and getting off of) these ships at points in the Red Sea, along the Arabian peninsula, and in Kenya. Then look at how many more ships can be covered and pirates engaged and permanently retired. Then try and work out how many years you're going to be doing either approach taking into account the rate we're shutting them down today. You need to go back to programing and playing counterstrike or something and I need to quit arguing with a stupid nerd about something I understand and he clearly does not.