I think that the job done on Richard Dreyfuss in "Mr Hollands Opus" worked quite well and I don't see why a similar approach wouldn't work for Ian Holm as Bilbo.
Too many cameos would be silly but a few well chosen ones here and there would be very cool.
That is technically incorrect. The lowest form of humor comes from the sounds and odors emitted from the typical human anus.
Come on man, everybody knows that. It's the one thing on this earth that you will find amusing on some level for your entire life.
When you were 2 you laughed when you farted. When you are 92 and sitting in a wheel chair in a nursing home you'll laugh at the old guy next to you who can't get away from your ancient mummy farts.
Those people who become addicted to the internet and spend all of their time online will be less likely to breed. That should eventually lead to an "internet resistant" strain of human being capable of using the internet to accomplish tasks and then walk away.
"SmallFurryCreature" I take my hat off to you. That was easily the best post I've ever read in a thread on this topic. It might have been the best post I've ever read. I've certainly never written anything that good.
That was so good that I'll be copying it for use in the future during discussions on this topic on other message boards I frequent and in conversations with friends. This post gets pasted into emails going out to people I takl to on both sides of this argument. I promise you I won't take credit for writing it and will credit it to "SmallFurryCreature" on Slashdot. You cut right through the bullshit and nailed it.
You are out of your mind if you think he's safer because "people like this" don't kill as many as soccer moms in SUV's. There are millions of soccer moms in SUV's and very few relatively wealthy reckless assholes trying to break the cross country speed record.
He's not driving "a little fast". He's trying to average 90+ miles per hour from one side of the country to the other. He's not testing any boundaries. He's breaking laws and in most cases laws that are there out of necessity. If you had really lost a close loved one in a traffic accident then you would understand that. Sure you'll say you did lose someone but I don't buy it for a moment. If you did then you didn't learn a fucking thing from it. That's the kind of effect one sees in the either the reckless young or the hopeless stupid.
Life is dangerous by it's very nature. The danger is higher than it could be because of assholes like this clown. Frankly I hope he loses control of that car in his sleep on a deserted stretch of road and turns himself and his idiot-fuck-moron "co-pilot" into a stain on an embankment.
But keep in mind that frying a city's electronics is a great first step along the path of "harming people" in said city. Just because it doesn't kill anyone doesn't mean it has no military application.
Fortunately their Nigerian site is sending out notices via email, though they're a little hard to read. I'm sure they'll get all this sorted out soon enough. Mr Okoye seemed extremely anxious to help.
Apple doesn't give a crap about Linux and never did. For that matter Microsoft isn't terribly worried about Linux either. When somebody does something that pisses off Linux users it's not because they're out to get them or have an axe to grind. It's because they're doing something else that they consider important and it happens to interfere in some way with a group of users they don't consider significant enough to try and pursue.
I miss the old days when the rest of you guys would get pissed off and go write your own software. Now too many people start crying as soon as somebody makes a change and stops one of your toys from working. Back in the day most of the posters in here expected their shit to not work with Linux until they figured out how to make it work with Linux. Now you're all just a bunch of crybabies!
After reading your post I have to admit that the reasoning behind it, from a legal standpoint is pretty sound.
Admittedly it took me a little more than 4 minutes to come to that conclusion but then I did watch a rerun of Law & Order last night while scratch building a 1/450 scale model of the Enterprise (NCC-1701"C" mind you). That's got to count for something
There are a lot of PC users who won't touch a Mac regardless of that fact and I know I've tried to convince a few of them that the new Macs are just as much PC's as the PC they want to buy. It makes no difference to them. They won't buy the Mac even if it does run Windows. They know Gateway is a PC. They probably owned one or used one at work at some point or another.
Apart from that it would give Apple an entry level line. The prices on the Gateways would stay low and most of them wouldn't be purchased with a copy of OSX. Most would be Windows boxes. Some for an additional cost would also come with OSX instead of or in addition to WindowsXP.
Seriously, Apple buys Gateway and there is great buzz. Gateway may not have the greatest reputation at the moment but a lot of people out there owned a Gateway computer at one point or another. They didn't always suck.
So Apple goes into the PC business selling Windows boxes as Gateway and works on improving the Gateway reputation. Then they make Gateway computers the only "PC's" that you can order OSX on. Now people who just wouldn't buy a Mac no matter what can buy a PC running a rebranded OSX (an edition with references to Apple and Macintosh removed, call it PCosX maybe) and that's how they expand the OSX user base.
Apple never really seems to have their heart in entry level Macs. Gateway could have given them a PC business to play with along with an entry level line of machines that they could make headway in market share on. It would be a fine line to walk to keep from cannibalizing Mac sales but they've proven pretty adept at doing that kind of thing over the years.
I'd prefer Apple's approach even more if they really did it.
I'm serious. I think the act of writing a virus or piece of malware should result in the aquisition of a.45 caliber sized hole in the forehead. There's nothing wrong with these people that I couldn't fix in about 10 minutes with a roofing hammer.
Assuming that it's true and that one of the major intents of SDI was to attack the economy of the USSR in the way it's described then it was only part of a much larger strategy to put pressure on them economically. The enormous defense build up of the Reagan years was another part of this as was the agreement with a number of Arab states to basically open the pipe wide and let the oil flow cheap for a few years. In doing that we sacrificed our own domestic oil and gas industry but at the same time removed a source of income from the Soviets who could little money at the prices oil was selling for in the mid 80's as well as fueled our own economy. That helped to give us our guns and our butter as we left the Russians in our economic dust.
I think he's probably reaped 1.5 billion in spite of said system not from it.
If one took all the money that the Beatles made from their work (collectively and individually as solo artists) and stacked it in a nice neat pile I'm sure that pile would fit easily inside the shadow cast by the mountain of money that other people have made off of their work.
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The smores jokes are funny but you don't want that thing anywhere near your package.
Sure you will. All of them? No, of course not but then no small bookstore can make that claim either.
Try looking up a few out of print books and then see where "used and new" gets you.
I think that the job done on Richard Dreyfuss in "Mr Hollands Opus" worked quite well and I don't see why a similar approach wouldn't work for Ian Holm as Bilbo.
Too many cameos would be silly but a few well chosen ones here and there would be very cool.
If they don't manage to get "Hobbit Harder!" in the title somewhere I think they'll be missing a golden opportunity.
Seems simple enough. I'm downloading "The_Golden_Compass.pdf" or some such rubbish should take care of it.
That is technically incorrect. The lowest form of humor comes from the sounds and odors emitted from the typical human anus.
Come on man, everybody knows that. It's the one thing on this earth that you will find amusing on some level for your entire life.
When you were 2 you laughed when you farted. When you are 92 and sitting in a wheel chair in a nursing home you'll laugh at the old guy next to you who can't get away from your ancient mummy farts.
It's still useless to me and must be destroyed. It only has one ass. We'll have to burn the room!
Those people who become addicted to the internet and spend all of their time online will be less likely to breed. That should eventually lead to an "internet resistant" strain of human being capable of using the internet to accomplish tasks and then walk away.
"SmallFurryCreature" I take my hat off to you. That was easily the best post I've ever read in a thread on this topic. It might have been the best post I've ever read. I've certainly never written anything that good.
That was so good that I'll be copying it for use in the future during discussions on this topic on other message boards I frequent and in conversations with friends. This post gets pasted into emails going out to people I takl to on both sides of this argument. I promise you I won't take credit for writing it and will credit it to "SmallFurryCreature" on Slashdot. You cut right through the bullshit and nailed it.
Bravo!
I'm sure the right to vote is included in there.
But wait, act now and we'll double your freedom for the same low price!
You are out of your mind if you think he's safer because "people like this" don't kill as many as soccer moms in SUV's. There are millions of soccer moms in SUV's and very few relatively wealthy reckless assholes trying to break the cross country speed record.
He's not driving "a little fast". He's trying to average 90+ miles per hour from one side of the country to the other. He's not testing any boundaries. He's breaking laws and in most cases laws that are there out of necessity. If you had really lost a close loved one in a traffic accident then you would understand that. Sure you'll say you did lose someone but I don't buy it for a moment. If you did then you didn't learn a fucking thing from it. That's the kind of effect one sees in the either the reckless young or the hopeless stupid.
Life is dangerous by it's very nature. The danger is higher than it could be because of assholes like this clown. Frankly I hope he loses control of that car in his sleep on a deserted stretch of road and turns himself and his idiot-fuck-moron "co-pilot" into a stain on an embankment.
Does this mean that September is finally going to end?
But keep in mind that frying a city's electronics is a great first step along the path of "harming people" in said city. Just because it doesn't kill anyone doesn't mean it has no military application.
Fortunately their Nigerian site is sending out notices via email, though they're a little hard to read. I'm sure they'll get all this sorted out soon enough. Mr Okoye seemed extremely anxious to help.
Well then they have a country code for a country that doesn't exist, has never existed, and at their present rate will never exist. Good on them!
Apple doesn't give a crap about Linux and never did. For that matter Microsoft isn't terribly worried about Linux either. When somebody does something that pisses off Linux users it's not because they're out to get them or have an axe to grind. It's because they're doing something else that they consider important and it happens to interfere in some way with a group of users they don't consider significant enough to try and pursue.
I miss the old days when the rest of you guys would get pissed off and go write your own software. Now too many people start crying as soon as somebody makes a change and stops one of your toys from working. Back in the day most of the posters in here expected their shit to not work with Linux until they figured out how to make it work with Linux. Now you're all just a bunch of crybabies!
Sorry, it's true.
After reading your post I have to admit that the reasoning behind it, from a legal standpoint is pretty sound.
Admittedly it took me a little more than 4 minutes to come to that conclusion but then I did watch a rerun of Law & Order last night while scratch building a 1/450 scale model of the Enterprise (NCC-1701"C" mind you). That's got to count for something
Don't forget the most important phrase in "Texas Science"
"Hey baby, hold my beer and watch this!"
There are a lot of PC users who won't touch a Mac regardless of that fact and I know I've tried to convince a few of them that the new Macs are just as much PC's as the PC they want to buy. It makes no difference to them. They won't buy the Mac even if it does run Windows. They know Gateway is a PC. They probably owned one or used one at work at some point or another.
Apart from that it would give Apple an entry level line. The prices on the Gateways would stay low and most of them wouldn't be purchased with a copy of OSX. Most would be Windows boxes. Some for an additional cost would also come with OSX instead of or in addition to WindowsXP.
Seriously, Apple buys Gateway and there is great buzz. Gateway may not have the greatest reputation at the moment but a lot of people out there owned a Gateway computer at one point or another. They didn't always suck.
So Apple goes into the PC business selling Windows boxes as Gateway and works on improving the Gateway reputation. Then they make Gateway computers the only "PC's" that you can order OSX on. Now people who just wouldn't buy a Mac no matter what can buy a PC running a rebranded OSX (an edition with references to Apple and Macintosh removed, call it PCosX maybe) and that's how they expand the OSX user base.
Apple never really seems to have their heart in entry level Macs. Gateway could have given them a PC business to play with along with an entry level line of machines that they could make headway in market share on. It would be a fine line to walk to keep from cannibalizing Mac sales but they've proven pretty adept at doing that kind of thing over the years.
And that's a small step away from "Death Gnoll" which should bring in the D&D crowd (if they're not already here).
Hilarity ensues.
I'd prefer Apple's approach even more if they really did it.
.45 caliber sized hole in the forehead. There's nothing wrong with these people that I couldn't fix in about 10 minutes with a roofing hammer.
I'm serious. I think the act of writing a virus or piece of malware should result in the aquisition of a
You might be the most perfect example of this I've seen this week.
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1. Internuts
The phenomenon that occurs when someone becomes a badass when addressing others on a message board.
It is a common practice for the reticent, meek, and cowardly to make bold statements, on the internet, knowing there is no way to be held accountable.
Example: The poster was getting badly flamed, so threatened to kick everyone's ass. His anger made his internuts grow.
Assuming that it's true and that one of the major intents of SDI was to attack the economy of the USSR in the way it's described then it was only part of a much larger strategy to put pressure on them economically. The enormous defense build up of the Reagan years was another part of this as was the agreement with a number of Arab states to basically open the pipe wide and let the oil flow cheap for a few years. In doing that we sacrificed our own domestic oil and gas industry but at the same time removed a source of income from the Soviets who could little money at the prices oil was selling for in the mid 80's as well as fueled our own economy. That helped to give us our guns and our butter as we left the Russians in our economic dust.
I think he's probably reaped 1.5 billion in spite of said system not from it.
If one took all the money that the Beatles made from their work (collectively and individually as solo artists) and stacked it in a nice neat pile I'm sure that pile would fit easily inside the shadow cast by the mountain of money that other people have made off of their work.