This is true. My in-laws told me they would call Comcast when they had a problem like getting Word to come up on their laptop, my jaw dropped. I have no love for Comcast, but I told them comcrap has nothing to do with an issue like that and to stop abusing their service contract. Older people (60+) seem to have the hardest time grasping the the difference between the concept of the Internet and a local hard drive.. no matter how many times you explain it.
Meanwhile, you can definitely tell the death penalty works as a deterrent. You can tell it works so well because all of the crime has completely stopped in the states that have the death penalty as punishment. Right? So I guess it's all worth it, somehow.
Well, prison and jail terms obviously aren't working either then, by that standard, so why not just do away with prisons? Hell, let's get rid of cops while we're at it. Crime is going to happen anyway, right?
This.
The idea of equality and balance is -to use a somewhat flawed analogy until I find a better one- to have the pendulum neither swing nor stay to one side, but to hang straight down the middle - that is true balance. "Balance" conceived of through averaging isn't true balance or equality at all, it's merely alternating imbalance at best. Pushing it into an opposite side to "balance" for time spent on the other smacks of revenge.
Right.. Of all the shitty candidates this election, she's actually one of the worst.
Here's a starter for you.
Fired from the WaterGate investigation for unethical behavior
Benghazi coverup.
Email Scandal, she hosted her own server for government work (!) and then wiped the server before the emails could be retrieved... oopsy? Yah, right.
Claims her and Bill are "broke"..and claims to be in touch with the common citizen. Royalty complex.
Vince Foster
Whitewater
There's more I just haven't dredged up yet. She is clearly unfit for presidency. No more Bushs or Clintons, thank you.
Well, name any other big ticket movie where you actually hear the character's thoughts as a voice over (disembodied ObiWan doesn't count, special circumstance there, he's a ghost) and constantly throughout the entire movie, at that. Not as narration either, that too is different, that's story telling, not actually hearing inside someone's head in real time. The only other place I ever see that happen is in comedy, like SNL.
You're going to miss some stuff, sure, but it's been done. A few of the Harry Potter movies did just that (several were over 700 pages) and they were pretty well done. Even Lord of the Rings, though okay, they were maybe shorter (I don't recall exactly). Gandalf, and Frodo and Boromir had things going through their heads, but they didn't require a voice over to get those across to the audience. That said, Gollum sort of cheated by being schizo and talking to himself, but that was excusable because he's stone freaking nuts.
Because books are a different medium. They're not visual like movies, except for what you picture in your head. Books lends themselves better to having characters' thoughts heard, because books can be written in third person or "God" mode, among others, but expressions and actions are only described, not seen.
I just saw the movie again for the first time in decades.
Good god that movie was horrible. If you, as a director and/or screenwriter, cannot get across the character's thoughts through action and expression, but have to resort to voice overs instead, you've really failed your medium.
I suggest stopping the moon in it's orbit and making it geosynchronous, then spray painting it with a highly reflective silver paint. That way we can get enough sunlight at night to compensate with ground-based solar panels.
That's really simple to do, right? Easy Peasy! :-D
I figure, it may have taken him some time to seize the opportunity, as well as build up his nerve.. only once the pilot left the cockpit, he had his opportunity, and, locking the door, was committed. But then it's a race against time before someone eventually busts through the cockpit door and thwarts him, so it's "safer" to his plan to just crash the plane before that happens, similar to what happened to the flight that crashed in Pennsylvania on 9/11 and didn't make it to the White House.
Well, you have to admit, it is sort of the mindset here. Consider, some malcontent writes a virus that destroys systems, and the prevailing sentiment is that it's entirely some system admin's fault because he didn't have the latest antivirus patches, firewalls, etc.. when it takes down his system. Malware is treated like an act of god or of nature, so that by extension, the victim is at fault. It's not a huge gap for some people to apply that to megacorps too I suppose.
If, shortly, ISIS makes a statement to the effect that the copilot was one of theirs, then there is the statement that defines this as terrorism. They've vowed attacks of any and every kind on every western (and even mid-eastern) nature. We can expect to see more events like this, because the nutjobs are crawling out of the woodwork.
IF the guy was in fact not one of theirs, or one of AQ, but instead had some other personal issue, then I'd agree, this was just murder, not terrorism.
It's so extremely unlikely as to be absurd, that this guy was merely suicidal or depressed. Depressed/suicidal people want to end their own misery, but don't generally want to commit mass murder by killing 150 people, as you said. We're going to find out a lot more about this guy over the next 2 weeks; my first guess is that he's an ISIS sympathizer, though other possibilities certainly warrant consideration. Time will tell.
I agree.. they left the last episode hanging, that was no ending. It just doesn't do a great game series justice to cut it off like that. If nothng else, release a rendered video short of the Earth falling to the Combine or something (or vice versa), but wrap it up somehow!
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This is true. My in-laws told me they would call Comcast when they had a problem like getting Word to come up on their laptop, my jaw dropped. I have no love for Comcast, but I told them comcrap has nothing to do with an issue like that and to stop abusing their service contract. Older people (60+) seem to have the hardest time grasping the the difference between the concept of the Internet and a local hard drive.. no matter how many times you explain it.
"..my prettys" ? .. sounds more like the Wicked Witch of the West than an alien.
Meanwhile, you can definitely tell the death penalty works as a deterrent. You can tell it works so well because all of the crime has completely stopped in the states that have the death penalty as punishment. Right? So I guess it's all worth it, somehow.
Well, prison and jail terms obviously aren't working either then, by that standard, so why not just do away with prisons? Hell, let's get rid of cops while we're at it. Crime is going to happen anyway, right?
It's not revenge, it's permanently disabling very, very, dangerous people, and being confined to prison is not a guarantee of disabling them.
This.
The idea of equality and balance is -to use a somewhat flawed analogy until I find a better one- to have the pendulum neither swing nor stay to one side, but to hang straight down the middle - that is true balance. "Balance" conceived of through averaging isn't true balance or equality at all, it's merely alternating imbalance at best. Pushing it into an opposite side to "balance" for time spent on the other smacks of revenge.
Right.. Of all the shitty candidates this election, she's actually one of the worst.
Here's a starter for you.
Fired from the WaterGate investigation for unethical behavior
Benghazi coverup.
Email Scandal, she hosted her own server for government work (!) and then wiped the server before the emails could be retrieved... oopsy? Yah, right.
Claims her and Bill are "broke"..and claims to be in touch with the common citizen. Royalty complex.
Vince Foster
Whitewater
There's more I just haven't dredged up yet. She is clearly unfit for presidency. No more Bushs or Clintons, thank you.
or we could get Brontosaurus designated as a dwarf planet.
Well, name any other big ticket movie where you actually hear the character's thoughts as a voice over (disembodied ObiWan doesn't count, special circumstance there, he's a ghost) and constantly throughout the entire movie, at that. Not as narration either, that too is different, that's story telling, not actually hearing inside someone's head in real time. The only other place I ever see that happen is in comedy, like SNL.
You're going to miss some stuff, sure, but it's been done. A few of the Harry Potter movies did just that (several were over 700 pages) and they were pretty well done. Even Lord of the Rings, though okay, they were maybe shorter (I don't recall exactly). Gandalf, and Frodo and Boromir had things going through their heads, but they didn't require a voice over to get those across to the audience. That said, Gollum sort of cheated by being schizo and talking to himself, but that was excusable because he's stone freaking nuts.
Because books are a different medium. They're not visual like movies, except for what you picture in your head. Books lends themselves better to having characters' thoughts heard, because books can be written in third person or "God" mode, among others, but expressions and actions are only described, not seen.
Please, just stop with these already.
I just saw the movie again for the first time in decades.
Good god that movie was horrible. If you, as a director and/or screenwriter, cannot get across the character's thoughts through action and expression, but have to resort to voice overs instead, you've really failed your medium.
Yeah, today is the day the Internet becomes worthless for information.
The upside is that means a decline in the serious MISinformation as well. That's sort of a win.
Meta-Whooosh!
(or would that be a recursive whoosh?)
Correct, it was completely tongue-in-cheek and pie-in-the-sky, at least for any reasonable foreseeable future. Who'd want to paint the moon anyway?
I suggest stopping the moon in it's orbit and making it geosynchronous, then spray painting it with a highly reflective silver paint. That way we can get enough sunlight at night to compensate with ground-based solar panels.
:-D
That's really simple to do, right? Easy Peasy!
NOTHING makes Hillary the sensible choice.
I figure, it may have taken him some time to seize the opportunity, as well as build up his nerve.. only once the pilot left the cockpit, he had his opportunity, and, locking the door, was committed. But then it's a race against time before someone eventually busts through the cockpit door and thwarts him, so it's "safer" to his plan to just crash the plane before that happens, similar to what happened to the flight that crashed in Pennsylvania on 9/11 and didn't make it to the White House.
Try again?
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2...
It had run it's course anyway. It had gotten too formulaic, especially with the gaffs and accidents and whatnot.
They couldn't make a small enough internal combustion engine to fit in his sonic screwdriver.
Well, you have to admit, it is sort of the mindset here. Consider, some malcontent writes a virus that destroys systems, and the prevailing sentiment is that it's entirely some system admin's fault because he didn't have the latest antivirus patches, firewalls, etc.. when it takes down his system. Malware is treated like an act of god or of nature, so that by extension, the victim is at fault. It's not a huge gap for some people to apply that to megacorps too I suppose.
If, shortly, ISIS makes a statement to the effect that the copilot was one of theirs, then there is the statement that defines this as terrorism. They've vowed attacks of any and every kind on every western (and even mid-eastern) nature. We can expect to see more events like this, because the nutjobs are crawling out of the woodwork.
IF the guy was in fact not one of theirs, or one of AQ, but instead had some other personal issue, then I'd agree, this was just murder, not terrorism.
It's so extremely unlikely as to be absurd, that this guy was merely suicidal or depressed. Depressed/suicidal people want to end their own misery, but don't generally want to commit mass murder by killing 150 people, as you said. We're going to find out a lot more about this guy over the next 2 weeks; my first guess is that he's an ISIS sympathizer, though other possibilities certainly warrant consideration. Time will tell.
I agree.. they left the last episode hanging, that was no ending. It just doesn't do a great game series justice to cut it off like that. If nothng else, release a rendered video short of the Earth falling to the Combine or something (or vice versa), but wrap it up somehow!