Some people don't like to read, they would rather watch TV.
This is my problem with subtitles. If I'm watching TV, I can do stuff like have it on in the background and pay half attention to it, following along with the audio and sometimes looking away for other stuff. Subtitles bind you to putting all of you attention to the screen. If you want to do this, that's fine, but my TV and movie watching habits are often not amenable to that. Have you ever sought treatment or diagnosis for an attention deficit disorder?:)
South Park isn't a union show, so the WGA has no impact on it. (The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are, because Jon Stewart was in a superior negotiation position a few years ago, and that was one of his demands.)
"Original language (if understood)" > "original + subtitles in a language I understand" > "dubbed well" > "on mute" > "dubbed badly"; I forgot one case:
"Original language (if understood)" > "original + subtitles in a language I understand" > "dubbed well" > "original language (not understood, but you get the tone of the voices)" > "on mute" > "dubbed badly";
Unless the bad dub is funny, but then that's an ironic approach.
There are also subtitles, which very well may be being made anyway, for the deaf. Then you "just" need to translate them.
A lot of people say original language + subtitles is better than dubbing, though I'm not sure I agree. That depends on the quality of the dubbing and on whether or not you mind reading your TV shows. Some people don't like to read, they would rather watch TV. Some people can't read fast enough to follow the rhythm of the spoken word, and some people can't read at all.
Personally: "Original language (if understood)" > "original + subtitles in a language I understand" > "dubbed well" > "on mute" > "dubbed badly";
Direct Democracies tend to fall apart with large numbers of people. Switzerland has ~8 million people. New York city alone has 8 million people.
The problem becomes numbers of people that need to be involved. He said "how can America get one of those". I say try it in Washington state. You have the proportional population of Switzerland, and big pointy mountains too. Then America will have one of those "Swiss-style democracy" thingies.
Seems to me TFA predicts the end of the album as we know it, not necessarily the music industry. Could we be entering the golden age of the one hit wonder? The album format only became relevant in the late 60's, thanks to the Beatles and other groups who'd make more than radio-ready bits. The bands back then had to fight the labels to get them to release albums, and now the pendulum has swung back. Some albums are worth it for the experience, some are just a good song or two with lots of filler. The trouble is, the excecs that insist on shoehorning their "product" into one category or the other, according to their belief of what is profitable.
Your cynicism does you a disservice. Most publications of any merit grant independence to the senior editorial staff, often in the form of tenure. And who do you think gets tenure? The guy who plays ball, or the one who's not a team player?
My history with spam in GMail is a little worse; about one a week, but since I first reported them as spam, they've reliably ended up in the spam folder. All I've bothered to check the spam folder for is stuff that should have ended up in my inbox, but in my experience, GMail almost never mistakes good mail for spam. Most of the time, my spam folder has four or five messages, and that's it. Once in a while I'll get a party invite or a chain letter forwarded to my spam folder, but the filter is quite good at not letting false positives through. I'm quite pleased with the whole experience:)
Spam will quit when Criminals give up crime. It'll never happen. They make money from it. Spam will end when idiots stop giving money to people who email them to laugh at the size of their manhood!
It's beyond me why people are so quick to spill their most personal secrets on a social networking site
It's because they're hoping to score with Hot Internet Chicks. Seriously, I met this girl at a bar a few weeks back, and when I asked her for her email she said she'd find me on facebook instead.
I have a sneaking suspicion that this won't work in Preview in OS X. At least for a while 'til Apple can get revenue from it. Preview, for those not familiar with it, basically renders Adobe Reader pointless on a Mac, especially because it is about ten times faster than Reader. So for stuff that doesn't require Acrobat Pro, Preview rules. Indeed, and the lack of the flashing ads that the Adobe reader has stupidly added to the reader is another huge boost for Preview and another hint that this insane scheme won't affect the Mac community.
less malls=>more small shops in the center Malls are already central locations with lots of small shops... why would your idea be more efficient? Can you walk to the nearest mall? A 10 min walk will get me to a commercial street with lots of stores for most of my needs.
To have a tentacle or two, particularly forward facing and prehensile would be an excellent optional add on to the current human model. The ladies do compliment me on my forward facing tentacle:-)
I believe the owners of some buildings are now claiming that the appearance of the building itself is copyrighted and that photographing the buildings infringes... We had to take pictures of a building complex downtown for a college class, and security came out and asked me and my partner to leave. Our teacher had to sort it out with the building's manager to get us a special permission for educational purposes. All of that before 9-11 of course.
any less of a form of torture than tasers? Pepper flies every which way, you'd need to wear a gas mask to use it as torture. AND you'd probably need to tie the subject down, or they'd just go and wash it off / cover their faces.
With a taser, it's zap-o-matic paralyzing agony at the push of a button. A point and click pain interface, if you will.
The UN and the Geneva Convention however have no qualms with claymore mines, even homebrew ones made in the field, with any sharp substance you can put in them. Those aren't torture, but tasers are. WTF are you on about??? And you damn well make sure your country signed the Ottawa convention before you start bitching about the UN and land mines.
I would say any device could be used to a form of Torture. A Taser Shot used where before a Gun was used is not torture or used in replace of getting close and beating the guy down. Using a Taser for Torture would be zapping the guy to get information from him, or for micromanaging what he needs to do. Tasers and other forms of punishment are needed for the Extreme STOP IT NOW because you are threatening myself or others. vs. You are not an immediate threat to my or other health and safety. But the UN makes it Illegal I guess it is back to the good old Night Stick where you just beat the guy to near death and at risk of hurting yourself. It is labeled torture because even though it was marketed to you as a non-lethal alternative to guns, it is in fact being use to force you to RESPECT MAH AUTHORITAY! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMaMYL_shxc
the officer using a taser doesn't have to be physically stronger than the victim (err, suspect), and suspects don't think they can fight back like they do against police using batons. They can't: the electric shocks cause involuntary muscle contractions that make it impossible to fight back.
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This is my problem with subtitles. If I'm watching TV, I can do stuff like have it on in the background and pay half attention to it, following along with the audio and sometimes looking away for other stuff. Subtitles bind you to putting all of you attention to the screen. If you want to do this, that's fine, but my TV and movie watching habits are often not amenable to that. Have you ever sought treatment or diagnosis for an attention deficit disorder?
South Park isn't a union show, so the WGA has no impact on it. (The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are, because Jon Stewart was in a superior negotiation position a few years ago, and that was one of his demands.)
Seriously?That's interesting, got more on that?
"Original language (if understood)" > "original + subtitles in a language I understand" > "dubbed well" > "original language (not understood, but you get the tone of the voices)" > "on mute" > "dubbed badly";
Unless the bad dub is funny, but then that's an ironic approach.
A lot of people say original language + subtitles is better than dubbing, though I'm not sure I agree. That depends on the quality of the dubbing and on whether or not you mind reading your TV shows.
Some people don't like to read, they would rather watch TV. Some people can't read fast enough to follow the rhythm of the spoken word, and some people can't read at all.
Personally: "Original language (if understood)" > "original + subtitles in a language I understand" > "dubbed well" > "on mute" > "dubbed badly";
The problem becomes numbers of people that need to be involved. He said "how can America get one of those". I say try it in Washington state. You have the proportional population of Switzerland, and big pointy mountains too. Then America will have one of those "Swiss-style democracy" thingies.
The bands back then had to fight the labels to get them to release albums, and now the pendulum has swung back.
Some albums are worth it for the experience, some are just a good song or two with lots of filler.
The trouble is, the excecs that insist on shoehorning their "product" into one category or the other, according to their belief of what is profitable.
Kill them all, let Clapton sort 'em out.
It's because they're hoping to score with Hot Internet Chicks. Seriously, I met this girl at a bar a few weeks back, and when I asked her for her email she said she'd find me on facebook instead.
A 10 min walk will get me to a commercial street with lots of stores for most of my needs.
All of that before 9-11 of course.
Flaming someone for being stupid is not flamebait, mods, learn the difference.
AND you'd probably need to tie the subject down, or they'd just go and wash it off / cover their faces.
With a taser, it's zap-o-matic paralyzing agony at the push of a button. A point and click pain interface, if you will.
And you damn well make sure your country signed the Ottawa convention before you start bitching about the UN and land mines.
A Taser Shot used where before a Gun was used is not torture or used in replace of getting close and beating the guy down.
Using a Taser for Torture would be zapping the guy to get information from him, or for micromanaging what he needs to do. Tasers and other forms of punishment are needed for the Extreme STOP IT NOW because you are threatening myself or others. vs. You are not an immediate threat to my or other health and safety. But the UN makes it Illegal I guess it is back to the good old Night Stick where you just beat the guy to near death and at risk of hurting yourself. It is labeled torture because even though it was marketed to you as a non-lethal alternative to guns, it is in fact being use to force you to RESPECT MAH AUTHORITAY! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMaMYL_shxc