If the bootlegs appear at around the time of the first screening, many people will not go to the cinema.
The people who stay at home to watch the free low-quality bootleg wouldn't have gone to see it at the theatre anyway.
Personally, as uninterrested as I am in yet another remake of King Kong, if I wanted to see it at all it would be on a BIG screem, to enjoy the bigness.
Why would he focus on the Hobbit when the Silmirilion would make a much better movie.
The Silmarillion is not a good movie story. It's a collection of background notes that were never meant by their author to be published, a dense tome that is read by fanatics of the Lords of the Rings for it's value-adding goodness. Not a product suitable for mass market appeal.
The Hobbit, however, is a light tale of dragon-slaying adventure with characters and settings already familliar to the consummers.
Telling people that other people want it? It's not a new one.
Hell, I remember some random romantic comedy in the summer of 1999 claiming in their ads to be the most anticipated movie of the year.
There's lies, and then there's outrageous lies: 1999 is the year where hundreds of fans accross the united states camped in front of movie theatres for weeks to see Phantom Menace, and millions of fans accross the world camped for a day to see it. Now THAT is anticipation.
Article summary is wrong and intended to cause a flamewar.
But flamewars increase traffic, and therefore, ad revenue.
Wait a minute, those ads are downloaded, right? And they involve money changing hands... so... would such a tax reduce inflamatory article headlines through sheer economic pressure? I'm all for THAT!;-)
I think the scientists themselves are doing fine without the/. commentary on how they could do their job better.
Well, apparently the nature article, wich I haven't read, and I don't have the intention of reading in the near future, doesn't claim it's impossible. So I'm cool.
Tell the editors to stop putting that nonsense in their headlines instead of telling me to stop complaining about it, dude.
Well he is probably "keeping it real." My guess is he really is a geek so is rapping about what he knows.
Man, a geek who raps, he's a geek to geeks! A second degree geek... I dunno if that puts him higher or lower on our respect scale.
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The whole idea of being "geek" is that you don't fit in.
I fit in once.
My first year of college, there was a halloween party, I went to check it out to see why they had a big plexiglas cube filled with water.
It. Was. Paradise.
There was a central command unit filled with consoles and dials and whatnot and someone manning it, speaking orders in her mic ("Security to level 8! We have a code 7-a." and so forth), miscelaneous costumed monsters stalking the room. On the far wall they projected non-stop extracts from various sci-fi movies (mostly Bs, but there was space scenes from the Star Wars too), some of wich I'd never even seen! And the cube! The cube had a guy in scuba gear in it with a whole lotta goldfish!
Man, if there is a god, that room will be waiting for me in geek heaven.
So, my question to mc chris is: Who are you and how come Taco assumes that I know you?
This will be an observational constraint for stellar model parameter. Any future stellar evolution theory has to take into account that there are very few number of stars that have a mass greater than 130 solar mass, and none above 150 solar.
I, for one, am eagerly awaiting the slashdot headline that will read "Distant galaxy made up of stars 200 times the size of our sun discovered".
Never trust a scientist that tells you something is impossible, there's another out there waiting for him to die so he can publish the proof to the contrary. Meteors used to be physically impossible, with the math to prove it. The human body used to be said to be unable to survive a speed (yes, speed) of more than 30 kph, etc.
I like my scientists to say "under the current model it would seem unlikely that...", rather than "it is impossible that...". Those are the good scientists (we should make of list of those, cheking it twice, find out who's naughty or nice).
Well if you would take Pizza Eating 101 you would learn that I can eat many, MANY pizzas.
Oh, that takes me back, crazy college days... It's been a while, but, lets see if I can remember this... yes, I got that question at the exam. The theoretical upper limit to the number of pizzas you could eat was, correct me if I'm wrong, one hundred and one?;-)
What are you going to do to me if I commit suicide, huh?
Ressucitate you, put you on trial, leave you in "ouch my bottom" prison for a dozen years or so then then it's capital punishment for you, drama queen! That'll learn ya!
And its okay dont bother sparing my feelings, I'm near impossible to offend.
Well, I'm not sure I should say anything. I'm sorry about your sister. I don't know you, but I'm sorry.
Anyway, as a guy who once counted it and it turned out around 10 girls had cried on my shoulder that fall (only two of wich were my fault, I'd swear they were telling each other to come to me to cry...), I had this thought:
No abuse
How would you know?
No offense, but, I was the only person, aside from the victim and the abuser, who knew for one of my exs. Her brother didn't know, and he was usually in the next room when it happened.
A lot of abuse leaves no visible mark, and shames the person so much they'll never tell anyone. Sigh, in some cases, I wished they hand't told me. Empathy has it's downsides.
I have a friend... I know something happened to her when she was small. I've been avoiding learning what. It was sexual, and it was a grown man who did it, I'm sure, but I'm trying not to learn the details... and she's told a shrink, I belive, so I can avoid it with a clear conscience.
Maybe you're right though, maybe it was just a chemical imbalance, maybe it was love, maybe maybe maybe. The point of killing yourself is to put an end to your suffering, not to share it (though obviously she gave you new suffering).
Parents seem to believe in god, but not enough to go to church, and never preached it to us, letting us make our own decision when we got old enough (me and her both decided it was a lot of hooey).
Me too, but it helps to think that maybe she's with Jesus and was able to help her feel better. I'd like it if it was the case.
Again, sorry buddy. I hope you get to spare someone else's family by letting people know what happens to those who care for them after they leave.
It's nice to be able to get the news, too, which is something you can't program into your MP3 player.
Yes, it's not completely pointless. But if it's gonna half-baked and FM only... I don't really think it's a big bonus.
I started listening to radio again just two weeks ago, some chick told me about an industrial show on one of the alternative/and/or/student channels. It's nice to have content I like that I don't already know.
But commerical radio... well, it's all commercials, ads, plugs, hype, etc. I don't want that, I don't want to hear some "DJ" talk over the intro and ending of every song I listen to, I don't want to hear said so-called DJ tell me how good that song was, and about the latest, pointless, mind numbing gossip about some pretty front girl/man of a band I couldn't care less about. So, an MP3 player can have FM on it, but it's not what I look for.
Ok is this the Music Sony we hate, or the Gaming Sony we Love... It's electronics, but it has to do with music. Arrrgh I don't know if I should love this or hate this. Somebody tell me I can't think on my own.
It's the Sony that's competing with the iPod: Therefore we hate them.
And to save you future mental anguish: When the PSP comes out it'll be the gaming Sony that's competing with Nokia's N-Gage, so we'll love Sony that day. As far as content-provider Sony, we despise them... except when they make Spider Man movies.
the government's exercise of eminent domain when the taking of property "for public use" consists of taking their homes to turn over to a private developer because an office complex will bring in more tax revenues than private homes do.
So far as improving the economic health of the nation, or "promoting the useful arts and sciences" goes, or indeed anything other than "enriching the few at the expense of the many" they serve no purpose and should never have been permitted.
Somewhere down the line, government stopped being about the people, and became about capital.
The usefull arts and sciences are those that increase profits. The economic health of the nation obviously is directly linked to the economic health of the owners of the nation's infrastructures.
When people are obsessed over the enemies abroad, they don't notice the enemies within.
the Canadian public rarely engages in succesfull political activism. Quebec is an exception, but as far as I could tell, the whole sucession[sic] thing was about language and cultural issues.
A tradition of successfull political activism is part of the culture.
There's a student strike right now. The education minister said he didn't understand why the students would do that over a 103 million cut in scolarships, "they're the best-treated students in the country!" he excliamed. Yeah, that's 'cause they don't lie down when you start cutting, you dumbass.
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If the bootlegs appear at around the time of the first screening, many people will not go to the cinema.
The people who stay at home to watch the free low-quality bootleg wouldn't have gone to see it at the theatre anyway.
Personally, as uninterrested as I am in yet another remake of King Kong, if I wanted to see it at all it would be on a BIG screem, to enjoy the bigness.
Why would he focus on the Hobbit when the Silmirilion would make a much better movie.
The Silmarillion is not a good movie story. It's a collection of background notes that were never meant by their author to be published, a dense tome that is read by fanatics of the Lords of the Rings for it's value-adding goodness. Not a product suitable for mass market appeal.
The Hobbit, however, is a light tale of dragon-slaying adventure with characters and settings already familliar to the consummers.
is this a new marketing tactic?
Telling people that other people want it? It's not a new one.
Hell, I remember some random romantic comedy in the summer of 1999 claiming in their ads to be the most anticipated movie of the year.
There's lies, and then there's outrageous lies: 1999 is the year where hundreds of fans accross the united states camped in front of movie theatres for weeks to see Phantom Menace, and millions of fans accross the world camped for a day to see it. Now THAT is anticipation.
I've been trying to understand why he's doing it ever since the first announcements, I really, really can't.
I mean, will there be a King Kong remake every 30-40 years? Is this a trend? Will this CGI King Kong fight the CGI Godzilla?
You've managed to achieve an unprecedented level on confusion induction in a headline.
I salute you.
Article summary is wrong and intended to cause a flamewar.
;-)
But flamewars increase traffic, and therefore, ad revenue.
Wait a minute, those ads are downloaded, right? And they involve money changing hands... so... would such a tax reduce inflamatory article headlines through sheer economic pressure? I'm all for THAT!
If you believe in Jesus then she would be in hell now
That's believing in church, or the bible, not in Jesus.
Jesus was a liberal jew, not a fascist.
I think the scientists themselves are doing fine without the /. commentary on how they could do their job better.
Well, apparently the nature article, wich I haven't read, and I don't have the intention of reading in the near future, doesn't claim it's impossible. So I'm cool.
Tell the editors to stop putting that nonsense in their headlines instead of telling me to stop complaining about it, dude.
Well he is probably "keeping it real." My guess is he really is a geek so is rapping about what he knows.
Man, a geek who raps, he's a geek to geeks!
A second degree geek... I dunno if that puts him higher or lower on our respect scale.
The whole idea of being "geek" is that you don't fit in.
I fit in once.
My first year of college, there was a halloween party, I went to check it out to see why they had a big plexiglas cube filled with water.
It. Was. Paradise.
There was a central command unit filled with consoles and dials and whatnot and someone manning it, speaking orders in her mic ("Security to level 8! We have a code 7-a." and so forth), miscelaneous costumed monsters stalking the room.
On the far wall they projected non-stop extracts from various sci-fi movies (mostly Bs, but there was space scenes from the Star Wars too), some of wich I'd never even seen!
And the cube! The cube had a guy in scuba gear in it with a whole lotta goldfish!
Man, if there is a god, that room will be waiting for me in geek heaven.
So, my question to mc chris is: Who are you and how come Taco assumes that I know you?
This will be an observational constraint for stellar model parameter. Any future stellar evolution theory has to take into account that there are very few number of stars that have a mass greater than 130 solar mass, and none above 150 solar.
I, for one, am eagerly awaiting the slashdot headline that will read "Distant galaxy made up of stars 200 times the size of our sun discovered".
Never trust a scientist that tells you something is impossible, there's another out there waiting for him to die so he can publish the proof to the contrary. Meteors used to be physically impossible, with the math to prove it. The human body used to be said to be unable to survive a speed (yes, speed) of more than 30 kph, etc.
I like my scientists to say "under the current model it would seem unlikely that...", rather than "it is impossible that...". Those are the good scientists (we should make of list of those, cheking it twice, find out who's naughty or nice).
Well if you would take Pizza Eating 101 you would learn that I can eat many, MANY pizzas.
;-)
Oh, that takes me back, crazy college days...
It's been a while, but, lets see if I can remember this... yes, I got that question at the exam. The theoretical upper limit to the number of pizzas you could eat was, correct me if I'm wrong, one hundred and one?
What are you going to do to me if I commit suicide, huh?
Ressucitate you, put you on trial, leave you in "ouch my bottom" prison for a dozen years or so then then it's capital punishment for you, drama queen! That'll learn ya!
seeing as the Internet is a major contributing factor to depression and suicide nowadays.
Yes, it's funny how it wasn't a factor before it existed.
I'm sure it's a function of the internet and not, you know, coincidental.
And its okay dont bother sparing my feelings, I'm near impossible to offend.
Well, I'm not sure I should say anything. I'm sorry about your sister. I don't know you, but I'm sorry.
Anyway, as a guy who once counted it and it turned out around 10 girls had cried on my shoulder that fall (only two of wich were my fault, I'd swear they were telling each other to come to me to cry...), I had this thought:
No abuse
How would you know?
No offense, but, I was the only person, aside from the victim and the abuser, who knew for one of my exs. Her brother didn't know, and he was usually in the next room when it happened.
A lot of abuse leaves no visible mark, and shames the person so much they'll never tell anyone. Sigh, in some cases, I wished they hand't told me. Empathy has it's downsides.
I have a friend... I know something happened to her when she was small. I've been avoiding learning what. It was sexual, and it was a grown man who did it, I'm sure, but I'm trying not to learn the details... and she's told a shrink, I belive, so I can avoid it with a clear conscience.
Maybe you're right though, maybe it was just a chemical imbalance, maybe it was love, maybe maybe maybe. The point of killing yourself is to put an end to your suffering, not to share it (though obviously she gave you new suffering).
Parents seem to believe in god, but not enough to go to church, and never preached it to us, letting us make our own decision when we got old enough (me and her both decided it was a lot of hooey).
Me too, but it helps to think that maybe she's with Jesus and was able to help her feel better. I'd like it if it was the case.
Again, sorry buddy.
I hope you get to spare someone else's family by letting people know what happens to those who care for them after they leave.
Also, we don't hate N-Gage for competing with Nintendo, we just hate it for sucking.
I think we mostly hate it because the Nokia boss called us loosers.
Something about "no self respecting man in his 20s would play gameboy in public".
What marketing school did he go to where they told him to insult his target demographic before releasing an inferior product?
Terrorists?
Spammers?
I know: AOLers!
It's nice to be able to get the news, too, which is something you can't program into your MP3 player.
Yes, it's not completely pointless. But if it's gonna half-baked and FM only... I don't really think it's a big bonus.
I started listening to radio again just two weeks ago, some chick told me about an industrial show on one of the alternative/and/or/student channels. It's nice to have content I like that I don't already know.
But commerical radio... well, it's all commercials, ads, plugs, hype, etc. I don't want that, I don't want to hear some "DJ" talk over the intro and ending of every song I listen to, I don't want to hear said so-called DJ tell me how good that song was, and about the latest, pointless, mind numbing gossip about some pretty front girl/man of a band I couldn't care less about.
So, an MP3 player can have FM on it, but it's not what I look for.
Ok is this the Music Sony we hate, or the Gaming Sony we Love... It's electronics, but it has to do with music. Arrrgh I don't know if I should love this or hate this. Somebody tell me I can't think on my own.
It's the Sony that's competing with the iPod: Therefore we hate them.
And to save you future mental anguish:
When the PSP comes out it'll be the gaming Sony that's competing with Nokia's N-Gage, so we'll love Sony that day. As far as content-provider Sony, we despise them... except when they make Spider Man movies.
Never understood why all these rival players seem to include FM radios
It's uglier, klunkier, lamer in every way, but hey! It's got a FM radio!
Imagine, if we were in the 70's, that'd be awesome!
the government's exercise of eminent domain when the taking of property "for public use" consists of taking their homes to turn over to a private developer because an office complex will bring in more tax revenues than private homes do.
WHAT?
Unfuckingbelievable.
So far as improving the economic health of the nation, or "promoting the useful arts and sciences" goes, or indeed anything other than "enriching the few at the expense of the many" they serve no purpose and should never have been permitted.
Somewhere down the line, government stopped being about the people, and became about capital.
The usefull arts and sciences are those that increase profits.
The economic health of the nation obviously is directly linked to the economic health of the owners of the nation's infrastructures.
When people are obsessed over the enemies abroad, they don't notice the enemies within.
- If this law can pass, the law to render retroactively illegal something you already do can pass to.
- Technically, you break the law when you recieve kiddie/bestial porn spam. Once it's in your possession, you're breaking the law.
file trading (including music) is entirely legal in CanadaIt's not. It's... loopholy, for now.
Time to learn how to spell touque. :)
;-)
Without an "o"?
the Canadian public rarely engages in succesfull political activism. Quebec is an exception, but as far as I could tell, the whole sucession[sic] thing was about language and cultural issues.
A tradition of successfull political activism is part of the culture.
There's a student strike right now. The education minister said he didn't understand why the students would do that over a 103 million cut in scolarships, "they're the best-treated students in the country!" he excliamed. Yeah, that's 'cause they don't lie down when you start cutting, you dumbass.