wonder how long it will be before Mr. T. sues them for using the words JibJab? Wasn't it Mr. T who was well known for the phrase "I dont wanna hear no jibbajabba!"
Shut up foo! Mr. T only sues people who try to make him look like a jive sucka! Don't give me no jibber-jabba about him suing for things like dat!
Homestar Runner's 'Trogdor' character showing up in the Final Episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer or the infamous Cardboard Tube of Penny Arcade appearing in Legacy of Kain 3.
Apparently that tube cameo was a coincidence... Its not like Tycho and Gabe invented using a cardboard tube as a sword, the reason we like their CBTube Samurai comix so much is because we identify. That and those comics are pretty awsome.
WTF- this land (the original song) is not a patriotic song. It was a proto-communist anthem. The lyrics are trying to get people to vote in communistic or socialistic changes into the American system. Makes sense when you think that this written during the dustbowl era, and Woody Guthrie was an active communist.
Main Entry: patriotism
Pronunciation: 'pA-trE-&-"ti-z&m, chiefly British 'pa- Function: noun : love for or devotion to one's country
I'm sorry, where does it say that you're not a patriot if you're left wing?
It IS a patriotic song, it is NOT a capitalist song. Capitalism is not the same thing as patriotism, McArthy.
Are you kidding? Instead of getting a ruling on this one perticular incident, they prevented these assholes from suing anybody ever again for using that song.
They not only sucessfully defended JibJab, they also liberated a song!
Well, thank you, please check out my initial reply to this thread, its been modded down to 0 for blantantly unjingoistic sentiment. People moderate while eating freedom fries...sigh.
If you use the same highlighting (ie, bold for previous posters comments, standard text for your own) there isn't a whole lot of point in posting anonymous, is there?
It protects his precious karma... See, he's the sort of person who wouldn't even risk karma to back up his opinions.
But thanks for pointing that out, I wouldn't have noticed his AC reply if you hadn't pointed that out. He provides a nice second example of revisionism in there, its amusing : )
Considering the fact that southern France was collaberating with the Nazis, I should think that they'd have not been that much more deprived than citizens of Germany during the war.
Aside from that, you seem to be supportive of France's attempt at purging "bad thoughts" from the minds of everyone on planet Earth
No, I'm not.
I'm, to the contrary, opposed to jingoist who act as though this was somehow a French thing. First of all, right there, you claim they are trying to "purge" the thoughts of, as you said, everyone on the planet. Whereas we are talking about a law that only applies to, surprise surprise, France.
Your justification of your hatred of all things French is what I oppose.
My feelings about that perticular law or that perticular case are not involved, this is about you jerks attacking a whole country, a whole people and culture, and acting as though you were justified, as if this were right.
American courts and lawmakers will come to Yahoo's rescue and put the pompous French beaurocrats right back on their socialist asses.
Yes, they are pompous. Its as though, you know, they want a company doing is business in their own country to obey the law of the land, and the company was responding by having the court of another country try to impose its own laws to a sovereign nation. Because, of course, since America is better than the rest of the planet, it's laws take precedence over all other laws. That is not pompous, oh my no!
Otherwise, we may well see the content of the internet reduced to the lowest common denominator of PC-filtered non-offensive non-confrontational child-safe mind-numbing drool.
Because, of course, laws affecting content on the internet are only passed in inferior countries, the Almighty, divine United States of America are above, amongst other things, passing such laws.
So lets see, your opinion is that the French people did not suffer during WWII, that they are pompous, that they want to purge the thoughts of the entire world, and that they should submit to U.S. law.
Excellent troll. I admire your style, one line of genuinely insightfull comment on legal jurisdictions, followed by 2 lines of "I hate frogs" jingoistic rethoric. I'm impressed.
Of course, the fact that france is enforcing an anti-nazi law is quite surprising.
Its not like they were ever, you know, invaded and occupied by Nazis or anything, right? I'm surprised that years of deprivation under Nazi occupation could leave any stigma like that...who'd have thought?
the anti-jewish hatred that runs rampant in france.
And there is no reason why your earlier, informative post got modded down.
That huge block of text was unreadable and therefore just noise in the thread. He attempted karma whoring and got modded down "troll" because he posted something unpleasant in an attempt to get validation.
With all the people complaining about Quicksilver's supposedly unbearable lenght, you should expect quite a bit of intolerance for large blocks of unformatted text. They don't have the patience for a 900 page novel, they won't tolerate this kind of crap. And we don't care if you're at work, if you don't have time to post it right, don't.
Now, with Iraq the American media spews shit about no WMD, even though Iraq was planning terrorist strikes against America and the people follow along once again, calling Bush a nazi even though like Clinton, he is trying to protect them against an unseen monster.
God damn revisionist warmongers...
The reason given prior to the invasion was that, according to Bush & Co., Saddam Hussein had in his possession an arsenal of weapons of mass destructions with missiles to launch them beyond the range allowed by the U.N., and deployable within 45 minutes.
Bush said that he would deliver the proof after his "hundreds of thousand" of "weapons inspectors" (troops) had been there for 2 weeks. Its been what, a year and a half? Bush lied, the U.N., France, Germany and Russia were right, the weapons inspector were right, they did their job, there were no weapons of mass destruction.
But now you'll hang on to any justification once that the actual motivation has been debunked. So this week, apparently, its Russia's word that Saddam was planning something, somewhere, against the U.S. Really?
Questioning your government to the point of them becoming ineffective because the media "told you so" isn't patriotic, it's being led like a sheep to your own slaughter.
Who was led to the slaughter like sheep under false pretenses again? And the death toll is what, 5 to 1 Iraqis killed compared to U.S. troops? Bah...they don't count, their lives have no value, they weren't born in the U.S., who cares if they live or die...
Will Bush be afraid to use force the next time America is threatened?
Dammit, if you support the damn war, at least have the guts to support the real motivations for it. Not the pretend reason of the week.
P.S. Wanna use the "Saddam did bad things in the 80's while we were supporting him and financing him so we can invade his country all we want now that he isn't obbeying us anymore" excuse? How about some follow through on that idea?
You know, I was a bit disaponted that Quicksilver wasn't as incredibly good as Cryptonomicon, but I took it philosophically: Cryptonomicon isn't any worse because of it, and I was just hyping it in my own mind.
But after having read Quicksilver and the Confusion, I re-read the beginning of Cryptonomicon, and I loved it even more because I now know the backgrond f the characters and it makes it much more interresting.
Eliza was a totally one dimensional PerfectFemale.
I disagree.
She was also totally portrayed like a modern American Woman
She is neither fat nor ignorant of world matters.
very far from the reality at the time.
He repeatedly describes the reality of women in those times. Eliza is an extraordinary person who manages to navigate this society to her advantage despite it all. I am normally the first to compain about one-dimentional "girl power" strong women stereotyped characters. She isn't one.
And one dimensional? She has at least 2 dimensions: Buisness woman and slavery abolitionist. Oh, and double agent spy... and socialite...etc.
I never touched Baroque Cycle because Quicksilver made me want to stab my eyes out with a dull spoon.
I'm curious, is it its very existance that angers you? Because if, as you said, you "never touched" the Baroque Cycle, then how, pray tell, would you know that he "described the cityscape of London for the zillionth time" or "took the worst of [Cryptonomicon] and magnified it to create Quicksilver"?
I loved Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon, but the Baroque Cycle... got 2/3rds into Quicksilver and put it away. I liked the story in the abstract and where he was going with it, but it was *way* too long at getting to the point.
Its not like he didn't warn you. If the fact that it was a 900+ page "volume one of three" was clue one. Naming the trilogy "baroque" was clue 2.
Main Entry: 1baroque
Pronunciation: b&-'rOk, ba-, -'räk, -'rok Function: adjective Usage: often capitalized Etymology: French, from Middle French barroque irregularly shaped (of a pearl), from Portuguese barroco irregularly shaped pearl 1 : of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a style of artistic expression prevalent especially in the 17th century that is marked generally by use of complex forms, bold ornamentation, and the juxtaposition of contrasting elements often conveying a sense of drama, movement, and tension 2 : characterized by grotesqueness, extravagance, complexity, or flamboyance
It was really long. Instead of complaining that it is very long, you should not buy very long books. I complain that it was a bit drawn out too, but I finished it, and the second one, and I'm waiting for the third one. I feel I'm getting my mony's worth, personally. : )
Not completely wireless but nothing connecting the fencers to a normal fencing 'reel'. Just the body cord connecting the sabre, the lame, the mask, and the wireless gear.
Look at the damn pictures.
I was watching the women's épée on friday, they had a camera angle from behind the reel. They have the usual wiring coming out of their back to a spring-loaded reel.
Not only are RFID chips in your shoes, but according to the July 2004 IEEE Spectrum, they're also in [...] All Trojan Ultra Ribbed condom boxes [...] this should (rightly so) worry you considerably more.
It does...
Why the "Ultra ribbed" ones? What are they hiding? What are they trying to find out?!
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wonder how long it will be before Mr. T. sues them for using the words JibJab? Wasn't it Mr. T who was well known for the phrase "I dont wanna hear no jibbajabba!"
Shut up foo! Mr. T only sues people who try to make him look like a jive sucka! Don't give me no jibber-jabba about him suing for things like dat!
Time for a glass of milk...
Homestar Runner's 'Trogdor' character showing up in the Final Episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer or the infamous Cardboard Tube of Penny Arcade appearing in Legacy of Kain 3.
Apparently that tube cameo was a coincidence...
Its not like Tycho and Gabe invented using a cardboard tube as a sword, the reason we like their CBTube Samurai comix so much is because we identify. That and those comics are pretty awsome.
I'm sorry, where does it say that you're not a patriot if you're left wing?
It IS a patriotic song, it is NOT a capitalist song.
Capitalism is not the same thing as patriotism, McArthy.
Well boys, it ain't a victory
Are you kidding? Instead of getting a ruling on this one perticular incident, they prevented these assholes from suing anybody ever again for using that song.
They not only sucessfully defended JibJab, they also liberated a song!
I thought that no matter what parody was protected regardless of copyright? Isn't that how Weird Al operates?
Nope, Al's lawyer ask for permission first.
Well, thank you, please check out my initial reply to this thread, its been modded down to 0 for blantantly unjingoistic sentiment.
People moderate while eating freedom fries...sigh.
Read the parent:
Er... I'm not the one you want to reply to...
Anyway, MY point was, yes there are people who don't like jews and/or israel, that doesn't make it ok to hate french and/or france.
This shouldn't be hard to understand.
If you use the same highlighting (ie, bold for previous posters comments, standard text for your own) there isn't a whole lot of point in posting anonymous, is there?
It protects his precious karma...
See, he's the sort of person who wouldn't even risk karma to back up his opinions.
But thanks for pointing that out, I wouldn't have noticed his AC reply if you hadn't pointed that out. He provides a nice second example of revisionism in there, its amusing : )
Oh?
Yeah... Technically, you just implied it.
What I do hate is the mind-control attempted by governments - especially when it's so open and blatant.
See, we have irreconciliable differences: I hate the subtle ones more.
Here is the link:
What's your point?
you might think of the French as a tolerant people but you'd be mistaken.
I like that, that's a great example of tolerance right there...not at all generalising on an entire country based on isolated incidents.
I'm hungry, I'd like some freedom fries...
Considering the fact that southern France was collaberating with the Nazis, I should think that they'd have not been that much more deprived than citizens of Germany during the war.
The average Parisian lost 20kg during the Nazi occupation. I could dig for something about southern France, but you get the idea.
Aside from that, you seem to be supportive of France's attempt at purging "bad thoughts" from the minds of everyone on planet Earth
No, I'm not.
I'm, to the contrary, opposed to jingoist who act as though this was somehow a French thing. First of all, right there, you claim they are trying to "purge" the thoughts of, as you said, everyone on the planet. Whereas we are talking about a law that only applies to, surprise surprise, France.
Your justification of your hatred of all things French is what I oppose.
My feelings about that perticular law or that perticular case are not involved, this is about you jerks attacking a whole country, a whole people and culture, and acting as though you were justified, as if this were right.
American courts and lawmakers will come to Yahoo's rescue and put the pompous French beaurocrats right back on their socialist asses.
Yes, they are pompous.
Its as though, you know, they want a company doing is business in their own country to obey the law of the land, and the company was responding by having the court of another country try to impose its own laws to a sovereign nation.
Because, of course, since America is better than the rest of the planet, it's laws take precedence over all other laws. That is not pompous, oh my no!
Otherwise, we may well see the content of the internet reduced to the lowest common denominator of PC-filtered non-offensive non-confrontational child-safe mind-numbing drool.
Because, of course, laws affecting content on the internet are only passed in inferior countries, the Almighty, divine United States of America are above, amongst other things, passing such laws.
So lets see, your opinion is that the French people did not suffer during WWII, that they are pompous, that they want to purge the thoughts of the entire world, and that they should submit to U.S. law.
My opinion is that you are a jingoist bigot.
Excellent troll. I admire your style, one line of genuinely insightfull comment on legal jurisdictions, followed by 2 lines of "I hate frogs" jingoistic rethoric. I'm impressed.
Of course, the fact that france is enforcing an anti-nazi law is quite surprising.
Its not like they were ever, you know, invaded and occupied by Nazis or anything, right?
I'm surprised that years of deprivation under Nazi occupation could leave any stigma like that...who'd have thought?
the anti-jewish hatred that runs rampant in france.
Yup, them frogs sure are racist!
And there is no reason why your earlier, informative post got modded down.
That huge block of text was unreadable and therefore just noise in the thread.
He attempted karma whoring and got modded down "troll" because he posted something unpleasant in an attempt to get validation.
With all the people complaining about Quicksilver's supposedly unbearable lenght, you should expect quite a bit of intolerance for large blocks of unformatted text. They don't have the patience for a 900 page novel, they won't tolerate this kind of crap. And we don't care if you're at work, if you don't have time to post it right, don't.
The characters are inconsistent and incoherent
Yeah, that guy with syphilis who's drugged without his knowledge sure is inconsistent and incoherent...
I couldn't get halfway through Quicksilver [..] 99% crap. Big disappointment.
Something you have not seen the half of is, in your opinion, 99% crap? Really? You're a master of extrapolation.
Now, with Iraq the American media spews shit about no WMD, even though Iraq was planning terrorist strikes against America and the people follow along once again, calling Bush a nazi even though like Clinton, he is trying to protect them against an unseen monster.
God damn revisionist warmongers...
The reason given prior to the invasion was that, according to Bush & Co., Saddam Hussein had in his possession an arsenal of weapons of mass destructions with missiles to launch them beyond the range allowed by the U.N., and deployable within 45 minutes.
Bush said that he would deliver the proof after his "hundreds of thousand" of "weapons inspectors" (troops) had been there for 2 weeks.
Its been what, a year and a half? Bush lied, the U.N., France, Germany and Russia were right, the weapons inspector were right, they did their job, there were no weapons of mass destruction.
But now you'll hang on to any justification once that the actual motivation has been debunked. So this week, apparently, its Russia's word that Saddam was planning something, somewhere, against the U.S. Really?
Questioning your government to the point of them becoming ineffective because the media "told you so" isn't patriotic, it's being led like a sheep to your own slaughter.
Who was led to the slaughter like sheep under false pretenses again?
And the death toll is what, 5 to 1 Iraqis killed compared to U.S. troops? Bah...they don't count, their lives have no value, they weren't born in the U.S., who cares if they live or die...
Will Bush be afraid to use force the next time America is threatened?
Dammit, if you support the damn war, at least have the guts to support the real motivations for it. Not the pretend reason of the week.
P.S. Wanna use the "Saddam did bad things in the 80's while we were supporting him and financing him so we can invade his country all we want now that he isn't obbeying us anymore" excuse? How about some follow through on that idea?
You know, I was a bit disaponted that Quicksilver wasn't as incredibly good as Cryptonomicon, but I took it philosophically: Cryptonomicon isn't any worse because of it, and I was just hyping it in my own mind.
But after having read Quicksilver and the Confusion, I re-read the beginning of Cryptonomicon, and I loved it even more because I now know the backgrond f the characters and it makes it much more interresting.
Eliza was a totally one dimensional PerfectFemale.
I disagree.
She was also totally portrayed like a modern American Woman
She is neither fat nor ignorant of world matters.
very far from the reality at the time.
He repeatedly describes the reality of women in those times. Eliza is an extraordinary person who manages to navigate this society to her advantage despite it all.
I am normally the first to compain about one-dimentional "girl power" strong women stereotyped characters. She isn't one.
And one dimensional?
She has at least 2 dimensions: Buisness woman and slavery abolitionist.
Oh, and double agent spy... and socialite...etc.
Eighteenth century my arse!
Most of it was in the 17th century, actually.
I never touched Baroque Cycle because Quicksilver made me want to stab my eyes out with a dull spoon.
I'm curious, is it its very existance that angers you? Because if, as you said, you "never touched" the Baroque Cycle, then how, pray tell, would you know that he "described the cityscape of London for the zillionth time" or "took the worst of [Cryptonomicon] and magnified it to create Quicksilver"?
Its not like he didn't warn you.
If the fact that it was a 900+ page "volume one of three" was clue one.
Naming the trilogy "baroque" was clue 2.
It was really long.
Instead of complaining that it is very long, you should not buy very long books. I complain that it was a bit drawn out too, but I finished it, and the second one, and I'm waiting for the third one. I feel I'm getting my mony's worth, personally.
: )
Geez dude, how' bout not blowing a damn spoiler on people like that huh?
Not completely wireless but nothing connecting the fencers to a normal fencing 'reel'. Just the body cord connecting the sabre, the lame, the mask, and the wireless gear.
Look at the damn pictures.
I was watching the women's épée on friday, they had a camera angle from behind the reel. They have the usual wiring coming out of their back to a spring-loaded reel.
this is still considered wireless fencing.
Lay off the crack man.
Actually other then the fact that the fencing equipment in the olympics is wireless
No its not.
See the wire stiking out the back of the fencer?
Not only are RFID chips in your shoes, but according to the July 2004 IEEE Spectrum, they're also in [...]
All Trojan Ultra Ribbed condom boxes
[...] this should (rightly so) worry you considerably more.
It does...
Why the "Ultra ribbed" ones?
What are they hiding? What are they trying to find out?!
I'm scared.