I can just hear my dad saying, when I vented my teenage gripes about our government, "If you don't like it here why don't you go live in Russia?"
You should have told him "because in Soviet Russia, TV watches YOU!" and stuff like that, make up a new one for every artc...er...teenage grip you had at the moment.
Here is a thought experiment. If Jesus were alive today and he preached basicly the same message he did 2000 years ago, and just updated it for the times how would people like Bush and Ashcroft, supposedly devout Christians, recieve him.
Camp X-Ray, faster than you can say "dirty damn hippie".
Because if American's don't have to die, do we just beat up whoever we want whenever we want? I for one think that this will change the world more than the Atom bomb did.
Dubya made a point to prove that you can allready beat up whoever you want, whenever you want. His doublespeak term for that is "America defending itself".
The only thing that will change is that the the internal PR of war will go much smoother with no U.S. casualties. It won't change the foreign policy of bombing the shit out of people all the freakin' time, but it will make the reelection campaign much more straightforward.
I seem to recall that the U.S. has written international treaties banning the use of blinding lasers in combat, while they refuse to sign the treaties banning anti-personnel land mines.
I remember being baffled by that, I mean, land-mines do MUCH more dammage than burning your retina, I was confused.
31 Yes, it does. But your bottled rainwater idea still bites. In February, inventor J. Hutton Pulitzer files a trademark application for Purain, which he proposes as the name for a line of processed rainwater. When the Dallas Observer mocks Pulitzer's audacity--he was the man behind the CueCat scanner flop--he transforms the Purain website into a lecture about media schadenfreude: "Sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, fighting, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip. Sounds like today's media--doesn't it?"
Purain is a french word for "liquid manure".
I hope they're planning to compete against Naya and Perrier on their home turf! That'll be an entertaining press release.
8 Just to be on the safe side, let's also lose the jack, the fuel pump, and the four-stroke engine. In Canada, General Motors is forced to come up with a new name for its Buick LaCrosse sedan after discovering that crosse is a slang term for masturbation in Quebec.
Its also a slang term for "a rip-off". I never heard it used to mean masturbation when used as a noun, its masturnbatory meaning is only applied when used as a verb. So To me that GM car sounds more like a rip-off than a jerk-off. Also note that GM laid off a lot of people in Quebec recently by closing down a plant...
Ah, fond memories of the sign "do not cross the track" at the amusement park with my friends when I was 14... : )
And there already are plenty of warnings on video game consoles.
My dualshock owner's manual states that I should take a 15 minute break from playing every 30 minutes (approx, I don't remember the exact times).
He ignored the safety warnings, even if he wasn't playing PS2, I'm sure the Xbox has similar lawerspeak in its manuals.
Also, you are not supposed to put your dualshock on your head or limbs, nor to lay it on the floor during gameplay. And the first game I played when I got it was Metal Gear Solid, wich instructed me to break pretty much all these rules (especially the time constraint...man that was a fun game) : )
Once, after playing Black & White for 6 hours straight, the lil' demon helper came out of nowhere and said "Its gettin' kinda late boss, maybe you should take a rest". I hadn't noticed the time, realised it was late indeed and I had work the next day, saved and quit.
That was cool, and apparently it was a life-saver!
At the end of this time you have to return it to the store. Surely this places a greater limit on a persons freedom? They have no choice but to return the video, or risk a fine etc
So, they have NO choice but to return them after the alloted time, OR they can accept the fee to keep it longer?
Seriously, though, here's the amazing truth: people like buying crap that doesn't break. Imagine if your copy of Detective Comics
Hmmm, good point, really bad example.
U.S. comics are made flimsy in order to drive up the collectable trade.
Euro comics (franco-belgium "bande dessinees") are sold in hard-cover books. They last for decades of regular use (read frequently by a household with kids). U.S. comic books in europe (well, I've only seen the french translations, I'm generalising a bit here) are sold in this format, because when you're used to buying quality, you don't want to buy crap, no matter how cool Batman is.
Whenever I buy comics (wich is less and less, these things are getting seriously expensive), I always ask for a cardboard-reinforced plastic sleeve to put it in so the damn thing will survive the trip back home intact.
Unbelievable! I can't fathom spending $100 on something like this, especially when the kid caved in for a friggin xbox and a MCSE certificate (or whatever it was). I'm not sure what will become worthless first...the WIPO book or SCO stock but either way this just has to be the biggest waste of money I've ever seen!
I guess YANAL then. Bloodsuckers are the kind that has disposable income and interest in that sort of stuff.
Or well funded pranksters...It'd be kind of fun to send that to your domain-owing friend and watch him freak : )
BTW, have you ever been to England? They have black people there too, you know.
No, and I know you pompous jerk.
Have you seen the HHGG tv show? How many black guys did you see hanging around Arthur's house? In the pub? In the street while the Vogon fleet was hovering the way bricks don't? How about in the diner where a woman has an epiphany right before the destructor fleet goes in acion?
Are you saying that DNA was such an incompetant hack writer that he would omit to include in a character's description something as insconpicuous as that?
Look, I don't care what colour Ford is, its not what's important about him, his personality is. But I do care about faithfullness to the book being adapted by a movie, and abut idiots implying incompetance from Adams.
England has a fair trade in immigrants -- you didn't think they only came here, did you?
His description would have included elements of notes such as these. If his race was unmentioned it was because if was not something you would notice about him, ie: its the same as everyone else, hence mention it would be redundant.
And it does have lots of immigrants...some of them even come from as far as the vicinity of Betlegeuse!
Zaphod grew a third arm and second head on a whim, right?
That's like getting a tatoo and a piercing for the galactics, no biggie.
As for the black Ford, I don't like the change, but I don't really care, Ford's skin colour wasn't an important feature of the character. Since I'm sure Arthur Dent will now be a US citizen, Ford can be black. If nationalities are fickle, so can races.
Whoa. The book doesn't say what colour he is, but he's from another goddamn galaxy.
He's from somewhere in the vicinity on Betlegeuse...not sure if that's in our galaxy.
I don't remember the exact description, don't have the books handy, but he looked like someone who could expect to blend in in england. Hence, he looks british: White, goofy looking.
He is also shown in the TV series, so basing it all on the books is absurd since there already was an accurate representation of the character that was established while the author was alive and in control.
The reason why he's cast black is because its a movie made in the US, the land of tokenism. In the US, you NEED a black guy in your movie, or else you're racist. Its lame, its stupid, its counter productive, but that's how it is. Lando was cast black because people were up in arms about how racist Star Wars was because there were no blak people innit...etc.
Personally, the post-mortem rewrite scares me, the black guy I don't care about. I've never seen him in anything, all I know is that there is no way he'll be as good a Ford as the actor that played him in the TV series. He might be close, but he won't be better.
I'll go see the movie, and I'll try to lower my expectations as low as possible so that I can only be pleasantly surprised. Here's hoping.
"Objects in mirror are less attractive than they appear."
Off course, if the clothes are wrong for you, the store's computer and salespeople will tell you so instead of taking your money and letting you walk out with embarrassing clothing...
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I can just hear my dad saying, when I vented my teenage gripes about our government, "If you don't like it here why don't you go live in Russia?"
You should have told him "because in Soviet Russia, TV watches YOU!" and stuff like that, make up a new one for every artc...er...teenage grip you had at the moment.
I'm sure he would have been delighted. ; )
Here is a thought experiment. If Jesus were alive today and he preached basicly the same message he did 2000 years ago, and just updated it for the times how would people like Bush and Ashcroft, supposedly devout Christians, recieve him.
Camp X-Ray, faster than you can say "dirty damn hippie".
I'm willing to be that one of the first customers for this software is the tabloid newspapers/magazines.
Time to sell you Weekly World News stock!
I fear the days of Bat Boy and "face of satan in 'x'" are coming to an end : (
battery
Oh god damn will you troll just shut up with that FUD allready!
Hmmm... Your point?
My point is that people shouldn't say there is no choice and then name a choice...
Because if American's don't have to die, do we just beat up whoever we want whenever we want? I for one think that this will change the world more than the Atom bomb did.
Dubya made a point to prove that you can allready beat up whoever you want, whenever you want. His doublespeak term for that is "America defending itself".
The only thing that will change is that the the internal PR of war will go much smoother with no U.S. casualties. It won't change the foreign policy of bombing the shit out of people all the freakin' time, but it will make the reelection campaign much more straightforward.
I seem to recall that the U.S. has written international treaties banning the use of blinding lasers in combat, while they refuse to sign the treaties banning anti-personnel land mines.
I remember being baffled by that, I mean, land-mines do MUCH more dammage than burning your retina, I was confused.
Now I get it.
The correct French word for that lovely thing you're describing is "purin", without the "a". The pronunciation is the same though.
I stand corrected.
Please do not use the phrase "rip-off" and "jerk-off" in the same sentence. Ouch.
lol!
Sorry about that : )
31 Yes, it does. But your bottled rainwater idea still bites.
In February, inventor J. Hutton Pulitzer files a trademark application for Purain, which he proposes as the name for a line of processed rainwater. When the Dallas Observer mocks Pulitzer's audacity--he was the man behind the CueCat scanner flop--he transforms the Purain website into a lecture about media schadenfreude: "Sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, fighting, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip. Sounds like today's media--doesn't it?"
Purain is a french word for "liquid manure".
I hope they're planning to compete against Naya and Perrier on their home turf! That'll be an entertaining press release.
8 Just to be on the safe side, let's also lose the jack, the fuel pump, and the four-stroke engine.
In Canada, General Motors is forced to come up with a new name for its Buick LaCrosse sedan after discovering that crosse is a slang term for masturbation in Quebec.
Its also a slang term for "a rip-off".
I never heard it used to mean masturbation when used as a noun, its masturnbatory meaning is only applied when used as a verb. So To me that GM car sounds more like a rip-off than a jerk-off. Also note that GM laid off a lot of people in Quebec recently by closing down a plant...
Ah, fond memories of the sign "do not cross the track" at the amusement park with my friends when I was 14... : )
And there already are plenty of warnings on video game consoles.
My dualshock owner's manual states that I should take a 15 minute break from playing every 30 minutes (approx, I don't remember the exact times).
He ignored the safety warnings, even if he wasn't playing PS2, I'm sure the Xbox has similar lawerspeak in its manuals.
Also, you are not supposed to put your dualshock on your head or limbs, nor to lay it on the floor during gameplay. And the first game I played when I got it was Metal Gear Solid, wich instructed me to break pretty much all these rules (especially the time constraint...man that was a fun game) : )
Once, after playing Black & White for 6 hours straight, the lil' demon helper came out of nowhere and said "Its gettin' kinda late boss, maybe you should take a rest". I hadn't noticed the time, realised it was late indeed and I had work the next day, saved and quit.
That was cool, and apparently it was a life-saver!
So, they have NO choice but to return them after the alloted time, OR they can accept the fee to keep it longer?
Choices:
or
Hmmm...
Seriously, though, here's the amazing truth: people like buying crap that doesn't break. Imagine if your copy of Detective Comics
Hmmm, good point, really bad example.
U.S. comics are made flimsy in order to drive up the collectable trade.
Euro comics (franco-belgium "bande dessinees") are sold in hard-cover books. They last for decades of regular use (read frequently by a household with kids). U.S. comic books in europe (well, I've only seen the french translations, I'm generalising a bit here) are sold in this format, because when you're used to buying quality, you don't want to buy crap, no matter how cool Batman is.
Whenever I buy comics (wich is less and less, these things are getting seriously expensive), I always ask for a cardboard-reinforced plastic sleeve to put it in so the damn thing will survive the trip back home intact.
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Well, at least its safe against vampires then...
;-)
Unbelievable! I can't fathom spending $100 on something like this, especially when the kid caved in for a friggin xbox and a MCSE certificate (or whatever it was).
I'm not sure what will become worthless first...the WIPO book or SCO stock but either way this just has to be the biggest waste of money I've ever seen!
I guess YANAL then. Bloodsuckers are the kind that has disposable income and interest in that sort of stuff.
Or well funded pranksters...It'd be kind of fun to send that to your domain-owing friend and watch him freak : )
BTW, have you ever been to England? They have black people there too, you know.
No, and I know you pompous jerk.
Have you seen the HHGG tv show? How many black guys did you see hanging around Arthur's house? In the pub? In the street while the Vogon fleet was hovering the way bricks don't? How about in the diner where a woman has an epiphany right before the destructor fleet goes in acion?
Are you saying that DNA was such an incompetant hack writer that he would omit to include in a character's description something as insconpicuous as that?
Look, I don't care what colour Ford is, its not what's important about him, his personality is. But I do care about faithfullness to the book being adapted by a movie, and abut idiots implying incompetance from Adams.
England has a fair trade in immigrants -- you didn't think they only came here, did you?
His description would have included elements of notes such as these. If his race was unmentioned it was because if was not something you would notice about him, ie: its the same as everyone else, hence mention it would be redundant.
And it does have lots of immigrants...some of them even come from as far as the vicinity of Betlegeuse!
Ford as a really irritating Southern California hipster, race unimportant. Like some obnoxious American tourist
Oh man! I had never even thought of that! His character makes so much sense as a tourist! Damn! Thanks dude! : )
Starship Troopers was great, and it made me read Starship Troopers, wich was awsome too.
No, they have in-house 3D animators & eqquipment.
Zaphod grew a third arm and second head on a whim, right?
That's like getting a tatoo and a piercing for the galactics, no biggie.
As for the black Ford, I don't like the change, but I don't really care, Ford's skin colour wasn't an important feature of the character. Since I'm sure Arthur Dent will now be a US citizen, Ford can be black. If nationalities are fickle, so can races.
Whoa. The book doesn't say what colour he is, but he's from another goddamn galaxy.
He's from somewhere in the vicinity on Betlegeuse...not sure if that's in our galaxy.
I don't remember the exact description, don't have the books handy, but he looked like someone who could expect to blend in in england. Hence, he looks british: White, goofy looking.
He is also shown in the TV series, so basing it all on the books is absurd since there already was an accurate representation of the character that was established while the author was alive and in control.
The reason why he's cast black is because its a movie made in the US, the land of tokenism. In the US, you NEED a black guy in your movie, or else you're racist. Its lame, its stupid, its counter productive, but that's how it is. Lando was cast black because people were up in arms about how racist Star Wars was because there were no blak people innit...etc.
Personally, the post-mortem rewrite scares me, the black guy I don't care about. I've never seen him in anything, all I know is that there is no way he'll be as good a Ford as the actor that played him in the TV series. He might be close, but he won't be better.
I'll go see the movie, and I'll try to lower my expectations as low as possible so that I can only be pleasantly surprised. Here's hoping.
"Objects in mirror are less attractive than they appear."
Off course, if the clothes are wrong for you, the store's computer and salespeople will tell you so instead of taking your money and letting you walk out with embarrassing clothing...