What year was "annoying sound loops that you can't shut off" the #1 web design mistake? (not that that site has it, its just the worst thing I get on the web...oh, that and the sites that make browsers crash...)
Mini RC spam you say? I haven't gotten those...then again, I don't read my spam.
On the other hand, those mini RCs are sweet! I'd like one, spam or no.
Hmmm...maybe I can find out wich particular brand is using spam and only support the competitors? Anybody care to inform me of the name of the non-spamming brands (if there are any)?
I could have modded you down...but I'll reply instead.
Gimili: Started off as a tough, gnarled, Dwarf warrior. In the first movie, he was a little bewildered and had the one joke ("Nobody tosses this Dwarf"). In the second he is JUST there for comedy. He can't keep up on the run;
Ok, man do you need to 1)relax, and 2)read the damn books again.
He's a DWARF! He's trying to keep up with an elf and a guy named Strider (because he walks in great strides), not only is his having a hard time keeping up in the book, it just makes sense! What? You wanted him to fly?
And what about all the orcs he kills? Those were "JUST there for comedy" too I suppose?
Frodo and Sam: OK, what the hell's up with their "new and improved" journey? Why are they in that city? Why does Frodo need to go and try and surrender himself to the ringwraith? Why did we need to see Sam doing his running, diving, savior thing? Why did we need to turn Faramir in to an exact clone of his brother, Boromir, rather than leave him the way he was written as the ultimately stronger of the two?
Who else do we know in that city? This isn't a book, its a movie, we need to see someone there we already know. That is why they take an unscheduled detour to the city.
Frodo needs to go and surrender to the ringwraith because we need to see that the ring has taken hold of him AND the ringwraith are calling the ring to them.
We need to see that Sam has a bit of heroism in there and he isn't just tagging along, AND we need to see that the freakin' ring has a freakin' hold on freakin' Frodo!
And Faramir WAS stronger than his brother, he didn't attack Frodo, he didn't force him to use the dammed ring, and he did let him go do what he has to do.
Speaking of holywood crap - Aragorn: Why did he need to fall off that cliff? It's not in the book.
You got me there...that was bugging me too...
Ninja Ents: Was is just me or did the Ents ONLY redirect the river Isen in the book?
That's just you Bub, everyone else remembers the Ent kicking orc ass (hell, the part that bugged me was that they had also a part in Helm's deep). The Ents are dignified...until you piss them off, then they turn into a nightmare. Its in the books, I suggest (again) that you either read them again or shut up already.
And dude, you said "hollywood" about 9 times in your post, usually followed by the word "crap"...add to that your closing statement "The book remains great. The parts of the movie that come from the book remain incredible." and its clear that your initial proposition "It's not different from the book so it's automatically crap. It just happens to be so." was a dammed lie.
You get mad at every difference with the movie (except the elves at helms deep, wich I'll assume you forgot), and everytime you say they did it because its "hollywood" and they apparently (in your mind) are out to insert crap in movies just for the fun of it. Its clear from your post that you don't remember the books clearly, and that you have something against adapting from one medium to another. A movie is not a book, a book is not a movie. If you tell the same story in the 2 mediums, you will need to make changes because the rules are different.
And BTW, the movie was made by a kiwi, in new zealand, the UK and australia, and by a japanese corporation (sony)...so much for "hollywood crap" huh?
Since when are piss and shit jokes considered mature?
Seriously, the opera singing pile of crap was funny, but NOT mature, it was very very very immature, in fact. An 8 year old would love that game...his parents would then proceed to kill the vendors, but the kid would love it.
All it says is: 421 (equivalent) burners were discovered. We are almost at a stage where possessing a cd-burner is outlawed--because it can be used to commit a "crime"... While possession of guns remains legal.
That's insane logic dude, everyone knows you can't copy a CD with a gun! Use your head!;- )
Seriously, when I read their specification for a device to enhance soldier performance (Silent engine, can run for hours without refuelin/recharging, will let a soldier carry extra gear, run faster and longer, jump higher and longer), I thought "its called a horse!".
I was wearing glasses (normal prescription glasses), the cigarette still found a way in...the fun thing about a cigarette is that its loose material, burning, in a tube. When it hit me it got the edge of my glasses and all the burning tobacco just blew apart right in my eye. And of course the other eye got all watered up out of sheer camaraderie with the one that got hit...
seriously people, DO NOT THROW LIT CIGARETTES OUT OF MOVING CARS!
I was coming home on my bike once, in traffic, and this FUCKING IDIOT threw his cigarette out the freakin' window, it flew right into my left eye.
Now lemme tell you, there is nothing like red-hot ashes in your eye to make you realise the value of a full-face helmet (it was really hot, so my visor was up). I still can't believe I managed to get to the curb and stop safelly without being run over by another idiot... Of course now whenever I see someone throw a cigarette out of a car window I get an adrenaline rush and the urge to ram their car, drag them out and beat them to a bloody pulp...sigh.
I can't, I got new glasses because my old ones got destroyed (car accidents, commando games in the woods). Now I have glasses with an all-titanium frame...whatever breaks those will also break me!
But a recently isolated THC antagonist has proven that when marijuana is blocked all-at-once, physical withdrawal similar to that associated with opiates occurs.
Yes, and when a brick is hurled at people's head pain can occur similar to that of being hit in the face by a heavy object...sigh.
Why is it that every negative study on pot has some kind of crazy catch in it? Its allways "monkeys trapped in closed boxes pumped full of smoke" or "mouse injected with more THC in one go than a chronic user would get in his entire lifetime".
Now there's the "if we inject this chemical that causes withdrawl symptoms, we see withdrawl symptoms" study...damn, who'd have thought it?
But, as someone who has used marijuana chronically and heavily and tried to go cold turkey can tell you (yes, that's me), *some* withdrawal symptoms definitely can occur. I had a very hard time falling asleep for two weeks. I had a complete loss of appetite for over a week, during which I had to force myself to have even a small bit to eat (and even that was grossly unappetizing). This is all aside from the anxiety and depression that occurred frequently for about a week and a half
Ok, you had loss of apetite, trouble getting asleep, and you classify that as "aside" from the depression? Those are symptoms of depression. Maybe (I don't know you, I'm just guessing here) you were already suffering from depression and self-medicating with the pot? Quitting cold-turkey is sure to hurl you back into depression then...
I'm not advocating getting stoned here, but if you want to educate people, do it right instead of spreading the FUD.
Yeah, I saw "bicentenial man", that's reason enough to think that Asimov cannot be adapted by Hollywood...man did they ever butcher that story.
Can you tell me why the robot wanted to be human so bad? he was stronger, faster, immortal when he was a robot, wht would he want to be human? According to the hollywood its their usual crapola: "love conquers all"...bleah.
They cut a scene from the novel when they did the movie, an important scene that showed why he wanted to be human so bad, the whole motivation for the goddammed story! (The robot gets ordered to dismantle himself by jerks in a pick-up) That scene was dark and disturbing (lots of rape/abuse references there), but it was the whole motivation to be human: so that he could rise above the second law wich keeps him a slave to ANY human...but nooooo, that would have upset people on the holiday release, so out it went, and the whole story with it.
I liked how the aliens were not sweet and good but have a dark agenda of some kind.
Yeah, because that's never been done before... *cough*X Files*cough*Independance Day/V*cough*Invasion of the body snatchers*cough*Plan 9 from outer space*cough*war of the worlds*cough**cough**cough*
In 1962 he was awarded a gold medal of the Franklin institute for having originated communications satellites in a technical paper published in 1945. This described in detail the geostationary satellite system now used by all commercial comsats.
(I just finished reading it earlier today) it was first published in 1953 and start with the same premise as "V" and "Indepedance Day"...good read.
Well, they are the infantry, but they are dropped from spaceships. I think anything tatooed on you by a robot in a space station has "from above" inserted automaticly : )
"Mom From Above" "Lucy From Above" "[picture of a mermaid] from above" etc : )
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Must...wait...after...xmas....maybe...pare
And when I do get 'em, I can go into ubergeek mode and start showing people the resseblance between it and Buckaroo Banzai! : )
Joy
(not that that site has it, its just the worst thing I get on the web...oh, that and the sites that make browsers crash...)
Read the article will ya:
They don't say they discovered RNA, they say they found out that RNA does something we didn't know it did.
On the other hand, those mini RCs are sweet! I'd like one, spam or no.
Hmmm...maybe I can find out wich particular brand is using spam and only support the competitors? Anybody care to inform me of the name of the non-spamming brands (if there are any)?
Since Ive found myself unemployed, I've capped my /. karma!
: )
Gimili: Started off as a tough, gnarled, Dwarf warrior. In the first movie, he was a little bewildered and had the one joke ("Nobody tosses this Dwarf"). In the second he is JUST there for comedy. He can't keep up on the run;
Ok, man do you need to 1)relax, and 2)read the damn books again.
He's a DWARF! He's trying to keep up with an elf and a guy named Strider (because he walks in great strides), not only is his having a hard time keeping up in the book, it just makes sense! What? You wanted him to fly?
And what about all the orcs he kills? Those were "JUST there for comedy" too I suppose?
Frodo and Sam: OK, what the hell's up with their "new and improved" journey? Why are they in that city? Why does Frodo need to go and try and surrender himself to the ringwraith? Why did we need to see Sam doing his running, diving, savior thing? Why did we need to turn Faramir in to an exact clone of his brother, Boromir, rather than leave him the way he was written as the ultimately stronger of the two?
Who else do we know in that city? This isn't a book, its a movie, we need to see someone there we already know. That is why they take an unscheduled detour to the city.
Frodo needs to go and surrender to the ringwraith because we need to see that the ring has taken hold of him AND the ringwraith are calling the ring to them.
We need to see that Sam has a bit of heroism in there and he isn't just tagging along, AND we need to see that the freakin' ring has a freakin' hold on freakin' Frodo!
And Faramir WAS stronger than his brother, he didn't attack Frodo, he didn't force him to use the dammed ring, and he did let him go do what he has to do.
Speaking of holywood crap - Aragorn: Why did he need to fall off that cliff? It's not in the book.
You got me there...that was bugging me too...
Ninja Ents: Was is just me or did the Ents ONLY redirect the river Isen in the book?
That's just you Bub, everyone else remembers the Ent kicking orc ass (hell, the part that bugged me was that they had also a part in Helm's deep).
The Ents are dignified...until you piss them off, then they turn into a nightmare. Its in the books, I suggest (again) that you either read them again or shut up already.
And dude, you said "hollywood" about 9 times in your post, usually followed by the word "crap"...add to that your closing statement "The book remains great. The parts of the movie that come from the book remain incredible." and its clear that your initial proposition "It's not different from the book so it's automatically crap. It just happens to be so." was a dammed lie.
You get mad at every difference with the movie (except the elves at helms deep, wich I'll assume you forgot), and everytime you say they did it because its "hollywood" and they apparently (in your mind) are out to insert crap in movies just for the fun of it. Its clear from your post that you don't remember the books clearly, and that you have something against adapting from one medium to another. A movie is not a book, a book is not a movie. If you tell the same story in the 2 mediums, you will need to make changes because the rules are different.
And BTW, the movie was made by a kiwi, in new zealand, the UK and australia, and by a japanese corporation (sony)...so much for "hollywood crap" huh?
Since when are piss and shit jokes considered mature?
Seriously, the opera singing pile of crap was funny, but NOT mature, it was very very very immature, in fact. An 8 year old would love that game...his parents would then proceed to kill the vendors, but the kid would love it.
All it says is: 421 (equivalent) burners were discovered. We are almost at a stage where possessing a cd-burner is outlawed--because it can be used to commit a "crime"... While possession of guns remains legal.
;- )
That's insane logic dude, everyone knows you can't copy a CD with a gun! Use your head!
Jeez, get a dog!
Seriously, when I read their specification for a device to enhance soldier performance (Silent engine, can run for hours without refuelin/recharging, will let a soldier carry extra gear, run faster and longer, jump higher and longer), I thought "its called a horse!".
I bet their final product won't even go fetch...
In First Contact, the Borg sprouts a queen, she gets her nipples hard over Data
In First Contact, the Borg sprouts a queen, she gets her nipples hard over Data
In First Contact, the Borg sprouts a queen, she gets her nipples hard over Data
Dude, you awnsered your own question you know...
HEY! First of all, that's "The adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the eigth dimension", and second of all, its a docu-drama, not a comedy!
Making light of the exploits of the great Dr. banzai...for shame!
;- )
Yay australia!!!!
I could drive around, taking down license plates, narcing people out...hmmm...mental note: Move to australia, live out revenge fantasies.
I was wearing glasses (normal prescription glasses), the cigarette still found a way in...the fun thing about a cigarette is that its loose material, burning, in a tube. When it hit me it got the edge of my glasses and all the burning tobacco just blew apart right in my eye.
And of course the other eye got all watered up out of sheer camaraderie with the one that got hit...
seriously people, DO NOT THROW LIT CIGARETTES OUT OF MOVING CARS!
Don't forget a full-face helmet.
I was coming home on my bike once, in traffic, and this FUCKING IDIOT threw his cigarette out the freakin' window, it flew right into my left eye.
Now lemme tell you, there is nothing like red-hot ashes in your eye to make you realise the value of a full-face helmet (it was really hot, so my visor was up). I still can't believe I managed to get to the curb and stop safelly without being run over by another idiot...
Of course now whenever I see someone throw a cigarette out of a car window I get an adrenaline rush and the urge to ram their car, drag them out and beat them to a bloody pulp...sigh.
That is the kind of frame of mind that gets you first prize...
: )
I can't, I got new glasses because my old ones got destroyed (car accidents, commando games in the woods). Now I have glasses with an all-titanium frame...whatever breaks those will also break me!
But a recently isolated THC antagonist has proven that when marijuana is blocked all-at-once, physical withdrawal similar to that associated with opiates occurs.
Yes, and when a brick is hurled at people's head pain can occur similar to that of being hit in the face by a heavy object...sigh.
Why is it that every negative study on pot has some kind of crazy catch in it? Its allways "monkeys trapped in closed boxes pumped full of smoke" or "mouse injected with more THC in one go than a chronic user would get in his entire lifetime".
Now there's the "if we inject this chemical that causes withdrawl symptoms, we see withdrawl symptoms" study...damn, who'd have thought it?
But, as someone who has used marijuana chronically and heavily and tried to go cold turkey can tell you (yes, that's me), *some* withdrawal symptoms definitely can occur. I had a very hard time falling asleep for two weeks. I had a complete loss of appetite for over a week, during which I had to force myself to have even a small bit to eat (and even that was grossly unappetizing). This is all aside from the anxiety and depression that occurred frequently for about a week and a half
Ok, you had loss of apetite, trouble getting asleep, and you classify that as "aside" from the depression? Those are symptoms of depression. Maybe (I don't know you, I'm just guessing here) you were already suffering from depression and self-medicating with the pot? Quitting cold-turkey is sure to hurl you back into depression then...
I'm not advocating getting stoned here, but if you want to educate people, do it right instead of spreading the FUD.
Of course they can't patent it, there is prior art!
With thanks to Al Fago
Well, they came to australia by rafts...
Yeah, I saw "bicentenial man", that's reason enough to think that Asimov cannot be adapted by Hollywood...man did they ever butcher that story.
Can you tell me why the robot wanted to be human so bad? he was stronger, faster, immortal when he was a robot, wht would he want to be human? According to the hollywood its their usual crapola: "love conquers all"...bleah.
They cut a scene from the novel when they did the movie, an important scene that showed why he wanted to be human so bad, the whole motivation for the goddammed story! (The robot gets ordered to dismantle himself by jerks in a pick-up)
That scene was dark and disturbing (lots of rape/abuse references there), but it was the whole motivation to be human: so that he could rise above the second law wich keeps him a slave to ANY human...but nooooo, that would have upset people on the holiday release, so out it went, and the whole story with it.
stupid Hollywood
or "screamers". It's sad but Hollywood's tendancy is to reduce sci-fi to eye-candy and bland plots.
Screamers is a canadian movie (the with Roy Dupuis, the guy from the Nikita TV series). But it was made with the US public in mind...
I liked how the aliens were not sweet and good but have a dark agenda of some kind.
Yeah, because that's never been done before... *cough*X Files*cough*Independance Day/V*cough*Invasion of the body snatchers*cough*Plan 9 from outer space*cough*war of the worlds*cough**cough**cough*
Actually, according to a 1974 biography at the end of Childhood's End (printed by Del Rey and Ballantine, © to them I guess):
(I just finished reading it earlier today) it was first published in 1953 and start with the same premise as "V" and "Indepedance Day"...good read.
They gave a GPS to a subway driver? What next? GPS maps of deep mineshafts? : )
Well, they are the infantry, but they are dropped from spaceships. I think anything tatooed on you by a robot in a space station has "from above" inserted automaticly : )
"Mom From Above"
"Lucy From Above"
"[picture of a mermaid] from above"
etc
: )