Earlier this month, the Federal Communications Commission approved regulations that would require television manufacturers to include anticopying technology in the next generation of televisions.
Did they also pass a law banning screwdrivers? 'Cause if not...I plan to use one to exclude anticopying technology in my next generation TV.
Plankton is sensitive to ultraviolet rays (in the "it kills it" sense), with all the talk of ozone layers and holes in the recent years, I wonder if this might be related.
I've had serious GFs and we discussed the whole "diamonds are tainted by the blood of those forced to mine 'em" thing and the fact that the whole engagement ring thing is just a scam run by those who are doing the forcing.
Long story short: They want a ring with a diamond.
Don't try reason or logic on a girl. Just give 'em what they want, or they'll resent you.
Why would I want a copy of a movie that has been "formatted to fit your screen and censored to be as bland as a mormon's bachelor party"? I mean, so what if we can make perfect digital copies of pan-and-scan movies with half an hour of stuff cut out for commercials, stripped of all strippers and with all the good fights punched out of it?
Sometimes I think there's a lot of lead in hollywood's drinking water.
I think Futurama sucks. When people don't get the "in" jokes, they blame the show, not their ignorance;- )
I'll be happy to see it (Futurama) go to cable, so I won't see it anymore. What? And you're seeing it NOW? How do you do that? I try to watch futurama and I can't! It seems to be on a random time slot...once in a while I get it on sunday at 19:00, but never more than twice in a row.
I guess its like cats: They are naturally drawn to people who are allergic to cats...maybe if I pretend to hate futurama, it'll show up on tv...
Well, if he had not phrased it in a way to give people hope, he would have been lynched. And he knew it;- )
But the thing is, once you've laid-off all your talented people, they'll find new jobs, and won't be available to come back if you try to recussitate the show, and the then it'll suck, and people will say "see, it sucks now, they were right to cancell it". : (
They care about one thing: selling advertising [...] Or something like that. I'm sure they have a team of experts working around the clock to figure out how to squeeze in the most advertising and how to sell it for the most money.
Yeah, probably the same geniuses that came up with the idea for pop-ups ads...
The rating system isn't meant as a censorship device It isn't meant as such, but its used that way. And voluntary censorship is censorship nonetheless.
Mormon church could most certainly drum up a few million dollars to make a movie. Actually, I think they do, and I'm sure they suck. And read that link, its heavy with what I think is wrong with overtly "moral"people: intolerance.
Anyway, we're drifting away from the topic, so let's call it quits, agree to disagree, etc.
Finally, the tiny receiver buried inside the plane's fuselage made contact with the guidance satellite orbiting thousands of miles above, and the laptop came to life.
I could write a whole B movie based on that quote : )
It isn't censorship at all. People still have a choice to purchase the other videos that are not censored
The other videos are censored...the MPAA uses its rating system as a censorship tool.
but because they should be able to create their own films based on their own beliefs instead of relying on content that they find objectionable
Yeah, everybody has a multimillion dollar movie budget...
Why do you associate the word moral with "small-minded"
Experience dealing with people calling themselves "moral", that's why.
I find that most people who have no sense of morality
Wow! Where do you find these people? I'm sure psychology students would love to study them, it'd make a great thesis subject...
So called "moral" people are small minded because they think that anyone who doesn't agree with their specific morality is a monster.
If someone is told by their church that action (a) is wrong, well they can be good little zombies and nod in agreement all they want. If I think differently, I'd like to be ale to do so without being labelled as a loathesome creature with no morals.
"Hey, this person enjoys movies where people get naked...I bet he skins live cats for fun!" ---Small minded like that.
tone them down so the mormon population can enjoy them
Well, I'm opposed to all forms of censorship, but I understand that they want to keep their self-dellusioned outlook.
Of course, the reason that I am opposed to censorship is that it is a form of thought controll enforced by small-minded "moral" people. I would agree with "edited" movies if the original versions were free of the evil influence of the MPAA's censorship: in other words, let uschoose for ourselves dammit!
Chess boards and pieces may be cheap by today's standards
Yeah..."today's" standard...suuuure... Here's the deal, anyone can make a chess board and pieces if you let them have a look at 'em. You need many skilled crasftmen to produce a pinball machine. Lets see if I can make this any simpler: Square table and abstract pieces = easy to make. Big machine with hundreds of moving parts = hard to make.
but chess was once a game for the elite
Yeah, and nowdays only bums and rufiants play chess...
Every game has different characteristics, so I don't see how one's use of the mind vs. one's use of dexterity is that big of a deal.
Try this: start a game of pinball, and go to the bathroom midgame. Now try it in a game of chess. Notice a difference? That's right: in the game of chess, your ball fell into the hole and you...er...no wait...
If it's worthy of survival, it will continue on.
Worthy...right. I'm no longer gonna participate in your sick conversation about the comparative "worth" of one game to another, I have a sinking feeling logic wouldn't be involved.
And stop comparing apples and oranges: Chess boards and pieces are cheap and easy to make, pinball machines are big expensive things. Chess is a game of thought, pinball is a game of dexterity. Pinball is a BALL game, like baseball or football, except that there's no running, and you play alone. Chess is not a ball game.
Pinball is not a living entity either, so lay off the darwinianism a bit.
Who are we to say,[...] God did not use evolution to create man's body from those that already existed.
Well, there's that bit in the bible (genesis) about how god made man from dirt in one day. So all the talk about man evolving over millions of years from "lesser" animals kinda contradicts that part. Prayer has no place in the public schools, just like facts have no place in organized religion. - Superintendent Chalmers
"An upstart astrologer...This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth." - Martin Luther on Copernicus
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Earlier this month, the Federal Communications Commission approved regulations that would require television manufacturers to include anticopying technology in the next generation of televisions.
Did they also pass a law banning screwdrivers? 'Cause if not...I plan to use one to exclude anticopying technology in my next generation TV.
IIRC
Plankton is sensitive to ultraviolet rays (in the "it kills it" sense), with all the talk of ozone layers and holes in the recent years, I wonder if this might be related.
Do terrorist children come from the countru of terroria?
dammit...I was expecting a joke about controlling wrestlers... : (
so disapointed
I've had serious GFs and we discussed the whole "diamonds are tainted by the blood of those forced to mine 'em" thing and the fact that the whole engagement ring thing is just a scam run by those who are doing the forcing.
Long story short: They want a ring with a diamond.
Don't try reason or logic on a girl. Just give 'em what they want, or they'll resent you.
Why would I want a copy of a movie that has been "formatted to fit your screen and censored to be as bland as a mormon's bachelor party"?
I mean, so what if we can make perfect digital copies of pan-and-scan movies with half an hour of stuff cut out for commercials, stripped of all strippers and with all the good fights punched out of it?
Sometimes I think there's a lot of lead in hollywood's drinking water.
Oh thank you so much, we had ALL forgotten about that, really.
And oh, by all means, do NOT mention the gypsies, the faggots, or any other group the nazis had fun exterminating...because THEY don't count, right?
Yes, the Nazis were patriots, in their own way.
Homeland, fatherland...its all the same.
I think Futurama sucks. ;- )
When people don't get the "in" jokes, they blame the show, not their ignorance
I'll be happy to see it (Futurama) go to cable, so I won't see it anymore.
What? And you're seeing it NOW? How do you do that? I try to watch futurama and I can't! It seems to be on a random time slot...once in a while I get it on sunday at 19:00, but never more than twice in a row.
I guess its like cats: They are naturally drawn to people who are allergic to cats...maybe if I pretend to hate futurama, it'll show up on tv...
Well, if he had not phrased it in a way to give people hope, he would have been lynched. ;- )
And he knew it
But the thing is, once you've laid-off all your talented people, they'll find new jobs, and won't be available to come back if you try to recussitate the show, and the then it'll suck, and people will say "see, it sucks now, they were right to cancell it". : (
They care about one thing: selling advertising [...] Or something like that. I'm sure they have a team of experts working around the clock to figure out how to squeeze in the most advertising and how to sell it for the most money.
Yeah, probably the same geniuses that came up with the idea for pop-ups ads...
The rating system isn't meant as a censorship device
It isn't meant as such, but its used that way. And voluntary censorship is censorship nonetheless.
Mormon church could most certainly drum up a few million dollars to make a movie.
Actually, I think they do, and I'm sure they suck.
And read that link, its heavy with what I think is wrong with overtly "moral"people: intolerance.
Anyway, we're drifting away from the topic, so let's call it quits, agree to disagree, etc.
Finally, the tiny receiver buried inside the plane's fuselage made contact with the guidance satellite orbiting thousands of miles above, and the laptop came to life.
I could write a whole B movie based on that quote : )
It isn't censorship at all. People still have a choice to purchase the other videos that are not censored
The other videos are censored...the MPAA uses its rating system as a censorship tool.
but because they should be able to create their own films based on their own beliefs instead of relying on content that they find objectionable
Yeah, everybody has a multimillion dollar movie budget...
Why do you associate the word moral with "small-minded"
Experience dealing with people calling themselves "moral", that's why.
I find that most people who have no sense of morality
Wow! Where do you find these people?
I'm sure psychology students would love to study them, it'd make a great thesis subject...
So called "moral" people are small minded because they think that anyone who doesn't agree with their specific morality is a monster.
If someone is told by their church that action (a) is wrong, well they can be good little zombies and nod in agreement all they want. If I think differently, I'd like to be ale to do so without being labelled as a loathesome creature with no morals.
"Hey, this person enjoys movies where people get naked...I bet he skins live cats for fun!" ---Small minded like that.
tone them down so the mormon population can enjoy them
Well, I'm opposed to all forms of censorship, but I understand that they want to keep their self-dellusioned outlook.
Of course, the reason that I am opposed to censorship is that it is a form of thought controll enforced by small-minded "moral" people.
I would agree with "edited" movies if the original versions were free of the evil influence of the MPAA's censorship: in other words, let uschoose for ourselves dammit!
Chess boards and pieces may be cheap by today's standards
...er...no wait...
Yeah..."today's" standard...suuuure...
Here's the deal, anyone can make a chess board and pieces if you let them have a look at 'em. You need many skilled crasftmen to produce a pinball machine. Lets see if I can make this any simpler: Square table and abstract pieces = easy to make. Big machine with hundreds of moving parts = hard to make.
but chess was once a game for the elite
Yeah, and nowdays only bums and rufiants play chess...
Every game has different characteristics, so I don't see how one's use of the mind vs. one's use of dexterity is that big of a deal.
Try this: start a game of pinball, and go to the bathroom midgame.
Now try it in a game of chess.
Notice a difference? That's right: in the game of chess, your ball fell into the hole and you
If it's worthy of survival, it will continue on.
Worthy...right. I'm no longer gonna participate in your sick conversation about the comparative "worth" of one game to another, I have a sinking feeling logic wouldn't be involved.
You are a cruel person.
And stop comparing apples and oranges: Chess boards and pieces are cheap and easy to make, pinball machines are big expensive things. Chess is a game of thought, pinball is a game of dexterity. Pinball is a BALL game, like baseball or football, except that there's no running, and you play alone. Chess is not a ball game.
Pinball is not a living entity either, so lay off the darwinianism a bit.
Well, I typed ivillage.com in my adress bar to see what the site was about...first thing that happens? A pop-up! "Are you new to this site...Yes No"
I guess that's like when salesmen keep telling you they aren't liars...
Spammers are bad, but if your mailbox is full of it its more likely your carelesness with your e-mail address than it is spammers out to get you.
And the best way to never get mugged is to be a ninja! Stalking the rooftops, blending in the background. Be invisible, be hidden, be stealthy!
Who are we to say,[...] God did not use evolution to create man's body from those that already existed.
Well, there's that bit in the bible (genesis) about how god made man from dirt in one day. So all the talk about man evolving over millions of years from "lesser" animals kinda contradicts that part.
Prayer has no place in the public schools, just like facts have no place in organized religion. - Superintendent Chalmers
"An upstart astrologer...This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth." - Martin Luther on Copernicus
So anyways, back to the mice...
Big brains, eh?
Lets all go tell apple how we feel about their bait and switch technique.
here is the form to do it.
I plan to leave them another "polite" note regarding their scam every now and then, just to make sure they know.
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Informative, underrated.
I was a bit annoyed by QT6 since it couldn't read my DivX files anymore, now it can.
hey seem to always want the fastest thing, maybe they're compensating for .. something ;)
;-)
Maybe...and the US is always after the biggest of everything...compensating maybe?
Second, the master of all things operational, Lord Gates, created the grand machine on which the elusive experience may be created.
So now the ultimate weapon of the dark lord of the sith is a GOOD thing?
Somebody has fallen for a Jedi mind trick...