Don't give up on anime after viewing anything that is dubbed. Worst offender is Rurouni Kenshin, which literally sounds like a remedial reading session with a script in hand.
Despite the "Adult" moniker, AS anime shows are frequently edited for content to boot.
Now that TV shows have been brought in, I insist that the greatest anime ever made is the episode of Hana Yori Dango in which Tsukushi gets dragged from the back of a car for flirting with the F4. High school kids can be so cruel!
Anybody know whether that scene was intact in the Meteor Garden TV series?
Lots of people will say other things just to be different or special.
hmmmph. One reason to start watching anime is to get away from the general entertainment consensus. If you insist I conform to your taste, I'm switching to Bombay musicals.
Of course, more oil means cheaper oil. Cheaper oil benefits the largest consumer (the US). It's not "stealing" just "good business."
Meanwhile it looks like the era of cheap oil may be over forever. Just as nations like China and India were starting to get an appetite for it. Too late! We ate it all.
Between you and me and whoever wanders into this thread at this point, I really wanted to like 5th Element, if only because I worked on it. But come on, the 5th Element is poontang?
If you can't get into the mythos of legendary combat abilities, stay away from the genre altogether. Before you were permitted to see CTHD, you should have been forced to see Zu Warriors, Swordsman 2, Once Upon A Time in China, etcetera -- all similarly great films that would be likely to fail the same test.
Seen in the context of its well-established genre, the film is brilliant. If you aren't willing to consider a film in the context of a different culture, why would you ever attend a subtitled film?
Steve de Jarnatt's Cherry 2000, and his Miracle Mile, are two of the few low-budget SF movies of the 80s that were worth their price of admission. What was it you found so bad about Cherry? Melanie Griffith make you nervous or something?
waterworld is boring at times, but it's not a laffadelic mess like 5th element. ww got fried by the press over and over again before it was even finished due to its budget problems. If it had been made for a reasonable sum, it probably would have been considered an ok movie.
Go here and read a General Motors policy wonk defending hydrogen against a naysayer. Fuel cells aren't an energy source, they are a storage mechanism. Until renewables or nukes step in to take up oil's slack, fuel cells will derive their juice from natural gas, which the fuel interests have in more quantity than oil (for the moment).
My point in telling the guy not to celebrate has less to do with the practical aspects of sharing with the device, and more to do with the fact that the success of this item will be one more legitimization of the DRM method of securing IP.
Me: I demonstrated that you've been arguing, for about a week now, with things that I did not say."
You: "I'm sure you think you demonstrated this. But you've merely falsely claimed it."
Also You: "You are correct that your own words did not actually state what I say they stated."
Good enough? Now fuck off, troll.
Don't celebrate. Did you RTFA? DRM will keep your shared programming to a max of 9 good friends. No promise that the presence of DRM won't allow some things to be made unshareable somewhere up the road. Anyway it won't be in your hands to make those decisions...
Typing is needed and helpful, but not nearly as essential. Since spelling is easily corrected, and nothing gets "retyped" any more, speed and accuracy are both less crucial than in former times.
This removal of drudgery has reduced the amount of dictation, as has the use of email and, when something more formal is needed, templates for business correspondence.
The result is that typing skill in itself will no longer qualify you for a job, while more people in all kinds of work do their own typing.
Typing skills make anybody who types more efficient, but not much more employable. it would be a good idea for everybody to get some exposure to the bare techniques of touch typing; finger placement, a few minutes of drill. What else is there to it?
Once that's provided, practice is easily pursued by anyone who feels it would benefit them.
Calling me an ass again, after I demonstrated that you've been arguing, for about a week now, with things that I did not say.
Amazing.
My last post made a clear distinction between "arguing with the first poster's intended thesis" and "arguing with the first poster's way of making his point." That whole "earth as a purple oyster" thing. You don't see any distinction? You don't see any justification in disagreeing with someone's bad science, regardless of the validity of their main point?
I've had to repeat the same crap over and over to get anything through the thickness of your skull. And you call me an ass.
Now you continue to insist that, because I disagreed with the method he used to make a point, that means I necessarily disagreed, or "implied disagreement," with the point itself.
Now you are just being stupid and insulting. You were wrong, but you still want to call me an ass.
Whatever. Just fuck off, you drooling pathetic idiot.
You are telling me that I am bringing up things that you already have agreed with. But I am only defending WHAT I SAID. I cannot defend things I didn't say, which you think I said.
"Your conclusion that this means you shouldn't try to stop a man who is sailing under misconcieved notions is what I disagree with"
My original post:
"So, you're saying that, if anyone were to suspect the earth to be twice the size, they would have no reason to suspect there might be an undiscovered land-mass? Just a freakin' ocean 10,000 miles across? It would be irrational for anyone to assume the earth had an ocean as large as the atlantic, the pacific and north america combined"
Where is there a conclusion about anyone's behavior in that?
I was not disputing what Columbus or his contemporaries should or should not do. I was disputing (and ONLY disputing) the stated idea that "most" of Columbus's contemporaries would expect Columbus to be taking a journey across a such a large body of undifferntiated sea.
I believe this is a misrepresentation of ideas at the time. It does NOT mean that people shouldn't dissuade anybody of anything. I was doubting the world-view being put forward, not what people's reactions mught be to a given world-view.
If he had said "Columbus never should have set sail because the world is a purple oyster," I might agree with him that Colummbus should not have set sail, but I would certainly question the purple oysterness of the world.
If you have further issue with what I say, please do me the favor of quoting my exact words, because if what you are arguing is not what I said, of course I have no defense...other than not having said it.
And if this occurs again, try not to call me an ass. It makes you look very asslike.
The Internet isn't some "out there" place that exists outside of your computer. "Out there," where the servers and the routers are, it's just data, a bit-stream. "The Internet" only exists once someone allows that data to enter a computer and be interpreted as a web page, an email, a video -- or a Messenger pop-up.
You have lots of ways to control the Messenger service; turn it off, firewall it, use third-party privacy software, unplug the cable modem, whatever. It is, by design, a service available to anyone on the network. I don't consider Messenger pop-ups a good thing, but you're responsible for what you allow into your box. Nobody else, not even the misguided idiots who mistakenly think this is a good medium for advertising.
Not exactly. The Internet is less like the inside of your house, more like a very public, highly trafficked thoroughfare.
Legislating everyone else's behavior so that an individual does not feel 'bombarded' is unwieldy and inefficient.
Different people have different zones of comfort in this regard. When you are in control of your own filter, you can decide how 'public' you wish to be.
The tools for this need further improvement; better to invest in that, rather than create new legislation, new civil and criminal violations, and yet more money for lawyers.
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Despite the "Adult" moniker, AS anime shows are frequently edited for content to boot.
Anybody know whether that scene was intact in the Meteor Garden TV series?
hmmmph. One reason to start watching anime is to get away from the general entertainment consensus. If you insist I conform to your taste, I'm switching to Bombay musicals.
curious: did you see the live-action CGS first? Having seen the live action, I was unable to warm up to the anime.
How dare /. celebrate the work of Parker and Stone when your accomplishments are so much greater!
Of course, more oil means cheaper oil. Cheaper oil benefits the largest consumer (the US). It's not "stealing" just "good business."
Meanwhile it looks like the era of cheap oil may be over forever. Just as nations like China and India were starting to get an appetite for it. Too late! We ate it all.
Between you and me and whoever wanders into this thread at this point, I really wanted to like 5th Element, if only because I worked on it. But come on, the 5th Element is poontang?
You're entitled to your fucked up opinion, and I to my erudite and civilized judgement.
If you can't get into the mythos of legendary combat abilities, stay away from the genre altogether. Before you were permitted to see CTHD, you should have been forced to see Zu Warriors, Swordsman 2, Once Upon A Time in China, etcetera -- all similarly great films that would be likely to fail the same test.
Seen in the context of its well-established genre, the film is brilliant. If you aren't willing to consider a film in the context of a different culture, why would you ever attend a subtitled film?
Steve de Jarnatt's Cherry 2000, and his Miracle Mile, are two of the few low-budget SF movies of the 80s that were worth their price of admission. What was it you found so bad about Cherry? Melanie Griffith make you nervous or something?
This is the only guy whose moments of humor were intentional, yet his movies remained solidly in the fright genre.
Some of his films are dated, but in the context of the times, the man was nothing short of brilliant.
Go here and read a General Motors policy wonk defending hydrogen against a naysayer. Fuel cells aren't an energy source, they are a storage mechanism. Until renewables or nukes step in to take up oil's slack, fuel cells will derive their juice from natural gas, which the fuel interests have in more quantity than oil (for the moment).
Me: I demonstrated that you've been arguing, for about a week now, with things that I did not say." You: "I'm sure you think you demonstrated this. But you've merely falsely claimed it." Also You: "You are correct that your own words did not actually state what I say they stated." Good enough? Now fuck off, troll.
I doubt it. Your circle of friends have to be authorized by a key. You can't switch those around very easily, I'm sure.
This removal of drudgery has reduced the amount of dictation, as has the use of email and, when something more formal is needed, templates for business correspondence.
The result is that typing skill in itself will no longer qualify you for a job, while more people in all kinds of work do their own typing.
Typing skills make anybody who types more efficient, but not much more employable. it would be a good idea for everybody to get some exposure to the bare techniques of touch typing; finger placement, a few minutes of drill. What else is there to it?
Once that's provided, practice is easily pursued by anyone who feels it would benefit them.
Calling me an ass again, after I demonstrated that you've been arguing, for about a week now, with things that I did not say.
Amazing.
My last post made a clear distinction between "arguing with the first poster's intended thesis" and "arguing with the first poster's way of making his point." That whole "earth as a purple oyster" thing. You don't see any distinction? You don't see any justification in disagreeing with someone's bad science, regardless of the validity of their main point?
I've had to repeat the same crap over and over to get anything through the thickness of your skull. And you call me an ass.
Now you continue to insist that, because I disagreed with the method he used to make a point, that means I necessarily disagreed, or "implied disagreement," with the point itself.
Now you are just being stupid and insulting. You were wrong, but you still want to call me an ass.
Whatever. Just fuck off, you drooling pathetic idiot.
"Your conclusion that this means you shouldn't try to stop a man who is sailing under misconcieved notions is what I disagree with"
My original post: "So, you're saying that, if anyone were to suspect the earth to be twice the size, they would have no reason to suspect there might be an undiscovered land-mass? Just a freakin' ocean 10,000 miles across? It would be irrational for anyone to assume the earth had an ocean as large as the atlantic, the pacific and north america combined"
Where is there a conclusion about anyone's behavior in that?
I was not disputing what Columbus or his contemporaries should or should not do. I was disputing (and ONLY disputing) the stated idea that "most" of Columbus's contemporaries would expect Columbus to be taking a journey across a such a large body of undifferntiated sea.
I believe this is a misrepresentation of ideas at the time. It does NOT mean that people shouldn't dissuade anybody of anything. I was doubting the world-view being put forward, not what people's reactions mught be to a given world-view.
If he had said "Columbus never should have set sail because the world is a purple oyster," I might agree with him that Colummbus should not have set sail, but I would certainly question the purple oysterness of the world.
If you have further issue with what I say, please do me the favor of quoting my exact words, because if what you are arguing is not what I said, of course I have no defense...other than not having said it.
And if this occurs again, try not to call me an ass. It makes you look very asslike.
You have lots of ways to control the Messenger service; turn it off, firewall it, use third-party privacy software, unplug the cable modem, whatever. It is, by design, a service available to anyone on the network. I don't consider Messenger pop-ups a good thing, but you're responsible for what you allow into your box. Nobody else, not even the misguided idiots who mistakenly think this is a good medium for advertising.
Legislating everyone else's behavior so that an individual does not feel 'bombarded' is unwieldy and inefficient.
Different people have different zones of comfort in this regard. When you are in control of your own filter, you can decide how 'public' you wish to be.
The tools for this need further improvement; better to invest in that, rather than create new legislation, new civil and criminal violations, and yet more money for lawyers.