I guess everyone's miliage will vary, but Netflix sends me a movie, 99% of the time I get it the next day. I send them a movie, 99% of the time they receive it the next day. So they can send me three movies on Monday, I can watch them Tuesday, put them in the mail Wednesday, Netflix receives them on Thursday and sends out three more which I get Friday. Then if I mail them out Saturday, Netflix gets them and send more out on Monday and the whole cycle repeats itself. So that would be six movies a week. IT would be between 24 and 27 movies a month, depending on the number and arrangement of days. Of course I DON'T actually watch three movies that fast, but that would be the hypothetical limit for someone in my situation.
Actually Obiwan says it while they're flying their ships around in that first battle. It's very likley that 3P0 said it, but he's ALWAYS saying stuff like that. "We're Doomed!" etc.
This is ridiculous. Slashdot is telling me it hasn't been two minutes since my last comment posting. Like that even has anything to do with anything. This is an entirely different topic.
No, Any Star Wars movie with that title would have to be divisible by three. Let's break it down.
1 and 4 - Somewhat mysterious titles. Just something that is. Generally opposite of each other 'The Phantom Menace' and 'A New Hope' 2 and 5 - Attack! These titles will generally include elements of action 'The Attack of the Clones' and 'The Empire Strikes Back' 3 and 6 - The resolution. These titles involve people on one side of the force or another coming back. Either in the form of revenge or just plain returning from the ether. 'The Revenge of the Sith ' 'The Return of the Jedi.'
So you see a title like 'The Revenge of Jar-Jar' would have to be episode 9. Episodes 7 and 8 would have titles like 'The Craptacular Gungan' and 'Star Wars Fans Strike First' respectively.
It worked for the Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, English, French and Russians in the "New World" assuming you discount the people who were already here. The moon can be bought and sold amoung the powers that be and can have it's independence when it fights a good old fashioned war for independence that we aren't interested in fighting or can't afford to fight. That's just the way it's done.
That's not the problem. These tools could in theory help in any fight against crime. So far so good. The problem begins when the current powers that be decide that it is a crime to disagree with the current authority. Tools like these can be used then to prevent people from gathering to discuss problems in the current administration. If enough privacy restricting measures are put in place and say the Republicans in office take a notion to call off future elections. They can use these tools to make sure nobody gets too organized in any fight against that new policy. Now that's the extreme example, but it's hardly without precident in world politics.
*sigh* that Obi Wan! Always stretching the truth so far you'd think it was taffee. He'd already won the Bill Clinton award for Stretching the Truth with the whole excuse about truth depending on your point of view when trying to cover up the "Darth Vader killed your father." line. Now we find that the Jedi hadn't actually kept peace in the galaxy for "over a thousand generations." Seems it was more like 88 years. Obi Wan's response will probably be to dig up some species with a life span only slightly greater than a fruit fly and say something about "point of view."
Wasn't even so much tech, but simple good security. If it's these kinds of security minded people working in movies, it's no wonder so many bootlegs get released to the public.
I'm still pissed about going all the way down to Comerica Park last night just to have the Tiger's (Detroit Baseball) game rained out. Now here comes Slashdot yelling "Tiger Tiger Tiger" at me.
We've actually had to free up the word "fuck" from filtering because in our very large international corporation, we actually have an employee somewhere with that name. Or so we've been told.
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I guess everyone's miliage will vary, but Netflix sends me a movie, 99% of the time I get it the next day. I send them a movie, 99% of the time they receive it the next day. So they can send me three movies on Monday, I can watch them Tuesday, put them in the mail Wednesday, Netflix receives them on Thursday and sends out three more which I get Friday. Then if I mail them out Saturday, Netflix gets them and send more out on Monday and the whole cycle repeats itself. So that would be six movies a week. IT would be between 24 and 27 movies a month, depending on the number and arrangement of days. Of course I DON'T actually watch three movies that fast, but that would be the hypothetical limit for someone in my situation.
How does one do a "lot of harm" for the better?
Actually Obiwan says it while they're flying their ships around in that first battle.
It's very likley that 3P0 said it, but he's ALWAYS saying stuff like that. "We're Doomed!" etc.
This is ridiculous. Slashdot is telling me it hasn't been two minutes since my last comment posting. Like that even has anything to do with anything. This is an entirely different topic.
No, Any Star Wars movie with that title would have to be divisible by three. Let's break it down.
1 and 4 - Somewhat mysterious titles. Just something that is. Generally opposite of each other 'The Phantom Menace' and 'A New Hope'
2 and 5 - Attack! These titles will generally include elements of action 'The Attack of the Clones' and 'The Empire Strikes Back'
3 and 6 - The resolution. These titles involve people on one side of the force or another coming back. Either in the form of revenge or just plain returning from the ether. 'The Revenge of the Sith ' 'The Return of the Jedi.'
So you see a title like 'The Revenge of Jar-Jar' would have to be episode 9. Episodes 7 and 8 would have titles like 'The Craptacular Gungan' and 'Star Wars Fans Strike First' respectively.
They survive, because they resemble horses and people have a soft spot for horses, otherwise they'd be completely dead.
Like the line that should be the "subtitle" of the entire Star Wars Franchise:
I have a bad feeling about this
It's sort of a joke, but that IS the line that shows up every time. It's what made even episode I really feel like Star Wars to me.
This is just information gathering for the coming Matrix. Well the Machine World had to get that data from somewhere!
Thank goodness for the Edit/Undo button.
It worked for the Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, English, French and Russians in the "New World" assuming you discount the people who were already here. The moon can be bought and sold amoung the powers that be and can have it's independence when it fights a good old fashioned war for independence that we aren't interested in fighting or can't afford to fight. That's just the way it's done.
This is a joke, honestly.
I'll be happy when it stops 'translating' the name of my favorite French pop singer into "geostrophic."
;-)
Yes I know alizé means tradewind or some such thing, but really, there IS an extra 'e' on her name.
By "get" you mean download of course. . . ;-)
That's not the problem. These tools could in theory help in any fight against crime. So far so good. The problem begins when the current powers that be decide that it is a crime to disagree with the current authority. Tools like these can be used then to prevent people from gathering to discuss problems in the current administration.
If enough privacy restricting measures are put in place and say the Republicans in office take a notion to call off future elections. They can use these tools to make sure nobody gets too organized in any fight against that new policy.
Now that's the extreme example, but it's hardly without precident in world politics.
*sigh* that Obi Wan! Always stretching the truth so far you'd think it was taffee. He'd already won the Bill Clinton award for Stretching the Truth with the whole excuse about truth depending on your point of view when trying to cover up the "Darth Vader killed your father." line. Now we find that the Jedi hadn't actually kept peace in the galaxy for "over a thousand generations." Seems it was more like 88 years. Obi Wan's response will probably be to dig up some species with a life span only slightly greater than a fruit fly and say something about "point of view."
Sure they're pronouncable:c hr p
;-)
Open-bee-ess-dee
Open-ess-ess-ait
Open-bee-jee-pee-dee
Open-enn-tee-pee-dee
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pee-eff
oh-ess-pee-eff
No problem.
It's safe against those "mostly harmless" attacks.
Wasn't even so much tech, but simple good security. If it's these kinds of security minded people working in movies, it's no wonder so many bootlegs get released to the public.
You know? All in all I liked Minority Report, but I nearly choked when I saw that.
I'm still pissed about going all the way down to Comerica Park last night just to have the Tiger's (Detroit Baseball) game rained out.
Now here comes Slashdot yelling "Tiger Tiger Tiger" at me.
You could always join netflix. Then put the series DVDs on your queue. Cheaper than buying and for the bandwith usually faster than downloading.
Love those licence plates: Washington DC, Taxation Without Representation
Hey, there's an idea. I could set up a fly swatter with a web cam and let the world kill my bugs for me!
As another American, I second his (or her) acceptance of your rejection of our rejection or your rejection of our lame-ass DMCA.
So when do we vote?
Yeah, and the day spiders stop being creepy!
More like 16.4 feet you insensitive clod. You trying to throw us off or something?
We've actually had to free up the word "fuck" from filtering because in our very large international corporation, we actually have an employee somewhere with that name. Or so we've been told.