The best episode ever, which wasn't even on the list, is "Simpson Tide." While it is another one of those "Homer gets a new job" episodes, it was actually fresh at the time. There are so many great lines from the episode:
"You're in the Naval Reserve. America's seventeenth line of defense, between the Mississippi National Guard, and the League of Women Voters. After basic training, you'll only have to work one weekend a month. And most of that time, you're drunk off your ass."
"My Homer is not a communist. He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, a communist, but he is not a porn star!"
"It's my first day."
And for you Linux fans, it is also the only episode to feature Penguins in a meaningful way. They have their own warship...
But the best part of the episode was the string of great gags about the return of Communism: the Berlin Wall (complete with guards and dogs) popping out of the ground, the parade in Moscow turning floats into tanks, and a reanimated Lenin saying "must crush capitalism."
You can use google to improve a relationship you're in. For instance, you can find other people of the same name and say...
* This Jane Doe in Athens, GA is a black belt. Maybe you should work out now. * This Jane Doe in Palo Alto has a PhD in Chemistry, maybe she doesn't burn all her food.
But anyway, I'm back to using it to check out hopeful dates.
It could be that the prosecutor is asking what a GUI is to get him defining Jon's role in the development, not out of ignorance.
For example: Witness: So I opened up the cupboard and got a jar of peanut butter. Matlock: What do you mean, you got a jar of peanut butter? Witness: I took out the jar with my hand and took a knife to butter... alright, you've got me! I really killed him because he hated me and my toast!
Ostbanhof is now a really nice station (most trains to Paris, Belgium, etc. start from there). Quite a bit of monez has been poured into rebuilding the infrastructure in East Berlin.
I think, though, that the new Potsdammer Platz and Central Station whill take over for it when they are fully finished.
TW does not make money off of online content (or not much, anyway). They make it off of print adv. Online versions are supplements to the ones in print. The print revenues pay for creating the content. The online ads pay for the infrastructure to display them.
Unless this hurts their print readership, this seems like a good idea.
The verb is present. The sentence is missing a predicate adjective/nominative. Not, as another Slashdot English whiz pointed out, an object. "To be" is not transitive (and thus taking an object).
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It seems that much of your fame today continues to be good-humored self-mockery: the Star Trek Futurama episode, playing yourself in Showtime, singing for Priceline. I'm sure this brings in the bucks, but what are you doing today that challenges you creatively and for which you would rather be remembered? Of what are you most proud? What have you done that's just for the money?
But if you get enough radiation, you might mutate into a hermaphrodite. Then you could fertilize yourself, thus finding the only person with low enough standards to mate with you - yourself.
I don't think that the Simpsons translate well to a feature film. Like the article said, they don't even fill a 22 minute show with quality. Even some of the best episodes were of the form BAA, where there was a five-minute substory to hook into the next two acts. So that's about a fifteen minute episode.
Can they make a coherent movie eight times that long?
I don't think so; let's not forget that the show started as 1 min shorts. I think that if they do make a movie, it should be in the form of "22 Short Films about Springfield," which (in an homage to Bach and a wonderful movie about Glen Gould) passed a semi-coherent theme back and forth between subplots. I think that The Simpsons could really do something creative and kinda tweak with traditional notions of film, linearity, etc.
It would be like their sendup of Lola Rennt with three stories told from different perspectives (a later episode that was actually quality, even though the story itself was about seven minutes long).
Kuhn adds that an opaque shielding device might be simpler way to obstruct prying eyes.
I wonder if he has a patent on this idea. Wouldn't it just be better to have people in, I dunno, offices? You could control entry via special security signatures know as "keys," which would be small metal devices small enough to fit into your hand. Access to data would be protected by an "opaque shielding device" called a wall.
Liquid Audio has never had a big footprint. It needs to either fold or radically reinvent the purpose of the company.
We need to move away from the Dilbertesque model of a company loosing money while it's growing but never having a plan for afterward. Unless Liquid Audio has some magic plan to emerge from its cocoon a beautiful profitable company, it will just burn money indefinitely. This cannot be good for anyone. That money should be invested in a more realistic venture.
I think it was the Gutenberg was printing calendars (with naughty and nice versions) before he made the first book. Then he couldn't make bibles fast enough.
I think I learned this in a history class, but it could just as easily something I saw on Buffy.
compete. In the end, everyone pays the same $15 (or whatever), with the net result being that the poor countries are making $5 more from the sales than they had previously. A far cry from your claims that they'll suffer; you sound like little more than an MPAA shill.
The free market only works when it is free. The same entity is ultimately selling the DVDs. They only sell cheap $10 DVDs becaues those willing to pay $20 cannot buy them. If those willing to pay $20 can use the $10 ones, do you think that they'll keep selling them for $10? Those that were buying them for $10 will have to shell out the extra dough.
If region encoding fails, it's going to hurt people in poorer countries far more than it will us. Although it still will, if you import movies.
Region encoding allows the studios to time the release of movies, sure. But it also allows them to sell the DVDs at different prices around the world. I just bought Der Herr der Ringe in Berlin for far less than I could in the US. People in Africa, Russia, and China get even better discounts.
So while the US is used to paying $20 for a new DVD, if the region system breaks down . . .
Everybody will have to pay the same equivalent amount of money. It probably won't affect the prices of Anime, though. A global economy, eh?
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The best episode ever, which wasn't even on the list, is "Simpson Tide." While it is another one of those "Homer gets a new job" episodes, it was actually fresh at the time. There are so many great lines from the episode:
...
"You're in the Naval Reserve. America's seventeenth line of defense, between the Mississippi National Guard, and the League of Women Voters. After basic training, you'll only have to work one weekend a month. And most of that time, you're drunk off your ass."
"My Homer is not a communist. He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, a communist, but he is not a porn star!"
"It's my first day."
And for you Linux fans, it is also the only episode to feature Penguins in a meaningful way. They have their own warship
But the best part of the episode was the string of great gags about the return of Communism: the Berlin Wall (complete with guards and dogs) popping out of the ground, the parade in Moscow turning floats into tanks, and a reanimated Lenin saying "must crush capitalism."
> answer numerous questions about the movies,
> including time travel
We knew this all along. The flux capacitor. It's what make time travel possible!
You can use google to improve a relationship you're in. For instance, you can find other people of the same name and say ...
* This Jane Doe in Athens, GA is a black belt. Maybe you should work out now.
* This Jane Doe in Palo Alto has a PhD in Chemistry, maybe she doesn't burn all her food.
But anyway, I'm back to using it to check out hopeful dates.
and win a free wiretap!
It could be that the prosecutor is asking what a GUI is to get him defining Jon's role in the development, not out of ignorance.
... alright, you've got me! I really killed him because he hated me and my toast!
... maybe not quite like that ...
For example:
Witness: So I opened up the cupboard and got a jar of peanut butter.
Matlock: What do you mean, you got a jar of peanut butter?
Witness: I took out the jar with my hand and took a knife to butter
Well
What the hell is up with this joke?!?!? I keep seeing it everywhere now. The only only reference I can find in mass media is on The Family Guy.
Or is Smirnoff's Branson theater that big of a cult(ural) hit? Please, please, for the love of god. Explain why this bad joke is on the rebound.
Ostbanhof is now a really nice station (most trains to Paris, Belgium, etc. start from there). Quite a bit of monez has been poured into rebuilding the infrastructure in East Berlin.
I think, though, that the new Potsdammer Platz and Central Station whill take over for it when they are fully finished.
Let's call it America's Open Library (AOL) and send it out in bulk mailings on cheap blue CDs. This has gotta be effective, right?
I'd hate to be this guy.
One drop of this instant glue formed a bond between man and hammer in five seconds. We called it an instant hazard--and rated it Not Acceptable.
TW does not make money off of online content (or not much, anyway). They make it off of print adv. Online versions are supplements to the ones in print. The print revenues pay for creating the content. The online ads pay for the infrastructure to display them.
Unless this hurts their print readership, this seems like a good idea.
I'm = I am
The verb is present. The sentence is missing a predicate adjective/nominative. Not, as another Slashdot English whiz pointed out, an object. "To be" is not transitive (and thus taking an object).
It seems that much of your fame today continues to be good-humored self-mockery: the Star Trek Futurama episode, playing yourself in Showtime, singing for Priceline. I'm sure this brings in the bucks, but what are you doing today that challenges you creatively and for which you would rather be remembered? Of what are you most proud? What have you done that's just for the money?
But if you get enough radiation, you might mutate into a hermaphrodite. Then you could fertilize yourself, thus finding the only person with low enough standards to mate with you - yourself.
> Pfft - if I had a nickel for every time I heard that...
...
Gordon Moore (of Intel) does
I don't think that the Simpsons translate well to a feature film. Like the article said, they don't even fill a 22 minute show with quality. Even some of the best episodes were of the form BAA, where there was a five-minute substory to hook into the next two acts. So that's about a fifteen minute episode.
Can they make a coherent movie eight times that long?
I don't think so; let's not forget that the show started as 1 min shorts. I think that if they do make a movie, it should be in the form of "22 Short Films about Springfield," which (in an homage to Bach and a wonderful movie about Glen Gould) passed a semi-coherent theme back and forth between subplots. I think that The Simpsons could really do something creative and kinda tweak with traditional notions of film, linearity, etc.
It would be like their sendup of Lola Rennt with three stories told from different perspectives (a later episode that was actually quality, even though the story itself was about seven minutes long).
There goes all hope of saying that converting to Linux will help productivity.
Let's just hope that one of the guys at eBay sold an old car for "$5000 OBO" and posted a pic online.
Kuhn adds that an opaque shielding device might be simpler way to obstruct prying eyes.
I wonder if he has a patent on this idea. Wouldn't it just be better to have people in, I dunno, offices? You could control entry via special security signatures know as "keys," which would be small metal devices small enough to fit into your hand. Access to data would be protected by an "opaque shielding device" called a wall.
I'll take my consulting check now, please.
Liquid Audio has never had a big footprint. It needs to either fold or radically reinvent the purpose of the company.
We need to move away from the Dilbertesque model of a company loosing money while it's growing but never having a plan for afterward. Unless Liquid Audio has some magic plan to emerge from its cocoon a beautiful profitable company, it will just burn money indefinitely. This cannot be good for anyone. That money should be invested in a more realistic venture.
I think it was the Gutenberg was printing calendars (with naughty and nice versions) before he made the first book. Then he couldn't make bibles fast enough.
I think I learned this in a history class, but it could just as easily something I saw on Buffy.
Bob Dylan rolling in his grave knocked over my drink!
Oh, wait, he's not dead yet.
Carry on . . .
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compete. In the end, everyone pays the same $15 (or whatever), with the net result being that the poor countries are making $5 more from the sales than they had previously. A far cry from your claims that they'll suffer; you sound like little more than an MPAA shill.
The free market only works when it is free. The same entity is ultimately selling the DVDs. They only sell cheap $10 DVDs becaues those willing to pay $20 cannot buy them. If those willing to pay $20 can use the $10 ones, do you think that they'll keep selling them for $10? Those that were buying them for $10 will have to shell out the extra dough.
If region encoding fails, it's going to hurt people in poorer countries far more than it will us. Although it still will, if you import movies.
Region encoding allows the studios to time the release of movies, sure. But it also allows them to sell the DVDs at different prices around the world. I just bought Der Herr der Ringe in Berlin for far less than I could in the US. People in Africa, Russia, and China get even better discounts.
So while the US is used to paying $20 for a new DVD, if the region system breaks down . . .
Everybody will have to pay the same equivalent amount of money. It probably won't affect the prices of Anime, though. A global economy, eh?