I want a DVD player that allows filtering so that my children can watch movies that, for some content reason or other, I would otherwise find objectionable.
Take for instance BASIC INSTINCT. Popular movie. The once plentiful media references to it have made it a part of our cultural milieu.
But if I want my kids to be able to watch this movie without being subjected to sex scenes, violence, bad language, alcoholism, and misogenist scenarios then I NEED a technology such as this one.
Why is it that the higher-ups are forcing diligent parents to present these movies in their entirety to their little ones. Won't someone please think of the children.
... it makes me wanna own one of these things, drink a new coke, drive a compact car-du-jour, and do all my clothes shopping at the gap.
Of course, following this I may need to upgrade my friends with some fresh-faced young dance-party hipsters but, hey, clearly sacrifices have to be made.
Shit, I wonder if they're going after a demographic?
If this practice takes off you can guarantee we'll be setting up a few impartial "third party" websites that bespeaks a plethora of praise in our own honor.
Each site'll have a whole bunch of meta tags, something like: BENEVOLENT, NATHDOT, KIND, LIKES LONG WALKS ALONG BEACHES, NATHDOT, NATHDOT, NEVER KICKS CATS, NATHDOT, NATHDOT, NATHDOT, CHARITABLE TOWARD ALL MANKIND, NATHDOT, 9 1/2" PENIS, NATHDOT, GREAT COOK, etc. etc.
Simply by flooding the source of information she'll be hard pressed if she can ever find that juvie record for arson and wilfull destruction of property.
Obviously what's called for here are some high definition Star Trek Mods.
Just imagine Kirk, Spock, Bones, Scotty and Uhura all flying around in an enterprise-skinned millenium falcon. It'll take the concept of nerd-to-nerd combat and make it a high artform:
JARJAR_85
Mesa no lika vulcans.
KIRK_237
Set Phasors to kill.
On another note, surely LucasArts realise that their new MMORPG universe will be 95% populated by naked Natalie Portmans.
This all too brief foray into pared down cinematics was, to say the least, tedious. Dull, lifeless, 1-dimensional performances punctuated a scant script which drastically needed to be fleshed out. The art of story-telling plays a distant second to this vulgar onanistic show of avant-garde.
All of your comments are fair, and with all due credit to the creators of 'Space Hunter' it was not miss Ringwald's finest 3D effort.
I am of course referring to the deluxe 3D 'Sixteen Candles' IMAX Redux.
Characters like 'Long Duk Dong' and Anthony Michael Hall's 'The Geek' are imbued with even stronger presence (thanks largely to IMAX) and the performances of all actors are much more rounded (due to the introduction of 3D)
Well the russians used to have something a little like that, going back a bit, in the past and all, and we liked to call them communists. In fact we liked to call them "pinko bastards" but that's neither here nor there.
Simply put a yen for open-sourcing is a yen for communism. Pinko bastards!
(If you can't spot a joke.. then... well.. reply, it'll be funny to watch:)
Simply by supplying these plans as a package with a Thoreau's Walden, you too can be rid of the biggest smelliest most-hardcore tolkien geeks in your neighborhood.:)
Soon, this sign along the Capital City Freeway will be able to change its message based on what radio stations motorists have tuned in.
Does that mean if someone is tuned into Rush Limbaugh or Howard Stern the billboard advertises the nearest place they can pick up some taste/informed-opinions?
So just like that it shows up into our lives and we're meant to be all happy about it.
And I suppose we're expected to step in if Mercury or Venus start trying to take it's lunch money. And you know they're just gonna have a bigger brother as well. Don't we have enough problems with global warming and the like, without actively looking for trouble?
EXT. SPACE
2002 AA29:
You better not pick on me or gonna get my brother earth and he'll kick your ass!
MERCURY:
Oh yeah, I'd like to see him try.
EXT. SPACE - LATER
EARTH:
(sigh, to Mercury)
I heard you were giving my little brother shit.
(menacing)
What're you going to do about it now?
MERCURY:
Have you met my brother Jupiter?
From nowhere the gargantuan JUPITER appears.
EARTH:
Oh shit! Ay-Ay run!!!
When will we, the citizens of earth, ever learn that violence never solves anything.
The first conlusion we should all jump to is that this is unequivocable evidence of an extra-terrestrial encounter.
All those who say otherwise are cynical naysayers.
By the time they are convinced it could well be too late. The time for action is now.
I for one support the military action that George W. Bush is planning for these alien enemies of state. So grab a gun and head for Colorado! Time is a-wasting.
...it is all from CDs that I personally own or have borrowed from friends
I hear a whole bunch of people rushing to say insightful things such as "Uh dude, don't you know that's illegal?"
So here's the counter point: Who gives a fuck!
What are you all? His mother or something? Don't you have a sore ass from riding that moral high horse all day? The question wasn't whether or not he had your express permission to own certain mp3/ogg copies of the music.
It was, paraphrased: "What's an easy stand alone solution for playing the music", probably asked for the benefit of visiting non-techy friends to allow them to cue and play some tunes in his lounge room, without first getting a degree or reading massive amounts of documentation.
Haven't any of you ever owned a mix cassete tape recorded from the radio/a friends album? Did that stop you buying LPs?
Unfortunately, [the machines] don't seem to be up to the job. And the humans don't want to take responsibility, either.
So the machines don't do a great job. The people aren't up to the task either. It seems to me we need a combination of the two if we are to police our country efficiently.
Some sort of "Robo-cop" if you will.
And in order to fund such a venture we should probably move the police force into the private sector.:)
...by some guy who had an extra mobile phone that played the "Mission Impossible" Theme half way through......And then there were the other's whose phones immediately forwarded to message bank......And let's not forget those who had their phones set to vibrate: BEEP! BEEP!-BAH! BEEP!-BEEP!-BEEP!-BEEP!-BEEP! bzzzz
I mean come on, one of the things that so endearing about the simpsons is that they have carte blanche to do whatever in any given episode.
No episode affects the next, with minor exception (eg. Maude flanders death), and because of that the creators are not limited as to what can happen; A fact they seem to relish, even mock with in-jokes: "Oh look, we've won a trip to Delaware"
But major motion pictures are built on structure (ie. most commonly three acts, set-up - crisis - resolution)
So it would seem that some major event (ie. The movie's selling point)would have to occur involving the Simpsons in the motion picture (Obviously the set-up doesn't have to be that lrge because these are characters we already know and love). And due to the scale of a film, wouldn't that major event have to be permanent/immutable, somehow affecting or tying into the series?
So finally how is the film to work as a concept without fucking with the time-tested formula?
Slashdot Mirror
Why is there so much mention of radius and size and such. It's just so petty. I would think in this enlightened age we'd all know:
It's not the size that matters, it's how you orbit!
*Dodging tomatoes should be a sport*
...someone finally bought your book!" :)
I want a DVD player that allows filtering so that my children can watch movies that, for some content reason or other, I would otherwise find objectionable.
Take for instance BASIC INSTINCT. Popular movie. The once plentiful media references to it have made it a part of our cultural milieu.
But if I want my kids to be able to watch this movie without being subjected to sex scenes, violence, bad language, alcoholism, and misogenist scenarios then I NEED a technology such as this one.
Why is it that the higher-ups are forcing diligent parents to present these movies in their entirety to their little ones. Won't someone please think of the children.
It'd be interesting to see if this thing acted in the interest of the individual soldier or the military unit.
INFANTRY NODE #1
It appears my human is overcome with
anxiety
MAINFRAME
Okay, this is always a shame to have to
do, but in the interest of the platoon
pull the pin
INFANTRY NODE #1
Grenade pin pulled. Self destruct
sequence initiated.
INFANTRY NODE #2
It appears my human is becoming "aroused"
MAINFRAME:
Neutralize horniness.
INFANTRY NODE #2
Intravenous bromide release initiated.
... it makes me wanna own one of these things, drink a new coke, drive a compact car-du-jour, and do all my clothes shopping at the gap.
Of course, following this I may need to upgrade my friends with some fresh-faced young dance-party hipsters but, hey, clearly sacrifices have to be made.
Shit, I wonder if they're going after a demographic?
More and more laptops/palmtops incorporating a camera as part of the design, so why not use facial recognition to lock the pc.
Short of growing a beard before you get back to the laptop it'd be a cheap workable solution.
Then you don't have to remember/wear some crazy ass security dongle.
If this practice takes off you can guarantee we'll be setting up a few impartial "third party" websites that bespeaks a plethora of praise in our own honor.
Each site'll have a whole bunch of meta tags, something like:
BENEVOLENT, NATHDOT, KIND, LIKES LONG WALKS ALONG BEACHES, NATHDOT, NATHDOT, NEVER KICKS CATS, NATHDOT, NATHDOT, NATHDOT, CHARITABLE TOWARD ALL MANKIND, NATHDOT, 9 1/2" PENIS, NATHDOT, GREAT COOK, etc. etc.
Simply by flooding the source of information she'll be hard pressed if she can ever find that juvie record for arson and wilfull destruction of property.
Think Different.
Obviously what's called for here are some high definition Star Trek Mods.
Just imagine Kirk, Spock, Bones, Scotty and Uhura all flying around in an enterprise-skinned millenium falcon. It'll take the concept of nerd-to-nerd combat and make it a high artform:
JARJAR_85
Mesa no lika vulcans.
KIRK_237
Set Phasors to kill.
On another note, surely LucasArts realise that their new MMORPG universe will be 95% populated by naked Natalie Portmans.
Okay, so the 10 ton aryan guy was the one who was, like, secretly having an affair with his father's gay lover right?
I mean I didn't look at the article or anything but I assume we're talking about the same thing right?
THIS WEEK'S REVIEW: "."
This all too brief foray into pared down cinematics was, to say the least, tedious. Dull, lifeless, 1-dimensional performances punctuated a scant script which drastically needed to be fleshed out. The art of story-telling plays a distant second to this vulgar onanistic show of avant-garde.
RATING: */*****
All of your comments are fair, and with all due credit to the creators of 'Space Hunter' it was not miss Ringwald's finest 3D effort.
I am of course referring to the deluxe 3D 'Sixteen Candles' IMAX Redux.
Characters like 'Long Duk Dong' and Anthony Michael Hall's 'The Geek' are imbued with even stronger presence (thanks largely to IMAX) and the performances of all actors are much more rounded (due to the introduction of 3D)
Simply put: Poetry in 6 storey, 3 dimensional motion. 5 stars
Open-sourced software...
:)
Open-sourced Housing...
What's next?:
Open-sourced Government?...
Well the russians used to have something a little like that, going back a bit, in the past and all, and we liked to call them communists. In fact we liked to call them "pinko bastards" but that's neither here nor there.
Simply put a yen for open-sourcing is a yen for communism. Pinko bastards!
(If you can't spot a joke.. then... well.. reply, it'll be funny to watch
Simply by supplying these plans as a package with a Thoreau's Walden, you too can be rid of the biggest smelliest most-hardcore tolkien geeks in your neighborhood. :)
Soon, this sign along the Capital City Freeway will be able to change its message based on what radio stations motorists have tuned in.
Does that mean if someone is tuned into Rush Limbaugh or Howard Stern the billboard advertises the nearest place they can pick up some taste/informed-opinions?
I think all of us who saw Innerspace know that no good can come of this nanotechnology fad.
What about an entire vibrating suit?
It would be a crying shame if the vision were limited to "vibrating shoes."
Kit out a wetsuit with those buzzing bad boys, and watch the elderly jump, dance, and screw like 25 year olds.
So just like that it shows up into our lives and we're meant to be all happy about it.
And I suppose we're expected to step in if Mercury or Venus start trying to take it's lunch money. And you know they're just gonna have a bigger brother as well. Don't we have enough problems with global warming and the like, without actively looking for trouble?
EXT. SPACE
2002 AA29:
You better not pick on me or gonna get my brother earth and he'll kick your ass!
MERCURY:
Oh yeah, I'd like to see him try.
EXT. SPACE - LATER
EARTH:
(sigh, to Mercury)
I heard you were giving my little brother shit.
(menacing)
What're you going to do about it now?
MERCURY:
Have you met my brother Jupiter?
From nowhere the gargantuan JUPITER appears.
EARTH:
Oh shit! Ay-Ay run!!!
When will we, the citizens of earth, ever learn that violence never solves anything.
And here's the ACLU article on the onion:
ACLU Defends Nazis' Right To Burn Down ACLU Headquarters
While I admit there is a certain salacious element to a title like "GameToo Much... And Die!", why not go hogwild:
...Oh wait! You've already had one like that.
* Gaming proven to drive you into zombie-like quasi-coma and kill you on the toilet.
* Death plays Quake!!!
or
* Playing online games causes people to commit suicide....
The first conlusion we should all jump to is that this is unequivocable evidence of an extra-terrestrial encounter.
All those who say otherwise are cynical naysayers.
By the time they are convinced it could well be too late. The time for action is now.
I for one support the military action that George W. Bush is planning for these alien enemies of state. So grab a gun and head for Colorado! Time is a-wasting.
"Sure you can. It's www.555-6789.com"
*Later*
"Yowzer, that mama was hot,hot,hot... Hang on... 555 (dawning on him) GODDAMMIT!!!"
...it is all from CDs that I personally own or have borrowed from friends
I hear a whole bunch of people rushing to say insightful things such as "Uh dude, don't you know that's illegal?"
So here's the counter point: Who gives a fuck!
What are you all? His mother or something? Don't you have a sore ass from riding that moral high horse all day? The question wasn't whether or not he had your express permission to own certain mp3/ogg copies of the music.
It was, paraphrased: "What's an easy stand alone solution for playing the music", probably asked for the benefit of visiting non-techy friends to allow them to cue and play some tunes in his lounge room, without first getting a degree or reading massive amounts of documentation.
Haven't any of you ever owned a mix cassete tape recorded from the radio/a friends album? Did that stop you buying LPs?
Sheesh
Unfortunately, [the machines] don't seem to be up to the job. And the humans don't want to take responsibility, either.
:)
So the machines don't do a great job. The people aren't up to the task either. It seems to me we need a combination of the two if we are to police our country efficiently.
Some sort of "Robo-cop" if you will.
And in order to fund such a venture we should probably move the police force into the private sector.
...by some guy who had an extra mobile phone that played the "Mission Impossible" Theme half way through... ...And then there were the other's whose phones immediately forwarded to message bank... ...And let's not forget those who had their phones set to vibrate:
BEEP! BEEP!-BAH! BEEP!-BEEP!-BEEP!-BEEP!-BEEP! bzzzz
I mean come on, one of the things that so endearing about the simpsons is that they have carte blanche to do whatever in any given episode.
No episode affects the next, with minor exception (eg. Maude flanders death), and because of that the creators are not limited as to what can happen; A fact they seem to relish, even mock with in-jokes: "Oh look, we've won a trip to Delaware"
But major motion pictures are built on structure (ie. most commonly three acts, set-up - crisis - resolution)
So it would seem that some major event (ie. The movie's selling point)would have to occur involving the Simpsons in the motion picture (Obviously the set-up doesn't have to be that lrge because these are characters we already know and love). And due to the scale of a film, wouldn't that major event have to be permanent/immutable, somehow affecting or tying into the series?
So finally how is the film to work as a concept without fucking with the time-tested formula?