I disagree. The nature of or quantum reality dictates that god DOES play dice.
Hence the method of gods gift of free choice is quantum mechanics. There too lies the methodology for god to meddle without being noticed. God need only load the right dice.
But, there is certain reason beyond these scriptures even if they aren't inspired by divinity. Restricting an individual or groups from commerce is the ultimate way to censure discord.
Try counting the number of movies in recent years that have used turning off credit cards as a plot device to ruin someone. Further than that, count the number that have used tracking purchases as a way to find someone.
It may or may not be the mark of the beast. However, it is the making of a beast.
I say cash forever, it is the ultimate defense against tyrrany (Take THAT John Ashcroft)!!!!!!
I'd like to see the gang at South Park do another Lord of the Rings episode. This time, the kids get Big Gay Al to play Tom Bombadil. He would wear Tom's exact outfit and say all of Tom's lines. This is the only practical way to portray Tom Bombadil;-)
BTW, Tom was kinda smooshed into treebeard in Two Towers: EE. Old Man Willow also makes a cameo (transplanted to Fangorn). And Frodo and Pippin talk about the Old Forest bordering the shire and living trees.
In this way, Treebeard effectively does everything that Bombadil does expect give swords to hobbits. Treebeard saves Merry and Pippin twice (Tom saves the Hobbits twice). He saves them from a hungry Orc and from Old Man Willow. Bombadil and Treebeard have virtually identical roles. They are elder spirits in Middle Earth. They are among those who are first awakened. Treebeard is a gaurdian of the forest, same for Tom.
He's had a thousand years to practice his horsemanship skills. I'd bet he's better than any Mongolian who ever lived.
BTW, elves are stronger and faster than humans. They also have more attuned senses and better timing. If he can shoot Orcs through the eye at 1000 yards, than I'm sure he can mount a horse at full gallop.
Good news. According to Two Towers special edition, Smeagol the Hobbit makes an appearance in Return of the King as a flashback. He is played by none other than Andy Serkis.
There is an excellent feature on the Two Towers Special Edition called "The Taming of Smeagol". It goes into some detail about the evolution of the Smeagol character and the radical changes that were made after Andy Serkis was cast as the voice.
Basically, every aspect of Gollum was changed to match the physicality of Serkis. The facial features were changed to look like Serkis (had he been carrying the ring for 300 years). All the facial expressions were changed to match those of Serkis while narrating the lines.
The theatrical release does Fangorn a dis-service. The extended edition did a pretty good job.
Ultimately, Fangorn was important to the main plot for one reason. The Ents destroy the machinations at Isengard. From the standpoint of the theatrical release, it was a good idea to cut down their parts.
Some people might get the wrong idea about the Ents. But it's probably a better idea to instill a sense of wonder than overwhelming people with information. A lot of people will probably watch the extended edition and be pleased with the material, whereas they would have been bored with it in the theatre (the damn thing is four hours long;-)
This is one scene they SHOULD have included in the theatrical version. We were all pretty pissed about Jackson making all that stuff up. This flashback framed it properly. Nothing of Faramir's character has essentially changed except he is not immmune from the tempttion of the ring.
Ultimately, It's kind of a toss-up. Jackson presents Farimir as not "purer than though". He did it partially to help outline the corrupting influence of the ring. Since the Ring arguably a more important character, (yes, the ring itself IS a character (played schizophrenically by various characters) sacrificing Farimir's purity for the sake of further outlining the Ring's corrupting evil is a good tradeoff.
Ultimately, it raises the character of Farimir because he goes through a process and changes. He is still stronger than his brother AND his father.
The bonus is that Frodo and Sam have something to do. The timing of the films dictated that Helms Deep must be the climax of Two Towers. The Shelob story is saved for Return of the King. The audience also gets an introduction to Gondor and Osgiliath.
Even Tolkien's editors questioned his decision to include such a lengthy ending after the Ring War is won. I agree that it is crucial to show the completion of the hobbits journey as well as the completion of Gandalf's mission.
Personally, I would be happy with the version in the book of stripping Saruman of all his power and banishing him from his own tower. They could do the Scouring of the Shire stuff as part of "The Hobbit" if they do the project.
Basically, it would be an action intro as told by Merry and Pippin. They would be telling stories for children. Then the children would ask them to tell the story about Bilbo and they would segway into the Hobbit complete with it's more kid oriented themes.
They are superior for the Tolkien devotee. The Two Towers extended edition would have been a nightmare in the theatre.
After watching the special features and commentary by the writers, I fully agree with the cuts they made. The theatrical release has to be tailored for audiences that don't give a rip about little details.
For example, I thought Fellowship was absoluetly brilliant and Two Towers was lacking. Amongst non-Tolkien readers, they believe the opposite. Why???? Because Two Towers starts with a bang and has a lot of action sprinkled throughout.
You are right in that the Supreme Court did not appoint Bush. They appointed the Florida electors that appointed Bush.
As far as frivolous appeals go, it was Bush who appealed a unanimous ruling that got the case to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court got a stay on the counting claiming "irreparable harm". This is the stupidest thing EVER done by the Supreme Court. There was no reasonable way that simply COUNTING the votes could cause an irreparable harm since there was no garauntee that those results would be certified.
In the end, the Supreme Court issues no verdict. They simply printed a statement saying they would let the stay on counting stand since the count could not be done in time to certify as required by federal law.
The fact that they had delayed the counting thereby CREATING the central thesis of their reasoning seemed beyond concern.
BTW, It is becoming increasingly clear that electronic voting machines (combined with chasing black folk away from polls) in florida led DIRECTLY to president Bush's victory. 18,000 Al Gore votes were "lost" in one precinct by an electronic machine. It was later called a "glitch" and the glitchy card supposedly responsible was subsequently lost.
President Bush is clearly following the Joseph Stalin elctoral model. It doesn't matter who votes so much as who does the counting.
First I would intercept all his insurance bills and give him the impression he was paid up. Then after his insurance has lapsed, that is the time to cause damage;-)
Try using a public & private address. The public address is what you register with websites. The private one is what you give to friends.
When the public one gets overloaded with spam, just abandon it.
But, this is all pointing to the use of authentication and a mechanism of reverse charges in email. When email costs a cent per copy, spammers will think a little more about sending out 3 million messages.
It's pretty telling that normally peaceful slashdotters would gladly do such things to spammers. If the Amish used computers, I think they would gladly run over spammers with "der plow".;-)
Normally I don't pray but I will now. God, we need a new commandment.
11) Though shall not engage in unsolicited communications after thouh has been told to stop.
Of course, you gotta think that god has some really good prayer filters since people are always asking him for money, power, women and other selfish shit. Maybe prayer SPAM is the reason that god doesn't listen anymore. TOO MANY PRAYERS FROM NIGER;-)
AOL has some cool new commercials with Jerry Stiller and snoop dog. It kinda pokes fun at all the discs they send in the mail.
At the same time, they promote their adbusting and spam stopping capabilities. I find it very ironic that AOL is now claiming to be spam busters. That is, all spam but their own;-)
BTW, in AOL's case, this is anti-competitive behavior. They are a provider of unsolicited mail. But they block others from sending it. This is is like being a billboard advertiser who paints over the adds of other providers.
If the spammer wins, he will publicly expose himself. He will effectively paint a giant target on his back.
When someone is harrassing you, I believe it's fine to defend yourself with mild acts of violence. While I don't think killing a spammer is appropriate, a good ass-whooping may be exactly what he needs.
Do they play the cool Star Trek hand-to-hand combat music?
The Simpsons had a great scene in their "Homer Averagenaut" episode. Barney and Homer are made to fight with the whole Star Trek getup. One trainer comments to another "I bet twenty quantros on the newcomer".
It would have been funnier if the "Itchy and Scratchy" episode featured the same gag... Save Scratchy would ultimately die some grizzly death from protruding nails or something like that.
BTW, I consider Terrance & Phillip a psuedo-knockoff of the Itchy & Scratchy concept of the Simpsons.
This would explain the vast array of terrain available in Springfield. We know that it borders the ocean. We also know that it has a virtually unclimbable mountain called "Mount Sprinfield".
The Sherpas and AppleBars were a really nice touch;-)
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I disagree. The nature of or quantum reality dictates that god DOES play dice.
Hence the method of gods gift of free choice is quantum mechanics. There too lies the methodology for god to meddle without being noticed. God need only load the right dice.
New slogan
... What's embedded in YOUR left hand???? ;-)
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I used to think that these folks were nuts.
But, there is certain reason beyond these scriptures even if they aren't inspired by divinity. Restricting an individual or groups from commerce is the ultimate way to censure discord.
Try counting the number of movies in recent years that have used turning off credit cards as a plot device to ruin someone. Further than that, count the number that have used tracking purchases as a way to find someone.
It may or may not be the mark of the beast. However, it is the making of a beast.
I say cash forever, it is the ultimate defense against tyrrany (Take THAT John Ashcroft)!!!!!!
Well proprietary systems require proprietary programmers. They cost more money. Windows is standard, therefore programmers are cheap.
Cool ...
www.opednews.com is linking directly into slashdot. Great to see political progressives uniting with geeks.
I'd like to see the gang at South Park do another Lord of the Rings episode. This time, the kids get Big Gay Al to play Tom Bombadil. He would wear Tom's exact outfit and say all of Tom's lines. This is the only practical way to portray Tom Bombadil ;-)
BTW, Tom was kinda smooshed into treebeard in Two Towers: EE. Old Man Willow also makes a cameo (transplanted to Fangorn). And Frodo and Pippin talk about the Old Forest bordering the shire and living trees.
In this way, Treebeard effectively does everything that Bombadil does expect give swords to hobbits. Treebeard saves Merry and Pippin twice (Tom saves the Hobbits twice). He saves them from a hungry Orc and from Old Man Willow. Bombadil and Treebeard have virtually identical roles. They are elder spirits in Middle Earth. They are among those who are first awakened. Treebeard is a gaurdian of the forest, same for Tom.
He's had a thousand years to practice his horsemanship skills. I'd bet he's better than any Mongolian who ever lived.
BTW, elves are stronger and faster than humans. They also have more attuned senses and better timing. If he can shoot Orcs through the eye at 1000 yards, than I'm sure he can mount a horse at full gallop.
Good news. According to Two Towers special edition, Smeagol the Hobbit makes an appearance in Return of the King as a flashback. He is played by none other than Andy Serkis.
There is an excellent feature on the Two Towers Special Edition called "The Taming of Smeagol". It goes into some detail about the evolution of the Smeagol character and the radical changes that were made after Andy Serkis was cast as the voice.
Basically, every aspect of Gollum was changed to match the physicality of Serkis. The facial features were changed to look like Serkis (had he been carrying the ring for 300 years). All the facial expressions were changed to match those of Serkis while narrating the lines.
It's VERY cool.
The theatrical release does Fangorn a dis-service. The extended edition did a pretty good job.
;-)
Ultimately, Fangorn was important to the main plot for one reason. The Ents destroy the machinations at Isengard. From the standpoint of the theatrical release, it was a good idea to cut down their parts.
Some people might get the wrong idea about the Ents. But it's probably a better idea to instill a sense of wonder than overwhelming people with information. A lot of people will probably watch the extended edition and be pleased with the material, whereas they would have been bored with it in the theatre (the damn thing is four hours long
This is one scene they SHOULD have included in the theatrical version. We were all pretty pissed about Jackson making all that stuff up. This flashback framed it properly. Nothing of Faramir's character has essentially changed except he is not immmune from the tempttion of the ring.
Ultimately, It's kind of a toss-up. Jackson presents Farimir as not "purer than though". He did it partially to help outline the corrupting influence of the ring. Since the Ring arguably a more important character, (yes, the ring itself IS a character (played schizophrenically by various characters) sacrificing Farimir's purity for the sake of further outlining the Ring's corrupting evil is a good tradeoff.
Ultimately, it raises the character of Farimir because he goes through a process and changes. He is still stronger than his brother AND his father.
The bonus is that Frodo and Sam have something to do. The timing of the films dictated that Helms Deep must be the climax of Two Towers. The Shelob story is saved for Return of the King. The audience also gets an introduction to Gondor and Osgiliath.
Even Tolkien's editors questioned his decision to include such a lengthy ending after the Ring
War is won. I agree that it is crucial to show the completion of the hobbits journey as well as the completion of Gandalf's mission.
Personally, I would be happy with the version in the book of stripping Saruman of all his power and banishing him from his own tower. They could do the Scouring of the Shire stuff as part of "The Hobbit" if they do the project.
Basically, it would be an action intro as told by Merry and Pippin. They would be telling stories for children. Then the children would ask them to tell the story about Bilbo and they would segway into the Hobbit complete with it's more kid oriented themes.
They are superior for the Tolkien devotee. The Two Towers extended edition would have been a nightmare in the theatre.
After watching the special features and commentary by the writers, I fully agree with the cuts they made. The theatrical release has to be tailored for audiences that don't give a rip about little details.
For example, I thought Fellowship was absoluetly brilliant and Two Towers was lacking. Amongst non-Tolkien readers, they believe the opposite. Why???? Because Two Towers starts with a bang and has a lot of action sprinkled throughout.
It's reassuring when people are responding to my sig.
Dennis threatens the system. That's why the Democratic party isn't real keen on him. He's like a Ralph Nader who has actual political experience.
Thats the best spin I've heard all year.
You are right in that the Supreme Court did not appoint Bush. They appointed the Florida electors that appointed Bush.
As far as frivolous appeals go, it was Bush who appealed a unanimous ruling that got the case to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court got a stay on the counting claiming "irreparable harm". This is the stupidest thing EVER done by the Supreme Court. There was no reasonable way that simply COUNTING the votes could cause an irreparable harm since there was no garauntee that those results would be certified.
In the end, the Supreme Court issues no verdict. They simply printed a statement saying they would let the stay on counting stand since the count could not be done in time to certify as required by federal law.
The fact that they had delayed the counting thereby CREATING the central thesis of their reasoning seemed beyond concern.
BTW, It is becoming increasingly clear that electronic voting machines (combined with chasing black folk away from polls) in florida led DIRECTLY to president Bush's victory. 18,000 Al Gore votes were "lost" in one precinct by an electronic machine. It was later called a "glitch" and the glitchy card supposedly responsible was subsequently lost.
President Bush is clearly following the Joseph Stalin elctoral model. It doesn't matter who votes so much as who does the counting.
NO!!!!!
First I would intercept all his insurance bills and give him the impression he was paid up. Then after his insurance has lapsed, that is the time to cause damage ;-)
Try using a public & private address. The public address is what you register with websites. The private one is what you give to friends.
When the public one gets overloaded with spam, just abandon it.
But, this is all pointing to the use of authentication and a mechanism of reverse charges in email. When email costs a cent per copy, spammers will think a little more about sending out 3 million messages.
It's pretty telling that normally peaceful slashdotters would gladly do such things to spammers. If the Amish used computers, I think they would gladly run over spammers with "der plow". ;-)
;-)
Normally I don't pray but I will now. God, we need a new commandment.
11) Though shall not engage in unsolicited communications after thouh has been told to stop.
Of course, you gotta think that god has some really good prayer filters since people are always asking him for money, power, women and other selfish shit. Maybe prayer SPAM is the reason that god doesn't listen anymore. TOO MANY PRAYERS FROM NIGER
AOL has some cool new commercials with Jerry Stiller and snoop dog. It kinda pokes fun at all the discs they send in the mail.
;-)
At the same time, they promote their adbusting and spam stopping capabilities. I find it very ironic that AOL is now claiming to be spam busters. That is, all spam but their own
BTW, in AOL's case, this is anti-competitive behavior. They are a provider of unsolicited mail. But they block others from sending it. This is is like being a billboard advertiser who paints over the adds of other providers.
If the spammer wins, he will publicly expose himself. He will effectively paint a giant target on his back.
When someone is harrassing you, I believe it's fine to defend yourself with mild acts of violence. While I don't think killing a spammer is appropriate, a good ass-whooping may be exactly what he needs.
I think Peter and the rest of the 'Family Guy' gang would be perfectly happy whorring for cash. That what makes them the perfect show for Fox ;-)
The Tick ROCKED. This would make an excellent addition to Adult Swim!!!!
My favorite episode is when they follow the normally useless Sewer-Shark into his realm. Here he is all powerful and the Tick's powers fail him.
Do they play the cool Star Trek hand-to-hand combat music?
The Simpsons had a great scene in their "Homer Averagenaut" episode. Barney and Homer are made to fight with the whole Star Trek getup. One trainer comments to another "I bet twenty quantros on the newcomer".
Hilarious stuff!!!!
It would have been funnier if the "Itchy and Scratchy" episode featured the same gag ... Save Scratchy would ultimately die some grizzly death from protruding nails or something like that.
BTW, I consider Terrance & Phillip a psuedo-knockoff of the Itchy & Scratchy concept of the Simpsons.
This would explain the vast array of terrain available in Springfield. We know that it borders the ocean. We also know that it has a virtually unclimbable mountain called "Mount Sprinfield".
;-)
The Sherpas and AppleBars were a really nice touch