That wouldn't be bad, really, seeing as how Mormons have a history of Poligamy (?Spelling?). I wouldn't mind landing a few miles off and ending up with three wives...
I gotta say sorry too. Being agnostic, religion leaves itself open to that sort of humor, IMHO. Mormons are cool with me, I know some, and they're all good ^-^
For the 2378250542437th time: Why the heck do we give such a hoot about Mars? We need to start small, folks. Have we all forgotten that we have our own little "alien" rock to populate first? The Moon should be our current goal, screw Mars. If we get all excited and gung-ho about the Red Planet and forget about the Moon, we're doomed to the "biting off more than we can chew" philosophy.
Don't babies have to crawl before they can walk? Or walk before they can run? If we skip the moon, we're going to go from crawl straight to a dead sprint, resulting in us falling flat on our faces.
The Mars Society needs to change its name to the Lunar Society and change its focus from Red to Gray. That, and they need to get over the fact that the X-Files is coming to an end...
People, it's been almost 35 years since we've been to the moon. 35 years! And now we don't want to even think about it? Now honestly, couple the ISS with something on the moon, and you've got a couple of waypoints to hit along the way to Mars.
It's a no brainer. Our destination right now MUST be the moon. And the goal should be colonizing the moon, pure and simple. Screw Mars. At least untill we go back to la luna.
If the technology of the 60s let us go for a visit, and relatively speaking our personal computers have more power in them than the Apollo units, isn't it LOGICAL to do what Stacey Keach did in Cheech And Chong's "Up In Smoke" and "Shoot The Moon?"
Call me crazy, but the moon seems like a better idea. Or maybe I am just a lunatic...
Annonymous Cowards(aka "closet geeks who 'think' they're being funny") take heed. This is a classic film.
You idiots are on crack. TRON, for its time, was a cutting edge film. You kids are spoiled with your Jurassic Parks and your Prince of Egypt "2 years to render 7 minutes" CG. When TRON came out, I was around 6 years old. It wasn't untill a few years after that I saw it (the arcades drew me in), but then, it blew my still young and mallable mind.
When you're little, your sense of imagination is much more developed than you AC fools have now. The CG and premise of TRON, for its day, was unheard of. Getting inside your computer, interacting with the machine on a more human level. And let's not forget GAMES GAMES GAMES!!!
You AC fools take what you have for granted, thinking the world owes you something. Truth is you owe the world (and Disney in particular) for giving your kind the imagination to create the computing possibilities you have today. Would Linus Torvalds have created Linux if he weren't first exposed to UNIX? Would the Modern Rock you love exist without bands like Ozzy, Floyd and Zeppelin? Would you ACs still be complete losers without playing D&D, drinking Jolt and downloading hacked pictures (and BAD hacks at that) of Gillian Anderson and Sarah Michelle Gellar? Would you have developed into the "my opinion is king" fanboys you are today?
.Do us all a favor. Stop being a coward, fearing history and get your ass to whatever DVD retail outlet suits you choose (if you want to use the one where you found all of the Urotsukidoji films at once, that's fine) and pick up this disc set. History would do you good. After all, you can't possibly know where you are going when you have either no clue of or respect for what's happening around you instead of being little hemret men with a fraction of what most welfare recipiants call a good life...
Annonymous Cowards(aka "closet geeks who 'think' they're being funny") take heed. This is a classic film.
You idiots are on crack. TRON, for its time, was a cutting edge film. You kids are spoiled with your Jurassic Parks and your Prince of Egypt "2 years to render 7 minutes" CG. When TRON came out, I was around 6 years old. It wasn't untill a few years after that I saw it (the arcades drew me in), but then, it blew my still young and mallable mind.
When you're little, your sense of imagination is much more developed than you AC fools have now. The CG and premise of TRON, for its day, was unheard of. Getting inside your computer, interacting with the machine on a more human level. And let's not forget GAMES GAMES GAMES!!!
You AC fools take what you have for granted, thinking the world owes you something. Truth is you owe the world (and Disney in particular) for giving your kind the imagination to create the computing possibilities you have today. Would Linus Torvalds have created Linux if he weren't first exposed to UNIX? Would the Modern Rock you love exist without bands like Ozzy, Floyd and Zeppelin? Would you ACs still be complete losers without playing D&D, drinking Jolt and downloading hacked pictures (and BAD hacks at that) of Gillian Anderson and Sarah Michelle Gellar? Would you have developed into the "my opinion is king" fanboys you are today?
.Do us all a favor. Stop being a coward, fearing history and get your ass to whatever DVD retail outlet suits you choose (if you want to use the one where you found all of the Urotsukidoji films at once, that's fine) and pick up this disc set. History would do you good. After all, you can't possibly know where you are going when you have either no clue of or respect for what's happening around you instead of being little hemret men with a fraction of what most welfare recipiants call a good life......
If you're going to be high and mighty like that, at least identify yourself.
Didn't I just get done saying that I believe in giving control back to the artist? If anything, I was talking about giving the power of the copyright back to the artist, allowing THEM to regulate their cash flow. Not a bunch of RI execs. If we fans choose to support them (like we always do at concerts, hello), then they'll have no trouble laying down a few bucks for some downloads. I wouldn't, ut then again, I'm also a musician.
You know what? If I had access to a line where I could gather 2 friends and suck down a mega library of tunes, I'd do it in a heart beat. I'm sick and tired of paying $18 bucks a disc (we buy them for 25 cents apiece anymore). Fuck the RIAA, fuck their opposition to the revolution.
The record companies will have to face it. Music was once a freedom that humans enjoyed. Once they found out they could control the flow, they pounced. But not that we can control our own musical habits, they've lost the edge and ability to suck us dry. Guess what: You no longer control things. We do. Face it, it's over.
Music fans will support their favorite artists by going to clubs. And artists dying to be heard will take the opertunity to get their music to reaches that not even a little local company could hope to do (which is where most bands end up nowsdays).
This guy basically said Fuck You to the RIAA and it's machine. The bands want the money because the companies take the majority of it. The only way they make tons of cash is if they're really huge. And yes, some are greedy. But give them control of their own musical destiny (ie take away the CDs and say hello to true digital music) and you'll see them quiet down. No longer will the companies be making all the cash. The few people who actually run things, that is. The bands will see what they deserve if they do it properly. And the RIAA will have no say...
I would hunt down and hang bin Laden himself for the chance to see Ranma on American TV. As far as I know, alot of them got the dub treatment. The 6th season is Random Rhapsody, and the first was released as a box. I know for a fact that seasons 2 and 3 exist in a dubbed form somewhere, as I watched all of the first three seasons and parts of the 6th in one 18 hour marathon session.
On the issue of gender swapping, come on! Children know the difference between fantasy and reality, and that's just one of many transformations kids have witnessed over the years in cartoons. We as kids watched robots with human personalities that changed into kickass stuff. Zan and Jana (the Wonder Twins) could turn into water based items (lame) and nifty animals (OK) back in the 70s and 80s. Could we dare consider Superman racy cause he ripped off his suit (sillohete or not) to go from Clark Kent to the Man of Steel? More modern cartoons, like Dexter's Lab, have brain swapping, shapeshifting (the one where Dee Dee was Mom and Dexter was Dee Dee? Ahh, forget it...)
The gender bending antics of Ranma 1/2 are just as whimsical. What keeps Ranma off the mainstream American Boob Tube is it's sexual humor. Happosai filtching panties in wild locker room raids and groping all over Ranma's female form, well, the moral stick up the collective ass of Bible Belt America (remember, the Republicans have the guy in charge) keeps it from being aired. They'd rather restrict it to pay TV networks that can be locked out by pretentious parents who want to hide their kids from the real world.
If we could get out of this religion-induced sexual repression and actually TEACH AND COMMUNICATE WITH KIDS about this stuff. You know... Be responsible parents?
The kids are going to get exposed to sexual humor in school (even if it's just a whisper, it's still there) anyway, so parents, you might as well at least discuss it with them at a good age. If they hear it from you first, they might have more of a respect for it all.
Just like they understand that a Descrambling Ray mixing up the bodies of the Chief, Secret Squirrel and Morocco Mole is pure fantasy, they can understand a boy turning into a girl as the same thing...
Now then, where was I. Oh yes... Yappapa Yappapa (etc) ^-^
...I'd like to see Encore (the Action Channel people) fire up two all-Anime, pay TV networks. One subbed, one dubbed. That way all types of fans are happy. Both would be unedited, and anything that comes in Widescreen would be shown as such. With all the options on Digital Cable these days, why not add these two?
Never saw that particular Picket Fences, but you certainly nailed it. Something that took you 10 good minutes of common sense and a half hour of television viewing has taken lawmakers years to figure out. Kudos.
...and though we geeks are a forgiving lot (usually the first to "grow the hell up"), we can't forget the source of the problem. You all know what it is, same as me. Kleibold and Harris went a few steps too far and acted irrationally, and I feel for the victim's families. But then again, alot of them weren't simply victims, were they...
...that the failure of the Disney film "Something Wicked This Way Comes" brought about the rise of Michael Eisner as company head? Coincidence or a big-time case of foreshadowing?
Does this mean my old Slip And Slide thing is still worth something? If this slime is what it says it is, then I can get some SERIOUS speed down that plastic mat. Might need to extend it, too...
So, the king of rip-offs (anyone else here remember the "Kimba-Simba" debate?) and story hacking (Pocahontas was 12 and John Smith was a pedophile) want's to blame Mac for music piracy? Maybe he should take a look at his own Censorship record...
Disney buys Hollywood Records. Hollywood Records happened to be the holders of the Insane Clown Posse's contract. So what does Eisner do? Forces the Juggalos to release a censored version of "The Great Milenko" (joker card #4 for those of you keeping track). In response, ICP bolts from Hollywood and releases a non-Disney-fied "Milenko," which went platinum. Stupid? Nah. Just typical Eisner.
I was never the biggest Mac fan, at least not till OSX. Now I'm Pro-Mac. Blaming something/someone like that for people wanting to take hold of their freedoms is a prick's trick. Think Eisner is sleeping with Billy boy over there in Redmond? Wouldn't doubt it...
Everyone wants something public and noticable to take the blame when this crap happens. There is only one group to blame for music piracy: Us. We, the masses who are sick of paying 18 bucks a CD for 2 good songs and 10 crappy ones. We, the masses who are sick and tired of having MTV tell us what we should think is "cool tunes." We, the masses who are sick and tired and are waiting for a revolution in which we can take control of that which was taken from us long ago by "big business."
Stand up and shout, folks. Write Eisner at Disney and tell him what ICP told him: "Michael Eisner can suck my d**k if he's got some kinda problem with my s**t. Everybody jumps to the Juggalo Sound, f**k outta here if you ain't down with the Clown" "Just holla Fagget! Fagget! They call you that, cause you act like a bitch. Everybody jumps to the Juggalo Sound, f**k outta here, F**K OUTTA HERE!"
Um, if I were interested in or could actually AFFORD the monstrosity known as XP, I still wouldn't buy it. I have no desire to pay for something over and over just because I want to make changes in my hardware configuration from time to time.
XP innovative? Only if crap is considered innovative in this day and age. Hell, I could go into the john and pinch off a 12 inch loaf and call that innovative, then sell it in a pretty blue box for $200 and the idiots who buy their PCs at Wal-Mart would purchase it.
Yes, Linux isn't the greatest. But then again, neither is Winblows. But don't you think that COMPETITION is a good thing? I'm all for a free option.
I'm officially pro-AOL now. Sure, Netscape might suck, but hey. It beats being forced to use Outlook and having it increase the "Stupid Factor" when you download your daily load of SPAM. Now, if AOL embraces Open Source and doesn't twist it for corporate gain, things will be good.
With the money AOL/T-W/CNN/TNT/TCM/CTN/WTBS/etc has behind it, they don't need to worry about turning a profit. If they were truely smart, they'd at least invest in the development of open OS' and give them the kick in the pants they need to crack the desktop market.
In the future, when people have had it up to ^here with Microshaft and migrate to an alternative like Linux or whatever, AOL can sit back and say "Yeah, we had a hand in that." A good company is a humble company that comes in, does the job, and bows out without tooting its own horn too much. Are you listening, Steve Case?
Yeah, it's Star Wars. But after a 20 year wait between EP6 and EP1, and with all the rumors, I think I'd be willing to wait at least another decade. Here's why:
I can just see who all will be joining them in line. Amanda and Chelsea from the local middle school will be in line right behind them, waiting to be the first teeny boppers to get tickets for *NSuck's mighty appearance (at least Lucas denied them DiCapprio as everyone's favorite bad guy). Chaos will ensue as manny charges of fooling around with minors stem from the 4 month wait outside the theater. You could call it "Attack of the Brittany Spears Wannabe Clones in Cheap Make-Up and GAP Gear."
There's only one thing that can possibly make the wait worth the hassle: Give a cameo speaking role to Carrot Top. He can teach *NSuck to use the force and dial down the center just before droids mash them all to bits. Might as well take care of 6 birds with one blaster, eh?
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That wouldn't be bad, really, seeing as how Mormons have a history of Poligamy (?Spelling?). I wouldn't mind landing a few miles off and ending up with three wives...
I gotta say sorry too. Being agnostic, religion leaves itself open to that sort of humor, IMHO. Mormons are cool with me, I know some, and they're all good ^-^
For the 2378250542437th time: Why the heck do we give such a hoot about Mars? We need to start small, folks. Have we all forgotten that we have our own little "alien" rock to populate first? The Moon should be our current goal, screw Mars. If we get all excited and gung-ho about the Red Planet and forget about the Moon, we're doomed to the "biting off more than we can chew" philosophy.
Don't babies have to crawl before they can walk? Or walk before they can run? If we skip the moon, we're going to go from crawl straight to a dead sprint, resulting in us falling flat on our faces.
The Mars Society needs to change its name to the Lunar Society and change its focus from Red to Gray. That, and they need to get over the fact that the X-Files is coming to an end...
If only the "casual user" would get on board...
And let me guess: Enron would be in charge of the drilling, ne?
People, it's been almost 35 years since we've been to the moon. 35 years! And now we don't want to even think about it? Now honestly, couple the ISS with something on the moon, and you've got a couple of waypoints to hit along the way to Mars.
It's a no brainer. Our destination right now MUST be the moon. And the goal should be colonizing the moon, pure and simple. Screw Mars. At least untill we go back to la luna.
If the technology of the 60s let us go for a visit, and relatively speaking our personal computers have more power in them than the Apollo units, isn't it LOGICAL to do what Stacey Keach did in Cheech And Chong's "Up In Smoke" and "Shoot The Moon?"
Call me crazy, but the moon seems like a better idea. Or maybe I am just a luna tic...
Annonymous Cowards(aka "closet geeks who 'think' they're being funny") take heed. This is a classic film.
You idiots are on crack. TRON, for its time, was a cutting edge film. You kids are spoiled with your Jurassic Parks and your Prince of Egypt "2 years to render 7 minutes" CG. When TRON came out, I was around 6 years old. It wasn't untill a few years after that I saw it (the arcades drew me in), but then, it blew my still young and mallable mind.
When you're little, your sense of imagination is much more developed than you AC fools have now. The CG and premise of TRON, for its day, was unheard of. Getting inside your computer, interacting with the machine on a more human level. And let's not forget GAMES GAMES GAMES!!!
You AC fools take what you have for granted, thinking the world owes you something. Truth is you owe the world (and Disney in particular) for giving your kind the imagination to create the computing possibilities you have today. Would Linus Torvalds have created Linux if he weren't first exposed to UNIX? Would the Modern Rock you love exist without bands like Ozzy, Floyd and Zeppelin? Would you ACs still be complete losers without playing D&D, drinking Jolt and downloading hacked pictures (and BAD hacks at that) of Gillian Anderson and Sarah Michelle Gellar? Would you have developed into the "my opinion is king" fanboys you are today?
.Do us all a favor. Stop being a coward, fearing history and get your ass to whatever DVD retail outlet suits you choose (if you want to use the one where you found all of the Urotsukidoji films at once, that's fine) and pick up this disc set. History would do you good. After all, you can't possibly know where you are going when you have either no clue of or respect for what's happening around you instead of being little hemret men with a fraction of what most welfare recipiants call a good life...
Annonymous Cowards(aka "closet geeks who 'think' they're being funny") take heed. This is a classic film.
You idiots are on crack. TRON, for its time, was a cutting edge film. You kids are spoiled with your Jurassic Parks and your Prince of Egypt "2 years to render 7 minutes" CG. When TRON came out, I was around 6 years old. It wasn't untill a few years after that I saw it (the arcades drew me in), but then, it blew my still young and mallable mind.
When you're little, your sense of imagination is much more developed than you AC fools have now. The CG and premise of TRON, for its day, was unheard of. Getting inside your computer, interacting with the machine on a more human level. And let's not forget GAMES GAMES GAMES!!!
You AC fools take what you have for granted, thinking the world owes you something. Truth is you owe the world (and Disney in particular) for giving your kind the imagination to create the computing possibilities you have today. Would Linus Torvalds have created Linux if he weren't first exposed to UNIX? Would the Modern Rock you love exist without bands like Ozzy, Floyd and Zeppelin? Would you ACs still be complete losers without playing D&D, drinking Jolt and downloading hacked pictures (and BAD hacks at that) of Gillian Anderson and Sarah Michelle Gellar? Would you have developed into the "my opinion is king" fanboys you are today?
.Do us all a favor. Stop being a coward, fearing history and get your ass to whatever DVD retail outlet suits you choose (if you want to use the one where you found all of the Urotsukidoji films at once, that's fine) and pick up this disc set. History would do you good. After all, you can't possibly know where you are going when you have either no clue of or respect for what's happening around you instead of being little hemret men with a fraction of what most welfare recipiants call a good life......
If you're going to be high and mighty like that, at least identify yourself.
Didn't I just get done saying that I believe in giving control back to the artist? If anything, I was talking about giving the power of the copyright back to the artist, allowing THEM to regulate their cash flow. Not a bunch of RI execs. If we fans choose to support them (like we always do at concerts, hello), then they'll have no trouble laying down a few bucks for some downloads. I wouldn't, ut then again, I'm also a musician.
You know what? If I had access to a line where I could gather 2 friends and suck down a mega library of tunes, I'd do it in a heart beat. I'm sick and tired of paying $18 bucks a disc (we buy them for 25 cents apiece anymore). Fuck the RIAA, fuck their opposition to the revolution.
The record companies will have to face it. Music was once a freedom that humans enjoyed. Once they found out they could control the flow, they pounced. But not that we can control our own musical habits, they've lost the edge and ability to suck us dry. Guess what: You no longer control things. We do. Face it, it's over.
Music fans will support their favorite artists by going to clubs. And artists dying to be heard will take the opertunity to get their music to reaches that not even a little local company could hope to do (which is where most bands end up nowsdays).
This guy basically said Fuck You to the RIAA and it's machine. The bands want the money because the companies take the majority of it. The only way they make tons of cash is if they're really huge. And yes, some are greedy. But give them control of their own musical destiny (ie take away the CDs and say hello to true digital music) and you'll see them quiet down. No longer will the companies be making all the cash. The few people who actually run things, that is. The bands will see what they deserve if they do it properly. And the RIAA will have no say...
I would hunt down and hang bin Laden himself for the chance to see Ranma on American TV. As far as I know, alot of them got the dub treatment. The 6th season is Random Rhapsody, and the first was released as a box. I know for a fact that seasons 2 and 3 exist in a dubbed form somewhere, as I watched all of the first three seasons and parts of the 6th in one 18 hour marathon session.
On the issue of gender swapping, come on! Children know the difference between fantasy and reality, and that's just one of many transformations kids have witnessed over the years in cartoons. We as kids watched robots with human personalities that changed into kickass stuff. Zan and Jana (the Wonder Twins) could turn into water based items (lame) and nifty animals (OK) back in the 70s and 80s. Could we dare consider Superman racy cause he ripped off his suit (sillohete or not) to go from Clark Kent to the Man of Steel? More modern cartoons, like Dexter's Lab, have brain swapping, shapeshifting (the one where Dee Dee was Mom and Dexter was Dee Dee? Ahh, forget it...)
The gender bending antics of Ranma 1/2 are just as whimsical. What keeps Ranma off the mainstream American Boob Tube is it's sexual humor. Happosai filtching panties in wild locker room raids and groping all over Ranma's female form, well, the moral stick up the collective ass of Bible Belt America (remember, the Republicans have the guy in charge) keeps it from being aired. They'd rather restrict it to pay TV networks that can be locked out by pretentious parents who want to hide their kids from the real world.
If we could get out of this religion-induced sexual repression and actually TEACH AND COMMUNICATE WITH KIDS about this stuff. You know... Be responsible parents?
The kids are going to get exposed to sexual humor in school (even if it's just a whisper, it's still there) anyway, so parents, you might as well at least discuss it with them at a good age. If they hear it from you first, they might have more of a respect for it all.
Just like they understand that a Descrambling Ray mixing up the bodies of the Chief, Secret Squirrel and Morocco Mole is pure fantasy, they can understand a boy turning into a girl as the same thing...
Now then, where was I. Oh yes... Yappapa Yappapa (etc) ^-^
...I'd like to see Encore (the Action Channel people) fire up two all-Anime, pay TV networks. One subbed, one dubbed. That way all types of fans are happy. Both would be unedited, and anything that comes in Widescreen would be shown as such. With all the options on Digital Cable these days, why not add these two?
From Outer Space (directed by the ever kooky Ed Wood) the worst film ever made? Boy, they sure picked a zinger of a name, didn't they...
Never saw that particular Picket Fences, but you certainly nailed it. Something that took you 10 good minutes of common sense and a half hour of television viewing has taken lawmakers years to figure out. Kudos.
...and though we geeks are a forgiving lot (usually the first to "grow the hell up"), we can't forget the source of the problem. You all know what it is, same as me. Kleibold and Harris went a few steps too far and acted irrationally, and I feel for the victim's families. But then again, alot of them weren't simply victims, were they...
Hey Billy... Time to be assimilated into OUR collective. Long live freedom of competition!
...that the failure of the Disney film "Something Wicked This Way Comes" brought about the rise of Michael Eisner as company head? Coincidence or a big-time case of foreshadowing?
Does this mean my old Slip And Slide thing is still worth something? If this slime is what it says it is, then I can get some SERIOUS speed down that plastic mat. Might need to extend it, too...
So, the king of rip-offs (anyone else here remember the "Kimba-Simba" debate?) and story hacking (Pocahontas was 12 and John Smith was a pedophile) want's to blame Mac for music piracy? Maybe he should take a look at his own Censorship record...
Disney buys Hollywood Records. Hollywood Records happened to be the holders of the Insane Clown Posse's contract. So what does Eisner do? Forces the Juggalos to release a censored version of "The Great Milenko" (joker card #4 for those of you keeping track). In response, ICP bolts from Hollywood and releases a non-Disney-fied "Milenko," which went platinum. Stupid? Nah. Just typical Eisner.
I was never the biggest Mac fan, at least not till OSX. Now I'm Pro-Mac. Blaming something/someone like that for people wanting to take hold of their freedoms is a prick's trick. Think Eisner is sleeping with Billy boy over there in Redmond? Wouldn't doubt it...
Everyone wants something public and noticable to take the blame when this crap happens. There is only one group to blame for music piracy: Us. We, the masses who are sick of paying 18 bucks a CD for 2 good songs and 10 crappy ones. We, the masses who are sick and tired of having MTV tell us what we should think is "cool tunes." We, the masses who are sick and tired and are waiting for a revolution in which we can take control of that which was taken from us long ago by "big business."
Stand up and shout, folks. Write Eisner at Disney and tell him what ICP told him: "Michael Eisner can suck my d**k if he's got some kinda problem with my s**t. Everybody jumps to the Juggalo Sound, f**k outta here if you ain't down with the Clown" "Just holla Fagget! Fagget! They call you that, cause you act like a bitch. Everybody jumps to the Juggalo Sound, f**k outta here, F**K OUTTA HERE!"
Amen. Nuff said.
Um, if I were interested in or could actually AFFORD the monstrosity known as XP, I still wouldn't buy it. I have no desire to pay for something over and over just because I want to make changes in my hardware configuration from time to time.
XP innovative? Only if crap is considered innovative in this day and age. Hell, I could go into the john and pinch off a 12 inch loaf and call that innovative, then sell it in a pretty blue box for $200 and the idiots who buy their PCs at Wal-Mart would purchase it.
Yes, Linux isn't the greatest. But then again, neither is Winblows. But don't you think that COMPETITION is a good thing? I'm all for a free option.
Someone needs to go back to English Class about as much as MS needs to be honest about stability.
I do agree with you, though.
"This would destroy Windows desktop operating systems as a stable and consistent development platform,"
Yeah, right.
They should be held in contempt of court for that kind of BS.
...before the whole thing goes AWOL and we have the world's first AI-controled mass transit accident?
I'm officially pro-AOL now. Sure, Netscape might suck, but hey. It beats being forced to use Outlook and having it increase the "Stupid Factor" when you download your daily load of SPAM. Now, if AOL embraces Open Source and doesn't twist it for corporate gain, things will be good.
With the money AOL/T-W/CNN/TNT/TCM/CTN/WTBS/etc has behind it, they don't need to worry about turning a profit. If they were truely smart, they'd at least invest in the development of open OS' and give them the kick in the pants they need to crack the desktop market.
In the future, when people have had it up to ^here with Microshaft and migrate to an alternative like Linux or whatever, AOL can sit back and say "Yeah, we had a hand in that." A good company is a humble company that comes in, does the job, and bows out without tooting its own horn too much. Are you listening, Steve Case?
But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong...
Yeah, it's Star Wars. But after a 20 year wait between EP6 and EP1, and with all the rumors, I think I'd be willing to wait at least another decade. Here's why:
I can just see who all will be joining them in line. Amanda and Chelsea from the local middle school will be in line right behind them, waiting to be the first teeny boppers to get tickets for *NSuck's mighty appearance (at least Lucas denied them DiCapprio as everyone's favorite bad guy). Chaos will ensue as manny charges of fooling around with minors stem from the 4 month wait outside the theater. You could call it "Attack of the Brittany Spears Wannabe Clones in Cheap Make-Up and GAP Gear."
There's only one thing that can possibly make the wait worth the hassle: Give a cameo speaking role to Carrot Top. He can teach *NSuck to use the force and dial down the center just before droids mash them all to bits. Might as well take care of 6 birds with one blaster, eh?