That's true. Unfortunately, my wife loves Jackie Chan, and thinks Chris Tucker is funny. We have both Rush Hour and RH2.
But actually, that line is kinda funny in the right context. My 5 year old daughter wasn't listening to me one day last week, just ignoring everything because she was watching cartoons or something. I was saying to wash her hands or brush her teeth or something, but she didn't even look over at me. So I asked her "Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?" My wife busted up laughing, and it actually got my daughter's attention away from the cartoon.
Not that I want to see RH3, but I know they'll make it, and I will have to watch it eventually.
Well, after replying to the other two replies, I don't have as much time as I would like to give to this one. But, basically, from what I have read and seen, the Kyoto accord is flawed. To quote you, "Underdeveloped countries were given more points than most (relatively) because most of the currently successful economies had to go through some form of none-too environmentally friendly industrial revolution in order to generate the money to become developed."
So we are encouraging them to do the same earth-raping crap that the Europeans and Americans did. (And I assume you are European, based on your English skills.) Basically, the European industrial revolution was exported to every colony those countries had. And it ruined large areas of the Earth. So why would we want the places with the native people in charge to do the same thing? Most of the native tribe in the Americas, Africa, Australia, and Asia lived off the land, and respected the land. They never wanted to tear it up and poison it. That is strictly European, make money any way possible, and who cares about the consequences. And, yes that is where my family is from, Germany, Britain, Holland, immigrated to the US in the 1800's. Doesn't mean I'm going to gloss over how shabbily the industrialists treated the world. And I would hate to tell the less-greedy population to spoil their countries just so we feel better.
Two, yes gasoline is less expensive in the US than Europe, but that because we only pay $.50 tax on each gallon. Not $5.00. That is one of the differences in the cultures, European countries don't seem to mind paying 75% of their income to the government, while in the US we bitch about paying 35%.
And, saving the best for last, who says the US does the "most of the damage to the environment"? When the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica became big news in the late eighties or so, scientists started to check it out. Can you guess where the second worst spot in the ozone layer was? Directly over Europe. Not over the US. And to top it off, which country detonated an atomic bomb in the South Pacific a few years ago? Which two tested some a couple years ago? Again, not the US.
But really, I don't want to get into a shouting match over who's country is a bigger polluter. And I have already blamed the white race, no matter where they are in the world. Even though I am white. But the Kyoto accord just seems like an invention of those same industrialists to push their past crimes over into the unspoiled parts of the world. It's not an honest effort to clean up the world. It's a sham.
And my original idea is the only way to make any reasonable dent in the energy use and pollution released. Until there are under 4,000,000,000 people in the world again, we are going to use more energy and make more pollution that 4,000,000,000 people made.
On a side note, have you ever read the series "Bio of a Space Tyrant" by Piers Anthony? It is a great idea. After space travel is common, all the countries emmigrate to the other planets. I think he wrote that the Earth was left for "the Indians", but I don't know if he meant the people of India, or the Native peoples of North America. The concept is a good idea though. All the industrialists move away, and leave the Mother Planet for the people who want to take care of it and worship it. Native American tribes can have their buffalo herds and gallery of animal gods again. Celtic Druids can re-discover the wonders of Stonehenge. Indian mystics can meditate in the wilderness until their beards are ten feet long. (These examples come to mind from watching TV and movies, not from knowing personally what each group wants now or would have preferred then. Also, I mean no insult to these cultures. The more I learn about them, the more respect I have for them.) But they would have no modern appliances, medication, agriculture, or transportation. Basically, like the world was 1,000 years ago. Certainly less than 4,000,000,000 people.
That is what I would shoot for. Anything less is being short-sighted.
1. I hate Nsinc, and all that pop crap. I hated the pop crap in the late eighties and the nineties. The pop crap in the early to mid eighties was OK, Madona's early stuff, Prince was weird but OK, but mostly basic rock-n-roll like Heuy Lewis and Springsteen. But actually, I was raised on country, and in the eighties moved to the heavy metal of the time, Motely Crue, AC/DC, Quiet Riot, etc. So that is my music taste, not the cookie cutter boy bands, or the trampy, used-to-be-a-mouseketeer now-i-have-to-be-a-slut chicks.
And if you don't like the movie, don't watch it. That is my philosophy with this stuff. I don't watch TV shows I don't enjoy watching. I don't read books or magazines that I don't enjoy reading. I don't write 500 letters to every publisher, producer, director, author, telling them what to put in their next offering. I just don't watch it or read it or whatever. I change the channel, so to speak.
2. True, he finally figured out that memory thing, but that didn't deflate his ego. Going open-source would kill him. Again, good wish, not going to happen.
3. No. While I didn't lose money in Enron, I have just gotten a 401k plan thru work, and I asked the financial consultant about Enron. He gave the answer I posted, basically, don't put all you eggs in one basket. I can have sympathy with the people for losing their jobs AND their investment, but in actuality, their 401k plans were only a few years old at most (Enron started in the 90's). Most of them only lost $10,000 because they put in $500 before the stock price went from $5 to $100. So it's not like they lost their life savings. Only a couple years of interest and stock bubble. But they still shouldn't have put ALL their investment in ONE company.
4. Yes there are many sources of energy. But you have to pick your poison. Nuclear (sp?) is radioactive, with plenty of opponents. Solar requires huge arrays if it's to power a city, in a very sunny area like the desert, plenty of opponents to that. Hydro needs to have rivers dammed, with plenty of opponents. Space-based solar is damn scary, with plenty of opponents. Electric cars require several batteries, which have poisonous lead, and that has a lot of opponents. And to top it off, so much of these examples are only possible because of the petroleum-based materials used to make or maintain them.
So, while there are alternatives, there are opponents to each one. The easiest course is to stay with present technology, and suck all the oil out of the planet. I don't like that scenario any more than you, but that's what we are stuck with until many opponents get their head out of the sand and weigh each option. Let's hope we can find a better solution before we go back into the dark ages.
5. Mine was meant to be humorous too, just in a sick, twisted way. Besides, have you ever walked thru the 'old' videos sections of Blockbuster. There are so many t&a flicks it's funny. Can't help thinking, "Man, people actually still rent this stuff?" That is what came to mind when I read the Natalie Portman thing. And if I got a girlfriend, my wife would kill me. And I'm far from prudish, I just get tired of puberty-dependent wishes, after a couple hundred times of seeing the same thing. Maybe if I was a teen-ager again, I would appreciate it more, if I hadn't already seen the same type of thing a couple hundred times then as well.
Hi, No I'm not a control freak. I'm just tired of hearing 99% of the people here post the same thing: George Lucas can't do that, I won't watch any of his movies ever again if he does that, how dare he think of such a thing with MY favorite imaginary friends? They sound like control freaks. The first few times were expected, but every month there is another round of the same drivel. It got old real fast. And of course, there are more each time telling everyone to stop whining. So it's not like I'm the only one. But for me, yeah, yesterday was a bad day. Hell, it's been a bad month, so I had to vent. I'm done now.
And come on, the original post explicitly stated the desire to see Natalie Portman naked. Which is another often repeated line. So I gave an alternative outlet for their adolescent urges. "Deep-seated psychological problems", well, maybe, I won't deny that, let me talk to my shrink and I'll get back to you.:^)
And while it may be nice if George Lucas listened to fans, I wouldn't expect him to change scenes just because one group or another didn't like it.
Also, I personally liked Jar-jar, so did my then 3-year old daughter, so hearing everyone complaining about him scored no points with me.
Sincerely, (f that means anything on a faceless website) I want to say thanks for the conversation. Don't want/. to turn into a cesspool of rants with no meaning, like so many newsgroups did. Thru no fault of my own, I stopped reading them because there were so many arguments, with no actual conversations. Just insults about each other's choice of operating system, processor, etc.
1. Why? Are you the producer or director? Is it your movie? What did you think of the lousy acting and annoying aliens in the original movie? Or have you only seen it on video, on a small TV screen with crappy sound?
2. Good wish. Not gonna happen.
3. Why? Clinton got impeached for lying under oath in a court deposition concerning sexual harassment. That would get any CEO or military officer thrown out, and possibly jailed. Bush and Cheney were involved in a business that failed. Big deal. Unfortunately, many people lost money, but that's life. Why did the employees put their entire 401(k) plan in Enron stock? That is the big question. Financial consultants all say never do that, ever. Ever. (In case you missed it.)
4. OK. You kill half the people in your state, I'll kill half the people in mine. That should lower our dependency on oil by 1%. Get real. We have a lot more people in the US now as opposed to 10 years ago. If you are referring to the Kyoto accord crap, it's not only ridiculous, it's designed to fail. Why else would it let undeveloped countries "sell" their greenie points to the developed countries, rather than insisting the developed countries actually reduce waste?
5. There is one. She's doing it doggy style with Jar-jar Binks.
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5. Ha, the real number 5. is grow up, rent Gator Bait at Blockbuster, and don't let your mom catch you beating off to it in the living room. Go watch it in her room.
The person posted:"It's not as if they (N'Sync)were singing the theme song or something. If you don't like their music, grow up and deal with it."
I second that motion. I'm so tired of hearing everybody cry about why they hate Lucas and his ideas for HIS movies. And besides, why wouldn't everyone here want to see them killed by battle droids?
Wait, you mean I've been using the wrong term all this time? No, it can't be. I'm ruined as a computer consultant. My customers will all laugh at me now.
Damn you, send me your name, address, and phone number so my family of lawyers can contact you because I am going to sue you for costing me $4800 a day in lost wages. My cousins Larry, Moe, and Curley will be calling real soon, from my home phone.
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Good riddance to you, dimwit. One less numbskull in my way when I watch the movies. And by the way, their first muppet was in the original movie. Did you ever see it? And Jar-jar wasn't a muppet, he was computer-generated.
"Because of Jar Jar Binks, I have not seen Phantom Menace, and don't intend to."
Jesus Christ, you people whine a lot. It's only a fricken movie. You have no financial stake in it. And it's not like you go to them because it will impress your friends. If you like the story, go see it, otherwise go see Scream 54, or some animated Disney softcore porn. Go beat off at home to one of those t&a flicks at Blockbuster. Just stop acting like George Lucas has to make the movie you always dreamed of, just because you may have seen a couple of his previous movies.
After reading a few other comments, and following one to World Net Daily, wdn.com, I think your statement needs to be re-shaped just a tad.
There can be no journalistic integrity as long as journalism is a for-ANYTHING institution.
The above-mentioned World Net Daily, while touted as "the most honest news portal" by someone, was so obviously pro-Isreal, anti-Arab, that I can't take any of it seriously. Even one 'news story' that told the 'Arab side' made the Arabs seem to be Neo-Nazis, enticing Americans to kill all Jewish people, with two separate statements to that effect. It is one thing to air your personal views on a website, but to call it news is a mistake.
Undoubtedly there are dozens of websites that also purport to be news sites that are anti-Isreal, pro-Arab, pro-Christian, anti-Christian, pro-Feminist, pro-Arayan, pro-African, anti-Business, anti-Gay, pro-This and anti-That. Their bias may be evident, or they may hide it, but they all give only one side of a story. I would rather be able to get the full story, with opposing view-points and arguments, on one page. But that seems impossible, even on the Internet.
to quote GreyPoopon:
"they *can* ask to see your birth certificate...", but "it would be *way* too time consuming...."
Yeah, very much so. I would have been standing there, at a pay phone in canada calling my mom.
"Mom, can you find my birth certificate and drive up to Sault Ste. Marie with it? No mom, really. I know you are sewing my sister's wedding gown, but I need you to do this. No, wait, have my brother drive it up here. That should cut the wait time in half. Thanks mom. I love you. Bu-bye. Oh, and mom, bring yours too, just in case."
Gary Lauck is a Neo-Nazi who has been convicted and jailed in Germany for distributing Neo-Nazi stuff from his home in Nebraska. He was arrested while in Denmark, and extradicted to Germany for the trial and prison term. So, for sending information from his home in one country to friends in a second country, he was arrested while visiting a third country. His actions included mailing pamphlets, as well as hosting a web site and sending email.
Now the German government wants to take a web page from him. The domain is www.bundesinnenministerium.com , which translates to Federal Interior Ministry.
There are two stories about it in the BBC's web page, here are the addresses.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/ ne wsid_1748000/1748398.stm
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/ne ws id_1748000/1748398.stm
(Notice one is from the the Americas section, the other from the Europe section of BBC News.
I'm not a Neo-Nazi myself, I think they are idiots, but they have the right to their idiotic opinions. If they are not hurting anyone, or threatening anyone, they should be allowed to have their little "We're better then them!" fantasy. Why should Germany have any more right to the site www.bundesinnenministerium.com than the US government has to www.whitehouse.com?
Now, if you hate Neo-Nazis, you might want him to lose the site just because you hate him. But from a "jurisdiction and defamation via the web" perspective, he has the right to keep the domain.
I drove over the bridge (almost typed 'bride', that would change the story somewhat) between Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario a couple times one weekend. Showed drivers license, no problem. They did not ask to see my birth certificate.
[Geographic names spelled correctly thanks to Yahoo!Maps.]
Oh god, that has to be one of the stupidest movies I have ever seen. And not stupid in a funny way, like "Ice Pirates" with Robert Urich.
Stupid like in, "Jee boss, should we kill the lady now, with a large-bore hunting rifle, or string this pathetic story along with feeble attempts on her life that could be avoided by a drooling toddler who's looking for his pacifier?"
God, I'm laughing so hard it hurts behind my ears.
What muscle attaches there? Shit, i'm glad I work in an office of clueless idiots, noone even noticed the tears trailing down my face from laughing that hard.
They make enough to forget that they sold their souls for their salary. I wouldn't want that situation, I value my character too much. But remember, the corporate lawyers aren't the ones who rip off little old ladies. They only protect the ones who rip off little old ladies.
Have you ever shouted "FIRE" in a crowded theater? Or joked about having a bomb or gun while boarding an airplane?
The first might get you trampled, and would certainly get someone hurt. The second would now get the shit kicked out of you. (What the hell was that idiot thinking, trying to blow up his shoe? You could see from the photo of him, someone did beat the shit out of him.)
There are also laws against each of these examples of 'free speech'. If you survived the experience, you would be in jail for a while. The Supreme Court has upheld these laws, even though they fly in the face of the First Amendment. Of course, at one time the Supreme Court also said that escaped slaves had to be returned to their masters. (Dredd Scott vs. Sanford (1857).) So any decision may be overturned in the future when people of different viewpoints are on the Supreme Court.
You make a good point in number 2.
Everyone throws those two words around like they are the same, when they aren't. But even I can't keep them straight in my head.
From Dictionary.com:
Libel: A false publication, as in writing, print, signs, or pictures, that damages a person's reputation. (libel is from the same the same root as 'liber' or book, hence written.)
Slander: Law. Oral communication of false statements injurious to a person's reputation. (slander is from the same root as scandal, which at the time would cause more spoken gossip than written.)
Not that I don't want higher MHz in computers, but your argument is weak. Everyone knows that the Macs use a totally different processor structure than PCs. One is CISC and the other is RISC. So why try to say that Apple 'must' have a certain GHz processor before you will buy it?
By time the Macs have a 1.5GHz G5, Intel will have a 3GHz Pentium V. Then you won't want a Mac until they have at least a 2.5GHz processor.
If you want one, buy it. Otherwise don't. It's that simple. You didn't insist that a PC has a 1GHz processor before buying one did you?
The best feature isn't even mentioned on the Apple website. You apparently don't need a keyboard or mouse anymore. There must be a receiver built into the frame of the LCD that senses your brainwaves, and knows what you want to type, or click, or what alien you are aiming at.
Now that is so cool.
By the way, does the Superdrive mean they are re-evaluating their rejection of the floppy drive. Since Superdrives can read and write floppies, they have to support the format, even if there is not the actual hardware such as a floppy drive controller. Just wondering...
Yeah, those damn flapping things are all over the Capital these days. But what do you expect? They cost 0 to put out, they fly, they can take 2 damage, and with the right combination you can sacrifice them forever for mana. He who controls the ornithopters controls the country.
PS. Ever go to Ebay? There are a ton of Magic cards there. I just wish I had the extra cash to get that Acid Rain. But not this week. (And no this is not a plug, I am not a seller on Ebay, strictly a buyer and window-gazer.)
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Sure it can be beat easily. Just have everyone who goes thru it think of having wild sex with someone else waiting in line. That should bring a blush to most people's cheeks, just because that's one thing that happens when your brain starts to get ready for sex. When 80% of the people test positive, they will realize how useless the device is.
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Don't worry, we just figure that even just writing about your "White coat high blood pressure" makes you so nervous you can't type well. Fine motor skill is among the first to go when your mind is stumbling over itself.
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That's true. Unfortunately, my wife loves Jackie Chan, and thinks Chris Tucker is funny. We have both Rush Hour and RH2.
But actually, that line is kinda funny in the right context. My 5 year old daughter wasn't listening to me one day last week, just ignoring everything because she was watching cartoons or something. I was saying to wash her hands or brush her teeth or something, but she didn't even look over at me. So I asked her "Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?" My wife busted up laughing, and it actually got my daughter's attention away from the cartoon.
Not that I want to see RH3, but I know they'll make it, and I will have to watch it eventually.
Hell, as long as it doesn't have Martin Lawrence in it. Especially him and Will Smith together. Can't you just hear the theme song now...
Bad Tron, Bad Tron,
Whacha gonna do,
Whacha gonna do
When it comes for you,
Bad Tron, Bad Tron...
Well, after replying to the other two replies, I don't have as much time as I would like to give to this one. But, basically, from what I have read and seen, the Kyoto accord is flawed. To quote you, "Underdeveloped countries were given more points than most (relatively) because most of the currently successful economies had to go through some form of none-too environmentally friendly industrial revolution in order to generate the money to become developed."
So we are encouraging them to do the same earth-raping crap that the Europeans and Americans did. (And I assume you are European, based on your English skills.) Basically, the European industrial revolution was exported to every colony those countries had. And it ruined large areas of the Earth. So why would we want the places with the native people in charge to do the same thing? Most of the native tribe in the Americas, Africa, Australia, and Asia lived off the land, and respected the land. They never wanted to tear it up and poison it. That is strictly European, make money any way possible, and who cares about the consequences. And, yes that is where my family is from, Germany, Britain, Holland, immigrated to the US in the 1800's. Doesn't mean I'm going to gloss over how shabbily the industrialists treated the world. And I would hate to tell the less-greedy population to spoil their countries just so we feel better.
Two, yes gasoline is less expensive in the US than Europe, but that because we only pay $.50 tax on each gallon. Not $5.00. That is one of the differences in the cultures, European countries don't seem to mind paying 75% of their income to the government, while in the US we bitch about paying 35%.
And, saving the best for last, who says the US does the "most of the damage to the environment"? When the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica became big news in the late eighties or so, scientists started to check it out. Can you guess where the second worst spot in the ozone layer was? Directly over Europe. Not over the US. And to top it off, which country detonated an atomic bomb in the South Pacific a few years ago? Which two tested some a couple years ago? Again, not the US.
But really, I don't want to get into a shouting match over who's country is a bigger polluter. And I have already blamed the white race, no matter where they are in the world. Even though I am white. But the Kyoto accord just seems like an invention of those same industrialists to push their past crimes over into the unspoiled parts of the world. It's not an honest effort to clean up the world. It's a sham.
And my original idea is the only way to make any reasonable dent in the energy use and pollution released. Until there are under 4,000,000,000 people in the world again, we are going to use more energy and make more pollution that 4,000,000,000 people made.
On a side note, have you ever read the series "Bio of a Space Tyrant" by Piers Anthony? It is a great idea. After space travel is common, all the countries emmigrate to the other planets. I think he wrote that the Earth was left for "the Indians", but I don't know if he meant the people of India, or the Native peoples of North America. The concept is a good idea though. All the industrialists move away, and leave the Mother Planet for the people who want to take care of it and worship it. Native American tribes can have their buffalo herds and gallery of animal gods again. Celtic Druids can re-discover the wonders of Stonehenge. Indian mystics can meditate in the wilderness until their beards are ten feet long. (These examples come to mind from watching TV and movies, not from knowing personally what each group wants now or would have preferred then. Also, I mean no insult to these cultures. The more I learn about them, the more respect I have for them.) But they would have no modern appliances, medication, agriculture, or transportation. Basically, like the world was 1,000 years ago. Certainly less than 4,000,000,000 people.
That is what I would shoot for. Anything less is being short-sighted.
1. I hate Nsinc, and all that pop crap. I hated the pop crap in the late eighties and the nineties. The pop crap in the early to mid eighties was OK, Madona's early stuff, Prince was weird but OK, but mostly basic rock-n-roll like Heuy Lewis and Springsteen. But actually, I was raised on country, and in the eighties moved to the heavy metal of the time, Motely Crue, AC/DC, Quiet Riot, etc. So that is my music taste, not the cookie cutter boy bands, or the trampy, used-to-be-a-mouseketeer now-i-have-to-be-a-slut chicks.
And if you don't like the movie, don't watch it. That is my philosophy with this stuff. I don't watch TV shows I don't enjoy watching. I don't read books or magazines that I don't enjoy reading. I don't write 500 letters to every publisher, producer, director, author, telling them what to put in their next offering. I just don't watch it or read it or whatever. I change the channel, so to speak.
2. True, he finally figured out that memory thing, but that didn't deflate his ego. Going open-source would kill him. Again, good wish, not going to happen.
3. No. While I didn't lose money in Enron, I have just gotten a 401k plan thru work, and I asked the financial consultant about Enron. He gave the answer I posted, basically, don't put all you eggs in one basket. I can have sympathy with the people for losing their jobs AND their investment, but in actuality, their 401k plans were only a few years old at most (Enron started in the 90's). Most of them only lost $10,000 because they put in $500 before the stock price went from $5 to $100. So it's not like they lost their life savings. Only a couple years of interest and stock bubble. But they still shouldn't have put ALL their investment in ONE company.
4. Yes there are many sources of energy. But you have to pick your poison. Nuclear (sp?) is radioactive, with plenty of opponents. Solar requires huge arrays if it's to power a city, in a very sunny area like the desert, plenty of opponents to that. Hydro needs to have rivers dammed, with plenty of opponents. Space-based solar is damn scary, with plenty of opponents. Electric cars require several batteries, which have poisonous lead, and that has a lot of opponents. And to top it off, so much of these examples are only possible because of the petroleum-based materials used to make or maintain them.
So, while there are alternatives, there are opponents to each one. The easiest course is to stay with present technology, and suck all the oil out of the planet. I don't like that scenario any more than you, but that's what we are stuck with until many opponents get their head out of the sand and weigh each option. Let's hope we can find a better solution before we go back into the dark ages.
5. Mine was meant to be humorous too, just in a sick, twisted way. Besides, have you ever walked thru the 'old' videos sections of Blockbuster. There are so many t&a flicks it's funny. Can't help thinking, "Man, people actually still rent this stuff?" That is what came to mind when I read the Natalie Portman thing. And if I got a girlfriend, my wife would kill me. And I'm far from prudish, I just get tired of puberty-dependent wishes, after a couple hundred times of seeing the same thing. Maybe if I was a teen-ager again, I would appreciate it more, if I hadn't already seen the same type of thing a couple hundred times then as well.
Hi, No I'm not a control freak. I'm just tired of hearing 99% of the people here post the same thing: George Lucas can't do that, I won't watch any of his movies ever again if he does that, how dare he think of such a thing with MY favorite imaginary friends? They sound like control freaks. The first few times were expected, but every month there is another round of the same drivel. It got old real fast. And of course, there are more each time telling everyone to stop whining. So it's not like I'm the only one. But for me, yeah, yesterday was a bad day. Hell, it's been a bad month, so I had to vent. I'm done now.
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/. to turn into a cesspool of rants with no meaning, like so many newsgroups did. Thru no fault of my own, I stopped reading them because there were so many arguments, with no actual conversations. Just insults about each other's choice of operating system, processor, etc.
And come on, the original post explicitly stated the desire to see Natalie Portman naked. Which is another often repeated line. So I gave an alternative outlet for their adolescent urges. "Deep-seated psychological problems", well, maybe, I won't deny that, let me talk to my shrink and I'll get back to you.
And while it may be nice if George Lucas listened to fans, I wouldn't expect him to change scenes just because one group or another didn't like it.
Also, I personally liked Jar-jar, so did my then 3-year old daughter, so hearing everyone complaining about him scored no points with me.
Sincerely, (f that means anything on a faceless website) I want to say thanks for the conversation. Don't want
Response list for your wishes:
1. Why? Are you the producer or director? Is it your movie? What did you think of the lousy acting and annoying aliens in the original movie? Or have you only seen it on video, on a small TV screen with crappy sound?
2. Good wish. Not gonna happen.
3. Why? Clinton got impeached for lying under oath in a court deposition concerning sexual harassment. That would get any CEO or military officer thrown out, and possibly jailed. Bush and Cheney were involved in a business that failed. Big deal. Unfortunately, many people lost money, but that's life. Why did the employees put their entire 401(k) plan in Enron stock? That is the big question. Financial consultants all say never do that, ever. Ever. (In case you missed it.)
4. OK. You kill half the people in your state, I'll kill half the people in mine. That should lower our dependency on oil by 1%. Get real. We have a lot more people in the US now as opposed to 10 years ago. If you are referring to the Kyoto accord crap, it's not only ridiculous, it's designed to fail. Why else would it let undeveloped countries "sell" their greenie points to the developed countries, rather than insisting the developed countries actually reduce waste?
5. There is one. She's doing it doggy style with Jar-jar Binks.
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The person posted:"It's not as if they (N'Sync)were singing the theme song or something. If you don't like their music, grow up and deal with it."
I second that motion. I'm so tired of hearing everybody cry about why they hate Lucas and his ideas for HIS movies. And besides, why wouldn't everyone here want to see them killed by battle droids?
Wait, you mean I've been using the wrong term all this time? No, it can't be. I'm ruined as a computer consultant. My customers will all laugh at me now.
Damn you, send me your name, address, and phone number so my family of lawyers can contact you because I am going to sue you for costing me $4800 a day in lost wages. My cousins Larry, Moe, and Curley will be calling real soon, from my home phone.
Signed,
Bernard Shifman
Shifman Consulting
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Good riddance to you, dimwit. One less numbskull in my way when I watch the movies. And by the way, their first muppet was in the original movie. Did you ever see it? And Jar-jar wasn't a muppet, he was computer-generated.
"Because of Jar Jar Binks, I have not seen Phantom Menace, and don't intend to."
Jesus Christ, you people whine a lot. It's only a fricken movie. You have no financial stake in it. And it's not like you go to them because it will impress your friends. If you like the story, go see it, otherwise go see Scream 54, or some animated Disney softcore porn. Go beat off at home to one of those t&a flicks at Blockbuster. Just stop acting like George Lucas has to make the movie you always dreamed of, just because you may have seen a couple of his previous movies.
After reading a few other comments, and following one to World Net Daily, wdn.com, I think your statement needs to be re-shaped just a tad.
There can be no journalistic integrity as long as journalism is a for-ANYTHING institution.
The above-mentioned World Net Daily, while touted as "the most honest news portal" by someone, was so obviously pro-Isreal, anti-Arab, that I can't take any of it seriously. Even one 'news story' that told the 'Arab side' made the Arabs seem to be Neo-Nazis, enticing Americans to kill all Jewish people, with two separate statements to that effect. It is one thing to air your personal views on a website, but to call it news is a mistake.
Undoubtedly there are dozens of websites that also purport to be news sites that are anti-Isreal, pro-Arab, pro-Christian, anti-Christian, pro-Feminist, pro-Arayan, pro-African, anti-Business, anti-Gay, pro-This and anti-That. Their bias may be evident, or they may hide it, but they all give only one side of a story. I would rather be able to get the full story, with opposing view-points and arguments, on one page. But that seems impossible, even on the Internet.
to quote GreyPoopon:
"they *can* ask to see your birth certificate...", but "it would be *way* too time consuming...."
Yeah, very much so. I would have been standing there, at a pay phone in canada calling my mom.
"Mom, can you find my birth certificate and drive up to Sault Ste. Marie with it? No mom, really. I know you are sewing my sister's wedding gown, but I need you to do this. No, wait, have my brother drive it up here. That should cut the wait time in half. Thanks mom. I love you. Bu-bye. Oh, and mom, bring yours too, just in case."
Here's one for the record.
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Gary Lauck is a Neo-Nazi who has been convicted and jailed in Germany for distributing Neo-Nazi stuff from his home in Nebraska. He was arrested while in Denmark, and extradicted to Germany for the trial and prison term. So, for sending information from his home in one country to friends in a second country, he was arrested while visiting a third country. His actions included mailing pamphlets, as well as hosting a web site and sending email.
Now the German government wants to take a web page from him. The domain is www.bundesinnenministerium.com , which translates to Federal Interior Ministry.
There are two stories about it in the BBC's web page, here are the addresses.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas
and
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/n
(Notice one is from the the Americas section, the other from the Europe section of BBC News.
I'm not a Neo-Nazi myself, I think they are idiots, but they have the right to their idiotic opinions. If they are not hurting anyone, or threatening anyone, they should be allowed to have their little "We're better then them!" fantasy. Why should Germany have any more right to the site www.bundesinnenministerium.com than the US government has to www.whitehouse.com?
Now, if you hate Neo-Nazis, you might want him to lose the site just because you hate him. But from a "jurisdiction and defamation via the web" perspective, he has the right to keep the domain.
I drove over the bridge (almost typed 'bride', that would change the story somewhat) between Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario a couple times one weekend. Showed drivers license, no problem. They did not ask to see my birth certificate.
[Geographic names spelled correctly thanks to Yahoo!Maps.]
Oh god, that has to be one of the stupidest movies I have ever seen. And not stupid in a funny way, like "Ice Pirates" with Robert Urich.
Stupid like in, "Jee boss, should we kill the lady now, with a large-bore hunting rifle, or string this pathetic story along with feeble attempts on her life that could be avoided by a drooling toddler who's looking for his pacifier?"
God, I'm laughing so hard it hurts behind my ears.
What muscle attaches there? Shit, i'm glad I work in an office of clueless idiots, noone even noticed the tears trailing down my face from laughing that hard.
Oh, the memories...
They make enough to forget that they sold their souls for their salary. I wouldn't want that situation, I value my character too much. But remember, the corporate lawyers aren't the ones who rip off little old ladies. They only protect the ones who rip off little old ladies.
Have you ever shouted "FIRE" in a crowded theater? Or joked about having a bomb or gun while boarding an airplane?
The first might get you trampled, and would certainly get someone hurt. The second would now get the shit kicked out of you. (What the hell was that idiot thinking, trying to blow up his shoe? You could see from the photo of him, someone did beat the shit out of him.)
There are also laws against each of these examples of 'free speech'. If you survived the experience, you would be in jail for a while. The Supreme Court has upheld these laws, even though they fly in the face of the First Amendment. Of course, at one time the Supreme Court also said that escaped slaves had to be returned to their masters. (Dredd Scott vs. Sanford (1857).) So any decision may be overturned in the future when people of different viewpoints are on the Supreme Court.
You make a good point in number 2.
Everyone throws those two words around like they are the same, when they aren't. But even I can't keep them straight in my head.
From Dictionary.com:
Libel: A false publication, as in writing, print, signs, or pictures, that damages a person's reputation. (libel is from the same the same root as 'liber' or book, hence written.)
Slander: Law. Oral communication of false statements injurious to a person's reputation. (slander is from the same root as scandal, which at the time would cause more spoken gossip than written.)
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
And I'm not karma whoring, I just love etymology. And it can be either "libeling" or "libelling", according to the above listing.
Neither can my wife. That's why she has glasses. If she's too stubborn to wear them, that's her choice.
Sounds like Grandma might need a new pair too.
And by the way, can WebTV print stuff out? I have never seen anyone use it before, so I don't know if they worked out that minor problem.
Not that I don't want higher MHz in computers, but your argument is weak. Everyone knows that the Macs use a totally different processor structure than PCs. One is CISC and the other is RISC. So why try to say that Apple 'must' have a certain GHz processor before you will buy it?
By time the Macs have a 1.5GHz G5, Intel will have a 3GHz Pentium V. Then you won't want a Mac until they have at least a 2.5GHz processor.
If you want one, buy it. Otherwise don't. It's that simple. You didn't insist that a PC has a 1GHz processor before buying one did you?
My mistake, I thought that was the SuperDisk. This Superdrive is apparently a CD and DVD burner. Oops.
I guess I should have stayed with my main topic.
The best feature isn't even mentioned on the Apple website. You apparently don't need a keyboard or mouse anymore. There must be a receiver built into the frame of the LCD that senses your brainwaves, and knows what you want to type, or click, or what alien you are aiming at.
Now that is so cool.
By the way, does the Superdrive mean they are re-evaluating their rejection of the floppy drive. Since Superdrives can read and write floppies, they have to support the format, even if there is not the actual hardware such as a floppy drive controller. Just wondering...
Yeah, those damn flapping things are all over the Capital these days. But what do you expect? They cost 0 to put out, they fly, they can take 2 damage, and with the right combination you can sacrifice them forever for mana. He who controls the ornithopters controls the country.
PS. Ever go to Ebay? There are a ton of Magic cards there. I just wish I had the extra cash to get that Acid Rain. But not this week. (And no this is not a plug, I am not a seller on Ebay, strictly a buyer and window-gazer.)
Sure it can be beat easily. Just have everyone who goes thru it think of having wild sex with someone else waiting in line. That should bring a blush to most people's cheeks, just because that's one thing that happens when your brain starts to get ready for sex. When 80% of the people test positive, they will realize how useless the device is.
Don't worry, we just figure that even just writing about your "White coat high blood pressure" makes you so nervous you can't type well. Fine motor skill is among the first to go when your mind is stumbling over itself.