I mean shots of just the New Zealnd scenery, like some of Rohan, require no VFX.
I seem to remember PJ being interviewed during the lead-up to FOTR, in which he explained that pretty much every shot in the movies would be altered anyway to ensure that the colour saturation is even throughout the three movies, mostly because the colours of the backgrounds had been altered to make Middle Earth feel different to our world by making the colours a fair bit darker and richer than those you can see around you. I wouldn't be suprised if no scene remained untouched by the colour adjustments. Just like how they used technicolor to add colour to old movies, but on steroids.
Well, In Australia we do pay a per message fee already. What a few people may not be aware of, however, is that (In my experience, anyway) all of the SMS spam I have received has been to advertise services by the service provider themselves, and I reckon it's safe to say that they don't pay per message. I for one am sick of getting "did you know vodafone blah blah blah" SMS messages on my phone.
Yep, in the same way they banned speeding and reckless driving on our roads so now nobody does it. It will just mean (continuing the road analogy), that like speeding, you just hold off that sort of behaviour until you are off the main/policed "highway".
CodeReadVII won't use the 'StealyourTVandStereo' exploit, it will simply reprogram your TV so that it only picks up bad copies of other 'reality' shows and your radio only pick up 'boy-bands'.
ahhhh.... the infamous clearchannel exploit. My goodness, I hope that gets patched soon...
Three is a magic number.
Yes it is, it's a magic number.
Somewhere in the ancient, mystic trinity
You get three as a magic number.
The past and the present and the future,
Faith and hope and charity,
The heart and the brain and the body
Give you three.
That's a magic number.
It takes three legs to make a tripod or to make a table stand.
It takes three wheels to make a vehicle called a tricycle.
Every triangle has three corners,
Every triangle has three sides,
No more, no less,
You don't have to guess,
When it's three you can see it's a magic number.
A man and a woman had a little baby
Yes, they did,
They had three in the family.
That's a magic number.
Then it's into the three times tables. Man, you are sooo right. I'm 27 and hadn't even THOUGHT about that old Bob Dorough song from Schoolhouse Rock song since I was a kid, and I reckon I still know it pretty well. It's amazing what you can learn/remember with the right combination of education and entertainment. I've gotta go find my old cassette of this now, you lovely bastard! Thanks!
Ahhh, but the operative phrase in your sentence is free time. This conversation is not so much about hobby musicians who end up making a buck on the side of their 9-5 job, I'm talking specifically about full-time, professional musicians. What did he do to feed his kids and pay his rent while he was getting together tunes for mp3.com? I'd imagine the same as the rest of the world, he held down a job. ONLY when the income generated from his music surpassed that of his normal job would he have become a full time composer/musician, i'm sure. I mean, my girlfriend paints in her spare time and has actually sold a couple of her paintings, yet nobody, especially her, would call her a full-time professional artist. There is a big difference.
Same with me, too. We signed up to Telstra pretty early in the piece, and as our prices got higher and higher, we considered pulling out but there really weren't any decent alternatives. Then they introduced the 3 gig cap, so goodbye Telstra. Now I just keep 56k on at home, and do any serious leeching at work (or the old fashioned sneakernet with richer friends). I wonder how many other aussies are doing the same thing as me, holding of hooking broadband back up until there is some semblance of service and/or decent pricing. On an unrelated note, when Telstra came around to do the install, the guy dropped his drill through the roof in the office (after drilling directly through the middle of a support beam in the roof for the cable, and breaking off the door jam with his 2000 ft steel ladder) leaving a basketball sized hole in our roof. 18 months later, and Telstra is STILL jerking us around over the repair for the job, because they claim it is their contractor's responsibilty to fix, while the contractor claims it was work done on Telstra's behalf, so he isn't doing a thing until he gets directions from the big T. Their customer service is about as painless as scrubbing your arse with steel wool, and about as beneficial. When our cable connection dropped out once, I made the mistake of telling them my box was Linux, and they refused to do a thing to help me until I'd installed Windows because according to them, Linux is not popular enough to justify supporting. When I mentioned that I would bet that most of the servers using their network would run something other than Windows, the customer service guy (outsourced to india, of course) called me a smartarse and hung up on me. Fuckwits. I'm sure EVERY Australian has a MILLION horror stories about Telstra.
Shit... I hope not. I don't want to have to buy two models. (I like to swap hands occasionally so it feels like somebody else, because as you know, a change is as good as a holiday!)
Sorry dude, Bond and Largo was playing Total World Domination. You've gotten mixed up with the Global Thermonuclear War game Mathew Broderick plays against JOSHUA in War Games.
Um.. when I was a little kid at school they used to call it running-writing. You know, the writing where all the letters join up. Check out a letter from your grandma:P
Please cite where I stated that "vegetarians are superior to non-vegetarians".
You didn't and we both know that. What pissed me off is they way you imply that the rest of the world are uneducated morons who do what they are told without question, while you are some far too intelligent to behave like the rest of us. And in fact, it is up to you to "educate" the poor unwashed masses of the error of their ways.
I, in fact, know quite a lot. How? Because I've got evidence, unlike you who resides to ad hominem
Yes, well, I remain unconvinced about a lot of the so-called evidence that is touted by groups with their own interest at heart. It's like the tabacoo industry saying there is nothing wrong with smoking. It's hard to take seriously the arguments put forward by groups who have their own agenda. Also, what makes you think I have absolutely no knowledge on the subject myself? Making blind assumptions about me does not strengthen your arguments.
Perhaps you'd like to know that Einstein, da Vinci and many others famous people were vegetarians (search on google). Most people would hardly agree that they were hipocrits.
We aren't talking about them (nice deflection) we are talking about you, and my point remains. Do what you like in life, just don't feel obliged to grace us with your wisdom regarding your own lifestyle choice. You know, many famous people were also drug users, or spouse abusers, so is that also prove some kind of point about the validity of your (or their) lifestyle choice?
This is typical arrogance and ignorance. You won't believe how many people I've known like you.
THIS is exactly my point. You don't know shit about me, yet not only do you make a personal attack about my intelligence (again, I must not be as smart as you because I disagree), but you go on to compare me (a person you know nothing about) to some arbitrary group so as to (again) divert attention away from the point I was making, which is KEEP IT TO YOURSELF. I don't disagree with vegetarianism, and as a matter of fact I do agree with the validity of some of the arguments put forward supprting a vegetable-based diet. What rubs me is the way you made your point. It wasn't the message, it was the delivery.
I bet if most of them knew what is REALLY inside their meat they purchase at the grocery store, they would probably puke on the spot.
Now I KNOW I've been baited by your troll, but this is the sort of bullshit rhetoric that reinforces other's opinions of vegetarians thinking they are superior to everyone else. What do YOU know that others don't simply because they are meat eaters? Absolutely nothing? I thought so. Do they give you some sort of book when you join PETA that fills you in on the secrets of the omnivore infidels that others are not privvy to?
I am simply trying to "educate" the hapless individuals who know abosolutely no facts about what they're talking about.
Here's a suggestion for you, keep that shit to yourself, and worry about all the hypocritical shit you are doing. Don't worry about me and what my friends are doing, because (contrary to what your ego may tell you) we do not give a flying fuck what you think. You wanna limit your diet to vegetables that have been genetically modified and then marinated in a pesticide stew, be my guest. But don't play all high and mighty because you disagree with a lifestyle choice made by others, because believe me, that's all you're doing. When other groups campaign against a lifestyle choice they disagree with they are painted as racist or sexist, militant vegetarians are just lucky their "cause" is socially acceptable right now in exactly the same way hating negroes or gays has been accepted in the past. See where this is going? You look after yourself, and give others the courtesy or respect to do the same.
I agree completely. That's why I feel that all the current economic systems of the big labels are now obselete, or soon to be. Remember, I was advocating free music, but at the artist's choice, not that of the marketeers or the public.;o) I said nothing of DRM, except that it can only hurt the proliferation of good, free music.
That's a pretty fantastic ideal. I mean, that's a fantasy. Explain to me how you buy instruments, pay for rehearsal space, organise gigs, print flyers, print t-shirts, print CD's, record CD's, master CD's, produce CD's, etc. without cash? Thought not. How do you feed your family while your rehearsing? How do you pay rent? And if you subsidise this effort with a job, where do you get time for the above? Do you think music is as easy to create as throwaway comments? I don't want to be argumentative, but obviously you have absolutely no experience whatsoever with any kind of music scene on this planet.
Thanks, bro. I just got back from camping at Flinders Beach and missed a bit of a flame war;o) I play guitar and bass, but in this band it's guitar and production for me. It's hard, you know? To believe in free speech (as in free beer,hehe) and try and feed your family on it. I'm not down for restriction in any sense, but fuck. Where do you draw the line? I believe is it's the band's decision. Release what you like for free, sell the rest. And try to think your fans won't rape you too hard.;o)
Yes, good point. I do understand this, but then again, Isn't that the point of this whole "fair use" argument? If DRM is brought in and incorporates enough leeway for good 'ol average Joe to burn compilation CD's for his car or transfer.oggs to his portable player, I don't see it having the impact that others fear. I know i'm playing devil's advocate on this one;o) but I guess (as a musician myself) that a line has to be toed in the sand somewhere, or else any form of media becomes intrinsically worthless. Frankly, I would hate to see any form of rights management, but unfortunately (and I know this'll cost me a bit of karma) it seems that a lot of people do want something for nothing, and when it costs me money from my own pocket to record and release a CD free of DRM (check out my link above, heh) to the public only to have it traded freely, it can only make it harder for struggling musicians. I guess what i'm saying is I don't agree with mp3 trading on the net, but I do believe **AA has no right to fuck with products in order to prevent it. Boy, how hypocritical is that? Well, not too much really, but obviously a trust based system won't work. What we don't have, however, is reasonable alternatives.
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I seem to remember PJ being interviewed during the lead-up to FOTR, in which he explained that pretty much every shot in the movies would be altered anyway to ensure that the colour saturation is even throughout the three movies, mostly because the colours of the backgrounds had been altered to make Middle Earth feel different to our world by making the colours a fair bit darker and richer than those you can see around you. I wouldn't be suprised if no scene remained untouched by the colour adjustments. Just like how they used technicolor to add colour to old movies, but on steroids.
Ahhh, but ALL my SMS junk messages in Australia come from vodafone themselves.
Well, In Australia we do pay a per message fee already. What a few people may not be aware of, however, is that (In my experience, anyway) all of the SMS spam I have received has been to advertise services by the service provider themselves, and I reckon it's safe to say that they don't pay per message. I for one am sick of getting "did you know vodafone blah blah blah" SMS messages on my phone.
In my mirror universe i'm clean shaven and... um... ruthful?
Your girlfriend makes you watch Buffy too?
Yep, in the same way they banned speeding and reckless driving on our roads so now nobody does it. It will just mean (continuing the road analogy), that like speeding, you just hold off that sort of behaviour until you are off the main/policed "highway".
ahhhh.... the infamous clearchannel exploit. My goodness, I hope that gets patched soon...
Three is a magic number.
Yes it is, it's a magic number.
Somewhere in the ancient, mystic trinity
You get three as a magic number.
The past and the present and the future,
Faith and hope and charity,
The heart and the brain and the body
Give you three.
That's a magic number.
It takes three legs to make a tripod or to make a table stand.
It takes three wheels to make a vehicle called a tricycle.
Every triangle has three corners,
Every triangle has three sides,
No more, no less,
You don't have to guess,
When it's three you can see it's a magic number.
A man and a woman had a little baby
Yes, they did,
They had three in the family.
That's a magic number.
Then it's into the three times tables. Man, you are sooo right. I'm 27 and hadn't even THOUGHT about that old Bob Dorough song from Schoolhouse Rock song since I was a kid, and I reckon I still know it pretty well. It's amazing what you can learn/remember with the right combination of education and entertainment. I've gotta go find my old cassette of this now, you lovely bastard! Thanks!
Ahhh, but the operative phrase in your sentence is free time. This conversation is not so much about hobby musicians who end up making a buck on the side of their 9-5 job, I'm talking specifically about full-time, professional musicians. What did he do to feed his kids and pay his rent while he was getting together tunes for mp3.com? I'd imagine the same as the rest of the world, he held down a job. ONLY when the income generated from his music surpassed that of his normal job would he have become a full time composer/musician, i'm sure. I mean, my girlfriend paints in her spare time and has actually sold a couple of her paintings, yet nobody, especially her, would call her a full-time professional artist. There is a big difference.
Same with me, too. We signed up to Telstra pretty early in the piece, and as our prices got higher and higher, we considered pulling out but there really weren't any decent alternatives. Then they introduced the 3 gig cap, so goodbye Telstra. Now I just keep 56k on at home, and do any serious leeching at work (or the old fashioned sneakernet with richer friends). I wonder how many other aussies are doing the same thing as me, holding of hooking broadband back up until there is some semblance of service and/or decent pricing. On an unrelated note, when Telstra came around to do the install, the guy dropped his drill through the roof in the office (after drilling directly through the middle of a support beam in the roof for the cable, and breaking off the door jam with his 2000 ft steel ladder) leaving a basketball sized hole in our roof. 18 months later, and Telstra is STILL jerking us around over the repair for the job, because they claim it is their contractor's responsibilty to fix, while the contractor claims it was work done on Telstra's behalf, so he isn't doing a thing until he gets directions from the big T. Their customer service is about as painless as scrubbing your arse with steel wool, and about as beneficial. When our cable connection dropped out once, I made the mistake of telling them my box was Linux, and they refused to do a thing to help me until I'd installed Windows because according to them, Linux is not popular enough to justify supporting. When I mentioned that I would bet that most of the servers using their network would run something other than Windows, the customer service guy (outsourced to india, of course) called me a smartarse and hung up on me. Fuckwits. I'm sure EVERY Australian has a MILLION horror stories about Telstra.
Then how the hell do you hitchhike?
Shit... I hope not. I don't want to have to buy two models. (I like to swap hands occasionally so it feels like somebody else, because as you know, a change is as good as a holiday!)
Sorry dude, Bond and Largo was playing Total World Domination. You've gotten mixed up with the Global Thermonuclear War game Mathew Broderick plays against JOSHUA in War Games.
I guess that makes holding the damn thing more bearable!
Don't waste your breath here, buddy. When most of these guys hear the word LOVE they start thinking about little boys.
Um.. when I was a little kid at school they used to call it running-writing. You know, the writing where all the letters join up. Check out a letter from your grandma :P
You didn't and we both know that. What pissed me off is they way you imply that the rest of the world are uneducated morons who do what they are told without question, while you are some far too intelligent to behave like the rest of us. And in fact, it is up to you to "educate" the poor unwashed masses of the error of their ways.
I, in fact, know quite a lot. How? Because I've got evidence, unlike you who resides to ad hominem
Yes, well, I remain unconvinced about a lot of the so-called evidence that is touted by groups with their own interest at heart. It's like the tabacoo industry saying there is nothing wrong with smoking. It's hard to take seriously the arguments put forward by groups who have their own agenda. Also, what makes you think I have absolutely no knowledge on the subject myself? Making blind assumptions about me does not strengthen your arguments.
Perhaps you'd like to know that Einstein, da Vinci and many others famous people were vegetarians (search on google). Most people would hardly agree that they were hipocrits.
We aren't talking about them (nice deflection) we are talking about you, and my point remains. Do what you like in life, just don't feel obliged to grace us with your wisdom regarding your own lifestyle choice. You know, many famous people were also drug users, or spouse abusers, so is that also prove some kind of point about the validity of your (or their) lifestyle choice?
This is typical arrogance and ignorance. You won't believe how many people I've known like you.
THIS is exactly my point. You don't know shit about me, yet not only do you make a personal attack about my intelligence (again, I must not be as smart as you because I disagree), but you go on to compare me (a person you know nothing about) to some arbitrary group so as to (again) divert attention away from the point I was making, which is KEEP IT TO YOURSELF. I don't disagree with vegetarianism, and as a matter of fact I do agree with the validity of some of the arguments put forward supprting a vegetable-based diet. What rubs me is the way you made your point. It wasn't the message, it was the delivery.
Now I KNOW I've been baited by your troll, but this is the sort of bullshit rhetoric that reinforces other's opinions of vegetarians thinking they are superior to everyone else. What do YOU know that others don't simply because they are meat eaters? Absolutely nothing? I thought so. Do they give you some sort of book when you join PETA that fills you in on the secrets of the omnivore infidels that others are not privvy to?
I am simply trying to "educate" the hapless individuals who know abosolutely no facts about what they're talking about.
Here's a suggestion for you, keep that shit to yourself, and worry about all the hypocritical shit you are doing. Don't worry about me and what my friends are doing, because (contrary to what your ego may tell you) we do not give a flying fuck what you think. You wanna limit your diet to vegetables that have been genetically modified and then marinated in a pesticide stew, be my guest. But don't play all high and mighty because you disagree with a lifestyle choice made by others, because believe me, that's all you're doing. When other groups campaign against a lifestyle choice they disagree with they are painted as racist or sexist, militant vegetarians are just lucky their "cause" is socially acceptable right now in exactly the same way hating negroes or gays has been accepted in the past. See where this is going? You look after yourself, and give others the courtesy or respect to do the same.
Can you see that I am serious?
Geez, I hope that percentage wasn't calculated from the testimony of 100 people. That scares me in the sam way as the "2.5 children" statistic does.
Yeah, that's just what you want. A class action launched against you by a whole gaggle of drunken sluts.
I agree completely. That's why I feel that all the current economic systems of the big labels are now obselete, or soon to be. Remember, I was advocating free music, but at the artist's choice, not that of the marketeers or the public. ;o) I said nothing of DRM, except that it can only hurt the proliferation of good, free music.
That's a pretty fantastic ideal. I mean, that's a fantasy. Explain to me how you buy instruments, pay for rehearsal space, organise gigs, print flyers, print t-shirts, print CD's, record CD's, master CD's, produce CD's, etc. without cash? Thought not. How do you feed your family while your rehearsing? How do you pay rent? And if you subsidise this effort with a job, where do you get time for the above? Do you think music is as easy to create as throwaway comments? I don't want to be argumentative, but obviously you have absolutely no experience whatsoever with any kind of music scene on this planet.
Thanks, bro. I just got back from camping at Flinders Beach and missed a bit of a flame war ;o) I play guitar and bass, but in this band it's guitar and production for me. It's hard, you know? To believe in free speech (as in free beer,hehe) and try and feed your family on it. I'm not down for restriction in any sense, but fuck. Where do you draw the line? I believe is it's the band's decision. Release what you like for free, sell the rest. And try to think your fans won't rape you too hard. ;o)
Yes, good point. I do understand this, but then again, Isn't that the point of this whole "fair use" argument? If DRM is brought in and incorporates enough leeway for good 'ol average Joe to burn compilation CD's for his car or transfer .oggs to his portable player, I don't see it having the impact that others fear. I know i'm playing devil's advocate on this one ;o) but I guess (as a musician myself) that a line has to be toed in the sand somewhere, or else any form of media becomes intrinsically worthless. Frankly, I would hate to see any form of rights management, but unfortunately (and I know this'll cost me a bit of karma) it seems that a lot of people do want something for nothing, and when it costs me money from my own pocket to record and release a CD free of DRM (check out my link above, heh) to the public only to have it traded freely, it can only make it harder for struggling musicians. I guess what i'm saying is I don't agree with mp3 trading on the net, but I do believe **AA has no right to fuck with products in order to prevent it. Boy, how hypocritical is that? Well, not too much really, but obviously a trust based system won't work. What we don't have, however, is reasonable alternatives.