No, except that there is plenty of evidence in existing films.
We're talking about George "Greedo shot first" Lucas.
I do remember being the precocious and annoying three-year-old who read "Episode IV"
I was about 19. But as I remember, the "Part IV" was added shortly after the first release, perhaps when Lucas got some clout with its success. But I could be wrong. The web doesn't go back to that era, the facts are hard to come by.
>"Facts" aren't the issue. Oh, okay... I thought you were saying that "if you've got these people [Microsoft] making a WORLD MAP, they damn well should be [knowledgeable about the facts]."
I did. Perhaps I should have said "The simple geographical facts are not the only issue". Meaning that the facts a mapmaker has to take into consideration are not just geographic, but political, when it comes to national boundaries. I've been involved in this with a Chinese map, for instance, that laid claim to almost the whole South China Sea, ignoring claims from several other regional countries.
I watched Star Wars. In 1977. Haven't seen any of the sequels, or what Lucas seems to be calling 'Prequels.' I feel it would spoil the memory of the original.
I saw it then, before it was "Part IV". The two sequels I thought boring, the first prequel I saw on DVD, the second I watched half. The original Star Wars had energy, good dialogue and decent acting. The whole concept wasn't original, but didn't pretend to be. It just went downhill from there. Basically, when Luke was the hero it worked. (Though no one could say Hamill was a great actor.) Han as hero was okay, but not very inspiring, after that Vader as hero is just absurd.
Everyone knows: sequels suck. It's news when they don't.
So now Slashdot is outsourcing its dupes to India?
And I loved the summary NubKnacker writes "Economic Times, one of India's biggest business daily's is carrying a story
Obviously the "editors" are stoned, or does anyone else think the plural of "daily" is "daily's"?
Second, perhaps one might suspect that am INDIAN newspaper carrying a story about an event in GLASGOW might not be the primary source and unlikely to be the first chronologically?
Where can I get a job like this where you can fuck up on a daily basis and still collect a fat paypacket?
Did you actually see "We Were Soldiers?" That was a powerful anti-war film. While the soldiers were clearly patriotic, it could not have been more clear how much pain and suffering results from sending our troops into battle.
Of course I saw it. The pain and suffering depicted was purely American, all caused by the evil Vietcong (who were actually defending their homeland from foreign invaders). The American soldiers were all heroic. It was a fantasy.
>If you've got these people making a WORLD MAP, they damn well should be.
It's not like the map was factually incorrect
"Facts" aren't the issue. I've got a map of Asia showing Pyongyang as the capital of Korea (no North or South), printed in China, and also shows China owning all the South China Seas. This isn't getting a Jeopardy question wrong, this is making a prodict you're going to sell to the people who live there. Anyone who even looks at a decent atlas will see small print trying to be non-committal about these disputed borders. Pakistan and India have had two wars over Kashmir. If you're making a map of that part of the world you should know you're walking on eggshells.
Oh please. Don't read more into the statement then was meant. No matter how big your company is, you are going to be hard pressed to have a group people who together, are knowledgable about the entire world.
If you've got these people making a WORLD MAP, they damn well should be.
Some rednecks modded my post, repeated below, as "troll". The post I objected to and quoted, was "funny" and "insightful". At least they're consistently bigoted. Feel free to mod this down too.
The French would be the first to admit they have a stereotype as snobs or rude people. Just like Americans have the culturally- insensitive ignorant stereotype... the New Zealanders love rugby and watch their sheep, the Aussies love sheep and watch their rugby, and the Brits say "Wot wot" and have tea and crumpets while watching Coro Street.
Fuck off idiot and all those Americans who modded this racist shit up.
Racist? I didn't know "french" was a race. Or "austrialian" was a race. Or "new zealander" or "american". Perhaps you meant "...modded this nationalist shit up"?
I have to wonder if this is not a more important victory for the terrorists than 9/11 itself.
Isn't that what they always dreamed of, making american lives a real pain ? Destroying the "American Way of Life" and all that ? Making american citizens misable ?
Americans think the whole world revolves around them. The overriding reason Muslim extremists attack America is because of their interference in the Middle East. They could not care less about your inconvenience when catching a plane. Do you see them bombing Western countries that do not have a high involvement in the Middle East?
This reminds me of the responses of American commentators after the WTC attack like "They hate us because we're free". "They" don't care how free you are. They do care that you support Israel and the Saudi royals, and now of course have invaded and occupied two Muslim countries. As Clinton said in his campaign "It's the economy, stupid". He knew that Americans just don't care about anything that doesn't affect them personally and directly.
Of course Americans are not unique in self-centredness, but they are in their insistence on pretending that it isn't their motive in most foreign policy, then being surprised when their altruism is questioned.
The French would be the first to admit they have a stereotype as snobs or rude people. Just like Americans have the culturally-insensitive ignorant stereotype... the New Zealanders love rugby and watch their sheep, the Aussies love sheep and watch their rugby, and the Brits say "Wot wot" and have tea and crumpets while watching Coro Street.
Fuck off idiot and all those Americans who modded this racist shit up.
Get serious. He'd make a movie about the idiocy of airport security and revel in how he had to jump a freight train like a hobo to get to his latest film award ceremony.
I don't know if I'd say We Were Soldiers is a flag waving movie. It was more of a movie showing the courage and dedication of those trained to defend our way of life,
Yes. Exactly. Except Vietnam was not about "defending [your] way of life". It was about defending the incredibly corrupt Saigon govenrment against revolution. Not that the Vietnamese communists were saints at all, but protecting foreign people against oppression has never been an American priority. By reducing a war or even a battle to individual acts of (American, exclusively) heroism, it delivers the message that American soldoers = American people == good, foreigners == evil. That was about the most simple minded war movie I've seen since John Wayne humg up his green beret.
well, I would go to the Olympics, but I can't wear my Adidas shirt...maybe in 4 years..."? Come on.
I've never understood why people would actually pay money to make themselves into a corporate billboard. And I dislike that you can't buy athletic shoes at all without a big logo on it.
They're trying to protect their sponsors, just like the free web providers do by not allowing you to show your own banner ads.
I did RTFA, and I don't have a problem with the venues selling Coke and not Pepsi. I do have a problem that they banned coffee because that might cut into the Coke sales too.
As for the banner ads analogy, it's not like the sponsors are paying the entire cost, or even a large part. Spectators have to buy tickets (as well as the Coke-brand drinks if they don't want to die from thirst), and the governments, most particularly the Greek's, spent bilions of tax dollars to support this.
>Plus, IMHO, its harder to forge a non-digital passport. Thats a real skill. You can't walk into Radioshack, buy $70 worth of equipment, come back home and start playing with the RFIDs on the passport if its digital and all.
This is a typical techie answer, but i know some people who work in printing that will have opposite views on this.
Every technology can be hacked.
The difference is that when a digital technology is cracked, it takes no time at all before the method is known by all the black hats, who can all spend their $70 and start forging passports immediately. Doing the same in printing requires a lot of skill and experience, and access to special papers, inks and presses. (Digital printing won't fool anyone with a smudgin of training.)
In fact, I see the contactless London Underground ticket machines causing more trouble than the magnetic stripe readers. When one magstripe machine breaks, there's plenty of others to go through, or a guard who can quickly read a timestamp and wave people through.
In Hong Kong we've been using contactless tickets for several years on the subways. The readers can't be very expensive, as they've spread not only to buses and trams, but can also bne used at point of sale at 7-eleven shops. The magstripe ones are almost phased out, only used by a few people who prefer to buy single-ride tickets.
Note -- there is no tracking involved, the cards are anonymous and you can top them up with cash in a machine.
or they both break (probably needs a server link), and then you're screwed because there's no way of working out if your ticket is valid./i>
In HK, each station has at least one window you can ask to have a card replaced if it doesn't work, or buy a new one, or top them up. Ther are also machines you can place your card on to check it, it tells yo how much credit you have and the last transaction. Sounds like the LU has not really implemented this well.
I used conservative/libertarian interchangable when talking about hollywood because everything is pretty much straight up liberal/socialist coming out of that neck of the woods.
Give me a break, For every Michael Moore there's a thousand flag-waving "My Country Right or Wrong" types making stuff like Pearl Harbor, We Were Soldiers, etc ad nauseaum.
In the FA: pilots will train for war in Matrix-like rooms
Right. They'll have sockets embedded in their heads to jack in, and if they get killed in the sim, they really die. And the whole system is powered by their bodily heat.
Create a legal penalty for spamming, and the spammers will just go overseas
Spammers ultimately want you to give them money. Assuming the govt actually wanted to enforce the laws, you would pass the email to the FBI, they follow the instructions and attempt to buy their product. Once they've accepted a credit card number, they are identified. Even if they can't be prosecuted, due to being overseas (though the majority of spammers are American residents, and I doubt many have the will or resources to emigrate) the credit card companies can cancel their merchant accounts (which are not all that easy to get) and do chargebacks. Actually, if there were real penalties, the credit card companies would be gatekeepers. Then spammers would resort to "fold a dollar bill in brown paper and mail to... which would open them up to mail fraud. really, it's easy if, and only if, the government wanted to.
while there are other advertiser communications that we invite into our lives when we go through the Sunday Newspaper
The advertisers in the Sunday newspape are subsidising my purchase. Spammers are costing my ISP money, and eventually I'm going to pay for that.
Wording a rule set so that spam gets shut down but ads we want to see is quite a tough task
Trivial. Don't send any ads unless solicited/opt-ed in. Some fine aof a few dollars a mesage to make it stick, and give enforcemt authorities an income. Totally illegal to send such from a bogus or forged address.
I guess you're just playing Devil's Adviocate to get modded "interesting".
Why would they patent something which has been around for years in the competition's OS? There's no way they can actually patent sudo...not on my watch.
Mod down all those twats who beg for Gmail accounts in every story mentioning them; and also those showoffs offering them. Everybody will havwe a Gmail account in a couple of months.
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We're talking about George "Greedo shot first" Lucas.
I do remember being the precocious and annoying three-year-old who read "Episode IV"
I was about 19. But as I remember, the "Part IV" was added shortly after the first release, perhaps when Lucas got some clout with its success. But I could be wrong. The web doesn't go back to that era, the facts are hard to come by.
I saw it in its first run in 1977. I don't remember "Part IV". So do you have anything beyond your memory to dispute mine?
>"Facts" aren't the issue.
Oh, okay... I thought you were saying that "if you've got these people [Microsoft] making a WORLD MAP, they damn well should be [knowledgeable about the facts]."
I did. Perhaps I should have said "The simple geographical facts are not the only issue". Meaning that the facts a mapmaker has to take into consideration are not just geographic, but political, when it comes to national boundaries. I've been involved in this with a Chinese map, for instance, that laid claim to almost the whole South China Sea, ignoring claims from several other regional countries.
I watched Star Wars. In 1977.
Haven't seen any of the sequels, or what Lucas seems to be calling 'Prequels.'
I feel it would spoil the memory of the original.
I saw it then, before it was "Part IV". The two sequels I thought boring, the first prequel I saw on DVD, the second I watched half. The original Star Wars had energy, good dialogue and decent acting. The whole concept wasn't original, but didn't pretend to be. It just went downhill from there. Basically, when Luke was the hero it worked. (Though no one could say Hamill was a great actor.) Han as hero was okay, but not very inspiring, after that Vader as hero is just absurd.
Everyone knows: sequels suck. It's news when they don't.
And I loved the summary NubKnacker writes "Economic Times, one of India's biggest business daily's is carrying a story
Obviously the "editors" are stoned, or does anyone else think the plural of "daily" is "daily's"?
Second, perhaps one might suspect that am INDIAN newspaper carrying a story about an event in GLASGOW might not be the primary source and unlikely to be the first chronologically?
Where can I get a job like this where you can fuck up on a daily basis and still collect a fat paypacket?
Of course I saw it. The pain and suffering depicted was purely American, all caused by the evil Vietcong (who were actually defending their homeland from foreign invaders). The American soldiers were all heroic. It was a fantasy.
It's not like the map was factually incorrect
"Facts" aren't the issue. I've got a map of Asia showing Pyongyang as the capital of Korea (no North or South), printed in China, and also shows China owning all the South China Seas. This isn't getting a Jeopardy question wrong, this is making a prodict you're going to sell to the people who live there. Anyone who even looks at a decent atlas will see small print trying to be non-committal about these disputed borders. Pakistan and India have had two wars over Kashmir. If you're making a map of that part of the world you should know you're walking on eggshells.
If you've got these people making a WORLD MAP, they damn well should be.
How about "hate speech"? Jingoism?
Americans think the whole world revolves around them. The overriding reason Muslim extremists attack America is because of their interference in the Middle East. They could not care less about your inconvenience when catching a plane. Do you see them bombing Western countries that do not have a high involvement in the Middle East?
This reminds me of the responses of American commentators after the WTC attack like "They hate us because we're free". "They" don't care how free you are. They do care that you support Israel and the Saudi royals, and now of course have invaded and occupied two Muslim countries. As Clinton said in his campaign "It's the economy, stupid". He knew that Americans just don't care about anything that doesn't affect them personally and directly.
Of course Americans are not unique in self-centredness, but they are in their insistence on pretending that it isn't their motive in most foreign policy, then being surprised when their altruism is questioned.
Fuck off idiot and all those Americans who modded this racist shit up.
Note to Michael Moore:
Don't bother flying.
Get serious. He'd make a movie about the idiocy of airport security and revel in how he had to jump a freight train like a hobo to get to his latest film award ceremony.
Yes. Exactly. Except Vietnam was not about "defending [your] way of life". It was about defending the incredibly corrupt Saigon govenrment against revolution. Not that the Vietnamese communists were saints at all, but protecting foreign people against oppression has never been an American priority. By reducing a war or even a battle to individual acts of (American, exclusively) heroism, it delivers the message that American soldoers = American people == good, foreigners == evil. That was about the most simple minded war movie I've seen since John Wayne humg up his green beret.
I've never understood why people would actually pay money to make themselves into a corporate billboard. And I dislike that you can't buy athletic shoes at all without a big logo on it.
I did RTFA, and I don't have a problem with the venues selling Coke and not Pepsi. I do have a problem that they banned coffee because that might cut into the Coke sales too.
As for the banner ads analogy, it's not like the sponsors are paying the entire cost, or even a large part. Spectators have to buy tickets (as well as the Coke-brand drinks if they don't want to die from thirst), and the governments, most particularly the Greek's, spent bilions of tax dollars to support this.
This is a typical techie answer, but i know some people who work in printing that will have opposite views on this. Every technology can be hacked.
The difference is that when a digital technology is cracked, it takes no time at all before the method is known by all the black hats, who can all spend their $70 and start forging passports immediately. Doing the same in printing requires a lot of skill and experience, and access to special papers, inks and presses. (Digital printing won't fool anyone with a smudgin of training.)
In Hong Kong we've been using contactless tickets for several years on the subways. The readers can't be very expensive, as they've spread not only to buses and trams, but can also bne used at point of sale at 7-eleven shops. The magstripe ones are almost phased out, only used by a few people who prefer to buy single-ride tickets.
Note -- there is no tracking involved, the cards are anonymous and you can top them up with cash in a machine.
or they both break (probably needs a server link), and then you're screwed because there's no way of working out if your ticket is valid./i>
In HK, each station has at least one window you can ask to have a card replaced if it doesn't work, or buy a new one, or top them up. Ther are also machines you can place your card on to check it, it tells yo how much credit you have and the last transaction. Sounds like the LU has not really implemented this well.
Give me a break, For every Michael Moore there's a thousand flag-waving "My Country Right or Wrong" types making stuff like Pearl Harbor, We Were Soldiers, etc ad nauseaum.
Right. They'll have sockets embedded in their heads to jack in, and if they get killed in the sim, they really die. And the whole system is powered by their bodily heat.
Probably "Holodeck" is what he's thinking of.
Spammers ultimately want you to give them money. Assuming the govt actually wanted to enforce the laws, you would pass the email to the FBI, they follow the instructions and attempt to buy their product. Once they've accepted a credit card number, they are identified. Even if they can't be prosecuted, due to being overseas (though the majority of spammers are American residents, and I doubt many have the will or resources to emigrate) the credit card companies can cancel their merchant accounts (which are not all that easy to get) and do chargebacks. Actually, if there were real penalties, the credit card companies would be gatekeepers. Then spammers would resort to "fold a dollar bill in brown paper and mail to... which would open them up to mail fraud. really, it's easy if, and only if, the government wanted to.
The advertisers in the Sunday newspape are subsidising my purchase. Spammers are costing my ISP money, and eventually I'm going to pay for that.
Wording a rule set so that spam gets shut down but ads we want to see is quite a tough task
Trivial. Don't send any ads unless solicited/opt-ed in. Some fine aof a few dollars a mesage to make it stick, and give enforcemt authorities an income. Totally illegal to send such from a bogus or forged address.
I guess you're just playing Devil's Adviocate to get modded "interesting".
That would be this watch?
>Are you american?
Not American.
>... only you seem to lack a sense of humour.
How so? I don't think anyone was making a joke.
Mod down all those twats who beg for Gmail accounts in every story mentioning them; and also those showoffs offering them. Everybody will havwe a Gmail account in a couple of months.