Actually, I don't blame clinton for a good economy, and I don't blame bush for the slowdown. However I *DO* blame bush for doing nothing about it, and using voodo supply side economics (reaganomics) to give tax cuts to exactly the people who don't need it.
Yep. I interviewed at qualcomm for a *1 MONTH TEMP POSTITION* testing BREW apps. I had a few friends who worked there... Long story short, the interviewer asks me "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" You have to imagine at this time I'm already sick of these assholes, they've been asking me the dumbest questions, and they've made me come out for an interview (1 month temp position=PHONE INTERVIEW). So I decide to blow the interview and say, "Not working for you for 4 years and 11 months.":-D
B&W was a *GREAT* game. I logged about 350 hours on it and its expansion pack (it keeps track for you). The final level of B&W took me 40 hours alone.
But at the same time the game was seriously flawed -- your creature was *ALWAYS* learning, so you could never misbehave infront of it. You could spend weeks training your creature to be good, then for some reason you might HAVE to kill people in the game, your creature would see, he'd start killing people, and you couldn't stop him from doing it -- because at some point you actually had to play the game instead of baby sit your creature, and at that point your creature would wander off, kill people, and you couldn't discipline him for it.
Still a great game, finally a good use for my xbox:)
More then that: lawyers are complete bastards. I can't believe the case won't be "dumped" now. Dumping is when a lawyer figures you can't afford to pay anymore so they dispose of your case any way they can.
Happened to a friend of mine, he got into a fight at a bar or something, should have gotten probation or community service, paid a lawyer every CENT he had, then the lawyer told him he *HAD* to plead guilty and take a plea of 6 months in jail. He didn't know any better:(
I dont think you understand. The purpose of the FBI is to protect the Hegemony of the bush administration. Therefore: Indymedia=bad, CIA revenge leak=good
Nah, I'm trying to turn a PC+SCSI CARD+Two Micropolis drives into a MIDI instrument. Software on the PC (will eventually) read midi signals and convert them into head movements which will make the pretty noises:)
On a project to turn some old scsi drives into a MIDI instrument, I *LOVE* the sounds really old scsi drives make (think 4GB micropolis drives). Plan to use it in a composition:)
Harry Potter actually refers to it as witchcraft. This causes a problem with some Christian organizations,
The problem with that statement is of course that witchcraft is complete fantasy. Star Trek has a lot of negative aspects, but at the end of the day everyone KNOWS its a fantasy.
So you're left with two ugly options here, either the people who believe in Christian banality are so stupid they believe in witchcraft, or a paradox: Witchcraft reveals the non-existance of god.
Witchcraft is make believe, and if it wasn't, ALL you would have to do to prove it is find a fucking witch and have her do something, should be easy because they're everywhere right?
Who else is powerful, everywhere, and never seems to do ANYTHING? Oh thats right, YOUR GOD! Remember fight club, "her lie reflects my lie, and I felt nothing."
I love Brazil, and I *LOVE* dystopian fiction, I consider myself a fan of the genre. However, the problem with Brazil is it really *IS* 1984. If you've read 1984, you've seen Brazil. Same with Farenheit 411 and most other dystopian fictions, which is why there is so little of it. (Although I consider Fight Club to pretty much be the pinacle of dystopian fiction)
Brazil doesn't really make any contributions other then its gorgeous visual design, and the irony of being a rip-off of 1984 the book while simultaneously being a better movie then 1984 the movie:)
I *LOVE* Battlefield earth. I keep my copy of BE right next to my copy of Leonard Part 6. BE spawned some of the funniest movie reviews I have ever read in my life. Check out The Onion's Review: (this was written before they started to soft ball all the movies)
Battlefield Earth
Before its release, some of Scientology's critics suggested that Battlefield Earth would be filled with subliminal messages in an attempt to recruit or brainwash viewers. They needn't worry: Outside of marching on Washington in Nazi uniforms while burning crosses and clubbing baby seals, it's hard to think of a worse way to recruit converts than to subject them to this surreal atrocity, an adaptation of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's 1982 novel. A film too staggeringly inept to be believed, Battlefield Earth is a contender for the worst movie of any year, decade, or century. The film tells the story of devolved future humans who live in what appears to be a Molly Hatchet album cover and do battle with a group of evil alien "Psychlos" who resemble giant Rastafarian werewolves. Clueless enough to make last year's crazy science-fiction turkey Wing Commander look like Solaris and 2001 rolled into one big luminescent ball, Battlefield Earth is written with all the skill and subtlety of a Flash Gordon serial and plotted with the cruel, hard logic of a Lyndon LaRouche presidential campaign. But at least it's uniquely terrible: A good deal of its screen time is devoted to "man animals" and their supposed preference for eating raw rats, which may be a canny bit of psychology on the filmmakers' part. After all, eating raw rodents is one of the few activities that sound less appealing than watching Battlefield Earth. Producer and star John Travolta's cackling, embarrassing performance as the film's nine-foot-tall heavy is bad enough to negate the last 25 years of his career: Travolta may be a gifted actor and a movie star in the classic sense of the term, but from now on, he will be seen not as the charismatic star of Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction, but as John "Battlefield Earth" Travolta, the perpetrator of a film that will go down in history alongside Howard The Duck and Heaven's Gate as shorthand for Hollywood at its out-of-control worst. Not so much watched as lived through, Battlefield Earth is bad enough to make audiences ashamed to be part of the same species as the people who made it. --Nathan Rabin
The french capitulated with Hitler more or less 100%. This causes cognitive dissonance in the french mind because they are taught they are the pinnacle of humanity. Thus a few historical details need to be tossed in the memory hole to alleviate this problem.
Technically? No, no we don't. But realistically we do.
People are going to RAIL against you, but you're right, you know?
I am very much a believer in non-participation as a form of protest. I won't watch the olympics, I won't see star wars.
But enter: friends and family. I didn't want to see Catwoman, but the g/f did, so I did. I knew I ROBOT was going to blow chunks, but my father wanted to see it, and how many times do you have a chance to go see a movie with your dad when you're in your late 20s?
Come to think of it, I haven't gone to a movie *I* wanted to see since Lost in Translation (which the ENTIRE theater walked out of except for me).
And even if you don't have people who will drag you to movies, or you are lucky enough to have entirely film-snob friends, do you subscribe to HBO? They'll show the SW movies sooner or later, isn't that *LIKE* paying to see starwars?
Actually I own both of those devices (although I have the n52) and I freaking LOVE them. Most hard core players swear by the keyboard, but it really improves my game.
You're gonna get EATEN alive by the mods. But you hit the nail on the head. I've lost a lot of mod points myself trying to explain to people,that the only reason Apple can do the things it does is because there is a legion of fanboys willing to purchase whatever stupid idea steve jobs dreams up at a 30% markup. Apple is a *BRAND* like Nike. For my money I'd rather wear my insanely comfortable TX Traction shoes which cost 39.99 instead of Nike's which cost 3x as much. Same damn thing with my computer. My identity is not my brand of computer.
IPOD? Had it back when it was called the Archos Jukebox, nobody cared. Itunes? Had it when it was called "eMusic.com" Nobody praised emusic or archos as visionaries. I wasn't a cosmopolitan hipster for having these things.
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Actually, I don't blame clinton for a good economy, and I don't blame bush for the slowdown. However I *DO* blame bush for doing nothing about it, and using voodo supply side economics (reaganomics) to give tax cuts to exactly the people who don't need it.
Yep. I interviewed at qualcomm for a *1 MONTH TEMP POSTITION* testing BREW apps. I had a few friends who worked there... Long story short, the interviewer asks me "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" You have to imagine at this time I'm already sick of these assholes, they've been asking me the dumbest questions, and they've made me come out for an interview (1 month temp position=PHONE INTERVIEW). So I decide to blow the interview and say, "Not working for you for 4 years and 11 months." :-D
A friend of mine has photogrpahed them as well. He said he was stopped by MPs once, but once he explained what he was doing they didn't seem to care.
But at the same time the game was seriously flawed -- your creature was *ALWAYS* learning, so you could never misbehave infront of it. You could spend weeks training your creature to be good, then for some reason you might HAVE to kill people in the game, your creature would see, he'd start killing people, and you couldn't stop him from doing it -- because at some point you actually had to play the game instead of baby sit your creature, and at that point your creature would wander off, kill people, and you couldn't discipline him for it.
Still a great game, finally a good use for my xbox :)
Happened to a friend of mine, he got into a fight at a bar or something, should have gotten probation or community service, paid a lawyer every CENT he had, then the lawyer told him he *HAD* to plead guilty and take a plea of 6 months in jail. He didn't know any better :(
I dont think you understand. The purpose of the FBI is to protect the Hegemony of the bush administration. Therefore: Indymedia=bad, CIA revenge leak=good
I think the real question is, how did this fellow get into college if he can't come up with the tape solution himself? :)
Nah, I'm trying to turn a PC+SCSI CARD+Two Micropolis drives into a MIDI instrument. Software on the PC (will eventually) read midi signals and convert them into head movements which will make the pretty noises :)
On a project to turn some old scsi drives into a MIDI instrument, I *LOVE* the sounds really old scsi drives make (think 4GB micropolis drives). Plan to use it in a composition :)
The problem with that statement is of course that witchcraft is complete fantasy. Star Trek has a lot of negative aspects, but at the end of the day everyone KNOWS its a fantasy.
So you're left with two ugly options here, either the people who believe in Christian banality are so stupid they believe in witchcraft, or a paradox: Witchcraft reveals the non-existance of god.
Witchcraft is make believe, and if it wasn't, ALL you would have to do to prove it is find a fucking witch and have her do something, should be easy because they're everywhere right?
Who else is powerful, everywhere, and never seems to do ANYTHING? Oh thats right, YOUR GOD! Remember fight club, "her lie reflects my lie, and I felt nothing."
Um, duh. If the money comes from us, then logically they can never have more money THAN we give them. And they'll never give it back. So we loose.
Took a few weeks to crack it, then we had every ID product for free (tuff to download on a modem) for the cost of a 5$ demo cd.
You know what, I never really thought about it that way. You are a wise man and I bow to you!
Brazil doesn't really make any contributions other then its gorgeous visual design, and the irony of being a rip-off of 1984 the book while simultaneously being a better movie then 1984 the movie :)
Battlefield Earth
Before its release, some of Scientology's critics suggested that Battlefield Earth would be filled with subliminal messages in an attempt to recruit or brainwash viewers. They needn't worry: Outside of marching on Washington in Nazi uniforms while burning crosses and clubbing baby seals, it's hard to think of a worse way to recruit converts than to subject them to this surreal atrocity, an adaptation of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's 1982 novel. A film too staggeringly inept to be believed, Battlefield Earth is a contender for the worst movie of any year, decade, or century. The film tells the story of devolved future humans who live in what appears to be a Molly Hatchet album cover and do battle with a group of evil alien "Psychlos" who resemble giant Rastafarian werewolves. Clueless enough to make last year's crazy science-fiction turkey Wing Commander look like Solaris and 2001 rolled into one big luminescent ball, Battlefield Earth is written with all the skill and subtlety of a Flash Gordon serial and plotted with the cruel, hard logic of a Lyndon LaRouche presidential campaign. But at least it's uniquely terrible: A good deal of its screen time is devoted to "man animals" and their supposed preference for eating raw rats, which may be a canny bit of psychology on the filmmakers' part. After all, eating raw rodents is one of the few activities that sound less appealing than watching Battlefield Earth. Producer and star John Travolta's cackling, embarrassing performance as the film's nine-foot-tall heavy is bad enough to negate the last 25 years of his career: Travolta may be a gifted actor and a movie star in the classic sense of the term, but from now on, he will be seen not as the charismatic star of Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction, but as John "Battlefield Earth" Travolta, the perpetrator of a film that will go down in history alongside Howard The Duck and Heaven's Gate as shorthand for Hollywood at its out-of-control worst. Not so much watched as lived through, Battlefield Earth is bad enough to make audiences ashamed to be part of the same species as the people who made it. --Nathan Rabin
Of course you're not an american, look at you're post time! It's freaking 3:00am here on the west coast!!
The french capitulated with Hitler more or less 100%. This causes cognitive dissonance in the french mind because they are taught they are the pinnacle of humanity. Thus a few historical details need to be tossed in the memory hole to alleviate this problem.
People are going to RAIL against you, but you're right, you know?
I am very much a believer in non-participation as a form of protest. I won't watch the olympics, I won't see star wars.
But enter: friends and family. I didn't want to see Catwoman, but the g/f did, so I did. I knew I ROBOT was going to blow chunks, but my father wanted to see it, and how many times do you have a chance to go see a movie with your dad when you're in your late 20s?
Come to think of it, I haven't gone to a movie *I* wanted to see since Lost in Translation (which the ENTIRE theater walked out of except for me).
And even if you don't have people who will drag you to movies, or you are lucky enough to have entirely film-snob friends, do you subscribe to HBO? They'll show the SW movies sooner or later, isn't that *LIKE* paying to see starwars?
"Statistics can be used to prove anything is true. 14% of all people know that." -- Homer
To quote the great Brooklyn Funk Essentials (who isn't actually that great) "It's not selling out, it's buying in." (said with irony)
The range of G is *much* better. Thats why you want it even in a PDA. Thats probably why its not in pdas either -- higher power consumption?
On this we agree, I'm glad you're not using MY OS.
Actually I own both of those devices (although I have the n52) and I freaking LOVE them. Most hard core players swear by the keyboard, but it really improves my game.
IPOD? Had it back when it was called the Archos Jukebox, nobody cared. Itunes? Had it when it was called "eMusic.com" Nobody praised emusic or archos as visionaries. I wasn't a cosmopolitan hipster for having these things.
Craigslist begins to suck.