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That you knew the astronaut's names was purely a matter of how it was marketed. The astronauts didn't design the rockets, and they weren't the ones making decisions. They were interchangeable, and any one of them (or all of them), could easily have been replaced, even at the last minute.
You bought into the propaganda, but don't be upset that other people aren't quite so enthusiastic about self-deception.
Personally, I don't use the social aspects of youtube, I just use it to put videos on my blog, or to look at videos sent as a link. It really doesn't matter at all if the link is to youtube or an equivalent service, as long as it's functionally identical and loads quickly enough. There's no barrier to entry and people, and there's essentially no reason to use it other than habit.
It's also easy to imagine being basically functionally equivalent but better. tudou.com, for example, is a Chinese site that is basically equivalent to youtube, but doesn't have youtube's time limit to video length, accepts a larger number of file formats, and doesn't really do anything to combat piracy.
If the Chinese were to be given sufficient cause to invade a Middle Eastern nation, with an army of over a hundred million IIRC,
8% of the total population? The actual number is around 1.7 million. The US has about 1.4 million people in the army, and its army is much better funded, equipped, trained, and deployed. If China attempted an invasion of the Middle East, it would be an insane suicide mission that would at least result in Xinjiang breaking off, and probably the collapse of the Chinese government and economy.
Wow, I've never seen that much inferring, all done in one place! The truth is, the original post was only two lines long, and Trent Reznor didn't say why he did what he did. Regardless, most people really could care less about Trent Reznor's take on the matter. I'd argue that Trent Reznor sold out a long time ago, he doesn't have the right to his songs any more than I have the IP rights to the hard drive technology my company researches...
And I don't really see a logical connection between "artistic works draw inspiration from other artistic works" and "copyright is thievery." It seems like there should be an intermediate step somewhere. Perhaps "2)???"
Well, in point of fact you're saying something that simply isn't true, and accusing distributors of being thieves is hot-headed rhetoric and nothing more. Your post was only two lines long and didn't contain any evidence or support arguments. Did you expect to be modded informative?
Depends how you view it - I'd argue that the cult of personality he has built around himself is totally fucking crazy, and not at all healthy for the nation. The military coup of the elected leader was headed by the head of the king's private council, while the coup happened it replaced television and radio broadcasting with images and pro-monarchy messages. Later, the king pledged his support to the military coup.
Also it's hard to support a guy who has made himself one of the richest men in the entire world, with all of his money coming off the resources of a rather impoverished, rather small 3rd world nation. Thai's sparse money could be used in better ways than filming 6 hour films about heroic Thai princesses, and a tradition of hefty jail sentences for insulting the king by innuendo is not doing the cause of democracy any great favors.
Citizens of North Korea supposedly love the Dear Leader just as strongly.
In the meantime I hope you and other keep posting that going to website on April 1st is a waste of time. Really I can't enough of it.
I can imagine the busy exciting life you must normally have on Sundays, where you are incredibly productive and can only afford the 10 seconds it takes to read Slashdot articles when you're assured that it will not, in fact, be a waste of time.
This one is true, or at least the movie is in pre-production (which means it hasn't even begun filming yet and may still yet be cancelled). As for Gillian Anderson, she's taking silly bit parts in the fluffy behind-the-scenes dramas like Tristram Shandy, I don't know why she's so concerned about escaping her most famous and profitable role.
In theory what you say is true. In reality, most bloggers wouldn't make it as journalists. Your blog, for instance, is probably much better-written than most blogs I've seen. It also revolves around talking about cartoon strips you recently saw in the paper.
People don't expect journalists to be supermen, but there is a generally higher expectation of quality and research. My brother is a journalist, there's a process of requiring a relevant educational background to get the job, of researching what would be an interesting story, of researching the story, of the story being edited by a professional, and of screening out the stories that don't belong. Off-the-cuff commentary on newspaper comic strips wouldn't make it. That's not to criticize your blog or all blogging, that's just to say there is indeed a very strong qualitative difference between blogs and publications.
(Just a coincidence the announcement came out a day after this community's speculation, surely.)
Is kdawson suggesting Microsoft times their announcements to deflect criticisms from slashdot.org? The idea is ludicrous on about every possible level.
"The text goes too far when it asserts entitlements based on economic, social and cultural rights" is( perhaps) the quote you're thinking of? Talking bad about entitlement programs is a long way from "specifically" saying kids born into poverty don't have the right to state supported education & health-care - education is a basic right for US citizens, whereas state subsidized health-care isn't a right for the vast majority of US citizens.
There's considerable controversy over entitlement programs, not least of which is research that suggests it may be counter-productive. Aren't social and cultural entitlements illegal in France, and various other EU counties?
I have a feeling you really couldn't care less about the truth.
This is hilarious. I hate Bush as much as the next guy, but c'mon, please give me a link to the speech where Bush said "my specific problem with the bill is the provision that children born into poverty to have a right to state supported education, health services etc."
Perhaps after that you can find the link where Bush supports sacrificing virgins to Cthulhu, or handing over the entire Gold Supply to Freemasons, or poisoning water supplies in the Blue States with dangerous levels of Pop Rocks...
I would be willing to bet that the majority of these people are not lesbian eskimos, or if they are, that they must do their research at the library or the local school system.
Actually, pirating movies online is extremely popular in China. Cheap can't compete with free. Many of my friends here in Shanghai have broadband, they never, ever will buy a bootleg DVD. Even half a dollar, with good packaging, just isn't worth it . Much wackier would be buying legitimate DVDs, they go for maybe $3 and you can only find them at a few government stores in the center of town. *Nobody* buys them, you'd have to be a nut (actually, it's for foreigners who don't know any better).
People who talk positively about piracy's effect on business, like it encourages sales of the best products as a try-before-you-buy, or it's financial pressure encouraging CD sellers to sell at a more reasonable $5 price, are fooling themselves. Piracy guts the creative industry.
Uh, that's not the point. I was not suggesting that someone should make an exact cinematic replica of Grim Fandango.
I was suggesting: Plot contrivances in Grim Fandango really aren't particularly intelligent or interesting, certainly not up to the level of even the most ludicrous of movies.
Well, I'm talking about Grim Fandango, here. Manny is anything but personality-free.
His personality was limited to making sarcastic quips.
Doesn't mean that Grim Fandango still isn't a great game, an example of what video games can be at their best, and an example of how not all games are GTA or Doom.
In a discussion comparing video games to art and movies, I was claiming that Grim Fandago didn't measure up. Sure it's not as stupid as Doom, but what is?
I'm not sure if what you're saying is even related to what I said.
Huh! I was suggesting: If Grim is really so great, why aren't people playing it 10 years later?
If you need further simplification, I am always happy to help!
If a movie featured such plot points as the hero trying to figure how to advance, and doing it by using a punch card to block the progress of a balloon and then twisting the balloon into a toy dog, viewers would be rioting in the aisles. People are bringing up adventure games in thread after thread, ignoring that:
1) Heroes in adventure games are basically personality-free.
2) The genre is dead, and has been dead for 10 or 15 years.
3) There were only a small handful of games worth mentioning.
4) Even these games only had a niche audience, and really weren't all that.
5) These games don't hold much interest to people 10 or 15 years later, unless it's for nostalgia purposes. Implying there's a whole lot of advertising or technical masturbation that went into people enjoying these games. Whereas Tetris can still find addicts.
Actually, the US military under president Bush actively discourages soldiers from learning Arabic, because of a concern that soldiers would empathize with Arabian contacts and start sympathizing with the enemy. It sounds a little ludicrous, and I can't say I approve, but there's been a number of agents in the Interzone who have actually merged with their cover stories. Just the daily cost of doing war against Islam Inc.
bla blah blaHaving to pay for recieving a phone call is ridiculousbla bla blaI just want a simple cell phone that calls people and that's itbla bla blaHere in Europe the government doesn't let phone companies offer two-year plans, it is so greatbla bla blaThe iPhone is the penultimate consumer device even though it hasn't been released or reviewed yetbla bla blaJapanese Cell phones are three years ahead of the US and people use their cell phones to control their washing machine & suck their dickbla bla bla
Get a sense of proportion. This is an attention-whoring indie video game. Kernel of truth? It's the equivalent of writing "fuck" on the wall. The video game equivalent of porn - it's offensive, and appeals to nothing more than the purient interests. You compare it to the Western Canon, it's hilarious!
While I don't think it should be censored, big deal if it it. The only relevance is what it says about the US as a whole - its capacity for letting offensive juvenile shit to get a free pass, in the service of encouraging a more open culture.
It was designed for a novelty that gets old after 15 minutes? Nothing against the Wii, but Wii Sports is a tech demo, and nothing to get excited about.
You're kidding. Every motherfucker on the street in China knows people get injured at work if they work in construction jobs or mining or so forth. Welcome to the 3rd world, the local version of OSHA doesn't exactly have much power. How does vaguely limiting the number of Internet cafes (they're already everywhere) relate to a lack of Occupational safety standards?
Anyway, this doesn't limit people who do Internet on their home computers, or who text people on their cell phones.
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You bought into the propaganda, but don't be upset that other people aren't quite so enthusiastic about self-deception.
It's also easy to imagine being basically functionally equivalent but better. tudou.com, for example, is a Chinese site that is basically equivalent to youtube, but doesn't have youtube's time limit to video length, accepts a larger number of file formats, and doesn't really do anything to combat piracy.
8% of the total population? The actual number is around 1.7 million. The US has about 1.4 million people in the army, and its army is much better funded, equipped, trained, and deployed. If China attempted an invasion of the Middle East, it would be an insane suicide mission that would at least result in Xinjiang breaking off, and probably the collapse of the Chinese government and economy.
And I don't really see a logical connection between "artistic works draw inspiration from other artistic works" and "copyright is thievery." It seems like there should be an intermediate step somewhere. Perhaps "2)???"
Well, in point of fact you're saying something that simply isn't true, and accusing distributors of being thieves is hot-headed rhetoric and nothing more. Your post was only two lines long and didn't contain any evidence or support arguments. Did you expect to be modded informative?
Depends how you view it - I'd argue that the cult of personality he has built around himself is totally fucking crazy, and not at all healthy for the nation. The military coup of the elected leader was headed by the head of the king's private council, while the coup happened it replaced television and radio broadcasting with images and pro-monarchy messages. Later, the king pledged his support to the military coup.
Also it's hard to support a guy who has made himself one of the richest men in the entire world, with all of his money coming off the resources of a rather impoverished, rather small 3rd world nation. Thai's sparse money could be used in better ways than filming 6 hour films about heroic Thai princesses, and a tradition of hefty jail sentences for insulting the king by innuendo is not doing the cause of democracy any great favors.
Citizens of North Korea supposedly love the Dear Leader just as strongly.
I can imagine the busy exciting life you must normally have on Sundays, where you are incredibly productive and can only afford the 10 seconds it takes to read Slashdot articles when you're assured that it will not, in fact, be a waste of time.
I think you mean to say, your lack of foreskin. Zing!
This one is true, or at least the movie is in pre-production (which means it hasn't even begun filming yet and may still yet be cancelled). As for Gillian Anderson, she's taking silly bit parts in the fluffy behind-the-scenes dramas like Tristram Shandy, I don't know why she's so concerned about escaping her most famous and profitable role.
People don't expect journalists to be supermen, but there is a generally higher expectation of quality and research. My brother is a journalist, there's a process of requiring a relevant educational background to get the job, of researching what would be an interesting story, of researching the story, of the story being edited by a professional, and of screening out the stories that don't belong. Off-the-cuff commentary on newspaper comic strips wouldn't make it. That's not to criticize your blog or all blogging, that's just to say there is indeed a very strong qualitative difference between blogs and publications.
Is kdawson suggesting Microsoft times their announcements to deflect criticisms from slashdot.org? The idea is ludicrous on about every possible level.
There's considerable controversy over entitlement programs, not least of which is research that suggests it may be counter-productive. Aren't social and cultural entitlements illegal in France, and various other EU counties?
I have a feeling you really couldn't care less about the truth.
Oh, so you're saying you can't find it! Otherwise I call bullshit.
Perhaps after that you can find the link where Bush supports sacrificing virgins to Cthulhu, or handing over the entire Gold Supply to Freemasons, or poisoning water supplies in the Blue States with dangerous levels of Pop Rocks...
I would be willing to bet that the majority of these people are not lesbian eskimos, or if they are, that they must do their research at the library or the local school system.
People who talk positively about piracy's effect on business, like it encourages sales of the best products as a try-before-you-buy, or it's financial pressure encouraging CD sellers to sell at a more reasonable $5 price, are fooling themselves. Piracy guts the creative industry.
I was suggesting: Plot contrivances in Grim Fandango really aren't particularly intelligent or interesting, certainly not up to the level of even the most ludicrous of movies.
Well, I'm talking about Grim Fandango, here. Manny is anything but personality-free.
His personality was limited to making sarcastic quips.
Doesn't mean that Grim Fandango still isn't a great game, an example of what video games can be at their best, and an example of how not all games are GTA or Doom.
In a discussion comparing video games to art and movies, I was claiming that Grim Fandago didn't measure up. Sure it's not as stupid as Doom, but what is?
I'm not sure if what you're saying is even related to what I said.
Huh! I was suggesting: If Grim is really so great, why aren't people playing it 10 years later?
If you need further simplification, I am always happy to help!
1) Heroes in adventure games are basically personality-free.
2) The genre is dead, and has been dead for 10 or 15 years.
3) There were only a small handful of games worth mentioning.
4) Even these games only had a niche audience, and really weren't all that.
5) These games don't hold much interest to people 10 or 15 years later, unless it's for nostalgia purposes. Implying there's a whole lot of advertising or technical masturbation that went into people enjoying these games. Whereas Tetris can still find addicts.
Huh, I guess random untrue anti-Bush statements don't get auto-modded +5 after all...
Actually, the US military under president Bush actively discourages soldiers from learning Arabic, because of a concern that soldiers would empathize with Arabian contacts and start sympathizing with the enemy. It sounds a little ludicrous, and I can't say I approve, but there's been a number of agents in the Interzone who have actually merged with their cover stories. Just the daily cost of doing war against Islam Inc.
bla blah blaHaving to pay for recieving a phone call is ridiculousbla bla blaI just want a simple cell phone that calls people and that's itbla bla blaHere in Europe the government doesn't let phone companies offer two-year plans, it is so greatbla bla blaThe iPhone is the penultimate consumer device even though it hasn't been released or reviewed yetbla bla blaJapanese Cell phones are three years ahead of the US and people use their cell phones to control their washing machine & suck their dickbla bla bla
While I don't think it should be censored, big deal if it it. The only relevance is what it says about the US as a whole - its capacity for letting offensive juvenile shit to get a free pass, in the service of encouraging a more open culture.
Yep! And the counter-point was, internet cafes are everywhere, internet is on people's cell phones, internet is available on home computers.
It was designed for a novelty that gets old after 15 minutes? Nothing against the Wii, but Wii Sports is a tech demo, and nothing to get excited about.
Anyway, this doesn't limit people who do Internet on their home computers, or who text people on their cell phones.