The strongest point I get from reading your post is that you make a knee-jerk reaction to the story, echoing the sentiments of the article description, and still gets rated insightful.
I agree that our legal system needs to be overhauled. But why are these specific instances a problem? Even a small child knows that watching TV while driving is a bad idea. It's already legal to have TVs in the front seat that work while not driving.
The technology exists to make thousands of other unsafe inventions (perhaps you could mod-up your car like Spy Hunter?), but manufacturers don't due to legal pressure. Why is this a problem? Do people have an inherent right to obviously unsafe inventions? Would there be something better about allowing them to be manufactured, but arresting anyone who uses them? Aren't you in favor of safe cars?
There actually are still many sites that require IE to work properly there is a list of some here: http://toastytech.com/good/badsitelist.html
The only one I use that doesn't work properly with the latest Mozilla is Slashdot. The first few posts will start a few pages down, and have dark bars over the text.
This is spoilers but the review really makes it look like the (un)worthy follow-up to "Spirits Within," except even cornier. Even the review is just painful to look at. Read it and weep:
All three (3) silver-haired characters are there with Kadaj giving a speech about going against the Planet. He claims that the geostigma is a gift from the Planet that fills their hearts with doubt and racks their body with pain, not letting them fight. Cloud finding Tifa in Aerith's Church He claims that he will heal the children. Kadaj then says, Then, we will go to Mother! We will join as a family and strike back at the Planet!" As he says that, there is energy gathering around him.
I take good movies in black and white with mono sound over bad movies with excelent visual and sound effects.
It's not just stupid blockbusters. ILM type effects, as they trickle down to cheaper and cheaper production companies, have a huge influence on movies high and low, probably the largest change in the look of films since French New-Wave techniques. "Amelie" used CGI effects in nearly every scene (if just to increase contrast), low-budget "Eurotrip" inserted the Tower of London to a scene of Prague, to avoid the budget hit of a trip to London. Cannes award winner "Oldboy" used computer effects to visualize memories. I don't have to mention "Lord of the Rings."
For the sake of fairness, every time Slashdot has an article about Linux or OS X, the article brief should be forced to include either the line "in a field currently dominated by Microsoft Windows XP," a desciption as a "Windows Killer," or preferably both.
Most of people going to Burning Man are out-of-shape engineers and older hippies. Almost all of them are dancing to shitty music and haven't bathed themselves for the entire trip. If you saw these people naked you'd be revolted by the human body. Jesus that's like posting a link to goatse.cx on your front page.
Plus if I recall, the license go to Burning Man stipulates that you won't use any picture there for any purpose, even journalistic purposes, art shows, etc.
Certainly "dump a few truckloads of carbon dust" won't result in an Earth-like environment in a few decades, that doesn't even make any sense!
I think the more we know about the biosphere, the more we realize how complex it is, the result of many different forces interacting and achieving equilibrium with each other - and changing one small thing can make a large difference. For instance, the greenhouse effect's results are potentially disastrous, but are being blamed on CO2 levels, which now make up a mere.04% of our atmposphere.
I really don't believe it would be possible to make a stable Earth-type environment when Mars is so different, ie different amounts of sun, different distribution of chemicals, different magnetic belts, etc. Achieving such an environment might only be possible if we can keep putting in unimaginably large amounts of energy. After all it's speculated that Mars had a more Earth-like environment far in the past, but it wasted away; what would keep it from wasting away again?
Instead of posting, take the 5 seconds to find the info. Or just think things through: if there weren't redundant systems already, the astronauts would be dead.
The plot is from "electric sheep" but the society is from "high castle". To me the two most interesting parts of the movie are never actaully stated in the movie. First this is earth after all the vibrant heathly best and brightest have left.
What, huh, how? How long ago did you read the book? "Electric Sheep" depicted a grungy post-WWIII world, with the population depleted through the war and through the migration to Mars - there were constant advertisements to move. "High Tower" depicted a largely re-built San Francisco that was more or less directly analogous to race-reversed Tokyo of the 60's.
So I'd have to say the movie's environment is more like "Electric Sheep" in every single way. Although I guess "Blade Runner" had a bunch of Asians in it.
I use Greencine, which generally has a better selection of foreign movies and cult films. It also has excellent customer service and several other user-friendly policies.
Actually, Greencine already allows users to download movies to their computers. They certainly don't have the rights to most of their movies - mostly to certain indie and porn films. Considering how studios dragged their feet with licensing movies to DVD, I can't believe they'd be willing to license out a new medium to a single company.
You don't know what you're talking about. The 7800's library (a 7800 is different than a 2600) was mostly ports of popular arcade games, which for a quick gaming experience, hold up a lot better than playing a full game of, say, Dragon Warrior. The NES games were more involved and better for home gaming - which is why the 7800 sank in the marketplace - but who in their right mind would still want to put hours into beating an 8-bit game? Plus, literally everybody in the US of a certain age played Millipede or Food Fight, the same isn't true of Castlevania.
And of course the 7800 games were also seriously seriously designed for playability. You make it sound like Japanese invented the idea.
Mentioning the Dreamcast as having unplayably primitive graphics shows an unfamiliarity with the system, which in some ways looked better than the top-selling PS2.
If you take the USA's crime rate apart by race you find ours even for guns is lower than England for the persons of northern European ancestry.
Why do you even bring this up, what relevance does this have to your argument? Are you proposing the white people in the US are an "ancestrial group"? Isn't racist bullshit a little passe?
Nobody compiles US murder rates by those of "Northern European" ancestry (Norwegians from Minnesota???) and even if they did, northern Europeans tend to be wealthier than average.
If what you meant was "non-Hispanic whites," slightly more than half the murders in the US were committed by white people (who make up about 75% of the US). So you can lower the US's murder rate by about 1/3rd to make the "US white people murder rate" - which would still put the US far higher than any single European nation. (3.76 murder/100,000, compared to Spain's 2.94
This took about 10 seconds of Googling to verify. If "Never Politically Correct" means "blindly making statements that 10 seconds of Googling will show isn't really true," maybe you should at least occasionally be politically correct.
Including women is to be PC? The women weren't really that important to the movies. They reminded me of Bollywood war movies, where characters will have a girlfriend back home who loves to sing and dance. It contributes nothing to the movie, but it's not for political correctness - it's a ploy to get more women into the theaters. Similarly, movies for children will often have jokes intended for their parents. It's not like people would protest a movie without women in it, it just wouldn't be as popular (not to mention, in a modern context, it kept these characters from seeming completely homosexual, not that there's anything wrong with that).
Secondly, while I have no idea if Tolkein was racist or not (although it's a pleasent if naive thought that an author I like would hold views in keeping with my own), clearly his talk of fundamentally evil races comes grounded in a world-view where race and character are strongly associated one to the other (particularly when the good races are described as Nordic, and the bad as possessing dark features). That doesn't mean Tolkein agreed with the implications, or that fans of his books are all Klan members, but saying there is no hint of racism to Tolkein isn't accurate, either.
You could also just use Kazaa. Jesus, obviously people don't care if it's legal or if it's RIAA or whatever. People want the latest big song and they want it free. The day "Some Song I recorded on an 8-track in my living room about my ex girlfriend" hits it big, then your website will be useful. Until then, people want free top 40.
Which is quite idiotic. Sony has some good game software talent and good hardware talent, but they are being controlled by their music/movie divisions. Their media divisions are holding back inovation in their hardware divisions. Sony is stagnating.
Wow, and I thought Spiderman made a shitload of money.
And if the Sony hardware talent is so great, why does their stuff break so often, have audio hissing, etc.??? Why is SonicStage 2 universally disliked?
I actually use MDs (they're the best alternative for making easy concert bootlegs, to my mind), and Sharp's licensed MDs are considered the standard for recording, with Sony for people who like the well-advertised brand name.
To point out the obvious (not a conspiracy theory)
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George Lucas is about making money, not about establishing or preserving legacies or whatever. I just have to believe that he'll release these DVDs, claim they're the only official release ever, and wait for every nerd to buy them, even though they grumble about it being the revised version.
Only then, after the DVD saled have slowed down, will he decide to relent, release the original movies on DVD, and snap up the profits from nerds re-purchasing the DVDs of the original movie.
Kind of the inverse of Lord of the Rings DVD strategy - Lucas realizes if he releases the original versions first, nobody will buy the revised versions later.
That's three minutes of my life I want back. That guy can't write for shit, not to mention he's an obvious fanboy whose points are stupid (there's no advantages to 192kbps over 128kbps, because the Hard Drive space is important to Ipod Mini users?). Why bother linking to such a story?
Really? I thought the movie was great in it's own warped way (obviously it was completely nonsensical). I liked the Japanese Nazis riding muscle cars in Louxembourg, to keep their WWII hostage Abraham Lincoln. It's fun to read the IMDB reviews.
Peter Molyneux may have designed some pretty good games, but he's an expert at playing the media. I remember the exact same absurdist hype for the piece-of-shit "Black or White."
From Berlin, "Caroline says/as she gets up from the floor/you can hit me all you want to/but I don't love you anymore." And so on. Lou Reed's lyrics often deal with low-level violence, drugs, S&M, etc. All of which is entirely inappropriate for children in Kansas.
On the other hand, my local library retains a copy of "NWA's Greatest Hits."
Ah man, don't pick on the Lou! Just as a curio, I think Metal Machine Music is worth having somewhere in a library system. A lot of his solo music seems pretty ideal for library use, actually - worth hearing, but not worth purchasing.
Rejecting a popular, critically acclaimed group like Outkast for encouraging violence in Kansas is a bizarre example of censorship, certainly rooted in stereotypes of hip-hop and black people. It's bizarre that most of the posts are supporting Kansas on this one.
And good riddance, I say, considering all they did was sell high-priced, low-quality software, used to copy Blockbuster videos (or for.02% of the buyers, purely to make back ups of the videos they already own, as they keep DVDs within easy grasp of their young children).
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I agree that our legal system needs to be overhauled. But why are these specific instances a problem? Even a small child knows that watching TV while driving is a bad idea. It's already legal to have TVs in the front seat that work while not driving.
The technology exists to make thousands of other unsafe inventions (perhaps you could mod-up your car like Spy Hunter?), but manufacturers don't due to legal pressure. Why is this a problem? Do people have an inherent right to obviously unsafe inventions? Would there be something better about allowing them to be manufactured, but arresting anyone who uses them? Aren't you in favor of safe cars?
The only one I use that doesn't work properly with the latest Mozilla is Slashdot. The first few posts will start a few pages down, and have dark bars over the text.
This is spoilers but the review really makes it look like the (un)worthy follow-up to "Spirits Within," except even cornier. Even the review is just painful to look at. Read it and weep:
All three (3) silver-haired characters are there with Kadaj giving a speech about going against the Planet. He claims that the geostigma is a gift from the Planet that fills their hearts with doubt and racks their body with pain, not letting them fight. Cloud finding Tifa in Aerith's Church He claims that he will heal the children. Kadaj then says, Then, we will go to Mother! We will join as a family and strike back at the Planet!" As he says that, there is energy gathering around him.
It's not just stupid blockbusters. ILM type effects, as they trickle down to cheaper and cheaper production companies, have a huge influence on movies high and low, probably the largest change in the look of films since French New-Wave techniques. "Amelie" used CGI effects in nearly every scene (if just to increase contrast), low-budget "Eurotrip" inserted the Tower of London to a scene of Prague, to avoid the budget hit of a trip to London. Cannes award winner "Oldboy" used computer effects to visualize memories. I don't have to mention "Lord of the Rings."
For the sake of fairness, every time Slashdot has an article about Linux or OS X, the article brief should be forced to include either the line "in a field currently dominated by Microsoft Windows XP," a desciption as a "Windows Killer," or preferably both.
Plus if I recall, the license go to Burning Man stipulates that you won't use any picture there for any purpose, even journalistic purposes, art shows, etc.
I think the more we know about the biosphere, the more we realize how complex it is, the result of many different forces interacting and achieving equilibrium with each other - and changing one small thing can make a large difference. For instance, the greenhouse effect's results are potentially disastrous, but are being blamed on CO2 levels, which now make up a mere .04% of our atmposphere.
I really don't believe it would be possible to make a stable Earth-type environment when Mars is so different, ie different amounts of sun, different distribution of chemicals, different magnetic belts, etc. Achieving such an environment might only be possible if we can keep putting in unimaginably large amounts of energy. After all it's speculated that Mars had a more Earth-like environment far in the past, but it wasted away; what would keep it from wasting away again?
Instead of posting, take the 5 seconds to find the info. Or just think things through: if there weren't redundant systems already, the astronauts would be dead.
So I'd have to say the movie's environment is more like "Electric Sheep" in every single way. Although I guess "Blade Runner" had a bunch of Asians in it.
Actually, Greencine already allows users to download movies to their computers. They certainly don't have the rights to most of their movies - mostly to certain indie and porn films. Considering how studios dragged their feet with licensing movies to DVD, I can't believe they'd be willing to license out a new medium to a single company.
And of course the 7800 games were also seriously seriously designed for playability. You make it sound like Japanese invented the idea.
Mentioning the Dreamcast as having unplayably primitive graphics shows an unfamiliarity with the system, which in some ways looked better than the top-selling PS2.
So when is the Star Wars Holiday special coming out on DVD?
Why do you even bring this up, what relevance does this have to your argument? Are you proposing the white people in the US are an "ancestrial group"? Isn't racist bullshit a little passe?
Nobody compiles US murder rates by those of "Northern European" ancestry (Norwegians from Minnesota???) and even if they did, northern Europeans tend to be wealthier than average.
If what you meant was "non-Hispanic whites," slightly more than half the murders in the US were committed by white people (who make up about 75% of the US). So you can lower the US's murder rate by about 1/3rd to make the "US white people murder rate" - which would still put the US far higher than any single European nation. (3.76 murder/100,000, compared to Spain's 2.94
This took about 10 seconds of Googling to verify. If "Never Politically Correct" means "blindly making statements that 10 seconds of Googling will show isn't really true," maybe you should at least occasionally be politically correct.
This whole idea is racist. It discriminates against the way Chinese and Koreans drive.
Secondly, while I have no idea if Tolkein was racist or not (although it's a pleasent if naive thought that an author I like would hold views in keeping with my own), clearly his talk of fundamentally evil races comes grounded in a world-view where race and character are strongly associated one to the other (particularly when the good races are described as Nordic, and the bad as possessing dark features). That doesn't mean Tolkein agreed with the implications, or that fans of his books are all Klan members, but saying there is no hint of racism to Tolkein isn't accurate, either.
You could also just use Kazaa. Jesus, obviously people don't care if it's legal or if it's RIAA or whatever. People want the latest big song and they want it free. The day "Some Song I recorded on an 8-track in my living room about my ex girlfriend" hits it big, then your website will be useful. Until then, people want free top 40.
Wow, and I thought Spiderman made a shitload of money.
And if the Sony hardware talent is so great, why does their stuff break so often, have audio hissing, etc.??? Why is SonicStage 2 universally disliked?
I actually use MDs (they're the best alternative for making easy concert bootlegs, to my mind), and Sharp's licensed MDs are considered the standard for recording, with Sony for people who like the well-advertised brand name.
Only then, after the DVD saled have slowed down, will he decide to relent, release the original movies on DVD, and snap up the profits from nerds re-purchasing the DVDs of the original movie.
Kind of the inverse of Lord of the Rings DVD strategy - Lucas realizes if he releases the original versions first, nobody will buy the revised versions later.
Zing!
That's three minutes of my life I want back. That guy can't write for shit, not to mention he's an obvious fanboy whose points are stupid (there's no advantages to 192kbps over 128kbps, because the Hard Drive space is important to Ipod Mini users?). Why bother linking to such a story?
Really? I thought the movie was great in it's own warped way (obviously it was completely nonsensical). I liked the Japanese Nazis riding muscle cars in Louxembourg, to keep their WWII hostage Abraham Lincoln. It's fun to read the IMDB reviews.
Peter Molyneux may have designed some pretty good games, but he's an expert at playing the media. I remember the exact same absurdist hype for the piece-of-shit "Black or White."
On the other hand, my local library retains a copy of "NWA's Greatest Hits."
Rejecting a popular, critically acclaimed group like Outkast for encouraging violence in Kansas is a bizarre example of censorship, certainly rooted in stereotypes of hip-hop and black people. It's bizarre that most of the posts are supporting Kansas on this one.
Next up, I'd like to see tobacco industries.