Is it really fair to call a movie a blockbuster when it hasn't been released yet?
I mean, odds are it will go on to be a blockbuster. And it' a blockbuster type of movie... but I thought the term blockbuster meant it's a movie that has also enjoyed some level of commercial success.
Then again I'm sure the movie tie-in deals alone are worth more than I'll make in the next couple of years.
Wait was that third guy an actual software engineer, like with a CS degree and everything? or a low-level tech support guy from Geek Squad? I'm confused.
Aw crap, I should have replied to this longer dumb comment, instead of your other dumb comment.
But yeah. They found a planet that's only 2000 years old. Believe it or not, everyone agrees that our own planet was 2000 years old at one time. What Earth was like at age 2000 is another matter, though. I'm guessing no solid crust at all, just a ball of molten rock trying to get itself together. No mountains, no oceans, no life, none of the things you see around you on Earth today.
Uhhh... yeah. That pretty much goes without saying. Or are you under the impression they found highly evolved life and geographical features on this 2000 year old planet?
A 2000 year old planet *probably* isn't very hospitable to life yet. Just my guess.
Just saying billions isn't very accurate. It's been about half a trillion so far. That's just monetary costs. I know one economist estimated the total cost could reach up to 3 or 4 trillion total by the time this is all over.
When you talk about numbers that big, you really do lost perspective on how much money that really is. It would be about $10,000 for every man, woman, and child in the country. If you were smart with that money and put it towards those who needed it, or social programs, or the common good such as parks, roadways, schools, etc... this war has a huge lost opportunity cost.
Next time they want to lead us into a war founded on lies, I'll just take a $10,000 check instead, thanks.
I can't wait to find out who will claim this violates their "unlimited music distribution model" patent.
It's just a matter of time.
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That's a hideous attitude you've got.
But yeah, label it what you will, but right now I plan to continue buying Macs in the future... just like I used to tell myself I would only ever build my own PCs, I guess.
"Me, I bought an AMD 3800+ for an HTPC CPU simply because Intel couldn't compete in terms of noise/cooling and it worked well enough. But when it came time to upgrade Intel's CPUs were far and away the better choice in pretty much all dimensions."
That's cool, but I don't know why anyone would care about your opinion in this case.
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... when I deliberately switched to Mac.
Before I switched to using Macs, I would always build my own PC's from components, and I always chose an AMD processor (starting with the 450 MHz AMD K6-III).
Until Macs start coming with AMD chips, I doubt I'll buy another one any time soon.
Oh, I don't know. I think the fact that one of them is completely made up, makes no sense, and pulled out of someone's ass a few thousand years ago before it was written down in a big important book... that sort of makes it so that both can't be true.
So we take TONS AND TONS of these hydrocarbons back to Earth, where we burn it all! TONS AND TONS of pollution from hydrocarbons from outer space in our atmosphere! And if we deplete Titan, we can find more planets/moons/asteroids to tap, and bring it all back to Earth to burn.
Why, eventually Earth can just be an ocean of muck !
I'm just going to wait and see if any asshats here can post a thoughtful comment about India's space exploration, maybe admiring their abilities and scholastic achievements... without making any asinine semi-racist comments about Indians stinking of curry, having unintelligible accents, being cheap labor, etc...
Just accept that it's a personal pet peeve of yours, and that that alone is not a good enough reason to whine about it and tell someone to stop typing the way they want to type.
It's your pet peeve, so it's your problem that you need to deal with, personally.
Hear hear... I was actually surprised GP could talk about McCain winning the Presidency like there's no other plausible outcome, without being overcome with such a strong sense of BS that he/she changed their mind before hitting submit.
The post above that which implied a Dem winning, is a bit more likely though.
Regarding point 2, what is the HIV infection rate? AIDS deaths is only part of the story. In the USA, people are getting drugs.
And your point 3 just makes you sound like an ass. No decent human being is going to NOT be sympathetic to someone dying of HIV and say "Well, you asked for it so tough luck!"
I don't think this was in reference to forcibly buying individual pills, rather the patent "intellectual property" rights to the drug, such that any company could produce the drug, or the government could do that itself.
Also bear in mind the market price is due to a monopoly (on a life saving drug). It's not like simple supply and demand, people are generally willing to pay a LOT to not DIE tomorrow.
If the government forcibly bought out the patent, and opened it up to any other company to produce the pills, then you would see the true market price (more in line with the actual cost to produce) unless they are in collusion.
I'm Gen Y... I think... (1981) I probably had an NES since when I was around 8.
I never really knew Atari growing up, except as the console my decade-older cousin had that he never played because it was old.
NES was everything back then when it came out. Every person I knew had one, it spawned TV shows, movies... created modern video game culture. "Captron World of Nintendo" store at the mall.
And no one ever said "let's play video games"... they said "let's play Nintendo"... and if you *did* say "let's play a video game" we knew you meant "Nintendo": despite not being the first, second, or third major video game console, the NES was synonymous with video gaming back then.
Playstation definitely came out "during my time" but I pretty much thought it was crap for quality. That marked the end of quality, fun home video games for me right there. I still don't think quality and fun has recovered since then.
I've owned (or own) the following, FYI: 2600, 7800, NES, SNES, Genesis, 32X, Sega CD, Game Boy, Game Gear, N64... but have also played a bit on Wii, PSX, PS2 (probably the only game I played extensively was Resident Evil 2 on PSX).
NES was king, and still is. Nostalgia be damned, you can't deny it had the biggest impact.
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Or just squeeze your huge ball of pus to squirt them with some nice yellowish ooze!
Is it really fair to call a movie a blockbuster when it hasn't been released yet?
I mean, odds are it will go on to be a blockbuster. And it' a blockbuster type of movie... but I thought the term blockbuster meant it's a movie that has also enjoyed some level of commercial success.
Then again I'm sure the movie tie-in deals alone are worth more than I'll make in the next couple of years.
Wait was that third guy an actual software engineer, like with a CS degree and everything? or a low-level tech support guy from Geek Squad? I'm confused.
Not quite.
4! / (2! * (4 - 2)! ) = 6.
2 relationships are given as basic integrals, now the other 4 are described by resistors, capacitors, inductors, and memristors.
Aw crap, I should have replied to this longer dumb comment, instead of your other dumb comment.
But yeah. They found a planet that's only 2000 years old. Believe it or not, everyone agrees that our own planet was 2000 years old at one time. What Earth was like at age 2000 is another matter, though. I'm guessing no solid crust at all, just a ball of molten rock trying to get itself together. No mountains, no oceans, no life, none of the things you see around you on Earth today.
I can't believe I'm even bothering to respond.
Uhhh... yeah. That pretty much goes without saying. Or are you under the impression they found highly evolved life and geographical features on this 2000 year old planet?
A 2000 year old planet *probably* isn't very hospitable to life yet. Just my guess.
You're right, when the ultra-religious evangelicals took over the Republican party in the 80s, the first thing they did was make it more liberal. :-P
Just saying billions isn't very accurate. It's been about half a trillion so far. That's just monetary costs. I know one economist estimated the total cost could reach up to 3 or 4 trillion total by the time this is all over.
When you talk about numbers that big, you really do lost perspective on how much money that really is. It would be about $10,000 for every man, woman, and child in the country. If you were smart with that money and put it towards those who needed it, or social programs, or the common good such as parks, roadways, schools, etc... this war has a huge lost opportunity cost.
Next time they want to lead us into a war founded on lies, I'll just take a $10,000 check instead, thanks.
I can't wait to find out who will claim this violates their "unlimited music distribution model" patent.
It's just a matter of time.
But yeah, label it what you will, but right now I plan to continue buying Macs in the future... just like I used to tell myself I would only ever build my own PCs, I guess.
That's cool, but I don't know why anyone would care about your opinion in this case.
... when I deliberately switched to Mac.
Before I switched to using Macs, I would always build my own PC's from components, and I always chose an AMD processor (starting with the 450 MHz AMD K6-III).
Until Macs start coming with AMD chips, I doubt I'll buy another one any time soon.
Explain to me how religion offers any sort of better explanation or justification for its existence?
"Because we say so."
Indeed.
Agreed.
Oh, I don't know. I think the fact that one of them is completely made up, makes no sense, and pulled out of someone's ass a few thousand years ago before it was written down in a big important book... that sort of makes it so that both can't be true.
Why Mercury? Use the heat or something?
So we take TONS AND TONS of these hydrocarbons back to Earth, where we burn it all! TONS AND TONS of pollution from hydrocarbons from outer space in our atmosphere! And if we deplete Titan, we can find more planets/moons/asteroids to tap, and bring it all back to Earth to burn.
Why, eventually Earth can just be an ocean of muck !
"Animal instincts" you say?
You could have made a killing shorting SCO stock
I'm just going to wait and see if any asshats here can post a thoughtful comment about India's space exploration, maybe admiring their abilities and scholastic achievements... without making any asinine semi-racist comments about Indians stinking of curry, having unintelligible accents, being cheap labor, etc...
So... any yet?
Yeah ! Stick it to the corporations and their greed-fueled idiocy trying to control what you can and can't do !
Oops, spoke too soon.
Just accept that it's a personal pet peeve of yours, and that that alone is not a good enough reason to whine about it and tell someone to stop typing the way they want to type.
It's your pet peeve, so it's your problem that you need to deal with, personally.
Hear hear... I was actually surprised GP could talk about McCain winning the Presidency like there's no other plausible outcome, without being overcome with such a strong sense of BS that he/she changed their mind before hitting submit.
The post above that which implied a Dem winning, is a bit more likely though.
I agree with point 1.
Regarding point 2, what is the HIV infection rate? AIDS deaths is only part of the story. In the USA, people are getting drugs.
And your point 3 just makes you sound like an ass. No decent human being is going to NOT be sympathetic to someone dying of HIV and say "Well, you asked for it so tough luck!"
I don't think this was in reference to forcibly buying individual pills, rather the patent "intellectual property" rights to the drug, such that any company could produce the drug, or the government could do that itself.
Also bear in mind the market price is due to a monopoly (on a life saving drug). It's not like simple supply and demand, people are generally willing to pay a LOT to not DIE tomorrow.
If the government forcibly bought out the patent, and opened it up to any other company to produce the pills, then you would see the true market price (more in line with the actual cost to produce) unless they are in collusion.
I'm Gen Y... I think... (1981) I probably had an NES since when I was around 8.
I never really knew Atari growing up, except as the console my decade-older cousin had that he never played because it was old.
NES was everything back then when it came out. Every person I knew had one, it spawned TV shows, movies... created modern video game culture. "Captron World of Nintendo" store at the mall.
And no one ever said "let's play video games"... they said "let's play Nintendo"... and if you *did* say "let's play a video game" we knew you meant "Nintendo": despite not being the first, second, or third major video game console, the NES was synonymous with video gaming back then.
Playstation definitely came out "during my time" but I pretty much thought it was crap for quality. That marked the end of quality, fun home video games for me right there. I still don't think quality and fun has recovered since then.
I've owned (or own) the following, FYI: 2600, 7800, NES, SNES, Genesis, 32X, Sega CD, Game Boy, Game Gear, N64... but have also played a bit on Wii, PSX, PS2 (probably the only game I played extensively was Resident Evil 2 on PSX).
NES was king, and still is. Nostalgia be damned, you can't deny it had the biggest impact.