see, i think that pretty much a reader is by default stimulating parts of the brain that rarely if ever get touched by tv viewing. i'm not saying that there aren't a lot of crap novels out there, but reading is uses more interpretive skills, grammar, and imagination. even crap novels.
that being said, there are worthwhile things on tv you won't find other places. tv, when used properly, provides a format that nothing else available does. it's very transparent and because of its simplicity can present complex ideas in an easy to digest manner.
the point i had missed was iTunes encoding directly from masters.
and about radiohead, i would say they have gotten a little too pre-recorded for my tastes, and hail to the thief is a welcome return to form such as it is. have you seen them perform their new material live? i have also heard an acoustic set by johnny and thom on krock that is beautifully performed, including many of their new songs.
they still build their music from the ground up.
i also forgot to add that i feel that many times the artist will listen to an mp3 of his music, while it is the production's job to adjust the levels, something that gets horribly skewed when ripping a CD to mp3. i am a firm believer in oggs and wished iTunes supported playing them (the plugin is laggy).
i cede many points to you. i hate 99% of the overproduced stuff nowadays too. you sound like someone who performs his work with integrity. -nathan
i highly doubt that martians would know the latin or greek or indo-european etymologies concerning our everyday speak. that's one thing that's always bothered me about sci-fi.
they probably wouldn't speak english either, but at least they'd just translate their name for the planet into english if they did learn it. or use our word. and only geeks use the word terran.
but then again, who would make first contact is the geeks. ok. i take it all back.
i think all names thought up by companies that include exclamation points should be required to spell out the words "EXCLAMATION POINT" in big capital letters.
Pentium EXCLAMATION POINTEXCLAMATION POINTEXCLAMATION POINT
YahooEXCLAMATION POINT
it's freaking annoying. so are quotes used to emphasize things. this is "very" annoying.
over the past two years as a personal computer technician i've been aware of hundreds of new and used hard drives. i wouldn't swear off any of the big names, but:
1. ibm/hitachi 60 gig deskstars have made me lose enough money to make me stop buying hitachis for a long while.
2. those skinny little maxtors piss me off, although one of them made me 300 dollars. ahhh, yes. money.
i like western digitals and have only seen the 20 gig caviar or earlier fail, and i've never seen a seagate fail. this is, of course, excepting all those failures brought on by hdd's smacking against things.
i'm assuming you haven't worked for anyone like radiohead. or the flaming lips. or tortoise, or yo la tengo or stereolab or anyone who pays much attention to the entire aural experience.
i'm not discounting the fact that artists like the above stated wouldn't upload some mp3s to their player and listen to their work that way, but it's to detect different things. if you're the one playing the guitar or piano or drums or bass there are plenty of things you hear that noone else does, because it's your own.
the finishing work matters. when i illegally downloaded hail to the thief in mp3 format, it was missing loads of character the CD had when i bought it.
it brings a tear to my eye. in cabo san lucas, they have been playing the same music in all the clubs for the past 10 years, since the audience rotates out every 3 days.
i don't actually use their search, but their directory is pretty nice, when you know the topic but would rather not figure out the proper wording to find it on google. that's not to say that other people's directories AREN'T, but i like yahoo's.
DarthWiggle done sed: >>A game is absolutely not freedom of speech. And I'm a liberal. ----
Well, this kind of puts you in the same boat as Gore (the Missus) and Lieberman. Liberals for censorship. What a novel idea.
I may be WRONG in big capital letters, but I've seen more republican capitalist swine be for freedom of speech than liberals. It's because liberals feel much more obligated to protect people from the evils of the universe.
I'm not saying anything about your views on censorship, partly because I think you said it all yourself, but liberals are not for freedom. They are for everyone being protected from unpleasant experience.
Especially California liberals. God, I hate California.
Pot actually makes you think a lot. Only it's kind of non-linear and generally has to do with how to acquire cookies.
In all seriousness though, I have had times in my life where pot has much stimulated me. But it often does do too much to deaden the mind. Depends on what's going on in my life. I'm not smoking now (and no, I don't mean just this instant).
and having a father who has spent about 40 out of 56 years in Florida, and pretending people wouldn't get upset by racism, the Haitian stereotype is pretty damn funny.
With my father it has always been a thing to make fun of the racism, rather than either Haitians in relation to whites or whites in relation to Haitians. There are many Haitians who feel like they are owed whatever you have because they have less. And there are white people who won't give Haitians a fair chance.
But then again, my father's an easygoing guy and doesn't get insulted by much. GTA has always been racist, ageist, sexist, etc. And so I don't know where Haitians get off thinking it's targeting them. I mean, poor Italians. Poor Mexicans. Poor Rednecks. Poor Japanese. If the ideas presented in GTA mattered, we'd kind of be in deep shit.
I'm not trying to piss people off here, but I'm aware I may be modded down. I have two pretty good Haitian jokes that I'm not going to tell.
if you're unpleasant to the company or the customers or are costing money, etc. you can be asked to leave.
1. i think it probably is in writing 2. reiteration 3. reiteration
it wasn't just the photos. my point is that if i say, "you can't come in here and take photos, homey!" and then said homey takes pictures, i can make said homey leave.
i, as well as the management, regret to inform you, homey...
..they saw him as a bigger potential liability in the future. good for them. maybe he was a shitty employee. maybe he talked back to his boss. we hear nothing from microsoft, because this guy's claims are to take the words from the mouth of other angry individuals,
...they could fire you if they wanted, for snapping pictures of a private area. i'm sure you agree to something when you get hired by microsoft, even if you don't see a contract.
the difference between all your examples and what happened to this blogger is employee/client. there's a difference. if you are taking photos at McDonalds they can ask you to leave the premises and not return.
they can ask you to leave the premises and not return even if you DON'T snap photos. private property.
i can't get cds where i live so i download them off the internet. i have bought about half my cd collection as a direct result of downloading music off of napster, kazaa, winmx, edonkey, overnet.
so they have made musicians money. they've cost musicians money too. but some people don't suck.
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don't you get the sociopolitical significance of kenny dying EVERY episode?
geez.
[answer: it's kind of funny]
you're not going to shower before you masturbate at your computer. it's twice the work.
but i can't.
see, i think that pretty much a reader is by default stimulating parts of the brain that rarely if ever get touched by tv viewing. i'm not saying that there aren't a lot of crap novels out there, but reading is uses more interpretive skills, grammar, and imagination. even crap novels.
that being said, there are worthwhile things on tv you won't find other places. tv, when used properly, provides a format that nothing else available does. it's very transparent and because of its simplicity can present complex ideas in an easy to digest manner.
the point i had missed was iTunes encoding directly from masters.
and about radiohead, i would say they have gotten a little too pre-recorded for my tastes, and hail to the thief is a welcome return to form such as it is. have you seen them perform their new material live? i have also heard an acoustic set by johnny and thom on krock that is beautifully performed, including many of their new songs.
they still build their music from the ground up.
i also forgot to add that i feel that many times the artist will listen to an mp3 of his music, while it is the production's job to adjust the levels, something that gets horribly skewed when ripping a CD to mp3. i am a firm believer in oggs and wished iTunes supported playing them (the plugin is laggy).
i cede many points to you. i hate 99% of the overproduced stuff nowadays too. you sound like someone who performs his work with integrity.
-nathan
i highly doubt that martians would know the latin or greek or indo-european etymologies concerning our everyday speak. that's one thing that's always bothered me about sci-fi.
they probably wouldn't speak english either, but at least they'd just translate their name for the planet into english if they did learn it. or use our word. and only geeks use the word terran.
but then again, who would make first contact is the geeks. ok. i take it all back.
terran it is.
i think all names thought up by companies that include exclamation points should be required to spell out the words "EXCLAMATION POINT" in big capital letters.
Pentium EXCLAMATION POINTEXCLAMATION POINTEXCLAMATION POINT
YahooEXCLAMATION POINT
it's freaking annoying. so are quotes used to emphasize things. this is "very" annoying.
over the past two years as a personal computer technician i've been aware of hundreds of new and used hard drives. i wouldn't swear off any of the big names, but:
1. ibm/hitachi 60 gig deskstars have made me lose enough money to make me stop buying hitachis for a long while.
2. those skinny little maxtors piss me off, although one of them made me 300 dollars. ahhh, yes. money.
i like western digitals and have only seen the 20 gig caviar or earlier fail, and i've never seen a seagate fail. this is, of course, excepting all those failures brought on by hdd's smacking against things.
those don't count.
i beg to differ.
the the place in summer is prague.
i'm assuming you haven't worked for anyone like radiohead. or the flaming lips. or tortoise, or yo la tengo or stereolab or anyone who pays much attention to the entire aural experience.
i'm not discounting the fact that artists like the above stated wouldn't upload some mp3s to their player and listen to their work that way, but it's to detect different things. if you're the one playing the guitar or piano or drums or bass there are plenty of things you hear that noone else does, because it's your own.
the finishing work matters. when i illegally downloaded hail to the thief in mp3 format, it was missing loads of character the CD had when i bought it.
open your ears.
it brings a tear to my eye. in cabo san lucas, they have been playing the same music in all the clubs for the past 10 years, since the audience rotates out every 3 days.
Aye!
you are the best looking smartest guy around!
cheers,
nathan
i don't actually use their search, but their directory is pretty nice, when you know the topic but would rather not figure out the proper wording to find it on google. that's not to say that other people's directories AREN'T, but i like yahoo's.
i'm probably an idiot too. dammit.
DarthWiggle done sed:
>>A game is absolutely not freedom of speech. And I'm a liberal.
----
Well, this kind of puts you in the same boat as Gore (the Missus) and Lieberman. Liberals for censorship. What a novel idea.
I may be WRONG in big capital letters, but I've seen more republican capitalist swine be for freedom of speech than liberals. It's because liberals feel much more obligated to protect people from the evils of the universe.
I'm not saying anything about your views on censorship, partly because I think you said it all yourself, but liberals are not for freedom. They are for everyone being protected from unpleasant experience.
Especially California liberals. God, I hate California.
Pot actually makes you think a lot. Only it's kind of non-linear and generally has to do with how to acquire cookies.
In all seriousness though, I have had times in my life where pot has much stimulated me. But it often does do too much to deaden the mind. Depends on what's going on in my life. I'm not smoking now (and no, I don't mean just this instant).
Now get back to work!!!
and having a father who has spent about 40 out of 56 years in Florida, and pretending people wouldn't get upset by racism, the Haitian stereotype is pretty damn funny.
With my father it has always been a thing to make fun of the racism, rather than either Haitians in relation to whites or whites in relation to Haitians. There are many Haitians who feel like they are owed whatever you have because they have less. And there are white people who won't give Haitians a fair chance.
But then again, my father's an easygoing guy and doesn't get insulted by much. GTA has always been racist, ageist, sexist, etc. And so I don't know where Haitians get off thinking it's targeting them. I mean, poor Italians. Poor Mexicans. Poor Rednecks. Poor Japanese. If the ideas presented in GTA mattered, we'd kind of be in deep shit.
I'm not trying to piss people off here, but I'm aware I may be modded down. I have two pretty good Haitian jokes that I'm not going to tell.
Cheers.
and search for 50, just so i don't exclude the hot 46-year olds. :-) ---[obligatory smiley]
and i'm 19.
dude, just think about the breasts. no thinky about mauling of web standards...
breasts.
happy.
[although i must admit that i F**KING HATE it when people throw crappy websites together that don't display correctly. grrrrr.....]
...it infects our genitals. that's the best kind of virus.
if you're unpleasant to the company or the customers or are costing money, etc. you can be asked to leave.
1. i think it probably is in writing
2. reiteration
3. reiteration
it wasn't just the photos. my point is that if i say, "you can't come in here and take photos, homey!" and then said homey takes pictures, i can make said homey leave.
i, as well as the management, regret to inform you, homey...
..they saw him as a bigger potential liability in the future. good for them. maybe he was a shitty employee. maybe he talked back to his boss. we hear nothing from microsoft, because this guy's claims are to take the words from the mouth of other angry individuals,
typical microsoft bullshit
they can remove you from their property if they want. it's a right they have. they don't have to exercise it if they don't feel threatened.
i wish people would stop being so fucking 0/1 about shit. there are millions of possible situations in the real world. not every framework applies.
...they could fire you if they wanted, for snapping pictures of a private area. i'm sure you agree to something when you get hired by microsoft, even if you don't see a contract.
the difference between all your examples and what happened to this blogger is employee/client. there's a difference. if you are taking photos at McDonalds they can ask you to leave the premises and not return.
they can ask you to leave the premises and not return even if you DON'T snap photos. private property.
...
i do.
i can't get cds where i live so i download them off the internet. i have bought about half my cd collection as a direct result of downloading music off of napster, kazaa, winmx, edonkey, overnet.
so they have made musicians money. they've cost musicians money too. but some people don't suck.
i mean me. --*I*-- don't suck.