Well, anime is simply the French word for animation, so yes. It's also easier to say than Japanese Animation or the incredibly hackneyed Japanimation (Ick).
Evangelion gives fanservice? More like a donkey punch followed by a boot to the head. Sure, there's implied nudity (like when we meet Asuka), but it's always followed by something depressing or violent. Not a lot of fun.
Now, if you want anime without excessive, or even any fan-service, it does exist:
Gasaraki: Military intrigue mixed with bullshit science and japanese legends.
Inu-Yaasha: didn't see the whole thing, but it seems more concerned with doing a coming-of-age story with a mythological backdrop.
Escaflowne: shoujou-mech crossover
Excel Saga: Depends on the episode, as each episode parodies a different subgenre of manga.
Kare Kano (aka his & Her Circumstance): (Each episode begins with a message about proper viewing habits) romantic comedy. more sappy than anything else.
(just for fun) Geobreeders: They're cats, so it doesn't count.
and if you think they don't churn out the merchandise, you'd be wise to check out sites that do japanese imports.
Sturgeons law: 90% of anything is crap. Yes, there's a great big pile of stuff that's utter garbage. There's also a smaller pile of stuff (like Seraphim Call) that's got a marginal audience. There's also a lot of really good stuff. About half of the stuff I like comes from Gainax.
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Buy what I want to pay for is bandwidth usage.
That is not what you bought. Your options are: business class DSL, various kinds of leased lines, and colocation. Wireless is sometimes an option, but that isn't widely available.
Why?
All your options for paying based on usage are expensive. If you just want a server, colocation and managed hosting are likely your best bet.
Two people, and usage that is probably below average.
So why are you bitching? Your ISP may care, but it can't find out and, unless you make a big stink, they won't care about you beyond your monthly check. In all seriousness, if you care about your ISP and its posturing, then switch. If you can't, then keep your head down and donate to a lobbyist group that represents your interest. That's how Democracy works in the US.
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Why does my ISP care how many computers I hook up to my network? I'm paying for the bandwidth.
No, you're paying for a personal internet connection. If you were paying for bandwidth, it would likely be more expensive and they wouldn't care what you did with the connection. That said, it shouldn't matter what you do, so long as you don't abuse the service, say by downloading stuff 24/7 or having 4 or 5 people using it all the time.
Would you like it if the phone company said you could only have 1 phone on your line, or the power company said you can't share electricity with your roommates? I didn't think so.
Well, it's already been mentioned that the phone company did just what you describe. Your analogy is flawed. Having more than 1 phone on the line doesn't affect the load on the phone company - you can only make 1 phone call at a time. The power company charges you based on usage, and at a higher rate if you exceed a set amount per mnonth, so why should they care?
Classical music is public domain. Any standard performance of it is also public domain
That's a pretty bold statement. I'm going to call bullshit on that unless you can produce something to support it.
Saying that these people should get copyrights on the performances is like saying that I should get a copyright on a public-domain book like 1984 if I republish it in a slightly different format from the original. That's absurd.
Don't be foolish - 1984 was published in 1948. It is under copyright. Oh, and the next time you hit the bookstore, see if you can find the books on tape. I'll bet those performances are copyrighted.
I've always thought the the great thing about networking along powerlines is that you can run a bundle of fiber alongside the power cables fairly cheaply and not have to worry about interference. As a bonus, you can power signal amplifiers pretty easily.
Now, running bits through a 10Kv line, that's just crazy.
Wrong. I hate to tell you but the ENTIRETY of American jurisprudence exists because rights aren't absolute, but rather exist in balance with each other.
If you read the original comment again, you will see that the person is objecting to a balance between what is guaranteed and total oppression. I don't need to tell you that this is a really bad thing, do I? I mean, constantly asking for a balance between what has been agreed and what you want is just another tactic to crush the opposition.
My favorite part of this whole sordid mess is the response from RIAA's Senior VP of Communication, Amy Weiss: "Perhaps the truth is less interesting than the facts." I mean, WTF?!
Don't get me wrong, I can't stand lazy journalists. Some simply copy press releases into their stories. It is galling when you catch them at it. As soon as you have some expertise in an area, or even read enough, news that previously looked credible falls apart.
Are you implying that it's any different at $MEGACHAINSTORE? If I walk into BestBuy and get some CD, all I own is a plastic and aluminum disc (plus CD art). If it were otherwise, I could legally replace the CDs I damage for a pittance.
What, is the big boss-man doing me a favor by giving me a job? Silly me, I thought it was because I filled a need that they had. My salary is a biweekly paycheck with bennies like vacation, sick days, and a 401k. I expect that my job will still be here tomorrow and, frankly, I can't see how you can live with a job so uncertain that you don't know from one day to the next if you will be working.
A bonus is a way for the company to thank me for my hard work. The crap you describe is what unions fought so hard to end.
If they majority are ethical people, then guns only add inequality: a single homicidal nutcase (regardless of age, gender, or physical ability) can now kill faster and and better than before. And now you've allowed the vicious little girl, the guy in a wheelchair, angry at life, and the disgruntled old man to blow away their victims , too! Hurray for your "equality"! Death for everyone!
Just to counter your wild speculation, I will mention that Kennesaw County requires every head of household to own a gun. Violent crime is nearly unknown.
Criminals can't just "get guns" legally -- that's the point! Gun and ammunition manufacturers can be tracked down -- they have to buy supplies somewhere, and the police just have to watch for shipments of the components of gunpowder shipped in mass quantities.
Criminals can and will obtain guns everywhere you can mention. Just recently, the Japanese discovered an assembly line for AK47s in their country - who knew? America is much bigger - you can hide a pistol assembly line pretty easily in montana. And the chief components of gunpowder are potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur. Fertilizer and ash make the first two.
As a parting shot, I will point out that making gun possession a lifetime offense will only encourage criminals to shoot more people. If al Capone is facing a life sentence, then it's in his best interest to shoot the cops before they find his guns. After all, what's ten years for murder compared to life in prison?
Did you consider what happens when somebody shoots a burglar and gets a life sentence? Also, are you going to tell the guy living in Alaska that he can't carry a rifle to defend himself against bears?
The mass killings you allude to are the exception. In spite of what you hear on the news, violent crime has been on the decrease for the past 10 or 20 years, most likely due to an increased standard of living.
The heavily circulated canard about acquaintance murders is deceptive - most of these murders can be explained as turf wars in inner cities.
Guns are used to prevent far more crimes than they are used to commit.
A gun and a small amount of training put a small woman, a bodybuilder, and an old man on a near-level field. This tends to reduce the amount of sexual assault as evidenced by statistics pointing to the large number of assaults prevented by guns.
Should you succeed in removing guns from everybody who shouldn't have them, you will remove this equalizer; most likely, thnumber of violent crimes will increase, as young athletic men now have a decided advantage.
What happens in reality is that you only disarm those who follow the law. Criminals can still get guns, and now they know that their victims will be unarmed. Why do you think the murder rate is so high in Washington DC?
Guns are a fact of life. Hysterical raving won't help anyone.
If I write something, and the law says you don't have the write to copy it without my permission,
Assuming that no written contract is in play and also that I have a legally obtained copy, I can copy it with impunity. I just can't redistribute the copies, nor can I retain them if I sell my original copy. Copyright governs distribution only. Further, copies made as a part of normal use are explicitly permitted.
As far as DRM goes, my objection is that it does infringe on my rights. Specifically, I am explicitly allowed to quote from a work and do various other things under copyright law. DRM and the DMCA straightjacket that comes with it prevent me from doing these things at the whim of whoever controls the DRM and makes it a felony to circumvent the restriction. It makes what are effectively legal judgements without the necessary insight to apply the law correctly. It also ventures into the realm of perfect enforcement, something which runs counter to our system of law.
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the end of the series has the most spectacular tentacle rape scene ever.
Ah, there's no tentacle rape, just a lot of tentacles. And a big bloodshot eye.
Are all japanese animations anime?
Well, anime is simply the French word for animation, so yes. It's also easier to say than Japanese Animation or the incredibly hackneyed Japanimation (Ick).
Evangelion gives fanservice? More like a donkey punch followed by a boot to the head. Sure, there's implied nudity (like when we meet Asuka), but it's always followed by something depressing or violent. Not a lot of fun.
Now, if you want anime without excessive, or even any fan-service, it does exist:
and if you think they don't churn out the merchandise, you'd be wise to check out sites that do japanese imports.
Sturgeons law: 90% of anything is crap. Yes, there's a great big pile of stuff that's utter garbage. There's also a smaller pile of stuff (like Seraphim Call) that's got a marginal audience. There's also a lot of really good stuff. About half of the stuff I like comes from Gainax.
Buy what I want to pay for is bandwidth usage.
That is not what you bought. Your options are: business class DSL, various kinds of leased lines, and colocation. Wireless is sometimes an option, but that isn't widely available.
Why?
All your options for paying based on usage are expensive. If you just want a server, colocation and managed hosting are likely your best bet.
Two people, and usage that is probably below average.
So why are you bitching? Your ISP may care, but it can't find out and, unless you make a big stink, they won't care about you beyond your monthly check. In all seriousness, if you care about your ISP and its posturing, then switch. If you can't, then keep your head down and donate to a lobbyist group that represents your interest. That's how Democracy works in the US.
Why does my ISP care how many computers I hook up to my network? I'm paying for the bandwidth.
No, you're paying for a personal internet connection. If you were paying for bandwidth, it would likely be more expensive and they wouldn't care what you did with the connection. That said, it shouldn't matter what you do, so long as you don't abuse the service, say by downloading stuff 24/7 or having 4 or 5 people using it all the time.
Would you like it if the phone company said you could only have 1 phone on your line, or the power company said you can't share electricity with your roommates? I didn't think so.
Well, it's already been mentioned that the phone company did just what you describe. Your analogy is flawed. Having more than 1 phone on the line doesn't affect the load on the phone company - you can only make 1 phone call at a time. The power company charges you based on usage, and at a higher rate if you exceed a set amount per mnonth, so why should they care?
Not at all. You can still perform the work, you just can't sell copies of someone else's performance of anything without getting permission.
Classical music is public domain. Any standard performance of it is also public domain
That's a pretty bold statement. I'm going to call bullshit on that unless you can produce something to support it.
Saying that these people should get copyrights on the performances is like saying that I should get a copyright on a public-domain book like 1984 if I republish it in a slightly different format from the original. That's absurd.
Don't be foolish - 1984 was published in 1948. It is under copyright. Oh, and the next time you hit the bookstore, see if you can find the books on tape. I'll bet those performances are copyrighted.
Powerline networking.
I've always thought the the great thing about networking along powerlines is that you can run a bundle of fiber alongside the power cables fairly cheaply and not have to worry about interference. As a bonus, you can power signal amplifiers pretty easily.
Now, running bits through a 10Kv line, that's just crazy.
anyone know if its possible to buy blank dual layer dvds and a combatible burner?
No, it is not possible and it will not be possible. Dual layer discs are pressed as 2 discs and glued together.
Denis Leary, is that you?
Wrong. I hate to tell you but the ENTIRETY of American jurisprudence exists because rights aren't absolute, but rather exist in balance with each other.
If you read the original comment again, you will see that the person is objecting to a balance between what is guaranteed and total oppression. I don't need to tell you that this is a really bad thing, do I? I mean, constantly asking for a balance between what has been agreed and what you want is just another tactic to crush the opposition.
Does anyone here know the formula for Coke?
Does it even matter? You can duplicate Coke, but you can't call it Coca-Cola, and anybody who drinks the stuff will just think it tastes like coke.
Does it have antigravity technology like the rumours say?
NCs don't work in 'work at will' states (like Texas).
While this is true, it's also true that you will have an easier time not signing the NC than getting it invalidated in court.
I like how riaa links the drop in sales to pirating
Because it sure as hell doesn't have a thing to do with the fact that they dropped production by 25% over the last 2 years.
My favorite part of this whole sordid mess is the response from RIAA's Senior VP of Communication, Amy Weiss: "Perhaps the truth is less interesting than the facts." I mean, WTF?!
Consumerist - is that anything like Communist?
Is it a religion, a form of government, or a moral code?
Animal, vegetable, or mineral?
Perhaps it's a breakfast cereal...
Maybe it's the choice of a new generation...
Don't get me wrong, I can't stand lazy journalists. Some simply copy press releases into their stories. It is galling when you catch them at it. As soon as you have some expertise in an area, or even read enough, news that previously looked credible falls apart.
In this case, it was an AP story.
Are you implying that it's any different at $MEGACHAINSTORE? If I walk into BestBuy and get some CD, all I own is a plastic and aluminum disc (plus CD art). If it were otherwise, I could legally replace the CDs I damage for a pittance.
how do you examine and manipulate this other than trying to login with that .DAT file?
Graft the dat file onto the registry somewhere and examine it there. It isn't hard, and you can even do it over the network.
What, is the big boss-man doing me a favor by giving me a job? Silly me, I thought it was because I filled a need that they had. My salary is a biweekly paycheck with bennies like vacation, sick days, and a 401k. I expect that my job will still be here tomorrow and, frankly, I can't see how you can live with a job so uncertain that you don't know from one day to the next if you will be working.
A bonus is a way for the company to thank me for my hard work. The crap you describe is what unions fought so hard to end.
If they majority are ethical people, then guns only add inequality: a single homicidal nutcase (regardless of age, gender, or physical ability) can now kill faster and and better than before. And now you've allowed the vicious little girl, the guy in a wheelchair, angry at life, and the disgruntled old man to blow away their victims , too! Hurray for your "equality"! Death for everyone!
Just to counter your wild speculation, I will mention that Kennesaw County requires every head of household to own a gun. Violent crime is nearly unknown.
Criminals can't just "get guns" legally -- that's the point! Gun and ammunition manufacturers can be tracked down -- they have to buy supplies somewhere, and the police just have to watch for shipments of the components of gunpowder shipped in mass quantities.
Criminals can and will obtain guns everywhere you can mention. Just recently, the Japanese discovered an assembly line for AK47s in their country - who knew? America is much bigger - you can hide a pistol assembly line pretty easily in montana. And the chief components of gunpowder are potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur. Fertilizer and ash make the first two.
As a parting shot, I will point out that making gun possession a lifetime offense will only encourage criminals to shoot more people. If al Capone is facing a life sentence, then it's in his best interest to shoot the cops before they find his guns. After all, what's ten years for murder compared to life in prison?
Did you consider what happens when somebody shoots a burglar and gets a life sentence? Also, are you going to tell the guy living in Alaska that he can't carry a rifle to defend himself against bears?
Put this in your gun control pipe and smoke it:
Guns are a fact of life. Hysterical raving won't help anyone.
If I write something, and the law says you don't have the write to copy it without my permission,
Assuming that no written contract is in play and also that I have a legally obtained copy, I can copy it with impunity. I just can't redistribute the copies, nor can I retain them if I sell my original copy. Copyright governs distribution only. Further, copies made as a part of normal use are explicitly permitted.
As far as DRM goes, my objection is that it does infringe on my rights. Specifically, I am explicitly allowed to quote from a work and do various other things under copyright law. DRM and the DMCA straightjacket that comes with it prevent me from doing these things at the whim of whoever controls the DRM and makes it a felony to circumvent the restriction. It makes what are effectively legal judgements without the necessary insight to apply the law correctly. It also ventures into the realm of perfect enforcement, something which runs counter to our system of law.
Check what I said - I didn't say it was a new form of matter, I said it was an accidentally discovered form of matter.
Penicillin isn't an accidentally discovered form of matter, it's an accidentally discovered chemical. We already knew about chemicals.