Danny Glover is costarring
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New Mad Max Film
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In an interview Mel and Danny proclaimed "We're not to old for this shit!"
Re:The last of the V8 Interceptors
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New Mad Max Film
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Just use NOS. I had NOS + super charger in a 78 camaro in high school. I blew the manifold senior year hitting 170+mph on the freeway at 2am.
They are fun to have but they get pricey in terms of maintenance. It's like having a kid, you gotta pamper it.
What I want is to build one myself. My old 78 was 90% done by the guy i bought it from. I want to go to a junk yard and find me a frame, then start building from there. I hear Corvettes are great for this, early model 60's vettes that is. Okay I strayed from the topic a little.
More important than actors? Fine you get your ass up in front of the camera.
Sorry pal but actors go through hell trying to make, they earn their dues just like everyone else. Drop the elitest attitude.
Yes Mel makes a lot of cash. Big deal, he earns it.
Don't like that? To bad, Mel will pack the house. No one cares who wrote, for better or worse.
I happen to like Mels acting, have since I saw the first Mad Max movie. He's extremely talented and deserves what ever the market is willing to give him
Government serves the people. The actress with big boobs is a person, the government serves her as well as you and I.
Those groups are peoples advocates who speak directly for the people who created them.
Businesses dont speak for anyone but themselves. They dont speak for employees, they don't even speak for stock holder, they speak for executives who seek to gain new stock holder and make more money.
If you can't see the difference between a politcal activist group and big business buying politicians then you need some serious work in the education department. This is beginners Poli-Sci stuff people.
Capitalism was meant to be seperate from government. That's the very difinition of capitalism.
If you can't tell the difference between a government contract for military goods and business/government corruption then I have to honestly tell you, YOU are part of the problem.
NASA should have been privatised long ago so that part of your argument is moot.
"FAA can't work with Bombardier, Airbus or Boeing on safety standards because of the seperation of business and government."
This was about the most ignorant statement I have ever seen in my life. Safety standards are for the people who fly which is what the FAA is supposed to over see. If you can't distinguish between the government doing it's job and the government inapproprietly recieving money from businesses then you have a more serious problem than ignorance, it's called stupidity.
Pollsters have the job of polling citizens for the sole purpose of guiding government policy. All your corporate influence does is muddy the waters.
The number of people in this country working for a fortune 500 company is dwarfed in comparison to the number of people who work for themseleves or small business or do consulting work of some kind.
Everyone has a say in the goings on of this country, not just your big companies. Sorry but this is how it works.
Their called Pollsters. They advise politians on public opinion, which is supposed to dictate policy. With the corporations lining their greedy pockets however this doesn't happen.
Corporations don't speak for millions of people, they speak for their stock holders and their bottomline.
The richest man in the Senate right now is Kerry, a democrat, who BTW is running for President in 2004. He has his fingers in more big company tills than half the of the Senate combined. Likewise for Clinton and Daschle.
No one is doing it more than anyone else, and to presume so is detrimental to our progress.
All good ideas but I'm afraid politics and big business are to inter mingled today to ever change. However you never can tell. If we can over come slavery then over coming some fat cats on wallstreet should be a snap.
Just as there is seperation between church and state, there should be seperation of business and state.
Even our President has interests in oil companies at home and abroad. I'm not saying Bush is doing anything wrong, but the potential for abuse is huge.
Politians are supposed to be public servants, yet we have Senators like Kerry (who is BTW running for President in 2004) who have upwards of 600 million in the bank and god only knows how much much in stocks in these companies. They care more about big business than they do us. That's not servicing the public, thats ripping the public off.
All politians are guilty of it too. You can't point at the Dems or the Republicans for this. Both are doing it.
Busines, big or small, needs to stay the hell out of politics and work on their business model for a change. Stop trying to pass legislation when your business model starts to fail (RIAA MPAA). Stop passing laws that benefit businesses to the detriment of the people. Just flat out stop the fucking insanity!!
Politicians wonder why people don't trust them. This is exactly why.
I'm a Buddhist, there is no deity in Buddhism, in fact it's one of the oldest modern religions that just happens to not have deities. Anyway...
The Buddha noticed this trend 2600 years ago. He was a highly educated prince in India before becoming the Buddha (the first enlightened monk). He noticed people flocked to god out of fear. Native tribal people feared thunder and therefore proclaimed it was from god. They feared floods and flocked to gods in the hopes of protection. When you wisen up and build a damn, god is no longer necessary. This is simplified greatly but whatever.
Your observations are correct and have been observed by others for thousands of years.
Correct. That is how they are forming, the the plates are moving due to volcanic activity (hot rock sliding around under our feet). My post was merely a simplification.
I never said ther wouldn't be oceans like we think of them today. I merely pointed out there might not have been.
If I recall correctly, it's been 12 years since I studied this stuff, the earth went through a huge cooling phase that last several thousand/million years of almost constant rain fall.
There would have been oceans for sure, perhaps not large oceans like we think of them today but certanly oceans or at least an ocean (singular). The land masses we have today were pushed to the surface by volcanic activity which in and of itself would have taken billions of years (think K2 and the Himilayas).
" As all life is compartmentalized (and generally subcompartmentalized), then compartmentalization is a necessary event in the creation of Earthlike life. The theories that start with the ocean being an amino acid soup (and how did those amino acids get us the DNA we need for replication?) are all fine and good, but they really don't get at how clumps of lipids, proteins and DNA became self replicating and distinct from that clump over there."
It's called mutation. Perhaps reading darwin would explain it to you.
There is a such thing as too many options. Would you like to try and explain this to my mom who can't use our HDTV remote control?
I'm not all that familiar with Ogg so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt here that this is cool. However Ogg has enough working against it in the form of MP3 that adding complexity to it is going hinder it's acceptance, not increase it.
Re:Close Encounters of the Worst Kind
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· Score: 2
Kinda like how James Camerons name got used in Dark Angel when he only directed one episode in 2 seasons.
whats so great about it? I'm not being sarcastic here, just curious. I visited the website but couldn't get any idea of what they are actually doing. The website is horrible. I had reservations the second I had to click on the big massinova image just to enter. There was nothing anywhere obvious stating what it is they do.
The state of the economy has little to do with it. In actuality it's all politics.
This trial is incredibly expensive. States have a limited budget for prosecuting, they recieve this budget regardless of the state of the economy. Each states District Attorneys has to make due with that budget as best they can. They have murders and rapists to deal with, MS rates pretty low on the scale as far as prioity is concerned. The average citizen could care less about the MS case, but they do care if a rapist is roaming their neighborhood.
Besides that the point of this trial was to draw attention. The states and feds never would have gotten what they wanted, it just wasn't in the cards. These trials ar more about bringing public awareness than justice. Now everyone knows there is something wrong in Redmond, where before they may not have. In the end consumers will decide.
" We have law makers introducing anti-terorism laws [e.g. patriot act et al.] You have law makers introducing new adjustments to miranda, you have law makers trying to break up a computer firm in a tough economic time."
The above is false. The miranda case currently in review is in regards to a police officer who shot and blinded/crippled a mexican immigrant for no particular reason and is now trying to justify a false confession from him while riding in the ambulance to the hospital with him and harrassing a confession out of him. The case is bogus background noise to try and save the officer from going to jail.
"Suppose they manage to shut down MS [or severely disrupt it]. What comes of that? 1000s of people lose their jobs."
No one is trying to shut down MS. They are trying to find justice for the companies MS has destroyed.
"By making MSFT illegal and leaving linux as the only option you'd actually be hurting the industry, not helping it."
There are many options, Apple, Linux, FreeBSD, Sun. The list would be much larger if it wasn't for MS shutting down companies such as Be Inc. and destroying OS/2's chances of making it. If MS got out of the way today, there would be 20 companies inline tomorrow to pick up the slack. It's called a free market and is the only proven method for economic stability and growth.
"When linux distros actually compete with Windows [e.g. in a meaningful sense, having 1500 packages on 3 CD's is not "competition" when installing a GFX driver can kill the install] then we'll see the beginning of the demise of Windows."
Agaian, no one is wishing for the demise of windows. It has it's place just like Linux does. Linux will never be as userfriendly as Windows or MacOS. Linux developers don't care about that nether do most Linux users. It's only when a "company" is held accountable for it's products due to bad sales/no sales that the product advances. Linux for this reason will always be playing catchup until some company picks it up and actually does something with it. However they cant do something with it because they have to make it freely available and like my mom says "If you're going to give it away, no one is going to pay you for it". It's just as simple as that.
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In an interview Mel and Danny proclaimed "We're not to old for this shit!"
Just use NOS. I had NOS + super charger in a 78 camaro in high school. I blew the manifold senior year hitting 170+mph on the freeway at 2am.
They are fun to have but they get pricey in terms of maintenance. It's like having a kid, you gotta pamper it.
What I want is to build one myself. My old 78 was 90% done by the guy i bought it from. I want to go to a junk yard and find me a frame, then start building from there. I hear Corvettes are great for this, early model 60's vettes that is. Okay I strayed from the topic a little.
More important than actors? Fine you get your ass up in front of the camera.
Sorry pal but actors go through hell trying to make, they earn their dues just like everyone else. Drop the elitest attitude.
Yes Mel makes a lot of cash. Big deal, he earns it.
Don't like that? To bad, Mel will pack the house. No one cares who wrote, for better or worse.
I happen to like Mels acting, have since I saw the first Mad Max movie. He's extremely talented and deserves what ever the market is willing to give him
Never fear, Jar-Jar to the rescue!
They were so ahead of their time. the essential were doing what Water World tried to do 20 years before.
The messages in the movie are subtle and often hidden under all the chaos and death, but they are there nonetheless.
Mel Gibson is a superb actor, if anyone can pull this off it's him. Very few actors can sustain a series like this, Stallone, Arnold, Bruce Willis.
I'm boycotting the theatres but I'll definately by the DVD.
Government serves the people. The actress with big boobs is a person, the government serves her as well as you and I.
Those groups are peoples advocates who speak directly for the people who created them.
Businesses dont speak for anyone but themselves. They dont speak for employees, they don't even speak for stock holder, they speak for executives who seek to gain new stock holder and make more money.
If you can't see the difference between a politcal activist group and big business buying politicians then you need some serious work in the education department. This is beginners Poli-Sci stuff people.
Capitalism was meant to be seperate from government. That's the very difinition of capitalism.
If you can't tell the difference between a government contract for military goods and business/government corruption then I have to honestly tell you, YOU are part of the problem.
NASA should have been privatised long ago so that part of your argument is moot.
"FAA can't work with Bombardier, Airbus or Boeing on safety standards because of the seperation of business and government."
This was about the most ignorant statement I have ever seen in my life. Safety standards are for the people who fly which is what the FAA is supposed to over see. If you can't distinguish between the government doing it's job and the government inapproprietly recieving money from businesses then you have a more serious problem than ignorance, it's called stupidity.
Pollsters have the job of polling citizens for the sole purpose of guiding government policy. All your corporate influence does is muddy the waters.
The number of people in this country working for a fortune 500 company is dwarfed in comparison to the number of people who work for themseleves or small business or do consulting work of some kind.
Everyone has a say in the goings on of this country, not just your big companies. Sorry but this is how it works.
That has nothing to do with the argument. They can produce just as they always have without buying politians.
It's called Capitalism
Their called Pollsters. They advise politians on public opinion, which is supposed to dictate policy. With the corporations lining their greedy pockets however this doesn't happen.
Corporations don't speak for millions of people, they speak for their stock holders and their bottomline.
Because we can't all come together on the vi vs. Emacs debate, let alone campaign finance reform.
The richest man in the Senate right now is Kerry, a democrat, who BTW is running for President in 2004. He has his fingers in more big company tills than half the of the Senate combined. Likewise for Clinton and Daschle.
No one is doing it more than anyone else, and to presume so is detrimental to our progress.
All good ideas but I'm afraid politics and big business are to inter mingled today to ever change. However you never can tell. If we can over come slavery then over coming some fat cats on wallstreet should be a snap.
Just as there is seperation between church and state, there should be seperation of business and state.
Even our President has interests in oil companies at home and abroad. I'm not saying Bush is doing anything wrong, but the potential for abuse is huge.
Politians are supposed to be public servants, yet we have Senators like Kerry (who is BTW running for President in 2004) who have upwards of 600 million in the bank and god only knows how much much in stocks in these companies. They care more about big business than they do us. That's not servicing the public, thats ripping the public off.
All politians are guilty of it too. You can't point at the Dems or the Republicans for this. Both are doing it.
Busines, big or small, needs to stay the hell out of politics and work on their business model for a change. Stop trying to pass legislation when your business model starts to fail (RIAA MPAA). Stop passing laws that benefit businesses to the detriment of the people. Just flat out stop the fucking insanity!!
Politicians wonder why people don't trust them. This is exactly why.
I'm a Buddhist, there is no deity in Buddhism, in fact it's one of the oldest modern religions that just happens to not have deities. Anyway...
The Buddha noticed this trend 2600 years ago. He was a highly educated prince in India before becoming the Buddha (the first enlightened monk). He noticed people flocked to god out of fear. Native tribal people feared thunder and therefore proclaimed it was from god. They feared floods and flocked to gods in the hopes of protection. When you wisen up and build a damn, god is no longer necessary. This is simplified greatly but whatever.
Your observations are correct and have been observed by others for thousands of years.
Correct. That is how they are forming, the the plates are moving due to volcanic activity (hot rock sliding around under our feet). My post was merely a simplification.
I never said ther wouldn't be oceans like we think of them today. I merely pointed out there might not have been.
If I recall correctly, it's been 12 years since I studied this stuff, the earth went through a huge cooling phase that last several thousand/million years of almost constant rain fall.
There would have been oceans for sure, perhaps not large oceans like we think of them today but certanly oceans or at least an ocean (singular). The land masses we have today were pushed to the surface by volcanic activity which in and of itself would have taken billions of years (think K2 and the Himilayas).
" As all life is compartmentalized (and generally subcompartmentalized), then compartmentalization is a necessary event in the creation of Earthlike life. The theories that start with the ocean being an amino acid soup (and how did those amino acids get us the DNA we need for replication?) are all fine and good, but they really don't get at how clumps of lipids, proteins and DNA became self replicating and distinct from that clump over there."
It's called mutation. Perhaps reading darwin would explain it to you.
There is a such thing as too many options. Would you like to try and explain this to my mom who can't use our HDTV remote control?
I'm not all that familiar with Ogg so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt here that this is cool. However Ogg has enough working against it in the form of MP3 that adding complexity to it is going hinder it's acceptance, not increase it.
Kinda like how James Camerons name got used in Dark Angel when he only directed one episode in 2 seasons.
But kids DO know everything. Just ask mine.
That is interesting, I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the info!
whats so great about it? I'm not being sarcastic here, just curious. I visited the website but couldn't get any idea of what they are actually doing. The website is horrible. I had reservations the second I had to click on the big massinova image just to enter. There was nothing anywhere obvious stating what it is they do.
The state of the economy has little to do with it. In actuality it's all politics.
This trial is incredibly expensive. States have a limited budget for prosecuting, they recieve this budget regardless of the state of the economy. Each states District Attorneys has to make due with that budget as best they can. They have murders and rapists to deal with, MS rates pretty low on the scale as far as prioity is concerned. The average citizen could care less about the MS case, but they do care if a rapist is roaming their neighborhood.
Besides that the point of this trial was to draw attention. The states and feds never would have gotten what they wanted, it just wasn't in the cards. These trials ar more about bringing public awareness than justice. Now everyone knows there is something wrong in Redmond, where before they may not have. In the end consumers will decide.
" We have law makers introducing anti-terorism laws [e.g. patriot act et al.] You have law makers introducing new adjustments to miranda, you have law makers trying to break up a computer firm in a tough economic time."
The above is false. The miranda case currently in review is in regards to a police officer who shot and blinded/crippled a mexican immigrant for no particular reason and is now trying to justify a false confession from him while riding in the ambulance to the hospital with him and harrassing a confession out of him. The case is bogus background noise to try and save the officer from going to jail.
"Suppose they manage to shut down MS [or severely disrupt it]. What comes of that? 1000s of people lose their jobs."
No one is trying to shut down MS. They are trying to find justice for the companies MS has destroyed.
"By making MSFT illegal and leaving linux as the only option you'd actually be hurting the industry, not helping it."
There are many options, Apple, Linux, FreeBSD, Sun. The list would be much larger if it wasn't for MS shutting down companies such as Be Inc. and destroying OS/2's chances of making it. If MS got out of the way today, there would be 20 companies inline tomorrow to pick up the slack. It's called a free market and is the only proven method for economic stability and growth.
"When linux distros actually compete with Windows [e.g. in a meaningful sense, having 1500 packages on 3 CD's is not "competition" when installing a GFX driver can kill the install] then we'll see the beginning of the demise of Windows."
Agaian, no one is wishing for the demise of windows. It has it's place just like Linux does. Linux will never be as userfriendly as Windows or MacOS. Linux developers don't care about that nether do most Linux users. It's only when a "company" is held accountable for it's products due to bad sales/no sales that the product advances. Linux for this reason will always be playing catchup until some company picks it up and actually does something with it. However they cant do something with it because they have to make it freely available and like my mom says "If you're going to give it away, no one is going to pay you for it". It's just as simple as that.