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quit splitting hairs. it's the same fucking story get over it
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The war on disease is being fought everyday by larger numbers of people than are in the military. Funny how you over look that fact to push your self righteous liberal agenda.
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Both super cops, both betrayed by their perfect systems, both out for justice and go against the system.
This is such a rip off of Minority Report it's pathetic.
The only real difference is this one is low tech while Minority Report actually introduced some sci-fi ideals. This is just wanna be matrix-minority report nonsense.
Maybe it will be good, Christian Bale is a fine actor, so is Tay Diggs, but honestly, the movie is unoriginal.
" Exactly what they are, no idea, demons to secret nazi craft, time travellers to interstellar visitors, angels to secret gov blackops-no idea, none. I tend to more think the correct answer is "all of the above"."
Or it's none of the above and YOU'RE the liar. I trust elected officials with college educations and clean background checks with top level security clearance a lot more than 16 year old kids running websites.
No offense, maybe you are right, maybe they are right, maybe I am wrong. I know it doesn't matter since you can't prove any of it. When you can I'll eat my words.
I've actually made an effort to not watch it. This should really tell FOX something. I love John Doe so I do watch FOX on Friday nights, but I hated Firefly so much I purposely have found something else to do during that 1 hour time slot (warcraft3).
It's one thing to be indifferent to a show and watch it because nothing else is on, it's another to purposely avoid it. The only show I hate more is M.A.S.H., the very theme songs makes me hurl.
I remember 5 years ago all the hype and promise of video on demand, video conferencing and the ilk.
It never happened, not just because of the RIAA but because ISP's were choked by the baby bells and couldn't sell broadband cheaply and competitively. Then there was the browser war that created about 10 different sets of standards ensuring no company could create a multimedia app without pissing everyone off for not supporting their OS/Format.
These issues still exist but hopefully MPEG4 will cure some of it. I don't know what to do on the ISP side, they are just totally screwed as long as they have to deal with the baby bells. Worldcom couldn't make it, why should any smaller ISP?
I personally don't care if it's always on. I just want it on when I want it, if that means flipping an on switch then so be it. I want it as fast as possible at the lowest price possible. I also do not want restrictions on it (i.e. no servers). As long as ISP's play that game I don't see broadband working out.
I have yet to see video conferencing work out even. I know one company that uses it and they had to get a secured dedicated T1 specifically for it. Video conferencing has so much potential it's crazy, but no one is taking advantage of it. Just watch the extras DVD in the Episode II DVD and see what Lucas's sound team did with the dedicated ISDN lines to Australia. They were doing the voice overs for the Camino characters in realtime across the world.
Anyway, some how or another all this stuff will need to shake out. The corporate arrogance will need to end it's attempts to tell customers what they want and actually listen to what they want and sell a product that meets the demand. I just don't see it happeneing any time soon.
I'm not the office going type. i don't carry a beeper unless the job requires it, i don't carry a cell phone because I don't like people to get a hold of me when it's convienient for THEM. I carried a cell phone for a while on the premis that it was for emergencies only (car accident etc) but that got old, especially when I looked back at the previous 25 years of my life and realized i didn't need one then, why should I now?
I don't need a PDA. The important phone numbers I need I have memorized (all 4 of them plus 911). My calendar is basic, nothing I can't remember.
I have a simple life as do most people. These gadgets just make things more complex to us simple folk. I can acknowledge there are people who could use this stuff but honestly, I'd rather have an iPod. It does all the basic functions your typical PDA does plus plays all my music.
I've never understood the fuss over these things. Maybe some people like being bothered 24/7. I'm sure arguments can be made one way or another, i just don't see how these things have significantly improved peoples lives. If anything I think they degrade the quality of life. Email 24/7? Phone calls 24/7? Being paged when on the toilet? Nah, it's my life, I'll talk to you when I feel like it, after I take a shit.
Bush had nothing to do with this. This was started by the democrats 4 fucking years ago. Get over your self righteous liberal ass and move the fuck along please.
You have it backwards. All you need to do is listen to Tipper Gore for about 10 seconds to realize that, especially since her and her liberal friends are in part responsible for the legislation on library censorship.
Why is it messed up? It's just sex, the human form, fantasy. I bet half the books in the library fluff drama section have sex scenes in them. Where does it stop? You can read about sex but you can't look at it?
It's people that say "it's seriously messed up" who basically don't have a sex life and have been told since infancy that sex was bad. To me that is seriously messed up.
It reminds me of the time my mom found a hustler magazine under my bathroom sink (you do it too damn it). She tossed it in the trash (censored it), so I walked down stairs and outside the next day and took it out, put it back under the sink.
Honestly people are making a much bigger deal about this stuff. Porn was easy enough to get when I was a kid a decade and a half ago, the fact that the net makes it a tad easier is moot. What do these folks think, seeing a nipple or the occasional double entry will mutate their kids into criminals?
Please, boys have hormones, they will get access to this stuff one way or another. It's when you force them to supress it and repress their emotions and hormones that they start acting out and punching chicks rather than chasing them. It's perfectly healthy for kids to know about sex, how it's done and more importantly why. The more these leftists fight it the worse off our kids are.
Because you are signing away the right when you register the service. Look at the EULA or license agreements these days, they ALL say they can use that data for what ever means they choose.
The government however contradicts this in many cases saying, no, people have a right to privacy and can not be forced to sign it away.
This is why Verizon is suing if I understand it correctly. They want their license agreements to actually be enforcable.
I dont know what country you live in, but here in America (you know, on planet Earth) you DO have a constitutional right to make money. Not only is it your right but it's expected for tax reasons.
Ever hear of the pursuit of happiness? Pretty hard to be happy living in a card board box with no hope of retirement or medical benefits.
If we didn't have a right to earn a living we would be soviet russia where the state provides it all.
I like Paula Zahn less honestly, shes as fake as they get. Aaron Brown would be third on my list, the whole crying thing after the democrats lost the election pushed me over the edge.
I think Dan Rather started the whole "On Location" thing. Notice he flys everywhere the action is so he can make sure it's HIS face we see and not some small fish.
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quit splitting hairs. it's the same fucking story get over it
The war on disease is being fought everyday by larger numbers of people than are in the military. Funny how you over look that fact to push your self righteous liberal agenda.
Both super cops, both betrayed by their perfect systems, both out for justice and go against the system.
Wash rinse repeat. Same crap different title.
This is such a rip off of Minority Report it's pathetic.
The only real difference is this one is low tech while Minority Report actually introduced some sci-fi ideals. This is just wanna be matrix-minority report nonsense.
Maybe it will be good, Christian Bale is a fine actor, so is Tay Diggs, but honestly, the movie is unoriginal.
" Exactly what they are, no idea, demons to secret nazi craft, time travellers to interstellar visitors, angels to secret gov blackops-no idea, none. I tend to more think the correct answer is "all of the above"."
Or it's none of the above and YOU'RE the liar. I trust elected officials with college educations and clean background checks with top level security clearance a lot more than 16 year old kids running websites.
No offense, maybe you are right, maybe they are right, maybe I am wrong. I know it doesn't matter since you can't prove any of it. When you can I'll eat my words.
I've actually made an effort to not watch it. This should really tell FOX something. I love John Doe so I do watch FOX on Friday nights, but I hated Firefly so much I purposely have found something else to do during that 1 hour time slot (warcraft3).
It's one thing to be indifferent to a show and watch it because nothing else is on, it's another to purposely avoid it. The only show I hate more is M.A.S.H., the very theme songs makes me hurl.
It's Dark Angels old time slot. That's why Dark Angel got canceled. I mean Jessica Alba rocks but on a Friday night I'm looking for the real thing.
I hate Firefly with a passion, it wouldn't have done well in any time slot, but that slot sucks for any show.
"What would you call a good sci-fi show these days? (Serious question.)"
That's the whole problem. There isn't one.
gee it couldn't just be that the show sucks could it?
I mean your points may very well be valid, but honestly, I don't know a single person that likes the show.
I remember 5 years ago all the hype and promise of video on demand, video conferencing and the ilk.
It never happened, not just because of the RIAA but because ISP's were choked by the baby bells and couldn't sell broadband cheaply and competitively. Then there was the browser war that created about 10 different sets of standards ensuring no company could create a multimedia app without pissing everyone off for not supporting their OS/Format.
These issues still exist but hopefully MPEG4 will cure some of it. I don't know what to do on the ISP side, they are just totally screwed as long as they have to deal with the baby bells. Worldcom couldn't make it, why should any smaller ISP?
I personally don't care if it's always on. I just want it on when I want it, if that means flipping an on switch then so be it. I want it as fast as possible at the lowest price possible. I also do not want restrictions on it (i.e. no servers). As long as ISP's play that game I don't see broadband working out.
I have yet to see video conferencing work out even. I know one company that uses it and they had to get a secured dedicated T1 specifically for it. Video conferencing has so much potential it's crazy, but no one is taking advantage of it. Just watch the extras DVD in the Episode II DVD and see what Lucas's sound team did with the dedicated ISDN lines to Australia. They were doing the voice overs for the Camino characters in realtime across the world.
Anyway, some how or another all this stuff will need to shake out. The corporate arrogance will need to end it's attempts to tell customers what they want and actually listen to what they want and sell a product that meets the demand. I just don't see it happeneing any time soon.
I'm not the office going type. i don't carry a beeper unless the job requires it, i don't carry a cell phone because I don't like people to get a hold of me when it's convienient for THEM. I carried a cell phone for a while on the premis that it was for emergencies only (car accident etc) but that got old, especially when I looked back at the previous 25 years of my life and realized i didn't need one then, why should I now?
I don't need a PDA. The important phone numbers I need I have memorized (all 4 of them plus 911). My calendar is basic, nothing I can't remember.
I have a simple life as do most people. These gadgets just make things more complex to us simple folk. I can acknowledge there are people who could use this stuff but honestly, I'd rather have an iPod. It does all the basic functions your typical PDA does plus plays all my music.
I've never understood the fuss over these things. Maybe some people like being bothered 24/7. I'm sure arguments can be made one way or another, i just don't see how these things have significantly improved peoples lives. If anything I think they degrade the quality of life. Email 24/7? Phone calls 24/7? Being paged when on the toilet? Nah, it's my life, I'll talk to you when I feel like it, after I take a shit.
Bush had nothing to do with this. This was started by the democrats 4 fucking years ago. Get over your self righteous liberal ass and move the fuck along please.
You have it backwards. All you need to do is listen to Tipper Gore for about 10 seconds to realize that, especially since her and her liberal friends are in part responsible for the legislation on library censorship.
Why is it messed up? It's just sex, the human form, fantasy. I bet half the books in the library fluff drama section have sex scenes in them. Where does it stop? You can read about sex but you can't look at it?
It's people that say "it's seriously messed up" who basically don't have a sex life and have been told since infancy that sex was bad. To me that is seriously messed up.
It reminds me of the time my mom found a hustler magazine under my bathroom sink (you do it too damn it). She tossed it in the trash (censored it), so I walked down stairs and outside the next day and took it out, put it back under the sink.
Honestly people are making a much bigger deal about this stuff. Porn was easy enough to get when I was a kid a decade and a half ago, the fact that the net makes it a tad easier is moot. What do these folks think, seeing a nipple or the occasional double entry will mutate their kids into criminals?
Please, boys have hormones, they will get access to this stuff one way or another. It's when you force them to supress it and repress their emotions and hormones that they start acting out and punching chicks rather than chasing them. It's perfectly healthy for kids to know about sex, how it's done and more importantly why. The more these leftists fight it the worse off our kids are.
First of all, "everyone" is not saying "so what". In fact looking over the posts it appears to be a select few.
Second the issue with public cameras you stated is an issue because we don't want big brother looking over our shoulder everywhere we go.
Don't try to generalize Americans, it never works.
where will you go? they are all doing these things. you don't have a choice right now other than to choose the lesser evil.
Collecting that data would be next to useless. They are talking about targeted advertisement to individuals.
Because you are signing away the right when you register the service. Look at the EULA or license agreements these days, they ALL say they can use that data for what ever means they choose.
The government however contradicts this in many cases saying, no, people have a right to privacy and can not be forced to sign it away.
This is why Verizon is suing if I understand it correctly. They want their license agreements to actually be enforcable.
How would they know what "stuff" is in the box? I don't know about you but all I ever seen them have is the who/where/when. Plus the size and weight.
If I order 10 CD's from amazon they have no clue what CD's I bought unless amazon tells them.
Sorry but your argument doesn't hold to reason.
I dont know what country you live in, but here in America (you know, on planet Earth) you DO have a constitutional right to make money. Not only is it your right but it's expected for tax reasons.
Ever hear of the pursuit of happiness? Pretty hard to be happy living in a card board box with no hope of retirement or medical benefits.
If we didn't have a right to earn a living we would be soviet russia where the state provides it all.
Next time think about it
Interesting, thanks for the link.
I agree, it is expensive to actually research something.
I already did my time, 7 freakin years ago. You just dont quit with the stupidity do you?
The fact you can say Bush isnt defending our country makes you a traitor in my eyes. Its idiots like you that let Bin Laden exist (Carter anyone?).
Run along now little one, you ran out of lies years ago.
I like Paula Zahn less honestly, shes as fake as they get. Aaron Brown would be third on my list, the whole crying thing after the democrats lost the election pushed me over the edge.
I think Dan Rather started the whole "On Location" thing. Notice he flys everywhere the action is so he can make sure it's HIS face we see and not some small fish.
"But given our country's recent and violent list to starboard"
What, like defending our nation? Jesus, give it a freaking rest already with that liberal propaganda.