Yes; that's after Gandalf and company arrive at Isengard, which does not appear in TTT movie. They would have had to add much more than just that to make that scene reasonable. (Though I do wish that that episode had been in the movie.)
>>I'm wincing at the "liberties" I imagine Jackson is going to take with the third film.
Fortunately Jackson was quoted somewhere as saying that TTT was where he really chose to depart from the books. So Return of the King will probably be closer, back to Fellowship standards, with the exception of the lack of the battles for the Shire.
To be fair, I think Return is the shortest of the three parts once you lop off the appendices, so even if they include the battles for Hobbiton there isn't as much material as there is for the other movies.
But they're getting rid of the battles for Hobbiton?:-(
>>I only have a 5 disc DVD changer and so I'll have to get up from the couch after 12 hours to switch to the final disk!
You can change discs while another's playing, right? Just swap out the first disc of fellowship for the last disc of Return during the credits or a bathroom break and you'll be set.;-)
I agree with the other posters. Having not read the books until after I saw the extended version of Fellowship, there were many parts of the movie that were not clear in the original cut but that became understandable in the ektended release.
(I read the books after seeing the Two Towers... I couldn't *not* know how it ends, you know? And of course you can't read the Return of the King with out actually reading the first two thirds of the story, you know? I seriously wonder how many people were introduced to the books through the movies...)
>>set up email filters, restrict the websites they can visit... but don't blame those who supply them. a kid may not be able to buy a filthy magazine but it can still look through it until somebody notices. it's not that the spammers offer them free access to their site
As soon as someone invents a filter that does so without blocking good stuff I'll let you know. Baysean email filters are pretty good and I'd definitely install one, but let's see that stop mail if the kid signs up for hotmail or something.
I seem to have a harder time than most people at cursive. I find the claims it's faster entirely unfounded unless the result is illegable even by me. Another poster suggested it's because of left-handedness, which sounds like a possible explanantion.
Haha... perhaps that's why I seem to hate it even more that most people and can write about half as fast as I can print. Many people say that they find cursive faster, and I never understood that at all. You're the first person who has brought up a likely explanation.
Breadband... It's the newest rage. It delivers your choice of plain, oat, wheat, cinnamin, or rasin breat, toasted at your desire, to your cd drive much faster that traditional toasters can.
(Or it could just be a symptom of me not yet being quite used to the Dvorak keyboard, which has 'a' and 'o' right next to each other.)
I wouldn't refuse to pay the tax because, as people say, it's used for very good purposes. I just don't think that it's the right thing at the right time.
Yeah, of course many people would pay it. I'd bet almost everyone who has breadband now would. At least I don't see myself going back to dialup unless forced. However, the price is already driving people away when AOL is about half the cost and some other services are half of AOL's price, and adding another $5/mth certainly isn't going to help things.
Exactly the initiative that the government needs to take for breadband to become widespread. Noting like an extra 10% added on to the cost of something to get people to buy it.
I catch your drift... you're also referring to your reading comprehension skills? Note the quote "let's keep working and we can make linux better." The poster openly admits Linux needs improvement.
See http://www.pbs.org/insidepbs/annualreport2001/fisc al.html. A bit under $40,000 (7%) comes from the Dept. of Education. Another $90000 (11%) is from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. While established by Congress, it's unclear if this is supported by taxes.
Also, indivudial programs are often further subsidized by the National Endowment for the Arts or other agencies. Bill Nye was I think supported by the Ntional Science Foundation.
Te be honest though, I thought they got a larger portion of their budget from government grants, and I thought PBS got NEA funding directly.
Or a compromise. Make it like the lockpicking laws that some locales have. You can have them and use them for legal things, but if you use them to break and enter then the consequences are more severe than if you comitted the crime without.
Do the same with DRM. You break encryption to make backups, do fair-usey stuff, you're fine. You break encryption to commit copyright infringement, and you get harsher penalties than standard coryright law applies.
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Yes; that's after Gandalf and company arrive at Isengard, which does not appear in TTT movie. They would have had to add much more than just that to make that scene reasonable. (Though I do wish that that episode had been in the movie.)
Had you read the book before watching?
>>I'm wincing at the "liberties" I imagine Jackson is going to take with the third film.
Fortunately Jackson was quoted somewhere as saying that TTT was where he really chose to depart from the books. So Return of the King will probably be closer, back to Fellowship standards, with the exception of the lack of the battles for the Shire.
To be fair, I think Return is the shortest of the three parts once you lop off the appendices, so even if they include the battles for Hobbiton there isn't as much material as there is for the other movies.
:-(
But they're getting rid of the battles for Hobbiton?
>>I only have a 5 disc DVD changer and so I'll have to get up from the couch after 12 hours to switch to the final disk!
;-)
You can change discs while another's playing, right? Just swap out the first disc of fellowship for the last disc of Return during the credits or a bathroom break and you'll be set.
I agree with the other posters. Having not read the books until after I saw the extended version of Fellowship, there were many parts of the movie that were not clear in the original cut but that became understandable in the ektended release.
(I read the books after seeing the Two Towers... I couldn't *not* know how it ends, you know? And of course you can't read the Return of the King with out actually reading the first two thirds of the story, you know? I seriously wonder how many people were introduced to the books through the movies...)
...when disaster strikes, don't forget your towel.
"Okay, I'll just sign up for Hotmail."
I dunno about you, but I recieve plenty of HTML mail (mailing lists, etc.) that I want to read...
No, turning off HTNL is not a solution.
18 is cutoff for porn and 21 is for alcohol most places in the US.
>>set up email filters, restrict the websites they can visit... but don't blame those who supply them.
a kid may not be able to buy a filthy magazine but it can still look through it until somebody notices. it's not that the spammers offer them free access to their site
As soon as someone invents a filter that does so without blocking good stuff I'll let you know. Baysean email filters are pretty good and I'd definitely install one, but let's see that stop mail if the kid signs up for hotmail or something.
In general, I'll agree, but if someone had sendmespam as a name at a free account, I have no sympathy.
"Oh, I know... but I don't think cursive will completely disappear either. I suspect it will fall very much in line with calligraphy."
My connection has problems; something got garbled along the way.
Oh, I know... but I don't think cursive will completely disappear either. I suspect it will fall very much in line with c4zgraphy.
I seem to have a harder time than most people at cursive. I find the claims it's faster entirely unfounded unless the result is illegable even by me. Another poster suggested it's because of left-handedness, which sounds like a possible explanantion.
Haha... perhaps that's why I seem to hate it even more that most people and can write about half as fast as I can print. Many people say that they find cursive faster, and I never understood that at all. You're the first person who has brought up a likely explanation.
Breadband... It's the newest rage. It delivers your choice of plain, oat, wheat, cinnamin, or rasin breat, toasted at your desire, to your cd drive much faster that traditional toasters can.
(Or it could just be a symptom of me not yet being quite used to the Dvorak keyboard, which has 'a' and 'o' right next to each other.)
I wouldn't refuse to pay the tax because, as people say, it's used for very good purposes. I just don't think that it's the right thing at the right time.
Cursive is:
a) hard to learn,
b) hard to use, and
c) (usually) hard to read.
It looks nice, sure, but how many people do you see out bemoaning the loss of caligraphy? (Which looks a lot better than cursive IMO)
It's good for signatures and the occasional fancy invitation and such but that's about it.
Yeah, of course many people would pay it. I'd bet almost everyone who has breadband now would. At least I don't see myself going back to dialup unless forced. However, the price is already driving people away when AOL is about half the cost and some other services are half of AOL's price, and adding another $5/mth certainly isn't going to help things.
Exactly the initiative that the government needs to take for breadband to become widespread. Noting like an extra 10% added on to the cost of something to get people to buy it.
I catch your drift... you're also referring to your reading comprehension skills? Note the quote "let's keep working and we can make linux better." The poster openly admits Linux needs improvement.
Thanks for the info.
The difference between the 11% and 12% could be different years, or different roundings, or something.
See http://www.pbs.org/insidepbs/annualreport2001/fisc al.html. A bit under $40,000 (7%) comes from the Dept. of Education. Another $90000 (11%) is from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. While established by Congress, it's unclear if this is supported by taxes.
Also, indivudial programs are often further subsidized by the National Endowment for the Arts or other agencies. Bill Nye was I think supported by the Ntional Science Foundation.
Te be honest though, I thought they got a larger portion of their budget from government grants, and I thought PBS got NEA funding directly.
(And they are tax-exempt.)
Since people paid taxes supporting PBS.
Or a compromise. Make it like the lockpicking laws that some locales have. You can have them and use them for legal things, but if you use them to break and enter then the consequences are more severe than if you comitted the crime without.
Do the same with DRM. You break encryption to make backups, do fair-usey stuff, you're fine. You break encryption to commit copyright infringement, and you get harsher penalties than standard coryright law applies.