It is interesting (though entirely off topic) that you mention Velvia. I'm a beginner photographer, though I have books on the subject that go back to the turn of the century, and you can see the progression from b&w, to sepia, to colour to the current trend of (what I like to call it) "in your face" colour. Everything is over exposed/over saturated. Larger than life, as it were. And the sad part, to me anyway, is when I try to represent the way the world is through the lens, it's dull and non-interesting by comparision. Even though this over saturation trend doesn't even remotely reflect what's going on in the real world, or the picture just taken.
...2000's? Paris Hilton? Britany Spears? You have got to be kidding me....
Perhaps you do not travel in the circles that I do, or perhaps you are simply trying to compare to "popular" music, in which case you can be forgiven for such lines of thought, but there are whole worlds of music out there that can fill entire stadiums, that will never make it to the airwaves simply because they are not "radio friendly."
Check out bands like Bathory, who created the Black Metal music scene, or Destruction, credited with the Thrash movement. Examine Thyrane, or Mayhem, or Children of Bodom, perhaps...And Oceans for a good example of the merging of Black Metal and Symphonic orchestras.
It's simply amazing what one can find once one turns off the radio.
You know, the widescreen *theatrical* version (some of us *like* the voiceovers) because Mr. Scott is pulling the same shit that Mr. Lucas does/did...only allowing us to see his "vision" of the film.
PITA that was.
That aside, the F/X are very good, and given that it wasn't done in CGI, more believeable and realistic IMO.
CGI attempts to emulate reality more cheaply than can be done by traditional F/X, but with the state of CGI advancing so rapidly, older CGI flicks look worse than if they'd been done the traditional way, and yet, even the most high tech and up-to-date CGI doesn't look as good to our eyes as reality, something about the way light bounces off things is my guess.
I don't recall hearing *any* politician, regardless of the country they are in, but especially the Congressional ones, apologize, or otherwise admit they were wrong regarding these WMDs.
They were all hell-bent on starting a quick war, perhaps in the hopes of cleaning up in the polls and making themselves look good (which, they should know by now, is impossible in the eyes of the American people and perhaps the world).
It was not just our President who was convinced, but Congress was as well, even the notoriously liberal (in all the wrong ways) Kennedy, who said, and I quote here:
"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction." - Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, MA), Sept. 27, 2002
and one from Mr. "I invented the Interwebs":
"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power." - Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
Whether we went in looking for nukes or bacteria is moot, we are there now, but those that saw the war take an unfavourable turn (and apparently know nothing of history, the losses we have incurred there are miniscule compared to, say WW2 island hopping losses) have hardly admitted their mistake in being for it.
The hypocrasy surrounding the entire Iraq was is astounding.
>>...You've obviously never heard of Senator Diane Fienstien, who said she would take every gun from Americans if she could...
Not to mention her complete and total hypocracy, she was once 'busted' carrying a concealed handgun, without a permit, and in a place that didn't allow guns. Her response was, in effect, "the laws I make don't apply to me."
Backing you up on this, one of the conspiracys I had seen mentioned the impossibility of steel in the twin towers melting from the kind of heat generated by the planes crashing into them.
Just last week or so, a tanker truck caught fire and burned on a california highway system, and the heat generated from that, melted the steel support structure and the roadways collapsed.
So yes, fire can melt steel and cause large buildings to collapse, so it's one more conspiracy de-bunked
The fad term "global warming" is applied to al the evil things mankind does to the environment.
Does the earth go through cyclic changes in temperature? Absolutrely.
Is it the end of the world as ascribed by the eco people? Of course not (and that's why I call GW BS)
And there was an interesting study I heard on the radio that the glariers melting were a natural part of offsetting the rise in temps, that occur naturally.
The point is, GW is NOT hard accept fact, but that doesn't mean we (mankind) can't help do something to offset the effects
>>In this case, any blame rests solidly with users who have no idea what they should or shouldn't let run on their computers.
There is a problem with this, ever seen a dialog box pop up saying that such and such is attempting to run, will you allow?
This is especially the case with Norton Internet Firewall, and the such and such can often be something like mspooler.exe, which to a standard user, or total novice is utterly meaningless.
Rather than pop up and say some obscurely named app is trying run, what about a dialog that says this application trying to run is part of the OS and is recognized as such?
In other words, give a meaningful plain english question, that might just allow the user to understand what's actually transpiring, as opposed to geek speek.
No one seems to want to take you up on this, so I'll give it a swing:
re: 1. Political Appointments. What he has done is in no way different than any other president preceeding him. Right or wrong, it is business as usual. I don't recall any president ever appointing a "common man", much less one of opposing views (Greenpeace as you mention, or PETA) to a position of influence.
re: 2. Personal Freedoms and Liberties. No arguments. With the possible exception of the Red Scare back in the 50s, he has done the most damage to our freedoms.
re: 3. Iraq War. I disagree. Recall that, just after 9/11, virtually *every* member of Congress, both Democrat AND republican (and the odd Independent or two) were screaming for blood and were looking at Iraq's leaders as the cause. I recall quite clearly the number of 'intel' reports, not just from the US, but the USSR, UK, GDR, MOSSAD, etc. stating more or less the same thing, Saddam was dangerous and needed taking out.
re: 4. Corporate Welfare. That 'idea' didn't start with ush, and plenty of other Presidents has abused it and at the same time had the opportunity to fix it, and they didn't. If you want to blame someone for CW, find the Congressional session that started it.
spend nearly all my time outside of work on my PC. Then I got a job in the PC world, and then I quit being on it outside of my normal job.
Then I met a girl, and got married. Since she turned out to be a complete psycho bitch (I should have known...should have known) and now spend all my free time *back* on the PC, and away from her as much as possible.
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It is interesting (though entirely off topic) that you mention Velvia. I'm a beginner photographer, though I have books on the subject that go back to the turn of the century, and you can see the progression from b&w, to sepia, to colour to the current trend of (what I like to call it) "in your face" colour. Everything is over exposed/over saturated. Larger than life, as it were. And the sad part, to me anyway, is when I try to represent the way the world is through the lens, it's dull and non-interesting by comparision. Even though this over saturation trend doesn't even remotely reflect what's going on in the real world, or the picture just taken.
What to do, what to do...
FWIW I don't think that was actually a black hole he put his finger in, more like the Other Side (that which had infected the ship)
Just a guess tho-
...2000's? Paris Hilton? Britany Spears? You have got to be kidding me....
...And Oceans for a good example of the merging of Black Metal and Symphonic orchestras.
Perhaps you do not travel in the circles that I do, or perhaps you are simply trying to compare to "popular" music, in which case you can be forgiven for such lines of thought, but there are whole worlds of music out there that can fill entire stadiums, that will never make it to the airwaves simply because they are not "radio friendly."
Check out bands like Bathory, who created the Black Metal music scene, or Destruction, credited with the Thrash movement. Examine Thyrane, or Mayhem, or Children of Bodom, perhaps
It's simply amazing what one can find once one turns off the radio.
Any idea how many US products are over there in Cuba and Syria?
I'll give you a hint, lots.
Just because some provision says "no", doesn't make it so
You know, the widescreen *theatrical* version (some of us *like* the voiceovers) because Mr. Scott is pulling the same shit that Mr. Lucas does/did...only allowing us to see his "vision" of the film.
PITA that was.
That aside, the F/X are very good, and given that it wasn't done in CGI, more believeable and realistic IMO.
CGI attempts to emulate reality more cheaply than can be done by traditional F/X, but with the state of CGI advancing so rapidly, older CGI flicks look worse than if they'd been done the traditional way, and yet, even the most high tech and up-to-date CGI doesn't look as good to our eyes as reality, something about the way light bounces off things is my guess.
I don't recall hearing *any* politician, regardless of the country they are in, but especially the Congressional ones, apologize, or otherwise admit they were wrong regarding these WMDs.
They were all hell-bent on starting a quick war, perhaps in the hopes of cleaning up in the polls and making themselves look good (which, they should know by now, is impossible in the eyes of the American people and perhaps the world).
It was not just our President who was convinced, but Congress was as well, even the notoriously liberal (in all the wrong ways) Kennedy, who said, and I quote here:
"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction."
- Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, MA), Sept. 27, 2002
and one from Mr. "I invented the Interwebs":
"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power."
- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
Whether we went in looking for nukes or bacteria is moot, we are there now, but those that saw the war take an unfavourable turn (and apparently know nothing of history, the losses we have incurred there are miniscule compared to, say WW2 island hopping losses) have hardly admitted their mistake in being for it.
The hypocrasy surrounding the entire Iraq was is astounding.
Yeah but hanging them would take forever...and I ran out of sharks...
>>...You've obviously never heard of Senator Diane Fienstien, who said she would take every gun from Americans if she could...
Not to mention her complete and total hypocracy, she was once 'busted' carrying a concealed handgun, without a permit, and in a place that didn't allow guns. Her response was, in effect, "the laws I make don't apply to me."
Politicans, shoot them all...
Backing you up on this, one of the conspiracys I had seen mentioned the impossibility of steel in the twin towers melting from the kind of heat generated by the planes crashing into them.
Just last week or so, a tanker truck caught fire and burned on a california highway system, and the heat generated from that, melted the steel support structure and the roadways collapsed.
So yes, fire can melt steel and cause large buildings to collapse, so it's one more conspiracy de-bunked
FYI-
Alfa Romeo invented Hemi heads, not Chrysler.
FYI-
Alfa Romeo was playing with reed valves in the 70s for racing.
Last version supported by MS perhaps, but I was able to run DX6 on NT, and it would play (althought\ not perfectly) DX7 games because of this.
With a little sleuthing on some dell ftp sites, you could also find USB for NT, printers only (at least in my experience) and it worked pretty well.
>>Blade Runner? yeah, cloning. Big deal. Seen and discussed a thousand times in TNG.>Farscape? nothing that Star Trek has not shown before.
I take it you've never seen Farscape then...
The fad term "global warming" is applied to al the evil things mankind does to the environment.
Does the earth go through cyclic changes in temperature? Absolutrely.
Is it the end of the world as ascribed by the eco people? Of course not (and that's why I call GW BS)
And there was an interesting study I heard on the radio that the glariers melting were a natural part of offsetting the rise in temps, that occur naturally.
The point is, GW is NOT hard accept fact, but that doesn't mean we (mankind) can't help do something to offset the effects
American elected people are fond of quick, short-term fixes. They almost always ignore the long term consequences and/or views.
I look at global warming in 1 of 2 ways:
Mankind is responsible and something intelligent and long-term (solution-wise) must be done
Mankind isn't responsible, but steps should be taken to even things out anyway.
The bottom line is, of course, responsible or not, Mankind needs to take a proactive stance and find long term solutions to Global Warming.
There is a third view:
Global Warming is bullshit.
But no one takes those people who think like that seriously anway.
(Note, I suscribe to the Global Warming is bullshit viewpoint)
I love that show, but the quality over youtube is fine for a few minutes, not for an hour long show.
BT still wins in that case.
www.finalgear.com in case anyone cares
>>In this case, any blame rests solidly with users who have no idea what they should or shouldn't let run on their computers.
There is a problem with this, ever seen a dialog box pop up saying that such and such is attempting to run, will you allow?
This is especially the case with Norton Internet Firewall, and the such and such can often be something like mspooler.exe, which to a standard user, or total novice is utterly meaningless.
Rather than pop up and say some obscurely named app is trying run, what about a dialog that says this application trying to run is part of the OS and is recognized as such?
In other words, give a meaningful plain english question, that might just allow the user to understand what's actually transpiring, as opposed to geek speek.
You are right, I had forgotten Afghanistan. However, I believe this man is pro-iraq war:
p hp
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/001519.
No one seems to want to take you up on this, so I'll give it a swing:
re: 1. Political Appointments. What he has done is in no way different than any other president preceeding him. Right or wrong, it is business as usual. I don't recall any president ever appointing a "common man", much less one of opposing views (Greenpeace as you mention, or PETA) to a position of influence.
re: 2. Personal Freedoms and Liberties. No arguments. With the possible exception of the Red Scare back in the 50s, he has done the most damage to our freedoms.
re: 3. Iraq War. I disagree. Recall that, just after 9/11, virtually *every* member of Congress, both Democrat AND republican (and the odd Independent or two) were screaming for blood and were looking at Iraq's leaders as the cause. I recall quite clearly the number of 'intel' reports, not just from the US, but the USSR, UK, GDR, MOSSAD, etc. stating more or less the same thing, Saddam was dangerous and needed taking out.
re: 4. Corporate Welfare. That 'idea' didn't start with ush, and plenty of other Presidents has abused it and at the same time had the opportunity to fix it, and they didn't. If you want to blame someone for CW, find the Congressional session that started it.
>>How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
Well it depends on the tune.
Now where's the fun in that??
Probably,
I mean, are US youngsters (who undoubtably make up the bulk of the iTunes music store purchases) really ready for Japanese tunes such as "Yatta"?
I mean, won't somebody think of the children!
>>Roosevelt also had the support of the allied world...
Indeed, and the moment another country is the victim of a 9/11-style attack on their soil, they'll be behind us as well.
I believe the insurgents (whoever they might be) are also aware of this, and have made attempts to keep the attacks confined to one country.
spend nearly all my time outside of work on my PC. Then I got a job in the PC world, and then I quit being on it outside of my normal job.
Then I met a girl, and got married. Since she turned out to be a complete psycho bitch (I should have known...should have known) and now spend all my free time *back* on the PC, and away from her as much as possible.
Actually, I believe it goes something like this:
"Those who can, do.
Those who can't, teach.
Those who can't teach, teach college.
And those who can't teach college, have tenure."