"The guitar solos that finish the song were added in originally to give Van Zant a chance to rest, as the band was playing several sets per night at clubs at the time."
I'm in my 40's with a good deal of my friends in their 30's and some in their 20's.
I spend a great deal of time championing old, must-watch movies. I especially enjoy the AFI lists published in 2007: http://www.afi.com/100years/mo...
The heroes and villains list makes for a much better sell than the fairly dry top-10 list of AFI films. There's no denying how good Citizen Kane and The Godfather are, but somewhere after Casablanca and Raging Bull, while you've spent 11 hours watching some of the finest cinema ever made, you could use a little lighter fare. 1 CITIZEN KANE 1941 2 THE GODFATHER 1972 3 CASABLANCA 1942 4 RAGING BULL 1980 5 SINGIN' IN THE RAIN 1952 6 GONE WITH THE WIND 1939 7 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA 1962 8 SCHINDLER'S LIST 1993 9 VERTIGO 1958 10 THE WIZARD OF OZ 1939
Dr. Hannibal Lecter (in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS) Norman Bates (in PSYCHO) Darth Vader (in THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK) The Wicked Witch of the West (in THE WIZARD OF OZ) Nurse Ratched (in ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST) Mr. Potter (in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE) Alex Forrest (in FATAL ATTRACTION) Phyllis Dietrichson (in DOUBLE INDEMNITY) Regan MacNeil (in THE EXORCIST) The Queen (in SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS) Now we're talking!
When a character has practically no limitations, there is no risk. When there is no risk, there's nothing interesting happening. The result? Bored viewers, even if the on-screen activity is rapid and frantic.
Odd, in a thread about Star Trek.
The major characters were always limited superheroes. In TOS, nobody could out-engineer Scotty, out-crafty Kirk, outwit or overpower Spock, and McCoy would always arrive with the cure at the last moment. In TNG, it was more of the same. Super-diplomat JLP would come out on top, and why have a Vulcan when you can have a super-Vulcan++ android, even stronger with better logic? You're never going to lose in battle, ship-to-ship or hand-to-hand with a Klingon at the ready!
We like seeing heroic characters swoop to the rescue: You're all clear kid; now lets blow this thing and go home, anyone?
Reboot or not, there's characters and "checkpoints" along the old continuum that you need to hit. It's like rebooting Spider Man but not having him face his greatest and most formidable villains. Of course Spidey faces a revamped Oswald. Of course Kirk fights revamped Khan.
OK, he can't buy a $70 million mansion (If he can find more of them.) every year.
I'm pretty sure he can.
2.5 billion minus 70 million is 2.43 billion. Assuming a 0% return on his existing 2.43 billion, he can only buy mansions like this every year until he turns 70. Assuming a 1% return on his existing 2.43 billion, he can only buy mansions like this every year until he turns 80. If he can get 2%, he can keep it up until he's 100.
Notch's 70M goes to the current owner of the house. That guy, or someone before him, spent 70M building or rebuilding that house, and that money went to contractors...it's contractors all the way down.
Citizens! I have good news, and I have bad news: The bad news is that 10% of you will be beaten to death. The good news is that 90% of you get to beat someone to death.
On a serious note, "decimate" doesn't bother me nearly as much as say, "terrific," "peruse," or "begs the question."
On a less serious note, the people I'm playing Destiny with are getting fairly sick of me yelling "FEWER!" at the voice-over every time we kill Valus Ta'auric.
There might be 1440 minutes in a day, but people who want their battery full-charge want it to happen probably only in a small portion of those minutes.
The faster you can do it, the more effective you can be.
It's not about getting it done in 3 minutes, it's about being 3rd in line at 7:20am with 35 minutes left on your drive to work.
n.b. The cars in our house are currently a Leaf and an Energi.
When I first scanned the title, I assumed Tesla was providing a battery replacement type swap for degradation. A few lines in, I realized I was looking at a Tesla quick-fill "gas station."
I have to assume that Tesla, should they go wide with a service like this, would be refurbishing batteries as they rotated into and out of the quick-change locations. They'd have a dozen or so, "in stock," charged and charging, and some percentage of those taken in below a certain threshold of remaining charge would have to be refurbished before they could go back out.
You can afford to take your pristine battery into the swap-shop and get one that's only got 88% max potential charge on it. Maybe you only go "pay for a tank of premium gas" when your battery degrades, and you hope for a better one in return:)
Oh, then you are just as stupid as these guys who think capital punishment is going to be a deterrent for drug kingpins. As if drug kingpins didn't live their day to day lives under the possibility of execution, and their executions are a lot less dainty than ours and tend to take place without the bother and expense of due process. So, my friend, if you want to start using American military strength as the arm of the Lord, you can do that. We're the only superpower left. You can conquer the world, like Charlemagne! But you better be prepared to kill everyone. And you better start with me, because I will raise up an army against you and I will beat you!
No, foo. It's called basic common sense -- keeping confidential medical records, SSNs, and personnel files in paper format only, and not allowing them to be scanned or placed in a system connected to the general business intranet, or "the cloud".
Oh man, you had me going there for a second. I almost thought you were serious.
Let's all go back to using a typewriter to file our taxes, and when my small-town radiologist wants a consulting opinion on my X-ray, lets have a courier drive it into metropolis for him. He can use a quill to write down his diagnosis and seal the letter with wax and a stamp from his ring.
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It's no Green Grass and High Tides, but it'll do.
Agreed: The top-10 list is a bit of a grueling watch if you're not in film class.
Easier to start with the villains and heroes list.
I'm in my 40's with a good deal of my friends in their 30's and some in their 20's.
I spend a great deal of time championing old, must-watch movies. I especially enjoy the AFI lists published in 2007:
http://www.afi.com/100years/mo...
The heroes and villains list makes for a much better sell than the fairly dry top-10 list of AFI films. There's no denying how good Citizen Kane and The Godfather are, but somewhere after Casablanca and Raging Bull, while you've spent 11 hours watching some of the finest cinema ever made, you could use a little lighter fare.
1 CITIZEN KANE 1941
2 THE GODFATHER 1972
3 CASABLANCA 1942
4 RAGING BULL 1980
5 SINGIN' IN THE RAIN 1952
6 GONE WITH THE WIND 1939
7 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA 1962
8 SCHINDLER'S LIST 1993
9 VERTIGO 1958
10 THE WIZARD OF OZ 1939
The villains list... :)
http://www.afi.com/100Years/ha...
Dr. Hannibal Lecter (in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS)
Norman Bates (in PSYCHO)
Darth Vader (in THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK)
The Wicked Witch of the West (in THE WIZARD OF OZ)
Nurse Ratched (in ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST)
Mr. Potter (in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE)
Alex Forrest (in FATAL ATTRACTION)
Phyllis Dietrichson (in DOUBLE INDEMNITY)
Regan MacNeil (in THE EXORCIST)
The Queen (in SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS)
Now we're talking!
When a character has practically no limitations, there is no risk. When there is no risk, there's nothing interesting happening. The result? Bored viewers, even if the on-screen activity is rapid and frantic.
Odd, in a thread about Star Trek.
The major characters were always limited superheroes. In TOS, nobody could out-engineer Scotty, out-crafty Kirk, outwit or overpower Spock, and McCoy would always arrive with the cure at the last moment. In TNG, it was more of the same. Super-diplomat JLP would come out on top, and why have a Vulcan when you can have a super-Vulcan++ android, even stronger with better logic? You're never going to lose in battle, ship-to-ship or hand-to-hand with a Klingon at the ready!
We like seeing heroic characters swoop to the rescue: You're all clear kid; now lets blow this thing and go home, anyone?
I was going to be all, "Oh yeah, it's gonna take.."
http://www.wolframalpha.com/in...
You have to steal a little from it...
Reboot or not, there's characters and "checkpoints" along the old continuum that you need to hit. It's like rebooting Spider Man but not having him face his greatest and most formidable villains. Of course Spidey faces a revamped Oswald. Of course Kirk fights revamped Khan.
OK, he can't buy a $70 million mansion (If he can find more of them.) every year.
I'm pretty sure he can.
2.5 billion minus 70 million is 2.43 billion.
Assuming a 0% return on his existing 2.43 billion, he can only buy mansions like this every year until he turns 70.
Assuming a 1% return on his existing 2.43 billion, he can only buy mansions like this every year until he turns 80.
If he can get 2%, he can keep it up until he's 100.
Notch's 70M goes to the current owner of the house. That guy, or someone before him, spent 70M building or rebuilding that house, and that money went to contractors...it's contractors all the way down.
It's vastly better than, say, buying art.
Citizens! I have good news, and I have bad news: The bad news is that 10% of you will be beaten to death. The good news is that 90% of you get to beat someone to death.
On a serious note, "decimate" doesn't bother me nearly as much as say, "terrific," "peruse," or "begs the question."
On a less serious note, the people I'm playing Destiny with are getting fairly sick of me yelling "FEWER!" at the voice-over every time we kill Valus Ta'auric.
Get off my lawn.
The 3% of his fortune that he spent on a house does seem like terrible money management.
Wait, what?!?
The same argument got posted with Gates built his mega-mansion. People complained about it being a waste.
Apparently skilled tradesmen who build houses don't need jobs. Building things is, arguably, one of the better things you could do with money.
decimate their attackers.
And what about the other 90%?
I heard you liked Minecraft and Mansions...
Gas stations have upwards of 20 pumps. There's one bay at the Tesla swap.
There might be 1440 minutes in a day, but people who want their battery full-charge want it to happen probably only in a small portion of those minutes.
The faster you can do it, the more effective you can be.
It's not about getting it done in 3 minutes, it's about being 3rd in line at 7:20am with 35 minutes left on your drive to work.
n.b. The cars in our house are currently a Leaf and an Energi.
When I first scanned the title, I assumed Tesla was providing a battery replacement type swap for degradation. A few lines in, I realized I was looking at a Tesla quick-fill "gas station."
I have to assume that Tesla, should they go wide with a service like this, would be refurbishing batteries as they rotated into and out of the quick-change locations. They'd have a dozen or so, "in stock," charged and charging, and some percentage of those taken in below a certain threshold of remaining charge would have to be refurbished before they could go back out.
You can afford to take your pristine battery into the swap-shop and get one that's only got 88% max potential charge on it. Maybe you only go "pay for a tank of premium gas" when your battery degrades, and you hope for a better one in return :)
Costs would increase and quality of care would decrease.
You're clearly onto something here.
0.5C this year? Next year?
Every year?!?
How else are they going to get the mercury in the fish?
...what percentage of the earth's oceans are currently ship wake?
One millionth of a percent?
I'm sorry that it's only worth about $1 to you, but it's not being offered at $1, so fuck off, you don't get to watch it.
Oh, then you are just as stupid as these guys who think capital punishment is going to be a deterrent for drug kingpins. As if drug kingpins didn't live their day to day lives under the possibility of execution, and their executions are a lot less dainty than ours and tend to take place without the bother and expense of due process. So, my friend, if you want to start using American military strength as the arm of the Lord, you can do that. We're the only superpower left. You can conquer the world, like Charlemagne! But you better be prepared to kill everyone. And you better start with me, because I will raise up an army against you and I will beat you!
No, foo. It's called basic common sense -- keeping confidential medical records, SSNs, and personnel files in paper format only, and not allowing them to be scanned or placed in a system connected to the general business intranet, or "the cloud".
Oh man, you had me going there for a second. I almost thought you were serious.
Let's all go back to using a typewriter to file our taxes, and when my small-town radiologist wants a consulting opinion on my X-ray, lets have a courier drive it into metropolis for him. He can use a quill to write down his diagnosis and seal the letter with wax and a stamp from his ring.