I'm glad this got commented on. I'm a lazy bastard and I plan on watching more than 4x22 minutes of TV tonight.
The front-page worthy news *IS* that this is what passes for news: "Journalists" are half-assed at best.
This just in, you can get just as many page views (or more!) from an ill-informed opinion on half the story than you can for actually putting in the work....and by work, I mean watching fucking TV.
Unless you're someone who needs a "forced" piggy bank, you should do your best to either:
(a) owe exactly nothing, unless you like giving out 0% loans, or (b) pay as much as possible without incurring a penalty for underpayment, provided you can use and pay back a 0% loan.
Sales Before its release, Diablo III broke several presale records and became the most pre-ordered PC game to date on Amazon.com.[98] Activision Blizzard reported that Diablo III had broken the one-day PC sales records, accumulating over 3.5 million sales in the first 24 hours after release and over 6.3 million sales in its first week, including the 1.2 million people who obtained Diablo III through the World of Warcraft annual pass.[99] On its first day, the game amassed 4.7 million players worldwide, an estimate which includes those who obtained the game via the World of Warcraft annual pass.[99] In its second quarterly report, Diablo III was reported to have pushed Activision Blizzard's expectations. As of July 2012, more than 10 million people have played the game.[100] Diablo III remains the fastest selling PC game to date, and also one of the best-selling PC video games. As of the end of 2012, it had sold more than 12 million copies.[5]
That absurd. It's almost like you're saying that anyone wishing to bypass advanced screening equipment can just go to a regional airport and then catch a flight to a large airport and TA-TAH! be behind security.
Why is it I don't see Abercrombie and Fitch pissed at the fact that their $40 T-shirt sells for $10 at Platos closet, threatening the sue the entire used clothing chain?
A&F doesn't have a simple mechanism to make their shirts only wearable by the original registered owner. If they did, they and other clothing retailers would do their best to capture all of the dollars in the used clothing space as well as the dollars they already captured in the 1st-run clothing business.
The lines "Episode IV: A NEW HOPE" were added to the opening title crawl upon its 1981 re-release, one year after "Episode V: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK" was released with its full title. The new opening crawl also capitalized the word 'Rebel' in 'rebel spies', which was not capitalized in the original 1977 opening crawl. This altered the formatting of the text to accommodate the two additional lines, and slightly changed the timing so the crawl no longer appears at the same music cue. (This last change had been present on EMPIRE's initial release, and would remain on all four subsequent films as well.) The "Episode IV: A NEW HOPE" subtitle would appear in all future releases of the film with the exception of the 2006 DVD release of the unaltered film.
*sigh* Get it right, folks, and stop repeating nonsense. Lucas didn't intend shit.
The lines "Episode IV: A NEW HOPE" were added to the opening title crawl upon its 1981 re-release, one year after "Episode V: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK" was released with its full title. The new opening crawl also capitalized the word 'Rebel' in 'rebel spies', which was not capitalized in the original 1977 opening crawl. This altered the formatting of the text to accommodate the two additional lines, and slightly changed the timing so the crawl no longer appears at the same music cue. (This last change had been present on EMPIRE's initial release, and would remain on all four subsequent films as well.) The "Episode IV: A NEW HOPE" subtitle would appear in all future releases of the film with the exception of the 2006 DVD release of the unaltered film.
I'm "that guy" too. I was 8 when Star Wars came out. I saw it almost every day the next summer at the local theater. I remember when we first got our Betamax copy of the movie (pirated, of course)......but it was all a fluke. It was an amazing, unrepeatable, moment in history.
Sure, lines for summer blockbusters happened for the next 10 years, but the magic that was Star Wars won't happen again....but you look back at it now, 35 years in the rear view window, and judge it simply as a film......it's 'meh'.
We experienced that magic back in 77 (and 78, and 79 as we kept going to the theaters and watching our bootlegs). We had the bedsheets and the McToys. Part of watching it now IS remembering that magic....but not the movie itself. It's held up well, but it's no Citizen Kane. [Heck, I'm not even sure Citizen Kane is Citizen Kane any longer.]
I hope they CGI out the awful earring holes he has in his lobes. HD does a wonderful job of pulling me back to reality when I see old men with pierced ears.
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"My pillow contracts sales force" is a set of words that don't make for particularly good reading.
The vague nouns and verbs and homonyms make my head hurt...
We have a simple term to describe "barely legal":
Legal.
Yeah. I don't know WTF these people are smoking.
Bluetooth ODBII has been available for pocket-change for a while, so much so that there's dozens of phone apps for them already.
Torque Pro is awesome. I 3 it.
...and every grocery store, which has never, ever, checked my ID.
I'm glad this got commented on. I'm a lazy bastard and I plan on watching more than 4x22 minutes of TV tonight.
The front-page worthy news *IS* that this is what passes for news: "Journalists" are half-assed at best.
This just in, you can get just as many page views (or more!) from an ill-informed opinion on half the story than you can for actually putting in the work. ...and by work, I mean watching fucking TV.
Because, perhaps, they're hosting applications that require Windows?
av-test did.
Amazon.
And, after those generations, we'd rid the world of the threat. They'd go the way of the Nazi or the Imperial Japanese.
If he's using their network, he signed THEIR NUP.
Citation Needed
Unless you're someone who needs a "forced" piggy bank, you should do your best to either:
(a) owe exactly nothing, unless you like giving out 0% loans, or
(b) pay as much as possible without incurring a penalty for underpayment, provided you can use and pay back a 0% loan.
Anyone getting a check gave a 0% loan.
Biggest duds of the year? For whom? Certainly not Activision.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_III#Sales
Sales
Before its release, Diablo III broke several presale records and became the most pre-ordered PC game to date on Amazon.com.[98] Activision Blizzard reported that Diablo III had broken the one-day PC sales records, accumulating over 3.5 million sales in the first 24 hours after release and over 6.3 million sales in its first week, including the 1.2 million people who obtained Diablo III through the World of Warcraft annual pass.[99] On its first day, the game amassed 4.7 million players worldwide, an estimate which includes those who obtained the game via the World of Warcraft annual pass.[99] In its second quarterly report, Diablo III was reported to have pushed Activision Blizzard's expectations. As of July 2012, more than 10 million people have played the game.[100] Diablo III remains the fastest selling PC game to date, and also one of the best-selling PC video games. As of the end of 2012, it had sold more than 12 million copies.[5]
Certainly not from critics:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_III#Critical_reception
So unsuccessful that it was the 3rd best selling PC game of all time....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_PC_video_games
It's an ARMs race!
That absurd. It's almost like you're saying that anyone wishing to bypass advanced screening equipment can just go to a regional airport and then catch a flight to a large airport and TA-TAH! be behind security.
Thieves are thieves.
iGadgets are merely the path of least resistance.
I've, uh, never done this either. ...and it totally hurts.
Why is it I don't see Abercrombie and Fitch pissed at the fact that their $40 T-shirt sells for $10 at Platos closet, threatening the sue the entire used clothing chain?
A&F doesn't have a simple mechanism to make their shirts only wearable by the original registered owner. If they did, they and other clothing retailers would do their best to capture all of the dollars in the used clothing space as well as the dollars they already captured in the 1st-run clothing business.
Correct.
The lines "Episode IV: A NEW HOPE" were added to the opening title crawl upon its 1981 re-release, one year after "Episode V: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK" was released with its full title. The new opening crawl also capitalized the word 'Rebel' in 'rebel spies', which was not capitalized in the original 1977 opening crawl. This altered the formatting of the text to accommodate the two additional lines, and slightly changed the timing so the crawl no longer appears at the same music cue. (This last change had been present on EMPIRE's initial release, and would remain on all four subsequent films as well.) The "Episode IV: A NEW HOPE" subtitle would appear in all future releases of the film with the exception of the 2006 DVD release of the unaltered film.
*sigh* Get it right, folks, and stop repeating nonsense. Lucas didn't intend shit.
The lines "Episode IV: A NEW HOPE" were added to the opening title crawl upon its 1981 re-release, one year after "Episode V: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK" was released with its full title. The new opening crawl also capitalized the word 'Rebel' in 'rebel spies', which was not capitalized in the original 1977 opening crawl. This altered the formatting of the text to accommodate the two additional lines, and slightly changed the timing so the crawl no longer appears at the same music cue. (This last change had been present on EMPIRE's initial release, and would remain on all four subsequent films as well.) The "Episode IV: A NEW HOPE" subtitle would appear in all future releases of the film with the exception of the 2006 DVD release of the unaltered film.
I'm "that guy" too. I was 8 when Star Wars came out. I saw it almost every day the next summer at the local theater. I remember when we first got our Betamax copy of the movie (pirated, of course)... ...but it was all a fluke. It was an amazing, unrepeatable, moment in history.
Sure, lines for summer blockbusters happened for the next 10 years, but the magic that was Star Wars won't happen again. ...but you look back at it now, 35 years in the rear view window, and judge it simply as a film... ...it's 'meh'.
We experienced that magic back in 77 (and 78, and 79 as we kept going to the theaters and watching our bootlegs). We had the bedsheets and the McToys. Part of watching it now IS remembering that magic. ...but not the movie itself. It's held up well, but it's no Citizen Kane. [Heck, I'm not even sure Citizen Kane is Citizen Kane any longer.]
I hope they CGI out the awful earring holes he has in his lobes. HD does a wonderful job of pulling me back to reality when I see old men with pierced ears.
http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/2/7/8/37278.jpg?v=1
.6 miles is a little over a thousand yards.
That "parking lot" is a giant freeway rest stop. Look at it on the map. A couple a laps is all it takes.
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=milford+supercharger&hl=en&ll=41.246664,-73.009847&spn=0.004763,0.006126&sll=35.603719,-95.625&sspn=58.218126,100.371094&t=h&hq=milford+supercharger&z=18
Broder is a douche, but 5 minutes and .6 miles to locate the charger isn't crazy.
What is the difference between the New York Times using Ron Paul's name to sell newspapers and this site printing facts about him to make money?
The newspaper isn't called the New York Ron Paul.
36 *whole* oz of soda? Man. Who could drink that much in a day...