Paradox 4.5 for DOS,
Lotus 123R3 (DOS),
We had (up 'til last month) a Win 3.1 machine (a 486) on our network (Great Plains Dynamics for DOS),
and within the last 3 years have finally killed off the old Novell 3.12 servers (replaced with Novell 5 and 6).
I want to pick and choose the channels we actually want, rather than get all the shit we have now. I don't want the fucking Golf channel, I don't want AMC; but I do want MTV2 and some "real" porn channels. Can I get that choice? No, because my cable company sucks ass! Petition all you like about getting your Anime, but in the end you'll still be paying too much for too little.
put firewalls between every server and the rest of the network... not one firewall, but one for each server (a dedicated firewall). You could do that with switches and the like but that's overkill. But in Paranoia mode it's all just good thinking. But can one be too paranoid in the name of security? I think so. Basically, produce a sound strategy that people don't look at and say "you're crazy!" then impliment it and pray that nobody figures it out. The idea of having multiple vendors for security is good, but it will make your administration a little more difficult--which may or may not bother you.
It parodies American McGee's "taste" in character manipulation for videogames--clearly the image PA did was something that American *might* do, thereby making it funny--and parody; and it parodied Strawberry Shortcake by putting that "wholesome character" (gag) into a situation (for use or abuse) that that character would not normally exist--making a point via juxtaposition in relation to the "picking on" being done at the expense of American McGee.
The imagery that PA had does meet the criteria of "...in part target the plaintiff's copywrited work..." I call that parody and I call it funny.
that much of the legal wrangling is about weather or not it's a parody.
It parody's both Strawberry Shortcake (or is that Ho' Cake now?) and American McGee's videogame making history/talent. Neither is shown in a particulary bad light (really!)
Can you parody both things at once? I don't know. And it also seems that there's an overly tight definition being used here.
My opinion: fuck American Greetings. PA should win. Why?
(1) it was an image drawn by a person, therefore is Art;
(2) as "art" it is protected by the First Amendment to the Consitution;
(3) that's the same amendment that lets American Greetings company to remain in business;
(4) it was an image of a popular character, done in parody;
(5) parody imagery is usually given leeway by the courts of the USA;
(6) it was done for free, thereby making the concept of "brand dilution" incorrect;
(7) it was done as a single-time issue, making this non-reoccurring
But what about the genetic link? Studies have been done, and prove, that homosexuality is a genetic thing--not psychological. They've successfully manipulated fruit flies into homosexuality by gene manipulation. Ergo, one could state that homosexuality, being "different" from heterosexuality, would potentially have differing results in this test. And no, we're not talking about men who "are in touch with their feminine side" (which I always thought was a crock), but genetically proven material. Silly? Hardly.
First, you say there's not shit in indi comics ("Puh-LEEEZE. There's a lot of shit among indie comics?"), then later you admit to agreeing with me ("Yes, there is a fair amount of crap, a surprising percentage which just attempts to recreate Marvel drek at an even cruder level.") You seem confused on the issue. Then you mention Cerebus. As I stated nearly 10 minutes before you reposnded: "True, but Sim and Gerhard have been at it for so long that they're damn-near mainstream!" So, I did acknowledge them--I never said I liked them. Which I don't, my perogative.
You also state "I will assert that comics taken as a whole consistently outproduce the garbage-pit that is Marvel." Outproduction is not equated with quality.
"But there is a hell of a lot of material of differing mastery that goes far beyond anything Marvel or it's ilk has ever attempted to publish. It's stuff that actually attempts to qualify as Art, regardless of the level of finish applied." Uh. No. There's a lot of shit that thinks it's art. Anyone can throw paint at a canvas and say "It's art!" But that doesn't make it good.
"TMNT wasn't indie the moment is was purchased by mega TV/toy concerns." They stopped being indie when they were picked up, but not before.
And no, I'm not about to travel 1000 miles just to see more shit that pukes itself onto the stands. Out of 1000 titles, one will be worthy of my dollar. The industry has too much crap as it is, beit Marvel, DC, or otherwise. What the place needs is a good ol' house cleaning.
On the whole, crossovers in my opinon have always only served one purpose: sell other non-profitable titles. "Gee, Spider-Man is kicking ass, but the Human Fly is not, so let's place Spidey in that and see if it floats!" But the writers (I think) use them to confuse the storyline so that you don't discover that they're hacks.
Calling it the ghetto is very appropriate. Good call. The Death of Superman was a monster hit, since nobody expected it to be a big deal--they were always talking about killing Superman, but it was assumed they didn't have the balls to do it. (surprise!)
I never bought that issue--never collected Superman--still don't. What really hurt my local store was the rebirth of Superman (the opaque white wrapping) and he assumed (fool!) that it would sell nearly as well as the Death did...he's still stuck with about 2000 issues of that. Can't give that crap away.
I will admit that Japan has some wacky stuff. I mean, only there will you find a comic called Rape Man. Try that one here--yeah, like that would go over.
Also, keep in mind that there are an aweful lot of shitty mainstream comics as well--like for instance most of the Image stuff, or everything DC makes that isn't Vertigo. I still think if the mess is cleaned up, and the "Big Two" can stop flooding the market with mainstream crap, and the indy stuff was just better written (the art, actually is secondary) we'd actually have a better marketplace.
They should have studied homosexuals as well--then we might get an additional understanding of that as well. For example: Many assume that gay men are more feminine; therefore, this spatial problem may well exist in homosexual men as well--a study of this might lead to either debunking that or proving it as a valid statement.
No, this isn't a troll remark, this is pure curiosity.
The problem with the indy comic (or sometimes called comix) are that there is a huge amount of shit. This casts a bad light on the whole scene. Out of the gazillion indy comics that came out in the 1980's the only one still standing is TMNT, and that's because it was a cross-over to kids' fare. (The original TMNT were not like they are now.) And for a while, any moron could get published--people were buying them by the cartload just in case one gem was among them--what they ended up with was the equivelent of toilet paper. The industry now needs better, more insightful, and intelligent comics, not a new flood of crap. It damn near killed the whole indy industry last time--we don't want or need a repeat.
I know 2 local retailers (one of which was "Chapter Approved"--before their insane requirements for that kicked in) that are basically saying "Fuck GW!" and will liquidate their inventory and wont stock more of their overpriced games again. That's a pity since the games are really quite popular here. GW is going to nail their own coffin shut from the inside, I think. They really ought to pull their heads out of their asses.
So, the distance between the outside atoms, although something so small as to not be measurable by any means whatsoever, is enough to say "that's not 10"?
That is insane. I blame engineers: ergo, I blame IEEE. At some point (magical or otherwise) 9.999999.... becomes 10 to everyone in the universe except a handful of barbarians who like to ruffle feathers. It's darn near as silly as the philosopical argument about color names.
"Hey genius. I assume you mean cubes and, perhaps, pyramids since we're talking 3 dimensions here. Read his definition of "shape" here. Cube and pyramid are the same "shape" as a sphere."
Only someone as fucked up as a mathematician could possibly consider a cube or tetrahedron the same as a sphere. Math and non-sensical concepts, it seems, go hand in hand. Same mentality drove the IEEE to decide that "10" is not "10," but rather is "9.9999999999999999999."
22. "When in doubt, perform physical system relocations." Or, how to annoy IT staff by moving shit around.
[Note: Where I am, managers if given nothing to do will order whole departments to reorganize, taking an entire day, just so the Feng Shui of the office is better...at least, that is what it looks like to us.]
23. The Peter Principle. Ignore talent and knowledge, promote some yahoo to Supervisor and watch the carnage!
I no longer write reviews mainly because I no longer care... Billy, on the other hand has had some relatively recent difficulties that he had to deal with. Once those were sorted out, he then sat back and decided that the daily drudge wasn't worth it any more. And you're right, pretty much all the remaining reviewers are kissing up in the name of freebies. When I read a review the first thing I do is subtract 1/3 of their total points--which brings it into reality--then I read the rest of the review, after that I read other reviews (following the same formula), then I see if I can catch a glimpse of it being played (at a store, or in the mall, wherever...) It's the only true way to be informed. But even doing all that you sometimes get burned. Some games just seem totally great until about a week after playing, then something slaps you in the face and you lose your taste for the game--Tribes 2 was like that for many (the infinite number of patches pissed a lot of people off--but not me, as I never had any problem, other than being a really lousy player.)
And I have to tell you, even in my really limited exposure to it all, that TRUTH and FACTS will get you farther than HYPE. I played a game that sucked, control=crappy; premise=retarded. I deemed it necessary to say so in my review (and no, I won't tell you what it was that I reviewed).
Shock and horror! I got nasty emails from not only the site owner but from the manufacturer. Reviews like mine didn't sell games. Selling games makes money. Money that goes to making more games, which in a trickle-effect helps sites that do reviews, and the reviewers.
But I didn't give a shit. Know why? Because I was unpaid. It didn't effect my bottom-line at all. I spoke the truth as I saw it. Still do.
But notice I don't review games anymore.
Ask Billy "Wicked" Wilson, he'll tell you the same thing. Why do you think he hasn't made a return yet? His new site is "ready to go" but he's lost the drive to do so: the shit you have to go through just isn't worth it.
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Paradox 4.5 for DOS,
Lotus 123R3 (DOS),
We had (up 'til last month) a Win 3.1 machine (a 486) on our network (Great Plains Dynamics for DOS),
and within the last 3 years have finally killed off the old Novell 3.12 servers (replaced with Novell 5 and 6).
You want old? We got old...
I want to pick and choose the channels we actually want, rather than get all the shit we have now. I don't want the fucking Golf channel, I don't want AMC; but I do want MTV2 and some "real" porn channels. Can I get that choice? No, because my cable company sucks ass! Petition all you like about getting your Anime, but in the end you'll still be paying too much for too little.
I vote for Cable reform!
If it was an American invention, it would be called second-class animation.
it's sound thinking... if cracker gets through one because of a known exploit the other one may be safe from him... just makes sense.
put firewalls between every server and the rest of the network... not one firewall, but one for each server (a dedicated firewall). You could do that with switches and the like but that's overkill. But in Paranoia mode it's all just good thinking. But can one be too paranoid in the name of security? I think so. Basically, produce a sound strategy that people don't look at and say "you're crazy!" then impliment it and pray that nobody figures it out. The idea of having multiple vendors for security is good, but it will make your administration a little more difficult--which may or may not bother you.
it's called "Headless install." Check it out sometime...
But it parodies them both.
It parodies American McGee's "taste" in character manipulation for videogames--clearly the image PA did was something that American *might* do, thereby making it funny--and parody; and it parodied Strawberry Shortcake by putting that "wholesome character" (gag) into a situation (for use or abuse) that that character would not normally exist--making a point via juxtaposition in relation to the "picking on" being done at the expense of American McGee.
The imagery that PA had does meet the criteria of "...in part target the plaintiff's copywrited work..." I call that parody and I call it funny.
But that's my take on it.
It parody's both Strawberry Shortcake (or is that Ho' Cake now?) and American McGee's videogame making history/talent. Neither is shown in a particulary bad light (really!)
Can you parody both things at once? I don't know. And it also seems that there's an overly tight definition being used here.
My opinion: fuck American Greetings. PA should win. Why?But that's my take on it--put me on that jury!
I prefer Spider Robinson's Law: 99% of everything is crap.
But what about the genetic link? Studies have been done, and prove, that homosexuality is a genetic thing--not psychological. They've successfully manipulated fruit flies into homosexuality by gene manipulation. Ergo, one could state that homosexuality, being "different" from heterosexuality, would potentially have differing results in this test. And no, we're not talking about men who "are in touch with their feminine side" (which I always thought was a crock), but genetically proven material. Silly? Hardly.
First, you say there's not shit in indi comics ("Puh-LEEEZE. There's a lot of shit among indie comics?"), then later you admit to agreeing with me ("Yes, there is a fair amount of crap, a surprising percentage which just attempts to recreate Marvel drek at an even cruder level.") You seem confused on the issue. Then you mention Cerebus. As I stated nearly 10 minutes before you reposnded: "True, but Sim and Gerhard have been at it for so long that they're damn-near mainstream!" So, I did acknowledge them--I never said I liked them. Which I don't, my perogative.
You also state "I will assert that comics taken as a whole consistently outproduce the garbage-pit that is Marvel." Outproduction is not equated with quality.
"But there is a hell of a lot of material of differing mastery that goes far beyond anything Marvel or it's ilk has ever attempted to publish. It's stuff that actually attempts to qualify as Art, regardless of the level of finish applied." Uh. No. There's a lot of shit that thinks it's art. Anyone can throw paint at a canvas and say "It's art!" But that doesn't make it good.
"TMNT wasn't indie the moment is was purchased by mega TV/toy concerns." They stopped being indie when they were picked up, but not before.
And no, I'm not about to travel 1000 miles just to see more shit that pukes itself onto the stands. Out of 1000 titles, one will be worthy of my dollar. The industry has too much crap as it is, beit Marvel, DC, or otherwise. What the place needs is a good ol' house cleaning.
"Cerebus the Aardvark is one of my favorite independents and predates "TMNT" by a long shot."
... When will they finish, anyways?
True, but Sim and Gerhard have been at it for so long that they're damn-near mainstream!
On the whole, crossovers in my opinon have always only served one purpose: sell other non-profitable titles. "Gee, Spider-Man is kicking ass, but the Human Fly is not, so let's place Spidey in that and see if it floats!" But the writers (I think) use them to confuse the storyline so that you don't discover that they're hacks.
Calling it the ghetto is very appropriate. Good call. The Death of Superman was a monster hit, since nobody expected it to be a big deal--they were always talking about killing Superman, but it was assumed they didn't have the balls to do it. (surprise!)
I never bought that issue--never collected Superman--still don't. What really hurt my local store was the rebirth of Superman (the opaque white wrapping) and he assumed (fool!) that it would sell nearly as well as the Death did...he's still stuck with about 2000 issues of that. Can't give that crap away.
I will admit that Japan has some wacky stuff. I mean, only there will you find a comic called Rape Man. Try that one here--yeah, like that would go over.
Also, keep in mind that there are an aweful lot of shitty mainstream comics as well--like for instance most of the Image stuff, or everything DC makes that isn't Vertigo. I still think if the mess is cleaned up, and the "Big Two" can stop flooding the market with mainstream crap, and the indy stuff was just better written (the art, actually is secondary) we'd actually have a better marketplace.
Read this.
They should have studied homosexuals as well--then we might get an additional understanding of that as well. For example: Many assume that gay men are more feminine; therefore, this spatial problem may well exist in homosexual men as well--a study of this might lead to either debunking that or proving it as a valid statement.
No, this isn't a troll remark, this is pure curiosity.
The problem with the indy comic (or sometimes called comix) are that there is a huge amount of shit. This casts a bad light on the whole scene. Out of the gazillion indy comics that came out in the 1980's the only one still standing is TMNT, and that's because it was a cross-over to kids' fare. (The original TMNT were not like they are now.) And for a while, any moron could get published--people were buying them by the cartload just in case one gem was among them--what they ended up with was the equivelent of toilet paper. The industry now needs better, more insightful, and intelligent comics, not a new flood of crap. It damn near killed the whole indy industry last time--we don't want or need a repeat.
I know 2 local retailers (one of which was "Chapter Approved"--before their insane requirements for that kicked in) that are basically saying "Fuck GW!" and will liquidate their inventory and wont stock more of their overpriced games again. That's a pity since the games are really quite popular here. GW is going to nail their own coffin shut from the inside, I think. They really ought to pull their heads out of their asses.
So, the distance between the outside atoms, although something so small as to not be measurable by any means whatsoever, is enough to say "that's not 10"?
That is insane. I blame engineers: ergo, I blame IEEE. At some point (magical or otherwise) 9.999999.... becomes 10 to everyone in the universe except a handful of barbarians who like to ruffle feathers. It's darn near as silly as the philosopical argument about color names.
Thank you, that only proves what I said in the first place. :)
"Hey genius. I assume you mean cubes and, perhaps, pyramids since we're talking 3 dimensions here. Read his definition of "shape" here. Cube and pyramid are the same "shape" as a sphere."
Only someone as fucked up as a mathematician could possibly consider a cube or tetrahedron the same as a sphere. Math and non-sensical concepts, it seems, go hand in hand. Same mentality drove the IEEE to decide that "10" is not "10," but rather is "9.9999999999999999999."
22. "When in doubt, perform physical system relocations." Or, how to annoy IT staff by moving shit around.
[Note: Where I am, managers if given nothing to do will order whole departments to reorganize, taking an entire day, just so the Feng Shui of the office is better...at least, that is what it looks like to us.]
23. The Peter Principle. Ignore talent and knowledge, promote some yahoo to Supervisor and watch the carnage!
I no longer write reviews mainly because I no longer care... Billy, on the other hand has had some relatively recent difficulties that he had to deal with. Once those were sorted out, he then sat back and decided that the daily drudge wasn't worth it any more. And you're right, pretty much all the remaining reviewers are kissing up in the name of freebies. When I read a review the first thing I do is subtract 1/3 of their total points--which brings it into reality--then I read the rest of the review, after that I read other reviews (following the same formula), then I see if I can catch a glimpse of it being played (at a store, or in the mall, wherever...) It's the only true way to be informed. But even doing all that you sometimes get burned. Some games just seem totally great until about a week after playing, then something slaps you in the face and you lose your taste for the game--Tribes 2 was like that for many (the infinite number of patches pissed a lot of people off--but not me, as I never had any problem, other than being a really lousy player.)
And I have to tell you, even in my really limited exposure to it all, that TRUTH and FACTS will get you farther than HYPE. I played a game that sucked, control=crappy; premise=retarded. I deemed it necessary to say so in my review (and no, I won't tell you what it was that I reviewed).
Shock and horror! I got nasty emails from not only the site owner but from the manufacturer. Reviews like mine didn't sell games. Selling games makes money. Money that goes to making more games, which in a trickle-effect helps sites that do reviews, and the reviewers.
But I didn't give a shit. Know why? Because I was unpaid. It didn't effect my bottom-line at all. I spoke the truth as I saw it. Still do.
But notice I don't review games anymore.
Ask Billy "Wicked" Wilson, he'll tell you the same thing. Why do you think he hasn't made a return yet? His new site is "ready to go" but he's lost the drive to do so: the shit you have to go through just isn't worth it.