God Damn Dude! Do you know how much that would fucking rock! Toss in some film footage from the solider cams. Maybe even some footage from when that little critter in the "hospital" was killed.
You do have a good point. The movie could be made over and over from different points of view with people with video camera. But I think I understand what your saying. What would be the point. We've already seen it from the civilian point of view. How much can be added to it.
Now the army would be great. Not the commander view, there are to many of those movies out there. I would like to see it from that black commanders point of view. Maybe even the point of view of those grunts attacking the critter on the ground.
Say the unit picks up a film crew or something that documents the attack and the army's counter attack from the trenches. Maybe some footage of the crew talking about where the critter might have come from. Some rumor about what the little chicken monsters are and what happens when one bytes some fool.
You know that would be a good project. I liked the movies over all story but I didn't care much for the filming effects. I would like to see the same story from the army point of view. But let me clarify that. I would like to see the same movie from the point of view of the grunts in the field. Like that black major that let Rob and crew go.
Say a film crew gets picked up and is in that push where the army is taking on the critter. We can here some rumors where the critter come from as told by the grunts.
Saving Private Ryan, damn I hated that movie, was the exact movie that I think of when I think of good shaky cam work. The battle scenes just wouldn't have been the same. But they shifted to steady cam when it wasn't needed.
I can live with that but Abrams has already said there is no Lovecraft tie in. Thank god it wasn't Godzilla.
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My fucking hair now smells like strawberry but on the upside it does have a nice bounce.
I think there is a time and a place for that shaky camera effect but not a whole movie of it. In this movie in the interviews at the party they could have done the shaky camera for the first interview just to let us know its a hand held. Then switch to a traditional steady cam for the rest. We know its a handycam just don't make us suffer the the handy cam effect. Hell, that shaky cam is why I don't own a handy cam. Give me a nikon any day.
I think there is another movie in there. We've seen the movie from the point of view of Rob and his crew. I would like to see the movie remade from the other side now. A traditional filming without the shaky cam style. I want to know more about the monster. Really how many of us give a flying fuck about Rob and friends?
Alright. We've had the art house version, now lets have the hollywood block buster.
I found the guy holding the camera annoying but I did sort of feel for him. I was glad when he was eating though. I though I was going to cry.
I think the best review of the movie was when it was over and one of the girls behind me yelled "That was awesome!" It was awesome at some points and annoying at others.
What do we call the critter? I'm nominating Tarrasque because that is what it reminded me of when it was standing in the field right before it ate the camera guy. Was I the only one who cheered at that point? Damn he was annoying.
I saw the movie last night and I have to admit I'm not sure how I feel about it. The story was fucking incredible but I think the shaky camera was over done. It made my head hurt and confused the story at times. I think it could have been made with out it.
But I think my most concern is fuck the people. I want see the same story from the army point of view.
Pretty much it. Comments without a fat check behind them are not even worth the bits they are carried on. It's should be obvous to anyone that anytime a carrier tampers with the traffic on its network in any way they should lose thier common carrier status.
Don't panic. Agreed, don't panic. But that doesn't mean poke our head in the sand pray for the magic to happen. It doesn't and it won't. The magic is made to happen. We need to plan out for as much as we can think of. Even if the possiblity is way out there we need to have some plan in place.
We may not run out of oil but we need to be prepaired if we do.
It's not just paranoia anymore. It is a very real possibility. It is not just the hippy freaks from the '60 that are saying this now. It's some very smart people with lots of degrees on the wall and letters like Dr. and PHD in thier names that are saying it.
I don't think our decline will be a sad one like you read in some books. Where we reach our limit then over the centures we decline back to the middle ages or somethinig. I think the fall will happen almost over night.
I also don't think it will be oil that does us in. We think to much about that one and watch it to closely. I think it will be something that no one thinks about if it happens. Water or clean air or some shit that we are not paying attention too. If it happens we will fight over what is left and since its all or nothing it will be an all or nothing war. One not hampered by these little rules we've made and conventions we pretent to follow. But the real thing.
No matter how you spin it, it is simple. We can not maintain our growth and with the limited resources we have availible to us. Once we really start to run out mother nature is waiting in the wings to correct it for us. An she is a real bitch. She doesn't care if we survive as a civilization or as a species.
So the question here is, do we correct the problem or wait till she does?
We don't need to put all our eggs in the fusion basket ether. Even with all our research, prayers, and dreams there is still a good chance that a sustained fusion reaction might not be possible. That is, out side of a star.
We have been barking up this fusion tree for 50 years. We have made remarkable process in the last 10. But despite all this we still have not reached the point where sustained economically viable reaction is possible. We may have to realize one day that it is simply not possible. Out side of the crackpot circuit there is not one person on this planet that can point to an equation on a board and say with 100% certainty that it is possible.
What I think the parent post is trying to say is there is a whole universe full of resources out there but we just need to get off our lazy asses and get to it. An he would be correct. Right now we are around 6.5 billion people on this rock. Sooner or later we will run out of resources.
Renewable resources are not going to cut it because they face the same problem as un-renewable. There is only so much that can go around. Sure you maybe able to produce the same resources over and over but it will alway be at the same ammount. They are an excellent short term fix for now but sooner or later we will be force to look for more. We need to find a place where there is an almost limitless supply of everything.
Space is the only answer. When you are confined to one planet everything is a limited resource. Technically everything in space is also a limited resource but there is just so much of it. Confined to Earth though sooner or later we will start to run short of everything if we keep expanding our population.
Population control you say? Yeah, well good luck with that.
The problem is simple and so is the answer. Expand into space or die as a civilization. There is no if, ands, or buts. Convervation and renewables are excellent solutions for the short run but that is just it. You can only conserve so much and produce so much renewables.
Hell! We used to do this shit. We would do it in fall though. Hoist the fuckers up into the trees and blow all the fucking leaves out of them. Do it in front of the local old fokes home in the middle of the night. Then check the next morning to see how many rooms became availible in the night.
Oh yeah, I'm going to burn in hell and it wasn't just for the pope jokes ether.
Bingo. They need to stop with this keyboard bullshit and get on with developing that Simlink. According to my Shadowrun time line we should be well under way to being there.
Ahhh, downloading full sim porn right to the brain.
Yeah that is pretty scary and I have things like that too. I work over an hour away from home. It seems like I get in the car at home, then get out at work. When I take that route and I'm not goign to work, if I have someone with me they will alway bitch about how far and long it takes. To me its like a walk from the can to the shower. I just don't notice it any more.
Something else to think about. That is a whole hour of your fucking life your brain has decided is not worth remembering. I wonder how much other shit I don't remeber. The books, the tv shows... the sex. It's kind of annoying to think that part of my life has been edited because its boring. Its a wonder I have any memory at all.
Holy shit! What genus though of that shit. My power key is behind a panel on the dam box that is locked with a key. It takes effort to turn mine off. That or you can just pull the fucking plug.
I was one of the first to buy a diNovo keyboards from logitech a few years ago. One with the detached keypad, that was promply tossed in a draw somewhere. That has been the best keyboard I've ever owned. The though of going back to any other keyboard makes me shiver.
You could always wire the caps-lock key to a block of C5 and put it under your keyboard. That would act as an incentive to watch where your fingers are going. And if not, then the cap-lock key would be the least of your problems.
The keyboard on the ti-99/4 was shit but the ti-99/4a was no wonderful invention ether. It still suffered from a shitty placed reset key. The TI reset switch showed no mercy ether. You hit that fucker and it was gone. None of this, "are you sure you want to reset" bullshit. Just *BEEP* your fucked. Every single TI owner has horror stories over that fucker. Working all night and go to press shift-0, I think, but hit func-0 and it was over.
And it had wierdly placed quote and other keys. that should have been on the nubmer keys where instead accessable with the func- key. Like func-p to get quotes.
But I still loved that computer. I guess we never really get over our first love. Until she comes out of no where after 20 years, asks for your help on something then shoves a knife in your back, an gives it twist just for kicks. Sorry.. i've had a shitty week.
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God Damn Dude! Do you know how much that would fucking rock! Toss in some film footage from the solider cams. Maybe even some footage from when that little critter in the "hospital" was killed.
You do have a good point. The movie could be made over and over from different points of view with people with video camera. But I think I understand what your saying. What would be the point. We've already seen it from the civilian point of view. How much can be added to it.
Now the army would be great. Not the commander view, there are to many of those movies out there. I would like to see it from that black commanders point of view. Maybe even the point of view of those grunts attacking the critter on the ground.
Say the unit picks up a film crew or something that documents the attack and the army's counter attack from the trenches. Maybe some footage of the crew talking about where the critter might have come from. Some rumor about what the little chicken monsters are and what happens when one bytes some fool.
You know that would be a good project. I liked the movies over all story but I didn't care much for the filming effects. I would like to see the same story from the army point of view. But let me clarify that. I would like to see the same movie from the point of view of the grunts in the field. Like that black major that let Rob and crew go.
Say a film crew gets picked up and is in that push where the army is taking on the critter. We can here some rumors where the critter come from as told by the grunts.
Saving Private Ryan, damn I hated that movie, was the exact movie that I think of when I think of good shaky cam work. The battle scenes just wouldn't have been the same. But they shifted to steady cam when it wasn't needed.
I can live with that but Abrams has already said there is no Lovecraft tie in. Thank god it wasn't Godzilla.
Offtopic Advice: I know there are some geeks out there that plan to have kids and some of you already do, CmdTaco. Pay attention because I'm about to give you some advice that you won't find in any blog or manual. When you buy kiddy shampoo make sure that you can tell what it is from feel alone. Make sure that when you are doing that blind shower grope the kiddypoo feels different from your conditioner. Trust me on this, you will thank me.
My fucking hair now smells like strawberry but on the upside it does have a nice bounce.
I think there is a time and a place for that shaky camera effect but not a whole movie of it. In this movie in the interviews at the party they could have done the shaky camera for the first interview just to let us know its a hand held. Then switch to a traditional steady cam for the rest. We know its a handycam just don't make us suffer the the handy cam effect. Hell, that shaky cam is why I don't own a handy cam. Give me a nikon any day.
I think there is another movie in there. We've seen the movie from the point of view of Rob and his crew. I would like to see the movie remade from the other side now. A traditional filming without the shaky cam style. I want to know more about the monster. Really how many of us give a flying fuck about Rob and friends?
Alright. We've had the art house version, now lets have the hollywood block buster.
I found the guy holding the camera annoying but I did sort of feel for him. I was glad when he was eating though. I though I was going to cry.
I think the best review of the movie was when it was over and one of the girls behind me yelled "That was awesome!" It was awesome at some points and annoying at others.
What do we call the critter? I'm nominating Tarrasque because that is what it reminded me of when it was standing in the field right before it ate the camera guy. Was I the only one who cheered at that point? Damn he was annoying.
I saw the movie last night and I have to admit I'm not sure how I feel about it. The story was fucking incredible but I think the shaky camera was over done. It made my head hurt and confused the story at times. I think it could have been made with out it.
But I think my most concern is fuck the people. I want see the same story from the army point of view.
well that blows mule ass.
Pretty much it. Comments without a fat check behind them are not even worth the bits they are carried on. It's should be obvous to anyone that anytime a carrier tampers with the traffic on its network in any way they should lose thier common carrier status.
We may not run out of oil but we need to be prepaired if we do.
It's not just paranoia anymore. It is a very real possibility. It is not just the hippy freaks from the '60 that are saying this now. It's some very smart people with lots of degrees on the wall and letters like Dr. and PHD in thier names that are saying it.
I don't think our decline will be a sad one like you read in some books. Where we reach our limit then over the centures we decline back to the middle ages or somethinig. I think the fall will happen almost over night.
I also don't think it will be oil that does us in. We think to much about that one and watch it to closely. I think it will be something that no one thinks about if it happens. Water or clean air or some shit that we are not paying attention too. If it happens we will fight over what is left and since its all or nothing it will be an all or nothing war. One not hampered by these little rules we've made and conventions we pretent to follow. But the real thing.
No matter how you spin it, it is simple. We can not maintain our growth and with the limited resources we have availible to us. Once we really start to run out mother nature is waiting in the wings to correct it for us. An she is a real bitch. She doesn't care if we survive as a civilization or as a species.
So the question here is, do we correct the problem or wait till she does?
We don't need to put all our eggs in the fusion basket ether. Even with all our research, prayers, and dreams there is still a good chance that a sustained fusion reaction might not be possible. That is, out side of a star.
We have been barking up this fusion tree for 50 years. We have made remarkable process in the last 10. But despite all this we still have not reached the point where sustained economically viable reaction is possible. We may have to realize one day that it is simply not possible. Out side of the crackpot circuit there is not one person on this planet that can point to an equation on a board and say with 100% certainty that it is possible.
Where the fuck did that last line come from?
Preview damn it! Preview.
What I think the parent post is trying to say is there is a whole universe full of resources out there but we just need to get off our lazy asses and get to it. An he would be correct. Right now we are around 6.5 billion people on this rock. Sooner or later we will run out of resources.
Renewable resources are not going to cut it because they face the same problem as un-renewable. There is only so much that can go around. Sure you maybe able to produce the same resources over and over but it will alway be at the same ammount. They are an excellent short term fix for now but sooner or later we will be force to look for more. We need to find a place where there is an almost limitless supply of everything.
Space is the only answer. When you are confined to one planet everything is a limited resource. Technically everything in space is also a limited resource but there is just so much of it. Confined to Earth though sooner or later we will start to run short of everything if we keep expanding our population.
Population control you say? Yeah, well good luck with that.
The problem is simple and so is the answer. Expand into space or die as a civilization. There is no if, ands, or buts. Convervation and renewables are excellent solutions for the short run but that is just it. You can only conserve so much and produce so much renewables.
The choice really is yours people.
Sooner or later unless we
We are so Fucked!
Hell! We used to do this shit. We would do it in fall though. Hoist the fuckers up into the trees and blow all the fucking leaves out of them. Do it in front of the local old fokes home in the middle of the night. Then check the next morning to see how many rooms became availible in the night.
Oh yeah, I'm going to burn in hell and it wasn't just for the pope jokes ether.
Bingo. They need to stop with this keyboard bullshit and get on with developing that Simlink. According to my Shadowrun time line we should be well under way to being there.
Ahhh, downloading full sim porn right to the brain.
Yeah that is pretty scary and I have things like that too. I work over an hour away from home. It seems like I get in the car at home, then get out at work. When I take that route and I'm not goign to work, if I have someone with me they will alway bitch about how far and long it takes. To me its like a walk from the can to the shower. I just don't notice it any more.
Something else to think about. That is a whole hour of your fucking life your brain has decided is not worth remembering. I wonder how much other shit I don't remeber. The books, the tv shows ... the sex. It's kind of annoying to think that part of my life has been edited because its boring. Its a wonder I have any memory at all.
Holy shit! What genus though of that shit. My power key is behind a panel on the dam box that is locked with a key. It takes effort to turn mine off. That or you can just pull the fucking plug.
I was one of the first to buy a diNovo keyboards from logitech a few years ago. One with the detached keypad, that was promply tossed in a draw somewhere. That has been the best keyboard I've ever owned. The though of going back to any other keyboard makes me shiver.
Hey, whatever floats your boat as long as the rest of us don't have to watch.
You could always wire the caps-lock key to a block of C5 and put it under your keyboard. That would act as an incentive to watch where your fingers are going. And if not, then the cap-lock key would be the least of your problems.
The keyboard on the ti-99/4 was shit but the ti-99/4a was no wonderful invention ether. It still suffered from a shitty placed reset key. The TI reset switch showed no mercy ether. You hit that fucker and it was gone. None of this, "are you sure you want to reset" bullshit. Just *BEEP* your fucked. Every single TI owner has horror stories over that fucker. Working all night and go to press shift-0, I think, but hit func-0 and it was over.
And it had wierdly placed quote and other keys. that should have been on the nubmer keys where instead accessable with the func- key. Like func-p to get quotes.
But I still loved that computer. I guess we never really get over our first love. Until she comes out of no where after 20 years, asks for your help on something then shoves a knife in your back, an gives it twist just for kicks. Sorry.. i've had a shitty week.