I will NEVER forgive Jackson for raping Faramir's character. He turned a noble man into a sniveling, cowardly weakling. I am sorry I ever paid money to see these movies.
I understand that there needed to be changes made to the story in adapting it to film, but this change was not a necessary one. I can forgive turning the hobbits and Gimli into comic relief. I can forgive him for expanding Arwen's role. I can forgive the omission of Bombadil.
But when I read (re-read, but it's been a decade or two since the first reading) RotK, and read Faramir's parts of the story, I wondered what Jackson was thinking. Then when I reached the section where Aragorn revives Faramir...I was in tears. I already knew Faramir's character had been altered for the film, but this...this will not do. I pray that one day someone else makes these stories into films and does not brutalise such a beautiful character so mercilessly and senselessly.
Yessir, I love it when people discriminate like that. Nobody screams about enforced quotas for US Government jobs and contracts, but let a foreign government demand a quota on something as simple as software, and look out! Love double standards! Love 'em to death!
People who were criminals under already established state laws...
Are STILL BREAKING THE LAW in the face of a crappy, un-needed federal law?
I mean, why isn't there a law against breaking the law or something?
I keep saying this, and will do so until somebody actually listens: When spammers start dying, spam will cease. Make the death penalty mandatory for repeat offenders, do it today. It's the only way to stop the problem. Write your congressbot today!;)
Don't these fuckers have anything better to do than restrict our freedoms? Is there no state in this union determined to stand up for individual liberties?
I've got a $50 DVD player. It's utter crap. We bought it because it was cheap. We're going to have to buy a new one soon because this one is breaking down.
And the remote which came with our DirecTV unit is breaking down, and it's not even a year old!
OTOH, my iMac is plugging along like a champion after four years of my abuse. Granted I'm on my fourth hard drive and third DVD-ROM, but still...
So California, whose government is dominated by Democrats, passes a law regulating what people can and cannot do in their cars. Even if that person isn't the driver and poses no threat to the safety of the car or to other drivers.
I tried kicking the habit last year as my resolution.
Here's what happened to me:
I became incredibly lethargic. I started falling asleep at work. My memory went to hell. I constantly forgot common words and would experience that annoying thing where you stand up to do something and between the impulse to stand and the actual action you forget what it was you meant to do.
In the end I gave up and gave in. I drink a couple, maybe three two litre bottles of Vanilla coke a day. More, if I'm actually thirsty.
I have gone past the point where caffeine has any sort of stimulant effect on me.
Maybe I'll quit again for fun. A friend told me to take vitamin B (supposed to have a similar effect on the brain) so maybe I'll give it a go. I would be nice to have all that money I'm spending on Coke to use for other things.
Where's the Apple///? And the Lisa? And the eMate?
Dammit, there's not enough Apple in this post!
As an aside, it also lacks wang. You know, the computer company?
...was a pack of two-sizes-too-big underwear from my mom. When I asked her why she sent it, she told me that she wanted me to know what clean, white underwear should look like.
Heaven forbid a credible scientist should disagree with the idea of global warming. Mind you, I'm old enough that I remember being taught about global cooling as a Proven Scientific Fact(TM). You just don't dispute that kind of thing.
Except...
Just because something is taught as true doesn't make it true. The guy who first proposed plate tectonics was laughed at and now it's common knowledge.
A politician never met a problem he didn't think could be fixed with a tax of some sort.
And this guy's in the "Democrat-Farmer-Labour" party (whatever the hell THAT is-sounds like one of the eighty million British political parties to me) so he's probably a bit of a luddite and don't understand squat about how things REALLY work here.
Give that man/woman/being from another dimension of indescribable whatever a cee-gar!
If even ONE of these cases went to trial they'd get their collective ass handed to them on a silver platter, plus they'd probably be ordered to pay the defendant's legal costs.
There's your reason for why they're offering to settle-it's not munificence-it's outright fear.
Fucking bastards. Think I'll fire up my news reader and download a couple dozen albums right now!
But then, I would not call vi particularly intuitive, but it does cut down on pointless formatting decisions that seem to endlessly arise.
Agreed. I do all my typing in a text editor (BBEdit) these days. I can't be bothered with having to choose a font-inevitably I'll choose a mono-spaced font because they show formatting problems more readily (at least to me they do) and because...well...everything lines up!
On top of that, every word processor I've tried on the Mac (and on Windows) seems determined to make ME work ITS way. Wordperfect for Windows is especially chaotic-refusing to change text formatting, arbitrarily resizing fonts, sticking new pages in where they're not wanted. One of the secretaries thinks I'm crazy, but I swear-it's out to get me!
Back in college I used a program called "Jove" which as I recall was an Emacs varient. I never "got" vi, but I've nothing against it per se. Jove just "fit". Pico sucks ass. Too word-processor-ish for my tastes.
What? The rich make more money than I do? WTF? That's not fair! The goverment ought to make a law that says you can't have more than a million dollars, and then take all of Bill Gates's money and give some to everyone!
Can't they insulate all the sensitive equipment from the passenger section? Maybe have a layer of lead between the cockpit and the rest of the plane?
If things are really that bad, they're going to have to do something to address this, and soon. They need to harden the equipment against interference, and do it NOW.
I believe that, in this case as with spam and junk mail we have a reasonable expectation of privacy in our own homes. When I leave the house and go to work I'm fair game. I might not LIKE that, but that's life. But here in my house...no. Don't want it, won't allow it.
These assholes can talk all they want. But they have NO right to try to make me hear their message. My right to privacy in my home trumps their right to free speech 100% of the time until *I* say they can call me.
The telephone exists for my convenience, not as a marketing tool for every shithead with a product to sell. I paid for the phone, I pay for the service, not them. It's a tool at MY disposal, not the telemarketers'. My answering the phone does NOT imply that I WANT to talk to the person on the other end. Neither does it imply you have my permission to call me if I answer the phone for your call.
So what if they might lose their thrice damned jobs because nobody wants to hear from them! Why the hell can't they take the hint? Why aren't they out there trying to find other employment? There are plenty of opportunities for people to sit and yak on the phone all day-they could be customer service reps, or operators, or order takers or tech support people (wait-all those jobs are being sent overseas to India-nevermind).
Of course the Corporate Representative thinks that in 10 years we'll all be wearing computers. She's got a financial interest in our doing so! She's trying to increase shareholder confidence.
Too bad she's full of it. I'm not wearing my computer. Ever. Can you imagine going through security gates with a computer sewn into your clothing?
"Excuse me sir, would you mind booting your pants?"
I can't quite abide these marketing vermin (kill 'em all sez I!) thinking they have the right to redirect me to what THEY want me to see.
Of course, I don't HAVE to see their excreta-I use a Mac and I run Mozilla. I only see the ads I WANT to see.
But if anything this just proves we need better educated judges sitting for cases like this one. There is no way you can read the first amendment that makes this sort of thing legitimate. Spammers and marketers have no right to a free audience. Especially since they have to take such underhanded means to FORCE it into my attention. I have the right to live unmolested by unwanted advertising. A SMART judge would understand this point.
You can pass all the anti-spam legislation you like, but the vermin will dig even deeper into the woodwork to make it harder to find them.
The only way there's ever going to be any progress in the fight against spam is by making any egregious violation punishable by summary execution.
No, I'm not kidding. If every nation had such a law and actually enforced it things would improve instantly. Kill just ONE spammer and watch it all start to fade.
Of course it'll never happen, but a man can dream, can't he? A man can dream.
James Bond for "adolescents"?
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And target the writing to intelligent adults, rather than adolescents.
I just want to know if you have ever actually READ any of Fleming's James Bond novel, because if you haven't you haven't got a clue what you're talking about, which makes it difficult for me to take you seriously.
The movies have next to nothing to do with the novels, and you would be well advised to actually READ one of the novels before you trash them.
And if you're eating free range organic meat, you don't have to worry about your brain disintigrating 15 years from now.
Worried about it? Shit, I'm counting on it!;)
It's stupid to assume that if we just eat the right kinds of foods we'll live forever. You could eat organic foods ever day of your life and be struck dead by an automobile on your thirtieth birthday.
I'd rather have sixty good years and drop dead at 61 than live to be 90 but suffer a debilitating but non-fatal stroke at 61 which left me a near-vegetable.
You're going to die someday, no matter what. You might at well enjoy yourself until you do.
Remember these are the same sorts who told us everyone would have broadband by 1998 and that there'd be a web server in every home and how super terrif the Internet was and how it would change absolutely every aspect of our lives.
These people are boneheaded morons and cannot be trusted to give an even slightly accurate prediction for what the future holds.
What's life going to be like in 2007?
Here's MY guess:
Computers will be faster and have more RAM and larger hard drives. People will still buy them claiming they're going to use them to edit their home movies and keep their books, but will still use them instead to download porn.
Movies will continue to be sold on DVD, the older VHS format having been completely abandoned around 2005. DVDs will continue to have heavy copy protection and will probably go up to $30 each to offset claimed piracy losses.
CDs may lose ground to SACD and DVD-A, but most people still won't care or even notice the difference in sound quality. They will notice the difference in price, however, and the utter lack of SACD support in portable and computer players will limit its adoption. DVD-A will remain a niche audiophile option for the same reasons.
Cars will continue to run on gasoline, which will continue to become more expensive. Cars, too, will contiune to be increasingly expensive, and by 2007 you won't be able to buy a new one for less than $12,000-and that will be stripped down to nothing. Fuel efficiency will remain where it is, in spite of any advances in technology.
People will continue to make stupid and grandiose predictions about the future, none of which are based even slightly in reality. For some reason, these predictions will be taken seriously.
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I will NEVER forgive Jackson for raping Faramir's character. He turned a noble man into a sniveling, cowardly weakling. I am sorry I ever paid money to see these movies.
I understand that there needed to be changes made to the story in adapting it to film, but this change was not a necessary one. I can forgive turning the hobbits and Gimli into comic relief. I can forgive him for expanding Arwen's role. I can forgive the omission of Bombadil.
But when I read (re-read, but it's been a decade or two since the first reading) RotK, and read Faramir's parts of the story, I wondered what Jackson was thinking. Then when I reached the section where Aragorn revives Faramir...I was in tears. I already knew Faramir's character had been altered for the film, but this...this will not do. I pray that one day someone else makes these stories into films and does not brutalise such a beautiful character so mercilessly and senselessly.
Yessir, I love it when people discriminate like that. Nobody screams about enforced quotas for US Government jobs and contracts, but let a foreign government demand a quota on something as simple as software, and look out! Love double standards! Love 'em to death!
How are you gentlemen! All your code are belong to us!
You mean...
;)
People who were criminals under already established state laws...
Are STILL BREAKING THE LAW in the face of a crappy, un-needed federal law?
I mean, why isn't there a law against breaking the law or something?
I keep saying this, and will do so until somebody actually listens: When spammers start dying, spam will cease. Make the death penalty mandatory for repeat offenders, do it today. It's the only way to stop the problem. Write your congressbot today!
Don't these fuckers have anything better to do than restrict our freedoms? Is there no state in this union determined to stand up for individual liberties?
I've got a $50 DVD player. It's utter crap. We bought it because it was cheap. We're going to have to buy a new one soon because this one is breaking down.
And the remote which came with our DirecTV unit is breaking down, and it's not even a year old!
OTOH, my iMac is plugging along like a champion after four years of my abuse. Granted I'm on my fourth hard drive and third DVD-ROM, but still...
So let's see.
So California, whose government is dominated by Democrats, passes a law regulating what people can and cannot do in their cars. Even if that person isn't the driver and poses no threat to the safety of the car or to other drivers.
Am I alone in seeing this as fascist?
I tried kicking the habit last year as my resolution.
Here's what happened to me:
I became incredibly lethargic. I started falling asleep at work. My memory went to hell. I constantly forgot common words and would experience that annoying thing where you stand up to do something and between the impulse to stand and the actual action you forget what it was you meant to do.
In the end I gave up and gave in. I drink a couple, maybe three two litre bottles of Vanilla coke a day. More, if I'm actually thirsty.
I have gone past the point where caffeine has any sort of stimulant effect on me.
Maybe I'll quit again for fun. A friend told me to take vitamin B (supposed to have a similar effect on the brain) so maybe I'll give it a go. I would be nice to have all that money I'm spending on Coke to use for other things.
Where's the Apple ///? And the Lisa? And the eMate?
Dammit, there's not enough Apple in this post!
As an aside, it also lacks wang. You know, the computer company?
...was a pack of two-sizes-too-big underwear from my mom. When I asked her why she sent it, she told me that she wanted me to know what clean, white underwear should look like.
She so crazy!
Heaven forbid a credible scientist should disagree with the idea of global warming. Mind you, I'm old enough that I remember being taught about global cooling as a Proven Scientific Fact(TM). You just don't dispute that kind of thing.
Except...
Just because something is taught as true doesn't make it true. The guy who first proposed plate tectonics was laughed at and now it's common knowledge.
A politician never met a problem he didn't think could be fixed with a tax of some sort.
And this guy's in the "Democrat-Farmer-Labour" party (whatever the hell THAT is-sounds like one of the eighty million British political parties to me) so he's probably a bit of a luddite and don't understand squat about how things REALLY work here.
Minnesotans: Send this jerk packing.
If this were illegal-as in CRIMINAL, they wouldn't be wasting peoples time with lawsuits. They'd be pressing charges.
Give that man/woman/being from another dimension of indescribable whatever a cee-gar!
If even ONE of these cases went to trial they'd get their collective ass handed to them on a silver platter, plus they'd probably be ordered to pay the defendant's legal costs.
There's your reason for why they're offering to settle-it's not munificence-it's outright fear.
Fucking bastards. Think I'll fire up my news reader and download a couple dozen albums right now!
Agreed. I do all my typing in a text editor (BBEdit) these days. I can't be bothered with having to choose a font-inevitably I'll choose a mono-spaced font because they show formatting problems more readily (at least to me they do) and because...well...everything lines up!
On top of that, every word processor I've tried on the Mac (and on Windows) seems determined to make ME work ITS way. Wordperfect for Windows is especially chaotic-refusing to change text formatting, arbitrarily resizing fonts, sticking new pages in where they're not wanted. One of the secretaries thinks I'm crazy, but I swear-it's out to get me!
Back in college I used a program called "Jove" which as I recall was an Emacs varient. I never "got" vi, but I've nothing against it per se. Jove just "fit". Pico sucks ass. Too word-processor-ish for my tastes.
What? The rich make more money than I do? WTF? That's not fair! The goverment ought to make a law that says you can't have more than a million dollars, and then take all of Bill Gates's money and give some to everyone!
Can't they insulate all the sensitive equipment from the passenger section? Maybe have a layer of lead between the cockpit and the rest of the plane?
If things are really that bad, they're going to have to do something to address this, and soon. They need to harden the equipment against interference, and do it NOW.
I believe that, in this case as with spam and junk mail we have a reasonable expectation of privacy in our own homes. When I leave the house and go to work I'm fair game. I might not LIKE that, but that's life. But here in my house...no. Don't want it, won't allow it.
These assholes can talk all they want. But they have NO right to try to make me hear their message. My right to privacy in my home trumps their right to free speech 100% of the time until *I* say they can call me.
The telephone exists for my convenience, not as a marketing tool for every shithead with a product to sell. I paid for the phone, I pay for the service, not them. It's a tool at MY disposal, not the telemarketers'. My answering the phone does NOT imply that I WANT to talk to the person on the other end. Neither does it imply you have my permission to call me if I answer the phone for your call.
So what if they might lose their thrice damned jobs because nobody wants to hear from them! Why the hell can't they take the hint? Why aren't they out there trying to find other employment? There are plenty of opportunities for people to sit and yak on the phone all day-they could be customer service reps, or operators, or order takers or tech support people (wait-all those jobs are being sent overseas to India-nevermind).
You know, the first amendment doesn't guarantee you an audience...
Of course the Corporate Representative thinks that in 10 years we'll all be wearing computers. She's got a financial interest in our doing so! She's trying to increase shareholder confidence.
Too bad she's full of it. I'm not wearing my computer. Ever. Can you imagine going through security gates with a computer sewn into your clothing?
"Excuse me sir, would you mind booting your pants?"
I can't quite abide these marketing vermin (kill 'em all sez I!) thinking they have the right to redirect me to what THEY want me to see.
;)
Of course, I don't HAVE to see their excreta-I use a Mac and I run Mozilla. I only see the ads I WANT to see.
But if anything this just proves we need better educated judges sitting for cases like this one. There is no way you can read the first amendment that makes this sort of thing legitimate. Spammers and marketers have no right to a free audience. Especially since they have to take such underhanded means to FORCE it into my attention. I have the right to live unmolested by unwanted advertising. A SMART judge would understand this point.
Live ad free or die!
You can pass all the anti-spam legislation you like, but the vermin will dig even deeper into the woodwork to make it harder to find them.
The only way there's ever going to be any progress in the fight against spam is by making any egregious violation punishable by summary execution.
No, I'm not kidding. If every nation had such a law and actually enforced it things would improve instantly. Kill just ONE spammer and watch it all start to fade.
Of course it'll never happen, but a man can dream, can't he? A man can dream.
I just want to know if you have ever actually READ any of Fleming's James Bond novel, because if you haven't you haven't got a clue what you're talking about, which makes it difficult for me to take you seriously.
The movies have next to nothing to do with the novels, and you would be well advised to actually READ one of the novels before you trash them.
Worried about it? Shit, I'm counting on it! ;)
It's stupid to assume that if we just eat the right kinds of foods we'll live forever. You could eat organic foods ever day of your life and be struck dead by an automobile on your thirtieth birthday.
I'd rather have sixty good years and drop dead at 61 than live to be 90 but suffer a debilitating but non-fatal stroke at 61 which left me a near-vegetable.
You're going to die someday, no matter what. You might at well enjoy yourself until you do.
Remember these are the same sorts who told us everyone would have broadband by 1998 and that there'd be a web server in every home and how super terrif the Internet was and how it would change absolutely every aspect of our lives.
These people are boneheaded morons and cannot be trusted to give an even slightly accurate prediction for what the future holds.
What's life going to be like in 2007?
Here's MY guess:
Computers will be faster and have more RAM and larger hard drives. People will still buy them claiming they're going to use them to edit their home movies and keep their books, but will still use them instead to download porn.
Movies will continue to be sold on DVD, the older VHS format having been completely abandoned around 2005. DVDs will continue to have heavy copy protection and will probably go up to $30 each to offset claimed piracy losses.
CDs may lose ground to SACD and DVD-A, but most people still won't care or even notice the difference in sound quality. They will notice the difference in price, however, and the utter lack of SACD support in portable and computer players will limit its adoption. DVD-A will remain a niche audiophile option for the same reasons.
Cars will continue to run on gasoline, which will continue to become more expensive. Cars, too, will contiune to be increasingly expensive, and by 2007 you won't be able to buy a new one for less than $12,000-and that will be stripped down to nothing. Fuel efficiency will remain where it is, in spite of any advances in technology.
People will continue to make stupid and grandiose predictions about the future, none of which are based even slightly in reality. For some reason, these predictions will be taken seriously.
So, pretty much, status quo.