Well, for Hyperspace, you're not only giving them the right to spam you, you're paying to give them the right to spam you (as IIRC, Hyperspace membership is pay only).
What about Sixth Sense?
Can you imagine how different that movie would have been if some idiot on/. had posted, in the title, that the protaganist was dead?
I'd say that was a good example, except Hollywood Video did something like that (when they did their "60-Sec Theater" radio ads), instead of some lame-@$$/. troll.
Padme I could almost see, if she had a slight degree of Force Sensitivity, since the ghosts are kind of linked to whatever force-sensative person was nearest to the dead person, when the dead person dies (phrased convolutedly enough for you?).
If they add Jar-Jar to the original trilogy though, then there is deep hurting, very deep hurting, in George Lucas' future...
* Vader shows up, but darned if I can remember anything he does.
Luke and Vader fight, Luke almost gets his ass handed to him, but Luke knocks Vader into this pit (old well, IIRC) and manages to get away with Leia.
One other bit I remember from Splinter is that it is established that Leia is emotionally traumatized by her torture. However, her emotional trauma is more linked to Tarkin and from there to Grand Moffs in general, instead of Vader.
The Romanians aren't the only ones to do this scam. I've read that the Triads, and I believe the Yakuza are doing similar scams, and the Triads have already been branching out to doing the fake-ATM scam.
Just goes to show, the only ATM it's really safe to use is an ATM at your bank. Either that, or use checks.
Not much of a loss. Most of the books I've seen at my local library's book sales are either
A) Books that are already in circulation in the collection ("The Lost World" by Michael Crichton along with some of his other books, and various books by Stephen King, John Grisham, Robert Ludlum, and so on).
or B) Books that are no longer in distribution, and weren't circulated that much anyway (the "Gor" series, alont with many other books.)
The majority of the books tend to fall into the first catagory. So, the library, and those who frequent the library, aren't missing *that* much, since either the library already has that book, or the person would most likely already own that book.
Well, if they recived 3-4 other donations of said book, and they only need 2-3, and yours was the last one in, the need has been filled, and books they don't need are taking up needed storage space.
They're not really selling "Assets". I used to volunteer frequently for a public library, and we frequently recieved more copies of books as donations than we actually needed. Occasionally we found ourselves with many, many duplicates of a specific book (the one I remember the most being the hardcover edition of "The Lost World" by Michael Crichton: 10 duplicate copies donated and just sitting in a back room).
Those copies take up space, so something has to be done with them. Typically, they are sold in a used book sale at the library. However, these book sales tend to only attract people from the local area. By selling extra books online, a library can sell books that they just don't need and are taking up space, while making the sale open to people outside of whatever town the library is in.
It may have been that, in order for Decipher to do the splatbooks, they may have stated that they had to reprint, summarize, or elaborate upon material from the books. Thus possibly depriving some incentive to buy the book (in the eyes of the Estate).
On the other hand, with the Wargame, you don't necessarily have to put quite so much information as you would with the RPG, thus not making you any less inclined to buy the book (once again, in the eyes of the Estate).
The problem with using Ian Holm again is (according to the FOTR commentary tracks) the makeup for "Young Bilbo" that was put on Ian Holm was very, very uncomfortable, almost as uncomfortable as the Gimli makeup was to John Rhys-Davies. It might be difficult to sign Ian Holm if he had to wear that makeup day in and day out for an entire year.
Unfortunatly, though, Decipher only licensed the movies. I heard they tried to licence the Simillarion, so they could do splatbooks for the periods set during that book, but allegidly (sp?) the Tolkein Estate wouldn't sell them the rights.
But we're talking Fox here. If someone finds it offencive, stupid, or boring, they renew it for another season, hence the proliferation of the "World's Scariest", "When X Attacks" series, and the fact that there's a second season of "Joe Millionaire".
Here's my question. How many of thos people who said that they deleted their MP3s (assuming this is a survey or poll) were lying their pants off. I certainly wouldn't give them an honest answer to that poll, especially since the RIAA-fia (La Cosa RIAA, Music Mafia, whatever) might be considering breaking a few kneecaps/bank accounts to get the list of houses and neighborhoods polled.
Well, according to the Napster web site Napster 2 is currently still in beta testing anyway. That bug should have been fixed before the software went to Beta, but hopefully it'll get caught (or have already been caught), before the release of the "finished product" on the 29th.
There was an article I read somewhere, that they tracked down the "headquarters" to a strip mall somewhere. Inside, there was like a desk and that-was-it. When they called the Infinium owner or whatever, he claimed their headquarters had a hundred units already. When they confronted him about the actual address, he freaked out and threatened to sue them. I'll believe this unit when I see it for sale IN A STORE.
Yeah... I read the same thing at Penny Arcade's message boards. Personally, I wouldn't buy the frelling thing anyway, and neither will lots of other people, considering how you get your games for the system (you have to download them over a broad-band connection, as there are no drives for external media).
Despite what Scott Adams says in The Dilbert Principle, "People who will buy any damn thing" is not a valid market segment if you want your company to last.
He wrote a poem to Dali that was the inspiration for the eye-slashing scene...Buuel also appears, he's the man who slashes the girl's eye.
Gahhh!!! *rubs his eyes* Please don't remind me of that scene. I saw the movie two years ago, and ever since then, when that movie (and especially that scene) are mentioned, my eyes start to hurt.
Quoting someone to add weight to your argument, whether it's a philosopher, pop star or journalist, generally removes credibility from what you're saying because it suggests that you don't feel your argument is strong enough on its own.
Not necessarily. If they were using quotes from security experts, thart would add strength to their position. Furthermore, by quoting an columnist/editorial piece from a major newspaper, they are sending the message that even those who are not as technologically literate as security experts know that Microsoft's programs are unreliable.
I was replying to a statment in a previous post that I meant to reply to before, but the post got modded down sufficiently that it was below my limit for posts that are displayed.
Still, several recent Disney movies have had rather violent conclusions/messy deaths (although they were off-screen). For instance...
The Lion King: Scar is ripped apart by Hyenas.
The Huntchback of Notre Dame: The villain falls from the Notre Dame Cathedral (falling damage)
Beauty and the Beast: falling damage again, this time with Gustan from the Beast's castle.
The Rescuers Down Under: Falling damage again, from a waterfall (and the villain takes 2 crocadiles with him).
All of these would actually be a pretty messy way to go (although the falling damage ones would be a quick death, when the villain hits).
Though, on an unrelated note, no Disney female villains have ever been killed. Cruella DeVille survives, mostly unharmed, a car wreck that would normally kill a person. Likewise with the villain from the original "The Rescuers".
Well... IANAL, but I have read in several locations that video recordings were not admissable in court (not to mention that the inadmissiblity of video evidence was a key plot point in the novel by Michael Crichton, and he generally tries to do a good job at researching his plots.)
The author spends a lot of time talking about his inability to document the license and the provisions he didn't want to agree to. Perhaps he could save a lot of trouble by just photographing or videotaping the license. I'd reccommend both because its easier to get a hard copy for court of the still photo, and you might want the video to provide evidence you selected NO and then reformatted the drive and then installed an alternate OS.
No good. Photographs and video recordings are no longer admissible in court as they can be tampered with too easily and still look realistic.
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Well, for Hyperspace, you're not only giving them the right to spam you, you're paying to give them the right to spam you (as IIRC, Hyperspace membership is pay only).
I'd say that was a good example, except Hollywood Video did something like that (when they did their "60-Sec Theater" radio ads), instead of some lame-@$$ /. troll.
If they add Jar-Jar to the original trilogy though, then there is deep hurting, very deep hurting, in George Lucas' future...
One other bit I remember from Splinter is that it is established that Leia is emotionally traumatized by her torture. However, her emotional trauma is more linked to Tarkin and from there to Grand Moffs in general, instead of Vader.
The Romanians aren't the only ones to do this scam. I've read that the Triads, and I believe the Yakuza are doing similar scams, and the Triads have already been branching out to doing the fake-ATM scam. Just goes to show, the only ATM it's really safe to use is an ATM at your bank. Either that, or use checks.
However, typically, the better weapons and armor aren't being supplied by the same company.
A) Books that are already in circulation in the collection ("The Lost World" by Michael Crichton along with some of his other books, and various books by Stephen King, John Grisham, Robert Ludlum, and so on).
or B) Books that are no longer in distribution, and weren't circulated that much anyway (the "Gor" series, alont with many other books.)
The majority of the books tend to fall into the first catagory. So, the library, and those who frequent the library, aren't missing *that* much, since either the library already has that book, or the person would most likely already own that book.
Well, if they recived 3-4 other donations of said book, and they only need 2-3, and yours was the last one in, the need has been filled, and books they don't need are taking up needed storage space.
Those copies take up space, so something has to be done with them. Typically, they are sold in a used book sale at the library. However, these book sales tend to only attract people from the local area. By selling extra books online, a library can sell books that they just don't need and are taking up space, while making the sale open to people outside of whatever town the library is in.
On the other hand, with the Wargame, you don't necessarily have to put quite so much information as you would with the RPG, thus not making you any less inclined to buy the book (once again, in the eyes of the Estate).
Anyways, who to pick for Thorin?
Unfortunatly, though, Decipher only licensed the movies. I heard they tried to licence the Simillarion, so they could do splatbooks for the periods set during that book, but allegidly (sp?) the Tolkein Estate wouldn't sell them the rights.
But we're talking Fox here. If someone finds it offencive, stupid, or boring, they renew it for another season, hence the proliferation of the "World's Scariest", "When X Attacks" series, and the fact that there's a second season of "Joe Millionaire".
Here's my question. How many of thos people who said that they deleted their MP3s (assuming this is a survey or poll) were lying their pants off. I certainly wouldn't give them an honest answer to that poll, especially since the RIAA-fia (La Cosa RIAA, Music Mafia, whatever) might be considering breaking a few kneecaps/bank accounts to get the list of houses and neighborhoods polled.
Well, according to the Napster web site Napster 2 is currently still in beta testing anyway. That bug should have been fixed before the software went to Beta, but hopefully it'll get caught (or have already been caught), before the release of the "finished product" on the 29th.
Yeah... I read the same thing at Penny Arcade's message boards. Personally, I wouldn't buy the frelling thing anyway, and neither will lots of other people, considering how you get your games for the system (you have to download them over a broad-band connection, as there are no drives for external media).
Despite what Scott Adams says in The Dilbert Principle, "People who will buy any damn thing" is not a valid market segment if you want your company to last.
Gahhh!!! *rubs his eyes* Please don't remind me of that scene. I saw the movie two years ago, and ever since then, when that movie (and especially that scene) are mentioned, my eyes start to hurt.
IANAL, but I believe they can reveal her name because it is a civil case, not a criminal one.
Not necessarily. If they were using quotes from security experts, thart would add strength to their position. Furthermore, by quoting an columnist/editorial piece from a major newspaper, they are sending the message that even those who are not as technologically literate as security experts know that Microsoft's programs are unreliable.
I was replying to a statment in a previous post that I meant to reply to before, but the post got modded down sufficiently that it was below my limit for posts that are displayed.
My bad. I haven't seen Disney's Atlantis, I only saw Snow White once, and likewise with The Little Mermaid. Mia Culpa.
The Lion King: Scar is ripped apart by Hyenas.
The Huntchback of Notre Dame: The villain falls from the Notre Dame Cathedral (falling damage)
Beauty and the Beast: falling damage again, this time with Gustan from the Beast's castle.
The Rescuers Down Under: Falling damage again, from a waterfall (and the villain takes 2 crocadiles with him).
All of these would actually be a pretty messy way to go (although the falling damage ones would be a quick death, when the villain hits).
Though, on an unrelated note, no Disney female villains have ever been killed. Cruella DeVille survives, mostly unharmed, a car wreck that would normally kill a person. Likewise with the villain from the original "The Rescuers".
a) I downloaded them before the RIAA started with the crackdown (2 years ago)
b) I own the albums on audio casette and can claim that I'm backing up my collection, just in case the tape wears out.
and c) They're not on my hard drive anymore because I burned the songs to CD and then deleated them from the hard drive.
As for the ones not on the list... well... I'll doubt I'll see any Anime songs or songs by Horslips on there anytime soon.
Well... IANAL, but I have read in several locations that video recordings were not admissable in court (not to mention that the inadmissiblity of video evidence was a key plot point in the novel by Michael Crichton, and he generally tries to do a good job at researching his plots.)
No good. Photographs and video recordings are no longer admissible in court as they can be tampered with too easily and still look realistic.