"Milking a franchise" for writers/producers/distributors is like re-using bits of code for developers. It worked once, and with only a little bit of tweaking, it will work again. If you can bill twice for something you've already written, you do it. Obviously.
Entertainment *can* be art, like code *can* be poetry, but mostly it's not. People gotta eat.
Because, you know, there's nothing controversial about ISBN numbers.
If, however, a story had once run in the National Enquirer that the ISBN numbers were gay, not only would they have been included in the article, but three more paragraphs would have been added about them, with supporting citations from overseas versions of the National Enquirer, and a photograph of the ISBN number with some Dewey Decimal number believed to be it's life partner....and don't mod me flamebait until you've read the talk pages for Anderson Cooper, Tom Cruise, et. al.
There are many BM participants that plainly don't want the world to see them nude
Then they should not undress on federal land.
That's their right
What, you think someone parading around naked in the desert has a right to privacy? That is simply incorrect.
People have more freedom at BM than the 'default world'
You make "Burning Man" sound like a Ren Faire for wannabe anarchists. And maybe that's true, but if the Ren Faire and Burning Man are held on public land, I've got the same right to take a picture of you wearing elf ears and waving around a plastic sword as I do of you dancing naked in your warpaint. Ridiculous is as ridiculous does, and if you want to keep it secret, keep it indoors.
...because my impression was that Burning Man had become a parody of itself (and, by extension, the whole Mondo 2000 era) years ago. Like, Turn-of-the-Century years ago. These aren't "creative people" making an annual pilgrimage, these are Marketing Execs and guys who view the pre-bubble dot-com era the way today's high school pop music fans view 80's synth-pop bands and narrow ties.
"Burning Man" ?!? Christ, why does that even get any ink here?
...but how does it track when my 8-year-old daughter loads the disk and plays "Lara Croft: Monkey Chaser" ? I'm guessing they need a way to throw out that data, or else risk creating the new, bogus, player category of "Spastic Insomniac."
Something to the effect that the only thing lower than Music "Journalism" is Game "Journalism." It's meant more as a slam to Music "Journalism," as there would inevitably be some guy in the whom citing some music review or other as if it mattered. There was never anyone who took game reviews seriously. In a general interest publication, the game reviews is the job given to the editor-in-chief's nephew, chasing his first byline.
I don't think it was intended to be calling police officers dumb. Rather, I think the whole idea is that of law enforcement having to deal with obscure technical things that are totally outside of their expertise. Which is why this story is so interesting. The line is starting to blur between cyberspace and meatspace.
So long as the cop never uses the term "meatspace" he'll be a better man than both of us.
Somewhere along the way, we stopped printing things out quite so much.
Tell that to the Big Boy publishing industry, who still predominantly take queries and submissions only in hard copy handed to them by a postal worker. It's changing, but glacially...
Is anybody going to buy a new car just because of this handout?
Since the program has run out of money because the government under-estimated how popular it would be, I'd say yes, people will buy cars because of this handout, yes.
Why not give a tax credit to everyone who buys/owns a new vehicle that meets a certain MPG?
Because that only helps the urban young, poor, trendoid and childless, who are already in the democrats' pocket. This plan reaches out to those with families, middle class, and the sportsmen in rural and semi-rural America.
Wait... you didn't think this was about helping the environment, did you?
Help me out with this one: Do they go out of there way to sound like their fourteen years old cuz it's some kind tradition/secret handshake thing, or don't they realize how juvenile and goofy they sound?
In before completely unrealistic, hypothetical scenario involving an off-work doctor who is out on his unicycle, when someone gets their second cellphone stuck in their throat, and would have been saved if it hadn't been for the phone-jamming equipment in operation at a nearby school.
That's pretty far-fetched. A doctor having his phone on when he's off-work? How realistic is that?
...at least according to this article. The author makes a convincing argument that MS took a bath with that price in order to keep Linux from gaining a toe-hold in the netbook/notebook market, and also credits the threat of Linux Netbook Popularity with the extension of XP to 2010 and modifications of specs on Windows 7. A good read.
Can't wait for the trends to start: half the populace will be covering them in WD-40 and sticking them up their ass, and the rest will be basing a new religion around them, tattooing sine waves onto their foreheads.
I'm sorry, but $600 a month is more value to me (and just about everyone else) than feeling good that I didn't indirectly support some sweat shop.
Don't feel bad about this. The anti-Walmart classist buffonery stems from childless water-buying yuppies and hipsters who don't really give a damn about -- what's the screed? "slave labor in China?" right -- they only care about re-creating the nurturing womb-like environs of their tweedy ivy-covered university towns, where the anemic vegetarian goths who ran the registers at the poorly-stocked yet over-priced mom-and-pop stores screamed at them not to let the cat out every time they walked in. The Wal-Marts put these stores-as-hobbies out of business, and they also logically attract the struggling working class who aren't on their daddy's expense account, and the presence of these folks forces the yuppies and hipsters to wrestle uncomfortably with the reconciliation of the beliefs they high-mindedly espouse on Internet chat boards and the classism they actually feel toward the lesser-educated and blue collar.
Hey, if I'm going to go anti-Walmart on this board I'm going to get modded down anyway, so let's give it both barrels...
But if space aliens were to suddenly land in the U.S., they'd be voting, given free healthcare, and have their own Emmy-winning reality TV show before anyone could even examine them for xeno-viruses or concealed particle-beam sidearms..
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"Milking a franchise" for writers/producers/distributors is like re-using bits of code for developers. It worked once, and with only a little bit of tweaking, it will work again. If you can bill twice for something you've already written, you do it. Obviously.
Entertainment *can* be art, like code *can* be poetry, but mostly it's not. People gotta eat.
Because, you know, there's nothing controversial about ISBN numbers.
If, however, a story had once run in the National Enquirer that the ISBN numbers were gay, not only would they have been included in the article, but three more paragraphs would have been added about them, with supporting citations from overseas versions of the National Enquirer, and a photograph of the ISBN number with some Dewey Decimal number believed to be it's life partner. ...and don't mod me flamebait until you've read the talk pages for Anderson Cooper, Tom Cruise, et. al.
Agenda? nahhh...
There are many BM participants that plainly don't want the world to see them nude
Then they should not undress on federal land.
That's their right
What, you think someone parading around naked in the desert has a right to privacy? That is simply incorrect.
People have more freedom at BM than the 'default world'
You make "Burning Man" sound like a Ren Faire for wannabe anarchists. And maybe that's true, but if the Ren Faire and Burning Man are held on public land, I've got the same right to take a picture of you wearing elf ears and waving around a plastic sword as I do of you dancing naked in your warpaint. Ridiculous is as ridiculous does, and if you want to keep it secret, keep it indoors.
...because my impression was that Burning Man had become a parody of itself (and, by extension, the whole Mondo 2000 era) years ago. Like, Turn-of-the-Century years ago. These aren't "creative people" making an annual pilgrimage, these are Marketing Execs and guys who view the pre-bubble dot-com era the way today's high school pop music fans view 80's synth-pop bands and narrow ties.
"Burning Man" ?!? Christ, why does that even get any ink here?
...but how does it track when my 8-year-old daughter loads the disk and plays "Lara Croft: Monkey Chaser" ? I'm guessing they need a way to throw out that data, or else risk creating the new, bogus, player category of "Spastic Insomniac."
I think -- and I could be wrong -- that "Owning" is like "Pwning," and it means "to dominate," if you're fourteen.
Something to the effect that the only thing lower than Music "Journalism" is Game "Journalism." It's meant more as a slam to Music "Journalism," as there would inevitably be some guy in the whom citing some music review or other as if it mattered. There was never anyone who took game reviews seriously. In a general interest publication, the game reviews is the job given to the editor-in-chief's nephew, chasing his first byline.
Is China handling this delicate issue appropriately or are the news reports of justice and monitoring treatments merely a facade?
You used "China," "Justice," and "Appropriately" all in the same sentence. I think that means you get triple-points in geo-political Scrabble.
How should one respond to this then?
Why, as the periodic astroturfing-for-donations that the EFF does on Slashdot, of course!
I don't think it was intended to be calling police officers dumb. Rather, I think the whole idea is that of law enforcement having to deal with obscure technical things that are totally outside of their expertise. Which is why this story is so interesting. The line is starting to blur between cyberspace and meatspace.
So long as the cop never uses the term "meatspace" he'll be a better man than both of us.
The first thing you can imagine the officer asked was, "What's a domain?".'"
Why can't they be smart and well-versed in all things, like IT Professionals?
Somewhere along the way, we stopped printing things out quite so much.
Tell that to the Big Boy publishing industry, who still predominantly take queries and submissions only in hard copy handed to them by a postal worker. It's changing, but glacially...
Is anybody going to buy a new car just because of this handout?
Since the program has run out of money because the government under-estimated how popular it would be, I'd say yes, people will buy cars because of this handout, yes.
Why not give a tax credit to everyone who buys/owns a new vehicle that meets a certain MPG?
Because that only helps the urban young, poor, trendoid and childless, who are already in the democrats' pocket. This plan reaches out to those with families, middle class, and the sportsmen in rural and semi-rural America.
Wait... you didn't think this was about helping the environment, did you?
I bet it shows an unusually high percentage of Dark Elves and Orcs, as well as Caucasians. What should we be inferring from that?
"their way"... "like they're"... long week
Help me out with this one: Do they go out of there way to sound like their fourteen years old cuz it's some kind tradition/secret handshake thing, or don't they realize how juvenile and goofy they sound?
In before completely unrealistic, hypothetical scenario involving an off-work doctor who is out on his unicycle, when someone gets their second cellphone stuck in their throat, and would have been saved if it hadn't been for the phone-jamming equipment in operation at a nearby school.
That's pretty far-fetched. A doctor having his phone on when he's off-work? How realistic is that?
...at least according to this article. The author makes a convincing argument that MS took a bath with that price in order to keep Linux from gaining a toe-hold in the netbook/notebook market, and also credits the threat of Linux Netbook Popularity with the extension of XP to 2010 and modifications of specs on Windows 7. A good read.
Can't wait for the trends to start: half the populace will be covering them in WD-40 and sticking them up their ass, and the rest will be basing a new religion around them, tattooing sine waves onto their foreheads.
There, fixed that for you.
No you didn't.
...the headline is likely to read, "Google Uses Pakistan for Military Targeting."
I'm sorry, but $600 a month is more value to me (and just about everyone else) than feeling good that I didn't indirectly support some sweat shop.
Don't feel bad about this. The anti-Walmart classist buffonery stems from childless water-buying yuppies and hipsters who don't really give a damn about -- what's the screed? "slave labor in China?" right -- they only care about re-creating the nurturing womb-like environs of their tweedy ivy-covered university towns, where the anemic vegetarian goths who ran the registers at the poorly-stocked yet over-priced mom-and-pop stores screamed at them not to let the cat out every time they walked in. The Wal-Marts put these stores-as-hobbies out of business, and they also logically attract the struggling working class who aren't on their daddy's expense account, and the presence of these folks forces the yuppies and hipsters to wrestle uncomfortably with the reconciliation of the beliefs they high-mindedly espouse on Internet chat boards and the classism they actually feel toward the lesser-educated and blue collar.
Hey, if I'm going to go anti-Walmart on this board I'm going to get modded down anyway, so let's give it both barrels...
Apparently you didn't have hyperbole in your country.
But if space aliens were to suddenly land in the U.S., they'd be voting, given free healthcare, and have their own Emmy-winning reality TV show before anyone could even examine them for xeno-viruses or concealed particle-beam sidearms..
*That's* the movie I want to see made.