"Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies" draws an unsettling analysis of the military's influence on the film industry.
This program examines how the development of the motion picture industry in Hollywood coincided with the US's entry onto the world stage, on both political and military levels. Hollywood and the Pentagon...most people are intrigued to learn than a relationship exists between these two pillars of American power. Yet the US armed forces foresaw of the benefits in supporting the production of war and combat films when the country's cinema was still in its infancy. At the beginning of the 20th century, in the early days of cinema, the US was still a young, relatively isolated country. Two world wars later the country could no longer afford to remain insular. The story of how America faced up to the world was told by war movies.
are people seriously going to vote for a candidate over something as stupid as gay people getting married? yes. most people are idiots. and they vote based solely on issues that matter to them. even if they are completely trivial, especially compared to bigger issues like the environment, education, war, etc.
"One fear is that some predatory monopolist, a Microsoft of the airwaves, would end up owning all of the spectrum. That won't happen. First, the market value of the spectrum would approach $1 trillion, out of the reach of any individual corporation. Second, antitrust laws would remain on the books. The Department of Justice could wield the Sherman Antitrust Act to challenge unlawful conduct and block mergers."
YES WE ALL KNOW HOW EFFECTIVE ANTITRUST LAWS AND THE DOJ ARE AT KEEPING CORPORATIONS FROM GETTING TOO BIG AND POWERFUL. FUCKING MORON.
'libertarian freaks, nuttily suspicious of centralized power'
i thought we were socialists? what's nutty about being suspicious of centralized power? it would be naive not to be. read a frickin history book. (or a newspaper, for that matter)
Why cant XM and Sirius offer localized content? (besides the fact that it will create competition for National Association of Broadcasters) The article doesnt say. Isnt this a free speech issue? "youre not allowed to talk about the traffic or weather" "why not?" "because..." ???*confused*
And how many of those germs are pathogenic? Isn't that what matters? Sorry for not RTFA, but it seems people have become obsessed with germs lately. And articles like this while interesting and true, manage to create paranoia with ignorant people. Also, the kinds of germs that live on toilet seats are a little different than the kinds that live on or in your keyboard, unless strange people regularly pull their pants down and sit on your keyboard.
It says they have to donate CDs to schools. I am curious what CDs they are donating to music education programs. Anyone know? Are they donating Eminem an 50 Cent CDs to middle schoolers or what?
I still remember my first MP3 and the first time I used winamp. My jaw dropped to the ground. THIS IS GOING TO CHANGE EVERYTHING!!! I thought. This was back before Napster. Back when we had to get mp3s from ftp sites and we had to scroll long ass lists of directories to find the song we wanted. There were no p2p applications with fancy search engines. Anyone here remember Blex's page of good mp3?
When I heard aol bought nullsoft I was a little disappointed because I thought Frankel was a sellout and winamp would become bloated and lame. Frankel stayed cool as hell and winamp didn't become lame. Gnutella was the first decentralised file sharing/search network and it scared the shit out of corporations like aol. And he released it after he supposedly sold out. It was opensource. So Justin is still cool in my book. Who cares if he's rich? Shawn Fanning might be a moviestar now (Italian Job) but Frankel is the real revolutionary hacker.
Important to note that they will still make and sell film, even though they wont be selling film-based cameras. Film is not going anywhere. Kodak wasn't really one of the major producers of film based cameras anyway-- Nikon, Canon, Minolta, Pentax, Olympus, Pentax, Hasselblad, Mamiya, Contax, Konica, Leica, Fuji, Bronica all still make film cameras and are doing very well with them.
Most professionals still prefer film over digital. I myself wouldn't dream of not taking my SLR with me to do a wedding. I pack my digital too, but I will never leave my film at home, even 20 years from now. Maybe I'm just old fashioned?
Besides, darkroom skills impress girls much more than photoshop skills. No joke. Girls really are impressed when you show them your darkroom.
By saying "if parts of the code are similar maybe MPlayer stole our code" he is basically admitting that someone stole from someone.
then he says...
The GPL is a weak license and hasn't been tested in court. What is the point of making this comment if he feels that MPlayer stole from them? What he is really saying is "What are you going to do about it?"
Lets face it. If you're a multi-billion dollar corporation and you can get labor dirt cheap in another country wouldn't you do it? Yes there are plenty of qualified, educated American workers. So what? They work for $3/hour in India instead of $20/hour in America.
We need some kind of regulation to discourage these practices or our entire economy will go to shit. George Bush wants to help ILLEGAL immigrants out by letting them work? Because he is so compassionate?? Give me a fucking break. It is about exploiting people and getting cheap labor so the rich get richer.
This has probably been said already (maybe not) but isnt suing replaytv for giving consumers the ability to skip commercials like suing mozilla for blocking popups?
people are missing the point. disney makes great movies that appeal to both kids and adults. but what if 90% of all movies were disney movies? i never said nintendo didn't make great games. just that their games are targeted at children.
yeah i know gameboy is by far the best selling system ever. i didnt mean it was too late for them to sell systems. i meant they should have made the gameboy advance screen not suck in the first place. they released the GBA SP because so many people were bitching about the original GBA's screen. the release of the GBA SP was necessary because the original's screen sucked so hard, and nintendo realized it after they released the original, which was too late. (even though it still sold well)
i meant MOST nintendo games are oriented towards kids. not all. i forgot about eternal darkness. thats one of the exceptions. nintendo is like the disney of video games. disney makes great movies and most of them are for kids and yes, adults like disney movies too.
i personally didn't have a problem with the cartridge format either. and i understand why nintendo stayed with it. i hated load times of saturn/ps1.
but the cartridge format meant more expensive games. if they manufacture 100,000 cartridges of a game and only sell 50,000 thats a huge loss. but if they make 100,000 cds of a game and only sell 50,000 then they don't lose as much money because cds dont cost nearly as much as cartridges. this made game publishers wary of making n64 games. and hurt nintendo in the long run.
dude chill out. did you even read all of my post?? i agree gameplay is whats important, but that doesnt mean almost every game they publish has to have cute little furry animals in it.
"While I respect that nintendo has kept their games clean instead of selling out and making violent sexually explicit adult only games like GTA3 it has cost them some gamers. It's not just about sex and violence either. Games like Gran Turismo are made for older gamers that can appreciate the realism of the game. Kids under 13 don't care that they recorded actual engine sounds from each auto model. I mean adults can play Mario or Zelda..." -me
First let me say that the GameCube is a great machine. However nintendo keeps screwing up and thats why it has lost its lead. It started when they chose to censor Mortal Kombat and Sega didn't. This alienated many of their mature gamers. Then they chose the cartridge format for N64. Then they chose to not support/encourage third party developers as much as sony/sega/microsoft.
Also they decided to only make cute little games oriented towards kids, even though most gamers are adults. All the games for older gamers are third party games. Look at their first party games... Mario, Monkey Ball, F-Zero, Mario Party, Kirby, Zelda, Luigi's Mansion, Pikmin, Smash Brothers... The only FIRST PARTY game doesn't have cute little cartoon characters is Metroid. While I respect that nintendo has kept their games clean instead of selling out and making violent sexually explicit adult only games like GTA3 it has cost them some gamers. It's not just about sex and violence either. Games like Gran Turismo are made for older gamers that can appreciate the realism of the game. Kids under 13 don't care that they recorded actual engine sounds from each auto model. I mean adults can play Mario or Zelda
The original GBA display also sucked. This was fixed with GBA SP but it was too late. And don't even get me started on how they've failed at online gaming compared to sony and microsoft.
Hopefully they'll get their act together for their next system. Make it backward compatible with gamecube games, make it play DVDs, put a network adapter in there (wireless even), put a hard drive in there, have lots of good launch titles (first party AND THIRT PARTY), and don't flood the market with nothing but mario games. (mario golf, mario party, mario tennis, mario fighting game, mario world, mario racing...)
It's about the opensource philosophy for many people. Unless they decide to make windows truly open source, not shared source, many people will continue to use GNU/Linux. duh.
Also, DRM and palladium will just convert more people over to linux. I like to decide what files can open and what programs can run on my computer. It's MY COMPUTER. I should be in control.
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here is proof page 120 (middle of the first paragraph) sorry for replying to my own post :D
Hawking states this in his book, A Brief History of Time. duh.
theres a program called "operation hollywood" available on bittorrent and ed2k. highly recommended.
d etails&id=57591&query=operation%20hollywood
http://www.torrentspy.com/search.asp?mode=torrent
Operation Hollywood (2004)
"Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies" draws an unsettling analysis of the military's influence on the film industry.
This program examines how the development of the motion picture industry in Hollywood coincided with the US's entry onto the world stage, on both political and military levels. Hollywood and the Pentagon...most people are intrigued to learn than a relationship exists between these two pillars of American power. Yet the US armed forces foresaw of the benefits in supporting the production of war and combat films when the country's cinema was still in its infancy. At the beginning of the 20th century, in the early days of cinema, the US was still a young, relatively isolated country. Two world wars later the country could no longer afford to remain insular. The story of how America faced up to the world was told by war movies.
are people seriously going to vote for a candidate over something as stupid as gay people getting married? yes. most people are idiots. and they vote based solely on issues that matter to them. even if they are completely trivial, especially compared to bigger issues like the environment, education, war, etc.
So what percent of Google will Yahoo own?
"One fear is that some predatory monopolist, a Microsoft of the airwaves, would end up owning all of the spectrum. That won't happen. First, the market value of the spectrum would approach $1 trillion, out of the reach of any individual corporation. Second, antitrust laws would remain on the books. The Department of Justice could wield the Sherman Antitrust Act to challenge unlawful conduct and block mergers."
YES WE ALL KNOW HOW EFFECTIVE ANTITRUST LAWS AND THE DOJ ARE AT KEEPING CORPORATIONS FROM GETTING TOO BIG AND POWERFUL. FUCKING MORON.
'libertarian freaks, nuttily suspicious of centralized power' i thought we were socialists? what's nutty about being suspicious of centralized power? it would be naive not to be. read a frickin history book. (or a newspaper, for that matter)
Why cant XM and Sirius offer localized content? (besides the fact that it will create competition for National Association of Broadcasters) The article doesnt say. Isnt this a free speech issue?
"youre not allowed to talk about the traffic or weather"
"why not?"
"because..."
???*confused*
And how many of those germs are pathogenic? Isn't that what matters? Sorry for not RTFA, but it seems people have become obsessed with germs lately. And articles like this while interesting and true, manage to create paranoia with ignorant people. Also, the kinds of germs that live on toilet seats are a little different than the kinds that live on or in your keyboard, unless strange people regularly pull their pants down and sit on your keyboard.
It says they have to donate CDs to schools. I am curious what CDs they are donating to music education programs. Anyone know? Are they donating Eminem an 50 Cent CDs to middle schoolers or what?
for tweaking your display. An absolute must have.
epiii-leaked-avi.torrent ofn :-P
I still remember my first MP3 and the first time I used winamp. My jaw dropped to the ground. THIS IS GOING TO CHANGE EVERYTHING!!! I thought. This was back before Napster. Back when we had to get mp3s from ftp sites and we had to scroll long ass lists of directories to find the song we wanted. There were no p2p applications with fancy search engines. Anyone here remember Blex's page of good mp3?
When I heard aol bought nullsoft I was a little disappointed because I thought Frankel was a sellout and winamp would become bloated and lame. Frankel stayed cool as hell and winamp didn't become lame. Gnutella was the first decentralised file sharing/search network and it scared the shit out of corporations like aol. And he released it after he supposedly sold out. It was opensource. So Justin is still cool in my book. Who cares if he's rich? Shawn Fanning might be a moviestar now (Italian Job) but Frankel is the real revolutionary hacker.
Important to note that they will still make and sell film, even though they wont be selling film-based cameras. Film is not going anywhere. Kodak wasn't really one of the major producers of film based cameras anyway-- Nikon, Canon, Minolta, Pentax, Olympus, Pentax, Hasselblad, Mamiya, Contax, Konica, Leica, Fuji, Bronica all still make film cameras and are doing very well with them.
Most professionals still prefer film over digital. I myself wouldn't dream of not taking my SLR with me to do a wedding. I pack my digital too, but I will never leave my film at home, even 20 years from now. Maybe I'm just old fashioned?
Besides, darkroom skills impress girls much more than photoshop skills. No joke. Girls really are impressed when you show them your darkroom.
By saying "if parts of the code are similar maybe MPlayer stole our code" he is basically admitting that someone stole from someone.
then he says...
The GPL is a weak license and hasn't been tested in court. What is the point of making this comment if he feels that MPlayer stole from them? What he is really saying is "What are you going to do about it?"
Lets face it. If you're a multi-billion dollar corporation and you can get labor dirt cheap in another country wouldn't you do it? Yes there are plenty of qualified, educated American workers. So what? They work for $3/hour in India instead of $20/hour in America.
We need some kind of regulation to discourage these practices or our entire economy will go to shit. George Bush wants to help ILLEGAL immigrants out by letting them work? Because he is so compassionate?? Give me a fucking break. It is about exploiting people and getting cheap labor so the rich get richer.
This has probably been said already (maybe not) but isnt suing replaytv for giving consumers the ability to skip commercials like suing mozilla for blocking popups?
people are missing the point. disney makes great movies that appeal to both kids and adults. but what if 90% of all movies were disney movies? i never said nintendo didn't make great games. just that their games are targeted at children.
yeah i know gameboy is by far the best selling system ever. i didnt mean it was too late for them to sell systems. i meant they should have made the gameboy advance screen not suck in the first place. they released the GBA SP because so many people were bitching about the original GBA's screen. the release of the GBA SP was necessary because the original's screen sucked so hard, and nintendo realized it after they released the original, which was too late. (even though it still sold well)
oops youre right monkey ball is a sega game.
i meant MOST nintendo games are oriented towards kids. not all. i forgot about eternal darkness. thats one of the exceptions. nintendo is like the disney of video games. disney makes great movies and most of them are for kids and yes, adults like disney movies too.
i personally didn't have a problem with the cartridge format either. and i understand why nintendo stayed with it. i hated load times of saturn/ps1.
but the cartridge format meant more expensive games. if they manufacture 100,000 cartridges of a game and only sell 50,000 thats a huge loss. but if they make 100,000 cds of a game and only sell 50,000 then they don't lose as much money because cds dont cost nearly as much as cartridges. this made game publishers wary of making n64 games. and hurt nintendo in the long run.
dude chill out. did you even read all of my post?? i agree gameplay is whats important, but that doesnt mean almost every game they publish has to have cute little furry animals in it.
"While I respect that nintendo has kept their games clean instead of selling out and making violent sexually explicit adult only games like GTA3 it has cost them some gamers. It's not just about sex and violence either. Games like Gran Turismo are made for older gamers that can appreciate the realism of the game. Kids under 13 don't care that they recorded actual engine sounds from each auto model. I mean adults can play Mario or Zelda..." -me
oops theres typos in that but i just woke up and im half asleep sue me
First let me say that the GameCube is a great machine. However nintendo keeps screwing up and thats why it has lost its lead. It started when they chose to censor Mortal Kombat and Sega didn't. This alienated many of their mature gamers. Then they chose the cartridge format for N64. Then they chose to not support/encourage third party developers as much as sony/sega/microsoft. Also they decided to only make cute little games oriented towards kids, even though most gamers are adults. All the games for older gamers are third party games. Look at their first party games... Mario, Monkey Ball, F-Zero, Mario Party, Kirby, Zelda, Luigi's Mansion, Pikmin, Smash Brothers... The only FIRST PARTY game doesn't have cute little cartoon characters is Metroid. While I respect that nintendo has kept their games clean instead of selling out and making violent sexually explicit adult only games like GTA3 it has cost them some gamers. It's not just about sex and violence either. Games like Gran Turismo are made for older gamers that can appreciate the realism of the game. Kids under 13 don't care that they recorded actual engine sounds from each auto model. I mean adults can play Mario or Zelda The original GBA display also sucked. This was fixed with GBA SP but it was too late. And don't even get me started on how they've failed at online gaming compared to sony and microsoft. Hopefully they'll get their act together for their next system. Make it backward compatible with gamecube games, make it play DVDs, put a network adapter in there (wireless even), put a hard drive in there, have lots of good launch titles (first party AND THIRT PARTY), and don't flood the market with nothing but mario games. (mario golf, mario party, mario tennis, mario fighting game, mario world, mario racing...)
It's about the opensource philosophy for many people. Unless they decide to make windows truly open source, not shared source, many people will continue to use GNU/Linux. duh. Also, DRM and palladium will just convert more people over to linux. I like to decide what files can open and what programs can run on my computer. It's MY COMPUTER. I should be in control.