Yes. Instead of feeding and educating our people, we'll spend billions logging the entire population's fingerprints so they can vote and tell us they'd rather have us spend their taxes on better schools and more food!
Thank you, Weeboo. And now for an in depth analysis of the voting system, our favorite Indian shopkeep who developed the system while studying at Calcutta Tech...
...they collect unemployment benefits, draining money paid into the system by taxpayers.
Unemployment insurance is paid by employers, not by Joe Taxpayer. A common mistake.
I submit another logical flow:
Joe loses his job to Goblackenstan. Joe has no money for real food so he starts eating Little Debbie snack cakes. Joe goes on an interview for a new job. He gets on a crowded elevator. The CEO happens to be on the elevator. Joe farts in the crowded elevator. Due to Joe's poor diet, the fart is most potent. Everyone on the elevator dies except for Joe, who is immune to his own scent. The company's stock tumbles because the CEO died. Joe's anus is classified as a class 4 military device and barred from being exported from this country. The author of this forgot where he was going with this. The author farts in his cubicle at work. Due to the unique properties of airflow in a cubicle style work area, the scent lingers uncomfortably. The cute receptionist walks by the author's cubicle. She passes out. The author makes a quick exit.
I used to be on Earthlink, until I became disgusted with their "support." The only spam I ever get now is from my old address with them. I don't know what their spyware removal is based on, but I know it didn't catch gator running on a friend's PC. Between that and the spam, I don't see myself going back to them in the future, or recommending them to anyone I know.
Sure, why not? Just make sure you have your mnemonic kit. You know, your motion detector, data encryptor, memory doubler, mouthguard, tai-chi manual, and last, but not least, super hot ass-kickin epileptic bodyguard.
I used to love the toolbar, but that was before I 1) discovered Mozilla, and 2) switched to Linux. Mozilla already has a built-in search Google functionality in the address bar. Firefox has a separate box just for searches on Google. On Opera for a search on Google, I just type in 'g' and my search terms and it will automatically send a query to Google for me. I don't have a Mac, so I don't know about Safari. I think Konqueror and Galeon have similar functionality. All three browsers have built-in pop-up blocking technology and good autoform support. Those are the only three things I have ever used the Google toolbar for, and all three are only lacking in IE. I don't think the toolbar fixes any security holes in IE. Point is, anyone still on Windows needs to switch to something different as soon as they can. Along with built-in google toolbar functionality, they'll get a much superior web experience.
When they need to fix it, they'll be calling Christopher Lambert to walk under water and make the necessary repairs, right? Or will the maintenance crew be expected to ride one of those Scooby-Doobie things?
Yes, I have difficulties separating the real world from cinema.
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Actually, they take the names from ski areas in British Columbia. I think Longhorn is a bar on Whistler mountain.
they've allowed this for several trailers - matrix, star wars, and some more that i can't think of right now. usually you can download the high-res version. also (you probably already know this) if you have quicktime pro, you can select "save as quicktime movie" after the whole thing's been loaded. that's for all the stuff on quicktime.com, at least.
eh, not really. who was it that quipped something about the internet being created solely for geeks to get pr0n and insider movie info? kevin smith? with my daily scouring of the net for movie trivia and upcoming movie info, i usually know a lot about the plot even before the trailer is released. what annoys me is watching a movie that's pretty funny, but the stupid audience who laugh only at the parts shown in the trailers. I have, however, given up on reading reviews. They're all a bunch of sellouts.
I saw this last night (yes, I watched the apprentice, but only to eye that cute little blonde on there) and it was awesome. From ED, to Herc, and now to one of the worlds most beloved comic heroes, Sam Raimi keeps making awesome stuff. I was a little annoyed at "another Hollywood sequel" a few months back, but after watching the longer trailer, I'm more than excited. In fact, there are three things on my body that are hard right now. I'll leave it to you to figure out what they are.
Heh - Fahrenheit 451 style, we'll soon be memorizing and reciting episodes of "Sister Sister" on a remote island somewhere, far from the prying eyes of the evil broadcast flaggers.
True, but what happens when everything moves to pure digital and they close the analog hole? With "trusted" computing looming on the horizon, stuff like this is very creepy. When they take away our ability to play media on older hardware (e.g., a movie-on-demand whose codec is only available in broadcast flag compatible hardware and whose emulation would be too inefficient to be practical), then we're screwed. I know there will always be ways around this, but it still annoys me. If nothing else, I don't want to see someone be branded "Broadcast Flag Jon" somewhere in Scandinavia.
If I read that correctly, this means that even if I release something for free to the public, they can *still* find a way to prevent people from copying it and distributing it? In that case, I throw my full support behind the lo-techs and their falling cars of doom. Get your VCRs ready. I may even start carrying around 80 gigs of divx files in my head, childhood memories be damned.
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No, I think the movie industry will keep getting us obsessive, trivia hoarding, hyper-anal movie nerds to buy the same movie 10 times over.
Climactic showdown as in when Anakin gets toasted by Obi-Wan and horribly disfigured. Not as in either of their deaths. I think I have been trolled.
Yes. Instead of feeding and educating our people, we'll spend billions logging the entire population's fingerprints so they can vote and tell us they'd rather have us spend their taxes on better schools and more food!
Thank you, Weeboo. And now for an in depth analysis of the voting system, our favorite Indian shopkeep who developed the system while studying at Calcutta Tech...
One correction:
Unemployment insurance is paid by employers, not by Joe Taxpayer. A common mistake.
I submit another logical flow:Joe loses his job to Goblackenstan.
Joe has no money for real food so he starts eating Little Debbie snack cakes.
Joe goes on an interview for a new job.
He gets on a crowded elevator.
The CEO happens to be on the elevator.
Joe farts in the crowded elevator.
Due to Joe's poor diet, the fart is most potent.
Everyone on the elevator dies except for Joe, who is immune to his own scent.
The company's stock tumbles because the CEO died.
Joe's anus is classified as a class 4 military device and barred from being exported from this country.
The author of this forgot where he was going with this.
The author farts in his cubicle at work.
Due to the unique properties of airflow in a cubicle style work area, the scent lingers uncomfortably.
The cute receptionist walks by the author's cubicle.
She passes out.
The author makes a quick exit.
I used to be on Earthlink, until I became disgusted with their "support." The only spam I ever get now is from my old address with them. I don't know what their spyware removal is based on, but I know it didn't catch gator running on a friend's PC. Between that and the spam, I don't see myself going back to them in the future, or recommending them to anyone I know.
Orwellian, as in the future being a totalitarian state where our every action is monitored. Not, in this case, as referring to the works of Orwell.
Sure, why not? Just make sure you have your mnemonic kit. You know, your motion detector, data encryptor, memory doubler, mouthguard, tai-chi manual, and last, but not least, super hot ass-kickin epileptic bodyguard.
I can't wait to be hunted down by a psychotic street preacher for the secret pr0n in my head.
i can even build websites. i'm just letting you know. not that you'd need a website developer or anything. just sayin.
can you find me a job?
Not sure about the pronunciation, but I fear it's killer app has something to do with searching for pr0n.
I used to love the toolbar, but that was before I 1) discovered Mozilla, and 2) switched to Linux. Mozilla already has a built-in search Google functionality in the address bar. Firefox has a separate box just for searches on Google. On Opera for a search on Google, I just type in 'g' and my search terms and it will automatically send a query to Google for me. I don't have a Mac, so I don't know about Safari. I think Konqueror and Galeon have similar functionality. All three browsers have built-in pop-up blocking technology and good autoform support. Those are the only three things I have ever used the Google toolbar for, and all three are only lacking in IE. I don't think the toolbar fixes any security holes in IE. Point is, anyone still on Windows needs to switch to something different as soon as they can. Along with built-in google toolbar functionality, they'll get a much superior web experience.
When they need to fix it, they'll be calling Christopher Lambert to walk under water and make the necessary repairs, right? Or will the maintenance crew be expected to ride one of those Scooby-Doobie things?
Yes, I have difficulties separating the real world from cinema.
Actually, they take the names from ski areas in British Columbia. I think Longhorn is a bar on Whistler mountain.
why did I sign up for that stupid upgrade plan? WHY???
they've allowed this for several trailers - matrix, star wars, and some more that i can't think of right now. usually you can download the high-res version. also (you probably already know this) if you have quicktime pro, you can select "save as quicktime movie" after the whole thing's been loaded. that's for all the stuff on quicktime.com, at least.
eh, not really. who was it that quipped something about the internet being created solely for geeks to get pr0n and insider movie info? kevin smith? with my daily scouring of the net for movie trivia and upcoming movie info, i usually know a lot about the plot even before the trailer is released. what annoys me is watching a movie that's pretty funny, but the stupid audience who laugh only at the parts shown in the trailers. I have, however, given up on reading reviews. They're all a bunch of sellouts.
I saw this last night (yes, I watched the apprentice, but only to eye that cute little blonde on there) and it was awesome. From ED, to Herc, and now to one of the worlds most beloved comic heroes, Sam Raimi keeps making awesome stuff. I was a little annoyed at "another Hollywood sequel" a few months back, but after watching the longer trailer, I'm more than excited. In fact, there are three things on my body that are hard right now. I'll leave it to you to figure out what they are.
No, but my dad does. He can't even sit on the toilet some days.
Heh - Fahrenheit 451 style, we'll soon be memorizing and reciting episodes of "Sister Sister" on a remote island somewhere, far from the prying eyes of the evil broadcast flaggers.
True, but what happens when everything moves to pure digital and they close the analog hole? With "trusted" computing looming on the horizon, stuff like this is very creepy. When they take away our ability to play media on older hardware (e.g., a movie-on-demand whose codec is only available in broadcast flag compatible hardware and whose emulation would be too inefficient to be practical), then we're screwed. I know there will always be ways around this, but it still annoys me. If nothing else, I don't want to see someone be branded "Broadcast Flag Jon" somewhere in Scandinavia.
If I read that correctly, this means that even if I release something for free to the public, they can *still* find a way to prevent people from copying it and distributing it? In that case, I throw my full support behind the lo-techs and their falling cars of doom. Get your VCRs ready. I may even start carrying around 80 gigs of divx files in my head, childhood memories be damned.
Thanks for clearing that up.
If it's MS that's too big and powerful, why not the ol' recursive? Linwindows: Linwindows is not windows.