Re:Too many fake classics
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OK, that's a violation of my IP rights. The RIAA will be calling you soon.
Too many fake classics
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E.T sucks ass. It does not belong on any sane person's top 10. It's a crime against art, humanity and fluffy kittens that that... thing is considered a classic.
The Goonies in the top 20? Are they out of their tiny little minds? Who made this list? Harry Knowles?
Akira is a good film, but I can think of at least six others (Miyazaki, for example) that are more deserving of that slot.
The fucking GOONIES????
Boogie Nights is one of the most overrated films in the past quarter century.
Pearl Harbor??!?!? OK, now I know monkeys were involved in the compiling of this list.
I'm sorry, but if a movie is just fundamentally poor, I can't see any point to owning the DVD no matter how many bells and whistles are put on there.
Jesus Bouncing Feathery Christ, the Goonies!!?
If you were a kid or a teen during the 80s, The Goonies is one of those films that may hold a special place in your heart.
Yeah, the cold, dark dead part that eventually grew into full blown misanthropy. The Goonies was there to start me down that slope. That was one of the films that inflicted that astonishing uber-dumbass Corey Feldmen upon civilized folk.
Not up to speed on your figures of speech, are you? It means to repeat an argument or other issue over and over, and it was the 57th time someone felt the need to point out that the researchers aren't really proposing a Dyson sphere.
Any article that starts with that phrase, or something like it, will eventually make the point "And you will! Sometime in the amazing year 400 billion!"
Eh, but who am I to harsh their buzz? At least someone's thinking about it.
Well, the New Agers talk about the world being a school for souls, so the harsher the better. IOW, you don't learn many important lessons in a fluffy utopia. They also believe in reincarnation, so if you die at age 3 months in a tsunami, you get more chances. Also, they see "God" as a more amorphous presence, and not something that's sitting regulating the tides and the orbits. To them, the tsunami still falls under "shit happens".
I know this because I dated a New Age woman. It made her freaky in bed, so it was OK. She also believed in evolution and was pretty pro-science. Go figure.
I believe that if you are mean to others, even in small ways, that the world gets worse.
Cool. Me being a misanthrope, I want the world to get worse. What do you think of that, dumbass? Eh? Ya hear me, asshat? Mean enough for ya, megadouche? Ah, suck out my farts, the whole lot of ya. Die! Die! Die!
OK, now I'll watch the news this evening and see if the world got worse.
Here's the thing: no other method comes anywhere close to the scientific one for generating real knowledge about the observable universe.
Agreed. I just wish more people, including many scientists, would actually use it. Along with the metaphysical flim-flam in the media is a big, stinky pile of junk science.:-(
I'd push it further. I'd say that a mob has no intellect at all, and acts as a single celled creature. Watch riot video carefully when the news shows it, from anywhere in the world.
Apparently they just don't get that people - who seem willing to buy cheap videos recorded on consumer cameras in movie theaters - are going to be completely unable to see the difference in a re-recorded playback of what they see on T.V.
I run my Tivo's RCA outputs (S-video is reserved for actual viewing and connected to TV) through an inexpensive Canopus digitizer, and into a Powerbook to save movies and shows (DirecTivos have no Home Media Option). The result with nice cables and tight connections is suprisingly good when burned to DVD. iMovie and iDVD work really smoothly for this.
Gosh! The super secret super squirrel plans for another phone loaded with useless shit slipped out the barn door. Unleash the ED-209 suqadron! Leave no hard drive unturned! We shall hunt down the thieves and, um, oh...
Er...
*sigh*
2005 is going to be another year of boring, stupid tech crap, isn't it?
500 MHz processor and it will still have the call quality of a tin can and string. Can't wait to see the battery life.
Flying cars. Personal jetpacks. Robot maids. Vacations in space. They promised me those things as a kid. THEY PROMISED, DAMMIT! Martin Landau was supposed to be on the Moon by now!
Wow! Happy New Year, and a whole new crop of Dumbasses!
Did you click on the links? Even your vague set of dim sensory apparatuses should have perceived I was joking. I am, in fact, a fairly big fan of NASA.
Welcome to 2005, everyone! Just as fucked in the head as any previous year!:-)
I've said for years the problem isn't multiple platforms. It's the lack of file format standards.
Look at HTML, JPEG, GIF and other widely accepted standards. The same could be done for word proceessing, spereadsheet and presentation type files. Use XML, whcih I think MS was planning until they realized XML based Office files meant you no longer needed Office to work on them.;-) Not sure what the status of that is now.
It's hard to take the "we don't need to send humans to Mars, we can explore with rovers" crowd seriously when our best and brightest rover covers only two miles of ground in an entire year.
Don't be a dumbass, grasshopper.
The first flight of the Wright brothers (Orville And Redenbacher, according to Cartman) was less than the wingspan of a modern airliner.
Also remember that the rovers were not doing the Baja rally. They stopped a lot to do actual science and exploration.
Hence grandmas in Best Buy staring at the computer described as "P4 3.0 GHz 256 DDR 40.0 GB DVD/CD-RW" when all she wants to know is whether she can check email and view photos of the grandkids.
I hear that at work all day and it drives me nuts. Not that I don't look at specs when I buy a computer, but I have learned never to ask about anyone else's new computer because you get the five minute laundry list of numbers that have no real importance. Do I really need to know if your new Duh-ell PC has an 80G or 100G hard drive? PC specs have replaced dick size and engine displacement as bragging fodder or something.
I overheard the guy in the office next to me last year spend hours on the phone shaving costs of his new PC. $10 here. $5 there. He must have spent 20 hours to save $100. He drives a $45,000 car. Nobody places value on their time. He finally bought the thing and announced it to the bay the next day. Absentmindedly, I asked what kind... D'oh! Nine hours later I could have reverse engineered a schematic of the motherboard based on what this guy told us.
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OK, that's a violation of my IP rights. The RIAA will be calling you soon.
The Goonies in the top 20? Are they out of their tiny little minds? Who made this list? Harry Knowles?
Akira is a good film, but I can think of at least six others (Miyazaki, for example) that are more deserving of that slot.
The fucking GOONIES????
Boogie Nights is one of the most overrated films in the past quarter century.
Pearl Harbor??!?!? OK, now I know monkeys were involved in the compiling of this list.
I'm sorry, but if a movie is just fundamentally poor, I can't see any point to owning the DVD no matter how many bells and whistles are put on there.
Jesus Bouncing Feathery Christ, the Goonies!!?
If you were a kid or a teen during the 80s, The Goonies is one of those films that may hold a special place in your heart.
Yeah, the cold, dark dead part that eventually grew into full blown misanthropy. The Goonies was there to start me down that slope. That was one of the films that inflicted that astonishing uber-dumbass Corey Feldmen upon civilized folk.
Not up to speed on your figures of speech, are you? It means to repeat an argument or other issue over and over, and it was the 57th time someone felt the need to point out that the researchers aren't really proposing a Dyson sphere.
Any article that starts with that phrase, or something like it, will eventually make the point "And you will! Sometime in the amazing year 400 billion!"
Eh, but who am I to harsh their buzz? At least someone's thinking about it.
ObSheesh: Sheesh.
Actually, he meant to say porn movies are watched for short periods of time.
...the intrinsic bloated clunkiness of it is. The user experience remains a complete shitstorm.
Or a major movie studio may make a movile completely from computer graphics and- oh, wait...
It detected that well known evil spyware called Timbuktu Pro!
Way to go MS! (clap clap clap) Keep up the great work. You are the wind beneath my wings.
[MUTTER]Yer the wind outta me ass, matey...[/MUTTER]
More like a pretzel. Try again.
I know this because I dated a New Age woman. It made her freaky in bed, so it was OK. She also believed in evolution and was pretty pro-science. Go figure.
Cool. Me being a misanthrope, I want the world to get worse. What do you think of that, dumbass? Eh? Ya hear me, asshat? Mean enough for ya, megadouche? Ah, suck out my farts, the whole lot of ya. Die! Die! Die!
OK, now I'll watch the news this evening and see if the world got worse.
Agreed. I just wish more people, including many scientists, would actually use it. Along with the metaphysical flim-flam in the media is a big, stinky pile of junk science. :-(
I'd push it further. I'd say that a mob has no intellect at all, and acts as a single celled creature. Watch riot video carefully when the news shows it, from anywhere in the world.
Step into the light...
Well, I hope it's not for internal use. Can you imagine that thing crawing up your colon?
Oddly, I think some of you could. :-)
Aw, man, here comes another Troll/Offtopic mod. :(
I run my Tivo's RCA outputs (S-video is reserved for actual viewing and connected to TV) through an inexpensive Canopus digitizer, and into a Powerbook to save movies and shows (DirecTivos have no Home Media Option). The result with nice cables and tight connections is suprisingly good when burned to DVD. iMovie and iDVD work really smoothly for this.
And therefore insolvable.
Er...
*sigh*
2005 is going to be another year of boring, stupid tech crap, isn't it?
500 MHz processor and it will still have the call quality of a tin can and string. Can't wait to see the battery life.
Flying cars. Personal jetpacks. Robot maids. Vacations in space. They promised me those things as a kid. THEY PROMISED, DAMMIT! Martin Landau was supposed to be on the Moon by now!
Did you click on the links? Even your vague set of dim sensory apparatuses should have perceived I was joking. I am, in fact, a fairly big fan of NASA.
Welcome to 2005, everyone! Just as fucked in the head as any previous year! :-)
I've learned not to expect too much from NASA, but these new tanks are ridiculous! And the improved launch system? It's a scandal!
Oh, God, just what we need! As if cell phones and DVD players were not enough distraction.
"Sorry, officer. I didn't expect the second orgasm, and so I negelected to signal my lane change."
I've said for years the problem isn't multiple platforms. It's the lack of file format standards.
Look at HTML, JPEG, GIF and other widely accepted standards. The same could be done for word proceessing, spereadsheet and presentation type files. Use XML, whcih I think MS was planning until they realized XML based Office files meant you no longer needed Office to work on them. ;-) Not sure what the status of that is now.
Don't be a dumbass, grasshopper.
The first flight of the Wright brothers (Orville And Redenbacher, according to Cartman) was less than the wingspan of a modern airliner.
Also remember that the rovers were not doing the Baja rally. They stopped a lot to do actual science and exploration.
I hear that at work all day and it drives me nuts. Not that I don't look at specs when I buy a computer, but I have learned never to ask about anyone else's new computer because you get the five minute laundry list of numbers that have no real importance. Do I really need to know if your new Duh-ell PC has an 80G or 100G hard drive? PC specs have replaced dick size and engine displacement as bragging fodder or something.
I overheard the guy in the office next to me last year spend hours on the phone shaving costs of his new PC. $10 here. $5 there. He must have spent 20 hours to save $100. He drives a $45,000 car. Nobody places value on their time. He finally bought the thing and announced it to the bay the next day. Absentmindedly, I asked what kind... D'oh! Nine hours later I could have reverse engineered a schematic of the motherboard based on what this guy told us.