"Or are you saying that I'm obligated to put my life on the line to support that bastard in the whitehouse?"
That is correct, if he orders you to. It's the way it goes when having one dude acts as God, President and National Command Authority of the Armed Forces in one single human unit.
Besides, you voted him in.
Really, you did. You may want to forget about it now, but the chance is one in two you bought the compassionate conservative stuff and wanted that paycheck back so you voted him in. So who's the idiot?
Also, why don't USians think in terms of revolting against their commanders if they don't like what they have? Deposing of a bad leadership (and bad laws) is as simple as killing the leaders (or forcing them into exile) and write new laws. It was partly done in Haiti no less than a week or two ago. Change can be done peacefully or violence, which one depends on the collective effort and the responses
The basis of your argument is that you don't want to take the responsibility towards yourself and your fellow americans (and the rest of the world who has to suffer that idiot in the White House) so you take the easy way out and do what is usally done... count your money and blaim the government. Even though the government consists of you and your peers. Change is inevitable, whether you participate in it or not. The difference lies in who's wording that change will use, yours or someone else's.
And please, don't give me no crap about the uselessness about revolting (by force or by participation in politics and issues) - if sewage-eating haitians, guntoting balkanites, shamed jews, funny norwegians or saltlicking indians can revolt and overhaul their land, so can fat-arsed USians.
if social skills is just as needed as brains to succeed in the world, you have no option than to help Darwinism in it's course... so kill him, waste his or her misery.
Go rent Schindler's List, Minority Report, Lawrence of Arabia or The Godfather (part 1) for some (high-profile popcorn) excellent cinematography. Or Road to Perdition or Hero (banned by Miramax for Usians as it is way to complicated for fragile little minds) or In The Mood for Love or other works shot by Conrad S Hall and Christopher Doyle.
Think of cinematography as a painting, but put in motion. In fact it is said that the most cinematographic historical painter is Vermeer, who incidentally had a film made about him and his paintings this year in the Oscars (it was "Girl with a pearl earring", which I've not seen but read about as mimicking Vermeers paintings in it's visual style).
Paintings consist of content, composition, texture, lighting. Add motion curves to that and you've got a movie. The WETA guys like motion curves (the bane of CGI) so the Rings trilogy has a lot of flying hither and dither. But it lacks composition in a lot of parts, and the lighting is all whack in some others, and it has those extremely ugly airbrushes and backlightings to mask out bluescreening (most prominent in FOTR Frodo dying and waking up next to mr smith scenes). a good cinematographer has all scenes, and I mean all, fully composed and framed and lighted to every last detail. The ring films couldn't do that partly because it didnt have that top of the line person like Conrad S. Hall but mostly due to the size of the production and the amount of filmcrews (6? 8? 14?) shooting parallell there became a lot of different compositions and framings to scenes that made the full cinematograhic experience very uneven. Each cameraman has his own eye and preferences. Add to that the length and complexity of the editing and cutting process (which is of essence for the tempo and fluidity of the motion component of cinematograhy as well as the aggregate composition-in-motion component). ROTK simply is not top notch. Lot's of good looking valleys and fields and fly-bys. Excellent battle scenes (benefiting from the need of full detail and composition control for CGI animation scenes), but oh so stale and studio'ish sometimes. ("Hey, are we shooting these stiff lines on a soundstage or what! We don't bow to anybody but freighter jets!"). It can be said though that the cinematography has improved markedly during the trilogy as the production progressed and stuff was shot and finished - "delivered". Thus ROTK is better than TTT which in turn was better than FOTR, but they all do have a disadvantage from being shot on such a scale and simultaneously simply by causing a lot of disruptive logistical problems for PJ and the cinematograher in charge. Also, a wee bit of low budget awfulness of PJs earlier films and general 'horror' flicks like Army of Darkness only add a bit of film humour.
Me, I'm a bit disappointed by the Oscar for cinematography this year, but not the winner, Master and Commander is very good and way better than ROTK ("Commander" looks a lot like paintings of the sea and tall ships, IMO. which is great) but a lot of fine cinematography was left out in the nomination process - Kill Bill, Lost in Translation, The Station Agent or Elephant to take a few well known examples. It could have been a lot classier competition than it was, though it was not necessarily a bad one for that.
note: the author of this comment is not a film worker nor a media person, doesnt know what he's talking about, has never worked or been educated in films nor photography and can't handle a basic still frame camera with less than four weeks of prepping, the author however liked films a lot. Especially beautiful ones.
prevention by killing off all the USians, perchance?
not a bad method considering that US is responsible for nukeusage, terrorism, fatties, spam and SCO. biohazards is just another spank in the coffee.
no, it's time to think of nuke the US.
enough problems spewing out of those measly 300 million peeps for the world to stick to it. Verisign is just another ticket on the queuebooth.
1, strengthen army with free labour
2, dont feed labour
3, use labour as minesniffers, live bait, enemy target and friendly weapons practice
4, ???
5, victory!
FCC rules the internet #1: There will be no showing of janet's tits on the internet, ever. If there is, an automatic fine of USD10M is administrered and a self-imposed 10 second delay of net response recommended.
just because commercials stuck up your arse makes americans move, procreate and shit does not make the rest of the world be FORCED to view them. It's bad enough that USIans use their spare arse time for threatening and gun-toting all that dont support your candidate here.
of course Mac file sharing is under the radar, since macs are primarily used by media and 'creative' people, aka People In The Business of The Creative Arts.
It wouldn't look good of RIAA to start suing their own creators and copyright owners for getting stuff they dont have right too. That might be called hypocrisy, a big no no in the art of Creative Relationships Between Man and Goon.
Macs are a favourite among journalists and other punters, and RIAA knows that it would not do them good to sue the people who re-write their PR fluffs and call it news which then get displayed for the masses to inhale.
here's a question for you though, knee-jerk: how come US products aint that cheap, since US companies producing stuff on US soil has all the ingredients of your Oliver Twistish life depicted in your comment - "near slave labor conditions, lack of labor, safety, and minimum wage laws, and [US]'s artificial (and illegal) manipulation of its currency"?
and sure enough it will be drizzling rain from a covered sky all up til late sunday.
goddamn, I feel like sinking the brit isles right of the baleares right now.
"The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?"
nice text, lots of laughs.
but still, there are some unwanted truths that are ignored here.
1, slashdot users obviously doesnt know a fucking thing about how to use windows cause everybody seems to have problems with ballooning resources on patch-packs. a typical sign if bad patch usage, that. my own usage dropped a coupla megs and cpu percent after the latest patchcollection. just to prove the bloat-thesis wrong.
2,linux speak from ESR or the santa clauses of kernelmaintainance is just as marketspeak as everything that falls out of redmond. it's just a different version of marketspeak. slashdot users are borged into believeing that all good is linux. it aint.
3, linux problem is its deorganisation. every time there is a new major release it has the same basic rule of non-functioning - fixes fuck up other things that are outside of the release control. and nobody has any fucking idea who the fuck is to blaim and request a fix, cause the app retainer has just a mailbox addy that was spam-swamped fucking ages ago. example, why is the ui graphics still so fucking slow compared to my or anyone else's windows version? even xp is faster, dimwits!
4, linux isnt simple enough to use for regular dimwitted users that care about utilizing a computer for a higher purpose than patching and continously upgrading shit that got wacked because the gmorgblapp-lib v 0.16712371.1 is incompatible with 0.16712371.2 from 15 minutes later, and that one got into the freeze.
0, linux doesnt fix the problem of fucking idiots running the US. that is a more dangerous problem to the world than any newly bloated microsoft office version you can find or if openoffice can now play banjo or differ between a mobster and a orangutang. OS tweaking and differences is the symptom, not the solution.
the real question is what the United States Federal Bureau of Investigations has to order a Swedish private company about on at all.
Last time I checked I as a swede answer before the swedish laws, and not some fucking fed loser in bumville alabama.
United States is using the FBI to spy on Swedish citizens private VoIP calls, which is an act of war.
in other news it has been acknowledged from the R&D department of Nokia that they did change the design of their phones for the US market as a result of a WHO report detailing the use of external antennas as nosepickers.
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That is correct, if he orders you to. It's the way it goes when having one dude acts as God, President and National Command Authority of the Armed Forces in one single human unit.
Besides, you voted him in.
Really, you did. You may want to forget about it now, but the chance is one in two you bought the compassionate conservative stuff and wanted that paycheck back so you voted him in. So who's the idiot?
Also, why don't USians think in terms of revolting against their commanders if they don't like what they have? Deposing of a bad leadership (and bad laws) is as simple as killing the leaders (or forcing them into exile) and write new laws. It was partly done in Haiti no less than a week or two ago. Change can be done peacefully or violence, which one depends on the collective effort and the responses
The basis of your argument is that you don't want to take the responsibility towards yourself and your fellow americans (and the rest of the world who has to suffer that idiot in the White House) so you take the easy way out and do what is usally done... count your money and blaim the government. Even though the government consists of you and your peers. Change is inevitable, whether you participate in it or not. The difference lies in who's wording that change will use, yours or someone else's.
And please, don't give me no crap about the uselessness about revolting (by force or by participation in politics and issues) - if sewage-eating haitians, guntoting balkanites, shamed jews, funny norwegians or saltlicking indians can revolt and overhaul their land, so can fat-arsed USians.
Analogy is of course Dolph Lundgren, a swede that sounds like Dubya when speaking swedish.
if social skills is just as needed as brains to succeed in the world, you have no option than to help Darwinism in it's course... so kill him, waste his or her misery.
and this is different from building everything-but-aliens-and-the-kitchensink-on-the-m otherboard computer in what way?
Go rent Schindler's List, Minority Report, Lawrence of Arabia or The Godfather (part 1) for some (high-profile popcorn) excellent cinematography. Or Road to Perdition or Hero (banned by Miramax for Usians as it is way to complicated for fragile little minds) or In The Mood for Love or other works shot by Conrad S Hall and Christopher Doyle.
Think of cinematography as a painting, but put in motion. In fact it is said that the most cinematographic historical painter is Vermeer, who incidentally had a film made about him and his paintings this year in the Oscars (it was "Girl with a pearl earring", which I've not seen but read about as mimicking Vermeers paintings in it's visual style).
Paintings consist of content, composition, texture, lighting. Add motion curves to that and you've got a movie. The WETA guys like motion curves (the bane of CGI) so the Rings trilogy has a lot of flying hither and dither. But it lacks composition in a lot of parts, and the lighting is all whack in some others, and it has those extremely ugly airbrushes and backlightings to mask out bluescreening (most prominent in FOTR Frodo dying and waking up next to mr smith scenes). a good cinematographer has all scenes, and I mean all, fully composed and framed and lighted to every last detail. The ring films couldn't do that partly because it didnt have that top of the line person like Conrad S. Hall but mostly due to the size of the production and the amount of filmcrews (6? 8? 14?) shooting parallell there became a lot of different compositions and framings to scenes that made the full cinematograhic experience very uneven. Each cameraman has his own eye and preferences. Add to that the length and complexity of the editing and cutting process (which is of essence for the tempo and fluidity of the motion component of cinematograhy as well as the aggregate composition-in-motion component). ROTK simply is not top notch. Lot's of good looking valleys and fields and fly-bys. Excellent battle scenes (benefiting from the need of full detail and composition control for CGI animation scenes), but oh so stale and studio'ish sometimes. ("Hey, are we shooting these stiff lines on a soundstage or what! We don't bow to anybody but freighter jets!"). It can be said though that the cinematography has improved markedly during the trilogy as the production progressed and stuff was shot and finished - "delivered". Thus ROTK is better than TTT which in turn was better than FOTR, but they all do have a disadvantage from being shot on such a scale and simultaneously simply by causing a lot of disruptive logistical problems for PJ and the cinematograher in charge. Also, a wee bit of low budget awfulness of PJs earlier films and general 'horror' flicks like Army of Darkness only add a bit of film humour.
Me, I'm a bit disappointed by the Oscar for cinematography this year, but not the winner, Master and Commander is very good and way better than ROTK ("Commander" looks a lot like paintings of the sea and tall ships, IMO. which is great) but a lot of fine cinematography was left out in the nomination process - Kill Bill, Lost in Translation, The Station Agent or Elephant to take a few well known examples. It could have been a lot classier competition than it was, though it was not necessarily a bad one for that.
note: the author of this comment is not a film worker nor a media person, doesnt know what he's talking about, has never worked or been educated in films nor photography and can't handle a basic still frame camera with less than four weeks of prepping, the author however liked films a lot. Especially beautiful ones.
-pahapbut
you are not "sacrificing" anything. you are simply useless for the marketplace. how does that feel?
prevention by killing off all the USians, perchance? not a bad method considering that US is responsible for nukeusage, terrorism, fatties, spam and SCO. biohazards is just another spank in the coffee.
no, it's time to think of nuke the US. enough problems spewing out of those measly 300 million peeps for the world to stick to it. Verisign is just another ticket on the queuebooth.
1, strengthen army with free labour 2, dont feed labour 3, use labour as minesniffers, live bait, enemy target and friendly weapons practice 4, ??? 5, victory!
FCC rules the internet #1: There will be no showing of janet's tits on the internet, ever. If there is, an automatic fine of USD10M is administrered and a self-imposed 10 second delay of net response recommended.
he said "badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger, mushroom! mushoom!"
he sells suicide assistance apparatus. ok.
there is nothoing important in this text at but filler text alas there is no important in this text as I just told you so butt off.
just because commercials stuck up your arse makes americans move, procreate and shit does not make the rest of the world be FORCED to view them. It's bad enough that USIans use their spare arse time for threatening and gun-toting all that dont support your candidate here.
It wouldn't look good of RIAA to start suing their own creators and copyright owners for getting stuff they dont have right too. That might be called hypocrisy, a big no no in the art of Creative Relationships Between Man and Goon.
Macs are a favourite among journalists and other punters, and RIAA knows that it would not do them good to sue the people who re-write their PR fluffs and call it news which then get displayed for the masses to inhale.
here's a question for you though, knee-jerk:
how come US products aint that cheap, since US companies producing stuff on US soil has all the ingredients of your Oliver Twistish life depicted in your comment - "near slave labor conditions, lack of labor, safety, and minimum wage laws, and [US]'s artificial (and illegal) manipulation of its currency"?
and you voted this neighbour of yours into a federal office seat, right?
and sure enough it will be drizzling rain from a covered sky all up til late sunday. goddamn, I feel like sinking the brit isles right of the baleares right now.
it will end up in florida. shit always does.
"The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?"
you are such an anti-semite
nice text, lots of laughs. but still, there are some unwanted truths that are ignored here. 1, slashdot users obviously doesnt know a fucking thing about how to use windows cause everybody seems to have problems with ballooning resources on patch-packs. a typical sign if bad patch usage, that. my own usage dropped a coupla megs and cpu percent after the latest patchcollection. just to prove the bloat-thesis wrong. 2,linux speak from ESR or the santa clauses of kernelmaintainance is just as marketspeak as everything that falls out of redmond. it's just a different version of marketspeak. slashdot users are borged into believeing that all good is linux. it aint. 3, linux problem is its deorganisation. every time there is a new major release it has the same basic rule of non-functioning - fixes fuck up other things that are outside of the release control. and nobody has any fucking idea who the fuck is to blaim and request a fix, cause the app retainer has just a mailbox addy that was spam-swamped fucking ages ago. example, why is the ui graphics still so fucking slow compared to my or anyone else's windows version? even xp is faster, dimwits! 4, linux isnt simple enough to use for regular dimwitted users that care about utilizing a computer for a higher purpose than patching and continously upgrading shit that got wacked because the gmorgblapp-lib v 0.16712371.1 is incompatible with 0.16712371.2 from 15 minutes later, and that one got into the freeze. 0, linux doesnt fix the problem of fucking idiots running the US. that is a more dangerous problem to the world than any newly bloated microsoft office version you can find or if openoffice can now play banjo or differ between a mobster and a orangutang. OS tweaking and differences is the symptom, not the solution.
the real question is what the United States Federal Bureau of Investigations has to order a Swedish private company about on at all. Last time I checked I as a swede answer before the swedish laws, and not some fucking fed loser in bumville alabama. United States is using the FBI to spy on Swedish citizens private VoIP calls, which is an act of war.
Hamas is not a terrorist organisation. United States of America is.
in other news it has been acknowledged from the R&D department of Nokia that they did change the design of their phones for the US market as a result of a WHO report detailing the use of external antennas as nosepickers.