I guess I'm going to be the only voice I see commenting here who suggest that it is the director who, within the limits of the actor he is given, controls the character who is portrayed. He interprets the writer's creation, but the vision is the director's.
Writers decide who a character is and what they are about. Actors implement the writer's vision
Theoretically. Not really. Not even close to always. Gary Cooper defined Howard Roarke in Atlas Shrugged and Will Kane in High Noon. Jimmy Stewart was pretty much the same character in every one of his westerns. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Spencer Tracy. Jack Nicholson. Robert De Niro. Morgan Freeman. Sidney Poitier. Clint Eastwood. Humphrey Bogart. Gregory Peck. Clark Gable. James Cagney. You felt right at home and familiar with any of their characters from the instant he appeared on screen. Sure, I cherry picked the list, but they are all fine actors.
There are SOME actors who disappear transparently into the role and can play any part to perfection. Anthony Hopkins. Sean Penn. Ben Kingsley. Johnny Depp. Russell Crowe. Philip Seymour Hoffman.
The greater number of actors are between these two groups. It is the director who either gets them to adhere to the vision, or fails to do so.
You got that right. Signature is no protection whatsoever. Every US credit card I've seen since a while has had a chip, but none has a PIN. Talk about "not getting it"! My debit card has a chip (FINALLY), and it has a PIN, but still every place I've seen still wants me to swipe instead of use the PIN.
..buy an icecream with a credit card? I mean, Wendy's has only two products: soft service ice-cream and hot-dogs
What the hell? What planet are you from? Yes, Wendy's is a RESTAURANT. There are TABLES in there. You can sit at them. You can order from at least 10 offerings of hamburgers and cheeseburgers, 9 offerings of chicken sandwiches, 6 offerings of chicken nuggets, 8 offerings of "frostys", whatever they are, a cod fillet sandwich, numerous salads, numerous combos, and probably other stuff. I never saw any hot dogs there though.
Just click on Menus. Sheesh. Oh, wait. Let me guess. I bet you are in Australia, right mate? Well, the REAL Wendy's is wendys.com, not wendys.com.au. I'm sure you can get to the internet, as long as you haven't left Walkabout Creek to trek through Crocodile Dundee's outback.
Relax, it's all in good fun. We're both just regular guys, separated by living in completely separate plants.
There is no evidence they were storing your CC information. The POS system was infected with malware that skimmed it from the system when you swiped the card.
Challenge/response chip and PIN, goddamit. For Christ sake, when is the US going to catch up to the REST OF THE FUCKING WORLD? With challenge/response chip and PIN, the POS system never even sees enough data momentarily to permit theft. Somebody would have to somehow steal your physical card. There is nothing useful to skim.
Every credit card already comes with a chip, so all these credit card apes have to do is give everybody PINs and make everybody do it right. I have yet to see anybody contort a scenario where this doesn't solve the problem. Not here in this discussion, and not anywhere else.
I'm not a super-genius like you, but this is probably the reason he's in jail, you fucking idiot: blah blah blah dibbey blah
Yeah, you fatuous tool. And the FBI has hacked private information of over 300 million Americans, and none of the stasi pigs have ever been held to account for this treason.
"Autopilot is an assist feature that requires you to keep your hands on the steering wheel at all times," Tesla said.
It may "require" that instructively, but it can't/won't enforce it rigorously as it stands. And in fact NO ONE keeps both hands firmly on the wheel 100.0% of the time in ANY case. You can't perform a manual gearshift or turn the windshield wipers on without removing at least one hand from the wheel to do it.
You can expect whatever you want, but that doesn't make it so. An autopilot is not an automatic landing system. An automatic landing system has to interact with ground based support (instrument landing system or microwave landing system at the airport).
And no, an automatic landing system isn't a magic cure for "bad" conditions. It shines in conditions of poor visibility, but aside from that benefit it in fact has severe limitations. In fact, the automatic landing system in a Boeing 747-400 cannot be used in a headwind or crosswind of over 25 knots (barely a strong breeze on the Beaufort scale), a tailwind of over 10 knots (Beaufort gentle breeze), or a crosswind of over 5(!) knots with one engine out (Beaufort light breeze, leaves barely rustle, anemometer barely turns). If there is wind shear or gusting, it must not be used at all.
Autopilots were around for a long time before there were any automatic landing systems. Sperry demonstrated a hands-off autopilot in 1914 which could automatically maintain a straight-and-level attitude on an assigned compass course.
I like Elon, electric vehicles, and autonomous vehicles. But I hope they get hit hard for calling their adaptive cruise control feature "autopilot".
Insightful, MY ASS. This is an ignorant observation. An autopilot is EXACTLY what the fuck it is. In an airplane, an autopilot controls the speed, altitude, and attitude including course. It doesn't do SHIT about collision avoidance. That is the subject of OTHER systems, and of manual vigilance.
The Tesla's autopilot controls the speed and direction. There is no "altitude" control in a car, and the analog to "course" control is simply holding the lane. The Tesla does exactly this, PLUS it does collision avoidance, which an airplane autopilot does not.
Now, how good is the Tesla's autopilot, is a separate issue. But claiming the name "autopilot" is misleading is just STUPID.
Hillary vs Trump. The rest of the world is shaking its head at the stupidity of the Americans for letting things get to this point.
The rest of the world can get stuffed. All are in the same boat. The UK goes from Major to Cameron; both are assholes. Germany puts up with that witch. Hollande is the best that France can come up with? Venezuela let Chavez ruin their economy, only to have his successor make it exponentially worse. China is ruled with an iron fist by one bunch of ancient fossils after another.
The only bright spot might be Switzerland. ALL other governments are dens of incompetency, corruption, and evil oligarchy.
Think. I know it's hard, but try it. Yes, a new car could break down, but it has a FULL WARRANTY, and you have a pretty good chance of getting a loner if they need to take it for more than hours to work on it.
Not to mention the lighter materials used and the trend towards smaller, both of which decrease survivability
Nonsense. Cars are built like brick shithouses nowadays. My 1977 Rabbit weighed 1800-odd lb. My 1999 Golf weighs almost 2900 lb. The Rabbit had more cargo space, and about the same cabin space.
Funny, mine is 16 years old too, and every time I drive it I pray that NOTHING WILL GO WRONG because there is no way in hell I could ever pay to fix a major problem, let alone buy a replacement.
It is dumb to buy a new car. It loses 25% of the value the moment you take possession. Then rusts and loses value continuously. You can get fantastic pre-rusted and already-badly-devaluedcar, one or two years old, some 30% cheaper.
Pretty sure the MSRP of the cheapest Kia is over $14k. I think the cheapest cars are the Nissan Versa and the Chevy Spark, both in the $12k range. And that was in 2014. It'll be more now.
There are only two ways a car gets on the second-hand market. Either the owner died without heirs, or the owner wanted to get rid of a headache - almost always the latter. You have no idea how that clunker was abused. With a new car, you control whether it ever gets abused.
Give me a break, most modern cars will go 10 years with little more than oil changes.
For sure the bad old 1950s days of valve and ring jobs every 50,000 or so miles are a thing of the past. I've got 16 years and 190,000 miles on my car now, and the engine runs as perfectly as the day it rolled off the lot on Day 1, without any mechanical work whatsoever to the engine, beyond timing belts. Some minor accessories like starter.
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Typing "Micro$oft" isn't supposed to be funny, you lunkhead. It is an insult and a pithy description.
Humphrey Bogart of course. You must be joking.
I guess I'm going to be the only voice I see commenting here who suggest that it is the director who, within the limits of the actor he is given, controls the character who is portrayed. He interprets the writer's creation, but the vision is the director's.
Theoretically. Not really. Not even close to always. Gary Cooper defined Howard Roarke in Atlas Shrugged and Will Kane in High Noon. Jimmy Stewart was pretty much the same character in every one of his westerns. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Spencer Tracy. Jack Nicholson. Robert De Niro. Morgan Freeman. Sidney Poitier. Clint Eastwood. Humphrey Bogart. Gregory Peck. Clark Gable. James Cagney. You felt right at home and familiar with any of their characters from the instant he appeared on screen. Sure, I cherry picked the list, but they are all fine actors.
There are SOME actors who disappear transparently into the role and can play any part to perfection. Anthony Hopkins. Sean Penn. Ben Kingsley. Johnny Depp. Russell Crowe. Philip Seymour Hoffman.
The greater number of actors are between these two groups. It is the director who either gets them to adhere to the vision, or fails to do so.
And just how in the hell does that make him wrong?
This sarcasm thing: you're no good at it. You're also no good at proofreading.
No.
You got that right. Signature is no protection whatsoever. Every US credit card I've seen since a while has had a chip, but none has a PIN. Talk about "not getting it"! My debit card has a chip (FINALLY), and it has a PIN, but still every place I've seen still wants me to swipe instead of use the PIN.
What the hell? What planet are you from? Yes, Wendy's is a RESTAURANT. There are TABLES in there. You can sit at them. You can order from at least 10 offerings of hamburgers and cheeseburgers, 9 offerings of chicken sandwiches, 6 offerings of chicken nuggets, 8 offerings of "frostys", whatever they are, a cod fillet sandwich, numerous salads, numerous combos, and probably other stuff. I never saw any hot dogs there though.
Just click on Menus. Sheesh. Oh, wait. Let me guess. I bet you are in Australia, right mate? Well, the REAL Wendy's is wendys.com, not wendys.com.au. I'm sure you can get to the internet, as long as you haven't left Walkabout Creek to trek through Crocodile Dundee's outback.
Relax, it's all in good fun. We're both just regular guys, separated by living in completely separate plants.
Challenge/response chip and PIN, goddamit. For Christ sake, when is the US going to catch up to the REST OF THE FUCKING WORLD? With challenge/response chip and PIN, the POS system never even sees enough data momentarily to permit theft. Somebody would have to somehow steal your physical card. There is nothing useful to skim.
Every credit card already comes with a chip, so all these credit card apes have to do is give everybody PINs and make everybody do it right. I have yet to see anybody contort a scenario where this doesn't solve the problem. Not here in this discussion, and not anywhere else.
Yeah, you fatuous tool. And the FBI has hacked private information of over 300 million Americans, and none of the stasi pigs have ever been held to account for this treason.
I believe Guccifer before I believe this piece of shit. Hell, I believe Satan before I believe this prick.
Jeeze, put that knife away. And easy on popping speed.
It may "require" that instructively, but it can't/won't enforce it rigorously as it stands. And in fact NO ONE keeps both hands firmly on the wheel 100.0% of the time in ANY case. You can't perform a manual gearshift or turn the windshield wipers on without removing at least one hand from the wheel to do it.
You can expect whatever you want, but that doesn't make it so. An autopilot is not an automatic landing system. An automatic landing system has to interact with ground based support (instrument landing system or microwave landing system at the airport).
And no, an automatic landing system isn't a magic cure for "bad" conditions. It shines in conditions of poor visibility, but aside from that benefit it in fact has severe limitations. In fact, the automatic landing system in a Boeing 747-400 cannot be used in a headwind or crosswind of over 25 knots (barely a strong breeze on the Beaufort scale), a tailwind of over 10 knots (Beaufort gentle breeze), or a crosswind of over 5(!) knots with one engine out (Beaufort light breeze, leaves barely rustle, anemometer barely turns). If there is wind shear or gusting, it must not be used at all.
Autopilots were around for a long time before there were any automatic landing systems. Sperry demonstrated a hands-off autopilot in 1914 which could automatically maintain a straight-and-level attitude on an assigned compass course.
Insightful, MY ASS. This is an ignorant observation. An autopilot is EXACTLY what the fuck it is. In an airplane, an autopilot controls the speed, altitude, and attitude including course. It doesn't do SHIT about collision avoidance. That is the subject of OTHER systems, and of manual vigilance.
The Tesla's autopilot controls the speed and direction. There is no "altitude" control in a car, and the analog to "course" control is simply holding the lane. The Tesla does exactly this, PLUS it does collision avoidance, which an airplane autopilot does not.
Now, how good is the Tesla's autopilot, is a separate issue. But claiming the name "autopilot" is misleading is just STUPID.
The rest of the world can get stuffed. All are in the same boat. The UK goes from Major to Cameron; both are assholes. Germany puts up with that witch. Hollande is the best that France can come up with? Venezuela let Chavez ruin their economy, only to have his successor make it exponentially worse. China is ruled with an iron fist by one bunch of ancient fossils after another.
The only bright spot might be Switzerland. ALL other governments are dens of incompetency, corruption, and evil oligarchy.
Think. I know it's hard, but try it. Yes, a new car could break down, but it has a FULL WARRANTY, and you have a pretty good chance of getting a loner if they need to take it for more than hours to work on it.
Nonsense. Cars are built like brick shithouses nowadays. My 1977 Rabbit weighed 1800-odd lb. My 1999 Golf weighs almost 2900 lb. The Rabbit had more cargo space, and about the same cabin space.
Funny, mine is 16 years old too, and every time I drive it I pray that NOTHING WILL GO WRONG because there is no way in hell I could ever pay to fix a major problem, let alone buy a replacement.
FTFY.
Pretty sure the MSRP of the cheapest Kia is over $14k. I think the cheapest cars are the Nissan Versa and the Chevy Spark, both in the $12k range. And that was in 2014. It'll be more now.
Yep. Trucks, SUVs, and rolling status symbols.
There are only two ways a car gets on the second-hand market. Either the owner died without heirs, or the owner wanted to get rid of a headache - almost always the latter. You have no idea how that clunker was abused. With a new car, you control whether it ever gets abused.
For sure the bad old 1950s days of valve and ring jobs every 50,000 or so miles are a thing of the past. I've got 16 years and 190,000 miles on my car now, and the engine runs as perfectly as the day it rolled off the lot on Day 1, without any mechanical work whatsoever to the engine, beyond timing belts. Some minor accessories like starter.