Yeah, I know that happened, but they didn't know that when he went down there. They were all hoping he'd go down there, unarm the bomb and then get back...it wasn't until after he unarmed the bomb did they realize there wasn't enough oxygen for him to get back.
What I'm wondering is how would he have gotten back anyway, even if he did have enough to just drop his weights and float up...wouldn't he have to decompress, or would there be less nitrogen in his bloodstream from the oxygenated fluid?
Ok, just realized...who cares? It's just a sci-fi movie. hehe
Yes, the Abyss was a better movie...but even that had problems.
1. In real life, wouldn't you really think that it was a russian or other type of sub down there? The one Seal said it's probably a Russian sub and everyone jumps all over him "you're crazy! Obviously it's from outer-space! you're insane!". Well, I'm not suffering from HPNS up here on land and even I wouldn't think of something more down-to-Earth.
2. The part where the water tentacle is interacting with the characters, mimicing what they're doing. So when Lindsey poked her finger into the forehead of the tentacle, shouldn't it also have poked a finger into the her forehead also? Just a thought...
3. At that depth and pressure, I thought a mixture of helium and oxygen was more the norm...though I don't remember the science behind it. But I guess they didn't want everyone talking like Mickey Mouse, though it may have been more entertaining.
4. With Bud using the liquid breathing contraption, wouldn't he still implode going that deep? I mean, the liquid inside the suit is still at a pressure...so wouldn't you still have to equalize the pressure the deeper you go? How would that be done, taking in seawater? Also, aren't there pockets of air running through the body other than the lungs...wouldn't even one be subject to all that pressure? AND if he equalized at the pressure of 3 miles down, wouldnt he have to decompress on the way back up?
Anyway, just nitpicking...still far and away better than that joke of a movie "The Core"
Since they don't have the names of the people their suing...why not just sue all 260 million American's...and then just weed out the ones that aren't really messing up their sweet gig they've enjoyed for so long (ie: exploiting musical artists in a scam that comes right from the "company store" and the coal miners from the early part of the 20th century...so the companies get the cash and the artists get very very little unless they're a super group or star).
Sue everyone. Just say "we've sued 260 million people and the burden of proof is on you that you didn't download anything...otherwise you all owe us money".
Actually, you can emerge it...but first you just have to download the.bin file from Transgaming's site and place it into your/usr/portage/distfiles/ first, then emerge it like normal.
It's just the downloading part that is out of portage...otherwise it emerges as normal and puts everything where it belongs.
Actually, I thought the second season of TNG was pretty good, though I stand alone there. They had some of the best episodes...like when they first meet the Borg via Q. Then "Measure of a Man" about Data. Also the one about Prof. Moriarty was pretty good as I'm also a Sherlock Holmes fan.
But I do agree, it got better after Rodenberry no longer had any control over it.
But the crowning episodes in my mind was "The Inner Light" and "The Defector".
You're right...why even make anything like this, we have stuff like it now. If you want to see bad stuff just watch old MST3K, or cheese and bad acting just watch old Trek.
In fact, why make anything anymore? I mean, everything has been done already. If I want action movie just watch Die Hard, if I want fantasy just watch LOTR, if I want comedy just watch Young Frankenstein.
If I want music just listen to Chuck Berry, everything else has been done before. I've listened to enough music to last a lifetime, probably three.
Why paint anything anymore, I have a nice Picasso right here. Why read or write anything anymore because it's all been read and written before.
This is true, but the fact is the horse is out of the barn...the cat is out of the bag...the RIAA and it's companines are trying to hang on to their strangle-hold of music. But their days are numbered. The more they tighten their grip, the more slips through their fingers.
They either change to fit the times, or they die. It's as simple as that.
Next step in preventing copying is not to sell CD's anymore...don't put them out there, no one can copy them! They'll have special listening booths where you go and pay $20 to listen to the CD one time...and of course they'll be glass boothes for monitoring and you'll be searched like at the airport for any recording device. You pay your money, go in, listen for 72 minutes and then leave.
There, no copying, and the RIAA still rakes in the cash! Sound crazy? This is actually one of their ideas!
I know this post may get lost in the shuffle, but I just checked with a few sources online and low-and-behold there is the entire album in MP3 waiting to be downloaded by anyone and everyone that knows where to find it.
So much for copy-protected CD's. Why do they even waste their time with this non-sense? Instead of trying to figure out how to fool the copiers...why not turn the entire buisness model upside down and encourage downloading the album and then making the money back from live shows?
You know 60 years or so ago artists made their money from live shows or live broadcasts on the radio. They can do this again.
I could go on and on about this. People may argue about how the guy sitting in his bedroom making music and recording and pouring his heart out into making a CD is being ripped-off if people just download it. Well, that guy sitting there probably has a passion for music and would be making music anyway...and giving it to the community afterwards is much like Open Source programming. How many programmers from around the world slave over code to make something that they're not getting a dime from? I feel that music in the future can somehow learn from Open Source. How exactly, I don't know yet.
And I'm amazed that he could get through the whole thing without telling everyone how great a writer he is and how his original script for "City on the Edge of Forever" was SO much better than what was filmed for the original Star Trek.
But then again, taking that stance you're turning your back on some pretty good music. Just because a CD is from a major label doesn't automatically make it bad.
So how many RIAA people have you shot in the face BTW...since they're trying to stop you and people like you from downloading anything...not that they're right.
Also, shooting someone over music is what we like to call "overkill". No more than a harsh word really...perhaps a punch in the nose if it's warrented. Also, if you MUST use a gun, don't overlook the lost art of pistol-whipping someone...
Well, if it gets here it gets here. I'm still going to DSL.
I'm at a crossroads right now as I just bought a new house. I'm coming from the worse "high speed" ISP in the world...some fly-by-night outfit called Green County Cable. My speeds are just a tad faster than ISDN.
The new house has two options, 3MBit DSL or Comcast. I was with Comcast before, and they were ok. But as I said before, I'm getting bad vibes from them as they raised their rates quite a few times for no good reason and tax you if you don't get Cable TV along with your internet.
So you see, I don't have anything to "stick to" at the moment. So what if I see the 200MBit 5 or 10 or 20 years down the road...if it gets here it gets here.
I just went to DSL with SBC-Yahoo over Comcast in my area.
SBC just offered a better deal. 3.0Mbps down, 384Kbps up speeds (I live approx.3 of a mile from the CO), no download limits and I can run a server compared to Comcast costing more, no server and slower upload speeds. All for $37 a month.
Yes, I know about SBC's customer service, but I'm going to try it out and see how it goes. I've just been getting bad vibes from Comcast, not only when they decided to just raise their prices AND if you don't subscribe to their cable TV they hit you with higher internet prices.
Now, with new technology coming down the pike for DSL, I may have even more reason to turn my back on cable.
It is SO much better than the "Song Remains the Same". It's just them in concert from differet times in their career. It shows them at the height of their greatness.
I'll second that. Lindsey Buckingham is one of the most under-rated guitarists ever. I sit back in awe when I watch him play AND sing at the same time. Big Love and Go Insane on that DVD are amazing to watch in which he's playing one complicated thing on the guitar AND singing in a totally different way to the beat. That's just plain hard to do.
They really need to hook back up with Jonesy and go back out on tour. Even get Jasen Bonham to do the drumming as he's a hell of a drummer in his own right.
But perhaps they should just let it alone, so there are no "reunion tours" that distill the myth and wonder of what a great band they were...unlike other older bands.
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Yeah, I know that happened, but they didn't know that when he went down there. They were all hoping he'd go down there, unarm the bomb and then get back...it wasn't until after he unarmed the bomb did they realize there wasn't enough oxygen for him to get back.
What I'm wondering is how would he have gotten back anyway, even if he did have enough to just drop his weights and float up...wouldn't he have to decompress, or would there be less nitrogen in his bloodstream from the oxygenated fluid?
Ok, just realized...who cares? It's just a sci-fi movie. hehe
Yes, the Abyss was a better movie...but even that had problems.
1. In real life, wouldn't you really think that it was a russian or other type of sub down there? The one Seal said it's probably a Russian sub and everyone jumps all over him "you're crazy! Obviously it's from outer-space! you're insane!". Well, I'm not suffering from HPNS up here on land and even I wouldn't think of something more down-to-Earth.
2. The part where the water tentacle is interacting with the characters, mimicing what they're doing. So when Lindsey poked her finger into the forehead of the tentacle, shouldn't it also have poked a finger into the her forehead also? Just a thought...
3. At that depth and pressure, I thought a mixture of helium and oxygen was more the norm...though I don't remember the science behind it. But I guess they didn't want everyone talking like Mickey Mouse, though it may have been more entertaining.
4. With Bud using the liquid breathing contraption, wouldn't he still implode going that deep? I mean, the liquid inside the suit is still at a pressure...so wouldn't you still have to equalize the pressure the deeper you go? How would that be done, taking in seawater? Also, aren't there pockets of air running through the body other than the lungs...wouldn't even one be subject to all that pressure? AND if he equalized at the pressure of 3 miles down, wouldnt he have to decompress on the way back up?
Anyway, just nitpicking...still far and away better than that joke of a movie "The Core"
If Google all of a sudden now says: "Meh, we tried it out with the testing phase, and we've decided not to start a email service at this time".
Now that Yahoo and Hotmail and everyone else has done the "look, we're offering 1Gig storage too!"
Where are you getting your SBC from? What state?
I've checked www.sbc.com and I can't find any packaging that has 6Mbps download speeds anywhere.
Have a web page that lists this?
I just ordered SBC in my area and am getting the "Pro Package" which costs only $36 a month and is 3Mbps download and 384kbps up.
I mean, this was ordered just like two weeks ago. What package are you subscribing to?
Since they don't have the names of the people their suing...why not just sue all 260 million American's...and then just weed out the ones that aren't really messing up their sweet gig they've enjoyed for so long (ie: exploiting musical artists in a scam that comes right from the "company store" and the coal miners from the early part of the 20th century...so the companies get the cash and the artists get very very little unless they're a super group or star).
Sue everyone. Just say "we've sued 260 million people and the burden of proof is on you that you didn't download anything...otherwise you all owe us money".
Sure, laugh it up...but it's heading this way.
Actually, you can emerge it...but first you just have to download the .bin file from Transgaming's site and place it into your /usr/portage/distfiles/ first, then emerge it like normal.
It's just the downloading part that is out of portage...otherwise it emerges as normal and puts everything where it belongs.
Actually, I was kinda joking...I have a Picasso poster that cost me all of $20 bucks.
No way could I afford any original art unless it's sold for around $20...and even that is pushing it.
Actually, I thought the second season of TNG was pretty good, though I stand alone there. They had some of the best episodes...like when they first meet the Borg via Q. Then "Measure of a Man" about Data. Also the one about Prof. Moriarty was pretty good as I'm also a Sherlock Holmes fan.
But I do agree, it got better after Rodenberry no longer had any control over it.
But the crowning episodes in my mind was "The Inner Light" and "The Defector".
Ok, I'm really showing my geek-ness now.
With all your "freed up" time, you can go catch the new stepford wives. enjoy!
Touche! I concede to defeat.
You're right...why even make anything like this, we have stuff like it now. If you want to see bad stuff just watch old MST3K, or cheese and bad acting just watch old Trek.
In fact, why make anything anymore? I mean, everything has been done already. If I want action movie just watch Die Hard, if I want fantasy just watch LOTR, if I want comedy just watch Young Frankenstein.
If I want music just listen to Chuck Berry, everything else has been done before. I've listened to enough music to last a lifetime, probably three.
Why paint anything anymore, I have a nice Picasso right here. Why read or write anything anymore because it's all been read and written before.
Thanks! You've freed up so much of my time now!
I agree to a point. TNG was the peak of Trek. I loved that series and the best Trek movie was TNG...."First Contact".
DS9 was ok...the second season with the Dominion was probably the best, but they lost their way with the series.
Never got into Voyager and I haven't seen one episode of Enterprise.
oh come on...lighten up a tad...a smidgeon.
Have some fun, it may be so bad it's good. Or has all the humor and fun been beaten out of our cynical society today?
Does anyone remember laughter?
This is true, but the fact is the horse is out of the barn...the cat is out of the bag...the RIAA and it's companines are trying to hang on to their strangle-hold of music. But their days are numbered. The more they tighten their grip, the more slips through their fingers.
They either change to fit the times, or they die. It's as simple as that.
Next step in preventing copying is not to sell CD's anymore...don't put them out there, no one can copy them! They'll have special listening booths where you go and pay $20 to listen to the CD one time...and of course they'll be glass boothes for monitoring and you'll be searched like at the airport for any recording device. You pay your money, go in, listen for 72 minutes and then leave.
There, no copying, and the RIAA still rakes in the cash! Sound crazy? This is actually one of their ideas!
Yes, you get to hear the guitar of Slash without the stink of Axel Rose messing everything up.
I know this post may get lost in the shuffle, but I just checked with a few sources online and low-and-behold there is the entire album in MP3 waiting to be downloaded by anyone and everyone that knows where to find it.
So much for copy-protected CD's. Why do they even waste their time with this non-sense? Instead of trying to figure out how to fool the copiers...why not turn the entire buisness model upside down and encourage downloading the album and then making the money back from live shows?
You know 60 years or so ago artists made their money from live shows or live broadcasts on the radio. They can do this again.
I could go on and on about this. People may argue about how the guy sitting in his bedroom making music and recording and pouring his heart out into making a CD is being ripped-off if people just download it. Well, that guy sitting there probably has a passion for music and would be making music anyway...and giving it to the community afterwards is much like Open Source programming. How many programmers from around the world slave over code to make something that they're not getting a dime from? I feel that music in the future can somehow learn from Open Source. How exactly, I don't know yet.
And I'm amazed that he could get through the whole thing without telling everyone how great a writer he is and how his original script for "City on the Edge of Forever" was SO much better than what was filmed for the original Star Trek.
But then again, taking that stance you're turning your back on some pretty good music. Just because a CD is from a major label doesn't automatically make it bad.
So how many RIAA people have you shot in the face BTW...since they're trying to stop you and people like you from downloading anything...not that they're right.
Also, shooting someone over music is what we like to call "overkill". No more than a harsh word really...perhaps a punch in the nose if it's warrented. Also, if you MUST use a gun, don't overlook the lost art of pistol-whipping someone...
Well, if it gets here it gets here. I'm still going to DSL.
I'm at a crossroads right now as I just bought a new house. I'm coming from the worse "high speed" ISP in the world...some fly-by-night outfit called Green County Cable. My speeds are just a tad faster than ISDN.
The new house has two options, 3MBit DSL or Comcast. I was with Comcast before, and they were ok. But as I said before, I'm getting bad vibes from them as they raised their rates quite a few times for no good reason and tax you if you don't get Cable TV along with your internet.
So you see, I don't have anything to "stick to" at the moment. So what if I see the 200MBit 5 or 10 or 20 years down the road...if it gets here it gets here.
I just went to DSL with SBC-Yahoo over Comcast in my area.
.3 of a mile from the CO), no download limits and I can run a server compared to Comcast costing more, no server and slower upload speeds. All for $37 a month.
SBC just offered a better deal. 3.0Mbps down, 384Kbps up speeds (I live approx
Yes, I know about SBC's customer service, but I'm going to try it out and see how it goes. I've just been getting bad vibes from Comcast, not only when they decided to just raise their prices AND if you don't subscribe to their cable TV they hit you with higher internet prices.
Now, with new technology coming down the pike for DSL, I may have even more reason to turn my back on cable.
The one that was released last year.
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It is SO much better than the "Song Remains the Same". It's just them in concert from differet times in their career. It shows them at the height of their greatness.
You should really check it out.
I'll second that. Lindsey Buckingham is one of the most under-rated guitarists ever. I sit back in awe when I watch him play AND sing at the same time. Big Love and Go Insane on that DVD are amazing to watch in which he's playing one complicated thing on the guitar AND singing in a totally different way to the beat. That's just plain hard to do.
Yeah, I know what you mean.
They really need to hook back up with Jonesy and go back out on tour. Even get Jasen Bonham to do the drumming as he's a hell of a drummer in his own right.
But perhaps they should just let it alone, so there are no "reunion tours" that distill the myth and wonder of what a great band they were...unlike other older bands.
Yes, it's not easy to switch back to the old way, it's "hidden" in the Main Menu under Browse Filesystem.
Me typing that last sentence took longer than it did for me to actually figure that out.
So...um...what's the problem again?
And you still have that choice in gnome. Use the file browser. It's right there in the main menu.
Open it up and WHAM it gives you the option you want.
Again, the sweet smell of choice.