As the studio already burnt pj on it before he even started LOTR. Some of this money is going to be reparation and insurance to make sure they don't scrap it again.
And as I mentioned before he is contracted to provide it on time and at budget, or it comes out of his pockets - If hes going to assume risk, it seems only fair to be paid more.
After some googling i found this.
$100million, not that unreasnoble (and if it goes over budget jackson foots the bill personally)
This is far more than a rumour, its already in preproduction and has been for a while. It has been his plan to remake it well before LOTR, with scripts availiable online dating to 1996.
It seemes to me you are being overly critcal.
All that page seems to be is a bunch of rhetoric with a few out of context quotes to back it up.
All the old bio weapons degrade over time, so sure there is no evidence showing they are explicitly destroyed, but they would be uesless anyway.
And this page does nothing to debunk the lies that have come out.
The powers that be said that Iraq could launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes.
If they were that prepared then surely someone would of found evidence by now.
They also used "evidence" which was obviously flat out lies like the Nigeria thing, the weather balloon thing. I also seem to recall somthing about the nukes are on the three ghost ships sailing about whything about post war.
And it also talks about mass graves, which is all fine and dandy and we all know Saddam was a "Hitler", but it doesn't help make the case for war afterwards. These kind of things have to come before hand to make it credable as a reason for killing thousands of innocent civilians
There was just so many half flat out lies used to justify the war, that its hard to see based on what they told us, there was a valid case for war.
BeOS has so many tiny features which you hardly notice. But they are just a nicer way of doing things. Then there are the other parts where they obviously decided they didn't have neough money and skimped on them like the VM amongst other things.
But its nice to use an operating system which is well thought out and very productive. Sure you could spend a week or three setting linux up to have all these little tricks and shortcuts, but to me thats time wasted.
Its not windows, and its not linux, but a lives somewhere inbetween, great for the lazy geek.
Theft means to come into possession of something by acquiring it from somebody else without that party's consent.
Thats ok, I copied it off my friend and he said I could.
Hell under what you seem to be implying, copying my cds to my hard drive to listen to them is theft.
Completly off topic, and I relise this was a joke
But women were not at all oppressed in the way you are thinking, there was no inforcement at all of such tradtitions. This is why people such as Osama bin Laden called Saddam an infidel.
Ironicly any new govt (non American) in Iraq is far more likely to have these traddition values.
If you're gona bomb a country at least learn a little about it first before destroying it.
You might notice BSD is spelt with less letters this gives it less overhead and hence makes it faster than the more cumbersome Linux, expecially once you Add Gnu to it
Don't you think its easier to agree with a war when your benign to whats happening. Death is one thing, people die everyday, but being killed in a war is quite likely to be painful (expecially with the trend to smaller ammuninitions intended to wound rather than kill). If your going to support a war, i think its critical that you know the damage it is causing, and these images are one aspect of it.
Of course i don't think people should be forced to see them, nor should they make up their mind soley based on them. But as a nation to hide them, tends to give the image of trying to hide the realization of war, which is a bad thing.
They have also funded some novel and innnovative films such as movies made in flash. However no games as of yet.
New Zealand has an excellent arts funding programme and produces some excellent work that would not otherwise be possible.
As for being politically correct, there have been two excellent NZ movies recently, one with a road trip drugs plot (hardly PC), and one dealing with statatury rape, again hardly PC.
I think a funding system like this one, done properly would have help fund an art like gaming scene.
I'm sick of 3D shooters, sure they're fun, but really the games industry needs to move past them and develop new innovative ideas, and actually introduce real nartive into the storys, funding amatures could really help this cause.
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its an interesting question, it maybe the 20KMs is the distance of the road though
This is unique situation though
As the studio already burnt pj on it before he even started LOTR. Some of this money is going to be reparation and insurance to make sure they don't scrap it again.
And as I mentioned before he is contracted to provide it on time and at budget, or it comes out of his pockets - If hes going to assume risk, it seems only fair to be paid more.
After some googling i found this. $100million, not that unreasnoble (and if it goes over budget jackson foots the bill personally) This is far more than a rumour, its already in preproduction and has been for a while. It has been his plan to remake it well before LOTR, with scripts availiable online dating to 1996. It seemes to me you are being overly critcal.
then the world can't end in 2 hours
because in New Zealand its atleast 2 hours ahead
Just be carful about who's footing the cheque
http://theregister.com/content/28/30679.html
The biggest inhibitors for a change of government are apathy and blind patriotism, not a lack of arms...
All that page seems to be is a bunch of rhetoric with a few out of context quotes to back it up.
All the old bio weapons degrade over time, so sure there is no evidence showing they are explicitly destroyed, but they would be uesless anyway.
And this page does nothing to debunk the lies that have come out.
The powers that be said that Iraq could launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes.
If they were that prepared then surely someone would of found evidence by now.
They also used "evidence" which was obviously flat out lies like the Nigeria thing, the weather balloon thing. I also seem to recall somthing about the nukes are on the three ghost ships sailing about whything about post war.
And it also talks about mass graves, which is all fine and dandy and we all know Saddam was a "Hitler", but it doesn't help make the case for war afterwards. These kind of things have to come before hand to make it credable as a reason for killing thousands of innocent civilians
There was just so many half flat out lies used to justify the war, that its hard to see based on what they told us, there was a valid case for war.
A text message sent to a passenger is one theory for a crash that happened last Friday.
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I'm sure I read somewhere though that an airline was going to use wireless for flight attentents.
BeOS has so many tiny features which you hardly notice. But they are just a nicer way of doing things. Then there are the other parts where they obviously decided they didn't have neough money and skimped on them like the VM amongst other things. But its nice to use an operating system which is well thought out and very productive. Sure you could spend a week or three setting linux up to have all these little tricks and shortcuts, but to me thats time wasted. Its not windows, and its not linux, but a lives somewhere inbetween, great for the lazy geek.
Theft means to come into possession of something by acquiring it from somebody else without that party's consent. Thats ok, I copied it off my friend and he said I could. Hell under what you seem to be implying, copying my cds to my hard drive to listen to them is theft.
That or you could just bloody stop training terrorists to begin with.
Completly off topic, and I relise this was a joke But women were not at all oppressed in the way you are thinking, there was no inforcement at all of such tradtitions. This is why people such as Osama bin Laden called Saddam an infidel. Ironicly any new govt (non American) in Iraq is far more likely to have these traddition values. If you're gona bomb a country at least learn a little about it first before destroying it.
You might notice BSD is spelt with less letters
this gives it less overhead and hence makes it faster than the more cumbersome Linux, expecially once you Add Gnu to it
Don't you think its easier to agree with a war when your benign to whats happening. Death is one thing, people die everyday, but being killed in a war is quite likely to be painful (expecially with the trend to smaller ammuninitions intended to wound rather than kill). If your going to support a war, i think its critical that you know the damage it is causing, and these images are one aspect of it.
Of course i don't think people should be forced to see them, nor should they make up their mind soley based on them. But as a nation to hide them, tends to give the image of trying to hide the realization of war, which is a bad thing.
I would just like to comment on the New Zaland govt film funnding.
This money has gone to making some great movies which have been internationally aclaimed.
Rain
Whale Rider
They have also funded some novel and innnovative films such as movies made in flash. However no games as of yet.
New Zealand has an excellent arts funding programme and produces some excellent work that would not otherwise be possible.
As for being politically correct, there have been two excellent NZ movies recently, one with a road trip drugs plot (hardly PC), and one dealing with statatury rape, again hardly PC.
I think a funding system like this one, done properly would have help fund an art like gaming scene.
I'm sick of 3D shooters, sure they're fun, but really the games industry needs to move past them and develop new innovative ideas, and actually introduce real nartive into the storys, funding amatures could really help this cause.
In Christchurch New Zealand, they use a GPS system to provide realtime automated estimation of the bus arrival times at stops.
/ Re alTimeInformationAtBusStopsPilotThisWeek.asp
After a quick google i found this press release
http://www.ccc.govt.nz/MediaReleases/2002/April