I don't think he was saying the available grain types has dwindled from hundreds to 15.
Actually he did. Hunter Gathers had a diverse diet of grains and other foods that just weren't domasticateable. Once the domesticated what they could, they stopped eating the others.
Also, I don't recall him making the point that a less diverse food supply lead to increased disease.
Acutally, he said this too. He mentioned the potato blight of Ireland.
To this day I've probably spent more time on this game then any other. I must of waisted the equivalent of years off of my life playing that on my atari 800.
How many people have died of an LSD overdose? How many people have died of an alchohol overdose? When was the last time you heard of a driver on LSD wrecking his car and killing 3 or 4 inncoent people? I'd say while hardly benign, LSD is relatively safer than alcohol. Opiates have the potential to be more damaging than alchohol, but much of the damage they cause (crime, violence, spread of disease, etc) is directly related to their prohibition and is not a function of the drugs themselves. The fact that opiates are used frequently for medicinal reasons shows that they are not extremly harmful and on a whole are probably benificial.
Watch the credits for Raiders... they are there at the beginning. The only toher film I've been to where the credits were not there in the begining was Apocalypse Now Redeux and they compromised with the Guilds by passing out a flier with the opening cerdits printed on it before the movie started.
I would concede that writing is lucas' greatest weakness... however, imho, the worst star wars movie is ROTJ. Which lucas did not write. I also believe ANH is the best movie, which lucas did write... so go figure.
I also agree that Spielberg is way over rated. He's technically a good director. He understands how to use the camera to get the best shots, but he has no connection with his audience. He continuosly beats us over the head with the story...
Because of that I don't think Spielberg would help Star Wars at all. Spielberg has never really been praised for getting the most out of his actors (which is Lucas' because weakness). And Lucas doesn't really have a problem framing, shooting, and editing a movie. What could improve these movies is a very good dialouge coach and a screen writer who knows how to adapt Lucas' vision to the page.
That being said, I still love the prequels and I'll be in the theater at 12:01 tonight.
The directors guild kicked out Robert Rodriguez for giving Frank Miller a directing credit on Sin City. The Screen Actors Guild threatened to kick out Gary Oldman just for doing voice work in Episode III. The guilds are serious. If you don't follow their rules (using only guild talent, putting your credits on the movie in the right way, etc) they kick you out. And then you're forced to do what Lucas does and work completly with non union people.
Lucas couldn't let Spielberg direct because Spielburg is a member of the Directors Guild and Lucas is not. Lucas does not use guild members in his movies (and if he does they risk being kicked out of the guild). This all goes back to the disagreement that occured when he refused to run opening credits before ESB.
It is commonly believed that Lucas did approach Spielberg to direct Episode I, but Spielberg refused to leave the guild.
that's why I use carbon, stainless, and cast iron pans almost exclusively. I own exactly one teflon pan that I bought at a restraunt supply store for $20. The non-stick is useful for omlettes and crepes but that's about it. But because it's so cheap, I don't feel bad when it's completly used up in a year or two.
Although to naturally control the population and mimic natural predators the hunters should be killing the old, the sick, and the youngest animals; whereas hunters acutally kill the healthiest and best fit males. So we may be doing a little to control the population, but we're doing alot more to weaken the populations genetics.
There is no 3rd trilogy. Originally the third trilogy was about Luke's sister (who wasn't leia) and how she had to come and redeem both him and Vader (Luke kills the emperor and joins Vader in episode 6). However, lucas decided near the end of ESB that leia would be luke's sister and he would have luke be the final hero. Hence there is no final trilogy.
Actually if I remember correctly the FBI really did you statistics to predict where a bank robbery would occur and one of the locations they projected was correct.
Wrong... the end of the universe is a time... but the restraunt is at a specific place as well, that's half the joke because it's the closest restraunt to them.
IMHO, the best Star Wars movies where episodes V and VI, both of which he didn't direct.
Are you freaking serious? ROTJ was easily the worst movie of the original trilogy. In fact I'd say it battles it out with TPM for the worst movie in the series. The best thing I can usually say about it is that it resolves the series nicely, and episode III makes it much better.
why does speed have to equal distance/time. Speed is just another way of saying rate. Gallons per Hour, Miles per hour, cycles per second, etc. All are rates, and all can be thought of as speed.
I had to stand in line to get tickets for episode 1. episode 2 i bought online, and plan to do the same for episode 3. However, if you want a good seat; you need to show up early. Showing up just as the previews start is a good way to sit in the corner seat on the front row. For episode 2 I got there between 7-8 and for the midnight show and ended up with a decent seat.
the parent didn't pick very good examples for his labels. Rushmore is the only one that isn't an RIAA member. However, there are plenty of indie labels that qualify. Even some that are almost major label like in scope: Sub Pop, Matador, Merge, 54-40 or fight, DFA, Touch & Go, Barsuk, Kill Rock Stars, Rough Trade, Warp, Jeepster, Up. I can name bands on almost every one of those labels that have become at least moderately successfull (50,000+ records sold).
Ideally maybe that is the case, but we live in a supply and demand world. There maybe naturally talented nurses who combine their given nursing skill with their training to be ubernurses. However, the difference between an ubernurse and the regular nurse who is adequately trained is small enough so that it makes no sense to pay the ubernurse in proportion to her talent. However, in positions where talent is the most important aspect; no amount of training can overcome the lack of talent. That means that supply of available people for the positions is small. That's why musicians and atheletes have made so much money.
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I don't think he was saying the available grain types has dwindled from hundreds to 15.
Actually he did. Hunter Gathers had a diverse diet of grains and other foods that just weren't domasticateable. Once the domesticated what they could, they stopped eating the others.
Also, I don't recall him making the point that a less diverse food supply lead to increased disease.
Acutally, he said this too. He mentioned the potato blight of Ireland.
It was difficult to program
How is a digital VCR better than a VHS with VCR plus?
Broadcast films were censored, cut to fit pre-defined time slots, and were otherwise abused.
And they still won't be?
To this day I've probably spent more time on this game then any other. I must of waisted the equivalent of years off of my life playing that on my atari 800.
How many people have died of an LSD overdose? How many people have died of an alchohol overdose? When was the last time you heard of a driver on LSD wrecking his car and killing 3 or 4 inncoent people? I'd say while hardly benign, LSD is relatively safer than alcohol. Opiates have the potential to be more damaging than alchohol, but much of the damage they cause (crime, violence, spread of disease, etc) is directly related to their prohibition and is not a function of the drugs themselves. The fact that opiates are used frequently for medicinal reasons shows that they are not extremly harmful and on a whole are probably benificial.
Watch the credits for Raiders... they are there at the beginning. The only toher film I've been to where the credits were not there in the begining was Apocalypse Now Redeux and they compromised with the Guilds by passing out a flier with the opening cerdits printed on it before the movie started.
I would concede that writing is lucas' greatest weakness... however, imho, the worst star wars movie is ROTJ. Which lucas did not write. I also believe ANH is the best movie, which lucas did write... so go figure.
neither has shown the least amount of ability to write fleshed out characters, inviting dialogue or interesting human interaction.
Isn't that the job of the screen writer and not the director??
I also agree that Spielberg is way over rated. He's technically a good director. He understands how to use the camera to get the best shots, but he has no connection with his audience. He continuosly beats us over the head with the story...
Because of that I don't think Spielberg would help Star Wars at all. Spielberg has never really been praised for getting the most out of his actors (which is Lucas' because weakness). And Lucas doesn't really have a problem framing, shooting, and editing a movie. What could improve these movies is a very good dialouge coach and a screen writer who knows how to adapt Lucas' vision to the page.
That being said, I still love the prequels and I'll be in the theater at 12:01 tonight.
The directors guild kicked out Robert Rodriguez for giving Frank Miller a directing credit on Sin City. The Screen Actors Guild threatened to kick out Gary Oldman just for doing voice work in Episode III. The guilds are serious. If you don't follow their rules (using only guild talent, putting your credits on the movie in the right way, etc) they kick you out. And then you're forced to do what Lucas does and work completly with non union people.
Lucas couldn't let Spielberg direct because Spielburg is a member of the Directors Guild and Lucas is not. Lucas does not use guild members in his movies (and if he does they risk being kicked out of the guild). This all goes back to the disagreement that occured when he refused to run opening credits before ESB.
It is commonly believed that Lucas did approach Spielberg to direct Episode I, but Spielberg refused to leave the guild.
The miniT extension for firefox allows you to drag and drop tabs. I find it exceedingly usefull.
that's why I use carbon, stainless, and cast iron pans almost exclusively. I own exactly one teflon pan that I bought at a restraunt supply store for $20. The non-stick is useful for omlettes and crepes but that's about it. But because it's so cheap, I don't feel bad when it's completly used up in a year or two.
How come firefox shows it is using multiple threads when i look at it in my task manager if it is not already multithreaded?
Although to naturally control the population and mimic natural predators the hunters should be killing the old, the sick, and the youngest animals; whereas hunters acutally kill the healthiest and best fit males. So we may be doing a little to control the population, but we're doing alot more to weaken the populations genetics.
There is no 3rd trilogy. Originally the third trilogy was about Luke's sister (who wasn't leia) and how she had to come and redeem both him and Vader (Luke kills the emperor and joins Vader in episode 6). However, lucas decided near the end of ESB that leia would be luke's sister and he would have luke be the final hero. Hence there is no final trilogy.
Actually if I remember correctly the FBI really did you statistics to predict where a bank robbery would occur and one of the locations they projected was correct.
The editing is the part lucas always did though.
Of course, imho, ROTJ is the worst of all the movies and he left the dialog to others and let a decent director deal with the actors.
Wrong... the end of the universe is a time... but the restraunt is at a specific place as well, that's half the joke because it's the closest restraunt to them.
IMHO, the best Star Wars movies where episodes V and VI, both of which he didn't direct.
Are you freaking serious? ROTJ was easily the worst movie of the original trilogy. In fact I'd say it battles it out with TPM for the worst movie in the series. The best thing I can usually say about it is that it resolves the series nicely, and episode III makes it much better.
why does speed have to equal distance/time. Speed is just another way of saying rate. Gallons per Hour, Miles per hour, cycles per second, etc. All are rates, and all can be thought of as speed.
I had to stand in line to get tickets for episode 1. episode 2 i bought online, and plan to do the same for episode 3. However, if you want a good seat; you need to show up early. Showing up just as the previews start is a good way to sit in the corner seat on the front row. For episode 2 I got there between 7-8 and for the midnight show and ended up with a decent seat.
the parent didn't pick very good examples for his labels. Rushmore is the only one that isn't an RIAA member. However, there are plenty of indie labels that qualify. Even some that are almost major label like in scope: Sub Pop, Matador, Merge, 54-40 or fight, DFA, Touch & Go, Barsuk, Kill Rock Stars, Rough Trade, Warp, Jeepster, Up. I can name bands on almost every one of those labels that have become at least moderately successfull (50,000+ records sold).
Ideally maybe that is the case, but we live in a supply and demand world. There maybe naturally talented nurses who combine their given nursing skill with their training to be ubernurses. However, the difference between an ubernurse and the regular nurse who is adequately trained is small enough so that it makes no sense to pay the ubernurse in proportion to her talent. However, in positions where talent is the most important aspect; no amount of training can overcome the lack of talent. That means that supply of available people for the positions is small. That's why musicians and atheletes have made so much money.
So, why wouldn't the remote control be prior art?