It would have been groundbreaking. 20+ years after it broke ground, everyone alerady has been playing in it's territory. There is nothing (on the face of things) that is new or fresh 20 years later. Dont get me wrong, I worked at a comic book store in 1986 and I was reading the comic as it came out. I understand what it did for comics as a whole but in the movie business these things are not new for 2009. The movie is just too late to be the blockbuster it could have been.
Choose any of your topics above then find what people use to support their opinions or facts and denounce others. Based on what is used you are able to say "left" people say x=y because of 1,2,3 and "right" people say x=z because of 4,5,6. When you combine the two, in theory, you get a balanced picture including coverage for both (but not ALL) sides.
Let me share a comment from a post here on slashdot a year or two ago regarding a younger Han Solo. They did make this series, it's called Firefly. At the time, I had not seen Firefly but that single comment made me go out and seek the series. I was not disappointed. To this day, that is still how I view Firefly's Captain Reynolds.
I'm guessing you still think comics cost a dime and you get them at the grocery store on a spinning rack? Your average comic these days are near $3 a pop so there is _some_ value in $10 per month.
"You don't have to. It's HIS job to prove it IS there (e.g., you have to be proven GUILTY in a court of law, not NOT guilty. A subtle but important distinction). He can't strongarm you into giving up the hidden volume, if it exists, and if it doesn't exist, he especially can't."
Jury trial - the DA only has to get 12 of your peers to believe his story beyond a _reasonable_ doubt. My threshhold for reasonable doubt and that of 11 other peers is not the same. Jury duty isnt just your civic duty, it's a valuable lesson on how the legal system works. I sat on a Capital Murder jury for 2 1/2 months when I was 21. A good DA can paint any picture he wants and some will buy into it.
A company here in Dallas used a van to drive by each house taking video as they drove then cut out the best frame for each house. They were either contracted by the Dallas Central Appraisal District (DCAD) or sold the pictures to them. Several minutes later the Texas Senate passed a bill so the records could be kept by DCAD and viewed by the public _there_ but could not be posted to the internet.
The Dallas Central Appraisal Website will no longer display photographs and building footprints for all residential property. In accordance with Senate Bill 541, as passed by the Texas Legislature, information in appraisal records may not be posted on the Internet if the information is a photograph, sketch, or floor plan of an improvement to real property that is designed primarily for use as a human residence. Photographs and building footprints of residential property will still be available for viewing by the public at the DCAD Customer Service Area located at 2949 N. Stemmons Frwy, Dallas, Texas, during normal business hours. Photographs and building footprints of all non-residential property will still be available on the DCAD web site.
Why couldnt we outfit all sewer openings with a smallish paddlewheel thing to generate and store electricity when water is flowing in? I mean, I'm not an engineer but rather a SlashTroll but I'm curious why this wouldnt work.
Auction off the tickets to the highest bidder but keep the grand total they would make the same. So if they sell the first 1,000 tickets at the price they would have gotten for all tickets at face value, give the rest of the seats away free. Let the rich pay everyone's way in!
I have to second you on the Roomba. We're had one for about a year now and it's great. My kids love to follow it around and talk to it (3 & 4 yrs). I'd like to get the base that it can be programmed to go back to and hide it in the wall so I'd be like the Jetsons! Just tell it to come out at 3AM.
Incidently, I was explaining to my kids just yesterday about how you cant pause TV at grandpa's house. So many things they'll never truly appreciate...
For an extra $5 they can implant a memory of you going to a "store" purchasing the disc. Hell, why stop there. Just have an implant that you bought, played, liked and conquered the game - much simpler than actually doing those things...
With the original Roomba you dont have to remove anything off the floor that shouldnt be there to begin with. Roomba does some type of spiral pattern and "bumps" around things but usually comes back later to hit places it misses. I have two small boys and we simply pick up misc. toys and let Roomba do its job. I wouldnt say it gets that floor thoroughly clean but it definitely makes it look clean which is all any other vacuum would do (except for the super high priced ones).
My wife has a Roomba www.irobot.com
I can only wonder what 1000 of those would be like if they were let loose in a giant hotel. The floors might actually stay clean briefly...
Or what if those little robots in the article we more like Moles and sent to the landfill to sort everything.
Teach em to kill fire ants and let them loose in South Texas!!
So when you are sick, even in the slightest bit, should a doctor proactively immunize you? Does that make you all better?
What about all the people who are saying that we are becomming more resistant to anti-bioics?
Does sending in a "good" worm fix you really fix you through the long term or simply patch you up? It seems to me that if I was forced to maintain my own health I would learn a lot more or ultimately be picked off as a weaker member of the herd...
Isnt that what geeks like? Being the only ones who get certain jokes?
Next you'l be giving us full explainations for tinfoil hats, mother russia and overlords!
Challenging is more like it. My friends and I rented a PlayStation from Blockbuster just to try that game when it first came out. We didnt know that you could save your progress if you had a memory card. I think we slept about 4 hours that whole weekend from having to start from scratch after each death.
Never really had a problem figuring out the "puzzles" in RE or Tomb Raider for that matter.
I do agree that 'twitch hard' is the greater evil. I hate all those damn 6 year olds that know every combo in the fighter games and I have problems doing the stupid fireball move!!
Why isnt there a list of the ones found most often to least often? Isnt that the kind of info that could bring these things to light?
Simply mentioning that X number of people died doesnt tell anyone how to avoid death...
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Yeah, titles are invisible to me as well. IE7 WinXP.
It would have been groundbreaking. 20+ years after it broke ground, everyone alerady has been playing in it's territory. There is nothing (on the face of things) that is new or fresh 20 years later. Dont get me wrong, I worked at a comic book store in 1986 and I was reading the comic as it came out. I understand what it did for comics as a whole but in the movie business these things are not new for 2009. The movie is just too late to be the blockbuster it could have been.
Why cant I just click next when I put a DVD in to watch in stead of having to sit on the "do not pirate" screen. I'd love to have my cat hit next.
Can we experiment on inmates sentanced to life in prision?
Choose any of your topics above then find what people use to support their opinions or facts and denounce others. Based on what is used you are able to say "left" people say x=y because of 1,2,3 and "right" people say x=z because of 4,5,6. When you combine the two, in theory, you get a balanced picture including coverage for both (but not ALL) sides.
Let me share a comment from a post here on slashdot a year or two ago regarding a younger Han Solo. They did make this series, it's called Firefly. At the time, I had not seen Firefly but that single comment made me go out and seek the series. I was not disappointed. To this day, that is still how I view Firefly's Captain Reynolds.
I'm guessing you still think comics cost a dime and you get them at the grocery store on a spinning rack? Your average comic these days are near $3 a pop so there is _some_ value in $10 per month.
Local radio was already talking about T-shirts with this logo emblazened on them. So sad.
Some ol farmer thawt it wuz a snake! A really really long snake.
Jury trial - the DA only has to get 12 of your peers to believe his story beyond a _reasonable_ doubt. My threshhold for reasonable doubt and that of 11 other peers is not the same. Jury duty isnt just your civic duty, it's a valuable lesson on how the legal system works. I sat on a Capital Murder jury for 2 1/2 months when I was 21. A good DA can paint any picture he wants and some will buy into it.
A company here in Dallas used a van to drive by each house taking video as they drove then cut out the best frame for each house. They were either contracted by the Dallas Central Appraisal District (DCAD) or sold the pictures to them. Several minutes later the Texas Senate passed a bill so the records could be kept by DCAD and viewed by the public _there_ but could not be posted to the internet.
http://www.dallascad.org/News.aspx?ID=1
RESIDENTIAL PHOTOS AND FOOTPRINTS ARE REMOVED
The Dallas Central Appraisal Website will no longer display photographs and building footprints for all residential property. In accordance with Senate Bill 541, as passed by the Texas Legislature, information in appraisal records may not be posted on the Internet if the information is a photograph, sketch, or floor plan of an improvement to real property that is designed primarily for use as a human residence. Photographs and building footprints of residential property will still be available for viewing by the public at the DCAD Customer Service Area located at 2949 N. Stemmons Frwy, Dallas, Texas, during normal business hours. Photographs and building footprints of all non-residential property will still be available on the DCAD web site.
Why couldnt we outfit all sewer openings with a smallish paddlewheel thing to generate and store electricity when water is flowing in? I mean, I'm not an engineer but rather a SlashTroll but I'm curious why this wouldnt work.
Auction off the tickets to the highest bidder but keep the grand total they would make the same. So if they sell the first 1,000 tickets at the price they would have gotten for all tickets at face value, give the rest of the seats away free. Let the rich pay everyone's way in!
Incidently, I was explaining to my kids just yesterday about how you cant pause TV at grandpa's house. So many things they'll never truly appreciate...
For an extra $5 they can implant a memory of you going to a "store" purchasing the disc. Hell, why stop there. Just have an implant that you bought, played, liked and conquered the game - much simpler than actually doing those things...
It's Na-nu but nice try.
Is he rich?
I'm giving 10 to 1 odds that Mark Cuban end up with it.
With the original Roomba you dont have to remove anything off the floor that shouldnt be there to begin with. Roomba does some type of spiral pattern and "bumps" around things but usually comes back later to hit places it misses. I have two small boys and we simply pick up misc. toys and let Roomba do its job. I wouldnt say it gets that floor thoroughly clean but it definitely makes it look clean which is all any other vacuum would do (except for the super high priced ones).
My wife has a Roomba www.irobot.com I can only wonder what 1000 of those would be like if they were let loose in a giant hotel. The floors might actually stay clean briefly... Or what if those little robots in the article we more like Moles and sent to the landfill to sort everything. Teach em to kill fire ants and let them loose in South Texas!!
Slashdot + link = server meltdown
So when you are sick, even in the slightest bit, should a doctor proactively immunize you? Does that make you all better?
What about all the people who are saying that we are becomming more resistant to anti-bioics?
Does sending in a "good" worm fix you really fix you through the long term or simply patch you up? It seems to me that if I was forced to maintain my own health I would learn a lot more or ultimately be picked off as a weaker member of the herd...
Isnt that what geeks like? Being the only ones who get certain jokes? Next you'l be giving us full explainations for tinfoil hats, mother russia and overlords!
Challenging is more like it. My friends and I rented a PlayStation from Blockbuster just to try that game when it first came out. We didnt know that you could save your progress if you had a memory card. I think we slept about 4 hours that whole weekend from having to start from scratch after each death.
Never really had a problem figuring out the "puzzles" in RE or Tomb Raider for that matter. I do agree that 'twitch hard' is the greater evil. I hate all those damn 6 year olds that know every combo in the fighter games and I have problems doing the stupid fireball move!!
Why isnt there a list of the ones found most often to least often? Isnt that the kind of info that could bring these things to light? Simply mentioning that X number of people died doesnt tell anyone how to avoid death...