It's convenient. That has justified it in your mind. You are so accustomed to the convenience that you can't imagine not having it, and instead of you being guilty of illegally downloading movies without paying for them, it's somehow their fault because you don't want to see movies that "may or may not be crap."
Never mind the fact that something may or may not be good doesn't give you the reason not to pay for it (ever heard of movie reviews? Word-of-mouth? Hell, the Internet?).
Meanwhile, Slashdot continues to latch onto two examples--a grandfather and a little girl--getting sued by the RIAA, which is a typical tactic of propaganda. They sent out hundreds of thousands of letters. Chances are, a couple of the usernames they target will be old men or little girls. The horror! But Slashdot latches onto it and blows it out of proportion to somehow paint the RIAA as the evil bad guy, when all they are doing is EXACTLY WHAT YOU GUYS WANTED WHEN THEY SUED NAPSTER--going after individual downloaders.
To sum it up, people download because it is so convenient to them that they've justified it in their minds to shed any guilt. It's ridiculous, and it will never stop being wrong, no matter how much Slashdot tries to push it as some inane, anti-corporate revolution. It's not a revolution. It's not a culture movement. It's just people with high-speed connections downloading things they would normally have to pay for. It's just become widespread enough that you guys are justifying it to absolve yourselves of guilt.
"Bill Hicks on the hand hand?" Learn to type before responding like a spastic prepubescent with his dick in one hand and his mommy's keyboard in the other.
Congralations for basically repeating exactly what the documentaries in The Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition already told us, complete with original audio clip of the source scream (which is horribly blood-curdling).
When the orcs arrive at the river after Frodo has had his encounter with Boromir, and Aragorn is stepping forward to meet them in slow-motion, you can hear a very loud sheep baa-ing. Twice.
This is special, because it is a highly-used sound effect, moreso than most. To the point that people recognize it and gave it a name.
How many uptight people are going to post about how "this isn't important?" Lighten up, already. It's a popular sound effect used so often that it has a following.
I laughed when I heard that sound effect inserted in the show Fear Factor, when the final contestants had to swim under a flaming metal cage to knock off five red balls. Whenever they started the fire, really dramatic music played, and the Doom II whoosh (I, too, recognize it as such) sounded.
Not only do they have to fake the sounds to increase the drama, but it's sounds from a decade old computer videogame.
Seriously, though, it's cool that his company lets him do things like that. Sounds like reasonable, human employers, which of course means a reasonable, fun place to work, which means better productivity.
I know many places that would have you called in their office for daring have such a "distraction on the floor."
Sorry, but the "mainstream press" isn't even covering this story. The mainstream press is busy talking about Saddam and Michael Jackson, not some unknown company suing IBM over some thing on the Internet.
Except that Blaster was patched two months before the vulnerability hit, and the government warned you TWICE to patch. It takes you two months to plug a tiny little hole in RPC? Your fault, not Microsoft's. They had the problem solved.
If you want to talk about security in 2003, where are the mentions of the two breaches at GNU, and the breaches at GNOME, Debian, and Gentoo? Those are pretty embarrassing security lapses for the Linux community that--not surprisingly--are never brought up, as if they never happened.
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Who knows? With such a confusing headline linking to an article that doesn't even mention Pixar, what do editors actually do around here? Now the comments are all about Pixar, which isn't even in the article.
I'll show you politics in America: "I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs." "I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking." "Wait, there's one guy holding up both puppets!" "Shut up! Go back to bed America. Your government is in control. Here's Love Connection, watch this and get fat and stupid. By the way, keep drinking beer, you fucking morons!"
The original plan was to make a prequel, then condense the two sequel scripts into one sequel. The Wachowskis decided to use the Animatrix DVD to tell the prequel (The Second Rennaissance Parts 1 and 2), so they went on with their plan of two sequels. They had scripts for this trilogy even in the early 90s.
I assure you, this is the trilogy they had planned. Not that it changes the suckage.
Meanwhile, The Matrix sequels were written in response to the success of the original, meaning the third one got a screenplay before the second saw any public scrutiny.
Joel Silver has spoken before about how the Wachowskis came to him with a sci-fi trilogy even around 1994. The idea was an episodic storyline like a comic book.
They made Bound to prove that they could direct, then started work on the first Matrix movie.
You pretty much described the sequels we were all expecting, particularly after the phone conversation at the end of the first film.
We were all looking forward to an incredible sequel involving Neo freeing the people Matrix world as the Agents and whatever else tried desperately to stop him, and then the entire freed world tackling the machines in the third film and destroying their captors in ultimate victory. Neo was supposed to be the superhero to end all superheroes.
However, the sequels decided to obssess about the destruction of Zion and treat the Matrix and its people as just another environment and not the objective, like in the first film. Not only is this surprising and boring, but it completely removed the resonance the first movie had. We connected with the message of the first movie because we feel like we're in a controlled Matrix, and on some level, we question that reality. The Matrix inhabitants were us.
We don't feel like we're in a cave underground dancing in the mud as people tell us the machines are coming. I never gave a shit about Zion, not even in the first movie, in which it's just a plot point to explain the existence of rebels and why Morpheus is captured.
Along with that, they removed the machines as the main enemy and out of nowhere replaced it with Smith clones. Matrix Revolutions felt like it had no payoff.
Meanwhile, ROTK spends an extra 20 minutes making sure you felt like it was worth it sticking through all three long movies, and I adored all the resolutions it gave us. No deeper message about the flaws of humanity, no innumerable layers of philosophical and religious context to dig through to understand the story...just themes of courage and friendship and the pain of war, and the battle of good and evil. Matrix Revolutions feels so cold and dreary and hollow now.
It's so sad that various fan-fictions depicted better sequels than what we got.
She also has a deep understanding of humans, and can usually predict what they will do.
At the end of the trilogy, she says she never knew--she just believed.
The point seemingly being that it wasn't that she knew something was going to happen, but that she believed it would happen and aided in such. Self-fulfilling prophecy?
It's too damned bad the movie itself doesn't live up to the subtexts it raises.
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Well, England and Canada are socialist nightmares.
Never mind that the owners of said food and movies are the ones allowing it, so it's moot to mention it.
It's convenient. That has justified it in your mind. You are so accustomed to the convenience that you can't imagine not having it, and instead of you being guilty of illegally downloading movies without paying for them, it's somehow their fault because you don't want to see movies that "may or may not be crap."
Never mind the fact that something may or may not be good doesn't give you the reason not to pay for it (ever heard of movie reviews? Word-of-mouth? Hell, the Internet?).
Meanwhile, Slashdot continues to latch onto two examples--a grandfather and a little girl--getting sued by the RIAA, which is a typical tactic of propaganda. They sent out hundreds of thousands of letters. Chances are, a couple of the usernames they target will be old men or little girls. The horror! But Slashdot latches onto it and blows it out of proportion to somehow paint the RIAA as the evil bad guy, when all they are doing is EXACTLY WHAT YOU GUYS WANTED WHEN THEY SUED NAPSTER--going after individual downloaders.
To sum it up, people download because it is so convenient to them that they've justified it in their minds to shed any guilt. It's ridiculous, and it will never stop being wrong, no matter how much Slashdot tries to push it as some inane, anti-corporate revolution. It's not a revolution. It's not a culture movement. It's just people with high-speed connections downloading things they would normally have to pay for. It's just become widespread enough that you guys are justifying it to absolve yourselves of guilt.
...the security breaches of GNU/FSF (twice), Debian, GNOME, and Gentoo. All within six months!
Don't troll if Linux has its flaws like any other operating system does.
"Bill Hicks on the hand hand?" Learn to type before responding like a spastic prepubescent with his dick in one hand and his mommy's keyboard in the other.
Congralations for basically repeating exactly what the documentaries in The Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition already told us, complete with original audio clip of the source scream (which is horribly blood-curdling).
When the orcs arrive at the river after Frodo has had his encounter with Boromir, and Aragorn is stepping forward to meet them in slow-motion, you can hear a very loud sheep baa-ing. Twice.
I can.
This is special, because it is a highly-used sound effect, moreso than most. To the point that people recognize it and gave it a name.
How many uptight people are going to post about how "this isn't important?" Lighten up, already. It's a popular sound effect used so often that it has a following.
On the roof, the reindeer groan with an Imp death sound and then a human zombie death sound, both from Doom.
I laughed when I heard that sound effect inserted in the show Fear Factor, when the final contestants had to swim under a flaming metal cage to knock off five red balls. Whenever they started the fire, really dramatic music played, and the Doom II whoosh (I, too, recognize it as such) sounded.
Not only do they have to fake the sounds to increase the drama, but it's sounds from a decade old computer videogame.
Seriously, though, it's cool that his company lets him do things like that. Sounds like reasonable, human employers, which of course means a reasonable, fun place to work, which means better productivity.
I know many places that would have you called in their office for daring have such a "distraction on the floor."
Sorry, but the "mainstream press" isn't even covering this story. The mainstream press is busy talking about Saddam and Michael Jackson, not some unknown company suing IBM over some thing on the Internet.
Except that Blaster was patched two months before the vulnerability hit, and the government warned you TWICE to patch. It takes you two months to plug a tiny little hole in RPC? Your fault, not Microsoft's. They had the problem solved.
If you want to talk about security in 2003, where are the mentions of the two breaches at GNU, and the breaches at GNOME, Debian, and Gentoo? Those are pretty embarrassing security lapses for the Linux community that--not surprisingly--are never brought up, as if they never happened.
It's called a "mother-in-law."
The submitter even mentioned that it took him HOURS to install video drivers. Uh...excuse me?
Forgive me for wanting to spend my time using my computer, not spending hours setting it up to use it.
That franchise could be LOTR if Peter Jackson is allowed to make The Hobbit.
Too bad Clinton let the DMCA pass, or we wouldn't be in half of this mess.
Yes, Virginia--both political parties are evil. We won't even get into the sleazy Marc Rich pardon.
Who knows? With such a confusing headline linking to an article that doesn't even mention Pixar, what do editors actually do around here? Now the comments are all about Pixar, which isn't even in the article.
Hello, 1998 wants its BSOD joke back.
Commence with the endless "IANAL"-prefixed posts!
Bill Hicks on the two-party system:
I'll show you politics in America: "I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs." "I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking." "Wait, there's one guy holding up both puppets!" "Shut up! Go back to bed America. Your government is in control. Here's Love Connection, watch this and get fat and stupid. By the way, keep drinking beer, you fucking morons!"
The original plan was to make a prequel, then condense the two sequel scripts into one sequel. The Wachowskis decided to use the Animatrix DVD to tell the prequel (The Second Rennaissance Parts 1 and 2), so they went on with their plan of two sequels. They had scripts for this trilogy even in the early 90s.
I assure you, this is the trilogy they had planned. Not that it changes the suckage.
Meanwhile, The Matrix sequels were written in response to the success of the original, meaning the third one got a screenplay before the second saw any public scrutiny.
Joel Silver has spoken before about how the Wachowskis came to him with a sci-fi trilogy even around 1994. The idea was an episodic storyline like a comic book.
They made Bound to prove that they could direct, then started work on the first Matrix movie.
You pretty much described the sequels we were all expecting, particularly after the phone conversation at the end of the first film.
We were all looking forward to an incredible sequel involving Neo freeing the people Matrix world as the Agents and whatever else tried desperately to stop him, and then the entire freed world tackling the machines in the third film and destroying their captors in ultimate victory. Neo was supposed to be the superhero to end all superheroes.
However, the sequels decided to obssess about the destruction of Zion and treat the Matrix and its people as just another environment and not the objective, like in the first film. Not only is this surprising and boring, but it completely removed the resonance the first movie had. We connected with the message of the first movie because we feel like we're in a controlled Matrix, and on some level, we question that reality. The Matrix inhabitants were us.
We don't feel like we're in a cave underground dancing in the mud as people tell us the machines are coming. I never gave a shit about Zion, not even in the first movie, in which it's just a plot point to explain the existence of rebels and why Morpheus is captured.
Along with that, they removed the machines as the main enemy and out of nowhere replaced it with Smith clones. Matrix Revolutions felt like it had no payoff.
Meanwhile, ROTK spends an extra 20 minutes making sure you felt like it was worth it sticking through all three long movies, and I adored all the resolutions it gave us. No deeper message about the flaws of humanity, no innumerable layers of philosophical and religious context to dig through to understand the story...just themes of courage and friendship and the pain of war, and the battle of good and evil. Matrix Revolutions feels so cold and dreary and hollow now.
It's so sad that various fan-fictions depicted better sequels than what we got.
She also has a deep understanding of humans, and can usually predict what they will do.
At the end of the trilogy, she says she never knew--she just believed.
The point seemingly being that it wasn't that she knew something was going to happen, but that she believed it would happen and aided in such. Self-fulfilling prophecy?
It's too damned bad the movie itself doesn't live up to the subtexts it raises.