doesn't a publicly funded institution have a responsibility to protect children from offensive and degrading material?
such an institution may have this responsibility, but who gets to decide what is offensive and what isn't? as an example, some religions find it offensive for women to have uncovered skin almost anywhere. so according to that, all sites that show pictures of women's skin should be blocked. maybe this isn't the opinion of the majority of the people in this country, but why should we hold the morals of some groups above the morals of others? it must either block all or nothing, and my vote is nothing. imho, anything else is discriminatory.
it seems to me that there may be a good chunk of people that separate the MPAA and RIAA into two different ideological entities. while it is true that both are pursuing lawsuits and a boycott of one inevitably calls for the boycott of the other, the subject matter they deal with is inherently different. the RIAA either puts out a good song bundled with crap music or force feeds us a lack of viable options, and the only way to change that is by not buying any their prdoucts forcing them to change business strategy. the MPAA on the other hand provides many options, pays their artists well, and creates a more diverse set of art than the RIAA does.
all i'm saying is that maybe the ill feelings towards the MPAA aren't as bad as you implied. just MHO.
i have no problem paying for something that is WORTH paying for. TTT wasn't one 10 minute action scene in the middle of 3 hours worth of fluff. besides, they're only gonna make more good fantasy movies like this if they make money on them.
if they say that the shuttle was going thousands of miles an hour, it's logical to think that the drag on the piece of foam slowed it down a fraction of that (maybe 500 mph) by the time it hit the wing
"That's when it came home to me what 1/2mv2 means...the force was equivalent to catching a basketball thrown at 500 miles per hour."
is he serious?? performing a 5 second equation before telling the shuttle to come back could have predicted and prevented this tragedy. i'm glad it's hitting home for him now...too bad he completley forgot his rudimentary physics a few months ago. this is just another in a long line of examples of NASA engineers not being up to par with basic math. (what...yards != meters???)
How can you not be disillusioned with a man who created one of the most influential stories in a generation and has since destroyed it through sfx and merchandising. I would give anything to forget the disaster that is the prequels.
He once strived to create a modern myth, that much is evident through many sources, but now he has turned into the money-hungry sfx monkey that we all dislike. Though there is nothing wrong with being successful, there is something wrong with extorting the fans of your creation.
If 99% of the people in my white-bred midwestern town like to eat the same kind of food does that mean by default 99% of the people in New York City must also like the same kind of food as that group?
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doesn't a publicly funded institution have a responsibility to protect children from offensive and degrading material?
such an institution may have this responsibility, but who gets to decide what is offensive and what isn't? as an example, some religions find it offensive for women to have uncovered skin almost anywhere. so according to that, all sites that show pictures of women's skin should be blocked. maybe this isn't the opinion of the majority of the people in this country, but why should we hold the morals of some groups above the morals of others? it must either block all or nothing, and my vote is nothing. imho, anything else is discriminatory.
i hear you on that.
it seems to me that there may be a good chunk of people that separate the MPAA and RIAA into two different ideological entities. while it is true that both are pursuing lawsuits and a boycott of one inevitably calls for the boycott of the other, the subject matter they deal with is inherently different. the RIAA either puts out a good song bundled with crap music or force feeds us a lack of viable options, and the only way to change that is by not buying any their prdoucts forcing them to change business strategy. the MPAA on the other hand provides many options, pays their artists well, and creates a more diverse set of art than the RIAA does.
all i'm saying is that maybe the ill feelings towards the MPAA aren't as bad as you implied. just MHO.
i have no problem paying for something that is WORTH paying for. TTT wasn't one 10 minute action scene in the middle of 3 hours worth of fluff. besides, they're only gonna make more good fantasy movies like this if they make money on them.
if they say that the shuttle was going thousands of miles an hour, it's logical to think that the drag on the piece of foam slowed it down a fraction of that (maybe 500 mph) by the time it hit the wing
"That's when it came home to me what 1/2mv2 means...the force was equivalent to catching a basketball thrown at 500 miles per hour."
is he serious?? performing a 5 second equation before telling the shuttle to come back could have predicted and prevented this tragedy. i'm glad it's hitting home for him now...too bad he completley forgot his rudimentary physics a few months ago. this is just another in a long line of examples of NASA engineers not being up to par with basic math. (what...yards != meters???)
How can you not be disillusioned with a man who created one of the most influential stories in a generation and has since destroyed it through sfx and merchandising. I would give anything to forget the disaster that is the prequels.
He once strived to create a modern myth, that much is evident through many sources, but now he has turned into the money-hungry sfx monkey that we all dislike. Though there is nothing wrong with being successful, there is something wrong with extorting the fans of your creation.
If 99% of the people in my white-bred midwestern town like to eat the same kind of food does that mean by default 99% of the people in New York City must also like the same kind of food as that group?