Usually that is the case. But there are some cheap movies in the bargain bins because they're old and/or unpopular. Maybe a 2-pack of similar movies that didn't do too well for the price of one, or an old movie that wasn't a major blockbuster hit is only a couple bucks
I've even once bought a set of 9 movies on 3 DVDs in a set for $6. Sure, some of the movies on it were really stupid, but when you also get Metropolis, Things to Come, and Slipstream (Mark Hamill's "please don't type-cast me as Luke Skywalker!" movie), $6 is actually almost worth it. But, Jobs' plan would price even this movie at $9.99. (If you don't get it at first, read the reviews, which is the only reason I linked to Amazon rather than IMDB)
MPAA aside, this just doesn't seem like the best pricing plan to me.
Jesus Harold Christ in a Fucking Roller-Coaster!!! When will you fucking Yanks fucking kill them and stop being a bunch of fucking pussies???!!! And your stupid shit is bleeding over into the civilized world, too! Fuck!
What happens when a bank robber flees to the Dominican Republic?
You try to extradite and/or kidnap him so that he can be tried in the US (you don't think a little thing like national sovereignty is going to stop Uncle Sam, do you?).
Do we throw up our hands and say 'well, he's just too damn wily for us!'?
No, because no rocket-powered vehicles or anvils are involved.
So now Bush is just going to bomb/confiscate all the IKEA stores and SAAB dealerships? It makes sense. The Viking raids and ABBA didn't work, so those evil Swedes are going to try to crush us with nice, cheap furniture and nifty cars.
I knew I shouldn't have answered the question "When is the last time you purchased weapons of mass destruction?" on that Safeway survey!
1) Go to $grocery_store
2) Fill out club card
3) Put the name and address of someone you don't like
4) Buy weapons of mass destruction on sale with club card
5) ???
6) (Oil) Profit!
he says as his eyes follow the Gore teleprompter while the 'think of the children' crowd cheer him on.
Um, I was talking about Carl Sagan and Stuart Chase, and mentioning writings from decades ago. But I guess it's much easier for you to throw out childish attacks based on one snippet than address the substantive part of what was written.
I'm glad you are able to cope with what I have to say by lumping me in with someone you don't like. That sounds much easier than resorting to reason.
So, the only part of my post you actually paid attention to was the last line? Brilliant! Anyway, the reason I mentioned Limbaugh is that you are quoting his "reasoning". Now, would you care to respond to the substantive parts of what I and the other person who responded to you wrote? Or, like Limbaugh and others of his ilk, would you rather focus only on the single insult hurled in the midst of everything else as if nothing else was written, thus ignoring the actual substance of the issue?
* Steve Jobs says OSX has the best UI ever.
* Reggie Fils-Aime says Nintendo DS is the most advanced handheld ever.
* GM says the Chevy Tahoe is the safest truck ever.
* My mom says last mother's day was the best ever.
* Pat Robertson says he can leg press 2000 pounds.
Also, if you read different things that were written about climate change during the late 60's to early 70's, rather than just reading a few Limbaugh-approved articles, you'll find that global warming was the accepted model even then. One book off the top of my head is "The Most Probable World" by Stuart Chase, which was written circa 1966. In it, he mentions (among many other things) the generally well-accepted idea of global warming and the potential effects of a few degrees increase in average global temperature on mankind. Also, Carl Sagan talked some about global warming around, I believe, that time based on his study of the atmospheric conditions of Venus. But, Limbaugh says it's true, so all these idiots start blathering the same lines.
Bashing the US government, especially NASA, is a favorite pastime on Slashdot. Periodically I have to stop in and that, having been in the corporate world for over 25 years, Government has no monopoly on stupidity - there's plenty of it roaming the halls of the private sector. Not that I'm saying government isn't stupid and inefficient, just that they're not the only ones.
Very true. Actually, I think the stupidity of an organization is more a function of how large it is. Government always meets that criterion (well, except for France just after the Revolution). As corporations get larger, they get dumber and dumber until you have "B Ark" types always coming out with "mission statements" and insulting the people (such as research chemists at some pharmaceutical companies) who do the actual research (A-ark) and the actual work (C-ark). When you can easily divide a company into its A-ark, B-ark and C-ark people, that's when it is too big to be intelligent. Or, as Demotivators so eloquently put it...
I imagine that, eventually, a time traveller from the far, far future will appear with a gold disc of Duke Nukem Forever, to spare us from the long wait ahead.
Actually, that would be a good question to ask John Titor. John, when did Duke Nuken Forever finally come out?
This brings a whole new meaning to those "find available women in your area" banner ads.
Let me guess. You work for the Dept of Homeland Security, don't you? DHS has brought a whole new meaning to the oft-used knee-jerk phrase "but think of the children!"
It's still a good analogy, though. The character of Burke was modelled after your typical sleezeball businessman/lawyer, which fits the current SCO regime to a T.
Contractors without even crappy VA benefits and not subject to Geneva conventions.;)
Of course! Privatizing government functions lets the government get around that annoying thing called the "Constitution" (aka "just a goddamn piece of paper").
No, no. This is/. ya know. You have to make it into a Star Wars or Monty Python quote:
I always thought this was more apt for the *AA:
User: Oh! Now we see the violence inherent in the system! Don't you see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
RIAA: Bloody peasant!
User: Didn't you see that? Didn't you see him repressing me?
Great! What about suing banks that do the same thing. A bank that I don't even belong to anymore had the same thing happen. Some employee walked out of the bank with tons of personal info on his laptop, which was then stolen. Isn't it possible to sue these numbskulls?
This bill seems to be nothing more than an include() for a dynamically changeable external form of morality. If law were an operating system, the hackers would be pissing themselves out of excitement waiting for all the exploits they could write using this.
So, what you're saying is that our government is pwnd? Sounds about right to me.
The bloody point of the story is that, in the end, it is irrelevant whether Dekard (or Rachel...) is a replicant.
Actually, the point is that (assuming you've read the book), with each updated version of replicant human, replicant cat, replicant insect, et cetera, it becomes more and more difficult to tell what is real and what is not. Even a policeman (in the book) that Deckard checks out to see whether or not he is human winds up having doubts as to whether or not he himself is human. Basically, he had no way of really telling, apart from the Voight-Kamp (sp?) test, whether his memories are real or implanted.
Have you stopped to consider: "What if you're wrong?"
If I'm wrong, nothing happens. I go to jail, peacefully, quietly, I'll enjoy it. But if I'm right, and I can stop this thing, Thud457, you will have saved the lives of millions of registered voters.
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I've even once bought a set of 9 movies on 3 DVDs in a set for $6. Sure, some of the movies on it were really stupid, but when you also get Metropolis, Things to Come, and Slipstream (Mark Hamill's "please don't type-cast me as Luke Skywalker!" movie), $6 is actually almost worth it. But, Jobs' plan would price even this movie at $9.99. (If you don't get it at first, read the reviews, which is the only reason I linked to Amazon rather than IMDB)
MPAA aside, this just doesn't seem like the best pricing plan to me.
Jesus Harold Christ in a Fucking Roller-Coaster!!! When will you fucking Yanks fucking kill them and stop being a bunch of fucking pussies???!!! And your stupid shit is bleeding over into the civilized world, too! Fuck!
You try to extradite and/or kidnap him so that he can be tried in the US (you don't think a little thing like national sovereignty is going to stop Uncle Sam, do you?).
Do we throw up our hands and say 'well, he's just too damn wily for us!'?
No, because no rocket-powered vehicles or anvils are involved.
Already done: here
and here
and for good measure
So now Bush is just going to bomb/confiscate all the IKEA stores and SAAB dealerships? It makes sense. The Viking raids and ABBA didn't work, so those evil Swedes are going to try to crush us with nice, cheap furniture and nifty cars.
So what? The point, which you have failed to grasp again, is that you ignored everything else that was written. You are truly a master of dumbfuckery.
1) Go to $grocery_store
2) Fill out club card
3) Put the name and address of someone you don't like
4) Buy weapons of mass destruction on sale with club card
5) ???
6) (Oil) Profit!
Um, I was talking about Carl Sagan and Stuart Chase, and mentioning writings from decades ago. But I guess it's much easier for you to throw out childish attacks based on one snippet than address the substantive part of what was written.
So, the only part of my post you actually paid attention to was the last line? Brilliant! Anyway, the reason I mentioned Limbaugh is that you are quoting his "reasoning". Now, would you care to respond to the substantive parts of what I and the other person who responded to you wrote? Or, like Limbaugh and others of his ilk, would you rather focus only on the single insult hurled in the midst of everything else as if nothing else was written, thus ignoring the actual substance of the issue?
* Reggie Fils-Aime says Nintendo DS is the most advanced handheld ever.
* GM says the Chevy Tahoe is the safest truck ever.
* My mom says last mother's day was the best ever.
* Pat Robertson says he can leg press 2000 pounds.
Also, if you read different things that were written about climate change during the late 60's to early 70's, rather than just reading a few Limbaugh-approved articles, you'll find that global warming was the accepted model even then. One book off the top of my head is "The Most Probable World" by Stuart Chase, which was written circa 1966. In it, he mentions (among many other things) the generally well-accepted idea of global warming and the potential effects of a few degrees increase in average global temperature on mankind. Also, Carl Sagan talked some about global warming around, I believe, that time based on his study of the atmospheric conditions of Venus. But, Limbaugh says it's true, so all these idiots start blathering the same lines.
Very true. Actually, I think the stupidity of an organization is more a function of how large it is. Government always meets that criterion (well, except for France just after the Revolution). As corporations get larger, they get dumber and dumber until you have "B Ark" types always coming out with "mission statements" and insulting the people (such as research chemists at some pharmaceutical companies) who do the actual research (A-ark) and the actual work (C-ark). When you can easily divide a company into its A-ark, B-ark and C-ark people, that's when it is too big to be intelligent. Or, as Demotivators so eloquently put it...
Actually, that would be a good question to ask John Titor. John, when did Duke Nuken Forever finally come out?
Actually, I could see the beginning of "Red Sector A" being in DNF
"Are we the last ones left alive?
Are we the only human beings to survive?"
Of course, if Quark were in the background intoning "hu-man" everytime that word came up in the song, it would be even cooler.
This brings a whole new meaning to those "find available women in your area" banner ads.
Let me guess. You work for the Dept of Homeland Security, don't you? DHS has brought a whole new meaning to the oft-used knee-jerk phrase "but think of the children!"
It's still a good analogy, though. The character of Burke was modelled after your typical sleezeball businessman/lawyer, which fits the current SCO regime to a T.
I thought it was "Beware of geeks baring in GIFs"
Of course! Privatizing government functions lets the government get around that annoying thing called the "Constitution" (aka "just a goddamn piece of paper").
I always thought this was more apt for the *AA:
User: Oh! Now we see the violence inherent in the system! Don't you see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
RIAA: Bloody peasant!
User: Didn't you see that? Didn't you see him repressing me?
It should be easy enough to tell that this isn't a dupe. After all, it wasn't posted by Zonk.
Great! What about suing banks that do the same thing. A bank that I don't even belong to anymore had the same thing happen. Some employee walked out of the bank with tons of personal info on his laptop, which was then stolen. Isn't it possible to sue these numbskulls?
So, what you're saying is that our government is pwnd? Sounds about right to me.
I take it you were dictating?
You're new to slashdot, arent you? Dont worry, they'll rerun the breaking story of the wheel being invented later today.
And then Zonk will dupe it and mod down anyone who points out the dupiness of the article.
Actually, the point is that (assuming you've read the book), with each updated version of replicant human, replicant cat, replicant insect, et cetera, it becomes more and more difficult to tell what is real and what is not. Even a policeman (in the book) that Deckard checks out to see whether or not he is human winds up having doubts as to whether or not he himself is human. Basically, he had no way of really telling, apart from the Voight-Kamp (sp?) test, whether his memories are real or implanted.
Have you stopped to consider: "What if you're wrong?"
If I'm wrong, nothing happens. I go to jail, peacefully, quietly, I'll enjoy it. But if I'm right, and I can stop this thing, Thud457, you will have saved the lives of millions of registered voters.