This is spot on. A lot of people don't know or care how bad the storm was elsewhere, and they won't evacuate next time. For all practical purposes, if the next storm does require evacuation, they are going to have to scream louder to get the same reaction. They might even need a better word than "hurricane".
How about we try a new roll playing game where everyone acts like adults and business people and resolve their differences without suing everyone and invoking copyrights, trademarks and patents?
major security company with international government and defense contracts has recently detected an enormous cyber attack!
the attacks is from China, because the chinese manufacture our televisions and appliances and therefore are most identifiable in the minds
of american senators congressmen and those who sign perpetual service contracts and license agreements.
action is to be immediately taken in the form of Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Purchase Order, or your local security company
sales team immediately! for only then can you rest assured the evil attacks of cyber will abate.
additional: malfunctions in your television, home computer, blender, and dishwasher should immediately and unquestionably be attributed to
this latest cyber attack.
All those things are made in....gasp........China!,
Sometimes an action flick is just that...
Action flicks rarely if ever really have a good plot... We just think they do when we were kids, or teenagers. If you never saw any of the Star Wars movies then watched them (Even excluding the new ones) they would probably joke at the lame plot that they use to show off all the cool special effects.
Why did they need the force? Well as a plot device to show people doing super human things, so they can make these cool special effects with it, did the force really add to the plot much... Lets see...
Boy Find messagers who direct them to a an old general.
General befriends boy and asks him to join him,
Boy rejects then finds guardians dead from bad guy.
Boy goes with general as has nothing else to do.
General finds Rogues to do work No Questions Asked.
General, Boy and Rogues go on quest get caught by Bad Guys.
General, Boy and Rogues try to escape and rescue the Dame.
General works on the escape, while Boy and Rogues find dame.
Dame helps Boy and Rogues escape.
General Finds Bad Guy fights to the death and dies.
Boy takes Generals place.
Boy kills Bad Guys...
Boy becomes Hero.
Now you can take that story plot, and change things around many ways to create hundreds of movies. After such movies we do not gain much insight into anything. They are just fun to watch the special effects, and its easy plot allows our imagination to make us feel like we can be the hero too.
Boy finds out the bad guy was his father NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I'm still trying to figure out how anyone can stop a person from exercising their Freedom of Speech Rights? What's next, the U.S.S.R.'s version of the legality of Thought Crime, but applied to U.S. cititzens?
Your free to speak and they're free to sue.
USA! USA!
My son is just 5 years old, and he's heavy into his superhero phase. I think it's a crime that all of these movies are rated PG-13 while the toys are clearly aimed at capturing a younger audience who may not even get to see anything but the tv commercials. He's got no less than 3 different Captain America shields (one that I made him, one that his grandfather made him, and one we bought from the store). The one his grandfather made him - out of wood! - came with a home made Thor hammer. He doesn't care. He's Captain Thor America.
So, somebody tell me - of this and all the other superhero movies this summer, would you take a 5 yr old? Just how scary/bloody is the violence? I expect that any "adult situations" will go right over his head (bordering on outright nudity and/or sex scenes, which I don't think these movies have). But a really scary monster/bad guy may give him nightmares. I know that most of the others will be gone from the theatre now, but as they start coming out on DVD, which would be the safest to let him watch?
Help me out. I desperately want him to have the memory of going to these movies when they were a big deal, like I remember going to see Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark and E.T.
The nameless soldiers who got vaporized fighting alongside Cap in the movie are no less heroes than him. They just don't get their stories told.
Similarly, there are real heroes in the world today. Their actions are just not exciting enough for their stories to generate viewer interest sufficient for the media to report on them. Nor would they ask for glory. But it's sad that the good they do is unnoticed by the masses.
Instead we're fed politics, celebrity, and scandal.
The Simpsons covered this.
Milhouse: It's a sham, Bart! You get up on that movie screen
pretending to be a hero, but you're not. The real heroes are
out _there_, toiling day and night on more important things!
Bart: [dreamy] Television.
Milhouse: No! Curing heart disease and wiping out world hunger.
Bart: But Milhouse, they haven't cured anything! Heart disease and
world hunger are still rampant. Those do-gooders are all a
bunch a pitiful losers...every last one of them. Want
results? You have to go to the Schwarzeneggers, the
Stallones, and to a lesser extent, the Van Dammes.
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First of all, there's no way to know if two things are separated by a volume of space unless you have a headache. That's how evolution works: the cerebral nerves were caused to evolve specifically by Darwin in order to function as a kind of animal cruelty version of Pavlov's dog in which mapping three-dimensional space actuates the occipital squinting reflex, causing us to narrow our eyes meaningfully at expansive vistas while also wishing for acetylsalicylic acid and a glass of water.
Scientists consider this sort of thing basically self-evident, like the existence of atoms or Jenny McCarthy.
Furthermore, the so-called Disney Cortex is capable of parsing dimensionality exclusively through parallax; in effect, the neck pain caused by this subtle lateral shifting of the head is conveyed via the uvula directly into the cranial brain-case, tapping into the same area of sensitivity exploited by the spatial depth pain discussed above.
Elementary biochemisphology tells us that the only way stereoscopy can function effectively in the real world of fake entertainment is by pulling out all the stop and going holographic, so that the images can be processed and hurt us in as natural a way as possible. This is God's way of telling us that the Holodeck was cool.
Fad researchers have understood this for centuries, since the time the Illuminati first started actively repressing news of the stereoscopic newspaper in 1743.
Your friend in science,
Cheeseburger Brown
You still believe in Jenny McCarthy?
Everyone knows that's a just a story someone made up to scare children.
This is just another sad statement showing the "End of America" and the dream it was, under Bush/Cheney civil liberties became secondary and Obama/Biden has done nothing to restore justice.
If we in the US isn't careful we'll start blaming our countries problems on the poor/sick/gay, which is only one step away from rounding up groups and shipping them off in rail cars.
Effective use of mass transit in this counry. I don't think so.
On the bright side the private corps and then fed will burn with us when the US can no longer pay the interest on the national debt.
All the money they've made will be worthless.
Everyday, real life is boring, there's a lot of nitty gritty, low value things we have to do in order to get to the trully pleasurable bits of it.
Quick example:
- Have you noticed that movies don't show in real time the travel time of the characters? Hands up anybody that wants to see in real time the 15h plane trip our action movie heroes take to go from their base to whatever hellhole they're supposed to be blasting stuff up in...
This is why most games do NOT include the "repetitivelly move stuff around" bits in them - because it's not fun. Would, say, any of the Mario Brother's games be any fun if you had to shovel dirt around for 1/2h in between getting each coin or fighting each baddie?
On the next 24 Jack Bauer goes to France.
This week......will he pay extra for the in flight movie?
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This is spot on. A lot of people don't know or care how bad the storm was elsewhere, and they won't evacuate next time. For all practical purposes, if the next storm does require evacuation, they are going to have to scream louder to get the same reaction. They might even need a better word than "hurricane".
A class 3 kill storm?
What is "Zen"?
Nothing really.
Unlike Europeans who lock their children in a basement and rape them repeatedly or other Europeans who run around shooting people.
That's how racism works, you take an anecdote and apply it to the whole population.
That's terrible.
That's what people in Russia do.
The article doesn't say which ISP's are being accused of this?
Anyone have a list?
I entered all my info and now all it ever responds with is "Outlook not so good" every time I ask it for advice on improving my love life.
Get a real email client. Problem solved.
Don't you guys have better things to do than worrying if the surrealism in games might bring on some unrealistic expectation or whatnot?
No not really.
The real question is: When will we have a JavaScript emulator ?
It's called the Opera browser. It's runs JavaScript but it's not quite the real thing.
To people who understand the technology it doesn't matter but who has end users like that?
How about we try a new roll playing game where everyone acts like adults and business people and resolve their differences without suing everyone and invoking copyrights, trademarks and patents?
High fantasy isn't for everyone.
Hopefully we can pick up some new television channels and radio stations. I'm getting pretty bored with the universe our universe offers.
Or multinet. Think of the porn!
...but we already live the universe that has all the porn.
Rule 34 is just a myth else where.
major security company with international government and defense contracts has recently detected an enormous cyber attack! the attacks is from China, because the chinese manufacture our televisions and appliances and therefore are most identifiable in the minds of american senators congressmen and those who sign perpetual service contracts and license agreements. action is to be immediately taken in the form of Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Purchase Order, or your local security company sales team immediately! for only then can you rest assured the evil attacks of cyber will abate. additional: malfunctions in your television, home computer, blender, and dishwasher should immediately and unquestionably be attributed to this latest cyber attack.
All those things are made in....gasp........China!,
Sometimes an action flick is just that... Action flicks rarely if ever really have a good plot... We just think they do when we were kids, or teenagers. If you never saw any of the Star Wars movies then watched them (Even excluding the new ones) they would probably joke at the lame plot that they use to show off all the cool special effects.
Why did they need the force? Well as a plot device to show people doing super human things, so they can make these cool special effects with it, did the force really add to the plot much... Lets see... Boy Find messagers who direct them to a an old general. General befriends boy and asks him to join him, Boy rejects then finds guardians dead from bad guy. Boy goes with general as has nothing else to do. General finds Rogues to do work No Questions Asked. General, Boy and Rogues go on quest get caught by Bad Guys. General, Boy and Rogues try to escape and rescue the Dame. General works on the escape, while Boy and Rogues find dame. Dame helps Boy and Rogues escape. General Finds Bad Guy fights to the death and dies. Boy takes Generals place. Boy kills Bad Guys... Boy becomes Hero.
Now you can take that story plot, and change things around many ways to create hundreds of movies. After such movies we do not gain much insight into anything. They are just fun to watch the special effects, and its easy plot allows our imagination to make us feel like we can be the hero too.
Boy finds out the bad guy was his father NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
A European liter is the same as an American liter, though.
Nope an American liter is always soda.
I'm still trying to figure out how anyone can stop a person from exercising their Freedom of Speech Rights? What's next, the U.S.S.R.'s version of the legality of Thought Crime, but applied to U.S. cititzens?
Your free to speak and they're free to sue.
USA! USA!
My son is just 5 years old, and he's heavy into his superhero phase. I think it's a crime that all of these movies are rated PG-13 while the toys are clearly aimed at capturing a younger audience who may not even get to see anything but the tv commercials. He's got no less than 3 different Captain America shields (one that I made him, one that his grandfather made him, and one we bought from the store). The one his grandfather made him - out of wood! - came with a home made Thor hammer. He doesn't care. He's Captain Thor America. So, somebody tell me - of this and all the other superhero movies this summer, would you take a 5 yr old? Just how scary/bloody is the violence? I expect that any "adult situations" will go right over his head (bordering on outright nudity and/or sex scenes, which I don't think these movies have). But a really scary monster/bad guy may give him nightmares. I know that most of the others will be gone from the theatre now, but as they start coming out on DVD, which would be the safest to let him watch? Help me out. I desperately want him to have the memory of going to these movies when they were a big deal, like I remember going to see Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark and E.T.
Now all he needs is a superman costume.
The nameless soldiers who got vaporized fighting alongside Cap in the movie are no less heroes than him. They just don't get their stories told.
Similarly, there are real heroes in the world today. Their actions are just not exciting enough for their stories to generate viewer interest sufficient for the media to report on them. Nor would they ask for glory. But it's sad that the good they do is unnoticed by the masses.
Instead we're fed politics, celebrity, and scandal.
The Simpsons covered this.
Milhouse: It's a sham, Bart! You get up on that movie screen pretending to be a hero, but you're not. The real heroes are out _there_, toiling day and night on more important things! Bart: [dreamy] Television. Milhouse: No! Curing heart disease and wiping out world hunger. Bart: But Milhouse, they haven't cured anything! Heart disease and world hunger are still rampant. Those do-gooders are all a bunch a pitiful losers...every last one of them. Want results? You have to go to the Schwarzeneggers, the Stallones, and to a lesser extent, the Van Dammes.
First of all, there's no way to know if two things are separated by a volume of space unless you have a headache. That's how evolution works: the cerebral nerves were caused to evolve specifically by Darwin in order to function as a kind of animal cruelty version of Pavlov's dog in which mapping three-dimensional space actuates the occipital squinting reflex, causing us to narrow our eyes meaningfully at expansive vistas while also wishing for acetylsalicylic acid and a glass of water.
Scientists consider this sort of thing basically self-evident, like the existence of atoms or Jenny McCarthy.
Furthermore, the so-called Disney Cortex is capable of parsing dimensionality exclusively through parallax; in effect, the neck pain caused by this subtle lateral shifting of the head is conveyed via the uvula directly into the cranial brain-case, tapping into the same area of sensitivity exploited by the spatial depth pain discussed above.
Elementary biochemisphology tells us that the only way stereoscopy can function effectively in the real world of fake entertainment is by pulling out all the stop and going holographic, so that the images can be processed and hurt us in as natural a way as possible. This is God's way of telling us that the Holodeck was cool.
Fad researchers have understood this for centuries, since the time the Illuminati first started actively repressing news of the stereoscopic newspaper in 1743.
Your friend in science, Cheeseburger Brown
You still believe in Jenny McCarthy?
Everyone knows that's a just a story someone made up to scare children.
i don't hate bing because it's microsoft, I hate it because every time I've used it I've been underwhelmed by the results.
So am I .......of course the results are from Microsoft too.
This is just another sad statement showing the "End of America" and the dream it was, under Bush/Cheney civil liberties became secondary and Obama/Biden has done nothing to restore justice. If we in the US isn't careful we'll start blaming our countries problems on the poor/sick/gay, which is only one step away from rounding up groups and shipping them off in rail cars.
Effective use of mass transit in this counry. I don't think so.
Which really casts doubt onto the simplistic narrative of "evil corporations" that want to destroy the country and enslave everybody.
Nah they just want to make money with no eye for the long term consequences. This narrative is also simplistic but it's mostly true.
On the bright side the private corps and then fed will burn with us when the US can no longer pay the interest on the national debt.
All the money they've made will be worthless.
Everyday, real life is boring, there's a lot of nitty gritty, low value things we have to do in order to get to the trully pleasurable bits of it.
Quick example: - Have you noticed that movies don't show in real time the travel time of the characters? Hands up anybody that wants to see in real time the 15h plane trip our action movie heroes take to go from their base to whatever hellhole they're supposed to be blasting stuff up in ...
This is why most games do NOT include the "repetitivelly move stuff around" bits in them - because it's not fun. Would, say, any of the Mario Brother's games be any fun if you had to shovel dirt around for 1/2h in between getting each coin or fighting each baddie?
On the next 24 Jack Bauer goes to France.
This week......will he pay extra for the in flight movie?
One more and you'll be +1 'awesome' in my book forever! biggerbadderben@gmail.com
My turn to share the wealth.
Done.
Done.
jpetzel atat email.com
NASA can sue the museum.
Yes they can, but that's his dad's problem.