If someone was going to shoot me and I knew it (and Han obviously would've), you'd better damn well believe I'd shoot them first... and I'd still consider it self-defense.
And that tells us something about you. You might even call it a *characterization* about you, which distinguishes you from someone who wouldn't fire first. And that's why the change matters. And even if I were to allow that it did not change the characterization of Han, it ruined the pacing of the scene, so the mod isn't even defensible from an artistic standpoint.
But that is all dust in the shadow of the suck that is Jar Jar Binks.
STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL. The only reason the original trilogy survived as it did was because Lucas a) did not direct and b) did not write the screenplays for Eps V and VI. And when he DID start to take more control over the property, what did we get? The made-for-TV warning of what was to come... EWOKS: THE BATTLE FOR ENDOR. Ugh.
How can anyone take seriously the statement that a person who founds and builds up a company like Ford, GM or Google doesn't create anything?
Your Google example fits here. However, the persons that "founded and built up" Ford and GM are dead dead dead. Those companies are at worst run by people like "Chainsaw Al" Dunlap,
who work to squeeze out all the money they can before hopping the next train, or at best, run by their retarded descendants. You know, like our country.
Or anything really. Why do guns always make their way into "innocent uses" debates. It's a device designed to kill or injure, even when used with the best intentions.
The list of examples is infinite: Baseball bat, carving knife, wrench, rope, candlestick, piece of pipe.....
Guns have a beneficial primary use for their owners: they allow them to pretend that the size of their genitalia are not three sigma off average. This is why big trucks driven by city-dwelling
windshield cowboys always have gun racks in the back window. (It's also why a lot of these yahoos blow their toes off when "cleaning their gun". Which they do. A lot.) Without guns,
the streets would be awash in lane-spanning H5s with horns that play "Pour Some Sugar On Me" while listening to right-wing talk radio spout off about feminists emasculating our boys
by making them watch Dora learn about foreign lands. And no thank you — I lived long enough in Houston thankyouverymuch.
And speaking as an alumnus of the University of Texas, I am thankful no one has found a way to go to the top of a bell tower and snipe people for two hours with a pair of pliers. Yet. Although, to
be fair, Chucky-boy did have a pipe wrench with him...
I propose Apple buys a real Time Machine, goes back in time to 3000 years ago and begins a superior civilization in the North Americas,
Leopard already has Time Machine. Before implementing your plan, though, they have to get enough disk space to back up changes in civilization every hour.
It's not just a valueless settlement. It was a fucking retarded case to begin with. Wait, did I say fucking retarded? Just in case...fucking retarded. It's bad enough when law firms get windfalls from class actions suits with actual merit behind them. This? This is because Americans can't understand THE FUCKING METRIC SYSTEM. Or read the side of the FSMdamned box. Or, you know, take responsibility for not reading the side of the FSMdamned box.
Political campaign financing is already regulated to the gills (albeit, not in a particularly useful way) -- would you prefer corporations buying candidates outright?
YES!! Such an injection of abject honesty into politics could lead to widespread cognitive dissonance amongst the kleptocracy. And the possibility of a resulting chain reaction of head asplosions may actually get me to watch C-SPAN.
...especially since Vista is outclassed by OS X 10.4, much less 10.5. Windows users have already started migrating to Macs, as evidenced by the uptick in sales; howver, I would attribute this more to Boot Camp than the OS. I think the only opportunity Apple missed in not releasing Leopard sooner was the opportunity to release an OS that wasn't ready. That is to say, like Vista.
The existense of a number of naturally-driven cycles is well known and well supported. But their existence does not supplant anthropogenic carbon as a forcing--rather, they interact with it. Natural cycles and carbon dioxide impacts are operating simultaneously, and understanding their interactions is one of the goals of computer modelling.
This reminds me of a simple filter I use when discussing AGW: I ask them to explain to me how (natural) global warming physically works, without appeal to references or citation. If they can, we can then discuss why they are skeptical about AGW on a rational basis; if they can't, and they try to rely on appeals to scientific expertise, I know I can win the numbers game; if they can't and don't rely on appeals from polemicists instead of scientific expertise, then I know I've already wasted enough time talking to an ideologue.
Ah, the sparse but satisfying advantages of being a scientist...
He might find some way to weasel out of paying is share of income tax on the money by not receiving it in the first place and have it go directly to the Alliance for Climate Protection as stated in the article.
Yes, it's a weasely method known as "charitable giving". Income given to a legitimate charitable organization does not count towards one's AGI, assuming it is less than 50% of the total AGI.
In summary, you are a moron. Apparently from the political right. Interesting correlation.
Pornographic material, or even semi-pornographic material is censored in the work place because of NOW, Anita Hill, and others associated with the left
That's because a few douchebags ruined sexual harassment in the workplace for the rest of us. (Yes I'm looking at you Clarence Thomas — and NOT your Coke can.)
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But that is all dust in the shadow of the suck that is Jar Jar Binks.
And if they all become computer nerds, they will be unable to interact with the opposite gender, et voila! No more babies!
STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL. The only reason the original trilogy survived as it did was because Lucas a) did not direct and b) did not write the screenplays for Eps V and VI. And when he DID start to take more control over the property, what did we get? The made-for-TV warning of what was to come... EWOKS: THE BATTLE FOR ENDOR. Ugh.
Slashdot gets a literate editor! And in charge, too!
After that I need some fricking Zoloft.
And speaking as an alumnus of the University of Texas, I am thankful no one has found a way to go to the top of a bell tower and snipe people for two hours with a pair of pliers. Yet. Although, to be fair, Chucky-boy did have a pipe wrench with him...
It's not just a valueless settlement. It was a fucking retarded case to begin with. Wait, did I say fucking retarded? Just in case...fucking retarded. It's bad enough when law firms get windfalls from class actions suits with actual merit behind them. This? This is because Americans can't understand THE FUCKING METRIC SYSTEM. Or read the side of the FSMdamned box. Or, you know, take responsibility for not reading the side of the FSMdamned box.
Based on my experiences teaching science classes, not ALL brains are hard-wired for math.
Oh my God, how friggin dare you malig— yeah, you're right.
OK Hollywood nerds, I have my PhD in astrophysics right here, highest bidder.
**snerfle** Thanks, man. Your moral support really means a lo——
Et voila.
Because now when that article is posted to /., the first 273 comments will be "DUPE!"
Not that we'll notice, what with all of those flying pigs and all, but still.
...especially since Vista is outclassed by OS X 10.4, much less 10.5. Windows users have already started migrating to Macs, as evidenced by the uptick in sales; howver, I would attribute this more to Boot Camp than the OS. I think the only opportunity Apple missed in not releasing Leopard sooner was the opportunity to release an OS that wasn't ready. That is to say, like Vista.
Oh my God Apple dropped another price! It's just like the iPhone all over again. SUE!! SUE!!
Ah, the sparse but satisfying advantages of being a scientist...
In summary, you are a moron. Apparently from the political right. Interesting correlation.
This time Karl Rove won't be working for just one Republican.