The former, on the other hand, had an ending that nobody predicted.
That nobody predicted? Several minutes into the movie, we were able to predict the end... heck, we even started quoting their lines for them, they were so predictable.
Sure, Revolutions was fun and had a lot of eye candy, but both Revo and Reloaded were weak in the face of the Matrix (which really was unpredictable).
I think one could hardly call Tarzan (written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, published in 1914) and Hercules (Greek mythology) original.
I will concede The Emperor's New Groove, though. A fun movie, though the animation lacked severely.
It is amazing to see the decline in animation by Disney. For a while we had the quality of Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King (yes, I know about all the not-so-original story), but now we have this angular, disproportionate crap that they shove at us. Add in the decline in plotlines (can you believe quality actually went down from Pocahontas?) and you have modern Disney, the McDonalds of the entertainment industry (would you like tripe with that?).
And sequels? Walt's not rolling in his grave, he's break dancing.
A couple of years ago, Sprint tried out this interesting idea... Wireless broadband. Tucson (where I was at the time) was one of the testing grounds. They put up a transmission tower up on one of the taller hills in the area, and, if you had LOS (Line of Sight), you could get pretty quick broadband. The signal was supposed to be encrypted, signal switching, the works. I knew a couple of people who had it, they were very impressed. Upload and download rates were fairly symmetrical (unlike the original DirecPC) and fairly quick. No land lines required. 50 mile range. The price was even decent. Then, all of a sudden, *poof* - they stopped selling the service and refused to take new customers. We found someone willing to sell us the equipment, and Sprint still wouldn't allow us to start up the service. Weirdos.
If they could get all the bugs (aka executives) worked out of that, that would be a good way to avoid the wire if you wanted to...
Flaw in the logic? That implies logic existed. You know, there are more theories about the origins of the universe than merely the Big Bang and Creationism. Intelligent Design for one, which shares commonalities with, but does not necessarily jive exactly with Creationism.
My, my, what an excellent representation of a pop-scientist, rather than an actual one. An actual scientist uses evidence to prove or disprove theories, and doesn't hold on to a theory just because he wants to, even though the evidence is against it.
Just because someone doesn't believe in the completely unproven Big Band Theory or the ridiculous Theory of Evolution does not make them a Creationist.
Seriously though, it would have been so much easier if you had just said "I'm an idiot" right at the beginning. Then we could have laughed and pointed that much sooner.
Actually, for longevity, I would have to go with... stone. It can't hold as much data, but it seems to last millennia, especially if it is stored properly. Not the best for portability either, but longevity was the key concept here.
I think you mean the Philippines. The Phillipians were people from Phillipi, a city in the Roman Empire in first century A.D. Phillipians is also a book of the Bible (referring to the same city). The Philippines are islands in the south pacific.
I actually read the article entitled 'Why suing college students for music downloading is right'
I wonder if the writer's RIAA masters gave her a nice treat when that article was finished? Here you go, nice reporter, good reporter, would you like a tummy rub?
Of course, it's not like I actually believed that there was some un-slanted journalism out there, but come on! Surprise me once in a while.
Completely wrong? Somehow, I don't think so. For example:
(now, don't anyone take this as flamebait or anything, I intend NO disrespect or insult)
Sept 11. Other than the absolutely tragic loss of life and the major hit to the national state of mind, what was harmed that day? Was any company's physical ability to produce goods harmed? Were any factories destroyed? No. But, some investors on Wall Street got real scared, and because of that, our economy took a downturn. Because companies are responsible ONLY to their shareholders (and most only barely pay service to that), their entire focus is on growth and profit, with no thought given to the concept that they are part of an economy that is interdependent, no thought given to their employees (after the customers, the lower employee is the first to get screwed), and no thought is given to stability. Look at companies like WorldCom and Enron, willing to do anything to increase their stock prices. Look at SCO.
Unfortunately, this problem is difficult to fix. There are no easy fixes. One fix is to, as suggested by the prev. post, to start your own business and run things right, which is a good, active fix.
Something I propose is this: pay attention to what services and products you buy. I am amazed at some of the advertising I see, especially for service companies (which shall remain nameless *cough* qwest), where companies not only try to tell you that the exorbitant prices they charge you are good, but that they treacherously bad service that they give you is actually really good service. And our country (the US) on the whole is buying it! As I have seen all over the place on Slashdot, we need to start talking with our dollars.
This would take a lot of dollars, though, considering again that over 90% of the funds in this country (excluding the gov'ment) belong to the controlling 1% of the people.
This is all just my opinion, but I ask that whoever reads this just pause for a minute or two and really consider what I have said... you might notice something you never saw before... maybe that black cat will cross the room twice.
Actually, capital investment, and the stock market system that we have now is one of the worst foundations for an economic system. Sure, it looks good now, but it is inherently unstable, and is built on the premise that there is an infinite amount of funds and resources. Most of the wealth in this country is tied up in less than 1% of the population, while the rest of the population is at the mercy of that 1% when it comes to prices and quality.
*begin sarcasm* Yep, a truly great system. *end sarcasm*
Perhaps you should have read that Bible a little more closely. Song of Solomon (sometimes called Song of Songs) is very strong in it's support of spouses enjoying each other, as is Proverbs and several other books. RTFM!
Nuff said, though, since this really is off topic.
Score 3: Insightful? I think some Flamebait should be added there for that last comment...
Anti-sex?
I grew up in a very conservative church, and they never once said sex was bad. Just that sex at the wrong time (as with most things at the wrong time, such as drinking while driving, etc...) was bad. They must have believed in sex - the Pastor and his wife churned out a kid once a year the whole time I attended (about 7 years).
And as for fat women at church socials? I don't know where you have been going, but the last few churches I have checked out...beautiful women everywhere.
For one thing, what business do they have installing ANYTHING on my computer without my consent or knowledge. You know, if I install something on your computer without your knowledge, that is illegal. But it is completely ok for the record companies to do it? Because I am sure that they are NOT clearly labeling the disc with information that they are going to install crap on your computer (and who is to say that their programmers are worth a crap and can write stuff that will not screw up legit software or screw up your RAID because of how they implement the anti-copy crap)
And WMA? What the hell? Why choose such a worthless format. Go with Ogg, at least it is free.
(pardon me if I have repeated anything already posted, I didn't have the stamina to read through 780 posts)
Wait for the day making a copy of your car key is a violation of the DMCA because Chevy did not give you permission.
I'd like to thank the two hours of sleep I got last night...
Frivolous lawsuits are dismissed early on? Do you pay attention to the news? Lady sues for spilling hot water on herself. Man sues because he hurts himself breaking into someone's house. Man sues fast food joints because he is fat and has no self control (and I can point fingers because I am fat and I know it is my responsibility).
We need to get some judges that look at some of these cases, and hurl them out of court on the basis of friggin' common sense. If common sense would have protected you, you have no business suing. (And SCO just has no sense at all)
Not if it is done properly (and I am not implying that it will be). Right now most long distance is carried over VoIP on the Internet by the major phone companies. Do you get latency in your long distance calls? All they would have to do when providing this service is route the calls in a similar manner (don't ask me how).
Yeah, time to take a history class... We certainly did NOT push Japan into attacking us, and we would have ended up in the war at some point no matter what. Period. Better that we entered it as early as we did, rather than later, after Germany owned Europe and Asia, and Japan owned the Pacific Ocean. (Better still if we had honored our leftover treaties from WWI and stopped the war before it began).
I went on a flight with my little sister once. Most harmless looking person in the world. They took her aside for extra screening... wanna know why? She had a summer sausage in her backpack... looks just like C4 on an x-ray machine.
Better watch out, Pepperidge Farm is going to destroy the world.
Actually, Washington is even more nuts than that.
Washington also has what they call a 'use' tax. (I used to live there and found out about it by accident when I got my driver's license)
Basically it states that if I buy something from you, like a car or atv, I am supposed to get a form and pay taxes on the transaction. That's right, on a non-first sale transaction between two private parties, Washington state has a tax. Of course, there is no enforecement whatsoever of this tax, but the forms are still around, and it is still on the books. How wacked is that?
What this really comes down to is content. By licensing people to surf the net, the government gains close control over the internet. Yes, this could control spam (but how many direct mail companies bought their address lists from the DMV?). Yes, this might reduce the number of trojans and virii out there. This also gives the government the opportunity to tell you what software you can and cannot run, how you can run it, and where/what you can surf.
While everone might talk as if security is at stake and spamming needs to die, look at it this way: If you want freedom, you have to be willing to accept the responsibility of it. Things like self-policing (aka neighborhood watch) and protecting yourself (aka the Second Ammendment). An earlier post made a good point about how Linux has fewer security holes because the entire Linux community works together to keep it secure. These are the types of principles that make true freedom possible. People in a neighborhood know that they cannot depend on the cops to protect them from burglars (a cop on every corner is a bad idea), so they form a watch and take care of each other. Rather than going to Uncle Sammy every time we find something we don't like in life or on the internet, we need to find ways of fixing it ourselves.
Yes, I know this turned into a bit of a rant, but I really get annoyed every time I see non-tech people (i.e. The US Government, the RIAA, the MPAA) interfering with tech-based issues.
Actually, it is NOT public infrastructure. The major backbones of the internet are privately owned and the companies that own them (such as AT&T) allow their free use. They make so much off just having this infrastructure for their own use that they can afford this.
Also, let us consider the fact that the US does NOT exclusively own the internet (or WWW) anymore. World-wide, remember? I think it is time that the US government stopped trying to regulate areas they have no business in. They have no right to tell us what we can say in conversation, in a letter, or in a phone call. The same should apply to the internet.
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Maybe we could grind up our grandma's antioxidant vitimans and sprinke the powder over the surface of the disk to keep the reaction from happening.
you should be flogged for even having said that... we are all dumber now... but I still laughed my ass off...
The former, on the other hand, had an ending that nobody predicted.
That nobody predicted? Several minutes into the movie, we were able to predict the end... heck, we even started quoting their lines for them, they were so predictable.
Sure, Revolutions was fun and had a lot of eye candy, but both Revo and Reloaded were weak in the face of the Matrix (which really was unpredictable).
I think one could hardly call Tarzan (written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, published in 1914) and Hercules (Greek mythology) original.
I will concede The Emperor's New Groove, though. A fun movie, though the animation lacked severely.
It is amazing to see the decline in animation by Disney. For a while we had the quality of Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King (yes, I know about all the not-so-original story), but now we have this angular, disproportionate crap that they shove at us. Add in the decline in plotlines (can you believe quality actually went down from Pocahontas?) and you have modern Disney, the McDonalds of the entertainment industry (would you like tripe with that?).
And sequels? Walt's not rolling in his grave, he's break dancing.
it's just too bad that you can't mod up past 5
A couple of years ago, Sprint tried out this interesting idea... Wireless broadband. Tucson (where I was at the time) was one of the testing grounds. They put up a transmission tower up on one of the taller hills in the area, and, if you had LOS (Line of Sight), you could get pretty quick broadband. The signal was supposed to be encrypted, signal switching, the works. I knew a couple of people who had it, they were very impressed. Upload and download rates were fairly symmetrical (unlike the original DirecPC) and fairly quick. No land lines required. 50 mile range. The price was even decent. Then, all of a sudden, *poof* - they stopped selling the service and refused to take new customers. We found someone willing to sell us the equipment, and Sprint still wouldn't allow us to start up the service. Weirdos.
If they could get all the bugs (aka executives) worked out of that, that would be a good way to avoid the wire if you wanted to...
Flaw in the logic? That implies logic existed. You know, there are more theories about the origins of the universe than merely the Big Bang and Creationism. Intelligent Design for one, which shares commonalities with, but does not necessarily jive exactly with Creationism.
And yeah, I know what a T-H-E-O-R-Y is. Sheesh.
My, my, what an excellent representation of a pop-scientist, rather than an actual one. An actual scientist uses evidence to prove or disprove theories, and doesn't hold on to a theory just because he wants to, even though the evidence is against it.
Just because someone doesn't believe in the completely unproven Big Band Theory or the ridiculous Theory of Evolution does not make them a Creationist.
Seriously though, it would have been so much easier if you had just said "I'm an idiot" right at the beginning. Then we could have laughed and pointed that much sooner.
Warrant? You must be kidding. Let's not forget the PATRIOT ACT.
We don't need no stinking warrants!
Actually, for longevity, I would have to go with... stone. It can't hold as much data, but it seems to last millennia, especially if it is stored properly. Not the best for portability either, but longevity was the key concept here.
I think you mean the Philippines. The Phillipians were people from Phillipi, a city in the Roman Empire in first century A.D. Phillipians is also a book of the Bible (referring to the same city). The Philippines are islands in the south pacific.
I actually read the article entitled 'Why suing college students for music downloading is right'
I wonder if the writer's RIAA masters gave her a nice treat when that article was finished? Here you go, nice reporter, good reporter, would you like a tummy rub?
Of course, it's not like I actually believed that there was some un-slanted journalism out there, but come on! Surprise me once in a while.
lol, what do you think the newer (97 and above) versions of access are? they use Excel (a spreadsheet) as their 'engine' so to speak.
So you kinda are living on spreadsheets alone.
Happily..... Oregon has no sales tax.
Completely wrong? Somehow, I don't think so. For example:
(now, don't anyone take this as flamebait or anything, I intend NO disrespect or insult)
Sept 11. Other than the absolutely tragic loss of life and the major hit to the national state of mind, what was harmed that day? Was any company's physical ability to produce goods harmed? Were any factories destroyed? No. But, some investors on Wall Street got real scared, and because of that, our economy took a downturn. Because companies are responsible ONLY to their shareholders (and most only barely pay service to that), their entire focus is on growth and profit, with no thought given to the concept that they are part of an economy that is interdependent, no thought given to their employees (after the customers, the lower employee is the first to get screwed), and no thought is given to stability. Look at companies like WorldCom and Enron, willing to do anything to increase their stock prices. Look at SCO.
Unfortunately, this problem is difficult to fix. There are no easy fixes. One fix is to, as suggested by the prev. post, to start your own business and run things right, which is a good, active fix.
Something I propose is this: pay attention to what services and products you buy. I am amazed at some of the advertising I see, especially for service companies (which shall remain nameless *cough* qwest), where companies not only try to tell you that the exorbitant prices they charge you are good, but that they treacherously bad service that they give you is actually really good service. And our country (the US) on the whole is buying it! As I have seen all over the place on Slashdot, we need to start talking with our dollars.
This would take a lot of dollars, though, considering again that over 90% of the funds in this country (excluding the gov'ment) belong to the controlling 1% of the people.
This is all just my opinion, but I ask that whoever reads this just pause for a minute or two and really consider what I have said... you might notice something you never saw before... maybe that black cat will cross the room twice.
Actually, capital investment, and the stock market system that we have now is one of the worst foundations for an economic system. Sure, it looks good now, but it is inherently unstable, and is built on the premise that there is an infinite amount of funds and resources. Most of the wealth in this country is tied up in less than 1% of the population, while the rest of the population is at the mercy of that 1% when it comes to prices and quality.
*begin sarcasm* Yep, a truly great system. *end sarcasm*
Perhaps you should have read that Bible a little more closely. Song of Solomon (sometimes called Song of Songs) is very strong in it's support of spouses enjoying each other, as is Proverbs and several other books. RTFM!
Nuff said, though, since this really is off topic.
Score 3: Insightful? I think some Flamebait should be added there for that last comment...
Anti-sex?
I grew up in a very conservative church, and they never once said sex was bad. Just that sex at the wrong time (as with most things at the wrong time, such as drinking while driving, etc...) was bad. They must have believed in sex - the Pastor and his wife churned out a kid once a year the whole time I attended (about 7 years).
And as for fat women at church socials? I don't know where you have been going, but the last few churches I have checked out...beautiful women everywhere.
For one thing, what business do they have installing ANYTHING on my computer without my consent or knowledge. You know, if I install something on your computer without your knowledge, that is illegal. But it is completely ok for the record companies to do it? Because I am sure that they are NOT clearly labeling the disc with information that they are going to install crap on your computer (and who is to say that their programmers are worth a crap and can write stuff that will not screw up legit software or screw up your RAID because of how they implement the anti-copy crap)
And WMA? What the hell? Why choose such a worthless format. Go with Ogg, at least it is free.
(pardon me if I have repeated anything already posted, I didn't have the stamina to read through 780 posts)
Wait for the day making a copy of your car key is a violation of the DMCA because Chevy did not give you permission.
I'd like to thank the two hours of sleep I got last night...
Frivolous lawsuits are dismissed early on? Do you pay attention to the news? Lady sues for spilling hot water on herself. Man sues because he hurts himself breaking into someone's house. Man sues fast food joints because he is fat and has no self control (and I can point fingers because I am fat and I know it is my responsibility).
We need to get some judges that look at some of these cases, and hurl them out of court on the basis of friggin' common sense. If common sense would have protected you, you have no business suing. (And SCO just has no sense at all)
Not if it is done properly (and I am not implying that it will be). Right now most long distance is carried over VoIP on the Internet by the major phone companies. Do you get latency in your long distance calls? All they would have to do when providing this service is route the calls in a similar manner (don't ask me how).
Yeah, time to take a history class... We certainly did NOT push Japan into attacking us, and we would have ended up in the war at some point no matter what. Period. Better that we entered it as early as we did, rather than later, after Germany owned Europe and Asia, and Japan owned the Pacific Ocean. (Better still if we had honored our leftover treaties from WWI and stopped the war before it began).
I went on a flight with my little sister once. Most harmless looking person in the world. They took her aside for extra screening... wanna know why? She had a summer sausage in her backpack... looks just like C4 on an x-ray machine.
Better watch out, Pepperidge Farm is going to destroy the world.
Actually, Washington is even more nuts than that.
Washington also has what they call a 'use' tax. (I used to live there and found out about it by accident when I got my driver's license)
Basically it states that if I buy something from you, like a car or atv, I am supposed to get a form and pay taxes on the transaction. That's right, on a non-first sale transaction between two private parties, Washington state has a tax. Of course, there is no enforecement whatsoever of this tax, but the forms are still around, and it is still on the books. How wacked is that?
What this really comes down to is content. By licensing people to surf the net, the government gains close control over the internet. Yes, this could control spam (but how many direct mail companies bought their address lists from the DMV?). Yes, this might reduce the number of trojans and virii out there. This also gives the government the opportunity to tell you what software you can and cannot run, how you can run it, and where/what you can surf.
While everone might talk as if security is at stake and spamming needs to die, look at it this way: If you want freedom, you have to be willing to accept the responsibility of it. Things like self-policing (aka neighborhood watch) and protecting yourself (aka the Second Ammendment). An earlier post made a good point about how Linux has fewer security holes because the entire Linux community works together to keep it secure. These are the types of principles that make true freedom possible. People in a neighborhood know that they cannot depend on the cops to protect them from burglars (a cop on every corner is a bad idea), so they form a watch and take care of each other. Rather than going to Uncle Sammy every time we find something we don't like in life or on the internet, we need to find ways of fixing it ourselves.
Yes, I know this turned into a bit of a rant, but I really get annoyed every time I see non-tech people (i.e. The US Government, the RIAA, the MPAA) interfering with tech-based issues.
What do you think?
Actually, it is NOT public infrastructure. The major backbones of the internet are privately owned and the companies that own them (such as AT&T) allow their free use. They make so much off just having this infrastructure for their own use that they can afford this.
Also, let us consider the fact that the US does NOT exclusively own the internet (or WWW) anymore. World-wide, remember? I think it is time that the US government stopped trying to regulate areas they have no business in. They have no right to tell us what we can say in conversation, in a letter, or in a phone call. The same should apply to the internet.