This looks like a potential episode for Trading Spaces (or Changing Rooms), only they'd try to do it in a teal or tastefully color-coordinated art deco motif.... (Note to self: Must stop watching TV with the wife)
Or, even better, "While You Were Out" but doing it to a guy's basement. (Note to self #2: Must not give wife any ideas if she should ever get royally pissed at me...)
"Hollywood in the Classroom!"
Coming to an Educational Institution near YOU!!
Watch as Jack Valenti pantomimes the death of the movie industry by impaling himself on a Beowulf cluster of IBM blade servers downloading a DivX rip of "Glitter"!!
The chills... THE SPILLS!!
But, seriously, do we need another corporate influence invading our classrooms? It's bad enough that the rampant consumerism that has infected American society has opened our schools' doors to the likes of Coke, Pepsi and Channel One... Now, we need Hollywood to come in and help our children formulate thoughts on copyright issues based solely on a heavily biased unilateral viewpoint?
I would like to know what the parents' viewpoint on all of this. Although IANAP, this would make a stronger argument for homeschooling whatever children I may have in the future. At the very least, I would be able to present both sides of the issue and talk to them. This would allow my children to adopt an intelligent stance on this issue.
uses something similar to this form of information addressing in a book called "Earth", which he wrote in 1990. Essentially, he used what seem to be either ISBN plus some other alphanumeric identifier when the main character pulls up the "screenshots" that appear in the book's text. It is almost scary to see the parallels between this and what he was "predicting" for the internet.
When I first read this article, it was the first thing that came to mind. (Maybe because I'm reading it now!:-)
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Or, even better, "While You Were Out" but doing it to a guy's basement. (Note to self #2: Must not give wife any ideas if she should ever get royally pissed at me...)
Watch as Jack Valenti pantomimes the death of the movie industry by impaling himself on a Beowulf cluster of IBM blade servers downloading a DivX rip of "Glitter"!!
The chills... THE SPILLS!!
But, seriously, do we need another corporate influence invading our classrooms? It's bad enough that the rampant consumerism that has infected American society has opened our schools' doors to the likes of Coke, Pepsi and Channel One... Now, we need Hollywood to come in and help our children formulate thoughts on copyright issues based solely on a heavily biased unilateral viewpoint?
I would like to know what the parents' viewpoint on all of this. Although IANAP, this would make a stronger argument for homeschooling whatever children I may have in the future. At the very least, I would be able to present both sides of the issue and talk to them. This would allow my children to adopt an intelligent stance on this issue.
When I first read this article, it was the first thing that came to mind. (Maybe because I'm reading it now! :-)
-el_D