c) A better music scene in general. Does Minneapolis have the 9:30 Club? I think not. How many bands actually tour through there anyhow?
No, but we do have First Avenue, and many others... Minneapolis has a very cool music scene. In the past couple years I've seen Radiohead, Soul Coughing, Semisonic (twice), Dave Matthews Band, Fatboy Slim, and Moby, just to name a few, and I don't even get out to concerts that much, considering I live an hour and a half away, whether I'm at school or at home.
I don't think it's fair to say "a better music scene" unless you've actually experienced both for yourself...
This is not intended as a flame, I'm just sick of people condescending to Minnesotans (and Midwesterners in general) for not being "cultured."
If we let 6th graders decide if they wanted to attend school or not, we'd see about a 95% dropout rate. Tell me, when you were in 6th grade, would you have rather been learning fractions or playing outside with your friends?
And what happends to all of the "weeded-out losers"? Do they just disappear? Get sent to prison? Work at McDonalds for life? What do we do with all of the unskilled morons then?
Such a law was probably written a long, long time ago, when Christian values had more of a stranglehold on American perception of sex... Any sex besides sex between a married couple trying to conceive was probably considered amoral and dirty. Keep in mind, this is just speculation...
How'd you find out about this law? Any idea where I can find similar information for my state (Minnesota)? I'd like to know if I'm breaking the law...
A distinction needs to be made here between Christians and Fundamentalists. I'm not even going to try to define the word Christian, but suffice it to say that Fundamentalism is a subset of Christianity where the word of the Bible is held to be the absolute, unerring word of God. This is where the problem lies with Evolution vs. Creation; not with Christianity as a whole, but with Fundamentalism.
Also, a distinction should be made between so-called Creation "Scientists" and scientists who are Christian. You can have strong faith in the Christian God and still be a credible scientist. Example: I attend a Catholic University, and my symposium class (a combination of reading, writing, discussion, and critical thinking) had as its subject revolutionary scientists, and as its instructor a venerable physics professor who is also a Catholic priest. I expected my professor to hand down some crazy lectures about the scientific validity of the Bible, when he did exactly the opposite. He totally separated the Bible from science, and much of our class was spent discussing the horrible treatment of Galileo and Darwin by the Catholic church. To quote him loosely: "The Bible teaches theological truth, not scientific truth." Not every Christian believes the same thing, and many are objective, logically-thinking creatures. Faith and science can coexist.
My brother owns a handheld Steadicam that he purchased on eBay for around $400. Not professional quality, sure, but much better than jumpy video. Expensive? No. Heavy? No.
...but not because of the horror; it wasn't really that scary. What made me queasy was the camerawork. Sure, low-tech production value is all the rage now, but why couldn't these people use a goddamn steadicam? All that tromping through the woods with the camera bouncing up and down gave me motion sickness, and I'm not the only one. I heard several others complaining of this as I exited the theater. All in all, it was a decent movie, but not really worth my $7 or waiting for 3 days to get tickets. To summarize: Great marketing, decent movie, horrid camerawork. Anyone else agree?
Just another happy, fluffy story of how the "good guys" (big filmmaking corporations and their equally big lawyers) kicked the "bad guys" (those nasty internet pirates! Fear!) squarely in the pants. Not quite.
Wow, they caught 300 people selling TPM? That's barely scratching the surface. They only trolled the WWW for pirated copies, nothing else.
The lawyers actually got organized back in April. They started out by warning some 700 Internet Service Providers they would be held responsible for anyone offering bootleg copies on their services.
How can they hold an ISP liable for stolen information? That's like the FBI holding the owner of a parking lot liable for any stolen cars found in the lot.
Then they switched their focus to the bootleggers themselves. With Electronic Cease and Desist Orders at the ready, the lawyers lie in wait, constantly patrolling the Internet. When a bootlegger would pop up, they'd email the order, threatening the possibility of a $2 Million fine and 10 years in jail.
Most complied immediately, but some cyber-pirates didn't take kindly to these digital equivalents of bad news on legal letterhead. One indignantly replied, `Who do you think you are?` and promptly cut the lawyers off their Web site.
Can someone explain this last bit of drivel to me?
Why not have a `Cyber Patrol` which is constantly vigilant, watching the World Wide Web?
Who would control such an orginization? The government? A private company? Who decides what is acceptable and what is not?
For example, what about those Web sites that offer personal information about citizens like you and me? Does the world really have a right to our home address and telephone number?
Sure does. Ever heard of a phone book? (BTW, how did this article shift from "bootlegging" to "loss of privacy"?)
Here, I think we can take a page from George Lucas' book. For the `Phantom Menace`, it was a success to have simply stopped the great bulk of the bootleggers.
So, the next time someone tells you -- `You just can't stop information from being passed around the Internet!` -- think twice. We can stop most of it with a little determination.
"Great bulk"? "most of it"? Yeah, sure.
What a load of crap. With the insane amount of money Lucas has made off of TPM and its marketing blitzkreig (please stop playing those damn Pepsi can commercials with that rapping idiot; I couldn't care less about finding the Golden Yoda) I don't think he needs to worry about loss of revenue from bootleggers. Anyone who wasted enough time to download a copy of the movie almost certainly saw it in the theater first.
I just don't get it. I can see why Universal might be upset about images used on the site, but links? You can't copyright a URL, only the information contained on that URL, far as I'm concerned. Where does this leave internet directories like Yahoo!? Could they be considered illegal as a result of this as well?
All Universal is concerned about is its ad revenues, nothing more.
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c) A better music scene in general. Does Minneapolis have the 9:30 Club? I think not. How many bands actually tour through there anyhow?
No, but we do have First Avenue, and many others... Minneapolis has a very cool music scene. In the past couple years I've seen Radiohead, Soul Coughing, Semisonic (twice), Dave Matthews Band, Fatboy Slim, and Moby, just to name a few, and I don't even get out to concerts that much, considering I live an hour and a half away, whether I'm at school or at home.
I don't think it's fair to say "a better music scene" unless you've actually experienced both for yourself...
This is not intended as a flame, I'm just sick of people condescending to Minnesotans (and Midwesterners in general) for not being "cultured."
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Using Babelfish:
barredefractionpoint.org (French)
schrägstrichpunkt.org (German)
tagliopuntino.org (Italian)
slashponto.org (Portuguese)
rayaverticalpunto.org (Spanish)
Using The Dialectizer:
swashdot.org (Elmer Fudd)
sleshdut.org (Swedish Chef)
ashslayotday.org (Pig Latin)
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Wasn't it GATTACA?
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Straight out of the 2nd Ed. Player's Handbook:
Elf: 55/50 (male/female) + 1d10, in inches.
So, elven males range from 4'8" to 5'5", and females from 4'3" to 5'.
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If we let 6th graders decide if they wanted to attend school or not, we'd see about a 95% dropout rate. Tell me, when you were in 6th grade, would you have rather been learning fractions or playing outside with your friends?
And what happends to all of the "weeded-out losers"? Do they just disappear? Get sent to prison? Work at McDonalds for life? What do we do with all of the unskilled morons then?
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I'd say the gub'mint needs some education of its own on web design. That thing is damn ugly!
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I know this is offtopic, but I don't care. :-P
Such a law was probably written a long, long time ago, when Christian values had more of a stranglehold on American perception of sex... Any sex besides sex between a married couple trying to conceive was probably considered amoral and dirty. Keep in mind, this is just speculation...
How'd you find out about this law? Any idea where I can find similar information for my state (Minnesota)? I'd like to know if I'm breaking the law...
paranoid.android
A distinction needs to be made here between Christians and Fundamentalists. I'm not even going to try to define the word Christian, but suffice it to say that Fundamentalism is a subset of Christianity where the word of the Bible is held to be the absolute, unerring word of God. This is where the problem lies with Evolution vs. Creation; not with Christianity as a whole, but with Fundamentalism.
Also, a distinction should be made between so-called Creation "Scientists" and scientists who are Christian. You can have strong faith in the Christian God and still be a credible scientist. Example: I attend a Catholic University, and my symposium class (a combination of reading, writing, discussion, and critical thinking) had as its subject revolutionary scientists, and as its instructor a venerable physics professor who is also a Catholic priest. I expected my professor to hand down some crazy lectures about the scientific validity of the Bible, when he did exactly the opposite. He totally separated the Bible from science, and much of our class was spent discussing the horrible treatment of Galileo and Darwin by the Catholic church. To quote him loosely: "The Bible teaches theological truth, not scientific truth." Not every Christian believes the same thing, and many are objective, logically-thinking creatures. Faith and science can coexist.
paranoid.android
Why on Earth did it do that?
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My brother owns a handheld Steadicam that he purchased on eBay for around $400. Not professional quality, sure, but much better than jumpy video. Expensive? No. Heavy? No.
paranoid.android
...but not because of the horror; it wasn't really that scary. What made me queasy was the camerawork. Sure, low-tech production value is all the rage now, but why couldn't these people use a goddamn steadicam? All that tromping through the woods with the camera bouncing up and down gave me motion sickness, and I'm not the only one. I heard several others complaining of this as I exited the theater. All in all, it was a decent movie, but not really worth my $7 or waiting for 3 days to get tickets. To summarize: Great marketing, decent movie, horrid camerawork. Anyone else agree?
paranoid.android
Just another happy, fluffy story of how the "good guys" (big filmmaking corporations and their equally big lawyers) kicked the "bad guys" (those nasty internet pirates! Fear!) squarely in the pants. Not quite.
Wow, they caught 300 people selling TPM? That's barely scratching the surface. They only trolled the WWW for pirated copies, nothing else.
The lawyers actually got organized back in April. They started out by warning some 700 Internet Service Providers they would be held responsible for anyone offering bootleg copies on their services.
How can they hold an ISP liable for stolen information? That's like the FBI holding the owner of a parking lot liable for any stolen cars found in the lot.
Then they switched their focus to the bootleggers themselves. With Electronic Cease and Desist Orders at the ready, the lawyers lie in wait, constantly patrolling the Internet. When a bootlegger would pop up, they'd email the order, threatening the possibility of a $2 Million fine and 10 years in jail.
Most complied immediately, but some cyber-pirates didn't take kindly to these digital equivalents of bad news on legal letterhead. One indignantly replied, `Who do you think you are?` and promptly cut the lawyers off their Web site.
Can someone explain this last bit of drivel to me?
Why not have a `Cyber Patrol` which is constantly vigilant, watching the World Wide Web?
Who would control such an orginization? The government? A private company? Who decides what is acceptable and what is not?
For example, what about those Web sites that offer personal information about citizens like you and me? Does the world really have a right to our home address and telephone number?
Sure does. Ever heard of a phone book? (BTW, how did this article shift from "bootlegging" to "loss of privacy"?)
Here, I think we can take a page from George Lucas' book. For the `Phantom Menace`, it was a success to have simply stopped the great bulk of the bootleggers.
So, the next time someone tells you -- `You just can't stop information from being passed around the Internet!` -- think twice. We can stop most of it with a little determination.
"Great bulk"? "most of it"? Yeah, sure.
What a load of crap. With the insane amount of money Lucas has made off of TPM and its marketing blitzkreig (please stop playing those damn Pepsi can commercials with that rapping idiot; I couldn't care less about finding the Golden Yoda) I don't think he needs to worry about loss of revenue from bootleggers. Anyone who wasted enough time to download a copy of the movie almost certainly saw it in the theater first.
paranoid.android
I just don't get it. I can see why Universal might be upset about images used on the site, but links? You can't copyright a URL, only the information contained on that URL, far as I'm concerned. Where does this leave internet directories like Yahoo!? Could they be considered illegal as a result of this as well?
All Universal is concerned about is its ad revenues, nothing more.
paranoid.android
Excuse me for sounding stupid, but what is FUD?
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