"Apparently King Kong's pedigree didn't strike you as intriguing. This is Peter Jackson we're talking about here. Any of his productions isn't going to have the same hackneyed, hamfisted problems that most Hollywood remakes suffer."
well, yes king kong was a good movie concept about the struggle between man and nature, freedom and slavery, and all that. peter jackson however cant direct crap. LOTR sucked ass! the first one was all story and the last two were all fighting. not very balanced IMHO. the books were way better. But hey thats opinion right? personally i think that jackson is a hack. his last movie of note? the frightners in like 1997 (i would add that MJ fox really carried that movie and i doubt that jackson had much to do with it). the frightners and lord of the rings does not a good director make.
but that doesnt matter thats my opinion. I will say that remakes pretty much universally suck. Infact i cannot think of a single good remake off the top of my head. dawn of the dead is the only one i can think of really, adn they pretty much coppied the first movie to the letter.
anyways the grandparent that you were responding to was not a tool, as he was actually pretty much anti hollywood remakes. i definitely think calling a man who made 1 really long movie with tonnes of resources/help (millions and millions of dollars, heavy CG, a really good story and liv tyler) not a hack indicates that you are infact, the tool.
forgot to add that the cadega torrent had no seeds on it. at least when i pirate things on windows, theres someone else out there with the same goals/problems. yet another reason linux isnt ready for MY desktop. difficulty in pirating the few pay for integral utilities.
Yeah HAHA foolish me, i listened to people here and when it came time for me to get a laptop i said I want linux on that! knowing full well that there was a way to make wow run on it.
What NO ONE mentions, is that the emulator that runs wow on linux is Cedega (tried without and its all a bunch of squiggily lines, although i could sign into the game). So off i go to find it knowing how helpful the linux comunity usually is. Whats this? YEARLY FEE? um linux = free. why i gots to pay for this shit?
so off i went to the torrent sites. as i was downloading Cedega, I realized that the arrow keys in firefox, didnt actually scroll the page, but rather scrolled thru listings of items i had typed in a text box? wtf! says I! I clicked on the screen, thiking that maybe my scroll arrows were caught in a frame. no such luck. aparently using the arrow keys to scroll the page instead of the mousewheel (no mousewheel on a laptop), is buggy at best and down right not working at worst.
this is why as soon as i get a CDROM drive (linux was able to be installed VIA bootp WHICH IS WHY ITS GOOD FOR SERVERS) i will be putting 2k on my laptop. See what linux needs to do is make everything work OUT OF THE BOX. that and standardize the update systems; emerge, yum, up2date, urpmi, aptget... I mean come ON. everytime i try a new distro it takes me at least 30 minutes to figure out how to do the updates properly. but i guess im dumb and need to RTFM.
wow that was a crazy rant but i just gave up coffee today so.
"but people who buy meaningless validation strike me as opportunists"
so someone going to night school while working at mcdonalds 9-5 everyday just so they can maybe break into the networking world with their dream of CCNA, is seekign meaningless validation?
i would be very surprised if you worked in IT, let alone applied for a job with a real corporation (no your mom and dads company doesnt count). most likely, your one of those people who thinks that if someone wasnt a born genious with computers then they should be damned to even THINK of getting into the field. Doctors, dentists, accountants etc all went to school to learn how to practice their art properly. Saying that certifications are completely meaningless devalues the art of the sysadmin or coder. Saying you wouldnt hire someone based on having a cert on there resume stinks of so much elitism that i would guess you either are part of a MAC only shop or some kind of art gallery.
*disclamer I only have 2 certs and was employed before i got either of them right out of HS.
"Fast food for example, although we all eat it anyways"
speak for yourself please. i havent been in a fast food restaurant in years. you can train yourself to violently gag at low quality foods. i cant even eat mcdonalds hamburgers without feeling sick to my stomach for hours.
"But because there's no reasonable evidence that it's actually happening"
well mr low uid, there is a theory called global dimming wikitorrent which might explain why we have not detected a sharp increase in temps yet. Short answer, the smog is blocking the sunlight from hitting the earth. when we start cleaning up our emissions, this protective smog blanket goes away and we get baked.
In games such as WoW alot of the guilds have, ive noticed, started to require voice on guild raids. I do not want to seem like a troll or seem like im poking fun at people, but i really hate it. This is for several reasons. The first being in a game like WoW it ruins the magic. I do not want the lvl 60 warrior im fighting with to sound like a nasiley 18 year old. I want to IMAGINE what they are like irl, based on the style and language that their character uses. Im not a roleplayer, and i can see the convienience of collaboration using voice, but it really does take alot of the "suspension of disbelief" away. Combine that with the fact that its alot harder to ignore people talking about stupid non related shit, than it is to ignore them typing about it.
The other reason is i hate most peoples accents online. thats kind of a personal attack but i'm really not going to take orders from, or have leadership confidence in, some guy who sounds like he lives in his parents basement and starts wheezing when he gets excited. again, it ruins the ambiance.
"It is as free for licensing as mp3 is. You do realize that mp3 also requires a license?"
a license that doesnt restrict me in any way (plenty of freeware mp3 encoders out there), and doesnt negatively impact the product at all, should not be used as evidence against it. i honestly dont get this ogg rocks! mentality here. Just last night i was watching an OGM file and while the quality was pretty much the exact same as divx, the sound fell off track multiple times. by the end of the 22 minutes (it was the daily show) the lips had about a 5 second lag on them. I have noticed that with full length movies recorded under that format as well.
As for music, i remember downloading mp3s off of BBS's in the early 90s. tried and true, plays on everything. for a brief time i even went thru a flirtation with VQF. then i realized that NO ONE USES VQF, and went back to mp3s. honestly i think sometimes people on this site just want to make things more difficult for themselves. i have never paid a cent to anyone for use of mp3 "licenses" and would love having someone explain to me why i should phe4r teh license!1!!1
"You think people have a moral right to download copyrighted material? You think that making downloading films illegal isn't justified? What world do you live in?"
The world where I think that if someone produces culture, the culture should be able to access it?
let me re post a classic slashdot (tm) post because really, no one has said it better than this guy
Theyre stealing from ME - by dmayle (Score: 5, Interesting) Thread
Ive been waiting for just such an article as this to point out something that
Ive recently come to realize. Everytime theres a copyright article on Slashdot, there is the inevitable discussion on piracy, copyright infringement, and stealing. In going over all of the arguments, Ive come to realize that it is stealing, only everyones got it backwards, the *AA, et al, are stealing from ME
The U.S. constitution makes it clear that works protected by copyright belong to the public, and granting of copyright should apply only to authors and inventors to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.
Well, each time Congress extends the length of copyright or strengthens patent law, theyre stealing from me, theyre stealing from you, and theyre stealing from each person in this country who could gain anything from that work, even if its just 90 minutes of enjoyment from watching an old movie for free. I, for one, am outraged, and now that Congress has turned to looting from me for the benefit of the few who are wealthy and powerful, I will feel no remorse when I download music, or copy DVDs.
Its high time we started taking back our country, and if you think that control of information isnt the most important thing we have to fight for, then youve never studied oppressive regimes. So, copy a DVD for your family, download some MP3s, and help to start a revolution (in thought)
If not for bittorrent, i would never know the joys of little britain (basically kids in the hall but british). this show has perminantly enhanced my life i believe. Hopefully the BBC will be smart and allow users outside UK to download from BT (i loath streaming). Note to any bbc'ers reading this. I will pay for it per month. I find the quality of BBC programming, to be astounding.
also things like little britian and dr who. I would say that i download more BBC content than content from any other company/org. If this were provided for say 20 dollars a month, for fast not dead at 98.2% torrents, i would happily stop using the free ones.
"If it actually _isn't_ twaddle (I wouldn't know; it holds no appeal)"
Did you like the first austin powers? when myers was all fresh and dirty? Did you like half baked? Big Lebowski?
I would say 40yr old virgin is right up there with those. I went into it expecting a slightly funny but mostly mainstream movie. what it actually is is a movie for this decade, imho the funniest movie of the year. very very funny.
of course i downloaded the VCD's off pirate bay so this whole article is kind of funny. I wouldnt have even attempted to go to a theater and see it (im hella poor) and therfor would probably have been robbed of that little bit of happiness. when entertainment became more about the artists than the audience, it became narcissistic and expensive/excessive. thats what i dislike about hollywood films. this one however, is definately worth a look.
well i dont understand in the slightest why you would vote for bush as you are clearly not batshit insane, i will say something about one point.
"Once you go into that random chance stuff, I see you as entering into philosophy. Was it random chance, or was that random chance guided by something (the G-word... God)."
well the thing is that it is generally believed that its not random chances but circumstance based motivation, that leads to "logical mutations" taking precedence over old ways of doing things. alot of people simply cant grasp the slightness and timescale that evolution occupies. especially when you take into account that most religious folk tend to think 'old' is 2000 or 4000 years ago.
the only other thing to say would be that given the presumed infinite stretches of time, and how big we know the galaxy to be, one would only go on to assume that somewhere at sometime, we would come into being. did "god"[1] lock all the buildingblocks of life into place for us or was it simply a mathematical chance that it happened where it did (here) and when it did (billions of years ago).
[1] the thing that ive never heard explained to my satisfaction is, ok you believe we were 'seeded', created, whatever. well who created the creators? who seeded the seeds? eventually, i would argue, you need to have an origin. is it more plausible that a) a creator who lives outside of the universe created the universe b) the universe is the creator (non sentient of coarse). since the (a) option requires me to believe in infinite ukranian dolls, and is at odds with most science, i choose the latter. (it also means that you I and everyone are extraordinarily lucky to be in existence at all)
"We simply don't behave very well on our own without the thought that we will, eventually, answer to a higher force."
I disagree. the only person you should ever answer to is yourself. if you dont have the mental faculties to keep yourself in line, then you seek out the church or fascism or whatever. People dont need an imaginary god to keep them in line. what people need is a better sense of responsibility and accountability in their own mind. people need to act more honourably, across the board.
As for the rest, I think that you are seeing things as good and evil still. nihilism (i assume thats what you mean by 'taoless') is something you can use for whatever you want. its imho more free than a taoist (supernatural) force that will never be quantified or explained. the great thing about nothing is that you can make it into something, without carrying over any variables (ie spirits, universal harmony) that dont prove useful or unavoidable.
anyways its a good summary of the conflict that society is going thru right now so thanks for posting. i believe that given a few hundred (thousand?) years humanity will be able to embrace the nothingness and not need any sort of mental band aids or propping up. i am probably being naive tho so you may turn out to be right.
"God is dead: but considering the state the species Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.'" -nietzsche
actually no i always hated the buffy tv show as i felt that it could never come close to the ownage that was the 1992 movie with kristy swanson. Firefly on the other hand is amazing. i didnt even know the guy who wrote? directed? buffy and the many spinoffs was associated with this project.
i would put buffy and all that in the same catagory as dawsons creek and 90210 but firefly is amazing. its kind of like the game fallout in space, or the new BSG. they really need to make an MMORPG in that universe.
well having been on gay ISPs that filter incomming port 80, 25, 23, 53 etc i will kindly ask you to STFU. you know how god damn annoying it is to be trying to run a small in house network with those kinds of restrictions? oh you want to run your own mailserver? upgrade to the business pacakge for 300$ more a month. not faster or anything, just you get the ports unblocked.
fuck that. id rather have open spam realays that i can block in my sendmail config, or at the firewall level, than be forced to us my ISP's buggy DNS and mail servers. when you have 1 hour delays on mail in peak times, maybe you would agree.
also mod down for suggesting that AOL has *any* practices that should be applied to any other isp. you need your hand held? fine. some of us know what the fuck we are doing thanks.
you realize that your use of the word "force" can be interchanged with "action" and "will" pretty much every time you use it?
force is merely the most aggressive word you could have picked from the three. you also might want to read 'the will to power' by nietzsche for another view of your universal motivation theory. when applied to your first post, i would agree that the problem with the US citizens is lack of "will", ie apathy. using force and non force (passivity), just makes it seem like strong vs weak instead of caring and not caring, which i think is a less loaded relationship.
that doesnt happen. give me one single link to anything thats not a gay ass, no evidence, forum post saying that this happens. the people that think that this is happening to them are the same people who think a browser setting a cookie is OMFGBBQ haxoring!! their PC. ie idiots.
but ok fine, next time i run wow ill fire up ethereal for 30 minutes and see whats really going on there. by the same token though, if people "know" that this is regularly happening, it should be trivial to detect with a router that dumps TCP connections to the console or simply by running ethereal as i plan on doing this evening.
the fact that with 3.5 million installs, no one but a few attention whoring forum wackos have noticed this is a testimate to its illegitimacy.
Why, for the last month or so has WoW sucked performance wise? You guys seemed to have had it nailed for the first few months but now hardly a weekend goes by that im not in an instance or world crash. sometimes, happening multiple times an evening.
Is it that theirs too much data in the game now? your team is stressed with supporting the EU and Asian servers? IS it because people are crashing the instances (on purpose) to dupe from them?
Its weird because i really love wow, and the downtimes are usually around the order of 10 minutes or less. However, when you've spent 2 hours already in an instance and they it crashes, you cant help but get pissed off.
"Happier still will be democracy throughout the Middle East - not just in Israel, and partially in Egypt. That, of course, is the whole damn point of sticking it out in Iraq. Even the Saudis just started having municipal elections... these things take time. "
so when iraq elects a religious theocracy, democratically of course, do you think the US will let it happen? you will quickly see assassinate saying that the iraqies dont understand democracy or some shit like that and the US will appoint someone of their choosing. I guess completely traumatizing japan and having berlin divided for 1 generation is considered bringing democracy to those countries. One, was actually NUKED by the US and the other was cut up into little bits. Yeah those are great successes of the USA. you cant point to things as they are now 50 years after the us invaded those countries and say, "see, we knew what we were doing!". do you want to give iraq 30-50 years to become stable?
" If you'll recall, Somalia was (and still is) a hot spot for al Qaeda supported and trained insurgency. Having been deprived of their cozy little spot in Afghanistan, they're looking to set up shop in other chaotic places."
Thats it man. buy the fucking lies. theres no international Al Quaeda network, with cells in multiple countries. there are however, many terrorist groups, that are independent of one another. in most cases, these groups are fighting for local goals in their own countries. to think that theres some criminal mastermind (osama or whoever) orchestrating a worldwide conspiracy is fucking ridiculous. Did you watch any video from troops in afganistan? they found NOTHING THERE. no massive caves, with sprawling HVAC systems. No nests of terrorists. what they found were empty caves and frightened shepards. why? because the hype and propaganda that theres an international terrorist network IS A LIE. the people that they took into guantanamo bay, for the most part, were paid for by the americans/canadains/british per head. the truth of course, will come out when they close down that fuckign concentration camp and start having a bit more in depth reporting than the fact that the inmates enjoy harry potter books.
"and is exactly the sort of thing that has people like Zarqawi convinced that enough car bombs in Iraq will eventually get him that country as a playground for the mysoginistic, medeival-minded theocratic thugocracy that he'd like to see running the entire Middle East."
again, what if the iraqies say "well i know this party sets off alot of car bombs, but at least they arent the USA." you know, lesser of two evils and all that. You dont think that there are people in iraq that think that way? you dont think that a party that stood on the platform, whatever the motivations, islam or whatever, would FOR SURE not win an election? what if what the iraqies want is not what the americans want and are you ok with that even if it means a theocracy?
"it's also one of the biggest countries to overthrow democratically elected governments and replace them with a pro-US dictator whenever that fits better into their goals."
Help me out, here, with some post-Cold War examples."
Well chavez is a great example because the US tried to overthrow him and the people wouldnt let them. I believe the US backed guy was in office less than a week before the capital was taken back by the PEOPLE. Just because the americans, the CIA, are getting sloppier in their overthrowing of govts, doesnt mean they gave up trying. Oh and dont forget panama in 1989 (yes thats technically in the cold war but recent enough for my tastes). And of course theres Haiti, where a military coup in 1991 removed the democratically elected president Aristide. Although the US nor the CIA was ever held responsible, it is widely known that the leaders of the military coup were trained at the school for the americas (CIA) in the U
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another way to prove your misinformed follows or perhaps you were trying to be funny?
bf2 is good, as in it took desert combat and made it a bit slicker. however, the really fun parts havent been implimented yet.
- there are no custom maps right now - no moveable ships save small air filled breaching boats - no scud or LRMS - the maps are really small! if your used to bf1942 maps that you can fly all over and hardly ever hit a boundry, thats not the case anymore. - the punish system and the voting system are seriously wrecked. - the FSKKING ESC KEY!!!!
"Finally, I recommend avoiding statements like "Everybody knows..." Its usually a clear sign that what ever is coming next is vastly oversimplified, self-righteous, or just plain ignorant. "
"Don't get me wrong, I like Netflix, but the recommendations they make for me are almost always off target. On the other hand, Amazon is always presenting me with interesting recommendations on music and books."
I feel alot safer if the company thats marketing to me cant guess that i will require cornflakes next tuesday at 7:15 am PST. Do you really want corporations to be acurately prediciting when and what you should be consuming? why would you want a company, driven to assist you by purely financial urges, recomending your purchases to you? thats why you make friends that have similar interests. if your not social, you can read beelogs and reviews and shit. the last thing i want is the store telling me what to buy and me becoming complacent enough to thank them as they rob me... amazon is pure evil
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"Apparently King Kong's pedigree didn't strike you as intriguing. This is Peter Jackson we're talking about here. Any of his productions isn't going to have the same hackneyed, hamfisted problems that most Hollywood remakes suffer."
well, yes king kong was a good movie concept about the struggle between man and nature, freedom and slavery, and all that. peter jackson however cant direct crap. LOTR sucked ass! the first one was all story and the last two were all fighting. not very balanced IMHO. the books were way better. But hey thats opinion right? personally i think that jackson is a hack. his last movie of note? the frightners in like 1997 (i would add that MJ fox really carried that movie and i doubt that jackson had much to do with it). the frightners and lord of the rings does not a good director make.
but that doesnt matter thats my opinion. I will say that remakes pretty much universally suck. Infact i cannot think of a single good remake off the top of my head. dawn of the dead is the only one i can think of really, adn they pretty much coppied the first movie to the letter.
anyways the grandparent that you were responding to was not a tool, as he was actually pretty much anti hollywood remakes. i definitely think calling a man who made 1 really long movie with tonnes of resources/help (millions and millions of dollars, heavy CG, a really good story and liv tyler) not a hack indicates that you are infact, the tool.
forgot to add that the cadega torrent had no seeds on it. at least when i pirate things on windows, theres someone else out there with the same goals/problems. yet another reason linux isnt ready for MY desktop. difficulty in pirating the few pay for integral utilities.
Yeah HAHA foolish me, i listened to people here and when it came time for me to get a laptop i said I want linux on that! knowing full well that there was a way to make wow run on it.
What NO ONE mentions, is that the emulator that runs wow on linux is Cedega (tried without and its all a bunch of squiggily lines, although i could sign into the game). So off i go to find it knowing how helpful the linux comunity usually is. Whats this? YEARLY FEE? um linux = free. why i gots to pay for this shit?
so off i went to the torrent sites. as i was downloading Cedega, I realized that the arrow keys in firefox, didnt actually scroll the page, but rather scrolled thru listings of items i had typed in a text box? wtf! says I! I clicked on the screen, thiking that maybe my scroll arrows were caught in a frame. no such luck. aparently using the arrow keys to scroll the page instead of the mousewheel (no mousewheel on a laptop), is buggy at best and down right not working at worst.
this is why as soon as i get a CDROM drive (linux was able to be installed VIA bootp WHICH IS WHY ITS GOOD FOR SERVERS) i will be putting 2k on my laptop. See what linux needs to do is make everything work OUT OF THE BOX. that and standardize the update systems; emerge, yum, up2date, urpmi, aptget... I mean come ON. everytime i try a new distro it takes me at least 30 minutes to figure out how to do the updates properly. but i guess im dumb and need to RTFM.
wow that was a crazy rant but i just gave up coffee today so.
"but people who buy meaningless validation strike me as opportunists"
so someone going to night school while working at mcdonalds 9-5 everyday just so they can maybe break into the networking world with their dream of CCNA, is seekign meaningless validation?
i would be very surprised if you worked in IT, let alone applied for a job with a real corporation (no your mom and dads company doesnt count). most likely, your one of those people who thinks that if someone wasnt a born genious with computers then they should be damned to even THINK of getting into the field. Doctors, dentists, accountants etc all went to school to learn how to practice their art properly. Saying that certifications are completely meaningless devalues the art of the sysadmin or coder. Saying you wouldnt hire someone based on having a cert on there resume stinks of so much elitism that i would guess you either are part of a MAC only shop or some kind of art gallery.
*disclamer I only have 2 certs and was employed before i got either of them right out of HS.
"Fast food for example, although we all eat it anyways"
speak for yourself please. i havent been in a fast food restaurant in years. you can train yourself to violently gag at low quality foods. i cant even eat mcdonalds hamburgers without feeling sick to my stomach for hours.
"But because there's no reasonable evidence that it's actually happening"
well mr low uid, there is a theory called global dimming wiki torrent which might explain why we have not detected a sharp increase in temps yet. Short answer, the smog is blocking the sunlight from hitting the earth. when we start cleaning up our emissions, this protective smog blanket goes away and we get baked.
In games such as WoW alot of the guilds have, ive noticed, started to require voice on guild raids. I do not want to seem like a troll or seem like im poking fun at people, but i really hate it. This is for several reasons. The first being in a game like WoW it ruins the magic. I do not want the lvl 60 warrior im fighting with to sound like a nasiley 18 year old. I want to IMAGINE what they are like irl, based on the style and language that their character uses. Im not a roleplayer, and i can see the convienience of collaboration using voice, but it really does take alot of the "suspension of disbelief" away. Combine that with the fact that its alot harder to ignore people talking about stupid non related shit, than it is to ignore them typing about it.
The other reason is i hate most peoples accents online. thats kind of a personal attack but i'm really not going to take orders from, or have leadership confidence in, some guy who sounds like he lives in his parents basement and starts wheezing when he gets excited.
again, it ruins the ambiance.
"It is as free for licensing as mp3 is. You do realize that mp3 also requires a license?"
a license that doesnt restrict me in any way (plenty of freeware mp3 encoders out there), and doesnt negatively impact the product at all, should not be used as evidence against it. i honestly dont get this ogg rocks! mentality here. Just last night i was watching an OGM file and while the quality was pretty much the exact same as divx, the sound fell off track multiple times. by the end of the 22 minutes (it was the daily show) the lips had about a 5 second lag on them. I have noticed that with full length movies recorded under that format as well.
As for music, i remember downloading mp3s off of BBS's in the early 90s. tried and true, plays on everything. for a brief time i even went thru a flirtation with VQF. then i realized that NO ONE USES VQF, and went back to mp3s. honestly i think sometimes people on this site just want to make things more difficult for themselves. i have never paid a cent to anyone for use of mp3 "licenses" and would love having someone explain to me why i should phe4r teh license!1!!1
"You think people have a moral right to download copyrighted material? You think that making downloading films illegal isn't justified? What world do you live in?"
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The world where I think that if someone produces culture, the culture should be able to access it?
let me re post a classic slashdot (tm) post because really, no one has said it better than this guy
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=05/01/08/1615
Theyre stealing from ME - by dmayle (Score: 5, Interesting) Thread
Ive been waiting for just such an article as this to point out something that
Ive recently come to realize. Everytime theres a copyright article on
Slashdot, there is the inevitable discussion on piracy, copyright
infringement, and stealing. In going over all of the arguments, Ive come to
realize that it is stealing, only everyones got it backwards, the *AA, et al,
are stealing from ME
The U.S. constitution makes it clear that works protected by copyright belong to
the public, and granting of copyright should apply only to authors and inventors
to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.
Well, each time Congress extends the length of copyright or strengthens patent
law, theyre stealing from me, theyre stealing from you, and theyre stealing
from each person in this country who could gain anything from that work, even if
its just 90 minutes of enjoyment from watching an old movie for free. I, for
one, am outraged, and now that Congress has turned to looting from me for the
benefit of the few who are wealthy and powerful, I will feel no remorse when I
download music, or copy DVDs.
Its high time we started taking back our country, and if you think that control
of information isnt the most important thing we have to fight for, then youve
never studied oppressive regimes. So, copy a DVD for your family, download some
MP3s, and help to start a revolution (in thought)
If not for bittorrent, i would never know the joys of little britain (basically kids in the hall but british). this show has perminantly enhanced my life i believe. Hopefully the BBC will be smart and allow users outside UK to download from BT (i loath streaming). Note to any bbc'ers reading this. I will pay for it per month. I find the quality of BBC programming, to be astounding.
Recent finds
The Power of nightmares
Global Dimming
The Private life of plants
If drugs were legal
also things like little britian and dr who. I would say that i download more BBC content than content from any other company/org. If this were provided for say 20 dollars a month, for fast not dead at 98.2% torrents, i would happily stop using the free ones.
BBC advances humanity once again.
"If it actually _isn't_ twaddle (I wouldn't know; it holds no appeal)"
Did you like the first austin powers? when myers was all fresh and dirty?
Did you like half baked?
Big Lebowski?
I would say 40yr old virgin is right up there with those. I went into it expecting a slightly funny but mostly mainstream movie. what it actually is is a movie for this decade, imho the funniest movie of the year. very very funny.
of course i downloaded the VCD's off pirate bay so this whole article is kind of funny. I wouldnt have even attempted to go to a theater and see it (im hella poor) and therfor would probably have been robbed of that little bit of happiness. when entertainment became more about the artists than the audience, it became narcissistic and expensive/excessive. thats what i dislike about hollywood films. this one however, is definately worth a look.
people like you are the reason society sucks. some times you gotta hurt others.
for the greater good.
teh grand parent should be made a hero. like you say, if it actually happened that is
well the thing is that it is generally believed that its not random chances but circumstance based motivation, that leads to "logical mutations" taking precedence over old ways of doing things. alot of people simply cant grasp the slightness and timescale that evolution occupies. especially when you take into account that most religious folk tend to think 'old' is 2000 or 4000 years ago.
the only other thing to say would be that given the presumed infinite stretches of time, and how big we know the galaxy to be, one would only go on to assume that somewhere at sometime, we would come into being. did "god"[1] lock all the buildingblocks of life into place for us or was it simply a mathematical chance that it happened where it did (here) and when it did (billions of years ago).
[1] the thing that ive never heard explained to my satisfaction is, ok you believe we were 'seeded', created, whatever. well who created the creators? who seeded the seeds? eventually, i would argue, you need to have an origin. is it more plausible that a) a creator who lives outside of the universe created the universe b) the universe is the creator (non sentient of coarse). since the (a) option requires me to believe in infinite ukranian dolls, and is at odds with most science, i choose the latter. (it also means that you I and everyone are extraordinarily lucky to be in existence at all)
"We simply don't behave very well on our own without the thought that we will, eventually, answer to a higher force."
I disagree. the only person you should ever answer to is yourself. if you dont have the mental faculties to keep yourself in line, then you seek out the church or fascism or whatever. People dont need an imaginary god to keep them in line. what people need is a better sense of responsibility and accountability in their own mind. people need to act more honourably, across the board.
As for the rest, I think that you are seeing things as good and evil still. nihilism (i assume thats what you mean by 'taoless') is something you can use for whatever you want. its imho more free than a taoist (supernatural) force that will never be quantified or explained. the great thing about nothing is that you can make it into something, without carrying over any variables (ie spirits, universal harmony) that dont prove useful or unavoidable.
anyways its a good summary of the conflict that society is going thru right now so thanks for posting. i believe that given a few hundred (thousand?) years humanity will be able to embrace the nothingness and not need any sort of mental band aids or propping up. i am probably being naive tho so you may turn out to be right.
actually no i always hated the buffy tv show as i felt that it could never come close to the ownage that was the 1992 movie with kristy swanson. Firefly on the other hand is amazing. i didnt even know the guy who wrote? directed? buffy and the many spinoffs was associated with this project.
i would put buffy and all that in the same catagory as dawsons creek and 90210 but firefly is amazing. its kind of like the game fallout in space, or the new BSG. they really need to make an MMORPG in that universe.
well having been on gay ISPs that filter incomming port 80, 25, 23, 53 etc i will kindly ask you to STFU. you know how god damn annoying it is to be trying to run a small in house network with those kinds of restrictions? oh you want to run your own mailserver? upgrade to the business pacakge for 300$ more a month. not faster or anything, just you get the ports unblocked.
fuck that. id rather have open spam realays that i can block in my sendmail config, or at the firewall level, than be forced to us my ISP's buggy DNS and mail servers. when you have 1 hour delays on mail in peak times, maybe you would agree.
also mod down for suggesting that AOL has *any* practices that should be applied to any other isp. you need your hand held? fine. some of us know what the fuck we are doing thanks.
you realize that your use of the word "force" can be interchanged with "action" and "will" pretty much every time you use it?
force is merely the most aggressive word you could have picked from the three. you also might want to read 'the will to power' by nietzsche for another view of your universal motivation theory. when applied to your first post, i would agree that the problem with the US citizens is lack of "will", ie apathy. using force and non force (passivity), just makes it seem like strong vs weak instead of caring and not caring, which i think is a less loaded relationship.
that doesnt happen. give me one single link to anything thats not a gay ass, no evidence, forum post saying that this happens. the people that think that this is happening to them are the same people who think a browser setting a cookie is OMFGBBQ haxoring!! their PC. ie idiots.
but ok fine, next time i run wow ill fire up ethereal for 30 minutes and see whats really going on there. by the same token though, if people "know" that this is regularly happening, it should be trivial to detect with a router that dumps TCP connections to the console or simply by running ethereal as i plan on doing this evening.
the fact that with 3.5 million installs, no one but a few attention whoring forum wackos have noticed this is a testimate to its illegitimacy.
Why, for the last month or so has WoW sucked performance wise? You guys seemed to have had it nailed for the first few months but now hardly a weekend goes by that im not in an instance or world crash. sometimes, happening multiple times an evening.
Is it that theirs too much data in the game now? your team is stressed with supporting the EU and Asian servers? IS it because people are crashing the instances (on purpose) to dupe from them?
Its weird because i really love wow, and the downtimes are usually around the order of 10 minutes or less. However, when you've spent 2 hours already in an instance and they it crashes, you cant help but get pissed off.
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you will quickly see americans saying that the iraqies dont understand democracy
so when iraq elects a religious theocracy, democratically of course, do you think the US will let it happen? you will quickly see assassinate saying that the iraqies dont understand democracy or some shit like that and the US will appoint someone of their choosing. I guess completely traumatizing japan and having berlin divided for 1 generation is considered bringing democracy to those countries. One, was actually NUKED by the US and the other was cut up into little bits. Yeah those are great successes of the USA. you cant point to things as they are now 50 years after the us invaded those countries and say, "see, we knew what we were doing!". do you want to give iraq 30-50 years to become stable?
" If you'll recall, Somalia was (and still is) a hot spot for al Qaeda supported and trained insurgency. Having been deprived of their cozy little spot in Afghanistan, they're looking to set up shop in other chaotic places."
Thats it man. buy the fucking lies. theres no international Al Quaeda network, with cells in multiple countries. there are however, many terrorist groups, that are independent of one another. in most cases, these groups are fighting for local goals in their own countries. to think that theres some criminal mastermind (osama or whoever) orchestrating a worldwide conspiracy is fucking ridiculous. Did you watch any video from troops in afganistan? they found NOTHING THERE. no massive caves, with sprawling HVAC systems. No nests of terrorists. what they found were empty caves and frightened shepards. why? because the hype and propaganda that theres an international terrorist network IS A LIE. the people that they took into guantanamo bay, for the most part, were paid for by the americans/canadains/british per head. the truth of course, will come out when they close down that fuckign concentration camp and start having a bit more in depth reporting than the fact that the inmates enjoy harry potter books.
"and is exactly the sort of thing that has people like Zarqawi convinced that enough car bombs in Iraq will eventually get him that country as a playground for the mysoginistic, medeival-minded theocratic thugocracy that he'd like to see running the entire Middle East."
again, what if the iraqies say "well i know this party sets off alot of car bombs, but at least they arent the USA." you know, lesser of two evils and all that. You dont think that there are people in iraq that think that way? you dont think that a party that stood on the platform, whatever the motivations, islam or whatever, would FOR SURE not win an election? what if what the iraqies want is not what the americans want and are you ok with that even if it means a theocracy?
Help me out, here, with some post-Cold War examples."
Well chavez is a great example because the US tried to overthrow him and the people wouldnt let them. I believe the US backed guy was in office less than a week before the capital was taken back by the PEOPLE. Just because the americans, the CIA, are getting sloppier in their overthrowing of govts, doesnt mean they gave up trying. Oh and dont forget panama in 1989 (yes thats technically in the cold war but recent enough for my tastes). And of course theres Haiti, where a military coup in 1991 removed the democratically elected president Aristide. Although the US nor the CIA was ever held responsible, it is widely known that the leaders of the military coup were trained at the school for the americas (CIA) in the U
well maybe they should re download their codecs then
http://tobias.everwicked.com/
from link:
These filters let you embed the following media types into Ogg streams:
* Most video streams but MPEG2 (Streams with format type VideoInfo or VideoInfo2)
* Most Audio streams but MPEG2 (Streams with format type WaveFormatEx)
Anyway Vorbis is the recommended audio format
* Text streams
another way to prove your misinformed follows
or perhaps you were trying to be funny?
bf2 is good, as in it took desert combat and made it a bit slicker. however, the really fun parts havent been implimented yet.
- there are no custom maps right now
- no moveable ships save small air filled breaching boats
- no scud or LRMS
- the maps are really small! if your used to bf1942 maps that you can fly all over and hardly ever hit a boundry, thats not the case anymore.
- the punish system and the voting system are seriously wrecked.
- the FSKKING ESC KEY!!!!
"Finally, I recommend avoiding statements like "Everybody knows..." Its usually a clear sign that what ever is coming next is vastly oversimplified, self-righteous, or just plain ignorant. "
I guess your not a leonord cohen fan...
"Don't get me wrong, I like Netflix, but the recommendations they make for me are almost always off target. On the other hand, Amazon is always presenting me with interesting recommendations on music and books."
I feel alot safer if the company thats marketing to me cant guess that i will require cornflakes next tuesday at 7:15 am PST. Do you really want corporations to be acurately prediciting when and what you should be consuming? why would you want a company, driven to assist you by purely financial urges, recomending your purchases to you? thats why you make friends that have similar interests. if your not social, you can read beelogs and reviews and shit. the last thing i want is the store telling me what to buy and me becoming complacent enough to thank them as they rob me...
amazon is pure evil