It's more that they haven't grasped the full implications of things like YouTube.
They should've learned this lesson two years ago. In 2005, Virginia Senator George Allen was the presumptive presidential front runner for the 2008 election. All it took was one viral video of him saying Macacca to tip his reelection bid to Jim Webb. One video cost him his senate seat, as well as a stab at the White House.
The problem is that not every one *can* get up off the couch to exercise. There are millions of people in the US who suffer from debilitating conditions that severely limit the activities that they can do. Something as common as herniated or ruptured disk in your back could easily keep you bedridden for 16 hours a day.
Think before you spout off your self-righteous indignation.
Also, there is a *big* difference between seeing someone simply going limp after being tazed, and seeing someone getting beaten down with a billy-club. These situations play out very differently when broadcast on the 6:00 news.
Pydev is entirely open source, licensed under the Free EPL. Pydev Extensions, however, is the commercial side of this product. It sounds like someone grabbed the wrong plugin.
It may be a largely xtain nation, but it isn't as xtian as the fundamentalists want you to believe.
Recent polling indicates that over 40% of Americans believe in a literal interpretation of Genesis rather than Evolution. That is far, far to xtian for my liking...
Remember a mission called Operation Desert Shield?? Of course, the defense of Saudi Arabia may have just been a cover story to prepare for invasion. But that is what we were told.
My wife was about five months pregnant when we first saw "Sith" together. I related to Anakin's motivations very strongly. That is what I loved about the character so much. A "Jedi" would disassociate himself from attachment and desperation to protect. Anakin's flaw was that he was all too human.
Also its fucking stupid. I mean seriously the transition from anikin from emo teenager to psycopathic child murderer was way to fast for me.
Two hours of film (and an implied two years between movies)was too fast? Anakin first showed murderous tendencies halfway through AOTC when he wiped out the Tuskin village. He showed unbalanced rage in his first fight against Dooku. He showed it *again* when he killed him. How much more time and exposition on Anakin's instability do you want? Seriously?
I mean at the end after Padme died, i could see that as a turning point into darth, but him killing kids didnt make sense as early in the movie as he did.
Well, in that case, you missed the entire crux of the story. Anakin believed he needed to accept Sith apprenticeship in order to save his wife. He was obsessed with protecting her, to the point where he was willing to make a Faustian 'deal with the devil' with Palpatine in order to do it. The murder of the younglings shows firstly, just how *far* he was willing to go, and secondly, just how corrupting the Dark Side can be once you embrace it. Vader, at this point, is the archetypal 'lost soul'. What purpose would it serve to have him turn *after* she died? His purpose for turning was to prevent this.
I grew up on the OT (ANH came out when I was 4), so those films will always have a "magical" place for me. But honestly, I think the story from the prequels was far more in-depth and complex than the original trilogy. The OT was pretty simplistic: good guys vs. bad guys. It wasn't until the last 10 minutes of ESB that an element of moral ambiguity was introduced. The Luke/Vader narrative was brought to a fantastic climax, but that was a mere 20 minutes surrounded 1.5 hours of Jabba and Ewoks.
The prequels didn't shoot for instant gratification. The Good guys vs. Bad guys formula was thrown out. The "Villains" in TPM were weak and cowardly. They weren't bent on conquering the galaxy, but securing trade rights. Trade rights?! It was a bold move that alienated many fans. But the real story was what was happening behind the scenes: Palpatine manipulating the Neimoidians, the Naboo, and the Senate to prepare for his War. The blockade of Naboo was just the first pawns being moved. Many themes of moral ambiguity were pervasive in the prequels. The Jedi were the "good guys", but they were flawed and arrogant. The CIS were the "Bad guys", but their grievances with the Senate were quite valid. The Republic was a bastion of freedom and democracy, but it was mired in corruption. Anakin was the personification of this dichotomy. He wasn't the superhero that Luke (and the OT audience) imagined him to be, but a very flawed, very "human" character. In the noble effort to save his wife and child he, like Lady Jocasta, inadvertently *cause* the very events that they dedicated themselves to prevent.
It's easy to drill no deeper than the awkward dialog or Jar-Jar fart jokes in the prequels. But by doing so, you're missing the point entirely. The best storytelling in the prequels is what lies between the lines.
Its because George Lucas wrote the first movie as a man full of angst. Obviously the eyes he used to see the world was tainted by experience with working with kids on the street. Han-Solo, the shoot first ask questions later, Darth killing enemies and allies alike, torture, the destruction of an entire planet, (and then all of the poor subcontractors working on the Death Star.)
Then he made the last 3 movies a happy man without a care in the world. He did it for the fans. He had no fire burning in his heart when he did it and it shows.
Mmmmkay... You had Anakin wiping out an entire Tuskin village, beheading an unarmed man, slaughtering a room full of children, and murdering all the seperatist leaders before strangling his pregnant wife, and finally being left to immolate in a lake of lava after a duel to the death with his best friend and mentor.
I honestly have to ask you, how much more fucking "angst" did you want?!
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They should've learned this lesson two years ago. In 2005, Virginia Senator George Allen was the presumptive presidential front runner for the 2008 election. All it took was one viral video of him saying Macacca to tip his reelection bid to Jim Webb. One video cost him his senate seat, as well as a stab at the White House.
The problem is that not every one *can* get up off the couch to exercise. There are millions of people in the US who suffer from debilitating conditions that severely limit the activities that they can do. Something as common as herniated or ruptured disk in your back could easily keep you bedridden for 16 hours a day.
Think before you spout off your self-righteous indignation.
Unbelievable! You, [Subject Name Here] must be the pride of [Subject Hometown Here].
Aperture science: We do what we must because we can.
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life in bed."
Great Scott!! He's right!
Agreed. I disabled uPnP on my ancient Linksys about two months ago and haven't had to reboot it since. My throughput is far more consistent, too.
That was a joke. Ha-ha! Fat chance!
Also, there is a *big* difference between seeing someone simply going limp after being tazed, and seeing someone getting beaten down with a billy-club. These situations play out very differently when broadcast on the 6:00 news.
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Pydev is entirely open source, licensed under the Free EPL. Pydev Extensions, however, is the commercial side of this product. It sounds like someone grabbed the wrong plugin.
Javascript development is now fully supported in the Ganymede release of Eclipse.
**Whhoooooshhh**
Remember a mission called Operation Desert Shield?? Of course, the defense of Saudi Arabia may have just been a cover story to prepare for invasion. But that is what we were told.
"If there's a bustle in your hedgerow"? WTF is that supposed to mean?
Fair enough. Now would you mind rationalizing the Magic Fruit Tree and the Talking Snake??
As much as I disagree with GP, you're wrong. The phrase "US Persons" appears frequently in FISA rules - specifically dealing with wiretapping.
Agreed. I haven't noticed any major performance problems with Eclipse since the 2.x days. I use it daily, and it is certainly fast enough.
In a single project, I can expect to use Java, SQL, JSTL, HTML, XML, CSS, and Perl. That's seven.
My wife was about five months pregnant when we first saw "Sith" together. I related to Anakin's motivations very strongly. That is what I loved about the character so much. A "Jedi" would disassociate himself from attachment and desperation to protect. Anakin's flaw was that he was all too human.
I grew up on the OT (ANH came out when I was 4), so those films will always have a "magical" place for me. But honestly, I think the story from the prequels was far more in-depth and complex than the original trilogy. The OT was pretty simplistic: good guys vs. bad guys. It wasn't until the last 10 minutes of ESB that an element of moral ambiguity was introduced. The Luke/Vader narrative was brought to a fantastic climax, but that was a mere 20 minutes surrounded 1.5 hours of Jabba and Ewoks.
The prequels didn't shoot for instant gratification. The Good guys vs. Bad guys formula was thrown out. The "Villains" in TPM were weak and cowardly. They weren't bent on conquering the galaxy, but securing trade rights. Trade rights?! It was a bold move that alienated many fans. But the real story was what was happening behind the scenes: Palpatine manipulating the Neimoidians, the Naboo, and the Senate to prepare for his War. The blockade of Naboo was just the first pawns being moved. Many themes of moral ambiguity were pervasive in the prequels. The Jedi were the "good guys", but they were flawed and arrogant. The CIS were the "Bad guys", but their grievances with the Senate were quite valid. The Republic was a bastion of freedom and democracy, but it was mired in corruption. Anakin was the personification of this dichotomy. He wasn't the superhero that Luke (and the OT audience) imagined him to be, but a very flawed, very "human" character. In the noble effort to save his wife and child he, like Lady Jocasta, inadvertently *cause* the very events that they dedicated themselves to prevent.
It's easy to drill no deeper than the awkward dialog or Jar-Jar fart jokes in the prequels. But by doing so, you're missing the point entirely. The best storytelling in the prequels is what lies between the lines.
I honestly have to ask you, how much more fucking "angst" did you want?!
To say nothing of bailing out of said car moving at 70 mph once you notice that the engine has caught on fire... :P
You might want to put the crack pipe down for a minute...
That's why a significant number of young men are conveniently "excommunicated" from the church when they reach marrying age.