That's what amazes me. Boises is being given Darl's firstborn as payment, and he doesn't even show up at Friday's hearing. WTF are they paying him for????
Get over it!!! I for one am tired of people whining about "how bad Phantom Menace sucked" and "George Lucas is a talentless hack". Is the magic that the original trilogy instilled in you gone in the prequels?? Guess what nerd boy? You're not seven anymore!! Star Wars magic is much easier to digest when you're flying through your living room in your Boba Fett underoos.
Was TPM perfect? No, far from it. The dialog was campy and the acting was occasionaly wooden. But AFAIC, the story was rock solid! It set the stage perfectly for what was to come: The galaxy in decline, and Palpatine subtly moving into position to declare himself emporer. The sith reappear for the first time in 1000 years, and we see the boy-who-would-be-Vader as innocent and vulnerable. For this, I can forgive the few jar-jar-isms that get on my nervs.
Episode 2: George gives you what you want, and *still* you bitch!!!! For 20 frickin years, fanboys have wanted to see Boba Fett's arsenal in action, and we finally got it! The darts, the rocket pack, the flamethrower, Slave I; it's all there! We see stormtroopers that can actually hit something. We are exposed to a very film noir Coruscant. Yoda opening a green can of whoopass. You want to whine about Hayden's acting as Anakin? Watch the scene again where he returns carrying the body of his mother, and his following confession to Padme'. Brilliant!! We get to see the Empire born before our eyes with JW's Imperial March resonating in the background. Ohh, but there were a few awkward love scenes that distracted me for 5 minutes THIS MOVIE SUCKS!!!
You want to talk about crappy dialog??? How about:
There isn't enough life on this ice cube to fill a space cruiser!!
You want crappy characters that do nothing to the story but sell toys??
one word....Ewoks
You want to whine about GL? If it wasn't for him stepping up to the plate in the early seventies, SCI-FI in film would be DEAD! His work paved the way for Alien, the Star Trek film franchises (and spin offs), and countless other films of the eighties and nineties. You think I'm wrong? Name the last successful "fantasy" film franchise prior to Peter Jackson.....
In closing, both the magic and the weaknesses of the Original Trilogy are present in the Prequels. If you want to be a bitter-thirty-something whose Boba Fett underoos don't fit anymore, fine! You're entitled to your opinions. But there are millions of us fanboys out there who are damn sick & tired of you constantly pissing on our popsicle!
If you remember, the spoilers for AOTC *really* started flowing after those storyboards were stolen & leaked. The spoiler volume now is much lighter than it was at this time for AOTC, so it looks like Lucasfilm finally learned how to secure a studio.
True, but what if said companies were publicly outed and humiliated? What if an orchestrated effort was made to let said company know exactly how the world feels about their carelessness in hiring their PR firm? Would that not be sufficient to send the message that if you hire a PR company, you better be damn sure you know how they're promoting your good name?
The problem is that large companies pay "affiliates" to generate leads. Reputable companies will have policies against allowing their affiliates to engage in spam. However, we're talking about multi-level-marketing. A legitimate affiliate may sub-contract out to other lead generating companies, who in turn buy leads from other sources, and so on. If you follow the chain down far enough, you'll find a company who doesn't follow up on the practices of someone they're buying from.
Secondly, the prosecutor certainly can appeal a "not guilty" verdict. They simply have to have grounds to appeal (e.g. the judge made an incorrect ruling during the trial, jury tampering, etc.). Likewise a defendant can appeal a "guilty" verdict only if they have grounds.
Sorry, but you're wrong here. An aquittal in a criminal trial is final. And no judicial error, jury tampering, lying witness, bogus evidence, or new revelation can ever cause an aquittal to be reversed. Period.
What a prosecutor can appeal, however, is any decision or motion made prior to a verdict being rendered by a judge or jury. For example, if a judge drops a charge against a defendant, the prosecutor can appeal this decision to get the charge reinstated. The point here is that a dropped charge is not the same as an aquittal. Also, in the case of a civil matter, a plaintiff can appeal a judge's or jury's verdict.
As horrible as this is bound to be for the economy at home, it's always been "bout tha dollar dollar bill y'all" so this is the one and only thing that will bring these jobs back to American soil.
How horrible is it for the economy that the hundreds of thousands of IT workers laid off in the past three years will be able to find work again? I've never bought into the bullshit story that the level of offshoring we've been seeing is "good for the economy". It's costing Dell money in lost customer satisfaction. And it's cost dozens of other companies in terms of crappy code and missed deadlines. Our economy as a whole hasn't seen squat from offshoring The only benefit is that it has caused Bill Lumbergh's stock to go up 1/4 of a point.
About a year ago, I read an article (somewhere) that broke down the projected revenue vs. cost of mining an avarage asteroid once the technology is available. The bottom line was that the raw iron alone would be worth more than the GDP of all the industrialized nations on earth. Anyone willing to front me the startup cash??
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That's what amazes me. Boises is being given Darl's firstborn as payment, and he doesn't even show up at Friday's hearing. WTF are they paying him for????
Get over it!!! I for one am tired of people whining about "how bad Phantom Menace sucked" and "George Lucas is a talentless hack". Is the magic that the original trilogy instilled in you gone in the prequels?? Guess what nerd boy? You're not seven anymore!! Star Wars magic is much easier to digest when you're flying through your living room in your Boba Fett underoos.
Was TPM perfect? No, far from it. The dialog was campy and the acting was occasionaly wooden. But AFAIC, the story was rock solid! It set the stage perfectly for what was to come: The galaxy in decline, and Palpatine subtly moving into position to declare himself emporer. The sith reappear for the first time in 1000 years, and we see the boy-who-would-be-Vader as innocent and vulnerable. For this, I can forgive the few jar-jar-isms that get on my nervs.
Episode 2: George gives you what you want, and *still* you bitch!!!! For 20 frickin years, fanboys have wanted to see Boba Fett's arsenal in action, and we finally got it! The darts, the rocket pack, the flamethrower, Slave I; it's all there! We see stormtroopers that can actually hit something. We are exposed to a very film noir Coruscant. Yoda opening a green can of whoopass. You want to whine about Hayden's acting as Anakin? Watch the scene again where he returns carrying the body of his mother, and his following confession to Padme'. Brilliant!! We get to see the Empire born before our eyes with JW's Imperial March resonating in the background. Ohh, but there were a few awkward love scenes that distracted me for 5 minutes THIS MOVIE SUCKS!!!
You want to talk about crappy dialog??? How about:
There isn't enough life on this ice cube to fill a space cruiser!!
You want crappy characters that do nothing to the story but sell toys??
one word....Ewoks
You want to whine about GL? If it wasn't for him stepping up to the plate in the early seventies, SCI-FI in film would be DEAD! His work paved the way for Alien, the Star Trek film franchises (and spin offs), and countless other films of the eighties and nineties. You think I'm wrong? Name the last successful "fantasy" film franchise prior to Peter Jackson.....
In closing, both the magic and the weaknesses of the Original Trilogy are present in the Prequels. If you want to be a bitter-thirty-something whose Boba Fett underoos don't fit anymore, fine! You're entitled to your opinions. But there are millions of us fanboys out there who are damn sick & tired of you constantly pissing on our popsicle!
If you remember, the spoilers for AOTC *really* started flowing after those storyboards were stolen & leaked. The spoiler volume now is much lighter than it was at this time for AOTC, so it looks like Lucasfilm finally learned how to secure a studio.
You will pay the price for your lack of bandwidth!!
The problem is that large companies pay "affiliates" to generate leads. Reputable companies will have policies against allowing their affiliates to engage in spam. However, we're talking about multi-level-marketing. A legitimate affiliate may sub-contract out to other lead generating companies, who in turn buy leads from other sources, and so on. If you follow the chain down far enough, you'll find a company who doesn't follow up on the practices of someone they're buying from.
Shouldn't that be wunderkinder?
Perhaps that's because when it comes to politics, logic & reason go right out the window.
Sorry, but you're wrong here. An aquittal in a criminal trial is final. And no judicial error, jury tampering, lying witness, bogus evidence, or new revelation can ever cause an aquittal to be reversed. Period.
What a prosecutor can appeal, however, is any decision or motion made prior to a verdict being rendered by a judge or jury. For example, if a judge drops a charge against a defendant, the prosecutor can appeal this decision to get the charge reinstated. The point here is that a dropped charge is not the same as an aquittal. Also, in the case of a civil matter, a plaintiff can appeal a judge's or jury's verdict.
How horrible is it for the economy that the hundreds of thousands of IT workers laid off in the past three years will be able to find work again? I've never bought into the bullshit story that the level of offshoring we've been seeing is "good for the economy". It's costing Dell money in lost customer satisfaction. And it's cost dozens of other companies in terms of crappy code and missed deadlines. Our economy as a whole hasn't seen squat from offshoring The only benefit is that it has caused Bill Lumbergh's stock to go up 1/4 of a point.
Trust me, you've made that perfectly obvious..
*NNNNNGGGGGGHHH*!!!! Don't be so *FRUMPLE* or there will be *JUICE SQUEEZING* when we *DANCE*. The Androsynth are *SILLY COWS*.
About a year ago, I read an article (somewhere) that broke down the projected revenue vs. cost of mining an avarage asteroid once the technology is available. The bottom line was that the raw iron alone would be worth more than the GDP of all the industrialized nations on earth. Anyone willing to front me the startup cash??
Do not worry about *DANCING*. Happy *CAMPERS* are best! Enjoy the *SAUCE* - This wisdom got me through my college years