Lucas realized that fans simply couldn't get enough of the Jedi, so the Super Special Edition is guaranteed to have at least one Jedi in every frame of the film. "We want to just totally Jedi the fuck out of the audience." he says. "There will be Ewok Jedi, bantha Jedi, shark Jedi, and even a Jedi knight who that's made up of other, smaller Jedi."
The obvious love triangle between C-3PO, R2D2, and Jawa #2 will be more thoroughly explored.
The famous cantina has been changed into a barber shop which is run by several quirky and humorous black men. "I realize that Star Wars hasn't appealed to negroids in the past," Lucas explains, "and I blame myself. I mean there was Lando, and that's it. While Billy Dee Williams was probably the smoothest man alive, it simply wasn't enough. Before settling on the barber shop, I had considered cranking the brightness of the film down dramatically to make everyone darker, but the guys in the editing room don't let me touch the controls anymore."
At this point, he once again waved off my concerns about the scene in question ripping off of another film, and he threatened to have my "memory banks erased" if I brought up the subject one more time.
Han Solo never shoots. Ever. In the original release of the first Star Wars film, Han distracted a bounty hunter that was after him and then shot the bounty hunter dead before he could even make a move. In the Special Edition, however, the bounty hunter shot at Han first, making it look like Solo killed the bounty hunter purely in self defense. This seemingly small change belittled one of the core qualities that made Han cool in the first place in many fans' minds, but Lucas feels otherwise. "I think the greatest quality of Han's character is actually his striped pants. Every time he shoots or talks, it takes the moviegoer's focus away from the pants. Removing every single blaster shot that Han fired is such an obvious decision that I'm embarassed I didn't think of it sooner."
Stormtroopers no longer close their eyes when firing their blasters. The trilogy is now a single thirty-seven minute film.
Seriously. Just because the guy's into bestiality or whatever. I mean, he's the guy, right? With the... you know... Syphillis... from gnus. On Howard Stern, getting plugs for his "GNU project" (I shudder to think what that is).
In celebration of this new achievment of post-modern society, I've re-done my site in the glorious, beautiful new language of the bourgeoise: l33t speak. All you non-el337 pansies can 574Y @W@Y!!!!!111
Ali: Wicked! T'day, I's 'ere wit me main man, Mark Canter an' 'e's 'ere to talk about da PeopleAggregator thing-guh.
Ali: So Mark, 'n' be hones' 'ere, 'ow much poonani are ya 'xpectin' to get offa dis 'ere web site? Mark: Excuse me, what? I can't really understand you. Is that hemp I smell? Ali: Fo'real, ain't cha ever been to 'urope? Mark: You're not even wearing a suit. You look like you're some famous music star or som-- Ali: Thank you. Mark: I'm not complementing you. You need to go back to journalist school and learn what goes into a good BJ [broadcast journalist]. Ali: Oh, b'lee me. Me knows what cha talkin' about. Respec, man. Mark: No, I'm out of here. It was nice meeting you. Ali: So does I get like a invitation in da mail or something? Where you 'eaded, mon? Eh, 'e was a 'tard anyway.
Difficult to install and use for the purpose of maintaining screening users by intimidating new users ("n00bs"). See: DEBIAN.
DISCLAIMER: the above comment is a joke. If you do not have a sense of humor, chances are you are currently furrowing your brow in a vain attempt to understand why this is not a direct insult to your beloved distro.
"He built a building down at the University of Virginia. He didn't put his name on it. He put his teacher's name on it. There's another addition to the library in Ridgefield Park. He put his mother's name on it. You'll never see [a building] with his name on it," Capalbo said. "People all over the place are saying, 'Who is this Greg Olsen guy?' I can tell you. I know who he is and it's been one of the delights of my life to know him."
This guy sounds legit. More evidence in the full article, of course =)
How is this insightful? Orwellian? So? There's been no conclusive proof as to whether various aspects of Orwellian society will or will not happen. Just because some famous paranoid mentioned it doesn't determine its eventual role in society.
What I want to know is: what kind of moronic lawyers pick up cases like this? There's really no hope of winning something like this, all that will happen is there will be a long, drawn-out hearing and appeals process with people citing obvious prior art and the judge having a good laugh.
I know a lot of lawyers only get money if they win and occaisionally gamble on a big case in the hopes that statistics will keep their business going in the long run. But a case like this has no hope of making any money.
Personally, I think that lawyers need to have something of a deterrant to bringing up frivolous lawsuits (as happens so often in the US, from what I can tell). I'm sure there is a protocol for this in place, but it's obviously not working. Any ideas?
Of course! But it may not help a ton
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CSS for the LDP?
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Of course they should use CSS to make the pages look better.
Unfortunately, CSS won't solve the root of the problem: non-semantic HTML. I've re-done several sites to make use of the so-called semantic HTML tags (em, strong, etc.) and to get rid of nasty table-abusing layout tags. CSS is necessary to make this transition, but readability on non-desktop browsers (phones, terminals) can only really be improved by switching to layouts using semantic HTML tags and divs for layout.
One last point I'd like to get out there is that there are many console browsers (links, w3m, but NOT lynx) that do a fine job displaying abused table layouts. Unfortunately, the console usually has so few columns that everything just ends up looking squished, while as my div-layout pages are easy to read.
That uses far too much regular English and not enough of the word "said." My take:
Method for organizing users ("slashdotters") in the creation of a cascade of TCP/IP ("Telecommunications/Internet Protocol") traffic in the form of page requests ("hits") to an unequipped personal web server in order to remotely overload said server ports or network throughput ("bandwidth") limitations causing service interruption ("slashdotting") in distribution of said pages resulting in the return of multiple HTTP ("hyper text transfer protocol") errors including, but not limited to HTTP errors 404 and 501 as identified in RFC 12345 Section 6: "HTTP Error Codes," produced and disseminated from said server to said page requests from said cascade using said technology.
The MOD format is essentially the same idea as MIDI except that the samples are customizable and distributed along with the song. Other than that and a few miscellaneous features, there is no reason why MIDIs should not sound as good as MODs.
Of course, that's just theoretical. In real life, MIDI samples are hideous synthesizer-derived aural abominations. I blame Creative Labs.
While you may be correct that most pirates have not really deprived the authors of money, illegally obtaining the software/entertainment is still (surprise!) illegal. It may seem like a victimless crime, but as a recent article on Slashdot explained (my comment, blog post on "monopoly-sharing") explained, you're not giving competing products a chance at all. This, in turn, perpetuates the monopoly and encourages nothing to change in the market place that is overcharging.
A classic example is the GIMP. If you can't afford Photoshop AND you're barred from obtaining it illegally, you either do without any photo-manipulation software or you get the GIMP. A much higher proportion of of pirates would probably give attention to competing products if they weren't allowed (or were deterred) from getting the too-expensive monopolyware. Unfortunately, all these people just pirate away and don't give free software such as the GIMP even a glance.
The most interesting side-effect of all this is that DRM (championed by the monopolists) will force poorer consumers to look at alternatives, chipping away at the monopolies.
language designed to be easily used by small children...The language is literally child's play
So basically it's a language that was designed to be used by unwanted children in sweatshop conditions? I, for one, am apalled. All you Smalltalk slave drivers should be ashamed!
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The story itself isn't even +5. I bet it'll end up like +2, Overrated or something.
At this point, he once again waved off my concerns about the scene in question ripping off of another film, and he threatened to have my "memory banks erased" if I brought up the subject one more time.
If you like shiny plastic and psychedelic colors, I would say that your money might have been better spent on hallucinogenic drugs.
Almost got a muffled laugh out of me with that one. Keep it up and you'll have some good jokes by about, oh say, the 31st of April.
Yeah, people need to come up with more original April Fool's jokes. I can't even begin to express how much I 4gree with th1s statem3n7.
Your hatred for Spam (even considering it a non-food) reminds me of another disgusting product:
Seriously, who wouldn't use the Net for audio?
Who isn't usin'it?
Seriously. Just because the guy's into bestiality or whatever. I mean, he's the guy, right? With the ... you know... Syphillis... from gnus. On Howard Stern, getting plugs for his "GNU project" (I shudder to think what that is).
In celebration of this new achievment of post-modern society, I've re-done my site in the glorious, beautiful new language of the bourgeoise: l33t speak. All you non-el337 pansies can 574Y @W@Y!!!!!111
$699? SCO? Any of this ringing a bell?
Ali: Wicked! T'day, I's 'ere wit me main man, Mark Canter an' 'e's 'ere to talk about da PeopleAggregator thing-guh.
Ali: So Mark, 'n' be hones' 'ere, 'ow much poonani are ya 'xpectin' to get offa dis 'ere web site?
Mark: Excuse me, what? I can't really understand you. Is that hemp I smell?
Ali: Fo'real, ain't cha ever been to 'urope?
Mark: You're not even wearing a suit. You look like you're some famous music star or som--
Ali: Thank you.
Mark: I'm not complementing you. You need to go back to journalist school and learn what goes into a good BJ [broadcast journalist].
Ali: Oh, b'lee me. Me knows what cha talkin' about. Respec, man.
Mark: No, I'm out of here. It was nice meeting you.
Ali: So does I get like a invitation in da mail or something? Where you 'eaded, mon? Eh, 'e was a 'tard anyway.
certizilied, adj. sert-ih-ZIHL-eed
Difficult to install and use for the purpose of maintaining screening users by intimidating new users ("n00bs"). See: DEBIAN.
DISCLAIMER: the above comment is a joke. If you do not have a sense of humor, chances are you are currently furrowing your brow in a vain attempt to understand why this is not a direct insult to your beloved distro.
RTFA:
This guy sounds legit. More evidence in the full article, of course =)
How is this insightful? Orwellian? So? There's been no conclusive proof as to whether various aspects of Orwellian society will or will not happen. Just because some famous paranoid mentioned it doesn't determine its eventual role in society.
You can't patent a reeferer. I'm holding some prior art sparking away in my hand as I type this.
*Slow motion smoke cloud exhaled*
What I want to know is: what kind of moronic lawyers pick up cases like this? There's really no hope of winning something like this, all that will happen is there will be a long, drawn-out hearing and appeals process with people citing obvious prior art and the judge having a good laugh.
I know a lot of lawyers only get money if they win and occaisionally gamble on a big case in the hopes that statistics will keep their business going in the long run. But a case like this has no hope of making any money.
Personally, I think that lawyers need to have something of a deterrant to bringing up frivolous lawsuits (as happens so often in the US, from what I can tell). I'm sure there is a protocol for this in place, but it's obviously not working. Any ideas?
Of course they should use CSS to make the pages look better.
Unfortunately, CSS won't solve the root of the problem: non-semantic HTML. I've re-done several sites to make use of the so-called semantic HTML tags (em, strong, etc.) and to get rid of nasty table-abusing layout tags. CSS is necessary to make this transition, but readability on non-desktop browsers (phones, terminals) can only really be improved by switching to layouts using semantic HTML tags and divs for layout.
One last point I'd like to get out there is that there are many console browsers (links, w3m, but NOT lynx) that do a fine job displaying abused table layouts. Unfortunately, the console usually has so few columns that everything just ends up looking squished, while as my div-layout pages are easy to read.
That uses far too much regular English and not enough of the word "said." My take:
Method for organizing users ("slashdotters") in the creation of a cascade of TCP/IP ("Telecommunications/Internet Protocol") traffic in the form of page requests ("hits") to an unequipped personal web server in order to remotely overload said server ports or network throughput ("bandwidth") limitations causing service interruption ("slashdotting") in distribution of said pages resulting in the return of multiple HTTP ("hyper text transfer protocol") errors including, but not limited to HTTP errors 404 and 501 as identified in RFC 12345 Section 6: "HTTP Error Codes," produced and disseminated from said server to said page requests from said cascade using said technology.
You appear to have misspelled the word "terrorist."
The MOD format is essentially the same idea as MIDI except that the samples are customizable and distributed along with the song. Other than that and a few miscellaneous features, there is no reason why MIDIs should not sound as good as MODs.
Of course, that's just theoretical. In real life, MIDI samples are hideous synthesizer-derived aural abominations. I blame Creative Labs.
Hope you're in a coma, because it's probably gonna a be a while. Watch out for bed sores. Or am I speaking to Walt Disney a.k.a. Frostilicus?
While you may be correct that most pirates have not really deprived the authors of money, illegally obtaining the software/entertainment is still (surprise!) illegal. It may seem like a victimless crime, but as a recent article on Slashdot explained (my comment, blog post on "monopoly-sharing") explained, you're not giving competing products a chance at all. This, in turn, perpetuates the monopoly and encourages nothing to change in the market place that is overcharging.
A classic example is the GIMP. If you can't afford Photoshop AND you're barred from obtaining it illegally, you either do without any photo-manipulation software or you get the GIMP. A much higher proportion of of pirates would probably give attention to competing products if they weren't allowed (or were deterred) from getting the too-expensive monopolyware. Unfortunately, all these people just pirate away and don't give free software such as the GIMP even a glance.
The most interesting side-effect of all this is that DRM (championed by the monopolists) will force poorer consumers to look at alternatives, chipping away at the monopolies.
That should read "warp 7-10," correct? Pretty funny after all those Star Trek haters claimed such speeds were impossible.
So basically it's a language that was designed to be used by unwanted children in sweatshop conditions? I, for one, am apalled. All you Smalltalk slave drivers should be ashamed!
And while you're at it, why don't you learn Esperanto and the Dvorak keyboard layout? You sheep obviously have nothing else better to do.