Comic book films for the most part have been terrible. I dont care about their ratings, I care about their content! That is where they suffer.
Films should not be made to fit a certain rating. A rating should be assigned based on the content within the film. That content should be the artist's vision.
Exactly. I'm not saying America started this. This has existed as long as "history".
It just so happens that America became the pinnacle of hopes and dreams for freedom... and it was created out of that, perhaps with the best intentions but it ultimately was marketed and sold around the world and others bought into the concept as well... and It really amounts to nothing more than a dream because it never truely was a reality.
Perhaps the creation of America was that dream come true but it was merely a beginning, and not set in stone. It clearly is still not a reality. As many of the founders have said (and i'm paraphrasing), America is an experiment, neither given, nor sold... Its earned, daily. Its a constant struggle to push back our own human nature which is to control each other while at the same time our hypocrisy demands freedom from each other.
The founders referred to America as an experiment that requires enduring effort because they recognized man's nature to abuse power.
Just because we have a government, and a country name with a flag and some colors.... does not mean we are at all that we have fulfilled this experiment. If anything we are all failing it greatly.
Carnies and Rubes. When the carnival comes to town, the villagers think they can win, and they spend lots of money trying to win that really nice stuffed animal. Most of them end up winning cheap prizes that no one wants, and the few that do win those nice stuffed animals... they find out they're just cheap stuffed animals made poorly when they touch them. Its all a show, and the Carnies are making money hand over fist.
I think your example of the 1960's civil rights revolution really never happened. Hear me out:
Slavery took place because wealthy people enslaved blacks, everything was about power. Slavery had come to an end, and by the 60s when so called "civil rights" were won back by the masses, it really amounted to nothing. Those in power did not lose anything by appearing to represent the public. If anything they gained more power and support of the public.
In the big picture of things, everyone not in the ruling class, are treated like slaves. In effect Its no longer about race (which it never really was)... Its about wealth. Slavery was about wealth and power, not race.
Religion is about wealth and power... not god.
If i give you change for a $5 bill, because you need it to make a phone call, in end i still just gave you $5 in change. Nothing really changed except the form or perception.
In the 60's the public may have wanted civil rights, but in the end, they really didnt get it and what they got was slide of hand.
Its true that most portable players cant play FLAC. My point was that Music Libary programs such as Itunes or Foobar etc, should be smart enough to maintain a Lossless library, and convert them to MP3 or AAC on the fly when syncing those songs to a portable device. That way, if you're using an ipod, or whatever portable device you have, you're songs are in mp3 or aac and when you're at home, you're listening to lossless audio. That way theres no need to maintain 2 versions of a song in a single library.
I dont need lossless on the road. a 192kbps AAC sounds great, a 320kbps AAC sounds incredible.
The point of having a lossless library at home is to ensure that you're not locked into some lame lossy compressed format such as MP3 (which really has no future) AAC is better than MP3. I wish MP3 would die already personally.
Everyone should start thinking in terms of "lossless compression" for home libraries. that way you can convert it to the "compressed format of the week" at any point.
Its not realistic to carry around ALAC files on an iphone due to storage limitations. AAC sounds great at 192 so its good enough when portablity and space is a concern.
But i would NEVER want my music library to be locked into a lossy audio format. Its too limiting and has no future.
Civilians have no rights anyways. That is the great American lie that has been used by the US government, and now all foreign governments, to trick their citizens into believing as if they matter or have any say in anything. It helps calm the rage of the poor and suffering, and gives them hope that one day it might change.
Our music manager programs such as Itunes need the ability to maintain a lossless library and sync lossy AAC or MP3 to our portable devices on the fly.
That means you Apple.:) Itunes needs an intelligent management system for maintaining lossless for home and lossy for portables.
FLAC and ALAC (Apple Lossless Codec) are great, and they should be the standard. Apple should open up their format and stop being lame about it.
MP3 had its day, but sound quality wise its poor. It really needs to be at 256kbps or 320kbps to sound good. AAC by comparison sounds pretty dam good at 192kbps.
Apple if you're listening... iTunes is the slowest program on the planet. Fix it. (PC version and Mac) I can sculpt 60 million polygons on my PC in real time (in software mode, without a GPU)... but iTunes can barely scroll. Its pathetic.
DLC and micro transactions are quickly becoming anoying. Now developers are beginning to simply give you less for more, and charge you later for the things they left out.
The worst is when the content is actually on the actual game disc, but it needs to be unlocked via online purchase.
If i had to compress music (and i do, for my ipod and iphone)... I'll use AAC. It sounds better than MP3.
However, most of my music collection is in ALAC. I would rather convert my music to compressed formats when needed, rather than be stuck with compressed mp3s.
And MP3 at 128? No thanks.
MP3 at 128 will never be in my music collection EVER. Its 2009 not 1999!
Digital Distribution is not good for games because what happens if they stop distributing them? That would an end to retrogaming.
Digital Distribution would put an end to the used game market. I'm sure the game companies dont care about the used market, but it goes hand in hand with retrogaming.
Once everything is distributed over network servers, how will you install that game on a later date to play when that network no longer has that game?
Its bad enough that update content is distributed this way, because it means retrogamers in the future probably wont have the latest versions of then old games, they're trying to play.
I think its just bad all around and the concept treats gaming as if its just a money making system, and not a history of entertainment, art, creativity, craft etc that should be perserved and accessable by gamers at any time through out time, provided one takes care of their games and consoles etc.
I would not expect gaming networks and distribution systems to be maintained indefinitely on platforms as they become "last gen" or " the gen before last gen".
Explain the problem then? As far as i can READ... The EU wants to force Microsoft to ship every competing browser with their Windows 7 release. NO ONE IS HELD TO THAT STANDARD... ONLY Microsoft. Why?
What is the problem with MS having IE in windows? WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? There is currently NO problem... so what is this magical problem that we dont understand?
I DONT EVEN USE IE... Most of us here dont. Its fucking proof that this is a non issue. What is teh real problem? explain it if you know so much? What does IE being tied to explorer, have ANYTHING to do with hurting ANYTHING that is currently being done in the industry with respect to web browsers?
As far as i can see.. IE has been losing ground for many years now and Firefox is considered the better, and more desirable browser.
IE is a fucking DEAD browser in my eyes. I could careless if MS bundle it, build it into their gui.... etc. IT has absolutely no effect on me and most of us here.
READ: In its current so called "evil" form... IE is having ZERO fucking impact on the competition. IF ANYTHING competing browsers have been GROWING in market share over the past 8 years. Even to the point of making IE undesirable.
I'm more of the thought that MS should be allowed to design their os, their browser etc as they see fit. No one holds Apple to this insane fucking standard that MS is held too. Its just fucking nitpicking shit at this point.
Why the FUCK should the EU be allowed to force MS to ship their OS with multiple browsers from competitors? Thats fucking insane!
If thats the world we want to live in, then Mozilla should be forced offer you to download and install Safari, Chrome, Opera, and IE when you dl their setup.exe Better yet... Firefox's setup should include ALL of those other browsers. Thats fucking insane and you know it
I know exactly what the issue is. Dont talk down to me to justify your bent.
THERE IS NO "monopolized" browser market. IE doesnt have a monopoly on the browser market at all!! Like i said, I dont even use IE. No one i know, uses IE... We all use firefox. Opera is a great browser, then theres Chrome, Safari, and others.
There is no monopoly, so the issue IS bundling the browser.
Does this asshat actually think that you cant fly an airplane into a building that is blurry?:P
I think this guy just wants to create a law where politicians and wealthy people have their homes censored from google map like sites, so that they're protected from YOU and not terrorists.
You're poor, and thats more of a threat than any supposed "terrorists"
I still dont get what the whole fuss is about. Firefox, Opera, Safari, and any other browser, currently RUNS on windows just fine. So where is the problem? Is it more so the problem, that IE comes with the OS? If thats the case, then MS is getting fucked by everyone, and the company will be dead in 5 years due to the unfair bullshit scrutiny placed on Microsoft.
Just why cant MS provide applications with their os, such as a web browser? I dont see anyone bitching about Apple shoving Itunes down its OSX users? How about us windows users, who Apple tries to secretly install Safari on our PC's through an iTunes updater? HOW ABOUT THAT BULLSHIT? Where are you EU?
Fair is fair, but MS is being ass fucked by complainers.
I'm all for making sure MS doesnt run someone out of business... but last I checked, Firefox is MORE desirable than IE, Safari, and Opera.
I dont even USE IE.
Who really cares about this issue? Is IE doing anything that Firefox isnt? Where is the "unfair" advantage?
Does Mozilla want to integrate Firefox into the explorer shell? Not as far as i know.
This is a big stink about nothing.
Get back to fixing the economy and stop bullying the once bully (microsoft) that now has become a handcuffed bitch.
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Comic book films for the most part have been terrible. I dont care about their ratings, I care about their content! That is where they suffer.
Films should not be made to fit a certain rating. A rating should be assigned based on the content within the film. That content should be the artist's vision.
The ' is the result of fast posting.
Thoughts go straight to the finger tips like playing an instrument.
funny comic though :)
Exactly. I'm not saying America started this. This has existed as long as "history".
It just so happens that America became the pinnacle of hopes and dreams for freedom... and it was created out of that, perhaps with the best intentions but it ultimately was marketed and sold around the world and others bought into the concept as well... and It really amounts to nothing more than a dream because it never truely was a reality.
Perhaps the creation of America was that dream come true but it was merely a beginning, and not set in stone. It clearly is still not a reality. As many of the founders have said (and i'm paraphrasing), America is an experiment, neither given, nor sold... Its earned, daily. Its a constant struggle to push back our own human nature which is to control each other while at the same time our hypocrisy demands freedom from each other.
The founders referred to America as an experiment that requires enduring effort because they recognized man's nature to abuse power.
Just because we have a government, and a country name with a flag and some colors.... does not mean we are at all that we have fulfilled this experiment. If anything we are all failing it greatly.
Carnies and Rubes. When the carnival comes to town, the villagers think they can win, and they spend lots of money trying to win that really nice stuffed animal. Most of them end up winning cheap prizes that no one wants, and the few that do win those nice stuffed animals... they find out they're just cheap stuffed animals made poorly when they touch them. Its all a show, and the Carnies are making money hand over fist.
I think your example of the 1960's civil rights revolution really never happened. Hear me out:
Slavery took place because wealthy people enslaved blacks, everything was about power. Slavery had come to an end, and by the 60s when so called "civil rights" were won back by the masses, it really amounted to nothing. Those in power did not lose anything by appearing to represent the public. If anything they gained more power and support of the public.
In the big picture of things, everyone not in the ruling class, are treated like slaves. In effect Its no longer about race (which it never really was)... Its about wealth. Slavery was about wealth and power, not race.
Religion is about wealth and power... not god.
If i give you change for a $5 bill, because you need it to make a phone call, in end i still just gave you $5 in change. Nothing really changed except the form or perception.
In the 60's the public may have wanted civil rights, but in the end, they really didnt get it and what they got was slide of hand.
I hope that he was able to scream out "FUCKING NAZIS" before they made him disappear.
Well, I'll just have to say... Nigger nigger nigger...
Now i'm cool too.
Look at me! I said NIGGER!
Look at me world! I said a naughty word. oooooooooo... I just got a boner. NIGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAH!
Oh the joy... the giddy little joy of trolling...
I shall never understand.
May an aids infected monkey chew off your mothers face.
I think you missed the point.
Its true that most portable players cant play FLAC. My point was that Music Libary programs such as Itunes or Foobar etc, should be smart enough to maintain a Lossless library, and convert them to MP3 or AAC on the fly when syncing those songs to a portable device. That way, if you're using an ipod, or whatever portable device you have, you're songs are in mp3 or aac and when you're at home, you're listening to lossless audio. That way theres no need to maintain 2 versions of a song in a single library.
I dont need lossless on the road. a 192kbps AAC sounds great, a 320kbps AAC sounds incredible.
The point of having a lossless library at home is to ensure that you're not locked into some lame lossy compressed format such as MP3 (which really has no future) AAC is better than MP3. I wish MP3 would die already personally.
Everyone should start thinking in terms of "lossless compression" for home libraries. that way you can convert it to the "compressed format of the week" at any point.
Its not realistic to carry around ALAC files on an iphone due to storage limitations. AAC sounds great at 192 so its good enough when portablity and space is a concern.
But i would NEVER want my music library to be locked into a lossy audio format. Its too limiting and has no future.
It doesnt matter.
Civilians have no rights anyways. That is the great American lie that has been used by the US government, and now all foreign governments, to trick their citizens into believing as if they matter or have any say in anything. It helps calm the rage of the poor and suffering, and gives them hope that one day it might change.
It never will though.
All that matters is the ruling class and wealth.
Its all VIP, and you're not important.
I hate humans.
Seriously... Will all of you fucking die already?
Apparently the German's have something they want to hide. Power to the people.
The solution is simple.
Our music manager programs such as Itunes need the ability to maintain a lossless library and sync lossy AAC or MP3 to our portable devices on the fly.
That means you Apple. :) Itunes needs an intelligent management system for maintaining lossless for home and lossy for portables.
FLAC and ALAC (Apple Lossless Codec) are great, and they should be the standard. Apple should open up their format and stop being lame about it.
MP3 had its day, but sound quality wise its poor. It really needs to be at 256kbps or 320kbps to sound good. AAC by comparison sounds pretty dam good at 192kbps.
Apple if you're listening... iTunes is the slowest program on the planet. Fix it. (PC version and Mac) I can sculpt 60 million polygons on my PC in real time (in software mode, without a GPU)... but iTunes can barely scroll. Its pathetic.
Gazzingo! (© me)
Well one thing is for certain... Howard Stern has lost his fan base because back in the day this would have been the Angry Drunken Dwarf Module.
Too bad Howard Stern is no longer king of Radio.
I think Jay Leno said it best when he acknowledged Opie and Anthony as "The most popular show in the history of satellite radio"
FRRRRRRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNKIS!
"Is that a train?"
Thetans go best on toasted rye.
I say, let the crazies have their toast and their linux too.
DLC and micro transactions are quickly becoming anoying. Now developers are beginning to simply give you less for more, and charge you later for the things they left out.
The worst is when the content is actually on the actual game disc, but it needs to be unlocked via online purchase.
Its only going to get worse.
... guilty politicians, or just politicians in general?
Same thing :)
Why am i not shocked?
I'm growing to hate money and all who seek it at the cost of being fair, honest, and humane. Greed is a disgusting thing.
I'm all for public hangings of guilty CEO and politicians.
Its Utah what do you expect? They wear special underwear to protect them from the world and remain in touch with "god"
Jack Thompson fits right in with those crazy fucks.
If i had to compress music (and i do, for my ipod and iphone)... I'll use AAC. It sounds better than MP3.
However, most of my music collection is in ALAC. I would rather convert my music to compressed formats when needed, rather than be stuck with compressed mp3s.
And MP3 at 128? No thanks.
MP3 at 128 will never be in my music collection EVER. Its 2009 not 1999!
Digital Distribution is not good for games because what happens if they stop distributing them? That would an end to retrogaming.
Digital Distribution would put an end to the used game market. I'm sure the game companies dont care about the used market, but it goes hand in hand with retrogaming.
Once everything is distributed over network servers, how will you install that game on a later date to play when that network no longer has that game?
Its bad enough that update content is distributed this way, because it means retrogamers in the future probably wont have the latest versions of then old games, they're trying to play.
I think its just bad all around and the concept treats gaming as if its just a money making system, and not a history of entertainment, art, creativity, craft etc that should be perserved and accessable by gamers at any time through out time, provided one takes care of their games and consoles etc.
I would not expect gaming networks and distribution systems to be maintained indefinitely on platforms as they become "last gen" or " the gen before last gen".
Explain the problem then? As far as i can READ... The EU wants to force Microsoft to ship every competing browser with their Windows 7 release. NO ONE IS HELD TO THAT STANDARD... ONLY Microsoft. Why?
What is the problem with MS having IE in windows? WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? There is currently NO problem... so what is this magical problem that we dont understand?
I DONT EVEN USE IE... Most of us here dont. Its fucking proof that this is a non issue. What is teh real problem? explain it if you know so much? What does IE being tied to explorer, have ANYTHING to do with hurting ANYTHING that is currently being done in the industry with respect to web browsers?
As far as i can see.. IE has been losing ground for many years now and Firefox is considered the better, and more desirable browser.
IE is a fucking DEAD browser in my eyes. I could careless if MS bundle it, build it into their gui.... etc. IT has absolutely no effect on me and most of us here.
READ: In its current so called "evil" form... IE is having ZERO fucking impact on the competition. IF ANYTHING competing browsers have been GROWING in market share over the past 8 years. Even to the point of making IE undesirable.
I'm more of the thought that MS should be allowed to design their os, their browser etc as they see fit. No one holds Apple to this insane fucking standard that MS is held too. Its just fucking nitpicking shit at this point.
Why the FUCK should the EU be allowed to force MS to ship their OS with multiple browsers from competitors? Thats fucking insane!
If thats the world we want to live in, then Mozilla should be forced offer you to download and install Safari, Chrome, Opera, and IE when you dl their setup.exe Better yet... Firefox's setup should include ALL of those other browsers. Thats fucking insane and you know it
Aw... poor baby, keep with the cheap shots... it will always get mommy's attention.
You said it was a monopoly dick. I said there IS NO monopoly.
I know exactly what the issue is. Dont talk down to me to justify your bent.
THERE IS NO "monopolized" browser market. IE doesnt have a monopoly on the browser market at all!! Like i said, I dont even use IE. No one i know, uses IE... We all use firefox. Opera is a great browser, then theres Chrome, Safari, and others.
There is no monopoly, so the issue IS bundling the browser.
Does this asshat actually think that you cant fly an airplane into a building that is blurry? :P
I think this guy just wants to create a law where politicians and wealthy people have their homes censored from google map like sites, so that they're protected from YOU and not terrorists.
You're poor, and thats more of a threat than any supposed "terrorists"
Safari comes with OSX.
I still dont get what the whole fuss is about. Firefox, Opera, Safari, and any other browser, currently RUNS on windows just fine. So where is the problem? Is it more so the problem, that IE comes with the OS? If thats the case, then MS is getting fucked by everyone, and the company will be dead in 5 years due to the unfair bullshit scrutiny placed on Microsoft.
Just why cant MS provide applications with their os, such as a web browser? I dont see anyone bitching about Apple shoving Itunes down its OSX users? How about us windows users, who Apple tries to secretly install Safari on our PC's through an iTunes updater? HOW ABOUT THAT BULLSHIT? Where are you EU?
Fair is fair, but MS is being ass fucked by complainers.
I'm all for making sure MS doesnt run someone out of business... but last I checked, Firefox is MORE desirable than IE, Safari, and Opera.
I dont even USE IE.
Who really cares about this issue? Is IE doing anything that Firefox isnt? Where is the "unfair" advantage?
Does Mozilla want to integrate Firefox into the explorer shell? Not as far as i know.
This is a big stink about nothing.
Get back to fixing the economy and stop bullying the once bully (microsoft) that now has become a handcuffed bitch.