Uh, I think he met "gear"...deal with the typos, dude.
As for "Blackbirded", it means slave labor, but I think in this context, he was meaning baked, as in "4 and 20 black birds baked in a pie". I could be wrong, but that's what I got out of it.
And "rate chip". That's a chip that handles rate. Or it's dyslexic for "chip rate". Either way, it still makes sense.
Just how hard is it to figure out what someone is trying to say? Or is it a normal affliction for you to pick out errors? Could be that you're bored.
Yes it is Shaun, thank you for saying that. Where everybody got this SHORN thing from has pretty much got me. I have the book "Feng Shaun", and I have yet to find one place anywhere that actually refers to him as Shorn.
I just wanna see Sean...he was the coolest character! Course, since they're chasing a were-rabbit instead of a really mean old bulldog, I suppose I'll have to wait. *sigh*
Well, I'm one of the ones who left the industry. Though I ADORE programming, going thru 3 dotcoms in 6 months (one due harassment, one due to downsizing, one due to 9/11) was too much for me. The problem for me was stability. I had a family to take care of and moving from one job to the next, without benefits in between was too much. So I've gone back to my old career (buying/importing/planning) because of the stability.
My second foray into the programming world, I wound up at a small medical software company, where I was not only the only female programmer, I was also the youngest. Two guys there had been programming in VB since it was practically invented! But I left there because my boss kept making passes at me, which I diverted, and really didn't put much stock into until co-workers started saying things. The enviroment just got too catty (yes, the WOMEN there were a pain), so I left. No reason to stay where I was uncomfortable.
It's not too hard for women. And frankly, I'd really prefer to work in a male dominated arena, it's the OTHER women there that make it hard. It's difficult for non-IT women to understand that just cuz I work with a bunch of men, doesn't mean they're all sleeping with me! They may want to...but I can tell most men to take a hike without being offended or completely grossed out at the concept.
Yes, the rating codes are there for a reason. Its a way for a parent to get an idea of what content lies therein. Why don't parents use it the way it's supposed to be used? Personally, I thought labeling albums way back when was just because parents were lazy, but it seems that now it's become important for parenting skills. I remember when the movie "Interview with a Vampire" came out and my then 13 year old daughter wanted to see it. I went and saw it FIRST before I allowed her to see it because I didn't want to be shocked by something.
Besides, I'm still waiting to find an "A" for Adult game. Something along the lines of "Porn Maker"...
Pivot tables (and charts) are the ONLY things in Excel worth using. Excel is nothing but glorified graph paper. Anything Excel can do a database can do better. And when the final product is given to said corporate boss, they can't *$%@ it up by sorting one column instead of the whole spreadsheet.
But that's what we're talking about. The difference between the actual THEATRICAL release and the VHS/Beta/LD (what ever!) versions out there now. Those 3P0 lines were in the movie I saw at a drive in 1977, but not in any pre-THX versions.
He managed to get screenshots of the 1977 release, since the one that ended up on video all those years ago wasn't the same as what I saw 50 times in the theatre. I know C3P0 had a tendency to babble, but he did have some great lines that got nixed. Unlike AOTC.
Unless of course, this was something recorded on Beta off of OnTV...go figure...oh, or Laserdisc.
Uh, only if he owned them. But that proves my point. Lucas does own the rights, or at least has the ability to obtain the permission, to change what ever he likes. The "populace" does not have these rights.
Frankly, if I owned a Picasso, and he came to me and said he needed to fix something on it, I'd be the first to let him. It was his vision that painted it in the first place. It's his vision that I paid for, and it's his vision, no matter how many times it changes, that I want to own.
No I didn't. Yes, the populace was happy with the movies the way they were. SW:ANH will always be my favorite for that reason. BUT, they're just movies. They're not a way of life. They're not real. They're not changing the world. Well, maybe they changed the role of Sci-Fi as bonified movie genre, but that's it.
I'm tired of all the whining and complaining about what Lucas did to HIS vision. He wasn't happy with them, so he fixed them to what he wanted them to be. So be it.
Apparently, "these aren't the movies you're looking for. Move along."
They're his movies, he can do with them what he wants to.
If Picasso decided he didn't like the finished product of one of his paintings, he can take the thing, paint over it, and hang it back up. It's his choice.
I have never understood the "purist" standpoint that everyone else has, when everyone else didn't start this thing in the first place. Granted, it would be nice to have the original VHS movies available on DVD, but hell, even those aren't the original THEATRICAL releases.
Anyone who thinks Lucas sucks, needs to go get a life. Start complaining about how JK Rowling messes up Harry in her next book. Sheesh...
This is why I've been saying for YEARS that what we really need is for private enterprise to be involved in the Space Program. Sure the shuttle would probably have to sport "Coca-cola" on a wing, but who CARES if it ends up looking like a NASCAR auto? The point is to keep the program going forward.
There is NO way a big corporate entity would EVER say "oh, uh, sorry, if the hurricane does damage we'll have to close down the company.
Cuz it keeps all the little Star Wars Fansites going for a few more years. We were all beginning to wonder what was going to happen to us after Episode 3.
Now, I can STILL get all those sex-crazed Star Wars geeks to come over to the Filth Forum at http://phatooine.net/
This is cause to celebrate...bring on the dancing girls!
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Brain, Brain, all the way!
Yeah, the Brain. We could use him now...he was making gasoline out of garbage for A-Number One years ago!
Uh, I think he met "gear"...deal with the typos, dude.
As for "Blackbirded", it means slave labor, but I think in this context, he was meaning baked, as in "4 and 20 black birds baked in a pie". I could be wrong, but that's what I got out of it.
And "rate chip". That's a chip that handles rate. Or it's dyslexic for "chip rate". Either way, it still makes sense.
Just how hard is it to figure out what someone is trying to say? Or is it a normal affliction for you to pick out errors? Could be that you're bored.
Whatever...
I realized it right after I'd pushed the submit button...so much for using Preview...
Yes it is Shaun, thank you for saying that. Where everybody got this SHORN thing from has pretty much got me. I have the book "Feng Shaun", and I have yet to find one place anywhere that actually refers to him as Shorn.
Well, way cool, Sean! I have a book called "Feng Shaun" sitting on my desk, plus a stupid toy I got from Burger King a billion years ago.
Oops...that's SHAUN the Sheep...
Damn blondness...
I just wanna see Sean...he was the coolest character! Course, since they're chasing a were-rabbit instead of a really mean old bulldog, I suppose I'll have to wait. *sigh*
Well, I'm one of the ones who left the industry. Though I ADORE programming, going thru 3 dotcoms in 6 months (one due harassment, one due to downsizing, one due to 9/11) was too much for me. The problem for me was stability. I had a family to take care of and moving from one job to the next, without benefits in between was too much. So I've gone back to my old career (buying/importing/planning) because of the stability.
My second foray into the programming world, I wound up at a small medical software company, where I was not only the only female programmer, I was also the youngest. Two guys there had been programming in VB since it was practically invented! But I left there because my boss kept making passes at me, which I diverted, and really didn't put much stock into until co-workers started saying things. The enviroment just got too catty (yes, the WOMEN there were a pain), so I left. No reason to stay where I was uncomfortable.
It's not too hard for women. And frankly, I'd really prefer to work in a male dominated arena, it's the OTHER women there that make it hard. It's difficult for non-IT women to understand that just cuz I work with a bunch of men, doesn't mean they're all sleeping with me! They may want to...but I can tell most men to take a hike without being offended or completely grossed out at the concept.
Thank you, from one of us.
Yes, the rating codes are there for a reason. Its a way for a parent to get an idea of what content lies therein. Why don't parents use it the way it's supposed to be used? Personally, I thought labeling albums way back when was just because parents were lazy, but it seems that now it's become important for parenting skills. I remember when the movie "Interview with a Vampire" came out and my then 13 year old daughter wanted to see it. I went and saw it FIRST before I allowed her to see it because I didn't want to be shocked by something.
Besides, I'm still waiting to find an "A" for Adult game. Something along the lines of "Porn Maker"...
Pivot tables (and charts) are the ONLY things in Excel worth using. Excel is nothing but glorified graph paper. Anything Excel can do a database can do better. And when the final product is given to said corporate boss, they can't *$%@ it up by sorting one column instead of the whole spreadsheet.
But that's what we're talking about. The difference between the actual THEATRICAL release and the VHS/Beta/LD (what ever!) versions out there now. Those 3P0 lines were in the movie I saw at a drive in 1977, but not in any pre-THX versions.
You nailed the C3PO stuff I was talking about. Thanks!
But that is STILL assuming that they are the same as the release in the theatre. Which I'm not thoroughly convinced of.
He managed to get screenshots of the 1977 release, since the one that ended up on video all those years ago wasn't the same as what I saw 50 times in the theatre. I know C3P0 had a tendency to babble, but he did have some great lines that got nixed. Unlike AOTC.
Unless of course, this was something recorded on Beta off of OnTV...go figure...oh, or Laserdisc.
Uh, only if he owned them. But that proves my point. Lucas does own the rights, or at least has the ability to obtain the permission, to change what ever he likes. The "populace" does not have these rights.
Frankly, if I owned a Picasso, and he came to me and said he needed to fix something on it, I'd be the first to let him. It was his vision that painted it in the first place. It's his vision that I paid for, and it's his vision, no matter how many times it changes, that I want to own.
You missed the point entirely.
No I didn't. Yes, the populace was happy with the movies the way they were. SW:ANH will always be my favorite for that reason. BUT, they're just movies. They're not a way of life. They're not real. They're not changing the world. Well, maybe they changed the role of Sci-Fi as bonified movie genre, but that's it.
I'm tired of all the whining and complaining about what Lucas did to HIS vision. He wasn't happy with them, so he fixed them to what he wanted them to be. So be it.
Apparently, "these aren't the movies you're looking for. Move along."
They're his movies, he can do with them what he wants to.
If Picasso decided he didn't like the finished product of one of his paintings, he can take the thing, paint over it, and hang it back up. It's his choice.
I have never understood the "purist" standpoint that everyone else has, when everyone else didn't start this thing in the first place. Granted, it would be nice to have the original VHS movies available on DVD, but hell, even those aren't the original THEATRICAL releases.
Anyone who thinks Lucas sucks, needs to go get a life. Start complaining about how JK Rowling messes up Harry in her next book. Sheesh...
Now my stalking can take on a whole new dimension.
Notes to self:
1. Hack into the Mayor Daley's databases.
2. Download photos of person to be stalked.
3. Fly to Chicago and track him/her down.
*evil laugh*
Nice...
This is why I've been saying for YEARS that what we really need is for private enterprise to be involved in the Space Program. Sure the shuttle would probably have to sport "Coca-cola" on a wing, but who CARES if it ends up looking like a NASCAR auto? The point is to keep the program going forward.
There is NO way a big corporate entity would EVER say "oh, uh, sorry, if the hurricane does damage we'll have to close down the company.
What on earth for? If you don't get money spent on you by a LIVE boyfriend, what makes anyone think a VIRTUAL one will do any better?
:D
Unless, of course, it comes with it's own bank account!
Cuz it keeps all the little Star Wars Fansites going for a few more years. We were all beginning to wonder what was going to happen to us after Episode 3.
Now, I can STILL get all those sex-crazed Star Wars geeks to come over to the Filth Forum at http://phatooine.net/
This is cause to celebrate...bring on the dancing girls!
*moves rock*
Damn, I was wondering what I was hiding under all this time.
And why bother paying to hook up on line. I know plenty of places to find people horny and outta state...for free!
Well, since I'm a blonde, I guess I missed it. Course I had thought of "print Do HIM" which might have been fun.