Stealing a loaf of bread is stealing yes. I deprive the store owner of his loaf. But I still feel that the jury is out on filesharing. Essentially copying a file... I take nothing, but I do create something. Perhaps it should be illegal, but I've never felt "theft" was an accurate tag to put on it.
I just about crapped myself laughing just now. BTW: I think you forgot to put the sarcasm tags around you post. This is/. so people will probably take you seriously!
Wow, i had to think to remeber the original topic... but yeah! Hell of an idea. Wipe out Fox, Sony, Paramount, all of em, and POOF, no more problem! HA HA HA! I love it!
I've got bullets I'll donate! I can identify with "the anti-women, anti-free-speech, anti-tolerance, islamic fascists" in one way: Bush and crew are trampling all over our rights. Theirs, ours, anyone's he can.
I just hate getting lumped, as a US citizen, in with the Jesus freaks. Where is the opt-out link? I agree islamic-extremists are bad, but so are christian-extremists. Everyone pipes up with these examples of how islam is anti-tolerance at its core, but I could pull just as many examples from the christian "brand" of the same set of myths. Little fun fact for you: islam, judaism and christianity are all based on the SAME BACKGROUND. All this killing is over the details. If there is a god, he probably can't decide weather to laugh or cry!
Which is also bullshit! That intent to distribute thing has always bugged me. Since when is the potential to commit a crime also a crime? Intent is important in a murder/manslaughter situation, but when we start differentiating in victimless crimes, I start to feel my rights getting stepped on.
Not exactly an authority, but the first reference I found... I first heard it said by one of the cast members on some retrospective show.
The thing everyone seems to forget, is the climate of the time this show came out. 3 channels... not 600 or so. All those cheesy "western world" and "nazi world" and "mobster world" subplots kept the folks watching that would have been completely turned off by "hard" sci-fi.
He's... not responding to... my... overacting! Bones... do... something!
James T aside, are you at all familiar with the 60's? Have you seen any other TV shows that came out at that time? This is a show that had to come up with the transporter, because they didn't have the budget to do the shuttlecraft models yet!
Don't take it too seriously, just enjoy the cheese!
Bah, only two tubes my ass! Lets see, in mine I have 12ax7's, 12ay7's, 12at7's and 6v6's in my Fender and 12ax7's and el34's in my Marshall, plus several oddballs in an old Silvertone that I'm gonna fix one of these days... My partner has 12ax7's and 6l6's in his Marshall and a whole handful of unidentified mystery tubes in an oddball amp we nicknamed the chickenbox. They use a smaller socket than 12ax7's... But the thing sounds so damn cool that it would be a total shame to lose it! Vintage!
Christ on a crutch! What a list! No wonder I don't go see movies anymore!
Anyway, as far as i can tell the list just made my point! The LARGEST use IS kids movies. Look at it. I'm not talking movie by movie, I'm talking total minutes of CG. Shrek 2 by itself... I'm talking about movies RELYING on it as they are compared to video games. Lets say an X-Men game comes out (I'm a fan of the comics from way back...) and the graphics being rendered are indistinguishable from those in the movie... so what, your console still cant produce Hugh Jackman, except perhaps for limited cut scenes.
Plus, once again, I'm still convinced that they can do a better job with some of the CG, I dunno, maybe my problem is not the technology, but how they implement it, but a lot of it still looks pretty cheesy to me. Like the Skeletons in Pirates... About half of it was great, and the other half reminded me that Disney was involved. I remember the LOTR series as being very good, but I only watched them once (didn't want to spoil it). As for the Matrix, all the technology in the world still can't turn "Ted" into an actor.
My question is: would it really be a problem. I'd hate to see Hollywood have to use actors instead of computers and all, but c'mon. Lets face it, the largest use of graphics in movies is kids movies, and that market won't really be hurt. As for the rest of it: if you can do it in real time on a game system, maybe its time to step up and improve movie graphics again....After all, it still doesn't look real to me!
Please, if you're not capable of eating a burrito, rolling a joint and changine cd's all while steering with your knees, I don't want you on the road. (Kidding - mostly)
What we need in this country is better driver education, not gadgets to lull people into an even bigger false sense of safety. I'll admit that SOME people can't handle any distractions while driving (like those people who actually turn sideways in the driver's seat to talk to the passenger...), but I would hope that MOST of us are capable of turning a volume knob without causing a twelve car pileup!
...a voice controlled MP3 player for applications like cars where touch control is not as feasible
Good God! To think all these years I've been controlling my music without voice control when it is "not feasable." I must be a pretty amazing guy to pull this off!
It's OK! His head is buried so far in the sand that he won't even notice when the "come for him."
Just because you haven't noticed doesn't mean things haven't changed. Not only do you not have enough spine to stand up for your own rights, but you criticize other for standing up for theirs.
I hope for your sake that things don't get bad enough to spawn a revolution in your lifetime, because such events rarely suffer cowards!
You presume a lot! Essentially you presume that everyone is willing to give up freedom in exchange for safety.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
"Creating false leads" as you put it, is a simple act of civil disobedience to a system that is overstepping its bounds. Of course a government has to have some secrets, but when did it become OK for them to pry into those of its citizens? No we haven't caught Osama (of course his family that was escorted out of the country immediately post-911 might have been able to shed some light) but we did go take down Saddam (for some inexplicable reason contrary to the wishes of the average american) but do you really think spying on the american people helped in either situation?
Bah! Damned fools! *Wanders off to become a hermit*
Running Man... heh! Just got a couple 13 rnd clips for my Kimber today and burned about 150 rounds. The sunset of that ban is one of the few things we get out of this administration, so I figured I'd best take advantage. 13+1 of.45ACP, if you can't stop someone with that, they won't be stopped!
As far as politics are concerned, good intentions have very little place in modern politics. Dishonesty is the minimum ranging all the way up to absolute evil. Look at Clinton: dishonest enough to get the job done! Boy do I miss him!
I could never be a part of the political world. All they would have to do to discredit me is find any of my old friends. "...And how often did you use drugs with the cantidate?" I'm probably the only one still alive out of that crowd without a rap sheet! 'Course I moved on - most of them didn't.
Riiiiiigghhtt... Hmmmmm, unless the visitors to said blog are like minded people who hear only what they want to... Your statement could be said of things like NPR as well, yet Limbaugh thrives. People like propaganda machines that support their opinion.
Yeah, I've been on packing, and the 1911 forum, and you are absolutely right. One issue voters. I asked a buddy before the election, "Asuming, that guns weren't an issue - either you didn't care, or the Dems had never tried any gun control - would you still vote Republican?" His response, "Oh hell no!"
One of my other hobbies is four-wheeling (what can I say guns, 4x4's and booze, I live in redneck country) and the whole land-use-issue fight makes most forums relating to that just as bad. I remember one sig in about 30 point : "Vote Bush - Kerry is GAY"
The problem is that the Democrats are no longer a party. More a loosely affiliated group of special interest groups with a group of political figureheads. Meanwhile the Republicans and Fox news have turned public perception on its head. A mild concern for the environment lumps you in with Green Peace eco-terrorists. Believing abortion is sometimes the best option means you are a bloodthirsty baby-killer. Not supporting our "President" in his apparant crusade against Islam (no, I don't really think thats what it is, but sometimes I wonder if deep down HE does) means you want our troops to die and are in fact a traitor.
The sad truth is that it isn't even a very convincing snow-job, most people just don't care enough to pay any attention. Apparantly reality-TV is more engrossing than reality!
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Stealing a loaf of bread is stealing yes. I deprive the store owner of his loaf. But I still feel that the jury is out on filesharing. Essentially copying a file... I take nothing, but I do create something. Perhaps it should be illegal, but I've never felt "theft" was an accurate tag to put on it.
I just about crapped myself laughing just now. /. so people will probably take you seriously!
BTW: I think you forgot to put the sarcasm tags around you post. This is
uhhhh, c'mon lotto!
Wow, i had to think to remeber the original topic... but yeah! Hell of an idea. Wipe out Fox, Sony, Paramount, all of em, and POOF, no more problem! HA HA HA! I love it!
I've got bullets I'll donate!
I can identify with "the anti-women, anti-free-speech, anti-tolerance, islamic fascists" in one way: Bush and crew are trampling all over our rights. Theirs, ours, anyone's he can.
I just hate getting lumped, as a US citizen, in with the Jesus freaks. Where is the opt-out link? I agree islamic-extremists are bad, but so are christian-extremists. Everyone pipes up with these examples of how islam is anti-tolerance at its core, but I could pull just as many examples from the christian "brand" of the same set of myths. Little fun fact for you: islam, judaism and christianity are all based on the SAME BACKGROUND. All this killing is over the details. If there is a god, he probably can't decide weather to laugh or cry!
Yeah, personally, I'm feeling an "increasingly hostile attitude from Washington" myself... maybe I should get me one 'o them nukes!
Which is also bullshit! That intent to distribute thing has always bugged me. Since when is the potential to commit a crime also a crime? Intent is important in a murder/manslaughter situation, but when we start differentiating in victimless crimes, I start to feel my rights getting stepped on.
Just don't let Hollywood get ahold of this. Anyone say Armageddon 2!
http://www.imminst.org/forum/index.php?s=&act=ST&f =9&t=5102&hl=
Not exactly an authority, but the first reference I found... I first heard it said by one of the cast members on some retrospective show.
The thing everyone seems to forget, is the climate of the time this show came out. 3 channels... not 600 or so. All those cheesy "western world" and "nazi world" and "mobster world" subplots kept the folks watching that would have been completely turned off by "hard" sci-fi.
Bah, kiss my ass fag moderators!
He's... not responding to... my... overacting! Bones... do... something!
James T aside, are you at all familiar with the 60's? Have you seen any other TV shows that came out at that time? This is a show that had to come up with the transporter, because they didn't have the budget to do the shuttlecraft models yet!
Don't take it too seriously, just enjoy the cheese!
But Jesus wants us on Mars. If any life exists we must make Mars habitable by humans so we can send missionaries!
Martian: "Cough, choke, can't breathe, too much oxygen"
Missionary: "Just read this book, Jesus will help you breathe!"
Seriously, do you think the old manifest destiny idea will stop at earths atmosphere?
Bah, only two tubes my ass! Lets see, in mine I have 12ax7's, 12ay7's, 12at7's and 6v6's in my Fender and 12ax7's and el34's in my Marshall, plus several oddballs in an old Silvertone that I'm gonna fix one of these days... My partner has 12ax7's and 6l6's in his Marshall and a whole handful of unidentified mystery tubes in an oddball amp we nicknamed the chickenbox. They use a smaller socket than 12ax7's... But the thing sounds so damn cool that it would be a total shame to lose it!
Vintage!
Christ on a crutch! What a list! No wonder I don't go see movies anymore!
Anyway, as far as i can tell the list just made my point! The LARGEST use IS kids movies. Look at it. I'm not talking movie by movie, I'm talking total minutes of CG. Shrek 2 by itself... I'm talking about movies RELYING on it as they are compared to video games. Lets say an X-Men game comes out (I'm a fan of the comics from way back...) and the graphics being rendered are indistinguishable from those in the movie... so what, your console still cant produce Hugh Jackman, except perhaps for limited cut scenes.
Plus, once again, I'm still convinced that they can do a better job with some of the CG, I dunno, maybe my problem is not the technology, but how they implement it, but a lot of it still looks pretty cheesy to me. Like the Skeletons in Pirates... About half of it was great, and the other half reminded me that Disney was involved. I remember the LOTR series as being very good, but I only watched them once (didn't want to spoil it). As for the Matrix, all the technology in the world still can't turn "Ted" into an actor.
My question is: would it really be a problem. I'd hate to see Hollywood have to use actors instead of computers and all, but c'mon. Lets face it, the largest use of graphics in movies is kids movies, and that market won't really be hurt. As for the rest of it: if you can do it in real time on a game system, maybe its time to step up and improve movie graphics again. ...After all, it still doesn't look real to me!
Please, if you're not capable of eating a burrito, rolling a joint and changine cd's all while steering with your knees, I don't want you on the road. (Kidding - mostly)
What we need in this country is better driver education, not gadgets to lull people into an even bigger false sense of safety. I'll admit that SOME people can't handle any distractions while driving (like those people who actually turn sideways in the driver's seat to talk to the passenger...), but I would hope that MOST of us are capable of turning a volume knob without causing a twelve car pileup!
...a voice controlled MP3 player for applications like cars where touch control is not as feasible
Good God! To think all these years I've been controlling my music without voice control when it is "not feasable." I must be a pretty amazing guy to pull this off!
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It's OK! His head is buried so far in the sand that he won't even notice when the "come for him."
Just because you haven't noticed doesn't mean things haven't changed. Not only do you not have enough spine to stand up for your own rights, but you criticize other for standing up for theirs.
I hope for your sake that things don't get bad enough to spawn a revolution in your lifetime, because such events rarely suffer cowards!
You presume a lot! Essentially you presume that everyone is willing to give up freedom in exchange for safety.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
"Creating false leads" as you put it, is a simple act of civil disobedience to a system that is overstepping its bounds. Of course a government has to have some secrets, but when did it become OK for them to pry into those of its citizens? No we haven't caught Osama (of course his family that was escorted out of the country immediately post-911 might have been able to shed some light) but we did go take down Saddam (for some inexplicable reason contrary to the wishes of the average american) but do you really think spying on the american people helped in either situation?
Bah! Damned fools!
*Wanders off to become a hermit*
E-TP
Bluetooth enabled toilet paper.
Anyone else think they've gone off the deep end with this crap?
These guys are right up there with people who bring tinfoil to an all-you-can-eat buffet!
Running Man... heh! Just got a couple 13 rnd clips for my Kimber today and burned about 150 rounds. The sunset of that ban is one of the few things we get out of this administration, so I figured I'd best take advantage. 13+1 of .45ACP, if you can't stop someone with that, they won't be stopped!
As far as politics are concerned, good intentions have very little place in modern politics. Dishonesty is the minimum ranging all the way up to absolute evil. Look at Clinton: dishonest enough to get the job done! Boy do I miss him!
I could never be a part of the political world. All they would have to do to discredit me is find any of my old friends.
"...And how often did you use drugs with the cantidate?"
I'm probably the only one still alive out of that crowd without a rap sheet! 'Course I moved on - most of them didn't.
Riiiiiigghhtt... Hmmmmm, unless the visitors to said blog are like minded people who hear only what they want to... Your statement could be said of things like NPR as well, yet Limbaugh thrives. People like propaganda machines that support their opinion.
Yeah, I've been on packing, and the 1911 forum, and you are absolutely right. One issue voters. I asked a buddy before the election, "Asuming, that guns weren't an issue - either you didn't care, or the Dems had never tried any gun control - would you still vote Republican?"
His response, "Oh hell no!"
One of my other hobbies is four-wheeling (what can I say guns, 4x4's and booze, I live in redneck country) and the whole land-use-issue fight makes most forums relating to that just as bad. I remember one sig in about 30 point : "Vote Bush - Kerry is GAY"
The problem is that the Democrats are no longer a party. More a loosely affiliated group of special interest groups with a group of political figureheads. Meanwhile the Republicans and Fox news have turned public perception on its head. A mild concern for the environment lumps you in with Green Peace eco-terrorists. Believing abortion is sometimes the best option means you are a bloodthirsty baby-killer. Not supporting our "President" in his apparant crusade against Islam (no, I don't really think thats what it is, but sometimes I wonder if deep down HE does) means you want our troops to die and are in fact a traitor.
The sad truth is that it isn't even a very convincing snow-job, most people just don't care enough to pay any attention. Apparantly reality-TV is more engrossing than reality!