I see a lot of anti-Diebold stuff lately, like from RuckusSociety, Why war or indymedia, but they're all left-wing groups.
Isn't anyone on the right concerned about e-voting and what it could mean for election integrity? Is it just that the left is more concious of bad elections because of the 2000 elections? Or are conservatives just automatically pro-corporate? I would think that anyone who calls themselves 'conservative' would be against meddling with the voting process without good reason...
Take that anecdote - then replace "galley" with "USA", "vegetarian" with "christian", and "vegan" with "fundamentalist".
It has been taken over by a bunch of stupid angry people. The angry people might be in the minority, but their actions control the group. As a result the group's message is lost. The message is lost, not because the message isn't important, but because the methods used to convey the message overshadow the message itself.
Wow, that reminds me of this time in middle school when a family friend had just gotten a new PowerMac. They had just come out, and were competing with the early Pentiums, so he invited us to come check the thing out. My mom was talking to the guy about the relative merits of the PowerPC vs Pentium chips while I played with the Mac. I forgot exactly what I did, but within minutes there was a status window that said, "Repartitioning Drive" with a nice progress bar rolling across to 100%...
What's more, their GUI "Media Center" program sucks, too. Very bad interface with unlabeled cryptic buttons and clunky layout... Not that I'm satisfied with any video player's UI, they all seem to have been made by bad artists with no experience in UI design.
Do you know how good their drivers are for video stuff? What's a good capture card for Linux?
Do you think writing, producing, or directing a film gives someone the copyright? They do if you paid for the movie yourself, or others gave you money for the film with no strings attached, but generally that is not the case. The only major filmmaker who owns his own work's copyright is Lucas. Even he doesn't own it directly, IIRC. For liability reasons, even small independent filmmakers work through a production company, and they own the copyrights. The grandparent poster is incorrect in saying the Weinsteins own the film - Miramax does.
The trailers don't say the copyright, but they do say "A DOG EAT DOG FILMS PRODUCTION".
To the other poster who said that Lions Gate Films says it's ok to download, keep in mind that while LGF is the worldwide distributor, other companies have distribution in certain countries, and they might be pissed that Moore is saying "go download it".
Part of the company is based in Japan - the second and third videos are in Japan(driving on left lane, Japanese shop and street signs). Japan has laws against exporting military equipment which are rather strict, so that might have something to do with it.
"So I was driving my dad's Caddy, Vannila Ice turned way up so all the peeps in da hood can hear, when the radio went like, *beep beep beep*, and I was like, uuunh?...
Interesting suggestion, though sad that you'd have to do this. I suggest, however, that you get 'speed humps' instead. I know the name is a bit... funny, but they're basically like speed bumps, just wider and more gently sloped. They don't jar the car when you're going at slow speed, just when you go fast. Ordinary speed bumps make the car bounce at any speed, and would be annoying for residents as well, I imagine.
I doubt anyone here know for certain, but how parallelizable are the nuclear simulation programs, anyway? Is it like a render farm, where it scales really well for additional CPUs, or is it better to have fewer, faster chips?
Just wondering... I seem to recall the ASCI computers are massively parallel clusters, but the fastest supercocmputer in the world isn't.
Apparently in North Carolina, there is a law against unmarried people "co-habitating", and the woman's employer(a conservative sheriff) decided all his employees needed to follow the letter of the law. According to WECT TV, "In late May she was called into her supervisor's office and told if she didn't marry her boyfriend or stop living with him, she would be fired. It's called cohabitation, which is illegal in North Carolina, thought is a law that is rarely enforced."
If something this common and accepted is illegal, and it only came to light because some redneck sheriff decided to enforce it out of sheer fundamentalist fervor, how many other laws are there on the books that you're breaking, right now? Remember that guy who was arrested for cussing in front of kids in Minnesota or someplace? Or the "miscegnation" laws prohibiting mixed-race couples? There are some odd laws out there, and while some are amusing, it's really horrifing to think that someone could look hard enough and find some law you're breaking without even knowing it.
I remember being told not to do drugs before playing a disembodied face running through a dark maze, eating pills and ghosts. Do they still have that splash screen on arcade games? I remember a satirical rendition of George Bush Sr. saying that on an arcade machine in the Simpsons a while back...
It would be really funny to see GWB Jr. do a public service announcement like that. "Remember kids - Winners do lots of drugs, clean themselves up to be an oil executive, and become President!"
Recently, with the war and all, I've taken more of an interest in military affairs. Lo and behold, the military publishes a lot of magazines and periodicals internally, and many of them are available free online! I like them because they don't have the macho posturing of rags like Soldier of Fortune and other right-wing civillian magazines, and read like professionals writing for other professionals on how to do their job better. Think Wired vs. Linux Journal.
List of DoD magazines Soldiers - Official army magazine, with full PDF archive.
Airman - Official air force magazine
Marine - Official USMC magazine
Approach - Navael aviaton safety magazine
Ground Warrior - Marine training safety magazine
Infantry magazine - Army infantry magazine, article archive at findarticles.com
Parameters - The U.S. War College's periodical
Soldiers, Airman, and Marine are sort of PR-related publications, so they aren't as interesting. Approach, Ground Warrior and Infantry are written as advice and information sources for their respective professions, so they have more technical detail. I like how they give a view of day-to-day operations in the military, especially training mishaps and other mistakes you don't hear about often. Parameters is a more scholarly magazine that gives a view into what the high-level officers are thinking and planning right now, plus some military history.
They're your tax dollars at work, may as well read them. Better to be an informed citizen than an entertained consumer, especially with the war in Iraq going on.
I think you missed the best issue! The one where Taco shows how to take a geeky, boring 'ol Ask Slashdot about stupid computer stuff and turn it into an 99% offtopic discussion of Maxim and Playboy.
After all, it's not like we come here for the articles or anything.
Although I'm sure most people in Nigeria aren't fraudsters, they apparently have a bad rep in general. I know a couple people from other parts of Africa, and they both told me they don't trust anyone from Nigeria...
Saturn: Roman god of the harvest Cassini: Family of astronomers, great-grandpa Giovanni(1625-1712), grandpa Jacques(1677-1756), daddy Cesar-Francois(1714-1784), and son Dominique(1748-1845). Huygens: Dutch physicist(1625-1695)
No thanks, I don't think I want to watch that one.
Captain: What happen ? Mechanic: Somebody set up us the ice. Operator: We get signal. Captain: What ! Operator: Main screen turn on. Captain: It's You !! Penguins: How are you gentlemen !! Penguins: All your base are belong to ice. Penguins: You are on the way to destruction. Captain: What you say !! Penguins: You have no chance to survive make your time. Penguins: HA HA HA HA.... Captain: Take off every 'BSD' !! Captain: You know what you doing. Captain: Move 'BSD'. Captain: For great justice.
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"In other news, polls in one county show Bush leading Kerry 32,766 to -32,767..."
I think Tim McVeigh has prior art on the idea - Facts about Tim McVeigh
15. McVeigh once lied to some neighbors of Terry Nichols and told them the Army had implanted a computer chip in his butt.
Of course he's dead, so it might be in the public domain now : )
I see a lot of anti-Diebold stuff lately, like from Ruckus Society, Why war or indymedia, but they're all left-wing groups.
Isn't anyone on the right concerned about e-voting and what it could mean for election integrity? Is it just that the left is more concious of bad elections because of the 2000 elections? Or are conservatives just automatically pro-corporate? I would think that anyone who calls themselves 'conservative' would be against meddling with the voting process without good reason...
Take that anecdote - then replace "galley" with "USA", "vegetarian" with "christian", and "vegan" with "fundamentalist".
It has been taken over by a bunch of stupid angry people. The angry people might be in the minority, but their actions control the group. As a result the group's message is lost. The message is lost, not because the message isn't important, but because the methods used to convey the message overshadow the message itself.
Ph33r.
Yeah, that happens when you respond to those Breast Enlargement Pill spams. Your best bet is to convince her they were actually for yourself.
Wow, that reminds me of this time in middle school when a family friend had just gotten a new PowerMac. They had just come out, and were competing with the early Pentiums, so he invited us to come check the thing out. My mom was talking to the guy about the relative merits of the PowerPC vs Pentium chips while I played with the Mac. I forgot exactly what I did, but within minutes there was a status window that said, "Repartitioning Drive" with a nice progress bar rolling across to 100%...
Macs make some things *too* easy : )
What's more, their GUI "Media Center" program sucks, too. Very bad interface with unlabeled cryptic buttons and clunky layout... Not that I'm satisfied with any video player's UI, they all seem to have been made by bad artists with no experience in UI design.
Do you know how good their drivers are for video stuff? What's a good capture card for Linux?
Do you think writing, producing, or directing a film gives someone the copyright? They do if you paid for the movie yourself, or others gave you money for the film with no strings attached, but generally that is not the case. The only major filmmaker who owns his own work's copyright is Lucas. Even he doesn't own it directly, IIRC. For liability reasons, even small independent filmmakers work through a production company, and they own the copyrights. The grandparent poster is incorrect in saying the Weinsteins own the film - Miramax does.
From Moore's own site: © WESTSIDE PRODUCTIONS, LLC 2004 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
The trailers don't say the copyright, but they do say "A DOG EAT DOG FILMS PRODUCTION".
To the other poster who said that Lions Gate Films says it's ok to download, keep in mind that while LGF is the worldwide distributor, other companies have distribution in certain countries, and they might be pissed that Moore is saying "go download it".
Just be glad you're not filling up one of these.
Part of the company is based in Japan - the second and third videos are in Japan(driving on left lane, Japanese shop and street signs). Japan has laws against exporting military equipment which are rather strict, so that might have something to do with it.
"So I was driving my dad's Caddy, Vannila Ice turned way up so all the peeps in da hood can hear, when the radio went like, *beep beep beep*, and I was like, uuunh? ...
My name is Ellen Feiss, and I'm totally gangsta."
Interesting suggestion, though sad that you'd have to do this. I suggest, however, that you get 'speed humps' instead. I know the name is a bit... funny, but they're basically like speed bumps, just wider and more gently sloped. They don't jar the car when you're going at slow speed, just when you go fast. Ordinary speed bumps make the car bounce at any speed, and would be annoying for residents as well, I imagine.
I doubt anyone here know for certain, but how parallelizable are the nuclear simulation programs, anyway? Is it like a render farm, where it scales really well for additional CPUs, or is it better to have fewer, faster chips?
Just wondering... I seem to recall the ASCI computers are massively parallel clusters, but the fastest supercocmputer in the world isn't.
I sincerely doubt now there is a single "legal" human inside the US, everyone is guilty of something now, and it will keep getting worse.
You're probobly right. Here's an example of a perfectly normal person falling foul of a obscure 19-th century law: Police dispatcher fired for living with boyfriend (other sources here and here).
Apparently in North Carolina, there is a law against unmarried people "co-habitating", and the woman's employer(a conservative sheriff) decided all his employees needed to follow the letter of the law. According to WECT TV, "In late May she was called into her supervisor's office and told if she didn't marry her boyfriend or stop living with him, she would be fired. It's called cohabitation, which is illegal in North Carolina, thought is a law that is rarely enforced."
If something this common and accepted is illegal, and it only came to light because some redneck sheriff decided to enforce it out of sheer fundamentalist fervor, how many other laws are there on the books that you're breaking, right now? Remember that guy who was arrested for cussing in front of kids in Minnesota or someplace? Or the "miscegnation" laws prohibiting mixed-race couples? There are some odd laws out there, and while some are amusing, it's really horrifing to think that someone could look hard enough and find some law you're breaking without even knowing it.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooo....
(sound of falling)
WINNERS DON'T DO DRUGS!
I remember being told not to do drugs before playing a disembodied face running through a dark maze, eating pills and ghosts. Do they still have that splash screen on arcade games? I remember a satirical rendition of George Bush Sr. saying that on an arcade machine in the Simpsons a while back...
It would be really funny to see GWB Jr. do a public service announcement like that. "Remember kids - Winners do lots of drugs, clean themselves up to be an oil executive, and become President!"
Recently, with the war and all, I've taken more of an interest in military affairs. Lo and behold, the military publishes a lot of magazines and periodicals internally, and many of them are available free online! I like them because they don't have the macho posturing of rags like Soldier of Fortune and other right-wing civillian magazines, and read like professionals writing for other professionals on how to do their job better. Think Wired vs. Linux Journal.
List of DoD magazines
Soldiers - Official army magazine, with full PDF archive.
Airman - Official air force magazine
Marine - Official USMC magazine
Approach - Navael aviaton safety magazine
Ground Warrior - Marine training safety magazine
Infantry magazine - Army infantry magazine, article archive at findarticles.com
Parameters - The U.S. War College's periodical
Soldiers, Airman, and Marine are sort of PR-related publications, so they aren't as interesting. Approach, Ground Warrior and Infantry are written as advice and information sources for their respective professions, so they have more technical detail. I like how they give a view of day-to-day operations in the military, especially training mishaps and other mistakes you don't hear about often. Parameters is a more scholarly magazine that gives a view into what the high-level officers are thinking and planning right now, plus some military history.
They're your tax dollars at work, may as well read them. Better to be an informed citizen than an entertained consumer, especially with the war in Iraq going on.
I think you missed the best issue! The one where Taco shows how to take a geeky, boring 'ol Ask Slashdot about stupid computer stuff and turn it into an 99% offtopic discussion of Maxim and Playboy.
After all, it's not like we come here for the articles or anything.
Oh shit, now you have me picturing some fat Slashdotter sitting on the john in his hotel at 2am....
"Kaaaaaaaaaaahhn!!!"
Ha, the best cover they ever had was the one from when Kim Il-Jong reached out to the world: Greetings, earthlings
Other good covers:
Greatest danger, or greatest hope?
Will the real Al Gore please stand up
Can it fly?
Mr Bush goes to Europe
Remember
Here's an archive of their covers going back to 2000.
Although I'm sure most people in Nigeria aren't fraudsters, they apparently have a bad rep in general. I know a couple people from other parts of Africa, and they both told me they don't trust anyone from Nigeria...
Saturn: Roman god of the harvest
Cassini: Family of astronomers, great-grandpa Giovanni(1625-1712), grandpa Jacques(1677-1756), daddy Cesar-Francois(1714-1784), and son Dominique(1748-1845).
Huygens: Dutch physicist(1625-1695)
No thanks, I don't think I want to watch that one.
In AD 2010, Ice was breaking
....
BOOM!!
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the ice.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's You !!
Penguins: How are you gentlemen !!
Penguins: All your base are belong to ice.
Penguins: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
Penguins: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Penguins: HA HA HA HA
Captain: Take off every 'BSD' !!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move 'BSD'.
Captain: For great justice.
HOLY SHIT, they have a Polar bear piece now? That totally rocks my world, I must get Polar bears! After I do something about the munchies....
Tralalala.... BEARS!
If any post deserves a goatse reply, that was it.
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