He was also declaring war on aliens. Presidents get to make great speeches when fighting unambiguous enemies. You don't have unambiguous enemies when you strike first, unprovoked.
Ahem.
Oh, and George talking with the bullhorn on the WTC rubble? Just as good, really; halting but very powerful use of context and simplicity. Barack Obama's speech from the '04 convention is superb rhetoric -- doesn't make you wanna kill anyone, but still a great speech. Clinton made great speeches, just no one real standout. Reagan didn't make great speeches? Excuse me?
One's likeness is not copyrightable; the use of one's likeness is governed (at least under US law) by the individual unless waived by them signing a model release. Note that you can be photographed on the street or in a public place by news photographers because you have no expectation of privacy in these places, but narrative productions will generally post a sign saying "if you cross this line you grant the irrevocable right..." etc. to cover their bases.
If you read a modern blanket model release, it generally uses language meant to cover "re-animation" technology, but not everyone signs a blanket release. Wether the producers of Giant could make a sequel with Newman's character would depend on the model release he signed, though the ones a powerful actor signs are generally restrictive and forbid the use of their likeness beyond the scope of the film (named specifically) and any marketing associated with it, saying something like "I agree to permit my likeness to be photographed and used by the production presently entitled 'Star Wars,' to be produced in 1977 by Lucasfilm Ltd." Any use on another product requires another release.
Bunny Breckenridge was a successful legit theater actor and Shakespeare interpreter, I'll have you know. I think he's so bizarre in Plan 9 because he wanted Ed to stop pestering him to act in his films. So Bunny did an awful performance, only Ed didn't really pick up on the point.
On the other hand, was it any worse than Harvey Firestein in Independence Day? Or Bill Pullman for that matter? The only diff is the VFX are on a different level. Well, and Will Smith basically carries that movie. I dunno where I'm going with this...
Oh, and technically, the Nazis won a 33% of the seats in 1932, actually losing seats from their previous election. Hitler was made chancellor because Hindenburg appointed him, not because Hitler won the job through any operation of democracy. Hitler himself failed to form a majority coalition and asked Hindenburg to dissolve parliament for another election, which Hindenburg did. And then the Reichstag burned a week before the new elections, winning Hitler more seats, but STILL not enough to form a majority. So he sent brownshirts out to beat up all the leftist members of the Reichstag, and keep them out of the chamber when the Enabling Act was voted on.
The instability of the period is a direct result of the Weimar Republic's succession and election procedure, but the final consequence of the Nazis running the government was caused directly by Hindenburg's misuse of presidential powers and political violence.
Frankly, the entire US system is thrown into really really ugly chaos as soon as you have 3 strong political parties, such that no candidate can ever win the electoral college.
Uh, plurality of electors wins, not a majority. If Rush or Ron Paul of Kucinich wins 37%, and the other guys win 30% and 33%, the 37% guy wins.
On the other hand, the Founders never intended the system to reflect the popular vote, just for the electors to vote their conscience. If there was a big split, they probably assumed all of the electors would be big about it and consult with each other on a good compromise position (this is how the founders usually dealt with their disagreements, after all).
Because we like to maintain our illusion that we vote for the person, not for the party.
You don't need party lists to have proportional representation. You can use single transferrable vote.
Americans believe that the parties are corrupt, but individuals might not be, so we delude ourselves into thinking we're "voting for the [wo/]man not the party." Proportional vote wrecks this because either the party or some other entity gets to choose how to allocate the seats it gets, so it won't get much support for the time being.
Are you saying that what Americans believe is correct and they're right to insist on single-seat constituencies, or that it's a fallacy and we just maintain the system to support a "delusion" in your words? You're not doing the current system any favors. Under party lists, the quality of the lists has a lot to do with the engagement of citizens in the parties. When it's an actual organization that you carry a card for a pay dues to you tend to actually care about who's on the list -- instead of the current system where all candidates are mistrusted and it's always the fault of some vague party somewhere, that everyone identifies with and no one belongs to, or takes responsibility for.
But you can do PR without lists, anyways.
The problem is that we also believe that although both parties are pretty evil the other party is a lot more evil and also eats puppies! So "sometimes" it's necessary to "vote against" them by voting for "our" party that's slightly less evil (they only eat kittens, after all).
Strategic voting, for puppies over kittens, is a consequence of first-past-the-post plurality-take-all elections, not a cause. But this is sortof a separate issue from proportional representation. Instant-Runoff balloting also reduces the "Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!" phenomenon.
someone's going to look foolish in a few thousand years when their clock is off.
The antikythera mechanism doesn't even turn anymore, but no one looks foolish for making it.
The real question is what does it say about us as a people that we would construct such a thing? That we are very conscious of our mortality? That we live in a time where a concept like the End of Civilization is taken seriously? (Note that this is very different from a belief in the apocalypse, and shows a certain development over the past thousand years). This is an artifact that says a lot about its makers without its makers saying anything- the best kind of artifact.
The period between eruptions of the Yellowstone hotspot/caldera are on the order of hundreds of millions of years. You seem to be talking about a whole different order of pessimism.
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The film on the platters is essentially sortof a continuous band, the film winds from the inside of one donut of film to the outside of another donut. You could skip the splicing, but you'd at least have to splice a leader onto the B-side (the second half) to prevent any more print damage, and then you'd have to collect this film onto a separate platter and then reassemble the two halves before the next show. And anyways, if you're going to restart the show in the middle, it's a good idea to run the action a few minutes before where the break took place, and you couldn't do that without repairing the splice then and there.
With the sound track separate, the only solution is to splice in black.
That's not necessarily true, since most Imax screenings use a DTS timecode track and the DTS reader will just rechase the timecode across the gap.
I've never heard of someone destroying a print the way you describe, that's extremely careless maintenance to leave glass in the equipment. If the globe blows, that closes the house for the day, you might as well take your time cleaning up the damage and running a hundred feet of leader through the thing (like you're supposed to) to make sure the gate hasn't picked up a nick.
If the globe doesn't blow, however, and the print just snags in the projector, or a splice breaks, you can effect repairs in a hurry and put everything up again in 10 minutes.
The print is on a platter which is about a yard or two away from the lamphouse, which is itself built to contain the globe exploding. A globe exploding is like a shotgun going off, and glass can fly, but it's not really a fire hazard. It'll end the show though and you'll probably have to finish it in a different theater, since replacing the globe on a projector is time consuming and a little dangerous, because of all the glass and explosion hazard. The print itself is probably made of polyester and melts before it burns.
If it had been a silver nitrate print, there would have been large visible plumes of flame coming from the portholes, followed quickly by steel-reinforced shutters (triggered by film transport failsafes) closing the portholes and the entire booth, and then alarms evacuating the entire building. Silver nitrate burns underwater, it's basically guncotton you shine light through, and it'll total a room if a reel catches fire.
A lamp burning the film would only destroy about five feet of it. The damaged print can be prepared and the show completed (trust me, I've done it). You can't "destroy a print" in a projector, unless it's silver nitrate, and you need a special projection booth with fire suppression in order to run those legally (and the Austin Drafthouse doesn't have that kind of booth. Trust me, I've run films there).
Transformers isn't really science fiction. It's a World War II French Resistance movie with robots.
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The fact that $arr[0] is the same as $arr['0'] is just insane
I'm not even sure if that was what it was, I think the problem I was having on top of that was that I would pop something off the head of $arr and sometimes it would be $arr[0] and sometimes it would be $arr[1], and this is crazy, but I dug in and low and behold I was actually storing values in the array to ["0"] and ["1"], and since arrays and hashes are the same thing in PHP (this is the real sin), it did what it thought was right, and created a non-deterministic bug. Why does it let you pop a value off a hash? UGH!
But one day I discovered Ruby, and the first lesson I learned was that error messages are actually a good thing, instead of the PHP developers practice, wherein they construct the entire language around the principle of guessing what you mean and never reporting errors. Until the interpreter segfaults.
I dunno, the busy ones are all in the same ballpark, definitely the same magnitude, and twitter is a remarkably simple service compared to linkedin or hulu. As for "heavy lifting", a page view is a page view; pageviews do not suddenly get easier to service because that page has a video on it.
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Kids these days reading too much Ayn Rand and not enough Hobbes.
Just for that, I'm putting annoying beeps on every computer readout in 2012. Just because I know you like them so much...
Still out by an order of magnitude ;-)
Sigh. Strange that a million of something is e7, but a millionth of something is e-8. European number system fail.
What's seven orders of magnitude between friends?
18 microseconds here, 18 microseconds there, before you know it, we're going to be wasting a lot of time!
...Here all week, veal, etc.
He was also declaring war on aliens. Presidents get to make great speeches when fighting unambiguous enemies. You don't have unambiguous enemies when you strike first, unprovoked.
Ahem.
Oh, and George talking with the bullhorn on the WTC rubble? Just as good, really; halting but very powerful use of context and simplicity. Barack Obama's speech from the '04 convention is superb rhetoric -- doesn't make you wanna kill anyone, but still a great speech. Clinton made great speeches, just no one real standout. Reagan didn't make great speeches? Excuse me?
One's likeness is not copyrightable; the use of one's likeness is governed (at least under US law) by the individual unless waived by them signing a model release. Note that you can be photographed on the street or in a public place by news photographers because you have no expectation of privacy in these places, but narrative productions will generally post a sign saying "if you cross this line you grant the irrevocable right..." etc. to cover their bases.
If you read a modern blanket model release, it generally uses language meant to cover "re-animation" technology, but not everyone signs a blanket release. Wether the producers of Giant could make a sequel with Newman's character would depend on the model release he signed, though the ones a powerful actor signs are generally restrictive and forbid the use of their likeness beyond the scope of the film (named specifically) and any marketing associated with it, saying something like "I agree to permit my likeness to be photographed and used by the production presently entitled 'Star Wars,' to be produced in 1977 by Lucasfilm Ltd." Any use on another product requires another release.
Bunny Breckenridge was a successful legit theater actor and Shakespeare interpreter, I'll have you know. I think he's so bizarre in Plan 9 because he wanted Ed to stop pestering him to act in his films. So Bunny did an awful performance, only Ed didn't really pick up on the point.
On the other hand, was it any worse than Harvey Firestein in Independence Day? Or Bill Pullman for that matter? The only diff is the VFX are on a different level. Well, and Will Smith basically carries that movie. I dunno where I'm going with this...
Yeah you're right, I read it too quickly.
Oh, and technically, the Nazis won a 33% of the seats in 1932, actually losing seats from their previous election. Hitler was made chancellor because Hindenburg appointed him, not because Hitler won the job through any operation of democracy. Hitler himself failed to form a majority coalition and asked Hindenburg to dissolve parliament for another election, which Hindenburg did. And then the Reichstag burned a week before the new elections, winning Hitler more seats, but STILL not enough to form a majority. So he sent brownshirts out to beat up all the leftist members of the Reichstag, and keep them out of the chamber when the Enabling Act was voted on.
The instability of the period is a direct result of the Weimar Republic's succession and election procedure, but the final consequence of the Nazis running the government was caused directly by Hindenburg's misuse of presidential powers and political violence.
Frankly, the entire US system is thrown into really really ugly chaos as soon as you have 3 strong political parties, such that no candidate can ever win the electoral college.
Uh, plurality of electors wins, not a majority. If Rush or Ron Paul of Kucinich wins 37%, and the other guys win 30% and 33%, the 37% guy wins.
On the other hand, the Founders never intended the system to reflect the popular vote, just for the electors to vote their conscience. If there was a big split, they probably assumed all of the electors would be big about it and consult with each other on a good compromise position (this is how the founders usually dealt with their disagreements, after all).
Because we like to maintain our illusion that we vote for the person, not for the party.
You don't need party lists to have proportional representation. You can use single transferrable vote.
Americans believe that the parties are corrupt, but individuals might not be, so we delude ourselves into thinking we're "voting for the [wo/]man not the party." Proportional vote wrecks this because either the party or some other entity gets to choose how to allocate the seats it gets, so it won't get much support for the time being.
Are you saying that what Americans believe is correct and they're right to insist on single-seat constituencies, or that it's a fallacy and we just maintain the system to support a "delusion" in your words? You're not doing the current system any favors. Under party lists, the quality of the lists has a lot to do with the engagement of citizens in the parties. When it's an actual organization that you carry a card for a pay dues to you tend to actually care about who's on the list -- instead of the current system where all candidates are mistrusted and it's always the fault of some vague party somewhere, that everyone identifies with and no one belongs to, or takes responsibility for.
But you can do PR without lists, anyways.
The problem is that we also believe that although both parties are pretty evil the other party is a lot more evil and also eats puppies! So "sometimes" it's necessary to "vote against" them by voting for "our" party that's slightly less evil (they only eat kittens, after all).
Strategic voting, for puppies over kittens, is a consequence of first-past-the-post plurality-take-all elections, not a cause. But this is sortof a separate issue from proportional representation. Instant-Runoff balloting also reduces the "Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!" phenomenon.
So this is either a killer new research vehicle, an incredible toy, or just an insanely expensive art project.
All three, you got the superego, the id and the ego all in one machine.
Plenty more pictures (and plans too) where those came from.
The antikythera mechanism doesn't even turn anymore, but no one looks foolish for making it.
The real question is what does it say about us as a people that we would construct such a thing? That we are very conscious of our mortality? That we live in a time where a concept like the End of Civilization is taken seriously? (Note that this is very different from a belief in the apocalypse, and shows a certain development over the past thousand years). This is an artifact that says a lot about its makers without its makers saying anything- the best kind of artifact.
The period between eruptions of the Yellowstone hotspot/caldera are on the order of hundreds of millions of years. You seem to be talking about a whole different order of pessimism.
This message brought to you by Vint Cerf, who didn't let the imminent Yellowstone catastrophe discourage his work on computer networks.
It sounds like you want Ruby. \smartass
The film on the platters is essentially sortof a continuous band, the film winds from the inside of one donut of film to the outside of another donut. You could skip the splicing, but you'd at least have to splice a leader onto the B-side (the second half) to prevent any more print damage, and then you'd have to collect this film onto a separate platter and then reassemble the two halves before the next show. And anyways, if you're going to restart the show in the middle, it's a good idea to run the action a few minutes before where the break took place, and you couldn't do that without repairing the splice then and there.
That's not necessarily true, since most Imax screenings use a DTS timecode track and the DTS reader will just rechase the timecode across the gap.
I've never heard of someone destroying a print the way you describe, that's extremely careless maintenance to leave glass in the equipment. If the globe blows, that closes the house for the day, you might as well take your time cleaning up the damage and running a hundred feet of leader through the thing (like you're supposed to) to make sure the gate hasn't picked up a nick.
If the globe doesn't blow, however, and the print just snags in the projector, or a splice breaks, you can effect repairs in a hurry and put everything up again in 10 minutes.
The print is on a platter which is about a yard or two away from the lamphouse, which is itself built to contain the globe exploding. A globe exploding is like a shotgun going off, and glass can fly, but it's not really a fire hazard. It'll end the show though and you'll probably have to finish it in a different theater, since replacing the globe on a projector is time consuming and a little dangerous, because of all the glass and explosion hazard. The print itself is probably made of polyester and melts before it burns.
If it had been a silver nitrate print, there would have been large visible plumes of flame coming from the portholes, followed quickly by steel-reinforced shutters (triggered by film transport failsafes) closing the portholes and the entire booth, and then alarms evacuating the entire building. Silver nitrate burns underwater, it's basically guncotton you shine light through, and it'll total a room if a reel catches fire.
Don't forget Threshold either... Agony Booth did a very nice survey of the Braga evolution/de-evolution fixation a couple years ago.
And no, I'm not Brannon Braga.
On what planet is April 7th a day before May 8th?
A lamp burning the film would only destroy about five feet of it. The damaged print can be prepared and the show completed (trust me, I've done it). You can't "destroy a print" in a projector, unless it's silver nitrate, and you need a special projection booth with fire suppression in order to run those legally (and the Austin Drafthouse doesn't have that kind of booth. Trust me, I've run films there).
Transformers isn't really science fiction. It's a World War II French Resistance movie with robots.
I'm not even sure if that was what it was, I think the problem I was having on top of that was that I would pop something off the head of $arr and sometimes it would be $arr[0] and sometimes it would be $arr[1], and this is crazy, but I dug in and low and behold I was actually storing values in the array to ["0"] and ["1"], and since arrays and hashes are the same thing in PHP (this is the real sin), it did what it thought was right, and created a non-deterministic bug. Why does it let you pop a value off a hash? UGH!
But one day I discovered Ruby, and the first lesson I learned was that error messages are actually a good thing, instead of the PHP developers practice, wherein they construct the entire language around the principle of guessing what you mean and never reporting errors. Until the interpreter segfaults.
I dunno, the busy ones are all in the same ballpark, definitely the same magnitude, and twitter is a remarkably simple service compared to linkedin or hulu. As for "heavy lifting", a page view is a page view; pageviews do not suddenly get easier to service because that page has a video on it.
That said, none of them come near facebook.