You forget in the world we live in everything corrupt. The church is full of power hungry child molesters (maybe a little too trollish, but bare with me), we've got to the point where people can communicate on mass, so we learn how to control this mass. We manipulate it to sell crap, whore people and basicly make a society of "us" (the minions) and "them" (people with power).
The church had this power for hundreds of years, so people flocked to it who wanted power. Now these same people have bred through the generations and taught the kids to "be the best, horde money and power". They kept doing it untill this generation where it really did get to an insanely inbalanced level. The imbalance is now so strong they are all but untouchable, so with the mentality they have they're going to do whatever they like and "obviously" they're right, because "might is right" in the society we live in.
These same people have corrupted the churchs ideals. So instead of it being "love thy neighbour" "Untill you're perfect STFU about someone who isn't". It's instead "screw everyone, I'm right and God says the same", these people also happen to be the loudest and the dumbest..
These people encourage others to be "the same", where they forget knowledge and horde money instead. Which breeds idiotic minions.. the numbers of idiots now far outweighs the smart people.. so these rich idiots get twice as much power and an army to manipulate..
So adding everything up (sorry it's a bit of a mess, I'm ill and can't think straight). The corrupt are now in charge, the church over the years has been very corrupt and got to a state where it's not at all like it should be. Society is now suffering the same ignorance and hatred.. they're happy in their ignorance and keep being encouraged to follow it..
So corrupt religion + corrupt ideals = God loves me, he wants me to do what I'm doing.. These people don't know any better, we should pity them really..
When I hate every political party involved I'm not voting for who I want. I'm voting for who I don't want..
Pretty much every political party is now trying to sit in the middle ground (or at least appear that way), so you're voting for the same thing except different names for the slimy gits.
So yea, I can vote for person X but they're still wanting to screw me no matter who it is.
Remember, no matter who you vote for, the government still gets in..
I think the last line is about as accurate as you can get as to what I want to do.. I'm sick of this bullshit and the second I can get else where (I like England, I don't want to go else where, but I don't want to live in China Mark 2 either), I'll be off like a shot.
In the UK we have a 2 (maybe 3 if you laugh long shots) party system. All the other parties get no TV time and voring for any of them is a waste of a vote. I personally threw my vote away on one of these parties because I refused to vote for either of the main two (one was run by a slimy asshole and the other is the current government who are also slimy assholes).
Honestly in the world we live in, 1 vote is worthless. People cannot compete with TV and any who try usually end up on the wrong end of a major smear campaign. The government repeatedly go illegal things (David Blunkett anyone?) yet get away with it because no one can honestly stand up to them.
Power has shifted in the world. 9/11 made the mass public afraid of every little bump in the night. Have you ever tried to calm down a child who's terrified of the boogie man? It just doesn't work, you can clam him for a moment, but the second you leave his side he freaks out again. Now try and calm down entire countries..
Governments have all the power, all the laws to make you disappear and now they're watching your every move. This isn't democratic in any sense, it's comming up to 1984 and people are letting it happen because "politics are boring".
Any chance someone could give me some links to good encryption (but free) stuff please? I have Gaim encrpytion and I use Gmail for e-mail, so I'm really looking at firefox (and maybe thunderbird) encryption mainly. A torrent program would also be nice.
Basicly anything to make this as difficult as possible for them (as I'm opposed to it and refuse to let them monitor me without even trying to shut them off).
You forget we're the minority here. We hold little to no power compared to the mass market. We can't do very much damage to these companies even if we boycott. Not to insult you or anything, but the mass market is stupid and will buy what they're told to buy by TV.
I'm sorry to say but we're a very small fish in a pond full of whales. They can ignore us forever if they wish.
Please tell me it's better than that vile cartoon on Fox Kids. I love Sam and Max but theres a limit to how far you can butcher it before it's just not the same duo any more.
You sir live in lalah land. If they make movies for free they instantly lose the biggest part of their sales. Why would people pay to see something that's free any way?
Merchandise makes money but the biggest amount of money comes from showing the film it's self and then DVD release. If you ignore both of these then you instantly have a VERY large amount of cash vanishing. More often that not it's the cinema's showing it which makes the money to make the next film (and pay for this one).
Plus it's a company. They're in it for the money, if they'll lose any profit they'll laugh at your idea.
0.44%!? That's less than 1%, hot damn the world's rebeling against music! That's like.. DOOMED!
Totally ignore the fact that Christmas is comming up and people stop spending money on what they want and start saving for others, very often presents arn't music so the money goes else where.
I saw the opening for this.. they went out of their way to pick stupid and gullible people. I mean outright "Erm.. should I run at that brick wall?" stupid. Taught them next to nothing and basicly recorded them doing it. The whole thing is "look we're idiots" basicly.
But then these people all signedup for "a secret reality TV show", they had no idea what it was.. so they deserve all they get for being so dumb as to just want to whore themselvs on TV.
In short : I won't be watching, I hate the concept and I don't enjoy idiots.
Let them try it, I'll filter them like every other company's policy I don't like. Every time I hear "innovating", I instantly think "don't buy from them" now. I'll just add "insert lame advert here" to my list of companies I don't trust, because they're using lies and buzz words instead of standing by their products for their quality.
You got it right. Wikipedia is a tool, but as with any tool you must assume it's biast.
If I read a news paper I assume they've put some political slant on it to make things seem the way they like. It's the "modern journalism" way, so to neglect this I always check 4-5 even 10 sources then take a little from each to decide on what the "truth is". Wikipedia maybe one of these sources and as such I'd never trust it fully.
You do understand the Dreamcast is as good as the PS2 right? SEGA's main problem was that they didn't put any crap on the system to stop pirating, which is also ironicly why the dreamcast has such a cult following.
If they re-release it at a cheap price fanboys will buy one and people who arn't too keen on consoles because they're so expensive could pick up a dreamcast dirt cheap and a handful of second hand games for less then it takes for the kids to goto the cinema.
This is a pretty spiffy idea.. I'd like to see the Dreamcast mark 2 come out, it truely is a legendary console that deserves more love than it got.
Tom in a way showed that not every powerful person was running around playing toy soldiers. That some people just weren't involved at all. The elves leaving the land for example probably don't care much for middle Earth. Everyone in the films is all "Sauron is teh evil we must kills him!" or "weeee we live in little trees, arn't we cool!?", it failed to show the world didn't revolve around the war.
The biggest problem is how they dumbed down Pippin and Merry. There really was no need for it what so ever, you really can't see a single trace of the original book in the film characters. That's where my biggest gripe comes, Merry and Pippin just arn't Merry and Pippin in the films.
I think I may already know the change, isn't it about Saruman?
The casting also bugs me some what.. Legolas is just far too clunky in the films. I know theres restraints because we're all human, but Legolas in the films doesn't seem able to run across snow drifts..
LotRs really isn't what people sing and shout about. The only reason it did so well was they did the battle scenes well (hard to argue with 10,000 Orcs going to war really). Something which was a very minor part of the book was made huge in the film.
The cuts I remember I have no real problem with, but the characters just arn't right in the film. The characters are only 50% of the book though, the world and land scape is very much a large part and the film got them right.
My points do seem rather all over the place. Sorry for that but hopefully you can see what I mean. They're fine films, they're just not LotRs.
LotRs done right? Oh yea, nice to see Tom appear and all.. not like it wasn't an important part of the book..
The film totally cuts out the fact that it's not some insanely fast journey. They made it seem like Aragorn and Gandalf knew everything, the hobbits knew where they were going and generally everyone was a merry little party who was off for a brief wander. Any danger was removed untill it was instantly upon them and any time they had to relax wasn't shown at all, so it seemed they'd go for a brief wander towards Mordor, get attacked then repeat.
I've seen the first 2 films and I'm currently reading through the second book (well 4th book, Frodo just met the Gondorian troops and Sam met his Oliphaunt). Comparing it to the films to me is just just fair on the books. The films arn't bad but they're clearly nothing compared to the books. I'd call them remakes at best, the same way you have like king kong now.. it roughly follows, but it's just not as good as the originals and never will be. Stand alone they're good, but they don't live up to the names.
I doubt I'll see the third film any time soon, but if the chance arises it's unlikely I'll turn it down. But still I won't go searching for it..
Coffee is naturally bitter. The real coffee bean ground up and made into a drnk is extremely bitter. The instant crap isn't the issue here.. Coke tastes like coal, real coffee is bitter, hence bitter coal.
If it's instant cookie it won't taste a HUGE deal different from coke as it is. Instant cofee is little more than a smooth coke.
Stop drinking it for a while (couple of weeks).. I changed to fruit juices and now when I taste coke it tastes vile.. nothing tastes like coke.. it's just.. blergh.. I'm currently sucking on fruit juices instead. Much nicer flavours andI'm not being drugged to enjoy them (flavour enhancers in coke and such).
So they're putting coffee flavour in coke.. How.. odd coke tastes vile, why would you want to add a bitter taste to it? "oohh it's like eating coal while sucking on a lemon" comes to mind.
It's more likely that someone using their phone will get in an unsafe situation than someone who isn't. That's the point really.. We'll both react the same but we won't get in the same position over and over:/
Please read my post. MY BROTHER wants a console (either a Xbox or a PS2) for Christmas, MY MOTHER is going to buy him one. I'am the resident geek, I can get my mum to buy either one.
I can multitask fine. I'm often doing 3-4 things at once (playing games while watching TV and talking on IM for example), but this is ridiclous and should NOT be encouraged. Almost every time I see a bad driver they're either talking on the phone or they're some asshole 20 year old with daddie's money paying for his new car, who just happens to have a death wish.
I don't care if you play games, play golf or play with yourself. You can't control a car with one hand (unless specially adapted), let alone control it with one hand while you focus on going "oh really? Yes? wow? cool!" over and over down a phone. If the call is THAT important then you can pull over and answer it, you'll take 5 minutes longer to get there but you arn't endangering my life.
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You forget in the world we live in everything corrupt. The church is full of power hungry child molesters (maybe a little too trollish, but bare with me), we've got to the point where people can communicate on mass, so we learn how to control this mass. We manipulate it to sell crap, whore people and basicly make a society of "us" (the minions) and "them" (people with power).
The church had this power for hundreds of years, so people flocked to it who wanted power. Now these same people have bred through the generations and taught the kids to "be the best, horde money and power". They kept doing it untill this generation where it really did get to an insanely inbalanced level. The imbalance is now so strong they are all but untouchable, so with the mentality they have they're going to do whatever they like and "obviously" they're right, because "might is right" in the society we live in.
These same people have corrupted the churchs ideals. So instead of it being "love thy neighbour" "Untill you're perfect STFU about someone who isn't". It's instead "screw everyone, I'm right and God says the same", these people also happen to be the loudest and the dumbest..
These people encourage others to be "the same", where they forget knowledge and horde money instead. Which breeds idiotic minions.. the numbers of idiots now far outweighs the smart people.. so these rich idiots get twice as much power and an army to manipulate..
So adding everything up (sorry it's a bit of a mess, I'm ill and can't think straight). The corrupt are now in charge, the church over the years has been very corrupt and got to a state where it's not at all like it should be. Society is now suffering the same ignorance and hatred.. they're happy in their ignorance and keep being encouraged to follow it..
So corrupt religion + corrupt ideals = God loves me, he wants me to do what I'm doing.. These people don't know any better, we should pity them really..
When I hate every political party involved I'm not voting for who I want. I'm voting for who I don't want..
Pretty much every political party is now trying to sit in the middle ground (or at least appear that way), so you're voting for the same thing except different names for the slimy gits.
So yea, I can vote for person X but they're still wanting to screw me no matter who it is.
Remember, no matter who you vote for, the government still gets in..
I think the last line is about as accurate as you can get as to what I want to do.. I'm sick of this bullshit and the second I can get else where (I like England, I don't want to go else where, but I don't want to live in China Mark 2 either), I'll be off like a shot.
Sorry but no.
In the UK we have a 2 (maybe 3 if you laugh long shots) party system. All the other parties get no TV time and voring for any of them is a waste of a vote. I personally threw my vote away on one of these parties because I refused to vote for either of the main two (one was run by a slimy asshole and the other is the current government who are also slimy assholes).
Honestly in the world we live in, 1 vote is worthless. People cannot compete with TV and any who try usually end up on the wrong end of a major smear campaign. The government repeatedly go illegal things (David Blunkett anyone?) yet get away with it because no one can honestly stand up to them.
Power has shifted in the world. 9/11 made the mass public afraid of every little bump in the night. Have you ever tried to calm down a child who's terrified of the boogie man? It just doesn't work, you can clam him for a moment, but the second you leave his side he freaks out again. Now try and calm down entire countries..
Governments have all the power, all the laws to make you disappear and now they're watching your every move. This isn't democratic in any sense, it's comming up to 1984 and people are letting it happen because "politics are boring".
Any chance someone could give me some links to good encryption (but free) stuff please? I have Gaim encrpytion and I use Gmail for e-mail, so I'm really looking at firefox (and maybe thunderbird) encryption mainly. A torrent program would also be nice.
Basicly anything to make this as difficult as possible for them (as I'm opposed to it and refuse to let them monitor me without even trying to shut them off).
You forget we're the minority here. We hold little to no power compared to the mass market. We can't do very much damage to these companies even if we boycott. Not to insult you or anything, but the mass market is stupid and will buy what they're told to buy by TV.
I'm sorry to say but we're a very small fish in a pond full of whales. They can ignore us forever if they wish.
Please tell me it's better than that vile cartoon on Fox Kids. I love Sam and Max but theres a limit to how far you can butcher it before it's just not the same duo any more.
You sir live in lalah land. If they make movies for free they instantly lose the biggest part of their sales. Why would people pay to see something that's free any way?
Merchandise makes money but the biggest amount of money comes from showing the film it's self and then DVD release. If you ignore both of these then you instantly have a VERY large amount of cash vanishing. More often that not it's the cinema's showing it which makes the money to make the next film (and pay for this one).
Plus it's a company. They're in it for the money, if they'll lose any profit they'll laugh at your idea.
0.44%!? That's less than 1%, hot damn the world's rebeling against music! That's like.. DOOMED!
Totally ignore the fact that Christmas is comming up and people stop spending money on what they want and start saving for others, very often presents arn't music so the money goes else where.
I saw the opening for this.. they went out of their way to pick stupid and gullible people. I mean outright "Erm.. should I run at that brick wall?" stupid. Taught them next to nothing and basicly recorded them doing it. The whole thing is "look we're idiots" basicly.
But then these people all signedup for "a secret reality TV show", they had no idea what it was.. so they deserve all they get for being so dumb as to just want to whore themselvs on TV.
In short : I won't be watching, I hate the concept and I don't enjoy idiots.
Let them try it, I'll filter them like every other company's policy I don't like. Every time I hear "innovating", I instantly think "don't buy from them" now. I'll just add "insert lame advert here" to my list of companies I don't trust, because they're using lies and buzz words instead of standing by their products for their quality.
You got it right. Wikipedia is a tool, but as with any tool you must assume it's biast.
If I read a news paper I assume they've put some political slant on it to make things seem the way they like. It's the "modern journalism" way, so to neglect this I always check 4-5 even 10 sources then take a little from each to decide on what the "truth is". Wikipedia maybe one of these sources and as such I'd never trust it fully.
You do understand the Dreamcast is as good as the PS2 right? SEGA's main problem was that they didn't put any crap on the system to stop pirating, which is also ironicly why the dreamcast has such a cult following.
If they re-release it at a cheap price fanboys will buy one and people who arn't too keen on consoles because they're so expensive could pick up a dreamcast dirt cheap and a handful of second hand games for less then it takes for the kids to goto the cinema.
This is a pretty spiffy idea.. I'd like to see the Dreamcast mark 2 come out, it truely is a legendary console that deserves more love than it got.
Saw an advert for it on Gmail. http://www.boomspeed.com/akito/GmailSMS.png
Special effects can make an elephant fly. But Bloom looks about as much like an elf as Rosanne looks like a stick insect.
Tom in a way showed that not every powerful person was running around playing toy soldiers. That some people just weren't involved at all. The elves leaving the land for example probably don't care much for middle Earth. Everyone in the films is all "Sauron is teh evil we must kills him!" or "weeee we live in little trees, arn't we cool!?", it failed to show the world didn't revolve around the war.
The biggest problem is how they dumbed down Pippin and Merry. There really was no need for it what so ever, you really can't see a single trace of the original book in the film characters. That's where my biggest gripe comes, Merry and Pippin just arn't Merry and Pippin in the films.
I think I may already know the change, isn't it about Saruman?
The casting also bugs me some what.. Legolas is just far too clunky in the films. I know theres restraints because we're all human, but Legolas in the films doesn't seem able to run across snow drifts..
LotRs really isn't what people sing and shout about. The only reason it did so well was they did the battle scenes well (hard to argue with 10,000 Orcs going to war really). Something which was a very minor part of the book was made huge in the film.
The cuts I remember I have no real problem with, but the characters just arn't right in the film. The characters are only 50% of the book though, the world and land scape is very much a large part and the film got them right.
My points do seem rather all over the place. Sorry for that but hopefully you can see what I mean. They're fine films, they're just not LotRs.
LotRs done right? Oh yea, nice to see Tom appear and all.. not like it wasn't an important part of the book..
The film totally cuts out the fact that it's not some insanely fast journey. They made it seem like Aragorn and Gandalf knew everything, the hobbits knew where they were going and generally everyone was a merry little party who was off for a brief wander. Any danger was removed untill it was instantly upon them and any time they had to relax wasn't shown at all, so it seemed they'd go for a brief wander towards Mordor, get attacked then repeat.
I've seen the first 2 films and I'm currently reading through the second book (well 4th book, Frodo just met the Gondorian troops and Sam met his Oliphaunt). Comparing it to the films to me is just just fair on the books. The films arn't bad but they're clearly nothing compared to the books. I'd call them remakes at best, the same way you have like king kong now.. it roughly follows, but it's just not as good as the originals and never will be. Stand alone they're good, but they don't live up to the names.
I doubt I'll see the third film any time soon, but if the chance arises it's unlikely I'll turn it down. But still I won't go searching for it..
Coffee is naturally bitter. The real coffee bean ground up and made into a drnk is extremely bitter. The instant crap isn't the issue here.. Coke tastes like coal, real coffee is bitter, hence bitter coal.
If it's instant cookie it won't taste a HUGE deal different from coke as it is. Instant cofee is little more than a smooth coke.
Stop drinking it for a while (couple of weeks).. I changed to fruit juices and now when I taste coke it tastes vile.. nothing tastes like coke.. it's just.. blergh.. I'm currently sucking on fruit juices instead. Much nicer flavours andI'm not being drugged to enjoy them (flavour enhancers in coke and such).
So they're putting coffee flavour in coke.. How.. odd coke tastes vile, why would you want to add a bitter taste to it? "oohh it's like eating coal while sucking on a lemon" comes to mind.
It's more likely that someone using their phone will get in an unsafe situation than someone who isn't. That's the point really.. We'll both react the same but we won't get in the same position over and over :/
Typing with one hand, while playing my DS with the other and having my DS lined up so I can watch both monitors with just a brief eye movement.. :/
Please read my post. MY BROTHER wants a console (either a Xbox or a PS2) for Christmas, MY MOTHER is going to buy him one. I'am the resident geek, I can get my mum to buy either one.
I can multitask fine. I'm often doing 3-4 things at once (playing games while watching TV and talking on IM for example), but this is ridiclous and should NOT be encouraged. Almost every time I see a bad driver they're either talking on the phone or they're some asshole 20 year old with daddie's money paying for his new car, who just happens to have a death wish.
I don't care if you play games, play golf or play with yourself. You can't control a car with one hand (unless specially adapted), let alone control it with one hand while you focus on going "oh really? Yes? wow? cool!" over and over down a phone. If the call is THAT important then you can pull over and answer it, you'll take 5 minutes longer to get there but you arn't endangering my life.
I heard that there was some issues with OO documents in Office. If there isn't you've settled my nerves a lot and I have no morale dilemma :D