Sorry, off topic and of course, I know that "gripe" means flu in Portugese, but a site with the name of "gripenet" just sounds like it should redirect to slashdot:P
Many good movies will often have a concept, or a message, or something for you to think about after the credits roll. However, good movies also let you draw your own conclusions from the film and aren't usually incredibly overt in presenting it. This is what the first starwars trilogy did. You had the concepts of good vs. evil, predestination vs. free will etc, but you weren't constantly beat over the head with those themes. The prequels are more like the Matrix sequels in that the messages are repeated over and over again till you just don't care. Also, hiding behind intentionally confusing and/or terse dialog doesn't make you "profound" it makes you annoying....
I have to say I am impressed with their selection, which can get downright esoteric. Sony's selection(which has gotten better recently) has always left me wanting. I would watch Jon Stewart interview some author and then I would go see if I could find their book only to find out it's either not there or too expensive.
One of the things that really showed promise was having comic books delivered to the device. However, it never really panned out for Sony, one year on and there are only 14 items in the manga section, and Kindle isn't looking much better. The sample they gave with the Sony eReader actually looked pretty good in terms of readability, shame there isn't much content that I want on it though(I suppose I could go track down pdfs, but too much of a pain)
on sites like the Digital Archive Project. I know many current and former MST3k staffers have shown support, but I am interested in what you think about the early stuff(KTMA era and season 1 era) episodes being available for all to see. In the Amazing Colossal Episode Guide there are a couple of statements telling us not to go seek those out because they aren't very good, but fans have encoded them anyway. Does it still bother you? And also, can we please have the master tapes for the first 3 KTMA episodes? Please!
It's amazing how hyped up all these new technologies are, and yet in the long run the best way to save energy is behavioral modification, not necessarily technological innovation(though that isn't bad either). It's amazing how many people in the states still refuse to do this little thing called carpool. 6 people in a gas guzzling SUV is still more efficient than if they all took their own Priuses(or however you make that plural). Not to mention the fact that in the US, something like over 80% of all car trips are less than 2 miles and yet bikers are looked down upon as if they are worthless pieces of trash(and respected accordingly). It still seems that in the states if you aren't driving, you are defective and your life isn't worth the effort of giving you your legal space on the road.
Not to mention technologies like motor scooters that can get over 100 miles/gallon(depending on how you drive them) that many people refuse to use, probably for the same reason as noted above. Conservation is still the best form of alternative energy, and yet I wonder how long it is going to take before Americans realize that!
Yeah, I mean the bastards were too lazy to buy the official the high class hooker directly! He had to go take his cash, head down to the brothel, you get the idea. The nerve of some people!
if it was deliverable via smoking. Not to mention it would inspire students to enter medical research.
Kid on a field trip: "Haha, look at that rat smoking a dubie!"
Tour guide: "Thats medical research son, thats what we get paid to do."
Kid: "I know what I want to be when I grow up!"
There's just no reason to pay this much for wood, even for committed audiophiles. Look at it this way: unlike speakers, signal processors or even cables, there's no engineer out there dedicating his life to polishing wooden volume knobs.
They pretty much have the rest of the world by the balls and they know it. It's amazing some of the stuff they get away with because they know exactly how to manipulate the rest of the world. The biggest thing they manage to do is to act both like a superpower and a developing nation that needs protection. They don't want to open up a lot of sectors of their economy to foreign competition, so they claim they are a developing economy and get various WTO/UN/other world body protections, however when it suits them they act like a super power and throw their weight around to get access to natural resources(oil in Africa being a prime example).
To be fair, both the US and EU are guilty of this to some degree, but nowhere near what China does. China has shown that it wants to be a superpower, so it needs to take all the responsibilities of one as well as reaping the rewards. However, they won't and nobody will make them because they have the world by the balls. They know how to get western countries to do what they want and will continue to act like they have been.
Macbooks can boot into Leopard in about 30 seconds, and we can start our 7 year old Linux boxes at work in less than a minute....how does Microsoft get away with this kind of stuff?
The whole purpose of the ebook is to be the size of a paperback, which ISNT 8.5x11....If you had one that big then it wouldn't be nearly as portable, or convenient for reading on places like trains buses etc. As per squinting, you are aware the text is resizable, correct? On my sony ebook I can get the text to be incredibly big if I so desire. If you are still squinting with the bigger text size, then I would suggest you see an optometrist.
SUVs also have giant blind spots but SUV drivers like to pretend that they don't have giant blind spots. I HATE HATE HATE HATE riding my bike anywhere near an SUV because SUV drivers assume that if they cannot see something, it's not really there(and to them it isn't, I'm not a threat to their safety, they are a threat to mine). Not to mention that on narrow roads, SUVs bulk usually prevents them from keeping a safe distance from riders, esp. when there is oncoming traffic. Your space on the road should be inversely proportional to the amount of fossil fuels you use. Therefore, bikes get the most room, fuel efficient cars get the next most, and SUVs can get a tiny sliver of the road that is poorly maintained. That would be the ideal situation.
I obey all traffic laws, and the only times I have ever come close to being hit, the driver was breaking a law in an SUV.
Or, you know, being hit by cars who couldn't care less about walkers or cyclists.
Exactly, I submitted this as a slashdot story a while ago, but some random diatribe about the RIAA was more important I guess. But anyway, Americans are 8x as likely(pdf warning and beefy academic paper warning, though there are graphs) to die per bicycle trip than their European counterparts.
First and foremost, Americans seem to have this opinion that if you aren't driving then you are defective and your life isn't worth their inconvenience anyhow.
Secondly is the SUV. It needs to be banned tomorrow. Those things pose more of a risk to the safety and well being of the United States than any terrorist has, ever.
But Polish women are so hot though! Seriously, I have been living in Europe for the past 2 and a half years, and most European women are pretty nasty, but Polish women are just amazing! How do I take the place of these people that are leaving?
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Um, the Japanese? On both counts? And certainly the Germans on the latter as well.....
Sorry, off topic and of course, I know that "gripe" means flu in Portugese, but a site with the name of "gripenet" just sounds like it should redirect to slashdot :P
with it.
Many good movies will often have a concept, or a message, or something for you to think about after the credits roll. However, good movies also let you draw your own conclusions from the film and aren't usually incredibly overt in presenting it. This is what the first starwars trilogy did. You had the concepts of good vs. evil, predestination vs. free will etc, but you weren't constantly beat over the head with those themes. The prequels are more like the Matrix sequels in that the messages are repeated over and over again till you just don't care. Also, hiding behind intentionally confusing and/or terse dialog doesn't make you "profound" it makes you annoying....
You still have to wonder if a determined(and clever) mad general still could set off armageddon though(a la Dr. Strangelove)
I have to say I am impressed with their selection, which can get downright esoteric. Sony's selection(which has gotten better recently) has always left me wanting. I would watch Jon Stewart interview some author and then I would go see if I could find their book only to find out it's either not there or too expensive.
One of the things that really showed promise was having comic books delivered to the device. However, it never really panned out for Sony, one year on and there are only 14 items in the manga section, and Kindle isn't looking much better. The sample they gave with the Sony eReader actually looked pretty good in terms of readability, shame there isn't much content that I want on it though(I suppose I could go track down pdfs, but too much of a pain)
and I bet half of them will complain that it doesn't play movies(thus missing the point of the device entirely)
on sites like the Digital Archive Project. I know many current and former MST3k staffers have shown support, but I am interested in what you think about the early stuff(KTMA era and season 1 era) episodes being available for all to see. In the Amazing Colossal Episode Guide there are a couple of statements telling us not to go seek those out because they aren't very good, but fans have encoded them anyway. Does it still bother you? And also, can we please have the master tapes for the first 3 KTMA episodes? Please!
It's amazing how hyped up all these new technologies are, and yet in the long run the best way to save energy is behavioral modification, not necessarily technological innovation(though that isn't bad either). It's amazing how many people in the states still refuse to do this little thing called carpool. 6 people in a gas guzzling SUV is still more efficient than if they all took their own Priuses(or however you make that plural). Not to mention the fact that in the US, something like over 80% of all car trips are less than 2 miles and yet bikers are looked down upon as if they are worthless pieces of trash(and respected accordingly). It still seems that in the states if you aren't driving, you are defective and your life isn't worth the effort of giving you your legal space on the road.
Not to mention technologies like motor scooters that can get over 100 miles/gallon(depending on how you drive them) that many people refuse to use, probably for the same reason as noted above. Conservation is still the best form of alternative energy, and yet I wonder how long it is going to take before Americans realize that!
I tried to cream in Olive Oil once, but then Popeye beat the shit out of me
:P
Sorry, couldn't resist the terrible joke
Yeah, I mean the bastards were too lazy to buy the official the high class hooker directly! He had to go take his cash, head down to the brothel, you get the idea. The nerve of some people!
if it was deliverable via smoking. Not to mention it would inspire students to enter medical research.
Kid on a field trip: "Haha, look at that rat smoking a dubie!"
Tour guide: "Thats medical research son, thats what we get paid to do."
Kid: "I know what I want to be when I grow up!"
The goal isn't to get a -1 troll, it's to get a score 5 troll, so you have to make something that lots of mods will love and hate at the same time.
Linux and the RIAA are both awesome!
How was that?
There's just no reason to pay this much for wood, even for committed audiophiles. Look at it this way: unlike speakers, signal processors or even cables, there's no engineer out there dedicating his life to polishing wooden volume knobs.
They pretty much have the rest of the world by the balls and they know it. It's amazing some of the stuff they get away with because they know exactly how to manipulate the rest of the world. The biggest thing they manage to do is to act both like a superpower and a developing nation that needs protection. They don't want to open up a lot of sectors of their economy to foreign competition, so they claim they are a developing economy and get various WTO/UN/other world body protections, however when it suits them they act like a super power and throw their weight around to get access to natural resources(oil in Africa being a prime example).
To be fair, both the US and EU are guilty of this to some degree, but nowhere near what China does. China has shown that it wants to be a superpower, so it needs to take all the responsibilities of one as well as reaping the rewards. However, they won't and nobody will make them because they have the world by the balls. They know how to get western countries to do what they want and will continue to act like they have been.
Macbooks can boot into Leopard in about 30 seconds, and we can start our 7 year old Linux boxes at work in less than a minute....how does Microsoft get away with this kind of stuff?
Wikipedia states that they cut about a minute out of the "Big Bird in China" DVD where Big Bird goes around asking if anyone speaks American...
The whole purpose of the ebook is to be the size of a paperback, which ISNT 8.5x11....If you had one that big then it wouldn't be nearly as portable, or convenient for reading on places like trains buses etc. As per squinting, you are aware the text is resizable, correct? On my sony ebook I can get the text to be incredibly big if I so desire. If you are still squinting with the bigger text size, then I would suggest you see an optometrist.
Like the ESA's Beagle 2? This is not their first rover.
I first thought, "Are kids sweating to pirated oldies"? The horror!
SUVs also have giant blind spots but SUV drivers like to pretend that they don't have giant blind spots. I HATE HATE HATE HATE riding my bike anywhere near an SUV because SUV drivers assume that if they cannot see something, it's not really there(and to them it isn't, I'm not a threat to their safety, they are a threat to mine). Not to mention that on narrow roads, SUVs bulk usually prevents them from keeping a safe distance from riders, esp. when there is oncoming traffic. Your space on the road should be inversely proportional to the amount of fossil fuels you use. Therefore, bikes get the most room, fuel efficient cars get the next most, and SUVs can get a tiny sliver of the road that is poorly maintained. That would be the ideal situation.
I obey all traffic laws, and the only times I have ever come close to being hit, the driver was breaking a law in an SUV.
Or, you know, being hit by cars who couldn't care less about walkers or cyclists.
Exactly, I submitted this as a slashdot story a while ago, but some random diatribe about the RIAA was more important I guess. But anyway, Americans are 8x as likely(pdf warning and beefy academic paper warning, though there are graphs) to die per bicycle trip than their European counterparts.
First and foremost, Americans seem to have this opinion that if you aren't driving then you are defective and your life isn't worth their inconvenience anyhow.
Secondly is the SUV. It needs to be banned tomorrow. Those things pose more of a risk to the safety and well being of the United States than any terrorist has, ever.
a tacit endorsement of the Steve Jobs for Ultimate Ruler of the World campaign anyway?
They got my vote!
But Polish women are so hot though! Seriously, I have been living in Europe for the past 2 and a half years, and most European women are pretty nasty, but Polish women are just amazing! How do I take the place of these people that are leaving?
oh no, are they holding Beavis at Gitmo?!