So many seem to forget the essence of American Democracy "Of the people, by the people, for the people". If you don't like what your government is doing, don't sit back on your couch and complain, get out and vote or run for office yourself!
Sadly I've already commented elsewhere else you'd be getting my mod point.
A have to admit, that's actually a very slick video that gets its point across in a very human and humorous way. And I agree with the point that they're making.
If everybody stopped going to theaters and buying DVDs (... or now using NetFlix, iTunes and other streaming media outlets...) then they are right, Hollywood would collapse putting thousands out of work and severely impacting the economy. (And while they are overreacting, it has already had an impact on the music industry.)
They are clearly exaggerating the impact, but PSAs always did. Remember the "this is drugs, this is your brain on drugs" ad from the 80s? Was it an exaggeration? Of course. Was it both correct AND effective? Let's face it, getting stoned every day is not going to improve your intellect and only the most radical would attempt to argue with that. While the "War on Drugs" has been a horrible failure, public education about the risks and costs of excessive consumption have been very successful. Everything in moderation kids, a glass of wine with dinner, a beer at the BBQ fine, but getting shitfaced every night is not so cool.
On one hand I would like to see the **AA organizations go away and stop trying to sue all and sundry for minor copyright infringement but at the same time I would really like the media industries to appropriately reward the artists whose work I enjoy.
Society is about finding the BALANCE between people rights, sadly not everything can be free.
She is an idiot savant. This is in many ways like real-time Nostradamus. If you change a few letters, ignore some contradictions, and squint just the right way then she predicted something she had no way of knowing; history!
It's like being a Christian fundamentalist, throw out enough self-righteous crap and back it up with "scripture" and you'll find a following.
It is very intentionally set in the UK, and many of the institutions and ideologies in 1984 are quite similar to institutions that existed there in the 1940s.
Yes, his proposed title had been 1948. But his warning was really along the lines of "Look what happened to Soviet communism, let's not let that happen here."
the POINT that he was announcing the approach of the British "to take away privately-owned guns" is entirely reasonable.
I found it fascinating that she was actually right in essence but so far off and/or vague in facts and so tongue tied that she managed to maker herself sound like an idiot.
However, history has shown quite clearly that sounding like an idiot is, at worst, only a minor setback in a Presidential campaign.
Actually, it appears to be Palin critics who are trying to turn a typical Palin gaffe into a tempest in a teacup. I'm honestly beginning to wonder if she's really a Democrat plant.
1984 never imagined a state of happy, healthy, nourished, and fattened citizens living out the proletariat dream by shouting Orwellian slogans with hotdogs in their hands.
Because 1984 was really about Stalin era Soviet Union, he didn't write much about the U.S. (Unless Animal Farm was about America? Must ponder that...)
Why is this also-ran attracting the same media attention as if Queen Elizabeth and the reanimated corpse of Michael Jackson and Xenu toured East Coast tourist spots?
People like train wrecks, it's entertainment. Palin is the Jersey Shore of politics.
Initially a client-side scripting language typically (mis)used for decorative effects,
15 years ago most of the javascript was useless and mostly pointless, now it is an essential ingredient of the medium. There was a sea-change in 2000, 2001. Those of you who are too young or too ignorant to remember those heady days before AJAX should keep your mouths shut.
Amazing... Over a decade and a half and even tech-heads still get this wrong.
I did a "RESTful webservices in java" course the other day and the instructor felt it necessary to point out that JavaScript was not Java despite the fact that you had to have years of Java experience to even register for the course.
I was going to say the same thing, so I'll provide the references instead.
Dylan has described his reaction to hearing Hendrix's version: "It overwhelmed me, really. He had such talent, he could find things inside a song and vigorously develop them. He found things that other people wouldn't think of finding in there. He probably improved upon it by the spaces he was using. I took license with the song from his version, actually, and continue to do it to this day."[25] In the booklet accompanying his Biograph album, Dylan said: "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way... Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way." Wikipedia
...I never believed that a company like Blackwater would come into existence...
And that's just the one that everybody knows about because of their bad habit of killing Iraqi civilians in public. How many other "private security firms" are there out there doing even more questionable things that we never hear about?
those who are great fans of what Ubuntu has been in the past
A half-hearted attempt to make a usable Linux, forever held back because they are not really in control of the software they ship, and those who are don't seem to have much of a vision for making it better?
Pretty much. Though I would argue that choosing Unity over gnome-shell is their own damn fault.
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So many seem to forget the essence of American Democracy "Of the people, by the people, for the people". If you don't like what your government is doing, don't sit back on your couch and complain, get out and vote or run for office yourself!
Sadly I've already commented elsewhere else you'd be getting my mod point.
A have to admit, that's actually a very slick video that gets its point across in a very human and humorous way. And I agree with the point that they're making.
If everybody stopped going to theaters and buying DVDs (... or now using NetFlix, iTunes and other streaming media outlets...) then they are right, Hollywood would collapse putting thousands out of work and severely impacting the economy. (And while they are overreacting, it has already had an impact on the music industry.)
They are clearly exaggerating the impact, but PSAs always did. Remember the "this is drugs, this is your brain on drugs" ad from the 80s? Was it an exaggeration? Of course. Was it both correct AND effective? Let's face it, getting stoned every day is not going to improve your intellect and only the most radical would attempt to argue with that. While the "War on Drugs" has been a horrible failure, public education about the risks and costs of excessive consumption have been very successful. Everything in moderation kids, a glass of wine with dinner, a beer at the BBQ fine, but getting shitfaced every night is not so cool.
On one hand I would like to see the **AA organizations go away and stop trying to sue all and sundry for minor copyright infringement but at the same time I would really like the media industries to appropriately reward the artists whose work I enjoy.
Society is about finding the BALANCE between people rights, sadly not everything can be free.
Will iOS run Photoshop? No. Okay then.
There is a Photoshop express app for photo retouching and an Adobe Ideas app for drawing/sketching/painting, though I prefer Autodesk's SketchBook
She is an idiot savant. This is in many ways like real-time Nostradamus. If you change a few letters, ignore some contradictions, and squint just the right way then she predicted something she had no way of knowing; history!
It's like being a Christian fundamentalist, throw out enough self-righteous crap and back it up with "scripture" and you'll find a following.
It is very intentionally set in the UK, and many of the institutions and ideologies in 1984 are quite similar to institutions that existed there in the 1940s.
Yes, his proposed title had been 1948. But his warning was really along the lines of "Look what happened to Soviet communism, let's not let that happen here."
the POINT that he was announcing the approach of the British "to take away privately-owned guns" is entirely reasonable.
I found it fascinating that she was actually right in essence but so far off and/or vague in facts and so tongue tied that she managed to maker herself sound like an idiot.
However, history has shown quite clearly that sounding like an idiot is, at worst, only a minor setback in a Presidential campaign.
Actually, it appears to be Palin critics who are trying to turn a typical Palin gaffe into a tempest in a teacup. I'm honestly beginning to wonder if she's really a Democrat plant.
1984 never imagined a state of happy, healthy, nourished, and fattened citizens living out the proletariat dream by shouting Orwellian slogans with hotdogs in their hands.
Because 1984 was really about Stalin era Soviet Union, he didn't write much about the U.S. (Unless Animal Farm was about America? Must ponder that...)
Why is this also-ran attracting the same media attention as if Queen Elizabeth and the reanimated corpse of Michael Jackson and Xenu toured East Coast tourist spots?
People like train wrecks, it's entertainment. Palin is the Jersey Shore of politics.
Someone should hose her down with Boric Acid.
Be careful, Rule 34 may apply here.
Way to quote out of context
Initially a client-side scripting language typically (mis)used for decorative effects,
15 years ago most of the javascript was useless and mostly pointless, now it is an essential ingredient of the medium. There was a sea-change in 2000, 2001. Those of you who are too young or too ignorant to remember those heady days before AJAX should keep your mouths shut.
And stay off my lawn.
the menacing MacDefender malware that has plagued users for nearly a month
My personal laptop is a Macbook pro, and I have only heard of this through the media. Has anyone actually seen this first hand?
*rushes off to register domain*
Rome was smarter than we were.
Perhaps at the beginning, certainly not at the end. Sooner or later someone will "cross the Rubicon"...
Amazing... Over a decade and a half and even tech-heads still get this wrong.
I did a "RESTful webservices in java" course the other day and the instructor felt it necessary to point out that JavaScript was not Java despite the fact that you had to have years of Java experience to even register for the course.
Since this is a story about a Canadian lawsuit, by Canadian Content rules since this joke should be about Celene Dion or Avril Lavigne.
I was going to say the same thing, so I'll provide the references instead.
Dylan has described his reaction to hearing Hendrix's version: "It overwhelmed me, really. He had such talent, he could find things inside a song and vigorously develop them. He found things that other people wouldn't think of finding in there. He probably improved upon it by the spaces he was using. I took license with the song from his version, actually, and continue to do it to this day."[25] In the booklet accompanying his Biograph album, Dylan said: "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way... Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way." Wikipedia
Well played sir, you might want to seek a position in politics.
Amazing that people let themselves be mislead by such obviously erroneous readings of the Bible.
You must be new here (on Earth) ...
...I never believed that a company like Blackwater would come into existence...
And that's just the one that everybody knows about because of their bad habit of killing Iraqi civilians in public. How many other "private security firms" are there out there doing even more questionable things that we never hear about?
And you had to walk in smelling like a mule and actually *talk* with a bunch of illiterates who also smelled like mules
Actually reminds me of my first LUG meeting.
*WHOOSH*
Wait... that's exactly what they did.
Only in Soviet Amerika...
There is nothing more dangerous than a fanatical freetard with root access.
those who are great fans of what Ubuntu has been in the past
A half-hearted attempt to make a usable Linux, forever held back because they are not really in control of the software they ship, and those who are don't seem to have much of a vision for making it better?
Pretty much. Though I would argue that choosing Unity over gnome-shell is their own damn fault.