oh please, the party supporting election integrity? they're just trying to make it harder for poor people to vote. both parties are hopeless criminals, the country was bought and sold long ago and the shit they shuffle around every four years means dick.
Short cut bacon, according to every Aussie I've ever talked to, is back bacon. We have that here in America too, usually call it Canadian bacon. It tastes more like ham, nowhere near as delicious as bacon.
Steam is really the only one i get behind. They've gotten it perfectly and it's made them and developers a ton of money. Frequent sales, contests, promotions gets people excited and really reward impulse purchasers.
iTunes is ok for music, though I'm not at all convinced its the best way. It's certainly not at all what I'm looking for in video entertainment, I'm pretty happy with Netflix for that. It has lots of interesting shows to watch and makes it nice and easy and keeps track of what you've seen. The recommendations are fairly good, especially if you are faithful with rating programs.
I have used Hulu a fair amount, never bought Hulu+ though, It would be hard to get me to pay for content with commercials, especially in the middle. I would accept one or two minutes of commercial(s) before I watched any given movie or tv episode. Frankly though I just don't care to see the commercials and would prioritize lack of commercials as high as affordability and depth of catalog. Most importantly I don't want to pay per episode, I want flat rate monthly pricing. Music I'm willing to pay per unit, tv i want flat rate. Movie I could understand paying for each, but I'm not that much into the current movie scene. I find tv series to be much better sans commercials and on demand, 22 or 44 minutes a pop, no commercials, it's a whole new improved way to watch tv. Ally Mcbeal, Doctor Who, The Wonder Years and That 70s Show are among the shows I'm currently watching.
Michael Moorcock, hands down. He wrote mostly fantasy, but a fair amount of scifi too. The Dancers At The End Of Time series, the Jerry Cornelious books, the Nomad Of The Time Stream series, all unique and different, yet all tied to each other.
Moorcock has won plenty of awards, I just don't think anyone gives him proper credit anymore.
Yeah, Moorcock's bastable series is certainly at least a strong precursor to steampunk. Moorcock doesn't get enough respect, his canon is wide and varied yet virtually all interconnected. He practically invented the multiverse! Most of his stuff is fantasy, though he's written his fair share of scifi, such as the Dancers At The End Of Time series. That series is depressing, at least in setting, as it involves a few all powerful humans entertaining themselves until the end of time, which is forthcoming. The plotline itself is, of course, a direct refutation of said setting.
Vonnegut's Player Piano was depressing. Battle Royale while depressing enough, probably misses the list being not quite scifi. Stephen King's The Long Walk is the same, it obviously takes place in the future, but nothing sciencey comes up. Heinlein's To Sail Beyond The Sunset made me depressed, but it was just because it was so horrible a book half full of incest. His Farnham's Freehold is often maligned for being racist and sexist, but it's also depressing too! I actually really liked that book.
Haldeman's All My Sins Remembered is a certainly qualifies as depressing scifi, sort of like a Remains Of The Day but instead of a butler, he's an intergalactic secret agent. I found Downbelow Station depressingly bad, but Cherryh has a huge following, so it works for some people.
I'm not really all that well read in scifi, that was some stuff that jumped out in my head. I've got a copy of Lucifer's Hammer, and that looks pretty depressing, I gather it's roughly The Stand skewed scifi.
not really even underground, many members of law enforcement and politicians up to and including distinguished congresspeople knew and in many cases frequented speakeasies and saloons.
i've read battle royale 2 or 3 times and seen the film, and the hunger game trilogy. they have a number of striking similarities in events, situations, and themes, (of which i won't get into due to spoiler concerns) but are stylistically quite different. hunger games is more informed by celebrity culture and reality tv, and written for a young teen audience, battle royale is japanese pulp written for adults and gets more cerebral among a wider variety characters. hunger games is larger in scope then battle royale. running man, truman show, lord of the flies all sorta come from this tradition too, and share themes and situations as well. i enjoyed them both, found they were written competently and had fun, i wouldn't mistake either for high literature though
The problem is the large amount of awful awful awful stuff that is self pubbed. I know traditional pubs put out a lot of questionable work too, but they never would have put out Moon People, or the thousands of books that are almost equal in cringe-worthiness. I love the idea of people being able to publish whatever they want, and I sort of hate the idea of traditional publishers being the gateway to culture, but it seems they're fairly decent at the job. It seems to me that its much harder to find the golden needle in the pile of... hay that self published books is. It's a ghetto, much like fanfic. Mary sue stories abound, and every Twihard housewife thinks they can have a go at writing their sexual fantasies down and selling them. I'm sure self publishing will come out with some amazing books, (just like fanfic came out with methods of rationality) I just don't see them coming up with much wheat compared to the amount of chaff.
i think most people who are anti-abortion (in the US at least) are christian.
"We have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God" Romans 3:23.
also see Original Sin. these embryos aren't innocent, they're depraved sinners!
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oh please, the party supporting election integrity? they're just trying to make it harder for poor people to vote. both parties are hopeless criminals, the country was bought and sold long ago and the shit they shuffle around every four years means dick.
Short cut bacon, according to every Aussie I've ever talked to, is back bacon. We have that here in America too, usually call it Canadian bacon. It tastes more like ham, nowhere near as delicious as bacon.
I'm not sure you know what subliminal means.
Kasparov Castles With Account of Arrest.
That is minimally exceptional. Perhaps a change.org petition or something is in order.
its a megaopolis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalopolis_(city_type)
Steam is really the only one i get behind. They've gotten it perfectly and it's made them and developers a ton of money. Frequent sales, contests, promotions gets people excited and really reward impulse purchasers. iTunes is ok for music, though I'm not at all convinced its the best way. It's certainly not at all what I'm looking for in video entertainment, I'm pretty happy with Netflix for that. It has lots of interesting shows to watch and makes it nice and easy and keeps track of what you've seen. The recommendations are fairly good, especially if you are faithful with rating programs. I have used Hulu a fair amount, never bought Hulu+ though, It would be hard to get me to pay for content with commercials, especially in the middle. I would accept one or two minutes of commercial(s) before I watched any given movie or tv episode. Frankly though I just don't care to see the commercials and would prioritize lack of commercials as high as affordability and depth of catalog. Most importantly I don't want to pay per episode, I want flat rate monthly pricing. Music I'm willing to pay per unit, tv i want flat rate. Movie I could understand paying for each, but I'm not that much into the current movie scene. I find tv series to be much better sans commercials and on demand, 22 or 44 minutes a pop, no commercials, it's a whole new improved way to watch tv. Ally Mcbeal, Doctor Who, The Wonder Years and That 70s Show are among the shows I'm currently watching.
Michael Moorcock, hands down. He wrote mostly fantasy, but a fair amount of scifi too. The Dancers At The End Of Time series, the Jerry Cornelious books, the Nomad Of The Time Stream series, all unique and different, yet all tied to each other. Moorcock has won plenty of awards, I just don't think anyone gives him proper credit anymore.
Yeah, Moorcock's bastable series is certainly at least a strong precursor to steampunk. Moorcock doesn't get enough respect, his canon is wide and varied yet virtually all interconnected. He practically invented the multiverse! Most of his stuff is fantasy, though he's written his fair share of scifi, such as the Dancers At The End Of Time series. That series is depressing, at least in setting, as it involves a few all powerful humans entertaining themselves until the end of time, which is forthcoming. The plotline itself is, of course, a direct refutation of said setting. Vonnegut's Player Piano was depressing. Battle Royale while depressing enough, probably misses the list being not quite scifi. Stephen King's The Long Walk is the same, it obviously takes place in the future, but nothing sciencey comes up. Heinlein's To Sail Beyond The Sunset made me depressed, but it was just because it was so horrible a book half full of incest. His Farnham's Freehold is often maligned for being racist and sexist, but it's also depressing too! I actually really liked that book. Haldeman's All My Sins Remembered is a certainly qualifies as depressing scifi, sort of like a Remains Of The Day but instead of a butler, he's an intergalactic secret agent. I found Downbelow Station depressingly bad, but Cherryh has a huge following, so it works for some people. I'm not really all that well read in scifi, that was some stuff that jumped out in my head. I've got a copy of Lucifer's Hammer, and that looks pretty depressing, I gather it's roughly The Stand skewed scifi.
negative feedback is acceptable if given constructively and pleasantly
thats not IP law at all, IP law is intellectual property laws
not really even underground, many members of law enforcement and politicians up to and including distinguished congresspeople knew and in many cases frequented speakeasies and saloons.
hey, Rosanne was a great show!
there is a lot of craptacular novels, believe me.
yes, like the TNG/X-Men crossover novel. It's real it's called Planet X, and it is craptacular, probably not as bad as voyager though
everyone uses HOSTS files, everything running Windows, Mac, linux, iOS, and Android has a HOSTS file.
there are anti-foobar people? thats a great music player
for starters i'd be shocked if 57.5% had any idea what CISPA even is
fascism. yeah, read this and tell me it doesn't sound familiar: http://www.rense.com/general37/char.htm
context is important! it's more like "it's a right to work, not a privilege" as opposed to "you have a right to work"
i've read battle royale 2 or 3 times and seen the film, and the hunger game trilogy. they have a number of striking similarities in events, situations, and themes, (of which i won't get into due to spoiler concerns) but are stylistically quite different. hunger games is more informed by celebrity culture and reality tv, and written for a young teen audience, battle royale is japanese pulp written for adults and gets more cerebral among a wider variety characters. hunger games is larger in scope then battle royale. running man, truman show, lord of the flies all sorta come from this tradition too, and share themes and situations as well. i enjoyed them both, found they were written competently and had fun, i wouldn't mistake either for high literature though
Flagstaff Arizona had Ruff's Guns & Liquor, but they sold their liquor license years ago and are just Ruff's Sporting Goods now I think.
ooh i love snorting coke in the waiting room, it helps me be patient
The problem is the large amount of awful awful awful stuff that is self pubbed. I know traditional pubs put out a lot of questionable work too, but they never would have put out Moon People, or the thousands of books that are almost equal in cringe-worthiness. I love the idea of people being able to publish whatever they want, and I sort of hate the idea of traditional publishers being the gateway to culture, but it seems they're fairly decent at the job. It seems to me that its much harder to find the golden needle in the pile of... hay that self published books is. It's a ghetto, much like fanfic. Mary sue stories abound, and every Twihard housewife thinks they can have a go at writing their sexual fantasies down and selling them. I'm sure self publishing will come out with some amazing books, (just like fanfic came out with methods of rationality) I just don't see them coming up with much wheat compared to the amount of chaff.
i think most people who are anti-abortion (in the US at least) are christian. "We have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God" Romans 3:23. also see Original Sin. these embryos aren't innocent, they're depraved sinners!
if you don't want to vote for Jerry Cornelius, consider voting for Dorian Hawkmoon