You mean that Assange *didn't* suddenly become a child molester and rapist exactly two weeks after releasing a cache of classified documents that embarrassed the most powerful country in the world? Are you implying those charges might be TRUMPED-UP as part of an attempt at character assassination?!?!? The hell you say!
How exactly are you be a whistleblower and not leak things that governments are going to claim hurt national security? If you're not pissing off some government or company somewhere, you're NOT a whistleblower.
If you worried about Harlan Ellison suing, you would never get any science fiction movie made. He thinks he came up with *everything* first. Of course, he also thinks he's not a mediocre, overrated hack. Wrong on both counts.
As has been observed many times, Empire is the only one that felt truly mature and aimed at grown-ups. It's also the one Lucas had the LEAST to do with (no coincidence there, IMO). He should have been allowed to do Return. Maybe there would have been more of Luke and Vader, less of the teddy bears.
I suspect the real answer is "Because Dick Cheney said so." Cheney and Rumsfeld were the two with the hard-ons for Iraq. Bush Jr. was just a weak-minded dupe to them. And he pretty much stayed that way until 2006, when he finally realized (way too late) that listening to them might not be in his best interest. To my mind, Bush isn't evil so much as a simple fool.
You don't fault a moron for being used by much smarter (and much more sinister) men. You just pity him.
Airplane! gave a lot of dramatic actors the chance to do comedy. Some got the joke immediately (like Robert Graves and Leslie Neilsen). Some spent the entire shoot very confused (like Lloyd Bridges and Robert Stack).
The problem is that the meaning of symbols change, sometimes radically and over short periods of time. Back in the 70's and 80's I remember when the Confederate battle flag (actually a modification of it) was considered a symbol of rebellion. Rock stars like Billy Idol and Richy Sambora even had guitars painted like rebel flags, and lots of rock bands used them in their stage shows. But in the 90's the flag became symbol non grata as groups like the NAACP started protesting it as a symbol of the pro-slavery Confederacy.
So symbols aren't like "rape is bad." One day a symbol can mean one thing, the next day something completely different. Two people can see the same symbol and come away with two radically different impressions. Symbols are all about what *WE* put into them.
Any simulator that wants to account for what real military life needs to include hour after hour of punishing boredom and tedium at some shithole base, living in 100 degree weather with no showers and nothing to do--broken up occasionally by several minutes of intense fear, where your life is at stake--then followed by several more days of mind-numbing boredom in a hellish environment.
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You mean that Assange *didn't* suddenly become a child molester and rapist exactly two weeks after releasing a cache of classified documents that embarrassed the most powerful country in the world? Are you implying those charges might be TRUMPED-UP as part of an attempt at character assassination?!?!? The hell you say!
How exactly are you be a whistleblower and not leak things that governments are going to claim hurt national security? If you're not pissing off some government or company somewhere, you're NOT a whistleblower.
People poo-poo'ed OCP's ED-209 program at first too.
Actually, the 5-year rule predates Nintendo. It goes all the way back to Atari:
1977 - 2600
1982 - 5200
I have it on good authority from my Republican Senator that the free market will make the right decision, as it always does.
And Google is an evil AMERICAN company. Care to guess who's going to get the benefit of the doubt before the EU?
A real slashdotter would know that fallacy is bullshit.
Okay, no SANE person over the age of 10 then.
If you worried about Harlan Ellison suing, you would never get any science fiction movie made. He thinks he came up with *everything* first. Of course, he also thinks he's not a mediocre, overrated hack. Wrong on both counts.
I think you would be hard-pressed to find anyone above the age of ten who would publicly admit to liking any other Star Wars movie better than Empire.
As has been observed many times, Empire is the only one that felt truly mature and aimed at grown-ups. It's also the one Lucas had the LEAST to do with (no coincidence there, IMO). He should have been allowed to do Return. Maybe there would have been more of Luke and Vader, less of the teddy bears.
Yes, him too.
I suspect the real answer is "Because Dick Cheney said so." Cheney and Rumsfeld were the two with the hard-ons for Iraq. Bush Jr. was just a weak-minded dupe to them. And he pretty much stayed that way until 2006, when he finally realized (way too late) that listening to them might not be in his best interest. To my mind, Bush isn't evil so much as a simple fool.
You don't fault a moron for being used by much smarter (and much more sinister) men. You just pity him.
I just hope his family didn't wait until the last minute to fill out those organ donor cards.
You take a chance getting up in the morning, crossing the street, or sticking your face in a fan.
Airplane! gave a lot of dramatic actors the chance to do comedy. Some got the joke immediately (like Robert Graves and Leslie Neilsen). Some spent the entire shoot very confused (like Lloyd Bridges and Robert Stack).
He must have had the fish.
There's nary a court in the world that can outsmart a greased Scotsman!
The problem is that the meaning of symbols change, sometimes radically and over short periods of time. Back in the 70's and 80's I remember when the Confederate battle flag (actually a modification of it) was considered a symbol of rebellion. Rock stars like Billy Idol and Richy Sambora even had guitars painted like rebel flags, and lots of rock bands used them in their stage shows. But in the 90's the flag became symbol non grata as groups like the NAACP started protesting it as a symbol of the pro-slavery Confederacy.
So symbols aren't like "rape is bad." One day a symbol can mean one thing, the next day something completely different. Two people can see the same symbol and come away with two radically different impressions. Symbols are all about what *WE* put into them.
Well, there goes my plans for a Sgt. Slaughter joke.
I guess the election is over and Republicans don't have to play pretend anymore.
Any simulator that wants to account for what real military life needs to include hour after hour of punishing boredom and tedium at some shithole base, living in 100 degree weather with no showers and nothing to do--broken up occasionally by several minutes of intense fear, where your life is at stake--then followed by several more days of mind-numbing boredom in a hellish environment.
I agree, GEM was truly, truly, truly outrageous.
They don't grow cotton in Missouri, only hillbillies and Josey Whales. And you don't much look like Josey to me, so I guess that narrows it down.
I want hot women TSA agents. Not only would that make it NOT be a problem, it would make it a BONUS.
Oh and to be fair, ripped guys for the ladies. Just recruit a bunch of Jersey guidos and throw some (more) oil on them.