Yes, I'm sure it has nothing to do with the millions of $ in campaign contributions the movie and music studios gave Obama during the election. I'm also sure that all those no-bid Halliburton military contracts didn't have anything to do with the Vice President being a former CEO and major shareholder of the company. And, of course, I believe that O.J. didn't kill his wife and that Barry Bonds didn't do steroids.
If we were really that ruthless, we would have already invaded and taken those nice oil sand fields. Stop being paranoid and get over your inferiority complex, you stupid Canuck.
Oh yes, the pop culture crap that America produces. As opposed to artistic geniuses like Avril Lavigne, Byran Adams, Celine Dion, etc. Face it, if the good taste revolution ever comes, you'll be up against he wall even faster than the U.S.
No he can't. He not only needs those donations for his reelection in 2012, but his party needs them for Congressional elections in 2010, 2012, and 2014. Thumbing his nose at them would not only jeopardize his election efforts, but the future of his party's long-term relationship with that particular sugar daddy.
You specified "full name" in your post. Unless by "full name" you meant "including my middle name too" (which would be a huge and unfortunate coincidence), consider just using your middle name on everything job-related. For example, if your name is "John Gordon Rivers" then just call yourself "Gordon Rivers" on your resume, cover letter, cv, etc. They won't need to know your real first name until you start to fill out the formal paperwork (which probably won't be until after they've already hired you). And if they ask at that point, you can just tell them that you go by your middle name (a pretty common and unsuspicious practice). If they google you at that point, they'll be far enough along in the hiring process to actually take the time to verify that it's not you.
Of course, this could be a problem if your middle name sucks. But just add that to the list of things to resent your parents for.
Come on, really?!? Believing Obama isn't in the pockets of Hollywood (incl. the MPAA and RIAA), trial lawyers, and the unions is as naive as believing Goerge Bush wasn't in the pockets of Wall Street, big oil, and the bible-thumpers.
Every politician is someone's bitch. Hollywood most assuredly produced the carton of cigarettes to buy Obama. And you can bet that they expect results.
No allegation of abuse that resulted in any lawsuit. Of course kids probably still make up allegations that turn out to be BS in individual facilities, but none that have resulted in a lawsuit (an extraordinary thing in an age of ambulance chasing).
That's a myth. Most states got rid of those kinds of expurgation laws back in the 1980's. A felony conviction will still follow you, juvenile or not (unless you get some sort of gubernatorial pardon maybe).
Most states contract out almost all of their juvenile detention facilities to counties or private contractors. Very few states actually maintain centralized direct control over their juvenile justice facilities. I'm proud to say my state of South Carolina is among them (one of the few things we do right). In SC only a couple of wilderness camps and two small pre-trial detention facilities are not under direct control by the state. This has allowed the state to maintain a record of no juvenile escapes from long-term facilities for over 6 years and no allegations of abuse or lawsuits in any facilities since 2003 (very few juvenile justice systems in the country can claim a record of over five years without even an ALLEGATION of abuse or mistreatment).
Speak for yourself. I took this stuff for my high blood pressure and it made me forget every Julia Roberts movie my girlfriend had ever made me watch. It saved our relationship.
The problem with fan films to me isn't the production values, it's the acting and writing that usually give them away as amateur efforts. The three things that always give a fan film away are acting, writing, and lighting. Most fan film makers think that cool FX and costumes are all there is to filmmaking. I've seen only a few exceptions to this (the most noteable being a Star Wars fan film from several years ago called "Broken Alliegience," which had some surprisingly a-class acting, writing, and lighting.
If the movie Encino Man taught me nothing else, it was that bringing back a cavemen can only result in hilarity. And the guys who brought him back would finally get respect from the popular kids too.
Technically, the intellectual property of a company that goes bust is considered an asset and is usually sold off as part of their liquidation. So, even if Midway ultimately goes completely bust, it's likely someone else will just snap up the rights to all their best games and franchises. Considering the way things have been going lately, it will probably be EA. They seem to own just about everything else these days.
What do you expect them to do, throw out every case that involves any question of medicine or science? What if they had done that back when defense lawyers and prosecutors first wanted to make DNA admissible?
Hah, that takes me back. My first PC was a Packard Bell 486SX (running at a smokin' 25 Mhz CPU speed) with 8 MB of memory (upgraded from the out-of-the-box 4 MB) and a 500 MB hard drive. It had a zif chip slot that let me eventually upgrade it to a DX 75Mhz chip before I finally scrapped it in 1997 in favor of a Pentium MMX.
If I were a Vodafone exec, I think I'd recommend that the company not do business in any country with a reputation "of torturing and murdering detainies, or having them 'disappear'" in the first place.
I remember when the first Aliens vs. Predator came out on the Atari Jaguar. If Sega can replicate even a fraction of that smashing success, I think they'll be around for a long time too.
"In the 1970's, the popular thing for upwardly mobile Communists was to hijack US airliners and divert them to Cuba."
If they were true supporters of liberty I guess they would have blown them up instead, like this upstanding U.S. resident did to Cubana Flight 455 in 1976.
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Yes, I'm sure it has nothing to do with the millions of $ in campaign contributions the movie and music studios gave Obama during the election. I'm also sure that all those no-bid Halliburton military contracts didn't have anything to do with the Vice President being a former CEO and major shareholder of the company. And, of course, I believe that O.J. didn't kill his wife and that Barry Bonds didn't do steroids.
If we were really that ruthless, we would have already invaded and taken those nice oil sand fields. Stop being paranoid and get over your inferiority complex, you stupid Canuck.
Oh yes, the pop culture crap that America produces. As opposed to artistic geniuses like Avril Lavigne, Byran Adams, Celine Dion, etc. Face it, if the good taste revolution ever comes, you'll be up against he wall even faster than the U.S.
No he can't. He not only needs those donations for his reelection in 2012, but his party needs them for Congressional elections in 2010, 2012, and 2014. Thumbing his nose at them would not only jeopardize his election efforts, but the future of his party's long-term relationship with that particular sugar daddy.
You specified "full name" in your post. Unless by "full name" you meant "including my middle name too" (which would be a huge and unfortunate coincidence), consider just using your middle name on everything job-related. For example, if your name is "John Gordon Rivers" then just call yourself "Gordon Rivers" on your resume, cover letter, cv, etc. They won't need to know your real first name until you start to fill out the formal paperwork (which probably won't be until after they've already hired you). And if they ask at that point, you can just tell them that you go by your middle name (a pretty common and unsuspicious practice). If they google you at that point, they'll be far enough along in the hiring process to actually take the time to verify that it's not you.
Of course, this could be a problem if your middle name sucks. But just add that to the list of things to resent your parents for.
You must have some pretty rare and valuable skills if you can still afford to be so picky about your employers in this economy.
Come on, really?!? Believing Obama isn't in the pockets of Hollywood (incl. the MPAA and RIAA), trial lawyers, and the unions is as naive as believing Goerge Bush wasn't in the pockets of Wall Street, big oil, and the bible-thumpers.
Every politician is someone's bitch. Hollywood most assuredly produced the carton of cigarettes to buy Obama. And you can bet that they expect results.
No allegation of abuse that resulted in any lawsuit. Of course kids probably still make up allegations that turn out to be BS in individual facilities, but none that have resulted in a lawsuit (an extraordinary thing in an age of ambulance chasing).
That's a myth. Most states got rid of those kinds of expurgation laws back in the 1980's. A felony conviction will still follow you, juvenile or not (unless you get some sort of gubernatorial pardon maybe).
Most states contract out almost all of their juvenile detention facilities to counties or private contractors. Very few states actually maintain centralized direct control over their juvenile justice facilities. I'm proud to say my state of South Carolina is among them (one of the few things we do right). In SC only a couple of wilderness camps and two small pre-trial detention facilities are not under direct control by the state. This has allowed the state to maintain a record of no juvenile escapes from long-term facilities for over 6 years and no allegations of abuse or lawsuits in any facilities since 2003 (very few juvenile justice systems in the country can claim a record of over five years without even an ALLEGATION of abuse or mistreatment).
Yea, ye' scruvy IFPI may have girded themselves to face yourn dreaded pirates alone. But pirates and ninjas be allied now!
Speak for yourself. I took this stuff for my high blood pressure and it made me forget every Julia Roberts movie my girlfriend had ever made me watch. It saved our relationship.
Don't forget the magic kiss at the end where he makes Ann Coulter forget that she's a total bitch.
The problem with fan films to me isn't the production values, it's the acting and writing that usually give them away as amateur efforts. The three things that always give a fan film away are acting, writing, and lighting. Most fan film makers think that cool FX and costumes are all there is to filmmaking. I've seen only a few exceptions to this (the most noteable being a Star Wars fan film from several years ago called "Broken Alliegience," which had some surprisingly a-class acting, writing, and lighting.
"Intelligent?" You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
If the movie Encino Man taught me nothing else, it was that bringing back a cavemen can only result in hilarity. And the guys who brought him back would finally get respect from the popular kids too.
Technically, the intellectual property of a company that goes bust is considered an asset and is usually sold off as part of their liquidation. So, even if Midway ultimately goes completely bust, it's likely someone else will just snap up the rights to all their best games and franchises. Considering the way things have been going lately, it will probably be EA. They seem to own just about everything else these days.
Look at it this way. With everyone out of work and having plenty of free time, it will be a helluva lot easier to raise enough people for large raids.
Yeah, but do you really want to *talk* to a girl who would judge you based on your computer brand?
What do you expect them to do, throw out every case that involves any question of medicine or science? What if they had done that back when defense lawyers and prosecutors first wanted to make DNA admissible?
Maybe now he'll let his poor kids get their polio shots.
Hah, that takes me back. My first PC was a Packard Bell 486SX (running at a smokin' 25 Mhz CPU speed) with 8 MB of memory (upgraded from the out-of-the-box 4 MB) and a 500 MB hard drive. It had a zif chip slot that let me eventually upgrade it to a DX 75Mhz chip before I finally scrapped it in 1997 in favor of a Pentium MMX.
If I were a Vodafone exec, I think I'd recommend that the company not do business in any country with a reputation "of torturing and murdering detainies, or having them 'disappear'" in the first place.
I remember when the first Aliens vs. Predator came out on the Atari Jaguar. If Sega can replicate even a fraction of that smashing success, I think they'll be around for a long time too.
"In the 1970's, the popular thing for upwardly mobile Communists was to hijack US airliners and divert them to Cuba."
If they were true supporters of liberty I guess they would have blown them up instead, like this upstanding U.S. resident did to Cubana Flight 455 in 1976.