The pedophiles are just the first step. Brazil also wants Google to hand over information on those suspected of "hate speech against black people, Jews and homosexuals." Now that Google has caved on the pedophiles, those will be next.
Did you miss the "shunted its customers' internet traffic to data-mining equipment" sentence in the article or are you just illiterate? If it's the latter, there is help you know. I can give you a phone number to call.
Bill Gates has done more to help the poor in Africa than any other human being in the U.S., by a factor of billions of $. You would do well to remember that before you start in with the tired old "M$" and the "evil empire" bashing.
May I remind you that Bill Gates has done more for the poor in Africa than Negroponte and virtually every other philanthropist in the U.S. combined? Before you go paint the "evil empire" with a broad brush, maybe you should consider the possibility that this isn't just some evil ploy.
If you had RTFA, you would see that the government didn't get warrants for any of these "suspects" and freely admitted that there wasn't enough evidence to do so. This isn't a case of some cop going before a judge and saying "Your honor, I need to subpoena this guy's records because I suspect he's a pedophile and here's my preliminary evidence." This was a case of the government saying "Here's a list of names. Give us all their information and don't ask any questions."
They always start with the "lowest of the low" precisely because they know no one will object to it. But they NEVER stop there. The next step is "Well, since you gave us information on these really bad guys, you can't object to giving us info on these *sorta* bad guys" which snowballs to the point where the government eventually just has its own monitoring room at your facility to watch *everyone*.
It's the deal of the century! Not only do you get to foot the development bill and take all the risk on a game that will almost certainly be a total snooze-fest, but you also get the added fun of a bunch of NASA bureaucrats looking over your shoulder saying "No, do it like THIS!" at every turn. Who WOULDN'T jump on such a great opportunity?
Screw a PS2. If you're a couple looking to have fun, get a Wii. I'm a fan of the Xbox 360 and don't own a Wii, but even I must admit that there is no better console for family fun.
As a follow-up, apparently the new blu-ray discs equipped with "BD Live" require a system update to function. "Dewey Cox" is just the first of these discs.
No, that has been the case in the past, but this time it wouldn't even let me load the disc without the update. Either there is something specific with that title that requires it, or Sony has decided to get a lot more heavy-handed with their updates.
Ditto for me. Home looked fun (I'm big into social games) and I wanted one of the hardware backwards-compatible 60GB units, so I also bought mine last summer when the price first dropped. Now I pretty much just use it for playing blu-rays. And it's annoying sometimes even for that. Last night I had to do a system update just to watch a blu-ray. So I had to go round up the game controller (since for some reason Sony's remote doesn't work for system updates). And then I had to wait while the update downloaded, installed, and rebooted the system. All that just to watch "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" in high definition. Goddamn what a waste.
Ed Wood and Roger Corman would have gotten those kind of numbers too. But people still enjoy Wood's work. And Corman's contribution to the film industry is almost impossible to overstate (virtually every great director to emerge in the 70's and 80's started out working for Corman). Like Boll, neither director took himself too seriously.
One person's shit is another person's champagne. There are those who think Kubrick's "A clockwork Orange" is pretentious, those who think it is too violent, and those who think it has something profound to say about the human condition. And then there are those, like me, who get it right by realizing that it's actually a black comedy that satirizes the director's own irrational fears.
Parker and Stone are contrarians and satirists (and pretty brilliant ones). If they made a WoW movie, it would spend about 75% of the movie making fun of WoW and its players. The result would be a very funny movie that pissed off most WoW players.
His movies are nowhere NEAR as bad as they're made out to be, even taken at face value. The dialogue is usually a little hokey, with some bad casting and cheap FX, but they're not even close to the worst stuff out there. If you want to see TRULY bad filmmaking, check out just about any Sci-fi channel original movie (with the NOTABLE exception of the brilliant Battlestar Galactica remake). At worst, Uwe's films are mediocre. But they're also, by and large, pretty fun and delightfully tongue-in-cheek.
For example, how anyone can watch "House of the Dead" and not laugh at the spliced-in videogame footage or the characters getting hit by zombies and flying 100 feet through the air (as if fired out of a cannon) is beyond me. If you don't get the joke watching that, then you're never going to understand Boll at all. Boll cast Jürgen Prochnow as the ship captain, for god's sake! How can you see that and not get that he's having a bit of fun with it?
The idea that intelligent life MUST have evolved on many other planets, just because of the sheer number of them, is hardly a "proven." The reality is that we know so little about how life really began and how it evolves that it's impossible to even begin to estimate its likelihood. Combine this with the fact that we know very little about other solar systems and planets out there, and it's clear that it's WAY to early to begin speculating about the number of other coexistent alien species. The number could be an astronomical one, it could also, just as easily, be 0.
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The pedophiles are just the first step. Brazil also wants Google to hand over information on those suspected of "hate speech against black people, Jews and homosexuals." Now that Google has caved on the pedophiles, those will be next.
Did you miss the "shunted its customers' internet traffic to data-mining equipment" sentence in the article or are you just illiterate? If it's the latter, there is help you know. I can give you a phone number to call.
Bill Gates has done more to help the poor in Africa than any other human being in the U.S., by a factor of billions of $. You would do well to remember that before you start in with the tired old "M$" and the "evil empire" bashing.
May I remind you that Bill Gates has done more for the poor in Africa than Negroponte and virtually every other philanthropist in the U.S. combined? Before you go paint the "evil empire" with a broad brush, maybe you should consider the possibility that this isn't just some evil ploy.
Put down your sword, crusader, and dismount thine high-horse. The end is not nigh.
1) Do you live in a world where most public terminals use Linux? And, if so
2) Why color is the sky there?
If you had RTFA, you would see that the government didn't get warrants for any of these "suspects" and freely admitted that there wasn't enough evidence to do so. This isn't a case of some cop going before a judge and saying "Your honor, I need to subpoena this guy's records because I suspect he's a pedophile and here's my preliminary evidence." This was a case of the government saying "Here's a list of names. Give us all their information and don't ask any questions."
And how long did it take after 9-11 and the Patriot Act before the U.S. government was data-mining every single citizen?
They always start with the "lowest of the low" precisely because they know no one will object to it. But they NEVER stop there. The next step is "Well, since you gave us information on these really bad guys, you can't object to giving us info on these *sorta* bad guys" which snowballs to the point where the government eventually just has its own monitoring room at your facility to watch *everyone*.
"NASA Simulator"--learn first-hand how, unlike in the movies, space in the real-world is boring as fuck!
It's the deal of the century! Not only do you get to foot the development bill and take all the risk on a game that will almost certainly be a total snooze-fest, but you also get the added fun of a bunch of NASA bureaucrats looking over your shoulder saying "No, do it like THIS!" at every turn. Who WOULDN'T jump on such a great opportunity?
Screw a PS2. If you're a couple looking to have fun, get a Wii. I'm a fan of the Xbox 360 and don't own a Wii, but even I must admit that there is no better console for family fun.
On Thursday they handed over information on terrorists
On Friday they handed over information on file-sharers
On Saturday they handed over information on everyone
Wednesday was the hardest. Every day after that it got easier and easier.
As a follow-up, apparently the new blu-ray discs equipped with "BD Live" require a system update to function. "Dewey Cox" is just the first of these discs.
No, that has been the case in the past, but this time it wouldn't even let me load the disc without the update. Either there is something specific with that title that requires it, or Sony has decided to get a lot more heavy-handed with their updates.
Ditto for me. Home looked fun (I'm big into social games) and I wanted one of the hardware backwards-compatible 60GB units, so I also bought mine last summer when the price first dropped. Now I pretty much just use it for playing blu-rays. And it's annoying sometimes even for that. Last night I had to do a system update just to watch a blu-ray. So I had to go round up the game controller (since for some reason Sony's remote doesn't work for system updates). And then I had to wait while the update downloaded, installed, and rebooted the system. All that just to watch "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" in high definition. Goddamn what a waste.
"Will Be, Someday" should be the official motto of the PS3.
Ed Wood and Roger Corman would have gotten those kind of numbers too. But people still enjoy Wood's work. And Corman's contribution to the film industry is almost impossible to overstate (virtually every great director to emerge in the 70's and 80's started out working for Corman). Like Boll, neither director took himself too seriously.
Wasn't the point to help kids?
One person's shit is another person's champagne. There are those who think Kubrick's "A clockwork Orange" is pretentious, those who think it is too violent, and those who think it has something profound to say about the human condition. And then there are those, like me, who get it right by realizing that it's actually a black comedy that satirizes the director's own irrational fears.
Parker and Stone are contrarians and satirists (and pretty brilliant ones). If they made a WoW movie, it would spend about 75% of the movie making fun of WoW and its players. The result would be a very funny movie that pissed off most WoW players.
You dream about WoW at night? No offense, but you need a break dude.
For example, how anyone can watch "House of the Dead" and not laugh at the spliced-in videogame footage or the characters getting hit by zombies and flying 100 feet through the air (as if fired out of a cannon) is beyond me. If you don't get the joke watching that, then you're never going to understand Boll at all. Boll cast Jürgen Prochnow as the ship captain, for god's sake! How can you see that and not get that he's having a bit of fun with it?
I give an honest opinion and get modded flamebait? So much for metamoderation.
The idea that intelligent life MUST have evolved on many other planets, just because of the sheer number of them, is hardly a "proven." The reality is that we know so little about how life really began and how it evolves that it's impossible to even begin to estimate its likelihood. Combine this with the fact that we know very little about other solar systems and planets out there, and it's clear that it's WAY to early to begin speculating about the number of other coexistent alien species. The number could be an astronomical one, it could also, just as easily, be 0.