I was in a Big Lotts store today and they had the complete box set for like $6.
I bought it for that much when it first came out on DVD. Picked it up along with Space: Above and Beyond. Of course, I bought several copies of Firefly each for about twice as much, but I get more use out of Firefly.
Oh god how much I hate Fox. At least they did kill the Ben Stiller Show, but all the other shows they killed before their time, so sad. At least the shows are cheap on DVD, unlike their "successful" ones.
Well, one would think that a projectionist named James Bond would already have the security clearance to open the projector. Or at least the skills to bypass them with a laser disguised as a pen and a watch with a super powerful magnet. But, then again, who wants to watch a movie that is shaken, not stirred?
Maybe he goes by the name Jimmy Bond, a washed up X-Football player with lots of money, but not much in the brain department, who hangs around with Melvin, John, and Richard trying to prove that aliens exist and the government sponsors terrorism, etc. only to be killed off by the executives at Fox after 13 episodes (because all the best television shows are killed off by Fox after 13 episodes.)
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: What about other countries?
Talking to some of them and all they want to do is say is 外人 は バカ！ (Foreigners are stupid)
Oh, I am not naive enough to think that doesn't happen. It happens here too. I have friends who are Asian, some of them Japanese, and hear the same from them about how there isn't anyone who can properly eat with chopsticks except the Japanese and the like. However, like other countries I've been to, they may think foreigners are stupid, and may say it, but they don't say it to someone's face like they do here (or if they do, they certainly say it with a smile.)
But back on topic, when they have a problem with your luggage, they pull you aside and go through your luggage with you present, unlike TSA, which wants to loot your luggage in secret. And when they have issue with you, like if you set off the metal detector, they don't take naked pictures of you or give you the same examination in public your doctor gives you alone in an examination room.
umm.. I think you are either mistaking Japan for someplace else or you have never been to Asia.
Heh. Yeah, Japan was like that at one time. Now they just export armies of tireless workers. PvP by economic action...
Japan doesn't really like our marines either, but as much as they don't like them, I get the feeling that they are between a rock and a hard place because they want them there to protect them from North Korea.
I love the Japanese too...but then again, I love the people in just about every country I've been to. Call it wide-eyed idealism, but with exception of one country I've been to (which I won't name,) people are just a hell of a lot nicer everywhere you go except here (there are nice people here, just not a lot because we are all so damn self-centered.) Even when they don't speak your language, and you don't speak theirs, they try to help you out. Here (and in one other country I've been to,) not so much (and I spoke their language there, though not my birth language.) Been to Africa, Europe, and Asia, and it is pretty much the same world over...even in Canada...people are a hell of a lot nicer there.
Republicans and Democrats are two sides of the same face now.
I'd agree, except this is Ron Paul we are talking about. I'd vote for the guy (already done it before,) and he'd put me out of a job. But I'd still vote for him in a heart-beat. The sad thing is that you just cannot trust most politicians, they say they are for transparency and small government, but then when they get in office they become the most obtuse and push for huge government. With Ron though...it sounds like he is a boy scout, and I'd be really surprised if he fell back on his word.
To my understanding no incoming international flights put their passengers through such a screening.
I was on a flight from Japan to San Francisco, where at the gate to enter the plane, several Delta employees wearing surgical gloves "patted-down" certain passengers. However, I was not subject to it, and from what I saw, they weren't as invasive as the TSA pat-downs.
Of course, when I stepped off the plane in San Francisco, I was subject to two separate pat-downs. Once upon leaving the plane, and then again when entering the domestic terminal. Of course, I also had a customs agent go through my wallet for every bit of identifying information she could get. As I walked away from the customs office (but still in range so she could hear me,) I told my co-worker, "Damn, its good to be home." Nowhere else in the world where I have travelled, have I been subjected to the crap that occurs in our airports. And the funny thing is, I feel a hell of a lot safer travelling in/through foreign countries because, a) their security folks give a damn, and b) they attack the problem, not hide the symptoms behind theatre.
I'd love to see more states get the cahones to stand-up to the TSA.
Your proposal would effectively put an end to copyright, patents and trademarks.
How? I can see it making lawsuits for smaller business and end users much more difficult, but big businesses will still use it as a weapon to bash the competition's head with. Essentially nothing will change.
However, I personally like where you are going with this though. I am not a fan of copyright, patents, or trademarks, as they currently are implemented, and would like to see them reigned in. Reducing copyright to a reasonable 17 years plus 17 year extension (or even better, allow unlimited 17 year extensions,) and lock down copyright so that it can only be held by the creator, and cannot be sold permanently to a corporation (the creator can give the company their permission to exclusive distribution, if they want, limited to 17 years.) Software patents should be outlawed entirely, as with business process patents. And trademarks must be specific to a trade mark...there should be no way a company can trademark the color pink.
I realize the price I'd pay for these changes, but they would go along way to removing the sheer stupidity and the tyranny by the oldies that exist in the current situation (Mickey Mouse has done more to destroy the public domain than anyone else in the field.)
Read your carrier service contract and your device EULA.
I don't have Verizon, which you apparently do. According to my carrier service contract, I am free to do whatever I want to the phone, but my carrier will not support the phone if I do so. Says nothing about installing "unauthorized" software, and the device EULA just has the various open source licenses that I agree to follow.
Dude, Verizon is your problem. Go with a company that responds to its customers wishes and doesn't try to lock them into crazy and anti-customer contracts. I cannot believe people still use them. My parents bought new phones that specifically had GPS capability, only to find out that Verizon disabled the GPS they bought until they paid the $20/mo to activate it. My phone comes with GPS, and my carrier does nothing to disable it. I use it with third-party software all the time, and I've never heard them complain (except when I reinstalled the OS on my phone...I got a phone call from them asking me if the phone was having technical problems, and I told them that I just wanted to upgrade the software on the phone. They said no problem, and when I took it in for problems I was having they still supported the phone under warranty.)
Ditch your current provider...they just aren't worth it.
Nevermind the fact that Disney singlehandedly killed Hand-drawn Animation and then blamed it on Pixar. Luckily, they got rid of Eisner, and the new boss came in and restored the industry.
It looks like Anthony might still be part of the old guard that likes blaming things on others instead of looking deeper into what the customer wants and what they aren't providing. Maybe this guy should get together with John Lasseter and discuss the future, since John seems to have a much better handle on innovation and adapting to the future while honoring the past. Sad too, because I like Disney, even though they are Big Content and act like it.
Not necessarily. Many jokes have an element of truth to them. And some jokes are funny because they are true. So I think you might have to work a little on your hypothesis.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Response to: Anonymous Coward on May 19th, 2011 @ 4:27am
All they know is this information came from the CDC
Anyone who relies on a trusted source without validating what they read through multiple sources and verifying with the source as fact needs to be fitted with a warning label that says "Warning: I do not have a brain, and if you eat the contents of my head, you will get sick and die...even if you are a Zombie." They also open themselves up to a number of dangers, including social engineering and phishing attacks.
I thought it was well done, and even though I have an emergency plan, it got me thinking that I should probably sit down and update it since it is a couple years old. I also need to go through my emergency supplies and make sure they are still good. Thus, at least for me, I realized the humor and it had its intended effect.
I agree with Mike and the others here..."Well done!"
Wait... that's like saying someone that owns the mall can now dictate the prices someone who pays to be in there should sell for
Not a perfect analogy, but what I believe is happening here is that the stores and the distributor determined a set cost for the product and a profit margin, then the owner of the mall, who also had their own store in the mall and the same deal with the distributor, decided to end-run their competitors by setting the rent for the mall to be the same price they knew the stores were getting as a profit margin from the distributor.
Did you know being a paranoid schizophrenic cop, gives you unlimited power? Your always in fear of your safety so all your actions are justified, and you hear odd noises coming from wherever you are, so you have warrantless access everywhere.
I know this was intended to be a joke, but it certainly isn't true, at least in most states. Paranoid schizophrenic cops won't make it through the psych-evaluation. Also, the law states "reasonable person", and a paranoid schizophrenic is not reasonable (when the syndrome is not under control.)
Yes, ok...now all we need is a carousel, and my plans are complete. Life is wasted on the old...we can get enough votes together that we can clear the world of all the old people (well, people over 35 years old,) and then we can live carefree lives with nobody worried about being on someone else's lawn.
Oops...I am over 35 now. Nevermind. Nothing to see here, move along.
I've been to several concerts recently where the band offered for sale (for 20-25 USD) USB tokens with the recording of the output of their soundboard during the concert. Usually it is bands that practice CwF+RtB, but I've seen more mainstream bands doing it now too. One concert I went to, everyone who entered the building on a paid ticket received a ticket to pick up a USB token, for free, at the end of the concert (ticket price to get in was about $35, so not sure how they made a profit (though I suspect they shared profit in beer sales.
So, not only is this hurting the consumer...it is hurting the very industry they say they are protecting.
Actually, the 'pulling someone over who is out after 2:00 am' would be illegal as well, because there is no justification there.
Correct, being out after 2:00 isn't justification, but coupled with the driving erratic certainly gives the reasonable suspicion required to make a stop. I've often been out, in areas where there is a lot of drunks on the road, after 02:00 and have not been pulled over. Then again, I am not weaving all over the place and driving on the sidewalk either.
If the officer approached the car, and could not find further evidence of a crime, they would have to let the person go.
I am not willing/able to trust Dan Lyons here. He's turned out so many articles in the past which were poorly fact checked, trollish, unpaid (or possibly paid) anti-linux articles in the SCO fiasco which were easily debunked later, that it is hard to tell here if what he is saying is the truth, or just another example of the same process he is accusing Facebook of employing. How do we know he hasn't been paid to write this article?
Unless there is some corroborating evidence or a press-release from Google/Facebook, or some other reporter that steps forward and confirms the report, I will not give any credence to what Mr. Lyons has published. He is, after all, the self appointed "Fake Steve Jobs" so it isn't like he doesn't have a history of being less than truthful to earn page-hits and advertising dollars.
I'd wait for someone else to corroborate this before jumping on the Facebook did it bandwagon. (Not that I'd put it past Facebook to do something like this.)
Racial Profiling doesn't work; profiling, however, does.
In the law enforcement community, this profiling is called behavioral or criminal profiling, and yes, it works very well. Pulling a person over because they are a particular race is illegal, and ethically wrong, regardless to the circumstances. However, pulling a person over because they are driving erratically, on the streets after 0200, and when you approach the car you smell a strong wiff of alcohol and the driver is slurring his speech and cannot stand up straight...well, that is behavioral/criminal profiling.
If TSA employed this better than the random, ridiculous process they have now, they would go a lot further in protecting the plane and its passengers from terrorists. However, implementing it isn't easy, and putting it to practice doesn't create the show that they call security now. TSA is about making people feel that they are secure (false-security) and not about making them secure.
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I bought it for that much when it first came out on DVD. Picked it up along with Space: Above and Beyond. Of course, I bought several copies of Firefly each for about twice as much, but I get more use out of Firefly.
Oh god how much I hate Fox. At least they did kill the Ben Stiller Show, but all the other shows they killed before their time, so sad. At least the shows are cheap on DVD, unlike their "successful" ones.
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Maybe he goes by the name Jimmy Bond, a washed up X-Football player with lots of money, but not much in the brain department, who hangs around with Melvin, John, and Richard trying to prove that aliens exist and the government sponsors terrorism, etc. only to be killed off by the executives at Fox after 13 episodes (because all the best television shows are killed off by Fox after 13 episodes.)
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: What about other countries?
Oh, I am not naive enough to think that doesn't happen. It happens here too. I have friends who are Asian, some of them Japanese, and hear the same from them about how there isn't anyone who can properly eat with chopsticks except the Japanese and the like. However, like other countries I've been to, they may think foreigners are stupid, and may say it, but they don't say it to someone's face like they do here (or if they do, they certainly say it with a smile.)
But back on topic, when they have a problem with your luggage, they pull you aside and go through your luggage with you present, unlike TSA, which wants to loot your luggage in secret. And when they have issue with you, like if you set off the metal detector, they don't take naked pictures of you or give you the same examination in public your doctor gives you alone in an examination room.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: What about other countries?
Heh. Yeah, Japan was like that at one time. Now they just export armies of tireless workers. PvP by economic action...
Japan doesn't really like our marines either, but as much as they don't like them, I get the feeling that they are between a rock and a hard place because they want them there to protect them from North Korea.
I love the Japanese too...but then again, I love the people in just about every country I've been to. Call it wide-eyed idealism, but with exception of one country I've been to (which I won't name,) people are just a hell of a lot nicer everywhere you go except here (there are nice people here, just not a lot because we are all so damn self-centered.) Even when they don't speak your language, and you don't speak theirs, they try to help you out. Here (and in one other country I've been to,) not so much (and I spoke their language there, though not my birth language.) Been to Africa, Europe, and Asia, and it is pretty much the same world over...even in Canada...people are a hell of a lot nicer there.
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I'd agree, except this is Ron Paul we are talking about. I'd vote for the guy (already done it before,) and he'd put me out of a job. But I'd still vote for him in a heart-beat. The sad thing is that you just cannot trust most politicians, they say they are for transparency and small government, but then when they get in office they become the most obtuse and push for huge government. With Ron though...it sounds like he is a boy scout, and I'd be really surprised if he fell back on his word.
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Re: Re: What about other countries?
I was on a flight from Japan to San Francisco, where at the gate to enter the plane, several Delta employees wearing surgical gloves "patted-down" certain passengers. However, I was not subject to it, and from what I saw, they weren't as invasive as the TSA pat-downs.
Of course, when I stepped off the plane in San Francisco, I was subject to two separate pat-downs. Once upon leaving the plane, and then again when entering the domestic terminal. Of course, I also had a customs agent go through my wallet for every bit of identifying information she could get. As I walked away from the customs office (but still in range so she could hear me,) I told my co-worker, "Damn, its good to be home." Nowhere else in the world where I have travelled, have I been subjected to the crap that occurs in our airports. And the funny thing is, I feel a hell of a lot safer travelling in/through foreign countries because, a) their security folks give a damn, and b) they attack the problem, not hide the symptoms behind theatre.
I'd love to see more states get the cahones to stand-up to the TSA.
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Re: Re: The best option
How? I can see it making lawsuits for smaller business and end users much more difficult, but big businesses will still use it as a weapon to bash the competition's head with. Essentially nothing will change.
However, I personally like where you are going with this though. I am not a fan of copyright, patents, or trademarks, as they currently are implemented, and would like to see them reigned in. Reducing copyright to a reasonable 17 years plus 17 year extension (or even better, allow unlimited 17 year extensions,) and lock down copyright so that it can only be held by the creator, and cannot be sold permanently to a corporation (the creator can give the company their permission to exclusive distribution, if they want, limited to 17 years.) Software patents should be outlawed entirely, as with business process patents. And trademarks must be specific to a trade mark...there should be no way a company can trademark the color pink.
I realize the price I'd pay for these changes, but they would go along way to removing the sheer stupidity and the tyranny by the oldies that exist in the current situation (Mickey Mouse has done more to destroy the public domain than anyone else in the field.)
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Re: Re: Re: Re: This has been my argument
I don't have Verizon, which you apparently do. According to my carrier service contract, I am free to do whatever I want to the phone, but my carrier will not support the phone if I do so. Says nothing about installing "unauthorized" software, and the device EULA just has the various open source licenses that I agree to follow.
Dude, Verizon is your problem. Go with a company that responds to its customers wishes and doesn't try to lock them into crazy and anti-customer contracts. I cannot believe people still use them. My parents bought new phones that specifically had GPS capability, only to find out that Verizon disabled the GPS they bought until they paid the $20/mo to activate it. My phone comes with GPS, and my carrier does nothing to disable it. I use it with third-party software all the time, and I've never heard them complain (except when I reinstalled the OS on my phone...I got a phone call from them asking me if the phone was having technical problems, and I told them that I just wanted to upgrade the software on the phone. They said no problem, and when I took it in for problems I was having they still supported the phone under warranty.)
Ditch your current provider...they just aren't worth it.
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It looks like Anthony might still be part of the old guard that likes blaming things on others instead of looking deeper into what the customer wants and what they aren't providing. Maybe this guy should get together with John Lasseter and discuss the future, since John seems to have a much better handle on innovation and adapting to the future while honoring the past. Sad too, because I like Disney, even though they are Big Content and act like it.
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Not necessarily. Many jokes have an element of truth to them. And some jokes are funny because they are true. So I think you might have to work a little on your hypothesis.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Response to: Anonymous Coward on May 19th, 2011 @ 4:27am
Anyone who relies on a trusted source without validating what they read through multiple sources and verifying with the source as fact needs to be fitted with a warning label that says "Warning: I do not have a brain, and if you eat the contents of my head, you will get sick and die...even if you are a Zombie." They also open themselves up to a number of dangers, including social engineering and phishing attacks.
I thought it was well done, and even though I have an emergency plan, it got me thinking that I should probably sit down and update it since it is a couple years old. I also need to go through my emergency supplies and make sure they are still good. Thus, at least for me, I realized the humor and it had its intended effect.
I agree with Mike and the others here..."Well done!"
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Re: Re: Re: Wait a moment...
Not a perfect analogy, but what I believe is happening here is that the stores and the distributor determined a set cost for the product and a profit margin, then the owner of the mall, who also had their own store in the mall and the same deal with the distributor, decided to end-run their competitors by setting the rent for the mall to be the same price they knew the stores were getting as a profit margin from the distributor.
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I know this was intended to be a joke, but it certainly isn't true, at least in most states. Paranoid schizophrenic cops won't make it through the psych-evaluation. Also, the law states "reasonable person", and a paranoid schizophrenic is not reasonable (when the syndrome is not under control.)
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Re: Re: Yes they will
Not likely, unless their father finally decides to cut them off and remove their ability to call on his lawyers.
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Carousel...
Oops...I am over 35 now. Nevermind. Nothing to see here, move along.
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Bands Sell Music on USB Sticks
So, not only is this hurting the consumer...it is hurting the very industry they say they are protecting.
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Re: Re: Dan "SCO code in Linux" Lyons?
Thanks Mike... Maybe I am being a little hard on Dan. Chalk it up to getting burned during the SCO Fiasco and now a little gun shy.
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Correct, being out after 2:00 isn't justification, but coupled with the driving erratic certainly gives the reasonable suspicion required to make a stop. I've often been out, in areas where there is a lot of drunks on the road, after 02:00 and have not been pulled over. Then again, I am not weaving all over the place and driving on the sidewalk either.
If the officer approached the car, and could not find further evidence of a crime, they would have to let the person go.
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Dan "SCO code in Linux" Lyons?
Unless there is some corroborating evidence or a press-release from Google/Facebook, or some other reporter that steps forward and confirms the report, I will not give any credence to what Mr. Lyons has published. He is, after all, the self appointed "Fake Steve Jobs" so it isn't like he doesn't have a history of being less than truthful to earn page-hits and advertising dollars.
I'd wait for someone else to corroborate this before jumping on the Facebook did it bandwagon. (Not that I'd put it past Facebook to do something like this.)
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In the law enforcement community, this profiling is called behavioral or criminal profiling, and yes, it works very well. Pulling a person over because they are a particular race is illegal, and ethically wrong, regardless to the circumstances. However, pulling a person over because they are driving erratically, on the streets after 0200, and when you approach the car you smell a strong wiff of alcohol and the driver is slurring his speech and cannot stand up straight...well, that is behavioral/criminal profiling.
If TSA employed this better than the random, ridiculous process they have now, they would go a lot further in protecting the plane and its passengers from terrorists. However, implementing it isn't easy, and putting it to practice doesn't create the show that they call security now. TSA is about making people feel that they are secure (false-security) and not about making them secure.
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