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#151853
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Possible banning of "freemail" addresses.
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Yeah, I would have to agree with Ric and YIYF, I do have another e-mail address, but it's my work account and I'd prefer to not use it. All my other e-mails are "freemail" -- Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail. Even my home account, through SBC, is routed to Yahoo because I linked my SBC account to my Yahoo one (pretty handy, really). And the address registered to my personal URL (kapgar.com) would do the same because it's linked to Yahoo since they're my webhost. I'd be a bit screwed and, I'm sure, many others would be as well.
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#151666
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Your favorite Hollywood excuse for 2005's crappy box office returns
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
Well, for some reason, I always thought that piracy due to prices were a problem of second and third world countries, specially China and Brazil, not in the US. Now, DVDs are very high priced if you compare to prices of other stuff in Brazil. I also know people who belive that buying bootlegs are better because you're gonna spend R$20.00 less than on the original stuff, but I don't think like this, and this sort of mentality is slowly dropping here, for some cultural and economical reasons. I've never bought a pirate CD or DVD, and I admitt having downloaded films, but only those completely unavailable, like the O-OT or the turkish films (please see my post on general star wars! )


I'm not saying that they're necessarily too expensive. Just that my friends are excessively cheap.
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#151592
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MLB
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Originally posted by: ricardo
southside is white sox.


Not anymore. Used to be that Madison Ave. was the cutoff between south and north sides. Now, in an informal poll of Chicagoans, 53% of the city say that Chicago is now a White Sox town. Used to be about 20-25% were pro-Sox. Fine with me, you bandwagoneers. Maybe now I can actually get Cubs tickets.

I wasn't in Chicago at all. But I thought there might be more stuff in the suburbs as well. Bulls celebrations were all over the place. Not White Sox, though. Signs and whatnot and an inordinate number of people wearing White Sox shirts all of a sudden, but nothing else.
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#151591
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This Movie must be stopped!!!!
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Originally posted by: Warbler
I don't see how. Many of Scorcese's hits came after Star Wars. I don't see how Star Wars stands in the way of making more serious and/or violent films.


They don't really "stand in the way of" per se. It's that now that movie blockbuster mentality has struck and firmly rooted itself (since the releases of Jaws and Close Encounters and Star Wars - all Lucas and Spielberg), studios want the next big cash cow. And this tends to keep them from seriously considering some of the smaller films that are made that won't bring in much bank. Guys like Scorsese have their name which almost guarantees that their films will be made. But there are so many other filmmakers with no marquee name and no budget and little to no chance that their films will ever be seen. Thank God for Sundance and Cannes and the Web. These are the only venues for many no-name filmmakers.
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#151589
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Your favorite Hollywood excuse for 2005's crappy box office returns
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Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
I like the excuse from The Island: it's not our fault the actors sucked!


Yeah, I liked that one, too.

But I also like how they still blame rampant piracy. So make your movie worth watching and people will see it on the big screen. People watch movies on the net because they don't feel they are worth spending the money on them. Don't go greenlighting every God-forsaken pseudo quasi demi blockbuster script that comes across your desk.
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#150785
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MLB
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No, I'm not celebrating. I'm happy for the Sox and the city of Chicago, indeed. But they're not my team. I'm still a Cubs fan. If I were to walk into a bar and someone dragged me into a celebration, sure I'd bounce around a bit. But I'm not actively seeking out a celebration. In fact, everywhere I've been is surprisingly sedate. I thought there would be a bit more excitement, but it's a bit dead. Then again, I don't live right in the city.