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Nanner Split said:
At least Macrovision is optional. AACS is built in to the format by default (and the licensing fee is built in to the cost of replication too).
Yeah also I never had to pay more then $20 for a Macrovision decoder, and it wasn't on every tape so it never really effected me. So I guess Bluray bothers me more.
That is beyond awesome!
dclarkg said:
I'm using Windows 8.1 and all fine here, windows 7 is also rock solid. Windows Vista is actually Windows ME 2.0 :p
Yeah that is what my dad called it, before he got out his old copy of XP and installed it on his computer. You would think Microsoft would have learned their lesson after ME but I guess not.
Saywhat you will about him but I still think he makes a better Batman then Clooney.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/high-school/girls-hs-basketball-teams-lose-game-article-1.2127405
Normally I would say this should be the plot of a movie, but it is already the plot of an episode of South Park.
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/12374692/washington-redskins-lawyers-tell-judge-canceling-trademark-violates-free-speech-rights
This is why I think we need a new constitution that reflects reality and not wishful thinking. The fact is that arguing on the grounds of free speech is stupid because in reality speech that offends people is always going to be banned. The government has never respected free speech if it is not in the best interest of the community, the government bans books from libraries all the time. The FCC censors every second on TV and radio and the MPAA censors all movies. The fact is there is not and never has been free speech in this country. People get thrown in jail for twitter posts if they are deemed harmful. Free speech is in fact a myth and if it wasn't there would be chaos and bloodshed on the streets. The government has always had the right to censor everything we say and the country is better off for it. I don't see why racism should be allowed in the name of such a destructive concept as free speech.
There is no constitutional right to file a trade mark so how can the government be violating anyone;s right. Also isn't a violation of the rights of the government to force them to honor a trademark that is nothing but hate speech that will lead to bloodshed? isn't it the government's job to do whatever it takes to protect the community? Isn't that why we have law enforcement and patriot acts to begin with. If this lawsuit makes it through the government will have no way to enforce law and order and we will see a complete break down and the country will fall apart.
Not well,I forgot about that one because I wasn't allowed to see it when I was a kid.
The Harry Potter thing is really silly because all the spells in those book are just really basic attempts a Latin that just state what the spell does. I think all JKR did was take what she wanted the spell to do and run it through google translate. Somehow I think there is more to real satin worship then that.
Maybe,but it does bug me to death.
Still at least it is not as Boston, I swear I have an easier time understanding Latin then half of what the average professor from Boston says:)
This may be a minor point but it has bugged me since I was a kid. It seems like 99% of the time when I hear someone talk about Star Trek they call it Star TRACK. Trek and Track are two completely different words that have completely different meanings. It bugs me every time I hear it.
Oh and all the best to Mr. Nimoy.
SilverWook said:
DrCrowTStarwars said:
Tom Hanks first ever acting role on TV was in a movie called Mazes and Monsters. It was all about the evils of D&D and it was about a highschool kid who got so tied up in his D&D game that he lost touch with reality and killed a man. it was part of the huge scare that lasted to when i was a kid where parents were sure D&D brainwashed kids and human sacrifice was part of the game. it was complete BS but that didn't stop the scar from lasting more then a decade and this stupid movie was one of the big thing that spread it. When i was a kid children were still forbidden to talk to any kid who owned a D&D book and kids were kicked out of school for wearing D&D shirts, that is how bad it was.
I laugh now because I think alot of those people are fine with shootings in schools as long as no one is playing an RPG.
I remember the fear of all things RPG was still great enough that I had to sneak my first Final Fantasy game home when i was a kid and all the kids in my town knew better then to let their parents catch them with an RPG video game. These things were seen as a bigger danger then drugs.
Mazes and Monsters was loosely based on a real life disappearance that was blamed on D&D. The truth was far less sensational, (and much more tragic) but Satanic Panic taking was hold in the 70's, and poor journalism didn't help.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dallas_Egbert_III
http://ptgptb.org/0006/egbert.html
I happen to like the movie. (It's an early 80's time capsule, and the dungeon monster Tom Hanks thinks he sees is pretty bad ass.) The finale at the World Trade Center is hard to watch today, for obvious reasons.
IIRC, there were a couple tv stations that wouldn't run certain TOS episodes such as Catspaw in syndication in the 70's. Whether the animated episode The Magicks of Megas Tu aired in those not so enlightened areas of the country, I have no idea.
Yeah I know it was based on a true story but that still doesn't make it any more fun for kids who had to live through the over reaction.
I never understood how playing D&D(which I wasn't allowed to do)was any different then playing Star Trek or Lone Ranger(which I was allowed to do).
TK-949 said:
DrCrowTStarwars said:
Why does he have a giant arrow point at his crotch?
You mean like every guy who wears a tie?
What? I never saw it like that. Now I can't unsee it you monster!
I was making a joke because that looks exactly like one of the outfits in Planet of the Dinosaurs.
TK-949 said:
Black Spiderman exists. His name is Miles Morales:
Why does he have a giant arrow point at his crotch? He is a cast member from Planet of the Dinosaurs?
Well the good news is we think we have found out what type of rash I have had on my body my whole life. That is good because it has been getting worse and worse lately and it is now so painful that I can't sleep any more. The bad new is that it is a genetic condition and there is no cure for it.
Great we live in an age where there may be no way to fix the fact that I can't sleep at night and am in constant pain, but we can know why it is happening. I feel so lucky.
I wish those androids from Star Trek existed and I could just have them place my brain in a plastic android body. That would be so much less trouble.
Tom Hanks first ever acting role on TV was in a movie called Mazes and Monsters. It was all about the evils of D&D and it was about a highschool kid who got so tied up in his D&D game that he lost touch with reality and killed a man. it was part of the huge scare that lasted to when i was a kid where parents were sure D&D brainwashed kids and human sacrifice was part of the game. it was complete BS but that didn't stop the scar from lasting more then a decade and this stupid movie was one of the big thing that spread it. When i was a kid children were still forbidden to talk to any kid who owned a D&D book and kids were kicked out of school for wearing D&D shirts, that is how bad it was.
I laugh now because I think alot of those people are fine with shootings in schools as long as no one is playing an RPG.
I remember the fear of all things RPG was still great enough that I had to sneak my first Final Fantasy game home when i was a kid and all the kids in my town knew better then to let their parents catch them with an RPG video game. These things were seen as a bigger danger then drugs.
http://screenrant.com/spider-man-marvel-reboot-2017-casting-race/
I have been saying for a long time that what's his name from Community would make a great Peter Parker. In fact the first time I watched an episode of that show I said it out loud.
I don't care about the race of Spiderman as long as they get a good actor, but just because he is black why can't he be Peter Parker? Does marvel really think that black middle class nerds who grew up in nice neighborhoods doesn't exist. It seems like every black character in fiction these days grew up in "Da hood" and is street smart but not book smart, isn't that kind of racist. I mean have we really progressed at all since the 1940s? Blacks are still portrayed as stereotypes who can't handle the world of white people, it's just now they are drug dealers instead of servants, seems like a lateral move at best to me. Oh and since when has Spiderman not been Peter Parker, will the general public even understand that? Isn't that kind of like having Superman not be Clark Kent? I say make him black but keep him as Peter Parker and give him the same black story as the white Peter Parker, don't change the back story just because of the colour of his skin.
TV's Frink said:
doubleofive said:
THIS JUST IN: writers can sometimes write more than one genre, especially when the cowriter is also known for other genres.
Film in 2016Stop it. Everyone knows Tom Hanks only makes wacky cross-dressing comedies.
No he only makes movies about the evils of RPGs. Thank goodness, now kids bring guns to school instead of D&D books and our schools are so much safer.
Well for one thing it crashes all the time(something that doesn't happen with XP or 7),it seemed to have real problems with certain video cards, it had a huge amount of trouble running older programs and games, it was give me error messages all the time and some times they would up just when i turned on the computer and my laptop came with Vista preinstaled, It had real trouble writing anything to a disc in a way that would work, then many times it would just refuse to read anything I plugged into the USB ports. All of these problems vanished once I replaced Vista with Xp and not a one of them has turned up on Windows 7. Vista was a nightmare I never want to return to.
Maybe, that could be it. As I said this was in 2010.
Or it could be that our district manager is just lazy or something, every store in Delaware seems to have problems of some kind that never get fixed.
I don't know, all I do no is I never got a response from corporate.
TV's Frink said:
All the way? You make it sound like state police officers don't exist anywhere specific and have to travel a long way to come to any local place.
Also, he mentioned they were friends of this guy.
Yeah Delaware is a small state and the police have a few stations and the area I live in is only about a 25 minute drive from Dover, the capital of the state. I got the impression that they were in the area on business of their own and just swung by. I'm sorry I didn't have the guts to ask them what they were doing.
As for why I didn't use the local police it didn't cross my mind, I was under a lot of stress at the time. My mom was having to spend a lot of time up in PA with my dad taking care of things because my dad was in such rough shape he wasn't able to stay awake long enough to listen to what the doctors said half the time.
I know quitting was a big screw up and I can't tell you what happened except that I left emails and messages with corporate that told them I was being threatened by a coworker and never got a response.
I know it sounds made up but all I can tell you is that it happened and I know I have only myself to blame for screwing things up but I was just trying to explain why I made the bad choice at the time.
digitalfreaknyc said:
I'm not looking for TV rips. I'm looking for well done captures ;) Everything you find on torrents looks like crap with reduced re-encodes :(
Really? What sites have you been using? my internet connection is not fast enough for amazon video to work with but Utorrent works fine so some times when my time recorder screws up I buy the episode on amazon but download it off of a torrent site and every time I have done it as long as I pay attention to file info and user feedback the episode looks as good as an official release or something I captured myself.
I am really surprised that you can't find good files on a torrent site.
Yeah I hate that. Recently I found that XMen first class will not play on my newest Bluray player, what a rip off. Makes me long for the days of VHS when the studios couldn't pull this kind of garbage.
I have an HDDvD player but only because my DvD player died a week after the format was killed and six months before I had gotten my first HDTV. The DvD player I was looking at was $40 but then a spotted a loan HDDvD player on clearance for $25 and it came with an HDMI cable and seven HDDvD discs in the box so I picked that up quick. It still works and I still use it from time to time, but I do think Bluray was the better format just because more data could be put on the discs.
DuracellEnergizer said:
DrCrowTStarwars said:
he seems to think everything in the universe is made of Furbies
A more disturbing universe I cannot imagine.
He does brandish a loaded shotgun at all times.
Well the guy threatening me with a knife was friends with some of management and they came down on me for the fact that he wasn't doing his job. He was in charge of making him do his job but I got threatened by him and in trouble with management every time. They then came down on me for not getting his work down for it. I tried to report this to corporate but they never returned my emails or phone messages. then it turned out this guy was buddies with some officers who work for the state police and they started to harass me in the parking lot and call in false complaints about me being rude to costumers and such to get me into trouble.
it was at this time my dad got really sick and I wasn't able to get my meds. Management decided to make things hard on me by giving me hours that I had told them I could not work because I was needed at home. i tried for months to solve the problem but one day right after threatened and yelled at by management yet again the stress became too much. I had a full blown panic attack and dropped to the ground outside the store, when people started bugging me about it I flipped out and just threw my name badge and discount card away and ran off in the middle of my shift. I now know how stupid that was and I wish I had handled it better. I know how insane this all sounds but it really happened. Needless to say I could not go back after that and since my mom needs her job there I couldn't really make any trouble for them. Plus it was just my word against there's and they had the police on their side.
Still I guess there was some justice in the end. The store became such a disaster area that a new manager was brought in and about a year later the guy who made all the trouble for me threatened her and she called the local police and he was a arrested. I don't know what happened to him after that.
I have tried applying there again but because I walked off the job the computer reject my application. I talked to the new manager and she said she understood but because of the way the system is set up and corporate never got involved she can't do anything to change that. So Wal-Mart is out.
I know this was a long winded post but it really was a long story as to why I left Wal-Mart.
RicOlie_2 said:
DrCrowTStarwars said:
some days I feel like Luke in Star Wars "Biggs is right, I am never going to get out of here!"
Have you tried checking around for any crazy old wizards?
The best I can find so far is a crazy meth head about a mile down the road, he seems to think everything in the universe is made of Furbies so i don't think he will be of much help.
