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#719881
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Downloading a Steaming MP3?
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darth_ender said:

My question is how one downloads any steaming electronic file?  I don't get how anyone can make steam come from a file.  But good on ya mate!
Well any non-live streamed file is still a file being stored on a server someplace that could be copied like any other file on the internet. Just need to dig deep enough to find the right set of letters, numbers, and characters to allow you direct access to the original source to copy it.

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#717937
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Will Fox prevent Disney from release OUT?
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moviefreakedmind said:

 From my understand Disney made sure to get everything when they bought Lucasfilm. I doubt Disney would pay him 4 billion dollars and not get the original film material for the existing movies.
Disney spending 4 Billion on something isn't the same as any other company spending 4 billion on something. They don't always get everything. They just spend. When they bought several things from Saban including Power Rangers they were held to the terms of a contract with TOEI which gave TOEI some control over the Power Rangers show. Disney still spent Billions to Saban for his stuff but they didn't get complete control over the stuff. Disney's not free from previous contracts or oversights. Another example is that the "abc family" channel is only named that because Disney couldn't remove the "family" part of name without loosing the rights to air certain shows.

What really matters is what was Disney's focus when making the deal. If they weren't focused on making sure they could release the original versions and instead on what new projects they could make. Then the ownership of the original film elements would've been a secondary concern to them. Yeah sure they might've thought about it but if they figured they could make substantial profit in spite of the originals restoration status that's what they would've been certain to secure. The rights and opportunities to make lots of profit from new material made in the Star Wars universe. Unless the people at Disney are and were as into wanting the originals released as any Star Wars fan that does there's no certainty that they'd release the originals just based off of Billions. There's no certainty that they even care to try to restore the originals. We can just hope that if they do it's actually something of quality and not another disappointment that laserdisc master DVD release was.

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#716955
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4K restoration on Star Wars
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ComputerGeek said:

I wouldn't mind Disney doing things like fixing matte lines or using digital set extensions (cell block corridor in SW) or coloring the lightsabers in the occasional shots where they're the white stick. But anything other than fixing the small errors should be left alone

ComputerGeek said:

Same. All im saying is if they decide to "fix" anything it should be errors like that. Nothing as drastic as, say, Hayden Christansen or Greedo shooting first.
Please don't give Disney any ideas about "fixing" or "preserving changes". They "reversioned" Power Rangers and it was awful. Saban saved Power Rangers from being stuck like that, Lucas is not going to save Star Wars from any Disney reversioning.

Original versions first and foremost, preserved and properly restored. NO ALTERATION IDEAS ACCEPTABLE UNTIL THEN!!!!!!!!! NO EXCEPTIONS!!!

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#716104
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Random Thoughts
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DrCrowTStarwars said:

That is all speculations that doesn't line up with the dialog and we are never told that is what is happening. That doesn't change the fact that what we see onscreen makes no sense.  You can explain away any plot hole or piece of bad writing if you come up with your own back story and just make stuff up out of thin air and while that may be fun that is not what we are told in any of the episodes.  What we are told is that Kes is going to die because she turned nine,she wasn't in danger when she was eight and we are never told anything about the Caretaker or food being involved at all. It treated the same way old age is treated with anyone except it is treat as a fact that no one can live shorter or longer then ten years and that is just silly.

Yeah you can explain it away with stuff you make up in your own head but based on what we are told on the episode it's self this is what happens,once Kes turns nine she drops dead no question about it and it is a natural part of her people's lives.

So I just looked up the cold fire episode Tanis states "He was only interested in maintaining the status quo. He kept our people servile and weak." He also mentioned how their abilities had laid dormant and Suspiria taught them to be stronger and how to develop those abilities and he also mentions he's 14 years old. Sure it's speculation on my part about how the male caretaker kept their status quo but it's not something I'm making up. It's there in an episode of Voyager with Kes.

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#716101
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Random Thoughts
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DrCrowTStarwars said: Alien life spans. In this episode Kes is dying because she just turned nine and her people only live nine years. Anyone ever notice that it doesn't matter if it is nine years or nine hundred years when alien lifespans are mentions on Sci-Fi it is always very exact and every alien we meet always seems to live that exact number of years unless they get shot or something. if they are under the life span they are never in any danger of dying and once they reach that lifespan it like a switch flips and they just drop dead. it doesn't matter what kind of health they are in,they can't do a thing to prolong their lives like eating right or stuff like that,once they hit that magic number they are dead and everyone knows it.
Kes and her ocampan friends were like that because the male caretaker didn't know what the fuck he was doing. Maybe something in the food she ate for a good part of her life or he did some weird genetic stuff that the female caretaker didn't. Either way there was that episode with the female caretaker and the elder ocampan guy with super powers. He showed no indication that he was just going to up and die and he was well past 9 years.

Edit "Good part of her life" meaning the time that she grew the most not the majority of it. Just to be clear.

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#715998
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Random Thoughts
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DuracellEnergizer here's a list for you for free Japanese resources.
http://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video/Languages/Japanese/Pimsleur-Japanese-16-Lessons-for-the-Relief-Effort/40902
16 Japanese Pimsleur lessons free.

http://www.udemy.com/japanese-in-context/?couponCode=$0
Japanese in context Udemy course with a free coupon code in url. If you want to actually pay for the course here's the url sans code.
http://www.udemy.com/japanese-in-context/

More free udemy courses:
http://www.udemy.com/casual-japanese-conversation-absolute-beginner/
http://www.udemy.com/learn-80-jlpt-n5-kanji-and-530-japanese-compounds-part-1/
http://www.udemy.com/learn-80-jlpt-n5-kanji-and-530-japanese-compounds-part-2/
http://www.udemy.com/learn-80-jlpt-n5-kanji-and-530-japanese-compounds-part-3/
http://www.udemy.com/learn-80-jlpt-n5-kanji-and-530-japanese-compounds-part-4/

Free Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana books are available via PuniPuni.
http://www.punipunijapan.com/free-stuff/

Free videos on their YT channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/PuniPuniJapan/videos

Also YesJapan has free videos on their YT channel.
http://www.youtube.com/user/yesjapan/videos?view=0

Also a "Let's Learn Japanese" video series. Complete with links to view the books mentioned in the program all for free.
http://learn-japanese-basic.blogspot.com/2010/05/lets-learn-japanese.html

Plus another free video series "Irasshai".
http://www.gpb.org/irasshai/japanese-i
http://www.gpb.org/irasshai/japanese-ii

There you go. Nice easy list of a bunch of free Japanese learning resources.

Oh yeah online dictionary too http://jisho.org/ you can copy and paste any Kanji you see online and get the stroke order for it from there.

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#715879
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Last web series/tv show seen
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Tobar said:

twister111 said:

Episode made me feel like I put the wrong disc in or something because the title of the episode happens after something that seems like it could be an episode title but isn't.
 I'm having a heck of a time trying to decipher this sentence.

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Alright so the episode title is "The Second Wave" however immediately after the intro there's this text that says "Almost Tomorrow". Seems more like an episode title rather than a different way to establish a kind of "near future" timeline. Minutes after that the actual episode title comes up.

So, it made me think I put in the wrong disc because something shows up that could've been an episode title, but wasn't, prior to the actual episode title.

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#715869
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Last web series/tv show seen
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So in my viewing of Farscape I discovered the earliest episode I'd seen before trying to view it all. The start of season 3. That's the episode.

Also the last series I watched was War of the Worlds season 2 first episode. Episode made me feel like I put the wrong disc in or something because the title of the episode happens after something that seems like it could be an episode title but isn't. That aside I like this show.

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#715865
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If you need to B*tch about something... this is the place
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DrCrowTStarwars said:

doubleKO said:

Freaking impossible-to-read captchas... insult added to injury as I am left to infer that I am no more perceptive than the robot they assume me to be.
 Yeah what makes it worse is half the time the only reason I see these stupid things is because some website has glitched and is refusing to remember my password when I enter it.

Those things should be banned.
Almost as bad as when they squeeze the letters together in such a way that it could mean 3 or 4 different letters and 3 or 4 different combos of those letters. Like trying to figure out if it's inm or nim or iim or imi or imn.

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#712231
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How about a game of Japanese Chess, i.e. Shogi? Now playing Shogi4
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I come to this thread to apologize yet again. I noticed while checking out my saved drafts that I accidentally saved my last post here instead of actually posting it. I was tired and thought I posted it. Well I was wrong and the post was in my drafts instead. I must also apologize for not checking up on this thread again and leaving the game hanging. RicOlie_2 since you were the only one to actually capture a piece during our game I hereby declare you the winner!

darth_ender I hope things go well for you and your family.

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#712230
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The thread where we make enemies out of friends, aka the abortion debate thread
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So I had intended to post this reply earlier than this but due to a strange set of circumstances when I would try there'd be an error page instead. Then I eventually lost much motivation to post it. So now I'm finally getting around to posting it so that I don't think about it at all during my three week break from threads here.

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Alright so, I've read the posts and I could respond to each point and we could keep going back and forth on this issue but I think it's better if I just bow out of this discussion.

It's just that the part of the thread title "thread where we make enemies out of friends" just becomes more and more likely to happen the longer this discussion drags out. Everything here just seems to be getting more and more personal. I also feel dragged into the discussion of personhood which isn't something that I wanted to discuss anyway. I just wanted to mention something that bothered me about the whole personhood issue and let that be that. I didn't intend to go on a several page debate about it. (And the constant analogy with cake batter that's supposed to clarify things really doesn't help. That's still not cake so I don't know why it keeps being brought up.)

Further I only started posting in this thread again because I saw an analogy that seemed to completely ignore the health risks of pregnancy. I just didn't want those risks to be ignored.

All that said, I think it's better that this discussion end as amicably as possible.
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That's roughly what I wanted to post much earlier than this. Course since I took a while to post that this thread has turned into a discussion on unicorns...

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