Comment Re:Obligatory (Score 1) 95
I LOVE your similitude! I'm using it everywhere, from now on.
"Cheerios? Man, that is the "Thomas Kincade" of breakfast cereals."
Comment HEADLINE: IKEA MAKES ELECTRIC CHAIR (Score 2, Funny) 95
Alabama and Oklahoma have orgasm.
Comment Re:Let's Get Real You Stupid Humans (Score 2) 71
Just wait til Bill Gates begins twiddling with these mosquitoes at the genetic level - as threatened. What could possibly go wrong, for the Sorcerer's Apprentice?
Comment It Also Works to Describe Examples of Fascist Prop (Score 1) 23
"Dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal"
"Beacon of freedom and promoter of democracy"
"Greatest nation on earth"
"Home of Free"
"Highest standard of living in the world"
"Best health care system ever"
"Dedicated to rule of law as determined by the will of the people with regard for the defense of the minority"
"Capital is the best expression of democracy at work"
The hits keep coming for the Homeland.
Comment Re:Comes with DRM (Score 1) 76
"I know! Let's compete with a non-product, technology PoC that has no proven market, PLUS a high-degree of resistance and hostility by prospective customers!"
"That's why you're the boss, J.T. and why you make the big dollars."
Comment Re:How do we know this is not parallel constructio (Score 1) 129
Both the "inevitability" and "good-faith" exceptions might apply in this case. But in the end the defence didn't or couldn't use parallel construction to get the laptop evidence omitted so it's irrelevant.
Comment Same Old Song (Score 1) 11
With a different meaning since you been gone...
Comment Re:Relevant Python (Score 1) 5
Stuck in Rutland Weekend Television.
Comment Re:Hey! I've been gypped! (Score 1) 145
I have an old laptop with 4GB but it's running Windows XP 32 bit so I can only use 3GB. Have I also been lied to?
Comment Re:Good news (Score 2) 422
Titanic and Avatar had better visuals than Serenity, to be sure, and Titanic had some good performances. I thought Avatar was a bucket of problems and flaws with some pretty colors, but really there's few of it's many, mnay flaws that I'm blame on a director.
That's hardly surprising. Titanic had 5 times the budget of Serenity and Avatar's was even larger. I was at least as impressed with the visuals in The Avengers as I was with Titanic and Firefly was extremely impressive visually for a TV show of that period.
It's quite hard to separate Cameron's direction of Avatar from his other roles of writer, editor, and producer. When a scene didn't work was it badly directed? Or badly edited? Or just poorly written? It's hard to tell. A perfectly well written scene can be ruined with poor direction and even if well written and directed it can be butchered by poor editing. In the end it doesn't actually matter because ultimately the bad result was the product of the same man's creative failure. As you say Cameron wouldn't simply direct a Star Wars movie. Whedon would probably not stick to directing either but I have rather more confidence in his ability to produce something good.
Journal Journal: After Several Months Not Bothering 5
I visit a few threads here, on reasonable topics - like Barrett Brown case, etc.
The level of discourse has really troughed. It's like "conversation" between the Dufflepuds..
It's not worth even trolling these people. There isn't enough signal-to-noise for this to even register.
Comment WITNESS SUPRESSION (Score 2) 257
They must be killed - judge, jury, executioner - before they can reveal that "Charlie" was a Gladio.
Comment There was (Score 1) 2
A young man from Nantucket...
Comment When I hear Lourde's "Royals" (Score 1) 4
I know "this really isn't the right Cafe, now is it?"
Comment Re: *sips pabst* (Score 1) 351
I suppose it was a disgusted rhetorical...
