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@ Kalel: QED!
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Ah yes, the Digibomber.
http://www.themodernword.com/review_cryptonomicon.html
http://www.themodernword.com/review_cryptonomicon.html
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Ireland #1 for Quality of Life?
Hahahahaha! That's funny!!!
Hahahahaha! That's funny!!!
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Another block of witlessness in our civilisation's great pyramid of Stupid. Please, neatorama, spare us such displays of vulgar, post-modern "irony".
Fucking CONSUMERS.
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I preferred the video of the visually impaired 100 year old woman using the device to read books and write again for the fist time in years.
No chance of these two mudlarks reading a book, I'll warrant.
Fucking CONSUMERS.
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I preferred the video of the visually impaired 100 year old woman using the device to read books and write again for the fist time in years.
No chance of these two mudlarks reading a book, I'll warrant.
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Arr, and at the witching hour, when the moon is full, ye can still hear the sounds of dead men taking a shite.
And, 'tis said, that a yellow stream covers the floor, a river of ectoplasmic urea from the spectral void. And woe upon the wretched soul who steps therein, for it'll make yer socks wet.
And, 'tis said, that a yellow stream covers the floor, a river of ectoplasmic urea from the spectral void. And woe upon the wretched soul who steps therein, for it'll make yer socks wet.
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Ugh. I stopped watching the show around the 10 year plunge off the cliff. Any recent forays (this one included) validate the decision.
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This is MADNESS. these kids should go to school, because how else shall they learn how to become loyal members of the corporate slave-state?
The human veal-crate of cubicle servitude awaits for ALL! NONE shall DEFY!!!
After all, we're on the correct path, surely? Don't you want these children to be able to paddle in the waters of the GULF OF MEXICO, drink CLEAN WATER, eat TUNA FISH without MERCURY POISONING, and buy a HOUSE without going UPSIDEDOWN and being a bankrupt LOSER without a HOME?
How else could such a condition be achieved, other than by doing things as they have always been done, and by following the WISDOM of their ELDERS.
We should trust our fates to the ways of the PAST. These younglings should, nay, MUST surrender their bodies and minds to the prison-school industrial complex, to be indoctrinated into the dominant creation mythology of civilisation. Not for them the freedom to follow their freak, to seek out troublesome writers like Daniel Quinn (author of "Ishmael"), or contrarian madmen like Robert Anton Wilson (author of "Prometheus Rising").
GOD FORBID that any child should be free pursue their own path, for better or worse. All must obey the Platonic ideals set forth in "The Republic", or surely perish.
The human veal-crate of cubicle servitude awaits for ALL! NONE shall DEFY!!!
After all, we're on the correct path, surely? Don't you want these children to be able to paddle in the waters of the GULF OF MEXICO, drink CLEAN WATER, eat TUNA FISH without MERCURY POISONING, and buy a HOUSE without going UPSIDEDOWN and being a bankrupt LOSER without a HOME?
How else could such a condition be achieved, other than by doing things as they have always been done, and by following the WISDOM of their ELDERS.
We should trust our fates to the ways of the PAST. These younglings should, nay, MUST surrender their bodies and minds to the prison-school industrial complex, to be indoctrinated into the dominant creation mythology of civilisation. Not for them the freedom to follow their freak, to seek out troublesome writers like Daniel Quinn (author of "Ishmael"), or contrarian madmen like Robert Anton Wilson (author of "Prometheus Rising").
GOD FORBID that any child should be free pursue their own path, for better or worse. All must obey the Platonic ideals set forth in "The Republic", or surely perish.
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Are you guys INSANE? These cutaways could be used by eco-Iranian-terrorisms-people to blow up our nuclear plants, or build one of their own.
After this weeks Greenpeakce oil rig sabotagers, we can't be too careful!
After this weeks Greenpeakce oil rig sabotagers, we can't be too careful!
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DAMN YOU, JAMIE OLIVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(SHAKES FIST AT SKY).
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John Betjeman nailed the direction the UK was taking, many decades ago:
The Planster's Vision
Cut down that timber! Bells, too many and strong,
Pouring their music through the branches bare,
From moon-white church-towers down the windy air
Have pealed the centuries out with Evensong.
Remove those cottages, a huddled throng!
Too many babies have been born in there,
Too many coffins, bumping down the stair,
Carried the old their garden paths along.
I have a Vision of The Future, chum,
The worker's flats in fields of soya beans
Tower up like silver pencils, score on score:
And Surging Millions hear the Challenge come
From microphones in communal canteens
"No Right! No wrong! All's perfect, evermore."
(SHAKES FIST AT SKY).
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John Betjeman nailed the direction the UK was taking, many decades ago:
The Planster's Vision
Cut down that timber! Bells, too many and strong,
Pouring their music through the branches bare,
From moon-white church-towers down the windy air
Have pealed the centuries out with Evensong.
Remove those cottages, a huddled throng!
Too many babies have been born in there,
Too many coffins, bumping down the stair,
Carried the old their garden paths along.
I have a Vision of The Future, chum,
The worker's flats in fields of soya beans
Tower up like silver pencils, score on score:
And Surging Millions hear the Challenge come
From microphones in communal canteens
"No Right! No wrong! All's perfect, evermore."
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Regarding the "why didn't they give her a PC tablet" comments - the video clip would have been different:
Not "Where's the comma?", but "Where's CTRL ALT and DELETE?", and my favourite: "Why is the screen all blue with white numbers all over it?"
Think about it, won't you?
And yes, I'm a PC user. Still think there's a place for proportionally aware Industrial Design though.
Not "Where's the comma?", but "Where's CTRL ALT and DELETE?", and my favourite: "Why is the screen all blue with white numbers all over it?"
Think about it, won't you?
And yes, I'm a PC user. Still think there's a place for proportionally aware Industrial Design though.
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China will rule the world.
OBEY OR DIE!
OBEY OR DIE!
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This is from memory, can't remember who told me, so it's open to correction:
When Disney made "Snow White", they assumed that it would have to be on 24fps (like live action). They were half way through the production when it occured to someone (Roy Disney?) to hold each drawing for 2 frames (putting it on twos). They weren't able to tell the difference for most scenes - which saved a huge amount of time & money).
Again, anecdotal - can't find a reference.
Also heard that a lot of the production crew signed themselves in for medical treatment prior to the completion of Snow White, as they were so over-worked.
(Sorry Adrian, whinging has a long and glorious tradition).
The boozing in that place was pretty intense, btw.
Some more anecdotes:
After Pinnochio (might have been Fantasia) the camera department made a slide in the hallway of the cels from the film, and went skidding down the floor on them. No idea that these things would be worth a bomb years later.
One of my old bosses had worked at Disney animation during the 60s/70s. He and a friend found a huge barrel, like an oil drum, filled with water, and layers and layers of cels. Just left to rot. They fished them out and took them home. One of the guys managed to revive the paint sufficiently to liquidise it (god knows what chemicals he used) in order to cover over the gaps that had flaked off.
Different times!
When Disney made "Snow White", they assumed that it would have to be on 24fps (like live action). They were half way through the production when it occured to someone (Roy Disney?) to hold each drawing for 2 frames (putting it on twos). They weren't able to tell the difference for most scenes - which saved a huge amount of time & money).
Again, anecdotal - can't find a reference.
Also heard that a lot of the production crew signed themselves in for medical treatment prior to the completion of Snow White, as they were so over-worked.
(Sorry Adrian, whinging has a long and glorious tradition).
The boozing in that place was pretty intense, btw.
Some more anecdotes:
After Pinnochio (might have been Fantasia) the camera department made a slide in the hallway of the cels from the film, and went skidding down the floor on them. No idea that these things would be worth a bomb years later.
One of my old bosses had worked at Disney animation during the 60s/70s. He and a friend found a huge barrel, like an oil drum, filled with water, and layers and layers of cels. Just left to rot. They fished them out and took them home. One of the guys managed to revive the paint sufficiently to liquidise it (god knows what chemicals he used) in order to cover over the gaps that had flaked off.
Different times!
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@ KCanathema
Thanks. You understand the issues of describing the inevitable problems in ANY field, without accusing me of "whinging".
Then again, you're an adult. Adrian the so-called 'animator" is not. Whether he's an animator in anything other than his own mind is another question!
Thanks. You understand the issues of describing the inevitable problems in ANY field, without accusing me of "whinging".
Then again, you're an adult. Adrian the so-called 'animator" is not. Whether he's an animator in anything other than his own mind is another question!
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@ Edward:
How could they have "started out copying from itself and ended up pirating from Japanese animators." when we're talking about works that pre-date Japanese animation?
Ever heard of Winsor McCay?
How could they have "started out copying from itself and ended up pirating from Japanese animators." when we're talking about works that pre-date Japanese animation?
Ever heard of Winsor McCay?
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Harder and harder to find bona fide virgins these days. Sigh.