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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=13931 |  Major Shtupping (153) Jan 17, 2007 - 09:51 pm
| About Beavis, never-the-less Mike Judge had to change the plots of future episodes and never ever ever mention it again.
I agree with your points on how it SHOULD be, but it isn't. Personal accountability doesn't exist anymore. We live in a world where "mistakes were made".
"I understand where you are coming from, but I still see a big difference in a water drinking contest and the stunts on Fear Factor." I don't think you do see where I am coming from. The big difference is that pesky reality thing again. Someone actually died from the water drinking, therefore it was infinitely more dangerous.
Now was there an intent to kill? Certainly not, and IMHO nothing more than some discomfort was intended. But the legal term for it was Manslaughter. Like when you accidentally kill someone with your car. You certainly didn't mean it, but physics said he was going to die.
She would not have drunk the water except that they offered her a chance to win something. And for that the radio station had the responsibility in making sure it was safe to do.
BTW, it doesn't mean that there will even be criminal negligence charges, which are the ones that really matter. A wrongful death suit would only be money changing hands, and most of those 10 people will probably never work in radio again. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=13931 | Major Shtupping (153) Jan 17, 2007 - 05:17 pm
| "Because some dumbass copied something from a movie and laid down in the middle of the road, completely throwing out all logic, that it is the movies fault"
In a perfect world, it wouldn't be, but in this one it is. I don't suppose you remember all the crap that happened to the Bevis 'n Butthead show, and that was a cartoon, even.
You may call this an "unfortunate accident, but having a water drinking contest is far from doing anything wrong." But it still did involve a mild case of death, orphaned kids and ten radio people who are now going to be unemployable -- well, except for the "talent".
The courts are pretty unanimous on this, when you stage an event, you are responsible for the health of the people involved.
That is why I mentioned Fear
Factor, the contestants have surely signed waivers, but they still don't want to get sued. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=13931 | Major Shtupping (153) Jan 17, 2007 - 08:59 am
| "So basically, what you guys are saying is that it was the fault of the radio host for having this contest"
I see you are capable of reading comprehension at least. Yes, that is EXACTLY what we are saying.
Have you ever watched "Fear Factor"? It's pretty exciting, but it would be A LOT more exciting without all that pesky safety equipment. And if you didn't notice, the show provides the safety equipment, the contestants didn't bring their own.
It's even worse than that though. Movies get sued for showing irresponsible things like that football movie that had the guy lie in the middle of the road... well some idiot here in NY tried that and then his family wound up sueing the movie company.
This sad case could have been prevented with a two minute consult with a doctor before hand, and some monitoring of the contestants afterward. If the show people had consent from either their legal department or management for the contest, I would be sueing the radio company for wrongful termination. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=13617 | Major Shtupping (153) Dec 21, 2006 - 11:50 am
| I agree pretty much with all of your choices and rankings, except #3.
I can see why it means so much to you because you now miss out on a free yearly trip to vegas, but to the rest of us (yes, even the hardcore) who didnt ever plan on attending, it was no big deal. Companies will still find a way to get their publicity out, and maybe wont have to spend a few months not developing their games to prepare for E3.
I'd probably replace #3 with either Intel's development of quadcore or dell selling amd Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=13128 | Major Shtupping (153) Nov 09, 2006 - 12:04 am
| It means that Windows has been finalized, just like the phrase "Released to Manufacturing". They are now burning disks and printing manuals.
"Going Gold" comes from the fact that the Master CD sent to the duplicating plant was usually gold in color. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=3568 | Major Shtupping (153) Oct 30, 2006 - 01:29 am
| That researcher seems to have based his assumptions on the fact that a vampire HAS to create more vamps. Everything i've ever seen/read makes it sound like it's a conscious act.
Besides he didn't account for the AIDS epidemic killing the world's vamps like I read in the National Inquirer. Or for Buffy either... I saw her kill LOTS of vamps. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=3567 | Major Shtupping (153) Oct 30, 2006 - 01:16 am
| I gotta agree with el-spork on this one.
domains with no original meaning now worth lots of $$$:
google, amazon, yahoo, wikipedia, imdb, youtube...
domains with meanings that have failed:
pets.com, warehouse.com, sex.com, the whole .tv domain...
You seem to forget about all those dot bombs who spent mega $$$ because they needed the perfect site name to get traffic. It seems though that the money is better spent on creating branding for your own product. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=3510 | Major Shtupping (153) Oct 17, 2006 - 08:38 pm
| I am a retired professional image editor, having been in charge of imaging for more than a dozen well known magazines in the past 15 years.
As far as I can tell from such a low resolution picture, there is a problem with the shadow thrown from the left side light (the Fill light). Either it had to be set to shine almost parallel to her brest or it was doctored.
The Main light is above her to the right so it looks like the photographer is using typical Rembrandt lighting. The Fill light should be set on the upper left but as I said, it doesn't seem to be, and doesnt cast realistically.
Also, why is the blouse so low cut? If the mother is screaming about how people shouldnt be ogling her child, was the blouse she was wearing originally so low? Tbat would be a very easy way to tell.
Another would be to look at the other pictures shot that day. The fact that the photographer wants to bring her back to the studio to "try to recreate" the photo makes the photog look guilty. They should be able to point to several classmates with similar shadows already. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=3490 | Major Shtupping (153) Oct 14, 2006 - 12:16 am
| New York isn't a No-Fly zone per se, there's a VFR flight corridor there
This is the second time someone's claimed this nonsense. If you fly over Manhattan, you WILL scramble fighter jets.
Yes, there is a VFR flight corridor, but let me quote the link I provided which was written in 1997:
"The corridor is basically the Hudson River, although for an additional challenge, you could also fly along the East River."
So you are never actually flying over any land. Manhattan is an island surrounded by these 2 rivers. The other boroughs are fair game for flying over, but they technically arent NYC
I guess these prop planes are built light, as a B-25 Bomber crashed into the Empire State Bld. at 300mph in 1945, and it only killed 14 people and did little structural damage.
Link: http://home.rochester.rr.com/pa28/nyc-vfr.htm Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=3490 | Major Shtupping (153) Oct 11, 2006 - 09:24 pm
| "How the plane managed to penetrate airspace over one of the most densely packed sections of New York City was not clear."
As I said before, NYC is a No Fly Zone, although some anonymous people claim to have flown over it.
As far as I know, all major cities are No Fly Zones, even before 9/11. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=12577 | Major Shtupping (153) Oct 06, 2006 - 07:16 am
| I read the headline and went "OMG I have to read this." This headline is very misleading. Requiring a 450W power supply is NOT the same as the card requiring 450W.
Who would build a gaming rig with a top of the line graphics card with less than a 450W powersupply anyway?
ATI tends to be a bit less power hungry, but R600 will almost certainly need more power than the X1900 XTX. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=12272 | Major Shtupping (153) Sep 17, 2006 - 10:22 am
| Now that we are getting drives that the manufacturers say is 1TB in size, the manufacturer's lies go up in scale from 6.9% to 9.06%. That means that every 1TB drive advertised will be short 97.1GB when formatted.
When are they going to be forced to switch to the correct math? Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=12192 | Major Shtupping (153) Sep 15, 2006 - 07:11 pm
| Ok now you've got me questioning my memories. to the first anonymous poster, check the link where you can listen to parts of stern's broadcast. I heard part 1 before i left for work, and it's true that there was no guy, but they never mention it was a jet and think its a Cessna or something like I said. Also I was getting ready for work and wasn't paying attention to every single word because dude... if it was a cessna, i'd have still had to work that day, and really, a commercial plane was unthinkable.
To the second anonymous poster, maybe you are a real commercial airline pilot, but then you are leaving something out. Maybe you were vectored over Manhattan at night, or weekends. There just has never been air traiffic over manhattan when its full of people. I am certain any other New Yorker will back me up on that.
Link: http://polihale.com/display/30170 Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=12192 | Major Shtupping (153) Sep 15, 2006 - 06:39 pm
| I even asked a few other people who live here... No one I asked(6 people so far), including me has ever seen any planes or helicopters over manhattan. I've lived here all my 36 years.
There are a few landing pads for helicopters on the east and west sides, but they aren't allowed to fly over the city either.
The time I flew out of Newark on a jet, it followed the Hudson and flew over queens. I've seen plenty of stuff fly over my house in brooklyn.
Personally, I thought they cancelled all air traffice over NYC after that Bomber hit the Empire State building.
I just don't get any of this. Why is there all the hating? I said I was in downtown manhattan on 9/11 were there were literally a million other people and people just want to prove I wasn't.
I could see if I was claiming I helped catch falling babies with my teeth, or pulled the last cop out of the basement of the WTC...
But all I did was see the second plane hit the tower. I didn't see the first one, and by the time anything collapsed I was far enough away that I never even heard anything.
I have no idea why you people just dont want to believe that there were alot of new yorkers in downtown manhattan that morning. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=12192 | Major Shtupping (153) Sep 13, 2006 - 02:20 am
| No, I remember him saying the dude should call the FAA. Maybe he did put the guy on the air, maybe not. Alot happened that day, and it's been 5 years, but that's the way I've been telling it since it happened when people ask.
I don't understand why there's a credibility problem... There are another 8 million or so New Yorkers who each have their own story. I wasn't a hero, I didnt do anything that day except go to work and the doctors. So don't believe that as you wish. I'm not sure what you think I'm trying to get you to believe.
I should be bothered at your comments, but I'm not. If I wanted to tell amazing stuff I could talk about friends who worked there and school mates who died there.
You know, in the past 5 years, I haven't really thought about it much, because New Yorkers don't ask each other where they were, what they did. When I saw the topic, I thought I'd add my story because it seemed that no one else was in the city. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=12192 | Major Shtupping (153) Sep 12, 2006 - 07:08 pm
| » part 2 of 2
When I got home, the phone didn't really work (There was a main Verizon phone center next door to the WTC which was damaged in the collapse). And what service there was, was spotty because EVERYONE everywhere was trying to call into or out of NY. I got a few phone calls from relatives I hadn't heard from in years. The TV was useless too. All of the stations except for Channel 2 were off the air. The WTC had the TV transmission towers for all the stations except the emergency station. So for once I watched Ch. 2. I checked on my supplies (medicine, batteries, food), and went out and bought a few things just in case.
I live about 15 miles or so as the crow flies from the WTC. Looking in the direction of Manhattan you could see the smoke smudge in the sky. Normally, you couldn’t see the towers from my house unless you were on the roof. From my roof, you couldn't see the towers were missing because there was too much smoke.
Strangely enough, my doctor was open that evening and I went to my appointment.
We New Yorkers say you can never find a cop when you need one. Apparently that's because they were saving them up for now. Police were EVERYWHERE. Police were stationed on EVERY street corner on the border to lower Manhattan to keep people out. Patrol cars constantly patrolled everywhere. They had more police vans out parked than I thought existed.
My company stayed shut down for almost a week, while the city sorted things out. There was no travel into lower Manhattan for that time except for emergency workers. When they did let us back, it looked like it had snowed. There was grey ash everywhere in the streets, up to 1" thick or so, where I worked. And there was this smell... it reminded me of burning leaves (being a city boy, I can’t guarantee this. Maybe like burning paper), and it lasted for a month or so.
One last thing, I've mentioned that people were quiet a few times. Well, throughout that day, and for weeks afterward everyone was different. I've always said that I'm proud I am from New York, but I've never been proud to be a New Yorker, if you see the difference. Well I was finally proud to be a New Yorker. We like to complain, but for a while there, there was none. Going into Manhattan that morning, people bitched at the MTA when they announced the train re-routings. Coming home, there were no complaints whatsoever from the people on the train with me when they shut down the trains. No complaints about the MTA not having enough buses when they were all full... There were no complaints in general that I remember, no arguing either. Everyone was preternaturally calm and nice to each other. This isn't me white washing my memories either. I noticed it at the time (as I said, I'm not normally proud of the way we act). And actually spent a bunch of time observing people through this because I was waiting to see how long this would last before things went back to "normal".
But New Yorkers did me proud at that time. I later saw a news paper article saying that for like a month afterwards there was almost no crime and there were no murders for like a month. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=12192 | Major Shtupping (153) Sep 12, 2006 - 07:07 pm
| » Part 1
Since no one else posting seems to be a New Yorker, I thought maybe you'd want a New Yorker's remembrance.
I normally worked 3pm - 11, so I should have slept through it in Brooklyn. However, that evening I had a doctor's appointment, so I switched shifts (the only time that year I had done that).
So I was up at 8:00 getting ready for work. I had Howard Stern on the radio to help wake me up. As I was leaving for work, some guy called in to Stern to say a plane crashed into a WTC tower. The guy was just saying "a plane", not a jet airliner. As a New Yorker, you know that NO commercial traffic is allowed to fly over Manhattan, not even helicopters. So Stern's reaction was the same as mine... he was thinking it was a Cessna and was telling the guy to call the FAA or someplace that could do something.
I left for work thinking that guy was an idiot. The train ride in on the subway was odd but horrible. It was horrible because almost all trains from Brooklyn go under the WTC, and the one I take did too. I worked about 3/4 of a mile north of the towers in Greenwich Village at the time. The train ride was odd because the people were really quiet and when they did talk, it was about the plane crash... still no one saying it was a jet.
Finally after taking a completely different route I got to work. I was late of course. I was the sysadmin of a graphic arts firm that did business with Merrill Lynch. Of course my bosses understood why I was late. As a matter of fact, we had nothing really to do at the time because we were waiting for Merrill to call us and discuss the current work. They had their own problems at the time, and were too busy to talk to us, but we didn't know that.
After making sure everything was up and running well, I told my boss that I was going to go to West Broadway (about 2 blocks away) and look at the towers. You used to get a great view looking down W. Broadway. The Village is always crowded, but a lot of people had the same idea I had because the intersection was more crowded than normal, but most people weren't walking.
One of the towers was covered in smoke about 3/4 of the way up. I was thinking, how much smoke does a Cessna make? Then I noticed some of the debris falling from the tower was moving wrong. It took me seeing a few of these to process it in my mind. It was people falling and kicking their arms and legs as they fell. From the distance I was, they had to be falling from at least 30 stories or so. I heard later that they jumped, which has always struck me as odd. I can’t imagine choosing that as until the 1st tower collapsed, no one considered it would. But I must have seen more than a dozen, though I wasn’t counting.
The only sound there was was the fire department's horns as fire truck after fire truck went by. Then there was this roaring sound that was rapidly building in pitch off to my right. I looked right and filling the sky and getting even bigger was a jet airliner. It looked like it was coming in for a landing because it was so low, but it was over the Hudson. The second I saw it, my mind just kept saying over and over "This isn't an accident", like it was looped. I watched it fly by get near the towers and bank right into the second tower.
After it hit, I watched for another 30 seconds or so, and then went back to work to tell them and shut down. The crowd was still standing there. I don’t remember anyone gasping or screaming at all during the whole scene with the second jet. We were all quiet. Too quiet. For New Yorkers too too quiet.
I went back to work, told them we were being attacked, shut down all the systems, put a system backup in my pocket and headed for home.
If I thought public transportation was horrible before, it was insane now. After a bit, they just shut it down. Luckily, I had gotten out of Manhattan by that point. I was in downtown Brooklyn when they shut the trains. Brooklyn buses were still running, but there was NO chance I could get on because they were 100% packed. So I walked the 10 miles or so to my house.
Another FS poster said he remembered how it was quiet in Phoenix because there were no planes. Well, I remember the exact opposite. Every 20 minutes or so on the trip home and into the next few days, you'd hear jets flying overhead, except these were fighter jets. I don’t have to explain the difference in sound, but you don’t mistake the difference. Every 20 minutes or so they'd go flying by somewhere or other. The only noise there was, was the jets and the emergency vehicles horns. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=12192 | Major Shtupping (153) Sep 12, 2006 - 05:13 pm
| Actually, its not that funny. The WTC had between 10,000 and 12,000 workers daily. It was so big, that the WTC had its own postal zip code.
When the 1st plane hit, alot of people were trapped in the building, and the city was telling everyone to not go anywhere so emergency services could get around easier, so everyone in the second building should have been inside when the second plane hit that tower.
Apparently sometimes, fear or looking after your own butt WILL save your life. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=12075 | Major Shtupping (153) Sep 05, 2006 - 07:33 pm
| I know the guy who wrote the plot to DS9: The Fallen. He wound up with the gig because he had helped create their CD the Star Trek Encyclopedia, and had actually written a couple of episodes of DS9.
I think that trekkies really liked The Fallen because Dave ALWAYS took DS9 as serious as possible without ever putting a uniform on. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=11685 | Major Shtupping (153) Aug 14, 2006 - 01:25 pm
| "That means that you can have an FTP, media AND web server stored on the router with no need for a PC hook up at all."
Also, it will do BitTorrent transfers on its own. Though reports say its a bit buggy right now. Since it draws ~30 watts, this should save me some cash in the long run.
With 3 USB ports, its pretty expandable. Unless there are some really bad reviews, I know what I'm getting for Christmas Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=3180 | Major Shtupping (153) Aug 02, 2006 - 06:21 am
| They were supposed to star together in "Shu dan long wei" , which is called "Meltdown". According to IMDB they didnt because:
Jacky Cheung's character was intended for Jackie Chan. Before production began on "High Risk", Chan was starring in Wong Jing's movie, "City Hunter". They didn't get along during the filming and the experience of working with Jackie was so bad, that Wong Jing chose to make the character of Frankie Lone a mockery of Chan. Jackie Chan was understandably offended and Jet Li personally apologized to Jackie for his involvement with the movie. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=11422 | Major Shtupping (153) Jul 28, 2006 - 08:02 pm
| Yeah, but knowing those Verizon ISP weasels, they'll still cap the UL to 1MB/s, continue to block port 80, make it against TOS to host a website and only give dynamic DNS addresses.
Seriously, they have it rigged so I couldn't even really use the 7Mbps I got from them. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=11360 | Major Shtupping (153) Jul 27, 2006 - 01:23 am
| I gotta agree with B.A. Frayd. Everyone says it's a "BAD THING", but point out that most of the generation of men during WWII spent a few years killing each other, and the entire populations of Europe and most of Asia were in the middle of the war... well no one wants to say that there was anything wrong with those people.
Matter of fact, the people complaining the loudest would love for us to return to the '50s, you know, the time when most of the male population were vets... Flag this | Edit this post |
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