SuperJerk

So he was kicked out just for laughing at the movie when it wasn't funny? Using this rationale, I could've had the entire audience kicked out of Austin Powers 3. Off topic, but this story reminds me of what happened to me this morning... I have a 15 year old girl in my 2nd hour (who has an IQ of 67) who felt the need to express the opinion that Final Destination 3 was "tight," and that West Side Story (mentioned in the documentary about the 1950s I was showing the class) couldn't possibly be good because it didn't have any cussing or shooting in it. No one in the class disagreed. Man, these kids are going to be PISSED when I show them American Graffitti in a couple of weeks. (No, before you ask, I don't just show movies everyday. Most of these kids have no idea the world even existed before 1990, so giving them audio/visual presentations helps build up a prior-knowledge base to help put things in context for them.)

I don't get it.

This is what happens when you force Indy wrestlers to act like cheerleaders. Yes, hasn't history taught us anything?

What's with the hair and wardrobe discussion? Are back to the days of admiring Pimptista here?

Smackdown may be better than Raw, but that doesn't mean it doesn't blow.

You've contradicted me without actually contradicting me. Everything you say is true, but nothing you're saying is disproving my point, either. Compare: and We're saying almost the exact same thing. Its just that you're trying to spin it to make my product sound worse than it is. I thought I made it clear I wasn't talking exclusively about HD sets. Which is why you said... and ...right? Because you wanted to make sure everyone was informed, and not because you wanted to make me (a satellite customer) look like I didn't know what I was talking about?

The guy on the site treble linked had a point:

I wouldn't mind a weekly TV show devoted to old stuff, either.

He's supposedly been booking Smackdown, and the show has been blowing Too easy.

It wouldn't make our opinions irrelevant, but your opinion would carry more weight in a debate over said war, since you've been there, done that. Personally, I would never get an abortion unless my health was at stake or I was the victim of rape. But who are the lawmakers to tell any woman what they can and cannot do with their own body? Some of those lawmakers who want the outlaw are women, and they seem to think they know better than us pro-choice men.

I WAS USING THE DEBATE TO ILLUSTRATE A POINT ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE.

My only objection to this statement is that the "global test" (not "the international litmus test" as you put it) Kerry spoke of was actually a good idea. Kerry's global test was defined by him as: "your countrymen, your people, understand fully why you're doing what you're doing, and you can prove to the world that you did it for legitimate reasons." WHY THAT FUCKING BASTARD!!!!!!! Seriously, Kerry's idea was sound. The problem was that Bush took two words of that idea and constructed a straw man argument around it and dishonestly claiming Kerry was advocating an international poll. I know...I know. Bush? Being dishonest about something? Shocking. I did a google search on "global test kerry" and got a CNN article with the following priceless quote from Dr. C. Rice: And this woman is the US's top appointed diplomat? From Bush: Again, Kerry's definition of global test: "your countrymen, your people, understand fully why you're doing what you're doing, and you can prove to the world that you did it for legitimate reasons." So I guess Bush either just wasn't listening or didn't understand complex words/concepts like "legitimate" and "reasons". Even stranger considering Bush spent much of 2002 and early 2003 trying to sell his idea to invade by trying to prove to the world he was invading for legitimate reasons (both by going to the UN himself, and by going on TV to convince the American people). So because Bush failed at this, he later claims that he didn't need to do it (kind of like how backers of the administration claim after FEMA failed to do its job in New Orleans that it really wasn't FEMA's job to manage the emergency).

If you were posting that to be ironic, I apologize. I just don't buy into the whole "only a woman can have an opinion on abortion" argument, since there are a lot of women out there who also want to ban all abortions. If the abortion argument was limited to just women, then you'd basically have the exact same controversy.

Three ways to defend Bush on this: 1. deny the validity of the report 2. explain that Bush did everything he could and acted properly (because Bush's isn't ultimately responsible for the entire executive branch, or because FEMA's job isn't to actually respond to emergencies, as many have tried to argue) 3. blame Clinton

That's an exceptionally childish tactic.

1. Anyone who tries to tell me that analog cable picture is just as good as digital satelitte picture has been brainwashed with cable company propaganda. I told my cable company to fuck off because I was sick of paying for a below average product (granted, I am not talking HD service here, of which cable might actually do a better job of). Mr. Rant is just trying to defend his job the same way a mother cat tries to defend her sick baby kittens. 2. Mr. Rant's posts were arguing against different points than I was trying to make. Everything he said was technically correct, but had little bearing on what I was actually stating. 1. A digital signal, which is essentially the transmission of numeric data, either arrives at its destination or not. If part of the data is missing, there's damage to part of the image, but most of the image appears exactly the way it should look. If an analog signal degrades, the entire picture loks fuzzy, snowy, or generally shitty. 2. That's a reasonable excuse, but that doesn't mean I (as a customer) want to pay for 71 shitty looking analog channels if I'm shelling out $50+ a month for "digital" cable. On a dish, every channel looks as good as the best channels (the ones you can access with a digital cable box) you get with digital cable.

Are we just now hearing about it? Then its news.

That has nothing to do with having an HD set. It has to do with cable companies transmitting their cable signal in analog. Umm.. most all channels transmit in analog. Pretty much the only thing DirecTV does is digitally compress everything as they have limited bandwidth. Thanks for playing though. I love it when people think you're talking about something completely different and then try to correct you. A real mark of genius. That's the second time you've done it. You see, I was referring to the way the cable operator transmits it to your house. Cable companies transit it to you house using analog via a coaxial cable (which degrades), satelitte companies transmit it to your house digitally (digital code which is descrambled by a satelitte receiver). In other words, when I had cable, the picture wasn't as good as it is with satelitte. By the way, next time you want to use a picture posted with my bandwidth as your avatar: ask, you fucking loser.

Sorry.

1. The above website is tremendous. 2. Season 2 is $14.99 at Target this week. 3. Just saying.

No.

Ditto.

I've never liked John Stewart. In the comics, he never seemed nearly as interesting as Jordan, Gardner, or Rayner. He's okay on JLU, though.

That has nothing to do with having an HD set. It has to do with cable companies transmitting their cable signal in analog.