"Hmmmm, good point. It's my modus operandi to put these trailers whenever
possible into the movie review posts. I guess I should reconsider in certain
cases." - Jason Kaneshiro
"The Good
* Henry (”Eraserhead”) is played by Jack Nance, who later played Pete Martell in Twin Peaks.
* Many unforgettable images and scenes - a bleating, mutated baby, the “chipmunk” lady, Henry’s awkward dinner with Mary X’s family." - Mike Reynolds
I watched this once, in college. I think I will be haunted by it the rest of my life. I had a good discussion about it with a film professor at my college, apparently it is Lynch's most self-revealing work, symbolically. But personally, it just makes me want to crawl out of my own skin. - J·Phil·Glockner
"Glad someone is enjoying these brief diversions from Apple and movie
reviews. I had a few months of ill timed unemployment at the tail end
of the .com boom, which now I look back in retrospect as one of the
best things that happened in our marriage, since it forced us to get
on the financial straight and narrow. Definitely no financial expert,
but we're doing okay.
Oh, and a handy subscription to The Economist is recommended - you
UKers have a better take on politics and global finance than any US
magazine. They called the housing bubble quite a while back (2005) http://www.economist.com/displ......" - Jason Kaneshiro
"So what we now have is non-functional government in the face of a major crisis, because Congress includes a quorum of crazies and nobody trusts the White House an inch.
As a friend said last night, we’ve become a banana republic with nukes." :\ - Mona N.
Right. So as you said in the other thread, what and how can we regain this confidence back? Because in the end, that's what we have to do. Whether we like it or not. - Mona N.
The upcoming election will help regain some confidence, as we can vote these people out. - Jason Kaneshiro
Jason, here's to hoping we don't have another election fiasco like in 2000. - Victor Ganata
Mona: It's much too early to talk about confidence and recovery. We are only in second inning. Next to go: the US dollar. It will need to be replaced by a new currency and most wealth in the country will be wiped out. - Paul "Maverick" Denlinger
Paul: That's silly. Replacing the dollar with a new currency would not even help in the doomsday scenario you have in mind. We probably are looking at higher inflation, but no sane person is talking about the 1000% kind that would wipe out 'most wealth' in the country. - Nicholas Molnar
Nicholas: Nothing destroys wealth like inflation: ask any German who lived through the postwar period. That is why the US has to get out of the dollar NOW. Otherwise it will start down the path to Zimbabwe style inflation. The only way the Fed can meets its obligations is to inflate its way out. Sorry, but that's the way it's gonna be... - Paul "Maverick" Denlinger
Nicholas: There are about 75T (trillion) in derivatives which have traded. That is more than all the money in the world. The only way to honor those contracts is to print the money since foreign governments are not going to lend their money for this. So you tell me why 1000% inflation is silly? There are very simple rules in economics which apply to every country, and the US is no exception. - Paul "Maverick" Denlinger
Some good ideas here, but very likely over-reacting. It can't hurt to have your own copies, but don't go nuts. - Louis Gray
I highly recommend Amazon's MP3 store for your future purchases. DRM-free!! And just as cheap (99 cents or 89 cents) It kills me how many people are still supporting iTunes' DRM by shopping there for music. Ugh. Even Microsoft's Zune's marketplace is mostly DRM-free = 4 million songs, 80% DRM-free. Same price (99 cents). Stop buying DRM'ed music!! /endrant - Sarah Perez
"I assumed Twitter would be bought this year. Facebook was hoping for an IPO
a few years from now. I'd guess both plans would be shifting what with the
market turmoil. http://mashable.com/2008/02/14......" - Jason Kaneshiro
"Sage advice. I do agree that Apple - since they went to hell and back - is
stronger than the other companies that haven't suffered through a punishing
downturn. That huge cash horde will come in handy. Then there's Jobs'
comment to "innovate out of the downturn" that I remember during the dark
days post 2001.
http://money.cnn.com/galleries......" - Jason Kaneshiro
"It is worth noting that some of the iTunes content (iTunes Plus) is DRM free
- I wish all of it were. And it definitely is a big advantage to Amazon's
DRM free music. Now in terms of videos I want to own (as opposed to rentals)
even DVDs are preferable than the iTunes downloads since I can "work around"
the limitations on those." - Jason Kaneshiro
Elastica made some great rawking music, but their stage presence never matched the excitement of their tunes. Oh, and WIRE. - Pete Delucchi
Pete you are right...well, i never liked Elastica, but I had to do a review of one of their shows once. Bored, is the nicest word I could use to describe my experience. - Faboo Mama