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Comment Re:Awful Story + great effects = Blockbuster (Score 1) 782

Yes, it is fern gully in 3D but your complaint is ignorant. All stories have been told before and will be retold again, just slightly different. To say you can find elements from a 100 other stories as flaw in the writing seems ignorant to me. Storytelling is what drives our species: you think there's anything that hasn't been said already? It's all about arrangement, that's all. Composition of plot has been completed for centuries.

Comment Re:Park Plus (Score 1) 863

Don't forget with Park plus you can register multiple cars and phones against an account. And you can log in and log out. So you only pay for the time you're actually using. They automatically bill you for the maximum time (if your paying via cell phone) the zone allows, then when you are ready to go, you call the system back and it asks if you want to log out, you press 1 and the difference is credited to your account.

Comment Re:Fights on the ISS (Score 1) 344

Being as I'm too lazy to look up sources I expect to be flamed. But I do recall hearing an astronaut talk about an incident on MIR where one astronaut had clear homicidal inclinations to his counterpart and had to be talked out of it. I can't recall who. But it does happen.

Piracy Outstripping Legal Video Sales? 294

b.burl writes to tell us a recently released report by the NDP Group supports the horror stories being fed to us by studio execs, but not quite in the way those execs would have you believe. The study shows a continued rise in video piracy compared to legal video sales. The largest target continues to be adult oriented content and TV shows, with only an estimated 5 percent being mainstream movie content. From the article: "[A]mong U.S. households with members who regularly use the Internet, 8 percent (six million households) downloaded at least one digital video file (10MB or larger) from a P2P service for free in the third quarter of 2006. Nearly 60 percent of video files downloaded from P2P sites were adult-film content, while 20 percent was TV show content and 5 percent was mainstream movie content."

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