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The Hobbit Hole XXXVIII - There and Back Again!

Posted on 09/23/2009 6:19:16 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog

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To: ksen
...while Clooney unveiled his "invention" was a bit uncomfortable.

Oh gadz... I'd forgotten about that. That's exactly the problem with Coen brothers' movies. I remember all the funny parts and forget the wierd parts and then convince my Dad and Dona to sit down and watch it... and then oh... crap. It's like when I thought they'd just love "Fargo" like I do... and utterly forgot how vile the language was. Same thing happened with "Office Space".

It'd be nice on DVD's if you could choose different edits of the film... like a "G" version... a "PG" and a the full version. Why not? There's some great stuff in movies that, for some audiences... they can't deal with those moments of vileness.

Granted... there's some movies, like "Team America..." for which there can be no "G" rated version. But for lots of movies, a few bleeps here and there and a few tiny edits could open up whole new worlds of popular culture to audiences that would never see them.

61 posted on 09/23/2009 8:36:06 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: ecurbh
This new computer is wicked fast, though! Now I want a new one too. :)

Heh. It's funny how that is. :-) Lemme guess... Core2 duo with a couple Gb of RAM...

62 posted on 09/23/2009 8:39:53 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: Ramius

This is a Core 2 duo 3GHz with 4GB RAM. Heck of an upgrade from a 200MHz processor (I think) with 384MB of RAM.


63 posted on 09/23/2009 8:48:06 PM PDT by ecurbh (Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.)
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To: SuziQ
SirKit got the snow-thrower working again, so we’re ready!

I've got to get ours working again, but first my stitches have to heal up enough so I don't tear myself up wrestling it out of the garden shed. I sprained my shoulder the last time, and that was bad enough. It probably weighs 400 lbs.

It's probably 20 years old now, and never had an engine rebuild. Heavy, wet snow is rough on it (and me). I should probably look for something newer with more power (and not much more size). Five horsepower only goes so far.

64 posted on 09/23/2009 9:08:56 PM PDT by 300winmag (Zero to abject failure in under a month. A new land speed record!)
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To: ecurbh

Horey smokes! :-)


65 posted on 09/23/2009 9:24:17 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: HairOfTheDog

I’m late, but the new room looks great. Good to see some old timers drop in.


66 posted on 09/24/2009 2:57:55 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Yep...I remember back in the day, I had to scratch my posts onto a flat rock and send it by oxcart to The City where the scribe would add it to the roll. Once I used an ostrakon by mistake and half my village was exiled :(
67 posted on 09/24/2009 4:27:33 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (Keep your powder dry, and your iron hidden.)
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To: ecurbh
Heck of an upgrade from a 200MHz processor (I think) with 384MB of RAM. ;8-O
68 posted on 09/24/2009 6:24:07 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: Ramius
It'd be nice on DVD's if you could choose different edits of the film... like a "G" version... a "PG" and a the full version.

The studios already chop up the movies for showing on television. With all the space available on Blu-Ray you'd think there'd be no problem including the edited for TV cut on the disk.

Someone needs to email hollywood with this idea. I bet it'd result in higher Blu-Ray sales if people know they can have the edited version along with the complete version.

I remember hearing on Glenn Beck's radio show once about a service he used to edit rated-R movies down to a PG-PG13 level. I can't remember the name of the service now.

69 posted on 09/24/2009 6:49:38 AM PDT by ksen (Don't steal. The government hates the competition. - sign on Ron Paul's desk)
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Those services have popped up, done great business, and then get sued out of existence by movie studios. Even ones where you buy the VHS tape and they physically remove the objectionable scenes. Movie studios don’t like people “messing with” their stuff. Getting them to include a G rated version on the disk would seem the way to go but I don’t think they will.

Not unless Walmart decided to try pushing the idea. They might be able to make it happen like how they’ve gotten “censored” versions of some albums.


70 posted on 09/24/2009 7:36:27 AM PDT by JenB
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To: JenB; Ramius; ecurbh; RosieCotton; Rose in RoseBear; All

Well, all is zipping along at a blazing speed here on my new computer, even the errors happen quickly!

We networked my old computer and it spent all night copying over all my gigabytes of pictures and videos and folders from my old documents folder.

We seem to have some kind of issue with the Office 2000 install, something about Outlook 2000 seems to not agree with the new puter. It won’t save my settings and I can’t send mail or import my address book or folders from the old outlook. For now, I can receive, but not send, mail.

So we don’t know if that’s fixable or if I’ll need to do something else. Any ideas?


71 posted on 09/24/2009 9:28:55 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog; JenB; Ramius; ecurbh; RosieCotton; Rose in RoseBear; All

The error Outlook is giving is that the WAB DLL could not be found.

I tried copying the two wab dll files from the Program Files/Common Files directory into Windows/System32, but that didn’t fix it.

I think she needs to use a newer mail reader, like Mozilla Thunderbird, but that’s just me. ;)


72 posted on 09/24/2009 9:44:43 AM PDT by ecurbh (Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.)
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To: JenB

Seems like you could do it with a network enabled player and a service it contacts to get the list of what time stamps to skip over. hmmm.


73 posted on 09/24/2009 10:21:49 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: ecurbh

At some point... like when your software is almost a decade old... it might be time to just use something new.
Sorry, I don’t have any better advice.


74 posted on 09/24/2009 10:26:43 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: TalonDJ

Yeah - so he tells me ;)

If I did more power computing, I’d buy a new version of Office. The truth is, I don’t any more and the software was not in my way...

I guess I’d get used to anything, I just am used to how Outlook works, and wanted to resist all this talk of Change!


75 posted on 09/24/2009 10:39:11 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog

I Hope it all works out for you...


76 posted on 09/24/2009 10:59:41 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (Keep your powder dry, and your iron hidden.)
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To: ecurbh

Wandering through.
Good to see you.


77 posted on 09/24/2009 12:33:28 PM PDT by Darksheare (Tar is cheap, and feathers are plentiful.)
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To: Ramius
But for lots of movies, a few bleeps here and there and a few tiny edits could open up whole new worlds of popular culture to audiences that would never see them.

I agree wholeheartedly! It would open up a HUGH market for DVD sales to families who would like to see movies with their kids, but don't want to have to explain things to the younger ones while doing so.

There was a group that was doing this, and I think they were sued by some film-makers or something like that for ruining the original spirit of the movies.
Give me a break!

78 posted on 09/24/2009 5:14:00 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: HairOfTheDog
and wanted to resist all this talk of Change!

Spoken like a true Hobbit!

79 posted on 09/24/2009 5:19:41 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Ramius

I just think it’s funny that half of us want a PG version for the kids, and half want the PG version so we can show it to our parents. :~D


80 posted on 09/24/2009 5:22:09 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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