[scifinoir2] Re: Waay OT: Singer Mayer Apologies for Racist, Sexist Comments

2010-02-12 Thread B Smith
It was a really odd exchange since the interviewer was white. I guess because John Mayer worked with Dave Chapelle, Kanye West and others there was some sort of perception of honorary blackness. And I had no idea he was considered to be sexy by some black women. That was a new one to me. Chris

[scifinoir2] Re: movie review: A bittersweet life

2010-02-12 Thread Kelwyn
My friends of a certain age laugh about the fact that it was Denzel Washington's son, David, who convinced him to do Training Day, American Gangster, and Eli. On first reading, Washington couldn't see any of these roles as a good fit. David, however, would read those same scripts and, having

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Waay OT: Singer Mayer Apologies for Racist, Sexist Comments

2010-02-12 Thread Mr. Worf
I think John Mayer came up with the impression that he had a hood pass because no body jumped him when he goes to buy weed. He does look like any other slacker white dude that's probably broke. On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 6:43 AM, B Smith daikaij...@yahoo.com wrote: It was a really odd exchange

[scifinoir2] Fwd: African American woman finalist in Career builder commercial contest

2010-02-12 Thread Mr. Worf
Kind of weird that they did a video only interview but... Here is an interview with her: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5erIT6AXC0feature=player_embedded Here is her commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2gUi4xvvsEfeature=player_embedded

Re: [scifinoir2] topic revisited: Sgt Rock the movie

2010-02-12 Thread Mr. Worf
Hollywood usually does similar movies in batches. For example, Surrogates / Avatar, Transformers / Terminator, yada yada... On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.comwrote: Then why bother making Halo AND this, if that's the case? If all the world's a stage

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Waay OT: Singer Mayer Apologies for Racist, Sexist Comments

2010-02-12 Thread shadaneca harbour
As an AA female the thing that has bothered me most is the attitude that some of us have had about his comments. I was reading some replies to the article posted on Yahoo and I can't tell you how many replies I read that started with well I'm a Black female and I'm not offended, and it's okay

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Waay OT: Singer Mayer Apologies for Racist, Sexist Comments

2010-02-12 Thread Mr. Worf
Good point. I think that African Americans have become apathetic when it comes to racial issues and racist remarks. Let's face it there are so many assholes like Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin that it makes comments like John Mayer's almost seem tame. On a side note, please don't interpret what I

RE: [scifinoir2] Black Dynamite now on DVD

2010-02-12 Thread Martin Baxter
Sho' ya right! _ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469229/direct/01/

RE: [scifinoir2] Marvel Apologizes for Tea Party Insult

2010-02-12 Thread Martin Baxter
It's not enough to run in fear of the Wasilla Wingnut, I guess... I've looked at this from every side I can find, and I can't understand why Marvel's kow-towing to a few clowns who probably couldn't figure out which end of a comic book to start reading at.

RE: [scifinoir2] Google's experiment: leapfrogging ISPs to deliver ultra-high-speed Web

2010-02-12 Thread Martin Baxter
Free beta-testing is the way they should go with this. If the product's good, then word-of-mouth would make the sales, or vice versa. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant

Re: [scifinoir2] Google's experiment: leapfrogging ISPs to deliver ultra-high-speed Web

2010-02-12 Thread Mr. Worf
That's what they will do. They did that with their search engine, and gmail. They really didn't start advertising until the superbowl this year. On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.comwrote: Free beta-testing is the way they should go with this. If the

Re: [scifinoir2] Marvel Apologizes for Tea Party Insult

2010-02-12 Thread Mr. Worf
They can read?? On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.comwrote: It's not enough to run in fear of the Wasilla Wingnut, I guess... I've looked at this from every side I can find, and I can't understand why Marvel's kow-towing to a few clowns who probably

Re: [scifinoir2] Marvel Apologizes for Tea Party Insult

2010-02-12 Thread Justin Mohareb
Probably not. But they do go to movies and buy action figures, which is where the house of ideas makes its money. Justin On 2010-02-12, at 4:18 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: They can read?? On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote:

RE: [scifinoir2] Marvel Apologizes for Tea Party Insult

2010-02-12 Thread Martin Baxter
The thought was something of a stretch, now that I ponder 'pon it. They couldn't even spell the n-word right... If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To:

[scifinoir2] Re: Marvel Apologizes for Tea Party Insult

2010-02-12 Thread B Smith
I guess they resemble the ultra right wing kooks Bucky-Cap is fighting a tad too much. I wonder how they would react to other comics that had Nixon, Reagan and Bush analogs as outright villains. I wish someone slaps down these idiots and stop running scared everytime the Fox Noise crowd starts

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Waay OT: Singer Mayer Apologies for Racist, Sexist Comments

2010-02-12 Thread shadaneca harbour
Oh not at all. This was strictly a response to comments I read when the article was posted on Yahoo. To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:23:49 -0800 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Waay OT: Singer Mayer Apologies for Racist, Sexist Comments

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Marvel Apologizes for Tea Party Insult

2010-02-12 Thread Mr. Worf
Corporations are afraid of boycotts. That's why I suggested doing a few a while back. If the group was one of the subsidiaries of Marvel they may have ignored it. On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 3:15 PM, B Smith daikaij...@yahoo.com wrote: I guess they resemble the ultra right wing kooks Bucky-Cap is

[scifinoir2] Community college professor, students aim to build world's most powerful laptop

2010-02-12 Thread Mr. Worf
(I took an A+ class with this guy. He knows his stuff and would classify as an old school super geek.) Community college professor, students aim to build world's most powerful laptop By Matt Krupnick Contra Costa

[scifinoir2] Old Nintendo system sells for $13,105

2010-02-12 Thread Mr. Worf
Old Nintendo system sells for $13,105 by Mike Smith http://videogames.yahoo.com/masthead Buzz up!http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzz?publisherurn=yahoo_games_p893guid=http%3A%2F%2Fvideogames.yahoo.com%2Fevents%2Fplugged-in%2Fold-nintendo-system-sells-for-13-105%2F1389101targetUrl= February 10 4:31

RE: [scifinoir2] Old Nintendo system sells for $13,105

2010-02-12 Thread Martin Baxter
Mr Worf, I heard about this earlier today, and I told a friend of mine in Michigan, when I sent him the link, that I was kicking myself because I had one of those, in pretty good condition (because, working so many hours as I did at the time, I rarely played it), and I stuck it in a storage

Re: [scifinoir2] Old Nintendo system sells for $13,105

2010-02-12 Thread Mr. Worf
Well it wasn't really about the game unit but the rare game that came with it. There are a lot of people (mostly in Europe and Japan) that collect the ultra rare game boxes. On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.comwrote: Mr Worf, I heard about this earlier

RE: [scifinoir2] The No performance tax movement?

2010-02-12 Thread Martin Baxter
Not that I listen to radio anymore, but puh-LEEZE! It's not enough that stations have to pay licencing fees up the wa- and out the -zoo? I understands thet thuh Guv'mint's a-needin' its rev-nooh an' all, but there's an easier way to get it. Tax Big Pharma and the Insurance Cartels...

RE: [scifinoir2] Old Nintendo system sells for $13,105

2010-02-12 Thread Martin Baxter
My bad. I mistakenly figured that this was similar to the case of the guy who bought the ultra-rare games sometime back for the purpose of playing it. _ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful

Re: [scifinoir2] The No performance tax movement?

2010-02-12 Thread Mr. Worf
They said that if passed 50% would go to the record companies, 45% to the performers and 5% would go to the musicians and singers. Still a raw deal for the performers like Stubblefield, and Bootsy that made James Brown's groove. On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Martin Baxter

RE: [scifinoir2] Community college professor, students aim to build world's most powerful laptop

2010-02-12 Thread Martin Baxter
I believe I read some of his work a few years back. When this rolls out of his lab, I'll rob a bank or three to buy the product. ;-D _ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live

RE: [scifinoir2] The No performance tax movement?

2010-02-12 Thread Martin Baxter
I'll believe that split ten minutes after all the checks are cashed. Someone, somewhere along the line, will skim something off for themselves. (That would be My Least Favorite Uncle Sam.)

Re: [scifinoir2] The No performance tax movement?

2010-02-12 Thread Mr. Worf
Nothing is going to the government. Its just a renaming ploy by the people that are against the RIAA. On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.comwrote: I'll believe that split ten minutes after all the checks are cashed. Someone, somewhere along the line, will

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Marvel Apologizes for Tea Party Insult

2010-02-12 Thread Martin Baxter
Say it again, B! And, officially, they did complain when Mister Bush was being pilloried. When they noticed, that is. One parody that pretty much got by themn was in the OVA of Read Or Die!, in which the American President bore mister Bush a powerful resemblance, and would invariably, at the

RE: [scifinoir2] The No performance tax movement?

2010-02-12 Thread Martin Baxter
Old-school conspiracy theorist here... I can't see the Guv'mint passing on available loot. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Waay OT: Singer Mayer Apologies for Racist, Sexist Comments

2010-02-12 Thread Keith Johnson
Oh man, that's funny! - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 12:21:04 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Waay OT: Singer Mayer Apologies for Racist, Sexist Comments

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Waay OT: Singer Mayer Apologies for Racist, Sexist Comments

2010-02-12 Thread Keith Johnson
Amen. We just had a long discussion about racism and stuff in Hollywood, and I expressed frustration at how people are so hesitant to call stuff like it is. I heard a political pundit recently note that people are very hesitant to call the likes of Limbaugh, Hannity, etc., racist. Rather, they

Re: [scifinoir2] Community college professor, students aim to build world's most powerful laptop

2010-02-12 Thread Mr. Worf
He has a lot of pull in the county. The school is really small but they have a couple of really cool projects there such as a solar grid that was built over the parking lot, and nice computer lab. The auto shop is nice too. On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Martin Baxter

[scifinoir2] Opening night of the Olympics

2010-02-12 Thread Mr. Worf
Did anyone catch it? I missed some of the opening because of a power outage. But I did catch the performance in the arena. Very cool visuals but still not as cool as China. I don't think that anyone will ever top that feat. The Canadians made their opening look like something from Disney minus

[scifinoir2] Riddick 3 Is On Its Way

2010-02-12 Thread Tracey de Morsella
Riddick 3 Is On Its Way - http://io9.com/5470466/riddick-3-is-on-its-way Fans of gravelly-voiced bald scifi heroes rejoice: Universal has announced that it will be releasing a third Chronicles of Riddick movie in the US, with international rights being auctioned off at the Berlin Film Festival.