FreeflyChile

Fuck law school! i am skippin class on monday.... i live in chicago and am a huge bears fan, so it's safe to say i will likely be watching!

here's another article regarding blu-ray/hd-dvd: http://homemediaretailing.com/news/html/breaking_article.cfm?article_id=10208

ASCAP and BMI deal with public performance rights of an artist, which is what this bar owner faced. That's a different set of rights than the reproduction the original poster wants to do. Live bands playing covers at a bar falls under public performance rights of a song as well, the dues of which are paid by the owner of the establishment. My guess would be that to get the rights to use a song in the skydiving video, you'd have to ask the record company (for the use of the actual recording) and the songwriter (for the use of the song composition) for permission.

i was wondering about something like that the other day.... in superman returns, superman takes the giant island that lex luthor makes and throws it into space. if someone was on the island as he took it into the sky and jumped off with a parachute, is it a base jump or a skydive, since the island is flying?

the bungee thing was really cool. the hangar swoop, i've seen before, at a bigger, longer hangar.

Skydiving has taught me not to panic when things get all messed up. Close calls in the sky where you can see things developing that make you go "Oh shit" only to require a cool head to get out of without being hurt really help me keep a perspective when life throws a curve ball on the ground.

BEAR DOWN, CHICAGO BEARS!!

So i watched superman again after updating the ps3 and it does look better than normal resolution. some parts are better than others, and in some parts it does look a bit grainy, but in general it looked great (the space shuttle bit in the beginning, my favorite part of the movie, freakin rocked).

Also, John Elway was originally drafted by the Colts but refused to go there.

Mariotti is a douche...he always seems so anti-Chicago whenever he's on TV. It seems to me like he doesn't like it here. Now, for the next 2 weeks we'll hear about how the Colts are favored and how the Bears are overmatched -- like the Bears are just invited to Manning's coronation..... and i hope the national media plays it that way -- this team seems to play better when they have something to prove.

given that a lot of porn performers are not the best lookin people, is hi def porn really a good idea?

Common Sense

DA BEARSSSSSS I also got to go to the Seattle game...after Gould hit that field goal, it was absolute bedlam in the stadium. it was awesome. The Bears will have to play their best game to beat the saints. Mainly force a lot of turnovers, i think, like they did early in the season. now, what if ditka took on the saints all by himself?...

What if he's already dead and they're just doing a "Weekend at Bernie's" type of thing.... wacky hijinks in Cuba ensue.

Ahh yeah, that's probably it -- i downloaded the update but had watched the movie before i downloaded it...i should watch it again to experience the blu-ray hi-def goodness.

Considering that we'll all find out eventually, i don't see the need to speed the process up.

i think i was expecting the clarity to be something like i see on discovery HD or some of the video games i've played...i guess if i played the regular dvd of the movie i'd probably see a difference. is the movie in (at least) 1080i or is it lower hi-def like 720p? could also be that maybe the ps3's player isn't as good as dedicated players are...i know that the ps2's dvd player was serviceable but not great when it originally came out. i think i just expected to be wowed but wasnt. and as far as the video cameras, i was hopin for a side mount so that i could eventually also slap a stills camera on the top...oh well

well....damn it then! i suppose that it shouldn't be that difficult to have a CD player to play those on, but it sucks that they don't have backward compatibility!

I have a PS3 hooked up via HDMI to a 60 inch tv that does 1080i (but not 1080p) and got superman returns on blu-ray, and i can't really tell a difference from a normal DVD (maybe it's the movie). Games, however, look great. I originally thought blu-ray would win because a) of the PS3 install base and b) from my understanding, far more studios are backing blu-ray as opposed to hd-dvd. Now, the ps3 is getting killed compared to the xbox360 and the wii due to a horrific launch, so while blu-ray has over a million ps3s in homes as an install base, i don't think sony's out of the woods yet. The Xbox360 has a much larger install base and if, for some reason, the ps3 were to fail, the 200 dollar HD-DVD add on may look way more attractive as a player. i want an HD video camera for skydiving purposes, but i want to wait until a model comes out that can be side-mounted that gets good reviews -- from reading on here my impression is that the canon cameras aren't very good or as good as the sony hi-def models. on the death of cds, i dont think that people who own thousands of cds will really care in as much as their cds won't become obsolete by buying a new format -- i'd imagine that any player that can play discs that size will be able to play cds. i'd think that people would just be upset if albums suddenly cost more because they only came on DVD as opposed to cd.

Yeah...those people in Mongolia and deep in the jungles of Brazil were really doubting Florida, but they came through! Gotta say FL was impressive, and as an Illinois fan, it gives me hope since Ron Zook recruited almost all of those players (spare me the "Ron Zook can't coach" argument...heard it a million times already)

on Discovery HD! December 17 at 12pm http://dhd.discovery.com/tvlistings/episode.jsp?episode=0&cpi=119747&gid=0&channel=DHD

EYE ELL ELL!!!!!!!!!! Hopefully Rex can find some consistency...if he does, look out!

yeah, re-reading that i realized i worded it wrong -- i didn't mean to say that what happened to those that dissapeared or were tortured wasn't horrible. i was more referring to the fact that it seems to me that since Pinochet died the stories highlight the dissapearances and what was accused of and how people wanted him to go on trial. I am ok with the stories mentioning that, it is important information related to the man. What i meant to say is that I haven't seen much in the way of stories really exploring how life was prior to the coup, and how the country is doing now, and whether the coup and subsquent military regime may have had some positive effects.

From a US policy standpoint, I understand the beef with going in to overthrow an elected leader. From the point of view that I was born in Chile, lived there for 10 years total, and have gone back with quasi-regularity whenever I have been gone, and from the point of view of people who lived through the whole thing first-hand, and knew the reality of what it was like there with Allende and then with Pinochet, I know that what happened was what was best for the country. I know the country is in better shape because it happened, and for that I am glad that the US intervened. I understand the academic debates about topics such as this one, and it's easy to take an extreme position on something like this (it absolutely right or absolutely wrong). I just think that the reality of what happened is somewhere in between, and its a lot closer to the "it was the right thing to do" than the wrong thing. Again, from the US perspective, and even for US reasons to go in in the first place -- not something that is seen as positive. Probably not justification to do it again to another country in the future. But i gotta say that the result was not nearly as horrible as people would have you believe.

I don't want to make this too political because I am not too in touch with the situation, living in the US most of my life but my thoughts are that while the media is quick to spell out the charges against Pinochet, they never really mention what life was like in Chile before the coup. My parents both were around college age when the coup happened and they tell me stories of the fact that in the weeks prior to the coup they'd have to get in lines for things like sugar and bread, that they had a national curfew, and that the soldiers would parade down the streets and people would throw stuff at them calling them cowards for not standing up to Allende. Now, I don't condone torture or murder but given the stories i have heard from my family it seems like what was going on was a revolution. Usually, blood has to be spilled for change like that. Of course, by the same token if blood was required back then for the good of the country, I think that if Pinochet's death allows the country to move forward, then thats good too. likewise, if he were alive to face trial and was found guilty -- if that was necessary for the good of the country, then so be it. In any case, the thing that gets me is that you have people who had to leave the country making the most noise -- people who havent been back to chile in many years. what people seem to overlook is that if the coup hadn't happened, Chile would be where Cuba is now. Instead, right now you have one of the most stable, growing countries in South America.