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Dig a Hole: The 35mm Movie Camera (1888-2011)
Ah, the best 2 minutes lemons have ever known.— October 17, 2011 1:41 a.m.
Harrisburg, Pa. Files for Bankruptcy
My first reaction to your comment is "duh". since there are fewer municipalities than there are individual residences and individual debtors, that makes it only logical from a statistical point of view. My second reaction is that family members I have in SD, and there spouses and spouses families. probably 150 or so in total, none have ever filed BK. And of the close to 300 or couples and individuals on or christmas list and in our phone book, I don't recall any of them filing bk either. In other words, residential foreclosures/ personal bks anf muni defaults/bks completely different things; it's not even apples and oranges. It's more like apples and broccoli. And based on what I've read, I wouldn't be suprised if the filing is be rejected. This seems to be similar Bridgeport, Connecticut's filing, Where I believe it was a question of whether they were really authorized to file Ch. 9. It appears to me that Harrisburg's city council isn't authorized to do so on their own and that their filing is more about about politics. Supposedly, the city council has said they are “tired of being humiliated and denigrated” by the state’s plan for a takeover, and said Chapter 9 is “a much better forum if you really want to address the financial problems of the city.” Not really a smart thing to say if that's what you're really trying to do.— October 17, 2011 1:32 a.m.
Harrisburg, Pa. Files for Bankruptcy
"Municipal bankruptcies are rare" I suppose that depends upon your definition of rare. There have been about 625 muni bk's since 1937. Tha would average out to about 8 per year. Since 2009, I believe there have been 17 or 18. Again, I guess that depends upon ones definition of rare.— October 16, 2011 4:22 p.m.
Dig a Hole: The 35mm Movie Camera (1888-2011)
"Why go through the trouble of building a camera to shoot it on video" Are you still refering to "Russian Ark"??? As I said, it WAS NOT shot on film. It was shot using a Sony HDW-F900 and recorded directly onto a hard disk uncompressed. Tilman Buttner was the cinematographer and he had an assitant following him with the hard drive. No camera, no giant magazine. But, I'm sure you know that already, don't you?— October 15, 2011 6:18 p.m.
Dig a Hole: The 35mm Movie Camera (1888-2011)
Actually, you're incorrect; it wasn't shot on film. A production sony hd cam that recorded onto hard disk and recorded uncompressed HD images was used with special Steadicam system that Tilman Buttner built himself, and it recorded to a special 1tb hard drive that was developed for the project. You are correct though, in that it was 1 90 minute shot done in one take with no cuts, although I have read that it took 3 tries due to tech difficulties on the first 2. All of that plus over 2000 extras. A pretty amazing feat.— October 14, 2011 9:59 p.m.
Dig a Hole: The 35mm Movie Camera (1888-2011)
Actually, Episode II-Attack of the Clones was the first major motion picture to be shot completely in digital. Episode I was the first film to make extensive use CG for backgrounds, environmental effects, vehicles, crowds. etcd.,and I think Jar Jar Binks was the first completely cgi major character, but the film wasn't shot in digital. And I think the first film to be shot entirely in digital was a film called The Russian Ark.— October 14, 2011 6:15 p.m.
Who caused San Diego's massive power failure September 8?
A History of Interest Rates is the name of the book. Apparently, you missed Jeff's post yesterday in which he referred surfpuppy619 to this book.— October 13, 2011 9:47 a.m.
Who caused San Diego's massive power failure September 8?
It's called "A History of Interest Rates". Apparently, you missed Jeff's post yesterday when he referred surfpuppy619 to this book.— October 13, 2011 9:45 a.m.
Who caused San Diego's massive power failure September 8?
But whose really at fault, the corrupt pols who took, and continue to take the money, or the fat cat WS firms and individuals who offer it up? The same goes for the WS insiders who take gov't positions. Are they at fault for taking the "influential" jobs or is it the fault of the ones who offer up the jobs, all the while knowing who/what they are getting, and by all appearances, really not caring about it?— October 8, 2011 10:12 a.m.
Who caused San Diego's massive power failure September 8?
surfpuppy619,In a completely unrelated story, have you heard that Al Davis died this morning? I say it come across about 10 min ago. Just curious as to your thoughts, considering how big a Davis/Raiders fan you're not.— October 8, 2011 7:50 a.m.