What's on your mind right now?

[volleyceline]

Ahhh it sucks! What is his problem?! Or more specifically... what's my problem that he notices but i don't Time to move on i guess. What really sucks is there was a girls ask dance coming up... guess i'll never get to ask.

[ferjaacu]

"I don't need your money. Just your kisses and your funny faces which I miss when you're away"

 

^^^Fernando, when I see your screen name I always think Frere Jacques! lol!

 

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?? I don't know who he or she is !!!... lol

Edited January 24, 2012 at 05:16 AM by ferjaacu

[Edwin]

Going back to bed! Good night.

[ferjaacu]

Nite Eddie !!! Have a sweet and hot dream hahaha

[reamary]

Good luck.

I went to work out today. Looks like some of us are joining the exercise group. Let's see how long it lasts...

 

You should also join the discussion in the "Exercise" thread!

 

Ahhh it sucks! What is his problem?! Or more specifically... what's my problem that he notices but i don't Time to move on i guess. What really sucks is there was a girls ask dance coming up... guess i'll never get to ask.

 

Aaw

[Edwin]

Nite Eddie !!! Have a sweet and hot dream hahaha

Yeah that still hasn't happened I'm gonna be screwed today at work.

[celine-rc]

I don't think that I'l be going to school today... there is so much ice! I wouldn't be able to get out of my drive way or down the street... Once I would get out of my street, things would be fine... At least, I'm not missing much... It will give me time to try and understand the stupid science stuff that I don't understand (I should be working on that right now...). Edited January 24, 2012 at 01:17 PM by c'line-rc

[Del]

Visit to the dentist this morning was great as usual

[celine-rc]

Philippe Falardeau's movie, Monsieur Lazhar is officialy in nomination for the Oscars!!!!!! Yay!!!!!!! Edited January 24, 2012 at 01:47 PM by c'line-rc

[Shamrock_1982]

bed early tonight... sooo tired!

[Edwin]

Oscar noms today! Brad Pitt and George Clooney both nominated for their respective movies. Melissa McCarthy also nom for her role in Bridesmaids and Rooney Mara for her work in Dragon Tattoo but with Meryl Streep in the same category I don't think she has a real chance. I don't care about the other movies

[Mrs.Goldman]

WHAT KINDA STUPID #ss PEOPLE DON'T NOMINATE ALAN RICKMAN FOR BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR FOR HIS BRILLIANT PORTRAYEL OF SEVERUS SNAPE ON HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2?!?!?

 

and yes, I said stupid #ss people!!!

[Edwin]

Popular movies like HP don't usually have a prayer in the other categories besides sound, visual effects, costumes, etc... Hell Christian Bale deserved some love for Batman, but alas no. The Academy is rather predictable.

 

Oh and hello Adi Long time, no see

[Mrs.Goldman]

Hellooooooooooooo Edwin....

 

yeah I don't come here as often, mostly due to lack of Celine activities so I usually come only to this thread when I am pissed off..

 

this is not entirely true though.

 

each of the lord of the ring movies was nominated and won several awards, including BEST PICTURE, best director etc, not only technical stuff. I think all in all the entire trilogy won 13 awards or so.

 

this specific HP movie was nominated for best make up and best art direction - c'est tout!

 

this series both in movies and books is so amazing and it's really sort of a world I entered to and "live" inside in a way and i am obviously not the only one. I really hoped the academy could appreciate that.

[Edwin]

I actually mentioned LOTR and Titanic (Best Pic nom/win) when I started to compose my reply cause that has been one of the rare exceptions. Don't remember why I removed it. *shrug*

 

Haha, I only come in here when I need to say something witty. ^^

[Mrs.Goldman]

Why is Titanic in the same group? lol

 

It's a great movie!

 

Look, movies like twilight or whatever that crap's called are not worth a nomination despite the popularity but in HP you have a great cast of excellent actors. and again, if not Ralph Fiennes or Alan, you still have pretty much one amazing acting skills from everyone (excapt Dan Rad).

 

I think this year their decisions were leaning towards more "young movies". I must say I didn't see most of them but giving Melissa McCarthy a well worthy nomination for Bridesmaid is an example of that and same for many nominations for The Girl with the dragon tattoo which i haven't seen but it supposed to be a "young" movie and of course based on a book franchise just like HP.

[Belle Céline]

If you thought SOPA was bad meet ACTA

 

When sites like Wikipedia and Reddit banded together for a major blackout January 18th, the impact was felt all the way to Washington D.C. The blackout had lawmakers running from the controversial anti-piracy legislation, SOPA and PIPA, which critics said threatened freedom of speech online.

 

Unfortunately for free-speech advocates, censorship is still a serious threat.

 

Few people have heard of ACTA, or the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, but the provisions in the agreement are just as pernicious as anything we saw in SOPA. Worse, the agreement spans virtually all of the countries in the developed world, including all of the EU, the United States, Switzerland and Japan.

 

Many of these countries have already signed or ratified it, and the cogs are still turning. The treaty has been secretly negotiated behind the scenes, with unelected bureaucrats working closely with entertainment industry lobbyists to craft the provisions in the treaty. The Bush administration started the process, but the Obama administration has aggressively pursued it.

Indeed, we’ve already signed on to the treaty. All it needs now is Senate ratification. The time to stop the treaty is now, and we may need a second global internet blackout to call attention to it.

 

 

 

ACTA bypasses the sovereign laws of participating nations, forcing ISP’s across the globe to adopt these draconian measures.

Worse, it goes much further than the internet, cracking down on generic drugs and making food patents even more radical than they are by enforcing a global standard on seed patents that threatens local farmers and food independence across the developed world.

 

Despite ACTA’s secrecy, criticism of the agreement has been widespread. Countries like India and Brazil have been vocal opponents of the agreement, claiming that it will do a great deal of harm to emerging economies.

 

I’ll have more on the agreement as it emerges. But to briefly sum up, ACTA contains global IP provisions as restrictive or worse than anything contained in SOPA and PIPA.

ACTA spans virtually all of the developed world, threatening the freedom of the internet as well as access to medication and food. The threat is every bit as real for those countries not involved in the process as the signatories themselves.

ACTA has already been signed by many countries including the US, but requires ratification in the EU parliament and the US Senate.

The entire monstrosity has been negotiated behind closed doors and kept secret from the public. Technocrats, beholden to the deep pockets of the entertainment lobby, have masked the agreement behind the misnomer of “anti-counterfeiting” when in fact it goes much, much further.

 

If you thought SOPA would break the internet, ACTA is much worse. And it could become law across the global economy without so much as a murmur of opposition.

 

Worse still, it’s not alone. Even more restrictive provisions exist in another trade agreement currently being hammered out by various nations.

 

According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, there are “other plurilateral agreements, such as the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), which contains a chapter on IP enforcement that would have state signatories adopt even more restrictive copyright measures than ACTA. Similarly, negotiations over TPP are also held in secret and with little oversight by the public or civil society. These initiatives, negotiated without participation from civil society or the public, are an affront to a democratic world order. EFF will remain vigilant against these international initiatives that threaten to choke off creativity, innovation, and free speech, and will stand with EDRi, FFII, La Quadrature du Net and our other EU fellow traveller organizations in their campaign to defeat ACTA in the European Parliament in January.”

 

The global economy needs to be seen as separate from those nations which comprise the global community of states. Civil society and a free global economy are not the same thing as the bogeyman so often referred to simply as “globalism.”

 

The free flow of goods and information is as much threatened by the global state apparatus as it is assisted by it, and industries with a vested interested in maintaining the status quo through draconian protectionist measures are now threatening the last frontier of the truly free economy.

 

By threatening the internet and free speech, the entertainment industry threatens its own existence. But with only short-term profits in mind, this will not deter them.

 

Yes, our lawmakers fled from SOPA and PIPA when push came to shove, but they have ACTA to fall back on. Notably, few of them are speaking out against this even more dangerous treaty. Not surprisingly one of the lone voices of dissent is Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) who has spoken out against the treaty.

 

“It may be possible for the U.S. to implement ACTA or any other trade agreement, once validly entered, without legislation if the agreement requires no change in U.S. law,” he wrote. “But regardless of whether the agreement requires changes in U.S. law … the executive branch lacks constitutional authority to enter a binding international agreement covering issues delegated by the Constitution to Congress’ authority, absent congressional approval.”

 

Even absent US participation, however, we should all be worried about the implications of this and other trade agreements on the global economy, the ripple effects of which would reach all of us regardless of geographical location.

 

Remember, when one of these bills or trade agreements falls, another rises up to take its place. ACTA has been in the works for several years. SOPA almost passed into law unopposed. The threat to civil society isn’t going away.

 

If you care about freedom of speech, or if you have participated in SOPA protests, please help spread the word about ACTA. You can sign a petition to stop it here https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#%21/p...ternet/MwfSVNBK

Edited January 24, 2012 at 03:05 PM by Belle Céline

[Edwin]

Titanic and LOTR are used in the examples because they were financially successfully (blockbusters) but still received accolades during the awards season.

 

I rather liked HP and thought it was well done in all aspects of film making. And don't mention the movies with the sparkling vampires. I can't even...

[Mrs.Goldman]

LMAO!!!! :D

 

well Titanic was critcally acclaimed or at least plausible among critics. and of course the theme song is not so bad either....

 

I wish to send packages with Blast ended skrewts to all the academy members right now :/

[Edwin]

I don't remember the theme song for Titanic. I don't think it did well in the USA.

[Mrs.Goldman]

Maybe it's coz the singer was canadian and they're not well liked in the states...

[Edwin]

Damn straight. Not unless you're an 8 year old named Justin Bieber!!! PROTECT OUR BORDERS.

[sfbaysinger]

Good to see you here, Adi. Let me remind you both of the theme song, My heart Will Go On and the singer, forgive me cuz I never do this. Her name is Celine Marie claudette Dion!!!!

I also love every aspect of HP. It sounds like we have some non-Twilight fans, but I love it.

Pottery today. Gotta get through this week, this is going to be soooooooooooooooo hard. :(

[Edwin]

I've never read the books, my disdain is specifically for the movies. Ugh, that is the reason the Razzies still exist.

 

BTW Christina I never knew you were only 28. For some reason I thought you were erm, older. I read your Welcome Thread just last night.

[Lian]

My exams Middle Welsh and Old Irish went surprisingly well!! Now only the exam from Medieval Irish History and then I'm free for a week And damn, how I need it..

[Mrs.Goldman]

I've never read the books, my disdain is specifically for the movies. Ugh, that is the reason the Razzies still exist.

 

 

Edwin you must read the books. they are so much better. honestly I love the movies (excapt for the first two maybe) but I think they are full of unexplained things and holes that one can understand only once he's read the books...

[Edwin]

Are you talking Potter or the sparkling vampire books?

 

Watching Smash and it's soo good. A weekly dose of Broadway. I'm in Heaven

[riobeard11]

^ Agreed - definitely read them (Harry) even if you saw the movies first.

 

I also am shocked that Alan Rickman didn't ever receive a nomination for such a brilliant character!

Edited January 24, 2012 at 05:21 PM by riobeard11

[Edwin]

It's grobandion's birthday today...Anyone else remember him?

[dj4celine]

I started weight training sometime last week but it wasn't until Sunday that I really started to feel it. Good grief. All the aspirin in the world...

 

Ooh, look who's getting down and dirty at the gym! You're being serious with the work-outs or is it to really for the eye candies only?

 

And I agree with Adi and Bobby - READ THE HP BOOKS!

 

 

It's grobandion's birthday today...Anyone else remember him?

 

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