| The DVD [message #137798] |
So, 25 September 2005 23:57 |
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Just rented it from Choices, and it came on 1 disc....
I'm going to buy it this week when I get paid, and I've been checking out
the best prices....So far it looks like Tesco's at £14-99, but I still
havent looked in Makro yet....
Anyway, all the versions in the shops for purchase have a sticker on the
cover saying "UK special 2 disc edition"....
So what's on the second disc? The rental version seemed to have the main
feature and all the extra features on the one disc.....
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| Re: The DVD [message #137799 ] |
Mo, 26 September 2005 01:38 |
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"Fat Sam" <samandjanetknox [at] tessco.net> wrote in message
news:w3FZe.28371$6p.8633 [at] newsfe4-gui.ntli.net...
> Just rented it from Choices, and it came on 1 disc....
>
> I'm going to buy it this week when I get paid, and I've been checking out
> the best prices....So far it looks like Tesco's at £14-99, but I still
> havent looked in Makro yet....
>
> Anyway, all the versions in the shops for purchase have a sticker on the
> cover saying "UK special 2 disc edition"....
>
> So what's on the second disc? The rental version seemed to have the main
> feature and all the extra features on the one disc.....
>
There was an article in the LA Times about Tesco two or three weeks ago.
They reported that Walmart has complained Tesco has to great a sway in the
UK and they're having trouble gaining a foothold against it. You Brits
should get on your knees and thank God for Tesco if that's the case. It's
beyond ironic to hear of Walmart, a ravaging corporate juggernaut for those
of you lucky enough not to be acquainted with its rape of American small
business and labor, complain of unfair competition.
-- Dave
http://starry-starry-nights.blogspot.com/
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| Re: The DVD [message #137805 ] |
Mo, 26 September 2005 07:43 |
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Dave Adalian wrote:
> "Fat Sam" <samandjanetknox [at] tessco.net> wrote in message
> news:w3FZe.28371$6p.8633 [at] newsfe4-gui.ntli.net...
>> Just rented it from Choices, and it came on 1 disc....
>>
>> I'm going to buy it this week when I get paid, and I've been
>> checking out the best prices....So far it looks like Tesco's at
>> £14-99, but I still havent looked in Makro yet....
>>
>> Anyway, all the versions in the shops for purchase have a sticker on
>> the cover saying "UK special 2 disc edition"....
>>
>> So what's on the second disc? The rental version seemed to have the
>> main feature and all the extra features on the one disc.....
>>
>
>
> There was an article in the LA Times about Tesco two or three weeks
> ago. They reported that Walmart has complained Tesco has to great a
> sway in the UK and they're having trouble gaining a foothold against
> it. You Brits should get on your knees and thank God for Tesco if
> that's the case. It's beyond ironic to hear of Walmart, a ravaging
> corporate juggernaut for those of you lucky enough not to be
> acquainted with its rape of American small business and labor,
> complain of unfair competition.
>
> -- Dave
> http://starry-starry-nights.blogspot.com/
Yeah, WalMart own the chain of supermarkets called "Asda" in this
country.....Tesco's monopolistic approach to the industry is exactly the
same as Walmart's....
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| Re: The DVD [message #139205 ] |
Mo, 26 September 2005 19:15 |
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Fat Sam wrote:
> Dave Adalian wrote:
>
>>"Fat Sam" <samandjanetknox [at] tessco.net> wrote in message
>>news:w3FZe.28371$6p.8633 [at] newsfe4-gui.ntli.net...
>>
>>>Just rented it from Choices, and it came on 1 disc....
>>>
>>>I'm going to buy it this week when I get paid, and I've been
>>>checking out the best prices....So far it looks like Tesco's at
>>>£14-99, but I still havent looked in Makro yet....
>>>
>>>Anyway, all the versions in the shops for purchase have a sticker on
>>>the cover saying "UK special 2 disc edition"....
>>>
>>>So what's on the second disc? The rental version seemed to have the
>>>main feature and all the extra features on the one disc.....
>>>
>>
I got a single disk version. Cost me $19.99 at Tower. I envy you two
disk people, and would love to know what is on the other one...
>>
>>There was an article in the LA Times about Tesco two or three weeks
>>ago. They reported that Walmart has complained Tesco has to great a
>>sway in the UK and they're having trouble gaining a foothold against
>>it. You Brits should get on your knees and thank God for Tesco if
>>that's the case. It's beyond ironic to hear of Walmart, a ravaging
>>corporate juggernaut for those of you lucky enough not to be
>>acquainted with its rape of American small business and labor,
>>complain of unfair competition.
>>
>>-- Dave
>>http://starry-starry-nights.blogspot.com/
>
>
> Yeah, WalMart own the chain of supermarkets called "Asda" in this
> country.....Tesco's monopolistic approach to the industry is exactly the
> same as Walmart's....
>
>
I morn the passing of Sleepers. That was the Office Supply place
they put out of business in Sacramento. Or was that Office Depot?
Hard to tell when the little guy is under assault from so many
evil angles... Why are low prices so seductive anyhow?
--
Tian
Yesterday morning I helped out with the Friends of Stevens Creek
Trail Trailblazer Race. I was supervising a bunch of High School
kids giving cups of water to runners at Water Station Number 1.
http://tian.greens.org
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| Re: The DVD [message #139206 ] |
Mo, 26 September 2005 19:19 |
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"Tian" <DontBeFuelish [at] aol.com03246726> wrote in message
news:dh9ac4$emf$1 [at] domitilla.aioe.org...
> I morn the passing of Sleepers. That was the Office Supply place
> they put out of business in Sacramento. Or was that Office Depot?
> Hard to tell when the little guy is under assault from so many
> evil angles... Why are low prices so seductive anyhow?
Greed.
-- Dave
http://starry-starry-nights.blogspot.com/
P.S.: How was the anti-war event?
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| Re: The DVD [message #139214 ] |
Di, 27 September 2005 19:13 |
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Dave Adalian wrote:
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> P.S.: How was the anti-war event?
>
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It was great! There must have been 50,000 people there.
Check out the pictures I took by clicking on the picture
at the top of my website:
http://tian.greens.org/
There are something like 111 pictures there. If you only
see half a dozen, you haven't clicked enough of the pics.
--
Tian
Yesterday I got my pictures from Saturdays Peace March
in San Francisco. You can see them by clicking on the
picture of Ross Mirkarimi at the top of my front page:
http://tian.greens.org
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| Re: The DVD [message #139220 ] |
Di, 27 September 2005 21:35 |
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>>
> I morn the passing of Sleepers. That was the Office Supply place
> they put out of business in Sacramento. Or was that Office Depot?
> Hard to tell when the little guy is under assault from so many
> evil angles...
Why are low prices so seductive anyhow?
>
-- This is a rhetorical question right?
-Robert.
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| Re: The DVD [message #139222 ] |
Di, 27 September 2005 22:09 |
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"R Crouse" <robert.crouse [at] nospamgmail.com> wrote in message
news:nah_e.733$lc1.207 [at] newssvr21.news.prodigy.com...
>>>
>> I morn the passing of Sleepers. That was the Office Supply place
>> they put out of business in Sacramento. Or was that Office Depot?
>> Hard to tell when the little guy is under assault from so many
>> evil angles...
>
> Why are low prices so seductive anyhow?
>>
>
> -- This is a rhetorical question right?
>
Not at all. Low prices at places like Walmart are like dating a beautiful
woman then marrying her only to find she has chronic gas that would make a
warthog's eyes run, three snot-nosed bratty kids and a battle-axe of a
mother who she plans to move in with you. It sure seemed nice to buy 50
plastic widgets you didn't really need and the new Brittney Spears album for
only $1.12, but then you've got to put up with unfair labor practices,
pollution, the destruction of small businesses, the draining of the local
economy, ugly box stores, an overloaded pubic health system from Walmart
not paying its employees enough to afford their inadequate health insurance
benefit program and that funny smell that all Walmarts ooze. What is that
smell anyway? A mixture of grease and stress hormones? The prices aren't
really low, the management has just managed to hide them, avoid them and
pass them on to the taxpayers.
-- Dave
http://starry-starry-nights.blogspot.com/
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| Re: The DVD [message #139223 ] |
Di, 27 September 2005 22:15 |
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Dave Adalian wrote:
<snip>
> [...] an overloaded pubic health system [...]
Well, _now_ you've convinced me! That surely is an unpleasant
consequence of Walmart :-)
Best
Kåre
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| Re: The DVD [message #139224 ] |
Di, 27 September 2005 22:46 |
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"Tian" <DontBeFuelish [at] aol.com03246726> wrote in message
news:dh9ac4$emf$1 [at] domitilla.aioe.org...
> Fat Sam wrote:
>> Dave Adalian wrote:
>>
>>>"Fat Sam" <samandjanetknox [at] tessco.net> wrote in message
>>>news:w3FZe.28371$6p.8633 [at] newsfe4-gui.ntli.net...
>>>
>>>>Just rented it from Choices, and it came on 1 disc....
>>>>
>>>>I'm going to buy it this week when I get paid, and I've been
>>>>checking out the best prices....So far it looks like Tesco's at
>>>>£14-99, but I still havent looked in Makro yet....
>>>>
>>>>Anyway, all the versions in the shops for purchase have a sticker on
>>>>the cover saying "UK special 2 disc edition"....
>>>>
>>>>So what's on the second disc? The rental version seemed to have the
>>>>main feature and all the extra features on the one disc.....
>>>>
>>>
>
> I got a single disk version. Cost me $19.99 at Tower. I envy you two
> disk people, and would love to know what is on the other one...
>
>>>
>>>There was an article in the LA Times about Tesco two or three weeks
>>>ago. They reported that Walmart has complained Tesco has to great a
>>>sway in the UK and they're having trouble gaining a foothold against
>>>it. You Brits should get on your knees and thank God for Tesco if
>>>that's the case. It's beyond ironic to hear of Walmart, a ravaging
>>>corporate juggernaut for those of you lucky enough not to be
>>>acquainted with its rape of American small business and labor,
>>>complain of unfair competition.
>>>
>>>-- Dave
>>>http://starry-starry-nights.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
>> Yeah, WalMart own the chain of supermarkets called "Asda" in this
>> country.....Tesco's monopolistic approach to the industry is exactly the
>> same as Walmart's....
>>
>>
> I morn the passing of Sleepers. That was the Office Supply place
> they put out of business in Sacramento. Or was that Office Depot?
> Hard to tell when the little guy is under assault from so many
> evil angles... Why are low prices so seductive anyhow?
>
"Y" is a crooked letter.
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| Re: The DVD [message #139228 ] |
Mi, 28 September 2005 02:31 |
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"Kaare Fiedler Christiansen" <news [at] kaarefc.dk> wrote in message
news:4339a865$0$163$edfadb0f [at] dtext02.news.tele.dk...
> Dave Adalian wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> [...] an overloaded pubic health system [...]
>
> Well, _now_ you've convinced me! That surely is an unpleasant consequence
> of Walmart :-)
>
It is unpleasant when Walmart hires workers at minimum wage, which is not
nearly enough to sustain oneself here in the United States, and then offers
them insurance someone working for minimum wage couldn't possibly afford.
This forces the people to use tax-supported medical coverage, shifting the
burden from Walmart to the general public. All this would be solved if
America were a civilized nation that, like nearly all other industrialized
nations, provided free or reduced-price health care to all its people. But
it isn't since we've got Republican neoconservatives running the country who
by comparison make the Vogons look like Mother Teresa. ):-(
-- Dave
http://starry-starry-nights.blogspot.com/
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| Re: The DVD [message #139232 ] |
Mi, 28 September 2005 09:50 |
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Fat Sam wrote:
> Just rented it from Choices, and it came on 1 disc....
>
> I'm going to buy it this week when I get paid, and I've been checking out
> the best prices....So far it looks like Tesco's at =A314-99, but I still
> havent looked in Makro yet....
>
> Anyway, all the versions in the shops for purchase have a sticker on the
> cover saying "UK special 2 disc edition"....
>
> So what's on the second disc? The rental version seemed to have the main
> feature and all the extra features on the one disc.....
I love how the questions submitted to these froups never get answered
and somehow turn into random rants about
corporations/people/acne/politicians/penis sizes.
Amazon.co.uk states the 2 disc edition as having:
=B7 Special Feature Information:
=B0 Making Of Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
=B0 Additional Guide Entry
=B0 Deleted Scenes
=B0 Really Deleted Scenes
=B0 Sing A Long
=B0 Audio Commentaries
=B0 Set Top Games Marvins Hangman
=B0 Dont Crash Making Of
=B7 Aspect Ratio: 2.35 Wide Screen
=B7 Available Audio Tracks: Dolby Digital 5.1
=B7 Disc Format: DVD 9
As for the ONE disc (full-screen) version:
DVD Features:
* Available Audio Tracks: (Dolby Digital 5.1)
* Deleted Scenes
* Fake Deleted Scenes (Way, way too-far-out outtakes)
* "The Making of The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
* 2 Wholly Remarkable Audio Commentaries - Executive producer and
Douglas Adams' Colleague Sean Solle; producer and actors
And the ONE disc (widescreen) version boasts:
# Available subtitles: Spanish, French
# Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (DTS
5=2E1), French, Spanish
- Commentary by Executive producer and Douglas Adams' Colleague Sean
Solle
- Commentary by producer and actors
- Deleted Scenes
- Fake Deleted Scenes (Way, way too-far-out outtakes)
- "The Making of The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
- Additional Guide Entry
- Sing-Along
- Set-top game: Marvin's Hangman
The bloody freaks (a bit of British-American fusion, there)... I just
don't know WHAT to buy anymore! Please advise.
-The Ramin
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| Re: The DVD [message #139240 ] |
Mi, 28 September 2005 16:20 |
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"Ramin" <rmarghi [at] gmail.com> wrote:
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> I love how the questions submitted to these froups never get answered
> and somehow turn into random rants about
> corporations/people/acne/politicians/penis sizes.
Exactly..
> The bloody freaks (a bit of British-American fusion, there)... I just
> don't know WHAT to buy anymore! Please advise.
Ok, the deal is that the 2-disc version contains "Don't Crash", a 68-minute
making-of doc. The 1-disc does not.
http://dvdcompare.net/comparisons/film.php?fid=8043
"Don't Crash" is a UK exclusive, and I highly recommend snapping it up.
Overseas folks with region-free DVD players can order it from CD-Wow or
Amazon.co.uk. My copy from CD-Wow arrived safe and sound here in the US
last week.
Manda
lurker extraordinaire
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| Re: The DVD [message #139247 ] |
Mi, 28 September 2005 20:17 |
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Manda wrote:
> "Ramin" <rmarghi [at] gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>I love how the questions submitted to these froups never get answered
>>and somehow turn into random rants about
>>corporations/people/acne/politicians/penis sizes.
>
>
> Exactly..
>
>
>>The bloody freaks (a bit of British-American fusion, there)... I just
>>don't know WHAT to buy anymore! Please advise.
>
>
> Ok, the deal is that the 2-disc version contains "Don't Crash", a 68-minute
> making-of doc. The 1-disc does not.
>
> http://dvdcompare.net/comparisons/film.php?fid=8043
>
> "Don't Crash" is a UK exclusive, and I highly recommend snapping it up.
>
> Overseas folks with region-free DVD players can order it from CD-Wow or
> Amazon.co.uk. My copy from CD-Wow arrived safe and sound here in the US
> last week.
>
Thank you. I guess I'll have to suffer without that, having
already plunked down my money for the other one...
--
Tian
Yesterday I got my pictures from Saturdays Peace March
in San Francisco up on my website. You can see them by
clicking on the picture of Ross Mirkarimi speaking at
the opening rally in Delores Park on my front page:
http://tian.greens.org
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| Re: The DVD [message #139248 ] |
Mi, 28 September 2005 20:25 |
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Pink Freud wrote:
> "Tian" <DontBeFuelish [at] aol.com03246726> wrote in message
> news:dh9ac4$emf$1 [at] domitilla.aioe.org...
>
>>>
>>
>>I morn the passing of Sleepers. That was the Office Supply place
>>they put out of business in Sacramento. Or was that Office Depot?
>>Hard to tell when the little guy is under assault from so many
>>evil angles... Why are low prices so seductive anyhow?
>>
>
>
> "Y" is a crooked letter.
>
>
When I heard about the "Y river accords" on the radio,
I found the name somewhat poetic. Then I read the paper
and found out they were talking about the Wye River Accords.
Most rivers are crooked. The exceptions are the ones that
go through Los Angeles in concrete trenches and ones like them.
--
Tian
Yesterday I got my pictures from Saturdays Peace March
in San Francisco up on my website. You can see them by
clicking on the picture of Ross Mirkarimi speaking at
the opening rally in Delores Park on my front page:
http://tian.greens.org
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| Re: The DVD [message #139252 ] |
Mi, 28 September 2005 22:39 |
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Ramin wrote:
> Fat Sam wrote:
>> Just rented it from Choices, and it came on 1 disc....
>>
>> I'm going to buy it this week when I get paid, and I've been
>> checking out the best prices....So far it looks like Tesco's at
>> £14-99, but I still havent looked in Makro yet....
>>
>> Anyway, all the versions in the shops for purchase have a sticker on
>> the cover saying "UK special 2 disc edition"....
>>
>> So what's on the second disc? The rental version seemed to have the
>> main feature and all the extra features on the one disc.....
>
> I love how the questions submitted to these froups never get answered
> and somehow turn into random rants about
> corporations/people/acne/politicians/penis sizes.
>
> Amazon.co.uk states the 2 disc edition as having:
>
> · Special Feature Information:
> ° Making Of Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
> ° Additional Guide Entry
> ° Deleted Scenes
> ° Really Deleted Scenes
> ° Sing A Long
> ° Audio Commentaries
> ° Set Top Games Marvins Hangman
> ° Dont Crash Making Of
> · Aspect Ratio: 2.35 Wide Screen
> · Available Audio Tracks: Dolby Digital 5.1
> · Disc Format: DVD 9
That's exactly what the one-disc rental version contained....
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| Re: The DVD [message #141596 ] |
Sa, 01 Oktober 2005 12:37 |
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Fat Sam wrote:
> Ramin wrote:
>
>>Amazon.co.uk states the 2 disc edition as having:
>>
>>· Special Feature Information:
>> ° Making Of Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
>> ° Additional Guide Entry
>> ° Deleted Scenes
>> ° Really Deleted Scenes
>> ° Sing A Long
>> ° Audio Commentaries
>> ° Set Top Games Marvins Hangman
>> ° Dont Crash Making Of
>>· Aspect Ratio: 2.35 Wide Screen
>>· Available Audio Tracks: Dolby Digital 5.1
>>· Disc Format: DVD 9
>
> That's exactly what the one-disc rental version contained....
Except for 'Don't Crash', which is UK-only and consitutes the second disc.
--
John Coxon
A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems.
Email: john[dot]coxon[at]gmail[dot]com
Website: http://alphacentauri.8k.com
Missing footnotes: http://www.nut.house.cx/cgi-bin/nemowiki.pl?ISFN
ZZ9 - the official HHGG appreciation society: http://www.zz9.org/
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| Re: The DVD [message #141603 ] |
Sa, 01 Oktober 2005 20:38 |
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John Coxon wrote:
> Fat Sam wrote:
>
>> Ramin wrote:
>>
>>> Amazon.co.uk states the 2 disc edition as having:
>>>
>>> · Special Feature Information:
>>> ° Making Of Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
>>> ° Additional Guide Entry
>>> ° Deleted Scenes
>>> ° Really Deleted Scenes
>>> ° Sing A Long
>>> ° Audio Commentaries
>>> ° Set Top Games Marvins Hangman
>>> ° Dont Crash Making Of
>>> · Aspect Ratio: 2.35 Wide Screen
>>> · Available Audio Tracks: Dolby Digital 5.1
>>> · Disc Format: DVD 9
>>
>> That's exactly what the one-disc rental version contained....
>
> Except for 'Don't Crash', which is UK-only and consitutes the second
> disc.
So "Don't Crash" is different from the Making-Of documentary that was on the
rental version then?.....I'll find out next week when I get out to buy a
copy on my lunchbreak....
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| Re: The DVD [message #141619 ] |
So, 02 Oktober 2005 13:37 |
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Fat Sam wrote:
> John Coxon wrote:
>
>>Fat Sam wrote:
>>
>>>Ramin wrote:
>>>
>>>>Amazon.co.uk states the 2 disc edition as having:
>>>>
>>>>· Special Feature Information:
>>>> ° Making Of Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
>>>> ° Additional Guide Entry
>>>> ° Deleted Scenes
>>>> ° Really Deleted Scenes
>>>> ° Sing A Long
>>>> ° Audio Commentaries
>>>> ° Set Top Games Marvins Hangman
>>>> ° Dont Crash Making Of
>>>>· Aspect Ratio: 2.35 Wide Screen
>>>>· Available Audio Tracks: Dolby Digital 5.1
>>>>· Disc Format: DVD 9
>>>
>>>That's exactly what the one-disc rental version contained....
>>
>>Except for 'Don't Crash', which is UK-only and consitutes the second
>>disc.
>
> So "Don't Crash" is different from the Making-Of documentary that was on the
> rental version then?.....I'll find out next week when I get out to buy a
> copy on my lunchbreak....
They're different, yes.
--
John Coxon
A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems.
Email: john[dot]coxon[at]gmail[dot]com
Website: http://alphacentauri.8k.com
Missing footnotes: http://www.nut.house.cx/cgi-bin/nemowiki.pl?ISFN
ZZ9 - the official HHGG appreciation society: http://www.zz9.org/
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| Mankind:A bunch of loony idiots (was:Re: The DVD) [message #141621 ] |
So, 02 Oktober 2005 14:40 |
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"Dave Adalian" <dpalta AT comcast.net> wrote:
> It is unpleasant when Walmart hires workers at minimum wage, which is not
> nearly enough to sustain oneself here in the United States, and then offers
> them insurance someone working for minimum wage couldn't possibly afford.
> This forces the people to use tax-supported medical coverage, shifting the
> burden from Walmart to the general public. All this would be solved if
> America were a civilized nation that, like nearly all other industrialized
> nations, provided free or reduced-price health care to all its people.
I can assure you this isn't an USA phenomen. The trend here in Germany
goes the same way.
Staso
--
Schizophrenic? I'm bleeding quadrophenic.
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