The Trash Heap of the Heapers' Hangout

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  • edited 2014-04-10 22:07:53
    We can do anything if we do it together.
    something that came out in 2006:

  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Did somebody say 2006?

    image

    (ok, I'm cheating a bit; it went RTM in '06 but the general availability was January of '07)
  • image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    Things that came out in 2006:

    Sonic The Hedgehog: Genesis
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Also Sonic the Hedgehog

    The fact that they felt that to be the best title for that game says how broken down they were by then
  • For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    2006 in my my musical universe:

    Sufjan Stevens, Songs for Christmas, Vols. I – V
    Wovenhand, Mosaic
    Danielson, Ships
    Starflyer 59, My Island
    Anathallo, Floating World
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Looking at the Tiny Mix Tapes "best" list for 2006, I am struck by how many records that I recognise and have enjoyed but whose release year I did not know or forgot. Boris, Wolf Eyes, Tim Hecker, Califone, Scott frigging Walker...
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Yo La Tengo's I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass is really good. So is that Juana Molina record. Return to Cookie Mountain is even better...
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    oh yeah, Boris' Pink came out in 2006, I think
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    *gives the next poster a Famicom cartridge containing Grand Theft Auto V*
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    yay!
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I'll stash it with my copy of E.T. for the Atari 2600
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    In a desert in New Mexico?
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I actually do have that cartridge. No console to play it on, but whatever
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

    I'll stash it with my copy of E.T. for the Atari 2600

    Now you have me wondering what would happen if Atari continued to thrive and was now a division of Time Warner

    They'd probably have spat Atari out at some point though
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I have a weird fondness for the original incarnation of Atari, for some reason

    I dunno why
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    But not the rest of Warner Communications :(
  • edited 2014-04-10 22:38:29
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    but srsly they owned DC and Atari

    nerd-tastic
  • edited 2014-04-10 22:55:56
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    270,001,569 is a fun number.

    Ugh, AOL time Warner.  Buying up everything, even the copyright to Happy Birthday.  They're going to buy the earth and rename it Warner.  They're going to buy the word, "the" so you have to pay ten cents every time you use that word. I bet they even own news outlets.

    So, could you make a list of all the things that have been owned by Warner (at any time) and the things owned by Disney, or stuff?

    So, if Warner owned Dc and Disney owns Marvel, what would happen if Warner bought Disney?

    I never understood the "time" part of the name.
  • image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    The copyright on Happy Birthday expires on December 31st, 2016, in Europe.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    They're just "Time Warner" now; AOL became a separate company again in 2009.

    "Time" refers to Time Inc, a magazine publisher whose flagship magazine is, naturally, Time.

    /Anonus
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

    oh yeah, Boris' Pink came out in 2006, I think

    Yup.

    And Scott Walker's The Drift. How did I forget that?
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    So, I'd like a list of all the things that have ever been owned by that conglomerate.  IF they never split and always kept everything they had, what would be the stuff?

    (this would include all the things that AOL owned but got rid of before it joined Warner)
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Aliroz said:

    270,001,569 is a fun number.

    Ugh, AOL time Warner.  Buying up everything, even the copyright to Happy Birthday.  They're going to buy the earth and rename it Warner.  They're going to buy the word, "the" so you have to pay ten cents every time you use that word. I bet they even own news outlets.

    So, could you make a list of all the things that have been owned by Warner (at any time) and the things owned by Disney, or stuff?

    So, if Warner owned Dc and Disney owns Marvel, what would happen if Warner bought DC?

    I never understood the "time" part of the name.

    It hasn't been called "AOL Time Warner" since 2003, and they spun Warner Music Group off in 2004, as a company traded on the NYSE (it has since been acquired by Access Industries).

    "Time" refers to Time Inc., the magazine publisher named for Time magazine. This is also the company that brought HBO into the Time Warner fold, but HBO is now separate from Time Inc. and Time Inc. will be spun off as a publicly-traded company soon.

  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Like, maybe, a chart of the subsidiaries of it, and sub-subsidiaries and all that.
  • edited 2014-04-10 23:00:12
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Well, if you clumped it all in. 

    Like, layers of division.  Like phylum, order, genus, and that.  Common ancestry or relationships or stuff.
    Anonus said:

    Aliroz said:

    270,001,569 is a fun number.

    Ugh, AOL time Warner.  Buying up everything, even the copyright to Happy Birthday.  They're going to buy the earth and rename it Warner.  They're going to buy the word, "the" so you have to pay ten cents every time you use that word. I bet they even own news outlets.

    So, could you make a list of all the things that have been owned by Warner (at any time) and the things owned by Disney, or stuff?

    So, if Warner owned Dc and Disney owns Marvel, what would happen if Warner bought DC?

    I never understood the "time" part of the name.

    It hasn't been called "AOL Time Warner" since 2003, and they spun Warner Music Group off in 2004, as a company traded on the NYSE (it has since been acquired by Access Industries).

    "Time" refers to Time Inc., the magazine publisher named for Time magazine. This is also the company that brought HBO into the Time Warner fold, but HBO is now separate from Time Inc. and Time Inc. will be spun off as a publicly-traded company soon.

    Well, if you clumped it all in. 

    Like, layers of division.  Like phylum, order, genus, and that.  Common ancestry or relationships or stuff.

    Like, HBO and TIme would share a genus, maybe; but be different species; and
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Triplestop.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Aliroz said:

    So, I'd like a list of all the things that have ever been owned by that conglomerate.  IF they never split and always kept everything they had, what would be the stuff?

    (this would include all the things that AOL owned but got rid of before it joined Warner)

    What do you mean by all the things that (AOL) Time Warner has ever owned? Businesses? Intellectual properties?
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Anonus said:

    Aliroz said:

    So, I'd like a list of all the things that have ever been owned by that conglomerate.  IF they never split and always kept everything they had, what would be the stuff?

    (this would include all the things that AOL owned but got rid of before it joined Warner)

    What do you mean by all the things that (AOL) Time Warner has ever owned? Businesses? Intellectual properties?
    Yes, both.  Things they had the copyrights to, intellectual properties, businesses, all that.

    AOL, Warner, and TIme would be three phylums or something.  Netscape would be in AOL, HBO would be in time.  And subsidiaries of AOL, Warner, and Time might have their own subsidiaries.

    This would count everything that's ever been in it, even if it left or was sold (I guess that would make it an extinct species for this).
  • edited 2014-04-10 23:05:54
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    ^^was it good?

    ^Listing that would be a lot of work...

    Also, don't forget Turner Broadcasting!
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    I know there is no time in which HBO and Netscape were owned by the same whatever megacorporation or anything.

    If it's too much work, you don't have to do it.  Just if it's fun (not if it's work or a compulsion).

    And maybe just list the cool or interesting things.

    Ooh, or maybe it could be a tree, with branches!
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Anonus said:

    ^^was it good?


    ^Listing that would be a lot of work...

    Also, don't forget Turner Broadcasting!
    Yes. It was fairly good.

    There were some ladies behind me who loudly chewed gum and talked though.
  • The Animaniacs Movie was basically one big poke at the Time-Warner conglomerate.

    All the villains were from a rival country called Ticktockia, and all the villains have clocks incorporated into their outfits.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    !
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    So, well, didn't Turner (that's too cool a name for such a lame thing) own CMC,  the short-lived good twin of MTV?
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Yes.

    Also, what's so lame about Turner? They had the best portfolio of any media company ever...the old MGM library, Hanna-Barbera Productions...

    (of note, Time Warner owned 19% of Turner prior to 1996, when they purchased the company outright)
  • image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    Scone. Pronounced to rhyme with Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Anonus said:

    Yes.


    Also, what's so lame about Turner? They had the best portfolio of any media company ever...the old MGM library, Hanna-Barbera Productions...

    (of note, Time Warner owned 19% of Turner prior to 1996, when they purchased the company outright)
    Turner is one of the most awesome words and one of the most awesome names.  It deserves better than a businessman. 
  • I passed by the TBS building on my way back to the hotel just now

    Couldn't get a pic because it was too dark tho
  • TreTre
    edited 2014-04-11 01:00:23
    image
    also I went to The Lion King live for the second time, but simultaneously took my first visit to The Fabulous Fox Theatre (which does live up to that title to an extent)

    Rafiki never fails to amaze in that play, I tell ya what (and Scar was pretty badass too)
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I'm glad you're having fun!
  • thanks love :D
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    The other day I had to ship a long metal shaft to a company called "DIC Tool" and it was all I could do to avoid giggling like a middle schooler in front of a customer

    I mean there's not one single part of that you can't make a crude joke out of
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    ...there's a company called "DIC Tool"?
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Apparently!
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Also, Anonus, I'll bet you were the only person who read that post and mentally pronounced "DIC" as "deek".

    On account of you're a dork.
  • it gets better

    Dic Tool - Div of Trojan Inc
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Oh god I can't stop laughing

    That bit wasn't on the packing slip
  • kill living beings
    so like
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    You know what seems rather short-sighted to me? Naming 480i displays as "standard definition" and 720p and 1080p as "high definition".

    Sure, that works fine now, but what about 25 years down the line when they start rolling out an even higher resolution? It's bound to happen, right? They'd have to resort to naming it something like "Ultra High Definition" or "Super High Definition"; meanwhile "Standard Definition" will really mean "obsolete technology that hasn't been used in years"...
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