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...Dead or Alive, not to mention about a quillion Japanese animes (Pokemon and its brethren) - and a seemingly infinite number of VG adaptations to come: film versions such game franchises as God of War, Gears of War, Metal Gear Solid, Lost Planet, Prince of Persia, EverQuest, Mass Effect, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, the blessed Sims and, yikes, PacMan. (Can't wait for other retro movies based on the earliest video games: Frogger, Space Invaders and - some French minimalist director'll do it - Pong...
...effect, Edelman is accusing Google and typosquatting companies of profiting from the misuse of other companies’ trademarks...
...Varian, Google's chief economist, said that the current economic climate, rather than hurting Google, could well help it. "When there is a recessionary period, people are counting their pennies and looking for bargains," he said, noting that at Google, this is known as "the Wal-Mart Effect." He added: "We think this kind of effect could actually work to Google's benefit." Indeed, it could work better at Google, where everything is free, than at Wal-Mart...
Riley: [I would add] Reagan's survival of [an] assassination attempt, which had a profound effect on budget policy at that time, because Reagan was foundering a little bit during the early phase of his presidency ... He'd come out of an election--he had won an election that was closer than the score indicated ... but his grace literally under fire in that event, joking to the doctors as he was going under, and his recovery, I think, is a very good illustration of how, in an extreme set of circumstances, one's temperament can have an influence on politics...
Smith: But that's also a great example of a President in effect not simply exercising crisis management but coming out of that crisis having established a kind of emotional bond with people and banking political credit that he can call upon down the road when things inevitably become more difficult. Maybe think of F.D.R. in March of 1933--I would argue that there really was never a majority of Americans who bought into the right-wing notion of Stalin Delano Roosevelt, because at a critical moment, F.D.R. established a kind of credibility ... God knows he was controversial. God knows...