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The forecasting is still not accurate enough for you to safely evacuate and stay in Florida.

You're not familiar with hurricanes, are you? At it's widest, Florida is about 130 miles wide. Since you're seemingly unaware of how big hurricanes are, here's a (shitty) graphic for you. The deadliest part of the hurricane, the eye, is usually 20-40 miles in diameter. And yes, you do not want to go through the eye. But the rest of the hurricane isn't a fucking joke. Hurricane force winds generally extend 100 miles from the eye, and you'll note that a mid-range eye plus 100 miles is about the diameter of Florida.

If the eye of the hurricane looks like it's going to come near any part of Florida, it's not safe to "evacuate" to another part of Florida. Florida is smaller than a small hurricane, and tiny compared to a big one.

Hurricane forecasting is plenty good enough to stay safe right now. You just need to see the hurricane coming and get like 400 miles away from it. "Evacuating and staying in Florida" is like seeing a bull charging you from across a field and walking 10' to the left. Sure, if you're fast and you do it at the last minute, that might work. Your timing needs to be damn good, and you need to be able to do it quickly, but when a 50 other people are trying to do the same thing, you're likely fucked. A better choice is to just get the hell out of the field well in advance.

Planetes

Speaking of schoolgirls, the Japanese even made a curling manga, title is "Orange Delivery":

http://www.crunchyroll.com/ani...

that will still give me access to all the shows I like

* Mr. Robot - $24.99
* The Americans - $34.99
* Silicon Valley - $24.99
* Veep - $24.99
* Halt and Catch Fire - $24.99

For about the price of a month's worth of cable you could have all the shows you're interested in and save the other 11 months for something else. I did this years ago, picked up an AppleTV - works great for streaming Netflix and my purchased DVD / Blu-Rays I've been ripping into my iTunes Library - and now just get season's passes for the shows I watch. For local events I put a DB8e on my roof, though if you live in an apartment you could mount it to a weighted pole on your balcony or window.

All in, between my Netflix subscription, Crunchyroll (I really love Anime), DramaFever (I really love Korean dramas), and my iTunes seasons passes I spent around $300 annually on my entertainment - when you consider I used to spend almost $1,500 on cable its amazing how much money I saved. I also have more free time, less of it spent channel surfing looking for stuff to watch, and I never have to watch commercials unless I'm watching OTA, which is why I picked up a DVR+.

Unless you're big on sports, and the AppleTV has been getting all the big ones lately (Hockey, Football, whatever - I don't watch sports), or your shows aren't available digitally there really isn't much reason to get cable / satellite anymore. I've been cable free for nearly 4 years now and I can honestly say that I don't miss it.

Note: While I'm Canadian, I'm assuming you're an American and have used the iTunes prices from the US store

Never heard of it until now but thanks! http://www.crunchyroll.com/swo...

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Although Star Trek TNG was outstanding, the real problem is that there hasn't been much high quality science fiction TV series in the last 25 years.

I agree. There's so much shallow-war tripe and cop drama BS (even one where PRISM is a good thing, ugh), I feel that kids today could use some more ethical conundrums and imaginative exploration on prime time TV.

I've exposed space fascinated kids to Planetes and Space Brothers with scores of success (the later has world's 1st voice acting from space from the ISS). Too bad we don't have any prime-time shows about striving for peaceful coexistence in the hostile universe. It's too bad, they haven't made a reboot of Star Trek yet.

Have you, America as a nation, let your hunger for war and hegemony override your once great ideals for the betterment of mankind?

No, but our cronies find it a far faster return on investment to manufacture consent for war through scaremongering. Don't forget, we went to space in a race to outdo other nations first. We're still dominant in that regard. I do seriously wish Europe, Asia and Indonesia the best of luck. We're all in this together. Here in Houston astronauts from all over the world train for EVA and re-entry. Off the coast of Florida they train for life in space habitats under the water in SEATEST. In Canada they learn to use the Canada Arm of the ISS, among many other things. The European Space Agency is currently helping China relay its moon rover data back to them. My main wish besides more funding is that NASA would get a prime-time TV show to inspire kids and young adults like JAXA has in Space Brothers. (an anime with the first ever voice-actor performance from space - JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide from the ISS). Hell, the live action adaptation thereof has astronaut Buzz Aldrin playing himself. We just got that Gravity movie, and Curiosity's Twitter feed is great, but I do agree we could be doing far better in the space media department. Mars One is sort of forcing NASA's hand to commit to at least get some astronauts to loop around Mars and back (like we did with the moon before landing). Competition is good for space, bring it on!

In the press Russia and the US rattle sabers while in space we say, "Thanks for the supplies, comrade!" That divisionism drivel you're spouting is nice to goad statists into funding space programs, but to anyone in the know it makes you seem a bit foolish.

India's Mars probe finally leaves Earth-bound orbits on the 1st of December 2013.

On the very same day, China is set to launch its first lunar lander.

Both India and China are from Asia.

Where are the Europeans ?

Where are the Americans ?

What the heck happened to the usually technologically more advanced societies of the Western countries ?

Asia is playing catch up very very fast, and before long, they might even get ahead of you guys !

Apparently they're in Houston, and Florida. I regularly see the European, Japanese, Russian, Canadian, Russian, etc. Astronauts at the Johnson Space Center.

The USA has sent astronauts to successfully walk around on the moon, and driven manned rovers there. We've got some satelites orbiting Mars already, and several successful mars rovers, the latest Mars Science Lab is the size of a SUV, and was deployed by unique very complex manoeuvre involving a hovering platform.

NASA partners with space agencies around the world, from Europe's ESA, to Japan's JAXA, to Russian Roscosmos, etc. Don't get me wrong, I think we should give all the NSA and war budgets to NASA and have self sustaining colonies of humans out there (reduce our current 100% chance of extinction). However, I'm not scared about Asia "catching up" to our decades old achievements. In fact, Space is a resource all the world's countries should share.

See also: Planetes -- an anime which briefly explored the concept of poor nations inability to access space widening the poverty gap, and spurning space terrorism.

Some governments fear each other and cause war, but even among the adversarial countries the vast majority of ordinary people of on Earth aren't enemies of each other. Gazing at our small vulnerable blue world from space there are no national borders. May cooperation in space exploration continue to unite Earth's people. I'm cheering India on! The people of Asia deserve to have the cultural catalyst of the cosmic perspective too.

You may also enjoy Space Brothers - Anime about international cooperation in space exploration, brotherly love, sibling rivalry, and putting the first Japanese astronaut on the moon. IMO, we should have inspiring animated shows like this on prime-time TV in place of yet another sarcastic Simpson's clone. Maybe then statements such as yours would be encouraging courage and cooperation rather than scaremongering.

TL;DR: Some men just want to watch the world grow.

If you can grow crabgrass, dandelions, and kudzu, then you could grow basil and turnips instead with no substantial difference in difficulty. What's the real difference? Astronauts would rather eat basil-turnips stew than kudzu crabgrass salad. The experiment is actually somewhat needed since it'll give us better estimates on the amount of area food production will take (it depends on the growth rate of the foods).

If we're talking terraforming and not just growing goodies to eat in a mostly closed cycle (poo is fertilizer, albeit rather 'hot' with bacteria), then we'll want some kind of genetically engineered microbes and lichen, etc which can survive on water mixed with regolith + heat and break down the rocks into more useful soil. You'd be wanting that under a dome of sorts, maybe in a crater or two on the south pole, so any gases produced wouldn't be blown away by solar winds.

We're a long way off from lunar dome construction and genetically engineered lunar microbes. However, we have all the technology required to put a habitat on the moon -- Just not funding to do so. You want funding you need to aim for getting people off the planet. Joe sixpack is inspired by people, not probes or plants. Folks atrophy in low G, so it limits the time humans can spend in a habitat; One that's big enough for long term missions and food cultivation would have to be cycled like the ISS does, but the gravity may let them stay longer than orbital platforms -- It's the radiation I'd be worried about.

Actually, this just reminded me I need to catch up on Space Brothers -- An anime series about the human element involved in becoming a JAXA astronaut, international cooperation, brotherly love and rivalry, and performing Lunar and other missions. I recognized many Houstonian landmarks in their episodes at NASA / Johnson Space Center. There were episodes about such a lunar habitat, and while I'm sure artistic license is taken, the show demonstrates some impressive real life space agency involvement for an show. The current arc includes training in an international undersea platform must be inspired by actual plans. Space Brothers includes the first voice acting to ever be recorded in space (by Akihiko Hoshide). In the live action movie based on the anime / manga, Buzz Aldrin makes a cameo appearance as himself.

I don't mean to ramble on about this series (which you can find free streaming online w/ ads on crunchroll among other places), but IMO, this sort of thing I think about as "baby steps". I agree with you on that front. NASA needs more Community Involvement, sparking public interest especially among children. They're getting a bit better with social media, and we have NASA TV, but it's not half as entertaining to minds young or old as comic books, animations, or movies about what it would be like to live in space in the future. All around the world I see cultures becoming more excited about space, and yet here in the USA most common people are disenchanted with it, and many are actively negative towards awarding any funding. That Gravity film was in the right vein, but far more expensive than a manga or anime. It's a shame the stigma western societies have over art mediums like these (and even games) -- It's just as valid a medium as film, radio, theater, or painting, but western animation studios (like Dreamworks or Pixar) are hampered by the expectation that animation is for kids, and thereby kid-safe and lacking most mature dramatic elements. I'd much rather see something like an American version of Space Brothers on prime time TV than yet another Simpsons wannabe.

Ultimately space exploration's goal must include spreading life beyond our planet.

Anime stream is covered now with Crunchyroll but still some titles are region locked.

Now that there is Crunchyroll which attempts to license all new anime and legally stream it subbed the same day it airs in Japan, that whole "we're just doing what the companies won't, we'll drop it when it gets picked up in the US" thing doesn't fly anymore. Japanese companies want overseas internet watchers watching it through crunchyroll, where they're getting a cut. And when they don't license it to crunchyroll, they've usually got a reason, usually a license that they haven't announced yet.

Also there's plenty of domestic problem with piracy nowadays. The piracy of anime in Japan is often driven more than it is overseas due to the fact that in Japan, most anime never reruns; if you miss an episode or want to watch something again, a lot of the time your only legal option is buying the DVD. Since overseas there is now a legal, replayable option that is easier than piracy and even works on cellphones, which can be watched for free if you're willing to watch some commercials and wait a couple days for new episodes (which you were going to do anyway for a fansub) the tables have turned.

Most subbing sites ban Japanese IPs because they think it covers their asses, not as some good-will gesture. I use to be involved with several fansub groups. And there was a time when they were doing it for the right reasons. But the world has changed now.

you're the one who's alluding to japanese porn, I thin that the the Parent and Grandparent to yours are making lovecraftian references.

Best of both worlds (aka "LOL Japan"): Haiyore! Nyarko-san.

Who is the "we" here? Developers or end-users? As one of the latter who watches Flash videos on a subscription site (Crunchyroll), what would you suggest I do if they move to Flash 12? Give up my subscription? Use Windows or Google Chrome?

You all may hate Flash, but it remains the most widely-used cross-platform method for distributing video. Someday everything will be using HTML5, but that day isn't happening any time soon. In the meantime, Linux users may or may not be able to watch video on the thousands of web sites that use Flash today. Certainly if I were running a site that uses Flash for videos, I wouldn't be spending money converting to HTML5 just to support a few Linux users.

Prisons have better food then some schools and prisons have a store where you can buy pop and candy as well.

http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2012/02/01/prison-food-is-better-than-japanese-school-lunches
http://www.cari-fit.com/2011/06/school-lunches-worse-than-prison-food/

The only streaming site I pay is Crunchyroll.com, because it gives no ads to paying customers and is the only place I can legally pay for anime without buying overpriced DVDs. Of course their selection is kinda limited, but I like to think it makes up a little for all the stuff I torrent.

So, the only reason to pay is if you legitimately want to contribute to the production company through a non-evil distributor. Ads for paying customers automatically make them evil.

The ads on Hulu seems to be a slipperly slope to the TV model. And no way, no how would I pay money to watch ads on Hulu.

I miss Joost. I resorted to Hulu. But now I'm thinking about going to http://www.crunchyroll.com/ if the blinking logo issue is gone.

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Up next: People die when they're killed.

Too late, someone got in ahead of you.

Here is a link:

Don't react. If they believe they can't contact you, then they'll try something else to get whatever they want out of you before killing your wife. It will at least give you some awareness of the situation and probably buy your wife some more time.

There is a very cool korean movie that deals with a similar question - if your child is kidnapped, what happens if you refuse to answer the ransom call? It's part comedy and party tragedy (a combo the koreans have mastered). It's called A Cruel Attendance.