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Not The Panacea by limekiller4 · 2003-01-05 11:31 · Score: 3, Interesting · on Laser-Scanning U.S. Landmarks

From the article:
"The world-famous lady has posed for millions of photos, but since her creator left no blueprints and only minimal design sketches, replacing her in the event of a catastrophic loss would have been all but impossible.

Nonsense. The difficulty would be the engineering, but quite far from "all but impossible." What laser mapping the surface does is give us an accurate measure of the skin (both inside and out). Laser mapping doesn't tell us jack about the underlying structure which is where the vast, vast majority of the work would be. And the skin can be replicated from the extremely high resolution pictures we already have.

In other words this makes a difficult task a bit easier. This does not bridge some do-or-die gap where if we didn't have it we couldn't accomplish the task.

Re:Bad for Disney by Robotech_Master · 2002-12-17 09:49 · Score: 5, Informative · on Spirited Away Wins Award; Cowboy Bebop Opening Soon

I am so tired of all this Disney conspiracy theory bashing. Take a look at this New York Daily News article, specifically the parts that say

While defending the studio's arthouse strategy, [Richard W. Cook, chairman of Walt Disney Studios] elaborated on the studio's original long-range plan, which was to roll the movie out slowly and end up in about 1,000 theaters. The money to market a 1,000-theater run was budgeted and is still available. All that's missing is a good reason to send it back out. "If we get on a lot of critics' [top 10] lists and get [Oscar] nominations, we'll have a reason to go out bigger," Cook explained. [...] In any case, Cook says that Disney's marketing department will spend exactly the same amount of time and money promoting "Spirited Away" for Academy Awards as it does for the studio's other 2002 animated films: "Lilo & Stitch" and the upcoming "Treasure Planet."

The film business is a lot more complicated and intricate than most of us know, and we really shouldn't let our feelings of frustration lead us into thinking that Disney is "out to get us."

I think Disney was right... by dagg · 2002-12-17 07:59 · Score: 5, Interesting · on Spirited Away Wins Award; Cowboy Bebop Opening Soon

I think Disney made the right call on waiting to blitzkrieg the public with Spirited Away ads. If they wait until it gets tons of awards, then they'll surely make more money.

Re:Damn liberals... by puppet10 · 2002-11-04 16:26 · Score: 1 · on The First Soybean Crop Grown In Space is harvest

Not everyone agrees, although its good for the US soybean industry Health food is a much higher margin than cattle feed.

NY Post on firefighter charity by WSSA · 2002-10-09 01:12 · Score: 1 · on Fighting Telemarketers with Technology

Even if genuine, calls from police charities strike me as downright sinister. How can this country tolerate its law enforcement officers (or others using their name) going begging for funds? The question that always springs to mind is, "What happens if I refuse to give them money?"

Here's an article about a Florida-based firefighters charity that's not what it seems.