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riflemann writes "Another 26 episodes of Futurama will shortly go into production! This news comes from none other than Billy West (voice of Fry) himself, in a short post to his own message board. No further details are available, except that it's likely to be on TV, not straight to DVD." The best news is that means fresh quotes for slashteam to hide in the source code.
Well, bite my shiny metal ass.
Whew! I thought they were coming back tally! Good thing it's shortly!
I was going to have to make my own cartoon...with blackjack...and hookers.
"Back to the Futurama"?
PLEASE kill The Simpsons already. The longer it goes on, the darker the future is for all of us.
Crazy theories one, regular theories a billion!
Here's an example of one (hidden in the HTTP headers that /. returns):
X-Bender: Well I don't have anything else planned for today, let's get drunk!
One of the Futurama references in Slashcode is that when the Slashdot server sends out a HTML header, it includes a Futurama quote in the form of an X-Bender, X-Leela, X-Fry etc. header.
After it's thickheaded cancellation so long ago.
Sure, it ain't perfect, and we can only hope that it doesn't go downhill like the Simpsons, and that depends on the writers they use for this new season - here's hoping they're the same or as good as the originals.
I, for one, welcome our humorous animated futuristic overlords.
26 episodes of... what's the name of the show again? Ah! Futurama!
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The Prison Break screener was great!
(and before someone asks, I enjoy downloading series legally and I consider it ethically positive!)
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say
Gay Hippie: They called me crazy for building this ark. Old Hippie: You ARE crazy. You filled it with same sex animal couples. Gay Hippie: Hey, there are parts of the bible I like and parts I don't like.
Futurama
Family Guy (Careful what you wish for...)
Firefly
If your theory is different from practice, then your theory is wrong.
damn that show is painful to watch.
:x
The main way people can help to do something about the quality of TV is by actually watching/buying DVDs of the decent shows, but not watching the crap. The ratings are what is important to Fox, not the 'quality'.
Oh, Futurama, I love you more than the moon, the stars, the... POETIC IMAGE #36 NOT FOUND.
Done by Cartoon Network. Im sure the high ratings Futurama reruns get there and on Fox had a lot to do with it.
It's only paranoia if your wrong...
Futurama
Family Guy (Careful what you wish for...)
Firefly
If your theory is different from practice, then your theory is wrong.
Who'd have thought pigs would have evolved to grow wings, eh?
If we can hit that bull's-eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... Checkmate.
Best News Ever
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"offensive crap pandering to the masses"? More like the most centrist reporting of all the major networks. If you want your news tainted with left with ideals, tune into CBS, NBC, CNN and, to a lesser extent, ABC. If you want some balanced views, try the BBC, NPR/PBS and FOX.
You left wing hippies make me sick. Just because a network offers news/views you don't agree with, you dismiss it as crap. Get with the program and listen to both sides of the story.
Could you please make these episodes available on BitTorrent?
Don't fret. BitMeTV will probably have them soon after release.
In fact, forget the cartoon!
This poo is cold.
If you want some balanced views, try the BBC, NPR/PBS
BBC I can see, but NPR/PBS?! Have you missed some of the recent scandals? They get caught hiring/firing people based on their political party, and got caught wasting taxpayer money by paying people more than they were legally allowed to. NPR/PBS are probably more left-wing than the networks you listed as "tainted with leftist ideals!"
And, unlike the other networks which are private and you can therefore simply ignore, PBS/NPR both get funded by American tax dollars. So even if you want to refuse to support their radically liberal voices, you can't! Your money helps fund them anyway.
Pleasepleasepleaseplease!
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which character will become a Scientologist?
You are the sum of your decisions.
You people disgust me! There is currently a war in Iraq, american rights being taken away daily, a buggy operating system on almost every computer, and starving children in africa. With all this going you call another 16 episodes of a cartoon news? Blah!
Sort of how you dismiss CBS, NBC, CNN and, to a lesser extent, ABC as crap because they don't cater to your agenda?
I like to view all news as propaganda. Usually get it from a few different sources, so I can get as close to the whole story as possible. Even though I dislike every news source I've come across, when you add them all together, you get an (almost) un-biased story.
It's like sex, except I'm having it!
NBC is in some seriously nigh-propagandist shit.
Browsing with classic discussion, noscript, at -1 and nested
no hidden comments and I only mod UP
then explain to me how Fox news is "Fair and balanced" when their own "Reporters" will interupt their "guests" when they are trying to explain their side?
I somehow managed to make it through one episode with these to jackasses who think they are the greatest thing to happen to news, they had an Atheiest on to explain why there are athiests. Every single time the man tried to explain it one of the wacko's would interupt him and belittle him, then when they finnaly shut up and he would start to explain it again the other would butt in.
at the end of the interview it was sad and pathetic, both of them thought they really one upped the guy and looked so smug and proud about what they had just done.
then there was another time I cought them, they were even WORSE that time then they were during the athiest "interview", at the end when they had clearly lost the debate they just came back and said "Well that's your opinion" but in a tone that was "Yeah, well fuck you asshole".
Fair and balanced my ass, it's either their way or no way and if you don't fallow their way they will get their "Friend" to kill you.
Now now, let us not forget that Fox themselves more or less boycotted Futurama.
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has more.
(The dingo ate ma bay-bee!)
Camera on Nichelle Nichols
George Takei: With pleasure. You see, the show was banned after the Star Trek Wars.
Zap: You mean the vast migration of Star Wars Fans?
Nichelle Nichols: No, that was the Star Wars Trek.
Alright, all nay sayers can bit my shiny ass.. ;)
So what network will be showing this Fox or Adult Swim 9Cartoon Network)?
Alex
"The Brady Bunch is back...working homicide"
Going back to shows (or films series) has never worked, yes I love Futurama, but once something has stopped, dont try necromancy.
TV shows should *never* give the viewer what they want, Star Wars EPI-III anyone? The last two Red Dwarf series (bringing back Rimmer) were horrible. Niles and Daphne getting together was at the point when Frasier turned bad
When will people learn from the example of Seinfeld, Fawlty Towers, the Office (the real one of course)? They all stopped before the viewers had started going.
The moral of the story is -
If this were really happening, what would you think?
Guard: $10 dollars please.
Fry: Aww man.
Balanced views: BBC, NPR, PBS, and FOX.
The BBC: Mishal Husain. NPR: Carl Kassell. PSB: Jim Lehrer. FOX: Bill O'Reilly.
In the words of one of the great PBS productions, "one of these things is not like the others."
Let's hope they have episodes about geeky issues such as:
... I have more but I'll leave that up to /. to madlib....
Bender gets a firmware upgrade that includes DRM which can't be uninstalled without breaking the law... ie: circumventing DRM laws
Fry searches for pRon on Google and gets targeted by the Feds in their anti-granny porn investigation because he searched for porn stars from the year 2000.
A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.
If only I had mod points. This is the funniest thing I've seen on Slashdot in a long time.
This poo is cold.
Perl is just as much a programming language is as html. Dweeb!
The show that does not advocate the cool crime of robbery.
This is great news for all us nerdlingers. For those of you who don't know already, here's a look at the backgrounds of some of the writers on the show:
J. Stewart Burns: Graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University in 1992. His senior thesis was on "The Structure of Group Algebras." He received his master's degree in mathematics from UC Berkeley in 1993.
David X. Cohen: Graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in physics from Harvard University in 1988. He received his master's degree in computer science from UC Berkeley in 1992. He published the following article with Manuel Blum: On the Problem of Sorting Burnt Pancakes. Discrete Appl. Math. 61 (1995), no. 2, 105--120.
Ken Keeler: Graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1983. In 1990, he received his Ph.D. in applied math from Harvard University. The title of his doctoral thesis was Map Representations and Optimal Encoding for Image Segmentation. He also published the following article with Jeff Westbrook: Short Encodings of Planar Graphs and Maps. Discrete Appl. Math. 58 (1995), no. 3, 239--252.
Bill Odenkirk: Has a PhD in inorganic chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1995.
Jeff Westbrook: Majored in physics and the history of science at Harvard University and he received his Ph.D. in computer science from Princeton University in 1989. The title of his doctoral thesis was Algorithms and Data Structures for Dynamic Graph Algorithms. He was an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Yale University and also worked at AT&T Labs before writing for Futurama. He published the following article with Ken Keeler: Short Encodings of Planar Graphs and Maps. Discrete Appl. Math. 58 (1995), no. 3, 239--252.
And with that the show also has some great voice actors (Billy West, John DiMaggio, Maurice LaMarche, Dave Herman...), a great 3D department (praised for its ability to blend 3D scenes almost seamlessly into 2D backgrounds), and the show even uses a full orchestra to record its music (composed by Christopher Tyng). And with the huge scope of ideas possible in the SF universe the show is set in, I imagine it'll take a long time yet for this show to burn out.
"I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring."
- Feynman's last words.
Carl Kassell, of course. I mean, he's the only one you can get to record an answering machine message for you.
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BBC and NPR are balanced wrong, they seem to have fallen on their left side
You can't spell, you're off-topic, and ruining the otherwise funny and positive commentary about the best news I've seen in a long time. Go bitch about FoxNews somewhere else and tremble before a real newscaster-Morbo the News Monster and his mighty jaws!
This guy is way out there
Thanks. Do they have RSS feeds? I like it when my TV shows download themselves automatically.
Good News, everybody!
"Have you ever tried turning off the tv, sitting down with your children and hitting them?"
Fuck yeah, only downside is that animation takes longer to produce but the good stuff is always worth waiting for.
If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it. -- Calvin Coolidge
http://www.bitmetv.org/getrss.php. Scroll down for the Futurama box.
Regardless of the quality of the product, if they think they can make money, they will try.
I for one believe the quality of this product is top notch and am glad to see it coming back. I welcome back our sardine craving, can get no loving, lobster overlord.
Anyone else get the feeling that FOX suits finally realized the Simpsons are starting to show their age. I say the best possible outcome from this would if that show is finally allowed to rest in peace and we can all enjoy the great episodes in reruns/DVD instead of having to see it dragged on for yet another season against the wishes of the creators.
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
Does anyone else spot a little bit of irony in a show titled "Futurama" being shown on network television before moving on to non-obsolete formats?
I think I'm speaking for everyone here...
One could cut the tension with a knife.
You seem to have drunk the kool-aid. Here's a little chart to illustrate the facts. Mainstream media in the US is not "leftist," in fact it's a little to the right. However, Fox News and it's ilk are so far to the right they make centrist seem leftist.
1 = Mainstream media 2 = Fox newsThat said, I welcome our returning Futurama overlords.
X-Fry: But this is HDTV. It's got better resolution than the real world.
"I'm a well-wisher, in that I don't wish you any specific harm."
The cruel meatball of war has rolled onto our laps and ruined our white pants of peace!
Here's my witty comment about a signature. Ha. Ha.
Sorry, that takes me to a login screen. I don't use web sites that require me to surrender my privacy.
Perl is a Turing complete language. (go look up the implications and learn something)
html is a markup language (hence the ml part of the acronym) and does not have the features that give Turing completeness. i.e. not a programming language.
both html files and perl scripts could be refered to as source code (though not totally correct, but most people will know what you mean)
Please stop.
Slashdot generates its HTML from perl scripts. You ever notice all the .pl in the links? For example, this form I'm typing in is comments.pl.
This is incorrect. Mainstream media in the US is *stupid*, not left/centrist/right.
...to describe why bringing back Futurama is likely to work out well:
Family Guy
wbs.
Huh?
"I think we'll see episodes of quality similar to the resurrected Family Guy shows."
That's definately a lofty goal. I've laughed at some of those episodes harder than I did for the ones in the first 3 seasons.
I don't get it.
All Hail the Hypnotoad!!!!
wow.it been 9 years and their back now CAN NOT FIND SYSTEM FILE Windows/login/system32/hal.dll.
Just keep it out of the 7pm Sunday death slot this time, you fuckers.
It's hard for a show to get/stay popular when the first 20 minutes of nearly every episode for a four-month period is pre-empted by some fucking NFL game that ran long.
I am soooooo glad that Futurama returns for a season. Maybe Fox will air the last remaining episodes from the previous season. We can all thank Adultswim for this return. Fox Execs probaly used Adultswim's ratings for Futurama to make a decision on it's return or not.
FYI: The Simpsons are moving onto a movie in couple years.
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As Bender (Staying on topic) would say: Wrong. How many scandals have erupted based on "biased" reporting on Fox? Now count how many happened during the elections by "Mainstream media" as you put it? Dan Rather anyone? That said, I am writing this from Iraq. I work intel at the multi-national corps level. The only station that comes close to reporting what's going on over here accurately is Fox. It's still pathetic liberal bias in the media does to the news.
The awful last episode showed that Leela and Fry finally got together - in some way. Would it be good if the story goes further on? Could it work? Can they be a happy couple like A.J. and Miranda?
This is great news, and certainly cause for Futurama fans to rejoice. All the same I'd be just as exited if were to turn out to be true that Billy was going to reprise his role as the Jackie Puppet. I swear every time that freakin' puppet opened it's mouth I'd end up laughing so hard that my stomach hurt and my eyes watered.
;)
Also, it is just me or is there something not funny about a Futurama thread that consists mainly of Futurama quotes? Oh well, I guess we can at least look forward to the next phase of the Scientology wars, Scientology vs. Robotology.
Don't you have someone you'd die for?
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Hmmm! What's up with these F's? ;)
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
Balanced views: BBC, NPR, PBS, and FOX.
These views are only "balanced" if you puree them all together. The first three are lopsided to the left.
I think this is an excellent example of how powerful the masses have become in affecting entertainment, and to a greater degree corporations in general.
Medieval times: jester makes everyone laugh but the king. King has jester beheaded.
Modern times: show makes everyone laugh but company has show cancelled. Show does astromical DVD figures and comes back.
It's a testament to the power of the masses' will. The almighty buck is powerful, but the almighty buck plus thousands of people writing Fox to call them idiots is even more powerful.
P.s. Don't stop calling Fox idiots.
...which means 20 consecutive seasons on network TV.
Goddess help us all. That's 15 more seasons than they should have ran. The Simpsons jumped the shark after S5.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
Just when my roommate disconnected cable. Grrrrr. Him and his newfound interest in this 'internet' thing. And when he discovers porn, he will never look back. Big frickin L on the forehead...
it's like Scooby Doo but Mystery Inc works for the man and the dectectives are the old people who unmasks the kids.
Awesome, Awesome to the Max.
Actually, Bill O'Reilly isn't a news caster, he's an editorialist. Fox's editorials are definitely slanted to the right, though they do have a lot of left leaning editorialists as well, just not with their own shows. Their news journalists are quite balanced, eg. Brit Hume and Chris Wallace.
Either way, you aren't the only one whom the simpsons have just grown out of style. But, on a positive note, it is worth thinking about that if Groening puts his time into futurama then simpsons just might die off. Of course it will have to go out with a bang, but that needs to happen before it goes out with a fizzle. *insert famous fizzle joke here*
Happy-happy!
Joy-joy!
Happy-happy!
Joy-joy!
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
Yes, ex Republican Party head Kenneth Tomlinson, placed in charge of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, hired a Republican specifically to monitor the political correctness of Bill Moyer's PBS show "Now".
Oh, how left wing!
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
BBC has a $200 a year tax on every tv, and the recent "scandals" at the CPB were by a republican.
To someone marking all the messages overrated: If you don't know Futurama, get the fuck out. PSA over.
What a load of crap. In actual fact, the most recent scandal was the guy who was hired to push right wing agendas at PBS/NPR, and to "investigate" the so called "liberal bias." Have you ever seen the Newshour with Jim Lehrer? That thing is almost purely conservative/right wing, and liberal views are marginalized.
... and then they built the supercollider.
And yet you use BitTorrent?
Like the true FOX new fan that you are, you seem to have missed the point. I was responding to someone who compared those four as the only "centrist" newscasts. As far as the BBC, NPR, and PBS being lopsided to the left, well, if you're lying on your right side, I'm sure they seem that way. . .
26 new episodes of Futurama? Woo! Fox'll be able to stretch those out for another five years!
You must think in Russian.
BEND me!
I have no strong feelings one way or the other
Did you get that thing I sent ya?
Destroy the fucking toads they are killing the crocs!
An Education is the Font of All Liberty
God I miss that show. I don't think one girl in that show wore a bra. TV sure was great back then.
It all depends on what you consider to be the center. If you're a leftist who sees the US as the champion of the right, they all seem far right. Maybe if you were a fascist you'd say FOX News is a little too liberal.
Property is theft.
In any case, there's a great deal of more or less explicitly right-of-center news out there that is actually news - The Economist, US News and World Report, the Wall Street Journal.
Fox News is not News, it's opinion. And shrill, bar-stool style argument at that. I'm pretty far-left wing, but I still appreciate that The Economist's columnists have thoughtful, logical editorials, right-wing (and wrong-headed IMHO) though they may be. Fox News, on the other hand, argues by name-calling, demonization, and glib emotional appeals. It's not honest, and it's CERTAINLY not news.
You left wing hippies make me sick.
But you right-wing trolls make me smile. Have a great day, and don't spend too much time being angry at us!
BCC news tries to be as balanced as possible, I know of no other press organisation that would have reported the bombing of one of their own reporters by 'friendly' forces in quite the way John Simpson did.
Jesus Harold Christ this never ends..
.. I guess the bar has lowered over the past 8 years... to me, the distinction between a perl and html is fundamental. One is a Programming Language .. the other isn't .. and it matters.
I thought that "Nerds" had a basic understanding of programming
I can't wait to download the ISO! ;-)
"offensive crap pandering to the masses"? More like the most centrist reporting of all the major networks. If you want your news tainted with left with ideals, tune into CBS, NBC, CNN and, to a lesser extent, ABC. If you want some balanced views, try the BBC, NPR/PBS and FOX.
I'm sorry, but didn't Fox News get SUED for out right LIES they broadcasted years ago? And if I remember correctly, the court ruled that while it is true that Fox New was broadcasting mis-information, it was found that they could legally still call them selves a "news network". The courts determined that it was the responsibility of the viewer to determine the realiability of news from this "news network".
So, basically the courts decided that Fox could be as slanted and mis-leading as they wanted to be and still call it news. This rulling was of course a great injustice! But the fact that Fox was legally proven to be a mis-leading news outlet in court is the main thing I am pointing out here. How DARE you suggest they are "fair and ballanced" when it was found in court that THEY ARE NOT!
You left wing hippies make me sick. Just because a network offers news/views you don't agree with, you dismiss it as crap. Get with the program and listen to both sides of the story.
I really hate how you right wing republican assholes lie out your ass all day long then have the nerve to call the rest of us with common sense "left wing hippies". I am not a hippie and I am not left wing, and I am certaintly not a dumbass republican fuck wad like your self! Your kind is what's wrong with this country!
Of course. BitTorrent is about decentralising the media.
Everybody Loves Hypnotoad! Though, it HAS been going downhill since the third season...
Yee haw! Good news first thing in the morning!
Oh yeah, Brit Hume's just a paragon of journalism.
In addition, can we stop pretending the news needs to be "balanced"? Not every issue or event has "sides" and when they do they often don't have equal merit.
Well the government funds BBC, PBS and NPR. Whereas Fox funds the government.
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"That's definately a lofty goal. I've laughed at some of those episodes harder than I did for the ones in the first 3 seasons."
Same. I'm surprised the FCC ep wasn't more popular around here.
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So it takes three left slanted groups just to balance out Fox News?
I'm surprised it took this long down the thread for someone to mention Firefly. Now I want to cry into some beer while re-watching "Out of Gas".
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
I'm desperately hoping that they bring back all the writers and cast, and that they DON'T CHANGE A THING! The only thing WRONG with the show, so far, was that it ENDED.
"It's time to take life by the cans." ~ Bender ("Bendin' in the Wind", ep. 3-13)
Billy just posted that he was in error..... false alarm. (sigh...)
You do realize that using the term 'jump the shark' is jumping the shark.....
Sounds to me that it is not a "done" deal. Still room for someone to pull out of the deal. I wouldn't get my hopes up just yet. Plus, I don't see Fox brining the show back, they already have 16 hours of animated programming, or something like that. Wonder if it will be the Cartoon Network.
Is it me, or is Fox just plain out of touch?
They cancelled Family Guy (I was GLAD when they cancelled it because the musical timeslot game they were playing with the show was worse than not having it) and Futurama only for Adult Swim to syndicate them and earn consistently phenomenal ratings at a poor timeslot - a cable station no less, where poor ratings are expected at ANY timeslot. When the DVDs came out, DVD sales went through the roof almost immediately, and every time Groening and Cohen put out a new compilation of episodes, it charts. Even worse, Futurama won multiple emmies, earned a lot of critical acclaim, the demand is obviously there and many catch phrases from the show have caught on in American culture (Good news, everyone! Bite my shiny metal ass! etc.) which is unexpected given the more academic nature of Futurama's humor. Sure, there is some LCD fart humor in the show, but the vast amount of it is more math, science, and technology oriented. I've told my mom about the show, and she's told me she watches it from time to time (she loves Bender's antics).
Look at Arrested Development - similar situation. It earned what, SIX emmies, and despite receiving NO promotion from FOX and the musical timeslot having been played with the show, it STILL garnered six million viewers week to week during the first two seasons, and when initial news of the cancellation (er, sorry, "cut order" in Fox nomanclature) it STILL managed to attract 3.7mil to 4.0mil viewers per week, and you had to search for the show for this last season. DVD sales through the roof, an uproar throughout the press over Fox's treatment of the show, and they still won't hear of continuing it. You have two competing networks who have put in bids for the show, and right now it's in Mitch Hurwitz's lap as to whether or not the show goes on (I've read he's worn out due to the emotional roller coaster he went through at Fox, and I can't blame him if he doesn't accept Showtime's or ABC's offer). What essentially replaced it was "War at Home" which is a show which earns critical scorn, poor ratings, and much mocking on the web. Heck, I didn't even KNOW about Arrested Development until late summer; I set my VCR to tape The Simpsons and Family Guy (yes, I use tape, my ATI AiW cards don't cooperate with Linux) and fast forward through the commercials. I never knew about Arrested Development until a friend told me about it, so I read some reviews, and the one weak promotional attempt of a marathon that Fox ran (in other words, they had no new "reality" show episodes in the can, so they looked for something to fill airtime) happened to be coming up so I watched it; I was hooked. When the announcement came that they were cancelling the show (er, cutting the order short) I'd love to say I was shocked, but I wasn't. After what happened to Titus, Family Guy, and Futurama, it could very easily have been predicted.
If it's a quality show and not The Simpsons, Fox will not give the show the respect it deserves. They have a very, very long track record of that dating all the way back to 1990, when they enjoyed their initial taste of success from Married With Children, the Tracy Ullman Show, and The Simpsons.
My theory about Fox: I think what happens is folks involved in program scheduling at FOX play politics when it comes to their pet projects, and when their projects lose to competing bids, they seek to sabotage the shows that win over their projects by either putting them in timeslots they KNOW will be preempted (e.g., Futurama's 7:00 Sunday slot which is consistently overrun by Football games, Baseball games, and even Basketball playoffs). If the show does manage to earn some success, they take it a step further and move the show around week to week, in a fervent attempt to completely destroy the ratings.
The wake these shows leave behind, including harsh articles from critics lambastimg them over idiotic cancellations, a tremendous number of well-done fan web sites, and high DVD sales ratings, and yet all the while the
The Christian Right is Neither (Christian nor right). See: Matthew 23, Matthew 25, Ezekiel 16:48-50
Fox's editorials are definitely slanted to the right, though they do have a lot of left leaning editorialists as well
Yeah, they keep them in small cages and dress them in orange jumpsuits.
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WTF?
How in the name of The Dred Pirate Roberts can my comment be "Offtopic"? I was replying to a parent post that mentioned the BitMeTV site. Are you going to mod all of the other posts about BitMeTV "Offtopic" as well?
Sheesh!
I know I'm in the minority here (though perhaps less-so on /.), but I actually prefer the sardonic, nerdy wit of Futurama to even early episodes of the Simpsons.
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Then they can make episodes for the next 1000 years. I'll find a way to travel back in time to the year 2000, and get cryogenically frozen for 1000 years. When I wake up, I can watch 1000 years of Futurama episodes for a full year. That'd be the best year of my life.
God spoke to me.
when their own "Reporters" will interupt their "guests"
Those people (O'Reilly, Hannity, Colmes, etc.) aren't reporters at all. They are commentators or hosts, hired for their commentary and/or hosting ability in much the same way that newspapers hire columnists. The fact is that the only (US) nationally-transmitted 24-hour cable news channel that actually reports news throughout most of the day is Headline News - most of the people you see there are anchors or reporters delivering news without commentary.
Hooray for lack of fact-finding!
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http://billywest.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=20
You have got to be kidding. News that isn't balanced is propoganda. Why not just listen to a broadcast saying. "Be well citizens, everything is fine. sleep now... sleeeeppp"
Yes every issue has sides, often more than two. if it didnt have sides it wouldnt be an issue.
--- Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity
News that isn't balanced is propoganda.
Nope. News doesn't need balance. News needs accurate reporting.
Yes every issue has sides, often more than two. if it didnt have sides it wouldnt be an issue.
Who cares about "issues"? We can leave that to te editorials.
All the news needs to do is report the facts.
A man, who happens steals food to feed his children, was caught shoplifting and was accidentally shot and killed by the police, who thought the candy bar in his hand was a gun.
One perspective: "Thief caught shoplifting was shot when police saw a gun."
And another perspective: "Police brutally slay father of three."
Both are accurate, but they paint very different pictures of what happened.
After all, I am strangely colored.
Billy West has indicated that he may have been wrong on page three of the linked forum thread.
He says something is going on with Futurama but it may be DVD related.
You're right. The problem is that the news has started to report the mere fact of any accusation (see Swift Boat Vets). The role of a good journalist is not merely to transcribe, but also to call bullshit when it's obvious, or at least provide appropriate context when Scott McClellan starts brazenly lying about what the President's opponents are saying. I think that's more or less what you were saying.
This AP piece is exactly what I'm talking about. It's insane to just uncritically report any politician's lies and distortions, or offer a rebuttal just from a political opponent. The facts are not a partisan issue.
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Yes, it's very straightforward but still it sounds retarded if you ask me. "not just DVD" would've worked just as well in the last sentence. I've read "straight to DVD" in several places but I guess now it's becoming a household phrase. I certainly won't use it. It sounds retarded.
Yeah. Geraldo's reporting was so accurate that it got him booted out of his unit. Broadcasting troop positions aside, how is Fox any more accurate than the other outlets?
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Seems even Billy himself was incorrect and he apologizes, but damn I'm disappointed.
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http://www.billywest.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TI
Wait... are you implying that FOX EVER had a clue??? On a scale of 1 to garbage, with 1 being the lowest and garbage being a scale, FOX is a 12. At LEAST.
tomorrow, I'm sure that will be the title. Just you wait.
You have got to be kidding. News that isn't balanced is propoganda. Why not just listen to a broadcast saying. "Be well citizens, everything is fine. sleep now... sleeeeppp"
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We already have that, it's called Fox News.
Yes every issue has sides, often more than two. if it didnt have sides it wouldnt be an issue.
Not every viewpoint deserves to be taken seriously, and in many cases, reporting both (or more) "sides" of an issue is inherently misleading. For example, if Think Tank X employs two crackpot scientists and puts out a press release saying the moon is made of green cheese, it would be poor journalism indeed to report the story as "Some scientists believe the moon is made of cheese; others disagree".
Yet in many cases, that's exactly what they do in the name of "balance", because some people have the idea that whenever there's a "pro" and "con" position to any issue, they need to give both sides exactly as much time and attention, regardless of how well-accepted those positions are in the real world or how well they match up with facts. They go out of their way to avoid making obvious judgements about sources and evidence, and as a result, audiences get a skewed view of reality.
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I thought it had died a long over due death a long time ago.
Interesting...no, wait. That other thing - tedious.
It's a sad, sad day when the cable news networks have people so confused that they think "balanced" means having TWO idiots yelling at each other, rather than one...
Balanced actually means giving the appropriate time and credit to the sides which deserve it, and overing equal criticism to both.
FOX just usurped that term because they didn't think "Guarding the henhouse" would make a good slogan...
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
Maybe you aren't aware of what boycott means. Choosing to watch it via another medium is NOT boycotting the show - it is you being an arse.
Cancel your cable subscription (or at least ensure that Fox isn't a subscribed channel), refuse to watch downloads of it, don't buy the videos / DVDs, don't rent them, turn over if Fox shows are on other stations, in other words: DON'T WATCH IT! Then you are free to come back and claim that you have boycotted Fox and their shows.
Personally I think that Fox do some damn fine programming.
I would gladly sell my house and all its contents for Fox.
I would cut off my leg and sell it to the Arabs to get money to buy DVDs of their shows.
(who are you? get off me! HELP! I'M BEING HELD PRISONER BY FOX EXECUT%$^"dD./,
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http://www.billywest.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID =2018 -- Billy gets more info from David X. Cohen which is cause for us to hedge our optimism.
I am sad and sorry, guys.
It's rather on-topic in my opinion, some child has got hold of his daddies mod points. PUT THE MOD POINTS DOWN, HANDS BEHIND YOUR HEAD.
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reversed! Now if we can get FireFly back I will be happy.
26 Episodes now all I need is sufficent snacks.. hmmm this is a M-Class planet so there should aleast be some roddenberries.
appologies for spelling and length, although the ladies love it.
In the not too distant future, next Sunday A.D.
I think everyone knows about this, but look at the http headers slashdot returns.
#hostfile 0.0.0.0 primidi.com 0.0.0.0 www.primidi.com 0.0.0.0 radio.weblogs.com
http://billywest.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=202 0&PN=1/
See Got Futurama?.
Oh, I made the Anonymous Coward mad .. I am surely going to hell...
.. they are. "Source", because they are the source from which /. comes. "Code" because, like it or not, perl is a turing complete programming language (Anything you can do in perl, you can do in any other turing complete language.. with varying amounts of effort) html is NOT turing complete .. there are things you simply can not do, if you only have html.
.. since when have /. been unbiased? We are talking about a site that have Futurama quotes as part of the html headers .. 26 new episodes WILL give fresh quotes for the SOURCE CODE that delivers Slashdot .. so, what's the problem? ..troll? well, this post will be buried so deep, that nobody will ever see it. ah, well..
OP claims, that perlscipts are not "source code"
Yes, Taco is refering to slashcode and slashteam
If you read further into the comments, B. W. recants:
"rb2006---
I'm getting different bits of info that say this news may not be the case.There IS something up Futurama project wise but but it might be the DVD's still.It's hard to keep up with things--but I'll try to do better.
Sorry, Billy"
When you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness. So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.
OP claims, that perlscipts are not "source code" .. they are. "Source", because they are the source from which /. comes. "Code" because, like it or not, perl is a turing complete programming language (Anything you can do in perl, you can do in any other turing complete language.. with varying amounts of effort) html is NOT turing complete .. there are things you simply can not do, if you only have html.
.. so, what's the problem?
I finally understand. You're mad because I made fun of your favorite language, perl. That's why you're trolling.
We are talking about a site that have Futurama quotes as part of the html headers
There's no such thing as HTML headers. You're thinking of HTTP headers. HTTP is not only used for HTML, but also Gnutella, Bittorrent, and other content.
26 new episodes WILL give fresh quotes for the SOURCE CODE that delivers Slashdot
Now you're getting it. See. It's not so bad to agree with a Slashdot AC. Sorry if I hurt your ego.
I am now confident that at least a part of the AC collective understands the what a programming language is. I'll leave it at that.
There's no such thing as HTML headers.
my bad.
That's not what Bender would say. Bender would be both funny and a dick. You're just a dick.
That's a strange link for a sig mate. What is it? some sort of comprehension masochism sort of thing? I hope it isn't there because you think that the conversation makes you look good.
There they are a conga line of suck holes. On the conservative side of Australian politics. - Mark Latham
Meanwhile, arab and iraqi partisans think the only station that comes close to being accurate is Al-Jazeera. Who is right? I do believe there is an objective truth, but people with strong emotions and personal stakes on any side are not likely to see what it is at least until many years after the events.
We should be proud that our culture is willing to self criticize, that at least a portion of our population is willing to promote something other than their own self interest. Self criticism and guilt are a sign of strength, so long as the information that is found out is used productively (the hard part). Cultures who don't (on average) self criticize and who get an out from criticism from others are actually pretty weak and unevoliving- rappers for instance.
You are letting partisianship cloud your judgement. Dan Rather is your best example? I'm willing to concede that reporters in general are slightly biased to the left. However, let's not forget that the multinational corporations they work for have conservative positions. Dan Rather made a mistake and resigned because of it.
When will Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, or Bill O'Reilly admit to the lies they willfully spread on a daily basis?
I posted that link to show exactly how out there some people's idea of Americans are. WWIII will be between US Christians and Muslims? Gimme a break.
This guy is way out there
I think you missed my point. The whole conversation was just sad and pointless. I wasn't ripping on you.
There they are a conga line of suck holes. On the conservative side of Australian politics. - Mark Latham
I took your comment at its face value; you asked why I posted it. Troed and I have been arguing for a couple years and the only thing we agree on is the global warming myth.
This guy is way out there
No wuckers mate
There they are a conga line of suck holes. On the conservative side of Australian politics. - Mark Latham