On the other hand, the only required language is COBOL. They have a course in basic control structures, and an analysis and design course, but thats it... you *can* take other languages or more general techniques courses, but you aren't required to. The CS program at my school blows, I've only got one more semester before I transfer though.
Possibly, but when the choice is a higher risk of heart attacks or stroke later in life or immediate death, I'd take the risk of a future heart attack any day.
It could certainly be useful, but the concern here isn't that- most posters see good use for it. The concern is being forced to take it when you don't have a problem to begin with. The civil liberties concerns are significant if it becomes mandatory(either by law or because a company/school requires it), and the potential health risks are tremendous.
Many commonly abused drugs, such as opiates and even cocaine and ketamine, have legitimate medical uses especially in severe cases where major surgery is needed. To reduce the effects of these drugs, even when the vaccine does not directly cause problems, could put people at even greater risk if they are ever shot, stabbed, get in a car accident, fall down the stairs, break a bone, etc... There are definitely legitimate concerns over this.
And it isn't reducing the urge, it just reduces the effects. And when an addict is craving and just not getting a strong enough effect, they just take more. That doesn't really help much at all.
It will probably prove to be useful in treating addiction, but using it preemptively could be a Very Bad Idea.
We don't know enough abou the human body to interfear with it in this way.
However, without interfering with it in this way, we will never know enough. Scientific advances always come at great risk and often people die along the way. Such is the cost of progress.
Find qualified surgeons first. Talk to people you know, find someone you can directly talk to, and see what they thought of their doctor. Get reviews from the persons patients that are *not* cleared by the doctor.
Once you have a short list of good surgeons, THEN, and ONLY THEN should you compare price.
If you live in or near CT, Fitchman Eye Center is supposedly quite good, practically the entire staff of Country 92.5 has gone there with very good results for all of them.
ACtually, the itunes signup is quite easy... one form that asks for name, address, and credit card number. Basically, the minimum amount of information needed to securely conduct business.
Download speed depends on your connection of course. The files are 128kbps AAC, which to my ears are damn close to 256k mp3s in sound quality. It really is way better than the vast majority of what you will find on the P2P networks.
It was interesting though how they mentioned that humans are the second evolution of the basic form of the Ancients. Normally, when one form evolves into another the new one is superior. So while humanity does not have the technology or wealth of knowledge of the Ancients, they have more potential to achieve great power.
The english thing is in the official FAQ. Basically, they don't want to spend 15 minutes of every episode working through the language barrier, so unless it has siginifcance to that episode or it is a very important new contact, they simply ignore it without explanation, rather than trying to tack on some ridiculous "universal translator" thing on.
And you are wrong about only one planet not speaking english. The Jaffa of Chulak speak a form of Arabic, this was shown when they went there to meet Ry'ac for the first time.
Space receptionist would be Yeoman Rand. Uhura was the Communications Officer.
Communications is a huge deal. Without it, you are completely isolated. A Communications officer is in charge of all aspects of communications, internal and external. Without a competent person in charge of it, a starship would be severely weakened.
Having a black woman in charge of such a critical department was pretty much unheard of at that time. Having someone who was black, or a woman, in charge of something that important was pretty strange, for someone in that position to be both... a huge advance.
Just think about it... The intercoms throughout the Enterprise. Those were Uhuras responsibility. Talking to Starfleet- Again, her job. Translation- Guess who? Those flip communicators- Again, thats Uhuras job to make sure they have enough of them and they are in working order. Communications is a huge responsibility in any military, scientific, or diplomatic endeavor, and the Enterprise's mission included responsibilities in all three areas. And the only person on the Enterprise with the authority to override her in communications matters was the Captain. Even Spock didn't have that authority except when serving as acting Captain.
Uhura was most definitely in a senior leadership position. As far as responsibility and authority over the ship as a whole went, she was even with LtCmdr Scott(though he outranked her, that only really mattered when both Kirk and Spock were unable to command).
Might not be discrepancies. Those were different stargates IIRC, its entirely possible that the Ancients made changes to the design of the Stargate and there are several different models floating around. As for the arm vs head keeping it open, it could also be a matter of how much mass was put through the gate that kept it open. O'Neil may have had more of his arm than Kawalsky had his head through the gate, that might have been enough of a difference to keep it open.
At least, thats a perfectly reasonable way to get around just about all the "but the gate doesn't work like that" goofs they've had. Its perfectly plausible, in fact almost guaranteed that the Ancients would tweak the Stargates to work better or to adapt to locally available materials. Not all upgrades would necesarily make it to all gates, and adaptations to local materials obviously wouldn't be ported to other gates(unless it was discovered to work significantly better). If you recall the one ascended Ancient that made one in Carters basement out of some titanium and a toaster, its clear they knew how to build gates in multiple ways.
Or it was the Ancients that got caught up in arrogance, allowing the relatively weak Wraith to defeat them.
Also, its been said countless times that physically, the Ancients were basically human. Its even been hinted that either the Ancients were a subspecies of Homo Sapiens or Homo Sapiens a subspecies of the Ancients. It was really just their technology and knowledge that gave them their power- and there are plenty of real world examples of a technologically inferior force kicking the ass of the "superior" opponent.
And lastly, it has been said many times that the Ancients fell due to some disease. If the Wraith managed to come up with a quick spreading biological weapon that killed Ancients but not Wraith, the war would be trivial to win. Humans may have a shot of beating said disease, since they recovered the Ancient that was buried in Antarctica and had a chance to study the disease... They might be able to come up with a cure before the Wraith can cook up another batch.
Apparently Atlantis is a huge starship, that at one time was actually on Earth. At least thats what I've seen reported in various places, but until tommorow we won't know for sure.
" I think Stargate has such an insane following because the cast could be real people."
Twice the cast was real people! Two US Air Force Chiefs of Staff have appeared, playing themselves.
Seriously though, from my military experience, *if* there was such a thing as a real Stargate, it would very likely be run like that program... except that the military personnel would get promoted somewhate more often and be transfered a lot more.
Well, apparently the Wraith have just woken up from hibernation or something like that... So they aren't at the height of their power. Even if they were, the super powerful often become incredibly arrogant, and don't recognize a rising threat until it is too late to defeat said threat.
he likely would've surrendered anyway simply to avoid the firebombing that destroyed the likes of Dresden.
The repeated firebombings of many Japanese cities killed more in each strike than either atomic bomb did. If it didn't get them to surrender the first half dozen or so times, its time to think up a new strategy.
Some historians doubt the Nagasaki bomb was evennecessary,
Said historians are idiots. Sure, Hiroshima was a dramatic blow. But until Nagasaki, the Japanese didn't know if this was a full weapons program or a single bomb that we couldn't make in quantity.
The atomic bombs were needed for a simple reason. The Japanese simply do not think like Westerners. True, there were some rumblings prior to Hiroshima leaning towards surrender, but until the US wiped out two cities with single bombs, a force that the Japanese had absolutely zero hope to defend against, the hardcore never surrender crowd could not be overcome. Anything else, be it invasions or massive conventional bombing, would have required that the US virtually wipe out the entire Japanese military, as well as a huge chunk of the civilian population that would have taken up the fight after the army was gone.
Don't forget, on Iwo Jima, out of about 27,000 Japanese troops, around 20,000 fought to the death. The home islands would have been defended far more fiercely. The civilian death toll from invasion(which would eventually be needed to clean up after conventional bombs, even if we bombed the Army out of existence) would be catastrophic, and the military death toll on both sides would also be immense. Compared to the few hundered thousand killed by the bombs and the fallout from them, an invasion of Japan would have made the horrors of all prior wars, put together, look like a schoolyard fistfight.
The two atomic bombs, as terrible as they were, were without a doubt the most merciful way to end the war. The Japanese would not have surrendered if they saw any sliver of hope of survival. Even after Nagasaki, there was a military coup that was very nearly succesful the night prior to the broadcast of the surrender message. Had that coup succeeded, Japan would not have surrendered.
The second bomb was needed to show the atomic bomb was a serious threat... Hiroshima showed we could do it, Nagasaki showed we could keep doing it until they gave up.
"How many times does it have to be said that a prolonged war with Japan would have cost more lives than ending the war with nukes?"
Exactly... People who propose alternatives don't realize a simple fact, Japanese people do not think like we do. Their culture is vastly different even today, back then they were so far removed from Western ways of thinking that forcing a surrender any other way simply would not have happened.
To the overly PC crowd- I am not saying that the Japanese way of thinking is any better or worse than the Western way, simply that it is different. Go live there for 15 months like I did and you will see the truth of my statement. They are great people, but not Westerners by any means(except of course some of the immigrants to western nations are pretty solidly western in outlook).
the 90 minutes was an arbitrary number.. most films are around that length, and my comment was meant to address why scenes are cut in general, not necesarily why they were cut from the Matrix movies in particular.
Sometimes footage is cut not because it sucks, but because the director is told "This movie cannot exceed 90 minutes"... thus forcing said director to cut otherwise good footage that *should* be in there.
Also, as the other poster said, it inserts the video game stuff.
First, me and a couple other Marines were working on a brief on the Captains laptop. Spilled beer on it. By some miracle, that only made the keys stick a little. he never noticed.
More serious, while engaged in "recreational chemistry", I spilled the ammonia onto my expensive ergonomic keyboard, frying out half the traces and destroying the keyboard completely.
Removing copyright in this case would be a bad idea. He has a specific viewpoint he is trying to present- to remove copyright would make it too difficult to fight people who take the film, edit it a bit, and release something that twists his words to something they are not.
Releasing it under a license that says "You may distribute this film, unmodified, for free, or a cost not to exceed actual media costs", while retaining copyrights would work far better for his purposes than ditching copyright altogether.
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Thankfully my school doesn't pull that crap.
On the other hand, the only required language is COBOL. They have a course in basic control structures, and an analysis and design course, but thats it... you *can* take other languages or more general techniques courses, but you aren't required to. The CS program at my school blows, I've only got one more semester before I transfer though.
"be more likely to experience blockages."
Possibly, but when the choice is a higher risk of heart attacks or stroke later in life or immediate death, I'd take the risk of a future heart attack any day.
Have you gotten any mail from the state Attorney Generals office? That was the return address on mine.
It could certainly be useful, but the concern here isn't that- most posters see good use for it. The concern is being forced to take it when you don't have a problem to begin with. The civil liberties concerns are significant if it becomes mandatory(either by law or because a company/school requires it), and the potential health risks are tremendous.
Many commonly abused drugs, such as opiates and even cocaine and ketamine, have legitimate medical uses especially in severe cases where major surgery is needed. To reduce the effects of these drugs, even when the vaccine does not directly cause problems, could put people at even greater risk if they are ever shot, stabbed, get in a car accident, fall down the stairs, break a bone, etc... There are definitely legitimate concerns over this.
And it isn't reducing the urge, it just reduces the effects. And when an addict is craving and just not getting a strong enough effect, they just take more. That doesn't really help much at all.
It will probably prove to be useful in treating addiction, but using it preemptively could be a Very Bad Idea.
We don't know enough abou the human body to interfear with it in this way.
However, without interfering with it in this way, we will never know enough. Scientific advances always come at great risk and often people die along the way. Such is the cost of progress.
Find qualified surgeons first. Talk to people you know, find someone you can directly talk to, and see what they thought of their doctor. Get reviews from the persons patients that are *not* cleared by the doctor.
Once you have a short list of good surgeons, THEN, and ONLY THEN should you compare price.
If you live in or near CT, Fitchman Eye Center is supposedly quite good, practically the entire staff of Country 92.5 has gone there with very good results for all of them.
ACtually, the itunes signup is quite easy... one form that asks for name, address, and credit card number. Basically, the minimum amount of information needed to securely conduct business.
Download speed depends on your connection of course. The files are 128kbps AAC, which to my ears are damn close to 256k mp3s in sound quality. It really is way better than the vast majority of what you will find on the P2P networks.
"Hawking is also a freaking awesome DJ"
A DJ is the one that plays the music. The MC is the one that raps. Hawking is the MC.
Though, it would be interesting to modify his speech computer to control two turntables and a mixer.
A great one knows when he is wrong.
Actually, I hadn't watched it first.
It was interesting though how they mentioned that humans are the second evolution of the basic form of the Ancients. Normally, when one form evolves into another the new one is superior. So while humanity does not have the technology or wealth of knowledge of the Ancients, they have more potential to achieve great power.
The english thing is in the official FAQ. Basically, they don't want to spend 15 minutes of every episode working through the language barrier, so unless it has siginifcance to that episode or it is a very important new contact, they simply ignore it without explanation, rather than trying to tack on some ridiculous "universal translator" thing on.
And you are wrong about only one planet not speaking english. The Jaffa of Chulak speak a form of Arabic, this was shown when they went there to meet Ry'ac for the first time.
Space receptionist would be Yeoman Rand. Uhura was the Communications Officer.
Communications is a huge deal. Without it, you are completely isolated. A Communications officer is in charge of all aspects of communications, internal and external. Without a competent person in charge of it, a starship would be severely weakened.
Having a black woman in charge of such a critical department was pretty much unheard of at that time. Having someone who was black, or a woman, in charge of something that important was pretty strange, for someone in that position to be both... a huge advance.
Just think about it... The intercoms throughout the Enterprise. Those were Uhuras responsibility. Talking to Starfleet- Again, her job. Translation- Guess who? Those flip communicators- Again, thats Uhuras job to make sure they have enough of them and they are in working order. Communications is a huge responsibility in any military, scientific, or diplomatic endeavor, and the Enterprise's mission included responsibilities in all three areas. And the only person on the Enterprise with the authority to override her in communications matters was the Captain. Even Spock didn't have that authority except when serving as acting Captain.
Uhura was most definitely in a senior leadership position. As far as responsibility and authority over the ship as a whole went, she was even with LtCmdr Scott(though he outranked her, that only really mattered when both Kirk and Spock were unable to command).
My youngest nephew was out in about two hours.
So he might be lucky:)
Might not be discrepancies. Those were different stargates IIRC, its entirely possible that the Ancients made changes to the design of the Stargate and there are several different models floating around. As for the arm vs head keeping it open, it could also be a matter of how much mass was put through the gate that kept it open. O'Neil may have had more of his arm than Kawalsky had his head through the gate, that might have been enough of a difference to keep it open.
At least, thats a perfectly reasonable way to get around just about all the "but the gate doesn't work like that" goofs they've had. Its perfectly plausible, in fact almost guaranteed that the Ancients would tweak the Stargates to work better or to adapt to locally available materials. Not all upgrades would necesarily make it to all gates, and adaptations to local materials obviously wouldn't be ported to other gates(unless it was discovered to work significantly better). If you recall the one ascended Ancient that made one in Carters basement out of some titanium and a toaster, its clear they knew how to build gates in multiple ways.
Or it was the Ancients that got caught up in arrogance, allowing the relatively weak Wraith to defeat them.
Also, its been said countless times that physically, the Ancients were basically human. Its even been hinted that either the Ancients were a subspecies of Homo Sapiens or Homo Sapiens a subspecies of the Ancients. It was really just their technology and knowledge that gave them their power- and there are plenty of real world examples of a technologically inferior force kicking the ass of the "superior" opponent.
And lastly, it has been said many times that the Ancients fell due to some disease. If the Wraith managed to come up with a quick spreading biological weapon that killed Ancients but not Wraith, the war would be trivial to win. Humans may have a shot of beating said disease, since they recovered the Ancient that was buried in Antarctica and had a chance to study the disease... They might be able to come up with a cure before the Wraith can cook up another batch.
Jesus might make sense as a Tok'ra. Though if they were smart they would simply imply that rather than outright state it.
Apparently Atlantis is a huge starship, that at one time was actually on Earth. At least thats what I've seen reported in various places, but until tommorow we won't know for sure.
" I think Stargate has such an insane following because the cast could be real people."
Twice the cast was real people! Two US Air Force Chiefs of Staff have appeared, playing themselves.
Seriously though, from my military experience, *if* there was such a thing as a real Stargate, it would very likely be run like that program... except that the military personnel would get promoted somewhate more often and be transfered a lot more.
Well, apparently the Wraith have just woken up from hibernation or something like that... So they aren't at the height of their power. Even if they were, the super powerful often become incredibly arrogant, and don't recognize a rising threat until it is too late to defeat said threat.
he likely would've surrendered anyway simply to avoid the firebombing that destroyed the likes of Dresden.
The repeated firebombings of many Japanese cities killed more in each strike than either atomic bomb did. If it didn't get them to surrender the first half dozen or so times, its time to think up a new strategy.
Some historians doubt the Nagasaki bomb was evennecessary,
Said historians are idiots. Sure, Hiroshima was a dramatic blow. But until Nagasaki, the Japanese didn't know if this was a full weapons program or a single bomb that we couldn't make in quantity.
The atomic bombs were needed for a simple reason. The Japanese simply do not think like Westerners. True, there were some rumblings prior to Hiroshima leaning towards surrender, but until the US wiped out two cities with single bombs, a force that the Japanese had absolutely zero hope to defend against, the hardcore never surrender crowd could not be overcome. Anything else, be it invasions or massive conventional bombing, would have required that the US virtually wipe out the entire Japanese military, as well as a huge chunk of the civilian population that would have taken up the fight after the army was gone.
Don't forget, on Iwo Jima, out of about 27,000 Japanese troops, around 20,000 fought to the death. The home islands would have been defended far more fiercely. The civilian death toll from invasion(which would eventually be needed to clean up after conventional bombs, even if we bombed the Army out of existence) would be catastrophic, and the military death toll on both sides would also be immense. Compared to the few hundered thousand killed by the bombs and the fallout from them, an invasion of Japan would have made the horrors of all prior wars, put together, look like a schoolyard fistfight.
The two atomic bombs, as terrible as they were, were without a doubt the most merciful way to end the war. The Japanese would not have surrendered if they saw any sliver of hope of survival. Even after Nagasaki, there was a military coup that was very nearly succesful the night prior to the broadcast of the surrender message. Had that coup succeeded, Japan would not have surrendered.
The second bomb was needed to show the atomic bomb was a serious threat... Hiroshima showed we could do it, Nagasaki showed we could keep doing it until they gave up.
"How many times does it have to be said that a prolonged war with Japan would have cost more lives than ending the war with nukes?"
Exactly... People who propose alternatives don't realize a simple fact, Japanese people do not think like we do. Their culture is vastly different even today, back then they were so far removed from Western ways of thinking that forcing a surrender any other way simply would not have happened.
To the overly PC crowd- I am not saying that the Japanese way of thinking is any better or worse than the Western way, simply that it is different. Go live there for 15 months like I did and you will see the truth of my statement. They are great people, but not Westerners by any means(except of course some of the immigrants to western nations are pretty solidly western in outlook).
the 90 minutes was an arbitrary number.. most films are around that length, and my comment was meant to address why scenes are cut in general, not necesarily why they were cut from the Matrix movies in particular.
Sometimes footage is cut not because it sucks, but because the director is told "This movie cannot exceed 90 minutes"... thus forcing said director to cut otherwise good footage that *should* be in there.
Also, as the other poster said, it inserts the video game stuff.
First, me and a couple other Marines were working on a brief on the Captains laptop. Spilled beer on it. By some miracle, that only made the keys stick a little. he never noticed.
More serious, while engaged in "recreational chemistry", I spilled the ammonia onto my expensive ergonomic keyboard, frying out half the traces and destroying the keyboard completely.
Removing copyright in this case would be a bad idea. He has a specific viewpoint he is trying to present- to remove copyright would make it too difficult to fight people who take the film, edit it a bit, and release something that twists his words to something they are not.
Releasing it under a license that says "You may distribute this film, unmodified, for free, or a cost not to exceed actual media costs", while retaining copyrights would work far better for his purposes than ditching copyright altogether.