The film was ok, they did many things right. But the fucking "Starkiller Base" practically ruined it for me. The whole thing is fucking ridiculous. Yet another superweapon, bigger and badder than the last one. Firing sun-powered laser beams through hyperspace destroying all republic worlds in one shot! Woohoo! Except this time nobody seems to gives a fuck about the billions of lives destroyed. Then its blown up by the rebels, again. Talk about lazy, dumb ass writing.
It's a losing battle you're waging. The problem is, conservatives in the US are so off the charts these days, that "reality" has a liberal bias to them. That's why they also created "Conservapedia" - Wikipedia is a den of liberals and socialists.
Bingo. It wasn't totally unbiased, but they covered a lot of stuff that never made it into the 3-minute "news" cycle that most of the news outlets in the US live and die by.
They also create many good documentaries, which you can still watch on their website. Not surprising, considering many BBC employees were wooed when Aljazeera got started.
I'm pretty certain you will be expected to repay that financial aid at some point. And I can tell you that the official line is often undercut by the realities on the ground. One example from my personal experience: all the paperwork for financial aid needs to be completed and approved, which takes time. More often than not money is needed up front for enrollment, accommodation and resources before all the paperwork is finished and approval is given, so if you don't have the money up front you won't be able to enroll and if you don't enroll, then of course the whole point of the aid is moot. I've been in this money trap a couple of times during my time in college, and thankfully had family backing to bail me out. Also I am sure there is a selection process, as these universities are interested in the paying "customers", since there is a competition going on.
I've studied in Germany, where university enrollment is officially free of charge, and still finished with a debt of 20.000 Euro, despite working part-time jobs. That's a manageable amount, if you find a job in reasonable time. A couple of times I was on the verge of dropping out because I couldn't afford some specific student fees, and could only continue thanks to family stepping in and supporting me.
I've had some nerve wracking experiences in college, most of them related to lack of money, and all of this in Germany, where you can "mostly" study for free. I can't fathom what it must be like at Harvard or Yale, if you don't have the financial resources to spare.
It has nothing to do with the gold standard. Corporations move their HQ to tax havens like Ireland and pay next to nothing on their profits. Executives collect obscene amounts of bonuses in addition to their ever increasing salaries, and then shove their billions into "charities" that are of course under their control but it makes them look great in the public eye. Meanwhile most of the tax burden has been shoved on to the middle class. All of this thanks to bullshit conservative policy making that protects the wealthy, and thanks to an elitist lock-out culture of Harvards and Yale's only the wealthy can afford, it stays that way. But this is not just a U.S. problem. Every year it gets harder and harder for the middle class to maintain the standard of living, despite the increase in productivity. In Europe it used to be you could use your hard earned, taxed income as an employee to buy a house, or company shares, or other investments as provision and to start building a fortune. Today more and more rocks are placed in your path and when you perform these investments you are taxed again and again, every time money exchanges hands. Meanwhile the super rich have their financial advisor in Monaco handle their financial transactions and don't leave a penny in taxes. If you are down you are supposed to stay down, and politicians are not interested in changing that as they are eager to curry favor with their rich audience, for when their time in politics is over.
Well, here in Germany I would never use Uber. I prefer the idea of driving with someone who has been accredited, is insured and licensed, than stepping into a car with a random anybody who happens to own a car. Also I know that the taxi driver can support a family with his job, whereas the Uber driver is probably doing a second or third job for extra income.
Speak for yourself. Ads are the reason why a lot of good content can stay afloat on the web without asking for money directly, I get that. I wouldn't mind decent, simple text or image ads on the Internet. As long as they don't try to force feed me their ads down my throat, shove distracting, animated shit in my face or potentially harm my computer with uncontrolled Flash ads, I don't see why we couldn't all get along.
I hope the ad industry and site operators are finally starting to realize that annoying the shit out of your potential customers is not a viable long term strategy.
This guy is going to simultaneously get himself thrown in jail AND get the pharmaceutical industry even MORE heavily regulated with his dumbass shenanigans.
Don't you think some regulation is long due if a company has the power to raise the price of a drug by over 5700%, just like that?
Well, if you look around, almost everything that you see and use in our modern times has been invented by western civilizations.
There is a good book about the topic, "Why the West Rules (for now)", which goes into the details on why the West dominates the world today in contrast to the East (Asian civilizations). It really goes through all of human history to try and explain the situation we find ourselves in now. It's a good read. The conclusion is that westerners are not smarter or better than others, but in essence had geographic advantages over the East, which made them come out on top.
Nevertheless, the West did come out on top, and therefore made the greatest contributions to human progress by far.
I always found it ironic how islamic extremists demonize the West as the great satan, while driving cars, communicating with technologies and killing with weapons and explosives that are all products of western civilization.
You think the charred bodies of Luke's stepparents, chopping off arms and hands, extorting information using drugs and torture, choking people to death and slamming them against a wall, mass genocide, killing people as punishment, huge, nightmarish man-eating monsters and sand worms, eating live pigs, electrocuting someone to death, the emperors evil grin and killing teddy bears is something for kids?
I've gotten into this big argument a couple of times with my girlfriend, who is a big Lord of the Rings fan and likes "Fantasy" but not "Sci-Fi", trying to explain that Star Wars is way more prominent on the Fantasy scale than on the Sci-Fi scale. It's not Sci-Fi just because it has spaceships in it.
After over 10 years or so I just watched the original trilogy in preparation for the new Star Wars, and found the movies just as awesome as ever, or even more so. The only reason I didn't watch them for so long was that I refused to watch the special editions, and for a long time there was no alternative. Now, thanks to the despecialized editions - there is finally a definitive way to watch the originals again.
The movies - are - fucking - awesome - period.
One of the reasons they are still so great now is precisely beause of the lame, cookie-cutter, Hollywood standardized movies of the modern era, over reliant on special effects with predictable plots, sub-par dialoge, forced humor, etc. Watching Star Wars again ist actually a refreshing experience.
I was also surprised at how good Mark Hamill's acting is, considering he is probably the biggest newbie on the set, he actually shows the strongest performance in my opinion. After R2D2 of course.
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I don't know if I'm a morning person or not. What I do know is that I go to sleep late because I want more me-time.
Don't you just love it when some agency is savvy enough to abuse Slashdot to forward the political agenda of its clients?
If the US votes Trump, the US deserves Trump. Everything works out either way.
Fucks sake. Will Slashdot, the self-styled site for GEEKS ever update to UTF? Drag your ass out of the stone age and get with the times man.
Seriously, who downloads and installs an app called "Porn âOâ(TM) Mania" on his device?
I would say it's natural selection, unfortunately the offenders don't die.
Buy him a box of Smarties.
He can count them. And eat them.
In what ways is this programming language relevant again? My memory is a little rusty.
The film was ok, they did many things right. But the fucking "Starkiller Base" practically ruined it for me. The whole thing is fucking ridiculous. Yet another superweapon, bigger and badder than the last one. Firing sun-powered laser beams through hyperspace destroying all republic worlds in one shot! Woohoo! Except this time nobody seems to gives a fuck about the billions of lives destroyed. Then its blown up by the rebels, again.
Talk about lazy, dumb ass writing.
There have always been politics on Slashdot?
You must be new here.
It's a losing battle you're waging. The problem is, conservatives in the US are so off the charts these days, that "reality" has a liberal bias to them. That's why they also created "Conservapedia" - Wikipedia is a den of liberals and socialists.
Bingo. It wasn't totally unbiased, but they covered a lot of stuff that never made it into the 3-minute "news" cycle that most of the news outlets in the US live and die by.
They also create many good documentaries, which you can still watch on their website. Not surprising, considering many BBC employees were wooed when Aljazeera got started.
XD
I'm pretty certain you will be expected to repay that financial aid at some point. And I can tell you that the official line is often undercut by the realities on the ground. One example from my personal experience: all the paperwork for financial aid needs to be completed and approved, which takes time. More often than not money is needed up front for enrollment, accommodation and resources before all the paperwork is finished and approval is given, so if you don't have the money up front you won't be able to enroll and if you don't enroll, then of course the whole point of the aid is moot. I've been in this money trap a couple of times during my time in college, and thankfully had family backing to bail me out.
Also I am sure there is a selection process, as these universities are interested in the paying "customers", since there is a competition going on.
I've studied in Germany, where university enrollment is officially free of charge, and still finished with a debt of 20.000 Euro, despite working part-time jobs. That's a manageable amount, if you find a job in reasonable time. A couple of times I was on the verge of dropping out because I couldn't afford some specific student fees, and could only continue thanks to family stepping in and supporting me.
I've had some nerve wracking experiences in college, most of them related to lack of money, and all of this in Germany, where you can "mostly" study for free. I can't fathom what it must be like at Harvard or Yale, if you don't have the financial resources to spare.
It has nothing to do with the gold standard. Corporations move their HQ to tax havens like Ireland and pay next to nothing on their profits. Executives collect obscene amounts of bonuses in addition to their ever increasing salaries, and then shove their billions into "charities" that are of course under their control but it makes them look great in the public eye. Meanwhile most of the tax burden has been shoved on to the middle class. All of this thanks to bullshit conservative policy making that protects the wealthy, and thanks to an elitist lock-out culture of Harvards and Yale's only the wealthy can afford, it stays that way. But this is not just a U.S. problem. Every year it gets harder and harder for the middle class to maintain the standard of living, despite the increase in productivity. In Europe it used to be you could use your hard earned, taxed income as an employee to buy a house, or company shares, or other investments as provision and to start building a fortune. Today more and more rocks are placed in your path and when you perform these investments you are taxed again and again, every time money exchanges hands. Meanwhile the super rich have their financial advisor in Monaco handle their financial transactions and don't leave a penny in taxes.
If you are down you are supposed to stay down, and politicians are not interested in changing that as they are eager to curry favor with their rich audience, for when their time in politics is over.
A hero for Germany as well, obviously for shortening the war, which however might have spared Germany from atomic bombing like Japan.
Well, here in Germany I would never use Uber. I prefer the idea of driving with someone who has been accredited, is insured and licensed, than stepping into a car with a random anybody who happens to own a car. Also I know that the taxi driver can support a family with his job, whereas the Uber driver is probably doing a second or third job for extra income.
The oceans are not only composed of the deepest "abyss".
Speak for yourself. Ads are the reason why a lot of good content can stay afloat on the web without asking for money directly, I get that.
I wouldn't mind decent, simple text or image ads on the Internet. As long as they don't try to force feed me their ads down my throat, shove distracting, animated shit in my face or potentially harm my computer with uncontrolled Flash ads, I don't see why we couldn't all get along.
I hope the ad industry and site operators are finally starting to realize that annoying the shit out of your potential customers is not a viable long term strategy.
This guy is going to simultaneously get himself thrown in jail AND get the pharmaceutical industry even MORE heavily regulated with his dumbass shenanigans.
Don't you think some regulation is long due if a company has the power to raise the price of a drug by over 5700%, just like that?
Well, if you look around, almost everything that you see and use in our modern times has been invented by western civilizations.
There is a good book about the topic, "Why the West Rules (for now)", which goes into the details on why the West dominates the world today in contrast to the East (Asian civilizations). It really goes through all of human history to try and explain the situation we find ourselves in now. It's a good read. The conclusion is that westerners are not smarter or better than others, but in essence had geographic advantages over the East, which made them come out on top.
Nevertheless, the West did come out on top, and therefore made the greatest contributions to human progress by far.
I always found it ironic how islamic extremists demonize the West as the great satan, while driving cars, communicating with technologies and killing with weapons and explosives that are all products of western civilization.
The fairy tales you mention have their roots in medieval pedagogic methods, which meant to scare kids into behaving.
You call my "modern" oversensitivity "pathetic" and as a counterexample decide to pick archaic fairy tales from ages long past? Way to go, grandpa.
You think the charred bodies of Luke's stepparents, chopping off arms and hands, extorting information using drugs and torture, choking people to death and slamming them against a wall, mass genocide, killing people as punishment, huge, nightmarish man-eating monsters and sand worms, eating live pigs, electrocuting someone to death, the emperors evil grin and killing teddy bears is something for kids?
Really?
Thank you.
I've gotten into this big argument a couple of times with my girlfriend, who is a big Lord of the Rings fan and likes "Fantasy" but not "Sci-Fi", trying to explain that Star Wars is way more prominent on the Fantasy scale than on the Sci-Fi scale.
It's not Sci-Fi just because it has spaceships in it.
Word.
After over 10 years or so I just watched the original trilogy in preparation for the new Star Wars, and found the movies just as awesome as ever, or even more so. The only reason I didn't watch them for so long was that I refused to watch the special editions, and for a long time there was no alternative. Now, thanks to the despecialized editions - there is finally a definitive way to watch the originals again.
The movies - are - fucking - awesome - period.
One of the reasons they are still so great now is precisely beause of the lame, cookie-cutter, Hollywood standardized movies of the modern era, over reliant on special effects with predictable plots, sub-par dialoge, forced humor, etc. Watching Star Wars again ist actually a refreshing experience.
I was also surprised at how good Mark Hamill's acting is, considering he is probably the biggest newbie on the set, he actually shows the strongest performance in my opinion. After R2D2 of course.
Michael Franco needs to get a fucking clue.
You forgot:
4- Half Life 3 is not finished. HL3 will be the killer app that will make everyone want to get a HTC instead of Occulus.