Oh, man... my choice has to be "Giant Spider Invasion" from season 8: Alan "The Skipper from Gilligan's Island" Hale, his sister Barbara "Della Street from Perry Mason" Hale and paunchy character actor Steve Brodie as named protagonists, stumbling their way through some vintage early-70s ineptitude, hobbled further by serious "made-for-TV" production
"values", and featuring the cheapest, fakiest monster EVER (yes, *worse* even than the Eye Creatures). This is a gold mine of ridicule-fodder for Mike and the Bots. The side-story focusing on the repulsive white-trash hick family inspires some of the finest heckling ever to issue forth from The First Row.
And because director Bill Rebane set the movie in Gleason, Wisconsin, the Minnesota-based cast of MST3K gets all the ammo they need to take broad cold-blooded potshots at their neighboring state (rioting mob sequences in the movie + repeated allusions to the Green Bay Packers from Mike & Bots = utter hilarity)
You'll find "GSI" in the tenth boxed set, the one which originally included the classic "Godzilla v. Megalon" --a.k.a. Jet Jaguar--- which was pulled and re-issued, with Giant Gila Monster replacing the Godzilla movie, when licensing issues regarding the latter could not be overcome.
Actually, you have it completely backwards: there's nothing "biological" about viewing porn. It's a higher cognitive function exclusive to humans.
On the other hand, stray horny dogs just go around looking to copulate, which is a mere response to an instinct.
Looking at porn and masturbating to it is an application of the same exact higher cognitive functions used to enjoy fine food rather than just eating anything to satiate hunger, or reading books and learning from them rather than acquiring experience from trial-and-error scenarios.
so I looked at your link, and sure enough: the highest temperature, at 3PM, in the middle of JULY, was 68. Wow. 3 extra degrees this year!
I don't think you intentionally tried to prove yourself wrong, but that was unquestionably the result.
I have heard that patriotism creates a certain sense of blindness, but really... c'mon.
I regret to inform you that you can't buy talent or creativity Thank you for illustrating that so well
You are so far out of your league here you don't even know what game you're playing. Yep, typical "English Degree" behavior... when intellectually cornered, just utter a non-sequitur (that's an "English-degree" word, by the way) and hand things over to a higher intelligence (in this case, the dog)
I will now let my dog handle further replies just to make it fair And I bet the dog has an "English Degree" too!!!
Wow, you really spent a lot of time thinking about that didn't you? I can almost smell the burning plastic from here. English degrees help you post clever things that are not ridiculous or embarrasing at all. Learn by example, kids, and buy your own English degree NOW!
I already got my degree in English which means I'm qualified to ignore paragraphs and all other good writing advice. This serves to illustrate how buying stuff on Ebay ---be it a bunch of stuff from Australia, or be it an English degree--- is simply NOT a good idea.
Now, Will's performance in IAmLegend - wow. The despair was palpable... In the audience, yes, the despair WAS palpable... that this utter chunk of dreck was made.
Heston may have been a ham, but Smith is a ham bone.
Wrong. Just viewing a web page is the process of dozens or more files being placed in a cache folder, which is different from "downloading". Ugly try though, for not knowing the difference.
Why blow that much money on 2 minutes of entertainment? To live in this world harmonously, remember: your own experience does not necessarily apply to everyone else's experience.
Why do you care so much if other people use a web service, update their friends/family/strangers with important or unimportant facts, and generally have a presence on the web? Does it REALLY affect you so much that you have to rant about it online? Do you have to resort to personal attacks on someone whom you've never met, never read, and don't care about? The answer is yes. And the rants over which you are clearly so offended are in fact the well-deserved ridicule that silly people doing silly things in public should come to expect.
BT's not "them" or a "band", it's keyboardist/editing-whiz Brian Transeau plus whomever he collaborates with at any given time. Ironically, one of the bits of stolen material from 2001 was in fact a collaboration with Peter Gabriel.
And several thousand US dollars, or the equivalent of an entire villages income over a period of years. They are not comparable, except in form factor, the most trivial of elements. Looks like you maybe misunderstood the point. The point is that a statement which claims that ultraportables like the EEE owe their existence to the OLPC is, as stated, ridiculous.
The content of your post actually helps reinforce my point: as you state, and as I stated before, the EEE and the OLPC are NOT comparable at all. The EEE and the Sony Picturebook owe nothing to the OLPC, as the Picturebook PRECEDES the OLPC by a decade, and the EEE is clearly modeled on a ultraportable like the Picturebook.
Lego Mindstorms - MIT Media Lab
Artificial Skin - Ioannis Yannas SM '59
Fax Machine - Shintaro Asano SM '61
Inertial guidance system - Charles Stark Draper '26
Doppler radar - Bernard Gordon '48
Voice recognition technology - Ray Kurzweil '70
Rockman amplifier - Tom Scholz '69
Bose stereo - Professor Amar Bose '51
Spreadsheets - Daniel Bricklin '73...to name a few.
Uh.....I'd say the above are some pretty important inventions and scientific breakthroughs. The fact that they could be encapsulated in the context of a single/. post (and that IS a relatively complete list) is evidence that the successful output is in fact rather modest, considering the vastness of the list of far-more-significant achievements accomplished *outside* MIT.
IOW, nice bit of attempted auto-back-patting, but it ended up cripplin' ya in the end.
The song can be found on the live That Was The Week That Was album, which my parents played incessantly back in the mid-60s, no doubt a major corrupting influence on my preschooler mind. For a great and never-more-topical view on... um... "democracy-spreading", "Send the Marines" is a classic.
Nobody "invented" pi. They just put a label on the concept, which has always been true, that there is a specific ratio between the diameter and circumference of a circle. The "naming" and "conceptualizing" of Pi *is* an invention. The concept has "always been true" ONLY to the extent that someone identified it and conceptualized it. Like all math, the "concept" of Pi is an invention, which is based on an otherwise utterly non-conceptual constant.
Language, like math, is an invention; it does not pre-exist. Humans are innately able to make noises. However, the identification and conceptualization of rules of distinct patterns of distinct noises in a repeatable sequence which have meaning attached to them are what we consider "language". Same with Pi, and math.
So, while noises and constants in nature are not invented, our conceptualizations thereof, like "Pi", "math", "Language", etc, ARE quite obviously our inventions.
"Pi" ONLY exists because we invented the concept of "Pi". As stated already, the existence of a specific ratio between the diameter and circumference of a circle is otherwise merely an interesting natural phenomena.
Unless a kid is told that "2-1=1", all they know is that sharing is entering into a less-than-ideal transaction with someone else. Any smart kid will be the first to tell you that re-imagining that transaction as an education-friendly equation is something only an adult could invent!:)
Just as obvious, nobody "invents" the ratio between the circumference and the diameter of a circle - so this mathematical truth is discovered, not invented. It (pi) existed before anyone discovered it and named it. AGAIN, not quite. Pi "exists" only as an observable constant, but Pi only becomes a mathematical concept when a name is given to it. In order to UNDERSTAND the concept of Pi, it is necessary to give it a name and a purpose... otherwise it is merely an interesting natural phenomenon. Thus, we invent the concept of Pi (and accordingly we invent all of math) to identify and make use of interesting natural phenomena, which otherwise do not require a name or purpose to exist.
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Oh, man... my choice has to be "Giant Spider Invasion" from season 8: Alan "The Skipper from Gilligan's Island" Hale, his sister Barbara "Della Street from Perry Mason" Hale and paunchy character actor Steve Brodie as named protagonists, stumbling their way through some vintage early-70s ineptitude, hobbled further by serious "made-for-TV" production "values", and featuring the cheapest, fakiest monster EVER (yes, *worse* even than the Eye Creatures). This is a gold mine of ridicule-fodder for Mike and the Bots. The side-story focusing on the repulsive white-trash hick family inspires some of the finest heckling ever to issue forth from The First Row.
And because director Bill Rebane set the movie in Gleason, Wisconsin, the Minnesota-based cast of MST3K gets all the ammo they need to take broad cold-blooded potshots at their neighboring state (rioting mob sequences in the movie + repeated allusions to the Green Bay Packers from Mike & Bots = utter hilarity)
You'll find "GSI" in the tenth boxed set, the one which originally included the classic "Godzilla v. Megalon" --a.k.a. Jet Jaguar--- which was pulled and re-issued, with Giant Gila Monster replacing the Godzilla movie, when licensing issues regarding the latter could not be overcome.
Actually, you have it completely backwards: there's nothing "biological" about viewing porn. It's a higher cognitive function exclusive to humans. On the other hand, stray horny dogs just go around looking to copulate, which is a mere response to an instinct. Looking at porn and masturbating to it is an application of the same exact higher cognitive functions used to enjoy fine food rather than just eating anything to satiate hunger, or reading books and learning from them rather than acquiring experience from trial-and-error scenarios.
so I looked at your link, and sure enough: the highest temperature, at 3PM, in the middle of JULY, was 68. Wow. 3 extra degrees this year! I don't think you intentionally tried to prove yourself wrong, but that was unquestionably the result. I have heard that patriotism creates a certain sense of blindness, but really... c'mon.
Either Google makes you look stupid or you're just a crappy liar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Helsinki_climate.png
You had at it, and fell flat on your face. Nice going, genius.
Helsinki NEVER gets any warmer (and I mean in the middle of summer) than sixty-five degrees Farenheit.
Y'know the final sequence from Jarmusch's Night on Earth? Yep. THAT's Helsinki.
So... YEAH. Have at it.
Good point... but I wonder which one ends with the bigger bowl of kibble at the end of the day, y'know... with their "Degrees" and all...
Wrong. Just viewing a web page is the process of dozens or more files being placed in a cache folder, which is different from "downloading". Ugly try though, for not knowing the difference.
BT's not "them" or a "band", it's keyboardist/editing-whiz Brian Transeau plus whomever he collaborates with at any given time. Ironically, one of the bits of stolen material from 2001 was in fact a collaboration with Peter Gabriel.
The content of your post actually helps reinforce my point: as you state, and as I stated before, the EEE and the OLPC are NOT comparable at all. The EEE and the Sony Picturebook owe nothing to the OLPC, as the Picturebook PRECEDES the OLPC by a decade, and the EEE is clearly modeled on a ultraportable like the Picturebook.
Sources? I'd love to see where "the people at ASUS" put out the EEE as a reaction to being snubbed at a market grab by Negroponte.
Uh.....I'd say the above are some pretty important inventions and scientific breakthroughs. The fact that they could be encapsulated in the context of a single
The song can be found on the live That Was The Week That Was album, which my parents played incessantly back in the mid-60s, no doubt a major corrupting influence on my preschooler mind. For a great and never-more-topical view on... um... "democracy-spreading", "Send the Marines" is a classic.
Oh, yeah... a great many great books have been declared obscene and have been banned as a result... Naked Lunch, anyone?