Let me get this straight, you're claiming the last episodes of Voyager, and the first two seasons of Enterprise, were BETTER than the first two seasons of TNG?
I wonder if this means we'll see another Star Trek abortion in the near future. (Not to other Trek Fans, I liked TOS, TNG, DS9 and even some of the first season of "Star Trek, Lost in Space" but Enterprise set a new record for shark jumping.)
Of course it would be funny as Hell if, while Berman was sitting on his hands killing Trek, Battlestar Galactica went and became the next major franchise. From what I've read, (Haven't seen any of the new BSG episodes) it looks like the new show may very well be head and shoulders above anything ever seen on Enterprise.
And now, let us all bid "Enterprise" farewell by kicking Berman in the rear as Captain Archer says "Oh Boy" in a flash of blue light.
Depends on the journalist's profile, market and existing salary. It also depends on if it's a one time story, a series of articles or an ongoing bias.
They gave us the price chart in one of my College Journalism classes, but I it's languishing in the basement. There's a theoretical "ethical surcharge" for advocating something you find morally abhorrent, but it's rarely charged. Most journalists don't have enough ethics to justify charging the extra fee.
You for got how their lips look while singing into the microphone. If they sing into a microphone like they're in an adult video, it doubles the value of the first "B".
OK, that's it. I'm getting a copy of this software and creating a song Hell, a whole album, to get the highest score possible.
And then, I will be wealthy, because I'll be a producer instead of an "artist." The acts will come and go, but I'll linger, taking a slice off the top in exchange for my "expertise."
The USA isn't a theocracy YET, but Bush and his ilk are moving towards a Conservative brand of Born Again Christians to be in control..
You seem to have missed the fact that a theocracy is VERY different from letting one's religion dictate one's personal actions, such as what bills to propose and support while in office.
Afghanistan before the US invaded was a Theocracy. The Shrub, like it or not, is trying to move us towards a Conservative Christian version of the same thing.
Doubt me AC?
Check out this.
By the way, a theocracy in place of a democracy is bad for all of us, and you'll be amazed just how even the Conservative Christians find themselves oppressed.
Another government has been installed over the existing hardware (land).
In Communist China... The Communist Overlords welcome YOU.
In Theocratic America... (You know it's coming. The Shrub will be still be in power well after 2008, due to the "state of Emergency" that will be declared)
In Theocratic America... The RIAA Open's YOUR source!
file sharing has dramatically increased the number of CDs I've bought. There are artists I would have never even looked at had I not downloaded their songs by mistake when grabbing other content.
I was deliberately avoiding the whole "Harry Potter" thing, as I saw it as a rip-off of Gaiman's "Books of Magic" series based on a similar premise. I ended up downloading the first book off the net out of curiosity, and after reading it, ended up buying the rest of the books, the first movie and even some of the food related branded products.
Of course, the flip side is I know people who are proud of never having bought another CD since they started downloading.
In the beginning, P2P had the potential to be a major advertising stream, like the Radio. Remember that most of the arguments being used against P2P were also used against the Radio and TV when they were starting up. It's gotten out of hand at this point, with the Internet being used for wholesale theft of IP instead of advertising of that same IP.
Ultimately, the refusal of the media companies to change and adapt to new technology has resulted in the technology developing in such a way as to deny the media companies most options for using it.
In my case, the Internet has served as more of a library than anything else. I'm not hoarding data, I'm listening to it or reading it once, and then discarding it. Functionally, and in it's impact on the people who would otherwise make money off it, it's no different than if I'd checked the CD and the books out of the library.
In the end, I dumped the data that wasn't legally free. I'm not going to give artists I would otherwise ignore a chance if I'm likely to get sued, fined or tossed in jail over it. After I uninstalled my last copies of Gnutella and eMule, I also stopped buying CDs and most "Mass Merket" books.
Their refusal to let me preview the content in a manner that is convenient for me has resulted in them losing all of the sales I would have represented. I find it ironic that the time during which I was downloading the most was when I was buying the most.
But then, I'm not one of the guys who, like a former web developer I used to work with, was downloading MP3s so he could burn CDs instead of buying them.
And now, the long running attempt at a joke has FINALLY achieved humor value.
No use of it after today will ever be as fit, amusing or appropriate. Anyone else who uses the joke will remind readers of this instance of it, and they'll think "Yea, but it's still lame and stale compared to Kjuib's masterful use of the gag."
It means you print the Communist Manifesto on paper you made yourself before reading it, instead of buying it in a book store like all the other commies.
I'm not really sure we've evolved to "desire what's preferred by others". I think that's more a matter of socialization. We're clearly a species of "Followers" and "Leaders" but there's no way to tell how much of that is evolved and how much is the result of upbringing.
But you're right, the ones who've either evolved as, or been socialized as, followers will tend to follow the preferences of others, regardless of the evolutionary suitability of said mate. If it's evolved, then the people who bent to the will of their leaders were more likely to survive.
Actually, it all has to do with economics. The western economy is a culture of shame. "You're not good enough, so buy this product to BECOME good enough." The idea is to create expectations that are impossible to reach, so people are always striving and buying to get something they can never have.
Mind you, I don't for a moment think this is the result of any kind of organized conspiracy. This is the logical consequence of about a century and a half of advertising campaigns telling us ways we're "not good enough."
Toys like Barbie don't help matters much. I won't speculate about the motives behind the people who created the doll and it's proportions, but the end result has been a couple of generations of women growing up trying to look like that, and men growing up to expect women to look like that.
One of the replies to your post was from someone who finds Paris attractive. I'm sure there's a percentage of people who are just naturally hard wired for those preferences, but given the fact that Paris' body isn't really capable of supporting a pregnancy without medical aid, I doubt she matches the image of what we EVOLVED to prefer.
This advertising based image of the "ideal" is older than anyone alive today, and has become so ingrained that most people think its "normal" to find such an absurd image attractive, and even grow hostile towards those who imply otherwise.
Actually, given the photos I've seen of Paris, and the statistics I've read (Some VERY thin friends are having kids) her chances of having a child with birth defects are a few orders of magnitude greater than the average American's. Having so little weight probably makes it difficult to carry a fetus to term and provide it the nutrients it needs to develop properly.
Clearly, a rain of words, as there's no reason here.
And no, I didn't think the web site was replying to our conversation. I just found it amusing that a quote came up that could be considered vaguely relevant.
Enjoy whatever pithy comments you can come up with to reply. While this little conversation has been amusing, I've gotten bored with it. You just don't have enough substance to keep my interest any longer.
Slashdot Mirror
Let me get this straight, you're claiming the last episodes of Voyager, and the first two seasons of Enterprise, were BETTER than the first two seasons of TNG?
Yep I stopped watching star trek a long long time ago.
In a Galaxy far, far away?
Damn, that's three times the fan base I thought the show had.
We all knew BERMAN had wet dreams about the show, but there were other fans???
Damn.
Compete against Iron Chef Romulan, Iron Chef Klingon, Iron Chef Human or the rarely seen, but included for cultural completeness, Iron Chef Bejoran.
With special guest judge, Q
But they just had had had to mess it up with time travel
But, Berman said the Time Travel and Holodeck episodes were the best ones on TNG. He LOVED them!
"Ding Dong, the witch is dead."
I wonder if this means we'll see another Star Trek abortion in the near future. (Not to other Trek Fans, I liked TOS, TNG, DS9 and even some of the first season of "Star Trek, Lost in Space" but Enterprise set a new record for shark jumping.)
Of course it would be funny as Hell if, while Berman was sitting on his hands killing Trek, Battlestar Galactica went and became the next major franchise. From what I've read, (Haven't seen any of the new BSG episodes) it looks like the new show may very well be head and shoulders above anything ever seen on Enterprise.
And now, let us all bid "Enterprise" farewell by kicking Berman in the rear as Captain Archer says "Oh Boy" in a flash of blue light.
Depends on the journalist's profile, market and existing salary. It also depends on if it's a one time story, a series of articles or an ongoing bias.
They gave us the price chart in one of my College Journalism classes, but I it's languishing in the basement. There's a theoretical "ethical surcharge" for advocating something you find morally abhorrent, but it's rarely charged. Most journalists don't have enough ethics to justify charging the extra fee.
You for got how their lips look while singing into the microphone. If they sing into a microphone like they're in an adult video, it doubles the value of the first "B".
OK, that's it. I'm getting a copy of this software and creating a song Hell, a whole album, to get the highest score possible.
And then, I will be wealthy, because I'll be a producer instead of an "artist." The acts will come and go, but I'll linger, taking a slice off the top in exchange for my "expertise."
Are you trying to imply the record companies CARE about more than three characteristics?
And they'll both laugh their rear ends off.
Which will be quite a feat, as they all have four asses each.
The USA isn't a theocracy YET, but Bush and his ilk are moving towards a Conservative brand of Born Again Christians to be in control..
You seem to have missed the fact that a theocracy is VERY different from letting one's religion dictate one's personal actions, such as what bills to propose and support while in office.
Afghanistan before the US invaded was a Theocracy. The Shrub, like it or not, is trying to move us towards a Conservative Christian version of the same thing.
Doubt me AC?
Check out this.
By the way, a theocracy in place of a democracy is bad for all of us, and you'll be amazed just how even the Conservative Christians find themselves oppressed.
Soviet Russia is gone.
It's been end of lifed.
Another government has been installed over the existing hardware (land).
In Communist China... The Communist Overlords welcome YOU.
In Theocratic America... (You know it's coming. The Shrub will be still be in power well after 2008, due to the "state of Emergency" that will be declared)
In Theocratic America... The RIAA Open's YOUR source!
You came VERY close to finding out what I was actually trying to do.
1: Mock commonly used yet unfunny "joke" that you're tired of seeing.
2: Get modded up by the people who agree with you.
3: Karma!!!!
Based on the number of replies, it looks like you're getting one.
In which case, we are welcoming ourselves.
Is that anything like patting yourself on the back?
Is it the Open Source version of a date with Rosy and her five sisters?
Or is it just presumptuous?
You're reference to Grits is redundant.
...
1. Make random references to Slashdot running gags, even though the same gag has already been referenced.
2.
3. Profit!
Me and file sharing.
file sharing has dramatically increased the number of CDs I've bought. There are artists I would have never even looked at had I not downloaded their songs by mistake when grabbing other content.
I was deliberately avoiding the whole "Harry Potter" thing, as I saw it as a rip-off of Gaiman's "Books of Magic" series based on a similar premise. I ended up downloading the first book off the net out of curiosity, and after reading it, ended up buying the rest of the books, the first movie and even some of the food related branded products.
Of course, the flip side is I know people who are proud of never having bought another CD since they started downloading.
In the beginning, P2P had the potential to be a major advertising stream, like the Radio. Remember that most of the arguments being used against P2P were also used against the Radio and TV when they were starting up. It's gotten out of hand at this point, with the Internet being used for wholesale theft of IP instead of advertising of that same IP.
Ultimately, the refusal of the media companies to change and adapt to new technology has resulted in the technology developing in such a way as to deny the media companies most options for using it.
In my case, the Internet has served as more of a library than anything else. I'm not hoarding data, I'm listening to it or reading it once, and then discarding it. Functionally, and in it's impact on the people who would otherwise make money off it, it's no different than if I'd checked the CD and the books out of the library.
In the end, I dumped the data that wasn't legally free. I'm not going to give artists I would otherwise ignore a chance if I'm likely to get sued, fined or tossed in jail over it. After I uninstalled my last copies of Gnutella and eMule, I also stopped buying CDs and most "Mass Merket" books.
Their refusal to let me preview the content in a manner that is convenient for me has resulted in them losing all of the sales I would have represented. I find it ironic that the time during which I was downloading the most was when I was buying the most.
But then, I'm not one of the guys who, like a former web developer I used to work with, was downloading MP3s so he could burn CDs instead of buying them.
And now, the long running attempt at a joke has FINALLY achieved humor value.
No use of it after today will ever be as fit, amusing or appropriate. Anyone else who uses the joke will remind readers of this instance of it, and they'll think "Yea, but it's still lame and stale compared to Kjuib's masterful use of the gag."
It means you print the Communist Manifesto on paper you made yourself before reading it, instead of buying it in a book store like all the other commies.
Dehydrated Martians?
You've been reading Stephen Lawhead's "Dream Thief", haven't you?
Admiral Ackbar: Its a Trap!!!!
Oh God, another one of those loonies from Fark.com
Take your catch phrases home Farker. We prefer Hot Grits to Ackbar here.
I'm not really sure we've evolved to "desire what's preferred by others". I think that's more a matter of socialization. We're clearly a species of "Followers" and "Leaders" but there's no way to tell how much of that is evolved and how much is the result of upbringing.
But you're right, the ones who've either evolved as, or been socialized as, followers will tend to follow the preferences of others, regardless of the evolutionary suitability of said mate. If it's evolved, then the people who bent to the will of their leaders were more likely to survive.
Actually, it all has to do with economics. The western economy is a culture of shame. "You're not good enough, so buy this product to BECOME good enough." The idea is to create expectations that are impossible to reach, so people are always striving and buying to get something they can never have.
Mind you, I don't for a moment think this is the result of any kind of organized conspiracy. This is the logical consequence of about a century and a half of advertising campaigns telling us ways we're "not good enough."
Toys like Barbie don't help matters much. I won't speculate about the motives behind the people who created the doll and it's proportions, but the end result has been a couple of generations of women growing up trying to look like that, and men growing up to expect women to look like that.
One of the replies to your post was from someone who finds Paris attractive. I'm sure there's a percentage of people who are just naturally hard wired for those preferences, but given the fact that Paris' body isn't really capable of supporting a pregnancy without medical aid, I doubt she matches the image of what we EVOLVED to prefer.
This advertising based image of the "ideal" is older than anyone alive today, and has become so ingrained that most people think its "normal" to find such an absurd image attractive, and even grow hostile towards those who imply otherwise.
Actually, given the photos I've seen of Paris, and the statistics I've read (Some VERY thin friends are having kids) her chances of having a child with birth defects are a few orders of magnitude greater than the average American's. Having so little weight probably makes it difficult to carry a fetus to term and provide it the nutrients it needs to develop properly.
She's what the media says should be the "perfect" woman. According to Hollywood and fashion designers, she's ideal.
Wealthy
Thin to the point of being unhealthy
High Libido
Slutty
Blond
Dumb as a post.
As a result, the media HAS to go nuts about her, because toothpicks like her are the kind of trash they've been throwing at us for ages.
Clearly, a rain of words, as there's no reason here.
And no, I didn't think the web site was replying to our conversation. I just found it amusing that a quote came up that could be considered vaguely relevant.
Enjoy whatever pithy comments you can come up with to reply. While this little conversation has been amusing, I've gotten bored with it. You just don't have enough substance to keep my interest any longer.
Have a Wonderful Life, whoever you are.