You could say that Han's arc is a "redemption" story, and a far less melodramatic one that Vader's in "Return of the Jedi." He's still a scoundrel but he's one of the good guys.
In other ways, the opening section of "Return of the Jedi" is a completion of that arc. They rescued Han from his past in "A New Hope" by giving him a purpose and meaning for his life, a cause to fight for other than his own hide, while in "Jedi" they rescue him from some of the consequences of his past. He "relapsed" into his past at the end of "Empire," but he achieved a final salvation at the beginning of "Jedi."
It isn't really until the beginning of the Endor mission that Han really is a "Hero" in the sense that Lucas sees him, and at that point he has become a far less interesting character. He loses some depth when he's a through and through hero and not just a scoundrel doing something heroic.
I don't know, but I got the impression hat computer experience beyond basic word processing was akin to voodoo to her.
There's nothing WRONG with that, in an absolute sense, but someone hiring tech staff really should have some understanding of the technology involved. If all you need to do is edit documents, then those are the only computer skills you need. If you're hiring tech staff you really need to know the difference between a Firewall and a hole in the wall.
It's not her lack of tech skills I found disgusting, but the fact that she was evaluating my tech skills for a job she didn't understand. It would be like me trying to hire a Warehouse Manager or Auto Mechanic. I have no skills in those areas and no knowledge of what qualifies someone for such a job. It would be a disaster.
I hear 'ya. Personally, I'm looking forward to the day when she acts in a movie with a decent script. She CAN act, and she's good at it, but that Lucas jerk gets pathetic performances out of everyone.
I am NOT a fan of the way that Lucas has changed the character of Han Solo.
For me, part of the original Star Wars saga involved the changes that Han Solo went through thorough the course of the movies.
He WAS a heartless mercenary with loyalty to his ship and His Wookie and that was about it.
The moment when he shows up at the end of "An New Hope" and blasts the Tie Fighters is supposed to show how he has changed, how his motivations and alliances have become altered by his experiences with the rebels.
It makes perfect sense for the Han Solo we meet at the beginning of "A New Hope" to shoot first. He isn't a hero yet, and it's foolish for Lucas to claim that "A hero doesn't do that sort of thing."
Lucas is trying to whitewash the very stories he created, and in so doing he ignores the very precepts of the Journey of the Here that he pompously claims were the foundation of the characters.
Solo begins as a mercenary, and that's all that he is.
By the end he's one of the heros, but he doesn't start as one.
Do some research Lucas. Not even the Buddha started off that way, and a lot of heroes have tragic histories where they weren't exactly heros. Hell, the most interesting heros are the ones that were at one point villains.
I liked Han because he changes. He grows as a sentient being.
I think one reason we can view driving as a privilege, is because it requires access to a vehicle that's rated for road travel, as well as training and a license to operate the vehicle.
You can't take any old thing on the highway, and you have to have a license.
Any fool with a mouth can take advantage of the freedom of speech.
I'm tempted to argue that driving is a privilege because you have to learn how to do it before you can legally operate a car, but that gets us into some sticky discussions about gun licenses.
For this debate, we need to define what makes something a "Right" versus a "Privilege" or at the very least come up with some examples of each that we can agree on.
And we might as well jettison the issue of gun ownership for the discussion of the "Right" versus "Privilege" status of driving, as gun ownership has become so politicized that it can't be separated from the people who are trying to stamp it out completely.
However I think refining the debate on Driving would help us approach gun ownership from more better viewpoint.
Not to sound like a troll, but your arguments don't really address the quote at the top of your post.
You said nothing about weather driving is a right or a privilege. I think it is a privilege, in part because I don't want a convicted drunk driver who killed three people in a car crash last week on the same road with me.
You didn't make any arguments to argue that driving is a right, or should be considered as such.
You do make very good points on the criteria by which the state will revoke a driver's license. Revoking a license for non driving related offenses, or for offenses not related to driving or your ability to drive is asinine. As far as the actual arguments you made go, I agree with you, but I don't think they address the point you were aiming for.
In Massachusetts you can have your driver's license yanked for owing back child support. How does that make sense? Wouldn't being denied the ability to drive hinder one's earning potential?
While that's probably one of the common reasons for such requirements, in this case it was because corporate policy required 5+ years experience in any technology before they would hire someone to work with it.
The recruiter did kindly offer to keep my resume on file as I did have the requisite number of years experience in Windows 3.1, which she found impressive.
> The mailbox jiggles and shimmies like a pole dancer on acid. The reverberations reach the ground and a humming tone comes from the vibrating soil. Earthworms emerge from the ground, driven out by the vibrating mailbox pole. You see a white envelope slowly emerge from the mailbox, falling to the ground just before the mailbox stops vibrating.
I did give the show a fair chance, but the whole "Freak of the Week" theme got old real fast, especially when Kryptonite became the universal widget to make strange things happen or be part of an evil technology.
And when they weren't doing that, they were doing things that reminded me of the commercials for that Everwood show. It became pretty clear that Smallville is nothing but another WB teen angst show with a teen age Superman as the gimmick to keep it on the air.
And the sad thing is, the premise they set up had a lot of promise. Lex Luthor starting off as a good guy living in Smallville (Even managed a decent explanation for that one, even if the mansion was way over the top) A young Superman still learning about his powers. His powers developing from the ground up. The episode where he first developed heat vision, while ultimately botched due to the absurd "B" plots, had a good start for dealing with a teenager who suddenly found heat rays streaming from his eyes.
They even had some fun twists on the traditional tellings of the Superman saga, such as the changes they made in the motivations for Superman's biological Father selecting Earth as the destination for his son's space capsule.
All told, the show had promise, but what hope there was was killed off by forcing the show to become just another WB melodrama. They should have hired some decent sci-fi / comic writers instead of the hacks they ended up using.
Best Dramatic Presentation -- Short Form (212 ballots)...
* "Rosetta" -- Smallville (Tollin/Robbins Productions/Warner Brothers). Directed by James Marshall; written by Al Gough & Miles Millar.
OK, I understand things have been tight for decent Sci-Fi of late, seeing as all the good shows keep getting killed off, but Smallville????
Smallville????
What, because Christopher Reeve was in that one?????
The World English Bible narrated by David Williams Old and New Testaments
The King James Bible narrated by Stephen Johnston Old and New Testaments
La Biblia Reina Valera narrated by Juan Alberto Ovalle Nuevo Testamento y Salmos
The King James Bible narrated by ASI New Testament
The Mandarin Bible narrated by ASI Old and New Testaments
Cantonese NT narrated by ASI
Scripture Selections KJV and WEB Encoded for email
Urdu New Testament narrated by ASI
Hindi New Testament narrated by ASI
Tagalog New Testament narrated by ASI
Slovak New Testament narrated by ASI
Polish Bible narrated selections
The Gospels and Psalms in Arabic
Worship Songs in mp3
Hebrew Old Testament narrated by ASI
Punjabi New Testament
Bengali New Testament
Free Christian AudioBooks
Tamil New Testament
God's Powerful Saviour
Someone at the web site "got it"
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Spiderman 2 Trailer
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· Score: 4, Insightful
I think this the first time I've seen a "Download" link that lets you save it to disk with a couple clicks, instead of having to look at the HTML source and download it by hand.
I guess they got tired of people complaining about not being able to download the trailer.
At least I don't seek them out. Hell, even the one night stands back when I was single were with women I could have an interesting conversation with afterwards.
OK, there were a few women whose education left something to be desired, but I was young and immature, seeking nothing beyond the purely physical. I've grown up a lot since then.
Serious request for information. I've got a few computers. Being in the 200 to 500 Mhz range, and not having hard drives, CD ROM and so on, The two donation areas I know of in the area won't take them.
Based on the complexity of the language in the article, we can safely conclude that the grandfather is of above average intelligence and education.
Given the warm and caring nature hinted at in the narrative itself, we can conclude that this individual probably married a woman of comparable intelligence, as he lacks the characteristics necessary to desire a shallow woman lacking in intelligence.
We can also assume that his children, following the usual human pattern of using their parents' relationship as a template, made similar choices in their choice of a spouse.
Thus we can see that this four year old is the product of at least two generations of intelligent people marrying intelligent people, with a clear value for nurturing their offspring.
In short, this is about a smart kid with a caring family who learns how to use computers. Not applicable in the workplace, as this kid is probably smarter than most the people I work with.
I've found Real to be a better method of loading media onto my MiniDisk player than the "jukebox" crapware that Sony bundles (More stable and supports more media formats)
And the Palm Realplayer is decent too.
I've been impressed with the changes they made in version 10. Instead of swearing at the "God Damn invasive ****sucking bastard" it's just another app sitting on the hard drive.
If I'm remembering the National Geographic special about finding the wreck of the Titanic, it wasn't the designers who declared the ship unsinkable, but the investors and owners who wanted to sell tickets.
So the Janus / Titanic analogy is even more appropriate.
That said, Janus is a two faced god of deception. Think Microsoft is trying to tell us something with the product name?
TCP/IP isn't the issue. If you want to talk protocols, then SMTP is a better choice for the example.
Aside from that, there are a few critical flaws in the idea. One of them is the fact that you're supposed to scrub the incoming data. All a more secure SMTP could really do is reduce the number of viruses that arrive in the in-box.
Let's look at some of the critical flaws that have allowed Outlook viruses to spread:
Launching ActiveX components when you preview the message.
Using an HTML rendering engine that is itself full of security holes and yet operates as a system process (I think it may even be ring 0)
Flaws that would alow for the automatic launching of attached programs.
None of Outlook's security holes have anything to do with Open Standards, and everything to do with what happens to the data once it's in the MS written code.
Blaming Open Protocols on Outlook's security holes-
Wait a second.
Dammit. I just replied to a Troll who was posting a deliberately ignorant idea to get argument started.
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You could say that Han's arc is a "redemption" story, and a far less melodramatic one that Vader's in "Return of the Jedi." He's still a scoundrel but he's one of the good guys.
In other ways, the opening section of "Return of the Jedi" is a completion of that arc. They rescued Han from his past in "A New Hope" by giving him a purpose and meaning for his life, a cause to fight for other than his own hide, while in "Jedi" they rescue him from some of the consequences of his past. He "relapsed" into his past at the end of "Empire," but he achieved a final salvation at the beginning of "Jedi."
It isn't really until the beginning of the Endor mission that Han really is a "Hero" in the sense that Lucas sees him, and at that point he has become a far less interesting character. He loses some depth when he's a through and through hero and not just a scoundrel doing something heroic.
I don't know, but I got the impression hat computer experience beyond basic word processing was akin to voodoo to her.
There's nothing WRONG with that, in an absolute sense, but someone hiring tech staff really should have some understanding of the technology involved. If all you need to do is edit documents, then those are the only computer skills you need. If you're hiring tech staff you really need to know the difference between a Firewall and a hole in the wall.
It's not her lack of tech skills I found disgusting, but the fact that she was evaluating my tech skills for a job she didn't understand. It would be like me trying to hire a Warehouse Manager or Auto Mechanic. I have no skills in those areas and no knowledge of what qualifies someone for such a job. It would be a disaster.
I hear 'ya. Personally, I'm looking forward to the day when she acts in a movie with a decent script. She CAN act, and she's good at it, but that Lucas jerk gets pathetic performances out of everyone.
I am NOT a fan of the way that Lucas has changed the character of Han Solo.
For me, part of the original Star Wars saga involved the changes that Han Solo went through thorough the course of the movies.
He WAS a heartless mercenary with loyalty to his ship and His Wookie and that was about it.
The moment when he shows up at the end of "An New Hope" and blasts the Tie Fighters is supposed to show how he has changed, how his motivations and alliances have become altered by his experiences with the rebels.
It makes perfect sense for the Han Solo we meet at the beginning of "A New Hope" to shoot first. He isn't a hero yet, and it's foolish for Lucas to claim that "A hero doesn't do that sort of thing."
Lucas is trying to whitewash the very stories he created, and in so doing he ignores the very precepts of the Journey of the Here that he pompously claims were the foundation of the characters.
Solo begins as a mercenary, and that's all that he is.
By the end he's one of the heros, but he doesn't start as one.
Do some research Lucas. Not even the Buddha started off that way, and a lot of heroes have tragic histories where they weren't exactly heros. Hell, the most interesting heros are the ones that were at one point villains.
I liked Han because he changes. He grows as a sentient being.
Point.
I think one reason we can view driving as a privilege, is because it requires access to a vehicle that's rated for road travel, as well as training and a license to operate the vehicle.
You can't take any old thing on the highway, and you have to have a license.
Any fool with a mouth can take advantage of the freedom of speech.
I'm tempted to argue that driving is a privilege because you have to learn how to do it before you can legally operate a car, but that gets us into some sticky discussions about gun licenses.
For this debate, we need to define what makes something a "Right" versus a "Privilege" or at the very least come up with some examples of each that we can agree on.
And we might as well jettison the issue of gun ownership for the discussion of the "Right" versus "Privilege" status of driving, as gun ownership has become so politicized that it can't be separated from the people who are trying to stamp it out completely.
However I think refining the debate on Driving would help us approach gun ownership from more better viewpoint.
Not to sound like a troll, but your arguments don't really address the quote at the top of your post.
You said nothing about weather driving is a right or a privilege. I think it is a privilege, in part because I don't want a convicted drunk driver who killed three people in a car crash last week on the same road with me.
You didn't make any arguments to argue that driving is a right, or should be considered as such.
You do make very good points on the criteria by which the state will revoke a driver's license. Revoking a license for non driving related offenses, or for offenses not related to driving or your ability to drive is asinine. As far as the actual arguments you made go, I agree with you, but I don't think they address the point you were aiming for.
In Massachusetts you can have your driver's license yanked for owing back child support. How does that make sense? Wouldn't being denied the ability to drive hinder one's earning potential?
While that's probably one of the common reasons for such requirements, in this case it was because corporate policy required 5+ years experience in any technology before they would hire someone to work with it.
The recruiter did kindly offer to keep my resume on file as I did have the requisite number of years experience in Windows 3.1, which she found impressive.
You laugh, but I was turned down for a job in 1998, because I didn't have the "5+" years in Windows 95 that they wanted.
Take Mailbox
> The Mailbox is attached to the ground
Kick Mailbox
> The mailbox jiggles and shimmies like a pole dancer on acid. The reverberations reach the ground and a humming tone comes from the vibrating soil. Earthworms emerge from the ground, driven out by the vibrating mailbox pole. You see a white envelope slowly emerge from the mailbox, falling to the ground just before the mailbox stops vibrating.
>Press Enter to Continue
ENTER
>Your foot hurts.
Majestic died long before Sept 11. It only lasted a couple months after the initial release. The few people who tried it didn't like it.
Based on what I've heard, it was a bad idea, not much fun and required a massive time investment.
That, and I'm sure all those phone calls and pages added up in cost, both both the publisher maintaining it all and the people "playing" the game.
I did give the show a fair chance, but the whole "Freak of the Week" theme got old real fast, especially when Kryptonite became the universal widget to make strange things happen or be part of an evil technology.
And when they weren't doing that, they were doing things that reminded me of the commercials for that Everwood show. It became pretty clear that Smallville is nothing but another WB teen angst show with a teen age Superman as the gimmick to keep it on the air.
And the sad thing is, the premise they set up had a lot of promise. Lex Luthor starting off as a good guy living in Smallville (Even managed a decent explanation for that one, even if the mansion was way over the top) A young Superman still learning about his powers. His powers developing from the ground up. The episode where he first developed heat vision, while ultimately botched due to the absurd "B" plots, had a good start for dealing with a teenager who suddenly found heat rays streaming from his eyes.
They even had some fun twists on the traditional tellings of the Superman saga, such as the changes they made in the motivations for Superman's biological Father selecting Earth as the destination for his son's space capsule.
All told, the show had promise, but what hope there was was killed off by forcing the show to become just another WB melodrama. They should have hired some decent sci-fi / comic writers instead of the hacks they ended up using.
Best Dramatic Presentation -- Short Form (212 ballots) ...
* "Rosetta" -- Smallville (Tollin/Robbins Productions/Warner Brothers). Directed by James Marshall; written by Al Gough & Miles Millar.
OK, I understand things have been tight for decent Sci-Fi of late, seeing as all the good shows keep getting killed off, but Smallville????
Smallville????
What, because Christopher Reeve was in that one?????
The Bible is already on the web for free in MP3 format.
http://audiotreasure.com/
In several languages:
The World English Bible narrated by David Williams Old and New Testaments
The King James Bible narrated by Stephen Johnston Old and New Testaments
La Biblia Reina Valera narrated by Juan Alberto Ovalle Nuevo Testamento y Salmos
The King James Bible narrated by ASI New Testament
The Mandarin Bible narrated by ASI Old and New Testaments
Cantonese NT narrated by ASI
Scripture Selections KJV and WEB Encoded for email
Urdu New Testament narrated by ASI
Hindi New Testament narrated by ASI
Tagalog New Testament narrated by ASI
Slovak New Testament narrated by ASI
Polish Bible narrated selections
The Gospels and Psalms in Arabic
Worship Songs in mp3
Hebrew Old Testament narrated by ASI
Punjabi New Testament
Bengali New Testament
Free Christian AudioBooks
Tamil New Testament
God's Powerful Saviour
I think this the first time I've seen a "Download" link that lets you save it to disk with a couple clicks, instead of having to look at the HTML source and download it by hand.
I guess they got tired of people complaining about not being able to download the trailer.
Translation of parent post: my wife reads slashdot, and I need some brownie points ;)
/., but we have a lot of mutual friends who do.
No, no no.
I'm engaged, not married. I'll be married in August.
And she doesn't read
And I don't need more brownie points.
I don't desire shallow women.
At least I don't seek them out. Hell, even the one night stands back when I was single were with women I could have an interesting conversation with afterwards.
OK, there were a few women whose education left something to be desired, but I was young and immature, seeking nothing beyond the purely physical. I've grown up a lot since then.
Serious request for information. I've got a few computers. Being in the 200 to 500 Mhz range, and not having hard drives, CD ROM and so on, The two donation areas I know of in the area won't take them.
Cambridge Chamber of Commerce
and
TechChange
Are the ones I know about.
Any other places I can donate these barebones systems, or any users looking for parts?
Based on the complexity of the language in the article, we can safely conclude that the grandfather is of above average intelligence and education.
Given the warm and caring nature hinted at in the narrative itself, we can conclude that this individual probably married a woman of comparable intelligence, as he lacks the characteristics necessary to desire a shallow woman lacking in intelligence.
We can also assume that his children, following the usual human pattern of using their parents' relationship as a template, made similar choices in their choice of a spouse.
Thus we can see that this four year old is the product of at least two generations of intelligent people marrying intelligent people, with a clear value for nurturing their offspring.
In short, this is about a smart kid with a caring family who learns how to use computers. Not applicable in the workplace, as this kid is probably smarter than most the people I work with.
Got a mailing address I can use?
I've got four bare bones systems, case, Motherboard and processor that I've had lying around for ages.
K7 and PIII boards, 200mhz to probably 600 for the fastest one.
All I know are geeks and I've run out of family members who need a PC.
So, want them?
Hell, anyone willing to come to the Boston area want them?
They were free from work, and the local charities I know about only take fully functional PCs, so one without a hard drive are not acceptable!
God promised after Noah's flood he wouldn't do this sort of thing again so we can rule out #5.
Read the fine print. He only promised not to do it again with a flood.
Never said anything about fire.
So while you might be helping to fly the plane [into the ground] you really have no say in how the plane gets to it's destination
You know, this makes perfect sense.
Because Microsoft does want to tell Linux users where to go and what to do.
Which Opera was the first to implment I might add.
Same with Mouse Gestures.
Now you know how the Opera users felt when Mozilla stole the idea of tabbed browsing.
I agree.
I've found Real to be a better method of loading media onto my MiniDisk player than the "jukebox" crapware that Sony bundles (More stable and supports more media formats)
And the Palm Realplayer is decent too.
I've been impressed with the changes they made in version 10. Instead of swearing at the "God Damn invasive ****sucking bastard" it's just another app sitting on the hard drive.
If I'm remembering the National Geographic special about finding the wreck of the Titanic, it wasn't the designers who declared the ship unsinkable, but the investors and owners who wanted to sell tickets.
So the Janus / Titanic analogy is even more appropriate.
That said, Janus is a two faced god of deception. Think Microsoft is trying to tell us something with the product name?
TCP/IP isn't the issue. If you want to talk protocols, then SMTP is a better choice for the example.
Aside from that, there are a few critical flaws in the idea. One of them is the fact that you're supposed to scrub the incoming data. All a more secure SMTP could really do is reduce the number of viruses that arrive in the in-box.
Let's look at some of the critical flaws that have allowed Outlook viruses to spread:
Launching ActiveX components when you preview the message.
Using an HTML rendering engine that is itself full of security holes and yet operates as a system process (I think it may even be ring 0)
Flaws that would alow for the automatic launching of attached programs.
None of Outlook's security holes have anything to do with Open Standards, and everything to do with what happens to the data once it's in the MS written code.
Blaming Open Protocols on Outlook's security holes-
Wait a second.
Dammit. I just replied to a Troll who was posting a deliberately ignorant idea to get argument started.
Grumble.