OK. It's a fair question. I intentionally left those details out because this is not a geek dating site (and it was not a geek dating question) and I really did want to dig up some generic answers to the question. But I'll answer it on this thread.
I'm 33, male, live in Orange County, CA. I'm a Linux systems engineer/administrator by trade, but I'm also a fairly good pianist/keyboardist, like making and hacking on electronic stuff, and have a rather odd interest in jets, trains, and abnormal weather.:-)
My background is a little bit unusual, which is why I'm in a position of not really knowing where to start on this. The suggestions here are very helpful so far, mostly.
I see your point, but it's just how I talk. I did not spend any particular time or effort making that up. At one point I tried to simplify my talking and it just ended up being condescending.
Funny you should say that, I just signed up today. Found a good sushi/asian food group, and need to spend a little more time finding some others. Thanks for the suggestion.
That is something I've done, and to be honest, while the LUGs that I've attended (Simi/Conejo is the one I've attended on and off for the past few years) are great and I like the guys there a lot, there is not one female in the bunch. It's certainly a great launching ground and since I've moved to OC I need to find one here, but it's certainly not going to improve my chances of dating very much.
That said, it is certainly a good way to improve one's social life and I should probably get cracking on finding one here. Thanks for a thoughtful suggestion.
* Way too much lens flare and depth of focus manipulation. Even indoor scenes have lens flare. Somebody spent too much time pushing the buttons on the editor.
Only a film geek would notice this. I certainly didn't.
* Somebody likes plumbing too much. Most of the interior scenes have vast amounts of piping and tankage. It looks like some of the shipboard shots were filmed in a modern brewery.
I saw this as a positive, not a negative. Ther are youtube videos of the engine room of a cruise or container ship. I have no reason to believe that a starship would be any different. In fact, that was one of the things that I didn't like about the OTHER series and movies - everything was too clean and well designed. Those ships are not designed for interior design awards, they're designed to WORK.
* How did the Grand Canyon move to Iowa?
Could have been a quarry, or a mine, or who knows what happened between now and then. It's a good point, but ultimately a pointless one, because it's assuming linear.
* OK, the bad guys are attacking populated planets that are members of a military alliance by hovering in one place over the planet and lowering a drill? And nobody does anything about this? Even when they try it in populated areas? You'd think somebody might have something around that could fly and shoot, and with their planet being threatened, might use it.
That's why they were sending starships. Remember that this was a romulan vessel from the 24th century - I very much doubt that even 23rd century planetary defenses would have been able to do a whole lot against it.
* If you thought close-range ship to ship marksmanship in Star Wars was bad, here it's worse. Nobody can hit consistently at point-blank range. It's 1880s gunnery technology. But they can latch onto an individual falling to the planet and beam them up.
Partial point there, but did you notice that the photon torpedos were following spock towards the end?
* Kirk's attitude wouldn't survive the first year at any known military academy. No matter who his father was.
Tat's the first point you have that I actually agree with. Kind of. Assuming that Starfleet is a straight military organization, yes. But who knows what happened between now and then.
* Having escaped from a big ship under attack using a bunch of little shuttles, the crew would be POWs or dead. The shuttles can't fight and can't run.
And THAT is why the captain was trying to (and apparently succeeded) to disable the romulan ship so that they could escape. Remember this was a rogue ship, with no support. The shuttles got away precisely BECAUSE George Kirk disabled the Romulan ship.
Apparently, they got over it. They had 25 years to lick their wounds.
* Time travel. Bad time travel. The deus ex machina of bad SF.
Maybe, but I think Red Matter was a much worse deus ex machina.
There were some things to criticise about the movie, obviously. But I think only one or two of your criticisms were actually worth giving any thought to, the rest of them show that you didn't really understand what the directors were trying to get across. Which I guess means they failed.
I love open source, I really do. But the proponents by and large tend to lack a sense of pragmatism or a sensitivity to psychology (which explains the terrible UIs of many open source programs).
Just pick a date and give people their freaking anniversary. It's not going to hurt anything and gives people a chance to have a little fun and acknowledge the progress of the project.
This is exposing a systemic problem with the court system. The whole thing is dependent on juries knowing exactly what the lawyers for both sides, and the judge, want them to know, and no more. But there's no real way to enforce that, and there never has been.
It is in the interest of both lawyers to have the most ignorant, moldable, and frankly stupid, set of jurors that they can possibly find. Which I guess makes sense because that's certainly "peers" of most criminals...
That's not to say I would go out and look for information in contravention of a judge's instructions (I have jury duty next week and it'd be stupid not to make that clear) but that doesn't mean I think the rules themselves aren't kind of unreasonable. Last I checked I was still allowed an opinion.
Sorry if this comment's a bit disjointed, it's 7:30 AM and I haven't had my shower yet;)
Assuming the cause is that which it isn't also won't fix anything. Neither will throwing your hands up in the air and saying we don't know the cause.
Better parents won't fix everything. But it certainly would fix more than 50% of the things that have been going wrong, in my opinion. It would pretty much destroy the ghetto class, it would deal a significant blow to the drug trade (without having to have an ineffectual war), it would help politics and foreign policy... things would be just better all around. Not perfect... but better, for sure.
But the one thing I'm sure of goes back to my original point - it ain't the corporations. In an ideal world, corporations who marketed to kids in the manner that some of the more irresponsible ones do would shrivel up and die due to an uprising from the parents. But it ain't happening.
No, I think Apple has nothing to do with it. Frankly, I don't think any corporation does. The reason is that a corporation exists to make money, and thus to market to the people whom they want to make money from. Once a corporation comes on the scene and starts doing things a certain way, it's because it's *already figured out that that's what's going to appeal to people of that demographic*. TV, Radio, Apple., etc. They're not causing the problem - they're a product of the problem. The worst that can be said for them is that because of the power of their machine, they take what could have been an easily managed problem that already exists and throw it all out of proportion.
No. It's the parents. If parents would parent responsibly, make sure their kids did stuff that benefited them rather than damaged, held their teachers' feet to the fire to do the same thing... we wouldn't be hearing about any of this.
Apple., etc., only has an inroad into the psyche of children because there's a parent shaped hole that isn't filled.
Maybe I'm just cynical, but does it really matter? If they want to sit there on their asses and bitch and moan about how bad their lives are, that's their problem - and it makes it just that much easier for people like you and I to make something of ourselves.
I'm not saying I wish it on them, really... but I'm not responsible for them, I'm responsible for me. You see what I'm saying? You can lead a horse to water...
It only becomes my problem when they expect me to support them...
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I hope it helps one or two others too. :)
That's pretty much I meant, but my working assumption is that "fellow geeks" are more likely to "get" me than "normal people".
Others are welcome to glean what they can from this response, but I'll pass.
Orange County.
Oddly enough, I did that. Accompanied a community theater at a small town in Iowa a couple of times. It was quite... illuminating.
Didnt find any interesting women, but DID get a 15 year old trying to convert me to Christianity. for an hour and a half. :)
I expected a certain amount of harassing over this post. I'm a big boy, I can take it.
Self-awareness is a great thing. Anonymity is up in the air.
Way ahead of you. Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt. Now I'm on the other side and have to rebuild everything.
LOL!!!!! That's perfect!! Thanks for the laugh.
OK. It's a fair question. I intentionally left those details out because this is not a geek dating site (and it was not a geek dating question) and I really did want to dig up some generic answers to the question. But I'll answer it on this thread.
I'm 33, male, live in Orange County, CA. I'm a Linux systems engineer/administrator by trade, but I'm also a fairly good pianist/keyboardist, like making and hacking on electronic stuff, and have a rather odd interest in jets, trains, and abnormal weather. :-)
My background is a little bit unusual, which is why I'm in a position of not really knowing where to start on this. The suggestions here are very helpful so far, mostly.
I like how you think. There's something to be said for finding a niche.
I see your point, but it's just how I talk. I did not spend any particular time or effort making that up. At one point I tried to simplify my talking and it just ended up being condescending.
Funny you should say that, I just signed up today. Found a good sushi/asian food group, and need to spend a little more time finding some others. Thanks for the suggestion.
That is something I've done, and to be honest, while the LUGs that I've attended (Simi/Conejo is the one I've attended on and off for the past few years) are great and I like the guys there a lot, there is not one female in the bunch. It's certainly a great launching ground and since I've moved to OC I need to find one here, but it's certainly not going to improve my chances of dating very much.
That said, it is certainly a good way to improve one's social life and I should probably get cracking on finding one here. Thanks for a thoughtful suggestion.
Yes, I am male. I heard that suggestion on the firehose post as well. It's certainly worth following up on.
Now THAT is an excellent suggestion. Thank you. I knew there would be one or two gems. :-)
So, in China, do they look for caucasian porn?
The cutest Oklahoma schoolgirls! Now with all their teeth!*
*schoolgirls is 18 in America, so tough, you caucasian fetishists you.
Amusingly, though... the engine room scenes WERE filmed in a brewery. Good catch.
Addressing all of your criticisms:
* Way too much lens flare and depth of focus manipulation. Even indoor scenes have lens flare. Somebody spent too much time pushing the buttons on the editor.
Only a film geek would notice this. I certainly didn't.
* Somebody likes plumbing too much. Most of the interior scenes have vast amounts of piping and tankage. It looks like some of the shipboard shots were filmed in a modern brewery.
I saw this as a positive, not a negative. Ther are youtube videos of the engine room of a cruise or container ship. I have no reason to believe that a starship would be any different. In fact, that was one of the things that I didn't like about the OTHER series and movies - everything was too clean and well designed. Those ships are not designed for interior design awards, they're designed to WORK.
* How did the Grand Canyon move to Iowa?
Could have been a quarry, or a mine, or who knows what happened between now and then. It's a good point, but ultimately a pointless one, because it's assuming linear.
* OK, the bad guys are attacking populated planets that are members of a military alliance by hovering in one place over the planet and lowering a drill? And nobody does anything about this? Even when they try it in populated areas? You'd think somebody might have something around that could fly and shoot, and with their planet being threatened, might use it.
That's why they were sending starships. Remember that this was a romulan vessel from the 24th century - I very much doubt that even 23rd century planetary defenses would have been able to do a whole lot against it.
* If you thought close-range ship to ship marksmanship in Star Wars was bad, here it's worse. Nobody can hit consistently at point-blank range. It's 1880s gunnery technology. But they can latch onto an individual falling to the planet and beam them up.
Partial point there, but did you notice that the photon torpedos were following spock towards the end?
* Kirk's attitude wouldn't survive the first year at any known military academy. No matter who his father was.
Tat's the first point you have that I actually agree with. Kind of. Assuming that Starfleet is a straight military organization, yes. But who knows what happened between now and then.
* Having escaped from a big ship under attack using a bunch of little shuttles, the crew would be POWs or dead. The shuttles can't fight and can't run.
And THAT is why the captain was trying to (and apparently succeeded) to disable the romulan ship so that they could escape. Remember this was a rogue ship, with no support. The shuttles got away precisely BECAUSE George Kirk disabled the Romulan ship.
Apparently, they got over it. They had 25 years to lick their wounds.
* Time travel. Bad time travel. The deus ex machina of bad SF.
Maybe, but I think Red Matter was a much worse deus ex machina.
There were some things to criticise about the movie, obviously. But I think only one or two of your criticisms were actually worth giving any thought to, the rest of them show that you didn't really understand what the directors were trying to get across. Which I guess means they failed.
I love open source, I really do. But the proponents by and large tend to lack a sense of pragmatism or a sensitivity to psychology (which explains the terrible UIs of many open source programs).
Just pick a date and give people their freaking anniversary. It's not going to hurt anything and gives people a chance to have a little fun and acknowledge the progress of the project.
This is exposing a systemic problem with the court system. The whole thing is dependent on juries knowing exactly what the lawyers for both sides, and the judge, want them to know, and no more. But there's no real way to enforce that, and there never has been.
It is in the interest of both lawyers to have the most ignorant, moldable, and frankly stupid, set of jurors that they can possibly find. Which I guess makes sense because that's certainly "peers" of most criminals...
That's not to say I would go out and look for information in contravention of a judge's instructions (I have jury duty next week and it'd be stupid not to make that clear) but that doesn't mean I think the rules themselves aren't kind of unreasonable. Last I checked I was still allowed an opinion.
Sorry if this comment's a bit disjointed, it's 7:30 AM and I haven't had my shower yet ;)
Assuming the cause is that which it isn't also won't fix anything. Neither will throwing your hands up in the air and saying we don't know the cause.
Better parents won't fix everything. But it certainly would fix more than 50% of the things that have been going wrong, in my opinion. It would pretty much destroy the ghetto class, it would deal a significant blow to the drug trade (without having to have an ineffectual war), it would help politics and foreign policy... things would be just better all around. Not perfect... but better, for sure.
But the one thing I'm sure of goes back to my original point - it ain't the corporations. In an ideal world, corporations who marketed to kids in the manner that some of the more irresponsible ones do would shrivel up and die due to an uprising from the parents. But it ain't happening.
I'd mod you up, because your attitude is proving the point of the poster quite nicely. Very subtle. I'm impressed.
No, I think Apple has nothing to do with it. Frankly, I don't think any corporation does. The reason is that a corporation exists to make money, and thus to market to the people whom they want to make money from. Once a corporation comes on the scene and starts doing things a certain way, it's because it's *already figured out that that's what's going to appeal to people of that demographic*. TV, Radio, Apple., etc. They're not causing the problem - they're a product of the problem. The worst that can be said for them is that because of the power of their machine, they take what could have been an easily managed problem that already exists and throw it all out of proportion.
No. It's the parents. If parents would parent responsibly, make sure their kids did stuff that benefited them rather than damaged, held their teachers' feet to the fire to do the same thing... we wouldn't be hearing about any of this.
Apple., etc., only has an inroad into the psyche of children because there's a parent shaped hole that isn't filled.
Maybe I'm just cynical, but does it really matter? If they want to sit there on their asses and bitch and moan about how bad their lives are, that's their problem - and it makes it just that much easier for people like you and I to make something of ourselves.
I'm not saying I wish it on them, really... but I'm not responsible for them, I'm responsible for me. You see what I'm saying? You can lead a horse to water...
It only becomes my problem when they expect me to support them...