You have no idea how insane you sound. You played a videogame (with shopping-cart physics as it's mechanical linchpin) and now you think you can drive? Puhleeeze. The nerve, Martin. The gall.
That's like a raw recruit playing Doom or COD and thinking he's an elite soldier.
The central tenet of that masterpiece of cinematic history was that only the strong and intelligent of our species survive to reproduce resulting in super-species that...oh, shit, I can't continue typing this with a straight face...;-)
...are the worst evil ever unleashed on support analysts. There's nothing more fun than your average dead-ender mindlessly reading eighteen Java bomb strings and ending with "so that's the problem." Why not just display a skull and crossbones image? It'd probably save some time.
Will the laser platform be available for launch when the need arises? IMHO, the airborne laser platform is vulnerable on the ground. An enemy planning a missile attack would likely deploy spetsnaz/special forces-type units to destroy such platforms in advance of their missile launch. Such forces would already be in-country weeks or months before their strike, perhaps organized as a sports team or as individuals on tourist or student visas.
I'd been using Ubuntu 9.04's LiveCD feature at work to migrate Windows profiles. Unlike Windows, which never properly migrates user directories no matter how you coax it, Ubuntu's simple drag-and-drop replacement from network backup makes user migration a piece of cake.
I simply booted, configured the network settings, logged into our network backup, and copied the old user directory over top of the new one (we're on a domain). When the user logged back in, their old stuff was all in place. It had really been a lifesaver, and I'd started reading up on it more and started to set up an Ubuntu workstation. But that's when I ran into some weird problems.
After installing and tinkering around on the GNOME desktop, I opened Terminal. After writing some scripts and creating user accounts, a new terminal window opened. I thought this very odd since I hadn't initiated a new session and none of my scripts would have either. As I was about to close it, I paused my mouse. The terminal session had printed something to the screen, seemingly by itself.
trollaxor@ubuntor:~$
*** DO U LIKE GUYS Y OR N
I typed N and the window disappeared. "How weird," I thought, and figured one of my buddies had installed some third party software or something to covertly mess with me. I couldn't remember when I'd told anyone about this install, but I was content to leave it at that since everything was otherwise fine.
A half hour later, I was farting around in GNOME when it happened again. This time, there was no terminal session even open to begin with; the window just popped up out of nowhere. And again it asked the same question, ominously blinking at me.
trollaxor@ubuntor:~$
*** DO U LIKE GUYS Y OR N
Before I did anything else I opened another terminal session and ran top so I could figure out what the fuck was running in the background that was randomly harassing me. I peered through it, sorted by CPU, memory usage, command name—but nothing. I'm pretty familiar with Linux and I didn't see anything that looked out of the ordinary. At this point I switched back to the frustrating terminal session and typed N and the window closed Only to open right back up and ask again:
trollaxor@ubuntor:~$
*** DO U LIKE GUYS Y OR N
Now irritated, I texted several of my buddies the same question, figuring they'd own up when it became obvious to them their little joke had succeeded. Two asked me "wtf" and another said "no y do u? fag!" No admissions came, implicit or otherwise, and I began running ps with its myriad options in hopes of spotting the offending process. A second terminal window popped up on top of the first with the same damn question blinking at me.
trollaxor@ubuntor:~$
*** DO U LIKE GUYS Y OR N
Finally in desperation I typed Y and hit return in both of the windows. At first, they went away and I sat silently in anticipation. When nothing happened after ten seconds, I returned to editing my GNOME config files when the desktop wallpaper changed all by itself. Instead of the boring orange default, I was staring at something much different. This was no longer mildly irritating or perplexing—now I was freaking out and wanted answers. I logged onto Freenode and joined #ubuntu.
#ubuntu Official Ubuntu Support Channel
hi. i was wondering if anyone ever noticed any versions of ubuntu throwing up terminal sessions with text inside.
Minutes passed as conversations about screen resolution problems on netbooks, laptop fans running non-stop, and permissions errors on an external USB drives ran back and forth—typical IRC chatter—but someone eventually responded to my question.
The following exposé, written under extreme duress, is the result of an information leak out of ESR's SourceForge fortress that is the center of his refinery compounds and gas chambers within his insidious Gas Barony.
The information did not come cheaply, however, and that is why I believe that this story must be published. A troll, in the guise of a hired Hessian mercenary, infiltrated ESR's SourceForge compound with the fullest of confidence among the dread Slashdot Moderators and the loathed GNU Patrol. It is in this expose that I detail the significant information the document that the covert troll gave his life to bring me contained.
I'll come to your meeting or presentation and donate my time. Yes, that's right, I'll do it for free (the first time, anyway).
Yes, that's right, folks, he'll do it for free (the first time, anyway)! See, ESR's time is so valuable, being that he can't be away from his home network of 386s running Linux, that he has to limit his time to one free presentation per group. Not that that's an unreasonable request for any other person. It's just totally arrogant because he pretends his time is worth enough to limit it to only one free presentation per group. Hell, if people were not so easily fooled by his Refinery wealth, they'd realize he should be paying them to even attend the presentations he currently speaks at.
Please, someone, put a leak in this petroleum fiend's ego!
Anyway, on we go.
If you are not a local Linux user's group, you can make your request more attractive to me by scheduling a double-header with the local LUG.
Here we have another example of ESR's total blind arrogance. Assuming that he swings enough weight around to include his herds of unwashed Linux users at any event that he presents at.
Of course ESR knows he can, at a whim, call upon the GNU Patrol and Linux users and have them beckoning at his feet for orders (which usually are to buy cases of Jägermeister), and include them in any presentation's audience by sheer force of number. But ESR has darker plans behind the quote above.
The statement above is evidence that, simply, ESR is trying to spread the diseases of Linux zealotry, poor hygiene, and Communism, using the very organizations that pay for his lifestyle, dumbly hypnotized by his Black Gold wealth, as a catalyst for his viral teachings, in hopes of converting those caught in his wake. A wake of stench thick with idealism, crude oil, and BO.
I'm free the first time. But if you're a profit-making entity and you decide you want my time on a regular basis, I'll have to think up a consulting rate.
Ah, yes. He'll have to think up a consulting rate. ESR will estimate how much he wants paid to brainwash hapless victims.
ESR is obviously delusional as seen above: he doesn't have a consulting fee that he uses already simply because he's never consulted before. He's never held a regular job, in fact. Yet he thinks that there are those that would consider such a thing. Fortunately drug testing and hygiene codes have kept him out of the computer industry work force as of yet.
I want my plane fare prepaid and pre-booked. If there's a hotel stay needed I want the room tab guaranteed, incidentals and meals and all (no chintzy base-rate-plus-tax-only stuff; I loathe having to argue with the front desk).
and
If you're a big company or a conference that charges admission, I expect you to pony up for business class or first class (so my travel exhaustion will be minimized) and I don't ever want to have to even look at the hotel bill.
Want, want, loathe, expect. Is there anything that is to ESR's liking? Can anything satisfy him? Only people jumping through hoops to satiate his unfathomable appetite for personal indulgence comes close to slaking his thirst for pampering.
ESR wouldn't lift a finger to save himself so long a
If china PCs had been hammering my servers for updates to their plagiarized software, I'd have called the CIA to see what to slip in next update. And this *has* been done before. During the Cold War, in order to disrupt the Soviet economy and serve them some comeuppance for their industrial espionage activities, the CIA, in partnership with American Technology companies ensured that hardware and software with carefully arranged "flaws" found its way into Soviet hands.
In one particular instance a "flawed" natural gas pipeline software and associated hardware went "haywire" (i.e. it ran the ultra-high pressure test) after a planned period of normal operation. The result was the largest non-nuclear man-made explosion ever seen from space (the satellites designed to detect plumes from ICBM launches detected a tremendous flash from the area near Vladivostok where the pipeline in question was located).
This article covers some of the details excerpted from the book At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War as recalled by Thomas C. Reed, a former Air Force secretary who was serving in the National Security Council at the time.
"Extrapolation of the expansion of the universe backwards in time to the early hot dense "Big Bang" phase, using general relativity, yields an infinite density and temperature at a finite time in the past. At age 10^-35 seconds the Universe begins with a cataclysm that generates space and time, as well as all the matter and energy the Universe will ever hold."
E = Energy content of the universe m = mass content of the universe D = distance, Total = in all spatial directions, from the point of Big-Bang, of singularity's energy-mass superposition
At D=0, E was = m and both E and m were, together, all the energy and matter the Universe will ever hold. Since the onset of the cataclysm, E remains constant and m diminishes as D increases. The increase of D is the initial inflation, followed by the ongoing expansion, of what became the galactic clusters.
At 10^-35 seconds, D was already a fraction of a second above zero. This is when gravity starts. This is what started gravity. At this instance starts the energetic space texture, starts the straining of the space texture, and starts the space-texture-memory, gravity, that most probably will eventually overcome expansion and initiate re-impansion back to singularity.
B. Some of its further essential implications beyond Einstein-Hubble and re classical-quantum physics
1. It promotes commonsensical scientific critical thinking beyond Einstein-Hubble.
The universe is the archetype of quantum within classical physics, which is the fractal oneness of the universe.
Astronomically there are two physics. A classical Newtonian physics behaviour of and between galactic clusters, and a quantum physics behaviour WITHIN the galactic clusters.
The onset of big-bang's inflation, the cataclysmic resolution of the Original Superposition, started gravity, with formation - BY DISPERSION - of galactic clusters that behave as classical Newtonian bodies and continuously reconvert their original pre-inflation masses back to energy, thus fueling the galactic clusters expansion, and with endless quantum-within-classical intertwined evolutions WITHIN the clusters in attempt to delay-resist this reconversion.
2. There is no call, no need, for any dark energy. The energy of the universe is conserved. The mass of the universe is conserved in the form of energy, the energy fueling the clusters expansion. At the next universal singularity, at the next D = 0, there will again be E = m for a small fraction of a second...just wait and see...
Following Newton (1) gravity is decreased when mass is decreased and (2) acceleration of a body is given by dividing the force acting upon it by its mass. By plain common sense the combination of those two 'laws' may explain the accelerating cosmic expansion of galaxy clusters and the laws that drive it, based on the E/ m/ D relationship suggested above..
3. There is no call, no need, for a Higgs Particle.
The resolution of energy-mass superposition is reverted when D = 0. Shockingly sad, but must be soberingly faced rationally.
C. Its implications re the origin and nature of life beyond Darwin, re selection for survival
For Nature, Earth's biosphere is one of the many ways of temporarily constraining an amount of energy within a galaxy within a galactic cluster, for thus avoiding, as long as possible, spending this particularly constrained amount a
Stargate Universe was horrible. Cross SG Atlantis with ST Voyager and Battlestar Galatica, you have SG-U. Crappiest piece of sci-fi on television. A waste and a disgrace to the StarGate genre. I'll give it 3 to 4 more episodes, perhaps it'll get better. I doubt it however. Barf! The kid, Eli, was the better actor of all of them. Sad, very sad.
They need to bring back Atlantis or SG-1 and stop adding this crap. I miss my Sci-Fi as well. This new, hipper, Sy-Fy is a joke. Smile
Hell, I'd even be willing to pay a small monthly free. I miss my Stargate. Sad
P.S. Did they even have any screeners when making this crap? A simple sample group would have very quickly told them, "Hell no!". The sex scene was out of place and not even needed, it added nothing at all to the show. They had a character die that you could care less for, yet the daughter freaks out as to goad us into feeling sympathy about her father's death. I was like, "We don't know you or your father well enough to gain your sympathy." The scientist has the presence of a Vampire just waiting to get his next meal. He reminds me of the doctor on BSG, the creepy little snake playing all sides to cover his ass. Nothing new.
Word has it that the official StarGate Universe forum (Gateworld) has shut down a forum criticizing the show. Go figure. Who the hell is running that place? If they want viewers, this isn't the way to go.
Agreed. I must say that, as a UK resident, this was the first thing that I thought of. I am planning a round the world trip next year and hesitate to include the US as the hassle is probably not worth it. Also there are all kinds of strange rules like you cannot include a stop in Cuba if your round the world ticket includes an American airline. Getting into the US is a harrowing experience. It is more than immigration's fault: Airports are treated as a war zone, and going through security to get your connection is definitely not the first and last experience you want to give a foreigner visiting the US.
Agreed, Jaime, and just to be clear, the people reportedly looking at porn were NSF staffers, not scientists. The NSF administers funding for basic research, but doesn't conduct it directly. The work is usually done at universities.
The staffers under scrutiny were certainly acting unprofessionally and should be reprimanded or fired. But the NSF is a gem among federal programs: it funds high risk long-term research that no private company would be capable of supporting. Historically basic research pays off enormously, but the return time is very long.
The occasional news reports on ridiculous research topics usually fail to give context for the work. Even when news reports are accurate, high-risk research has to involve occasional missteps.
In my opinion, the long-term return on NSF spending is orders of magnitude greater than what we'll get back on military, entitlement, or even NIH spending.
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Martin,
You have no idea how insane you sound. You played a videogame (with shopping-cart physics as it's mechanical linchpin) and now you think you can drive? Puhleeeze. The nerve, Martin. The gall.
That's like a raw recruit playing Doom or COD and thinking he's an elite soldier.
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The central tenet of that masterpiece of cinematic history was that only the strong and intelligent of our species survive to reproduce resulting in super-species that...oh, shit, I can't continue typing this with a straight face... ;-)
Yeah, I think there was a movie about this concept...can't for the life of me remember what it was called...The Verminator? The Exterminator?
Damn, why has IMDb failed me now?!
I don't break for ACs
Fuck you, faggot!
Interesting: I Googled "professionalfurry" and...oh my God...you don't want to know what I saw.
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Your son's a faggot and you're daughter's an Iranian. /obscure?
Open Source. Closed Source. Free Ware. Trialware. Malware. Bloatware. Crapware. Inkscape is there.
Then I LOL'd.
[n/t]
...are the worst evil ever unleashed on support analysts. There's nothing more fun than your average dead-ender mindlessly reading eighteen Java bomb strings and ending with "so that's the problem." Why not just display a skull and crossbones image? It'd probably save some time.
Nuclear fusion, anyone? I was promised this by the Omni Future Almanac (pub. 1982) no later than 2010. Should I ask for my money back?
-ted
Ted Turner? Is dat you?
Will the laser platform be available for launch when the need arises? IMHO, the airborne laser platform is vulnerable on the ground. An enemy planning a missile attack would likely deploy spetsnaz/special forces-type units to destroy such platforms in advance of their missile launch. Such forces would already be in-country weeks or months before their strike, perhaps organized as a sports team or as individuals on tourist or student visas.
Meh, just my $.02.
=Smidge=
I'd been using Ubuntu 9.04's LiveCD feature at work to migrate Windows profiles. Unlike Windows, which never properly migrates user directories no matter how you coax it, Ubuntu's simple drag-and-drop replacement from network backup makes user migration a piece of cake.
I simply booted, configured the network settings, logged into our network backup, and copied the old user directory over top of the new one (we're on a domain). When the user logged back in, their old stuff was all in place. It had really been a lifesaver, and I'd started reading up on it more and started to set up an Ubuntu workstation. But that's when I ran into some weird problems.
After installing and tinkering around on the GNOME desktop, I opened Terminal. After writing some scripts and creating user accounts, a new terminal window opened. I thought this very odd since I hadn't initiated a new session and none of my scripts would have either. As I was about to close it, I paused my mouse. The terminal session had printed something to the screen, seemingly by itself.
trollaxor@ubuntor:~$
*** DO U LIKE GUYS Y OR N
I typed N and the window disappeared. "How weird," I thought, and figured one of my buddies had installed some third party software or something to covertly mess with me. I couldn't remember when I'd told anyone about this install, but I was content to leave it at that since everything was otherwise fine.
A half hour later, I was farting around in GNOME when it happened again. This time, there was no terminal session even open to begin with; the window just popped up out of nowhere. And again it asked the same question, ominously blinking at me.
trollaxor@ubuntor:~$
*** DO U LIKE GUYS Y OR N
Before I did anything else I opened another terminal session and ran top so I could figure out what the fuck was running in the background that was randomly harassing me. I peered through it, sorted by CPU, memory usage, command name—but nothing. I'm pretty familiar with Linux and I didn't see anything that looked out of the ordinary. At this point I switched back to the frustrating terminal session and typed N and the window closed Only to open right back up and ask again:
trollaxor@ubuntor:~$
*** DO U LIKE GUYS Y OR N
Now irritated, I texted several of my buddies the same question, figuring they'd own up when it became obvious to them their little joke had succeeded. Two asked me "wtf" and another said "no y do u? fag!" No admissions came, implicit or otherwise, and I began running ps with its myriad options in hopes of spotting the offending process. A second terminal window popped up on top of the first with the same damn question blinking at me.
trollaxor@ubuntor:~$
*** DO U LIKE GUYS Y OR N
Finally in desperation I typed Y and hit return in both of the windows. At first, they went away and I sat silently in anticipation. When nothing happened after ten seconds, I returned to editing my GNOME config files when the desktop wallpaper changed all by itself. Instead of the boring orange default, I was staring at something much different. This was no longer mildly irritating or perplexing—now I was freaking out and wanted answers. I logged onto Freenode and joined #ubuntu.
#ubuntu Official Ubuntu Support Channel
hi. i was wondering if anyone ever noticed any versions of ubuntu throwing up terminal sessions with text inside.
Minutes passed as conversations about screen resolution problems on netbooks, laptop fans running non-stop, and permissions errors on an external USB drives ran back and forth—typical IRC chatter—but someone eventually responded to my question.
trollaxor, it's possible but unlikel
The following exposé, written under extreme duress, is the result of an information leak out of ESR's SourceForge fortress that is the center of his refinery compounds and gas chambers within his insidious Gas Barony.
The information did not come cheaply, however, and that is why I believe that this story must be published. A troll, in the guise of a hired Hessian mercenary, infiltrated ESR's SourceForge compound with the fullest of confidence among the dread Slashdot Moderators and the loathed GNU Patrol. It is in this expose that I detail the significant information the document that the covert troll gave his life to bring me contained.
I'll come to your meeting or presentation and donate my time. Yes, that's right, I'll do it for free (the first time, anyway).
Yes, that's right, folks, he'll do it for free (the first time, anyway)! See, ESR's time is so valuable, being that he can't be away from his home network of 386s running Linux, that he has to limit his time to one free presentation per group. Not that that's an unreasonable request for any other person. It's just totally arrogant because he pretends his time is worth enough to limit it to only one free presentation per group. Hell, if people were not so easily fooled by his Refinery wealth, they'd realize he should be paying them to even attend the presentations he currently speaks at.
Please, someone, put a leak in this petroleum fiend's ego!
Anyway, on we go.
If you are not a local Linux user's group, you can make your request more attractive to me by scheduling a double-header with the local LUG.
Here we have another example of ESR's total blind arrogance. Assuming that he swings enough weight around to include his herds of unwashed Linux users at any event that he presents at.
Of course ESR knows he can, at a whim, call upon the GNU Patrol and Linux users and have them beckoning at his feet for orders (which usually are to buy cases of Jägermeister), and include them in any presentation's audience by sheer force of number. But ESR has darker plans behind the quote above.
The statement above is evidence that, simply, ESR is trying to spread the diseases of Linux zealotry, poor hygiene, and Communism, using the very organizations that pay for his lifestyle, dumbly hypnotized by his Black Gold wealth, as a catalyst for his viral teachings, in hopes of converting those caught in his wake. A wake of stench thick with idealism, crude oil, and BO.
I'm free the first time. But if you're a profit-making entity and you decide you want my time on a regular basis, I'll have to think up a consulting rate.
Ah, yes. He'll have to think up a consulting rate. ESR will estimate how much he wants paid to brainwash hapless victims.
ESR is obviously delusional as seen above: he doesn't have a consulting fee that he uses already simply because he's never consulted before. He's never held a regular job, in fact. Yet he thinks that there are those that would consider such a thing. Fortunately drug testing and hygiene codes have kept him out of the computer industry work force as of yet.
I want my plane fare prepaid and pre-booked. If there's a hotel stay needed I want the room tab guaranteed, incidentals and meals and all (no chintzy base-rate-plus-tax-only stuff; I loathe having to argue with the front desk).
and
If you're a big company or a conference that charges admission, I expect you to pony up for business class or first class (so my travel exhaustion will be minimized) and I don't ever want to have to even look at the hotel bill.
Want, want, loathe, expect. Is there anything that is to ESR's liking? Can anything satisfy him? Only people jumping through hoops to satiate his unfathomable appetite for personal indulgence comes close to slaking his thirst for pampering.
ESR wouldn't lift a finger to save himself so long a
Plus, by his hat, he's a Red Sox fan. That *really* killed it for me.
It runs Linux.
With an Austrian accent ANY robot could be potentially dangerous. Even that gay ass AT&T free battery replacement robot with the rope skipping shit.
If china PCs had been hammering my servers for updates to their plagiarized software, I'd have called the CIA to see what to slip in next update. And this *has* been done before. During the Cold War, in order to disrupt the Soviet economy and serve them some comeuppance for their industrial espionage activities, the CIA, in partnership with American Technology companies ensured that hardware and software with carefully arranged "flaws" found its way into Soviet hands.
In one particular instance a "flawed" natural gas pipeline software and associated hardware went "haywire" (i.e. it ran the ultra-high pressure test) after a planned period of normal operation. The result was the largest non-nuclear man-made explosion ever seen from space (the satellites designed to detect plumes from ICBM launches detected a tremendous flash from the area near Vladivostok where the pipeline in question was located).
This article covers some of the details excerpted from the book At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War as recalled by Thomas C. Reed, a former Air Force secretary who was serving in the National Security Council at the time.
[This is my own original work, FWIW):
The Basic Implications Of E=Total[m(1 + D)]http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/180/122.page#3108
a recapitulation
A. Its essential statement
"Extrapolation of the expansion of the universe backwards in time to the early hot dense "Big Bang" phase, using general relativity, yields an infinite density and temperature at a finite time in the past. At age 10^-35 seconds the Universe begins with a cataclysm that generates space and time, as well as all the matter and energy the Universe will ever hold."
E = Energy content of the universe
m = mass content of the universe
D = distance, Total = in all spatial directions, from the point of Big-Bang, of singularity's energy-mass superposition
At D=0, E was = m and both E and m were, together, all the energy and matter the Universe will ever hold. Since the onset of the cataclysm, E remains constant and m diminishes as D increases.
The increase of D is the initial inflation, followed by the ongoing expansion, of what became the galactic clusters.
At 10^-35 seconds, D was already a fraction of a second above zero. This is when gravity starts. This is what started gravity. At this instance starts the energetic space texture, starts the straining of the space texture, and starts the space-texture-memory, gravity, that most probably will eventually overcome expansion and initiate re-impansion back to singularity.
B. Some of its further essential implications beyond Einstein-Hubble and re classical-quantum physics
And again and again : "On The Origin Of Origins"
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/160/122.page#2753
1. It promotes commonsensical scientific critical thinking beyond Einstein-Hubble.
The universe is the archetype of quantum within classical physics, which is the fractal oneness of the universe.
Astronomically there are two physics. A classical Newtonian physics behaviour of and between galactic clusters, and a quantum physics behaviour WITHIN the galactic clusters.
The onset of big-bang's inflation, the cataclysmic resolution of the Original Superposition, started gravity, with formation - BY DISPERSION - of galactic clusters that behave as classical Newtonian bodies and continuously reconvert their original pre-inflation masses back to energy, thus fueling the galactic clusters expansion, and with endless quantum-within-classical intertwined evolutions WITHIN the clusters in attempt to delay-resist this reconversion.
2. There is no call, no need, for any dark energy. The energy of the universe is conserved. The mass of the universe is conserved in the form of energy, the energy fueling the clusters expansion. At the next universal singularity, at the next D = 0, there will again be E = m for a small fraction of a second...just wait and see...
Following Newton (1) gravity is decreased when mass is decreased and (2) acceleration of a body is given by dividing the force acting upon it by its mass. By plain common sense the combination of those two 'laws' may explain the accelerating cosmic expansion of galaxy clusters and the laws that drive it, based on the E/ m/ D relationship suggested above..
3. There is no call, no need, for a Higgs Particle.
The resolution of energy-mass superposition is reverted when D = 0. Shockingly sad, but must be soberingly faced rationally.
C. Its implications re the origin and nature of life beyond Darwin, re selection for survival
For Nature, Earth's biosphere is one of the many ways of temporarily constraining an amount of energy within a galaxy within a galactic cluster, for thus avoiding, as long as possible, spending this particularly constrained amount a
Stargate Universe was horrible. Cross SG Atlantis with ST Voyager and Battlestar Galatica, you have SG-U. Crappiest piece of sci-fi on television. A waste and a disgrace to the StarGate genre. I'll give it 3 to 4 more episodes, perhaps it'll get better. I doubt it however. Barf! The kid, Eli, was the better actor of all of them. Sad, very sad.
They need to bring back Atlantis or SG-1 and stop adding this crap. I miss my Sci-Fi as well. This new, hipper, Sy-Fy is a joke. Smile
Hell, I'd even be willing to pay a small monthly free. I miss my Stargate. Sad
P.S. Did they even have any screeners when making this crap? A simple sample group would have very quickly told them, "Hell no!". The sex scene was out of place and not even needed, it added nothing at all to the show. They had a character die that you could care less for, yet the daughter freaks out as to goad us into feeling sympathy about her father's death. I was like, "We don't know you or your father well enough to gain your sympathy." The scientist has the presence of a Vampire just waiting to get his next meal. He reminds me of the doctor on BSG, the creepy little snake playing all sides to cover his ass. Nothing new.
Word has it that the official StarGate Universe forum (Gateworld) has shut down a forum criticizing the show. Go figure. Who the hell is running that place? If they want viewers, this isn't the way to go.
Agreed. I must say that, as a UK resident, this was the first thing that I thought of. I am planning a round the world trip next year and hesitate to include the US as the hassle is probably not worth it. Also there are all kinds of strange rules like you cannot include a stop in Cuba if your round the world ticket includes an American airline. Getting into the US is a harrowing experience. It is more than immigration's fault: Airports are treated as a war zone, and going through security to get your connection is definitely not the first and last experience you want to give a foreigner visiting the US.
Anyone who wants it can have it.
Great, I got dibs on your cock!
Agreed, Jaime, and just to be clear, the people reportedly looking at porn were NSF staffers, not scientists. The NSF administers funding for basic research, but doesn't conduct it directly. The work is usually done at universities.
The staffers under scrutiny were certainly acting unprofessionally and should be reprimanded or fired. But the NSF is a gem among federal programs: it funds high risk long-term research that no private company would be capable of supporting. Historically basic research pays off enormously, but the return time is very long.
The occasional news reports on ridiculous research topics usually fail to give context for the work. Even when news reports are accurate, high-risk research has to involve occasional missteps.
In my opinion, the long-term return on NSF spending is orders of magnitude greater than what we'll get back on military, entitlement, or even NIH spending.