That would be my guess, too. I would like to see the weight of a fully loaded Preussen (European, not African), compared with a fully loaded modern container ship, plus the sail area needed to move them both at 13 knots. I don't expect sail power would scale to the size of modern container ships.
Broadcast Standards is not part of the FCC. They are a group at a network that decides what might offend their advertisers, and issues rules (well, they are more like guidelines) for what production companies can do. I haven't been hanging out with television production people since college, so things might have changed.
I agree that little things like this can be cut from a show, and would be the first things to go in trying to fit a BBC-length show into a US time slot, but the point is that when you take these things out, you change the character of the show.
And, I totally agree with the culture aspect. I've killed a little time in England, and worked with our office there, but I suspect they tone it down when talking with me because they don't want to confuse me. Throw in a Welsh accent, and I get lost fast.
The problem with getting Actual British Shows on U.S. television is the Broadcast Standards, or whatever it is called now. With the way most people in America have a stick up their ass about sexual things, I can not see how things like the sign reading "Fawlty Towers" getting changed to read "Flowery Twats", or Mrs. Slocombe saying things like, "...look through the keyhole, and if you can see my pussy..." would ever make it onto commercial broadcasting. Public Broadcasting has a much more relaxed set of rules.
That's the point. It's a user name. One based (probably) on the words to a college fight song rather than the actions of two small groups of people in the past. Why beat him up about it?
Nice Godwin, but I would venture to say there are very few college fight songs that reference Hitler, or Satan, so it's not really a good parallel.
And, since what the Boomers and Sooners did was about 100 years ago, slamming someone for their Slashdot nickname helps with their current problem how? The Chickasaw side of my family has owned the same land since before statehood, and the German side was in on the Land Run, and we don't get all fired up about what the people were doing back then. The past is past. Learn to relax a little.
I used to read the Dallas Morning News. I started out when it was a quarter for the daily edition. Then, it went to 35 cents, then 50 cents. Then, they reduced the size, changed the fonts and layout to something I found hard to read, and raised the price to 75 cents. I quit buying the paper at that point. It was no longer worth the money. The last time I looked, it was up to a dollar a day, and two dollars on Sunday. Not an
incentive to start reading again.
Oh, it's a thrill ride. Get on a big storm, and it is hours of adrenalin high. It's also like dancing with electricity. If you don't do things right, it can really hammer your ass. In the early '80s I was able to go out with people from the Severe Storms Lab, and I know of one incident where an individual, who thought all you needed was a fast car, was killed trying to chase the same storm we were on.
I have known people to do the same thing with the old CDC drives. The washing machine sized ones with the little blue cover for the removable media. It's possible they could have destroyed more hardware by trying to boil a live gorilla in the machine room, but not by much.
Slashdot Mirror
I know, I know. One should not burn (or transmogrify) one's food. I am just saying corn can be used to make plastic.
... ask him if he likes sex. Or whether he likes money.
Hmm. Might cause more confusion than I want in my office.
That would be my guess, too. I would like to see the weight of a fully loaded Preussen (European, not African), compared with a fully loaded modern container ship, plus the sail area needed to move them both at 13 knots. I don't expect sail power would scale to the size of modern container ships.
Broadcast Standards is not part of the FCC. They are a group at a network that decides what might offend their advertisers, and issues rules (well, they are more like guidelines) for what production companies can do. I haven't been hanging out with television production people since college, so things might have changed.
I agree that little things like this can be cut from a show, and would be the first things to go in trying to fit a BBC-length show into a US time slot, but the point is that when you take these things out, you change the character of the show.
And, I totally agree with the culture aspect. I've killed a little time in England, and worked with our office there, but I suspect they tone it down when talking with me because they don't want to confuse me. Throw in a Welsh accent, and I get lost fast.
The problem with getting Actual British Shows on U.S. television is the Broadcast Standards, or whatever it is called now. With the way most people in America have a stick up their ass about sexual things, I can not see how things like the sign reading "Fawlty Towers" getting changed to read "Flowery Twats", or Mrs. Slocombe saying things like, "...look through the keyhole, and if you can see my pussy..." would ever make it onto commercial broadcasting. Public Broadcasting has a much more relaxed set of rules.
I thought the down side to the internet was Rule 34. Or, is it the other way 'round?
I'm Batma... uh...Anonymous!
Oh, hell....
Change the channel. I've seen this edition of "Sprockets" before.
That's the point. It's a user name. One based (probably) on the words to a college fight song rather than the actions of two small groups of people in the past. Why beat him up about it?
Nice Godwin, but I would venture to say there are very few college fight songs that reference Hitler, or Satan, so it's not really a good parallel.
And, since what the Boomers and Sooners did was about 100 years ago, slamming someone for their Slashdot nickname helps with their current problem how? The Chickasaw side of my family has owned the same land since before statehood, and the German side was in on the Land Run, and we don't get all fired up about what the people were doing back then. The past is past. Learn to relax a little.
It wouldn't be 1.21 gigawatts, would it?
I used to read the Dallas Morning News. I started out when it was a quarter for the daily edition. Then, it went to 35 cents, then 50 cents. Then, they reduced the size, changed the fonts and layout to something I found hard to read, and raised the price to 75 cents. I quit buying the paper at that point. It was no longer worth the money. The last time I looked, it was up to a dollar a day, and two dollars on Sunday. Not an incentive to start reading again.
Oh, it's a thrill ride. Get on a big storm, and it is hours of adrenalin high. It's also like dancing with electricity. If you don't do things right, it can really hammer your ass. In the early '80s I was able to go out with people from the Severe Storms Lab, and I know of one incident where an individual, who thought all you needed was a fast car, was killed trying to chase the same storm we were on.
"All Uranus are belong to us"
Yes, because she sings Hello, Dolly! songs at the same time.
Of course, I doubt the Queen wants her leg humped by an Ewok.
That's what thought. But then I went to YouTube.....
Are you Cat?
Our office does not have usage metering, it has demand metering. Turning off all the PCs at night will have no effect on our bill.
"It's hard to find a Vietnamese man named Charlie..."
Naw, he's the one that don't surf.
[what happens when] One of these things gets fished up?
An automatic self-destruct system takes over.
I think you mean "agnostic." Theists believe in God, atheists believe there is no God, and agnostics reserve judgment, IIRC.
We are the Oklahoma Legislature! Nobody can out-stupider us!
If Dawkins would just say something bad about UT Austin football, they would give him a torchlight parade.
... (after a proof of concept, we went away of the idea to use sharks after overseeing some variables)...
Why? Can't you even get sharks with frickin' laser[printer]s on their heads?
Because there would be just you and me left in the world.
I have known people to do the same thing with the old CDC drives. The washing machine sized ones with the little blue cover for the removable media. It's possible they could have destroyed more hardware by trying to boil a live gorilla in the machine room, but not by much.