What definition of "Apple Hipster" are you using? Your GF is an English/art major from California and you hang out bare foot in Philosophy clubs... you're the very definition of Apple Hipsters!
Your reference to Polanski makes no sense at all. I'm pretty sure raping a minor is just as illegal in Switzerland (or Britain) as it is in the U.S. And so is fleeing to avoid being sentenced after already being convicted.
Explain to me just how the iPhone "blows away" the Blackberry when it comes to notes. As far as I can tell there is no way to sync any kind of text note from the iPhone to a desktop computer. To me, this is a major flaw in the iPhone, it makes it useless as a PDA.
Ok I misread. If you are talking strictly about a life insurance policy, well then yes I could see a case for that going to his beneficiaries, although I think the source of the premium payments could be considered tainted.
My comment was more to do with his other assets, cash, bonds etc.
The money he stole should go to his victims,not to his children. Your analogy of not harming one innocent to make reparations to another innocent is completely off base. Depriving his children of stolen wealth is not harming them, its not punishing them, its simply righting a wrong. And those who should get the money are not simply another innocent, the money belongs to them.
Hear Hear! You have put into words what I felt about Clarke for a long time...great idea man, so-so writer. Bova and Bear also fall into this category, although they can be slightly more enjoyable at times.
As for Kim Stanley Robinson, the only thing I have read of his was the Years of Rice and Salt, I kept waiting for something interesting to happen...
House is a great show, except for the fact that every episode has to come up with a reason why the patient or a family member refuses whatever treatment this brilliant doctor claims they need.
Otherwise there would be no dramatic conflict to the show.
House: "You need drug X or you will die." patient: "Ok doc, you're the doc!" patient is cured, with 30 minutes left to fill...
After about the third episode, it started to get old.
Sorry Chairman Mao,people in China do have the right to choose a new government, just like every other group of people. Once enough of them get tired of being oppressed, they will 'choose' a new government.
In other words its total hogwash, especially when onscreen events clearly contradict it. We have seen Klingon characters from TOS (without ridges) appear later on DS9 and Vger, with ridges!! So much for them being hybrids.
My theory is that the Klingons had an allergic reaction to tribbles, which left them ridgeless and which is why they hated tribbles so. Eventually they wiped out tribbles and their scientists found a way to reverse the effects.
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Um, what cattle are you talking about? You do realize they don't exactly live a full life-span, right? The last of them will be sent to the slaughterhouse, just all like their forebears. It is their sole reason for being.
The cattle population is decimated all the time. Its called the roundup. Its just that breeding of new cattle would probably be curtailed.
Character development....3001. Bwaaaahaaaahaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!! the only thing worse than the character development in 3001 was the total lack of plot. I really enjoy Clarke's work for the most part, put character development is not always his strong suit. He is more of a concept guy, and his concepts are usually awesome. His plots are sometimes a little thin as well. Rendevous with Rama, they find a big spacecraft, but nobody's home. Wow. I eagerly picked up 3001 and was completely underwhelmed. There was barely enough plot for a short story, let alone a novel. Poole is found, revived, takes a tour. The end.
And it had CGI effects that looked cool at the time but are dated and stupid looking now.
And it had damned poor actors(with one or two exceptions).
And it had damned poor "alien" makeup.
And it had damn poor production values.
And it had damned stupid stories until the arc started.
And it had damned poor characterizations.
(and I can go on:)
Hey I liked B5, I really did. But it was not the greatest SciFi show of all times as some people proclaim. Wooden acting, ridiculous dialogue. Ugh... Farscape is good, but not without its problems either. I watched the first episode and then dropped out until the season 2 finale. Now I am checking out the reruns to see what I missed.
Star Trek does not use models anymore. Most of the latter DS9 episodes and almost all of Voyager used CGI. So did the last movie or two. And you can not tell the difference(obviously).
Same here. What would it take to make up a "homebrew" TiVo? And then there is the one feature TiVo does lack: permanent storage. Am I the only one who thinks dumping it to a VCR is a giant step backwards? I want a system that will let me burn programs to a MovieCD or DVD, but I have no idea where to start.
This is another question that comes up every time the Amiga is mentioned: "Why are some people so crazy about the Amiga? What is the big deal about Amigas?" I can only imagine that the people asking this have never seen an Amiga in operation/ or were not into computers back in the eighties when the Amiga was so far ahead of any other platform(but still got no respect). Amigas today are in a pitiful state, but back then they were clearly awesome machines. They were the game machine at the time. They had a groovy GUI AND a command prompt. There was tons of free software. And they were cheap- at least the 500 anyway. And Linux was not even a gleam in Linus' eye yet. Whether or not any new Amiga comes anywhere close to being as cool as the originals still remains to be seen, of course. But we can hope.
Why do you care if the company is making money or not? That is their problem, not yours. Do you check every purchase you make to confirm that the manufacturer is actually selling it to you for more than what it cost him to make it? How do you know you are not ripping off some poor company that is too stupid to know what it is doing? There is no ethical/moral problem here. If you buy it in the store and you are not required to sign a service contract, then you can do whatever you want with the product. If the company loses money and ends up going out of business(which I really really doubt will happen in this case), well, thats how the game works. I didn't make the rules.
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What definition of "Apple Hipster" are you using? Your GF is an English/art major from California and you hang out bare foot in Philosophy clubs... you're the very definition of Apple Hipsters!
Your reference to Polanski makes no sense at all. I'm pretty sure raping a minor is just as illegal in Switzerland (or Britain) as it is in the U.S. And so is fleeing to avoid being sentenced after already being convicted.
Risk is our Business.
I can't believe no one has referenced this line yet! And you call yourselves nerds!
Explain to me just how the iPhone "blows away" the Blackberry when it comes to notes. As far as I can tell there is no way to sync any kind of text note from the iPhone to a desktop computer. To me, this is a major flaw in the iPhone, it makes it useless as a PDA.
So you are saying all wealthy people are greedy? Interesting.
And they weren't money lenders, they were money changers. They were making a profit off of worshippers, doing business right in the temple.
Ok I misread. If you are talking strictly about a life insurance policy, well then yes I could see a case for that going to his beneficiaries, although I think the source of the premium payments could be considered tainted.
My comment was more to do with his other assets, cash, bonds etc.
Wrong wrong wrong.
The money he stole should go to his victims,not to his children. Your analogy of not harming one innocent to make reparations to another innocent is completely off base. Depriving his children of stolen wealth is not harming them, its not punishing them, its simply righting a wrong. And those who should get the money are not simply another innocent, the money belongs to them.
Hear Hear! You have put into words what I felt about Clarke for a long time...great idea man, so-so writer. Bova and Bear also fall into this category, although they can be slightly more enjoyable at times.
As for Kim Stanley Robinson, the only thing I have read of his was the Years of Rice and Salt, I kept waiting for something interesting to happen...
You need to find out what time it is on the other side of the planet every morning????
I would think it would be pretty consistent....
And booting up your computer to check the weather, as you're "rushing out the door" yeah that's efficient.
House is a great show, except for the fact that every episode has to come up with a reason why the patient or a family member refuses whatever treatment this brilliant doctor claims they need.
Otherwise there would be no dramatic conflict to the show.
House: "You need drug X or you will die."
patient: "Ok doc, you're the doc!"
patient is cured, with 30 minutes left to fill...
After about the third episode, it started to get old.
Sorry Chairman Mao,people in China do have the right to choose a new government, just like every other group of people. Once enough of them get tired of being oppressed, they will 'choose' a new government.
In other words its total hogwash, especially when onscreen events clearly contradict it. We have seen Klingon characters from TOS (without ridges) appear later on DS9 and Vger, with ridges!! So much for them being hybrids.
My theory is that the Klingons had an allergic reaction to tribbles, which left them ridgeless and which is why they hated tribbles so. Eventually they wiped out tribbles and their scientists found a way to reverse the effects.
Um, what cattle are you talking about? You do realize they don't exactly live a full life-span, right? The last of them will be sent to the slaughterhouse, just all like their forebears. It is their sole reason for being.
The cattle population is decimated all the time. Its called the roundup. Its just that breeding of new cattle would probably be curtailed.
Character development....3001. Bwaaaahaaaahaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!
the only thing worse than the character development in 3001 was the total lack of plot. I really enjoy Clarke's work for the most part, put character development is not always his strong suit. He is more of a concept guy, and his concepts are usually awesome. His plots are sometimes a little thin as well. Rendevous with Rama, they find a big spacecraft, but nobody's home. Wow. I eagerly picked up 3001 and was completely underwhelmed. There was barely enough plot for a short story, let alone a novel. Poole is found, revived, takes a tour. The end.
And it had CGI effects that looked cool at the time but are dated and stupid looking now.
And it had damned poor actors(with one or two exceptions).
And it had damned poor "alien" makeup.
And it had damn poor production values.
And it had damned stupid stories until the arc started.
And it had damned poor characterizations.
(and I can go on:)
Hey I liked B5, I really did. But it was not the greatest SciFi show of all times as some people proclaim. Wooden acting, ridiculous dialogue. Ugh... Farscape is good, but not without its problems either. I watched the first episode and then dropped out until the season 2 finale. Now I am checking out the reruns to see what I missed.
Star Trek does not use models anymore. Most of the latter DS9 episodes and almost all of Voyager used CGI. So did the last movie or two. And you can not tell the difference(obviously).
Better yet DeCSS sneakers!
And that proves what? Millionaires can't be arrested? Actually if Richard wins I will be very disappointed.
Hello? Are you paying attention? It is not a WM, it is a replacement for X. Totally different.
Why is this -1 Troll???? It is a perfectly true statement and is completely relevant.
Same here. What would it take to make up a "homebrew" TiVo? And then there is the one feature TiVo does lack: permanent storage. Am I the only one who thinks dumping it to a VCR is a giant step backwards? I want a system that will let me burn programs to a MovieCD or DVD, but I have no idea where to start.
This is another question that comes up every time the Amiga is mentioned: "Why are some people so crazy about the Amiga? What is the big deal about Amigas?" I can only imagine that the people asking this have never seen an Amiga in operation/ or were not into computers back in the eighties when the Amiga was so far ahead of any other platform(but still got no respect). Amigas today are in a pitiful state, but back then they were clearly awesome machines. They were the game machine at the time. They had a groovy GUI AND a command prompt. There was tons of free software. And they were cheap- at least the 500 anyway. And Linux was not even a gleam in Linus' eye yet. Whether or not any new Amiga comes anywhere close to being as cool as the originals still remains to be seen, of course. But we can hope.
Why do you care if the company is making money or not? That is their problem, not yours. Do you check every purchase you make to confirm that the manufacturer is actually selling it to you for more than what it cost him to make it? How do you know you are not ripping off some poor company that is too stupid to know what it is doing? There is no ethical/moral problem here. If you buy it in the store and you are not required to sign a service contract, then you can do whatever you want with the product. If the company loses money and ends up going out of business(which I really really doubt will happen in this case), well, thats how the game works. I didn't make the rules.