a movie based on a video game that was based on a movie that was based on a movie serial from the 40's (IIRC) that was based on pulp fiction novels...phew! Wouldn't that suffer from idea degeneration? - like making a copy of a copy of a copy of a....
No I'm talking about the bad guy he got The Hat from. I recognised The Hat, and saw he was digging up stuff so I assumed he was Indy.
I didn't realise it was a flashback to his childhood.
That was Richard Young who's been in a ton of stuff, including "The Ice Pirates". You're right, he would have made a good Indy.
That's what Lucas should do is cast relatively unknowns (i.e. not big stars) and do a James Bond thing - as everyone else has suggested. Ford wasn't a big star when he was cast as Indy.
In grad school, I had a classmate that was in operations at Delta. He thought it would good for Delta to go bankrupt because it's business model was from the 70s and the regulation - that whole hub and spoke nonsense. The new airlines were able to start fresh and away from that model.
The other thing is that private jet sales are increasing yearly. CEOs, mostly, are buying them up at shareholder's expense so they won't have to wait for security and fly with us regular people. Boeing actually has a 737 based "business" jet that has a hot tub. It's good to be King (CEO).
And some companies actually send their regular employees on the corp jet because it's just so much more efficient and reliable than commercial jets.
I think your right. Commercial flying is dead as we know it. I for one, will drive anywhere that takes less than 8 hours in a car. When you think about it: 1 hour to the airport, 2 hours security, 1 hour flight time to anywhere (assuming they're actually on time), and then another hour to where you want to be. That's five hours. For an extra 3 hours: I save hundred of dollars; I can use any fucking electronic device I want; I can say "bomb", "mom", "terrorist", etc..; I don't have some snot serving me water who thinks she's been made in flight goddess because of 9/11 and I better not question her authoritay!; I have plenty of elbow room; I don't have to wait in line to pee - just get off the highway; and it goes on and on....
Many if not most of those countries that have the greatest AIDs infections rates have an cultural attitude against condoms, want a woman's vagina to be dry so that it's more pleasurable to the man (I don't get that one), and all in all, have patriarchal societies where women are second class citizens - if one at all.
There's also ignorance too.
We can develop the best drugs in the World and give them away but, I'm afraid, it may not have much of an effect in places like Africa.
How is increasing the copyright term for something written by a dead guy going to affect the people downloading the matrix off bittorrent?
Ask the estate of Margaret Mitchell (Gone with the Wind). It wouldn't surprise me if they sue/. for me posting the title of the book.
Disney isn't the only force behind this. There are many ancestors and owners of copyright that are able to sit on their asses and collect royalties for some brilliance of their ancestor.
One of the wisest things I've heard (forgive me for not giving proper credit) is that, sure, let the creator get rich if he's able, but IP shouldn't be used to provide a trust fund the creator's grand-kids!
Gas did leak in or out over several days, but the researchers discovered that it was leaving through the glass, not the membranes.
Ok, the membrane is one atom thick. Now said membrane is holding in a gas of atoms. Since atoms are mostly empty space, why doesn't the gas atoms pass through the membrane?
Where did they get the cybernetic technology from?!? Japan?
Anyway, wouldn't spotting these cyborg spies be easy? Do they have any cool gadgets; like a hand that turns into a gun or something?
And I demand to know what the Pentagon is doing to close this gap with cyborg spies!? What's America doing about it? We must have our own cyborg spy program!
It's easy to blame your current situation on forces outside your control, but learning new skills is one way to take control and change your situation.
So, would you say the same thing about getting an MFA in basket weaving?
You point is correct if a) they are marketable skills and b) you're under forty.
I saw the writing on the wall - as I got older, it became harder and harder to get work. They want young guys coding and designing. I went back to school in my late thirties to get an MBA trying to get into the business side of things, foolishly thinking getting more education and training is always a good thing, only to find out that it meant nothing. One guy actually told me that getting my MBA makes it look like that I'm unemployable.
Then there's my uncle: only a 2 year degree in accounting and is a self made millionaire. Yep, education did me good.
Microsoft has reacted to this security exposure by launching a new version that puts the OS out of reach and is guaranteed attack-proof: Vista for Vacuums.
a friend of mine is real paranoid. So when he took his computer into a large Office Supply Store Chain for optimization, he wrote the serial number down. When he got his machine back the serial numbers didn't match. But it did match for the "new" display model. The techs swapped his machine for the display model. He got his money back. I had egg on my face and now I wear tin foil hats too.
Lesson. Whenever taking your machine into those places, write down the serial numbers. Unfortunately, if you buy a new machine, repairing it yourself is not an option if you want it done under warranty.
I've already seen a "joke" about cultists (it was crap, I'm expecting better), any more?
But yeah, a random comment, capitalism sucks.
Seriously, people often don't have a real choice (the freedom to starve...) when it comes to signing contracts, especially in countries (such as the USA) where significant workers rights aren't enshrined in law.
In this case, it appears that the workers signed contracts which said that they wouldn't get paid an hourly rate, which means that they don't get overtime. Which means (at least in this case), that they can get over worked for nothing.
And that is a problem (I've heard it is a very big problem in Japan generally).
Basically (and I'm taking off my anarchist hat for a minute), workers rights do require regulation in a capitalist economy, otherwise they get screwed.
But yeah, a random comment, capitalism sucks.
Oh for socialism so I can sit on my ass at the Government's->Taxpayer's->productive people's expense.
Name one country that has a successful socialist economy. Let me head off Sweden - they'll be broke in not too long. I'm looking for a place to emigrate.
Also it is beyond my understanding that someone tells us that what is being done is good for them without seeing there, talking to anyone working there.
It's been done. And I'm trying to find a link - it was a PBS show, IIRC. The workers hated the conditions, but it was better than being home or, in the case of the women, being a prostitute. And no one ever brings up that when the locals are paid a "Fair" wage, the local doctors and other professionals give up their jobs to work in the factories leaving everyone without medical care. Going into an other country and forcing your own values on them can have a very destabilizing effect. They know they're being exploited and they're making changes their way.
Don't you think it is way too arrogant to "know" what is good for them?
If NASA had that attitude, we never would have had a decade of stagnation after the first Shuttle accident. We'd have a moon colony by now. The problem is that the people at top too often see these kind of events as a signal to stop, where it really should be a sign that they're almost there. Remember when the Delta rocket flew and then fell over and burst into flames because of failed landing gear? LANDING GEAR! Something trivial to engineer (compared to the rest), and the project is shelved because of that failure. They should have kept going.
Argh. Enough of my ranting, you people get the idea. I just wish the pointy haired bosses did.
if Musk et al. has an accident where someone dies, I bet the FAA and others will be introducing some delays in his schedule. And I'm sure they'll some public outcry that he's flying over people and putting them in jeopardy - whether or not it's true.
We've lost our sense of adventure, the acceptance of risk and, well, we've become a society that's so bent on being safe that we're afraid to take any warranted risks: we've become a society of pansies.
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I've NEVER considered email to have been private: encrypted or not.
what happens if Indy comes face to face with Hans Solo?!?
a movie based on a video game that was based on a movie that was based on a movie serial from the 40's (IIRC) that was based on pulp fiction novels...phew! Wouldn't that suffer from idea degeneration? - like making a copy of a copy of a copy of a ....
No I'm talking about the bad guy he got The Hat from. I recognised The Hat, and saw he was digging up stuff so I assumed he was Indy.
I didn't realise it was a flashback to his childhood.
That was Richard Young who's been in a ton of stuff, including "The Ice Pirates". You're right, he would have made a good Indy.
That's what Lucas should do is cast relatively unknowns (i.e. not big stars) and do a James Bond thing - as everyone else has suggested. Ford wasn't a big star when he was cast as Indy.
The other thing is that private jet sales are increasing yearly. CEOs, mostly, are buying them up at shareholder's expense so they won't have to wait for security and fly with us regular people. Boeing actually has a 737 based "business" jet that has a hot tub. It's good to be King (CEO).
And some companies actually send their regular employees on the corp jet because it's just so much more efficient and reliable than commercial jets.
I think your right. Commercial flying is dead as we know it. I for one, will drive anywhere that takes less than 8 hours in a car. When you think about it: 1 hour to the airport, 2 hours security, 1 hour flight time to anywhere (assuming they're actually on time), and then another hour to where you want to be. That's five hours. For an extra 3 hours: I save hundred of dollars; I can use any fucking electronic device I want; I can say "bomb", "mom", "terrorist", etc..; I don't have some snot serving me water who thinks she's been made in flight goddess because of 9/11 and I better not question her authoritay!; I have plenty of elbow room; I don't have to wait in line to pee - just get off the highway; and it goes on and on. ...
I think it's a guerilla marketing move by Lingus. It's funny how cunning Lingus can be.
Many if not most of those countries that have the greatest AIDs infections rates have an cultural attitude against condoms, want a woman's vagina to be dry so that it's more pleasurable to the man (I don't get that one), and all in all, have patriarchal societies where women are second class citizens - if one at all.
There's also ignorance too.
We can develop the best drugs in the World and give them away but, I'm afraid, it may not have much of an effect in places like Africa.
I do this every time I change the blade. What is so hard about that?
Wait... did you mean when it is on?
Lefty, is that you?
How is increasing the copyright term for something written by a dead guy going to affect the people downloading the matrix off bittorrent?
Ask the estate of Margaret Mitchell (Gone with the Wind). It wouldn't surprise me if they sue /. for me posting the title of the book.
Disney isn't the only force behind this. There are many ancestors and owners of copyright that are able to sit on their asses and collect royalties for some brilliance of their ancestor.
One of the wisest things I've heard (forgive me for not giving proper credit) is that, sure, let the creator get rich if he's able, but IP shouldn't be used to provide a trust fund the creator's grand-kids!
Ok, the membrane is one atom thick. Now said membrane is holding in a gas of atoms. Since atoms are mostly empty space, why doesn't the gas atoms pass through the membrane?
Are our commercials that good? I mean, would they translate to Chinese society? Is there anything really secret about them?
The Chik-Filet commercials with the cows saying "Eat more Chiken!" might seam silly to them.
Anyway, wouldn't spotting these cyborg spies be easy? Do they have any cool gadgets; like a hand that turns into a gun or something?
And I demand to know what the Pentagon is doing to close this gap with cyborg spies!? What's America doing about it? We must have our own cyborg spy program!
Come to find out, lonelygirl15 was too. Spoiled a fantasy I was having.
Man, it was fake!
She's pretty....
And for that matter, when you make a method/function call, doesn't the compiler create a JMP (goto) instruction?
And does that mean that assembly programmers are evil?
So, to get the drone to fly, you have to flap your arms?
So, would you say the same thing about getting an MFA in basket weaving?
You point is correct if a) they are marketable skills and b) you're under forty.
I saw the writing on the wall - as I got older, it became harder and harder to get work. They want young guys coding and designing. I went back to school in my late thirties to get an MBA trying to get into the business side of things, foolishly thinking getting more education and training is always a good thing, only to find out that it meant nothing. One guy actually told me that getting my MBA makes it look like that I'm unemployable.
Then there's my uncle: only a 2 year degree in accounting and is a self made millionaire. Yep, education did me good.
Microsoft has reacted to this security exposure by launching a new version that puts the OS out of reach and is guaranteed attack-proof: Vista for Vacuums.
Then Vista would really suck.
Lesson. Whenever taking your machine into those places, write down the serial numbers. Unfortunately, if you buy a new machine, repairing it yourself is not an option if you want it done under warranty.
Extended warranties are rip-offs - no exceptions.
* Transform human waste to drinking water * ??? * Profit!
So that's why the Gnomes were collecting underpants!
I've already seen a "joke" about cultists (it was crap, I'm expecting better), any more?
But yeah, a random comment, capitalism sucks.
Seriously, people often don't have a real choice (the freedom to starve...) when it comes to signing contracts, especially in countries (such as the USA) where significant workers rights aren't enshrined in law.
In this case, it appears that the workers signed contracts which said that they wouldn't get paid an hourly rate, which means that they don't get overtime. Which means (at least in this case), that they can get over worked for nothing.
And that is a problem (I've heard it is a very big problem in Japan generally).
Basically (and I'm taking off my anarchist hat for a minute), workers rights do require regulation in a capitalist economy, otherwise they get screwed.
But yeah, a random comment, capitalism sucks.
Oh for socialism so I can sit on my ass at the Government's->Taxpayer's->productive people's expense.
Name one country that has a successful socialist economy. Let me head off Sweden - they'll be broke in not too long. I'm looking for a place to emigrate.
It's been done. And I'm trying to find a link - it was a PBS show, IIRC. The workers hated the conditions, but it was better than being home or, in the case of the women, being a prostitute. And no one ever brings up that when the locals are paid a "Fair" wage, the local doctors and other professionals give up their jobs to work in the factories leaving everyone without medical care. Going into an other country and forcing your own values on them can have a very destabilizing effect. They know they're being exploited and they're making changes their way.
Don't you think it is way too arrogant to "know" what is good for them?
It sure is.
If NASA had that attitude, we never would have had a decade of stagnation after the first Shuttle accident. We'd have a moon colony by now. The problem is that the people at top too often see these kind of events as a signal to stop, where it really should be a sign that they're almost there. Remember when the Delta rocket flew and then fell over and burst into flames because of failed landing gear? LANDING GEAR! Something trivial to engineer (compared to the rest), and the project is shelved because of that failure. They should have kept going.
Argh. Enough of my ranting, you people get the idea. I just wish the pointy haired bosses did.
if Musk et al. has an accident where someone dies, I bet the FAA and others will be introducing some delays in his schedule. And I'm sure they'll some public outcry that he's flying over people and putting them in jeopardy - whether or not it's true.
We've lost our sense of adventure, the acceptance of risk and, well, we've become a society that's so bent on being safe that we're afraid to take any warranted risks: we've become a society of pansies.
I think he has a future as a management consultant or an adviser in the Bush Whitehouse for the remainder of his term.