*Spoiler alert*
And contribute to the fight against him. I mean, if he was wanting to be truly evil, he could have chopped off his fingers, or the tips of his pointy ears or something? You know, maimed him a bit. Meh.
Nero's poorly thought-through punishment for Spock.
*Spoiler alert*
To punish the guy you blame for the death of your world, you leave him on a nearby planet, alone and unsecured, with a nice warm jacket and within walking distance of a federation outpost??
Come on, other Star Trek films & series have 'screwed up' their own canon plenty of times. Please try to learn to live with this, or you will go mad: they're not perfect!
Remember the outcry around Ron Moore's re-imagining of Battlestar? It was brilliant, yes, but it was different, and how dare he!!!
Yes, this is different to the Trek we know. Accept it as such, and you can enjoy it. Refuse to accept this, and you're denying yourself a whole new franchise. Those that refused to accept the new Battlestar denied themselves a series that was considered by many to be one of the very best things on TV. Personally, I loved the new BSG and I thoroughly enjoyed this Trek film, despite many plot points that just annoyed me, not least Delta Vega looking to be about 500'000 km from Vulcan, and Nero's poorly thought-through punishment for Spock.
While I too wish he'd eat his own ass, every attempt I've made so far to configure ubuntu 8.10 to use a static IP rather than a DHCP IP has resulted in failure.
Now I'm probably just being a dumbass, but I'm a reasonably technical dumbass. Even reasonably non-technical dumbasses could do such a thing in windows.
this is actually Young Earth creationists vs Old Earth creationists vs Old Earth non-creationists vs Young-Earth-created-to-look-like-old-non-created-earth-ists. And that last group seriously need a better name.
In retrospect, its probably the Young Earthers vs the rest. And thats one thats been running strong for a few hundred years now. Its just that they've got "Evolution" tied up in it.
The Micro vs Macro evolution debate thing is pretty interesting, on the grouds that the biologists, the 'fundamentalists', and the 'moderate' christians all agree that that there's no such thing as Macro evolution... Yet a lot of 'moderates' still seem to think that the biologists disagree with them on this front.
If you accept the existance of 'Micro' evolution, then what many seem to refer to as 'Macro' evolution is considered by the biologists to just be 'Micro' evolution over extended time. There are no sudden changes. Just an accumulation of drift, recombination, and some selection pressure.
In fact, leaving the 'fundamentalists' aside, the whole evolution topic is a facade. As far as I can see, this is actually Young Earth creationists vs Old Earth creationists vs Old Earth non-creationists vs Young-Earth-created-to-look-like-old-non-created-earth-ists. And that last group seriously need a better name.
While I loved both of those films, there's no denying that replacing the protagonists with muppets is only ever a good thing. Especially for terminator. And then maybe a couple of musical numbers?
But it could never work properly, blocking just wouldn't feel right when you can swipe straight through the other guy's sword...
Of course for a local multiplayer game you could attach a stick to the end of your wiimotes, but then whats the point of having the wii in the first place?
Says you. The laws of most countries disagree.
While I agree that the implementation of a lot of copyright law sucks, if we're going to abandon the concept that someone who has a unique idea should be able to exclusively decide what is done with that idea, then bang goes a lot of the last 30 years of scientific progress. That's perhaps built more upon sharing just enough data to show off, without sharing enough to allow competitors to overtake you, than you realise.
And while this is a bit off-topic, i have to nitpick and point out that your computer can effectively be duplicated. Your computer is a specific combination of mass-produced parts, with certain information on its hard drive. Clones of the parts can be bought, and the information can be copied.
So why should we get rid of the bits of law that says some of those files belong to someone else, and not the bits that say your computer belongs to you?
I beg to differ. These periods of darkness occur only during the night period at the point on the surface below the satellite.
If we're saying they only happen once per 24-hour cycle, and then only during the night, saying per night seems justified to me.
But lets save this for later, people are starting to stare...
I went to Paris, and found no one unhelpful. Only trouble was they couldn't understand my attempts at French. And while we're on anecdotes, I hear that Americans hate non-Americans and tend to consider "the rest of the world" to be significantly smaller than America.
Not actually true of any Americans that I know, though. My experience is that this is generally the case with stereotypes: "they" are weirder than you imagined, but never in the ways you expected. And they're rarely that bad.
Frankly, you could be polite as can be and these little guys would still end up flattened or in the canal.
Drive in a straight line until someone picks it up and turns it around? Ok, so when crossing a road, its got to first navigate the pedestrians to get off the pavement, then evade cyclists, cars, trams, more cars, more cyclists, another pavement of pedestrians... and then somehow get turned around before it trundles off into the canal of its own accord!
When I visited amsterdam, I found this difficult. The "robot" has no chance.
Yeah, they're a right bunch of goons. Couldn't agree more. But in all likelyhood, our population is going to reduce drasticaly. We can try to manage that, and ease the transition... or we can horde all the food and stuff for ourselves, and leave the rest of the world to starve. I'm in camp #1, regardless of how ill-informed and thin-on-the-ground my company in that camp may be.
Waiting for *the famouse people* people to start acting sensibly is, as I'm sure you're well aware, a complete waste of time. And time is short.
Right, so its proper to kill off the riff-raff, until only the good, honest, trigger-happy folk remain?
From where I'm standing, dispensing completely with the judicial process seems seems only a small step away from pre-emptively striking at those you think might act against you later.
Please stay out our country, cos frankly you're sounding like a freakin psycho.
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It was a compilation of many short stories, the plot of none of which had anything particularly to do with the Will Smith movie.
You have a stroke or a heart bypass?
*Spoiler alert* And contribute to the fight against him. I mean, if he was wanting to be truly evil, he could have chopped off his fingers, or the tips of his pointy ears or something? You know, maimed him a bit. Meh.
Nero's poorly thought-through punishment for Spock.
*Spoiler alert*
To punish the guy you blame for the death of your world, you leave him on a nearby planet, alone and unsecured, with a nice warm jacket and within walking distance of a federation outpost??
Come on, other Star Trek films & series have 'screwed up' their own canon plenty of times. Please try to learn to live with this, or you will go mad: they're not perfect!
Remember the outcry around Ron Moore's re-imagining of Battlestar? It was brilliant, yes, but it was different, and how dare he!!!
Yes, this is different to the Trek we know. Accept it as such, and you can enjoy it. Refuse to accept this, and you're denying yourself a whole new franchise. Those that refused to accept the new Battlestar denied themselves a series that was considered by many to be one of the very best things on TV. Personally, I loved the new BSG and I thoroughly enjoyed this Trek film, despite many plot points that just annoyed me, not least Delta Vega looking to be about 500'000 km from Vulcan, and Nero's poorly thought-through punishment for Spock.
Same. I now have a similar vista / xp setup, with the XP partition being for Crysis only. Haven't touched it in ages.
One of the major criticisms of XP was that it was much slower than 98.
Hell, I vastly prefer vista to XP, on account of it doing much fewer crazy and unpredictable things, and I look forward to 7.
While I too wish he'd eat his own ass, every attempt I've made so far to configure ubuntu 8.10 to use a static IP rather than a DHCP IP has resulted in failure.
Now I'm probably just being a dumbass, but I'm a reasonably technical dumbass. Even reasonably non-technical dumbasses could do such a thing in windows.
Mod parent up
for excellent use of short witty summaries.
They sound fairly confident that the backups won't work.
Of course he's confident, didn't you see the size of his e-peen?
this is actually Young Earth creationists vs Old Earth creationists vs Old Earth non-creationists vs Young-Earth-created-to-look-like-old-non-created-earth-ists. And that last group seriously need a better name.
In retrospect, its probably the Young Earthers vs the rest. And thats one thats been running strong for a few hundred years now. Its just that they've got "Evolution" tied up in it.
The Micro vs Macro evolution debate thing is pretty interesting, on the grouds that the biologists, the 'fundamentalists', and the 'moderate' christians all agree that that there's no such thing as Macro evolution... Yet a lot of 'moderates' still seem to think that the biologists disagree with them on this front.
If you accept the existance of 'Micro' evolution, then what many seem to refer to as 'Macro' evolution is considered by the biologists to just be 'Micro' evolution over extended time. There are no sudden changes. Just an accumulation of drift, recombination, and some selection pressure.
In fact, leaving the 'fundamentalists' aside, the whole evolution topic is a facade. As far as I can see, this is actually Young Earth creationists vs Old Earth creationists vs Old Earth non-creationists vs Young-Earth-created-to-look-like-old-non-created-earth-ists. And that last group seriously need a better name.
While I loved both of those films, there's no denying that replacing the protagonists with muppets is only ever a good thing. Especially for terminator. And then maybe a couple of musical numbers?
But it could never work properly, blocking just wouldn't feel right when you can swipe straight through the other guy's sword...
Of course for a local multiplayer game you could attach a stick to the end of your wiimotes, but then whats the point of having the wii in the first place?
Copying is not theft. Copyright is not property.
Says you. The laws of most countries disagree.
While I agree that the implementation of a lot of copyright law sucks, if we're going to abandon the concept that someone who has a unique idea should be able to exclusively decide what is done with that idea, then bang goes a lot of the last 30 years of scientific progress. That's perhaps built more upon sharing just enough data to show off, without sharing enough to allow competitors to overtake you, than you realise.
And while this is a bit off-topic, i have to nitpick and point out that your computer can effectively be duplicated. Your computer is a specific combination of mass-produced parts, with certain information on its hard drive. Clones of the parts can be bought, and the information can be copied.
So why should we get rid of the bits of law that says some of those files belong to someone else, and not the bits that say your computer belongs to you?
I beg to differ. These periods of darkness occur only during the night period at the point on the surface below the satellite.
If we're saying they only happen once per 24-hour cycle, and then only during the night, saying per night seems justified to me.
But lets save this for later, people are starting to stare...
Thanks but I prefer pedantry
Satellites in geostationary orbit ... can see up to 70 minutes of eclipse per night.
Fixed that for ya.
I went to Paris, and found no one unhelpful. Only trouble was they couldn't understand my attempts at French. And while we're on anecdotes, I hear that Americans hate non-Americans and tend to consider "the rest of the world" to be significantly smaller than America.
Not actually true of any Americans that I know, though. My experience is that this is generally the case with stereotypes: "they" are weirder than you imagined, but never in the ways you expected. And they're rarely that bad.
Clearly you've never partaken of the pleasures of the british public transport system?
Frankly, you could be polite as can be and these little guys would still end up flattened or in the canal. ... and then somehow get turned around before it trundles off into the canal of its own accord!
Drive in a straight line until someone picks it up and turns it around? Ok, so when crossing a road, its got to first navigate the pedestrians to get off the pavement, then evade cyclists, cars, trams, more cars, more cyclists, another pavement of pedestrians
When I visited amsterdam, I found this difficult. The "robot" has no chance.
Yeah, they're a right bunch of goons. Couldn't agree more. But in all likelyhood, our population is going to reduce drasticaly. We can try to manage that, and ease the transition ... or we can horde all the food and stuff for ourselves, and leave the rest of the world to starve. I'm in camp #1, regardless of how ill-informed and thin-on-the-ground my company in that camp may be.
Waiting for *the famouse people* people to start acting sensibly is, as I'm sure you're well aware, a complete waste of time. And time is short.
It ain't about the ice caps, some of us want to try and save the people.
Right, so its proper to kill off the riff-raff, until only the good, honest, trigger-happy folk remain?
From where I'm standing, dispensing completely with the judicial process seems seems only a small step away from pre-emptively striking at those you think might act against you later.
Please stay out our country, cos frankly you're sounding like a freakin psycho.