what happened to the expendible extras in star trek? kirk: the away team will consist mof myself, spock, bones and ensign billy, now this mission could be dangerous, one of us may not make it back..."
Admittedly, with no federation to draw young new *cough*blood*cough*recruits from that would kinda kill any sort of plot continuity that Enterprise has left going for it. . . . (what little it had to begin with. . ..)
Quite frankly I just want the Genetically Engineered Dudes of Butt Kicking war to commence. . . .;)
With few changes, this is the recipe for any Star Trek movie or episode ever, with the possible honourable exception of The Wrath of Khan.
Ignore DS9 (which had nearly no Vulcans in it at all), TOS (which played the occasional jest on Spock but that was about it) or TNG (which had nearly no Vulcans in it at all) or Voyager (which mostly sucked but had all of what, two Vulcans in it?)
So yah, ignoring those FEW exceptions (and the TNG movies which had nearly nothing to do with Vulcans at all). . . .
as soon as they kill off the time traveler character and settle into episodes that have nothing to do with this 'cold war' thing they flaunt every few episodes.
I think that having ACTUAL plotlines each episode would be nice, while I can see how they are going for "small plotlines with the occasional tantilizing glimpse of a larger adventure" thing, well; quite frankly they suck at it. Could be something to do with how they have had all of about three or four ORIGINAL episodic plotlines going around so far and they just kinda change the make-up on the alien's faces.
Oh, and the intro STILL sucks. Hopefuly they will remake it for season two. . . . but for some reason I doubt it.:(
In addition, most cell phones come with enough free minutes that this shouldn't be an issue on that end of the call.
No but your still PAYING for a cell phone, thus the entire purpose is, err, WHY bother with this system when either just a POTS or just a Cell would do just fine?
when you start a business in china you give half of your profits to the government. when you start one here you do the same until you are making enough to buy off the government. at least in china they dont pretend to be free.
Small businesses have many deducations and compensations that they can claim.
in the us: govt kills people --> responsible parties go free
But changes do happen, laws are passed, the truth comes out and it is made rather clear that such things should not happen again.
Now granted the bozos just find/other/ horrific things to do, but at least they have to be creative about it!
The advantage over cell phone is that there are no minutes! It is $39.95 a month and you can choose which area code you want a phone number in. You can forward it to a cell phone when out, or any other phone that you may be at.
Huh this makes no sense, do you mean that the system then calls you up on that other phone when you are out if you get a call (thus incuring both cell phone AND the charges of this device), which would offer, err, heh, no benefits over a cell phone (except for when you are at home).
I already have my cellphone with free long distance.
POTS phone line with unlimited local (I/never/ call LD so. . ..): $15 a month per line.
Cost of cell phone with unlimited local: Way more then $15 a month.:-D
Actualy I could get by with a prepaid cell phone but their minutes all expire after like 3 months which/sucks/ since I never use more then like 20 or so minutes a month (if ever that, sometimes I go many months without ever dialing out on the phone)
Yes, traditional dial up connection is expensive in Japan. but ADSL and wireless connection became so popular, less and less people are depending on it. I personally don't use dial-up anymore.
Am I the only one that finds it ironic that ADSL (which, unless Japan is even more funky then I previously knew about) which runs over POTS, is cheaper to get then just a plain old POTS dial up line?
Bleck, VoIP isn't/naturally/ cheaper, it is just highly artificial market conditions that make it that way in some places. Bleck. POTS is about as low tech and old as you can get. (of course I am speaking as a US citizen, with the recent trend towards flat rate/long distance/ that is now getting started over here I admit that we here in the US are a tad wee bit spoiled.:-D )
Dr. Garth Nicolson, uncovers evidence that the biological agents used during the Gulf War had been manufactured in Houston, TX and Boca Raton, Fl and tested on prisoners in the Texas Department of Corrections.
Eighty-eight members of Congress sign a letter demanding an investigation into bioweapons use & Gulf War Syndrome.
U.S. Government admits that it had offered Japanese war criminals and scientists who had performed human medical experiments salaries and immunity from prosecution in exchange for data on biological warfare research.
Senator John D. Rockefeller issues a report revealing that for at least 50 years the Department of Defense has used hundreds of thousands of military personnel in human experiments and for intentional exposure to dangerous substances. Materials included mustard and nerve gas, ionizing radiation, psychochemicals, hallucinogens, and drugs used during the Gulf War.
Those people;
not assassinated.
Give it up for freedom of speech baaabyyyy da truth will set you free.;-D
See that is the difference, here in the US you can say some shit, the truth will come out, and odds are fair enough that you won't end up with a cap in your arse (or head or whatever) from some dude in a black suit sitting on top of a hill. (yah yah ok CGIR4_so that does happen from time to time, but even then the truth can get flushed out, all signs of opposition are not massively oppressed with a big thick iron boot)
Words are tricky. When a Westerner says that China is a place where one can't make a profit; he really means _he_ can't make a profit, because someone there will come along and make his product better and cheaper.
Or how about that at any point in time over in china if you ARE making a profit the chinese government can come over, burn down your factory, shoot you in the head, and nothing bad will happen to them?
See, that is the difference between China and the US. We have these things called laws here and one way or another we can at least complain about the ones that we do not like, and if enough people complain about them the laws can actualy be *gasp* repealed!
Thus the whole entire reason that the US kinda has this nifty habit of avoiding mass slaughter of civilians by government troops 'just out havin a good time'.
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The game being a gazzilion times easier in Japanese, a language where unlike in English it is not necessary to stop and count four or five times over the number of syllables in a word.
"well if you say it like/this/ it has 3 syllables but if you say it that/other/ way it has 4 syllables. . . . "
Bleck, I never did get Haiku's, I prefer good old ABAB form myself.
but you could go through a good bit of Deus Ex w/o firing a shot).
I went through it guns a'blazing, got pissed at that MoFo that was prgrammed for invincability, I had wiped out all the thugs and gotten him pinned behind some barrels stuck facing away from me;
loaded a few thousand rounds of ammo into that mother, along with every explosive I had.
Then I quicksaved, jumped on the net, and found out he couldn't be killed, grrr.
Hehe. I can imagine the executives meeting. "What do you guys control?" "I control cell phones." "I am the master of cable." "I am the undisputed champion of the US Internet backbone." "So... what do you control for world domination?" "Ummm.... CD music. Not anything good though, just the really commercialized stuff." *crowd contains guffaws and laughter starts leaking out*
"But I actualy turn a profit."
*crowd lets out collctive awe of amazement*
Did the RIAA actualy sue any profit generating companies here, or did they limit themselves to companies that/once/ turned a profit and now suck?
An omnipresent and all-powerful leader, Big Brother commanded the total, unquestioning support of the people. He was both adored and feared, and no one dared speak out against him, lest they be met by the wrath of the state.
Laptops are stolen for corporate espionage regularly.
Of course they are most COMMONLY stolen by some idiot going to the pawn shop to sell them for $50 so that they can buy some low quality drugs.
Use {insert algorithm here}, be happy. ScramDisk works for Windows, and I am sure that the *Nixs have some sort of data encryption scheme. Yeesh. Harder to remember to carry a little bracelet with you all the time then it is to remember a password. (and what prevents a good thief from just stealing the bracelet to? If the data is worth/that much/ money they could just bean you over the head and then steal the laptop AND the bracelet and for your extra precautions you end up with a lump on your head.)
That initially struck me as odd, too, but there appears to be a lot of alien technology that the NX-01 is coming across which the humans have no clue how to reproduce, like shields, tractor beams, holodecks, holographic people. Some of this they independently discover/buy/reverse engineer by Kirk's time (shields, some tractor beams), some have to wait for Picard (holodecks), some have to wait for that mewling, whining weakling Janeway (holographic people).
From what I can tell though, these aliens where otherwise on equal par with the Enterprise in terms of technology, the Enterprise staff was easily able to fix their stuff, which would not have been so if the alien's tech culture was way ahead of what the Enterprise team knew how to play around with. (remember the difficulties Scotty had when he went just from TOS to TNG? Imagine what He would have been like going from TOS to Voyager! Even if it is only another half generation or so of technological advances!)
Not to mention the entire "Hollo emitters setup through entire ship. .." thing.
If they where like stupid "do this do that" Holograms (and the girl does admit that they have to follow her orders) then I could understand it, but the entire thing is screwed over when the old guy says that "They could joke, they could laugh, they where our friends"
Joking and telling stories and such requires a very complex holomatrix. (I think that is what voyager called them, heh, whatever)
Oh well, the entire show sucks any ways, no true moral or ethical dilemma have yet to show up, nor has the crew had to be anything/near/ creative. Quite frankly I liked Kirk's Universal Fuck Fest Filled Adventures far better, I think Kirk would've done a gal of/any/ color of the spectrum (err, oh wait, I think he HAS done a gal of every color of the spectrum!)
TNG (until like the last few episodes) had great original plot lines with new ideas and topics that where not previously thought up of. Enterprise so far just has a bunch of humanoids running around occasionally tricking the Enterprise staff into giving them their help.
(Ok that last sentence represents the dangers of pronouns, LOL!)
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I like to read these comments, then sit back and imagine what Galaxy Quest 2 will be like.
.
Likely the subline for the first Enterprise based movie. . .
Enterprise: Galaxy Quest Part Deuce!
what happened to the expendible extras in star trek? kirk: the away team will consist mof myself, spock, bones and ensign billy, now this mission could be dangerous, one of us may not make it back..."
.)
;)
Admittedly, with no federation to draw young new *cough*blood*cough*recruits from that would kinda kill any sort of plot continuity that Enterprise has left going for it. . . . (what little it had to begin with. . .
Quite frankly I just want the Genetically Engineered Dudes of Butt Kicking war to commence. . . .
With few changes, this is the recipe for any Star Trek movie or episode ever, with the possible honourable exception of The Wrath of Khan.
Ignore DS9 (which had nearly no Vulcans in it at all), TOS (which played the occasional jest on Spock but that was about it) or TNG (which had nearly no Vulcans in it at all) or Voyager (which mostly sucked but had all of what, two Vulcans in it?)
So yah, ignoring those FEW exceptions (and the TNG movies which had nearly nothing to do with Vulcans at all). . . .
as soon as they kill off the time traveler character and settle into episodes that have nothing to do with this 'cold war' thing they flaunt every few episodes.
:(
I think that having ACTUAL plotlines each episode would be nice, while I can see how they are going for "small plotlines with the occasional tantilizing glimpse of a larger adventure" thing, well; quite frankly they suck at it. Could be something to do with how they have had all of about three or four ORIGINAL episodic plotlines going around so far and they just kinda change the make-up on the alien's faces.
Oh, and the intro STILL sucks. Hopefuly they will remake it for season two. . . . but for some reason I doubt it.
In addition, most cell phones come with enough free minutes that this shouldn't be an issue on that end of the call.
No but your still PAYING for a cell phone, thus the entire purpose is, err, WHY bother with this system when either just a POTS or just a Cell would do just fine?
when you start a business in china you give half of your profits to the government. when you start one here you do the same until you are making enough to buy off the government. at least in china they dont pretend to be free.
/other/ horrific things to do, but at least they have to be creative about it!
Small businesses have many deducations and compensations that they can claim.
in the us: govt kills people --> responsible parties go free
But changes do happen, laws are passed, the truth comes out and it is made rather clear that such things should not happen again.
Now granted the bozos just find
Modern cellphone plans have insane numbers of free local minutes and mostly 'local' refers to a larger area than the landlines
:-D
;(
There are still those of us hold outs who just HATE cell phones though.
I keep on trying to lose mine but people keep on finding the damn thing. . . .
The advantage over cell phone is that there are no minutes! It is $39.95 a month and you can choose which area code you want a phone number in. You can forward it to a cell phone when out, or any other phone that you may be at.
Huh this makes no sense, do you mean that the system then calls you up on that other phone when you are out if you get a call (thus incuring both cell phone AND the charges of this device), which would offer, err, heh, no benefits over a cell phone (except for when you are at home).
I already have my cellphone with free long distance.
/never/ call LD so. . . .): $15 a month per line.
:-D
/sucks/ since I never use more then like 20 or so minutes a month (if ever that, sometimes I go many months without ever dialing out on the phone)
POTS phone line with unlimited local (I
Cost of cell phone with unlimited local: Way more then $15 a month.
Actualy I could get by with a prepaid cell phone but their minutes all expire after like 3 months which
Yes, traditional dial up connection is
/naturally/ cheaper, it is just highly artificial market conditions that make it that way in some places. Bleck. POTS is about as low tech and old as you can get. (of course I am speaking as a US citizen, with the recent trend towards flat rate /long distance/ that is now getting started over here I admit that we here in the US are a tad wee bit spoiled. :-D )
expensive in Japan. but ADSL and wireless
connection became so popular, less and
less people are depending on it. I personally
don't use dial-up anymore.
Am I the only one that finds it ironic that ADSL (which, unless Japan is even more funky then I previously knew about) which runs over POTS, is cheaper to get then just a plain old POTS dial up line?
Bleck, VoIP isn't
Dr. Garth Nicolson, uncovers evidence that the biological agents used during the Gulf War had been manufactured in Houston, TX and Boca Raton, Fl and tested on prisoners in the Texas Department of Corrections.
;-D
Eighty-eight members of Congress sign a letter demanding an investigation into bioweapons use & Gulf War Syndrome.
U.S. Government admits that it had offered Japanese war criminals and scientists who had performed human medical experiments salaries and immunity from prosecution in exchange for data on biological warfare research.
Senator John D. Rockefeller issues a report revealing that for at least 50 years the Department of Defense has used hundreds of thousands of military personnel in human experiments and for intentional exposure to dangerous substances. Materials included mustard and nerve gas, ionizing radiation, psychochemicals, hallucinogens, and drugs used during the Gulf War.
Those people;
not assassinated.
Give it up for freedom of speech baaabyyyy da truth will set you free.
See that is the difference, here in the US you can say some shit, the truth will come out, and odds are fair enough that you won't end up with a cap in your arse (or head or whatever) from some dude in a black suit sitting on top of a hill. (yah yah ok CGIR4_so that does happen from time to time, but even then the truth can get flushed out, all signs of opposition are not massively oppressed with a big thick iron boot)
Words are tricky. When a Westerner says that China is a place where one can't make a profit; he really means _he_ can't make a profit, because someone there will come along and make his product better and cheaper.
Or how about that at any point in time over in china if you ARE making a profit the chinese government can come over, burn down your factory, shoot you in the head, and nothing bad will happen to them?
See, that is the difference between China and the US. We have these things called laws here and one way or another we can at least complain about the ones that we do not like, and if enough people complain about them the laws can actualy be *gasp* repealed!
Thus the whole entire reason that the US kinda has this nifty habit of avoiding mass slaughter of civilians by government troops 'just out havin a good time'.
The game being a gazzilion times easier in Japanese, a language where unlike in English it is not necessary to stop and count four or five times over the number of syllables in a word.
/this/ it has 3 syllables but if you say it that /other/ way it has 4 syllables. . . . "
"well if you say it like
Bleck, I never did get Haiku's, I prefer good old ABAB form myself.
they advertise 3 screens, they only bought 2 reels.... you can even have a bot check the listings online).
Err, think more of "film uploaded to latest P2P service" rather then the actual theaters pirating the movies.
In the USA, having a lockpick is illegal if you are not a locksmith. Expect audio and video recorders to have the same restrictions soon.
Never mind that about the only thing easier to get ahold of then a half-way decent set of lockpicks in this country is drugs.
There is absolutely no such thing, certainly not in the constitution.
Well there is a lot the constitution doesn't cover;
Mind if I come over to your house and rape your family shoot your pets and stick your head on a pike?
Yes?
Why? Constitution doesn't give a damn.
See we have these things called laws that both prevent and allow for shit.
You should look into them some day.
In middle school we went all the way up to intro to 3d geometry.
:(
In 8th grade we did:
Vectors, Polar, Quadratics, 3D Geometry, the 3D Plane, and Trig Functions (SIN/COS amp freq and so forth)
Wasn't until my 4th or so college mat class that we got back to that sort of material. *frowns* H.S. was just all boooooring review.
but you could go through a good bit of Deus Ex w/o firing a shot).
I went through it guns a'blazing, got pissed at that MoFo that was prgrammed for invincability, I had wiped out all the thugs and gotten him pinned behind some barrels stuck facing away from me;
loaded a few thousand rounds of ammo into that mother, along with every explosive I had.
Then I quicksaved, jumped on the net, and found out he couldn't be killed, grrr.
Well I am going to be trying to run Doom3 on my Matrox G400 MAX (hey, it handled Max Paine!);
:-D
but then again I considered 320x240 a playable resolution for Half-Life so. . . .
I say that we all try our hardest to /. this baby and show those foo's that the old skool 'net ain't down for the count yet!
*goes to site*
*notices a distinct lack of classical music*
*moves on*
Err, yah, I'll stick with Direct Connect for now. . . . bleh.
Hehe. I can imagine the executives meeting.
/once/ turned a profit and now suck?
"What do you guys control?"
"I control cell phones."
"I am the master of cable."
"I am the undisputed champion of the US Internet backbone."
"So... what do you control for world domination?"
"Ummm.... CD music. Not anything good though, just the really commercialized stuff."
*crowd contains guffaws and laughter starts leaking out*
"But I actualy turn a profit."
*crowd lets out collctive awe of amazement*
Did the RIAA actualy sue any profit generating companies here, or did they limit themselves to companies that
An omnipresent and all-powerful leader, Big Brother commanded the total, unquestioning support of the people. He was both adored and feared, and no one dared speak out against him, lest they be met by the wrath of the state.
You don't get comedy central do you?
Laptops are stolen for corporate espionage regularly.
/that much/ money they could just bean you over the head and then steal the laptop AND the bracelet and for your extra precautions you end up with a lump on your head.)
Of course they are most COMMONLY stolen by some idiot going to the pawn shop to sell them for $50 so that they can buy some low quality drugs.
Use {insert algorithm here}, be happy. ScramDisk works for Windows, and I am sure that the *Nixs have some sort of data encryption scheme. Yeesh. Harder to remember to carry a little bracelet with you all the time then it is to remember a password. (and what prevents a good thief from just stealing the bracelet to? If the data is worth
That initially struck me as odd, too, but there appears to be a lot of alien technology that the NX-01 is coming across which the humans have no clue how to reproduce, like shields, tractor beams, holodecks, holographic people. Some of this they independently discover/buy/reverse engineer by Kirk's time (shields, some tractor beams), some have to wait for Picard (holodecks), some have to wait for that mewling, whining weakling Janeway (holographic people).
." thing.
/near/ creative. Quite frankly I liked Kirk's Universal Fuck Fest Filled Adventures far better, I think Kirk would've done a gal of /any/ color of the spectrum (err, oh wait, I think he HAS done a gal of every color of the spectrum!)
From what I can tell though, these aliens where otherwise on equal par with the Enterprise in terms of technology, the Enterprise staff was easily able to fix their stuff, which would not have been so if the alien's tech culture was way ahead of what the Enterprise team knew how to play around with. (remember the difficulties Scotty had when he went just from TOS to TNG? Imagine what He would have been like going from TOS to Voyager! Even if it is only another half generation or so of technological advances!)
Not to mention the entire "Hollo emitters setup through entire ship. .
If they where like stupid "do this do that" Holograms (and the girl does admit that they have to follow her orders) then I could understand it, but the entire thing is screwed over when the old guy says that "They could joke, they could laugh, they where our friends"
Joking and telling stories and such requires a very complex holomatrix. (I think that is what voyager called them, heh, whatever)
Oh well, the entire show sucks any ways, no true moral or ethical dilemma have yet to show up, nor has the crew had to be anything
TNG (until like the last few episodes) had great original plot lines with new ideas and topics that where not previously thought up of. Enterprise so far just has a bunch of humanoids running around occasionally tricking the Enterprise staff into giving them their help.
(Ok that last sentence represents the dangers of pronouns, LOL!)