(especially 18-29 aged voters, sadly, most of that group doesn't vote).
Yes, but perhaps it is candidates like Georgy that will bring these people actually out to vote? I know if I lived in the US, i'd be down there voting for her come election time - shes one of a very few political minded individuals I can actually identify with.
I would like to know why I submitted this story FIVE DAYS AGO and it was rejected, and yet now this guy posts exactly the same article as I did, and his gets ACCEPTED???
2003-06-27 05:23:19 Quicksilver and The Real Character (articles,encryption) (rejected)
Hay moderators - whats the big frikken deal here???? Not really fair huh???
I feel totally gipped - especially as I got to this story days before this one even got posted.
Pfff. Sending articles into slashdot is like russian roulette it seems.
Top ten of the "newer" scifi authors. (not in any particular order)
1) Jeff Noon - top. seriously. wow. every single person that reads slashdot must read this guy. Im warning you!! Read him or suffer the fate of never having read him!! Im serious! 2) Sean Williams and Shane Dix - man. Aussie authors rock, vast space opera. Nice guy too. 3) Sean McMullin - more aussie rightness. any of them, but Souls in the Great Machine is fukin awesome. 4) Alystair Reynolds!!!! Tech space opera. 5) Ken McLeod!! OMG serious slashdot geek lover conspiracy gone mental writing... 6) Greg Egan - dont get me wrong, I love his stuff...but I love his earlier stuff where he wasnt trying so hard to make "a political difference" in some way with his stories much better,,plus I have issues with his feelings on immigartion and his boring anti-"cult of personality" thing..but, regardless...read Permutation City or Quarantine. Wow. Eh, Teranesia is good too... 7) China Mieville - Holy shit! The Scar and Perdido street staion. Mind blowing. 8)Iain M Banks - with the M. Need I say more? 9) Jon Courtney Grimwood - the Arabesk stuff. Amazing alt-history series. Blow go boom. 10)Interzone Magazine - okay, so I'm cheating, its not one author - but the stories and the format are fukin amazing - seriously, it is my favorite scifi magazine, and gives a wonderful cross section of non-amerikan-centralised works. A lot of Australian and British etc authors. Go get a copy and subscribe, you wont be disappointed.
Just wanted to throw this in to keep away fromt he us-bias that makes up the majority of this list =P
Who gives a toss about that??? If they make a live action soundtrack, then they should just use the OLD soundtrack, remastered and perhaps remixed a little - the original soundtrack is absolutly *AWESOME* - I have it on CD, and is one of my most favorite parts of the movie.
If they do a live action, without that original soundtrack, and instead put some cheesy pop/rock/nu-metal coz its cool soundtrack to it, that will further degrade the whole thing.
Akira would *not* have been as great as it is, without that soundtrack...
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(especially 18-29 aged voters, sadly, most of that group doesn't vote).
Yes, but perhaps it is candidates like Georgy that will bring these people actually out to vote? I know if I lived in the US, i'd be down there voting for her come election time - shes one of a very few political minded individuals I can actually identify with.
I would like to know why I submitted this story FIVE DAYS AGO and it was rejected, and yet now this guy posts exactly the same article as I did, and his gets ACCEPTED???
2003-06-27 05:23:19 Quicksilver and The Real Character (articles,encryption) (rejected)
Hay moderators - whats the big frikken deal here???? Not really fair huh???
I feel totally gipped - especially as I got to this story days before this one even got posted.
Pfff. Sending articles into slashdot is like russian roulette it seems.
Disappointing, moderators.
hoi coward, you missed his BEST book out of the lot.
Permutation City.
F.
Top ten of the "newer" scifi authors. (not in any particular order)
1) Jeff Noon - top. seriously. wow. every single person that reads slashdot must read this guy. Im warning you!! Read him or suffer the fate of never having read him!! Im serious!
2) Sean Williams and Shane Dix - man. Aussie authors rock, vast space opera. Nice guy too.
3) Sean McMullin - more aussie rightness. any of them, but Souls in the Great Machine is fukin awesome.
4) Alystair Reynolds!!!! Tech space opera.
5) Ken McLeod!! OMG serious slashdot geek lover conspiracy gone mental writing...
6) Greg Egan - dont get me wrong, I love his stuff...but I love his earlier stuff where he wasnt trying so hard to make "a political difference" in some way with his stories much better,,plus I have issues with his feelings on immigartion and his boring anti-"cult of personality" thing..but, regardless...read Permutation City or Quarantine. Wow. Eh, Teranesia is good too...
7) China Mieville - Holy shit! The Scar and Perdido street staion. Mind blowing.
8)Iain M Banks - with the M. Need I say more?
9) Jon Courtney Grimwood - the Arabesk stuff. Amazing alt-history series. Blow go boom.
10)Interzone Magazine - okay, so I'm cheating, its not one author - but the stories and the format are fukin amazing - seriously, it is my favorite scifi magazine, and gives a wonderful cross section of non-amerikan-centralised works. A lot of Australian and British etc authors. Go get a copy and subscribe, you wont be disappointed.
Just wanted to throw this in to keep away fromt he us-bias that makes up the majority of this list =P
F.
A "more modern" soundtrack???
Who gives a toss about that??? If they make a live action soundtrack, then they should just use the OLD soundtrack, remastered and perhaps remixed a little - the original soundtrack is absolutly *AWESOME* - I have it on CD, and is one of my most favorite parts of the movie.
If they do a live action, without that original soundtrack, and instead put some cheesy pop/rock/nu-metal coz its cool soundtrack to it, that will further degrade the whole thing.
Akira would *not* have been as great as it is, without that soundtrack...