I read some of the later books, but right, not 2001. I am of the opinion however that a movie has to stand on it's own, without reading the book it was based off of.
Even a cursory beginner's intro to the history of the United States would show that the 2nd amendment was never about hunting ducks or deer, and was always about protecting the people from tyrannical government using firearms as their last resort.
Reasoning that doesn't hold up well against the modern army. How it turned into an entitlement thing "I should be able to take my gun into any crowded public place I want!" is beyond me.
You're implying the only reason Mossad could have assassinated Bull is that they knew this was going to work? That's about as logical as many conspiracy theorists get I suppose.
Mossad could have killed him for any number of reasons, maybe just to send a message to Saddam. It may well have been that they killed him because they were afraid of the supergun, but even if that were the case, that in no way proves that the thing would have ever worked, as Mossad may have easily made a mistake or killed him without actually finding the truth.
Some friends and I built a potato gun in college. A sponge fired from it crushed a cheap suit of armor we had, so we abandoned plans for our pizza delivery business.
I had some weird friends and furniture in college.
Yes gents, Saddam Hussein could have given us cheap access to space ensuring new area of prosperity for mankind, and era of space colonization...and we killed him!
OR Saddam hired a quack who was assassinated before he was revealed to be a complete phoney.
Had there been something resembling a successful test, I'd say we may have screwed up, but the only mentioned test was a failure. Also I don't hold Saddam's judgment in very high regard, it doesn't sound like there was much peer review on this project, and the US tends to take useful technology and scientific talent from it's enemies rather than destroy it.
Therefore I doubt this was anything that would have been useful, but I suppose we'll probably never be able to verify or deny your conspiracy theory.
In World War two it was discovered that the best way for the allies to get intel from their prisoners on what the Germans were up to was a steak dinner.
Torture is just a violent jerk finding righteous excuses for unconscionable behavior and is counter productive every time.
Coming soon: Inglorious basterds 2: revenge is a dish best served medium rare.
This time, an American shock troop focuses not on brutally killing Nazis, but instead on serving them excellent steak dinners.
If people knew what was really going on, talks would probably break down from public outcry alone.
I don't know, it's hard for me to imagine something that could be in a draft of ACTA that would penetrate the average citizen's consciousness, let alone outrage them enough to do something about it.
Killing FOSS? No
Extradition and jail times for copying, not just sharing music? Maybe, I'm not hopeful it would
Searching hard drives and MP3 players at the border? Only after ACTA was already ratified once everyone going overseas was getting their MP3 players and computer hard drives destroyed.
Mandatory minimum jail times for people caught trying to rip and upload screeners of movies at the theaters? Probably not
Force itunes and other digital distribution to sell only albums and not singles? Probably not.
Worldwide mandatory internet filtering to keep people from finding pirated warez? Honestly, no, I don't think that would.
The things that I think -would- cause an outrage for the average citizen are things that the MPAA has little interest in and would have to be creationism-level stupid to try anyway:
Banning MP3 players? Yes
Worldwide mandatory internet censorship to block porn? Yes
Maybe I'm just being cynical about the intelligence of the average citizen.
I'm sure at some point the RIAA/MPAA will tell us that it will compromise national security if they tell what's being negotiated. After that, they will claim it's to protect children, because a lot of kiddy porn is exchanged at these secret meetings.
terdons, which actually have a long, and exciting courtship ritual, involving lots of mas...
s effect playing, which ultimately was more interesting than actually mating, and that is why they went extinct. Another factor contributing to their extinction was mas...
You mean you hope there's action taken if they are proven to be true, right?
Due process applies to everyone, not just the people we like.
Wait, when did our hopes have to include due process? Does this mean I can no longer hope that certain American citizens who annoy me on a daily basis get tortured for all eternity by the devil himself? Can I still hope it if I also hope they go through a sham trial in some south american junta first and are convicted on grounds of "being fucking annoying?"
I'm a little unclear as to how the extradition would work there...
If you teach your kids to emulate the most corrupt douchebags right from the start, may I suggest that you also teach your kids that drinking and driving or abusing prescription drugs are cool?
God forbid that a company that helped pioneer photography for the last hundred or so years be paid for doing so.
They did get paid for it, for the last hundred or so years. That wasn't enough? Well then they should come up with more pioneering stuff rather than claiming the obvious is theirs. Being able to preview the picture you've taken on a digital camera isn't a pioneering innovation that should be specially awarded.
My guess is that's not actually for physical disabilities, it's for learning disabilities. Many universities have policies whereby students with learning disabilities are given special arrangements. If you have bad attention deficit, you might be able to take the finals completely separate from other students. Typically one of those options is if you have a learning/reading disability you get extra time on the final.
That's all well and good, except there are obviously going to be some students who take advantage of that.
I was proctoring one three hour final exam after a full semester of teaching the class. A student walks in with a note from the appropriate center saying "This student has a learning disability and is entitled to twice the normal amount of time for the exam." ON THE DAY OF THE EXAM. No advance notice, she just expected me to drop everything and spend the rest of my day for her. Threw royal hissy fits all the way up the administrative tree when I said absolutely not, even though the letter itself said in big bold letters that the student was obligated to contact the professor at least two weeks in advance.
I've heard of other institutions dealing with similar problem students, ones who feel entitled to having the world bend over to them, because it's not their fault they didn't learn the material, it's the professors, or if the professor is found to be blameless it's the TA, or their disability not being compensated for.
Have to emphasize here that most students with learning disabilities aren't in that category, most don't want to be held to a lower standard at all. A sense that the world owes me is not a valid disability, and if I seem hostile, it's entirely directed at the few lazy arrogant students who are abusing this.
Anyway, my guess is that is another layer of insulation to head that off at the pass, since many students abusing it are too lazy to make advance arrangements before they get into hot water gradwise. I would also guess that most of those students try it anyway and complain to whoever they can get despite that notice.
Daredevil, a blind guy, can feel the print on a page so he could read it wheras he or similar people lacking sight but having other superhuman senses would not be able to read a kindle. So that's at least one fictional character to whom a kindle would be more of an obstacle than a book.
For the fraction of less than 1 percent of our customers who are concerned...
For the very extremely low and small fraction of far less than 1 percent, seriously there are like so few of you that I can't believe I'm issuing a press release, I mean I could just walk around to the insanely lonely few of you who are concerned about this thing... I'm sorry, I just want to emphasize how little this policy affects anyone besides like a small handfull of our customers. Because so few of you will be affected by this trivial little thing. Seriously, there aren't many of you. Lets not make a big deal about it, because I mean I haven't looked, but I bet I could count the people who this will affect on one hand. I mean, I've sent all the people who should be concerned with this a letter, and I mean one letter because that's all it took, via snailmail not even e-mail. I'd hesitate to even say we're going to be throttling people with this, because I bet those two or three people over the limit were flukes or something anyway, we're really generous.
Is there a term for when you make a joke on/., someone responds by making the joke more obvious, and then they get the funny mod instead of you? Maybe "whooshmodded?"
Anyway, two can play at that game:
?: "Knock knock?"
Frenchman: "Who is there? NEVERMIND WE SURRENDER BECAUSE WE'RE FRENCH AND EAT CHEESE!"
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I read some of the later books, but right, not 2001. I am of the opinion however that a movie has to stand on it's own, without reading the book it was based off of.
I did say "Kubrick" not "Clarke."
Even a cursory beginner's intro to the history of the United States would show that the 2nd amendment was never about hunting ducks or deer, and was always about protecting the people from tyrannical government using firearms as their last resort.
Reasoning that doesn't hold up well against the modern army. How it turned into an entitlement thing "I should be able to take my gun into any crowded public place I want!" is beyond me.
An chicks dig house boats
Maybe the ones YOU are into.
You're implying the only reason Mossad could have assassinated Bull is that they knew this was going to work? That's about as logical as many conspiracy theorists get I suppose.
Mossad could have killed him for any number of reasons, maybe just to send a message to Saddam. It may well have been that they killed him because they were afraid of the supergun, but even if that were the case, that in no way proves that the thing would have ever worked, as Mossad may have easily made a mistake or killed him without actually finding the truth.
Contrary to the thoughts of Stanley Kubrick, no plot in space is much more boring.
George Lucas understood this in the 70's but then forgot it in the 90's.
Some friends and I built a potato gun in college. A sponge fired from it crushed a cheap suit of armor we had, so we abandoned plans for our pizza delivery business.
I had some weird friends and furniture in college.
Yes gents, Saddam Hussein could have given us cheap access to space ensuring new area of prosperity for mankind, and era of space colonization...and we killed him!
OR Saddam hired a quack who was assassinated before he was revealed to be a complete phoney.
Had there been something resembling a successful test, I'd say we may have screwed up, but the only mentioned test was a failure. Also I don't hold Saddam's judgment in very high regard, it doesn't sound like there was much peer review on this project, and the US tends to take useful technology and scientific talent from it's enemies rather than destroy it.
Therefore I doubt this was anything that would have been useful, but I suppose we'll probably never be able to verify or deny your conspiracy theory.
In World War two it was discovered that the best way for the allies to get intel from their prisoners on what the Germans were up to was a steak dinner.
Torture is just a violent jerk finding righteous excuses for unconscionable behavior and is counter productive every time.
Coming soon: Inglorious basterds 2: revenge is a dish best served medium rare.
This time, an American shock troop focuses not on brutally killing Nazis, but instead on serving them excellent steak dinners.
If people knew what was really going on, talks would probably break down from public outcry alone.
I don't know, it's hard for me to imagine something that could be in a draft of ACTA that would penetrate the average citizen's consciousness, let alone outrage them enough to do something about it.
Killing FOSS? No
Extradition and jail times for copying, not just sharing music? Maybe, I'm not hopeful it would
Searching hard drives and MP3 players at the border? Only after ACTA was already ratified once everyone going overseas was getting their MP3 players and computer hard drives destroyed.
Mandatory minimum jail times for people caught trying to rip and upload screeners of movies at the theaters? Probably not
Force itunes and other digital distribution to sell only albums and not singles? Probably not.
Worldwide mandatory internet filtering to keep people from finding pirated warez? Honestly, no, I don't think that would.
The things that I think -would- cause an outrage for the average citizen are things that the MPAA has little interest in and would have to be creationism-level stupid to try anyway:
Banning MP3 players? Yes
Worldwide mandatory internet censorship to block porn? Yes
Maybe I'm just being cynical about the intelligence of the average citizen.
I'm sure at some point the RIAA/MPAA will tell us that it will compromise national security if they tell what's being negotiated. After that, they will claim it's to protect children, because a lot of kiddy porn is exchanged at these secret meetings.
It also proves that America doesn't have a monopoly on legal stupidity...
No, the LSIAA (legal stupid idiots of america association) just hasn't caught wind of this yet.
terdons, which actually have a long, and exciting courtship ritual, involving lots of mas...
s effect playing, which ultimately was more interesting than actually mating, and that is why they went extinct. Another factor contributing to their extinction was mas...
You mean you hope there's action taken if they are proven to be true, right?
Due process applies to everyone, not just the people we like.
Wait, when did our hopes have to include due process? Does this mean I can no longer hope that certain American citizens who annoy me on a daily basis get tortured for all eternity by the devil himself? Can I still hope it if I also hope they go through a sham trial in some south american junta first and are convicted on grounds of "being fucking annoying?"
I'm a little unclear as to how the extradition would work there...
If you teach your kids to emulate the most corrupt douchebags right from the start, may I suggest that you also teach your kids that drinking and driving or abusing prescription drugs are cool?
WHY do these "reporter" insist on putting in a snapshot of the stock price at that moment in time?
Because there's a patent on reporting on business news -without- giving the stock price.
How? If it's so obviously invalid, why are so many big corporations paying Kodak?
We're using the actions of "big corporations" as a standard now? By that logic, Jay Leno is funnier than Conan O'Brien.
God forbid that a company that helped pioneer photography for the last hundred or so years be paid for doing so.
They did get paid for it, for the last hundred or so years. That wasn't enough? Well then they should come up with more pioneering stuff rather than claiming the obvious is theirs. Being able to preview the picture you've taken on a digital camera isn't a pioneering innovation that should be specially awarded.
If I wanted a joystick, I'd buy a joystick, don't put a thumbstick on my controller
If I wanted more than two buttons on my controller, I'd tape two NES controllers together.
If I wanted wireless controllers, I'd just yell instructions at my little brother as he plays using the wired controller.
If I wanted online gaming, I'd call a friend on the telephone while playing Super Mario Bros 3
If I wanted 64 bits, I'd wire 8 NESes together
If I wanted to go duck hunting, I'd get my shotgun and some ducks and my dog who laughs at me when I miss.
If I wanted to commit grand theft auto, I'd be on strike three.
If I wanted halo, I'd go to church.
If I wanted to roll things up to make new stars, I'd be working at the Large Hadron Collider.
My guess is that's not actually for physical disabilities, it's for learning disabilities. Many universities have policies whereby students with learning disabilities are given special arrangements. If you have bad attention deficit, you might be able to take the finals completely separate from other students. Typically one of those options is if you have a learning/reading disability you get extra time on the final.
That's all well and good, except there are obviously going to be some students who take advantage of that.
I was proctoring one three hour final exam after a full semester of teaching the class. A student walks in with a note from the appropriate center saying "This student has a learning disability and is entitled to twice the normal amount of time for the exam." ON THE DAY OF THE EXAM. No advance notice, she just expected me to drop everything and spend the rest of my day for her. Threw royal hissy fits all the way up the administrative tree when I said absolutely not, even though the letter itself said in big bold letters that the student was obligated to contact the professor at least two weeks in advance.
I've heard of other institutions dealing with similar problem students, ones who feel entitled to having the world bend over to them, because it's not their fault they didn't learn the material, it's the professors, or if the professor is found to be blameless it's the TA, or their disability not being compensated for.
Have to emphasize here that most students with learning disabilities aren't in that category, most don't want to be held to a lower standard at all. A sense that the world owes me is not a valid disability, and if I seem hostile, it's entirely directed at the few lazy arrogant students who are abusing this.
Anyway, my guess is that is another layer of insulation to head that off at the pass, since many students abusing it are too lazy to make advance arrangements before they get into hot water gradwise. I would also guess that most of those students try it anyway and complain to whoever they can get despite that notice.
-chime-
On behalf of big government, I sincerely apologize.
(Yes, I know that's not what it means)
Daredevil, a blind guy, can feel the print on a page so he could read it wheras he or similar people lacking sight but having other superhuman senses would not be able to read a kindle. So that's at least one fictional character to whom a kindle would be more of an obstacle than a book.
A gentleman? I think you missed a minor detail there...
You think "girlintraining" is a female just because of the name?
Hi, welcome to the internet, you must be new.
Of course if it got out that you gave ONE dollar to an organization, that would be pretty embarrassing, you'd be seen as cheap.
And you know who might publicly reveal who gave exactly ONE dollar?
Wikileaks.
For the fraction of less than 1 percent of our customers who are concerned...
For the very extremely low and small fraction of far less than 1 percent, seriously there are like so few of you that I can't believe I'm issuing a press release, I mean I could just walk around to the insanely lonely few of you who are concerned about this thing... I'm sorry, I just want to emphasize how little this policy affects anyone besides like a small handfull of our customers. Because so few of you will be affected by this trivial little thing. Seriously, there aren't many of you. Lets not make a big deal about it, because I mean I haven't looked, but I bet I could count the people who this will affect on one hand. I mean, I've sent all the people who should be concerned with this a letter, and I mean one letter because that's all it took, via snailmail not even e-mail. I'd hesitate to even say we're going to be throttling people with this, because I bet those two or three people over the limit were flukes or something anyway, we're really generous.
Is there a term for when you make a joke on /., someone responds by making the joke more obvious, and then they get the funny mod instead of you? Maybe "whooshmodded?"
Anyway, two can play at that game:
?: "Knock knock?"
Frenchman: "Who is there? NEVERMIND WE SURRENDER BECAUSE WE'RE FRENCH AND EAT CHEESE!"