A smoldering hole in the ground, watched by many for signs of activity leading to great destruction. Usually produces little more than some noise and gas.
I wish all of the TV networks would follow this example. I don't need the network logo in the corner of my show for the entire hour. Even if they threw it up there once or twice an episode it would be tolerable. Some of the channels aren't satisfied with just a watermark either, and go for full color and sometimes animated logos.
And news channels: I'm not reading your scroll bars and I doubt anyone else does either. Stop making your news channels look like web pages. FFS when there a major breaking story do you think people might want to see the f'ing video?
In a world filled with advertisements and spam, it's nice to see AMD get a clue.
"..Since every CD I buy today says that downloading music has the same effect as stealing a disc..."
I wonder if any attorney has tried using this in court? If there is actual RIAA literature out there saying the downloading of music is the same as theft of a CD, wouldn't that establish a monetary value of the content and hence limit the financial liability of the downloader/filesharer?
My favorite box art of the 80's was "Star Raiders" for the Atari 400/800 computers. It bore only an abstract resemblance to the game. I could waste a whole day playing that game. I'd love to see a faithful update to Star Raiders.
I share a name with a famous athlete. I am a needle in a haystack as far as my real name in a google search.
In an effort to scatter my online activity I've recently put to rest the notion of having just one nick. Now I have many. Every new site or forum I join that allows anonymity I use a different nickname. I'm not fond of many of the new screen names I use, but I can walk away from my user profiles without caring.
I don't participate in myspace, facebook, or any site that encourages putting my personal info up there.
My wife on the other hand, does not share my feelings on the matter. As a result someone I know found my very private (for emergencies) cell number recently and decided to be nasty to me for not giving them the number.
I never had problems like that back in my BBS days.
I'd like to see a cast of nothing but attorneys go all "Lord of the Flies" on each other. Or maybe a lawyer could stand in for Buster on Mystbusters. Or Mike Rowe could make them clean up some kind of poo.
I wasn't arguing for staying in Iraq. It's time for Iraq to stand (or fall) on it's own. I see no point in US troops driving humvees through hostile areas everyday. The US has bases in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. We don't need our people in direct harm's way every day to secure the region when we are 10 minutes away by air.
You were originally making a (sarcastic) comment about Germany, as if to suggest there should not be US military bases anywhere. The truth is many of these bases HAVE outlived their utility, but remain open because they create jobs and fuel local economies. Jobs are not only created for brass and soldiers, but for local contractors and businesses in close proximity to the base. If you doubt this look at how people get upset when the local base is posted a list to be decommissioned, especially in a smaller town.
Spewns - Unless you live in a schoolbus on a hippie commune I'm guessing you do something to earn cash.
Please suggest a way that this family could grow their money in a way that does not offend your delicate sensibilities. Whether it's buying gold, the stock market, real estate, baseball cards... the one thing every form of investment has in common is one party feels the item in question is more valuable than the money in their pocket, and thus goods are sold and money changes hands.
I'm happy for the family and I hope they have enough left over from the sale to pay the mortgage and build a nestegg. Perhaps they should invest in some of whatever it is you're selling.
Your pithy comment might look good on a bumper sticker or t-shirt, but it's not really this same thing and we both know it. It's about as dumb as the arguments from the right "when will we stop occupying (Chicago or other city) as there are more deaths there in (time period) than Iraq.
Germany is a strategic ally and fellow NATO member. Simply having operational bases in a country is not the same as occupation. The US does not patrol the streets of Germany, nor do they perform operational missions within Germany's borders aside from training simulations. Assignment in Germany is normally a cushy job and one many soldiers hope for.
US presence in Germany was scaled back following the re-unification of the two Germanys. Early in the Clinton administration early discharge was offered to many US soldiers as a scaling back "peace dividend" (I remember this personally because my wife took the opportunity to return to civilian life). Many troops who were stationed in Germany were moved to Saudi Arabia.
>>I hate acronym abuse. Why can't people just speak fucking English? I mean, not even Google can decipher this post! Technology Services Industry Association? Twinkies? What the fuck are you waffling about?
It's no sillier than the explanation once given to why the TARDIS is bigger on the inside.
I think it was Peter Davidson's Doctor that put a large box far away and a small box by the viewer's POV and then says "now you put the big box inside the little one"
Matt Smith has been very good, and if they could get Tom Baker back for a story nobody would be happier than me. Baker's not likely to return to the show full time but a story or two would kick ass. He's aged a lot since Logopolis, so they'd need to explain that. Baker suggested a few years ago he'd be interested in playing the Master, and that would be extremely cool.
>>"The magical way they brought back The Master for the end of season 4 was just stupid."
I watched "End of Time" 1 and 2 in one sitting, so I was a lot happier with it than other people. the way the brought back the Master was goofy, but hardly the worst plot device in Who history. The scene where the Doctor asks the Master to travel the universe with him was great, there was a moment where the Master actually considered it. But mostly John Simm is awesome so any chance for him to return to the show...
>>"At least with a form of history reset they can ignore a lot of previous shows"
They gave themselves a big broom to sweep up mistakes with the time crack last season. I doubt they'd completely reset the Who universe, Mofit is such a fan of the older show.
>>"Its getting too melodramatic and mushy on these story ark endings as well"
Hey, my wife cried at the end of "Vincent". Some of the shows cater to the female Who fans.
>>"...WW2 planes in space... the UK on an endangered space whale..."
I was more sorry to see them scrap the cool Dalek props they've used for the last four years for the iPod version.
>>"...it would be nice if the UK was not the center of the universe"
But that's part of Doctor Who! They're doing new Torchwood episodes and filming much if not all of the season here in the US, and and they did the '96 Who movie here in the US. It doesn't feel right. That's why you can't have a yank play the Doctor, even Johnny Depp. Doctor Who is uniquely British and should always be that way.
There's a lot of potential to revisit the early days of the Doctor, but one of the big question marks old fans ask is "Granddaughter?"
The Doctor has said in the new series that he was a dad at one point, so it's certainly possible that Susan really is part of his family from Gallifrey. Was she a Timelord as well? Does everyone on Galifray get to regenerate? The Doctor has said several times he is the last Timelord, so does that mean he believes Susan had died/gone away during the Time War? He believes the rest of his family is dead. Did she return to Earth after The Five Doctors and live the rest of her life in the 22nd century? Could she have grown a TARDIS and traveled?
There's no shortage of storytelling cheats for giving the Doctor a 14th incarnation and beyond. But like most fans I have a curiosity to see how it will eventually be done.
The simplest explanation would be to say No Timelords = No limits. The limitation was governed by some mechanism that went away. But how do you make it dramatic and interesting?
The Doctor would eventually need to deal with the burden that he will be the last living thing in the universe, outlasting even the TARDIS, watching the last star grow cold.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm going to register that and typo squat to the site of my choosing.
A smoldering hole in the ground, watched by many for signs of activity leading to great destruction. Usually produces little more than some noise and gas.
TSIA
...ask them "What does it mean?"
I wish all of the TV networks would follow this example. I don't need the network logo in the corner of my show for the entire hour. Even if they threw it up there once or twice an episode it would be tolerable. Some of the channels aren't satisfied with just a watermark either, and go for full color and sometimes animated logos.
And news channels: I'm not reading your scroll bars and I doubt anyone else does either. Stop making your news channels look like web pages. FFS when there a major breaking story do you think people might want to see the f'ing video?
In a world filled with advertisements and spam, it's nice to see AMD get a clue.
The Mother of All Bad Deployments over at Digg today. Everything is broken. Good thing they didn't publish during peak usage. Oh, wait...
Television gives us so much and asks so little in return. Why must you be so tempted by hours of web surfing?
Just turn off you brain and give TV your whole day. There's probably a Deadliest Catch marathon you could be watching.
"..Since every CD I buy today says that downloading music has the same effect as stealing a disc..."
I wonder if any attorney has tried using this in court? If there is actual RIAA literature out there saying the downloading of music is the same as theft of a CD, wouldn't that establish a monetary value of the content and hence limit the financial liability of the downloader/filesharer?
My favorite box art of the 80's was "Star Raiders" for the Atari 400/800 computers. It bore only an abstract resemblance to the game. I could waste a whole day playing that game. I'd love to see a faithful update to Star Raiders.
Well, at least Google never does anything evil. Oh, wait..
I share a name with a famous athlete. I am a needle in a haystack as far as my real name in a google search.
In an effort to scatter my online activity I've recently put to rest the notion of having just one nick. Now I have many. Every new site or forum I join that allows anonymity I use a different nickname. I'm not fond of many of the new screen names I use, but I can walk away from my user profiles without caring.
I don't participate in myspace, facebook, or any site that encourages putting my personal info up there.
My wife on the other hand, does not share my feelings on the matter. As a result someone I know found my very private (for emergencies) cell number recently and decided to be nasty to me for not giving them the number.
I never had problems like that back in my BBS days.
I'd like to see a cast of nothing but attorneys go all "Lord of the Flies" on each other. Or maybe a lawyer could stand in for Buster on Mystbusters. Or Mike Rowe could make them clean up some kind of poo.
I wasn't arguing for staying in Iraq. It's time for Iraq to stand (or fall) on it's own. I see no point in US troops driving humvees through hostile areas everyday. The US has bases in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. We don't need our people in direct harm's way every day to secure the region when we are 10 minutes away by air.
You were originally making a (sarcastic) comment about Germany, as if to suggest there should not be US military bases anywhere. The truth is many of these bases HAVE outlived their utility, but remain open because they create jobs and fuel local economies. Jobs are not only created for brass and soldiers, but for local contractors and businesses in close proximity to the base. If you doubt this look at how people get upset when the local base is posted a list to be decommissioned, especially in a smaller town.
Spewns -
Unless you live in a schoolbus on a hippie commune I'm guessing you do something to earn cash.
Please suggest a way that this family could grow their money in a way that does not offend your delicate sensibilities. Whether it's buying gold, the stock market, real estate, baseball cards... the one thing every form of investment has in common is one party feels the item in question is more valuable than the money in their pocket, and thus goods are sold and money changes hands.
I'm happy for the family and I hope they have enough left over from the sale to pay the mortgage and build a nestegg. Perhaps they should invest in some of whatever it is you're selling.
Tim S-
Your pithy comment might look good on a bumper sticker or t-shirt, but it's not really this same thing and we both know it. It's about as dumb as the arguments from the right "when will we stop occupying (Chicago or other city) as there are more deaths there in (time period) than Iraq.
Germany is a strategic ally and fellow NATO member. Simply having operational bases in a country is not the same as occupation. The US does not patrol the streets of Germany, nor do they perform operational missions within Germany's borders aside from training simulations. Assignment in Germany is normally a cushy job and one many soldiers hope for.
US presence in Germany was scaled back following the re-unification of the two Germanys. Early in the Clinton administration early discharge was offered to many US soldiers as a scaling back "peace dividend" (I remember this personally because my wife took the opportunity to return to civilian life). Many troops who were stationed in Germany were moved to Saudi Arabia.
TSIA GFY
>>I hate acronym abuse. Why can't people just speak fucking English? I mean, not even Google can decipher this post! Technology Services Industry Association? Twinkies? What the fuck are you waffling about?
Sheesh!
TSIA
...would be blacklisting for sites that serve ads and popups. I'd settle for restricting flash to site domain only.
... a star so large if you swapped it with our sun it's surface would extend past Saturn's orbit.
It's no sillier than the explanation once given to why the TARDIS is bigger on the inside.
I think it was Peter Davidson's Doctor that put a large box far away and a small box by the viewer's POV and then says "now you put the big box inside the little one"
Or transferring memories via head butt.
TSIA
SW Holiday Special air date was Nov. 17, 1978 - six days before Thanksgiving. It was not, as many believe, a Christmas show.
Matt Smith has been very good, and if they could get Tom Baker back for a story nobody would be happier than me. Baker's not likely to return to the show full time but a story or two would kick ass. He's aged a lot since Logopolis, so they'd need to explain that. Baker suggested a few years ago he'd be interested in playing the Master, and that would be extremely cool.
>>"The magical way they brought back The Master for the end of season 4 was just stupid."
I watched "End of Time" 1 and 2 in one sitting, so I was a lot happier with it than other people. the way the brought back the Master was goofy, but hardly the worst plot device in Who history. The scene where the Doctor asks the Master to travel the universe with him was great, there was a moment where the Master actually considered it. But mostly John Simm is awesome so any chance for him to return to the show...
>>"At least with a form of history reset they can ignore a lot of previous shows"
They gave themselves a big broom to sweep up mistakes with the time crack last season. I doubt they'd completely reset the Who universe, Mofit is such a fan of the older show.
>>"Its getting too melodramatic and mushy on these story ark endings as well"
Hey, my wife cried at the end of "Vincent". Some of the shows cater to the female Who fans.
>>"...WW2 planes in space... the UK on an endangered space whale ..."
I was more sorry to see them scrap the cool Dalek props they've used for the last four years for the iPod version.
>>"...it would be nice if the UK was not the center of the universe"
But that's part of Doctor Who! They're doing new Torchwood episodes and filming much if not all of the season here in the US, and and they did the '96 Who movie here in the US. It doesn't feel right. That's why you can't have a yank play the Doctor, even Johnny Depp. Doctor Who is uniquely British and should always be that way.
There's a lot of potential to revisit the early days of the Doctor, but one of the big question marks old fans ask is "Granddaughter?"
The Doctor has said in the new series that he was a dad at one point, so it's certainly possible that Susan really is part of his family from Gallifrey. Was she a Timelord as well? Does everyone on Galifray get to regenerate? The Doctor has said several times he is the last Timelord, so does that mean he believes Susan had died/gone away during the Time War? He believes the rest of his family is dead. Did she return to Earth after The Five Doctors and live the rest of her life in the 22nd century? Could she have grown a TARDIS and traveled?
There's no shortage of storytelling cheats for giving the Doctor a 14th incarnation and beyond. But like most fans I have a curiosity to see how it will eventually be done.
The simplest explanation would be to say No Timelords = No limits. The limitation was governed by some mechanism that went away. But how do you make it dramatic and interesting?
The Doctor would eventually need to deal with the burden that he will be the last living thing in the universe, outlasting even the TARDIS, watching the last star grow cold.