Do you know how much extra work that makes for the employees, who have better shit to do than clean up after someone trying to be "clever"?
Oddly enough, people trying to make an Important Social Statement never seem to actually think about the people they're supposed to be sticking up for. Kind of like all those anti-trade protestors who trash McDonald's restaurants, not considering that they mainly just screwed over the employees, who wouldn't be working there if they didn't really need the money.
That is, a hydrogen economy that is not dependant on oil for its source of hydrogen in the first place. Bush and Co. will never let that happen and you know it. This is purely a novelty since it doesn't make Halliburton more money.
It is a terrible pity that they can't invent a hydrogen fuel cell which runs off paranoia. Perhaps a design incorporating bacteria and a tin foil hat would work.
If you hack something that causes someone's death, you SHOULD be charged with murder, regardless of your intentions. If some ass hole got into a radar control computer and accidently caused two airplanes to collide, 500 counts of manslaughter would be a very much appropiate sentence.
Yes, it would be, because manslaughter is not the same thing as murder.
It differs by state, but essentially murder requires that a person have premeditated the idea of killing someone. Manslaughter requires either that you snapped and killed someone in the heat of passion (voluntary manslaughter), or that you killed someone while committing a non-felony crime (involuntary manslaughter). A person who commits misdemeanor-level computer tampering and causes the death of 500 people could be indicted on 500 counts of involuntary manslaughter.
I'm not sure what the essence of the original series was but I'm sure it was more about presenting new ideas and challenges to the viewer
The point of the original series was to entertain by presenting history to young viewers in the context of a science-fiction program. Over the course of 27 seasons it wandered away from this concept considerably, but it was never intended to have a Moral Purpose after the fashion of Roddenberry's Star Trek.
Perhaps the saddest part about France going to Microsoft for this project is that whatever data is produced is more likely to be locked into some proprietary format.
That's a needlessly harsh way to refer to the French language. The proper term is "an obsolete format".
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Homer ( not simpson, the pgilosopher chap)
Just FYI: Homer was a Greek poet, not a philosopher.
Oddly enough, people trying to make an Important Social Statement never seem to actually think about the people they're supposed to be sticking up for. Kind of like all those anti-trade protestors who trash McDonald's restaurants, not considering that they mainly just screwed over the employees, who wouldn't be working there if they didn't really need the money.
Worst voice of guide, ever (mainly if you're British).
Consider that the movie was made by Disney, and rethink that statement. "Middle-aged American Pooh", anyone?
IIRC, in "Mostly Harmless" she almost got a shot at an American newsanchor's job because of her English accent.
That is, a hydrogen economy that is not dependant on oil for its source of hydrogen in the first place. Bush and Co. will never let that happen and you know it. This is purely a novelty since it doesn't make Halliburton more money.
It is a terrible pity that they can't invent a hydrogen fuel cell which runs off paranoia. Perhaps a design incorporating bacteria and a tin foil hat would work.
If you hack something that causes someone's death, you SHOULD be charged with murder, regardless of your intentions. If some ass hole got into a radar control computer and accidently caused two airplanes to collide, 500 counts of manslaughter would be a very much appropiate sentence.
Yes, it would be, because manslaughter is not the same thing as murder.
It differs by state, but essentially murder requires that a person have premeditated the idea of killing someone. Manslaughter requires either that you snapped and killed someone in the heat of passion (voluntary manslaughter), or that you killed someone while committing a non-felony crime (involuntary manslaughter). A person who commits misdemeanor-level computer tampering and causes the death of 500 people could be indicted on 500 counts of involuntary manslaughter.
Yes, but then you have people being charged for murder when their modifications cause crashs.
That would probably be reckless homicide, not murder. Murder requires a finding that the modifier intentionally caused the crash.
As little as a few hundred years ago, most boys learned how to shoot a rifle.
A few hundred years ago? Rifled firearms only emerged at the end of the eighteenth century.
Anyway, most boys were taught to shoot a rifle until just a few decades ago; in America, it's probably still a substantial proportion.
'Contains scenes of perl'
They're just trying to spice up a crappy sql.
the most incredibly sucky species on the planet
Apparently you've never heard of the leech, lamprey, or remora.
KIM: kekekeke DPRK rush ^_^
ROK: no fair we said 60 yrs no rush
Are you free, Mr. Humphries?
No, Captain Peacock, but I'm really quite affordable.
Has anyone ever seen a number?
I can't say I've ever seen one, but I seem to recall that Sesame Street was always brought to me by one.
but then if you didn't know it wsa a Nobel Prize winning classic, would you think it was well written?
James Joyce won the Nobel Prize?
There's also something fundamentally puzzling about the idea of literature which you don't "know" is well written until someone tells you.
End of story, finish him.
Monkelectric wins. Friendship. Friendship?
In imperio Parthicae, tabularia te cavant!
Even if I think that taxpayer funding for this project was a mistake in the first place, that's a sunk cost
Continued funding is, by definition, not a sunk cost.
My suggestion would be to create an interesting storyline and bring back Tom Baker. The man would slide straight back in.
Tom Baker is 71 years old.
I'm not sure what the essence of the original series was but I'm sure it was more about presenting new ideas and challenges to the viewer
The point of the original series was to entertain by presenting history to young viewers in the context of a science-fiction program. Over the course of 27 seasons it wandered away from this concept considerably, but it was never intended to have a Moral Purpose after the fashion of Roddenberry's Star Trek.
Perhaps the saddest part about France going to Microsoft for this project is that whatever data is produced is more likely to be locked into some proprietary format.
That's a needlessly harsh way to refer to the French language. The proper term is "an obsolete format".
That's interesting. Could you name three or four of these "so many" deeply religious appointees?
Can you kindly tell us which missions/telescopes are more useful than the MOST important astronomical instrument in the HISTORY of man?
Well, I would have liked to have saved it too, but Galileo's telescope is probably long since gone.
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