If the details of the technology...and indeed the whole basis for the entire fucking plot...is somewhere beyond idiotic, it diminishes the film, no matter how good it is otherwise.
Even with Jar Jar and Darth "Yipee" Vader, "midichlorians" ruined Episode One for me.
Show me ads that I might actually be interested in, for fuck's sake!
I am tired of getting online casino ads everywhere I look. I'm tired of those fucking X10 ads. I am tired of all those domain registration ads ("Grab it now before it's gone!"...they've been saying for YEARS now). In short, I am tired of ads which are NOT TARGETTED TO ME.
No wonder the dot coms failed as badly as they did. With everyone so busy talking about targetted advertising, no one actually got round to DOING it.
Doubleclick can keep track of a huge portion of user's web browsing. They should be able to target ads fairly well...they should be able to get some idea of what sort of ads a web user would want to see.
Salon...well, salon probably has it tougher. Unless they can get information on their readers some other way, I think their best approach would be to try and make their ads as relevant to the story they are attached to as possible.
About.com is the ultimate example of fucked-upedness, though. They have SHITLOADS of text that I myself have written. They know a fair portion of my browsing habits. They should be serving up exactly what I want by now.
But I keep getting internet casino ads.
Of course, if no businesses are advertising things that customers actually want, I suppose there's little for a dotcom to do.
Oh, and I realize a lot of advertising is intended to make people want something; to create demand, but it is pretty clear that it hasn't been working that well.
Flamebait? Wha? If it really was flamebait, I think I would have gotten more replies.
What is the difference between flamebait and trolling (which this wasn't)? Flamebait is a successful troll, I think...or one so obvious that people would be expected to take the bait.
I don't get what the flamebait here is, and I wrote the thing. It must not be obvious.
Many might not ever get a product to market. If they do, chances are, though, it'll sell. I doubt there are many biotech companies looking for answers to questions no one is asking.
Movies which will not be seen on television in the US for a while:
Die Hard
Die Hard 2
Die Hard 3
Air Force One
Executive Decision
Only the Lonely
Armageddon
Independence Day (this isn't a bad thing)
Godzilla (see Independence Day)
But I'll bet Die Hard, Die Hard 2, Air Force One, Excecutive Decision, and Armageddon are all really big rentals right now.
The web is organized by TOPICs (that is, web pages tend to be devoted to one sort of information)...and while that does include geography, things that can be organized that way are only a tiny fraction of what's out there.
But people looking for a car dealership in a particular town might think...oooh, cool! Except that any 3D game is likely to be way cooler. So what's the point?
Text-based directories for local areas are easy to find, don't open up as much possibility of putting things in the wrong place, if stuff like this 3D thing were generated automagically. They're probably easier to search, too.
The reason this won't succeed, and none will for a long time, is that they aren't especially useful, cause more problems than they solve (what problem is this supposed to solve again?) and require people to go get extra software.
If we're going to see 3D web browsing in the near future, I'm betting it will be through Flash, as that is software that DOES do something relatively useful (if you like watching cartoons) and is already widely distributed.
Do I have to have faith to believe that there is no santa claus? Do I have to have faith to believe that I do not have an 11 inch penis, half of which is invisible and which you cannot touch?
No, I do not. Non-acceptance of ridiculous ideas is not religious.
All religions teach hate and violence. And love and peace. Just depends who you ask.
One way you CAN say that religion (or at least, religious differences, which wouldn't exist if no one cared about religion) caused this is that half of the reason the US has any involvement in the middle east (and the other half is oil of course) is that Israel is holy to christians, AND, the fundy christians like having a state called Israel, because they see it as a fulfillment of biblical prophecy. If the state of Israel failed, that would put doomsday off schedule. Therefore the US has to keep the apocalypse on track by helping to prop up and perpetuate a really slow genocide.
Even if not one Jew lived in the States, it would probably be the same.
I wanna see Pat Robertson fight Osama Bin Laden to the death. The victor wins a QUICK death.
Yeah, it's like comparing Wipeout to Wipeout XL and Wipeout 3. Same deal. Except it was worse. You couldn't advance more than a fixed number of positions per lap no matter how good you were. If you made the tiniest error after gaining 3 positions, the cars in front of you would rocket out of sight...but in the next lap you can pass them like they're standing still. In the original, they drove with some intelligence.
Downs syndrome is an adversity virtually impossible to overcome to the point that you would "achieve" beyond what your typical high-school-dropout burger flipper would.
Oh, and all the focus in the world isn't going to help you if you don't have the skill or intelligence required to achieve your goals. Guess what retards are likely to lack.
Corky from "Life Goes On" was successful because someone needed to cast a retard. That is not a very big field, retard acting.
As for reproduction goes (I probably shouldn't have said procreation..some take that to mean having kids enough to increase population), that is pretty much the whole point of breeding...and parents can only produce so many children. Give it long enough, and natural selection could weed out those who don't do all they can to ensure that they're only pumping out kids who have a good chance of having kids themselves.
_Cyberantics_, by Jerry Prosser (writing as "Stanislaw Mayakovsky") and Rick Geary. Brilliant work of fiction which works on so many levels, and would be a plus 5 informative if it were a slashdot post.
Fuck that shit. What the hell kind of an asshole are you?
"Facing that type of pain will result in gain. Any child, however "disabled" or genetically malformed, that somehow manages to accomplish that single feat, even if they barely survive the week, will have had a richer, more rewarding life than many. "
And guess what...a child who ISN'T genetically malformed will be more likely to accomplish MORE than a single feat, and survive more than a week.
Raising a child who would inevitably die, or be a burden on their families or the state their entire lives wastes the parent's time and resources which would be better used to create a child who WOULDN'T bring them more pain than joy.
It also increases the chances that their offspring would procreate.
The ONLY bright spot I can think of is that the retarded kid might not realize how fucked up his/her life is, and thus would not share in his/her parents' misery (which, whether they voice it or not, or whether they eventually get over it, they possess or possessed at one point) OTOH, the mildly retarded are generally smart enough to KNOW that they are retarded. So even that isn't likely.
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Their whole business is based on selling crap based on the name emblazoned on it. Surpise surprise.
If the details of the technology...and indeed the whole basis for the entire fucking plot...is somewhere beyond idiotic, it diminishes the film, no matter how good it is otherwise.
Even with Jar Jar and Darth "Yipee" Vader, "midichlorians" ruined Episode One for me.
Show me ads that I might actually be interested in, for fuck's sake!
I am tired of getting online casino ads everywhere I look. I'm tired of those fucking X10 ads. I am tired of all those domain registration ads ("Grab it now before it's gone!"...they've been saying for YEARS now). In short, I am tired of ads which are NOT TARGETTED TO ME.
No wonder the dot coms failed as badly as they did. With everyone so busy talking about targetted advertising, no one actually got round to DOING it.
Doubleclick can keep track of a huge portion of user's web browsing. They should be able to target ads fairly well...they should be able to get some idea of what sort of ads a web user would want to see.
Salon...well, salon probably has it tougher. Unless they can get information on their readers some other way, I think their best approach would be to try and make their ads as relevant to the story they are attached to as possible.
About.com is the ultimate example of fucked-upedness, though. They have SHITLOADS of text that I myself have written. They know a fair portion of my browsing habits. They should be serving up exactly what I want by now.
But I keep getting internet casino ads.
Of course, if no businesses are advertising things that customers actually want, I suppose there's little for a dotcom to do.
Oh, and I realize a lot of advertising is intended to make people want something; to create demand, but it is pretty clear that it hasn't been working that well.
It isn't exactly a private company. It is a corporate entity controlled by state employees.
Flamebait? Wha? If it really was flamebait, I think I would have gotten more replies.
What is the difference between flamebait and trolling (which this wasn't)? Flamebait is a successful troll, I think...or one so obvious that people would be expected to take the bait.
I don't get what the flamebait here is, and I wrote the thing. It must not be obvious.
Of course it isn't. You can see people having sex with sheep, horses, and snakes, too.
Many might not ever get a product to market. If they do, chances are, though, it'll sell. I doubt there are many biotech companies looking for answers to questions no one is asking.
Isn't that reason to wish that aliens HAD attacked?
Movies which will not be seen on television in the US for a while:
Die Hard
Die Hard 2
Die Hard 3
Air Force One
Executive Decision
Only the Lonely
Armageddon
Independence Day (this isn't a bad thing)
Godzilla (see Independence Day)
But I'll bet Die Hard, Die Hard 2, Air Force One, Excecutive Decision, and Armageddon are all really big rentals right now.
The web is organized by TOPICs (that is, web pages tend to be devoted to one sort of information)...and while that does include geography, things that can be organized that way are only a tiny fraction of what's out there.
But people looking for a car dealership in a particular town might think...oooh, cool! Except that any 3D game is likely to be way cooler. So what's the point?
Text-based directories for local areas are easy to find, don't open up as much possibility of putting things in the wrong place, if stuff like this 3D thing were generated automagically. They're probably easier to search, too.
The reason this won't succeed, and none will for a long time, is that they aren't especially useful, cause more problems than they solve (what problem is this supposed to solve again?) and require people to go get extra software.
If we're going to see 3D web browsing in the near future, I'm betting it will be through Flash, as that is software that DOES do something relatively useful (if you like watching cartoons) and is already widely distributed.
They weren't covering it, they were covering the coverage of it. Slashdot is META-news for nerds.
Do I have to have faith to believe that there is no santa claus? Do I have to have faith to believe that I do not have an 11 inch penis, half of which is invisible and which you cannot touch?
No, I do not. Non-acceptance of ridiculous ideas is not religious.
That changing foreign policy always leaves someone armed and angry at the US. Always.
All religions teach hate and violence. And love and peace. Just depends who you ask.
One way you CAN say that religion (or at least, religious differences, which wouldn't exist if no one cared about religion) caused this is that half of the reason the US has any involvement in the middle east (and the other half is oil of course) is that Israel is holy to christians, AND, the fundy christians like having a state called Israel, because they see it as a fulfillment of biblical prophecy. If the state of Israel failed, that would put doomsday off schedule. Therefore the US has to keep the apocalypse on track by helping to prop up and perpetuate a really slow genocide.
Even if not one Jew lived in the States, it would probably be the same.
I wanna see Pat Robertson fight Osama Bin Laden to the death. The victor wins a QUICK death.
Yeah, it's like comparing Wipeout to Wipeout XL and Wipeout 3. Same deal. Except it was worse. You couldn't advance more than a fixed number of positions per lap no matter how good you were. If you made the tiniest error after gaining 3 positions, the cars in front of you would rocket out of sight...but in the next lap you can pass them like they're standing still. In the original, they drove with some intelligence.
Downs syndrome is an adversity virtually impossible to overcome to the point that you would "achieve" beyond what your typical high-school-dropout burger flipper would.
Oh, and all the focus in the world isn't going to help you if you don't have the skill or intelligence required to achieve your goals. Guess what retards are likely to lack.
Corky from "Life Goes On" was successful because someone needed to cast a retard. That is not a very big field, retard acting.
As for reproduction goes (I probably shouldn't have said procreation..some take that to mean having kids enough to increase population), that is pretty much the whole point of breeding...and parents can only produce so many children. Give it long enough, and natural selection could weed out those who don't do all they can to ensure that they're only pumping out kids who have a good chance of having kids themselves.
My good posts get modded down, my normal ones get modded up.
This is not informative. The parent should have been modded down. I should not have been modded up.
Did you read it, too?
_Cyberantics_, by Jerry Prosser (writing as "Stanislaw Mayakovsky") and Rick Geary. Brilliant work of fiction which works on so many levels, and would be a plus 5 informative if it were a slashdot post.
Read it!
Oh, yeah...we all inevitably die.
But not so quick. Just to head that off.
Well, nowadays syphilis is curable, tuberculosis is treatable and/or curable, and so are many forms of deafness. Blindness is coming.
Where's the cure for Downs Syndrome?
"Third: Why can't someone in a wheelchair be just as happy as someone who is not? Please explain this to me. "
Because they can't walk.
Alright...just keep them out of a normal high school.
Actually, that is a pretty good idea for anyone.
You're comparing a retarded 3 year old to a normal 18 month old? What the hell? Do you not see what is wrong here?
You know, chimpanzees develop at a similar rate to humans for the first few years, too.
Will you change your tune 20 years from now?
Well, in that case you are killing AFTER he was conscious. Did Sesame Street not teach you your prepositions well enough?
Fuck that shit. What the hell kind of an asshole are you?
"Facing that type of pain will result in gain. Any child, however "disabled" or genetically malformed, that somehow manages to accomplish that single feat, even if they barely survive the week, will have had a richer, more rewarding life than many. "
And guess what...a child who ISN'T genetically malformed will be more likely to accomplish MORE than a single feat, and survive more than a week.
Raising a child who would inevitably die, or be a burden on their families or the state their entire lives wastes the parent's time and resources which would be better used to create a child who WOULDN'T bring them more pain than joy.
It also increases the chances that their offspring would procreate.
The ONLY bright spot I can think of is that the retarded kid might not realize how fucked up his/her life is, and thus would not share in his/her parents' misery (which, whether they voice it or not, or whether they eventually get over it, they possess or possessed at one point) OTOH, the mildly retarded are generally smart enough to KNOW that they are retarded. So even that isn't likely.
FUCK YOU.