Oh jeez, you're one of those 53% idiots. Your tendency to swallow political cliches without any sanity checking does not argue for your intelligence. If we had a eugenics comitttee that allocated the right to reproduce, you'd clearly be on the bottom of the list.
Fortunately, the Nazis made that approach to social engineering unfashionable (pretty much their only positive contribution to evolution), so you're free to reproduce. Which is fine with me, because it's perfectly possible for your children to be smarter than you. Just keep them away from the TV set and find someone to teach them a few critical thinking skills.
People who spout "Darwinian principles" always seem to have a really poor notion of how evolution works. If there were any survival value to being "resistant to suicide" than why do we still have people killing themselves? People are more complicated than that.
Often depressive tendenciers are part of complicated, creative personalities that manage to accomplish great things before they have a depressive attack and kill themselves for no good reason. Iris Chang. Jeremey Boorda, Del Shannon, Gary Webb, Kurt Cobain, David Foster Wallace. These people all did stuff that made life better and more interesting for other people. When they offed themselves, a lot of people were pretty damned sorry about it, and with good reason.
And they all lived long enough to have children. So much for "evolution".
Probably the guy on Fox was just having a bad day. (I don't know anything about that episode, and don't want to.) In other words, like most suicides, he was just screwed up. Is just being screwed up bad for your species? Then I guess half the people on Slashdot should probably kill themselves. . People who smugly devalue the lives of others are not making a good case for the value of their lives.
Don't forget lightning and thunder. According to Hollywood, they *always* happen at the same time.
Oh, that is such a good point. What does it say about us that what we see on the screen is more real to us than what we see looking out the window?
I wonder if this was done explicitly to address the question of FTL
I seem to recall Whedon saying that it was.
celestial mechanics wouldn't easily allow so many worlds to be in the habitable zone..
That assumes that the sun is the only source of heat in the star system. I believe that most of the worlds were orbiting gas giants (as shown in the opening scene in "The Train Job") which could have been major heat sources, Also, the terraforming (which is never described) might have included installation of some kind of "greenhouse field". Heinlein used the same gimmick in "Farmer in the Sky."
Firefly was never about the technology, but the characters and story.
I don't quite agree. FF was Joss Whedon's attempt at "hard" SF (he said so), and that subgenre, if done right, is about characters, story, and technology. And, in many cases, it's about historical parallels, though in this case the browncoats are significantly less racist than their Confederate analogs.
To me, the second biggest disappointment in FF (the first being the way the network totally destroyed it through meddling and stupid scheduling) was that it demonstrated Whedon's inability to deal with the complexities of doing this kind of story. He just doesn't care about the nitpicky details that much — he's a comic book kind of storyteller, and he always ends up sacrificing logic and plausibility if it gets in the way of the story going the way he wants it to go.. That's why I finally got bored with Buffy, after years of being a rabid fan.
The more that remove themselves from it, the better.
Since you feel so strongly about it, why don't you kill yourself. I don't suppose your genes would be missed either. My guess: you have a big ego that says your life is more important than anybody else. Which gets me back to the smug sense of superiority.
B5 did make a serious effort to adhere to real world physics. (If only they'd made the same effort with dialog!) That actually bothered a lot of viewers, who didn't understand why spacecraft approached the station stern-first. In a Newtonian universe, a spacecraft has to throw reaction mass forward to decelerate. But most people still think in Aristotelian physics, where a moving object that doesn't get forward force gradually stops moving.
Audience expectation is the big reaason science in movies and TV is so bad. You even see this in ordinary situations. For example, the sound of a gun being fired is always heard before the resulting impact or explosion, even when proectiles are clearly supersonic. And of course that makes for unscientific science fiction. Audiences don't that sound doesn't travel through a vacuum or that light has a finite speed (hence the inability of the Cylons to capitalize on one-way information flow).
OK, modern scientific literacy sucks. But what's frustrating is that it's so poor among people who are serious about consuming and even producing SF. I remember a frustrating conversation I had on a Firefly fan site trying to explain why FTL was needed to travel between star systems in anything less than years. And the people I was trying to explain to weren't stupid; what made it frustrating was their feeling that it would be some kind of moral value to admit that they were ignorant.
Totally beyond the pale are writers who pretend to have more scientific literacy than they actually have. The writers for the revived Star Trek franchise have always been the worst. People a "planetoid" is just a synonym for "asteroid". Uh, you do know what an asteroid is, right? OK, maybe not.
The shuttle didn't work out because they tried to reusability on the cheap. The fact that they tried it once and screwed up in a badly managed program proves nothing.
A Saturn V launch cost about a billion in 2012 dollars.We have to drive that cost down, or there will never be serious manned exploration of deep space. No moon bases, no trips to Mars. We'll just be doing silly PR missions like the ISS forever. And we're not going to have a cheaper delivery system until we stop leaving hundreds of millions of dollars worth of hardwsare all over the ocean floor.
Oh that's funny, It's OK for your local official to interfere with stuff that has nothing to do with his responsibilities or jurisdiction and that affect the whole country. But if the rest of us complain about it, we're the ones messing with a local official?
I love the way right-wingers make idiots of themselves, and then when people notice it, they complain about the "national media". Take some fucking responsibility, dude.
Yeah, I had heard about the breakup of the Soviet Union. (It was in the news) I guess you hadn't heard that Russian launch and recovery operations are still operating there.
Because the Obama haters are everywhere, and will not be denied.
I do wish we could get rid of this stupid "firehose" process for finding news. Or at least the editors could have the gumption to reject stupid stories that have somehow gone viral.
The Russians have Kazakhstan (6 people km^2), The Chinese have Inner Mongolia (1 person per km^2). I'm not sure how large a landing zone is needed, but I suspect nothing big enough exists in the U.S.
The lame thing is that we're back to uncontrolled re-entry and disposable spacecraft. I personally consider the Orion a huge step backwards. My dislike is tempered somewhat by the knowledge that the same short-sightedness that gave us such a useless vehicle also guarantees that no serious mission for it will ever be funded.
I sometimes have jobs that require me to edit HTML by hand. (Once my team wrote a whole goddamn book that way; yes, I know it's lame, we inherited the workflow from a simpler age). For obvious reasons, I used a Firefox plugin that color coded all my links based on the HTTP codes they returned. Anyone know a Chrome plugin that does the same thing?
Broken isn't a comparative concept. Stupid and sloppy, on the other hand.... I mean httpio:wwwannarborcomentertainmentwhirlydoodle-projectUGI3U41lTnh, that doesn't pass even the most basic sanity test.
What do editors do? They clearly don't edit!
Hey, underemployed technical writer here! Gimme a call.
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Oh jeez, you're one of those 53% idiots. Your tendency to swallow political cliches without any sanity checking does not argue for your intelligence. If we had a eugenics comitttee that allocated the right to reproduce, you'd clearly be on the bottom of the list.
Fortunately, the Nazis made that approach to social engineering unfashionable (pretty much their only positive contribution to evolution), so you're free to reproduce. Which is fine with me, because it's perfectly possible for your children to be smarter than you. Just keep them away from the TV set and find someone to teach them a few critical thinking skills.
People who spout "Darwinian principles" always seem to have a really poor notion of how evolution works. If there were any survival value to being "resistant to suicide" than why do we still have people killing themselves? People are more complicated than that.
Often depressive tendenciers are part of complicated, creative personalities that manage to accomplish great things before they have a depressive attack and kill themselves for no good reason. Iris Chang. Jeremey Boorda, Del Shannon, Gary Webb, Kurt Cobain, David Foster Wallace. These people all did stuff that made life better and more interesting for other people. When they offed themselves, a lot of people were pretty damned sorry about it, and with good reason.
And they all lived long enough to have children. So much for "evolution".
Probably the guy on Fox was just having a bad day. (I don't know anything about that episode, and don't want to.) In other words, like most suicides, he was just screwed up. Is just being screwed up bad for your species? Then I guess half the people on Slashdot should probably kill themselves.
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People who smugly devalue the lives of others are not making a good case for the value of their lives.
I got a flamebait and a troll, but they were still overwealmed by insightfuls. Maybe Slashdot is finally growing up.
The bad news is that proving your stupidity by invoking brainless memes doesn't cause immediate death,
God, talk about about silly nitpicking. So, I can't say, "I have an apartment in Portland" because I don't own it?
Don't forget lightning and thunder. According to Hollywood, they *always* happen at the same time.
Oh, that is such a good point. What does it say about us that what we see on the screen is more real to us than what we see looking out the window?
I wonder if this was done explicitly to address the question of FTL
I seem to recall Whedon saying that it was.
celestial mechanics wouldn't easily allow so many worlds to be in the habitable zone..
That assumes that the sun is the only source of heat in the star system. I believe that most of the worlds were orbiting gas giants (as shown in the opening scene in "The Train Job") which could have been major heat sources, Also, the terraforming (which is never described) might have included installation of some kind of "greenhouse field". Heinlein used the same gimmick in "Farmer in the Sky."
Firefly was never about the technology, but the characters and story.
I don't quite agree. FF was Joss Whedon's attempt at "hard" SF (he said so), and that subgenre, if done right, is about characters, story, and technology. And, in many cases, it's about historical parallels, though in this case the browncoats are significantly less racist than their Confederate analogs.
To me, the second biggest disappointment in FF (the first being the way the network totally destroyed it through meddling and stupid scheduling) was that it demonstrated Whedon's inability to deal with the complexities of doing this kind of story. He just doesn't care about the nitpicky details that much — he's a comic book kind of storyteller, and he always ends up sacrificing logic and plausibility if it gets in the way of the story going the way he wants it to go.. That's why I finally got bored with Buffy, after years of being a rabid fan.
So, briefly, Slackware is the most hackable.
The more that remove themselves from it, the better.
Since you feel so strongly about it, why don't you kill yourself. I don't suppose your genes would be missed either. My guess: you have a big ego that says your life is more important than anybody else. Which gets me back to the smug sense of superiority.
So why the fuck watch live TV? Why even bother with cable news? Every time you look at it, your IQ drops a point.
So tired of the "Darwin" meme. It expresses a sense of smug superiority that is entirely undeserved.
B5 did make a serious effort to adhere to real world physics. (If only they'd made the same effort with dialog!) That actually bothered a lot of viewers, who didn't understand why spacecraft approached the station stern-first. In a Newtonian universe, a spacecraft has to throw reaction mass forward to decelerate. But most people still think in Aristotelian physics, where a moving object that doesn't get forward force gradually stops moving.
Audience expectation is the big reaason science in movies and TV is so bad. You even see this in ordinary situations. For example, the sound of a gun being fired is always heard before the resulting impact or explosion, even when proectiles are clearly supersonic. And of course that makes for unscientific science fiction. Audiences don't that sound doesn't travel through a vacuum or that light has a finite speed (hence the inability of the Cylons to capitalize on one-way information flow).
OK, modern scientific literacy sucks. But what's frustrating is that it's so poor among people who are serious about consuming and even producing SF. I remember a frustrating conversation I had on a Firefly fan site trying to explain why FTL was needed to travel between star systems in anything less than years. And the people I was trying to explain to weren't stupid; what made it frustrating was their feeling that it would be some kind of moral value to admit that they were ignorant.
Totally beyond the pale are writers who pretend to have more scientific literacy than they actually have. The writers for the revived Star Trek franchise have always been the worst. People a "planetoid" is just a synonym for "asteroid". Uh, you do know what an asteroid is, right? OK, maybe not.
Well, that was a simple and efficient summary. Longevity remains to be seen.
So you're saying that Slackware is Mayan Calendar Rollover compliant?
So, you like it because of EBCDIC support?
So, why do you love it?
The FAQ page also notes that Slackware is Y2K compliant. Good to know, just in case time ever starts moving backwards.
Sigh.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3151449&cid=41490405
The shuttle didn't work out because they tried to reusability on the cheap. The fact that they tried it once and screwed up in a badly managed program proves nothing.
A Saturn V launch cost about a billion in 2012 dollars.We have to drive that cost down, or there will never be serious manned exploration of deep space. No moon bases, no trips to Mars. We'll just be doing silly PR missions like the ISS forever. And we're not going to have a cheaper delivery system until we stop leaving hundreds of millions of dollars worth of hardwsare all over the ocean floor.
Oh that's funny, It's OK for your local official to interfere with stuff that has nothing to do with his responsibilities or jurisdiction and that affect the whole country. But if the rest of us complain about it, we're the ones messing with a local official?
I love the way right-wingers make idiots of themselves, and then when people notice it, they complain about the "national media". Take some fucking responsibility, dude.
Yeah, I had heard about the breakup of the Soviet Union. (It was in the news) I guess you hadn't heard that Russian launch and recovery operations are still operating there.
But they still couldn't direct the flight path well enough to bring it down safely in, say, Arizona. That's close enough to "uncontrolled" for me.
Because the Obama haters are everywhere, and will not be denied.
I do wish we could get rid of this stupid "firehose" process for finding news. Or at least the editors could have the gumption to reject stupid stories that have somehow gone viral.
The Russians have Kazakhstan (6 people km^2), The Chinese have Inner Mongolia (1 person per km^2). I'm not sure how large a landing zone is needed, but I suspect nothing big enough exists in the U.S.
The lame thing is that we're back to uncontrolled re-entry and disposable spacecraft. I personally consider the Orion a huge step backwards. My dislike is tempered somewhat by the knowledge that the same short-sightedness that gave us such a useless vehicle also guarantees that no serious mission for it will ever be funded.
Huh, you're completely right.
I sometimes have jobs that require me to edit HTML by hand. (Once my team wrote a whole goddamn book that way; yes, I know it's lame, we inherited the workflow from a simpler age). For obvious reasons, I used a Firefox plugin that color coded all my links based on the HTTP codes they returned. Anyone know a Chrome plugin that does the same thing?
But all that requires planning and motivation.
Broken isn't a comparative concept. Stupid and sloppy, on the other hand.... I mean httpio:wwwannarborcomentertainmentwhirlydoodle-projectUGI3U41lTnh, that doesn't pass even the most basic sanity test.
What do editors do? They clearly don't edit!
Hey, underemployed technical writer here! Gimme a call.