On a serious note, I keep hearing that the next World Wars will be fought over resources.
WWII in the Pacific, and the preceding regional wars right before it, were all about resources: Japan had little, and wanted more. Or at least that's the simplified version we get taught.
Same with Russo-Japanese war.
And many, many others, I'm sure. It's either about resources, or land. Or a football (soccer) game! (there was more to that than just soccer, yes.)
Peak Oil is a theory (and this part of the comment's really meant for all in general, not directed at the parent,) not fact. "Black Gold Stranglehold" offers a story of a well in Louisiana which went dry, only to be wet again 6 years later. Russia has a theory that Earth makes oil continuously, not depending on a finite supply of fossils. The catch with that one is you need to drill deep, and I mean 12km deep. The book does mention such wells do exist, offshore Vietnam, built by Russians.
I see these reports from Germany and the US, and think of the huge post-mortem the US and Russia (and anyone else with half a brain) did of the whole mess, and what killed Germany wasn't war, what killed Germany was no oil. Supposedly Patton said "Once I saw them using horse-drawn carts, I knew it was over."
Concurrent to that, Russia went off the deep end in oil exploration (pun very much intended), and the US established the Strategic Reserve. The US stuck to the fossil-fuel model, Russia explored other possibilities. The book suggests rather directly that the big reason we didn't go along the continuous-production theory was simply because that theory came from Godless Communist Soviet Union.
In other words, I'll just subscribe to something Spock said in some flick: "The universe will unfold as it should." Reports, talking heads, experts and internet fora be dammned. Not a one of us, or them, or anyone, can say with such authority that "it is so." Global warming could well usher in an Ice Age. And other such paradoxes and all. Maybe we instead get an oil-glut again. Anyone remember that? No? The surplus after the 70's and 80's? Way back when, not so long ago, really, we were told by now there'd be no oil. We were taught that by 2000 it was all going to be gone. Feh, I say, to that, as I mash my foot to the carpet and listen to my fuel-hungry 1.3l wankel go "whiinnne!" Long live internal combustion!
(is there a trek version of godwins law?)
If there is a peak-oil and we do get into a mad max scenario, it's not the end of the world. We'll adjust. That's what we do. Those who don't, die. Or live miserably. All about choices.
People are saying they probably looked like little grey aliens, I'd like to think they were far prettier than the typical big-eyed grey slimeball alien.
Then again, I'm pretty biased towards ink and paint, so there =oP
The key, IMO, is that Anakin was a whiny bitch. Darth Vader was anything BUT a whiny bitch. Given how much I loved 4-6, I expected to see a noble character who was gradually, tragically led to the dark side. Instead, we see an emo prima donna who whines about everything. How did this guy become the most dignified and feared person in the galaxy? It just doesn't add up.
Vader *is* a little whiner. With or without the suit. He always did what his pimp told him to do. Except at the very end, which is why it was all about his (vader's) redemption.
Vader was feared because his pimp held the biggest gun in the galaxy. That's all. Take the pimp away, and what are we left with? Scrap metal, and not much of that, to boot.
The only reason Vader didn't come across as whiny is because that mobile iron lung made it hard to sound whiny. Not to mention having JEJ's voice didn't help His Whininess any;o)
Time to invoke Godwin's Law: A certain German leader was also a little whiny ex-WWI private. He was also feared, revered, even.
I'd say Stalin was one too, except what I know of him tells me he was nothing more than a street thug with smarts. And that's better than being a whiny i-deserve-everything snotnose like Anakin;o)
I'm a wee bit overloaded in situations where I don't know where I am and there's lots of sensory input -- so imagine what a place like Houston or Chicago or even London feels like to me.
Satnav took a good chunk of bad out of that. That alone was worth the price of admission.
That it has a few quirks, sure. But it's still better than the alternative.
Also, I find with a GPS unit I can get to know this town better, and I've been here for 10 years. The satnav has shown me things I didn' know were here. So if anything, it has increased my knowledge of my own local area. My experience kinda deflates the question posed.
As for the thing about men not liking a female voice telling them where to go and when to turn -- BS. I don't mind Suzie the TomTom computer, she does alright, albeit she absolutely mangles some street names... and I bet many more men don't mind.
The ones that do mind, I'm willing to bet have issues with being told what to do by *anyone*, not just a computer's voice. 40 years ago their ancestors probably refused to pull over to ask for directions, and thought maps were for lining the bottom of the glovebox. Just my theory, no evidence to support it, blabla.
Unconfirmed reports suggest that a half-japanese, half-english woman is making tremendous speed towards the British Library right now, and other reports further suggest this woman's sole interest is this bible.
Her appearance was given as short, well-built, blue-eyed, long shaggy unkempt black hair, rather mannish-looking squarish glasses, and an ability to manipulate paper in remarkable ways.
If spotted ring up the Paper Sisters Detective Co.
That flute is neat, and looks well made (chamfered holes?!)
But what I'd love to see even more is a piece of 35,000 year old sheet music. That way, we'd know what they grooved to back when the earth was still cooling, and people walked to school uphill both ways in the snow, dontchaknow.
If the job wasn't limited to security, I'd say Wozniak.
If the job is limited to security, all they'll need is an ineffectual mid-grade bulletstopper. This will make it a true government operation. Same as it ever was and all that.
FDR did not take us out of the Depression. Japan did that when they bombed Pearl Harbor and gave the nation motivation to start building tanks and planes and ships and bombs non-stop for the next fifty years.
There. Fixed that for ya.
The end of that particular gravy train is what prompted all this voodoo economics BS that started with Ray-Gun. Maybe he and his advisers knew the end was near for the Cold War and tried to chart a course that led us to how it is today.
Is a faster system going to improve the generally rubbish weather forecasts of "it might rain today" No, nothing can help that. It's really tea-leaf reading.
What a faster system with a finer resolution will do is help better tell if that big nasty storm moving into your part of town will be an F1, or an F5 Magic Eraser.
It also will help stretch the warning leadtime. It's still not good enough.
Nexrad took the warning from pretty much after-the-fact to about +15 minutes these days. Nexrad, compared to the old-school FPS-77 and the like, is pixie dust.
They forgot their success was made by hordes of fringe-dwellers duping tapes and spreading the music. Then they kill the 1st, and probably most user-friendly electronic version of what made them big: Tape swapping.
I understand that the SR-71's leaked fuel until they got up high enough so that the vacuum pressed everything together tightly. But speaking of engines, how did they keep the fuel from igniting from the engine while it was leaking? Not vacuum -- heat. The entire plane would grow about half a foot or more when up to temp. Panels then would match up, gaps would go away, etc.
The corrugated look atop the wings? When up to temp, that section's flat as a sheet of glass. Very funny design;o)
About fuel lighting off -- dunno, other than jp7 (the witches' brew for this jet) has a rather high flash point -- because in flight, it does get crispy-hot inside this birdie. JP4 / 8 would go 'whoof' in the 71.
Hell, even private citizens can afford a MiG these days.
Fact: USSR is gone. Fact: USSR built a whooole shitload of war-waging aircraft. Fact: Anyone with the right money can get these. Fact: This is why we still have an Air Force. Well, that, and heavens, we just can't close down what made America prosper: the war machine. I despise that machine, but will defend to the end those who wear the uniform, because I wore it. We are but cogs.
Just because the adversary is now a friend, it wasn't always that way -- and on top of that, the war-waging equipment they built is still around, and actively traded, with some models in particularly high demand (I'd sell my soul for a MiG 15, but then, I have no soul to sell.)
If you think the air wars are over, you're naive. You and I may not see the day jet faces jet in anger, with guns, anymore, certainly not like in Vietnam or WWII -- but it'll happen again. It won't be the Russians. Or maybe it will be. Maybe it'll be the Chinese. Or the Canadians. Or the Mexicans, or any other number of countries with beefs with the US. It's not like there's a shortage of countries who hate our guts.
Your sarcasm is stale. You need new. May I hook you up? I know a guy.
Can't really remember, but yeah, it's in a book(s) somewhere.
Then again, I've heard the expression personally, from people who in Vietnam *did* have phonepoles come up to where they were.
It's a common expression in military aviation. It's about the only way some people can get a real grip on what a big SAM looks like.
Hell, I've even heard the phrse in TV programs dealing with jet combat. It's the *crews* calling those things "flying phone poles", not some writer.
If you have to hate.mil that much, as you appear to do, hate on the losers who call the shots, not the grunts who have to carry it out, and then clean up the mess too.
That's why I left, you know. I love the Air Force.
I positively have no love whatsoever for the assholes she sadly has to serve. And it's only gotten worse.
If anything, being in airforce is less honorable than being a marine, a firefighter, a cop, a paramedic, a janitor even. How much risk do they take bombing cavemen from 20,000 feet? HOw about when he's doing 400 kts with a MiG behind him, so close the Russkie can see the grease stains on the American's bird? What then?
Or how about when a dogface on some beach or mountain or something calls frantically, that they need steel on target NOW dammit? Is the aviator who responds to that frantic call for help less honorable than the dogface who placed it?
How about when some Marine pilot gets his ride shot out from under him, and an USAF rescue jumper has to go in to retrive? Is he any less honorable than the aviator he's rescuing? The USAF PJ's motto is "...so that others may live." I knew a few. These men never have to buy their own drinks.
And you assume that we always bomb from FL200 and drop on cavemen. Hah. Ever seen a SAM? It's the size of a freakin' telephone pole, and it comes at you so fast you can't even think. The heaviest bomber lossess were never to other aircraft, it's *always* been the ground fire, be it small-arms, FLaK, or SAMs. The fighters are a bother, but that's why you fly with little friends around (or make your plane invisible.)
Flyboys earned my respect. I worked with USAF flyboys (and flygrrls!) for 7 years. They may be whiny prima donnas (that's rock star to you punks), but when they put on that jet, they put their lives on the line.
Just so wankers like you have the right to whine about wankers like them.
Freakin' groundpounder. Y'all are all the same. All you know about.mil is the pap fed to you on TV.
I'll tell you this -- there's more honor in the USAF than in Corporate America. not much more, but there's more. They still teach Integrity in the USAF. I think that was dropped in US schools during the "Greed is Good" era. Instead of Integrity, now US schools teach Mediocrity. It's Good Enough, yes?
1. The first TV I noticed had better everything that most others, if not all. Better picture, better glare / reflection resistance, better stability, etc. 2. The first TV I aspired to buy. It took a long while, but in 1995 it happened.. after a few Toshibas and Sanyos. 3. The last TV I had. When I went front-projector with lcd, I sold the 35" trini to a co-worker, who still uses it. 4. The densest, most massive thing per given volume I've had the "pleasure" to move.
The Trinitron is what I'll think of, when I think of an old-school CRT tv.
You shall be missed. But only in the nostalgic way. These days I don't measure my screens in inches, I do so in feet;o)
OK, how's this: Jim Kirk isn't the knight in shining armor he's made out to be in pop culture's assessment. He's bent and broken rules. He's done things that'd likely get him courts-martialed. He isn't as shaded as some may like -- but he's not some flat 2-d "hero" like Zap Brannigan (the flattest, 2d-est character I could think of in the time I wrote this.)
But also, consider the target audience. They have trouble seeing just black and white, never you mind infinite shades of grey. Roddenberry had to aim low. Lower than he'd liked, but that's the deal when you're writing for a medium aimed at the Average Consumer.
Now, compare Trek (or let's say, MASH or even Mad Men) against what passes for TV, and I think you'll see that some shows are indeed High Art. When compared to the rest of the drek on the toob.
(FWIW, I think Mad Men's the smartest thing to hit da toob in long years. Okkay, lemme rephrase that: The smartest *live action* show to hit the toob in years. Thank the MCP for things such as Futurama and FG and Southpark and dare i say it, Animaniacs;o)
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So, "Piece of the Action" didn't have a message. Like how foolish it is to base a whole society's rules and morality on one book of unknown, unproven origin. Right. Check.
So, "Balance of Terror" wasn't referring to nuke all-out warfare from the submariner's POV. Right. Check.
So, "Who Mourns for Adonais" doesn't indicate that one day, this planet will cast aside the notion of supernatural "gods." Right. Check.
That you fail to be receptive to the not-so-obvious stuff in pop culture tells me that you're only skin deep, and fail to look deeper, past the glossy, campy, Technicolor surface. Let me guess, you likely think Hendrix, the Beatles and Pink Floyd were just pop acts.
S'okkay, for every 1000 of you who aren't receptive to the undercurrent of fresh ideas buried deep in the arts, there is probably 1 to 10 who are receptive -- they are the ones who'll change the world.
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I'm all for learning to drive from top gear. Clarkson, Hammond and even Capt. Slow drive better than most. And then there's The Stig.
Driver's Ed in the us should be abolished and single-speed kart racing used instead. Start at age 8 or so. Bt 12 graduate to 3-spd shifter karts.
On a serious note, I keep hearing that the next World Wars will be fought over resources.
WWII in the Pacific, and the preceding regional wars right before it, were all about resources: Japan had little, and wanted more. Or at least that's the simplified version we get taught.
Same with Russo-Japanese war.
And many, many others, I'm sure. It's either about resources, or land. Or a football (soccer) game! (there was more to that than just soccer, yes.)
Peak Oil is a theory (and this part of the comment's really meant for all in general, not directed at the parent,) not fact. "Black Gold Stranglehold" offers a story of a well in Louisiana which went dry, only to be wet again 6 years later. Russia has a theory that Earth makes oil continuously, not depending on a finite supply of fossils. The catch with that one is you need to drill deep, and I mean 12km deep. The book does mention such wells do exist, offshore Vietnam, built by Russians.
I see these reports from Germany and the US, and think of the huge post-mortem the US and Russia (and anyone else with half a brain) did of the whole mess, and what killed Germany wasn't war, what killed Germany was no oil. Supposedly Patton said "Once I saw them using horse-drawn carts, I knew it was over."
Concurrent to that, Russia went off the deep end in oil exploration (pun very much intended), and the US established the Strategic Reserve. The US stuck to the fossil-fuel model, Russia explored other possibilities. The book suggests rather directly that the big reason we didn't go along the continuous-production theory was simply because that theory came from Godless Communist Soviet Union.
In other words, I'll just subscribe to something Spock said in some flick: "The universe will unfold as it should." Reports, talking heads, experts and internet fora be dammned. Not a one of us, or them, or anyone, can say with such authority that "it is so." Global warming could well usher in an Ice Age. And other such paradoxes and all. Maybe we instead get an oil-glut again. Anyone remember that? No? The surplus after the 70's and 80's? Way back when, not so long ago, really, we were told by now there'd be no oil. We were taught that by 2000 it was all going to be gone. Feh, I say, to that, as I mash my foot to the carpet and listen to my fuel-hungry 1.3l wankel go "whiinnne!" Long live internal combustion!
(is there a trek version of godwins law?)
If there is a peak-oil and we do get into a mad max scenario, it's not the end of the world. We'll adjust. That's what we do. Those who don't, die. Or live miserably. All about choices.
Is that you, Sir Lucas? Was your death greatly exaggerated?
This time, it can't be fixed by a shot of wd-40 in the distributor cap..
Sounds like manga characters to me (^.^);
People are saying they probably looked like little grey aliens, I'd like to think they were far prettier than the typical big-eyed grey slimeball alien.
Then again, I'm pretty biased towards ink and paint, so there =oP
The key, IMO, is that Anakin was a whiny bitch. Darth Vader was anything BUT a whiny bitch. Given how much I loved 4-6, I expected to see a noble character who was gradually, tragically led to the dark side. Instead, we see an emo prima donna who whines about everything. How did this guy become the most dignified and feared person in the galaxy? It just doesn't add up.
Vader *is* a little whiner. With or without the suit. He always did what his pimp told him to do. Except at the very end, which is why it was all about his (vader's) redemption.
Vader was feared because his pimp held the biggest gun in the galaxy. That's all. Take the pimp away, and what are we left with? Scrap metal, and not much of that, to boot.
The only reason Vader didn't come across as whiny is because that mobile iron lung made it hard to sound whiny. Not to mention having JEJ's voice didn't help His Whininess any ;o)
Time to invoke Godwin's Law: A certain German leader was also a little whiny ex-WWI private. He was also feared, revered, even.
I'd say Stalin was one too, except what I know of him tells me he was nothing more than a street thug with smarts. And that's better than being a whiny i-deserve-everything snotnose like Anakin ;o)
Nah, the manual will be there.
However, the little widget that holds the shelf to the sidewall will be missing.
Which means someone ahead or behind you got two of those missing little widgets..
I guess they forgot about their little .NET plugin which insinuated itself on Firefox installs.
Where's the outcry on that gem? Hmm? I mean other than here in slash, which no mainstreamer even knows about.
I'm a wee bit overloaded in situations where I don't know where I am and there's lots of sensory input -- so imagine what a place like Houston or Chicago or even London feels like to me.
Satnav took a good chunk of bad out of that. That alone was worth the price of admission.
That it has a few quirks, sure. But it's still better than the alternative.
Also, I find with a GPS unit I can get to know this town better, and I've been here for 10 years. The satnav has shown me things I didn' know were here. So if anything, it has increased my knowledge of my own local area. My experience kinda deflates the question posed.
As for the thing about men not liking a female voice telling them where to go and when to turn -- BS. I don't mind Suzie the TomTom computer, she does alright, albeit she absolutely mangles some street names... and I bet many more men don't mind.
The ones that do mind, I'm willing to bet have issues with being told what to do by *anyone*, not just a computer's voice. 40 years ago their ancestors probably refused to pull over to ask for directions, and thought maps were for lining the bottom of the glovebox. Just my theory, no evidence to support it, blabla.
Unconfirmed reports suggest that a half-japanese, half-english woman is making tremendous speed towards the British Library right now, and other reports further suggest this woman's sole interest is this bible.
Her appearance was given as short, well-built, blue-eyed, long shaggy unkempt black hair, rather mannish-looking squarish glasses, and an ability to manipulate paper in remarkable ways.
If spotted ring up the Paper Sisters Detective Co.
That flute is neat, and looks well made (chamfered holes?!)
But what I'd love to see even more is a piece of 35,000 year old sheet music. That way, we'd know what they grooved to back when the earth was still cooling, and people walked to school uphill both ways in the snow, dontchaknow.
Seriously. I wanna see the music.
If the job wasn't limited to security, I'd say Wozniak.
If the job is limited to security, all they'll need is an ineffectual mid-grade bulletstopper. This will make it a true government operation. Same as it ever was and all that.
FDR did not take us out of the Depression. Japan did that when they bombed Pearl Harbor and gave the nation motivation to start building tanks and planes and ships and bombs non-stop for the next fifty years.
There. Fixed that for ya.
The end of that particular gravy train is what prompted all this voodoo economics BS that started with Ray-Gun. Maybe he and his advisers knew the end was near for the Cold War and tried to chart a course that led us to how it is today.
Keep those suddenoutburstofcommonsense going.
Maybe they'll snowball.
Wouldn't that be nice?
So it's prone to rust, hates humidity and corners like a cat on velcro?
brrrm!
What a faster system with a finer resolution will do is help better tell if that big nasty storm moving into your part of town will be an F1, or an F5 Magic Eraser.
It also will help stretch the warning leadtime. It's still not good enough.
Nexrad took the warning from pretty much after-the-fact to about +15 minutes these days. Nexrad, compared to the old-school FPS-77 and the like, is pixie dust.
The real clincher, not mentioned in TFA?
They're working on a phased-array replacement for Nexrad. Hit multiple individual cells at once. http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/research/radar/par.php
It greatly amuses me how sheeple must obey what they're told, and think what they're told to think.
/.?! It ain't news, and I'm not sure it's all that nerdish either.
Just because some crank somewhere deems a film to be dreadful doesn't make it so.
If it winds up in the discount bin at Walmart the week after it hit the theaters, *then* it is a dreadful film.
Translation: WTF is this article doing in
okies, rant over.
They forgot their success was made by hordes of fringe-dwellers duping tapes and spreading the music. Then they kill the 1st, and probably most user-friendly electronic version of what made them big: Tape swapping.
To hell with them. They've become irrelevant.
The corrugated look atop the wings? When up to temp, that section's flat as a sheet of glass. Very funny design
About fuel lighting off -- dunno, other than jp7 (the witches' brew for this jet) has a rather high flash point -- because in flight, it does get crispy-hot inside this birdie. JP4 / 8 would go 'whoof' in the 71.
Hell, even private citizens can afford a MiG these days.
Fact: USSR is gone.
Fact: USSR built a whooole shitload of war-waging aircraft.
Fact: Anyone with the right money can get these.
Fact: This is why we still have an Air Force. Well, that, and heavens, we just can't close down what made America prosper: the war machine. I despise that machine, but will defend to the end those who wear the uniform, because I wore it. We are but cogs.
Just because the adversary is now a friend, it wasn't always that way -- and on top of that, the war-waging equipment they built is still around, and actively traded, with some models in particularly high demand (I'd sell my soul for a MiG 15, but then, I have no soul to sell.)
If you think the air wars are over, you're naive. You and I may not see the day jet faces jet in anger, with guns, anymore, certainly not like in Vietnam or WWII -- but it'll happen again. It won't be the Russians. Or maybe it will be. Maybe it'll be the Chinese. Or the Canadians. Or the Mexicans, or any other number of countries with beefs with the US. It's not like there's a shortage of countries who hate our guts.
Your sarcasm is stale. You need new. May I hook you up? I know a guy.
Can't really remember, but yeah, it's in a book(s) somewhere.
.mil that much, as you appear to do, hate on the losers who call the shots, not the grunts who have to carry it out, and then clean up the mess too.
Then again, I've heard the expression personally, from people who in Vietnam *did* have phonepoles come up to where they were.
It's a common expression in military aviation. It's about the only way some people can get a real grip on what a big SAM looks like.
Hell, I've even heard the phrse in TV programs dealing with jet combat. It's the *crews* calling those things "flying phone poles", not some writer.
If you have to hate
That's why I left, you know. I love the Air Force.
I positively have no love whatsoever for the assholes she sadly has to serve. And it's only gotten worse.
Or how about when a dogface on some beach or mountain or something calls frantically, that they need steel on target NOW dammit? Is the aviator who responds to that frantic call for help less honorable than the dogface who placed it?
How about when some Marine pilot gets his ride shot out from under him, and an USAF rescue jumper has to go in to retrive? Is he any less honorable than the aviator he's rescuing? The USAF PJ's motto is "...so that others may live." I knew a few. These men never have to buy their own drinks.
And you assume that we always bomb from FL200 and drop on cavemen. Hah. Ever seen a SAM? It's the size of a freakin' telephone pole, and it comes at you so fast you can't even think. The heaviest bomber lossess were never to other aircraft, it's *always* been the ground fire, be it small-arms, FLaK, or SAMs. The fighters are a bother, but that's why you fly with little friends around (or make your plane invisible.)
Flyboys earned my respect. I worked with USAF flyboys (and flygrrls!) for 7 years. They may be whiny prima donnas (that's rock star to you punks), but when they put on that jet, they put their lives on the line.
Just so wankers like you have the right to whine about wankers like them.
Freakin' groundpounder. Y'all are all the same. All you know about
I'll tell you this -- there's more honor in the USAF than in Corporate America. not much more, but there's more. They still teach Integrity in the USAF. I think that was dropped in US schools during the "Greed is Good" era. Instead of Integrity, now US schools teach Mediocrity. It's Good Enough, yes?
The Trinitron was:
;o)
1. The first TV I noticed had better everything that most others, if not all. Better picture, better glare / reflection resistance, better stability, etc.
2. The first TV I aspired to buy. It took a long while, but in 1995 it happened.. after a few Toshibas and Sanyos.
3. The last TV I had. When I went front-projector with lcd, I sold the 35" trini to a co-worker, who still uses it.
4. The densest, most massive thing per given volume I've had the "pleasure" to move.
The Trinitron is what I'll think of, when I think of an old-school CRT tv.
You shall be missed. But only in the nostalgic way. These days I don't measure my screens in inches, I do so in feet
OK, how's this: Jim Kirk isn't the knight in shining armor he's made out to be in pop culture's assessment. He's bent and broken rules. He's done things that'd likely get him courts-martialed. He isn't as shaded as some may like -- but he's not some flat 2-d "hero" like Zap Brannigan (the flattest, 2d-est character I could think of in the time I wrote this.)
;o)
But also, consider the target audience. They have trouble seeing just black and white, never you mind infinite shades of grey. Roddenberry had to aim low. Lower than he'd liked, but that's the deal when you're writing for a medium aimed at the Average Consumer.
Now, compare Trek (or let's say, MASH or even Mad Men) against what passes for TV, and I think you'll see that some shows are indeed High Art. When compared to the rest of the drek on the toob.
(FWIW, I think Mad Men's the smartest thing to hit da toob in long years. Okkay, lemme rephrase that: The smartest *live action* show to hit the toob in years. Thank the MCP for things such as Futurama and FG and Southpark and dare i say it, Animaniacs
So, "Piece of the Action" didn't have a message. Like how foolish it is to base a whole society's rules and morality on one book of unknown, unproven origin. Right. Check.
So, "Balance of Terror" wasn't referring to nuke all-out warfare from the submariner's POV. Right. Check.
So, "Who Mourns for Adonais" doesn't indicate that one day, this planet will cast aside the notion of supernatural "gods." Right. Check.
That you fail to be receptive to the not-so-obvious stuff in pop culture tells me that you're only skin deep, and fail to look deeper, past the glossy, campy, Technicolor surface. Let me guess, you likely think Hendrix, the Beatles and Pink Floyd were just pop acts.
S'okkay, for every 1000 of you who aren't receptive to the undercurrent of fresh ideas buried deep in the arts, there is probably 1 to 10 who are receptive -- they are the ones who'll change the world.
Not you.