The aliens are still too stiff, their faces are too uniform, their movements are too smooth - they need pores, facial hair, creases, loose skin, etc - but it is still the best I've seen.
You saw the 2D version, with your wife and kids and you forgot your glasses at home? So you slept through the movie instead of watching.
Ergo, aliens are both "too stiff" and "too smooth" for you, while you have never noticed the details on the skin and under it (muscles, tendons, blood vessels...). Do yourself a favor and go see it in 3D, preferably in IMAX - alone. Pay attention to details this time and don't forget your glasses.
Also... Not all creatures ON EARTH have facial hair. Why would aliens have to have any?
it's a mix of Dances with Wolves and Fern Gully (and potentially about 30 other movies in which this concept of gung-ho-soldier-meets-and-loves-the-natives has been done to death), although it does strike chords with a few present day "situations". The main appeal is the graphics, the atmosphere, surroundings and facial expressions of the macrosmurfs.
No... Really... I want to see United States of America where you walk into a store with a bag of money and come out with a single egg. Where economy has gone the way of the Dodo taking with it any industry not directly involved in self sustainable food production (small farms). The world where the price of oil and all those other raw materials whose price is calculated in dollars would skyrocket.
Yeah... sure... It might be the end of our civilization but what the hell. All that awesome would be highly nutritious and it would also cure any and all ailments AND it could be used teleport us anywhere within a 10 light years radius.
First and foremost it is AAAAAAAAAALLLLL the people believing in other religions that are blaspheming.
They are actively blaspheming. Every moment of every hour. Cause they believe that the god is actually blue and not yellow or some other pointless shit. Atheists blaspheme passively. E.g. When you come up to them and start asking them about religious things as if you are serious about it.
Then they will tell you that either they are atheists and as such have no opinion on the color of god(s) (if they are nice) or they will tell you to go fuck yourself upside down with the totem of your choice.
In fact... Religious people are effectively committing entrapment asking atheists about god(s) and similar nonsense. And as such, they should be skinned alive and boiled in dog urine. Or whatever it is that their religion proscribes for such a crime.
Same thing there. Actually.. no. It is FAR worse. You can visually check, smell, taste, feel and compare the ingredients of a herbal tea. Plants are quite well documented and easily recognizable.
You need a lab and a chemistry degree or two to compare two white pills. All of the quality assurance ends with the packaging. You are relying on trust far more with chemicals then with plants.
Using either without reading the label first and preferably informing yourself about the medicine in case is not a wise thing to do.
but you are only guessing at how much active ingredient that much weight of that particular batch will have.
You are doing the same with every pill and every chemical ingredient as well. Only difference is the level of purity and the scale at which you measure. So you make errors at the scale of 0.01 milligram, but you are using an ingredient potent enough that a single milligram might be a HUGE difference.
Again... couple of grams of coffee per cup more won't change much, but add a couple of milligrams of caffeine more and the mixture will be a LOT more potent.
Plants have a smaller concentration to begin with, so you are just fine with much higher measuring error. Quality_of_ingredients- or their quantity-wise. Tea spoons are just as usable as a measuring equipment as a micro-scale.
That a herb has an inconsistent ratio of itself? Like an apple having more apple or less apple and more of something else instead?
If it is a case of a single herb or a single part of the herb (flower, stem, root, leaf, fruit) you measure the weight. You know... that same measure we use to measure chemical ingredients used in medicine. Except you use grams instead of milligrams as the concentration of chemicals is far lower than in the artificial sources.
So it is quite safe to have several cups of coffee, but it would probably be lethal to have a single cup of caffeine.
THAT is kinda way too far. Not sure if patent would even hold for that long, with inventor and patent-holder being couple of hundred millennia younger then the invention and patent.
Might just as well go to the beginning of time and register as GOD, but something like that is not really quantifiable in dollars. Won't get you no "Person of the Decade" awards.
From "Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed", through Luke "finding his way" in a swamp on Degobha, to the final battle of stick wielding Ewoks versus the evil technological Empire.
In a world that has whole 5 security levels with highest being "severe" and lowest being "low", with only top 3 ever being in use - there is obviously no room for more than 3 levels of distinction.
Whether it is from "smart and boring" TV to "fun TV" or from "our friends" to "our enemies".
And I am not saying that it is somehow the fault of the US government or even culture. Not at all. People like things that are clear and simple. And 3 possible options are a nice, low, easily remembered number. There is a reason there are only 3 medals in sport competitions.
Not immune, but very resistant. To see just how much crowd disease resistance we have gained, look at what happened to native Americans once us Eurasians came over.
Not true. Plague or TBC will kill you if untreated with antibiotics. Granted... you will walk around for a lot longer with TBC than with plague, but both will kill you.
Also, Indians didn't die because they lacked the immunity. They died because they lacked the treatment. They have never before seen the diseases "white man" brought over. Just like hundreds and thousands of "palefaces" have died from those same diseases.
All primitive medicine was moving the live/die border a little bit - some might live that would otherwise die, but still innate resistance to disease or better adaption to diet (such as the ability to digest milk efficiently) would help your survival chances a lot.
Really? There are no proven herbal extracts, teas or sources of vitamins and minerals?
And the ability to digest milk is not "an adaptation" buy "a race" - it is an enzyme. An enzyme naturally produced in the human body - we use it to digest mother's milk. It is just that we stop producing it if we don't use it. Who gets to keep the enzyme in the system? People who eat dairy products. How did that happen historically? Someone switched to dairy direct from mother's milk - and then raised his/her kids the same way. That is why you can wean people back to dairy, unless they can't produce the enzyme in the first place. We still have about 5% of that kind of humans on the planet, despite the fact that they used to die as babies before lactose-free baby formula was invented. And we will keep having at least as much, unless we start doing some active and systematic genetic engineering on humans. Recessive genes are still genes.
Fourth, where did you get that number from anyway?
Influenza epidemics occur yearly during autumn and winter in temperate regions. Illnesses result in hospitalizations and deaths mainly among high-risk groups (the very young, elderly or chronically ill). Worldwide, these annual epidemics result in about three to five million cases of severe illness, and about 250 000 to 500 000 deaths. Most deaths associated with influenza in industrialized countries occur among people age 65 or older. In some tropical countries, influenza viruses circulate throughout the year with one or two peaks during rainy seasons.
Who said we were? Who said there was?
Well gee... I would just LOVE to have a who.int link for that, it would make for a great joke. But I was actually replying to your statement of the flu being dependent on high population densities. Cause it isn't. Just the same as a dirty shirt and a couple of ears of wheat won't turn into mice if left in a warm and damp place for a while. Diseases are not created by packing people closely together - it helps to spread the disease faster but that is it.
What I am, and what I WAS trying to say is - people die from influenza regardless if they are all alone in the middle of nowhere, or if they are in the middle of New York. There is no permanent immunity. It is not like chicken pox or mumps. That is why you need to get your flu shot again each year.
We don't have the time to mutate our way since we came up with the idea that we can use a club to get what we want. Natural resistance to say... cancer, means nothing if the cancer-susceptible club-wielding tribe decides to steal your food or that you are an abomination. Or their crazy, baby-eating god tells them that they too can be cured from cancer if they eat your flesh. You know... kinda the way they use virgins to treat AIDS in parts of Africa today.
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The aliens are still too stiff, their faces are too uniform, their movements are too smooth - they need pores, facial hair, creases, loose skin, etc - but it is still the best I've seen.
You saw the 2D version, with your wife and kids and you forgot your glasses at home?
So you slept through the movie instead of watching.
Ergo, aliens are both "too stiff" and "too smooth" for you, while you have never noticed the details on the skin and under it (muscles, tendons, blood vessels...).
Do yourself a favor and go see it in 3D, preferably in IMAX - alone. Pay attention to details this time and don't forget your glasses.
Also... Not all creatures ON EARTH have facial hair. Why would aliens have to have any?
Instead of spending $430million making one bloated FX crap-test they could have made 10 regular films.
SciFi tried that couple of years ago.
We got Mansquito, Man-Thing and Alien Apocalypse.
Wonderful movies all, and a great addition to the culture of the world. If you are drunk enough, that is.
it's a mix of Dances with Wolves and Fern Gully (and potentially about 30 other movies in which this concept of gung-ho-soldier-meets-and-loves-the-natives has been done to death), although it does strike chords with a few present day "situations". The main appeal is the graphics, the atmosphere, surroundings and facial expressions of the macrosmurfs.
it's a mix of The Thing from Another World and Forbidden Planet and Planet of the Vampires (and potentially about 30 other movies in which this concept of strange-creature-terrorizes-the-crew-of-a-ship has been done to death), although it does strike chords with a few present day "situations". The main appeal is the visual effects, the atmosphere, surroundings and creature's costume.
No... Really...
I want to see United States of America where you walk into a store with a bag of money and come out with a single egg.
Where economy has gone the way of the Dodo taking with it any industry not directly involved in self sustainable food production (small farms).
The world where the price of oil and all those other raw materials whose price is calculated in dollars would skyrocket.
Yeah... sure... It might be the end of our civilization but what the hell.
All that awesome would be highly nutritious and it would also cure any and all ailments AND it could be used teleport us anywhere within a 10 light years radius.
Pope shits in the woods.
No... wait... that's not it.
Because popes must first take off their hats? Not that one either? DAMN!
Because Allah loves various varieties and since Morgan Freeman IS God and the president of the USA and Irish and a friend of Batman that must be true?
God damn! That sounds crazy enough to be true! It must be so then!
First and foremost it is AAAAAAAAAALLLLL the people believing in other religions that are blaspheming.
They are actively blaspheming. Every moment of every hour. Cause they believe that the god is actually blue and not yellow or some other pointless shit.
Atheists blaspheme passively. E.g. When you come up to them and start asking them about religious things as if you are serious about it.
Then they will tell you that either they are atheists and as such have no opinion on the color of god(s) (if they are nice) or they will tell you to go fuck yourself upside down with the totem of your choice.
In fact...
Religious people are effectively committing entrapment asking atheists about god(s) and similar nonsense.
And as such, they should be skinned alive and boiled in dog urine. Or whatever it is that their religion proscribes for such a crime.
Also, those gadgets have a very closed circle of users.
Calling that a "gadget that defined a decade" is kinda like referring to a Zune in the same way.
Three words: Internet Bought Viagra.
Same thing there. Actually.. no. It is FAR worse.
You can visually check, smell, taste, feel and compare the ingredients of a herbal tea. Plants are quite well documented and easily recognizable.
You need a lab and a chemistry degree or two to compare two white pills. All of the quality assurance ends with the packaging.
You are relying on trust far more with chemicals then with plants.
Using either without reading the label first and preferably informing yourself about the medicine in case is not a wise thing to do.
but you are only guessing at how much active ingredient that much weight of that particular batch will have.
You are doing the same with every pill and every chemical ingredient as well. Only difference is the level of purity and the scale at which you measure.
So you make errors at the scale of 0.01 milligram, but you are using an ingredient potent enough that a single milligram might be a HUGE difference.
Again... couple of grams of coffee per cup more won't change much, but add a couple of milligrams of caffeine more and the mixture will be a LOT more potent.
Plants have a smaller concentration to begin with, so you are just fine with much higher measuring error.
Quality_of_ingredients- or their quantity-wise. Tea spoons are just as usable as a measuring equipment as a micro-scale.
The one gadget that DID define the decade.
I am not sure what exactly you are saying.
That a herb has an inconsistent ratio of itself?
Like an apple having more apple or less apple and more of something else instead?
If it is a case of a single herb or a single part of the herb (flower, stem, root, leaf, fruit) you measure the weight.
You know... that same measure we use to measure chemical ingredients used in medicine.
Except you use grams instead of milligrams as the concentration of chemicals is far lower than in the artificial sources.
So it is quite safe to have several cups of coffee, but it would probably be lethal to have a single cup of caffeine.
You hate my comment because you know that it is exactly what everyone would have been thinking. :D
THAT is kinda way too far.
Not sure if patent would even hold for that long, with inventor and patent-holder being couple of hundred millennia younger then the invention and patent.
Might just as well go to the beginning of time and register as GOD, but something like that is not really quantifiable in dollars.
Won't get you no "Person of the Decade" awards.
How are they supposed to identify the bad guy in that split second?
He will be the brownish-blackish male speaking bad English or chanting/babbling in some foreign tongue.
Stowaways, hidden explosives on board, sabotage, anti-aircraft systems, use of military aircraft to attack civilian ones...
And there are very few of us who wouldn't want to take a time machine back to 2003 and buy a few thousand shares of GOOG.
I'd rather go to 1890 and get me a couple of shares of GOGH.
Vincent van, that is.
...there are rumors that they have purchased another vowel?
Star Wars.
From "Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed", through Luke "finding his way" in a swamp on Degobha, to the final battle of stick wielding Ewoks versus the evil technological Empire.
Utterly anti-technological.
Hmm... That could have a devastating effect on the sleeping patterns of the New Yorkers.
Also, what will happen to all those manic-depressives that live in the small towns across the USA?
...is that it is all up to New York, New York?
is likely some small candybar phone with simple buttons and a basic display.
You had to call it a candy-bar... It's 1:30 AM here and it is raining outside.
Where the hell am I gonna get me a candy-bar at this our?
What are the exact implications of the iPhone's failure to make it there (NY) as opposed to making it anywhere else?
In a world that has whole 5 security levels with highest being "severe" and lowest being "low", with only top 3 ever being in use - there is obviously no room for more than 3 levels of distinction.
Whether it is from "smart and boring" TV to "fun TV" or from "our friends" to "our enemies".
And I am not saying that it is somehow the fault of the US government or even culture. Not at all.
People like things that are clear and simple. And 3 possible options are a nice, low, easily remembered number.
There is a reason there are only 3 medals in sport competitions.
Not immune, but very resistant. To see just how much crowd disease resistance we have gained, look at what happened to native Americans once us Eurasians came over.
Not true.
Plague or TBC will kill you if untreated with antibiotics. Granted... you will walk around for a lot longer with TBC than with plague, but both will kill you.
Also, Indians didn't die because they lacked the immunity. They died because they lacked the treatment. They have never before seen the diseases "white man" brought over.
Just like hundreds and thousands of "palefaces" have died from those same diseases.
All primitive medicine was moving the live/die border a little bit - some might live that would otherwise die, but still innate resistance to disease or better adaption to diet (such as the ability to digest milk efficiently) would help your survival chances a lot.
Really? There are no proven herbal extracts, teas or sources of vitamins and minerals?
And the ability to digest milk is not "an adaptation" buy "a race" - it is an enzyme.
An enzyme naturally produced in the human body - we use it to digest mother's milk. It is just that we stop producing it if we don't use it.
Who gets to keep the enzyme in the system? People who eat dairy products.
How did that happen historically? Someone switched to dairy direct from mother's milk - and then raised his/her kids the same way.
That is why you can wean people back to dairy, unless they can't produce the enzyme in the first place.
We still have about 5% of that kind of humans on the planet, despite the fact that they used to die as babies before lactose-free baby formula was invented.
And we will keep having at least as much, unless we start doing some active and systematic genetic engineering on humans. Recessive genes are still genes.
Fourth, where did you get that number from anyway?
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs211/en/
Seasonal epidemics
Influenza epidemics occur yearly during autumn and winter in temperate regions. Illnesses result in hospitalizations and deaths mainly among high-risk groups (the very young, elderly or chronically ill). Worldwide, these annual epidemics result in about three to five million cases of severe illness, and about 250 000 to 500 000 deaths. Most deaths associated with influenza in industrialized countries occur among people age 65 or older. In some tropical countries, influenza viruses circulate throughout the year with one or two peaks during rainy seasons.
Who said we were? Who said there was?
Well gee... I would just LOVE to have a who.int link for that, it would make for a great joke.
But I was actually replying to your statement of the flu being dependent on high population densities. Cause it isn't.
Just the same as a dirty shirt and a couple of ears of wheat won't turn into mice if left in a warm and damp place for a while.
Diseases are not created by packing people closely together - it helps to spread the disease faster but that is it.
What I am, and what I WAS trying to say is - people die from influenza regardless if they are all alone in the middle of nowhere, or if they are in the middle of New York.
There is no permanent immunity. It is not like chicken pox or mumps. That is why you need to get your flu shot again each year.
We don't have the time to mutate our way since we came up with the idea that we can use a club to get what we want.
Natural resistance to say... cancer, means nothing if the cancer-susceptible club-wielding tribe decides to steal your food or that you are an abomination.
Or their crazy, baby-eating god tells them that they too can be cured from cancer if they eat your flesh.
You know... kinda the way they use virgins to treat AIDS in parts of Africa today.