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I call prior art for "up to $50,000 reward" stated on the right side of the page, on the base of the left side giving away clean "$50,000 reward" for the same act. Who do I need to contact to receive my $50k?
Re:Both franchise shared the same fate.
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If only they fired that cameraman with Parkinson's and that editor with ADHD. Equal opportunity employment is all fine, but really... SOME jobs require a steady hand and a bit of concentration.
I gave up BSG at about half way through season two cause my head was starting to hurt.
Yes, the original canon is old and loved, but there are so many problems trying to please the rabid fan base that the STORY can no longer be told.
A. What problems? B. There are no problems out there in the literary world that a half decent writer could not fix. Particularly in the literary universe with plot devices like the ones found in Star Trek.
If anyone in Paramount had any balls and brains they would create a Star Trek equal not another prequel/sequel/spin-off.
Do you also steal lunch money from elementary school kids in your spare time?
Nah... boycotts are too passive...
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How the hell are they gonna know we are boycotting? And why should they care? SOMEONE will pay for the tickets. SOMEONE payed to see "The Hottie & the Nottie" for fuck's sake.
And since actually gathering money to pay for more of what fans like (Remember Enterprise donation gathering?) does not work - maybe a more pro-active approach is required?
I propose packages of dead cats and live cockroaches. Second batch should have an additional payload of microwave popcorn and small metal objects - for when they start microwaving their mail.
...sensitive equipment on site, element of surprise, recon mission... The list is long.
Are you one of those guys that, when playing Counterstrike, chucks grenades inside killing all the hostages and then runs into the room spraying it with bullets, only to be knifed in the head once you run out of ammo?
But I guess it is a bit too late... Someone already mentioned China stamping out plastic ones for 3 cents per unit. In order to profit from the market demand for those EU and USA made lightsabers I guess.
... we actually mean you, gaspyy (514539), only plural.
The topic is climbing to over a hundred comments at the moment and yours is the first I see that is openly trolling against it. I guess it has something to do with the fact that most people are more interested in movies and comics in general than in support for that particular plugin your heart desires.
You do know that YOU too can submit a story? For example about how "Adobe FINALLY releases the the 64bit flash plugin (for Linux first nonetheless)".
Or are you here just to troll? There is a brand new Science of the Lightsaber just up. Why don't you try that one too?
It would mostly be SF/cyborg violence with white/purple blood. Plus there are almost no titties in the entire manga, and very little or no drug use. Unless we count some of that brain munching in the beginning. That part would probably be safer as just "eating brains" instead of "eating brains to get high".
A lot can be squeezed into that PG-13 if they play their cards right, and maybe tone it down a bit for the MPAA censors. Later, they can always make an unrated or R DVD version.
Keep an eye on MarketSaw. It is a blog about 3D movies. Whenever there is something new on Avatar or Battle Angel, it is very likely it will turn up there.
It is a thinly veiled Quantum of Solace promo. Because, there are not enough of those already.
From TFA:
America's love affair with the doomsday device is a turbulent one. First popularized in comic books and James Bond movies, then lampooned by Austin Powers, we love them because their ridiculousness makes us feel safe -- like the exhilarating false danger of a roller coaster.
Now heightened audience cynicism has forced world-ending devices into the realm of camp, and except for a new breed of superhero movies, they've largely been replaced by natural disasters or apocalyptic sci-fi scenarios in Hollywood films.
The opening of Quantum of Solace on Friday is making us nostalgic for the junk science and catastrophic fear that make fictional doomsday devices fun. From earth-shattering fusion reactors to catastrophic earthquake machines to planet-destroying space stations, here's a list of some of our favorite extinction-bringing devices from film, television and videogames. Be sure to share your own favorites in the comments.
Love affair-turbulent-popular-James Bond-love-feel safe-exhilarating. PAUSE The opening of Quantum of Solace on Friday-nostalgic-fun.
When the "fucking whales" go mad from all the pinging and start tipping over boats. Full of babies. American babies. Who will have white skin. All of them. Or when they start humping US submarines thus giving away their position when those evil terrorist Al-Qaeda submarines come along.
And haven't you seen that documentary earlier this year? It was in all theaters. You don't fuck with the big underwater creatures. Or they will come out, rip off the head off of the Statue of Liberty, rape it, and throw it in the middle of Manhattan.
Cause that is what happens when you fuck a whale in the ass, Larry.
We'll just have every citizen in US, UK, Germany, France, Sweden... etc. pay about 7000% tax to cover the costs of getting the developing countries up to the level. Its only fair, considering most of them got to their 1st world status by slavery, colonization and exploitation of the said developing countries.
Say... About 300 years of that? Not only is it fair, it is "more cost-effective" and "reasonable".
I've done as-built interior plans of hundreds of office complexes, retail spaces, factories and plants.
Pardon me, I sometimes lose the grasp on the entire scope of a language as complex as English. Apparently, what you were trying to say with words "I've done as-built interior plans of hundreds of office complexes, retail spaces, factories and plants" is "I have worked as an employee at hundreds of locations which include office complexes, retail spaces, factories and plants - all of whose interior design consisted of prefabricated cubicles."
I understood that you were trying to say that you are an architect. Or at least an electric technician.
You know... Someone who could say "I've done" about a factory or an office complex in the same way baker might say "I've done" about bread or pie. Not the way someone who eats bread and pie might say "I've done" about those and similar baked goods.
You know... instead of actually using 2 years of iPhone data, 2 years of Blackberry data and 2 years of Treo data - you imaginate half of iPhone data.
This analysis examines customer reported data on over 15,000 phones in the past 2 years.ii We tracked failures due to accidental damage separately from malfunctions through normal usage ("malfunctions"). For the purposes of this study, we have focused primarily on malfunctions to evaluate the manufactured quality of the handset models.
For most cell phone users, their greatest vulnerability to replacement costs occurs during the second year of ownership.During this period, the initial one-year manufacturer's warranty has expired, and the customer is mostly ineligible for the heavily subsidized newer models. To determine the likelihood of iPhone replacement during this period, we first forecasted the malfunction rates at the 24-month mark. In Figure 2, we apply a straight line forecast to the first 12 months of iPhone data. The BlackBerry and Treo data shown is actual data at the 24-month mark.
Using a moderately conservative asymptotic forecast for iPhone malfunction rates, we estimate a 9.2% failure rate after 24 months
And here comes the best part...
The asymptotic model in Figure 3 projects an iPhone malfunction rate of 3.6% during the second year, halfway between that of the BlackBerry and Treo. Without more data, it's impossible to definitively know if iPhone owners are at a bigger risk for handset malfunction than BlackBerry and Treo owners after the manufacturer's warranty has elapsed. Regardless, both models forecast iPhones with a significantly lower failure rate at the end of 24 months of ownership. From this analysis, we can infer that iPhones are more reliable handsets than the other two smart phone models.
You see... as it is we were only guessing how much iPhone will break down it may not really be important to point out that by our findings iPHONES BREAK MORE THAN BLACKBERRY DURING THE SECOND YEAR. You know... "after the manufacturer's warranty has elapsed". But all in all, according to our educated-seeming guesses (look at all those beautiful graphs) - it breaks less than other two. We guess...
I meant it as a figure of speech. As in "Don't blame me. Blame the guy who designed the system."
Doesn't change the fact that the majority of office workers are either in "the inner depths of cubicle farms" as you put it, or do not have control of the lighting. Doesn't change the fact that the majority of American workers, period, work in an environment (be it a cube farm, a hospital, or be it a retail store) where the lighting is fixed and not under their control, much less affected by DST.
Hey I gave YOU the solution to the problem that involves potential personal and global gain. I can't make stop yelling "There is problem! There is problem!" and take a look at the solution though.
I've done as-built interior plans of hundreds of office complexes, retail spaces, factories and plants. The number of people who have control of their lighting is few. The number of people with control of their lighting AND enough ambient light to make use of DST is even less.
So you are saying that YOU are a part of the problem? What are you complaining about then? You obviously like it the way it is.
Just get me a robot and 701 tons of concrete weight which will be used for ballast purposes. Granted, the robot ain't going to move around much once it is properly ballasted but hey...
We ARE going for the heaviest not fastest robot around, right?
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It was a transplant from a skunk donor who volunteered for the procedure.
I meant shoo.
My spool checker mast have bean of.
Bottom part of a shoe?
And on the LEFT side of the screen it says:
I call prior art for "up to $50,000 reward" stated on the right side of the page, on the base of the left side giving away clean "$50,000 reward" for the same act.
Who do I need to contact to receive my $50k?
If only they fired that cameraman with Parkinson's and that editor with ADHD.
Equal opportunity employment is all fine, but really... SOME jobs require a steady hand and a bit of concentration.
I gave up BSG at about half way through season two cause my head was starting to hurt.
If they had only left the Hot&Sexy-Elf-Amazon-lesbian-babes Elerians in the game.
Instead, you could take your pick among some of the most repulsive 3D models ever.
Yes, the original canon is old and loved, but there are so many problems trying to please the rabid fan base that the STORY can no longer be told.
A. What problems?
B. There are no problems out there in the literary world that a half decent writer could not fix.
Particularly in the literary universe with plot devices like the ones found in Star Trek.
If anyone in Paramount had any balls and brains they would create a Star Trek equal not another prequel/sequel/spin-off.
For an Anonymous Coward.
Do you also steal lunch money from elementary school kids in your spare time?
How the hell are they gonna know we are boycotting? And why should they care?
SOMEONE will pay for the tickets. SOMEONE payed to see "The Hottie & the Nottie" for fuck's sake.
And since actually gathering money to pay for more of what fans like (Remember Enterprise donation gathering?) does not work - maybe a more pro-active approach is required?
I propose packages of dead cats and live cockroaches.
Second batch should have an additional payload of microwave popcorn and small metal objects - for when they start microwaving their mail.
...sensitive equipment on site, element of surprise, recon mission...
The list is long.
Are you one of those guys that, when playing Counterstrike, chucks grenades inside killing all the hostages and then runs into the room spraying it with bullets, only to be knifed in the head once you run out of ammo?
That the parent poster probably meant "Expanded Universe" not "European Union".
But I guess it is a bit too late...
Someone already mentioned China stamping out plastic ones for 3 cents per unit.
In order to profit from the market demand for those EU and USA made lightsabers I guess.
... we actually mean you, gaspyy (514539), only plural.
The topic is climbing to over a hundred comments at the moment and yours is the first I see that is openly trolling against it.
I guess it has something to do with the fact that most people are more interested in movies and comics in general than in support for that particular plugin your heart desires.
You do know that YOU too can submit a story?
For example about how "Adobe FINALLY releases the the 64bit flash plugin (for Linux first nonetheless)".
Or are you here just to troll?
There is a brand new Science of the Lightsaber just up.
Why don't you try that one too?
It would mostly be SF/cyborg violence with white/purple blood.
Plus there are almost no titties in the entire manga, and very little or no drug use.
Unless we count some of that brain munching in the beginning. That part would probably be safer as just "eating brains" instead of "eating brains to get high".
A lot can be squeezed into that PG-13 if they play their cards right, and maybe tone it down a bit for the MPAA censors.
Later, they can always make an unrated or R DVD version.
Waiting for it for over a decade now...
Keep an eye on MarketSaw. It is a blog about 3D movies.
Whenever there is something new on Avatar or Battle Angel, it is very likely it will turn up there.
Its slashdot... its all informal here. Very informal.
http://www.xkcd.com/243/
Not exiled. Deported. To Nigeria.
It is a thinly veiled Quantum of Solace promo. Because, there are not enough of those already.
From TFA:
Love affair-turbulent-popular-James Bond-love-feel safe-exhilarating.
PAUSE
The opening of Quantum of Solace on Friday-nostalgic-fun.
Subliminal much?
When the "fucking whales" go mad from all the pinging and start tipping over boats. Full of babies. American babies. Who will have white skin. All of them.
Or when they start humping US submarines thus giving away their position when those evil terrorist Al-Qaeda submarines come along.
And haven't you seen that documentary earlier this year? It was in all theaters.
You don't fuck with the big underwater creatures.
Or they will come out, rip off the head off of the Statue of Liberty, rape it, and throw it in the middle of Manhattan.
Cause that is what happens when you fuck a whale in the ass, Larry.
It was called "Enterprise".
I'm all up for that.
We'll just have every citizen in US, UK, Germany, France, Sweden... etc. pay about 7000% tax to cover the costs of getting the developing countries up to the level.
Its only fair, considering most of them got to their 1st world status by slavery, colonization and exploitation of the said developing countries.
Say... About 300 years of that?
Not only is it fair, it is "more cost-effective" and "reasonable".
Like... BEFORE Halloween.
Some of the scariest sounds I've heard in years.
Pardon me, I sometimes lose the grasp on the entire scope of a language as complex as English.
Apparently, what you were trying to say with words "I've done as-built interior plans of hundreds of office complexes, retail spaces, factories and plants" is
"I have worked as an employee at hundreds of locations which include office complexes, retail spaces, factories and plants - all of whose interior design consisted of prefabricated cubicles."
I understood that you were trying to say that you are an architect.
Or at least an electric technician.
You know... Someone who could say "I've done" about a factory or an office complex in the same way baker might say "I've done" about bread or pie.
Not the way someone who eats bread and pie might say "I've done" about those and similar baked goods.
You know... instead of actually using 2 years of iPhone data, 2 years of Blackberry data and 2 years of Treo data - you imaginate half of iPhone data.
And here comes the best part...
You see... as it is we were only guessing how much iPhone will break down it may not really be important to point out that by our findings iPHONES BREAK MORE THAN BLACKBERRY DURING THE SECOND YEAR.
You know... "after the manufacturer's warranty has elapsed".
But all in all, according to our educated-seeming guesses (look at all those beautiful graphs) - it breaks less than other two.
We guess...
I meant it as a figure of speech. As in "Don't blame me. Blame the guy who designed the system."
Hey I gave YOU the solution to the problem that involves potential personal and global gain.
I can't make stop yelling "There is problem! There is problem!" and take a look at the solution though.
So you are saying that YOU are a part of the problem?
What are you complaining about then?
You obviously like it the way it is.
I'm cool with that. Masochists are people too.
Just get me a robot and 701 tons of concrete weight which will be used for ballast purposes.
Granted, the robot ain't going to move around much once it is properly ballasted but hey...
We ARE going for the heaviest not fastest robot around, right?