I love living in a world where the regular headlines sound like the start of a decent sci fi adventure.
Now let's just hope this puppy doesn't get out of the lab and become a sci-fi/horror. Two hundred years from now it could be on the History Channel as "Zombie Plagues from the Past".
The paranoid sci-fi freak in me likes the idea. But the logical, rational part of me understands that the environment it evolved to live in is a good bit colder than the human body.
Maybe it chills the human body down, and dissipates the resulting negentropy by animating it.
UNtil now I was looking forward to seeing the upcoming Enders Game movie
Like a lot of other people who post here, I really liked the short story, but thought the book was dull as hell. Can't imagine becoming interested in the movie.
For that matter, I'm not even sure the short story would work for me during a second reading.
This is actually an interesting phenomenon. On first impression it seems to indicate a growing acceptance of homosexuality among scriptwriters, producers, and sponsors, but then you notice that the gay dude is always provide for comic relief.
That is actually mainstream thought within religion-based anti-gay groups. It is their implementation of "hate the sin, love the sinner" - it is OK to be gay as long as you never act on it.
The sex-obsessed control freaks commonly referred to as the Religious Right still think homosexuality is a vice, and therefore cause for punishment.
Over the past ~20 years the fact-oriented segments of society have figured out that that isn't the case at all. Disapproving of homosexuality is more like disapproving of red hair or left-handedness than disapproving of binge drinking or snorting coke.
Good for you. But, i wonder, if you are somehow trying to deny the same right to the ones that agree with Scott's believe? Yes? Why? What the frack man, why the hate!!!!
Is he denying it? And if he did, couldn't they just refuse to patronize him the way he refuses to patronize Scott?
Does that not simply lend credence to his claim of "the end of democracy in America"?
No, what would lend credence to his claim would be a US state enacting a same-sex marriage law without the necessary majority support from elected representatives.
What about when the opposite happens; when the majority of state voters decide to not allow same sex marriage but the unelected judiciary orders it allowed anyway? Is that a failure of democracy?
Yes, it's a failure of pure democracy. However, it may not be a failure of constitutional democracy, depending on what the constitution says.
Ancient Athens was a pure democracy. Also an evil empire. They voted genocide for the whole population of some island on account of some action they didn't like, and of course voted a choice between exile or death on Socrates for "corrupting the youth" with his crazy gadfly questions.
I wouldn't want to live in a pure democracy. Thank all the gods the USA is a constitutional republic, with a mild seasoning of direct democracy (at the state level and lower) via the proposition mechanism.
The interesting thing here is that the story Didn't push his agenda yet his story was still rejected. Does that not simply lend credence to his claim of "the end of democracy in America"? Have his opponents not heard of Barbra Streisand?
What the hell has the non-publication of his story got to do with the end of democracy in America? Or his claim that it would have something to do with gay marriage.
My views are similar to #1: I always thought he was overrated, but don't much care about his politics.
But his claim that gay marriage will end democracy and require a revolution from the people whose way he thinks should be forced on everyone else just identifies him as a bog-standard nutjob.
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I love living in a world where the regular headlines sound like the start of a decent sci fi adventure.
Now let's just hope this puppy doesn't get out of the lab and become a sci-fi/horror. Two hundred years from now it could be on the History Channel as "Zombie Plagues from the Past".
The paranoid sci-fi freak in me likes the idea. But the logical, rational part of me understands that the environment it evolved to live in is a good bit colder than the human body.
Maybe it chills the human body down, and dissipates the resulting negentropy by animating it.
Those hobbies are more exciting than mine. :-/
I grow my life forms, unclassifed, in my toilet bowl.
I have to kill them off and start over every time I have company.
Great for studying evolution, irrelevant to Michael Chrichton
Wow, it *is* exotic if Chrichton can't phobiize it.
FUCK YES!
HOW DOES IT WORK?!?
I think he told you in his post.
While browsing and posting on this story, I'm listening to Jimi Hendrix, Astro Man, which has the lyrics:
Heard im Flying Higher Than
That Old Faggot Super man
Ever could
But he also sang:
'Scuse me, while I kiss this guy.
some Fox News inspired, masturbatory logic
People who masturbate while watching FOX... that's a new one.
On the third hand,
Shouldn't that be "on the gripping hand"?
For Slashdotters, probably so.
First up: people who want to burn people they don't agree with.
Can't do that, because it would accelerate global warming.
(Heh, anthropogenic in two senses...)
the realm of straight fantasy
Heh, I get it.
So to rectify this, I guess they will publish a Pro-Gay story or stay away from the subject altogether?.
You still haven't figured out that Superman is Gay?
I wonder what you think The Hobbit is about!
Hell, I'm a fan of Queen. I'm friends with gays, atheists, hell, at least one murderer.
One of these is not like the others.
Hell?
UNtil now I was looking forward to seeing the upcoming Enders Game movie
Like a lot of other people who post here, I really liked the short story, but thought the book was dull as hell. Can't imagine becoming interested in the movie.
For that matter, I'm not even sure the short story would work for me during a second reading.
The '80s called, they want their one-hit-wonder bowling-ball-headed Mormon idiot back.
I didn't know Mr. T was a Mormon.
one year its vampires in every movie
s/year/generation/
another its a random gay dude in every sitcom
This is actually an interesting phenomenon. On first impression it seems to indicate a growing acceptance of homosexuality among scriptwriters, producers, and sponsors, but then you notice that the gay dude is always provide for comic relief.
That is actually mainstream thought within religion-based anti-gay groups. It is their implementation of "hate the sin, love the sinner" - it is OK to be gay as long as you never act on it.
The sex-obsessed control freaks commonly referred to as the Religious Right still think homosexuality is a vice, and therefore cause for punishment.
Over the past ~20 years the fact-oriented segments of society have figured out that that isn't the case at all. Disapproving of homosexuality is more like disapproving of red hair or left-handedness than disapproving of binge drinking or snorting coke.
Good for you. But, i wonder, if you are somehow trying to deny the same right to the ones that agree with Scott's believe? Yes? Why? What the frack man, why the hate!!!!
Is he denying it? And if he did, couldn't they just refuse to patronize him the way he refuses to patronize Scott?
Does that not simply lend credence to his claim of "the end of democracy in America"?
No, what would lend credence to his claim would be a US state enacting a same-sex marriage law without the necessary majority support from elected representatives.
What about when the opposite happens; when the majority of state voters decide to not allow same sex marriage but the unelected judiciary orders it allowed anyway? Is that a failure of democracy?
Yes, it's a failure of pure democracy. However, it may not be a failure of constitutional democracy, depending on what the constitution says.
Ancient Athens was a pure democracy. Also an evil empire. They voted genocide for the whole population of some island on account of some action they didn't like, and of course voted a choice between exile or death on Socrates for "corrupting the youth" with his crazy gadfly questions.
I wouldn't want to live in a pure democracy. Thank all the gods the USA is a constitutional republic, with a mild seasoning of direct democracy (at the state level and lower) via the proposition mechanism.
The interesting thing here is that the story Didn't push his agenda yet his story was still rejected. Does that not simply lend credence to his claim of "the end of democracy in America"? Have his opponents not heard of Barbra Streisand?
What the hell has the non-publication of his story got to do with the end of democracy in America? Or his claim that it would have something to do with gay marriage.
My views are similar to #1: I always thought he was overrated, but don't much care about his politics.
But his claim that gay marriage will end democracy and require a revolution from the people whose way he thinks should be forced on everyone else just identifies him as a bog-standard nutjob.
Out with the poorly designed studies, in with the anecdotes!
pjorn?
Consider that Germany marched against the entirety of Europe... twice.
The second time was because of a bad case of the stupids.
If I remember correctly from my youth, wasn' it spelt "Raygun"?
Which actually brings us back on topic.
The math may win, but the spelling sure doesn't. Reagen??
Just taking a queue from the next VP, Dan "Potatoe" Quayle.
(Here's wondering how *he* spelled Ronnie's name.)
From what I've read (but don't know first hand), when a woman straps something on to obtain super-powers she becomes a whole different animal.
You misspelled 'idiot'.