I've seen some *really* whacky ideas based on science fiction rather than science fact move through the DOD that says more to me about the state of science education in the US than anything else.
The proper term is blue sky research projects. Only 1 out of 1,00 pays off, but when it does it is usually worth it.
Very nice trick with the television. Probably cheaper than cable to boot.:)
Just wait for one of them to figure out they can get broadcast television by sticking a wire into one of the jacks on the VCR though...
They'll shoulder surf you. They'll crack the machine. They'll buy a $20 WiFi dongle with their saved lunch money so they can use the neighbors internet connection.
Well, My biggest trick is that I do all my mass downloads at work and only have dailup at home. I wouldn't actually mind hooking my rabbit ears back up, but I didn't think that it was worth the bother myself. That's how I used to watch TV myself. I got ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, UPN, & 3 public boardcasting stations. Most of what I watched was Fox, UPN, & PBS. (Gotta love Dr. Who.)
My kids already know my password to get into my account for the computer. I got a 300 Gb external HD for Christmas. I movied all my porn, warez apps & games, anime, and 20 Gbs of Manga to it. I don't really mind if my boy discovers it when he is 12-13. (I certainly would have at that age. I'd be more worried if he didn't show an interest in it.) My boy is 5. I have a few years to worry about that. I could always get them hooked on anime & manga at that time.;) But then I'd have to re-read it all to censor it.;) Yeah that's it.
As I said, the main problem was that the SUV rolled, and the other vehicle pushed the chassis and drivetrain out through the roof. The seats were flattened against the roof. What was left of the passengers was probably barely worth scraping off the road.
Ok. They just needed that machine gun mounted up top of the hummer and having it manned so incoming threats are eliminated before things like this happen.;) I doubt some machine gun bullets would have stopped the car from ramming them though. It would have made them feel better though to be doing something.
Like the television, the Xbox and the Internet in general are the new babysitters, and that's bad.
Um, totally stupid as well. I can let my TV be a babysitter because the only way to view shows on my TVs is through the VCR or DVD. We've already done our censoring by choicing what shows and seasons to buy. I have an old N64 with Zelda that they can play for video games. If they want more choices... they can emulate GBA , N64, or Super Nintendo on the PC if they can get daddy off the family PC. We have dailup and the kids don't know the user name/password to get on. That is the biggest safety right there. The leason that my kids learned from Smallville: never ever eat or touch anything that comes from or near green glowing rocks.
From Charmed, my daughter has learned not to practice magic because then your boyfriend would be either an evil warlock, a ghost, or something else along those lines.
The same must be possible and is almost certainly true (just run an experiment and prove it) for a smaller body of liquid water with some amount of ice in it that is melting due to the application of an outside heat source.
I'd say it may be a limit of his measuring device. Better equipment would most likely prove you right. Your normal household or highschool stuff, most likely won't show a difference.
People can always just sit around and wait to be unbanned in a game, but giving them some kind of boring chore to perform to teach them a lesson would be nice. I hope to see something like this in more MMORPGs.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that the point of moast MMORPGSs? To do the same basically boring task alot of times to get either experience or cash?
The H2 was *destroyed*. The impact knocked it on its side, and pushed the gearbox and transfer box through the floor and out through the roof. The chassis was split in two from about the middle up to the front crossmember. I suppose I don't need to draw any pictures of what this did to the four occupants.
Um, yes you do. Most vechiles are designed to come apart in a manner that leaves the folks on the inside alive. You didn't mention speed differences though. I don't care if you are in a tank if some one is traveling in motorcycle fast enough it could destroy the tank. Not enough info in your story. If it was an impact under 30 mph, I'd be very surprised that much damage was done to the Hummer.
Right, because all those Japanese and Korean, etc, car makers employees all joined the UAW. Oh wait, US unions don't migrate well to the rest of the world, but the jobs sure do.
Unionizing IT would be dumb.
I don't believe that it would work myself. To work though, it would have to be a union that all IT workers on planet belonged to and demanded the same exact things from their companies. To be perfectly honest, with you, I wouldn't want a US union. Ours haven't been very useful since their start. I'd want a union that believed in unionizing everyone in the field and getting the workers the same things from the companies. US unions don't believe that any more. They want their jobs to stay where they are at. That shouldn't happen. The companies should be able to move anywhere in the world, but everyone should be able to demand the same exact wages/benefits from the company so it wouldn't see a labor reason for moving. I doubt that it is possible to have a single global union in any field, but if you could manage it and then have several unions spread throughout the global, we'd shortly see companies not moving anywhere. It wouldn't be profitable for them to.
How did you have to "pick up" Calc II to minor in math if you were already a CS major? We had ot do through Calc III just to complete first semester of my second year as a CS major?
I remember linear alegbra was a 3000 level math class, but all that stupid class was doing matrix math by hand. (It was taught by some 90 year old professor that believed that everyone should be able to muliplty 2 5x5 matrices together by hand without any errors doing basic math.) There was statatics. I could see the use in that one. I was the hardest math class that I had ever taken. There was discrete. It was supposed to be a prereq. to abstract alegbra according to the CS professors. Abstract alegbra was fun, but a ton of memorizing of proofs. I wouldn't have gotten through discrete without first having abstract. Discrete was all about relations. I remember taking Cal I as required, but Cal II and Abstract weren't for some reason.
I went to www.uca.edu if you want to look up what they are currently requiring. I think that CS has always required too much math because half the CS professors just happened to have math degrees. Math in and of itself isn't required for CS. It is if you want a Masters or PHD in CS, but for an undergrad. Nope shouldn't really need much of what they require.
in other words, if you are actively seeking to defeat government and promote anarchy/ libertarianism/ revolution, or whatever, you are way off
Some one working for the big megacorps should try and start their own global currency based on gift cards and not some sort of credit card scheme. It seems that the US is scared silly about any global government or global single form of money. I think that if Wal-mart, McDonalds, some gas stations, and some more food places all went in together and had a gift card that you could use at any one of the stores rather than just the one store, then it could slowly become a global currency. The wal-mart gift card as currency idea.
Well? Wouldn't an alcohol economy be easier than a hydrogen one? Yes and No. It turns out that we've not found out how to do it and get a net energy gain from the system. I'm actaully surprised that there hasn't been a federal effort to quietly convert all our heavy duty farming equipment over run on biomatter. Most of what I've read states that its the moving of stuff around that is the killer. I never quite understood why that is because oil is moved from across the globe to the US and it is profitable. I'd think that locally crops used for alochol fuels would be cheaper. Don't worry, there are alot of farmers lobbying congress for that option. I'd think that a viable tech solution would have been found out of that route by new though.
I don't see the benefits of independent contractors unionizing as it would defeat the entire purpose of being an independent.
Actually, it would be good if we had one massive tech guild that we all could belong to something like the ACM. If we all belonged to the organization, we would all have a certain min. level of benefits, vacation, working hours, living wage per country, and yearly training. For us, it would be best to also spread the same organization to China and India as well. I don't care if some things are outsourced over there, but if they are doing the same sorts of jobs as we do, they should belong to our guild and we should make sure that they have the same level of benefits, vacation, working hours, living wage, and yearly training as we do here.
Of course some like that would never happen. The closest we'd get it having 100 different unions or being a subset of like an autoworkers or teachers union.
Business exist to make money; which is good, they should do that. Unfortunately, there's no inherent moral code as to how a business should go about that, and without government regulation, businesses do some pretty disgusting things.
We've not seen the bad points of capitalism in our generation. It was when communism and socialism looked good to the average factory work that you had to take note. Oh, we can sit back and say capitalism and democracy is the best government and such now. But back when your entire family (kids including) was working for the "man" to pay rent in the man's housing and can barely afford the man's food that he sells to you, and you can only dream of an education for you children and having some money left over to pay the doctors because of the thick cloud of wastes that the your factory produces, a socialist/communist environmentalism party sounds damn good.
I know i'm enormously sceptical but I things just keep going up and up - theres never any good news any more, never any rebates, etc - just corporate greed and government stupidity. As soon as we start to see some money in our pockets and a reduction in crime then i'll be keen on the system.
How about if your police arrested your insurance carriers for taxing their population without providing any benefits, which is obviously a government function. The government can't let other entities move into its area's of control.;)
"Hofmann majored in math, he said, "because it was the path of least resistance."
It sounds like the same reason that I minored in math. I only had to pick up Cal II and Abstract Algebra and boom I had a math minor. (Well, I did have to take all those other math classes required for a CS major.)
I wonder if it's not that their generation doesn't use direct deposit, but that they understand all the little things that could be taken out of your account or deposit without your knowledge until they see a statement some time in a month or 2. They like those little paper things because that somehow makes their checking and savings accounts more secure than someone that uses direct deposit.
Um, that doesn't make any sense. I use direct deposit for my income. None of my bills are paid that way. If it was just me, I'd most likely do it, but my wife likes checks. She needs to write down the amount of the bills in her check books so she'd know how much money we have at any given range.
Why can't they spend the countless billions this service is going to cost to implment where we bloody well WANT and NEED it - in the schools, in the hospitals, on pensions for our old people.
Actually, I think that you over estimate the running costs of the system. Ignoring all the evils that this system could be used for, It's already been pointed out that this system could be put to finding all those uninsured, invalide tags, or haven't been inspected. That'll save you a billion or two in your nation's insurance costs if it ever gets started. All the speeding tickets that get issued will bring in a billion or 2 as well. So as long as they can keep the running costs reasonably low, they could get it to work. I've always found it weird that the British of all people seem to be the first to try to take the techno-police state steps. Germany or Russia I could understand. Britian? That one always surprises me.
As a result of all this, I think live-action would involve too many compromises. This is one film that really would be better done as a cartoon or CG feature. Unfortunately, adult-oriented cartoons have not fared well with U.S. audiences, who seem to expect cute little anthropomorphic Disney sidekicks and musical numbers from anything drawn or rendered. Japan does not have this problem. If I were Orson Scott Card and I wanted to see Ender's Game done right, I'd flip Hollywood the bird and hop on a plane to the land of the rising sun.
How old was Ender 5 or 6 when he had to beat up the bully? This would be an excellent break through movie for the US. It would win all those artys awards for breaking new ground. Why no one in Hollywood would want to make a movie where an elementary kid is put into a position by his school where he has to beat his enemies hard enough so that not only that they don't have the will to fight, but other bullies would never hear of the rep. and never want to fight as well. That's the key concept. The death of the bully wasn't something that Ender learned then. He just thought the kid was seriously injured. He had to explain his motives in detail. That's the scene that would shock the audience. Ender isn't a Hitler youth and at this point he has been minimally controlled. He has been watched though. He doesn't harm because just because he is threatened. He harms so that he will never be threatened by that class of bully ever again. If Ender had remained at the school, he would never had been bullied farther.
The military academy was far more of the training the minds to be the best commanders ever. Each one of these kids was a genius. That's easy to write in a book and Card pulled it off in the book as showing the kids as not just bright but mature as well. They knew not only what they were fighting but why as well. This wasn't a nationality thing this was a preserving the species thing.
This is a universe though not just a one off book. The Ender books would make for some excellent adult converstation movies. Very thought provoking. The Bean Books as I like to call them are more action movies. It's that the world thinks that just having one of these kids will make their army so much better than the rest. It would be surreal though if the movies showing Peter as the world leader an a nice guy were released at the same time as those of the older Ender retelling his visions of Peter. Ender thought of Peter as evil villian. So from Enders P.O.V. it would have looked like evil bad guy rules Earth with the help of his friends. Ender gets his sister as company in his travels. I just thought about the scenes where they take Ender to visit his sister so that he could unwind. Some things just shouldn't be done by live action. This is one of them.
The recent news that groups like Greenpeace and PETA are being investigated leads me to believe that the authorities consider anyone with an opinion about anything as being involved in a fringe element.
I'm not aware of anything PETA has done that would qualify as terrorists. Greenpeace though is a different story. You aren't allowed to go to other people's property and vandilize it because you don't like the use it is being put. Ecoterrorist are worse than foreign terrorists to loggers, farmers, and ranchers. Mainly because that group wouldn't generally be targeted by foreign terrorists. Foreigner's would go after big numbers or government offices. Farmers and loggers aren't were the people generally are. Now, some one trespassing onto your property and disabling your tractor because they think some gopher is endangered? That is the sort of terrorists that we want Homeland Security to sniff out, identify, and get some money out off. They are costing a voting block their revenue. You'd better believe it that congress and DHS takes that seriously.;)
It'll be going to far when they look into D&D and other roleplaying games to investigate rumors that their group has encountered genetically engineered monsters that look like orcs, elves or dwarves.
Seems that every single experienced computer user has gone through such an ordeal in life, be it with HDD's, floppy disks or even tape and only _after_ they lost important stuff will they backup.
My problem, is that all my stuff is backed up... on the install CDs and a few backup DVDs. Now the important files like my wife's check book spreadsheet? Nope, I haven't backed up any of her stuff. I'm going to be in a world of hurt if our drive ever dies. Yeah, I should know better, but come on we all do it!;)
That said, I think it would be awesome to have a back-yard cyclotron. Imagine all the cool things you could do, activate pennies, evil radioactive monsters, become THE HULK, etc.
You've just hit on the real reason that they don't what it. They don't want their kids visiting him and becoming The Hulk or Spiderman.
I'm sorry, but I think something has gone horribly wrong with the world. Everyone today wants to be considered an artist for some unknown reason; possibly because artists are cool and get laid alot, but I don't know. The fact is that just because you're in a creative field doesn't make you an artist nor does it make your work art.
O.k. you hit it on the head with your third sentence! It doesn't matter if snobs in other fields don't like my art. Trust me art sticks out. Good art is almost always easy to spot when you see it. Most things are only art to the artist.;) My yard is a work of art, the trees and grass do most of the work. I just cut 'em once a month or so.
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I've seen some *really* whacky ideas based on science fiction rather than science fact move through the DOD that says more to me about the state of science education in the US than anything else.
The proper term is blue sky research projects. Only 1 out of 1,00 pays off, but when it does it is usually worth it.
Very nice trick with the television. Probably cheaper than cable to boot. :)
;) But then I'd have to re-read it all to censor it. ;) Yeah that's it.
Just wait for one of them to figure out they can get broadcast television by sticking a wire into one of the jacks on the VCR though...
They'll shoulder surf you. They'll crack the machine. They'll buy a $20 WiFi dongle with their saved lunch money so they can use the neighbors internet connection.
Well, My biggest trick is that I do all my mass downloads at work and only have dailup at home. I wouldn't actually mind hooking my rabbit ears back up, but I didn't think that it was worth the bother myself. That's how I used to watch TV myself. I got ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, UPN, & 3 public boardcasting stations. Most of what I watched was Fox, UPN, & PBS. (Gotta love Dr. Who.)
My kids already know my password to get into my account for the computer. I got a 300 Gb external HD for Christmas. I movied all my porn, warez apps & games, anime, and 20 Gbs of Manga to it. I don't really mind if my boy discovers it when he is 12-13. (I certainly would have at that age. I'd be more worried if he didn't show an interest in it.) My boy is 5. I have a few years to worry about that. I could always get them hooked on anime & manga at that time.
As I said, the main problem was that the SUV rolled, and the other vehicle pushed the chassis and drivetrain out through the roof. The seats were flattened against the roof. What was left of the passengers was probably barely worth scraping off the road.
Ok. They just needed that machine gun mounted up top of the hummer and having it manned so incoming threats are eliminated before things like this happen.
Like the television, the Xbox and the Internet in general are the new babysitters, and that's bad.
Um, totally stupid as well. I can let my TV be a babysitter because the only way to view shows on my TVs is through the VCR or DVD. We've already done our censoring by choicing what shows and seasons to buy. I have an old N64 with Zelda that they can play for video games. If they want more choices... they can emulate GBA , N64, or Super Nintendo on the PC if they can get daddy off the family PC. We have dailup and the kids don't know the user name/password to get on. That is the biggest safety right there. The leason that my kids learned from Smallville: never ever eat or touch anything that comes from or near green glowing rocks.
From Charmed, my daughter has learned not to practice magic because then your boyfriend would be either an evil warlock, a ghost, or something else along those lines.
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I hope they are depending on more than that to sell their service.
The same must be possible and is almost certainly true (just run an experiment and prove it) for a smaller body of liquid water with some amount of ice in it that is melting due to the application of an outside heat source.
I'd say it may be a limit of his measuring device. Better equipment would most likely prove you right. Your normal household or highschool stuff, most likely won't show a difference.
People can always just sit around and wait to be unbanned in a game, but giving them some kind of boring chore to perform to teach them a lesson would be nice. I hope to see something like this in more MMORPGs.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that the point of moast MMORPGSs? To do the same basically boring task alot of times to get either experience or cash?
The H2 was *destroyed*. The impact knocked it on its side, and pushed the gearbox and transfer box through the floor and out through the roof. The chassis was split in two from about the middle up to the front crossmember.
I suppose I don't need to draw any pictures of what this did to the four occupants.
Um, yes you do. Most vechiles are designed to come apart in a manner that leaves the folks on the inside alive. You didn't mention speed differences though. I don't care if you are in a tank if some one is traveling in motorcycle fast enough it could destroy the tank. Not enough info in your story. If it was an impact under 30 mph, I'd be very surprised that much damage was done to the Hummer.
Uh, I'd rather go to college than watch TV. Why is it that I can get help buying a digital TV, but can't get help with tuition?
I went to college. Can I have a voucher for a 60 inch high def digtal LCD please?
Right, because all those Japanese and Korean, etc, car makers employees all joined the UAW. Oh wait, US unions don't migrate well to the rest of the world, but the jobs sure do.
Unionizing IT would be dumb.
I don't believe that it would work myself. To work though, it would have to be a union that all IT workers on planet belonged to and demanded the same exact things from their companies. To be perfectly honest, with you, I wouldn't want a US union. Ours haven't been very useful since their start. I'd want a union that believed in unionizing everyone in the field and getting the workers the same things from the companies. US unions don't believe that any more. They want their jobs to stay where they are at. That shouldn't happen. The companies should be able to move anywhere in the world, but everyone should be able to demand the same exact wages/benefits from the company so it wouldn't see a labor reason for moving. I doubt that it is possible to have a single global union in any field, but if you could manage it and then have several unions spread throughout the global, we'd shortly see companies not moving anywhere. It wouldn't be profitable for them to.
How did you have to "pick up" Calc II to minor in math if you were already a CS major? We had ot do through Calc III just to complete first semester of my second year as a CS major?
I remember linear alegbra was a 3000 level math class, but all that stupid class was doing matrix math by hand. (It was taught by some 90 year old professor that believed that everyone should be able to muliplty 2 5x5 matrices together by hand without any errors doing basic math.) There was statatics. I could see the use in that one. I was the hardest math class that I had ever taken. There was discrete. It was supposed to be a prereq. to abstract alegbra according to the CS professors. Abstract alegbra was fun, but a ton of memorizing of proofs. I wouldn't have gotten through discrete without first having abstract. Discrete was all about relations. I remember taking Cal I as required, but Cal II and Abstract weren't for some reason.
I went to www.uca.edu if you want to look up what they are currently requiring. I think that CS has always required too much math because half the CS professors just happened to have math degrees. Math in and of itself isn't required for CS. It is if you want a Masters or PHD in CS, but for an undergrad. Nope shouldn't really need much of what they require.
It was the weirdest-ass thing I ever witnessed.
That sounds like a most excellent movie idea. I even have a title for you. "What the hell is he on?"
in other words, if you are actively seeking to defeat government and promote anarchy/ libertarianism/ revolution, or whatever, you are way off
Some one working for the big megacorps should try and start their own global currency based on gift cards and not some sort of credit card scheme. It seems that the US is scared silly about any global government or global single form of money. I think that if Wal-mart, McDonalds, some gas stations, and some more food places all went in together and had a gift card that you could use at any one of the stores rather than just the one store, then it could slowly become a global currency. The wal-mart gift card as currency idea.
Well? Wouldn't an alcohol economy be easier than a hydrogen one?
Yes and No. It turns out that we've not found out how to do it and get a net energy gain from the system. I'm actaully surprised that there hasn't been a federal effort to quietly convert all our heavy duty farming equipment over run on biomatter. Most of what I've read states that its the moving of stuff around that is the killer. I never quite understood why that is because oil is moved from across the globe to the US and it is profitable. I'd think that locally crops used for alochol fuels would be cheaper. Don't worry, there are alot of farmers lobbying congress for that option. I'd think that a viable tech solution would have been found out of that route by new though.
I don't see the benefits of independent contractors unionizing as it would defeat the entire purpose of being an independent.
Actually, it would be good if we had one massive tech guild that we all could belong to something like the ACM. If we all belonged to the organization, we would all have a certain min. level of benefits, vacation, working hours, living wage per country, and yearly training. For us, it would be best to also spread the same organization to China and India as well. I don't care if some things are outsourced over there, but if they are doing the same sorts of jobs as we do, they should belong to our guild and we should make sure that they have the same level of benefits, vacation, working hours, living wage, and yearly training as we do here.
Of course some like that would never happen. The closest we'd get it having 100 different unions or being a subset of like an autoworkers or teachers union.
Business exist to make money; which is good, they should do that. Unfortunately, there's no inherent moral code as to how a business should go about that, and without government regulation, businesses do some pretty disgusting things.
We've not seen the bad points of capitalism in our generation. It was when communism and socialism looked good to the average factory work that you had to take note. Oh, we can sit back and say capitalism and democracy is the best government and such now. But back when your entire family (kids including) was working for the "man" to pay rent in the man's housing and can barely afford the man's food that he sells to you, and you can only dream of an education for you children and having some money left over to pay the doctors because of the thick cloud of wastes that the your factory produces, a socialist/communist environmentalism party sounds damn good.
I know i'm enormously sceptical but I things just keep going up and up - theres never any good news any more, never any rebates, etc - just corporate greed and government stupidity. As soon as we start to see some money in our pockets and a reduction in crime then i'll be keen on the system.
;)
How about if your police arrested your insurance carriers for taxing their population without providing any benefits, which is obviously a government function. The government can't let other entities move into its area's of control.
"Hofmann majored in math, he said, "because it was the path of least resistance."
It sounds like the same reason that I minored in math. I only had to pick up Cal II and Abstract Algebra and boom I had a math minor. (Well, I did have to take all those other math classes required for a CS major.)
I wonder if it's not that their generation doesn't use direct deposit, but that they understand all the little things that could be taken out of your account or deposit without your knowledge until they see a statement some time in a month or 2. They like those little paper things because that somehow makes their checking and savings accounts more secure than someone that uses direct deposit.
Um, that doesn't make any sense. I use direct deposit for my income. None of my bills are paid that way. If it was just me, I'd most likely do it, but my wife likes checks. She needs to write down the amount of the bills in her check books so she'd know how much money we have at any given range.
Why can't they spend the countless billions this service is going to cost to implment where we bloody well WANT and NEED it - in the schools, in the hospitals, on pensions for our old people.
Actually, I think that you over estimate the running costs of the system. Ignoring all the evils that this system could be used for, It's already been pointed out that this system could be put to finding all those uninsured, invalide tags, or haven't been inspected. That'll save you a billion or two in your nation's insurance costs if it ever gets started. All the speeding tickets that get issued will bring in a billion or 2 as well. So as long as they can keep the running costs reasonably low, they could get it to work. I've always found it weird that the British of all people seem to be the first to try to take the techno-police state steps. Germany or Russia I could understand. Britian? That one always surprises me.
As a result of all this, I think live-action would involve too many compromises. This is one film that really would be better done as a cartoon or CG feature. Unfortunately, adult-oriented cartoons have not fared well with U.S. audiences, who seem to expect cute little anthropomorphic Disney sidekicks and musical numbers from anything drawn or rendered. Japan does not have this problem. If I were Orson Scott Card and I wanted to see Ender's Game done right, I'd flip Hollywood the bird and hop on a plane to the land of the rising sun.
How old was Ender 5 or 6 when he had to beat up the bully? This would be an excellent break through movie for the US. It would win all those artys awards for breaking new ground. Why no one in Hollywood would want to make a movie where an elementary kid is put into a position by his school where he has to beat his enemies hard enough so that not only that they don't have the will to fight, but other bullies would never hear of the rep. and never want to fight as well. That's the key concept. The death of the bully wasn't something that Ender learned then. He just thought the kid was seriously injured. He had to explain his motives in detail. That's the scene that would shock the audience. Ender isn't a Hitler youth and at this point he has been minimally controlled. He has been watched though. He doesn't harm because just because he is threatened. He harms so that he will never be threatened by that class of bully ever again. If Ender had remained at the school, he would never had been bullied farther.
The military academy was far more of the training the minds to be the best commanders ever. Each one of these kids was a genius. That's easy to write in a book and Card pulled it off in the book as showing the kids as not just bright but mature as well. They knew not only what they were fighting but why as well. This wasn't a nationality thing this was a preserving the species thing.
This is a universe though not just a one off book. The Ender books would make for some excellent adult converstation movies. Very thought provoking. The Bean Books as I like to call them are more action movies. It's that the world thinks that just having one of these kids will make their army so much better than the rest. It would be surreal though if the movies showing Peter as the world leader an a nice guy were released at the same time as those of the older Ender retelling his visions of Peter. Ender thought of Peter as evil villian. So from Enders P.O.V. it would have looked like evil bad guy rules Earth with the help of his friends. Ender gets his sister as company in his travels. I just thought about the scenes where they take Ender to visit his sister so that he could unwind. Some things just shouldn't be done by live action. This is one of them.
The recent news that groups like Greenpeace and PETA are being investigated leads me to believe that the authorities consider anyone with an opinion about anything as being involved in a fringe element.
;)
I'm not aware of anything PETA has done that would qualify as terrorists. Greenpeace though is a different story. You aren't allowed to go to other people's property and vandilize it because you don't like the use it is being put. Ecoterrorist are worse than foreign terrorists to loggers, farmers, and ranchers. Mainly because that group wouldn't generally be targeted by foreign terrorists. Foreigner's would go after big numbers or government offices. Farmers and loggers aren't were the people generally are. Now, some one trespassing onto your property and disabling your tractor because they think some gopher is endangered? That is the sort of terrorists that we want Homeland Security to sniff out, identify, and get some money out off. They are costing a voting block their revenue. You'd better believe it that congress and DHS takes that seriously.
It'll be going to far when they look into D&D and other roleplaying games to investigate rumors that their group has encountered genetically engineered monsters that look like orcs, elves or dwarves.
Seems that every single experienced computer user has gone through such an ordeal in life, be it with HDD's, floppy disks or even tape and only _after_ they lost important stuff will they backup.
My problem, is that all my stuff is backed up... on the install CDs and a few backup DVDs. Now the important files like my wife's check book spreadsheet? Nope, I haven't backed up any of her stuff. I'm going to be in a world of hurt if our drive ever dies. Yeah, I should know better, but come on we all do it!
That said, I think it would be awesome to have a back-yard cyclotron. Imagine all the cool things you could do, activate pennies, evil radioactive monsters, become THE HULK, etc.
You've just hit on the real reason that they don't what it. They don't want their kids visiting him and becoming The Hulk or Spiderman.
I'm sorry, but I think something has gone horribly wrong with the world. Everyone today wants to be considered an artist for some unknown reason; possibly because artists are cool and get laid alot, but I don't know. The fact is that just because you're in a creative field doesn't make you an artist nor does it make your work art.
;) My yard is a work of art, the trees and grass do most of the work. I just cut 'em once a month or so.
O.k. you hit it on the head with your third sentence! It doesn't matter if snobs in other fields don't like my art. Trust me art sticks out. Good art is almost always easy to spot when you see it. Most things are only art to the artist.