As an 'English' Canadian, who happens to be bilingual, I don't think that last comment is funny, but racist and mean-spiritired. Making fun of a minority for humor is just about the most base form of comedy there is, congratulations. [Those Americans who currently are supporting the bashing of France, and by that I mean the majority who recently identified France as an ENEMY rather than an ally in a scientific poll, and I also mean the collective U.S. Congress who voted to change the name of French Fries in their cafeteria to Freeedom Fries, and I refer also to those who routinely post on this site in a negative way about the French (both Parisian and Quebecois), including the great-grandparent of this post] can go on their stupid as hell (Parisian) French bashing crusade all they want, but [The majority of those who have French as a native tongue and reside in Quebec that I have met and whom everyone I know has met and whom I have read about and have any knowledge of through my experiences, including my parents who emigrated there and my Sister who was born there] are extremely nice people who are extremely progressive (I happen to also like Parisians having spent last summer there, but that is another point). Of course there are a few bad apples in the Quebequois, like in any group (Jacques Parizeau I am talking to you) but grouping them all together is the very definition of stereotyping.
[Those in Canada who support Multi-culturalrism, which is a majority of the populace, including those residing in the Country's largest city Toronto, which is the most enthnically diverse city on the planet (including New York)], don't tolerate racism is any form, so I don't _THINK_ [The Majority of Canadian People mentioned above] want you up here, no offense.
I get your point though. I just got mad when someone made a cheap and EASY joke at the expense of the French Canadians. That crap has been going on too long on this site and elsewhere (usually directed at France) and I am getting sick of it.
As an 'English' Canadian, who happens to be bilingual, I don't think that last comment is funny, but racist and mean-spiritired. Making fun of a minority for humor is just about the most base form of comedy there is, congratulations. Americans can go on their stupid as hell (Parisian) French bashing crusade all they want, but French Canadians are extremely nice people who are extremely progressive (I happen to also like Parisians having spent last summer there, but that is another point). Of course there are a few bad apples in the Quebequois, like in any group (Jacques Parizeau I am talking to you) but grouping them all together is the very definition of stereotyping.
Canadians don't tolerate racism is any form, so I don't think we want you up here, no offense.
Not true: decades end with 0, they do not start with one,.e.g 1990 and 1991 are in different decades. The idea of having decades go by the X0's e.g. 30's 40's 50's 60's is a phenomenon begun in the 20th century when culture changes seemed to match the years.
The characters were not modelled after their real-life voice actors. The animators animated the characters with no respect for the voice actors (which is different than say a disney movie where they give their character subtle similarities).
The reason why they did this, is that they hoped to create virtual actors who could be used in different films - an idea that was completely demolished when the film tanked.
The episode is called "The Robots of Death" and is one of the better Tom Baker episodes.
The Doctor and Leela land on a luxury cruiser / mining ship that is moving across a desert planet. Soon people start dying, and the doctor investigates.
The Robots were SUPER creepy with their expressionless faces, a good example of the point of the article
"Experiments performed under properly controlled conditions reliably produce more heat than standard theory predicts. Nuclear products show up in about the right amounts to account for this excess heat."
The energy found cannot be explained by chemical reactions, and nuclear products, namely HELIUM, _are_ found in the reactions.
He mentions that besides the "Greedo Shoots first" fiasco, he is also planning on changing the "Indy Shoots the Swordsman" scene in Raiders in a similar fashion.
The guy must be stopped, he is killing film history!
And, finally, we don't even have a nuclear power on our southern border sending troops into disputed territories and claiming that parts of our country belongs to them.
Hey Mr. Geography, India's southern border is the Indian Ocean.
As for your other point, both Canada AND Mexico have sent troops into your country due to border disputes: please see the US-Mexico war, the war of Texas Independance and the war of 1812 (or the border dispute of the Alaskan pan-handle).
In Canada, for a federal election we record something like 15 million hand-written votes in a few hours.
Why can't the torch-bearer of democracy even remotely get this right? Is it because there is no federal standard, or do Amercians really not care that much?
"Long John Silver's has purchased an insurance policy to cover the anticipated cost of the free Giant Shrimp redemption, should NASA announce the discovery of conclusive evidence of an ocean on Mars between now and February 29, 2004"
Spielberg, you too. I didn't buy none of your walkie talkie E.T. shit
Don't paint them both with the same brush, the E.T. DVD release had the Special Edition but it also came with a DVD of the original release. Spielberg knows something about pleasing fans and tinkering at the same time.
Lucas on the other hand is a fat, artisticly bankrupt ego-maniac who sits on a pile of money like Jabba. He says he loves the fans who made him rich, but he screws them over time and again with crap like this. I am not buying these in a million years.
Interesting, the ISP's won't give up their names, but try typing in http://128.111.80.86/ which is one of the entries. This leads you to the University of California - Santa Barbara's security we page. So they NAT all their users apparently, how helpful is that?:P
You want to know the problem with the U.S. education system:
PROPERTY TAXES PAYING FOR SCHOOLS.
That is single-DUMBEST thing I have ever heard of in my life. Rich people get good schools, poor people get bad schools. Rich people stay rich, poor people stay poor Forget the right-wing viewpoint of the water rising raisning boats; one boat is a luxury liner and the other is a leaky rowboat!
Ignore the obviously clueless mainstream press or start the soul searching?
Thank goodness for objectivity.
Having studied it, violence in games is a SERIOUS problem, much more serious than violence in movies. You see people learn to do something by DOING it. Wathcing violence doesn't teach you ANYTHING about doing it, it merely may desensitize you to viewing it. On the other hand actually performing violent acts, virtual or real, will desensitize you to DOING it. I have watched 10 year old kids in arcades blowing people away with uzies and it is disturbing as hell.
Yes parents have responsibility, but so does the industry. Is ID mandatory to but GTA:Vice City? Do gaming ratings have any government weight? Is marketing geared towards youth (i.e. are ads shown during youth programming)?
and yes we had violence in games when we were younger, but there is a hell of a difference between Beach Head for the C64 and Beach Head 2000.
Therefore, what SETI should be looking for are signals that, at first, appear as white noise. Then try to decode them.
That is single-handidly the dumbest thing they could do.
The sky is ABSOLUTELY FILLED with white noise. Nature is random, that is the whole point of looking for NON-random signals; they suggest intelligence at work.
Another point is that we are not just looking for signals that are essentially radio-pollution from another civilization, we are looking for DELIBERATE signals from a society trying to communicate with us. Why would they encrypt or otherwise obfuscate those signals?!?!
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As an 'English' Canadian, who happens to be bilingual, I don't think that last comment is funny, but racist and mean-spiritired. Making fun of a minority for humor is just about the most base form of comedy there is, congratulations. [Those Americans who currently are supporting the bashing of France, and by that I mean the majority who recently identified France as an ENEMY rather than an ally in a scientific poll, and I also mean the collective U.S. Congress who voted to change the name of French Fries in their cafeteria to Freeedom Fries, and I refer also to those who routinely post on this site in a negative way about the French (both Parisian and Quebecois), including the great-grandparent of this post] can go on their stupid as hell (Parisian) French bashing crusade all they want, but [The majority of those who have French as a native tongue and reside in Quebec that I have met and whom everyone I know has met and whom I have read about and have any knowledge of through my experiences, including my parents who emigrated there and my Sister who was born there] are extremely nice people who are extremely progressive (I happen to also like Parisians having spent last summer there, but that is another point). Of course there are a few bad apples in the Quebequois, like in any group (Jacques Parizeau I am talking to you) but grouping them all together is the very definition of stereotyping.
[Those in Canada who support Multi-culturalrism, which is a majority of the populace, including those residing in the Country's largest city Toronto, which is the most enthnically diverse city on the planet (including New York)], don't tolerate racism is any form, so I don't _THINK_ [The Majority of Canadian People mentioned above] want you up here, no offense.
I get your point though. I just got mad when someone made a cheap and EASY joke at the expense of the French Canadians. That crap has been going on too long on this site and elsewhere (usually directed at France) and I am getting sick of it.
BTW.. I would appreciate it if in the future you didn't presume to speak on behalf of me.
Where exactly did I do that?
When I said most Canadians don't tolerate racism? (That was the only generalization I made about the Canadian populace)
When I said maybe he shouldn't move up here?
How is that speaking for you?
As an 'English' Canadian, who happens to be bilingual, I don't think that last comment is funny, but racist and mean-spiritired. Making fun of a minority for humor is just about the most base form of comedy there is, congratulations. Americans can go on their stupid as hell (Parisian) French bashing crusade all they want, but French Canadians are extremely nice people who are extremely progressive (I happen to also like Parisians having spent last summer there, but that is another point). Of course there are a few bad apples in the Quebequois, like in any group (Jacques Parizeau I am talking to you) but grouping them all together is the very definition of stereotyping.
Canadians don't tolerate racism is any form, so I don't think we want you up here, no offense.
Not true: decades end with 0, they do not start with one, .e.g 1990 and 1991 are in different decades. The idea of having decades go by the X0's e.g. 30's 40's 50's 60's is a phenomenon begun in the 20th century when culture changes seemed to match the years.
What about the CO2?
Can't you retrieve the oxygen back from the CO2(this will of course require ENERGY)?
Isn't that what plants do now?
Why bring 1.5 TONS of air and then vent 1.5 TONS of CO2 out into space?
You _are_ wrong.
The characters were not modelled after their real-life voice actors. The animators animated the characters with no respect for the voice actors (which is different than say a disney movie where they give their character subtle similarities).
The reason why they did this, is that they hoped to create virtual actors who could be used in different films - an idea that was completely demolished when the film tanked.
The episode is called "The Robots of Death" and is one of the better Tom Baker episodes.
The Doctor and Leela land on a luxury cruiser / mining ship that is moving across a desert planet.
Soon people start dying, and the doctor investigates.
The Robots were SUPER creepy with their expressionless faces, a good example of the point of the article
RTFA
"Experiments performed under properly controlled conditions reliably produce more heat than standard theory predicts. Nuclear products show up in about the right amounts to account for this excess heat."
The energy found cannot be explained by chemical reactions, and nuclear products, namely HELIUM, _are_ found in the reactions.
I have a rather useful definition that seems to cover all cases I consider art:
"Art it the indirect communication of one persons abstract idea to another through an indirect medium."
The more abstract the idea, the less the audience connects with the artist; the more direct the communication the less 'revelatory' the experience is.
He mentions that besides the "Greedo Shoots first" fiasco, he is also planning on changing the "Indy Shoots the Swordsman" scene in Raiders in a similar fashion.
The guy must be stopped, he is killing film history!
Unless your son is currently about 30 years old you are off base:
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Check out
http://www.rediff.com/money/2003/oct/28india.ht
India is poised to be the number one economy, followed by China THEN the US by 2050.
And, finally, we don't even have a nuclear power on our southern border sending troops into disputed territories and claiming that parts of our country belongs to them.
Hey Mr. Geography, India's southern border is the Indian Ocean.
As for your other point, both Canada AND Mexico have sent troops into your country due to border disputes: please see the US-Mexico war, the war of Texas Independance and the war of 1812 (or the border dispute of the Alaskan pan-handle).
In Canada, for a federal election we record something like 15 million hand-written votes in a few hours.
Why can't the torch-bearer of democracy even remotely get this right? Is it because there is no federal standard, or do Amercians really not care that much?
"Long John Silver's has purchased an insurance policy to cover the anticipated cost of the free Giant Shrimp redemption, should NASA announce the discovery of conclusive evidence of an ocean on Mars between now and February 29, 2004"
No Shrimp for you!
Spielberg, you too. I didn't buy none of your walkie talkie E.T. shit
Don't paint them both with the same brush, the E.T. DVD release had the Special Edition but it also came with a DVD of the original release. Spielberg knows something about pleasing fans and tinkering at the same time.
Lucas on the other hand is a fat, artisticly bankrupt ego-maniac who sits on a pile of money like Jabba. He says he loves the fans who made him rich, but he screws them over time and again with crap like this. I am not buying these in a million years.
These measures include adding light shades of blue, peach and green to the $20 bill as an anti-counterfeiting measure.
:P
Have you seen the bill!?!? This is only confidential if you are, in fact, colour blind or blind.
Interesting, the ISP's won't give up their names, but try typing in http://128.111.80.86/ which is one of the entries. This leads you to the University of California - Santa Barbara's security we page. So they NAT all their users apparently, how helpful is that? :P
You want to know the problem with the U.S. education system:
PROPERTY TAXES PAYING FOR SCHOOLS.
That is single-DUMBEST thing I have ever heard of in my life. Rich people get good schools, poor people get bad schools. Rich people stay rich, poor people stay poor Forget the right-wing viewpoint of the water rising raisning boats; one boat is a luxury liner and the other is a leaky rowboat!
You guys kills me.
My school graduated 27 people in 2002... Do we REALLY need a new gym?
:|
Maybe more people would go to your school if it had a decent gym.
Lots of cool stuff was developed that has found it's way into YOUR house. Everything from ink pens
Ink pens were invented WAY before 1960, BALL POINT pens themselves were invented way back in 1935.
You may be thinking of the SPACE PEN, which most people DO NOT have in their house.
Will it chase your ship around yelling out I hunger ? :P
It is NOT pyramid shaped; it is shaped like a trapezium, the top of the pyramid is actually the rock BEHIND it (look closer).
It is amazing how people find patterns in random things then project some sort of intelligent design behind it.
Ignore the obviously clueless mainstream press or start the soul searching?
Thank goodness for objectivity.
Having studied it, violence in games is a SERIOUS problem, much more serious than violence in movies. You see people learn to do something by DOING it. Wathcing violence doesn't teach you ANYTHING about doing it, it merely may desensitize you to viewing it. On the other hand actually performing violent acts, virtual or real, will desensitize you to DOING it. I have watched 10 year old kids in arcades blowing people away with uzies and it is disturbing as hell.
Yes parents have responsibility, but so does the industry. Is ID mandatory to but GTA:Vice City? Do gaming ratings have any government weight? Is marketing geared towards youth (i.e. are ads shown during youth programming)?
and yes we had violence in games when we were younger, but there is a hell of a difference between Beach Head for the C64 and Beach Head 2000.
I bought one of these for my brother for christmas and I swear I haven't wrapped it yet because I want to keep it. ;)
Therefore, what SETI should be looking for are signals that, at first, appear as white noise. Then try to decode them.
That is single-handidly the dumbest thing they could do.
The sky is ABSOLUTELY FILLED with white noise. Nature is random, that is the whole point of looking for NON-random signals; they suggest intelligence at work.
Another point is that we are not just looking for signals that are essentially radio-pollution from another civilization, we are looking for DELIBERATE signals from a society trying to communicate with us. Why would they encrypt or otherwise obfuscate those signals?!?!