The spinoffs and TV movies were for the most part horrible, but I think the universe has a lot of potential. Not sure if JMS would be interested or up to the job. He is not that old... 56, but still. Some bold casting decisions, good writing, a budget, and a studio that gives creative freedom to the team. Ok... nevermind...
I'd love to get to come to Finland some day and see some of the memorials and museums related to the Winter and Continuation Wars. Where would you suggest I go?
National Defense University has a military museum right in Helsinki Probably a good place to start.
There's a museum of military medicine in Lahti (about 45 minutes from Helsinki by train). I don't know how accessible that is to foreigners though since it's situated at the local barracks in Hennala.
Finland has a lot of museums per capita, so there are plenty of places to go if you really want go around. There are plenty of memorials around Finland. You could also visit some actual battle sites and fortifications along the border. It's not too far from Helsinki...
Who are these people? It sounds like they might as well be running this from mom's basemenent, but obviously they have never watched an episode of ST:TNG. Seriously, if anything, that series taught us that a holodeck is *the* most dangerous things you can have on a starship... and they had antimatter and Wesley Crusher.
This is so stupid and wastes a lot of resources. There's so many ways to move information that it is just impossible to stop people from getting theattackplan.ppt accross the border. I'd like to hire the salesman who sold this stupid idea to the government.
If someone wants to avoid this, they just bring an empty laptop or buy one when they get in the country. Then download the encrypted information from wherever.
This is wildly off topic... wait no it isn't. Iraq and Mars in the title are just too excrucuiating for most people who want the a manned Mars mission to happen. Enough already. With the price of Iraq you USians would already be in Mars. For example, with Mars Direct, with the initial price tag of $55 million, you could have set up several missions already (even if the estimate would be doubled or tripled) for the price tag of the Iraq Invasion.
Sadly, I believe that you have a president who really couldn't care less. I don't care what he says in public about going back to the Moon. He probably speaks with his god and god has agreed with him that Earth is the center of the universe
Feel like I should flag this one. From what I've read, Einstein didn't believe in gods. The quote about gods not playing dice was -- reportedly -- a metaphor.
Einstein said that he did not believe in a personal god, and was quite viciosly attacked for this comment in the US.
I know they are doing a lot more than just stupid publicity stunts, but is this the kind of image they want to have? Next there will be a reality show with diaper wearing astronauts.
Some pretty cool people have worked and probably still work for NASA, but when an organisation that should concentrate on scientific research tries to be "hip" it rarely works in their favor.
Hmmm... If you type the word "shark" in their search box then type "laser" in the Search Within Results, it would display a link to a document that had something to do with a report regarding Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction. Hmmm.... If you want to find WMDs, just type "east, west, south and north somewhat". Oh wait, I think Rumsfeld declassified thhat information years ago..
I'd like dispel this myth, but sadly I have to confirm it. I have worked in two different workplaces where 95% of the staff was female, and there was a lot of veiled hostility. I have also noticed that this seems to be the problem especially at workplaces where the women have worked for several years, even decades (nice way of trying to avoid being called "agist" as well as misogynist).
Now, on the other hand. A 50/50 mix seems to be close to ideal. It could be something like 60/40 to one way or the other just as well. There's enough interaction between the sexes and also sexual tension. I think sexual tension is ok at the workplace, and it doesn't have to have anything to do with sex (as in sex sex).
Ah, sorry about that, it was something completely different...
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FIRST JUDGE: Aye, very passable, that, very passable bit of copypasta.
SECOND JUDGE: Nothing like a nice order of Château de RAM, eh, Josiah?
THIRD JUDGE: You're right there, Obadiah.
FOURTH JUDGE: Who'd have thought thirty year ago we'd all be sittin' here with Château de RAM, eh?
FIRST JUDGE: In them days we was glad to have the price of a cup bits.
SECOND JUDGE: A cup o' all zeroes, at that.
FOURTH JUDGE: Without capacitors or electricity.
THIRD JUDGE: Or bits.
FIRST JUDGE: In a cracked cup, an' all.
FOURTH JUDGE: Oh, we never had a cup. We used to carry our RAM in a rolled up newspaper.
SECOND JUDGE: The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp SIMM.
THIRD JUDGE: But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
FIRST JUDGE: Because we were poor. My old Prof used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness, son".
FOURTH JUDGE: Aye, 'e was right.
FIRST JUDGE: Aye, 'e was.
FOURTH JUDGE: I was happier then and I had nothin'. We used to scavenge for bits in this tiny old hall with no ventilation for all the excess heat from the computer cluster.
SECOND JUDGE: A hall! You were lucky to work in a house! We used to have court sessions in one dark room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, 'alf the memory modules were missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of stepping on one them SIMMs.
THIRD JUDGE: Eh, you were lucky to have a room! We used to have to chew wires for random bits in t' corridor!
FIRST JUDGE: Oh, we used to dream of workin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to get our RAM from an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of IP lawyers dumped all over us! House? Huh.
FOURTH JUDGE: Well, when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us.
SECOND JUDGE: We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground; we 'ad to go to the lake and see if someone had simulated a Turing machine with rocks.
THIRD JUDGE: You were lucky to have a lake! There were a hundred and fifty of us working in a computer case in t' middle o' road.
FIRST JUDGE: A tower case?
THIRD JUDGE: Aye.
FIRST JUDGE: You were lucky. We worked for three months in a mini tower in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, ziplock all the zeroes, eat a crust of stale bread, work pro bono, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home the DOJ cronies would thrash us to sleep wi' a belt.
SECOND JUDGE: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel and simulate a Turing machine with our intestines, work twenty hour day pro bono for tuppence a month, come home, and DOJ would send people to thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!
THIRD JUDGE: Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of pizza boz-sized case at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue just in case someone had left some bits there. We only ever found two bits, a one and a half a zero, worked twenty-four hours a day pro bono for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our DOJ had already fired us and would send someone to slice us in two wit' bread knife.
FOURTH JUDGE: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day for RIAA, and pay the recording industry for permission to come to work, and when we got home, Gonzales would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.
FIRST JUDGE: And you try and tell the young people of today that..... they won't believe you.
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I for one... oh f***, RUN!
Let's see which ones are still running after a few million years.
Yeah, B5. The star is getting dim...
The spinoffs and TV movies were for the most part horrible, but I think the universe has a lot of potential. Not sure if JMS would be interested or up to the job. He is not that old... 56, but still. Some bold casting decisions, good writing, a budget, and a studio that gives creative freedom to the team. Ok... nevermind...
There was a T-1000 joke thread, but it traveled back in time and accidentally terminated its former self.
I'll believe when I see it.
... it is too late for Duke Nukem jokes as well.
I'd love to get to come to Finland some day and see some of the memorials and museums related to the Winter and Continuation Wars. Where would you suggest I go?
National Defense University has a military museum right in Helsinki Probably a good place to start.
There's a museum of military medicine in Lahti (about 45 minutes from Helsinki by train). I don't know how accessible that is to foreigners though since it's situated at the local barracks in Hennala.
Finland has a lot of museums per capita, so there are plenty of places to go if you really want go around. There are plenty of memorials around Finland. You could also visit some actual battle sites and fortifications along the border. It's not too far from Helsinki...
Who are these people? It sounds like they might as well be running this from mom's basemenent, but obviously they have never watched an episode of ST:TNG. Seriously, if anything, that series taught us that a holodeck is *the* most dangerous things you can have on a starship... and they had antimatter and Wesley Crusher.
This is so stupid and wastes a lot of resources. There's so many ways to move information that it is just impossible to stop people from getting theattackplan.ppt accross the border. I'd like to hire the salesman who sold this stupid idea to the government.
If someone wants to avoid this, they just bring an empty laptop or buy one when they get in the country. Then download the encrypted information from wherever.
AMDs, WMDs... What's the difference, really?
Nothing really, they're all "east, west, south, and north somewhat".
This is wildly off topic... wait no it isn't. Iraq and Mars in the title are just too excrucuiating for most people who want the a manned Mars mission to happen. Enough already. With the price of Iraq you USians would already be in Mars. For example, with Mars Direct, with the initial price tag of $55 million, you could have set up several missions already (even if the estimate would be doubled or tripled) for the price tag of the Iraq Invasion.
Sadly, I believe that you have a president who really couldn't care less. I don't care what he says in public about going back to the Moon. He probably speaks with his god and god has agreed with him that Earth is the center of the universe
... just not the red pill.
This just in. Velociraptors were a bit more gay than previously thought.
Clearly this is not a realistic portrayal of the dinosaur. It doesn't have a saddle, and Adam is missing from the picture too.
There is no plural as by definition you can have only one Nemesis.
Of course there is a plural. You can still talk about nemeses even though you can only have one. "Their nemeses were..."
Either Zombies or color out of space. We are all going to die!
Feel like I should flag this one. From what I've read, Einstein didn't believe in gods. The quote about gods not playing dice was -- reportedly -- a metaphor.
Einstein said that he did not believe in a personal god, and was quite viciosly attacked for this comment in the US.
I know they are doing a lot more than just stupid publicity stunts, but is this the kind of image they want to have? Next there will be a reality show with diaper wearing astronauts.
Some pretty cool people have worked and probably still work for NASA, but when an organisation that should concentrate on scientific research tries to be "hip" it rarely works in their favor.
No, she/he is both fat and big boned.
Silicon and silicone, two of my favourite things combined in two of my favourite things.
I'd like dispel this myth, but sadly I have to confirm it. I have worked in two different workplaces where 95% of the staff was female, and there was a lot of veiled hostility. I have also noticed that this seems to be the problem especially at workplaces where the women have worked for several years, even decades (nice way of trying to avoid being called "agist" as well as misogynist).
Now, on the other hand. A 50/50 mix seems to be close to ideal. It could be something like 60/40 to one way or the other just as well. There's enough interaction between the sexes and also sexual tension. I think sexual tension is ok at the workplace, and it doesn't have to have anything to do with sex (as in sex sex).
Ah, sorry about that, it was something completely different...
..... they won't believe you.
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FIRST JUDGE: Aye, very passable, that, very passable bit of copypasta.
SECOND JUDGE: Nothing like a nice order of Château de RAM, eh, Josiah?
THIRD JUDGE: You're right there, Obadiah.
FOURTH JUDGE: Who'd have thought thirty year ago we'd all be sittin' here with Château de RAM, eh?
FIRST JUDGE: In them days we was glad to have the price of a cup bits.
SECOND JUDGE: A cup o' all zeroes, at that.
FOURTH JUDGE: Without capacitors or electricity.
THIRD JUDGE: Or bits.
FIRST JUDGE: In a cracked cup, an' all.
FOURTH JUDGE: Oh, we never had a cup. We used to carry our RAM in a rolled up newspaper.
SECOND JUDGE: The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp SIMM.
THIRD JUDGE: But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
FIRST JUDGE: Because we were poor. My old Prof used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness, son".
FOURTH JUDGE: Aye, 'e was right.
FIRST JUDGE: Aye, 'e was.
FOURTH JUDGE: I was happier then and I had nothin'. We used to scavenge for bits in this tiny old hall with no ventilation for all the excess heat from the computer cluster.
SECOND JUDGE: A hall! You were lucky to work in a house! We used to have court sessions in one dark room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, 'alf the memory modules were missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of stepping on one them SIMMs.
THIRD JUDGE: Eh, you were lucky to have a room! We used to have to chew wires for random bits in t' corridor!
FIRST JUDGE: Oh, we used to dream of workin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to get our RAM from an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of IP lawyers dumped all over us! House? Huh.
FOURTH JUDGE: Well, when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us.
SECOND JUDGE: We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground; we 'ad to go to the lake and see if someone had simulated a Turing machine with rocks.
THIRD JUDGE: You were lucky to have a lake! There were a hundred and fifty of us working in a computer case in t' middle o' road.
FIRST JUDGE: A tower case?
THIRD JUDGE: Aye.
FIRST JUDGE: You were lucky. We worked for three months in a mini tower in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, ziplock all the zeroes, eat a crust of stale bread, work pro bono, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home the DOJ cronies would thrash us to sleep wi' a belt.
SECOND JUDGE: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel and simulate a Turing machine with our intestines, work twenty hour day pro bono for tuppence a month, come home, and DOJ would send people to thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!
THIRD JUDGE: Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of pizza boz-sized case at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue just in case someone had left some bits there. We only ever found two bits, a one and a half a zero, worked twenty-four hours a day pro bono for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our DOJ had already fired us and would send someone to slice us in two wit' bread knife.
FOURTH JUDGE: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day for RIAA, and pay the recording industry for permission to come to work, and when we got home, Gonzales would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.
FIRST JUDGE: And you try and tell the young people of today that
ALL: They won't!
Apparently it's possible to stream your iTunes library to Wii:t unes-on-wii-for-free.html
http://hackaddict.blogspot.com/2007/06/tutorial-i
Haven't tried it yet though.
Carbon nanotubes were not a problem, but the investors just could not understand how humans could endure several hours of elevator music.