He's a teenager, let's see...when you're a teenager you think you are indescructable, center of the universe, all knowing, wiser than anyone older thatn you, and every single one has said things like:
"Someday I will be the richest person ever."
"Someday I will be the most powerful athlete ever."
"I will never get fat"
"I will never get old"
"My wife will always look like she is 20 and never gain weight"
"I will always look like I am 20 and I will never gain weight, never grow hair on my back or in my nose"
"I will never loose my hair."
"I will never say/do/act as my parents do."
"By the time I am 30 I will be a billionaire and retired."
A: We're men. We like looking at 1 dimentional pinup girls in spandex with huge knockers.
Since you have not reached puberty yet let me explain.
Just as women get all hot'n'bothered looking at Brad Pitt, Dean Cain, or Mel Gibson...
We prefer: Shania Twain
Jennifer Lopez
Cortney Cox
We do not Prefer: Rita MacNeil
Paula Poundstone
Rosie ODonnel
Have you ever bothered to notice how male superheros are drawn? Do you know any guy with a 26 inch waist and a 3 wide foot chest? Ever see any real men with muscular arms 4 feet in circumference? Ever see any real males with legs thicker and with more muscle than on a bison?
Linus Torvalds: "I don't actually follow other operating systems much. I don't compete - I just worry about making Linux better than itself, not others."
Well according to what you quoted as Linus's comments, Linus doesn't care if the media gets it or not either. Unlike popular linux fan opionion, it wasn't his intention to eventually supplant windows-Linux was developed as a free unix-like OS that could run on home PC's of the day-386's, 486's, P90's. What has happened is that so many of the ones using Linux has turned it into a war against everything else.
Someone saying the lego-block Special FX in SW:ANH is superior to SW:TFM gets modded up as 5:Insightful??
If you think the original Star Wars FX beats TFM, you must pee your pants when you watch the original Star Trek series.
Man you gotta loosen up. It's just a movie. SWE1 was a fair movie-not good, but fair. Go see E2. If you like it, great! If you don't, so be it, Jedi. As you said, we know what happens. We know who the emperor is, we know what happens to Anakin, we know all the Jedi except Obi-wan and Yoda are slain, we know Anakin has a kid and what his destiny turns out to be. We know what happens-we just don't know how it happens. Expect to forget about real life for 2 hours. That's what movies are for.
"Harry Potter is a complete ripoff of The Matrix. Even the title is a ripoff."
"The Lord of the Rings is a complete ripoff of The Matrix. Even the title is a ripoff."
"Star Wars:Attack of the Clones is a complete ripoff of The Matrix. Even the title is a ripoff."
"Spiderman is a complete ripoff of The Matrix. Even the title is a ripoff."
"These last few years have been good for lovers of martial arts movies, until recently a fringe cinematic genre, and for a new generation of stars like Jet Li."
Ahem! Jet Li is not new. He was making martial arts movies years before Keanu Reeves was saying "Excellent! Most haneous! 69 Dude!"
I don't find Nautilus slow on my Athlon700 system-not exactly a screamer by todays standards. When running Gnome it opens up in a couple seconds. In KDE it takes three times as long to start but once running I don't notice any lags. I dunno, maybe I'm too use to Windows.
Gee, except for the first movie I thought the ships on Star Trek looked like cardboard cutouts because they didn't have the plating. If the cgi is as good as B5 they did a good job.
I hope not. STTMP is the only movie where they looked cool and only appeared during acceleration. All of the other silly ST movies show them any time the ship is in warp and as it goes by it makes a silly "whoosh" sound.
The effects: The budget per episode for B5 was a tenth of what ST:TNG cost, and by the time B5 reached the 5th season the effects were just stunning. Quite possibly the best space battles ever in a sci-fi show.
Except for a scene here and there, I think the FX were stunning right from season one (done on Amigas) and they still are not starting to look old.
The music: The show was great, but Christopher Franke's (ex of Tangerine Dream) music moved the show up a level. There are scenes which just rip your heart out, the music is so poignant. (Again, no spoilers.)
Two songs/music sequences stand out for me. Once is where the Narn cruisers are ambushed and battling the Shadows, which is used for the season 3 intro, and the bar background music when Sheridan is captured by President Clarkes men.
B5 was one of the best shows made, and I am sad because it just went off the air in Canada.
B5 is a show that once you start watching it you want to keep watching it (except for the first half of the first season) because it is so good, because so many episodes leave hints about what is to come and make you want to see more, because the effects are simply amazing-many of the battle scenes are spectacular and intense and so well directed, and because you love the characters and want to see what happens to them. If Andreas Katsulus (Gkar) and Peter Jurassic (Londo) didn't receive emmys for their performances they should have.
It just went off the air in Canada Jul31, but there is a Farewell to B5 marathon tomorrow.
First Wave I like, and I just started watching Stargate SG-1 and what I have seen is quite good. Everyone is talking about Farscape so I will take a look at that when it starts showing up here in the fall, and I'm holding out hope that Enterprise wont turn into another Star Trek Voyager technobabble mishmash.
Jean Cretien and Bill Gates in bed together is an image I could do without. Maybe they're sandwhiching Sheila Copps?
Didn't the Cdn government rule against MS a year ago when one of their federal departments chose MS office over Corel Office? I remember Corel ended up getting something like $20 million smackaroos!
The Omni Future Almanac of 1980 predicted by 2000 there would be 10000 people working in space and on the moon.
I think the biggest hurdle facing a manned mission to mars is how to coop-up 5-10 people for 2 years in a tin can with the living space of an apartment without them going bonkers and killing each other. Until they find a way to shorten the trip down from months to weeks a manned flight isn't too likely.
Looks like a giant bony hand is submerged in the sand. Wait until the "Face on Mars" supporters get a hold of this pic...they'll enhance the image and find evidence for a wedding ring, nailpolish, wrinkles.
I would like the Tomorrow People show brought back. I remember they had cool stun guns and could teleport anywhere on earth and I loved it when I was a child. It was on TV 25 years ago and probably would look pretty cheezy today, but would be nice to see it and relive a bit of my childhood.
And you can't leave out:
Sheridan: "Just when things seem to start getting turned around life decides to kick you in the butt."
Delen: "But what?"
Sheridan:"What?"
Yeah, the magic is gone when they don't deal with Bab5 or the regular characters (ie Crusade). Having G'Kar in the Rangers movie will help, but most of the story of Bab5 has been told already. Crusade was too Voyager-ickyish.
There are so many events mentioned that take place after the end of Bab5 but are never shown-the telepath war, the Drakh war, does Sheridan & Delen's son become the host to a keeper, and so on, that fans are interested in. Maybe another movie or a miniseries would work in these instances.
Does anyone remember The Starlost? God forbid someone should come up with a plan to remake it. It looked like it was filmed on someone's Handcam. I remember one episode where some mad scientist was gonna unleash these giant trained bees to help him take over the ship. The special effect used to make these bees giant was to display some beehive footage on a large projection TV and pretend they were looking into the hive thru a window. That pretty much sums up the quality of the special effects on that show.
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And what's the difference between buying this and a big 4 door sedan? I had a Ford F-150 4 door supercab as a loaner last week while my car was being repaired and it has more room in the interior than most cars and you still have the box in the back to put big stuff in.
All vehicles pollute and dump tons of toxins into the environment each year, whether it's a big-ass SUV or a BMW or Lexus or Ford Focus. Anyone that condems SUV's but drives a different type of vehicle is a hypocrite.
What, so you think that if you don't drive a SUV you are champion of the environment? Any vehicle, even a tiny little 3 cylinder car, puts tons of pollutants into the atmosphere every year. All cars pollute.
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"Someday I will be the most powerful Jedi ever."
He's a teenager, let's see...when you're a teenager you think you are indescructable, center of the universe, all knowing, wiser than anyone older thatn you, and every single one has said things like:
"Someday I will be the richest person ever."
"Someday I will be the most powerful athlete ever."
"I will never get fat"
"I will never get old"
"My wife will always look like she is 20 and never gain weight"
"I will always look like I am 20 and I will never gain weight, never grow hair on my back or in my nose"
"I will never loose my hair."
"I will never say/do/act as my parents do."
"By the time I am 30 I will be a billionaire and retired."
He sounds like the typical teenager to me!
Since you have not reached puberty yet let me explain.
Just as women get all hot'n'bothered looking at Brad Pitt, Dean Cain, or Mel Gibson...
We prefer:
Shania Twain
Jennifer Lopez
Cortney Cox
We do not Prefer:
Rita MacNeil
Paula Poundstone
Rosie ODonnel
Have you ever bothered to notice how male superheros are drawn? Do you know any guy with a 26 inch waist and a 3 wide foot chest? Ever see any real men with muscular arms 4 feet in circumference? Ever see any real males with legs thicker and with more muscle than on a bison?
Loosen up Political Corectedness Man/woman.
Linus Torvalds: "I don't actually follow other operating systems much. I don't compete - I just worry about making Linux better than itself, not others."
Well according to what you quoted as Linus's comments, Linus doesn't care if the media gets it or not either. Unlike popular linux fan opionion, it wasn't his intention to eventually supplant windows-Linux was developed as a free unix-like OS that could run on home PC's of the day-386's, 486's, P90's. What has happened is that so many of the ones using Linux has turned it into a war against everything else.
If you think the original Star Wars FX beats TFM, you must pee your pants when you watch the original Star Trek series.
Man you gotta loosen up. It's just a movie. SWE1 was a fair movie-not good, but fair. Go see E2. If you like it, great! If you don't, so be it, Jedi. As you said, we know what happens. We know who the emperor is, we know what happens to Anakin, we know all the Jedi except Obi-wan and Yoda are slain, we know Anakin has a kid and what his destiny turns out to be. We know what happens-we just don't know how it happens. Expect to forget about real life for 2 hours. That's what movies are for.
"Harry Potter is a complete ripoff of The Matrix. Even the title is a ripoff."
"The Lord of the Rings is a complete ripoff of The Matrix. Even the title is a ripoff."
"Star Wars:Attack of the Clones is a complete ripoff of The Matrix. Even the title is a ripoff."
"Spiderman is a complete ripoff of The Matrix. Even the title is a ripoff."
"These last few years have been good for lovers of martial arts movies, until recently a fringe cinematic genre, and for a new generation of stars like Jet Li."
Ahem! Jet Li is not new. He was making martial arts movies years before Keanu Reeves was saying "Excellent! Most haneous! 69 Dude!"
I don't find Nautilus slow on my Athlon700 system-not exactly a screamer by todays standards. When running Gnome it opens up in a couple seconds. In KDE it takes three times as long to start but once running I don't notice any lags. I dunno, maybe I'm too use to Windows.
is why are they all wearing their pajamas in STTMP?
Gee, except for the first movie I thought the ships on Star Trek looked like cardboard cutouts because they didn't have the plating. If the cgi is as good as B5 they did a good job.
I hope not. STTMP is the only movie where they looked cool and only appeared during acceleration. All of the other silly ST movies show them any time the ship is in warp and as it goes by it makes a silly "whoosh" sound.
Maybe SWEII will have a character called "Crusty the Clone"
Except for a scene here and there, I think the FX were stunning right from season one (done on Amigas) and they still are not starting to look old.
The music: The show was great, but Christopher Franke's (ex of Tangerine Dream) music moved the show up a level. There are scenes which just rip your heart out, the music is so poignant. (Again, no spoilers.)
Two songs/music sequences stand out for me. Once is where the Narn cruisers are ambushed and battling the Shadows, which is used for the season 3 intro, and the bar background music when Sheridan is captured by President Clarkes men.
B5 was one of the best shows made, and I am sad because it just went off the air in Canada.
It just went off the air in Canada Jul31, but there is a Farewell to B5 marathon tomorrow.
First Wave I like, and I just started watching Stargate SG-1 and what I have seen is quite good. Everyone is talking about Farscape so I will take a look at that when it starts showing up here in the fall, and I'm holding out hope that Enterprise wont turn into another Star Trek Voyager technobabble mishmash.
Didn't the Cdn government rule against MS a year ago when one of their federal departments chose MS office over Corel Office? I remember Corel ended up getting something like $20 million smackaroos!
I think the biggest hurdle facing a manned mission to mars is how to coop-up 5-10 people for 2 years in a tin can with the living space of an apartment without them going bonkers and killing each other. Until they find a way to shorten the trip down from months to weeks a manned flight isn't too likely.
Looks like a giant bony hand is submerged in the sand. Wait until the "Face on Mars" supporters get a hold of this pic...they'll enhance the image and find evidence for a wedding ring, nailpolish, wrinkles.
I would like the Tomorrow People show brought back. I remember they had cool stun guns and could teleport anywhere on earth and I loved it when I was a child. It was on TV 25 years ago and probably would look pretty cheezy today, but would be nice to see it and relive a bit of my childhood.
Aw Crap!
Bab5 was the only reason I ordered cable and I was gonna cancel it tomorrow but I guess I'll keep it for one more month.
And you can't leave out: Sheridan: "Just when things seem to start getting turned around life decides to kick you in the butt." Delen: "But what?" Sheridan:"What?"
The actors name is Richard Hatch btw.
First Wave. Yeah, alien invasion all over again, but the more I watch the show the more I like it.
There are so many events mentioned that take place after the end of Bab5 but are never shown-the telepath war, the Drakh war, does Sheridan & Delen's son become the host to a keeper, and so on, that fans are interested in. Maybe another movie or a miniseries would work in these instances.
Does anyone remember The Starlost? God forbid someone should come up with a plan to remake it. It looked like it was filmed on someone's Handcam. I remember one episode where some mad scientist was gonna unleash these giant trained bees to help him take over the ship. The special effect used to make these bees giant was to display some beehive footage on a large projection TV and pretend they were looking into the hive thru a window. That pretty much sums up the quality of the special effects on that show.
All vehicles pollute and dump tons of toxins into the environment each year, whether it's a big-ass SUV or a BMW or Lexus or Ford Focus. Anyone that condems SUV's but drives a different type of vehicle is a hypocrite.
What, so you think that if you don't drive a SUV you are champion of the environment? Any vehicle, even a tiny little 3 cylinder car, puts tons of pollutants into the atmosphere every year. All cars pollute.