I never really liked Macross Plus. Everything else you got up there I like, I even like some of the other Robotech stuff. I only watched the movie, so maybe I'm missing something, but all I got out of that was a HAL that made giant holograms of crack-whores, some guys with big necks, bad 80's hair, and a little nice Yoko Kanno music.
I mean, the characters all seemed like they'd all been lobotomized, soaked in acid, and beaten with a stupid stick. I got the sense that there was supposed to be an inspirational heroic astronaut/pilot's spirit thing going on, but I didn't want that from these morons.
Ok, there's the mullet guy, who likes to fly and have sex? Then we have the neck guy, who... likes to beat the mullet guy? And then we have the girl, who just seems to have given up making consious decisions in favor of letting her emotional problems determine what she does.
My favorite character was the manager guy with the ponytail that got shot in the face.
Anybody want to give me a hint about what I'm supposed to see in this movie?
Watch some Dragonball, get a new appreciation of Kenny baby. With Kenshin, the episodes usually have "things" that "happen". Dragonball gives you fucking months of nothing but crouching and glowing auras. Then as soon as somebody gets hit, it turns out everybody was just kidding and they start grunting and glowing all over again. It's like how the last 5 seconds on a bomb last a minute and a half, only it's the last minute before the planet blows up and it lasts 4 and a half years.
I didn't have much of a problem with anything they did, but I can see why some people had problems with it. If you saw the original first, it probably made the changes more noticable. The fuck->blast damn->blast shit->blast thing gets a little old. I kept waiting for a "Damn it! Blast them!" that could be hilariously edited. Turning kill to destroy was just bad until they got rid of it.
Editing out all the sex kinda hurt the playa thing Gene's supposed to have, but they have enough hints to get the point across. Like Gene wandering off in the middle of the night with a wad of cash to have fun followed by coming home at 5AM. You should be able to read between the lines there. I was surprised they left in the rich guy being gay, but that was already implied. They did make it a little less obvious, but at least they didn't try and totally cut it.
The episode thing's a little funny. This is kinda SPOILERISH, I guess, but not really that bad, really. The episode in question is near the end, taking place on the hot springs planet, where the freakish naked bear thing customs officials steal your clothes. Yeah. Guess why they didn't show it. The problem is, this is where Gene gets the special caster shells that get really important in the last couple episodes, along with an explaination of where the shells come from. So, on TV, you miss out on major exposition, and Gene suddenly has bullets that create black holes.
Heh. Those customs officials are hilarious. And disturbing. Deeply, deeply disturbing.
Since this is actual Army, it probably means it's something reasonably close to practical. Not that everything the Army works on is going to turn out right, but it tells you at least somebody had a good reason to believe that it wasn't total vaporware.
I doubt it. If you want to say they ripped off an anime, pick Outlaw Star instead. It's been on TV in the US a lot longer, and it's got a lot more similarities than CB. The spinning jump engine thing that makes lots of glowing plasma, the naked chick in the box... You could probably find more, like the big brother empire thing or whatever they call it, but I've only seen 3 episodes. Beyond the engine kid being kinda like Ed and the whore being kinda like Faye, there's not much Bebop there that I can see.
I never knew that the SOUL of the WARRIOR had so much to do with wearing form-fitting wetsuits and posing suggestively... Will there be dramatic netative-color fade-outs that make her ass crack glow in the game too? If not, wanna run out a patch for that? Thanks. Fwoosh! Blinded by da booty! Take that, Zerg overlord!
Yeah, I'm clueless, but in the spirit of/. I'll badly fake a clue. Maybe you could run something like Freenet, so you request a file from whatever other wireless points you're in range of, if they have any segments of it they send them to you, or they send out their own request for whatever they don't have, and relay whatever data they get back to you. Yeah, the more I think about it the stupider it seems. Whatever.
tompaine.com is a well-known hangout for left-wing nuts and kooks Hey, thanks, I was trying to remember which side they were from. You know they must be some kind of nuts when they have that crappy Fourth of July site design. Although I have to admit I had to look up weather the left-wing was the one with the dorks or the other dorks.
Oh, Jesus help me. I think I'm just going to flame libertarians from now on. Not to trample on the concept so much, just all the fanboys that want to suck Ayn Rand's cock (yes, I know what I said, call it poetic license).
That wasn't personal. My point is that the In a libertarian society you're free to erect whatever institution you like.
point sucks. If you seriously believe that, then you have no right to complain about "our authoritarian state." After all, it's just some people exercising their right to impliment an authotitarian society in the libertarian "society" of the world. If you don't like it, start your own country. And no, it's not fair to take their land just because you can't find any empty space for yourself. What happened to the sanctity of personal property?
I wouldn't mind this Free State thing if they were making it from scratch somewhere uninhabited, or at least with the consent of the residents. The impression I get is of a bunch of idealists drunk on "change the world" juice about to bitch-slap a few hundred thousand people, most of which probably don't have the means to get out of their way. The states you're looking at are the places you find towns that have been completely abandoned by people moving away. Makes for cheap land, but it also means you're coming down on a lot of people who are only there because they aren't able to move out. It'd be nice if this project could help with that, but I seriously doubt it. I'd expect something more along the lines of suspension of all welfare and aid money, ensuring a have-not population that can't afford higer education (or for that matter, adequately funded lower education), and supports a growing population of reasonably well-off libertarians (they can afford to move cross country? I think they're ok) who's money they can't get to and who control their fates.
I'm sure anybody wants to hear your fucking rants about Reaganomics, home schooling, the unfairness of afirmative action and your goddamn "give a man a fish" stories when they're getting crushed under your fat asses like feudal peasants.
Think I can pass that off as not being personal too? Maybe that was a little "masses against the classes", but think about it, huh?
Heh. I saw Fight Club in California. Third day there. Right in the middle of the van-bomb scene, this couple starts complaining about Brad Pitt's hairdo. It was so perfect I almost cried. So much irony. So, so, so much irony. The story's my licence to make fun of any Californian I meet. They say I'm being unfair, I tell them the story, victory is mine.
Yes, I'm a jackass, but...
"He's supposed to be, like, the sexiest man in America! Like, in GQ, right?" "Really, yeah, can't they afford a stylist to go with him?"
I really hope that guy was just trying to get some.
I've never seen a hyphen put there before, but it seems kinda like there should be one. New Yorkers makes it kinda wierd, like you're talking about new people from York or something.
Whatever. Somewhere during that >9/11 "let's all not hate NY" thing I read some article or something about New Yorkers being rude. I don't even remeber what form of media this was, but the point was something about how they're only rude when you're being an idiot, kind of like tech support guys. For example, tourists who'll just stop somewhere and stare at crap, and if the sidewalk's busy, people having to get around them will slow everything down for the whole block. It's a lot easier to yell at them to get the fuck out of the way, and it saves everybody time.
Yeah, well, I don't have a point here really. Good time for a +1 bonus.
It wasn't him? I remember something like them hearing some voice chanting being echoed arround the mountains, and something implying that it was Saruman. I might be misinterpreting, but that's what I always thought it was.
Yeah... great movie there, guys. $100 billion for the plane, $50k for the rotating platform, and a $20 bonus to get your engineers to bring in a camcorder, an "80's Crap Rock Greatest Hits" CD and an iMac to make your promo materials? How much you wanna bet the words "Step 3) PROFIT!!!" came up during that meeting.
I wonder why the heck they bothered to pay to come to the movie in the first place if they're not going to pay attention?
Well, step one, they probably didn't pay. I mean, 90% of the theater's run by their friends, what do you think is gonna happen? Actually, a lot of theaters let people who work there get in free with maybe a few friends. They hope that'll cut down a little on people sneaking in. I'm actually suprised there was a manager there to do anything. The theater I worked at shared a manager with 3 other theaters in the area, and I think I saw him at ours maybe twice over the 3 months I was there.
Anyway, I'm loud at movies, but only when I'm making fun of the movie. I rationalize it by figuring I only do it when the movie sucks, so I'm not taking away anybody's entertainment or anything. Tell me it's not an improvemnent to hear me and my friends singing "Dork, yes I'm a dork, a super SUPER dork! Dorka dork! Yeah!" In the back row instead of hearing Peter Parker's monologue in Spiderman. And if you can, tell that to the people in the front row who kept doing a falsetto "Shut up, Peter", "Peter, you're a dumbass", "Shut yer damn mouth" every time they cut to MJ. And while you're up there, tell them we already did that joke for Space Cowboys.
Hydrogen peroxide and blood. I really don't remember a thing about the chemistry other than it makes a lot of heat that sterilizes your cuts and that whatever the active ingredient in the blood is, it's also in some kinds of dish soap. In any case I'm sure it's googleable.
Anyway, you mix them together and it froths up like crazy. It's what they used for the bloody elevator scene in The Shining. They mixed a whole bunch of pig blood and strong peroxide, opened the door and let it whoosh. With soap it's not so impressive looking, but the upside is it doesn't stain everything in sight.
IMSMC, if you use the really dilute peroxide you get in a drug store, it won't do much, you need a way stronger solution from a lab or something. When I saw this demo in HS, I'm pretty sure the peroxide solution was strong enough to burn you pretty bad if it got on your skin, and the results were hot enough to burn you if you jammed your arm down into it or something. It almost melted some of the plastic tub it was in, anyway.
We did that in high school. Same class threw sodium in a lake too. I think I said something about that in the sodium guy article. Anyway, we did a few hydrogen ballons by taping them to the plants hanging from the ceiling. Worked well until we got a big one and blew the plant off it's hanger. Whoops. We tried one more with a kid holding it, but he didn't seem to enjoy it as much as we did.
My high school chem teacher tossed some sodium in the resivoir in my town. Now THAT'S pollution.
Since it's a cool story, it was his last year before he was gonna retire, so he took 2 paper towel tubes, filled them up about 1/3 of the way with Na and stapled the ends shut, making something like one of those WWII grenades with the handles. Then he piled the class into his station wagon and this other kid's van, cruised down to the water, and hurled 'em in. The first one sank a little before the reaction really set in, so you basically got a huge steam/hydrogen bubble coming up, looking (and sounding) like a depth-charge. The second one wasn't as big, but it came apart as it hit, making lots of dancing fire, and little chunks of Na bouncing around on the surface.
Most impressive of all, he managed to get us all back without anybody noticing. He rationalized screwing up the pH balance by saying he was just readjusting it to compensate for the acidity of drunken teenagers pissing in it. Oh, and this was 2 years ago, not the 50's throw uranium at your siblings era. He probably only got away with it by getting out of the state by the time the story got spread around.
I thought they were pretty good, compared to normal anyway. It was kinda depressing watching it return to suck after a few days. For a minuite there they were giving you actual information.
Persephone really is a better name. Generally, all the planets are named after gods that at least have something in common with the planet.
Mercury: messenger god, it moves fast Venus: god of beauty, it's pretty Mars: god of war, it's red Jupiter: king of the gods, it's big Saturn: Jupiter's dad, also big, I guess, although there's probably something else I'm missing Uranus: god in exile, it's far away Neptune: sea god, it's blue Pluto: god of the underworld, it's cold and dark Quaoar: force that created animals and people???
Persephone was Pluto's wife, who he tricked into marrying him, and is allowed to return to earth every year, causing the seasons via her mother, Demeter, who makes it cold while she's gone and warm when she's arround. Honestly, I think she works better for Pluto, since it comes closer than Neptune some of the time, but it's better than Quaoar for #10.
I used to have a few Ike dollars. I spent them on Mountain Dew at an A&P. I was dissapointed. I avoided all the old cashiers and went for the teenager hoping for an argument, but she just took them. She even had a damn space for them in the register! The one thing I found out is that they wouldn't fit in the little change sub-pocket on my jeans.
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I never really liked Macross Plus. Everything else you got up there I like, I even like some of the other Robotech stuff. I only watched the movie, so maybe I'm missing something, but all I got out of that was a HAL that made giant holograms of crack-whores, some guys with big necks, bad 80's hair, and a little nice Yoko Kanno music.
I mean, the characters all seemed like they'd all been lobotomized, soaked in acid, and beaten with a stupid stick. I got the sense that there was supposed to be an inspirational heroic astronaut/pilot's spirit thing going on, but I didn't want that from these morons.
Ok, there's the mullet guy, who likes to fly and have sex? Then we have the neck guy, who... likes to beat the mullet guy? And then we have the girl, who just seems to have given up making consious decisions in favor of letting her emotional problems determine what she does.
My favorite character was the manager guy with the ponytail that got shot in the face.
Anybody want to give me a hint about what I'm supposed to see in this movie?
Watch some Dragonball, get a new appreciation of Kenny baby. With Kenshin, the episodes usually have "things" that "happen". Dragonball gives you fucking months of nothing but crouching and glowing auras. Then as soon as somebody gets hit, it turns out everybody was just kidding and they start grunting and glowing all over again. It's like how the last 5 seconds on a bomb last a minute and a half, only it's the last minute before the planet blows up and it lasts 4 and a half years.
I didn't have much of a problem with anything they did, but I can see why some people had problems with it. If you saw the original first, it probably made the changes more noticable. The fuck->blast damn->blast shit->blast thing gets a little old. I kept waiting for a "Damn it! Blast them!" that could be hilariously edited. Turning kill to destroy was just bad until they got rid of it.
Editing out all the sex kinda hurt the playa thing Gene's supposed to have, but they have enough hints to get the point across. Like Gene wandering off in the middle of the night with a wad of cash to have fun followed by coming home at 5AM. You should be able to read between the lines there. I was surprised they left in the rich guy being gay, but that was already implied. They did make it a little less obvious, but at least they didn't try and totally cut it.
The episode thing's a little funny.
This is kinda SPOILERISH, I guess, but not really that bad, really.
The episode in question is near the end, taking place on the hot springs planet, where the freakish naked bear thing customs officials steal your clothes. Yeah. Guess why they didn't show it. The problem is, this is where Gene gets the special caster shells that get really important in the last couple episodes, along with an explaination of where the shells come from. So, on TV, you miss out on major exposition, and Gene suddenly has bullets that create black holes.
Heh. Those customs officials are hilarious. And disturbing. Deeply, deeply disturbing.
Since this is actual Army, it probably means it's something reasonably close to practical. Not that everything the Army works on is going to turn out right, but it tells you at least somebody had a good reason to believe that it wasn't total vaporware.
I doubt it. If you want to say they ripped off an anime, pick Outlaw Star instead. It's been on TV in the US a lot longer, and it's got a lot more similarities than CB. The spinning jump engine thing that makes lots of glowing plasma, the naked chick in the box... You could probably find more, like the big brother empire thing or whatever they call it, but I've only seen 3 episodes. Beyond the engine kid being kinda like Ed and the whore being kinda like Faye, there's not much Bebop there that I can see.
I never knew that the SOUL of the WARRIOR had so much to do with wearing form-fitting wetsuits and posing suggestively...
Will there be dramatic netative-color fade-outs that make her ass crack glow in the game too? If not, wanna run out a patch for that? Thanks.
Fwoosh! Blinded by da booty! Take that, Zerg overlord!
Goodnight everybody!
Yeah, I'm clueless, but in the spirit of /. I'll badly fake a clue.
Maybe you could run something like Freenet, so you request a file from whatever other wireless points you're in range of, if they have any segments of it they send them to you, or they send out their own request for whatever they don't have, and relay whatever data they get back to you.
Yeah, the more I think about it the stupider it seems. Whatever.
tompaine.com is a well-known hangout for left-wing nuts and kooks
Hey, thanks, I was trying to remember which side they were from. You know they must be some kind of nuts when they have that crappy Fourth of July site design.
Although I have to admit I had to look up weather the left-wing was the one with the dorks or the other dorks.
Oh, Jesus help me. I think I'm just going to flame libertarians from now on. Not to trample on the concept so much, just all the fanboys that want to suck Ayn Rand's cock (yes, I know what I said, call it poetic license).
That wasn't personal. My point is that the
In a libertarian society you're free to erect whatever institution you like.
point sucks. If you seriously believe that, then you have no right to complain about "our authoritarian state." After all, it's just some people exercising their right to impliment an authotitarian society in the libertarian "society" of the world. If you don't like it, start your own country. And no, it's not fair to take their land just because you can't find any empty space for yourself. What happened to the sanctity of personal property?
I wouldn't mind this Free State thing if they were making it from scratch somewhere uninhabited, or at least with the consent of the residents. The impression I get is of a bunch of idealists drunk on "change the world" juice about to bitch-slap a few hundred thousand people, most of which probably don't have the means to get out of their way. The states you're looking at are the places you find towns that have been completely abandoned by people moving away. Makes for cheap land, but it also means you're coming down on a lot of people who are only there because they aren't able to move out. It'd be nice if this project could help with that, but I seriously doubt it. I'd expect something more along the lines of suspension of all welfare and aid money, ensuring a have-not population that can't afford higer education (or for that matter, adequately funded lower education), and supports a growing population of reasonably well-off libertarians (they can afford to move cross country? I think they're ok) who's money they can't get to and who control their fates.
I'm sure anybody wants to hear your fucking rants about Reaganomics, home schooling, the unfairness of afirmative action and your goddamn "give a man a fish" stories when they're getting crushed under your fat asses like feudal peasants.
Think I can pass that off as not being personal too? Maybe that was a little "masses against the classes", but think about it, huh?
Heh. I saw Fight Club in California. Third day there. Right in the middle of the van-bomb scene, this couple starts complaining about Brad Pitt's hairdo. It was so perfect I almost cried. So much irony. So, so, so much irony. The story's my licence to make fun of any Californian I meet. They say I'm being unfair, I tell them the story, victory is mine.
Yes, I'm a jackass, but...
"He's supposed to be, like, the sexiest man in America! Like, in GQ, right?"
"Really, yeah, can't they afford a stylist to go with him?"
I really hope that guy was just trying to get some.
I've never seen a hyphen put there before, but it seems kinda like there should be one. New Yorkers makes it kinda wierd, like you're talking about new people from York or something.
Whatever. Somewhere during that >9/11 "let's all not hate NY" thing I read some article or something about New Yorkers being rude. I don't even remeber what form of media this was, but the point was something about how they're only rude when you're being an idiot, kind of like tech support guys. For example, tourists who'll just stop somewhere and stare at crap, and if the sidewalk's busy, people having to get around them will slow everything down for the whole block. It's a lot easier to yell at them to get the fuck out of the way, and it saves everybody time.
Yeah, well, I don't have a point here really. Good time for a +1 bonus.
Galadriel shows Frodo the Shire all smokey and burning in the movie, right? So they kind of have to do it, at least minimally.
It wasn't him? I remember something like them hearing some voice chanting being echoed arround the mountains, and something implying that it was Saruman. I might be misinterpreting, but that's what I always thought it was.
Yeah... great movie there, guys.
$100 billion for the plane, $50k for the rotating platform, and a $20 bonus to get your engineers to bring in a camcorder, an "80's Crap Rock Greatest Hits" CD and an iMac to make your promo materials?
How much you wanna bet the words "Step 3) PROFIT!!!" came up during that meeting.
Well, step one, they probably didn't pay. I mean, 90% of the theater's run by their friends, what do you think is gonna happen? Actually, a lot of theaters let people who work there get in free with maybe a few friends. They hope that'll cut down a little on people sneaking in. I'm actually suprised there was a manager there to do anything. The theater I worked at shared a manager with 3 other theaters in the area, and I think I saw him at ours maybe twice over the 3 months I was there.
Anyway, I'm loud at movies, but only when I'm making fun of the movie. I rationalize it by figuring I only do it when the movie sucks, so I'm not taking away anybody's entertainment or anything. Tell me it's not an improvemnent to hear me and my friends singing "Dork, yes I'm a dork, a super SUPER dork! Dorka dork! Yeah!" In the back row instead of hearing Peter Parker's monologue in Spiderman. And if you can, tell that to the people in the front row who kept doing a falsetto "Shut up, Peter", "Peter, you're a dumbass", "Shut yer damn mouth" every time they cut to MJ. And while you're up there, tell them we already did that joke for Space Cowboys.
Hear, hear! Who better to settle our oldest constitutional debates than a monarchist fantasy author?
Excellent work, Holmes.
Anyway, you mix them together and it froths up like crazy. It's what they used for the bloody elevator scene in The Shining. They mixed a whole bunch of pig blood and strong peroxide, opened the door and let it whoosh. With soap it's not so impressive looking, but the upside is it doesn't stain everything in sight.
IMSMC, if you use the really dilute peroxide you get in a drug store, it won't do much, you need a way stronger solution from a lab or something. When I saw this demo in HS, I'm pretty sure the peroxide solution was strong enough to burn you pretty bad if it got on your skin, and the results were hot enough to burn you if you jammed your arm down into it or something. It almost melted some of the plastic tub it was in, anyway.
We did that in high school. Same class threw sodium in a lake too. I think I said something about that in the sodium guy article. Anyway, we did a few hydrogen ballons by taping them to the plants hanging from the ceiling. Worked well until we got a big one and blew the plant off it's hanger. Whoops. We tried one more with a kid holding it, but he didn't seem to enjoy it as much as we did.
It's 50/70 years after you're dead.
Your children will be able to take your work to their graves with them.
I'd like to see that.
"Hello, may I speak with Mr..."
"Daaaaaaryl, Daaaaaaaryl, Daaaaaaaryl..."
"Huh?"
My high school chem teacher tossed some sodium in the resivoir in my town. Now THAT'S pollution.
Since it's a cool story, it was his last year before he was gonna retire, so he took 2 paper towel tubes, filled them up about 1/3 of the way with Na and stapled the ends shut, making something like one of those WWII grenades with the handles. Then he piled the class into his station wagon and this other kid's van, cruised down to the water, and hurled 'em in. The first one sank a little before the reaction really set in, so you basically got a huge steam/hydrogen bubble coming up, looking (and sounding) like a depth-charge. The second one wasn't as big, but it came apart as it hit, making lots of dancing fire, and little chunks of Na bouncing around on the surface.
Most impressive of all, he managed to get us all back without anybody noticing. He rationalized screwing up the pH balance by saying he was just readjusting it to compensate for the acidity of drunken teenagers pissing in it.
Oh, and this was 2 years ago, not the 50's throw uranium at your siblings era. He probably only got away with it by getting out of the state by the time the story got spread around.
I thought they were pretty good, compared to normal anyway. It was kinda depressing watching it return to suck after a few days. For a minuite there they were giving you actual information.
Persephone really is a better name. Generally, all the planets are named after gods that at least have something in common with the planet.
Mercury: messenger god, it moves fast
Venus: god of beauty, it's pretty
Mars: god of war, it's red
Jupiter: king of the gods, it's big
Saturn: Jupiter's dad, also big, I guess, although there's probably something else I'm missing
Uranus: god in exile, it's far away
Neptune: sea god, it's blue
Pluto: god of the underworld, it's cold and dark
Quaoar: force that created animals and people???
Persephone was Pluto's wife, who he tricked into marrying him, and is allowed to return to earth every year, causing the seasons via her mother, Demeter, who makes it cold while she's gone and warm when she's arround. Honestly, I think she works better for Pluto, since it comes closer than Neptune some of the time, but it's better than Quaoar for #10.
I used to have a few Ike dollars. I spent them on Mountain Dew at an A&P. I was dissapointed. I avoided all the old cashiers and went for the teenager hoping for an argument, but she just took them. She even had a damn space for them in the register!
The one thing I found out is that they wouldn't fit in the little change sub-pocket on my jeans.