Look, I live in Victoria, right across the strait. I know for a fact that rents are comparable, but that gas and food are cheaper in Vancouver. Thus, Victoria is more expensive than Vancouver.
But I also know for a fact that rents are so much higher in San Francisco than either Victoria or Vancouver that nothing else matters in the equation.
The dialogue ws well-written, but poorly edited and often poorly delivered. One of JMS' weaknesses is that he likes to maintain too much control over what he writes, and he either never found decent script editors or his editors were too cowed by him to make necessary changes.
So when you have dialogue that looks good on paper but sounds stupid when spoken, and sounds even worse when read by really bad actors, you get an impression bad dialogue.
B5's great weaknesses were script editing and casting. Whoever hired Patrician Tallman, Jerry Doyle, Richard Biggs (RIP), Claudia Christian and the captain from the 5th season should find new work. Not all of the actors in B5 were bad, but the above stand out as untalented. Their lack of work since B5 serves as evidence to bolster my opinion.
In any case: I enjoyed B5. It was well-plotted and it worked. But I don't go out of my way to watch repeats.
The thing is, it *did* matter, because it wasn't merely used for the US entries, but also for the Canadian entries, which were much closer.
And because so many of the top-ranked Canadians couldn't go, they had to drop down as far as #6 or #7 on the list, too. That time would have been vital in determining who went.
I placed 5th in the Canadian qualifier. Two and a half weeks before the competition in Arnhem, I got an e-mail asking me if I wanted to join the team, as other members of the team, including alternates, had dropped out.
I rushed through my passport application. I got the time off work, luckily. But I wasn't able to find a reasonably-priced plan fare with notice that short, so I had to decline. On sale, one can get round trip from Vancouver to Amsterdam for six or seven hundred bucks Canadian. I figured I'd be willing to pay up to $1500. I couldn't find anything for less than $2200. Not gonna happen.
Not that it's gonna be any less expensive to get to Opatija, Croatia, even with four months' notice. Neither Trieste nor Zagreb (the two closest major cities) are particularly major cities.
Which still makes Wil too white. Sorry, Wil, you're about as white as it's possible to be.
Look, I know how much everyone loves Wil (hell, I used to chat with him on GEnie in his Sandman forum), but he doesn't fit the role of a 200-year old with a bodybuilder physique who has taken anti-agathic treatments, has mixed blood and has the last name Wu.
Not. Gonna. Happen.
I've got it: The Rock can play Wu. He's got the look down pat. And he's bankable.
Could be, but even that wouldn't make Wil any more Asian.
I could see Cary Hiroyuki-Tagawa in the role. It's sad that there are so few middle-aged Asian American actors who have better chops than blocks of wood.
(Psst. Hey, kids. George Takei *dreams* of acting as well as a block of wood. So don't go there.)
I am firmly in support of any proposed legislation that makes saying "If a man also lie with mankind as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they should surely be put to death" in the public square an illegal act. A hate crime. If that makes reading parts of the Bible in public illegal, so be it.
I said nothing about Christians in my post.
(And, in any case, you're making the "no true Scotsman" fallacy; the only requirement to being a Christian is to claim that one is a Christian.)
You're welcome to voice your opinions and beliefs, as long as you don't publicly encourage that certain protected minority groups be put to death, individually or en masse.
If that means that you can't read parts of the Bible in the town square, so be it.
The actions in question, that is to say: downloading music over P2P and storing music in a shared directory, are not illegal actions (as per the article), and hence are protected.
You live in BC, so you're probably on Shaw, just like I am.
The "unspoken" limit is apparently 60 gigs a month. I've gotten close, but haven't ever exceeded it.
But if we did, and they cut us off, we couldn't take them to court. We wouldn't have a leg to stand on. The contract says, specifically, that either party has the right to terminate service at any time for any reason.
Doesn't matter if they advertised unlimited service. They can still cut us off, without explanation or redress. Cable isn't a right.
For exactly the same reason you would listen to, say, Arnold Schwarzenegger talk about real estate. People can be informed about more than one thing.
IMHO, Sterling is a more skilled and useful visionary than he is a science fiction writer. You should be listening to what he says and probably avoiding his fiction.
Don't get me wrong -- it's a great game, and it's easy to learn the basic mechanics, but it takes a lot more than five minutes -- or even five full games -- to understand it.
It's one of those games where four experienced players can easily lose to a new player. The game strategies are often non-intuituve.
Reviews at http://kumquat.com/cgi-kumquat/funagain/12491. GAMES Magazine did an in-depth article about the non-intuitive nature of the game strategy last year sometime.
No, about 98% of apparent growths and lumps on the testicle are swollen varioceles or epididymitis.
If it hurts like a son-of-a-gun, it's probably epididymitis. If it doesn't, it might be cancer. Either way, go see your urologist, because they can both kill you if untreated.
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Not even close.
Look, I live in Victoria, right across the strait. I know for a fact that rents are comparable, but that gas and food are cheaper in Vancouver. Thus, Victoria is more expensive than Vancouver.
But I also know for a fact that rents are so much higher in San Francisco than either Victoria or Vancouver that nothing else matters in the equation.
No, the concept was sound and original.
The dialogue ws well-written, but poorly edited and often poorly delivered. One of JMS' weaknesses is that he likes to maintain too much control over what he writes, and he either never found decent script editors or his editors were too cowed by him to make necessary changes.
So when you have dialogue that looks good on paper but sounds stupid when spoken, and sounds even worse when read by really bad actors, you get an impression bad dialogue.
B5's great weaknesses were script editing and casting. Whoever hired Patrician Tallman, Jerry Doyle, Richard Biggs (RIP), Claudia Christian and the captain from the 5th season should find new work. Not all of the actors in B5 were bad, but the above stand out as untalented. Their lack of work since B5 serves as evidence to bolster my opinion.
In any case: I enjoyed B5. It was well-plotted and it worked. But I don't go out of my way to watch repeats.
They've got to do it twice with a crew of three in a two-week period.
The thing is, it *did* matter, because it wasn't merely used for the US entries, but also for the Canadian entries, which were much closer.
And because so many of the top-ranked Canadians couldn't go, they had to drop down as far as #6 or #7 on the list, too. That time would have been vital in determining who went.
I don't think so.
I placed 5th in the Canadian qualifier. Two and a half weeks before the competition in Arnhem, I got an e-mail asking me if I wanted to join the team, as other members of the team, including alternates, had dropped out.
I rushed through my passport application. I got the time off work, luckily. But I wasn't able to find a reasonably-priced plan fare with notice that short, so I had to decline. On sale, one can get round trip from Vancouver to Amsterdam for six or seven hundred bucks Canadian. I figured I'd be willing to pay up to $1500. I couldn't find anything for less than $2200. Not gonna happen.
Not that it's gonna be any less expensive to get to Opatija, Croatia, even with four months' notice. Neither Trieste nor Zagreb (the two closest major cities) are particularly major cities.
No way -- no fscking way -- should Flay have handed Sakai his first-ever defeat with fish as the feature ingredient.
Flay's presentation was no better than Sakai's, yet Flay got extra points for it.
I blame the Americentric tastes of the judges.
It won't be overturned. This is a Supreme Court ruling. There's nowhere to appeal.
Which still makes Wil too white. Sorry, Wil, you're about as white as it's possible to be.
Look, I know how much everyone loves Wil (hell, I used to chat with him on GEnie in his Sandman forum), but he doesn't fit the role of a 200-year old with a bodybuilder physique who has taken anti-agathic treatments, has mixed blood and has the last name Wu.
Not. Gonna. Happen.
I've got it: The Rock can play Wu. He's got the look down pat. And he's bankable.
Could be, but even that wouldn't make Wil any more Asian.
I could see Cary Hiroyuki-Tagawa in the role. It's sad that there are so few middle-aged Asian American actors who have better chops than blocks of wood.
(Psst. Hey, kids. George Takei *dreams* of acting as well as a block of wood. So don't go there.)
The Louis Wo character is over 200 years old. But you're about Teela Brown's age.
Is there something you're not telling us?
I am firmly in support of any proposed legislation that makes saying "If a man also lie with mankind as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they should surely be put to death" in the public square an illegal act. A hate crime. If that makes reading parts of the Bible in public illegal, so be it.
I said nothing about Christians in my post.
(And, in any case, you're making the "no true Scotsman" fallacy; the only requirement to being a Christian is to claim that one is a Christian.)
You're welcome to voice your opinions and beliefs, as long as you don't publicly encourage that certain protected minority groups be put to death, individually or en masse.
If that means that you can't read parts of the Bible in the town square, so be it.
The actions in question, that is to say: downloading music over P2P and storing music in a shared directory, are not illegal actions (as per the article), and hence are protected.
Who's the idiot?
We don't have filty rich media types? Conrad black and the late Izzy Asper come immediately to mind.
There is as yet no media levy on blank DVDs in Canada, although there is on blank CDs.
I suspect that Canada joined the Net long before Australia did.
So you managed to get a job two years ago on the first try, but haven't been able to get a job since?
Maybe you're just not having any luck finding new work because you can't keep a job for more than two years...
Depends. One space after periods is common in publishing and journalism.
Where I work, we have to train our staff to break away from the use of two spaces after periods.
"Stupider" sounds stupid, but it's in both Merriam-Webster and Oxford -- and not even as slang.
If you knew sweet fuck all, you'd know that it's their trademark that they have to defend, and that copyright is not an issue in this story.
You live in BC, so you're probably on Shaw, just like I am.
The "unspoken" limit is apparently 60 gigs a month. I've gotten close, but haven't ever exceeded it.
But if we did, and they cut us off, we couldn't take them to court. We wouldn't have a leg to stand on. The contract says, specifically, that either party has the right to terminate service at any time for any reason.
Doesn't matter if they advertised unlimited service. They can still cut us off, without explanation or redress. Cable isn't a right.
For exactly the same reason you would listen to, say, Arnold Schwarzenegger talk about real estate. People can be informed about more than one thing.
IMHO, Sterling is a more skilled and useful visionary than he is a science fiction writer. You should be listening to what he says and probably avoiding his fiction.
Don't get me wrong -- it's a great game, and it's easy to learn the basic mechanics, but it takes a lot more than five minutes -- or even five full games -- to understand it.
It's one of those games where four experienced players can easily lose to a new player. The game strategies are often non-intuituve.
Reviews at http://kumquat.com/cgi-kumquat/funagain/12491. GAMES Magazine did an in-depth article about the non-intuitive nature of the game strategy last year sometime.
Puerto Rico is a notable exception. Even at the tournament level, most players of the game use a nearly random strategy.
No, about 98% of apparent growths and lumps on the testicle are swollen varioceles or epididymitis.
If it hurts like a son-of-a-gun, it's probably epididymitis. If it doesn't, it might be cancer. Either way, go see your urologist, because they can both kill you if untreated.