Use your common sense; 14 hikers tumbling into a volcanic collapse would have made the news everywhere in the US. Yet you will find zero about this on Google, despite this having supposedly happened this year. And you will find plentyoflinks about the handful of actual deaths.
Yeah, that was one of my problems with it: the complete lack of imagination. The colony worlds weren't a cool interpretation of how a frontier world might work with limited access to high technology but the developed historical and technical knowledge of the previous centuries, they were just stock 20th century western/plantation settings.
Plus the psuedo Confederate nostalgia was a turnoff as always. People who glamorize the Confederacy have generally read a lot of 20th century propaganda and not a lot of the 19th century founding documents and historical records, and it annoys accordingly.
When things were set on the ship and the background politics were left out, it was a pretty decent scifi show, with likeable actors and snappy dialogue. But that part required putting up with a lot of dreck elsewhere.
"The September That Never Ended" refers to September 1993. While it has been in popular memory often amalgamated with the arrival of AOL posters, that actually happened in May 1992.
While the AOLers were certainly part of the endless September, it had more to do with the number of Usenet newbies from all sources hitting a tipping point.
It does look startlingly like water/ice. But NASA scientists aren't stupid and have a big investment in finding water on Mars, so I'm guessing it's not. Maybe dust?
I've really liked my Targus, *because* it has so many pockets. One for the laptop, one for my books, one for wallet/personal stuff, a side mesh loop to put my bottled water in, etc. Keeps things from getting lost.
Yawn. You don't have to go to exotic fantasies of Mars for that. You can go back 40 years in America.
"There were a bunch of people from Mississippi standing around in a candy store, and this noob from Chicago showed up - and he whistles at a white woman! No tolerance for that sort of behavior in Mississippi, so immediately someone complains, a mob is convened, witnesses attest to having seen the guy whistle, and he is found guilty and summarily executed! Sure, swift punishment - and no appeals!"
Not so cool when it's a 14 year old black kid being tortured and beaten to death, is it, chump? Lynch mobs aren't new, sexy, or modern.
Except, of course, at that point they believed that Jesus was coming back any day now; there's a number of bible verses where it is prophesied that Christ will return within the lifetime of someone still living.
That's one of the reasons for the Wandering Jew hack; they made up a legend to explain why the bible wasn't actually wrong on that, because someone was still alive from that era. Modern fundamentalists are more sophisticated and use sophistry instead to explain that's not *really* what the prophesies meant.
No, we just characterize as crazy the Greeks who show up raving everytime someone mentions Macedonia and then start whinging about Alexander the Great. Don't want to be called crazy, stop acting like nutters.
(for the people who aren't aware, the birthplace of Alexander the Great is Pella, which is in what is now modern Greece. Ancient Macedonia however extended into what is now modern Macedonia. Apparently neither of these countries has produced anything worthwhile since, because they whine and squabble over the naming rights, as if anyone gave a shit.)
Ah, the Greek anti-Macedonian crazies come out to play!
I remember years and years ago when there was a Usenet vote over creation of soc.culture.macedonia, and the reaction was just so insane it was comical. 5000 bulk votes at time out of Greek universities! Endless raving in news groups.
Y'know, justify your SUV love if you want, but don't make up shit. It's just *stupid* to try to claim that an SUV carries more people than a van. Or cargo. That's what vans are *for*. Why do you think that airport shuttles are vans? Why do you think that small businesses use, yes... VANS.
SUVs have their place and uses. My dad lives up a mountain off a dirt road, and he used a SUV for a while (though he's switched to a pickup truck because they are better for hauling equipment around.) My sister is a big outdoorswoman, and so she has an SUV (but because she has no dick-size issues or soccer mom insecurity issues, it's a compact little Forester.)
They do *not* have a place hauling the kids around (they are insanely insafe, not having the full body construction that is a lifesaver in cars), or commuting to work downtown (a menance to the cars around them in dense traffic, don't fit into parking spots, and oh yes, use FUCKTONS OF GAS.)
But because of aforesaid dicksize and soccer mom insecurity, that's what 90 percent of them get used for.
I do think the absolute defense principle has been somewhat re-absorbed back into English libel law as well, but the burden of proving it is true still rests on the defendant, not on the plaintiff as in the US.
Except the 'truth is an absolute defense against libel' principle was developed in the US: the Zenger case. And has not been adopted in UK law.
I know it's hard to get your brain around, but there have in fact been devlopments in US law in the centuries since it broke off from British common law.
It's not the fact that *you* think it's important that bugs people, it's that we keep seeing Canadians claim that the fact that the White House was burned in the war of 1812 is some great secret. Dolly Madison hightailing it out of the White House as British troops closed in, George Washington's portrait under her arm, is one of the most retold incidents in American history. "Why is the White House white?" (because it was repainted after the burning) is a common trivia question.
The problem is, I've never paid these people a single penny for ANY of this. How the hell are they going to make money?
Um, you do realize that Google already makes a profit, don't you? I daresay the IPO will puff the value of the company up beyond the rational amount, but that's not 'Enron' -- if you are going to use buzzwords, use the right ones. Enron was a case of internal actors in the company using financial games to siphon off profits and inflate the value of the company on the books. You accusing Google of financial fraud? If you are going to use a buzzword, use 'Yahoo' or something -- a solid company that got its stock price puffed up excessively due to investor mania.
How the hell did this get moderated up, except as 'Funny'?
They are wonderful novels, and I'd love to see them adapted but... so completely not suited for the SciFi style of miniseries making. They need almost nothing in the way of special effects, and a proper adaption would depend on really strong actors who can bring out the inner development. This is especially true of Tombs of Atuan, where a large part of the story involves the main characters wandering around underground.
It's truly a pity that the BBC never picked up an option -- that have been a perfect combination.
Possibly this is a case of differing eyes, because my experience has been the same as wazzzup -- a number of bands and the red spot are quite distinct in a big telescope.
Not really. The 'pay' part of it is that people who bring a lot of money into the British economy is one of the categories of people who get honors, along with humanitarians et al. It's actually a nicely democratic effect -- it means people like the Beatles get it fairly young, honors aren't reserved entirely to the fossilized and the current government's political supporters.
By that logic, there aren't any indigenous people in the world, except for in Kenya. They are indigenous by the same standards as the aborigines: they were the first to get to a place and stay there.
Doesn't the guy who puts in overtime painting the sets so they'll be dry for tomorrow's shoot deserve just as much pay as the trained monkey spouting lines (that someone else wrote for him) in front of the camera (which is being run by another low-paid professional)?
Not really; depending on your construction of society, you can argue that money should be distributed according to the amount of capital you supply and risk you undertake (the film company, the financiers), or you can argue that the money should be distributed according to the amount of value you add to the product (the writers, directors, and actors.)
Under either construction, the set-painter doesn't rank very high; he doesn't add much unique value (people go to see the next Vin Diesel/Wachowski Brothers/whatever movie, not the sets), and he doesn't risk much capital.
Actually, cleaning chimneys remains a perfectly valid job. They just don't use 6 year olds to do it anymore. If you use your fireplace, your chimney will require cleaning occasionally.
She 'writes' her own music in the sense that Britney does. The pretense that she does is just part of the marketing.
Actually, that's too kind, Britney lies about it less. From Rolling Stone:
"When I wrote ['Complicated']," she says, "I was feeling what the song talks about -- that there are tons of people in the world who are fake, who are two-faced." And when I ask her how long it took her to write that song, she says simply, "Maybe two hours," without equivocation. "Songwriting is like that for me," she adds, with a snap of her fingers. "Someone can say, 'Go write a song,' and I can do it. I can write a song a day."
But according to the Matrix, they wrote the bulk of the three hit singles by themselves, following their first meeting with Lavigne. "With those songs, we conceived the ideas on guitar and piano," says Christy. "Avril would come in and sing a few melodies, change a word here or there. She came up with a couple of things in 'Complicated,' like, instead of 'Take off your stupid clothes,' she wanted it to say 'preppy clothes.' "
She was brought to New York by a Canadian company looking to market her as New Country. Clif Magness picked her up and repurposed her as skater punk, cannily seeing that that was a much more promising marketing line (thus the skateboard she can't ride.) It's somewhat bogglesome the number of people who buy her as 'real'.
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Use your common sense; 14 hikers tumbling into a volcanic collapse would have made the news everywhere in the US. Yet you will find zero about this on Google, despite this having supposedly happened this year. And you will find plenty of links about the handful of actual deaths.
Yeah, that was one of my problems with it: the complete lack of imagination. The colony worlds weren't a cool interpretation of how a frontier world might work with limited access to high technology but the developed historical and technical knowledge of the previous centuries, they were just stock 20th century western/plantation settings.
Plus the psuedo Confederate nostalgia was a turnoff as always. People who glamorize the Confederacy have generally read a lot of 20th century propaganda and not a lot of the 19th century founding documents and historical records, and it annoys accordingly.
When things were set on the ship and the background politics were left out, it was a pretty decent scifi show, with likeable actors and snappy dialogue. But that part required putting up with a lot of dreck elsewhere.
It turned my laptop into a slug, the two times I tried to install it, and this was after installing the Dell updates that were supposed to fix that.
"The September That Never Ended" refers to September 1993. While it has been in popular memory often amalgamated with the arrival of AOL posters, that actually happened in May 1992.
While the AOLers were certainly part of the endless September, it had more to do with the number of Usenet newbies from all sources hitting a tipping point.
The Viking Ship of Oseberg, King Sisavang Vong, the opening of the Heysham port (not completely sure on the last, it's a little vague.)
It does look startlingly like water/ice. But NASA scientists aren't stupid and have a big investment in finding water on Mars, so I'm guessing it's not. Maybe dust?
Probably because they aren't as stupid as you in swallowing RNC spin?
I've really liked my Targus, *because* it has so many pockets. One for the laptop, one for my books, one for wallet/personal stuff, a side mesh loop to put my bottled water in, etc. Keeps things from getting lost.
Yawn. You don't have to go to exotic fantasies of Mars for that. You can go back 40 years in America.
"There were a bunch of people from Mississippi standing around in a candy store, and this noob from Chicago showed up - and he whistles at a white woman! No tolerance for that sort of behavior in Mississippi, so immediately someone complains, a mob is convened, witnesses attest to having seen the guy whistle, and he is found guilty and summarily executed! Sure, swift punishment - and no appeals!"
Not so cool when it's a 14 year old black kid being tortured and beaten to death, is it, chump? Lynch mobs aren't new, sexy, or modern.
Except, of course, at that point they believed that Jesus was coming back any day now; there's a number of bible verses where it is prophesied that Christ will return within the lifetime of someone still living.
That's one of the reasons for the Wandering Jew hack; they made up a legend to explain why the bible wasn't actually wrong on that, because someone was still alive from that era. Modern fundamentalists are more sophisticated and use sophistry instead to explain that's not *really* what the prophesies meant.
No, we just characterize as crazy the Greeks who show up raving everytime someone mentions Macedonia and then start whinging about Alexander the Great. Don't want to be called crazy, stop acting like nutters.
(for the people who aren't aware, the birthplace of Alexander the Great is Pella, which is in what is now modern Greece. Ancient Macedonia however extended into what is now modern Macedonia. Apparently neither of these countries has produced anything worthwhile since, because they whine and squabble over the naming rights, as if anyone gave a shit.)
Ah, the Greek anti-Macedonian crazies come out to play!
I remember years and years ago when there was a Usenet vote over creation of soc.culture.macedonia, and the reaction was just so insane it was comical. 5000 bulk votes at time out of Greek universities! Endless raving in news groups.
Y'know, justify your SUV love if you want, but don't make up shit. It's just *stupid* to try to claim that an SUV carries more people than a van. Or cargo. That's what vans are *for*. Why do you think that airport shuttles are vans? Why do you think that small businesses use, yes... VANS.
SUVs have their place and uses. My dad lives up a mountain off a dirt road, and he used a SUV for a while (though he's switched to a pickup truck because they are better for hauling equipment around.) My sister is a big outdoorswoman, and so she has an SUV (but because she has no dick-size issues or soccer mom insecurity issues, it's a compact little Forester.)
They do *not* have a place hauling the kids around (they are insanely insafe, not having the full body construction that is a lifesaver in cars), or commuting to work downtown (a menance to the cars around them in dense traffic, don't fit into parking spots, and oh yes, use FUCKTONS OF GAS.)
But because of aforesaid dicksize and soccer mom insecurity, that's what 90 percent of them get used for.
Libel used to be anything defamatory _even if it was true_.
The Zenger case is not a distraction; it's one of the basic developments of American law.
I do think the absolute defense principle has been somewhat re-absorbed back into English libel law as well, but the burden of proving it is true still rests on the defendant, not on the plaintiff as in the US.
Except the 'truth is an absolute defense against libel' principle was developed in the US: the Zenger case. And has not been adopted in UK law.
I know it's hard to get your brain around, but there have in fact been devlopments in US law in the centuries since it broke off from British common law.
It's not the fact that *you* think it's important that bugs people, it's that we keep seeing Canadians claim that the fact that the White House was burned in the war of 1812 is some great secret. Dolly Madison hightailing it out of the White House as British troops closed in, George Washington's portrait under her arm, is one of the most retold incidents in American history. "Why is the White House white?" (because it was repainted after the burning) is a common trivia question.
We know. Really.
The problem is, I've never paid these people a single penny for ANY of this. How the hell are they going to make money?
Um, you do realize that Google already makes a profit, don't you? I daresay the IPO will puff the value of the company up beyond the rational amount, but that's not 'Enron' -- if you are going to use buzzwords, use the right ones. Enron was a case of internal actors in the company using financial games to siphon off profits and inflate the value of the company on the books. You accusing Google of financial fraud? If you are going to use a buzzword, use 'Yahoo' or something -- a solid company that got its stock price puffed up excessively due to investor mania.
How the hell did this get moderated up, except as 'Funny'?
They are wonderful novels, and I'd love to see them adapted but... so completely not suited for the SciFi style of miniseries making. They need almost nothing in the way of special effects, and a proper adaption would depend on really strong actors who can bring out the inner development. This is especially true of Tombs of Atuan, where a large part of the story involves the main characters wandering around underground.
It's truly a pity that the BBC never picked up an option -- that have been a perfect combination.
Possibly this is a case of differing eyes, because my experience has been the same as wazzzup -- a number of bands and the red spot are quite distinct in a big telescope.
Not really. The 'pay' part of it is that people who bring a lot of money into the British economy is one of the categories of people who get honors, along with humanitarians et al. It's actually a nicely democratic effect -- it means people like the Beatles get it fairly young, honors aren't reserved entirely to the fossilized and the current government's political supporters.
I'm not sure I agree, but it definitely deserves more than an 0.
By that logic, there aren't any indigenous people in the world, except for in Kenya. They are indigenous by the same standards as the aborigines: they were the first to get to a place and stay there.
Not really; depending on your construction of society, you can argue that money should be distributed according to the amount of capital you supply and risk you undertake (the film company, the financiers), or you can argue that the money should be distributed according to the amount of value you add to the product (the writers, directors, and actors.)
Under either construction, the set-painter doesn't rank very high; he doesn't add much unique value (people go to see the next Vin Diesel/Wachowski Brothers/whatever movie, not the sets), and he doesn't risk much capital.
Actually, cleaning chimneys remains a perfectly valid job. They just don't use 6 year olds to do it anymore. If you use your fireplace, your chimney will require cleaning occasionally.