It's just the producers'/director's point of view. I certainly didn't expect a mockery when I went in to see it, but a straight-up translation. My only point was that I think these guys intended to make a movie that would've caused Heinlein to hurl.
Starship troopers contained alot of nutty ideas, and Heinlein probably believed all of them. The movie makers' disgust with those ideas came across pretty clearly, I thought.
Hmmm, I solve this problem by deleting the blue E. I explain to them they can still get IE from windows explorer, which they do at first, but eventually laziness wins the day.
Think about kids from small towns, many of those places don't even have libraries. Now they can read about science and liturature and other subjects only aviable to historians just 20 years ago.
They could, but instead they're siphoning up tenticle porn at a megabit/sec. And you can't get that from any small town library.
I use tdl. I've got it rigged so that my most urgent tasks appear in bright colors the moment I login. My eyes have trained themselves to completely bypass this list. I see it every morning, but I haven't read it in months.
A todo list is only as good as the one who uses it.
What's even more horrible about Gore's statement was that there was, in the context of the discussion (Gore's legilative accomplishments), alot of truth to it:
In the March 21 Washington Post, for example, Jason Schwartz quoted several Internet pioneers, including Vinton Cerf, the man often called "the father of the Internet." Cerf praised Gore's role in the Net's development. "I think it is very fair to say that the Internet would not be where it is in the United States without the strong support given to it and related research areas by the vice president," he said. Meanwhile, Katie Hafner, author of a book on the Internet's origins, penned a short piece in the New York Times, quoting experts who said that Gore "helped lift the Internet from relative obscurity and turn it into a widely accessible, commercial network." On March 18, Gore tried to clarify his remark in an interview with USA Today. "I did take the lead in the Congress," he told Chuck Raasch; he described his Internet work in detail. Raasch quoted Gore's explanation--but it was mentioned in no other paper.
"This society obviously works, and works well else it would not have stayed viable over hundreds of millions of years. So how flawed can it really be?"
Feudal government can be amazingly successful and stable over long periods of time, and even (mostly) benevolent. Brin's article regects feudalism as unenlightened and oppressive, not ineffective or evil.
LOTR :
"Did the elves or the men offer to sell the hobbits into slavery if Sauron would just go away?
No they fought against impossible odds choosing death rather than submission."
Yes, this is the Romantic "Age of Ragnarok" end of the world idea. In Brin's novels, the humans are pragmatic in dealing with the established system. Brin is saying the enlightened pragmatist, while not as able to stir the heart, and viewed as somewhat slimey and shifty, will take us on the better course through the future.
You can even see some parrallels in U.S. politics. The war in Kosovo was a messy, dirty, little war, that is more notable for its intricate political entanglements than its military victories. Yet the war as a whole was an enormouse success.
Our war in Afghanistan, charactarized by a Romantic clarity of purpose and amazing military victories, in none the less going sour. A key reason was America's early refusal of help from our allies.
You can see the same Romantic idea leading to failure in Somalia.
Is it just me or is quidditch one of the stupidest sports ever imagined? It seems clear that Rowling knows little about sports. Almost nothing ever matters in the game except the seekers trying to catch the snitch.
(BTW, Clinton was "[suboenaed] for having his dick sucked" by Paula Jones' attorneys, not by "Senior Republicans").
Only in the sense that the Jews were killed by SS squads and not Hitler or Eichman. (Whoops...Godwins law)
The first part of your post is true. Prostitutes in cities that have hosted both, report triple the business at the Republican convention compared to the Dems.
They want to control P2P so they can make money with it, not because they are losing money elsewhere. They don't care if people copy the file or not, what they hate is that someone actually watched their movie for free. They would charge you for checking the movie out of the library if they could.
If they ran a candy store, and they spilled candy corn on the side walk, and all the poor kids who couldn't afford candy, or didn't see the point in paying for it, rushed up to grab some off the ground, these guys would pee on it rather than see their product eaten for free. That analogy isn't accurate, because it's more like they spilled some ghost candy that tastes just as good to the kids, but doesn't cost anything to the store.
I have met plenty of good female programmers who could do their jobs more than 10% of the day. I haven't met any women that *like* to program. (Meaning they are programming for purely rational reasons, unlike many men.);
Having said that, I would say that women are 90% irrational, but those who think men are more rational are being irrational, or they are just idiots.
On further consideration, the parent might be a troll, as any student of physics knows, among the greatest minds in physics in the last century were many women who should have won the Nobel prize but were passed over because of gender issues. Such as Meitner, who discovered fission (determined theoretically that it was possible and how it would work), Wu who discovered how symmetry broke down,etc.
Uhhmmm... Have you ever opened "Finnegan's Wake"? Ulysses it ain't. My advice, poor as it is, is to read it out loud. For all I know that's the only way to get any meaning or enjoyment out of it. Otherwise it's pure torture.
Not only that, but there are great Sci-Fi writers that probably aren't creationists that wrote great stories from a creationist perspective. Greg Bear comes to mind. And if he is a creationist he's also produced great stories from opposing perspectives.
His early short story collections were great. Can't remember the names of the top of my head. ("Unaccompanied Sonata" might have been one). "King's meat" is a classic short story. "Ender's Game" was good (short version was great), "Speaker for the Dead" was good (probably should have been a short one too), "Hot Sleep" was fun, "Lost Boys" was O.K., but not Sci-Fi, most post-enders game novels were crap.
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It's just the producers'/director's point of view. I certainly didn't expect a mockery when I went in to see it, but a straight-up translation. My only point was that I think these guys intended to make a movie that would've caused Heinlein to hurl.
Starship troopers contained alot of nutty ideas, and Heinlein probably believed all of them. The movie makers' disgust with those ideas came across pretty clearly, I thought.
Hmmm, I solve this problem by deleting the blue E. I explain to them they can still get IE from windows explorer, which they do at first, but eventually laziness wins the day.
They could, but instead they're siphoning up tenticle porn at a megabit/sec. And you can't get that from any small town library.
A todo list is only as good as the one who uses it.
Got syntax files for almost any language, and they're easy to create if your pet language is missing.
Man in the High Castle? But I liked DADoES so maybe this is a bad recommendation.
Don't you hate it when they give an otherwise worthy box babe the butt of a man?
Work will set you free.
Feudal government can be amazingly successful and stable over long periods of time, and even (mostly) benevolent. Brin's article regects feudalism as unenlightened and oppressive, not ineffective or evil.
LOTR :
"Did the elves or the men offer to sell the hobbits into slavery if Sauron would just go away? No they fought against impossible odds choosing death rather than submission."
Yes, this is the Romantic "Age of Ragnarok" end of the world idea. In Brin's novels, the humans are pragmatic in dealing with the established system. Brin is saying the enlightened pragmatist, while not as able to stir the heart, and viewed as somewhat slimey and shifty, will take us on the better course through the future.
You can even see some parrallels in U.S. politics. The war in Kosovo was a messy, dirty, little war, that is more notable for its intricate political entanglements than its military victories. Yet the war as a whole was an enormouse success.
Our war in Afghanistan, charactarized by a Romantic clarity of purpose and amazing military victories, in none the less going sour. A key reason was America's early refusal of help from our allies.
You can see the same Romantic idea leading to failure in Somalia.
The best PC games are free.
why are we here? I figured it out, but I'm still a loser. Is this one of those ending with a twist?
I'm waiting 'til they reach the brain implant stage.
Did it grip it by the husk?
I think it has to do with the fact that the humans would share scraps of their heyena meat, but the hyenas wouldn't let the dogs have any human.
Is it just me or is quidditch one of the stupidest sports ever imagined? It seems clear that Rowling knows little about sports. Almost nothing ever matters in the game except the seekers trying to catch the snitch.
LOTR has a fair bit of character depth, but the movie, unfortunately, ignores it or illustrates it with bad CG.
(BTW, Clinton was "[suboenaed] for having his dick sucked" by Paula Jones' attorneys, not by "Senior Republicans"). Only in the sense that the Jews were killed by SS squads and not Hitler or Eichman. (Whoops...Godwins law) The first part of your post is true. Prostitutes in cities that have hosted both, report triple the business at the Republican convention compared to the Dems.
If they ran a candy store, and they spilled candy corn on the side walk, and all the poor kids who couldn't afford candy, or didn't see the point in paying for it, rushed up to grab some off the ground, these guys would pee on it rather than see their product eaten for free. That analogy isn't accurate, because it's more like they spilled some ghost candy that tastes just as good to the kids, but doesn't cost anything to the store.
Having said that, I would say that women are 90% irrational, but those who think men are more rational are being irrational, or they are just idiots.
On further consideration, the parent might be a troll, as any student of physics knows, among the greatest minds in physics in the last century were many women who should have won the Nobel prize but were passed over because of gender issues. Such as Meitner, who discovered fission (determined theoretically that it was possible and how it would work), Wu who discovered how symmetry broke down,etc.
And why would they bother faking the landing seven times! Nobody was even watching except Apollo 13.
Uhhmmm... Have you ever opened "Finnegan's Wake"? Ulysses it ain't. My advice, poor as it is, is to read it out loud. For all I know that's the only way to get any meaning or enjoyment out of it. Otherwise it's pure torture.
Not only that, but there are great Sci-Fi writers that probably aren't creationists that wrote great stories from a creationist perspective. Greg Bear comes to mind. And if he is a creationist he's also produced great stories from opposing perspectives.
His early short story collections were great. Can't remember the names of the top of my head. ("Unaccompanied Sonata" might have been one). "King's meat" is a classic short story. "Ender's Game" was good (short version was great), "Speaker for the Dead" was good (probably should have been a short one too), "Hot Sleep" was fun, "Lost Boys" was O.K., but not Sci-Fi, most post-enders game novels were crap.