3. Who cares? As I said, there are many other chat networks. Kids will simply use another chat program or another network. What does this change, really? (Unless Yahoo believes their chat network is much more vile and filled with adult things than any other network?)
Perhaps that's what they want. It's like when MSN chat closed their doors to anyone who wasn't a subscriber. Use dropped over 90% and those few who were left on the system msn had their billing information on file. So no only easier to police the system, but you can always trackdown bozos who are doing something trully criminal and vile. The rest that leave, well that's someone else's problem.
Some say that running too many cleaning cycles will damage the printhead, mostly Epson support
It's an issue with Epson. I think half the ink I used when I had an Epson was in cleaning. Damn thing always had a clogged nozzle, even when I was running genuine Epson ink.
I'll agree it seems like 1/2 the ink is used for the cleaning cycles. I ran an r200 and ran the waste tube to a starbucks mug, a 20 or 24oz starbucks mug. While it's not a proper meter, I could say after using 2oz of ink in each tank I would end up with close to a cup, so the 1/2 used in cleaning cycles isn't far off. You could see the ink flow. I don't honestly know if excessive cleaning cycles damage the printhead, to say that i'd have to waste a full tanks of ink which is not something i'm willing to tray. While I appricate the fact that piezos can accept just about any medium under the sun so long as it flows, for the time being i'm sticking with bubble jet. Those nozzles are more shallow and are less prone to catastrophic clogging, and it seems the gasket always got knocked out of place which well causes clogs. I prefer the epson in many regards, even their $100 photo printers, but they are not what i'd call trouble free.
I can see this in a couple of situations; if you have an HP that has thermal-based printheads, sure. But those printhead die pretty quickly anyway as they're DESIGNED to die. They're supposed to get replaced ever time.
Well I made sure to say "affect" and not reduce. Piezos are going to generate *some* heat and ink does serve to keep the temprature of the mechnism consistent. Some say that running too many cleaning cycles will damage the printhead, mostly Epson support as well as other 3rd party refilling sites. Others would debate whether running the printhead dry would reduce it's life or just clog the nozzles. But whether thermal or micropiezo it's a reasonable assumption that different a different medium may affect the printhead life, and if it does it could be an improvement. You have the viscosity factor, but you also have the thermal factor. But even if there's a reduction in printhead life... well the cost does justify it self even if you have to shell out for a new printer.
I'm using MIS Associates inks. Glad to see they performed well in those tests.
That's what i'm using as well, though after seeing MIS vs Media Street vs Image Specalists I might consider buying Media Street, only because there is a site that sells the "plug 'n play" ink that's closer to me.
I can't tell the difference between prints made with Canon ink and aftermarket ink. In fade tests in sunlight, the aftermarket inks fade about the same as Canon, but last better than Epson (not current generation, I don't do Epson anymore).
I have to do some tests of what i'm currently using to see how well it holds up vs the OEM solution.
IOW, if you're frugal, you can make your own prints for VERY cheap. I think my 4x6's probably cost 5 cents each.
The cost of any of the listed 3rd party solutions is going to run about $300/gal if you buy in small lots under 4oz, or $100/gal if you buy in gallons. This is vs the $3000ish/gal for OEM canon which to be fair isn't the most fade resistant ink on the market. This accounts for about a 90% savings in ink. We are talking in the neighborhood of about a quarter a full sized print in terms of ink. When taking the cost of paper into account, 4x6 often cheaper to get done at a costco or some other photoshop. But this goes out the window once you start talking larger than 4x6 or non standard size prints like 5x5 cd covers.
There are those who claim that non-OEM ink will affect your printhead life. This is possible I have to admit, but given 90% savings if your printer explodes after the 3rd refill, you saved money assumming we're talking a base model printer. This is what I find sad about the current ink market not that you spend more on supplies then you do hardware, but the fact that sometimes the hardware with supplies costs the same.
That said, the "intensity of viewing" is aimed at generating new subscribers and keeping old ones happy. If people shuffle off the shackles of the HBO coil and resort to downloading, how long will HBO keep producing good content?
That would depend on whether or not the downloaders are also subscribers. One of the nice things about the mid80s in VCR land was the fact that taping of shows was encouraged and in fact some networks dedicated a timeslot in the early early AM for you to tape shows. It was a cheap way to start your own small video library and people who you invite over to watch tapes get hit with the station's logo. Subscriptions went up, everyone was happy.
I prefer that we combat copyright by creating more public domain music, movies, and writings. I offer my writings in print for for a fee, but I also give it away free in PDF form. I ask people who read my PDFs to give me money, but I don't require it.
That's rather my point in respecting the copyright. You ask people who make a copy give you money. This is your right... i'm sure you spell it out, and it's important to respect that. I assume I would not be violating your rights if I gave a copy of your work to a friend and left it up to my friend whether to pay the fee or not.
This is rather my point, respecting the rights of copyright holders in making a choice how they distribute media.
I remember an artical way back regarding an effort to get tobacco adverts off TV, and some lawyer discovered an obscure law regarding giving equal ad space to a controversial issue. As a result IIRC everytime a commercial for tobacco ran saying it tastes good, makes you look sexy, they had to devote equal time to "It's bad for you, it fucks up your lungs." My memory is rather vague on the subject but... it seems to me that someone might be wise to review this precident and anytime the RIAA/MPAA gets out there and talks about "don't copy we'll sue you" and see if you have the right to equal ad space or equal airtime and say "I'm a copyright holder, I want you to copy my work, and give me money if you copy. That's my right... to distribute my work in anyway I see fit, whether it be p2p, paper, canvas, or aardvark skin. So please respect my rights and copy it."
Those CD clubs that offer two fists full of CDs for a penny in exchange for purchace of one or a few CDs over the next year. These companies who even if you fulfill your obligation blatently refuse to cancel you from the monthly list.
So if a child steals from a store that they go to without a parent, it should be OK because the minor can't afford to purchase the item?
It's not theft, it's copyright infringement. Shoplifting is a crime. As with all crimes you would need evidence to prosecute. There is an actual loss that you can measure. With copyright infringement, there is no physical loss and flacky evidence.
And when the parents are unaware of their child, it is bad parenting. Sometimes a warning isn't enough.
So a person is a bad parent if they don't know how to operate their PC? IIRC we are talking about a single mother and like it or not a single parent can't be everwhere at once. And we are talking about an issue that someone who was childless in the 80s and 90s that doesn't think this is a big deal. And actually, a number of artists encourage p2p distribution... and there is presently no way your average end user could know if it's OK to share the music.
What we need to learn is the concept of respecting the rights of the copyright holder. To assume all sharing is bad in it self is a serious violation of the rights of copyright holders.
Sliders was not ahead of it's time. It was just another huckleberry finn, star trek, docotor who knockoff with none of the redeeming factors. It is quite suitable for the adolecent maile, with a good role model, a pretty girl into geeks, and trivial story line. However, there are no layers that might make it interesting to an adult. The writing was woodden, even by scifi standards.
My digital cable preview described sliders as "4 people jump into a hole each week with wacky consequences". That is by far the most accurate description of the show I've seen.
It was more sit-com than sci-fi... where basicly they are using the idea of parallel universes as a vehicel for social commentary. In the early episodes it showed some promise... slide to a new world with a what if scenero... feel a moral obligation to impose your values on other people, and escape to another world avoiding all accountablity. But they then had to try for something resembling a plot rather then just a vehicel and introduced the Cromags, the quest for the lost brother and cast the real life brother, intoduced an evil villian, basicly trying to transform fluff into substance, which didn't work.
> And of course a HUGE Hit show that seems to be totaly forgotten from the list... Mork and > Mindy!
Mork and Mindy IIRC uses some a scene from Logan's Run... the futeristic city except adding egg transport. Nano Nano. (-1 point for remembering this detail)
I would rank M&M as more a sitcom than sci-fi. Technicaly a spin off from Happy Days only because Mork was a character that made an appearance from time to time.
Kirk: Scotty we need power now Scotty: I'm givin' her all she's got captain Kirk: Damn it that's got good enough Scotty: Aye... I'll reverse the polarity. Give me an hour Kirk: We don't have an hour we have 5 minutes Scotty: You can't change the laws of physics Kirk: Scotty, reverse the polarity! Scotty: Aye sir. Ship: Bing bang buzz beep zoom Kirty: Scotty your a miracle worker Scotty: Aye sir... the stupid sod doesn't know I always increase my estimates by a factor of 10 Kirk: What was that? Scotty: Nothing sir... Scotty out.
Standard epiloge where spock shakes his head and walks away. Credits
(font lost in space)Next week... Scotty reverses the polarity... with wacky consequences. Spock shakes his head and walks away.
Now I've tried it(Battlestar Galactica). Thanks to some of these people, I've watched MANY episodes of it, and I understand it less each time. How can even average-smart people put up with such terrible writing? Such stupid plots and stupider plot holes? Such transparent and flacid attempts to be edgy and gritty? Such... lack of immagination? (edit mine)
In contrast to the origional series aka Wagon Train in Space staring Lorne Greene? A boy and his mechanical dog? And evil inverse video goat man? Making it a point to create perfectly reflective robots without regard to lighting resulting in having to use colored filters so you couldn't see the crew? Recycled special effects from the movie which employed recycled special effects. Not to speak of Galactica 1980 who had a group of kids farm with their super strength or play baseball and win to avoid detection from the goverment. Or worse yet "You're pregnant? How is this possible? Must have been devine intervention!" Can you say a transparent attempt to prevent kids from finding out where babies come from?
I know there are fans of the old series who might be offended, but let's face it BSG 1979 had some awful moments and the new series in many regards is an improvement. I agree it shouldn't get a #2 spot. It's too new and hasn't had long enough to prove itself.
Where is The Prisioner? I mean it's not exatly Sci-fi, but neither is this list, and at least it was innovative.
They had Man from U.N.C.L.E. so by every right they should have The Prisioner. Gawd they have Batman the live action series. If the big box labeled "bat computer" could be ranked as sci-fi then clearly an autonomous bubble could qualify as well.
At first I was going to say that Max Headroom only lived for 13 episodes... technicaly two seasons. "Greatest American Hero" while crap at least made it to 40 episodes before being cancled. But going through the list we have things like "That was Then" something that seems similar to "Goodnight Sweetheart" a BBC production where a man in present day finds a doorway to WWII england and is torn between two loves. However "That was Then" only aired two episodes. Logan's Run only aired 14 Episodes from what I read... which is franky a series I was totally unaware of.
So I can't think of any good reason why Max Headroom was left off this list. If they permited short lived series such as "Logan's Run" and "That was Then" then by every right Max Headroom should be on that list somewhere. Not to speak of Blake's 7.
If the movie bombs in one region, they've just wasted money by releasing the movie simultaneously in thousands of other locations that will fail almost equally
But if they don't want a dvd from one region to leak to another that has not shown the movie yet, then they shouldn't release the damned DVD... and doing so is their own damned fault. If region codes expired I could somewhat accept this, but they are basicly trying to withhold the right to play media you bought in good faith indefinatly which has been argued violates the WTO... something I personaly can't conferm.
Besides region codes have become pointless anyway except for good old region 1 where it's not as common to find region free decks in stores.
Why does this crap get modded up. Even if we stipulate that all of that is true, it doesn't matter. We all know coffee is hot. You don't put a hot cup of anything between your legs, you put it in the cup holder.
I hate to say it, but in the 80s cars didn't have cup holders so you do end up putting coffee between your legs. This may be stupid but what else can you do getting into a car. Coffee typicaly doesn't cause 3rd degree burns.
1st degree - sun burn 2nd degree - blisters 3rd degree - lost flesh nerve damage
McDonnalds made it a choice to serve their coffee too hot, and refused to pay medical expences as a result of serving their coffee too hot. They got sued... and as a result they don't serve their coffee so hot.
We know coffee is served hot, but coffee isn't typicaly served boiling. A few degrees means the difference between a spill resulting in a sun burn (oh ouch), blisters (hot damn), and nerve damage (woooo ee hot hot hot).
Now, McDonalds sold their coffee far hotter than is generally accepted. How hot? 180-190 degrees F. This, IIRC, is about 30 degrees hotter than it is usually served at, and is hot enough to cause THIRD-DEGREE burns in as little as two seconds.
I remember McDonnalds coffee before this lawsuit. I bought it from time to time to clean engines. Some nice foamy engine bright to soften up the grease and their coffee to rince. Amazing stuff... it came out of the percolator boiling... as in it was still boiling when it hit the cup. However I eventually had to stop using it as after using it it would peal off the paint from the engine block. Not good.
Can't say I ever actually drank the stuff, it wasn't possible, not without burning your mouth.
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Not the pimple popping into a cup, but equally as gross, here's a link for a tv commercial that likely aired on after school and Saturday morning cartoon time...
You don't really appreciate how much better they are than most convenience stores until they're not an option.
Really? I remember the closure in the early 80s of many 7-Elevens where I live. I never really missed them. The only unique thing they offered was a slurpee. Fountain drinks were ordinary though I guess you could say they were among the first to offer a huge drink. A really huge drink came in really handy.
I "could" go to a 7-Eleven if I so wanted, but why bother? Technicaly they were a semi decent convenience store with a semi-decent grocery, but the local supermarket is under a mile away, the local 24 hour market is just over a mile away. There are other convenience stores that are closer and I haven't had a slurpee in years.
I don't miss 7-Eleven. The milk was sour, the employees were treeted badly, and nothing they offer can't be bought elsewhere except the slurpee which I don't drink.
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1. Make low cost bad tasting fruit drink 2. Freeze taste buds and brains so drink tastes good 3. ?!?!?!?! 4. Profit! Step 5, of course, is to whore for Karma
That's pretty much it. I have to admit I was never overly fond of the flavors offered. Your choice of Cola or fruit crap of the month, not a happy choice. If you were lucky you had more than two choices, or in the 80s when self serving machines became popular and you could mix your own crappy beverage, a mix of slurpee and your favorite carbonated drink, which to be honest was just as bad or worse.
But I was very fond of the fact that on a hot summer day as a kid there was always a 7-eleven within bike distance that one could get a drink that was colder than the freezing point of water and cool off. That was pretty much the main reason I got slurpees.
Gotta love corporate marketing. The Slush Puppy actually ushered in the era of the iced crystal drink on November 12 1972. I fully expect a "Slush Puppy at 43" slashdot article this fall.
A "Slush Puppy" is an alcoholic beverage that I believe IIRC is close to a Sno-Kone. Crushed ice, syrup, booze.
A "Slush Puppie" I'm not all that sure about other than I seem to remember a Dr. Pepper version of it, which I found to be more tasty than the 7-Eleven varities.
Now the original credit probally goes to the icee company.
You don't really think that a pawn shop owner sees a, say, Canon 300 f2.8L and can't figure out that it's worth a lot of money? Plausible deniability lets a lot of people get out of things even if they are dirty as sin.
Well, most pawnshop owners subscribe to some form of bluebook. I had a web version at some point but long since lost the link. Something like a Canon 300 f2.8L for example is the sort of thing that the owner would lookup in a book and charge what the book says for it. However for something like Nikor enlarger lenses that they don't have a clue what they do... twenty bucks. Small lens... twenty bucks... big lens $40. Even some vivitar series one lenses end up there for twenty bucks.
I could have bought a Konica UC Hexanon 28mm f1.8 28mm lens attached to a camera for $100. I imagine it could have been stolen, or was part of someone's estate and no one knew it's value. Hell I don't actually not it's value other than it's rare and spendy. I imagine if I bought it and later found out they were stolen... even if I was arrested for having stolen goods, i'm sure I could show the judge proof I bought it from a pawn shop who as a rule keep records of who sells them crap.
While you may be right, you can "google" something, you have to know what to google.
Some of the best things to buy in pawn shops are trivial little items like lens filters.
Maybe I'm visiting the wrong web site but the most common part of Hilton I see would be her strange droopy dawg face. She's got eyes like Sylvester Stalone.
I don't know what she looks like. I know I have nieces who have told me that Paris starred in things like Simple Life, something I don't watch. Also somone told me Paris was in Zoolander as some random model, but hell if I know which model she happened to be. But I have seen popups for the porno.
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3. Who cares? As I said, there are many other chat networks. Kids will simply use another chat program or another network. What does this change, really? (Unless Yahoo believes their chat network is much more vile and filled with adult things than any other network?)
Perhaps that's what they want. It's like when MSN chat closed their doors to anyone who wasn't a subscriber. Use dropped over 90% and those few who were left on the system msn had their billing information on file. So no only easier to police the system, but you can always trackdown bozos who are doing something trully criminal and vile. The rest that leave, well that's someone else's problem.
It's an issue with Epson. I think half the ink I used when I had an Epson was in cleaning. Damn thing always had a clogged nozzle, even when I was running genuine Epson ink.
There is a person on the newsgroups who offers a free cleaning manual.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.periphs.print
I'll agree it seems like 1/2 the ink is used for the cleaning cycles. I ran an r200 and ran the waste tube to a starbucks mug, a 20 or 24oz starbucks mug. While it's not a proper meter, I could say after using 2oz of ink in each tank I would end up with close to a cup, so the 1/2 used in cleaning cycles isn't far off. You could see the ink flow. I don't honestly know if excessive cleaning cycles damage the printhead, to say that i'd have to waste a full tanks of ink which is not something i'm willing to tray. While I appricate the fact that piezos can accept just about any medium under the sun so long as it flows, for the time being i'm sticking with bubble jet. Those nozzles are more shallow and are less prone to catastrophic clogging, and it seems the gasket always got knocked out of place which well causes clogs. I prefer the epson in many regards, even their $100 photo printers, but they are not what i'd call trouble free.
I can see this in a couple of situations; if you have an HP that has thermal-based printheads, sure. But those printhead die pretty quickly anyway as they're DESIGNED to die. They're supposed to get replaced ever time.
Well I made sure to say "affect" and not reduce. Piezos are going to generate *some* heat and ink does serve to keep the temprature of the mechnism consistent. Some say that running too many cleaning cycles will damage the printhead, mostly Epson support as well as other 3rd party refilling sites. Others would debate whether running the printhead dry would reduce it's life or just clog the nozzles. But whether thermal or micropiezo it's a reasonable assumption that different a different medium may affect the printhead life, and if it does it could be an improvement. You have the viscosity factor, but you also have the thermal factor. But even if there's a reduction in printhead life... well the cost does justify it self even if you have to shell out for a new printer.
I'm using MIS Associates inks. Glad to see they performed well in those tests.
That's what i'm using as well, though after seeing MIS vs Media Street vs Image Specalists I might consider buying Media Street, only because there is a site that sells the "plug 'n play" ink that's closer to me.
I can't tell the difference between prints made with Canon ink and aftermarket ink. In fade tests in sunlight, the aftermarket inks fade about the same as Canon, but last better than Epson (not current generation, I don't do Epson anymore).
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I only have a couple of links the compair OEM canon ink to 3rd party
-MIS (believed to be Image Specalists) vs InkGrabber vs OEM-
http://www.neilslade.com/Papers/inktest.html
-OEM canon vs various others swab test-
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=
I have to do some tests of what i'm currently using to see how well it holds up vs the OEM solution.
IOW, if you're frugal, you can make your own prints for VERY cheap. I think my 4x6's probably cost 5 cents each.
The cost of any of the listed 3rd party solutions is going to run about $300/gal if you buy in small lots under 4oz, or $100/gal if you buy in gallons. This is vs the $3000ish/gal for OEM canon which to be fair isn't the most fade resistant ink on the market. This accounts for about a 90% savings in ink. We are talking in the neighborhood of about a quarter a full sized print in terms of ink. When taking the cost of paper into account, 4x6 often cheaper to get done at a costco or some other photoshop. But this goes out the window once you start talking larger than 4x6 or non standard size prints like 5x5 cd covers.
There are those who claim that non-OEM ink will affect your printhead life. This is possible I have to admit, but given 90% savings if your printer explodes after the 3rd refill, you saved money assumming we're talking a base model printer. This is what I find sad about the current ink market not that you spend more on supplies then you do hardware, but the fact that sometimes the hardware with supplies costs the same.
That said, the "intensity of viewing" is aimed at generating new subscribers and keeping old ones happy. If people shuffle off the shackles of the HBO coil and resort to downloading, how long will HBO keep producing good content?
That would depend on whether or not the downloaders are also subscribers. One of the nice things about the mid80s in VCR land was the fact that taping of shows was encouraged and in fact some networks dedicated a timeslot in the early early AM for you to tape shows. It was a cheap way to start your own small video library and people who you invite over to watch tapes get hit with the station's logo. Subscriptions went up, everyone was happy.
I prefer that we combat copyright by creating more public domain music, movies, and writings. I offer my writings in print for for a fee, but I also give it away free in PDF form. I ask people who read my PDFs to give me money, but I don't require it.
That's rather my point in respecting the copyright. You ask people who make a copy give you money. This is your right... i'm sure you spell it out, and it's important to respect that. I assume I would not be violating your rights if I gave a copy of your work to a friend and left it up to my friend whether to pay the fee or not.
This is rather my point, respecting the rights of copyright holders in making a choice how they distribute media.
I remember an artical way back regarding an effort to get tobacco adverts off TV, and some lawyer discovered an obscure law regarding giving equal ad space to a controversial issue. As a result IIRC everytime a commercial for tobacco ran saying it tastes good, makes you look sexy, they had to devote equal time to "It's bad for you, it fucks up your lungs." My memory is rather vague on the subject but... it seems to me that someone might be wise to review this precident and anytime the RIAA/MPAA gets out there and talks about "don't copy we'll sue you" and see if you have the right to equal ad space or equal airtime and say "I'm a copyright holder, I want you to copy my work, and give me money if you copy. That's my right... to distribute my work in anyway I see fit, whether it be p2p, paper, canvas, or aardvark skin. So please respect my rights and copy it."
What company wants to sue children?
Those CD clubs that offer two fists full of CDs for a penny in exchange for purchace of one or a few CDs over the next year. These companies who even if you fulfill your obligation blatently refuse to cancel you from the monthly list.
So if a child steals from a store that they go to without a parent, it should be OK because the minor can't afford to purchase the item?
It's not theft, it's copyright infringement. Shoplifting is a crime. As with all crimes you would need evidence to prosecute. There is an actual loss that you can measure. With copyright infringement, there is no physical loss and flacky evidence.
And when the parents are unaware of their child, it is bad parenting. Sometimes a warning isn't enough.
So a person is a bad parent if they don't know how to operate their PC? IIRC we are talking about a single mother and like it or not a single parent can't be everwhere at once. And we are talking about an issue that someone who was childless in the 80s and 90s that doesn't think this is a big deal. And actually, a number of artists encourage p2p distribution... and there is presently no way your average end user could know if it's OK to share the music.
What we need to learn is the concept of respecting the rights of the copyright holder. To assume all sharing is bad in it self is a serious violation of the rights of copyright holders.
no Salvage, Blue Thunder, Airwolf, Knight Rider, Automan, Max Headroom or The Prisoner????
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Sliders was not ahead of it's time. It was just another huckleberry finn, star trek, docotor who knockoff with none of the redeeming factors. It is quite suitable for the adolecent maile, with a good role model, a pretty girl into geeks, and trivial story line. However, there are no layers that might make it interesting to an adult. The writing was woodden, even by scifi standards.
My digital cable preview described sliders as "4 people jump into a hole each week with wacky consequences". That is by far the most accurate description of the show I've seen.
It was more sit-com than sci-fi... where basicly they are using the idea of parallel universes as a vehicel for social commentary. In the early episodes it showed some promise... slide to a new world with a what if scenero... feel a moral obligation to impose your values on other people, and escape to another world avoiding all accountablity. But they then had to try for something resembling a plot rather then just a vehicel and introduced the Cromags, the quest for the lost brother and cast the real life brother, intoduced an evil villian, basicly trying to transform fluff into substance, which didn't work.
> And of course a HUGE Hit show that seems to be totaly forgotten from the list... Mork and
> Mindy!
Mork and Mindy IIRC uses some a scene from Logan's Run... the futeristic city except adding egg transport. Nano Nano. (-1 point for remembering this detail)
I would rank M&M as more a sitcom than sci-fi. Technicaly a spin off from Happy Days only because Mork was a character that made an appearance from time to time.
Startrek doesn't feature any science either.
Kirk: Scotty we need power now
Scotty: I'm givin' her all she's got captain
Kirk: Damn it that's got good enough
Scotty: Aye... I'll reverse the polarity. Give me an hour
Kirk: We don't have an hour we have 5 minutes
Scotty: You can't change the laws of physics
Kirk: Scotty, reverse the polarity!
Scotty: Aye sir.
Ship: Bing bang buzz beep zoom
Kirty: Scotty your a miracle worker
Scotty: Aye sir... the stupid sod doesn't know I always increase my estimates by a factor of 10
Kirk: What was that?
Scotty: Nothing sir... Scotty out.
Standard epiloge where spock shakes his head and walks away.
Credits
(font lost in space)Next week... Scotty reverses the polarity... with wacky consequences. Spock shakes his head and walks away.
Now I've tried it(Battlestar Galactica). Thanks to some of these people, I've watched MANY episodes of it, and I understand it less each time. How can even average-smart people put up with such terrible writing? Such stupid plots and stupider plot holes? Such transparent and flacid attempts to be edgy and gritty? Such... lack of immagination?
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In contrast to the origional series aka Wagon Train in Space staring Lorne Greene? A boy and his mechanical dog? And evil inverse video goat man? Making it a point to create perfectly reflective robots without regard to lighting resulting in having to use colored filters so you couldn't see the crew? Recycled special effects from the movie which employed recycled special effects. Not to speak of Galactica 1980 who had a group of kids farm with their super strength or play baseball and win to avoid detection from the goverment. Or worse yet "You're pregnant? How is this possible? Must have been devine intervention!" Can you say a transparent attempt to prevent kids from finding out where babies come from?
I know there are fans of the old series who might be offended, but let's face it BSG 1979 had some awful moments and the new series in many regards is an improvement. I agree it shouldn't get a #2 spot. It's too new and hasn't had long enough to prove itself.
Where is The Prisioner? I mean it's not exatly Sci-fi, but neither is this list, and at least it was innovative.
They had Man from U.N.C.L.E. so by every right they should have The Prisioner. Gawd they have Batman the live action series. If the big box labeled "bat computer" could be ranked as sci-fi then clearly an autonomous bubble could qualify as well.
> Wah??
At first I was going to say that Max Headroom only lived for 13 episodes... technicaly two seasons. "Greatest American Hero" while crap at least made it to 40 episodes before being cancled. But going through the list we have things like "That was Then" something that seems similar to "Goodnight Sweetheart" a BBC production where a man in present day finds a doorway to WWII england and is torn between two loves. However "That was Then" only aired two episodes. Logan's Run only aired 14 Episodes from what I read... which is franky a series I was totally unaware of.
So I can't think of any good reason why Max Headroom was left off this list. If they permited short lived series such as "Logan's Run" and "That was Then" then by every right Max Headroom should be on that list somewhere. Not to speak of Blake's 7.
If the movie bombs in one region, they've just wasted money by releasing the movie simultaneously in thousands of other locations that will fail almost equally
But if they don't want a dvd from one region to leak to another that has not shown the movie yet, then they shouldn't release the damned DVD... and doing so is their own damned fault. If region codes expired I could somewhat accept this, but they are basicly trying to withhold the right to play media you bought in good faith indefinatly which has been argued violates the WTO... something I personaly can't conferm.
Besides region codes have become pointless anyway except for good old region 1 where it's not as common to find region free decks in stores.
Well?
READY
Why does this crap get modded up. Even if we stipulate that all of that is true, it doesn't matter. We all know coffee is hot. You don't put a hot cup of anything between your legs, you put it in the cup holder.
I hate to say it, but in the 80s cars didn't have cup holders so you do end up putting coffee between your legs. This may be stupid but what else can you do getting into a car. Coffee typicaly doesn't cause 3rd degree burns.
1st degree - sun burn
2nd degree - blisters
3rd degree - lost flesh nerve damage
McDonnalds made it a choice to serve their coffee too hot, and refused to pay medical expences as a result of serving their coffee too hot. They got sued... and as a result they don't serve their coffee so hot.
We know coffee is served hot, but coffee isn't typicaly served boiling. A few degrees means the difference between a spill resulting in a sun burn (oh ouch), blisters (hot damn), and nerve damage (woooo ee hot hot hot).
Now, McDonalds sold their coffee far hotter than is generally accepted. How hot? 180-190 degrees F. This, IIRC, is about 30 degrees hotter than it is usually served at, and is hot enough to cause THIRD-DEGREE burns in as little as two seconds.
I remember McDonnalds coffee before this lawsuit. I bought it from time to time to clean engines. Some nice foamy engine bright to soften up the grease and their coffee to rince. Amazing stuff... it came out of the percolator boiling... as in it was still boiling when it hit the cup. However I eventually had to stop using it as after using it it would peal off the paint from the engine block. Not good.
Can't say I ever actually drank the stuff, it wasn't possible, not without burning your mouth.
Not the pimple popping into a cup, but equally as gross, here's a link for a tv commercial that likely aired on after school and Saturday morning cartoon time...
Where may one aquire a bloody zit?
You don't really appreciate how much better they are than most convenience stores until they're not an option.
Really? I remember the closure in the early 80s of many 7-Elevens where I live. I never really missed them. The only unique thing they offered was a slurpee. Fountain drinks were ordinary though I guess you could say they were among the first to offer a huge drink. A really huge drink came in really handy.
I "could" go to a 7-Eleven if I so wanted, but why bother? Technicaly they were a semi decent convenience store with a semi-decent grocery, but the local supermarket is under a mile away, the local 24 hour market is just over a mile away. There are other convenience stores that are closer and I haven't had a slurpee in years.
I don't miss 7-Eleven. The milk was sour, the employees were treeted badly, and nothing they offer can't be bought elsewhere except the slurpee which I don't drink.
1. Make low cost bad tasting fruit drink 2. Freeze taste buds and brains so drink tastes good 3. ?!?!?!?! 4. Profit! Step 5, of course, is to whore for Karma
That's pretty much it. I have to admit I was never overly fond of the flavors offered. Your choice of Cola or fruit crap of the month, not a happy choice. If you were lucky you had more than two choices, or in the 80s when self serving machines became popular and you could mix your own crappy beverage, a mix of slurpee and your favorite carbonated drink, which to be honest was just as bad or worse.
But I was very fond of the fact that on a hot summer day as a kid there was always a 7-eleven within bike distance that one could get a drink that was colder than the freezing point of water and cool off. That was pretty much the main reason I got slurpees.
Gotta love corporate marketing. The Slush Puppy actually ushered in the era of the iced crystal drink on November 12 1972. I fully expect a "Slush Puppy at 43" slashdot article this fall.
A "Slush Puppy" is an alcoholic beverage that I believe IIRC is close to a Sno-Kone. Crushed ice, syrup, booze.
A "Slush Puppie" I'm not all that sure about other than I seem to remember a Dr. Pepper version of it, which I found to be more tasty than the 7-Eleven varities.
Now the original credit probally goes to the icee company.
You don't really think that a pawn shop owner sees a, say, Canon 300 f2.8L and can't figure out that it's worth a lot of money? Plausible deniability lets a lot of people get out of things even if they are dirty as sin.
Well, most pawnshop owners subscribe to some form of bluebook. I had a web version at some point but long since lost the link. Something like a Canon 300 f2.8L for example is the sort of thing that the owner would lookup in a book and charge what the book says for it. However for something like Nikor enlarger lenses that they don't have a clue what they do... twenty bucks. Small lens... twenty bucks... big lens $40. Even some vivitar series one lenses end up there for twenty bucks.
I could have bought a Konica UC Hexanon 28mm f1.8 28mm lens attached to a camera for $100. I imagine it could have been stolen, or was part of someone's estate and no one knew it's value. Hell I don't actually not it's value other than it's rare and spendy. I imagine if I bought it and later found out they were stolen... even if I was arrested for having stolen goods, i'm sure I could show the judge proof I bought it from a pawn shop who as a rule keep records of who sells them crap.
While you may be right, you can "google" something, you have to know what to google.
Some of the best things to buy in pawn shops are trivial little items like lens filters.
Maybe I'm visiting the wrong web site but the most common part of Hilton I see would be her strange droopy dawg face. She's got eyes like Sylvester Stalone.
I don't know what she looks like. I know I have nieces who have told me that Paris starred in things like Simple Life, something I don't watch. Also somone told me Paris was in Zoolander as some random model, but hell if I know which model she happened to be. But I have seen popups for the porno.