Give me one story worth reading that cannot have a prequel made.
"Romeo and Juliet" "Through the Looking Glass: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" "Young Abe Lincoln" "60 Minutes" "The Autobiography of Pauly Shore" "Webster's New World Dictionary (unabridged edition)" "Star Wars IV: A New Hope" "Star Trek" (TOS) "Battlestar Galactica" (TOS)
Oh, sorry, I thought that you wrote interesting prequel.
Also, we have actually seen an episode where Cylons are downloaded into new bodies, so that aspect cannot be dismissed as brainwashing.
Really?? I still have not seen the last 4 eps of the second season. I guess it was in one of those.
Baltar's orignal 6 (the one from the pilot mini-series, not the one in his head) is respawned. Also, the Sharon/Boomer from the mini-series and first season (the one who was shot) is also respawned. I'm not sure which episode these were in, but *SPOILER ALERT* the two of them get together for some exciting adventures that change Cylon history.
Space Farmers (Galacticans save migrant workers from oppressive landowners)
They weren't migrant workers; they owned the farm, but were being pressured to sell it by the local mega-landowner. This was the episode where the Space Kids kangarooed[*] around planting the fields, then Dr. Zee's flying saucer came down and sprayed some chemical on the crop, making it so that they could harvest it the next day. All of the workers, save the family that owned the land, were Galacticans, kids and adults.
[*] The whole "we can jump higher than Earthlings because we come from a higher gravity environment" thing broke down in the first episode the insant Jamie set foot on the Enterprise and wasn't crushed by the high gravity.
Name some common miracles and their scientific explanations.
Miracle: Rainbows. Explanation: Rainbows are caused by the separation of light, due to the fact that different frequencies of light travel at different speeds through media other than a perfect vacuum.
Miracle: Some people survive a plane crash, while others don't. Explanation: Due to their position in the plane, the survivors were not hit by flying debris, were far enough back in the plane that they did not take the brunt of the damage, were close enough to an exit that they could get out before they were overcome by smoke, etc., etc. In other words, they survived due to chance, not a "miracle".
Miracle: The creation of the universe. Explanation: OK, this may actually be a kind of "miracle" (although not a "common" one, since it has happened only once (as far as we know)), but there is no reliable documented evidence that it was caused by a "supreme being", or that this alleged supreme being takes any interest whatsoever in the day-to-day activities of humans (e.g., listening to prayer, saving people from plane crashes, etc.).
If your position is that none of the above are miracles, then please list some miracles, and I will explain them to you.
Except that they don't go nea the antenna (or they would be cooked), and thee is such a thing as the invese squae law.
Howeve, if the study coves 20 yeas, then it coves the time when cellphones put out a steady 4 watts. Now they can pehaps peak at that,
Oh, noes! Your "r" key has stopped working!
but now they use adaptive power levels, the average power level while transmitting is generally below 100mW, and often below 4mW.However, the power from a domestic light bulb in that band is? and the SUn's radiation is massively greeater
No, it was for my mother, who can't walk very far any more.
I'm very careful around tools, especially power tools, and as a result have never suffered more than the occasional nick, cut, bruise, scratch, eye injury, lung damage due to oil stain fume inhalation, amputation, house fire, flood, cheese byproducts, nuclear holocaust, and species extinction due to asteroid impact, and I think that some of these were from Sears-bought (Craftsman) tools, not Harbor Freight-bought tools.
the only people that really have to worry are yappy pre-pubescent teenage girls, and we have too many of them anyways.
One of the reasons our country is falling apart is people like you who don't look far enough ahead. Please remember that pre-pubescent teenaged girls eventually become pubescent nineteen-year-old girls. And there can never be too many pubescent nineteen-year-old girls.
100% of lung cancer deaths in people who smoke is attributed to smoking. If Dana Reaves can die from lung cancer without smoking... perhaps you should re-evaluate those numbers, eh?
While I agree that it may not be correct to state that 100% of lung cancer deaths in smokers is caused by smokers, your example is wrong. To see why, here is your statement with a couple of substitutions:
100% of burn deaths in people who jump into volcanos is attributed to jumping into volcanos. If <name of someone who burned to death in a building fire> can die from burning without jumping into a volcano... perhaps you should re-evaluate those numbers, eh?
So, you see, a non-smoker dying from lung cancer doesn't necessarily mean that smoking didn't cause the cancer in all smokers who die from lung cancer.
if you buy anything at Harbor Freight anticipating a serious tool purchase, you deserve to be duped by misleading names.
That depends on what you mean by "serious tool". I bought a drill press (Chicago brand) that that seems to be fine for home use. I've bought chisels, router bits, a street-legal utility trailer, a dremmel-like tool, a wheelchair, and more there, and they all seem to be working fine. Now, if you're talking about heavy-duty commercial equipment, then you may have a point, but for oridinary everyday users, Harbor Freight is all right.
Well, Paulo Fril is an anagram. Still trying to figure out San Melito.
"San Melito" is an anagram for "Slime NATO", "melt Ansio", "neato miles", "eat no smile", "lame site", "nasty tonsils", or "ant overlords" (which I, for one, welcome).
BTW, did you know that "anagram" is an anagram of "acronym"?
Can someone explain to me what an electrical field is?
It's a place where electrical plants grow. (Electrical plants are sometimes called "power" plants by elitest snobs.) The electrical plants get pollinated by photons and eventually produce electrons. These electrons later get harvested. Some electrons are piped directly to people's homes though electricity pipes, also called "wires". Others are stored in batteries, which are sold to the public to power toys and such. When the battery has lost all of its electrons, it is pronounced "dead". Unlike people, however, some batteries can be "recharged" (i.e., filled with new electrons), by hooking them up to electricity pipes through adapters called "rechargers". These types of batteries are called "zombie batteries".
Note that electrons are very dangerous. In fact, the reason that an electrical hose has two prongs on its ends, hooked to two electricity pipes, is so that used electrons can be harmlessly piped away for safe disposal in government-approved electron-disposal facilities (which usually feed the used electrons to new electrical plants growing in electrical fields). (Some appliances have a third prong, called "ground", which diverts spilled electrons to the ground, but this is a safety measure to prevent contamination of people by dangerous electrons. If spilled electrons are actually being diverted to the ground, then something is wrong with the appliance or electrical hose.)
I hope that this has helped explain what an electrical field is.
L1 is a good place to start a lunar space elevator? I don't quite believe it, wouldn't the earth get in the way of the line? Where do you know that from, have some links? L1 is between the sun and the earth.
Sorry, I should have been more specific. I meant the Earth/Moon L1 point. Here are some links:
The problem with MS-Windows (and it's "MS-Windows" or "Microsoft Windows", not "Windows") is that recent versions won't run on my 1997 P2/300 with its 128 MB of RAM. (I could probably upgrade to MS-Windows 98 if I wanted, but that would mean putting money in Bill Gate's pocket, which I am loathe to do. Also, I can't add more memory, because nobody sells the kind that I need any more.) OTOH, I can boot up the latest version of Slackware Linux (2.2) with no problems at all (except for slow multimedia, which is one of the reasons that I still dual-boot with MS-Windows 95). I usually run KDE on two X servers as two different users: one for online use, which helps isolate the rest of the system from potential attack, and one for getting real work done. Try doing that with even the most recent version of MS-Windows!
vi and emacs will never hold a candle to edlin
I am not familiar with edlin, but it sounds like a line editor, in which case the "ex" mode of vi(m) should work fine. However, my favorite line editor is TECO (although the last time that I used it was about 30 years ago).
Oh, in case you are wondering, yes, my humor/sarcasm detector is on the blink.
some of the concepts are incredibly hard to explain. Okay, here is the computer, good. Now try to describe in simple terms what a file on a hard drive is, and what the ramifications of saving or not saving it are.
Not to say they lacked intelligence, they certainly didn't, they just lacked a context to compare what they were learning with. I eventually settled with explaining that the screen was not smart, and could not remember words typed on it, but you could hide the words in the computer with a save.
Here is another way to explain it, using concepts with which the average person may be more familiar:
A file on the computer is like a piece of paper in a folder. Each piece of paper has a unique name, the "file name". When you are editing the file, the piece of paper is copied into computer memory, which is like a blackboard. Any edits that you make are to the copy on the blackboard. When you do a "Save", the stuff on the blackboard is copied onto the paper that goes in the file folder. In most operating systems, the piece of paper that had the old info on it is recycled, which destroys all of the information that was written on it (i.e., the copy that was there before you started editing). (Don't try to explain about the piece of paper being overwritten; it's easier (and, depending on the OS, more accurate) to say that the old piece of paper is replaced with a new piece and the old piece is then recycled. Also, some editors (e.g., vim) can retain the previous version (by renaming it to something like "original filename"~), but you should not get into that at this stage.) If you do a "Save As", you can save the info on a new piece of paper, with a new "file name", and the old piece of paper will still be there with its original "file name". When you exit the editor, or turn the computer off, the blackboard gets erased, but the pieces of paper in the folders do not. Therefore, if you want your changes saved, you have to "Save" (or "Save As") your edits. (Conversely, if you decide that you don't want to save any of your changes, then you can exit the editor without saving.) The reason that the computer works that way, rather than just writing to the piece of paper in the first place, is because it is easier/faster for the computer to edit stuff on the blackboard then to write to the piece of paper directly for each edit. (You can explain this by showing how much easier it is to erase stuff on a blackboard than it is to erase stuff on a piece of paper.)
The paper analogy can also be used to explain the limitations of disk space, etc.
Can anyone on/. even make an objective response to a political comment or is everyone here destined to draw knee-jerk, non sequitur conclusions just like you have done?
If you have been here as long as your UID indicates, then you should know that nobody here on/. can make an objective response to a political comment, and that everyone here is destined to draw knee-jerk, non sequitur conclusions. This should be obvious to anybody who has read the commentary here for more than five minutes. Note that this is not confined to politics; MS-Windows vs Linux vs BSD vs OSX debates also result in various posts waxing vitriolic about opponents' "toolness", as do debates about vi vs emacs, the extent to which copyrights and patents should apply to various media, software, etc., and so forth. Everything is black-and-white to most people, including most people who post here. Very few people see the shades of gray, as that would require thinking, and most people (especially Americans and fundamentalists) don't like to think.
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"Through the Looking Glass: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
"Young Abe Lincoln"
"60 Minutes"
"The Autobiography of Pauly Shore"
"Webster's New World Dictionary (unabridged edition)"
"Star Wars IV: A New Hope"
"Star Trek" (TOS)
"Battlestar Galactica" (TOS)
Oh, sorry, I thought that you wrote interesting prequel.
Baltar's orignal 6 (the one from the pilot mini-series, not the one in his head) is respawned.
Also, the Sharon/Boomer from the mini-series and first season (the one who was shot) is also respawned.
I'm not sure which episode these were in, but *SPOILER ALERT* the two of them get together for some exciting adventures that change Cylon history.
That should, of course, be "set foot on the Galactica", not "set foot on the Enterprise". :/ I did use the "Preview" button, dammit!
This was the episode where the Space Kids kangarooed[*] around planting the fields, then Dr. Zee's flying saucer came down and sprayed some chemical on the crop, making it so that they could harvest it the next day.
All of the workers, save the family that owned the land, were Galacticans, kids and adults.
[*] The whole "we can jump higher than Earthlings because we come from a higher gravity environment" thing broke down in the first episode the insant Jamie set foot on the Enterprise and wasn't crushed by the high gravity.
I own a pair of trousers.
Ah, good times.
Explanation: Rainbows are caused by the separation of light, due to the fact that different frequencies of light travel at different speeds through media other than a perfect vacuum.
Miracle: Some people survive a plane crash, while others don't.
Explanation: Due to their position in the plane, the survivors were not hit by flying debris, were far enough back in the plane that they did not take the brunt of the damage, were close enough to an exit that they could get out before they were overcome by smoke, etc., etc.
In other words, they survived due to chance, not a "miracle".
Miracle: The creation of the universe.
Explanation: OK, this may actually be a kind of "miracle" (although not a "common" one, since it has happened only once (as far as we know)), but there is no reliable documented evidence that it was caused by a "supreme being", or that this alleged supreme being takes any interest whatsoever in the day-to-day activities of humans (e.g., listening to prayer, saving people from plane crashes, etc.).
If your position is that none of the above are miracles, then please list some miracles, and I will explain them to you.
Your "r" key has stopped working!Yay!
It's working again!
No, it was for my mother, who can't walk very far any more.
I'm very careful around tools, especially power tools, and as a result have never suffered more than the occasional nick, cut, bruise, scratch, eye injury, lung damage due to oil stain fume inhalation, amputation, house fire, flood, cheese byproducts, nuclear holocaust, and species extinction due to asteroid impact, and I think that some of these were from Sears-bought (Craftsman) tools, not Harbor Freight-bought tools.
But hey, the end table that I built looks great!
Please remember that pre-pubescent teenaged girls eventually become pubescent nineteen-year-old girls.
And there can never be too many pubescent nineteen-year-old girls.
"Preview".
"caused by smokers" should be "caused by smoking".
Yes, I did use the "Preiview" button, dammit!
To see why, here is your statement with a couple of substitutions:So, you see, a non-smoker dying from lung cancer doesn't necessarily mean that smoking didn't cause the cancer in all smokers who die from lung cancer.
I bought a drill press (Chicago brand) that that seems to be fine for home use.
I've bought chisels, router bits, a street-legal utility trailer, a dremmel-like tool, a wheelchair, and more there, and they all seem to be working fine.
Now, if you're talking about heavy-duty commercial equipment, then you may have a point, but for oridinary everyday users, Harbor Freight is all right.
BTW, did you know that "anagram" is an anagram of "acronym"?
(Electrical plants are sometimes called "power" plants by elitest snobs.)
The electrical plants get pollinated by photons and eventually produce electrons.
These electrons later get harvested.
Some electrons are piped directly to people's homes though electricity pipes, also called "wires".
Others are stored in batteries, which are sold to the public to power toys and such.
When the battery has lost all of its electrons, it is pronounced "dead".
Unlike people, however, some batteries can be "recharged" (i.e., filled with new electrons), by hooking them up to electricity pipes through adapters called "rechargers".
These types of batteries are called "zombie batteries".
Note that electrons are very dangerous.
In fact, the reason that an electrical hose has two prongs on its ends, hooked to two electricity pipes, is so that used electrons can be harmlessly piped away for safe disposal in government-approved electron-disposal facilities (which usually feed the used electrons to new electrical plants growing in electrical fields).
(Some appliances have a third prong, called "ground", which diverts spilled electrons to the ground, but this is a safety measure to prevent contamination of people by dangerous electrons.
If spilled electrons are actually being diverted to the ground, then something is wrong with the appliance or electrical hose.)
I hope that this has helped explain what an electrical field is.
I meant the Earth/Moon L1 point.
Here are some links:
Despite popular depictions, there are actually more roads (well, streets) in Venice than there are canals.
(I could probably upgrade to MS-Windows 98 if I wanted, but that would mean putting money in Bill Gate's pocket, which I am loathe to do.
Also, I can't add more memory, because nobody sells the kind that I need any more.)
OTOH, I can boot up the latest version of Slackware Linux (2.2) with no problems at all (except for slow multimedia, which is one of the reasons that I still dual-boot with MS-Windows 95).
I usually run KDE on two X servers as two different users: one for online use, which helps isolate the rest of the system from potential attack, and one for getting real work done.
Try doing that with even the most recent version of MS-Windows!I am not familiar with edlin, but it sounds like a line editor, in which case the "ex" mode of vi(m) should work fine.
However, my favorite line editor is TECO (although the last time that I used it was about 30 years ago).
Oh, in case you are wondering, yes, my humor/sarcasm detector is on the blink.
This should be obvious to anybody who has read the commentary here for more than five minutes.
Note that this is not confined to politics; MS-Windows vs Linux vs BSD vs OSX debates also result in various posts waxing vitriolic about opponents' "toolness", as do debates about vi vs emacs, the extent to which copyrights and patents should apply to various media, software, etc., and so forth.
Everything is black-and-white to most people, including most people who post here.
Very few people see the shades of gray, as that would require thinking, and most people (especially Americans and fundamentalists) don't like to think.