Funny, I was more disappointed with the first than any of the others.
Think back to how you felt when you first saw it. Sure, in retrospect, it had a hugely solid and downright impressive sci-fi plot, but it also got weighed down by all the fan service (which I kind of liked, but ultimately didn't). Ironically, I think the best parts of it were the musical numbers, which everyone crapped on at the time.
Beast With a Billion Backs was great because of how bizarre it was, and how uncomfortable it made people (which is also the main reason so many dislike it). With Bender's Game, Futurama finally returned comfortably to form, but it was strictly Fantasy, not Sci-Fi, so I understand if it upset some fans. Into the Wild Green Yonder was Futurama in top form, with a solidly Sci-Fi (by Star Trek standards, at least) plot.
Anyway, they all did have a problem. That problem is that they were feature-length films, which Futurama had never been before, which had to be designed to be chopped up into four episode-length bites each. The effect was rather jarring.
Downloading a file (from a P2P network) for private use is perfectly legal as long as there is no lucrative or collective use of the downloaded copy. [emphasis mine]
What's with this "collective" thing? So, everybody can download a copy, but if you get them together in a building and play it through speakers it's illegal?
That's a possibly interesting story, but the interesting part was probably between "My music collection was 100% Vorbis. I only bought players that could play it (e.g. iRiver)" and "Fast forward to today... only about 10% of my music is still in Vorbis" and you apparently forgot to put it in.
Please, please don't use "socialism" as shorthand for "government services". Socialism versus capitalism is about the relationship of workers to the means of production. Just because the various Social-Democratic parties long ago abandoned socialism, that doesn't mean we should forget what the concept even is.
They are a minority. Most people are biologically bisexual. It is the inertia of the dark ages that has culturally suppressed that expression throughout most of the world.
Just because most people aren't 0 or 6 on the Kinsey scale, if anyone truly is, that doesn't mean it's meaningful to say most/all people are bisexual. If we are to give "gay", "straight" and "bi" any credit at all (and you can argue that we shouldn't), then "straight" is definitely the majority.
for the last five years I've heard nothing but complaints about the color scheme
The Human scheme is quite attractive. Expect another five years of complaints from a different subset of the type of people who loved bemoaning Ubuntu's current theme.
Still no such thing as something that'll get you as drunk as you'd like to be without any hangover, but consider kava (also known as "kava kava") as an alternative. As a drug, it has basically the same effect as alcohol. It does not, however, kill brain cells, which is an important part of the effect alcohol has (to compensate, try sniffing some glue). An all-around plus is that it doesn't dehydrate you.
As a person who often drinks far more than he should, I can tell you that what you say only works to a point. Drinking tons of water will *help* (quite a lot), but your 14+ hour hangover ain't going anywhere.
What about his turning Amish? Perhaps you meant to ask if his turning Amish (which is news to me) is right, and just left out an 'is': "So IS your turning Amish right?"
In which case, I'd consider it his personal right to choose to do so, but would suggest that turning hardcore GNU would be a bit easier.
Find me a reputable study that claimed to conclusively find that porn creates rapists. It was a quite popular idea that pornography should be opposed or even outlawed, because it contributes to misogyny, among many feminists in the 80s, and misogyny is considered the root of the phenomenon of rape in our culture (contrary to what you might assume, rape doesn't exist in all cultures). I get the feeling, though, that that porn was claimed to have been found to "'conclusively' create rapists" is just something you gathered, rather than actually saw claimed.
frankly they weren't required to offer an XP option at all (except by the oft-derided free market pressure that was upon them, of course - nothing bad to say about free markets when they help you out eh?)
Where are you getting this idea that Slashdotters hate the free market? You won't find more Ayn Rand freaks outside the Libertarian party than on this site.
That's a very true and interesting point. A rise in random and generic spiritualism seems to be a symptom of the death of religion in general. It's a kind of open-minded backwardness, which is a step in the right direction.
If you look at human history, you come to realize that the strong few imposing their will on the masses is extremely common. The relative justice and equality enjoyed in some nations today is an anomaly, not the rule. Most of history, and plenty of places today, are the few oppressing the masses for their own enjoyment.
Note quite true. While it's the case that everywhere civilization has sprung up, class differentiation came with it, civilization is an incredibly recent development. While there's been a division of labor between men and women in all societies yet observed, which necessarily brings some kind of inequality with it, the most "primitive" (a loaded, but not invalid term) societies are usually highly egalitarian.
The places that are not, well it took a lot of work, not to mention some extremely talented people to bring about.
It's the construction of social systems where one group of people are systematically oppressed by another that took a lot of work. As for your (apparent) implication that (some) modern, capitalist, liberal democracies are not characterized by the few oppressing the many, it's highly dubious.
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Funny, I was more disappointed with the first than any of the others.
Think back to how you felt when you first saw it. Sure, in retrospect, it had a hugely solid and downright impressive sci-fi plot, but it also got weighed down by all the fan service (which I kind of liked, but ultimately didn't). Ironically, I think the best parts of it were the musical numbers, which everyone crapped on at the time.
Beast With a Billion Backs was great because of how bizarre it was, and how uncomfortable it made people (which is also the main reason so many dislike it). With Bender's Game, Futurama finally returned comfortably to form, but it was strictly Fantasy, not Sci-Fi, so I understand if it upset some fans. Into the Wild Green Yonder was Futurama in top form, with a solidly Sci-Fi (by Star Trek standards, at least) plot.
Anyway, they all did have a problem. That problem is that they were feature-length films, which Futurama had never been before, which had to be designed to be chopped up into four episode-length bites each. The effect was rather jarring.
Here's the part (from TFS) I don't understand:
Downloading a file (from a P2P network) for private use is perfectly legal as long as there is no lucrative or collective use of the downloaded copy. [emphasis mine]
What's with this "collective" thing? So, everybody can download a copy, but if you get them together in a building and play it through speakers it's illegal?
I've said it before and I'll say it again: the "Offtopic" mod does nothing but harm Slashdot.
At first I read "headline" as "headache". I think my version is a lot better.
That's a possibly interesting story, but the interesting part was probably between "My music collection was 100% Vorbis. I only bought players that could play it (e.g. iRiver)" and "Fast forward to today... only about 10% of my music is still in Vorbis" and you apparently forgot to put it in.
First of all, it's about time Eurasia got its own Transcontinental Railroad. Second of all,
Even if it's high speed, I don't think that anyone will want to take the train from China to Europe.
From my read of the article this rail will be primarily used for manufacturing materials.
I, for one, would absolutely love to take that trip. Especially if I could make stops along the way and catch the train again the day after next.
Why do trolls post anonymously? I mean, if their goal is to create negative karma, shouldn't they want that recorded somewhere?
I'll probably be getting a droid based phone in the near future.
Tangential question: Do you think you would have used the phrase "droid based phone" before the Motorola Droid came out?
Please, please don't use "socialism" as shorthand for "government services". Socialism versus capitalism is about the relationship of workers to the means of production. Just because the various Social-Democratic parties long ago abandoned socialism, that doesn't mean we should forget what the concept even is.
Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole.
They are a minority. Most people are biologically bisexual. It is the inertia of the dark ages that has culturally suppressed that expression throughout most of the world.
Just because most people aren't 0 or 6 on the Kinsey scale, if anyone truly is, that doesn't mean it's meaningful to say most/all people are bisexual. If we are to give "gay", "straight" and "bi" any credit at all (and you can argue that we shouldn't), then "straight" is definitely the majority.
for the last five years I've heard nothing but complaints about the color scheme
The Human scheme is quite attractive. Expect another five years of complaints from a different subset of the type of people who loved bemoaning Ubuntu's current theme.
Still no such thing as something that'll get you as drunk as you'd like to be without any hangover, but consider kava (also known as "kava kava") as an alternative. As a drug, it has basically the same effect as alcohol. It does not, however, kill brain cells, which is an important part of the effect alcohol has (to compensate, try sniffing some glue). An all-around plus is that it doesn't dehydrate you.
Exactly. This sounds to me like "light" cigarettes. All it's going to do it make people drink more.
As a person who often drinks far more than he should, I can tell you that what you say only works to a point. Drinking tons of water will *help* (quite a lot), but your 14+ hour hangover ain't going anywhere.
So your turning amish right?
What about his turning Amish? Perhaps you meant to ask if his turning Amish (which is news to me) is right, and just left out an 'is': "So IS your turning Amish right?"
In which case, I'd consider it his personal right to choose to do so, but would suggest that turning hardcore GNU would be a bit easier.
governments (good ones
Ha! Good one, Matt!
What's a lousy anti-argument for what? I didn't think I made an argument. Or is that what makes it "anti-"?
Find me a reputable study that claimed to conclusively find that porn creates rapists. It was a quite popular idea that pornography should be opposed or even outlawed, because it contributes to misogyny, among many feminists in the 80s, and misogyny is considered the root of the phenomenon of rape in our culture (contrary to what you might assume, rape doesn't exist in all cultures). I get the feeling, though, that that porn was claimed to have been found to "'conclusively' create rapists" is just something you gathered, rather than actually saw claimed.
frankly they weren't required to offer an XP option at all (except by the oft-derided free market pressure that was upon them, of course - nothing bad to say about free markets when they help you out eh?)
Where are you getting this idea that Slashdotters hate the free market? You won't find more Ayn Rand freaks outside the Libertarian party than on this site.
Stalin said "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic."
Not that it's really relevant, but no, he didn't.
That's a very true and interesting point. A rise in random and generic spiritualism seems to be a symptom of the death of religion in general. It's a kind of open-minded backwardness, which is a step in the right direction.
First, that's an irrelevant point. Second, unless you're saying that natural sources don't contain drugs, naturopathy is NOT always "pseudo-scientific bullshit".
If you look at human history, you come to realize that the strong few imposing their will on the masses is extremely common. The relative justice and equality enjoyed in some nations today is an anomaly, not the rule. Most of history, and plenty of places today, are the few oppressing the masses for their own enjoyment.
Note quite true. While it's the case that everywhere civilization has sprung up, class differentiation came with it, civilization is an incredibly recent development. While there's been a division of labor between men and women in all societies yet observed, which necessarily brings some kind of inequality with it, the most "primitive" (a loaded, but not invalid term) societies are usually highly egalitarian.
The places that are not, well it took a lot of work, not to mention some extremely talented people to bring about.
It's the construction of social systems where one group of people are systematically oppressed by another that took a lot of work. As for your (apparent) implication that (some) modern, capitalist, liberal democracies are not characterized by the few oppressing the many, it's highly dubious.
Aww, such a cute little troll. Yes you are. Yes you are! Does my little Trolly need attention?