That might just be because futurama is nothing more than a collection of unamusing episodes consisting of 'lets-lets-try-this-animation-technique' whilst pounding on about social mores and values.
I never laughed out loud to futurama in the same way I did to family guy, farscape or the simpsons.
Futurama only survived because Matt Groening created it. It was never very original, inventive nor groundbreaking. And the simpsons just turned into a cash-cow after futurama began - a load of esoteric 'oh, let's just end it here' episodes without direction, that look like they were written as they were drawn.
Groening's work became very tired, very soon after season 8 of the simpsons (i think that's when futurama began - over-hyped and undeserving).
So, farscape and many other shows deserve to survive, whilst futurama dies in order to give Groening the kick in the ass that he sederved - telling him to return the humour to cartoon shows, and to leave the moral plays to late-night programming, and 'law and order'.
'reaching out and making connections' or 'reaching out and *faking* connections'?
Uhh...someone reading this has an R in their name...and they had a father. Someone in your family is sick, aren't they? No? Well, I can only go on what you're telling me, so it's your fault I'm getting it wrong.
What a crock.
-Nano.
Re:Where, exactly, is modding prohibited?
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Seems like the time is ripe for an 'XBoxnetD' to do to 'XBox Live' just like 'BnetD' did for 'Battle.net'...
And I'm sure M$ will jump up the asses of whoever releases it, so watch out boys and girls - you're going to be playing with fire (but not with Halo or any other XBox games - without a linux-based emulator - so the whole exercise is a bit pointless really)
- Who wants to be a millionaire - Big Brother - The Weakest Link - Pop idol
and of course, countdown
Now I absolutely despise each and every one of these stupid brain-dead programmes, but I can't deny that they're each immensely successful and exported worldwide.
As for the Brits having bad teeth, I think you'll find that ol' Billy-Bob sitting next to you in class or at the office has far worse oral hygeine than a nation where the government part-subsidises our access to well-trained dentists. Damn that socialism for improving our health!
-Nano.
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When are they going to release Kaze no tani no Nausicaa in the West again. I saw 'Wind Warriors' when I was about 7 and living in asia and loved it, but have never been able to find even a pirate copy of this back in the UK.
Now I just want to see an 'official' re-release of the full and unedited Studio Ghibli version of this story.
Probably because it's not a big spinning helix made of M&M's a la 'Mission to Mars'...
As for you guys who believe that including 20 base pairs of our genetic information will somehow lead to our downfall...let me remind you that our genome contains 3,000,000,000 base pairs of information in total. 20bp is just a piss in the ocean, and tells you *nothing* near the amount of information you need to know to kill the organism based on it.
I mean, they won't even be able to decode P=phosphorus atom and O=oxygen atom
Very true, if you only use a cable of uniform density. But the minute you stick a multi-ton counterweight at the orbital end of the ribbon, the centre of gravity shifts greatly, right about to 38,500km (like they put in the FAQ).
So, what happens when it breaks? Depends where it breaks of course...Tried cutting a piece of string when you're spinning it around your head with a rock tied to the end? Cut it short and it goes flying, stuck to the rock...cut it long and the string wraps around your head.
-Nano.
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Troll, anyone?
"Nowadays, someone mentions European culture, and what comes to mind is the topless aerobics in that Chevy Chase movie. "
Well, we'll just ignore the connections we make in our minds:
USA - loudmouthed, ignorant, racist, nationalistic fat rednecks eating McDonald's.
I'm also from the UK. And BTW, marihuana isn't addictive and decriminalisation thereof actually decreases drug usage across the population - or have you forgotten of a little place called Holland?
Well, come on...your whole point is certainly valid - I've just got to pick bones with you about who you consider to be 'minors' when it comes to alcohol and tobacco....
Most of the rest of the world defines 'minor' with respect to cigarettes to be 16 years of age, and with respect to alcohol to be 18 years of age...so with the US sticking to 18 and 21 respectively, they're criminalsising and de-normalising a large proportion of their population...isn't this in itself more concerning than any number of unwarranted e-mails?
IIRC, that's one of the biggest problems with mobile theft in the UK at the moment - in order to quickstart the whole network for low costs, they allowed multiple instances of the same IMEI (i.e. they shared IMEIs across different handsets).
It's one of those 20-20 hindsight moments when you realise "d'oh, in 5 years time 12 year old twats with knives are going to be nicking phones and we won't be able to stop them".
About the law though, I think it needs rewording so as to only cover non-authorised IMEI modification (i.e. if you get the OK from the network or manufacturer then it's fine).
Whilst over in the US people are held at knifepoint for their Nike's, over here in the UK we've recently had a spate of 'phonejackings' with people even being killed for their mobile phones.
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My only question is..WTF?
-Nano.
That might just be because futurama is nothing more than a collection of unamusing episodes consisting of 'lets-lets-try-this-animation-technique' whilst pounding on about social mores and values.
I never laughed out loud to futurama in the same way I did to family guy, farscape or the simpsons.
Futurama only survived because Matt Groening created it. It was never very original, inventive nor groundbreaking. And the simpsons just turned into a cash-cow after futurama began - a load of esoteric 'oh, let's just end it here' episodes without direction, that look like they were written as they were drawn.
Groening's work became very tired, very soon after season 8 of the simpsons (i think that's when futurama began - over-hyped and undeserving).
So, farscape and many other shows deserve to survive, whilst futurama dies in order to give Groening the kick in the ass that he sederved - telling him to return the humour to cartoon shows, and to leave the moral plays to late-night programming, and 'law and order'.
-Nano.
I wish I had mod points, because this insight deserves them.
-Nano.
As long as it's more of a Rama (Arthur C. Clark) than Greg Bear's 'Hammer of God', then I'll sleep soundly.
-Nano.
And I'm quite sure that in real terms, $0.25/hour to an Egyptian works out closer to something like $1-2/hr to you and I - if not more.
'reaching out and making connections' or 'reaching out and *faking* connections'?
Uhh...someone reading this has an R in their name...and they had a father. Someone in your family is sick, aren't they? No? Well, I can only go on what you're telling me, so it's your fault I'm getting it wrong.
What a crock.
-Nano.
Seems like the time is ripe for an 'XBoxnetD' to do to 'XBox Live' just like 'BnetD' did for 'Battle.net'...
And I'm sure M$ will jump up the asses of whoever releases it, so watch out boys and girls - you're going to be playing with fire (but not with Halo or any other XBox games - without a linux-based emulator - so the whole exercise is a bit pointless really)
-Nano.
Hmm...
- Who wants to be a millionaire
- Big Brother
- The Weakest Link
- Pop idol
and of course, countdown
Now I absolutely despise each and every one of these stupid brain-dead programmes, but I can't deny that they're each immensely successful and exported worldwide.
As for the Brits having bad teeth, I think you'll find that ol' Billy-Bob sitting next to you in class or at the office has far worse oral hygeine than a nation where the government part-subsidises our access to well-trained dentists. Damn that socialism for improving our health!
-Nano.
When are they going to release Kaze no tani no Nausicaa in the West again. I saw 'Wind Warriors' when I was about 7 and living in asia and loved it, but have never been able to find even a pirate copy of this back in the UK.
Now I just want to see an 'official' re-release of the full and unedited Studio Ghibli version of this story.
When Disney? When?
-Nano.
that's 52x READ....we're talking about 40x WRITING...
-Nano.
Probably because it's not a big spinning helix made of M&M's a la 'Mission to Mars'...
As for you guys who believe that including 20 base pairs of our genetic information will somehow lead to our downfall...let me remind you that our genome contains 3,000,000,000 base pairs of information in total. 20bp is just a piss in the ocean, and tells you *nothing* near the amount of information you need to know to kill the organism based on it.
I mean, they won't even be able to decode P=phosphorus atom and O=oxygen atom
-Nano.
I'm checking from the UK and only get 'no site is configured at this address' for all combinations and spellings.
-Nano.
Very true, if you only use a cable of uniform density. But the minute you stick a multi-ton counterweight at the orbital end of the ribbon, the centre of gravity shifts greatly, right about to 38,500km (like they put in the FAQ).
So, what happens when it breaks? Depends where it breaks of course...Tried cutting a piece of string when you're spinning it around your head with a rock tied to the end? Cut it short and it goes flying, stuck to the rock...cut it long and the string wraps around your head.
-Nano.
Troll, anyone?
"Nowadays, someone mentions European culture, and what comes to mind is the topless aerobics in that Chevy Chase movie. "
Well, we'll just ignore the connections we make in our minds:
USA - loudmouthed, ignorant, racist, nationalistic fat rednecks eating McDonald's.
Umm....according to the article, they legalised TV in 1999.
/., though.
I guess 3 years late is still pretty on-the-fly for
-Nano.
Well, it's not that surprising, really. In fact, it would be quite stupid if we dismissed possibilities just because they sound implausible.
:)
I guess that's why people still believe Elvis is alive.
Let's just hope it works, though
-Nano.
I'm also from the UK. And BTW, marihuana isn't addictive and decriminalisation thereof actually decreases drug usage across the population - or have you forgotten of a little place called Holland?
-Nano.
Is that because you wipe more on than you take off?
-Nano.
I must agree that Frobnicator has hit the nail right on the head with this one....
But just imagine what computers would have been like if vision and hearing were our species' two lesser senses...interesting.
-Nano.
'drugs you should avoid though'....
I like the way you've conveniently separated 'drugs' from 'alcohol' and 'tobacco' as though they're different things.
'No ma, government propraganda doesn't work on me!'
-Nano.
Try China Mieville - a good hearty sf/fantasy (his stuff sits mainly on the fantasy side of the border) author...
-Nano.
Well, come on...your whole point is certainly valid - I've just got to pick bones with you about who you consider to be 'minors' when it comes to alcohol and tobacco....
Most of the rest of the world defines 'minor' with respect to cigarettes to be 16 years of age, and with respect to alcohol to be 18 years of age...so with the US sticking to 18 and 21 respectively, they're criminalsising and de-normalising a large proportion of their population...isn't this in itself more concerning than any number of unwarranted e-mails?
-Nano.
IIRC, that's one of the biggest problems with mobile theft in the UK at the moment - in order to quickstart the whole network for low costs, they allowed multiple instances of the same IMEI (i.e. they shared IMEIs across different handsets).
It's one of those 20-20 hindsight moments when you realise "d'oh, in 5 years time 12 year old twats with knives are going to be nicking phones and we won't be able to stop them".
About the law though, I think it needs rewording so as to only cover non-authorised IMEI modification (i.e. if you get the OK from the network or manufacturer then it's fine).
-Nano.
Yes, that's exactly how they do it.
Whilst over in the US people are held at knifepoint for their Nike's, over here in the UK we've recently had a spate of 'phonejackings' with people even being killed for their mobile phones.
-Nano.
Yeah, it's a good thing we've got you Americans fighting with us...I mean, who else is going to kill our troops?
-Nano.