Funny, if the viewership of enterprise does not count then BG, Stargate, and all other shows with ONLY several million viewers (that get counted) should be ripped off the air.
Then people like you can be happy with the latest installment of surviving the biggest loser.
Enterprise season final has not been broacast yet. Looking at past numbers it will probably me more like 1.5 times in BG's favor. As good as everyone says BG is it is not getting 2x or 3x viewership. It is getting about the same viewership as Stargate, Enterprise and other shows.
Off on a tangent, I wonder if the MPAA can be held responsable for interfearing with the distrobution of legitimate "IP" that was being torrented on site they shut down?
IMO loki, suprnova, and demonoid were places with a lot of eyes, good places to list a linux distro or some free music.
I still dont believe the effectivensss they are claiming. The reason I do not is because of hogwash like the missle defense system, Patriot missle system, and many other failures they sell us.
I count patriot a failure bfrom what I see/hear about the system. Maybe it's all human error, but I doubt it.
But then what happens any time a performance artist or another persons copyrighted material is reflected by the sculpture, it has just illegaly reproduced someone copyrighted work.
Not necessarily. As long as the artist or corporation who owns the painting has been dead for 90+ years it should be in the PD and therefore photographable with nothing owed.
I think a warning sign was back in 2000 when bush said (about a parody web site) "There ought to be limits to freedom.". I seem to remember he mean that the web site should not have been protected free speach.
Honestly, of all the 80's star wars designs I remember seeing in magazines, I dont think a single one has been sucessfully created. I dont remember the 747 mounted laser in that group, but maybe I just read the wrong magazines. Our so called "missle" defense system is a joke as are Patroit missles (at least they hit things) since they like to mistake friendly units for incoming nuke warheads.
I think the only problem I would have with this is sometimes the people that the kids get placed with are worse abusers then the bad home they are taken from. Until wwe can fix it and have some system to sniff out the abusers who try to get in, I am hesatent to suggest this as a good course of action.
I think you will find many people are working jsut as hard as the guy you mention. Often they just ahve minimum wage jobs, and it's hard to support a family on that, what to speak of starting a business. IT can happen, but I think your friend had some good luck to end up where he has.
Bullshit. Our speniding on "The WAR" isnt even in the budget, it's special additional appropriations. So people like you can go on and on about how little we spend on our defense.
See I watch movies, read books to see a different possible future (or even past). Sometimes they are worse then what we have or might have and many times they are better. If I paid good money and got jerked around to end with an "everyone dies and nothing anyone did mattered" plot, I could just save myself the time and money by sticking a fork in an electrical outlet. I find the dark, brooding, gritty, suffering of wallowing in the worst of humanity (just for the sake of it) a big turn off if thats all I was presented with.
Sorry, it seemed like you were saying we can only hope for the worst of humanity to shape our future so we shouldnt aspire to dream of more.
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I think the last 8-25 years of history proves Executives on a whole are not effective at running things.
Dont forget the Unions.
Funny, if the viewership of enterprise does not count then BG, Stargate, and all other shows with ONLY several million viewers (that get counted) should be ripped off the air.
Then people like you can be happy with the latest installment of surviving the biggest loser.
But it's got Shran. Thats worth the first 2 seasons alone.
Enterprise season final has not been broacast yet. Looking at past numbers it will probably me more like 1.5 times in BG's favor. As good as everyone says BG is it is not getting 2x or 3x viewership. It is getting about the same viewership as Stargate, Enterprise and other shows.
What about Monopods?
Maybe they should have drug him away to an undisclosed location and tourtured him untill he confessed. Would that make you feel safer?
I think homeland security should be more afraid of white people (speaking as one) taking "those kind" of photographs.
Off on a tangent, I wonder if the MPAA can be held responsable for interfearing with the distrobution of legitimate "IP" that was being torrented on site they shut down?
IMO loki, suprnova, and demonoid were places with a lot of eyes, good places to list a linux distro or some free music.
I still dont believe the effectivensss they are claiming. The reason I do not is because of hogwash like the missle defense system, Patriot missle system, and many other failures they sell us.
I count patriot a failure bfrom what I see/hear about the system. Maybe it's all human error, but I doubt it.
If the resturant has piped in music or pays ASCAP fees technically I think they should be able to sing "Happy Birthday".
But then what happens any time a performance artist or another persons copyrighted material is reflected by the sculpture, it has just illegaly reproduced someone copyrighted work.
Not necessarily. As long as the artist or corporation who owns the painting has been dead for 90+ years it should be in the PD and therefore photographable with nothing owed.
I think a warning sign was back in 2000 when bush said (about a parody web site) "There ought to be limits to freedom.". I seem to remember he mean that the web site should not have been protected free speach.
Honestly, of all the 80's star wars designs I remember seeing in magazines, I dont think a single one has been sucessfully created.
I dont remember the 747 mounted laser in that group, but maybe I just read the wrong magazines.
Our so called "missle" defense system is a joke as are Patroit missles (at least they hit things) since they like to mistake friendly units for incoming nuke warheads.
I think the only problem I would have with this is sometimes the people that the kids get placed with are worse abusers then the bad home they are taken from. Until wwe can fix it and have some system to sniff out the abusers who try to get in, I am hesatent to suggest this as a good course of action.
I think you will find many people are working jsut as hard as the guy you mention. Often they just ahve minimum wage jobs, and it's hard to support a family on that, what to speak of starting a business. IT can happen, but I think your friend had some good luck to end up where he has.
Bullshit.
Our speniding on "The WAR" isnt even in the budget, it's special additional appropriations. So people like you can go on and on about how little we spend on our defense.
I dunno about you, but when you die during "questioning" it isnt because they were making you comfortable.
This has happened and is documented in Gitmo as well as prisions in Afganistan and Iraq.
Even worse, if we have an American citizen who we want tourtured we ship them to some other country who will do the dirty job for us.
America sure is standing for moral values and taking the higer ground in this.
They could move to Ohio.
WTF does that have to do with anythign we are discussing?
I replied to the post about the essay involving how SF should be filmed.
See I watch movies, read books to see a different possible future (or even past). Sometimes they are worse then what we have or might have and many times they are better. If I paid good money and got jerked around to end with an "everyone dies and nothing anyone did mattered" plot, I could just save myself the time and money by sticking a fork in an electrical outlet.
I find the dark, brooding, gritty, suffering of wallowing in the worst of humanity (just for the sake of it) a big turn off if thats all I was presented with.
Sorry, it seemed like you were saying we can only hope for the worst of humanity to shape our future so we shouldnt aspire to dream of more.
It probably just is a diffenence in our tastes.
Traditionally from what I have read, hard SF tend to deal with technology and its use/effect on people.
Fuck you by the way for going into trek technobabble. Thats not what I was talking about.
Back around 9/11/01 it was 72 virgins.
Dont forget that oil pipeline that we needed a secure afganistan for.
Looking at the map, a conspiricy theorist might say if we can occupy Iran then we can run pipelines wherever we want in the middle east.