Unfortunately Abrams is great at adding 21st century action to a film, but clueless how to fit a movie into a franchise. With his Star Trek reboot, he destroyed worlds, wrecked characters and snubbed years of canon material. I'd love it if he could take up the challenge and make his contribution fit within the context of the SW universe canon. If he respects the universe like any author seeking to contribute instead of conquer, he would treat existing material as an asset that strengthens the story. As it is though, I fully expect off-the-wall Abrams to deliver nice SFX and "crazy rad" shockers like Kevin J. Anderson might write - trash the Falcon, kill Chewbacca, or completely ignore/bypass/clobber any of the existing post SW:ROJ material. It cheapens the series and makes it essentially no different than a "what-if" fan episode.
I concur that the polling needs to be better about how it reports data bias.
The voting process needs a kick in the pants when it comes to statistical data collection as well.
They should be able to test like any chemical lab
1. with a packet of actual votes, treated like a specimen. that packet can be entered as its own entity. control specimens can be tested without affecting the total vote results.
2. introduce a blank test specimen - should come back blank
3. introduce a spiked test specimen - the results should equal the input
4. if there is a significant discrepancy, - bring in some external ballot counters from districts with better testing sample scores
- have some accountability for those areas with off-results.
5. We dont need computerized voting systems, we just need paper and scanners, with receipts from the scanner to compare.
Scarey. Humans make mistakes. Security disk cleaning should be done by robot workers run by a robotic management. A huge organization is only as smart as its dumbest employee.
"Costs are too low due to increasing productivity. New logos, new letterheads, new business cards for all employees More friction on the wheel of progress, yeah."
What if they just changed the species of the guards or made the sheriff face the wrong way? There is a lot of freaky stuff to point out that god mode is available without causing mass breakdown.
Where are the photos of the actual packaging? It looks like you did not use the packaging from the original boxes. Was there foam or anything? Did you just put it in a box and think it was safe?
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Unfortunately Abrams is great at adding 21st century action to a film, but clueless how to fit a movie into a franchise. With his Star Trek reboot, he destroyed worlds, wrecked characters and snubbed years of canon material. I'd love it if he could take up the challenge and make his contribution fit within the context of the SW universe canon. If he respects the universe like any author seeking to contribute instead of conquer, he would treat existing material as an asset that strengthens the story. As it is though, I fully expect off-the-wall Abrams to deliver nice SFX and "crazy rad" shockers like Kevin J. Anderson might write - trash the Falcon, kill Chewbacca, or completely ignore/bypass/clobber any of the existing post SW:ROJ material. It cheapens the series and makes it essentially no different than a "what-if" fan episode.
Look up strangelets
Is there a new character, named just "X". I saw a few images of his badge.
Doesn't their rocket remind you of a 4-winged mosquito from estes?
Better lesser known still was the dreaded kamikaze ballon squadron.
Just watched the Hobbit Cartoon. Does that count?
I never got that much in an hour, maybe because I quit the game after 16th level. Corpse runs get old real quick.
I concur that the polling needs to be better about how it reports data bias.
The voting process needs a kick in the pants when it comes to statistical data collection as well.
They should be able to test like any chemical lab
1. with a packet of actual votes, treated like a specimen. that packet can be entered as its own entity. control specimens can be tested without affecting the total vote results.
2. introduce a blank test specimen - should come back blank
3. introduce a spiked test specimen - the results should equal the input
4. if there is a significant discrepancy,
- bring in some external ballot counters from districts with better testing sample scores
- have some accountability for those areas with off-results.
5. We dont need computerized voting systems, we just need paper and scanners, with receipts from the scanner to compare.
Scarey. Humans make mistakes. Security disk cleaning should be done by robot workers run by a robotic management. A huge organization is only as smart as its dumbest employee.
I hope he got back his ebay listing fees.
send spammers to jail. they are worse than crackers.
"Costs are too low due to increasing productivity. New logos, new letterheads, new business cards for all employees More friction on the wheel of progress, yeah."
Cool. Blakes 7 is my 2nd favorite show after Babylon 5.
What if they just changed the species of the guards or made the sheriff face the wrong way? There is a lot of freaky stuff to point out that god mode is available without causing mass breakdown.
jet li did it in black mask, i only wish they were the aol cds.
The more faces, the worse the book, it's inversely proportional.
Where are the photos of the actual packaging? It looks like you did not use the packaging from the original boxes. Was there foam or anything? Did you just put it in a box and think it was safe?