Son, this is the United States of America. Messing with a big corporation here is like slapping momma, spitting on the flag, and fucking an apple pie--in that order.
I used to buy them even though I didn't have any friends to play with. That was back when nerds like me were persona-non-grata in school and no one would have dreamed of openly admitting to being a D&D fan. I often wonder how many others there were in my school, or how much things could have been different if there had been some way for us to make contact without getting the shit kicked out of us for being such geeks.
Is that the future will be different in a million different ways that we never expected and never saw coming. And even if we do see something coming, we mprobably won't appreciate the true impact (or lack thereof) that it will have.
I've never thought I would see so many white people cower in absolute fear of a 5'1" fat Asian loudmouth with a haircut that would shame the most flamboyant trannie in West Hollywood. Home of the brave, indeed.
Nothing compares to Star Trek V for sheer, unadulterated suck. Nemesis was godawful, but V was so bad that you felt ashamed *on behalf of* everyone involved. I felt ashamed for them. I felt ashamed for their grandchildren who might one day see it. I felt ashamed for the alien species in the distant future who might happen upon the ruins of the human race and discover a copy of it buried in a pile of rubble.
Why? Because this is going to be the MOST ACTION PACKED STAR TREK MOVIE EVER!! Fuck all that talking bullshit. This one is going to be 100mph, non-stop B A D A S S !!! More fights, more explosions, more fucking ASS KICKING than anyone has ever seen! Scene one: mad-ass crazy action. Last scene: mad-ass crazy action. Every scene in-between: mad-ass crazy action!
Set your phasers to FUCKING AWESOME, because this movie is doing some MEGACRAZY SHIT!
And it would call into question all the many times that the courts have said in the past that individual U.S. citizens have no standing to sue over stuff like the CIA torture program.
...it was the legal liability incurred by Sony after the "hackers" threatened actual physical attacks on movie theaters. Sony simply couldn't afford the legal and financial risk that even one theater might be bombed or attacked. The hacking part of it had no bearing on that.
It's rather arrogant to assume that all skeptics of global warming have a political/economic agenda. Many do, certainly. But I'm sure there are also plenty of legitimate scientists who would also question the conclusions and data, many of whom are no-doubt cowered into silence by the fervent majority.
And, on the other side of the coin, there are also plenty of global warming proponents who have their own economic/political agendas. The vast majority of the loudest global warming proponents are certainly not scientists. Most of them are environmental activists, with their own agenda to advance.
The bottom line is that you can't have legitimate science being conducted in an environment where you declare certain ideas sacrosanct and unquestionable. When the next Copernicus or Einstein comes along, do you really want to tell them that they're not allowed to question a fundamental idea that WE JUST KNOW IS TRUE!
In thinking further, I do seem to recall also learning back in college of a system of established dogma that cannot be questioned. I believe it was called "religion."
It's simply not realistically possible to always perfectly plan multiple complex multi-year projects, when every your budget gets cut a little further, and you never know -- it's a roll of the dice -- if or how much it's going to get cut by -- then there is the secondary knock-on effect that of the small budget that remains*, the managers need to very carefully decide where to constantly try shift things around to try keep remaining projects going. The rocket program canceled in 2010 was probably canceled due to budget cuts. NASA's budget has consistently been cut, what, every year for the past 15 years? You can't entirely blame NASA - nobody can plan properly under those circumstances. Nobody, not you, or me, could end up not wasting any of it as a result of the constant shunting around.
If NASA had that same attitude in the 60's, the U.S. would still be trying to put its first man in space.
How about the fact that NASA's bureaucracy NEVER SPEAKS OUT AGAINST IT when a senator from Mississippi explicitly forbids them from stopping construction?
Slashdot Mirror
Headlines that were on Slashdot 10 years ago and will be here 10 years from now:
Is X going to kill the PC?
Is this the end of PC gaming?
Is X the year of the Linux desktop?
Open source, finally catching on?
Wired Magazine keeps saying so!
Son, this is the United States of America. Messing with a big corporation here is like slapping momma, spitting on the flag, and fucking an apple pie--in that order.
"Just send us your address, so we can mail you the check."
The only currency more corrupt, sleazy, and propped-up-by-bullshit more than Bitcoin is the U.S. Dollar.
I used to buy them even though I didn't have any friends to play with. That was back when nerds like me were persona-non-grata in school and no one would have dreamed of openly admitting to being a D&D fan. I often wonder how many others there were in my school, or how much things could have been different if there had been some way for us to make contact without getting the shit kicked out of us for being such geeks.
Is that the future will be different in a million different ways that we never expected and never saw coming. And even if we do see something coming, we mprobably won't appreciate the true impact (or lack thereof) that it will have.
Many of the people who have predicted IBM's demise over the decades are now in the grave themselves. But Big Blue is still here.
I never have understood the world's fetish with the US dollar.
It stays strong because if anyone is stupid enough to speak out against it, we make them regret it.
Don't fuck with the U.S. Dollar.
I've never thought I would see so many white people cower in absolute fear of a 5'1" fat Asian loudmouth with a haircut that would shame the most flamboyant trannie in West Hollywood. Home of the brave, indeed.
Nothing compares to Star Trek V for sheer, unadulterated suck. Nemesis was godawful, but V was so bad that you felt ashamed *on behalf of* everyone involved. I felt ashamed for them. I felt ashamed for their grandchildren who might one day see it. I felt ashamed for the alien species in the distant future who might happen upon the ruins of the human race and discover a copy of it buried in a pile of rubble.
Why? Because this is going to be the MOST ACTION PACKED STAR TREK MOVIE EVER!! Fuck all that talking bullshit. This one is going to be 100mph, non-stop B A D A S S !!! More fights, more explosions, more fucking ASS KICKING than anyone has ever seen! Scene one: mad-ass crazy action. Last scene: mad-ass crazy action. Every scene in-between: mad-ass crazy action!
Set your phasers to FUCKING AWESOME, because this movie is doing some MEGACRAZY SHIT!
And god help you if you buy the robotoliet model ED-209.
Sure beats that awful Snowden 2: Lost in St. Petersburg. Man, they really phoned it in on that one
And it would call into question all the many times that the courts have said in the past that individual U.S. citizens have no standing to sue over stuff like the CIA torture program.
Sorry, random dipshit, but you have no legal standing to sue. Case dismissed.
...it was the legal liability incurred by Sony after the "hackers" threatened actual physical attacks on movie theaters. Sony simply couldn't afford the legal and financial risk that even one theater might be bombed or attacked. The hacking part of it had no bearing on that.
It's rather arrogant to assume that all skeptics of global warming have a political/economic agenda. Many do, certainly. But I'm sure there are also plenty of legitimate scientists who would also question the conclusions and data, many of whom are no-doubt cowered into silence by the fervent majority.
And, on the other side of the coin, there are also plenty of global warming proponents who have their own economic/political agendas. The vast majority of the loudest global warming proponents are certainly not scientists. Most of them are environmental activists, with their own agenda to advance.
The bottom line is that you can't have legitimate science being conducted in an environment where you declare certain ideas sacrosanct and unquestionable. When the next Copernicus or Einstein comes along, do you really want to tell them that they're not allowed to question a fundamental idea that WE JUST KNOW IS TRUE!
In thinking further, I do seem to recall also learning back in college of a system of established dogma that cannot be questioned. I believe it was called "religion."
Funny, because the science that I learned about in college was ALL ABOUT being constantly questioned.
GIRLS AND MINORITIES ONLY! Back to your trailer, white trash!
Welcome to Star Trek's Earth in the Federation of Planets? Free to instead pursue whatever hobby or interest we so choose?
Sure, you're free to do whatever you like for as long as you like! As long as it doesn't require any money, food, or shelter.
You're officially on the naughty list, you Danish bastards!
It's simply not realistically possible to always perfectly plan multiple complex multi-year projects, when every your budget gets cut a little further, and you never know -- it's a roll of the dice -- if or how much it's going to get cut by -- then there is the secondary knock-on effect that of the small budget that remains*, the managers need to very carefully decide where to constantly try shift things around to try keep remaining projects going. The rocket program canceled in 2010 was probably canceled due to budget cuts. NASA's budget has consistently been cut, what, every year for the past 15 years? You can't entirely blame NASA - nobody can plan properly under those circumstances. Nobody, not you, or me, could end up not wasting any of it as a result of the constant shunting around.
If NASA had that same attitude in the 60's, the U.S. would still be trying to put its first man in space.
How about the fact that NASA's bureaucracy NEVER SPEAKS OUT AGAINST IT when a senator from Mississippi explicitly forbids them from stopping construction?