I should add that, ironically, the last Alien movie was scripted by Joss Whedon. Anyone care to guess what they turned Ellen Ripley into in that installment?
Not so bad if that's your fetish. But it just drives me nuts. I prefer my heroines to be at least somewhat grounded in reality. Personally, I always thought the best sci-fi heroine was Ellen Ripley. She had real strength of heart. There was no need to write her as some kind of superman ninja who could alter the laws of physics to beat down everyone and everything around her.
Writing your heroine as a guy with tits isn't "empowering." It's just fucking lazy.
Yeah, the fact that you get modded down into oblivion on Slashdot for even mildly questioning it is a testament to how open its proponents are to challenge.
Yeah, Firefly was pretty good. But his other work is mediocre at best. And he also has this weird fetish for 100-lb. waifs beating up hordes of 250-lb. guys that drives me crazy. I always suspected that Firefly was more Tim Minear's series than Whedon's (100-lb. ass-kicking waif aside).
How *dare* you point out that a woman CEO isn't automatically going to be a huge success!!!! I'm calling the Political-Correctness Police on you, sir!!!
But I know, Slashdotters need to tilt at windmills endlessly... if Tesla were to ever catch on and be as common as Kia we'd see the discussion switch to how they're shit and some other startup has vision and Tesla is going to wilt and die any day now...
Man, I was really into that band back before they went all commercial and mainstream. IT USED TO BE ABOUT THE MUSIC, UBUNTU!!!
Last time I checked, no one was forcing you to grown Monsanto seeds or use Round-up. Feel free to plant whatever you want. But if you want to use Monsanto's seeds and spray your crops with their Round-up, yeah, you're going to have to pay them for it.
I still don't understand why they're so hell-bent on eliminating the ability to follow older discussion threads in the comments section. Am I missing something? Is taking away our ability to see replies to our old comments somehow such a vital fucking part of Dice's new marketing strategy that it must be defended with their very lives if necessary?
Not nearly as much as it would have if this kid had posted the actual audio of it on YouTube and it had played on every evening news broadcast in the U.S.
I want chocolate milk to spew forth from all the water fountains at work. And my dream has a much better chance of becoming reality than Stevens' dream.
I am much more concerned about the conflict of interest of these magazines/sites having advertising from these same game developers as their primary source of income. If you think you're going to get an honest review for a game on a site who gets a lot of money from selling ads for said game, then I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
They would rather have a news story about the arrest than the recording itself going viral. As a poster above noted, this poor kid and his parents were naive for not making a copy (and for trusting school officials to act in anyone's interest but their own).
The problem wasn't taken care of because the first priority of schools officials isn't to protect the students, it's to protect the school (and their jobs). They wanted the recording deleted before it could get out and embarrass them. The police just helped them.
May want to keep an eye out in the development community of the OS for a sudden influx of programmers "just wanting to help out." Or existing members suddenly driving new sports cars and acting strange.
It's the hip and cool language. If you owned vinyl records and were a vegan, like me, you would know that. But then again, I don't even *OWN* a TV and I was into that band way before they became all commercial. So I can't expect the rest of you to understand.
Max DSL speed here is 3 mbps, not even fast enough to do HD streaming. Not that I wouldn't use the great Comcast anyway of course! My only real complaint about them is [this post censored for content by Comcast social media decorum services. This is your 2nd strike warning, customer.]
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Most likely it's because he shopped it around and couldn't find a distributor. That's usually not a good sign.
I should add that, ironically, the last Alien movie was scripted by Joss Whedon. Anyone care to guess what they turned Ellen Ripley into in that installment?
Not so bad if that's your fetish. But it just drives me nuts. I prefer my heroines to be at least somewhat grounded in reality. Personally, I always thought the best sci-fi heroine was Ellen Ripley. She had real strength of heart. There was no need to write her as some kind of superman ninja who could alter the laws of physics to beat down everyone and everything around her.
Writing your heroine as a guy with tits isn't "empowering." It's just fucking lazy.
Yeah, the fact that you get modded down into oblivion on Slashdot for even mildly questioning it is a testament to how open its proponents are to challenge.
Yeah, Firefly was pretty good. But his other work is mediocre at best. And he also has this weird fetish for 100-lb. waifs beating up hordes of 250-lb. guys that drives me crazy. I always suspected that Firefly was more Tim Minear's series than Whedon's (100-lb. ass-kicking waif aside).
I guarantee you that there is at least 100x as much birdshit in that water as that guy's piss. But no one ever complains about all the birdshit.
Just remember what Neil Degrasse Tyson said in Cosmos, "Question Everything" (except Global Warming WHICH IS TRUE AND YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO QUESTION)
FTFY
For fictional characters, they sure have a lot of mod points.
How *dare* you point out that a woman CEO isn't automatically going to be a huge success!!!! I'm calling the Political-Correctness Police on you, sir!!!
Typical Slashdot. Anyone gets downmodded into oblivion for not toeing the "MONSANTO IS SATAN" line.
So she MUST be a great leader, who's going to revitalize the company and make them profitable and hip! It couldn't just be hype, that's unpossible!
But I know, Slashdotters need to tilt at windmills endlessly... if Tesla were to ever catch on and be as common as Kia we'd see the discussion switch to how they're shit and some other startup has vision and Tesla is going to wilt and die any day now...
Man, I was really into that band back before they went all commercial and mainstream. IT USED TO BE ABOUT THE MUSIC, UBUNTU!!!
Last time I checked, no one was forcing you to grown Monsanto seeds or use Round-up. Feel free to plant whatever you want. But if you want to use Monsanto's seeds and spray your crops with their Round-up, yeah, you're going to have to pay them for it.
I still don't understand why they're so hell-bent on eliminating the ability to follow older discussion threads in the comments section. Am I missing something? Is taking away our ability to see replies to our old comments somehow such a vital fucking part of Dice's new marketing strategy that it must be defended with their very lives if necessary?
And it just launched!
Not nearly as much as it would have if this kid had posted the actual audio of it on YouTube and it had played on every evening news broadcast in the U.S.
I want chocolate milk to spew forth from all the water fountains at work. And my dream has a much better chance of becoming reality than Stevens' dream.
I am much more concerned about the conflict of interest of these magazines/sites having advertising from these same game developers as their primary source of income. If you think you're going to get an honest review for a game on a site who gets a lot of money from selling ads for said game, then I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
They would rather have a news story about the arrest than the recording itself going viral. As a poster above noted, this poor kid and his parents were naive for not making a copy (and for trusting school officials to act in anyone's interest but their own).
The problem wasn't taken care of because the first priority of schools officials isn't to protect the students, it's to protect the school (and their jobs). They wanted the recording deleted before it could get out and embarrass them. The police just helped them.
May want to keep an eye out in the development community of the OS for a sudden influx of programmers "just wanting to help out." Or existing members suddenly driving new sports cars and acting strange.
Hey, some of us find manual memory management sexually fulfilling, you insensitive clod!
It is literally 200 times cheaper than an equal performance educational microscope.
That educational microscope is designed to last 200 times as long and be 200 times more versatile.
It's the hip and cool language. If you owned vinyl records and were a vegan, like me, you would know that. But then again, I don't even *OWN* a TV and I was into that band way before they became all commercial. So I can't expect the rest of you to understand.
Max DSL speed here is 3 mbps, not even fast enough to do HD streaming. Not that I wouldn't use the great Comcast anyway of course! My only real complaint about them is [this post censored for content by Comcast social media decorum services. This is your 2nd strike warning, customer.]