Easy for you to say. You're not hungry. You're kids aren't hungry. When you have no future, the answer is easy.
Basically, what you're saying, is that your intellectual idea as to what is in their best interests outweighs in urgency and importance their actual hunger and starvation.
Intellectual monsters stand around chatting 'ideology' over their iced capuccinos while people starve at their feet.
"Gee, will they use this corn correctly? What if they plant it? Something horrible might happen."
"Gaahhh...please...gasp...my child..."
(ssssip) "Yeah, I know what you mean. It's really a very difficult and convoluted situation, and I think those bastards at Monsanto are just trying to trick these people."
"It's the Bushies I tell you. Corporate whoring pigs think they own the bloody world."
"p-p-Please...I beg you..."
"Yeah. Those greedy f'ing Yank Bastards!"
"Phhaggh. These Africans make bloody aweful capuccinos."
Why is it "politically correct" (which translates into "just BS" for the average joe) to worry about what is in the food you eat?
Only a materially wealthy, safe and well-fed person could possible care make such an abstract statement. The average Zimbabweian is none of these. Let the Zimbabweian people have the corn and throw it away themselves if they agree with your intellectualization of their starvation.
The Magician's Nephew clearly sets the stage for the rest of the series, regardless of when, exactly, it was written. I was fortunate enough as a child to have come across and read that book first, and was always bothered by the fact that it wasn't packaged as the first book in the series! That they now do so is good news indeed.
It was always far more annoying to me as a child to see others reading the books out of order and feeling that they were missing out on the best possible storytelling experience.
I can easily imagine this one being made by a trio of MIT types using the following basic process:
1. Map out the design you want in pixels on graph paper.
2. Obtain a length of rope equal to the desired width of the final 'in field' design.
3. Section off the rope with numbered markers every yard or so. Each marker will represent the width of a pixel.
4. Section two other ropes equal to the length of the project, using the same pixel scale chosen for the width (we'll say it's a yard).
5. Approach the field during daylight hours and survey and mark the four corners of a rectangle equal to the size and width of the length/width ropes discussed above, orienting the rectangle as desired (in this case 'pointing' to the observatory).
6. Approach the field under cover of darkness.
7. Stake out the 'length' ropes firmly using the marks planted in step 5.
8. 2 of the 3 pranksters each take an end of the 'width' rope and stand opposite each other on the first yard/space of the 'length' ropes.
9. The 3rd prankster walks along the rope making yard wide and yard long depressions using a small log, board or whatever, row by row according to a map of sequences predetermined from the original graph paper drawing. When one row is done, the first two pranksters step over to the next empty row and prankster number 3 does it again, and so on. He's not thinking visually at this point, but instead, like a good engineer, is simply executing the specification, "Let's see, row 7...I need to make blips at 5,6,7,8,9,20,21...blah blah blah..."
10. When you're done, do what the Aricebo pranksters did and make a few runs around the perimiter to neaten up those rough edges. You can see that they did this in the arial photos of the 'circle'.
11. After a good 3-4 hours work (if not less), head for home with giggles and hi-5's all around. Enjoy an early-bird special at the local diner and then head home or back to campus or whatever for a well-deserved rest, dreaming of the day when your well-planned prank appears on the cover of the next Mysteries of the Unexplained coffee table book or Led Zeppelin album!
It didn't even have to be posted in the news. You only need to look a picture of a crop circle and ask yourself "how could I do that?" I did that a long time ago and came up with the same technique as the two Englishmen. I strongly doubt those two men were even the first to make such things, but they were the first to get media attention for doing so.
The games are a clever way to romanticize the military in the minds of reasonably intelligent and computer-savvy (god I sound like Jon Katz!) young folks in the hopes of boosting enlistment.
While you may well see it as perverse that 'murder' (warfare) could be viewed as romantic/fantasy by some, I'd have to say that it's been going on for a while now and that it's really nothing new. You could say the same for war movies which you may well see as depicting murderers as heroes. Such is life.
For me, I'd really like to see a military staffed by personnel who are as creative and knowledgable as possible. Games like this are a creative step in the right direction.
...but it's best to keep it simple. Try a Toyota Echo. 30-40 mpg and it runs on gas so there's no huge batteries to go sour one day and have to be chucked and pollute the environment.
It would be an old Apollo-era rocket, with a few launched before-hand to ship supplies and automated tools that will immediately start to manufacture fuel for the return voyage and water for the stay. You throw things out there before you go; you don't try to take everything on the one ship that holds the astronauts.
Energy production (on Mars) is definately nuclear. The reactor is sent up before-hand.
We could do this today.
Iceland is small enough and homogeneous enough that they can all pretty much agree on anything, especially if it'll help bolster Tourism which this latest announcement certainly will. It's easy for them to announce to the world, "Hey! Look at us. We're all riding bikes now!" Ding ding! when their entire country is the size of a postage stamp. How much immigration do they have in Iceland? How did they help in Somalia? Who invented rock and roll? ; )
They do exist, but the fact that they can and do exist means that competing interests can exist and arise as well.
In a Communist society, everything is mandated from The State, which generally ends up enforcing purely Intellectual ideals upon a very human populace which almost inevitably ends up suffering very terribly. When 'the box' is mandated by The State in 'the interest' of The People (as opposed to just 'people'), thinking outside that box is generally (historically) punishable by death, directly or otherwise.
Socialism is lots of fun to think about it when you're a frustrated twenty-something in America, feeling like everyone is having a good time but you and your dysfunctional friends at the poetry slam, and that if we could just 'bring down' the 'megacorporations' and let everyone have everything for free, everything would be so cool and you could all hang out, protest and smoke pot in peace and never have to go to work, but in reality, it is Democracy and Capitalism that has put you in a situation where you have the safety, stability and resources to get on a thing like the Internet with your computer and babble wistfully about Socialism to begin with!
Now, did you ever seem to think that the reason that it's not on mainstream radio is because mainstream people think that the music sucks?
As much as your question may provoke an irate response from some, I see it as perfectly valid. I still, however, have to disagree in large part.
Primarily, my question is 'How can people think that a piece of music sucks if they have never heard it?'. Now there are a lot of possible answers to that on both sides of the fence that I won't bother going into, but I think it points to the main problem and difference between the commercial radio of today and the commercial radio of yesterday, and that is, simply, that pop Radio DJ's no longer serve any purpose beyond spewing out a bit of inane Howard Stern wannabe banter and fart-jokes between songs and commercial blocks. They have no influence on play lists or pushing new songs beyond commenting on what they are fed from above. They exist soley to give a semblance of humanity to what has long since become an in-human medium.
Pop Music Radio is no longer interesting or in any way exploratory or unpredictable. Even the 'outrageous' gags and stunts that dj's pull in a vain and pathetic attempt to say "Really! We're here for a reason!" are woefully predictable in their utter void of depth, thought or creativity.
Try listening to the auditory vomit that we get from WBCN in Boston on your drive home and you'll hear what I mean. This is a station that had a long history of being progressive and controversial in some very enlightened ways back in the 70's and early 80's. Then they abandoned that to suckle the fetid teat of Classic Rock, fired anyone and everyone with an ounce of originality and replaced them with mindless small town blue-collar flunkies from the Conneticut School of Broadcasting.
Oh well. I almost had a point there somewhere!
That's too bad. Overblown, stylized movies like this are much better off with a director along the lines of Hitchcock, who barely let his actors 'act' at all (even the big names like Carey Grant). He was all about "Forget your motivation, just stand here with your head tilted this way, pause for a bit, look at your watch and then walk briskly in that direction.", etc. He knew what the final effect would be, an inevitably his characters seem to have a LOT going on under the surface, when in fact they were largely doing as they were told.
Either that or the other extreme, which would be the first star wars, with a smaller, tighter cast and budget, in which everyone chips in extra, and takes their fun seriously.
come on dude... democracy is just as bad as any other system ever created
Yo, dude, your wrong...
This link has a lot of interesting data and reading within it that go a long way to prove just how wrong 'dudes' like you are. Democracy is, in fact, hands-down the most human-friendly political system in existence, bar none.
The worst atrocities we as a democracy have inflictied upon others (American Indians included) are sadly almost trivial compared to the mammoth-scale slaughters totalitarian governments routinely inflict upon their own.
You've been soaking in it (democracy) from day one of course, so you can't picture life otherwise. A cop shuts down your late-night double kegger and you think you want to start a Revolution to overthrow the Man. Good luck to you. You have a lot to learn.
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Try this.
Easy for you to say. You're not hungry. You're kids aren't hungry. When you have no future, the answer is easy.
Basically, what you're saying, is that your intellectual idea as to what is in their best interests outweighs in urgency and importance their actual hunger and starvation.
Intellectual monsters stand around chatting 'ideology' over their iced capuccinos while people starve at their feet.
"Gee, will they use this corn correctly? What if they plant it? Something horrible might happen."
"Gaahhh...please...gasp...my child..."
(ssssip) "Yeah, I know what you mean. It's really a very difficult and convoluted situation, and I think those bastards at Monsanto are just trying to trick these people."
"It's the Bushies I tell you. Corporate whoring pigs think they own the bloody world."
"p-p-Please...I beg you..."
"Yeah. Those greedy f'ing Yank Bastards!"
"Phhaggh. These Africans make bloody aweful capuccinos."
Why is it "politically correct" (which translates into "just BS" for the average joe) to worry about what is in the food you eat?
Only a materially wealthy, safe and well-fed person could possible care make such an abstract statement. The average Zimbabweian is none of these. Let the Zimbabweian people have the corn and throw it away themselves if they agree with your intellectualization of their starvation.
True. There used to be no sweet apples either, until one was 'discovered' and used as a basis for all future strains.
The order wasn't changed, it was corrected.
I always loved The Last Battle, and I grew up to be an atheist. Go figure!
The Magician's Nephew clearly sets the stage for the rest of the series, regardless of when, exactly, it was written. I was fortunate enough as a child to have come across and read that book first, and was always bothered by the fact that it wasn't packaged as the first book in the series! That they now do so is good news indeed. It was always far more annoying to me as a child to see others reading the books out of order and feeling that they were missing out on the best possible storytelling experience.
Today's workstation :== tomorrow's PC
Next time we'll meet at the Model Cafe in Allston. Be good tho', or Effie'll kick your ass.
I can easily imagine this one being made by a trio of MIT types using the following basic process:
1. Map out the design you want in pixels on graph paper.
2. Obtain a length of rope equal to the desired width of the final 'in field' design.
3. Section off the rope with numbered markers every yard or so. Each marker will represent the width of a pixel.
4. Section two other ropes equal to the length of the project, using the same pixel scale chosen for the width (we'll say it's a yard).
5. Approach the field during daylight hours and survey and mark the four corners of a rectangle equal to the size and width of the length/width ropes discussed above, orienting the rectangle as desired (in this case 'pointing' to the observatory).
6. Approach the field under cover of darkness.
7. Stake out the 'length' ropes firmly using the marks planted in step 5.
8. 2 of the 3 pranksters each take an end of the 'width' rope and stand opposite each other on the first yard/space of the 'length' ropes.
9. The 3rd prankster walks along the rope making yard wide and yard long depressions using a small log, board or whatever, row by row according to a map of sequences predetermined from the original graph paper drawing. When one row is done, the first two pranksters step over to the next empty row and prankster number 3 does it again, and so on. He's not thinking visually at this point, but instead, like a good engineer, is simply executing the specification, "Let's see, row 7...I need to make blips at 5,6,7,8,9,20,21...blah blah blah..."
10. When you're done, do what the Aricebo pranksters did and make a few runs around the perimiter to neaten up those rough edges. You can see that they did this in the arial photos of the 'circle'.
11. After a good 3-4 hours work (if not less), head for home with giggles and hi-5's all around. Enjoy an early-bird special at the local diner and then head home or back to campus or whatever for a well-deserved rest, dreaming of the day when your well-planned prank appears on the cover of the next Mysteries of the Unexplained coffee table book or Led Zeppelin album!
It didn't even have to be posted in the news. You only need to look a picture of a crop circle and ask yourself "how could I do that?" I did that a long time ago and came up with the same technique as the two Englishmen. I strongly doubt those two men were even the first to make such things, but they were the first to get media attention for doing so.
An understandable question but I disagree.
The games are a clever way to romanticize the military in the minds of reasonably intelligent and computer-savvy (god I sound like Jon Katz!) young folks in the hopes of boosting enlistment.
While you may well see it as perverse that 'murder' (warfare) could be viewed as romantic/fantasy by some, I'd have to say that it's been going on for a while now and that it's really nothing new. You could say the same for war movies which you may well see as depicting murderers as heroes. Such is life.
For me, I'd really like to see a military staffed by personnel who are as creative and knowledgable as possible. Games like this are a creative step in the right direction.
...but it's best to keep it simple. Try a Toyota Echo. 30-40 mpg and it runs on gas so there's no huge batteries to go sour one day and have to be chucked and pollute the environment.
That's because the ISS exists solely to support and encourage the antiquated, backward, money-pit of a shuttle program, and they know it.
It would be an old Apollo-era rocket, with a few launched before-hand to ship supplies and automated tools that will immediately start to manufacture fuel for the return voyage and water for the stay. You throw things out there before you go; you don't try to take everything on the one ship that holds the astronauts. Energy production (on Mars) is definately nuclear. The reactor is sent up before-hand. We could do this today.
Flubber.
Is it true that a dog's mouth is cleaner than a human's?
Iceland is small enough and homogeneous enough that they can all pretty much agree on anything, especially if it'll help bolster Tourism which this latest announcement certainly will. It's easy for them to announce to the world, "Hey! Look at us. We're all riding bikes now!" Ding ding! when their entire country is the size of a postage stamp. How much immigration do they have in Iceland? How did they help in Somalia? Who invented rock and roll? ; )
You humorless numb-nut. That was FUNNY!
They do exist, but the fact that they can and do exist means that competing interests can exist and arise as well.
In a Communist society, everything is mandated from The State, which generally ends up enforcing purely Intellectual ideals upon a very human populace which almost inevitably ends up suffering very terribly. When 'the box' is mandated by The State in 'the interest' of The People (as opposed to just 'people'), thinking outside that box is generally (historically) punishable by death, directly or otherwise.
Socialism is lots of fun to think about it when you're a frustrated twenty-something in America, feeling like everyone is having a good time but you and your dysfunctional friends at the poetry slam, and that if we could just 'bring down' the 'megacorporations' and let everyone have everything for free, everything would be so cool and you could all hang out, protest and smoke pot in peace and never have to go to work, but in reality, it is Democracy and Capitalism that has put you in a situation where you have the safety, stability and resources to get on a thing like the Internet with your computer and babble wistfully about Socialism to begin with!
Now, did you ever seem to think that the reason that it's not on mainstream radio is because mainstream people think that the music sucks? As much as your question may provoke an irate response from some, I see it as perfectly valid. I still, however, have to disagree in large part. Primarily, my question is 'How can people think that a piece of music sucks if they have never heard it?'. Now there are a lot of possible answers to that on both sides of the fence that I won't bother going into, but I think it points to the main problem and difference between the commercial radio of today and the commercial radio of yesterday, and that is, simply, that pop Radio DJ's no longer serve any purpose beyond spewing out a bit of inane Howard Stern wannabe banter and fart-jokes between songs and commercial blocks. They have no influence on play lists or pushing new songs beyond commenting on what they are fed from above. They exist soley to give a semblance of humanity to what has long since become an in-human medium. Pop Music Radio is no longer interesting or in any way exploratory or unpredictable. Even the 'outrageous' gags and stunts that dj's pull in a vain and pathetic attempt to say "Really! We're here for a reason!" are woefully predictable in their utter void of depth, thought or creativity. Try listening to the auditory vomit that we get from WBCN in Boston on your drive home and you'll hear what I mean. This is a station that had a long history of being progressive and controversial in some very enlightened ways back in the 70's and early 80's. Then they abandoned that to suckle the fetid teat of Classic Rock, fired anyone and everyone with an ounce of originality and replaced them with mindless small town blue-collar flunkies from the Conneticut School of Broadcasting. Oh well. I almost had a point there somewhere!
That's too bad. Overblown, stylized movies like this are much better off with a director along the lines of Hitchcock, who barely let his actors 'act' at all (even the big names like Carey Grant). He was all about "Forget your motivation, just stand here with your head tilted this way, pause for a bit, look at your watch and then walk briskly in that direction.", etc. He knew what the final effect would be, an inevitably his characters seem to have a LOT going on under the surface, when in fact they were largely doing as they were told. Either that or the other extreme, which would be the first star wars, with a smaller, tighter cast and budget, in which everyone chips in extra, and takes their fun seriously.
come on dude... democracy is just as bad as any other system ever created
Yo, dude, your wrong...
This link has a lot of interesting data and reading within it that go a long way to prove just how wrong 'dudes' like you are. Democracy is, in fact, hands-down the most human-friendly political system in existence, bar none.
The worst atrocities we as a democracy have inflictied upon others (American Indians included) are sadly almost trivial compared to the mammoth-scale slaughters totalitarian governments routinely inflict upon their own.
You've been soaking in it (democracy) from day one of course, so you can't picture life otherwise. A cop shuts down your late-night double kegger and you think you want to start a Revolution to overthrow the Man. Good luck to you. You have a lot to learn.
Get a job at INS...
Ba-dump
BOO! HISSSS!
Sorry!
If we stick with it and help them move towards a more user-friendly democracy, yes. Abso-frikkin'-lutely.