Can it really be worse than Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure and Ewoks: The Battle for Endor?
No, it's not that bad. Those were trying to be serious and lacked in almost every department.
The Star Wars Holiday Special was meant to be a holiday song & dance special, set with Star Wars characters. The plot is reasonable for kids and the acts are amusing. There's even the introduction of Boba Fett, with more characterization of the character than in either ESB or ROJ. There is imagination portrayed in most of the costumes and acts acts and especially the Wookie house set (a 1970's dream home hung a mile high up a tree), but it's certainly targeted at the 4-10 year old audience it was written for (it's designed that way because it's a home they can feel comfortable with).
If you want it to be a serious entry in the Star Wars saga, you'll of course be seriously disappointed. But that would be missing the point entirely - this is the Carol Burnette show set on Kashyyk meant to make kids happy and drive home the point that it's important to be with family on the holidays. If there's no room in your heart for such a use of the Star Wars Universe, then holiday fare from Dickens and Geisel would be recommended viewing.
In fact, the vast majority of UFOs have been proven to originate from earth. That is, all that have been identified and thus are no longer unidentified. We cannot from the observations rule out extraterrestrial visitors, but it appears to be pretty unlikely.
So what you're saying is that there are currently no UFO cases where it has been proven that the UFO was from Earth, right?;)
Why some people are so violently opposed to using simple economics to keep a few users from adversely affecting everyone else's user experience is beyond me.
Right, we either have price rationing or rationing by corporate dictate.
On a per-bit basis, AT&T's pricing will become transparent, and with that information buyers can shop providers on an equal footing.
Since the rocket doesn't really have to move in a spiral, just tumble/spin in a relatively stable way in the center of it, perhaps it's not so unlikely...
How likely is it for an out of control rocket to tumble in only two dimensions without losing any altitude for a period of several minutes?
This HAS to be a rocket misfire of some kind. The apparent geometric perfection of it makes it look like a 'shop, but the wide variety of images and the video seem to indicate otherwise...
What are the odds of a malfunctioning rocket creating a perfect concentric spiral with no imperfections? Darkseid invading seems about as likely.
and one of the worst things about it, and something they never seem to consider is that it is a COMPLETELY UNAMERICAN argument, and the reason I say this is because it assumes that the authorities (government) are completely infalliable and should be trusted
The quote I read was Schmidt saying, "hello, remember the USA PATRIOT Act? We have to give the government your searches. If you don't want them to have it, be aware that we're doing it because we have to."
Every system of fiat currency ever tried has collapsed eventually due to the spending outstripping the real value by a substantial margin. The politicians promise forward benefits that can't be afforded. Tally sticks survived the longest, but even they got replaced by silver eventually.
Madoff let some of his 'investors' cash out too, so long as there were funds available, but we still consider it a Ponzi scheme.
It was actually the officers I had in mind, but there are plenty of poor people who chose not to enter the military, though likely not for reasons of maintaining a stable republic.
Brains in soldiers... lol. Next you tell me about Fox News watchers who know propositional calculus. ^^
There are plenty of smart folks in the military - based on odds, there are probably folks in the Air Force with a better grasp of mathematics than yourself. What they lack is the ability to apply that knowledge to the concept that they're supporting destructive and unconstitutional imperial military adventures.
Sort of like MSNBC viewers who haven't figured out that Keynesian economics is a giant Ponzi scheme meant to grant undue power to central banks, err, I mean governments.
And like any distribution, there are no doubt grunts who earn that name. Age also plays a large role.
there hasn't been any new models cablecard enabled TV set since 2006
Yet now there are Netflix-enabled TV's. The market is routing around the damage that is the telco hegemony.
Currently Netflix TV shows are time-delayed by several months. That's a policy decision, not a technical one, though.
Anybody know if radio broadcast and IP unicast are still converging on price-parity in 2015? That was the prediction in 2005. After that, TV stations are too expensive to run.
And neither do Muslims, in the sense that if a Christian were to do it you would no longer call them Christians. Terrorists aren't following Islam any more than Timothy McVeigh was doing the will of a Christian God.
One interesting piece of this puzzle is that (at least, we're told that) the suicide bombers are respected and their families supported by the majority of the society in Islam. There seems to be more to it than just education levels, but perhaps it's societal, not religious in nature (to the extent the two can be teased apart).
Free Talk Live had a radio interview with the station operator a few days ago. He's running a real (2300W) station with money left to him from a deceased grandfather and doesn't plan to pay the fines (though he thinks they are hundreds per day). He's filing the paperwork to get the government off his back.
Lala.com is the most frequent entry in the Google Audio search for searches I've done. If Apple can control Lala, they can largely control or hamper Google's competition against iTunes.
Does there need to be a more complex explanation than simple competitive pressures?
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Can it really be worse than Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure and Ewoks: The Battle for Endor?
No, it's not that bad. Those were trying to be serious and lacked in almost every department.
The Star Wars Holiday Special was meant to be a holiday song & dance special, set with Star Wars characters. The plot is reasonable for kids and the acts are amusing. There's even the introduction of Boba Fett, with more characterization of the character than in either ESB or ROJ. There is imagination portrayed in most of the costumes and acts acts and especially the Wookie house set (a 1970's dream home hung a mile high up a tree), but it's certainly targeted at the 4-10 year old audience it was written for (it's designed that way because it's a home they can feel comfortable with).
If you want it to be a serious entry in the Star Wars saga, you'll of course be seriously disappointed. But that would be missing the point entirely - this is the Carol Burnette show set on Kashyyk meant to make kids happy and drive home the point that it's important to be with family on the holidays. If there's no room in your heart for such a use of the Star Wars Universe, then holiday fare from Dickens and Geisel would be recommended viewing.
Ah, *very interesting* theory. I hadn't considered that this was high enough to factor out gravity, that reduces many of the problems.
Sounds plausible, well done.
There's still the matter of the "beam" that came out of the center of the spiral at the end of the event, though.
In fact, the vast majority of UFOs have been proven to originate from earth. That is, all that have been identified and thus are no longer unidentified. We cannot from the observations rule out extraterrestrial visitors, but it appears to be pretty unlikely.
So what you're saying is that there are currently no UFO cases where it has been proven that the UFO was from Earth, right? ;)
Why some people are so violently opposed to using simple economics to keep a few users from adversely affecting everyone else's user experience is beyond me.
Right, we either have price rationing or rationing by corporate dictate.
On a per-bit basis, AT&T's pricing will become transparent, and with that information buyers can shop providers on an equal footing.
Ah, so perhaps that's why none of them do it.
Who says it was stationary?
Spinning and creating an exhaust plume that grew outward as it dissipated seems highly unlikely but possible.
Were you thinking it actually followed that precise geometric path under its own power (while out of control)? That seems less likely given the video.
Since the rocket doesn't really have to move in a spiral, just tumble/spin in a relatively stable way in the center of it, perhaps it's not so unlikely...
How likely is it for an out of control rocket to tumble in only two dimensions without losing any altitude for a period of several minutes?
This HAS to be a rocket misfire of some kind. The apparent geometric perfection of it makes it look like a 'shop, but the wide variety of images and the video seem to indicate otherwise...
What are the odds of a malfunctioning rocket creating a perfect concentric spiral with no imperfections? Darkseid invading seems about as likely.
Looking at some clip, it appears to me to be an rocket spiraling out of control and leaking propellant. The propellant is reflecting sun light.
but based on the time-lapse photo, it created a geometrically perfect spiral - the odds of a malfunctioning rocket doing this would approach zero.
Another forum had a link to an ionospheric heater nearby:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionospheric_heater
Nice. Thank you.
BTW, is the quote in the .sig yours? I need to know who to quote. :)
The LHC becomes the first particle accelerator to collide protons at energies twice the speed of the tevatron!
Please explain the Google service or iPhone tie-in.
(I don't know if copying someone else's museum exhibit would be legal, IANAL.)
Ted Stevens can be cited as prior art.
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It's given that the killer feature is porn, right?
they've put in an anti-Slashdot referer rule on those images - was there an original article so we don't have to copy & paste?
How stupid are these people?!
Could be. Or maybe somebody inside TSA wanted this to be public but has plausible deniability about leaking it.
and one of the worst things about it, and something they never seem to consider is that it is a COMPLETELY UNAMERICAN argument, and the reason I say this is because it assumes that the authorities (government) are completely infalliable and should be trusted
The quote I read was Schmidt saying, "hello, remember the USA PATRIOT Act? We have to give the government your searches. If you don't want them to have it, be aware that we're doing it because we have to."
The un-American part here is the USA PATRIOT act.
Every system of fiat currency ever tried has collapsed eventually due to the spending outstripping the real value by a substantial margin. The politicians promise forward benefits that can't be afforded. Tally sticks survived the longest, but even they got replaced by silver eventually.
Madoff let some of his 'investors' cash out too, so long as there were funds available, but we still consider it a Ponzi scheme.
It was actually the officers I had in mind, but there are plenty of poor people who chose not to enter the military, though likely not for reasons of maintaining a stable republic.
Brains in soldiers... lol. Next you tell me about Fox News watchers who know propositional calculus. ^^
There are plenty of smart folks in the military - based on odds, there are probably folks in the Air Force with a better grasp of mathematics than yourself. What they lack is the ability to apply that knowledge to the concept that they're supporting destructive and unconstitutional imperial military adventures.
Sort of like MSNBC viewers who haven't figured out that Keynesian economics is a giant Ponzi scheme meant to grant undue power to central banks, err, I mean governments.
And like any distribution, there are no doubt grunts who earn that name. Age also plays a large role.
there hasn't been any new models cablecard enabled TV set since 2006
Yet now there are Netflix-enabled TV's. The market is routing around the damage that is the telco hegemony.
Currently Netflix TV shows are time-delayed by several months. That's a policy decision, not a technical one, though.
Anybody know if radio broadcast and IP unicast are still converging on price-parity in 2015? That was the prediction in 2005. After that, TV stations are too expensive to run.
One interesting piece of this puzzle is that (at least, we're told that) the suicide bombers are respected and their families supported by the majority of the society in Islam. There seems to be more to it than just education levels, but perhaps it's societal, not religious in nature (to the extent the two can be teased apart).
Yes.
run a relay then, not an exit node.
errr, that should say he doesn't plan to stop because he's being threatened with fines.
Free Talk Live had a radio interview with the station operator a few days ago. He's running a real (2300W) station with money left to him from a deceased grandfather and doesn't plan to pay the fines (though he thinks they are hundreds per day). He's filing the paperwork to get the government off his back.
Lala.com is the most frequent entry in the Google Audio search for searches I've done. If Apple can control Lala, they can largely control or hamper Google's competition against iTunes.
Does there need to be a more complex explanation than simple competitive pressures?