> but why, as society in America, have to > deliniate the work that Americans do and the > work that others do? That is racist and demeaning.
Why is it racist and demeaning? I, a white guy in America, 3rd generation of my shortest ancestry branch, am not sitting here thinking, "Gosh, that's good...for an Indian guy!" or "How quaint! Indian culture produced someone who did something useful! Good job! [mentally pats the Indian guy on the head.]"
Why isn't it a source of pride? The "white man's guilt" in America about not mentioning anything about race or religion or what-not is getting rather silly. It's been 15 years since Murphy Brown had an episode where everybody was standing around saying, "Oh, is our new manager black? I hadn't noticed."
Jack leaned back in his chair. Normally his patter was much smoother, but he thought he had her nailed. A socially inept appeal was just what the doctor ordered. At this moment. At this place.
"Pop it, yeah, come on baby!"
Crossing his fingers...yes! She lifted her top, exposing her breasts for about two and a third seconds. Nice "heavy C" breasts with large-diameter, dark-skinned areolae. Oval shape. Oval in the vertical direction, although what vertical meant was up in the air, literally, as the woman was aboard the space shuttle, orbiting over the Atlantic somewhere.
Isn't modern technology wonderful? Jack thought to himself.
"They could float thru that door any second. Take another chance! Scary stuff!"
In a few minutes, he'd have her with her top up for a good 30 seconds, half her mind on excitement, the other half paying attention to whether her colleagues would come bobbing in. And 30 seconds was all he'd need to get done. 30 seconds on tape that is, which he could loop over and over. He switched on the recorder.
> It is certainly a fine example of 'How to > alienate 80% of your potential customers in > less then 2 seconds'.
As opposed to Thunderbirds: The Movie: Not Puppets But Rather A Last Second Change Into A Live Action Film That Was A Ripoff Of Spykids, which set the record in "How to alienate 99% of your potential customers in less than 0.8 seconds."
Well, Clockwork was from Stanley Kubrick, and the man knew his shit in filmmaking. I'll put up with the occasional Eyes Wide Shut in exchange for the occasional Clockwork, 2001, Strangelove, or the first half of Full Metal Jacket. I wonder which class AI would have been in? We'll never know.
Hell, I still think his Shining is way better than King's version, even if it didn't match King's vision.
Thank the lord I lived in Europe for a year and a half. I got to experience the glories of Only Fools and Horses and half a dozen other shows that never made it to the US that are as funny as Seinfeld ever was. And 250 million people in North America will never know it.
There's more to British television than Keeping Up Appearances and Are You Being Served?
Come to think of it, the only British show that made it to commercial (not PBS) television over here without being Americanized was Benny Hill. And Prisoner: Cell Block H (or was that Australian?)
simple ended because the all actors were sick > of them, and decided to do other things.
Well, Cheers ended when it didn't have to. Same for Friends, and Frasier, and prolly M*A*S*H.
And, believe it or not, Munsters ended because the network wanted all its shows to be the nifty new color ones, and the producers didn't want to do a gothic comedy in color because, well, it was supposed to be black and white. The producers lost the argument, and closed up shop rather than produce it in color.
Actually, I believe the problem with stress is that in modern society, you do not respond with fight or flight, or even minimal physical activity to the stress, which burns off the chemicals flooding the blood. Without this, it is damaging.
When I was in Holland they altered Terminator 2 in various places for broadcast on TV. For example, the scene in the parking garage where Arnie throws the guy into the cement pillar. They still had that, but got rid of the vicious cracking sound as he hit.
Meanwhile, they show full frontal of women AND MEN on their TV. Opened my eyes quite a bit as to the idiocy of my own culture's norms. Of course, the Dutch had some crazy shit going on, too. Made me realize all countries and their politicians use BS as population control.
Meanwhile, watching Bambi's mom die from a forest fire or whatever, or watching a kid shoot his dog Ol' Yeller, well, these are fine for little kids, G rated and all.
But a nipple, which only a few years earlier they were sucking on? Nope!
I used to wonder why the makers were so stupid they never made them big enough for a slice of bread. Then I realized it was supposed to be pinching the edges closed.
Now I just wonder why the stupid makers always put stupid nooks and crannies everywhere where melted chese and grease runs such that it's difficult to clean without a wet paper towel and toothpick.
Hello, Tefal? HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO?!?!?
I sniff a marketting opportunity! The truly (not lying) e-z-clean sandwitch maker.
Yes, but that's like pointing out 99.999999999999999% of all pictures cannot be compressed. Note that the same percentage are also basically random bitmaps. It's the interesting ones we care about.
Similarly, it's the interesting math issues we are mostly concerned with, and they probably mostly have potential proofs.
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> but why, as society in America, have to
> deliniate the work that Americans do and the
> work that others do? That is racist and demeaning.
Why is it racist and demeaning? I, a white guy in America, 3rd generation of my shortest ancestry branch, am not sitting here thinking, "Gosh, that's good...for an Indian guy!" or "How quaint! Indian culture produced someone who did something useful! Good job! [mentally pats the Indian guy on the head.]"
Why isn't it a source of pride? The "white man's guilt" in America about not mentioning anything about race or religion or what-not is getting rather silly. It's been 15 years since Murphy Brown had an episode where everybody was standing around saying, "Oh, is our new manager black? I hadn't noticed."
> Computers in Space
"Awww, come on. Just a quick one."
Jack leaned back in his chair. Normally his patter was much smoother, but he thought he had her nailed. A socially inept appeal was just what the doctor ordered. At this moment. At this place.
"Pop it, yeah, come on baby!"
Crossing his fingers...yes! She lifted her top, exposing her breasts for about two and a third seconds. Nice "heavy C" breasts with large-diameter, dark-skinned areolae. Oval shape. Oval in the vertical direction, although what vertical meant was up in the air, literally, as the woman was aboard the space shuttle, orbiting over the Atlantic somewhere.
Isn't modern technology wonderful? Jack thought to himself.
"They could float thru that door any second. Take another chance! Scary stuff!"
In a few minutes, he'd have her with her top up for a good 30 seconds, half her mind on excitement, the other half paying attention to whether her colleagues would come bobbing in. And 30 seconds was all he'd need to get done. 30 seconds on tape that is, which he could loop over and over. He switched on the recorder.
> Fry will be able to meet Bender after all
Best joke from the series:
Fry: My brother was the first man on Mars. I was supposted to be the first man on Mars. Now I'll never get there!
Leela: You went there this morning...for doughnuts.
Just wait until the new version of Contact comes out in '07, where Will Smith, Jet Li, and Chris Tucker WHOMP some aliens upside the hayad!
I cannot wait!
> It is certainly a fine example of 'How to
> alienate 80% of your potential customers in
> less then 2 seconds'.
As opposed to Thunderbirds: The Movie: Not Puppets But Rather A Last Second Change Into A Live Action Film That Was A Ripoff Of Spykids, which set the record in "How to alienate 99% of your potential customers in less than 0.8 seconds."
Well, Clockwork was from Stanley Kubrick, and the man knew his shit in filmmaking. I'll put up with the occasional Eyes Wide Shut in exchange for the occasional Clockwork, 2001, Strangelove, or the first half of Full Metal Jacket. I wonder which class AI would have been in? We'll never know.
Hell, I still think his Shining is way better than King's version, even if it didn't match King's vision.
> Slashdot Fight Club
Probably would sell well, too, given the fights would be identical to "Bumfights girlslapping at each other".
Thank the lord I lived in Europe for a year and a half. I got to experience the glories of Only Fools and Horses and half a dozen other shows that never made it to the US that are as funny as Seinfeld ever was. And 250 million people in North America will never know it.
There's more to British television than Keeping Up Appearances and Are You Being Served?
Come to think of it, the only British show that made it to commercial (not PBS) television over here without being Americanized was Benny Hill. And Prisoner: Cell Block H (or was that Australian?)
Nor was "All in the Family" nor "Dear John", tho the original was even better.
I think we can all pray to whatever gods we worship that the Americanized Absolutely Fabulous never got off the ground.
"Hold on. In this scene, we need interaction between Edina and Saffy to be a little touching." Shoot me now, please.
Beefinator: Alas! After lo! these many years. I have finally secured the Magical Uber Blade of Conan himself.
Beefinator: Have at thee!
You hit a dire rat for 4 points of damage.
** A dire rat hits YOU for 17 points of damage!
You miss a dire rat.
** A dire rat hits YOU for 19 points of damage!
You hit a dire rat for 2 points of damage!
Critical hit! You hit for an additional 2 points of damage with your Conan Uber Sword!
** A dire rat hits YOU for 18 points of damage!
** You have been slain by a dire rat!
Sonja's Daddy416: U suck b4115, d00d.
No wireless porn at rest stops?
Looks like men at rest stops'll hafta get their jollies the old fashioned way -- sucking each other's dicks when nobody is around.
> ...Lost Gospels...
Finally they can decode In The John 3:16: "An_ _e_us we_t dow_ on t_e me_ty co_k _hrou_h t_e gl_ry _ole."
Hopefully it won't upset too much in religion.
Boring! Have they cloned a mammoth yet?
Yes! The saliva-string french kiss between Hoshi and T'Pol might yet happen!
simple ended because the all actors were sick
> of them, and decided to do other things.
Well, Cheers ended when it didn't have to. Same for Friends, and Frasier, and prolly M*A*S*H.
And, believe it or not, Munsters ended because the network wanted all its shows to be the nifty new color ones, and the producers didn't want to do a gothic comedy in color because, well, it was supposed to be black and white. The producers lost the argument, and closed up shop rather than produce it in color.
Actually, I believe the problem with stress is that in modern society, you do not respond with fight or flight, or even minimal physical activity to the stress, which burns off the chemicals flooding the blood. Without this, it is damaging.
When I was in Holland they altered Terminator 2 in various places for broadcast on TV. For example, the scene in the parking garage where Arnie throws the guy into the cement pillar. They still had that, but got rid of the vicious cracking sound as he hit.
Meanwhile, they show full frontal of women AND MEN on their TV. Opened my eyes quite a bit as to the idiocy of my own culture's norms. Of course, the Dutch had some crazy shit going on, too. Made me realize all countries and their politicians use BS as population control.
Oh LORD have mercy on my soul.
Meanwhile, watching Bambi's mom die from a forest fire or whatever, or watching a kid shoot his dog Ol' Yeller, well, these are fine for little kids, G rated and all.
But a nipple, which only a few years earlier they were sucking on? Nope!
> this research noted that there is a lot of
> computer use in hospitals and they're finding
> it really difficult to sterilize them.
Uhhhhh, why not use those membrane covers that factories use to keep dirt and grease out of the keyboard? Then you can pull it off and wipe it down.
Heck, I'm sure some plastics engineer can come up with a supple one you can throw in the washer. Then it can be changed on regular rounds.
Sorry, been there, done that.
Also done:
BL with no T
B one-pounder
BLT-with-cheese
BLT-with-cheese-on-top-and-bottom
BLT-with-potato-chips on the side
BLT-with-potato-chips inside
BLT-with-Fritos-inside
Dang, I's hungry now...
I used to wonder why the makers were so stupid they never made them big enough for a slice of bread. Then I realized it was supposed to be pinching the edges closed.
Now I just wonder why the stupid makers always put stupid nooks and crannies everywhere where melted chese and grease runs such that it's difficult to clean without a wet paper towel and toothpick.
Hello, Tefal? HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO?!?!?
I sniff a marketting opportunity! The truly (not lying) e-z-clean sandwitch maker.
Why would she have wide hips if she lays eggs?
This old wives' tale needs to die, thanks!
Yes, but that's like pointing out 99.999999999999999% of all pictures cannot be compressed. Note that the same percentage are also basically random bitmaps. It's the interesting ones we care about.
Similarly, it's the interesting math issues we are mostly concerned with, and they probably mostly have potential proofs.